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	I wish he would have done that.
	Now he just sounds like a stooge.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, August 10th, 2014.
	Time again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 642.
	This is No Agenda.
	Stomping on the tail that wags the dog from the South Austin Safe House in FEMA Region 6 here in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, wait a minute, I'm up in the Pacific Northwest looking for double rainbows.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Wow, hello, 2010.
	I'd like my meme back.
	I had a dream last night, that's the only reason I mention it.
	You had a double rainbow dream?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Yeah, it was weird.
	This was a weird dream.
	It was weird, like uncanny, not of this earth, completely strange, or odd, or unsettling.
	Okay, okay, okay.
	It was an odd dream.
	And I was in a dystopic San Francisco, which doesn't make any sense if you think about it.
	It's a redundancy.
	I was in a dystopic San Francisco where all the police cars were powered by steam engines.
	And they had smokestacks coming out the hood.
	Wow!
	You have a steampunk...
	Yeah, it was a steampunk city.
	And many of the police cars were on tracks.
	So the cop had to go on a trailer, on a trolley track.
	It was because of the supermoon.
	That's what happened.
	Oh, maybe.
	And anyway, so there's a double rainbow involved in the dream.
	And everyone I ever knew seems to have been in this dream.
	We were hanging out at some bar.
	Which, you know, makes some sense.
	What was it?
	Was I there at the bar?
	No, you weren't.
	You were too new.
	You were not at the bar.
	You don't like going to bars, so I guess you were left out of the dream.
	I don't.
	Oh, this is very interesting.
	So I do believe that there was something going on last night.
	Mickey woke up at four in the morning, and she's like, ah, the moon, the moon.
	I have to go outside and look at the moon.
	Oh, the giant moon.
	Yeah, like, no.
	Yes, she's howling at the moon.
	That's why she had to go look.
	Yeah, she's a werewolf.
	Did she howl?
	That's what it would have been funnier.
	No, I didn't sleep very well.
	It was keeping us awake.
	It was huge.
	But no double rainbows.
	Now, of course, you were sleeping next to Mimi, which is that's part of the part of what's going on, I think.
	I think.
	I don't know.
	If I were Freud and I were to...
	I would say it was...
	I've never had this dream of being floating around San Francisco with the steampunk police cars.
	It's pretty weird.
	Yeah, uncanny, not of this earth.
	I know, but I can say pretty weird because it was, you know...
	Hey, look, I live in the city...
	It was unusual.
	I live in the city whose slogan is keep Austin weird.
	Think about how I feel.
	Okay.
	The overuse of the word weird, ladies and gentlemen.
	Yes, I know.
	I'm trying to get rid of it.
	I've been catching myself, so I'm on my way to recovery.
	So congratulations.
	Happy anniversary on your 26th, the so-called paperclip anniversary.
	Yes, exactly.
	And what did you receive from your lovely wife?
	A giant barbecue pit.
	A hole in the ground?
	No, no.
	It's a new Brownsville.
	I used to have a new Brownsville in Albany, and then decades of use just rotted and fell apart.
	A new Brownsville, what it's called?
	New.
	N-E-W. Brownsville is the name of the brand.
	It's new Brownsville out of Texas.
	Brownsville, Texas.
	Oh, yes.
	And it's a side burner.
	It's a smoker.
	A real Texas style.
	It's a Texas style smoker.
	I'm looking at one right now.
	Okay, I know what it is.
	Yeah, those things.
	Nice.
	And it's nice.
	Good product.
	And do you get to take it back to California?
	No, no, no.
	I got different barbecue down there.
	So the idea is...
	So it's a hint.
	It's a subtle hint.
	No, there's no hint.
	What hint?
	Like, come up here and smoke more often.
	No, no, no.
	We've got two...
	We've got three barbecues up here, and I've got about four down south.
	Okay.
	Really?
	Yeah, including the bullet.
	My favorite one, which I don't use as much as I should, is there's a wet smoker from Brinkman.
	It used to be called the Cookin' Cajun, and then Brinkman bought them.
	And it's a vertical bullet style.
	And if anyone was going to buy one of these, send me some email first, because there's two kinds.
	It's both called Brinkman.
	One of them does not work.
	Which...
	I'm looking at them now.
	Which one does not...
	The red one probably doesn't work.
	That looks like the Bogative one.
	But there's two styles.
	The square one and the round bullet one.
	More square-ish.
	The one...
	Well, the square one...
	Oh, by the way, the square one?
	Yeah.
	Doesn't work.
	That's interesting.
	We had barbecue Friday at the County Line, which is pretty famous here in Austin.
	And Miss Mickey ate a whole brisket.
	I was pretty surprised.
	You can't eat a whole brisket.
	It's four pounds of meat.
	It's a whole serving of brisket, which even that is a lot.
	But that's because she had some...
	It depends on how many pieces you cut off.
	It was big.
	It was like...
	Well, you know, in Texas, they get the right kind of briskets from the right kind of cows.
	Slow-cooked for 14 hours.
	We do not get the right briskets to make a good brisket.
	We get the cows, the ones that are really black and look really happy.
	They're roaming around here.
	You ever seen those?
	Yes, yeah, they're roaming around the streets.
	I saw one.
	Really happy-looking cows.
	And what did you get from Mimi?
	Smiling cow.
	What did you get from Mimi?
	A bottle of, actually a Magnum of 2000 Croft Vintage Port.
	You drank it, you bought it for yourself.
	No, no, she's actually a port collector and we have port backed up.
	It's very hard to drink a whole bottle of port between even two people.
	Make it, give you a sugar buzz.
	I didn't know she was a port collector, that's nice.
	She collects port and champagne.
	Yeah, yeah, Miss Mickey collects champagne too.
	And likes to take the cork off it and drink it.
	There'll be no archiving of the champagne.
	Well, very good.
	And you took her out to dinner, of course.
	No.
	No?
	To a movie?
	No, I cooked dinner.
	You didn't have a date night?
	Was anyone else there?
	Was it just the two of you?
	I'm trying to find out...
	No, it's just the two of us.
	I don't know why you're so nosy about this, but it's just the two of us, and I cooked.
	There's no place to go out in this part of it, unless we were in Seattle.
	And even then...
	Hey, honey, I know it.
	Screw it.
	Let's stay home and dream about steampunk San Francisco.
	That's right.
	I know what you were doing.
	You were like, eh, here's your bottle.
	Thanks for the smoker.
	I gotta go watch some C-SPAN. I gotta grab some clips.
	Uh, that was the, it was Friday, so I got to do the clips yesterday, so no.
	Okay.
	But it would have been a, she buys into that, so it's good.
	Yes.
	Why don't you go do some work?
	So what did you do?
	Oh, well, I'm glad you asked.
	I learned something new from the medical world.
	Uh-oh.
	Uh-huh.
	But have you ever heard of prolotherapy?
	I might have heard of it.
	Prolotherapy, or regenerative injection therapy, was originally used by Hippocrates over 2,500 years ago to heal a javelin thrower's shoulder pain.
	Oh, you have a shoulder pain?
	No, Mickey has had, ever since Tokyo, she had this horrible lower back pain.
	You know, got all twisted sitting on the plane, and it really hadn't gone away.
	This is the second time she's been to this doctor in Austin.
	Is there another witch doctor?
	This is a high-tech doctor.
	They've got a huge setup where they're...
	So the witch doctor was no good on this deal?
	The witch doctor helped with some cupping procedures, but this is really...
	Cupping procedure?
	Yeah.
	Are you not familiar with the...
	What is with this guy?
	I like him.
	That's the...
	What's the...
	I forget what it's called now.
	The pushing down on your arm thing while you hold on to the vial.
	It slipped my mind.
	Anyway, because I'm thinking of this prolotherapy, which I found to be very interesting.
	Of course, it's something that actually works, which means...
	The concept of creating irritation or injury to stimulate healing has been recorded as early as Roman times, where hot needles were poked into the shoulders of injured gladiators.
	Exactly.
	So nowadays, they have an x-ray system that they can continuously take pictures as they're seeing where they're putting the needle in, and then they're essentially putting sugar water in there, dextrose.
	And I talked to this guy for a long time.
	It kind of pisses off whatever the area is.
	And then the sugar water dextrose helps the self-regenerative process.
	And it's, I'd have to say, it's kind of a magical thing.
	And it's working.
	It worked?
	Yeah.
	So she's good now.
	She's good to go.
	She has no pain.
	She had no pain at all.
	But of course, anything that really works, as you know, is not covered by insurance, obviously.
	This is what surprises me.
	What does it end up costing?
	For one session, a couple hundred dollars.
	It's very expensive.
	But, you know, it's less expensive than anything that the insurance is covering.
	Prolotherapy involves the injection of an irritant solution into a joint space, weakened ligament or tendon insertion to relieve pain, most commonly hyper...
	Hyperomolar, dextrose, a sugar solution is used.
	Glycerin, lidocaine, commonly used local anesthetic, that should kill the pain.
	Well, lidocaine, I think it's lidocaine, and that's what they put up before they put the needle in.
	And other commonly used agents, the injection is administered at joints or attendants where they connect to bone.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it was cool.
	I was allowed to watch, you know, so you get a...
	A dosimeter and a camouflage-colored flak jacket against the radiation.
	It looks like you're in a room with two dudes who hang out with Ted Nugent.
	And they kind of have the face to go with it and tattoos and everything.
	They're kind of rock and roll guys in this high-tech We're good to go.
	Of course, the fun part was, because it is an anxious experience, obviously, and they're sticking needles into you.
	It's a little bit like an epidural, almost, in some cases.
	So they gave her a Xanax before.
	Well, that'll mellow her out.
	That's what she said.
	I'm hungry.
	Okay, what do you want?
	I want brisket.
	Okay, fine.
	They And she wolfed on an old brisket and fell asleep in the back of the car before I got her home.
	And you know Mickey, so you can imagine that's so contrary to Mickey.
	Wolfing down a brisket and falling asleep on the back seat.
	Yeah, that's very odd.
	She gets better.
	Yeah, that seems to work.
	I wanted to mention it because we have a lot of physicians and You have to do it a couple of times, apparently, according to this.
	Yeah, you do.
	Applied kinesiology was the witch doctor.
	Oh, okay.
	All right, more medical news.
	I have decided to start a club.
	And it is because of a number of emails I have received, and based upon the past two, well, actually the past couple of years, but specifically the past two podcasts, I've started the No Agenda Tourette's Club, and the subtitle is Documenting Our Ticks and Superpowers.
	That's a good idea.
	I don't know how many people in the audience have Tourette's.
	Well, this is why I started it, because I'm receiving more and more email from people saying, oh man, I always wondered what I had.
	Now I know what it is.
	I find that peculiar.
	You'd be amazed how many people don't really...
	Because Tourette's comes in all kinds of forms.
	Now, we know the cool kind, which I'm not fortunate enough to have been blessed with, the fuck, fuck, fuck, can't piss your bum.
	You know, I don't have that one.
	Which is, I think, a superpower by itself.
	Because you can actually make airplanes not take off.
	Yeah, it freezes a lot of things.
	But when you think about true superheroes, John, we have Clark Kent, who is a nerdy guy with the glasses, and then he turns into Superman.
	What was Peter Parker?
	Was he like some stupid lab assistant?
	Some schmuck?
	And he becomes Spider-Man?
	Oh, Spider-Man.
	Well, he got bit by a spider.
	Well, yeah.
	Well, that's different.
	So you can find this at N-A-T-C dot noagenda notes dot com.
	N-A-T-C dot noagenda notes dot com.
	And so of course I have three entries so far, but we're going to get a lot more.
	So I have me, as you know, I have twitching of neck, shoulders, thigh muscles, mild grunting, tightly squeezing eyelids closed.
	Mild grunting?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	You grunt?
	Yeah.
	Just out of the blue?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Like that?
	Yeah.
	Sometimes, yeah.
	Why do you think I have a noise gate?
	My superpowers are lightning-fast response to falling items, snatching tipped glasses in midair, and photographic memory for numbers, addresses, and time codes.
	Then we have Cameron, who's in Austin, and he is one of these...
	He said, oh my gosh...
	I'm so happy.
	I used to have a lot of different tics.
	He says, I only have really two now, but I'm sure that this is Tourette's related.
	He has hard quick blink disorder, as he calls it.
	And something I have to go see, he has restless eyeball, which I think sounds cool.
	However, he has no documented superpowers yet, so we're waiting to see if he finds any.
	Penny, she has the electric energy and straining various body parts.
	Twisting her foot is a favorite while walking.
	This is a good one.
	You act like something's wrong with your foot and you twist it super hard.
	That sounds familiar.
	It doesn't sound good.
	Or like you put your heel down, you stamp your heel on the...
	I'm doing it right now.
	On the ground, and you squinch it around.
	Her superpower is photographic memory, memory of dance routines, exactly as I was taught.
	Does she have a eidetic memory?
	Is it real photographic?
	Is it where you can't forget anything?
	That's what she says.
	It's possible.
	Okay, I got...
	Well, here.
	I'm going to stop you now.
	Because the people that have this type of memory, which of course is some sort of a disorder, but it seems very valuable to me.
	Yes.
	And of course the one actress is the one they based, there's a TV series on about a detective who has photographic memory and, you know, eidetic memory.
	In other words, she can't forget anything.
	And that's based on a real actress, the one, I can't remember her name.
	Meryl Streep.
	No.
	She's a very famous actress, and she has this power.
	And she remembers, you can ask her a question.
	So on June 3rd, in the morning, what were you doing?
	Oh, I was making coffee.
	I mean, everything was crazy.
	All right.
	So it seems to me, if somebody has this capability, I would like them to index the show.
	Well, she says she has robots.
	She calls it robot power.
	I don't know what that means, but here's the way I'm thinking.
	You've got somebody with eidetic memory, and they listen to the show, and then we say, this is the show number, we tell them the show number, and here's the show, and you listen to the three-hour show, and then, like, two years later, you go, what show was it where we talked about such and such?
	They should be able to retrieve that instantly.
	I'm going to give her our direct numbers, So that she can, she'll be listening live and will say, do you remember, actually she would say, Mary Lou Henner is what she would say.
	That's who it is.
	Mary Lou Henner has this memory.
	She's very funny when she talks about it because they did a couple of specials on it.
	I didn't know that about her.
	I've always liked her, but I had no idea she had this superpower.
	Yes, and she's very humorous.
	She has a good sense of humor about it.
	She says it's great when you're an actress because you can really get the script fast.
	You just read it once.
	Boom, you're done.
	I wonder if she's actually reading or if it's just snapshotting.
	No, everything that happens to her is remembered.
	Oh, that's a gift.
	Well, she says it's a little annoying to people in relationships because she...
	Well, I'm already like that and I don't even have that good of a memory.
	Yes, I did say that!
	Uh-huh!
	It could be a form of Tourette's now that I think about it because she's a neat freak and Tourette's people tend to be neat freaks.
	Is she a Virgo?
	Virgo is also highly susceptible to Tourette's it appears.
	I don't know whether she can look her up but whatever the case is she's very funny because they did a special on this syndrome and most of the people that they had about 10 people or maybe 5 people that had this capability and most of them were very neurotic because of this.
	Right.
	Mary Lou DeHenner was not.
	She was, like, cool with it.
	Yeah, that's good.
	And she was very funny, but she said it was difficult to always be right, especially with the kids.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's a curse when you're always right.
	I feel your pain, Mary Lou.
	Anyway, so she...
	But if we have somebody like that, they should be able to listen to the show, if they're paying attention, and then recover this, because we'll commonly go, oh, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, there was a prediction you made, look it up in the red book, look it up in the red book, and we can never find it in the red book.
	Typically, I remember, and you say, no, it was this, so I'll say moon bases, you'll say, no, Israeli moon bases, and I'll say, no, I never said Israeli moon bases.
	Yeah, you did.
	No!
	Okay.
	And then, you know, this is exactly what you do.
	And then you're hunting around for days listening to shows and you can't find it.
	And then, you know, you're angry.
	I'm never angry.
	Okay.
	Anyway, she calls this robot power.
	And the way she retrieves information is by saying, let me ask the robot.
	So I agree with you.
	I think she's very handy.
	She also says it's like having a tape recorder in your ear.
	She also has easy replay of melody and it was very easy for her to learn where to put her fingers on a violin or any fretless instrument.
	This was also in the special.
	There's a number of eidetic musicians who can hear something once and then reproduce it perfectly.
	So what this proves is that you are not a Tourette's Syndrome sufferer.
	You are a superhero.
	And you are interesting.
	And your child who has this is interesting.
	And you need to find the superpowers.
	Because you have them.
	I'm only now really little.
	He doesn't go around the 8th grade wearing a cape.
	Well, I think we should have no agenda superhero Tourette's capes and sashes.
	Well, let's see if we can grow the club.
	Tourette's cape.
	I have...
	No, you're stammering.
	Well, in fact, you have a version of it.
	You're a stammerer.
	I stammer.
	So that makes you interesting, John.
	It's annoying, by the way.
	It makes you interesting.
	It's not annoying at all.
	It's not interesting to me.
	Well, I've never found it to be annoying.
	You know what's annoying...
	I will...
	Hold on, guys.
	Come on.
	There's just...
	See?
	With Tourette's, you can even become president.
	Yeah.
	He's got something wrong with him.
	There's proof.
	There's proof.
	As we speak...
	So what do we got?
	Now, I teased a couple things in the newsletter because we might as well get with it.
	Well, let me just say right off the bat that as we speak, the elections in Turkey are taking place.
	This is an interesting one.
	Since we have the feeling that Turkey is on deck for some, perhaps, regime change, we know there's been a lot of strife internally with the Gulenist police force and other officials who have been arrested and kicked out, and there's just a lot of crap going on in Turkey.
	It being one of the most important strategic countries in between the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, all pipelines lead through the Ottoman Empire, if you will.
	And, you know, Mr.
	Erdogan has not been a favorite of anybody of late, really.
	He's kind of a fair-weather friend to all.
	He says, oh, I'll take some military equipment from China, I'll hang out with Russia, whatever.
	Yeah, I want the gas from Syria, but maybe I'll take it from Judah, from Qatar, whatever.
	We'll see.
	I do believe he will win.
	Yeah, well, most people think so.
	It only makes sense, but I still think he may be a marked man.
	I've put it in the red book that I think assassination is coming his way.
	And at the same time, we have some form of agreement that Watermelon Head Carey rushed off to Afghanistan.
	It turned out that...
	Baghdadi Baghdadi, so nice they named him twice, of course, was really winning the election, but that is not the guy that we want to win, which is Ashraf Ghani.
	So somehow we change the rules.
	Well, look, no matter who wins, after we count every single vote again, we're going to quantify, qualify, you know, hanging chads, whatever it's going to be.
	And then whoever's the winner is almost like the second loser.
	So you're going to have almost equal powers.
	You'll be president, you'll be prime minister, and we can get along, can't we?
	Which is, if you look, of course, at the background of Ashraf Ghani, this is a complete Pentagon State Department shill.
	And a lot of that is going on in this Iraqi, in the caliphate, I guess we would have to call it at this point.
	Because that is the working name for what is happening in Iraq.
	But it really isn't, of course.
	And it looks like you have...
	Well, you set it up in the newsletter, and I have a number of clips and some analysis on...
	Yeah, you have some analysis of why they're bombing this specific place, but I do have the airstrikes rundown, which will lead into that, and then you can go off on your analysis for us.
	Oops.
	Yeah.
	And reveal stuff that you do not get on the mainstream media.
	Well, I spent most of yesterday really trying to come up with the proper analysis as of what's happening.
	And once you see it and you figure it out, it's really quite easy to understand, actually.
	And good morning, I'm Dan Harris.
	We're interrupting briefly with news of an American airstrike in Iraq.
	The Obama administration taking military action in a war the president claimed to have ended several years ago, just a short while ago.
	The U.S. military announcing it has carried out an airstrike to knock out artillery being used by Islamist militants.
	And ABC's Martha Raddatz broke the news of this mission.
	And she joins us now from Washington with the latest.
	Martha, what do you know?
	Dan, the president, of course, as you know, authorized airstrikes last night.
	They've already carried out humanitarian missions with airdrops, but this airstrike just came a short while ago, aimed at an artillery piece, a mobile artillery piece near Erbil.
	Erbil is under great threat.
	That is why the president chose to act.
	Central command carried it out with two F-18 fighter jets dropping 500-pound bombs on the artillery.
	They believed that Americans were threatened because there are Americans in Erbil, and they do not want those ISIS troops moving on Erbil.
	I think you're going to see this as an ongoing mission in the coming days, that if those ISIS convoys move, as the president said last night, they will also try to strike those convoys.
	But very difficult targeting this, those ISIS fighters.
	Those terrorists in northern Iraq, throughout Iraq, blend in with the civilian population.
	So I think if they see targets of opportunity like they did this morning, they'll take them.
	So we've got two things going on.
	We've got the ISIS fighters moving closer to Erbil, which is a city where there are a lot of Americans.
	And then we have this humanitarian crisis with the Christian community on top of a mountain, surrounded by fighters.
	How worried is the Obama administration right now about being sucked back into this war that they claim to have ended back in 2011?
	Well, you heard the President say last night, Dan, that we will not be sucked back into a larger war, that there is no military solution.
	But being willing to even carry out these smaller airstrikes really does put the U.S. back in a combat role.
	Yes.
	It was very nice to see the Pentagon release two YouTube videos.
	As you know, once it's on YouTube, it's pretty much the truth.
	Two YouTube videos of some dots on the ground.
	Why is it always black and white grainy?
	Can't we up the quality a little bit?
	I think so.
	Yeah, they could up the quality.
	There's no reason for it to be that crappy.
	Yeah, so you see two round things on the ground.
	Supposedly this is artillery.
	Yes, and then, boom, you see a big white flash and it's gone.
	Which is also another thing that could be changed.
	There's no reason for it to blow out the sensor.
	Yeah, really.
	Thank you.
	That's true.
	I agree.
	And then we have the night vision goggle, the green version of throwing stuff out of a transport plane, none of which proves anything.
	This is why I say I'm stomping on the tail that wags the dog.
	This could be...
	All complete theater, because now we have some good marketing, and I'm going to get to what is really going on here, but what is being sold to the world at large, and certainly to the American public, at a wonderful time, by the way, when everyone's off on vacation, the president's going on vacation, we've got to get something going, we've got to keep everybody busy, Don't look at all the other stuff.
	There's a lot of annoying stuff happening with the CIA spying on the Senate.
	Of course, we've still got our drone program, but we've got to focus people on something.
	Well, you know, I want to mention something in advance of any of these analyses, is that Erbil is just one dynamite place.
	Well, yes.
	Erbil is, it is pretty much the center of oil production for Iraq.
	And it's in Kurdistan, so it's Kurdish.
	It is.
	And it's a city that goes back 6,000 years, and it's been continually inhabited.
	It's one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities ever.
	Yep.
	And it has a, it's just gorgeous.
	It's like a dynamite place.
	Look at photos of the place.
	They've got beautiful hotels because, and this is another reason why this all had to happen, now we do have the big Erbil Oil and Gas Convention coming up September 1 through 4.
	There you go.
	At the convention center.
	Yeah.
	What you see on television, and this is mind-boggling to me.
	I'm seeing what are supposed to be Yahtzees.
	I just call them Yahtzees.
	I don't know what the Yazidis, the Yahtzees.
	There's some people in dresses running along the dirt road.
	Okay, so they're getting killed and their heads are killing the children, chopping their heads off.
	None of which we've actually seen at all.
	And we're going to throw some bricks of meals ready to eat on their heads to save them.
	So this is a humanitarian mission, obviously.
	And everyone talks about, well, we have U.S. personnel and civilians.
	Yeah, we have an embassy in Erbil, and we have Exxon Mobil, Chevron.
	One of the two main refineries is in Erbil.
	And really, ISIS is not doing anything.
	This is the carving of the border.
	This is setting the stakes.
	This is helping everybody understand what the three main parts are going to be.
	And I should mention, just in passing, that just looking up now, the Erbil Iraq Convention Center, and there it is, the new, and with the title, the new State of the Art Convention Center is available.
	Yeah, but you're not going to see that.
	You're not seeing that until you see dirty roads and people with no shoes running in the dirt and the sand.
	And I love the video of ISIS. If you really objectively look at it, and there's one that keeps playing over and over again, It's taken from the back of a pickup truck.
	And you see two ISIS militants run, they jump in the back, and they immediately assume the position.
	One guy left, one guy right with his AK, and then the next two guys come in.
	It's essentially, I'm sorry for saying essentially, it is an upgraded version of the monkey bar video of Al-Qaeda.
	And they're driving Kias, and they've got logos.
	They have a gift shop, John.
	ISIS has a gift shop.
	Yeah, so you can buy some flags.
	Yeah, you can buy flags, hoodies, hoodies, mugs.
	This is a...
	And of course these guys come from originally Syria, from Libya.
	These are the people that we armed.
	Apparently Procter& Gamble.
	Procter& Gamble?
	Well, I mean marketing.
	Oh, no, there's huge PR firms on K Street.
	There's lobbyists for these guys.
	This is big, big business, and we have to go back a little further than the 2011 that everybody's talking about.
	This goes back to the original plan of 2003.
	That original plan was to break up Iraq into three parts, to have the Sunnis, the Shias, so it would be the Sunnis in the...
	In the Baghdad area.
	She is in the Baghdad area.
	The Sunnis in the West.
	So that's Syria.
	And of course, Kurdistan is what we really care about.
	Those are our American interests.
	But that is where the oil is flowing.
	The refineries are.
	It goes out to the port of Sehan.
	It's going down to Israel to be sold.
	And it's also going up north and out even as far as China to Texas.
	Originally, this was the pipeline that We're good to go.
	And this is something, we've had a clip of, I think we played a clip of Biden saying it, but I found an old NPR interview.
	In 2006, this was tried again with a, it's called the Biden doctrine.
	And this is why Joe Biden is kind of key in this one.
	And he's kind of stepping up and he's talking to people, he's making calls and, you know, they're sending him out on the road to meet people.
	It was a non-binding resolution.
	He wrote an article in the New York Times with the guy from the Council on Foreign Relations.
	It'll come to me.
	GELP, Leslie GELP.
	And they wound up with a non-binding resolution that was introduced in the Senate, and it went through very quickly in 2007, introduced by Biden and Sam Brownback, senator from Kansas.
	And that was, at the time, a measure calling for a decentralized Iraqi government based on the principles of federalism, advocating for a relatively weak central government with strong Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish regional administrations.
	And this went through 75 to 23 years, Who was voting for?
	Hillary was all for.
	Chris Dodd was all for.
	Because this is the oil cabal.
	This is really what it's about.
	And it's about the control of the oil of that region.
	What comes through Iraq going to Syria.
	What comes from the south up from any of the oil or gas countries up north into Turkey.
	It really is all about the control.
	Here is Joe Biden.
	Somewhat coherent, but he still manages to mix up Sunnis and Shias in this interview, which is just fabulous, as the NPR guy.
	I think he's reading the script and going, oh crap, man, Joe messed it up.
	Let me correct him.
	Where he explains this concept, and you'll hear it is exactly the same, not just concept, but in some cases, same words as President Obama used in his speech in front of his helicopter.
	I call for a strong central government.
	And the Iraqi constitution already calls for a federation.
	Again, this is 2006.
	That there be a semi-autonomous region in the north with the Kurds, and that the Shia have a similar option.
	My call is to give the Sunnis the opportunity to buy into a federated Iraq by providing them the resources from oil revenues, a percentage of them, in order to be able to do what we did in Dayton in the Balkans.
	Remember, we set apart those three separate regions.
	Do you hear what he's saying?
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's what everybody knows.
	That wasn't, again, also presented to the world as this huge religious problem in the Balkans.
	But no, it was really kind of about resources and borders and cutting it up and rubbleizing to an extent, but balkanizing, breaking things up.
	That is what balkanization is.
	In order for them to have breathing room to come together.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, that worked out great, Joe.
	What incentive, with a powerful South and a powerful North, who are basically independent from the central government, do the Shia have to sign on to this notion and give up the insurgency?
	This is a way to end the insurgency.
	And I might point out...
	Do the Sunnis have, yes.
	Excuse me, the Sunnis do...
	The great Joe...
	And I might point out, there is no plan that exists now for disbanding of the militias.
	So you have these massive militias in the Shia area, and significant militias in the north.
	So what guarantee do the Sunnis have that it's in their interest to, in fact, sign on, even though they may get a couple ministers?
	Okay, so again, it's about the government, and if you follow the news and you listen very carefully to what is being said, this is about Al-Maliki, who is the prime minister.
	There were elections, and he has said, look, I'm still prime minister.
	Everyone voted for me.
	I'm not stepping down.
	I'm not letting people come in and just change the structure, and we have, miraculously, a new president is on the scene.
	There's a new speaker, and this is all being forced, but...
	Maliki is refusing to leave, and this is partially about him.
	Now, I believe if he were to step down and say, okay, let's do this fairly, he's dead.
	They'll kill him immediately.
	They'll have some unfortunate hot tub accident.
	Well, I think this is in the cards for him, no matter what.
	Yes, I would agree.
	So let's now listen very closely to what President Obama was saying.
	Actually, did you see Democracy Now?
	Did you hear Amy Goodman about the president?
	No.
	You know how we often talk about your mouth, your brain cannot help but tell the truth?
	Yeah.
	And the words will come out.
	I thought I had a clip of something, her doing that.
	No, I have an Albright telling the truth.
	That's different.
	This is Amy Goodman telling the truth.
	Well, then, I was wondering your response, Phyllis, to President Obama.
	I'm sorry, President Obama?
	That's good.
	Yeah.
	President Obama.
	Yes, very good.
	Amy, very good.
	So I'm going to play the setup, which is the cover story.
	It's only about a minute and a half.
	And the cover story is, oh, we had humanitarian, boy, you know, they've got these people, they're cutting children's heads off.
	Wait, let me play CNN. Here's the marketing the president is responding to.
	This is truly a living nightmare that's not going away.
	Christianity in Mosul is dead, and a Christian holocaust is in our midst.
	So we have Christian holocaust, which I love this.
	There's nothing better than mixing the metaphors.
	Seven weeks ago, we went to Washington, D.C., and we actually were calling this a Christian genocide.
	Christian genocide.
	And since then, day by day, it's getting worse and worse.
	More children are being beheaded.
	Mothers are being raped and killed.
	Yes.
	The fathers are being hung.
	This is an outrage!
	You can't be beheading children.
	I think you need to send in some hornets and show some video on YouTube.
	So the President's about to go on vacation, President Obama-ing, and he's in front of his helicopter, which is, there's a lot of, I found that to be a very interesting choice, his stand-up speech in front of the helicopter.
	It has a war feeling to it, but it also has a feeling of, damn, man, he's got some nice wheels in the garden!
	And also he's going on vacation and he Came up with the cover story for the press completely scripted as always.
	That's how these things work.
	We will continue to pursue a broader strategy in Iraq We will protect our American citizens in Iraq, whether they're diplomats, civilians.
	Or workers for Exxon.
	Or military.
	If these terrorists threaten our facilities or our personnel.
	Facilities is, you know, office buildings of Exxon, refineries, and, yes, the embassy.
	We will take action to protect our people.
	Which they could do, but they could evacuate everybody.
	If it was really bad, they could just rush everybody out.
	So, you know, there's other reasons for this, obviously.
	We will continue to provide military assistance and advice to the Iraqi government and Kurdish forces as they battle these terrorists, so that the terrorists cannot establish a permanent safe haven.
	We will continue to work with the international community to deal with the growing humanitarian crisis in Iraq.
	Even as our attention is focused on preventing an act of genocide and helping the men and women and children on the mountain, countless Iraqis have been driven or fled from their homes, including many Christians.
	This morning I spoke with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom and President Houlon of France.
	Now notice which two countries...
	The two countries that have always, since this country was created, since the drawing of the lines on the map, it was the French and the British and the Americans, and it is Total Oil and Total Fina, and it is British Petroleum and Exxon, Exxon Mobil.
	These are the countries.
	That's why no one else is involved.
	It's only the people who have actual interests in this region.
	I'm pleased that both leaders expressed their strong support for our actions and have agreed to join us in providing humanitarian assistance to Iraqi civilians who are suffering so much.
	Does this sound familiar, this providing assistance, saving the Iraqis?
	This will be going on for a while.
	Once again, America is proud to act alongside our closest friends and allies.
	Oh, yes.
	Hold on.
	We need to bring out the Team America.
	More broadly, the United Nations in Iraq is working urgently to help respond to the needs of those Iraqis fleeing from areas under threat.
	The UN Security Council has called on the international community to do everything it can to provide food, water, and shelter.
	And in my calls with allies and partners around the world, I'll continue to urge them to join us in this humanitarian effort.
	Finally, we continue to call on Iraqis to come together and form the inclusive government that Iraq needs right now.
	Vice President Biden has been speaking to Iraqi leaders, and our team in Baghdad is in close touch with the Iraqi government.
	Okay, so now you have all the pieces in front of you.
	You have the partitioning of the three pieces of Iraq, Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish regions, for the benefit of everybody, of course, with the central government, which will be completely useless, which will more than likely lead to a very bloody civil war, but we are now protecting the Kurdish region.
	And notice we're protecting the Kurdish region, not protecting any other part, protecting that, where our interests are.
	Well, that's always been what we're going to do.
	But that is not being explained to people.
	I think it's important.
	There's no reason.
	People don't understand it.
	They're not going to get that information.
	Our people do.
	By the way, one of the oil companies that's kind of left out of the conversation that's actually huge in Kurdistan is DNO, which is Norwegian.
	Oh, sure.
	Sure.
	They don't have an army, do they?
	That's the reason they're being left out of the conversation.
	So here is, right after this intro, now the president is going to tell you what is really important, and he actually uses the words, this is most important.
	So it's not about these people on the mountaintop that you're seeing kind of somehow, I think.
	And now we have helicopter shots of people running towards the helicopter.
	It could have been Vietnam, for all I care.
	This is no proof of anything happening.
	But it's the story, and here's the real important timetable.
	The most important timetable that I'm focused on right now is the Iraqi government getting formed and finalized.
	Because in the absence of an Iraqi government, it is very hard to get a unified effort by Iraqis against ISIL. What are you talking about?
	The government's already been formed.
	Years ago.
	Well, listen to what he's about.
	Well, this is regime change and we have to get rid of Maliki.
	Here's what he says.
	We can conduct airstrikes, but ultimately there's not going to be an American military solution to this problem.
	There's going to have to be an Iraqi solution that America and other countries and allies support.
	And that can't happen effectively until you have a legitimate Iraqi government.
	So right now we have a president.
	We have a speaker.
	What we don't yet have is a prime minister and a cabinet that is formed that can go ahead and move forward and then start reaching out to all the various groups and factions inside of Iraq.
	What I expect is the press to go, I'm sorry, the prime minister is Maliki?
	No.
	Our president just said we don't have a prime minister in Iraq.
	You do have a prime minister in Iraq.
	The guy who won't leave...
	The guy who's not going along with the program.
	You don't like the guy who is the Prime Minister.
	So now we have...
	What has happened now is, with this change, and this was July 1st, I believe, when the new government came in, and Maliki won a lot of votes.
	But some people left.
	Some people went out.
	So we had the foreign minister of the Iraqi coalition government, Hoshyar Zabari.
	Although CNN still credits him as the Iraqi foreign minister, he is now a Kurdish spokesman.
	And this guy is...
	This is a card, man.
	This guy is great.
	I think he was educated...
	Let me see what I have here.
	University of Essex.
	These guys are all from the 2003-2006 efforts to make this happen.
	And listen to how he speaks.
	Here we go.
	This is when CNN... CNN last night titled him as Foreign Minister of Iraq, which he is not.
	We are...
	Most grateful and express our gratitude and deep, deep appreciation for President Obama and the U.S. administration and for the courageous U.S. Army and airmen who are now patrolling the skies of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.
	Yes, thank you very much.
	So courageous.
	So the guy they want in, and this is going to blow your mind, is Ahmed Chalabi.
	Shalabi?
	Yes!
	Is that the guy I'm thinking of?
	Yes!
	I knew it would blow your mind.
	Yes!
	This is the guy who really set up Iraq.
	They call him the George Washington of Iraq.
	He's a bullcrap artist.
	Yes!
	He is the man on the inside that pushed us into Iraq.
	Yeah, he's a troublemaker.
	And he's full of crap.
	Yes, this is the guy that they want to be the Prime Minister.
	And no one's calling this, of course.
	Oh, this guy, oh, that seems like a good guy to me!
	He has quite the resume!
	Yeah, screwing us.
	Quick intermezzo interlude where, and I think you are right, John, Bandcamp Girl with her flute, Marie Harf, is definitely on the warpath to push Jen Psaki out.
	And she is now appearing everywhere.
	What she needs is a stylist.
	She needs some clothing advice.
	Some other kind of glasses.
	This early hipster look is not working.
	She goes on MSNBC to talk about the war with ISIS.
	And I feel that as a spokesperson, and I left the introduction in so you can hear her credentials, which we kind of knew about, but she's actually snickering and laughing about how awesome she is.
	And listen to the party line, how she just robotically spouts everything out.
	She's at the top.
	She's talking to the big men.
	Right now, she's a main girl on campus.
	I don't know what's going on, but she's feeling pretty confident.
	Marie Harf is the State Department's deputy spokesperson and a former CIA analyst on the Middle East.
	She also served on President Obama's re-election campaign.
	Thank you for joining me.
	She's smiling.
	That was her?
	Yeah.
	Making that noise?
	Yeah, because I served on the election team.
	And I was a CIA analyst for the Middle East.
	What I know is a busy day for you.
	Thank you for having me, Ari.
	Happy to be here.
	Ari, I'm happy to be here.
	Well, the first question out of the gate is a good one.
	Great.
	Let me start directly.
	Is the U.S. now at war with ISIS? Well, look, we've been clear for months now.
	Well, look, we've been clear for months now.
	Well, look.
	Right there.
	It's like, OK, Marie, thank you.
	That ISIS is an incredibly dangerous enemy, not just for Iraq, not just for the region at large, but for the United States and the rest of the world.
	So the president made very clear last night that they present a threat.
	We don't want them to be able to advance closer to Erbil.
	Because, as you said, we have a very large consulate there.
	We have a joint operations center there, where we're sharing intelligence with the Iraqis themselves.
	So we took some strikes today, as you mentioned, to halt their advance and to give the Kurds really some room for this really good fighting force they have, the Peshmerga, to regroup, to rearm, and we're helping them do that, and to take the fight aggressively to ISIL, because we know that's the long-term solution here.
	The long-term solution is to take the fight aggressively to ISIL. Who are being led by al-Baghdadi, the mythical figure who looks the part completely, who is being profiled by Vice magazine in a five-part series on ISIS-ISIL. Vice, Vice, okay?
	Vice.
	And they're in there, and they're showing all the interviewing kids, oh yes, I want to join al-Baghdadi, to join the caliph, to honor the caliph, to join the caliphate.
	How come no one else can get any kind of footage but Vice?
	You know, I've been watching the Vice videos for a while.
	When they first started coming out, and I'm not going to be accusatory.
	I am.
	I am.
	It's Tom Freston, who started MTV, who before MTV ran an import-export business in Afghanistan.
	Hello!
	Who's a nice guy, by the way.
	I like Tom Freston.
	But he's a player.
	He's a player.
	And then all this money from Viacom came in.
	It's a hugely funded operation.
	People love working for Vice.
	The money is flowing.
	They can't be making any money.
	They're spending.
	Yeah, well that's always fun.
	But it seems to me that I've watched these things and it just seems to me that these things are not only scripted, but many of the things I think are just completely bullshit.
	I don't think they are where they're supposed to be.
	I wonder about it most.
	And the guy's nervous.
	And some of these reporters that are out in the field, the way they make it seem is they're going to get killed any second.
	Did you see the five-part series?
	I'm not buying it.
	No, no.
	Did you see the five-part series on ISIS? No, no.
	And this is where they had the...
	All of it is scripted.
	The guy's jumping into the truck.
	And they propagate these videos out in their YouTube videos, and it makes its way into mainstream media.
	They also have this tank that's doing wheelies in the middle of the street.
	Please.
	Who does wheelies with their tank?
	I mean, donuts.
	I don't know how you can do it.
	Whatever the case is.
	Spinning donuts.
	Spinning donuts.
	Okay.
	You have to be...
	What kind of lucky videographer do you have to be to catch some of this stuff?
	They catch stuff that there's no way...
	No one gets.
	No one could be that lucky.
	Well, I'm going to be accusatory because I know who's running these outfits, and they're high up there.
	They're the guys that enter North Korea...
	No one has anything except these guys always do.
	Fine.
	Okay.
	It makes it look good, and I love what they're doing.
	I love the weaponry.
	And, of course, ISIS captured all of these weapons that were American-made.
	This is bullcrap.
	These guys were armed by us in Syria, in Libya, and now it's the same guys.
	Right?
	Only now we've made them into this huge terror organization.
	They're ruthless, and they chop people's heads off.
	No evidence of that.
	Children's heads.
	Children's heads, no less.
	And they rape women, and they hang the men.
	And what the Vice documentary has is you have heads on stakes on a gate.
	And yeah, sure, there's videos of people being shot in the back of the head.
	That's all over the place.
	But this is a story, and it's being really carefully built up.
	We, the Atlanticists, are in complete control of the situation, and we are building a beautiful wall around the I believe we're trying to draw Iran into the South to have them come in and help Baghdad.
	That would be perfect if we could get that to happen, wouldn't it?
	Yeah, let's get a little more Iran-Iraq war going on.
	And then everything to the West, we don't care.
	In fact, here's Howard Dean.
	Howard Dean was a presidential candidate, but he's a big guy in the Democratic Committee, the party.
	He's a big man on the left.
	Would you agree?
	Howard Dean was a shoo-in to be the president in 2008.
	I mean, he was the leader before Hillary or anybody came along.
	And they killed him with the scream.
	The scream?
	Well, he was killing himself, because I saw him, because he was being orchestrated as a social event.
	He was the first social media guy.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Oh, I'd forgotten about that.
	Yes.
	They had set him up.
	And the social media killed him.
	Well, no.
	He, no.
	The social media never killed him.
	I watched this very carefully, and I believe the following.
	He was a goofball.
	And the first time I saw him, he was on the, I think it was the Letterman, it wasn't Letterman, it was either Letterman or Leno at the time.
	And he comes on the show, and I swear to God, because he's never been on national TV before, and no one's ever seen him, because he became, he's on the cover of Time Magazine, but we never saw him in person.
	He first shows up, and I swear to God, he's wearing a tie, a big red striped tie, that is down to his knees.
	Like Bozo the Clown?
	Exactly.
	He has this huge long tie that's really way too long.
	He's tied it wrong.
	And he comes out with this stupid...
	And then he gets serious and he jokes around.
	And you just said, this guy is a goofball.
	He's no good.
	And so his numbers started to drop.
	And then when he won that primary and did the scream, that was it.
	He was done.
	But the way it was sold, the way he was, I guess, pushed out because he was a goofball or whatever else happened, was all blamed on this moment.
	and I've looked it up on the YouTubes for you.
	Somewhere in here.
	It's in here.
	Dean for America.
	Is he coming up here?
	All right.
	Everyone's loving him.
	Here it comes, I think.
	Wow, this is boring.
	Well, he grabs the mic.
	Yeah, he's got the mic.
	Here it is.
	Well, you guys, you have already got the picture here.
	I was about to say, you know, I'm sure there's some disappointed people here.
	You know what?
	You know something?
	If you had told us one year ago that we were going to come in third at Iowa, we would have given anything for that.
	And you know something?
	You know something?
	Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Tom Harkin, we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico!
	We're going to California and Texas and New York!
	We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan!
	And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House!
	Yeah!
	In hindsight, it's not that bad at all.
	Well, it's pretty bad with that yeah at the end.
	Yeah!
	He was already on the decline at that point, and that was the nail in the coffin.
	So here he is being asked, and he's being brought in now, of course, because he's a part of the Atlantis' cabal, and I think he does a very good explanation and really just nails everybody to the ground in this three...
	In this three-partition strategy, the Biden doctrine.
	I think a lot of progressives are very suspicious because this is Iraq, because the American people have been lied to before about Iraq.
	Iraq?
	Iraq.
	He's not all the way in, otherwise he would say Iraq, which is proper if you're on the inside.
	And I think a lot of things change in that way.
	And I would agree with a lot of my positions fairly similar to Chris Murphy's with this exception.
	Unlike the Taliban and the situation in Afghanistan, where you have a pretty corrupt president and a pretty difficult situation, the Kurds are a real country.
	And our policy in Iraq is not interesting, isn't it?
	It's a country.
	It's done entirely sensible.
	We're trying to keep the country together.
	One third of it are our friends, which are the Kurds.
	Another third are essentially corrupt dictator.
	That's Maliki, who's aligned with Iran.
	For some reason, we just recently realized we need to get out of there.
	Now for the final one.
	Another one of my favorite mixed metaphors.
	What could the West be?
	Are those guys worth anything to us, John?
	Let's find out.
	And the third section is divided between people who are pretty much like the Nazis.
	Absolute terrorists and almost subhuman.
	Hold on a second.
	You're frying my brain, Dean.
	It was the Nazis who called the Jews subhuman.
	Yet he's calling the Nazis subhuman.
	Yeah.
	That's a mixed metaphor.
	A good one.
	And Sunnis who have legitimate grievances against the government of Maliki.
	So this is a different situation.
	We are supporting what I think is a country, which is Kurdistan.
	He thinks it's a country.
	Dean just goes around and says, you know, I'm calling this a country.
	And Biden's going, Africa's a nation.
	We got some great people in D.C. And I think that's reasonable.
	We do not, under any circumstances, want to have boots on the ground.
	But we're fighting with somebody who can defend themselves as opposed to what's happening in Afghanistan or what was happening in Vietnam.
	So I do support the president, but I think he needs to look at the whole long-term Iraq policy, not just this short.
	Or, as most people would say, he needs to go in and go in big, and there will be no boots on the ground.
	This will be a complete division.
	I believe we're trying to draw Iran into the south.
	Everything in the west is to be exterminated, and preferably by the Baghdad crew and by the...
	Let's see if we can reignite an Iraq-Iran war.
	Essentially, what we have already...
	Deemed to be the strategy to rubblize the place.
	Rubblize the place.
	And all we need to keep intact is Kurdistan.
	In fact, by the way, while people are listening to this, I think they should take a look at ierbil.com.
	I, name of that town, E-R-B-I-L. ierbil.com.
	And you get a sense of what's really going on, which is, you know, you get some...
	This is essentially a travel site.
	But it's promoting cheap flights to the place.
	And they have a lot of slideshow with a lot of pictures showing this.
	And you have news, like the first startup weekend in Erbil, Monday, August 5th.
	Mass Global selects GE turbines for Erbil.
	Trillium Holding builds residential and commercial complex in Erbil.
	This place is more active and more hip than Austin.
	They have a walled city within Erbil if you can get a picture of that thing.
	Holy crap, I want to see it.
	It's beautiful.
	We should go.
	And for $199 I can fly a round trip.
	Yeah, from Amsterdam.
	I'm looking at the Family Mall.
	They got Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Stockholm.
	And you notice how you never see this when the narrative is being given to you on the so-called news.
	All you're seeing is exploding black and white video.
	Shit being dropped out of the back of a plane.
	People running around barefoot saying, help me, help me.
	A couple of douchebags in perfect Oxford English saying, thank you for helping us.
	You're never seeing the beautiful restaurants, the beautiful buildings, the modern skyscrapers, the brand new conference center.
	You're not allowed to have...
	Thank God for the web.
	It's 37 degrees centigrade.
	It's kind of warm there, but there's a west-souwestly wind.
	It's got to be horribly hot.
	Well, yes, this is why people are dying, as you know.
	So the president, in this scripted event, and it was kind of funny because, I don't know if you saw the whole thing, he said, final question, and he forgot that it wasn't the final question, and then some girl asked some insignificant question, and then he He realizes that he still has his point to make for his legacy as he's about to get on his helicopter and fly off for another vacation.
	And he calls again for, yes, now it's time for the last question.
	Last question.
	President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq?
	And does it give you pause as the U.S. is doing the same thing in Afghanistan?
	Now, this has been touted by a lot of alternative media as well who don't understand how these things work as Wow, man.
	Obama's pissed.
	He's blaming the Bush regime.
	Now, this is a complete, completely scripted, okay?
	The last question.
	This guy was supposed to have the last question.
	He was given the last question.
	We've never heard of this guy.
	You don't recognize the voice.
	He's not identified.
	It's just some dude, not named Ben, who's standing there with the last question as scripted for the president to finalize his legacy.
	And I'll...
	Spoiler...
	He's saying, hey, first of all, this was already set in motion.
	Second of all, you better be happy because if we had people in there, it would be a much bigger mess.
	So be happy that I'm kind of in control of the situation.
	I'm going to get on my chopper now and go to Martha's Vineyard.
	You know what I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up as if this was my decision.
	Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country To a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government.
	So let's just be clear.
	The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were...
	Iraqis.
	Do you know how it went to the next line on the teleprompter somehow?
	The word Iraqis got broken up?
	Yeah.
	Iraqis.
	A majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there.
	And politically, they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq.
	Having said all that, here it comes.
	If, in fact, the Iraqi government behaved the way it did over the last five, six years...
	Where it failed to pass legislation that would reincorporate Sunnis and give them a sense of ownership.
	If it had targeted certain Sunni leaders and jailed them.
	If it had alienated Some of the Sunni tribes that we had brought back in during the so-called awakening that helped us turn the tide in 2006.
	If they had done all those things and we had had troops there, The country wouldn't be holding together either.
	The only difference would be we'd have a bunch of troops on the ground that would be vulnerable.
	And however many troops we had, we would have to now be reinforcing, I'd have to be protecting them, and we'd have a much bigger job.
	Alright, so there you go.
	So just so you know, shut up.
	Everything's perfect.
	It wasn't my fault, but I'm glad I did it.
	And for those of you who are interested in what will evolve here, Maliki will be out.
	He's a dead man one way or the other.
	If they bring in this shill, that would be quite surprising.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	Right now, he is the head of the...
	He's currently the head and president of the Governing Council of Iraq.
	And he's a shoo-in.
	So Chalabi, read up on him.
	I have links in the show notes.
	No, he was succeeded by a laoi.
	I don't know what he's doing now.
	I'm sorry.
	That was a mistake.
	I'm sure he's not without work.
	No, he's doing something.
	He's also a banker.
	Initially, he's enjoyed close political and business relationships with members of the U.S. government, including some prominent neocons within the Pentagon.
	He's a neocon.
	He's part of the Kagan group.
	Yes.
	Absolutely.
	All of these guys, every single person who's on the scene now goes back to 2006, if not certainly to 2003.
	This is the original strategy, and I think we're going to finally do it because now people are, the American public certainly, but I believe around the world we are tired.
	We're tired of the...
	The sickness that is being bestowed upon us, which is just war images and saving people.
	Meanwhile, who's saving us?
	Who's saving the shittisons of the West, of the Gitmo nation?
	We're sending hundreds of billions of dollars everywhere else.
	Your brains can't handle it at a certain point.
	Whatever, just bomb the shit out of them.
	I don't care.
	Hey, oil prices are down.
	That's good.
	I'm not paying too much for the gas pump.
	Nobody has really chimed in.
	I mean, this whole bombing of these characters.
	And by the way, it seems to me that because, I mean, Obama touched on it with that last question.
	And he didn't say it specifically.
	He said, well, because they wouldn't give us certain kinds of protections or certain kinds of security.
	We couldn't leave any troops there.
	What he was referring to was the fact that we had asked for total immunity to do anything we want.
	Criminal actions.
	So any American in the area who was a rapist or a robber, bank robber, doesn't make any difference.
	They were immune to Iraqi law.
	Yes.
	That's what we need when you're going in and you're being extractive.
	You need this kind of protection.
	They said, no, this is bullcrap.
	You guys are killing our people.
	The Blackwater guys are a good example.
	It's nasty.
	We don't like it, and we're not going to agree to that.
	I do think it was...
	And so then, I think then, I think that's why ISIS was established.
	Yes, well, ISIS already was established.
	It was just called the Free Syrian Army or the Libyan Rebels.
	It's the same, guys.
	Baghdadi was established.
	And I don't understand why we don't use the...
	Because it's a good name, and I think for that very reason.
	Why is he not synonymous with Osama bin Laden?
	Al-Baghdadi is a great name.
	He's got a cape.
	He's got a beard.
	I like the cape.
	The cape is great.
	And a great name, Al-Baghdadi.
	Everyone can remember Al-Baghdadi.
	Yeah.
	He's from Baghdad.
	Yeah.
	The other guy was El Baghdad, the guy they killed.
	But this guy named himself the same thing.
	So there was a continuity there.
	It was like Superman 2.
	But I think the nice touch to all of this was having Pope Francis send a cardinal to Iraq.
	I thought that was a nice touch.
	That really brought it home.
	You know, it's like, oh, yes, well, now we're killing Christians, and there's a holocaust of the Christians...
	Very, very nice touch.
	Very well executed.
	Very well done.
	Good night, Iraq.
	Good night.
	You're rubble now.
	Anything can happen.
	You will not hear of any.
	You'll hear, oh, strike here, strike there.
	They'll do whatever they need.
	And I'm sorry, Maliki.
	I'm sorry for you.
	That's the brakes, man.
	You play hard and rough and sometimes it doesn't work out.
	So he's dead.
	He may even be dead.
	Who knows?
	I'm sure he has a lot of bodyguards.
	Yeah.
	I heard he was running around in military fatigues and he was really, really going all out.
	So this is a lot of marketing.
	It's good work.
	Do not fall for any of it.
	And they finally are...
	They, the neocons, the globalist people who believe there is an order in the world and...
	And America and Britain and France and, you know, we're supposed to be running it.
	They're getting what they want.
	This is exactly what they wanted.
	And for some reason, you know, I think it's just fatigue, really.
	That's what it seems to be.
	Because no one, everyone's gone, right?
	The Congress is gone, everyone's on vacation.
	Yeah, everyone's on vacation.
	Everyone's tired.
	Ah, fine, who cares?
	Let them go.
	And everyone at this point, they're buying shares and all the companies, and everyone's in on it, except us.
	Right.
	And that's it.
	And that's really it.
	So, Abril, great place to go.
	Don't be fooled.
	It's a beautiful, beautiful city.
	It's modern.
	It's like Houston.
	It's the Houston of Iraq.
	I don't think it's as grimy as Houston.
	It's probably prettier.
	No, it's probably prettier.
	No, it looks a lot prettier.
	Especially that old walled city looks like dynamite place to visit.
	They got some real history for sure.
	Now, we could have known this was happening because Kerry was in Kurdistan, in Erbil, like two weeks ago.
	We could have seen this happening, but it's so hard to keep track of that guy.
	There may be more than just one of him.
	All over the place.
	It's hard to keep track of his tongue going in and out like a snake.
	No kidding.
	So that's it, people!
	Caliphate!
	That's what you'll be hearing, and of course the other end of that is working quite well.
	I'm now receiving emails from producers in Europe, also from Agent Afe.
	My Jewish shill, she says, wow, you know, you're so right.
	Well, it's under the flag of anti-Semitism right now, that the Muslims are rioting in Europe and causing a ruckus.
	And they say, oh, this is because of Israel-Palestine, which is the excuse.
	But they're really just causing a ruckus.
	It's distracting, creating chaos.
	And then, you know, before you know it, look, the immigrants in Western Europe are already in government everywhere.
	I think Europe is at a loss.
	I think that it's gone pretty much.
	I don't see how they can change anything.
	They can't turn it back when they're in government.
	Yeah, the elites know how to do these things.
	I think the elites want it.
	This is what they want.
	I don't think so.
	Make a mess of it.
	Well, you tell me what's going on, then.
	It's just being made a big, fat mess.
	Yeah, well, we'll have it figured out in no time.
	Yeah, before you know it.
	One more time, Amy Goodman, because I liked it so much.
	Well, then, I was wondering your response, Phyllis, to President Obama.
	Yes, President Obama.
	Very nice.
	I have a cool little clip before we get to our first break.
	Mm-hmm.
	Because that's a truth teller.
	Yes.
	So there was an event at Aspen, the yearly Aspen whatever bullcrap conference.
	Oh, is this the security?
	The Aspen Institute's yearly secret meeting.
	Yeah, we had a couple clips from some of the douches up there.
	So this is Albright, Madeline Albright, sitting on the stage with Condoleezza Rice, and the backgrounder on these people is kind of creepy, because they knew each other, and apparently Albright was a protege of Brzezinski.
	Yes.
	Oh, yes.
	And she has one of the largest globalist consulting companies around.
	If you want to take over a country or you want to extract some resources, you call the Albright Group.
	And it's kind of funny to listen to because the other guy in there was Gates.
	And he was contradicting the both of them constantly.
	And it was actually very revealing.
	And I'll get to some of those.
	But I had to play Albright the truth teller.
	If you listen to this very carefully, you'll see what the truth is.
	I do think it is the most serious event since the end of the Cold War.
	And we all have been diplomats or in the government, and there are many people here with the same background.
	And there are things that happen all over the world all the time.
	There are changes, border disputes, various arguments that go on.
	And that's what people like us used to do for a living.
	Yes!
	We create border disputes, all kinds of crap.
	It's what we do for a living, yes.
	Was Newland there by any chance?
	Victoria Newland was supposed to be...
	This was done on Friday, this meeting.
	She was supposed to show up on Saturday, which is yesterday, to give her speech.
	So she was there.
	And she...
	But it never showed up on any of the videos, so I couldn't pull it.
	But I was scouring the net yesterday to try to see if I can get the new one.
	I'm sure it'll show up eventually, and I'm sure it'll be very interesting.
	I love that.
	That's what we do, yeah.
	But you've noticed now that the Maidan, the people are now rioting for real.
	Yeah, we're not getting that covered, are we?
	No.
	And they're, like, not leaving?
	And the chocolate king, Poroshenko, he's saying, hey, you know, can we all get along?
	We need to honor the dead.
	And people are saying, hey, you didn't do a single thing you promised.
	Not a single thing.
	And now, the Ukrainian government and the U.S. neocons are warning that if Russia even tries to provide aid to To the eastern Ukraine, that will be seen as an invasion.
	Since when is providing aid in a humanitarian corridor deemed an invasion?
	You know, and the funny thing about this Aspen Institute thing with these people, nobody once brings up any notion that we're behind Maidan, and we had a lot to do with it, and we had Newlin there, and we also had Brennan.
	This is not a truth-telling conference.
	This is a making-money-meet-your-customer conference.
	It's just ridiculous that this is ignored to such an extreme.
	I see you have two more clips.
	Anything you want to play?
	Well, we can play.
	Yeah, I'm interested.
	Play the first one, which is the...
	This is Condi and Madge talking amongst themselves.
	And then they put this little note in here, which I find to be kind of weird.
	Now, Condoleezza Rice, of course, was the ambassador...
	Secretary of State.
	Secretary of State.
	She was under Bush.
	Right.
	And Madge, Madeleine Albright, was the Secretary of State under Clinton.
	And they're buddies.
	Is Condi in the Albright group?
	I don't know if she is or not, but I know they're friends and they talk about their friendship.
	Just for one second, we need to just look up the Albright Stonebridge Group is what it's known officially.
	I doubt it because I think Condi wants to still in play as a politician.
	We go beyond opening doors, working alongside our clients to help navigate challenging markets, solve problems, implement strategies to manage risk.
	Based in Washington and capitals around the world, our advisors provide unparalleled insights, high-level strategic advice, and sound.
	With experience that spans countries and industries, we tailor strategic solutions to meet clients' needs.
	Yes, we'll take out entire governments.
	We'll kill people for you.
	We will create strife and rebelize right before your very eyes.
	Who are the people?
	Didn't they have some great people in there besides Albright?
	Oh, yes.
	So, Albright Burger...
	What do we have?
	Goldfield, some bankers.
	We need the board.
	That's what we need.
	Just look at it.
	Albright Stonebridge Group.
	And she's of the lizard people, if you look at her.
	Oh, yeah.
	And she has a lot of experience with this.
	She did the Balkans was all her work, wasn't it?
	Yep.
	So I'm sure they are, I'll look at the, while we play this clip from the Aspen Institute, I'll look at the news and see what they're doing.
	Aspen Strategy Group.
	We are a unique institution, I think, in the American foreign policy firmament because we are non-partisan.
	We're not just bipartisan.
	Oh, this is the intro.
	We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents that come together once a year here in Aspen.
	We have dialogues with the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian leaderships.
	We are on our 30th year.
	We were founded by two great Americans, General Brent Scowcroft, who unfortunately is not here right now, but will be in a couple of hours, and Professor Joe Nye, Harvard University.
	And so I would ask you to salute Joe.
	Maybe, Joe, you could stand.
	Yeah!
	Salute him!
	Salute him!
	That's right!
	Salute him!
	Thanks, man.
	Good work.
	Make me rich.
	We're going to be discussing Russia over the next three and a half days.
	An off-the-record conversation.
	What?
	Off-the-record?
	What?
	There's nothing to talk about in U.S.-Russian relations these days, but everything to talk about.
	And I thought...
	That's elite humor, John.
	...we might talk about the issue that united Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright.
	Now, before we get to that, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to be following the news feed of the Albright Stonebridge Group, and I'm kicking myself now for not having looked earlier.
	So I'll just give you the latest headlines to tell you what the Albright Group will be working on.
	So your senior counselor, Don Gipps, participating in a Bloomberg Google Hangout on the margins of the USA-Africa Business Forum.
	And then right followed by Modi's first 100 days.
	Have you and I had a conversation I think after the last show that we think India is due?
	For some rebelizing or making a ruckus.
	Because there's hints already that Ebola, in fact, it's funny, they would juxtapose in this news feed of this black guy, Shapo, whatever his name is, talking about Africa, and then right to India, and Africa, India, Ebola, hello.
	I think India would be just great for some Ebola.
	Yeah.
	It would solve a lot of problems.
	Well, a lot of our problems.
	Yeah.
	So they were a big, they had a big hand, the Albright group, in the, in this Africa summit.
	Which makes complete sense.
	And so their clients are all over this.
	And we'll talk about that if we thank you.
	Well, you should actually go down the feed further and you can see where it starts to lead.
	It's got Albright showing up on Face the Nation.
	They've got good public relations.
	Financial press.
	Then Albright again on CNN New Day.
	And then down and boom, there's your man.
	There's Brzezinski.
	Brzezinski with the quote, Russia sliding into isolation and disgrace.
	So Albright and Condi Rice in this little discussion, and you can play this clip.
	Yeah, I'd like to.
	But let me just set up a couple of things.
	They trash Russia.
	They trash Putin.
	Albright says he's deluded.
	He's delusional.
	He's a...
	He's a complete, you know...
	Narcissistic, crazy guy.
	He wants to go back to the old days of Russia.
	He'll stop at nothing.
	He wants to kill everybody.
	Russia uber alles.
	And unfortunately, they brought Gates in, which was a huge mistake.
	Because Gates just says, I don't think any of this is true, essentially.
	You have to play the Gates clip.
	You're going to play this one.
	But play this one.
	One thought I have before we get into this.
	I'm looking at Albright.
	I'm looking at Brzezinski.
	I have a feeling that we're at a very dangerous time because these people who have been working on these initiatives for decades, they want to really make another mark before they croak.
	And I'm a little wary, maybe afraid, they're going to push as hard as they can.
	And it's not about money or anything.
	It's about the accomplishment of doing it.
	And the true belief that Russia has to be, you know, brought into line and China has to be contained.
	And I'm worried that they're going to...
	You know, we say...
	You've heard this saying before.
	Oh, yeah.
	A cat pushed into the corner can make strange jumps, Confucius say.
	And I'm worried that they're going to really push for some stuff that is a little too risky.
	Well, how old are these people?
	70s.
	They're all way in their 70s.
	But they're not old.
	They're not old, but they're old enough that they know that they have to do this now because it's in play.
	Everything's teed up, so they have to push, push, push.
	She's 77.
	Yeah, so that's...
	Do you know what?
	She's only 4'10".
	Is that on our wiki page?
	Yeah.
	4'10".
	I didn't know that.
	Wow!
	She's always seated, I guess, is the reason you don't know that, but she's smaller than...
	No, no, you think she's seated.
	She's standing.
	God!
	Alright, let's listen to this bit.
	I'm glad you got this because this is the kind of stuff that you will not hear anywhere unless you're really going to look forward.
	And I think it's appropriate that our podcast can take the time to play a little bit longer pieces of important strategy sessions where these people are, you know, Bilderberg group, which you're all, oh, let's go hang out in front of the Bilderbergs.
	I see the elites driving in.
	That is the distraction for the seed sellers.
	This is where it really takes place, out in the open.
	I didn't see anyone there with a bullhorn yelling at them in Aspen.
	Did you?
	Was there any notice of that?
	No, no known bullhorns.
	They were just saluting.
	New World Order signs.
	No, just everyone saluting and they give you videos to look at freely.
	This is where it really takes place.
	Year after year, pull off really extraordinary conversations in a wonderful and civil way.
	Well, I was, not to put too fine a point on it, a failed piano major in college.
	I was supposed to be a great pianist, started playing at the age of three.
	I came here as a 17-year-old rising junior, as my kids now call it, at the University of Denver, to go to the Aspen Music Festival School.
	And I met here 12-year-olds who could play from sight what it had taken me all year to learn.
	And I thought, find another profession.
	And so I went back to Denver.
	I was taking classes, tried a lot of things, and fortunately wandered into a course in international politics taught by a Soviet specialist, a Czech émigré, a great diplomat, a man named Joseph Korbel.
	And it was Joseph Korbel that stimulated my interest in things international, my interest...
	Is he from the ice cream chain?
	No, that's Corvill.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	...in things Russian, my interest in diplomatic history.
	And he convinced me that it was okay for a black girl from Birmingham, Alabama, to want to be a Soviet specialist.
	And that was the start of my career.
	I just have to say, he also said, and I have a...
	that I'd like you to meet sometime.
	She's studying with Zvig Brzezinski at Columbia.
	Her name is Madeline.
	Zvig.
	And now you can take that...
	By the way, if you're on the inside, you say Zbig.
	Zbig.
	Zbig.
	The Big Zbowski.
	So, what happened was my father was a Czechoslovak diplomat who didn't want to work for the Communists and came to the United States and defected, and at that stage, I understand now how it works, the Rockefeller Foundation found him a job at the University of Denver.
	We had no idea where Denver was.
	My parents bought a car and started driving across America, and my mother said, everybody says Denver's the mile-high city, but we're not going up, so maybe we're going the wrong direction.
	So, anyway, my father started teaching at the University of Denver and ultimately became dean of the graduate school, and he died in 1977, and by then he was a really big deal, and there were lots of flowers and tributes and things at his funeral, and among them was this beautiful ceramic pot in the shape of a piano with some leaves and things in it, and I said to my mother, where did this come from?
	And she said, it's from your father's favorite student, Condoleezza Rice.
	So, in 1987, when I was working for my long string of losing Democratic presidential candidates...
	And you know what's great?
	Isn't this kind of creepy?
	Yes!
	But it's creepy in a very enamoring, engaging way.
	And when you see all these connections come together...
	Yeah, I like this.
	I like listening to this.
	I thought, you know, why not, in fact, get in touch with this woman, Condoleezza Rice, who was, I knew, an African-American music major.
	I'll call the blackie.
	That's what she's saying.
	But she's just not saying it.
	...from Alabama, who wrote her dissertation on the Czechoslovak military with my father.
	So I thought, she teaches on the West Coast, Soviet expert.
	I'll ask her to join my group.
	Joe was a part of the group.
	And I said, Condi, this is what I'm doing.
	And she said, Madeline, I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm a Republican.
	And I said, Condi, how could you be?
	We have the same father.
	LAUGHTER Okay.
	Wow, creepy.
	Well, anyway, the two of them go on and they start to talk.
	I didn't clip this because these clips are too long.
	So they go on and on, bitching and moaning about Russia together.
	The two of them have the same...
	Condi would say one thing and Madeline would take it to the next level and then Condi would take it to the next level.
	And it was all about how...
	How horrible Putin is.
	And in fact, to the point where they were just trashing him.
	And obviously that was part of some sort of a philosophy that's obviously Brzezinski's zig or whatever they call him.
	Zbig's grand chessboard.
	It's his game.
	They all love Zbig.
	Apparently, yeah.
	And so Gates comes on, and this is the Gates PM. This is Robert Gates.
	Robert Gates is an ex-CIA guy.
	He was also in the Defense Department.
	He did a bunch of things.
	And he's actually very personable.
	Uncle Don, my Uncle Don, does not like him.
	Well, I can see that.
	I think he's personable.
	But he does have a few things to say that contradict the two women.
	But I think in this clip, the PM Russia clip, I think he outlines a realistic look at things, which is probably the official look.
	Border changes could only be resolved through peaceful negotiations and the consent of the parties and not the satisfaction of revanchist claims by force.
	The second was the freedom of sovereign states to choose which other countries with whom they wanted to ally politically, economically, and for security.
	Both of those, Putin has essentially thrown aside.
	And so what the Europeans and we for a long time felt was a matter settled at the end of the Cold War is now very much back up on the table.
	I think Putin has two goals.
	I don't know that he's delusional.
	Maybe because we both came from the spy business, he and I had a very interesting relationship.
	We didn't like each other, but there was a certain interesting respect or suspicion.
	I'm not sure which.
	But we would speak very frankly to one another, partly because I wasn't a diplomat, and neither was he.
	Clearing his throat a lot.
	I'm not sure what that's telling us, but there's an element of bowl crap coming out of him, but it's still at the same time, it's very interesting.
	Strychnine.
	But I think he has, after two things, and one is what Condi alluded to, or talked about, and that is this sense of historical mission to protect the Russians who were left behind.
	This is the ongoing narrative.
	That he has the historical mission.
	After the collapse of the Soviet Union.
	But the second is more traditional Russian behavior.
	And that is the creation or recreation of a band of states on the periphery of Russia That lean toward Moscow economically, politically, and for security.
	He doesn't want to recreate the Soviet Union, I don't think.
	He doesn't want to be responsible for all those economic basket cases on the periphery.
	That's a different narrative.
	I like that.
	Yeah.
	And I also see...
	Yeah, I understand what he's doing.
	The EU is the same thing.
	Bunch of states.
	We'll take that crap in Greece, give it to us.
	Buffer states.
	Yeah, buffers, yeah.
	But...
	He does want to recreate this buffer, if you will, that has been very much a part of Russian history for a long time.
	For good reason.
	Yeah, of course.
	And frankly, I think he sees Ukraine as the linchpin of that.
	Kiev was where the Russian Empire was founded over a thousand years ago.
	Is that true?
	I didn't know that, but it's...
	Apparently.
	Where the Russian Empire was founded?
	That's what he says.
	Well, it could be.
	Let me just roll it back a little bit.
	That's not the kind of thing he would say and not get caught.
	So I'm assuming it's true.
	I do not have the backup for that.
	He says it's like a thousand years ago.
	Like a long time ago.
	Yeah, back in the day.
	He was going to fact check that.
	Well, still, you'd think that one of the two women would have a clue.
	...part of Russian history for a long time.
	And frankly, I think he sees Ukraine as the linchpin of that.
	Kiev was where the Russian Empire was founded.
	What is a linchpin, actually?
	What is an actual linchpin?
	Is that a nautical term?
	No, no.
	Oh, it could be.
	But I know it's a pin that if you pull it out, bad things happen.
	Do you mind if I just look very quickly?
	A pin pass through the end.
	Oh, of course.
	Well, I would call it something else.
	But it's a pin pass through the end of an axle to keep a wheel in position.
	What do we call that?
	There's a different word for it.
	Cotter pin.
	Cotter pin.
	Yeah.
	I lynch pin sound.
	That sound is good.
	Cause it has a cotter pin of the, uh, the whole thing.
	So if you, if you take this guy out, the wheels come off it over a thousand years ago, I think he does see it as a made up state.
	Uh, And I think that he will never rest easy, as long as he thinks that Ukraine might slide west.
	And away from Russia and not a part of that buffer of states on the periphery of Russia.
	Okay, well, I like his version as a little alternative, but it doesn't sound like he's any better or worse than any of the Atlanticists who want buffer states.
	Of course, but he has to have the same narrative.
	Yeah, of course.
	He just has a little more detail to it.
	He's still an anti-Putinist.
	Mm-hmm.
	Pu-inist.
	And he is...
	He's still connected, I think.
	I think that's why he's there.
	He's got some...
	I think he's the spokeshole for the CIA in these meetings.
	Oh, yeah.
	And make no mistake, nobody really cares.
	ExxonMobil just started drilling in the Arctic.
	For the Russians.
	For the Russians, yeah.
	And Putin's up there and everyone's together.
	Nobody cares.
	It's just playing little games.
	Stratego.
	Whatever that game is.
	Stratego.
	Isn't that the game?
	Is that what it's called?
	Yeah, I guess.
	I've never played Stratego, curiously.
	Oh, I used to play it for hours on end.
	You want to play a few minutes of the Gates 2 clip, which I think goes into something else?
	Yeah, I do.
	Just distance myself from the two secretaries of state in this respect.
	I always like the definition of diplomacy as saying nice doggy until you can find a rock.
	Nice!
	Yeah, I like that.
	Yeah, but that's what you do with dogs when you're an asshole.
	Um...
	By the way, listen to how many people are saying, he's just like me.
	I throw rocks at dogs all the time.
	Stupid stray mutt.
	Yep.
	Wow.
	A little frightening there, people.
	I think Putin...
	The thing to remember is that Putin could remain president of Russia until 2024.
	Yeah.
	He's playing a long game, and I think we need a long game.
	Agreed.
	And I agree with everything in terms of reactions short-term that Condi and Madeline have described.
	I would provide lethal weapons, but with a heavy emphasis on those that are largely seen as defensive rather than an offensive capability.
	Sometimes that's a pretty thin line, but...
	It just depends on which end of the barrel you're on, Gates.
	It's a long game.
	I remember in 2008, Condi and I realizing how much intelligence we were getting on how extensive Russian black ops were in Central Asia and places like Kyrgyzstan and so on, trying to stir up anti-Americanism.
	So this is not something that just started six months or a year ago.
	And I think...
	I think there's a key element there.
	What we need to do is not only strengthen NATO... Yeah, I think you're right.
	I kind of glossed over it.
	Let me just go back a little bit.
	Let's hear that again.
	How much intelligence we were getting...
	On how extensive Russian black ops were in Central Asia and places like Kyrgyzstan and so on, trying to stir up anti-Americanism.
	That was also purely for extractive purposes, I presume.
	That was that, and it was almost like, if you back off enough, you say, well, the Russians were doing this in those areas.
	Well, let's do the same thing to them in Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	And see how they like it.
	It's a tit for tat.
	So this is not something that just started six months or a year ago.
	And I think what we need to do is not only strengthen NATO's military presence.
	My biggest worry for the Baltic states is not that Putin will send troops across.
	It is that he has such extraordinary economic leverage in all three of those places.
	There you go.
	And so one of the things that I think we ought to be looking at, both with respect to the Baltic states and with Ukraine, is what can we do to create a better safety net economically under those states so that if Putin does start to turn the screws...
	Using Russia's leverage in the Baltic states, economic leverage, but also the cyber capabilities that he demonstrated against Estonia, I think, in 2007.
	What was that?
	The cyber capabilities?
	And you hear someone, yeah, 2007, yeah, I remember it.
	What was the cyber capabilities?
	In Estonia?
	Yeah, Estonia, which is the most wired of all these Baltic states.
	Yeah, we had a lot of...
	I think they shut them down or something for some reason.
	There was something going on.
	I don't remember now, but it was a while back.
	It was before we did the show.
	Well, you said 2008.
	But the real thing he's talking about is the oil.
	Cutting off the gas.
	Yes.
	That those Baltic states don't have to knuckle under because they've got an economic alternative.
	Right.
	Which is Europe, I guess.
	EU? Well, us.
	Us, yeah.
	Good.
	I'm glad you clipped that.
	And I actually have, in a latest...
	Narrative to discuss as a follow-on to that, which I think might surprise you.
	It'll be maybe a multiple-part series of something we're going to do here on the show.
	But that's just a teaser.
	Because right now I have to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning to all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And I want to say in the morning to everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Thank you, Void Zero, for making all of that work again.
	Thank you all for hanging out with us.
	Thank you very much to our artists, who are always bringing us fantastic artwork.
	It is a big part of the success of this program, is that we have new art for every single episode.
	Phil V. uploaded his art to noagendaartgenerator.com, and we look forward to what we'll see for today's episode.
	We should choose right after the show.
	It's very hard sometimes.
	We had a hard time, actually.
	We went back and forth a lot on this one.
	It was the John Kerry, Mr.
	Potato Head with his foot off yelling Putin, which was kind of funny.
	Yeah.
	I like that a lot.
	Yeah, it was...
	I couldn't find any...
	It looked like original art, too.
	So, thank you.
	James, we want to thank a few of the producers that gave us some production money for show 642, including James Wolgamoth, who gave us the beast donation.
	Ah, the big beast!
	He came in with the big beast, and he is a winner of the big beast contest.
	No, no, it's a little beast contest.
	It's a little beast, I'm sorry.
	What am I thinking?
	And he says, from Everett, Washington, down the road here, from where I am, and he's over to the side, and he says, thanks for the funny photo newsletter!
	And that's all he says.
	Well, it was a funny photo newsletter.
	Yes, it's always funny.
	You know, I had some guy wrote in, he says, oh, you know, I blah blah blah, I have a plug-in so I don't see any of the images.
	And then he goes on about something which would have been explained by one of the images, because we have just typically three or four or five funny photos.
	Yeah, you had a lot this time.
	You had a lot of big beast photos, and he had always a cute kitten photo.
	It works wonders.
	Always a kitten.
	Well, not always, but sometimes a panda, sometimes a doggy.
	Whatever the case.
	Hey, you should do a dog with a rock.
	I'm thinking that...
	I looked for that, actually, to be honest about it.
	Sick man.
	The thing is, I don't think the newsletter is any good without the photos.
	It's what makes it all come together.
	It's not just a newsletter, it is a product.
	It is a piece of...
	It is a work of art, but it is a true product.
	Free, I might add.
	You can just sign up for it.
	There's a sign-up link on every show notes page.
	Yeah, and even sometimes the newsletter doesn't have a lot of news.
	It's still a great newsletter because of the photos.
	The photos, yeah.
	Mickey, who is really...
	This is not her thing, newsletters, but she always...
	Oh, I got the newsletter.
	And she likes what it says, but she, of course, likes the photos, too.
	And I do, too.
	I'm saving every single one.
	When it comes into my email, boom, I archive it.
	I like it a lot.
	You do good work on that.
	So David Foley likes it too, because he came in with $333.33.
	Foley!
	Foley?
	Foley!
	The Grand Duke!
	Foley!
	Foley!
	In the morning, gentlemen, just a quick note to thank you for your continued analysis and discussions that can be found nowhere else.
	Thank you.
	In addition, in listening to the yesterday's show, I realized that BVP's sole executive producer donation means that it was my turn to step up and represent the territory of the United States in donating to the best podcast in the universe.
	Somebody's referred to as Baron von Pelsmacher.
	Grand Duke of France and Belgium.
	Grand Duke of France and Belgium.
	I do have an extra bit from our Grand Duke.
	Now he has this, it's the Ultraflex, which I didn't know that's what his thing was.
	I guess he's doing this, he's taking it one step higher than Netflix, his Ultraflex with 4K. What
	is going on?
	I rousted one of the dogs from the door.
	He's going to bust in in a minute.
	And the dog took up the stairs and scared the parrot.
	But you know what you have to do.
	Throw a rock at that thing.
	I didn't have a rock to throw, and it's a glass door.
	If anyone can create a video advertisement for the show, please contact Ultraflix at ntech.com.
	I'll put that in the show notes.
	NovemberTangoEchoKilo.com.
	I'll work with them to spread the word.
	Well, first of all, I'd love to have some no-agenda video commercials, and it makes a lot of sense if...
	And we do have people who do this.
	What parrot?
	Does the parrot say anything or just squawk?
	No, no, the parrot is hilarious.
	The parrot says everything in everybody's voice, and occasionally, once in a while, you get into a conversation in someone's voice, and you're down here or something, and you go, what the hell?
	Who's in here?
	It sounds like somebody's in the house.
	What's the parrot's name again?
	Skyler.
	Skyler!
	Skyler!
	You can't hear me.
	Bear with me.
	Skyler!
	PUTIN! I'd like to get it.
	He would say Putin.
	I hope so.
	And he'd say it well, but the funny thing is about...
	Pollywanna Putin?
	He would do the Putin.
	But the funny thing about this bird is that besides getting into these conversations, he's a guard bird.
	And that's why he's making all this racket right now.
	Sorry.
	How old is...
	And what I was going to say is that he's so far away from...
	You have no idea where he is.
	He's nowhere near here.
	And then you...
	I've always wondered why we haven't been able to...
	Because...
	I was at the, there's a kookaburra, there's some bird, there's some Australian bird, kookaburra, I can't remember.
	But if you've ever been in a hall where there's one of these things and they decide to let out a noise, it will deafen you, like this stupid parrot.
	Oh yeah.
	Now, if you think about it, I don't know if this is good for one of those solicitation deals where you get money for an invention like this, but their vocal cords are little bitty things.
	You mean a Kickstarter?
	Kickstarter.
	How come you can't make speakers that small with that much volume coming out if a bird can do it?
	Their lungs aren't that big.
	They're not, you know, it's a little bitty thing.
	And so then there's this little bitty voice box.
	Well, that's a very good question.
	It's not a great question, but it's a good question.
	I think it's because the amount of air pressure one can create in a bird apparently as well with your lungs is, that's really what it is.
	It's the air pressure that makes it work.
	Yeah, but the bird, just lungs on a bird is nothing.
	Well, let's open them up and take a look.
	He keeps squawking.
	He might be tasty.
	He's over there scolding him for making a bunch of racket and interrupting the show.
	All right.
	Nice.
	Onward!
	Yes.
	Radu Wutej.
	Anyway, he's actually known as a pronunciation, which I, of course, don't have open.
	And it's from Slovenia.
	He is our first Slovenian 333333 executive producer that I know of.
	First time donation, been listening to the show for about a year now, finally doing my bit.
	A shout out to Fred Herbert and Mr.
	Page.
	Well, then he gets a de-douching then.
	Mr.
	Page, Mr.
	Page.
	He is not asking for it, but if it's his first time donation, should we just de-douche him?
	Yeah, give him one.
	Yeah, I'm happy to have someone from Slovakia.
	You've been de-douched.
	I like it.
	Nice, nice, nice, nice.
	Sir John Donovan, this came in late.
	Oops, you skipped Angela.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Angela Castaneda in Henderson, Nevada.
	Nice little town.
	250 bucks.
	And she says thank you.
	That is all.
	Thank you, Angela.
	And I do have a make good from the last show we have to do.
	Yeah, I wrote it down.
	Want to do that now?
	Herb Lamb?
	We can do it right now if you want.
	You have Herb Lamb's thing there in front of you?
	Well, it's 233.
	And he got credited in the credits, but somehow we skipped over him.
	Yeah.
	And he said it doesn't even matter.
	He just wanted to make sure that we actually got the donation.
	And we appreciated Herb, and we're sorry.
	So we will add you as an extra credit today to make up for it.
	Yeah, get a double credit.
	Hell yeah.
	Thank you so much, sir.
	Thank you, thank you.
	Uh...
	Sir John Donovan in San Jose, California.
	This came in actually late, but since he's a baron, we put him on here, even though it's going to show up again in the next spreadsheet, 246-42.
	So you do have certain privileges when you're a knight or a dame or a baron or a baroness or any other peerage.
	Yes, exactly.
	ITM potcrack and kill buzz.
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	The numbers were too good to pass up.
	That's because the clock read 6.42 this morning, and he realized that he had failed to make the 6.42.
	Yeah, but 642, he's got 24642, which is a palindrome.
	Yes.
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	Yes, no, you're right.
	We got everybody.
	That's it.
	Yeah, we got everybody.
	Show 642, and remind people to go to Dvorak.org slash NA for next week's Thursday show, where we'll be starting over again.
	And I will be doing the show, no, Thursday I do the show from here, but then on Friday I fly to New York.
	So I will be doing Sunday's show from New York City.
	You will?
	Yes.
	Why?
	Saturday is a mini Curry reunion in Armonk.
	Oh, the Curry family.
	Yes, and this is Uncle Doug.
	How come I never get invited to that?
	Is your name Curry?
	I can change it.
	It is the Curry family reunion at the old homestead where all the siblings were born and raised, and Uncle Don and Aunt Meg, Meg being the curry.
	They now live there, and everyone's coming in.
	It's going to be fun.
	My daughter's flying in from Amsterdam, so we're going to go up together.
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	Fear is freedom.
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	Contradiction is truth.
	Those are the facts of this world.
	And you will all surrender to them.
	You pigs in human clothing.
	Yay!
	Yay!
	Hello, pigs in human clothing.
	I have here in my hands, John, a hardcover copy of the book Pot Shards.
	What?
	Pot shards.
	Pot?
	Pot as in pot?
	Shards.
	Shards as in shards.
	Fragments of a life lived in CIA, the White House, and the two Koreas.
	Oh.
	By Donald P. Gregg.
	It came out?
	Yes.
	Oh.
	Did you get an autographed copy?
	I'm taking this copy with me to get autographed.
	Good.
	And would you like me to read a little piece from the preface?
	I'd love to hear that.
	Okay.
	Fragments of memory have persisted through the vagaries of time, like shards of pottery broken long ago.
	So he wanted to be apparently a novelist with this kind of writing.
	Well, this is going to explain, this is why I'm reading it, so we can understand what this is about.
	They are reminders of things from all but forgotten past.
	When I was US Ambassador to South Korea, I would often stop my armored car at construction sites in Seoul to prowl around freshly broken ground looking for ancient pot shards newly exposed.
	I have boxes of shards thus collected that can never be reconnected to what once was whole.
	I also have a vivid collection of memories that I will try to string together to create the narrative of this book.
	I remember waking up one night long ago, a small boy filled with fear of dying.
	I cried out and my parents heard me and came into my room.
	room.
	I was still sniffling, but they comforted me enough so that I asked through my tears if I would live to see the year 2000.
	They assured me that I would, and I asked how old I would be when the date came.
	They told me I would be 72 years old.
	That seemed so reassuringly far off in the future that I was able to fall back to sleep.
	It is now well more than 14 years into the 21st century, and I realize that if I am ever to connect the dots of my memory, I had better get started now, so I shall begin.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what I said.
	So I will be...
	You're going to plow through the book.
	Of course.
	You're going to pull out a couple of tidbits.
	Absolutely.
	And then we're going to discuss him in a future show.
	Yes.
	And know that Uncle Don was once the most feared man in North Korea, but that is long since passed, and he is now a revered man in North Korea.
	Right.
	He goes and visits.
	Yeah, and he tries to make things work, and Washington ignores him and does not like him for it.
	Yeah, that's why he doesn't like Gates.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	But then there's that Iran-Contra thing that's so annoying.
	Yeah, that just never seems to quite...
	He can't shake that off.
	Yeah.
	But oh well.
	But oh well.
	I'm sure that'll be discussed in the book.
	Probably.
	Well, he thanks Felix Rodriguez in the...
	Oh, that guy.
	The torturer.
	As one of his friends.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know, I know, I know.
	We had a Rodriguez clip on once when he was with Hayden and these guys are worried sick they're going to get thrown in jail.
	And Rodriguez just seems like a guy you don't want to get on the bad side of.
	I think they were all in Vietnam together.
	They were in combat.
	So that's probably a different relationship that builds in situations like that.
	There's something very fun happening in New York.
	I'm glad I'm going.
	And when I saw this initiative pop up, I finally hear someone who sees an opportunity and is taking a complete different approach.
	It's called the High Rise Safety Initiative.
	They have a website.
	Let me see.
	What is it?
	HighriseSafetyNYC.org.
	And they have a video to go with it, which is just beautiful.
	What if your office tower completely collapsed after a fire?
	Hard to imagine, isn't it?
	Highrise buildings are built to withstand raging fires without falling.
	They have been for decades.
	And yet, in the late afternoon of September 11th, 2001, this building, World Trade Center 7, collapsed to the ground.
	And I turned in time to see what looked like a skyscraper implosion.
	It looked like it had been done by a demolition crew, the whole thing just collapsing down on itself.
	It wasn't hit by a plane and had only scattered fires burning.
	My name is Don Butterfield.
	I've been a practicing architect and engineer in New York City for close to 50 years.
	Many of us in the architecture and engineering community are concerned that this building could collapse the way it did.
	So we are supporting the high-rise safety initiative, a ballot measure that would require the city of New York to investigate the collapse of this building and any future high-rise collapse.
	It's so smart.
	Very funny.
	Hey, this building collapsed because of a couple of fires.
	We need to investigate not only what happened, but every building in New York because this could happen to your building!
	Because it didn't get hit by a plane.
	And they're putting it on the ballot for November, November 4th.
	And if approved by the voters, it will require the New York City Department of Buildings to investigate high-rise building collapses in New York that occurred on or any time after September 11, 2001.
	Well, that would only be one or two or three buildings.
	Yes, in fact, World Straight Tower 1, 2, and 7, yes.
	WTC 7 won't go away!
	I think it was just poorly built.
	Yeah, probably.
	Just shitty work.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Okay, here is something really bad happening.
	And I started to put this stuff together.
	Right now, there's a lot of stories about the porn business leaving Los Angeles because of the condom requirement.
	Yeah, I think they're going to Arizona or someplace?
	Well, yes.
	But there's a setup in here which is very sneaky.
	This comes and goes.
	We've heard this for several years this has been going on.
	This conversation about the condom law.
	But now there's a new twist, and the twist is trying to make porn production safe if the actors are taking a Truvada.
	This is the, or PrEP, as it's known, the new medical regimen that can help prevent HIV transmission.
	You can do anything to get people to take these things.
	Well, and this is exactly what, this is being pushed very, very hard and very...
	Callously, I would say.
	Now, Brian, our gay crusader, has been on my case about this for a long time, and the evidence is just mounting that right up to the FDA and the CDC, they are not really communicating very well that Truvada is by no means a miracle cure or preventive cure, but by no means does it mean you should stop using condoms.
	In fact, the evidence shows that it really is quite dangerous if you were to rely on this at all.
	And so here's more news.
	Grindr is now marketing Truvada.
	So Grindr is the gay hookup app.
	And they are now advertising on the app.
	And I believe there is too much misinformation and perhaps disinformation out there that people are not being told that it is not safe to use this Solely without other protective measures if you do not want to be susceptible to contracting the HIV virus.
	And NPR, which is a part...
	This report is a part of the Kaiser Medical Report, which astounds me.
	Yeah, you noticed this, too.
	I hate this.
	They bring some woman on who is a representative of Kaiser...
	She works for Kaiser, and she's in there to do the medical segment of the show.
	This is native advertising, as far as I'm concerned.
	I would be stunned if they didn't get a pile of money for this.
	Well, it's sponsored by, or it's co-produced by Kaiser.
	Kaiser, of course, is the Kaiser Foundation.
	They have a non-profit side of the house.
	There's supposed to be a Chinese wall in between.
	Kaiser Permanente, we know, is huge in the medical insurance business, correct?
	Kaiser Permanente?
	Well, yeah, but it's one of the first, it may be the original, at least one of the first HMOs.
	Right.
	Healthcare management organizations, is that what it is?
	Right.
	And so when you're a Kaiser, you have insurance, but you have to, you can get away with going to an independent once in a while in an emergency, but generally speaking, you have to go to a Kaiser facility.
	But all of this.
	Which are okay, I mean, but, you know, still.
	So the Truvada is, it's still a very expensive pill, I believe.
	But obviously it's going to be covered, and they're pushing it very hard, and I believe it is very bad for the health of anyone who's having sex and believes that you can take this and not have to worry about contracting AIDS. I am going to here accuse NPR of, at the very least, not providing all the information in this report by telling people very clearly that this is not a replacement.
	And at the very worst, I'm going to accuse them of actually advertising Truvada in this report, which I've cut down a little bit.
	It doesn't reduce from the content, but just for the snappiness of our show.
	Very disturbing reports on the National Treasure NPR, co-produced by Kaiser Medical.
	The pill is Truvada, a combination of two drugs used to treat HIV. Despite Eric's negative HIV status, he takes the pill daily.
	After hearing about the treatment and doing extensive research on his own, McCulley made an appointment with his primary care doctor.
	He was very supportive about it, encouraged me to do it, gave me a lot of stuff to read, gave me a lot of stuff to think about, and told me that I was a good candidate for it.
	Now, that to me sounds like...
	What?
	Yeah, that's a commercial!
	That's okay.
	He was very supportive.
	I did a lot of research.
	This is telling you to do some research.
	Call your doctor.
	Talk to your doctor about Truvada.
	He might have some materials for you.
	So, off we went.
	A few months into treatment, McCulley says the only change has been in his attitude.
	I have what I was looking for.
	I have peace of mind.
	I feel like I've taken responsibility for my health.
	Cool!
	Although Truvada has been on the market for a decade, only recently had prescribing guidelines been available.
	Not every doctor is as familiar with PrEP as McCulley's is.
	So here's, if your doctor doesn't know, right, then we're going to help you understand how to get through that and work with the system to educate your doctor.
	Some within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities have gone as far as to label those on PrEP as Truvada whores.
	The Truvada whore!
	Yeah!
	This is what's going on.
	This is a real term.
	And there are Truvada whores.
	People who have been, and not that they're whores, but they have been convinced that it's now safe.
	We've got the PrEP.
	We've got the Truvada.
	Bear back your best.
	Assumption being you're on Truvada, so you probably, you know, run around having sex with whoever you can.
	I'm not surprised to hear that.
	I've heard it before.
	That's Dr.
	Melanie Thompson.
	She's the principal investigator of the AIDS Consortium of Atlanta and has long worked in HIV research.
	She's encountered reluctance from some health care providers to prescribe PrEP because of a lack of knowledge about it.
	This is an interesting thing to me because doctors who say, you know, I don't want to prescribe PrEP to somebody who might be at risk for HIV because they might not use condoms.
	You know, it's an approach we wouldn't take in other areas of medicine.
	Thompson says no doctor would refuse to prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins to patients because they're overweight, but somehow the conversation around PrEP is different.
	I know.
	So now the comparison is being made between statins and cholesterol and being overweight...
	And Truvada somehow being equal to that in the protection against AIDS. And very briefly, do they mention, of course, no one would ever take it without using condoms, would they?
	Well, yeah, that's exactly the message you're sending.
	So I think it's a very interesting, moralistic attitude that soon will be outdated.
	Who is this woman?
	She's a horrible person.
	Yeah, she's from an AIDS foundation, which, you know, obviously...
	A shill for this drug.
	But I do think that this is a barrier for some patients.
	They feel stigmatized.
	And honestly, health care providers need to step up their game and do better than that.
	There you go.
	Come on, health care providers.
	You can do better.
	You can prescribe Truvada!
	A CDC spokeswoman said via email that lack of awareness and knowledge among health care providers is one of the primary challenges to PrEP's success.
	But both Dr.
	Thompson and CDC officials hope the newly issued treatment guidelines will help overcome any barriers.
	This story is part of a reporting partnership of NPR, WABE, and Kaiser Health News.
	There you go.
	So as a person who truly cares for my LGBTQIAAP brothers and sisters, do not...
	Stop using protective measures such as condoms, or specifically condoms.
	You are being fooled.
	And I don't know if they want to kill people, or I don't know why this is being said, why this is being done.
	Monetary gain for sure.
	Really, do not fall for this trick.
	This is disgusting.
	These guys and these drugs, these drug companies are just shameless.
	So there was a good article, and I sent you a link to put in the show notes, of a 12-year-old dies after a routine doctor's visit.
	Yeah, a lot of people emailed me this.
	Somebody, some little 12-year-old goes in, And it's dead after, you know, getting a, out of the blue, I guess they began her on the shots for HPV shot, the vaccine.
	While there, the 12-year-old also got the first round of the HPV vaccine.
	Afterwards, Meredith was tired and wanted to sleep.
	Her mom went to get her To get her a carry-out, but when she returned, something was terribly wrong.
	When I got home, she'd just thrown up, was non-responsive on my living room floor.
	I performed CPR and was taken to Waukesha Memorial, where she died.
	And this is the key.
	The only thing different about that day was that shot.
	I wish I would have known more about it before I agreed to it.
	She agreed to it.
	She's got to be guilt-ridden now.
	Horrible, of course.
	It's horrible.
	Well, we've discussed this in great detail.
	Over for months and months.
	Then I have women in my life who have gone through this terrorization.
	You're pre-cancerous.
	You better get the Gardasil shot because you're pre-cancerous.
	We're all pre-cancerous.
	I am pre-dead right now.
	As I speak, we're all pre-dead.
	We're pre-dead.
	Everybody except maybe a couple of lizards out there are all pre-dead.
	I am pre-rigamortis.
	So, while you're on the topic of the sex workers, porn stars...
	Or, as I call them, superheroes, yes.
	It's coincidental to me that the economist...
	I should send you a link for the show notes.
	The Economist has essentially produced a guide to prostitution.
	I saw this!
	Yes!
	I think I have it in the show notes somewhere.
	It's how new technology is shaking up the oldest business.
	And it has a cute little...
	Disclaimer at the beginning, it's warning, we rarely feel the need to alert readers to explicit content, but our discussion of the online sex trade requires frank language, which by the way, there's hardly any in there, and some may find the topic distasteful.
	And it goes on with pretty much...
	I never knew half this stuff.
	I always thought I kept up.
	But they have charts and graphs about prices, about how to bargain, what websites to go to to find hookers.
	I'm looking at this going, are you kidding me with this thing?
	Yeah.
	Here's a graph on looks matter, showing that...
	The girlfriend experience.
	The girlfriend experience.
	Or is this for the customers?
	The very fat and heavy women get $200, where the athletic and trim and thin and skinny, they get $260 and up.
	And then also hair length, they want...
	This is, according to the graph, the winners here are the blondes, the athletic or trim blondes, or thin, athletic or thin blondes, with very long hair, that's top dollar, with a D cup and above, and it goes down C, B, A, and flat is at the bottom.
	Nobody likes flat hookers, I guess.
	Oh, come on.
	There's an entire category of...
	Yeah, but I know, but they don't get the big bucks.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	That's the difference.
	Anyway, this thing goes on and on and on.
	It's quite an extensive article.
	It's huge!
	Anyway, so anyone looking for to catch up or find out what's going on with the oldest profession in the world, get a copy of The Economist.
	I think they know exactly who their audience is.
	Yeah.
	Bankers.
	Yeah.
	Bankers are looking for the whore.
	Let's not call them whores.
	No, the bankers aren't whores.
	They're looking for whores.
	Yeah, but don't call the prostitutes whores.
	Okay, they're looking for hookers.
	They're looking for girls.
	Social workers.
	Well, at these prices.
	Well, yeah.
	Anyway, in curiosity, there's a curiosity.
	They say Tokyo has the lowest prices.
	But then they have a good argument why.
	It's because we may not know what the real prices are for the...
	What's going on in Tokyo?
	Because we're just kind of admitting that they don't know what the hell's going on, it seems to me.
	What I'd like to know is, you know, who did the article?
	What kind of research?
	Did they go to all these prostitutes everywhere in all these cities?
	Or did they have stringers?
	Did they say, hey, go do this research?
	And what was the budget?
	Well, this would be interesting information.
	It's under briefing.
	There's no byline.
	So I'm assuming that they sent everybody out to check out things.
	Just do a survey.
	What do you charge?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I just know that this could have been an e-book, and they would have sold a lot of copies.
	They dropped the ball.
	A giblet.
	It would have been a giblet.
	Speaking of which, there's a book out called Console Wars.
	And who would read this book?
	Who's the author?
	It's about Xbox versus...
	Yeah, it's about Sega, Nintendo, The Battle That Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris.
	And there are many people who are reading this book.
	Why?
	We listen to this program.
	Well, people...
	Look, we're not gamers.
	I'm not a gamer.
	I've never...
	I stopped with Doom.
	Doom on DOS. After that, I lost interest altogether.
	I've just never been...
	Probably because I know I would get sucked in and be...
	Yeah, you'd be playing the thing constantly.
	I'd be addicted very...
	And there's also an audible audiobook of this, which I was sent a clip from.
	And you know how I like mocking people and doing their voice?
	Yeah, you do that.
	It's kind of...
	It never sounds like the person, though.
	Right, exactly.
	And now I'm recognizing this because there is a passage in this book.
	I am apparently a part of the console wars.
	What?
	Yes.
	You're in the book?
	Yes.
	And I remember this when I heard the passage, which I will play for you.
	I do remember it taking place.
	I remember being completely disinterested, and I think they paid me two grand or something for the appearance.
	But what's funny is the guy who's reading the book does my voice.
	Sega had taken over the back corner of Toys R Us to host what looked and felt like a political rally for Sonic the Hedgehog.
	Sonic himself was there to greet incoming fans, friends, and journalists, as was his huggable new sidekick Tails, on hand to compliments but never overshadowed the hedgehog.
	Both characters patrolled the perimeter of this rally, ushering guests towards a small stage where MTV's Adam Curry emceed the event.
	Standing behind a podium with a Hollywood-worthy poster for Sonic 2, and in front of a 30-foot, too-fast, too-cool, too-day banner, Curry revved up the crowd for this groundbreaking occasion.
	Can you imagine me revving up the crowd, John?
	Just revving them up in Toys R Us?
	Here we go!
	After building up momentum for Generation X's first unofficial holiday, he welcomed Sega's non-hedgehog man of the hour.
	And now to tell you more about all the exciting details of Sega of America's President and CEO, Tom Kalinske.
	Nailed it!
	Wow.
	He sounded more like you doing his his voice.
	And now he's the man of the hour!
	He's got you as a surfer.
	That's what I'm going to portray you when I get to do that.
	Yeah, and as Adam Curry once said, hey man, that's great!
	I wish he would have done that.
	Now he just sounded like a stooge.
	You sound like a stooge.
	I thought that was pretty funny.
	Is there any tech news, John?
	Is there a phone?
	Do you have anything going on?
	No, there's no phone.
	No new phone.
	There's no tech news.
	Yeah, there is.
	Yes, I have two pieces of tech news.
	One, this is disturbing, Google has now said that they give preference in their rankings to websites that use HTTPS. Why?
	Because it's more secure.
	It's a blog.
	Yep, yep.
	So the blogs will get less and less because they're not usually HTTP. Okay.
	Because setting up HTTP... You know, I'm going to say something even though I... Even though it's not tech news.
	You can just talk about it.
	I'm going to...
	This is tech news.
	Oh, I said, is it tech news?
	Yes.
	Can you just work in the phone, the word phone?
	Don't close...
	Yeah, well, you could do this on your phone.
	So I've moved, I've now, I hate, it's weird, but I've done it.
	Mimi gripes at me because I changed it on her machine.
	I'm now using Bing as the default search engine because I'm getting better results.
	Sure.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's a classic lock-in, really.
	Because ultimately, what blogs are going to support this?
	Blogspot, Blogger, all the Google stuff is going to support it.
	HTTPS, if I had to implement this, I had to get a certificate, and of course it can't be a self-signed certificate.
	This is a pain in the ass.
	And it's not necessary.
	99% of websites don't need HTTPS. What do they need it for?
	What do you need it for?
	Tell me what you need it for.
	I'll tell you.
	A man in the middle might try and hijack you reading my blog and might insert nefarious content.
	It doesn't happen.
	There you go.
	Why do you have more tech news then?
	Okay.
	What's your...
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Is it about a phone?
	No.
	No, but I'll work a phone in.
	Okay.
	Now, this is possible that the bear could be looking for a phone.
	Okay, good.
	I have a clip.
	Oh, a clip.
	Nice.
	This is a big story, big story on all the networks.
	The walking bear.
	The bear video that has much of America talking, and so we wanted to know, is it the real deal?
	ABC's Ron Claiborne in the neighborhood.
	See for yourself.
	That expert till ABC News is not someone in a bear suit.
	They say it really is a bear standing on his hind legs and walking just as comfortably and smoothly as a person.
	I think he walks better than you, Don.
	He stuck his head up at first and then he stood up fully and then he started to walk.
	There it is!
	There it is!
	This sighting caught on camera July 19th.
	The bear ambling down a residential street in suburban Oak Ridge, New Jersey.
	That is a bipedal bear.
	Two weeks later...
	Wait, what?
	What kind of bear is he?
	He's bipedal.
	There he goes again, just two doors down.
	He's looking at me.
	In northern New Jersey, where black bears and humans coexist easily, a bear sighting is no big deal.
	But a bear strolling around like some mall shopper?
	Very big deal.
	It's scary at first, but after you've seen it a couple times, it just becomes weird.
	McGowan says local residents have nicknamed this bear Vinny.
	It turns out state wildlife officials have been monitoring Vinny ever since he was first reported to them back in June.
	They say he's a juvenile under three years old and weighs about 250 pounds and he is walking upright because his two front paws are injured.
	More than likely it was a car accident.
	Bears can walk on their hind legs very well and it's just they...
	And how is this tech news?
	The bear was looking for a phone.
	In the morning!
	Good one.
	The only other piece of news I had, which I think the shine is coming off Tony Stark.
	Tony Stark.
	I mean, Elon Musk.
	Yeah.
	What would he do now?
	Oh, he fired 400 people from SpaceX without paying proper wages.
	Oh, that would make sense.
	Oh, annual reviews.
	These were people who were not pulling their weight.
	Yeah.
	That's what you have to do.
	You have to fire them.
	This is how it goes.
	You watch.
	He wants the best people working at SpaceX.
	We just get rid of everybody else.
	How easy they are to fall for it.
	Yeah, well, that's an old trick.
	Still no word on the database glitch.
	Oh, database glitch, yes.
	The American visa system.
	What is rather disturbing...
	Is that the UK government is also experiencing backlogs.
	About 30,000 applications.
	The Russians.
	Well, Home Secretary Theresa May denied there was a crisis, even though it is an unprecedented demand for passports.
	But now people are seeing their vacations are falling in the water, as they say.
	Because people are not getting their visas to travel.
	And yeah, you say the Russians.
	I don't know.
	It could be the Russians or it could be somebody shaking down the airlines.
	The coincidence of a glitch happening with the U.S. visa system and this huge backlog, unexplained backlog, in the U.K. is...
	Well, maybe they're using the same software.
	Possibly.
	From Oracle.
	That's what I would look into if I was a tech reporter.
	Oh, please.
	I think you can close the tech news.
	Okay.
	And that's it for Tech News.
	No phone.
	So I ran into an interesting, we talked about books there a little while ago.
	So there, you know, there's a, at least I have a thesis that, and you agree with it, I think, a little bit, which is that they're doing everything they can to demean Hillary.
	Oh yes, they, of course.
	In advance of her running, to get her not to run, and maybe she's even in on this deal, so she can, I don't know what happens to all the money that's collected by all these Hillary operations, not sure.
	Well, we had the social media talkers on the previous episode, which they're getting paid.
	Yeah, somebody's getting paid.
	So there's a new book, a Secret Service book.
	You're familiar with this.
	We didn't talk about it.
	Which book is this?
	Well, it's a new book.
	It's called Guarding the Family or something like this.
	Now, we have heard from Secret Service personnel and people related to the service that the Secret Service despises Hillary, loves Bill.
	So this guy wrote a tell-all, and he's being interviewed here, and in the book, they'd say exactly what you just said.
	Okay, I'm sorry, Cliff.
	Now, when you write about individual presidents, are you a conservative or a liberal?
	Do you have a political bent?
	I have, I lean to the conservative side, but the book is totally nonpartisan.
	It reveals on the one hand that Hillary Clinton is so nasty to her agents that being assigned to her detail is considered a form of punishment.
	But on the other hand, the book says that Barack Obama and Michelle are very respectful of agents, treat them with consideration.
	The book reveals negative material about everyone, every Republican from Spiro Agnew to Jenna Bush to But most of the agents who talked to you did not go on the record.
	A few of them did, but most of them weren't.
	No, about two-thirds of the book is on the record.
	No, no, I'm just talking about the agents themselves.
	There are some.
	But now they can't talk to you because since 2012 they have to sign non-disclosure.
	They still talk to me, and the reason they have to sign that is because I broke the story about the prostitution scandal.
	But even before that, of course, they weren't supposed to talk.
	But, you know, if Hillary Clinton were here, she would say, you know, you're full of baloney.
	I didn't abuse any Secret Service agent.
	And she could probably come up with four or five that would probably say that's right.
	This is on the record.
	There are a number of quotes on the record from former agents who were on her detail who described this nastiness.
	She would blow up with them.
	She wouldn't talk to them.
	And yet she claims to be a champion of the little people.
	She says she's going to help the middle class.
	So you believe that 100% with this report?
	Oh, there's no question, yeah.
	But Bill Clinton, he wasn't bad to them, right?
	Bill Clinton was much more respectful and treated them well.
	Was there a reason that Mrs.
	Clinton didn't...
	Well, I think it goes back to her character.
	You know, it shows an arrogance, an imperiousness, an unstable personality when you feel you have to put down other people who are less powerful than you.
	I think it's very important.
	And when we choose a president, we need to consider that thing.
	But I'm a little...
	You know, it's interesting.
	I had a...
	I had a clip.
	Go ahead.
	I'm sorry.
	The first family detail, Secret Service agents reveal the hidden lives of the president, just came out in August 5th by Ronald Kessler.
	He also did a book in 2010, which was in the president's Secret Service behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire.
	So I don't know if this has a lot of the same material or not, but this one definitely goes after Hillary.
	Well, I have another book, and this is a clip that I had for show 640.
	We just didn't get to it.
	This is by Katie Pavlich, and she is a reporter.
	I would say she's probably a conservative reporter.
	This is from C-SPAN 3, from their book show.
	What is their book show?
	What is it called?
	Book Show.
	I think it's called Book Show.
	And this is Assault and Flattery.
	And this is when you hear her take on Hillary and the...
	What is the word I'm looking for?
	And this came out July 8th, so this is pretty close to the other book.
	Yes, yes.
	It's all completely timed.
	The hypocrisy of Hillary being this staunch supporter of women and women's rights, I thought this was interesting.
	It just didn't come up, and well, now we have some time to play it.
	Time and time again, instead of holding her husband accountable, she defamed his female accusers as mentally unstable loons looking for money.
	And Clinton repeatedly allowed women to be lied about, smeared, and manipulated so that her philandering husband could hold on to power, which eventually led to her own position as a senator from New York, a presidential candidate, and President Obama's Secretary of State.
	But speaking of her record at the State Department, what exactly did she do during her tenure there?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	The pattern of behavior continues.
	Do tell.
	She ignored alleged rampant sexual abuse of minor girls by high-ranking State Department employees.
	And under her watch, U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutmann was accused of routinely ditching his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children in a nearby park, according to an internal memo written by a chief inspector general investigator.
	A State Department security official stationed in Beirut was accused of engaging in multiple sexual assaults.
	And further, a U.S. Embassy official was removed for allegedly trading visas for sexual favors.
	Shut down the database!
	As she looks to me, she's a blogger of the year at CPAC, 2013.
	She's 26.
	She looks like she's well-connected.
	She's a conservative journalist, as it were.
	Yeah.
	And she, I think, is being fed stuff.
	This is material that the 26-year-old...
	Does not come up with.
	No.
	Do you want to hear more?
	There's a little more?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's definitely interesting.
	And as CBS News first reported last year, at least seven of Hillary Clinton's security agents...
	Ah, interesting.
	We have the book about the security guys.
	Okay.
	...routinely hired prostitutes on official trips overseas.
	This is a great gig.
	This security detail, man, this is a good gig.
	This sounds like a lot of fun.
	Yeah.
	This bad behavior was described as endemic by whistleblowers.
	Endemic.
	And although the agents were eventually reassigned, they weren't seriously punished.
	And when investigations were launched into misconduct, they were immediately shut down by Hillary Clinton's chief of staff.
	And this is, I have to say, is probably the endemic part.
	It's the Secret Service in general.
	Obama's guys were arrested and sent back from South America, from the Netherlands.
	It's just the job.
	The job.
	Part of the job.
	It's part of the job.
	It's why you get to take that job.
	Get to travel around and goof off.
	Yeah.
	The pain may not be great, but think of the benefits.
	And the female whistleblowers who brought all of this to their attention, who spoke out against and exposed what was going on inside the State Department, they were retaliated against for doing so.
	Whistleblower Carrie Howard was run out of the Foreign Service and stripped of her job and was bullied for exposing U.S. Council General Donald Moore when he allegedly engaged in sexual activities with women inside his government office and with call girls in Naples.
	I would like that on my tombstone.
	Call Girls in Naples.
	Maybe that's the title of the show.
	Call Girls in Naples.
	Here's the reason more about this woman.
	A conservative jury, primarily known for her work on the online newsmagazine townhall.com, as well for authoring the book.
	Besides this book, she just did.
	She had another book.
	Fast and Furious, Barack Obama's bloodiest scandal and a shameless cover-up.
	Which again, this sounds like something somebody else wrote.
	The National Review Washington Fellow, whatever that means, she's appeared numerous times as a television commentator at the ripe old age of 26, I might add.
	Notably on the Fox News channel program The Five, which is a horrible show.
	Is she on that show?
	She's one of the five.
	She's on the rotation.
	Stringer.
	Self-described daughter of the American Revolution.
	She was raised in the mountainous areas of northern Arizona.
	Developed an interest in river rafting, hunting, and love of outdoors from her father.
	Well, excellent.
	So we'll be hearing a lot from her, from the way it looks to me.
	She's cute, though.
	She's got everything you want.
	She's media-friendly, but she needs to learn not to sneer and kind of this condescending...
	You've got to be a little more factual, a little more journalistic-esque.
	Yes, you have to look a little more, you have to do it more straight, as it were.
	Ten more seconds.
	So this is just a snapshot of Clinton's legacy of defending rapists and sexual predators.
	She's done it for decades, and yet somehow has been portrayed as a women's rights champion.
	Somehow, somehow, well, okay.
	But, see, there's a reason I didn't play the clip, it's because you'd be annoyed by it.
	It's a big hit piece.
	But they're out to get her.
	Yeah.
	Which is, you know, you got to do what you got to do.
	You want to keep her out of the running.
	I look at Hillary and I'm thinking, I'll be tired.
	Give it to the Warren bitch.
	Let her go.
	I mean, that's Hillary speaking, not me.
	Hillary looks tired and Warren doesn't.
	And I think that's going to be the difference maker.
	And all these girls that are girls, I'm using the word girls, that are big Hillary fans, you know, the ones that we heard on that last week, last show, they're just all in on Hillary.
	They're going to be so bummed by the way things are going to turn out.
	If it's Hillary, but if it's Warren, it doesn't matter who becomes president.
	No, this is more than just, you know, everyone talks a big game, but they want a woman.
	No, they want Hillary.
	Yes, very good point.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	All right, we do have some people to thank for the show.
	uh I'm just going to take a little longer than usual because there's a couple of really interesting notes within this group.
	We normally don't read the notes from $50 to $200 because there's so many of them.
	But when they're really interesting, we'll stop the presses and read the note.
	Also, if it's a famous knight baron, Sir Pete Schnakes.
	Well, there you go, baron.
	Peter Schnakes.
	Baron of North Holland and Friesland.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	My favorite donation.
	He's on the birthday list, fourth decade in Gibbon Lowlands.
	And he's like, oh my god, it's amazing.
	Karma will do that at the end.
	Because he says last Sunday's and Thursday's show, the last two shows we did, he thought were amazing.
	Oh, thank you.
	Craig Covell in Chicago, 1-2-3-3-3.
	He'll be a knight today, won't he?
	I think so.
	Craig of the Windy City.
	Mm-hmm.
	He's going to need a...
	Make a list of all these.
	We're going to do them all at once at the end.
	He's going to want a Boom Shakalaka Del GYOMG. Amazing.
	It's interesting.
	John Knowles in Murfreesboro.
	Murfreesboro.
	That's a very famous town that was important to the Civil War, and I don't know how to pronounce it.
	Murfreesboro.
	Murfreesboro.
	I don't know.
	$111.11.
	Burton Rosenberger in Woodbridge, Virginia, 107.52.
	And he has an interesting reason for this particular donation I want to read.
	He's donating a slave script in the amount of 107.52 so I can get some Putin karma.
	He put Putin on there.
	He actually wants a Putin medley.
	So we can give him that maybe at the end.
	A Putin medley?
	Yeah, the Putin, the little girl Luna Putin, and the little boy Poopin.
	Oh, man.
	Okay.
	And the original Putin.
	Okay.
	He says Putin was born on October 7, 1952, hence the new suggested donation amount of 10752.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	Interesting concept.
	For sure.
	Dan Goodsall in Cardiff, $100.
	And he actually has a note I did want to read.
	It's long.
	It's been much overdue donation for the simple fact that no other news outlets encourage their listeners to do their own investigation like you guys do.
	Today, plans are announced for the upcoming NATO summit to be held in Wales.
	Oh, yeah.
	They have decided to build 11-foot metal fences.
	Yes, for the freedom of speech zone, I believe.
	As all the talking heads seem to put it, keeping the world leaders safe.
	He says it's perplexing at how understanding the rest of Wales are okay with this.
	We are now literally slaves behind a metal 11-foot fence.
	What's your problem, Citizen?
	He says, you're not a neocon world leader?
	Then, Citizen, get behind your fence.
	We lower the links.
	He's got a bunch of links for us, which I think is very humorous if you think about it.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	He says nobody's pissed.
	They say they're pissed off by homeless spikes outside of banks and shops.
	But nobody seems to be pissed off by the 11 foot fence.
	The UK is becoming nothing but a zombie state.
	All people care about is who killed who in East Enders.
	Also to end him.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah.
	Also to Adam, the sound quality of the podcast has always been rather good, but over the past year it's improved a considerable amount.
	Thank you.
	When you two are on the road and not in your normal setup, the quality stays the same.
	It's amazing!
	Anyway, that I thought was a worth note reading.
	Sir Russell Williams in Boise, Idaho, 7598.
	He's the baronet of the angry swords.
	Yes, and he needs enough cancer.
	It's going to be a very long...
	Yeah, it'll be a medley.
	This will show your real chops here.
	A medley.
	Okay.
	Mario Baptista in Johannesburg, South Africa.
	Joburg.
	6969, got a birthday coming up.
	And he was born in 69, hence 69, 69.
	Estella Ruggles in Chanute, Kansas, 66, 66.
	Rebecca Wise in Berkeley, California, 66.
	Hey, Berkeley.
	Hey, Rebecca.
	66, 66.
	You can probably talk to her on the repeater.
	I could talk to her on the repeat, or I'll see her in Andronico's.
	Judson Knoll in Oxford, Mississippi, 6660.
	Brian Curry in Connell, British Columbia, 6660.
	Sir Kurt Danielson in Burnsville, Minnesota.
	These are all 6660s.
	Not as many as last time.
	Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach.
	Harry Biglin in Kew Gardens, New York.
	Eric Asbury in...
	Brandon Florida and Rob Seelock in Cochran, Alberta.
	And finally, Noah Bratzel in St.
	Paul, Minnesota Nuts.
	Go get the list of the winners, by the way.
	There's three people that we get a special call out.
	And they get listed on the show notes.
	You don't know who they are right now?
	I have to go look at the thing.
	I can find out real quick.
	I have a medley to play.
	Will it be enough time for you to go and check it out?
	A medley.
	I have a whole series of special things to do here for the karma.
	You do?
	Yeah.
	So what day was it?
	That was the 9th.
	Yeah, go ahead, play the medley.
	I'll get it.
	I'll have it.
	Wow!
	I have two words for you.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	Bingo, bingo, boom, boom, shakalaka.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, shakalaka.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Wow.
	That was a lot.
	I'm almost there.
	You know, there's not a lot of stuff that happens on the weekend, so there's no reason it takes this long.
	Well, you made such a big deal about the contest, and everyone likes it.
	Yeah, I'm going to do it.
	I've got it right here.
	It's right here.
	There are rules and regulations, my friend.
	You can't just have a...
	Okay, here are the three winners.
	Noah Bratzel.
	Rob Seelock, and then a tie with Eric Asbury and Henry Biglin.
	A tie?
	Yeah, so we have four.
	Nice.
	Harry Biglin, Eric Asbury, Rob Seelock, and Noah Bratzel.
	Very good.
	They came in right after the newsletter went out, and it was all essentially within a minute after this.
	So they just had their quick on the draw.
	So it's a game of skill.
	I want to make that clear.
	It's a game of skill.
	Yes, it is a game of skill, no purchase necessary, void where prohibited by law.
	And please help us out for the Thursday show as we continue the best deconstruction with the best podcast in the universe.
	Go to...
	Dvorak.org slash N-A Oh, wait, wait, wait!
	What?
	What?
	You didn't let me finish the call-outs for people with 50 bucks and so on.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I didn't know...
	I'm sorry.
	I'm so sorry.
	That's okay.
	But we need to hear that twice.
	Okay, we got James Green II, $56.78 from Mesquite, Texas, right up to parts where you are.
	And he has a birthday.
	He's got a birthday.
	So does Paula Peters over in Avon, Connecticut.
	By the way, his wife is a public school teacher.
	Her room number is 33.
	James Green, yeah.
	Very good.
	And Paul Peters has his birthday for Paula?
	Apparently he has.
	Donation name, Paula Peters.
	It's also her birthday.
	So he, the husband looks like he sent it in.
	I guess, yeah.
	Jeffrey Maxwell, 55, double nickels on the dime, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania.
	Brian Gilbo, double nickels on the dime.
	And Brian is, as you mentioned, how to pronounce his name, he's the guy who drove me around, or we went around together, I think I was driving, around Detroit taking pictures of...
	The ruins.
	And he asks here if I took any good pictures.
	Yes, I took a lot of good pictures.
	The problem with taking pictures in Detroit of all the ruins is that you miss context.
	Oh, it's like taking a picture of the Grand Canyon.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you miss context.
	Of course.
	I'm telling everybody out there, I mean, look at Brian, but I'm telling you, you've got to go to Detroit.
	It's just something you have to see.
	It's just like, wow.
	Wow.
	Keith, and there's another thing going on.
	I'm going to do a little aside here about Detroit.
	I was talking to Mimi about this.
	It was like, you know, people are looking for investments, real estate investments, and every once in a while they come up with, oh, maybe Detroit's a good place to invest because the hipsters are moved in.
	In fact, Brian and I were in some hipster areas pointing out the hipster restaurants and all the rest of it.
	And hipsters look like they're going to take over Detroit eventually.
	But And you think, well, maybe Detroit's a good investment.
	You can buy a cheap house there or whatever.
	But when you realize, when you go to the, look at the Packard plant, and I took a movie, which I'll post, of driving around this mile-long facility.
	It's like a mile by a mile.
	It's like a town in size.
	It's a monstrous thing.
	And you drive around this ruined plant.
	It's just a desolation.
	It's still standing there, just a mess with, you know, a window unbroken.
	It's been there since 1958.
	Yeah, it's been that way forever.
	So how long is this going to...
	This is not a good sign for an investment.
	I'm just going to throw that out there.
	Anyway, onward.
	Keith Van Dyke in Owen, South Australia.
	He wants to be credited as Captain K of Owen, South Australia.
	Okay, you're Captain K. Captain K. Alex Thomas in Rosanna, Victoria, Australia.
	50-50.
	Michael Uhl in Atascadero, $50.
	These are all $50.
	And he's in Atascadero, California.
	Von Glitschka in Salem, Oregon.
	Paul Vela in Milton Keynes.
	Antonio McMullen, Parts Unknown.
	These are all $50.
	Ryan Sprinkle in Farmer's Branch, Texas.
	Where is that?
	$50.
	No idea.
	Suzanne Lent in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
	David Peet in Aubrey, Texas.
	Martin Byland in Stockholm.
	Because it's Thelma and Louise.
	Bernard Glynn in Blairmont, New South Wales.
	Jan van der Laan in Hassan.
	Jan van der Laan.
	$50.
	Roger Esty, Palm Harbor, Florida.
	John Streg in San Antonio.
	Patrick Macomb in Long Island City.
	And James Butcher in Dalwin, New Western Australia.
	That concludes our donors segment for show 642.
	I want to thank everybody.
	Thework.org slash NA is a good place to go.
	It is indeed.
	Thank you.
	I really, really appreciate it.
	It allows us to do what we do.
	And part of that includes watching endless hours of the real elite conferences where people are really discussing the agenda, who have the real power, not standing out, you know, bullhorns outside of some drinking club.
	On the front of the Bilderberg drinking club.
	Yeah, I can do that too.
	Who's bringing the Liffey Rothschild?
	Hey!
	Who's bringing the Rothschild?
	Hey, you elites!
	Come on down, Thomas!
	New Omarar!
	I know there's an order, and I know they want it.
	But the people who you're being presented with are not necessarily people actually making things happen.
	We track the ones that do, and also we have time to...
	And really, it is the time.
	It truly is the time.
	We have a guy who works at a studio on the East Coast, I think.
	I think it's the East Coast.
	And he sent us a little email between the three of us, actually.
	Yeah.
	A threesome thread.
	And it's about some of these MSNBC guys, like Al Sharpton, and how they are with the crew, and how they are as people.
	He sent me a follow-up.
	That really, especially MSNBC, they really have no staff.
	They really have no one doing any work other than looking what other news outlets are doing and then commenting on that.
	You know, it's kind of sad.
	Yeah.
	I don't know why.
	MSNBC is just so bad.
	At least we have time now.
	I have the time.
	Because of the nature of the show, I dedicate myself fully to understanding what is going on in Erbil, which CNN is spelling with an I. There was a bunch of alternative spellings.
	I-B-R-I, Ebril.
	Ebril with an I. Yeah, there was actually about seven spellings for that town.
	Let me look it up.
	I just had it up, but I closed it.
	It's also written as Arbil, A-R-B-I-L, or Erbil with an I, also known as Hewler, by the Assyrians, and Arbil, R-B-A-E-L, by the Turks.
	So it has a number of...
	Curiously, Hewler is the Kurdish one.
	That's interesting.
	So, whatever.
	I don't know why everyone...
	Durabil is the first one.
	It's the one you should use, I think.
	Alright, now I'd like to do the birthdays, and we actually have a nighting today, and we have a...
	Nice.
	Yeah, finally, it's about time.
	Here we go.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm going to go ahead.
	Paula Peters celebrated yesterday.
	James Greens, happy birthday to his son.
	Atticus turns three today.
	Sir Pate Snakes, 40 tomorrow on August 11th.
	And Mario Baptista turns 45 today.
	Happy birthday from your friends.
	We love y'all right here on the best podcast in the universe.
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	And we congratulate, I think one of our first Black Knights, Sir George von der Horst.
	Of Bouncing Cats, Bouncing Hill.
	He becomes a baronet today.
	That is verified on noagendanation.com.
	And we thank him for his continued support.
	Did the black title carry over if you're a black knight?
	I guess you continue.
	You're a black baronet.
	Black baronet is good.
	Black baronet.
	Black baronet.
	If you want it.
	I think well deserved.
	Absolutely.
	And then we grab the sword.
	John?
	I brought it.
	Do you have one up there?
	Hang on.
	There it is.
	I got it.
	Okay.
	Well, we invite Craig We're good to go.
	It all depends on what you want.
	It's all here and available for you.
	This is how we treat our royalty.
	Go to noagentanation.com slash rings and enter your information.
	It will be on its way to you.
	Thank you again for your support of the show.
	Interest rates in Germany, negative?
	Oh, really?
	I didn't even catch this.
	Yeah, there's a lot going on.
	And the ECB, the European Central Bank...
	Always a lot going on.
	Yeah, is about to...
	We've tracked the single...
	What do they call it?
	The single stability mechanism, the emergency stability mechanism.
	It keeps changing names.
	Now the European Central Bank is preparing for their own version of quantitative easing.
	And this comes on the heels of Portugal's Banco Espírito Santo, needing to be bailed out for a little bit more than everyone expected.
	Whoops!
	Yeah, no, the Portuguese played it well.
	Very well.
	They got to modernize their country during this process.
	As we pointed out on the show before, because you went to Portugal before they modernized.
	Oh, it was third world country!
	And I went when it was modernized, and it was like, I'm telling you these things, that was a dirt road!
	It's like a six-lane freeway out to the wine country.
	And to the airport that no one uses.
	Well, there you go.
	Well, I think, isn't that airport in Spain?
	Yeah, well, there's that.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, the airport, the one that no one uses is in Spain.
	I think the Portuguese did a better job of gouging the EU than the Spanish did.
	No.
	But they both did okay.
	But there's all kinds of problems.
	But this quantitative easing, the European Central Bank accelerating plans to unleash fresh growth-boosting measures, that's how I like to look at it.
	Honey, it's just a growth-boosting measure.
	Don't worry about it.
	You'll like it.
	The Eurozone's recovery loses steam.
	Risk increases of a geopolitical shock from the Ukraine crisis.
	This is indeed a problem, and the Dutch are feeling it very...
	They're feeling it.
	Let's put it that way.
	Let's see, what do you have?
	Dutch growers feel bite of sanctions against Russia.
	Now, this is, I think, really a cover-up story.
	Bell peppers, tomatoes, please.
	They're going to run into trouble with the banking and with their system of passing.
	Yes, I think your thesis on this is completely on the money.
	It's the only thing that makes sense.
	You should re-explain it to listeners who missed it.
	Okay.
	The Dutch...
	Economy is so huge because of two main pieces of business, which involves all of the political infrastructure.
	There's revolving doors.
	The revolving doors are so huge that they look like buildings themselves.
	Between politics and the banking industry, the accountancy industry, the legal industry, where it is very advantageous to have any type of business that has intellectual property is not taxed in the Netherlands.
	That is a rule.
	This is why you also see U2 and then the Rolling Stones and all the big bands and royalties are not taxed.
	But there's also no withholding tax.
	So you can have a holding company.
	You can route your money through there.
	And it's very, very advantageous.
	And essentially, you wind up paying value added.
	So 18%, maybe 19%.
	But it's nothing like it is in other places.
	An income tax.
	In addition, the legal system in the Netherlands is very, very susceptible to, let's call it, corruption and bribery.
	There are no juries.
	No, no, no.
	You have professional judges, and they come from the same law firms who may be handling your post box, your P.O. box company, and they will make rulings immediately.
	Advantageous to you, like the Yukos case in arbitration where the judges on this arbitration board decided there should be $50 billion handed out to the owners.
	And of course, now they're screwing with Russia and that there's money that's all over in all the banks.
	It's a free-for-all.
	And then there's the energy, where the gas is stored in the northern part of the Netherlands, in the Hasunis, formerly where the Dutch pulled the gas out of the ground.
	Now they're storing Russian gas in there.
	And the port of Rotterdam is a deep-water port.
	Oil comes down, is loaded onto other tankers, and then shipped off to other countries, including China.
	And the Dutch government owns half of all of this industry.
	And they marginally make a profit on it, sometimes a loss.
	But all the companies...
	Yeah, they're partners with Russia.
	Yes, they are.
	Well, the king of Holland just bought a house in Greece next to Putin.
	The prime minister, everyone's drinking with Putin, the king and the queen.
	Does he ever open the window and then yell something out the window?
	Yeah.
	Putin!
	Right on cue, John.
	Good one.
	I like it.
	So now we have some issues.
	The way it works with these negative interest rates, if a bank wants to store money with the European Central Bank, they have to pay for the privilege.
	How does this work?
	Will this eventually affect people who just have savings in the bank?
	Or how does this trickle down?
	You know, this is very strange.
	I've known about the theory about negative interest.
	But what it says is that...
	This only would take place in a very strong deflationary environment, which is a possibility is existent as we speak, which means cash becomes...
	If you have $10,000...
	I think it's also related to the bond market somehow.
	Instead of picking...
	These are bonds that we're talking about that were given the negative interest rate.
	I think federal, German federal bonds, something like that.
	Whatever the case, if you invested $10,000 in a negative interest rate, whatever the number is, you would expect to get back $9,900, let's say.
	That doesn't sound like a good deal.
	It does under some circumstance where you're protecting your money against losing all of it.
	It's in a deflation.
	It seems to me that the problem is you have real property should go down in value.
	Things at the store should be cheaper.
	And so the dollar becomes more valuable than the loss of the negative.
	In other words...
	It's a good deal to maintain the money at that rate, whereas, unfortunately, I think cash would probably be even better just to keep a bunch of stuff in the mattress.
	I don't know.
	It's something I'm always thinking about, and I'm always trying to figure out how an economy would work that way.
	And I've never come up with anything that makes me comfortable.
	Well, I have no idea.
	And I know that it's not desirable.
	Okay, good.
	We agree on that.
	Sticking in Euroland for a moment, this came out over the weekend.
	This is about the war on cash.
	We know the Netherlands has been a fantastic beta site for...
	Oh, fuck.
	Try not to use the word essentially.
	I know, and I'm not catching you either, but you're catching yourself 90% of the time.
	I'm catching myself, but it's bad.
	It's the Tourette's.
	Well, you're on the road to recovery.
	I am on the road to recovery.
	We know that there are many stores.
	Really, they just don't take cash anymore.
	They have signs in the window, no cash, PIN only, which is their very specific system.
	You cannot even use a credit card.
	I find this very disturbing.
	Well, we're all on the way to the PIN system here in the U.S. Certainly the smart card is coming.
	And the smart card is what it's all about.
	We've been tracking the Oyster card in the U.K., which is the same being used in the Netherlands.
	And it really is rolling out all over Europe.
	But now...
	A very, very bad precedent, I believe, as the first train station in Woerden, that's in Utrecht, became the first railway station to close off its platforms to non-smart card holders.
	So from now on, you cannot even get onto the train platform, which is how you pay for your trip with your smart card.
	You cannot even get onto the platform unless you have a smart card.
	Now, there will be a waiver of, I think, 30 minutes.
	Your system will let you in.
	The system will let you in if you're going to waive someone off.
	But you still have to use your smart card.
	So you cannot pay with cash, but you cannot even access the train station without your smart card.
	What if I'm an American tourist?
	American Yankee, go home.
	American tourists drop a lot of dough.
	American Yankee, go home.
	No, seriously, what if I'm an American tourist?
	This is not in the article.
	Eventually, the Dutch train system plans to close off 82 stations completely and is testing this at 26 stations this year.
	It's called forcing people into the system and forcing them out of using cash.
	How does this work for a tourist?
	We don't care.
	Take a cab.
	You can buy, I'm sure you can buy the pass.
	I'm sure hotels will help you buy this.
	You know, it's like in Tokyo.
	Daymaster had cards for us to use, which was very kind of her.
	But look, if you're a tourist and you're showing up, you don't know about this, well, you're a dumb tourist.
	Which would mean you're probably from America.
	Yes, that's what I'm saying.
	You're missing the point.
	I got you.
	I got you, Johnny.
	Yeah.
	Well, I can't help you on that.
	This is what it is.
	Well, you gotta find out.
	I can't take it anymore.
	But beyond this, please, people are just not seeing that cash is being removed from the system.
	We're seeing it.
	Yeah.
	We don't like it.
	We're not people.
	Thank God for the Chinese.
	They won't put up with this crap.
	Well...
	They love the cash.
	They love the cash economy.
	Really?
	And there's lots of them.
	Hmm.
	You know, I've been looking at the new canals being built, and we have the guy in Costa Rica with the Chinese.
	We're going to build a new Panama Canal.
	No, I said Nicaragua.
	Nicaragua, thank you.
	Now Egypt has announced a new initiative.
	It's been compared to army strongman president Gamal Abdel Nasser, who nationalized the first Suez Canal.
	Now Egypt's current president has launched the digging of a second new channel.
	The military-run project is a major step by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stimulate his country's struggling economy.
	Its construction will cost $8.4 billion and is scheduled to take three years.
	Al-Sisi has ordered it to be completed in one.
	The new passage will run in parallel to the original 145-year-old historic Suez Canal, which is still the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia.
	The canal today earns Egypt about $5 billion a year and is a vital source of hard currency for a country that's suffered a slump in tourism and foreign investments since the 2011 uprising.
	The project will reduce maximum waiting hours for ships to three hours from 11 and allow for 49 vessels to cross at the same time compared with 49 per day as now.
	I like this particular news report mainly because it seems rather cheap.
	$8 billion to build a second Suez Canal seems to be kind of, I don't know, is it just me that doesn't feel like a lot of money?
	Well, it's probably another one of those construction projects that, well, they have cheaper labor.
	But it sounds like a construction project that they're going to start at $8 billion and they're going to run it up to $16 or $20.
	That's pretty common.
	Let's say it's $80 billion.
	Well, can we all imagine $80 billion just for a moment?
	Okay.
	Alright, and then listen to this.
	USA Today says a federal website aimed at tracking government money can't find $619 billion.
	USAspending.gov looked at data from 2012.
	It says agencies' spending records don't match their budgets.
	Here are some examples.
	The Health and Human Services Department failed to report $544 billion.
	Veterans Affairs had a $64 billion shortfall.
	And the interior budget gap came in at $5 billion.
	That's a lot of money to just go missing.
	It is.
	It's not a...
	A rounding error.
	It's not a rounding error, as they say.
	Meanwhile, golf is canceled.
	No one cares.
	Just the vastness of $600 billion.
	They don't have no bookkeepers anymore.
	Well, aren't we still due...
	I'm telling you, the business to be in right now is working for the government.
	It's always been the business to be in.
	It's a great business.
	You want a billing code with the government.
	That's all you want.
	That's all you want.
	It would be nice if people rose up and said, hey, I've had enough of this.
	I know it's never going to happen.
	There was an interesting report.
	Apparently, The Economist did a thing on...
	Hookers.
	On Obama, besides the hookers.
	And they had an interview with him, and they were talking about, you know, what Obama is good at and not good at, and one of the things is apparently he doesn't understand business in the least.
	He has no clue.
	He's never been in a business.
	He's only been a government, essentially, or NGO. But I thought this was kind of an interesting...
	This was an interview with the guy who wrote the article, did the interview with Obama, and this is The Economist, because there's a name they drop in there, which I just thought was interesting.
	I think the bit where the sort of passion comes out most is on that issue of business.
	He comes back quite hard and tries to make the case that corporate leaders should love him.
	You know, he's produced a wonderful economy for them.
	And he still doesn't get why they don't entirely like him, I think.
	Well, did you produce that question for him in terms of that perhaps he doesn't get what it is about him that they don't like?
	Well, there's a particular exchange where he cites the example.
	He said, well, companies, all their main priority is just to serve shareholders.
	And I point out that that's exactly what chief executives complain about when they come to the White House.
	They run into a White House which doesn't realize that the modern chief executive is somebody who has to...
	Look over a great many things.
	Modern chief executives spend half their time doing socially responsible things.
	It's a vast amount of what they have to do.
	They get involved in things to do with workers, with dealing with different stakeholders, all those sort of things.
	And one of the things they get frustrated about with the Obama White House, they usually mention Valerie Jarrett very quickly, is that they're always seen as people who are just trying to make a quick buck.
	Yeah, you mean the real president?
	Yeah, and you can just see her when you look at her.
	She doesn't know anything about business.
	She's never run a business, probably never worked for one.
	That's not true.
	She's a slumlord.
	She has a...
	Oh, well, that's...
	Yeah, okay.
	She's a slumlord.
	That's the kind of business she runs, which is really a passive business because you don't do anything.
	You just let things deteriorate and collect money.
	And so she's projecting that, you know, that's all everyone wants to do is make a quick buck because that's what she does.
	Yes, exactly.
	Exactly.
	You accuse those of what you are guilty of yourself.
	Remember that one?
	Yeah, you say it all the time.
	And I like it.
	I'd like to be able to say it myself.
	I just can't say it.
	It sounds like you're coughing, actually, when you say that.
	Are you coming to my birthday party?
	I'm thinking about it.
	I'm sure Mickey invited you.
	I don't know that she did.
	Oh, please.
	Oh, please.
	You did not get an invite?
	That can't be true.
	I may have.
	I don't know.
	She's throwing this secret thing for me.
	In Amsterdam.
	Yeah, I know.
	A secret business surprise party.
	Yeah.
	So why are we going to Amsterdam, honey?
	Oh, just to shop.
	I want to do some shopping.
	Shopping?
	There'll be no shopping.
	No.
	Just some shopping.
	Pick up some underwear.
	And, uh...
	No.
	No.
	It'll be my 50th.
	I never celebrate, but my 50th will be a big one.
	I'm very excited about it.
	Everyone's going to be there.
	Who's everyone?
	Everybody.
	Is the Grand Duke Von Pelsmacher going to be there?
	Oh, that's a very good question.
	He should be.
	She should have.
	He will be.
	And also Vanduhorst while we're at it.
	Slow down, slow down, slow down.
	There's a per head cost on this thing.
	Well, let me add some more then.
	No!
	What do you mean a per head cost?
	It's dinner.
	It's like dinner and entertainment.
	Is it a sit-down dinner?
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, that's no good.
	Yeah, it is.
	I like it.
	What do you mean it's no good?
	It's expensive.
	A good cocktail party, and then a song, a happy birthday song, and then a cake.
	And you're good to go.
	It's my 50th birthday, John.
	I want speeches.
	I want presents.
	I want strippers.
	I want hookers and blow.
	This is my 50th.
	I'm only going to do this once.
	You could do it a couple times.
	I want slideshows.
	I want PowerPoint presentations.
	I want people making up songs and singing them.
	I want celebrities dropping by.
	And here's Mick Jagger.
	Good luck.
	Here to wish him happy birthday.
	Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
	Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
	Well, you know, you might be able to pull down a few celebrities.
	Oh, I already know there's going to be some Dutch celebrities.
	Well...
	Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
	I'm talking about international celebrities.
	They're reminiscent of the good old days.
	You knew them all.
	Yeah, no one cares.
	Yeah, well, that's what happens.
	That's the way it works in Hollywood.
	That's right.
	I'm okay with it.
	I'm okay with my podcast.
	Best podcast in the universe.
	Well, that's true.
	Just to finalize, because I think I'm kind of...
	I think I'm out.
	Unless you have something.
	Grant Greenwald, don't rave, is being really coy about this second...
	I think it's Bogative, by the way, about this second...
	I'm in total agreement.
	I think this is bullcrap.
	Yeah, he's pretending like, oh, I can't talk about anything.
	There's a second Snowden.
	Says he can't comment on that CNN claim.
	He's out of the loop regardless.
	He's not in any loop.
	But what I did find interesting, Snowden made his first public appearance at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater without his glasses.
	Uh-huh.
	You know, the broken ones that he always wears when he does interviews.
	And his visa apparently has been extended for three more years.
	Yeah, which is another reason to get Putin.
	I'm still sticking with that thesis.
	No one ever mentions this either.
	The Aspen Institute.
	They don't even bring up Snowden.
	At least the things I've seen so far.
	It seems to be pretty much over, really.
	Hey, we didn't do much about Ebola today.
	It's still out there.
	I'm kind of still looking at it from my economic hitman perspective and who's going to be next.
	What unfortunate country will get Ebola next?
	Well, I think India is the target.
	India may be the ultimate target, but let me give you some numbers.
	The United States now supporting Nigeria's 2015 elections with $51 billion.
	What?
	Yeah.
	We could build the Suez Canal for less money than that.
	Three of them.
	This is from the fact sheet from the White House.
	That the U.S. will be working with donors to support Nigeria's electoral management bodies and strengthen the ability of the country's civil society to promote electoral reforms.
	Regime change.
	Hey, good luck, Jonathan.
	Good luck!
	His wife's name is Patience Jonathan.
	Patience.
	If they don't play their cards right, she's going to be patient zero, if you know what I mean.
	Well, yes.
	We will be spending, this is from the fact sheet, $550 million on our African Rapid Response Forces.
	And we've been basically kicked out of Africa.
	You should watch all those things.
	I mean, we play a big game.
	Kerry had the big sessions and all the rest.
	But you start hearing the other reports, and it's like, they don't want us.
	We have to drop $50 billion.
	Well, it's going to be more than that.
	Buying our way back.
	Well, listen, there's more.
	We have Europe.
	The EU is launching an 845 million euro pan-African initiative, so they're limping along with us.
	But it's the...
	What is this?
	The Infrastructure Protection Disasters Resilience.
	This is the...
	The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a $100 million global resilience partnership fund for Africa.
	So there's big money and we're...
	This is round robin stuff.
	It's classic economic hitman.
	But here's where I would be careful.
	I would say candidates for Ebola.
	Mozambique.
	And the reason why?
	We have Texas-based Anadarko, an Italian partner, ENI, making the final investment decision on whether to construct one of the largest liquefied natural gas facilities in the world in Mozambique.
	Also on deck, I would say, Tanzania.
	Now, this is all in the East, so if this comes true, then we'll know what the game really is.
	Because right now, it's all in the West.
	It's all on the Ivory Coast.
	And, of course, now Nigeria is moving now mid-country to Nigeria.
	Did you read the article about how they've now tracked it down to a two-year-old?
	Hold on a second.
	Bullshit!
	The thing about this, the way I understand it, in 1970, was it 6 when the first Ebola was first discovered?
	I think it was 76.
	It...
	Developed in the jungle with natives and villagers out there in the wild, and then it moved slowly towards the city.
	This has started in the city, which is exactly the opposite way, except we found patient zero, some two-year-old in a village to make it sound right, I guess.
	That two-year-old just jumped, because you can transfer it only with bodily fluids, it jumped out of this two-year-old into the city.
	Well, no, it went first to the grandma and the sister and the whole family apparently got it.
	And I guess one of them staggered into the city and then said it all.
	But how the two-year-old got it is still a mystery to my mind.
	From the bats, of course.
	Yeah, by a bat.
	All right.
	So it just seems Nigeria, there it is, Nigeria.
	We have that huge oil fine from two years ago.
	We have the hundreds of billions of dollars that were stolen.
	We moved our accountants in, you'll recall, when we went looking for our girls who we don't care about anymore.
	Screw the girls.
	Don't bring back our girls anymore.
	Everyone's Twitter icon has changed back.
	Bring back our girls.
	We sent accountants over to bring back our girls.
	Oh yeah, and take a look at the accounts of where the hundreds of billions of dollars went.
	And now we have full-time force in there as we brought good luck Jonathan over and his wife with the big floppy hat.
	And we said, well, you know, $51 billion, we're going to do a lot of work to, I presume, to re-elect him.
	I can't imagine anyone else.
	I can't imagine.
	No, there'd be some stooge that wears a normal outfit.
	This guy's a clown.
	We kind of like that.
	Look at Karzai, the guy with the goat fetus skin hat.
	I don't think we liked him at all.
	I think that was just a bad choice that didn't work out.
	No, his brother ran the drugs, and his other brother had the restaurants, and there was something about that.
	He was in the elite circles, so there were reasons for it.
	Okay, no clip to play us out?
	You got nothing?
	Well, I think we can play something which has a little thematic thing going on.
	Good, please.
	I'd like to do that.
	The chokehold story on Democracy Now!, which has the funny punchline.
	Eric Garner died when a New York police officer placed him in a chokehold after he was confronted for selling single cigarettes known as Lucy's.
	Over the weekend, the police arrested the man who videotaped Garner's death on his cell phone.
	We'll speak to two mothers whose sons were killed by New York police and look at the crackdown on citizens filming incidents of police brutality.
	Yeah, that's pretty cool.
	Okay, who's the guy that took the movie?
	Hey, hey, find him and arrest him.
	And I think they arrested his girlfriend, too, or his wife.
	Get her, too.
	Yeah, let's get them all in jail.
	No filming of cops beating people up or killing them.
	Oh, well.
	There's a today's show slave training clip.
	It was too long.
	We can play some other time.
	This is Obama and his weekly...
	I'm surprised you didn't have this clip where he talks about the killing.
	Obama backs you up on what's going on in the bad part of town in Iraq.
	And then the e-cigarettes PR. Oh, so I'm in the area and it's all legal now.
	Pot's legal.
	So I want to talk about that on the next show because there's these pot stores all over the place with it looks like the line to the Star Wars movie.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, hours and hour-long lines because I can't get into one of these to look over and see what's going on.
	Well, you can't.
	You just don't want to stand in line that long.
	Exactly.
	And they only stay open for about an hour.
	And most people in line don't even get in because they sell out.
	Why are they only open for an hour?
	Because they sell out.
	Oh.
	Well, the pot's gone.
	Ugh.
	People, learn how to grow your own, please.
	Well, there's limitations on that.
	Anyways, we'll talk about that on the next show.
	Yeah, there is more about the e-cigarettes.
	They're now exploding everywhere.
	This is the new PR. Yeah, well, this is, yeah.
	Yeah, perfect.
	It's always something.
	You gotta love it.
	They're doing their best.
	Okay, well, I'm sure there'll be lots of stuff to look at.
	We'll follow Iraq and whatever else is happening.
	There's not a lot happening because everyone's on vacation, but that's when the fun stuff does get slipped in.
	Yeah, there'll be somebody trying to slip one by us.
	Slip one by us.
	And, yeah, no, I was going to say, I'm going to see if I can do a little CW work today.
	Conditions seem to be doing better.
	On the bands.
	You know, I forgot my rig.
	Damn it.
	Well, that's a shame.
	You clearly could have hit a repeater up there.
	Yes, and I had the thing ready to take with me, and then I just left it.
	Oh, that's a shame.
	I know you that well.
	Hey everybody, coming to you here from the safe house in South Austin, in FEMA Region 6, right here in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning everybody, my name is Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Olympic Peninsula, almost said it again, where I will remain for a while, to go to the county fair.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Thursday, right here, on No Agenda.
	You may return to your business, citizen.
	Well, then, I was wondering your response, Phyllis, to President Obama.

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