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	It's a QSL bonanza.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, August 31st, 2014.
	It's time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 648.
	This is no agenda.
	Now with 40 megahertz of RF bandwidth allocated to the Wi-Fi enabled canal house in the pipe in the heart of Amsterdam.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm not traveling today, I'm staying home.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Yeah, now you're sounding good, Jean.
	Well, maybe.
	Jean-Claudeau, were you going to get...
	New router.
	You got a new router?
	You got your new box?
	Yeah.
	Cool.
	I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
	No, probably not.
	I think...
	Because as I was checking things, there was all kinds of other things going on.
	Oh, you had other things going on?
	We're referring to Thursday's...
	Mediocre show.
	The show was good.
	Thank you.
	I listened to the show.
	I listened back to the kale recipe book.
	The show was outstanding, my friend.
	Outstanding.
	Outstanding in a field.
	So here's what I discovered.
	Did you discover anything besides your router box?
	Yeah, my cable.
	Oh, there was just general problems with the cable that had your bandwidth going up and down?
	There's a connection here that is...
	The connection seems to be...
	Was underneath the rain stick.
	Oh.
	And as I bumped it with the rain stick after doing some rain stick action.
	Which seems to have worked in the Midwest.
	Hold on a second.
	I didn't know you rain sticked without me.
	I did.
	I snuck one in.
	Well, I feel...
	I feel a little harsh.
	You weren't in the room.
	I know, but when we stick with...
	No, we usually stick together.
	No, we don't stick together.
	That's not true.
	We stick together like birds of a feather.
	Even the rain or sunshine.
	That's sisters.
	That's it.
	It's sisters.
	Sorry.
	So what was your problem?
	You had something screwy going on because you were...
	I spent a lot of time.
	First, I really had to decompress for 36 hours almost because of just the chat room.
	When something is wrong and you're asking...
	There are people in there who are very helpful and have a lot of expertise.
	You have to find them.
	But in between all of the...
	Unplug it for 30 seconds!
	Jiggle the handle!
	All these extremely funny, funny, funny, just so funny!
	People couldn't just shut up for one second so the people who actually knew something could post some information.
	And I'm telling you, because of this...
	I like the Jiggle the Handle one.
	It's an oldie but goodie, isn't it?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, you really do like this one, don't I? I've heard it so many times in the chat room, but it's not funny anymore to me.
	Jiggle the Handle.
	In the back channel, I've got Void0.
	Of course, he's an Aspie.
	All these guys are on the spectrum, like I am.
	We all start freaking out, and we get sweaty and nervous, and he can't figure out why the stream is breaking up because he's getting no signal from me.
	Everything is going wrong.
	He's Skyping me messages, which, of course, is going plunk, plunk, plunk in my headphones.
	So all of this is going on, and it was challenging to say the least, and we had this 13 to 14 minute reset.
	So after all that, I sit down with this router and I log in.
	I'm really taking my time.
	And I do a lot of Googling.
	And there is a setting in this particular router, which is the bandwidth of the Wi-Fi radio frequency, of the signal itself.
	For a lot of people, this may sound strange because you think of bandwidth as in megabits.
	But just like a cable wire, there is a bandwidth of the frequency of the signal.
	And you can choose between 20 megahertz or 40 megahertz.
	So it's a much broader signal.
	Some devices won't work with that.
	And actually, I think it's more the older devices.
	And what had happened is everything was working fine until I fired up two more Wi-Fi devices.
	Because I had my speed test, everything was working fine, and then I turned on the iPad, which communicates with the MacBook Air for the jingle, so I can do, you know, I can hit that stuff kind of on cue.
	And then I have my really old MacBook Air, the original version 3.1 whatever.
	And I have that for chat room and a couple other things that are open on it.
	And when that happened, it took up all of the, somehow, we think it wouldn't happen, but it took up all of this bandwidth, the actual RF bandwidth.
	And then things started to buffer, because I'm also sending out 128 kilobits stream to the server.
	And when we hung up, I did a speed test and I had maybe 800 kilobits per second down and about 75 kilobits up.
	It's amazing we had any connection going on.
	And the minute I changed that, it fixed it.
	I'm being very careful, of course.
	Oh, well that brings up, then I would ask you this.
	Yes?
	Why don't you do that at the beginning of the show?
	Heyo!
	Wow.
	That reminds me of the joke that Peter Goober once told once, you know, when he was running Sony.
	Oh, yeah, I remember Peter Goober.
	Yeah, he was running Sony, and the Japanese kept, you know, grilling him about stuff.
	And so he said, well, what were the movies for this year?
	And he said, well, we had this movie, and it did this much.
	We did this movie, and it was a blockbuster.
	And then we did this movie, and that, and they showed all the movies.
	And the Japanese said, I don't know, you must not know what you're doing.
	Why don't you just do more of these, the blockbuster?
	Yeah, please, more of those.
	Just do more of these?
	What are you doing these other movies for?
	Yeah.
	The stupid movies that aren't blockbusters.
	Yeah, could you please produce a viral video for me?
	Exactly.
	That's another one of my favorites.
	So here we are in the Netherlands.
	Oh, there we go.
	I got the bat signal finally came through.
	In Amsterdam, I have to say I feel very proud of the setup that we have for this program.
	I feel that it sounds virtually the same whether I'm at home base or wherever I am.
	And I think that is a part of what you get as your value, consuming and contributing to the best podcast in the universe.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, you've got a nice rig.
	Nice rig.
	We're over here.
	Nice rig.
	K5634, whatever your number is.
	I can never remember.
	Oh, I know yours.
	Yeah, I know you do, but you have a...
	KJ6LNG? K6LNG. That's not mine.
	KJ6LNG. Oh, no, that's mine, yeah, KJ6. That's not mine!
	KS5PX or something, Mike.
	Not even close.
	KF5SLN. KF5SLN. I should remember that.
	Yeah.
	My wife doesn't even know my phone number.
	Does she need to call you right now?
	No, but it's in her phone.
	This is how people are these days.
	It's in her phone.
	It's Adam.
	She doesn't need to know my phone.
	It's ruinous.
	What if there's some kind of horrible accident and your phone is...
	It's the DNS world.
	I still know a lot of IP addresses by heart.
	You don't need to.
	Yeah, in some cases you do.
	When you're doing technical stuff, you know, like tech news, you need to know your IP addresses in order...
	That should be a test.
	You should know what is the...
	Well, you know IP addresses.
	What is the Google DNS? You know that.
	Yeah, it's 888-8888-8888.
	There you go.
	That's exactly right.
	We had a family dinner.
	This is Minky's extended family.
	She doesn't have any direct family.
	She's a single child.
	I should do a little violin here.
	But it's her uncle.
	Did the squeak come through?
	Of the violin?
	No.
	There it is.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I gotta get that fixed.
	So we have a dinner, and it's her uncle and her uncle's kids.
	And so Uncle Willem is the Marxist.
	We've spoken about him before.
	Oh, yeah.
	Great guy.
	Very, yeah.
	Well, but something changed.
	And it was...
	Oh, man.
	Don't even get me started on that.
	Ootan!
	A couple things changed.
	First, you sit down and it's good to see everybody.
	You know, we had Emma's there.
	That is Maritz's daughter who stayed with us for two weeks, you may recall, in Austin.
	And, you know, so we have a bond with a lot of these people.
	And right off the bat, it's burgers and bullets, you crazy Americans.
	That's right.
	What did nine-year-old children do with machine guns?
	Oh!
	Burgers and bullets!
	It can't get any stupier.
	Stupid Americans with your stupid guns, burgers, and bullets.
	What?
	Nine-year-old needs to shoot an Uzi?
	Ah.
	This is how it started.
	That's the Marxist?
	No, no, no.
	This is just the rest of the table.
	No, the Marxist...
	Um...
	He starts saying a couple things about climate change.
	And I can't hold my tongue.
	This is family.
	I've got to say, excuse me.
	I lay my usual global cooling line on him.
	And he kind of...
	I don't know.
	Maybe I did one too many or...
	And he kind of went off, and he's 84, but he's an elite.
	He's a historian, an art historian, very well respected in Marxist circles, which I always say, hey, how did that work out?
	Whatever that means.
	I always say, how did that work out, that Marxism?
	Marxist circles.
	And where's the other guy in the circle?
	He died.
	We need a third to complete the circle.
	We only got one guy left.
	And all of a sudden, he's like, you know, I like you a lot, Adam, but you say some very, very dangerous things.
	Dangerous?
	Dangerous things.
	And he starts going, Coke Brothers!
	He said, Coke Brothers fund all this in America.
	Tea Party!
	You're a part of the Tea Party!
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	This is Holland you're telling us.
	But it's Koch Brothers.
	It's Koch Brothers.
	Koch Brothers!
	They're funding billions of dollars.
	A dinner table.
	In Holland.
	The Netherlands.
	Uh-huh.
	That's how far the Koch Brothers brand has gone now.
	Ooh.
	But I did pull one.
	I had to stop him.
	Why do they give a crap?
	Because I was saying dangerous things.
	They should be more aware of the cultural problems they must have over there, that they give a crap about the Koch brothers.
	This is...
	Hold on.
	Well, let me tell you, because that's the direction I took it.
	I said, okay, hold on a second.
	Let me just say something about what you were yelling, tea party, tea party, tea party, horrible tea party, evil, crazy criminals.
	I said, where does this name come from?
	I figured I got to get the guy on the intellectual front.
	This is from one of the most patriotic, most defining moments at the dawn of the New World, the birth of the United States of America, when we declared our independence.
	We had the Boston Tea Party.
	And do you realize that you are here in the Netherlands And somehow someone has successfully turned in your head the Boston Tea Party into something evil and anti-American and anti-world and anti-earth.
	Do you think that maybe someone is behind that and there's some clever messaging going on there and you've been duped into saying this?
	Well, he gave pause and then I said...
	How are all those mosques working out for you with our crazy religious Americans?
	Because that was part of the Tea Party.
	They're fundamental Christian crazy nutjobs!
	Dude, do you hear the guy calling for you to go to mosque in Amsterdam five times a day?
	So I finally got, you know, I slowed it down a little bit.
	Do those things have speakers on them?
	Oh, yeah.
	It's like a nightmare in terms of, although it has a pleasant ring to it because they do, some of these guys can sing.
	Yeah, but five times a day can become a little annoying.
	Yeah, and in Israel, it's like really annoying because there's more, people don't realize it, but the place is filled with mosques.
	I'm hoping everything...
	I have a feeling there may still be a 13-minute thing.
	I'm paying attention to ping time, so if something goes wrong, then we'll know what to do.
	The 13-minute thing is different.
	It's way different, exactly.
	And I said, please...
	Well, anyway, let me stop you.
	Do those things sound...
	So if you're in wherever you are...
	Because last time I went through the Netherlands, I never heard one of those things.
	When was the last time you were here?
	About two years ago, three years ago.
	It's ratcheted up.
	Now, not everywhere do they have this, but there's big neighborhood meetings about the speakers.
	They do have the speakers.
	And there's neighborhood meetings about the decibel level and how many times.
	Not everywhere, but yeah, this is a hot issue.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, I would...
	It should be outlawed.
	Well...
	And by the way, in the...
	There is a...
	I know there's a debate within the fundamental Muslim community amongst the super fundamentalists that you can't use the speakers because they didn't have those speakers during Muhammad's era.
	So you have to actually get up yourself...
	Yeah, under the tower.
	And yell.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Literally.
	Some of those guys could do it, but most of them could do it.
	Anyway, so that was...
	And then it was like, but you are against science!
	May I please explain to you what the...
	97%!
	Oh, really?
	So, and this is...
	These are smart people.
	Yeah.
	They don't listen to the agenda, obviously.
	No.
	Nor will they ever.
	No, of course not.
	Ever.
	Ever.
	What was nice is one of Willem's daughters is going out, I think, semi-engaged to the political editor of the Volkskrant, which is, that's the elite, you know, I would say one of the best newspapers in the Netherlands.
	And he's the political editor.
	A young guy.
	He's my age.
	Actually, I think he's 52.
	And I like him a lot because he's, at least he's schooled on a couple things.
	And I wind up, he winds up driving me home and I'm talking, I'm talking.
	We, after, I'm like, this, we're still on the road.
	It's like 40 minutes.
	Yeah, no, I was listening to you and I missed the turn going around.
	We went all the way around Amsterdam.
	Well, pretty town.
	He really could not, he was like, what?
	All these things he'd never heard of.
	And I asked him, I said, as the political editor of, you know, one of the premier publications, daily publications in the country, surely you took a look at the beheading video.
	No, no, I don't need to watch that.
	I said, well, this is exactly the problem.
	Because there was no beheading.
	He says, yeah, it was, no, no, go look at the video.
	There was no beheading.
	And it was nice because it kind of dawned on him that, holy crap, he's not doing his job.
	Nobody's doing their job except the two of us.
	And we're entertainers, basically.
	We're doing a comedy podcast and somehow people learn something from it.
	It's very interesting that way.
	It's weird.
	I didn't say it.
	I think you deserve a...
	I did not say it.
	Come on.
	You deserve a jolt.
	The jolt doesn't mean anything when I catch myself.
	I'm proud of myself for catching it.
	There is a system...
	Go on.
	There's something we can hook up, I think, through the internet where I could push a button and you could actually get a jolt of energy.
	I think it's possible.
	That would work faster.
	Yeah.
	Well, we should be able to do it to each other.
	It'd be kind of cool.
	Well, then again, you can get...
	So anyway, so now I'm all in.
	Now I'm just going to take this as far as I can.
	And we received, I got a couple, I know one of them was addressed to both of us, saying, how can this be, this beheading video, where you don't actually see a beheading, how can this be one of the most horrible things, and why is the media playing this up?
	Wouldn't it be better?
	Since beheadings, you know, they happen everywhere, you know, all the time.
	You go back to David and Goliath, you can see biblical...
	Biblical paintings.
	You can go to the Rijksmuseum and there's a David and Goliath with a head, holding up a head by the hair.
	And there's more art.
	This is a part of history.
	Why don't they cut his dick off or something?
	That would be much cooler.
	I don't know how cool it would be.
	Well, I went to Google around.
	And did you know that in Mexico, the drug cartels...
	Oh yeah, no, they...
	They cut it off and put it in your mouth.
	Right.
	And they take video of it and it's on the internet.
	Well, there you go.
	We should invade Mexico to stop these horrible terrorists.
	See, this is just the perspective that you've got to put into people's minds.
	When you tell them that, they're like, oh...
	Oh, damn it.
	Yeah, and they're right on to cross the border.
	Yeah, and they take video and put it up online to send a message.
	What, we're afraid of the Mexican drug cartels?
	We can just let them get away with that?
	Shouldn't that be on the news?
	Shouldn't we be seeing that continuously?
	No.
	Exactly.
	And so you throw that out a couple of times, and then he got short-circuited.
	It was kind of fun to watch, but he's like, oh, you have to come to The Hague, and I want to talk more.
	I said, why don't you listen to the show, man?
	Yeah, you don't need to go to The Hague.
	Just listen to the show.
	Just like you have a meeting.
	I do not want to go to the paper.
	I don't want to have to sit there and everyone go like, here's the crazy, here's the crazy tea party guy.
	And they're screwing you about the Koch brothers.
	Yes, exactly.
	Oh, man, oh man.
	Well, I find that fascinating.
	Yeah, it was surprising.
	I was gobsmacked.
	Let me put it that way.
	Gobsmacked.
	Honked a horn on that one.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	It's Britishism.
	It's just not okay?
	I never liked it.
	I shall never do it again.
	I'm sorry.
	You probably never do it again anyway.
	You just did it out of the blue because you're reading those papers overseas.
	You're being corrupted.
	And corrupted is what we've managed to do to apparently the Netherlands and most of Europe with these memes.
	But the Koch brothers?
	Crazy religious Republican Tea Party?
	Wanting to control women's vaginas?
	I mean, all of this, John.
	Every single bit of it.
	All of it.
	It was just, wow.
	Very disappointing.
	I would say.
	Disconcerning and just wow.
	Just wow is all I can say.
	Anyway, this is the last day of August.
	It's an interesting month.
	I believe we had five weekends in this August, which doesn't happen very often.
	And we have a brand new month coming up.
	We are just three days away from my birthday, my 50th birthday.
	Yes, and happy birthday, by the way.
	Thank you.
	We'll be talking about it on Thursday's show.
	Talking about the party that Mickey has been planning for a year.
	I have a feeling it's going to be pretty kick-ass.
	Are you still there?
	It might not be.
	Who shouldn't put all this pressure on the woman?
	Maybe just some little intimate affair with candles.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Nice.
	Remember, all I asked for was hookers and blow.
	That's all I ever asked for.
	You're not going to get that.
	Oh, I hope I do.
	Well, it seems unlikely.
	You might.
	It seems to be a poor combination.
	No, but it has a nice ring to it.
	It has a ring, but I understand the combo just doesn't go well together after a while.
	No, it generally shouldn't.
	I think for the hookers it does.
	Yeah.
	Oh, nice.
	They get a bunch of free blow and they don't have to worry about anything because the guy's shot.
	Everything else is good to go.
	The president has come up.
	This is a month, man.
	We have presidential proclamations up the wazoo!
	Well, Les, before we go into that, I want to discuss something with you, which is probably not mentioned over there.
	I heard your thing.
	But it's big news over here, at least amongst the right-wingers.
	Oh, okay.
	Obama comes out and does his press conference in a tan suit.
	Oh, yes, a distraction of the week.
	I have a compilation of...
	I have a minute-long compilation, if you want.
	Play it, play it.
	This is a compilation of the morning news shows.
	And, of course, people who listen to this broadcast know that these things are done for distraction.
	And I have the feeling the president had nothing good to say.
	As it turns out, he kind of gaffed it with his we have no strategy.
	That was a mistake.
	That was, yeah, that was not done well.
	He said a lot, but I think it was all over the map.
	But I don't think the brown suit, I don't think he expected it to get this reaction.
	I don't think he did it on purpose.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, no, he did.
	But I have thoughts on it.
	Okay.
	So the first thing I did before I even...
	I showed a picture to Mickey.
	I said, what do you think?
	She said, what the F is that?
	I just wanted to get her immediate fashion response.
	She said, it's poorly cut.
	It's ugly.
	She says it's ugly.
	So that's just...
	Here is the morning news roundup where the president talked about, I don't know, the guys who behead people and strategy and killing brown people in sand.
	And this is what they talked about.
	Some presidential critics are saying, yes, we tan.
	Social media bursting into a frenzy, seemingly very upset over President Obama's decision to wear a light tan suit at yesterday's news conference.
	President Obama had a very important press conference.
	He's talking about all sorts of world issues.
	So, of course, social media was focused on those world issues, right?
	Of course not.
	They were focused on his tan suit.
	Hashtag tan suit started trending.
	I think the president wore it well.
	I do too, and I'm thinking we're not used to seeing him in such a light suit, but it is Labor Day.
	So you guys like the tan suit?
	I think he was not really thinking about the color suit he was wearing.
	Yeah, probably concerned about some other things.
	Yeah.
	We all think it was maybe it didn't fit the way some of his other suits fit.
	You're going to like the way you look.
	He's a really good dresser, but I don't think it was the tan was the problem.
	The tailoring was all.
	I love a tan suit.
	I think you just need a little tucking in.
	This is supposed to be right at the top of your shoulder, and we're going to use Willie as our demonstration.
	This is supposed to be here.
	Here's the way I see it, and then I want to hear your thought.
	I see this as a total tee-up.
	We've got something to say.
	We don't really have anything good to say, or we've been caught off guard, or whatever it is.
	Something has to happen, and the distraction has to come out.
	And believe me, Social media people on Twitter and Facebook, they're not sitting there watching C-SPAN, waiting for this thing.
	They're not sitting there, they're watching Kardashians, they're watching completely different things.
	The news media then provokes, they're the ones that provoke the social media explosion, and then they go talk about it, blame it on the social media explosion, that's the news, and they don't talk about anything else but the stupid suit.
	Yeah, I think that's probably true, because they don't really want to talk about anything else, because they have no insight, and most of them are stupid, let's face it.
	I mean, one of the things we have to realize...
	And they're not even cute anymore.
	Yeah, they're stupid.
	And they're not even cute anymore.
	I mean, if you're going to be stupid, you're going to be pretty.
	Yeah.
	I think that this is a breakthrough in terms of...
	of these black suits, navy suits, and dark gray flannel.
	Wow.
	Suits that make everybody look like the same stooge robot.
	And you said when they went to something going on in a NATO meeting or something, they showed all these guys, they're all wearing the exact same color suit.
	They look like it sickens me to see it.
	So he comes out in this tan suit, which I don't think was poorly cut.
	I think it was a different cut for him.
	He normally wears a tight-fitting Italian style.
	This was an Armani-style cut, which is a bigger cut for fat executives.
	And so it has a fluffier look to it, but he had those shoulders that just looked like it.
	I would bet money that was an Armani suit.
	Whatever the case, since the president controls, in political science, one, you learn that the president actually establishes social norms.
	So when Bill Clinton says that oral sex is not sex, next thing you know, every teenager in the world is giving blowjobs, which is...
	Somehow I missed out on that.
	Well, we were too old at the time.
	But whatever the case, blowjobs are not sex anymore, and that's because of Clinton.
	If nothing else, I'm hoping that this tan suit will establish that it's okay to wear something besides these same stupid suits that everybody wears.
	Oh, this is an interesting thing.
	In the offices in Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley don't wear suits, never mind, but in New York.
	Dockers.
	Maybe in khakis and blue shirt.
	Yeah.
	By the way, I want to just as an aside, so I go to this Intel meeting, and Intel's got a uniform which is very distinctive.
	And so there's a bunch of guys standing up there, and they're all wearing the exact same outfit with just very subtle color variations with a blue shirt, usually a French blue, and then khakis, blue shirt khakis, blue shirt khakis.
	Suspenders, suspenders, suspenders.
	No, no.
	God, no.
	You can't, you know.
	That's what the Budweiser guys all had.
	They always had the blue shirt with the white collar.
	Silicon Valley Intel really establishes this.
	Khaki blue, khaki blue, khaki blue, which is an odd combination if you actually think about it.
	Except the CEO. And I've seen this before.
	I never noticed it until I saw them all up on stage.
	The CEO is the blue shirt, same blue shirt, no tie, same blue shirt, black slacks.
	Oh, no.
	So you have the CEO gets to wear the black slack.
	He has to distinguish himself as their feeder.
	Yes.
	Well, anyway, this sort of thing is, it's nice to see him come out with a tan suit.
	And of course, yes, it was a distraction.
	Maybe he didn't have as much to say, but he never does have anything to say, except you don't notice it so much because he's not wearing a tan suit.
	Well, I got three clips.
	From him having nothing to say.
	I think we should listen to a few short...
	It was short?
	First, I would like to say, President Clinton said he did not have sexual relations with that woman, and I think what happened is...
	Blowjobs became not cheating.
	I think that's really what happened.
	Not just, it's okay to give out blowjobs.
	No, he actually said something about oral sex isn't sex.
	Not in his testimonies, but I believe he said, I think if somebody doesn't have research, you can find that quote.
	And that was the presidential go-ahead, oral sex is good.
	Well, he's my hero.
	A very good man.
	He's done many wonderful things for the planet, this Bill Clinton.
	Here is the president during the same speech where he...
	Funny enough, he did say that the strategy was developing, but there was something that was odd at the way he used the word, and it's because you hear this word, you hear this sentence, actually, followed by a word, and it didn't come.
	Something else came, but my brain was already moving along, and I don't know if it was intentional, seeing that he made some other weird comments that...
	You know, that kind of caught fire.
	You'll hear it.
	I am confident that as Commander-in-Chief I have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently.
	As our strategy develops...
	my brain went acts of terror.
	I'm understanding what happened.
	He said, I'm confident as commander-in-chief I have the authority for us to commit these acts that we're doing.
	Listen again.
	I am confident that as commander-in-chief I have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently.
	I always hear acts of terror.
	That's what my brain did.
	Wow.
	Is that strange?
	I guess so.
	I think you're right.
	I think that's subconsciously what he's saying.
	Because it is acts of terror.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And he even...
	I think he was a little apprehensive with what he was going to say.
	Maybe he even thought, oh, crap.
	I said acts of...
	Everyone's thinking terror.
	Maybe that's what happened.
	Maybe that's...
	Because I really felt it that way.
	I am confident that as Commander-in-Chief, I have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently.
	It's not even a sentence.
	The acts that we are conducting currently, that's a real saver there, trying to pull it back.
	Anyway.
	Here, for those of you who missed it, is the big offending comment that came out that has hit the media.
	In Iraq, our dedicated pilots and crews continue to carry out the targeted strikes that I authorized to protect Americans there and to address the humanitarian situation on the ground.
	As Commander-in-Chief, I will always do what is necessary to protect the American people and defend against evolving threats to our homeland.
	I am confident that as Commander-in-Chief, I have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently.
	Did I have this whole thing here?
	I didn't mean to roll it out again.
	As our strategy develops...
	We will continue to consult with Congress, and I do think that it'll be important for Congress to weigh in.
	But I don't want to put the cart before the horse.
	We don't have a strategy yet.
	Rooting out a cancer like ISIL will not be quick.
	So there you go.
	We do not have a strategy.
	I think they made a big deal out of it.
	Of course, it doesn't have a strategy.
	We know this.
	This is nothing new.
	So just whatever.
	The tan suit was probably more interesting.
	I picked up on this, and I have a theory about where we're going and where we're headed and what I believe is next with ISIS. We can route ISIS on the ground.
	We can route them.
	Now, that's another interesting choice, and I'm so convinced this guy, he knows what he's saying.
	I just don't believe there's room for error, because they are so good at coming back and saying, see what I told you 30 years ago, and this is exactly what, and this is my quote, and they're proud of it.
	When you say routes ISIS, you can say they're routing them out, like that would be one definition of the word, but it could also be routing them to a destination, to a place.
	And keep a lid on things temporarily, but then as soon as we leave, the same problems come back again.
	So we've got to make sure that Iraqis understand, in the end, they're going to be responsible for their own security.
	And part of that is going to be the capacity for them to make compromises.
	Any successful strategy, though, also needs strong regional partners.
	I'm encouraged so far that countries in the region, countries that don't always agree on many things, increasingly recognize the primacy of the threat that ISIL poses to all of them.
	So, the primacy that ISIS threat they pose to all the partners in the region.
	Now, we had our buddy Wes Clark tip us off about Saudi Arabia.
	And I was thinking of this, and I was looking at my maps last night, as I often do on a Saturday night.
	I'll grab my maps and my medical journals.
	And I'm looking at the map.
	And then it's staring me in the face.
	It's so obvious.
	Here's what I think is going to happen.
	We've had this Palestinian-Gaza-Israeli thing.
	This is ongoing.
	The news cycle comes and goes, but it's ongoing.
	It's pretty clear to me, outside of the...
	The rockets and the missiles and whatever they've got back and forth, which I still have to see some real evidence of this Iron Dome thing doing something other than shooting off rockets that do little curly contrails and poof.
	Like, okay, I guess it got something.
	It's hard to see anything working.
	But okay, that just could be show for all I know.
	There are rockets coming in, but the people in Gaza are being killed.
	Just every single one of them.
	I think that's going to go on.
	They're going to kill everybody.
	Just keep going, going, going, going.
	They have not enough food coming in.
	They can't pay their civil servants.
	They have a government.
	It's just they have no way to...
	There's no finances.
	There's nothing.
	Nothing is going on except it's being rebelized.
	And we've seen this really clearly on television.
	I think that the reason is we're about to see a very interesting event happening.
	And I looked at the news.
	I've been looking at Jordan.
	I have a feeling that ISIS, whatever that is, of course, we now understand how it works.
	There's 10, 20, 30, 40, 100,000 jihadis from all over the world, and they're in every country.
	This is the narrative.
	So they're from every country.
	They're from and they're in every country, you see.
	Well, yeah, right.
	Of course.
	It's bullshit, I know, but that's not the point.
	What if, if you look at the map, what if Jordan fell?
	See, the Saudis, there's too much going on there.
	But if Jordan fell to ISIS, if ISIS, and look at the, I have a couple of headlines just for you, just from today, now that I started looking at it, ISIS threatens to invade Jordan and slaughter King Abdullah.
	Jordan faces new tests from ISIS, gains in neighboring states.
	So Jordan is on the map.
	And if any American quote-unquote ally, and Jordan would be the one, because we really don't give a crap about Jordan, really.
	You know, what do they have?
	Nothing.
	Our bases are there where we train, but does Jordan have anything of real spectacular importance to us?
	Not like Saudi Arabia.
	Well, there's a lot of history with Jordan.
	Jordan is an issue within the Middle East altogether, because if you go back in time enough, the Jordanian king and the prince, who are direct descendants of Muhammad, were supposed to be the ones ruling Saudi Arabia.
	Right.
	And they were tricked out of it by the Saud family, I guess.
	And they were given Jordan as the fallback, as you can have this, you know, like it.
	It's almost like being imprisoned.
	And I just don't, you know, so there's some agreement that, you know, there has to be protected under all circumstances and they can be as brutal as they want and we're never going to report on any of it.
	And I'm not going to, to let Jordan fall...
	Which would put them right next to Israel, which is a buffer state.
	I just don't see it happening.
	It would be a nightmare.
	That's the point.
	This is the point I'm making.
	That if that happened, then we'll have CNN and I think Al Jazeera There's a reason for this.
	Al Jazeera thing has always bothered me a little bit.
	We need full-on, real-time Hollywood coverage of some huge events so we can just, with Israel, our special relationship, we can just decimate everything.
	No, we would rubble eyes.
	Everything and really go to town.
	Now we'd have it all because it's exactly that.
	The buffer state.
	Stop a second.
	Is anything else going on over there?
	Because you're breaking up horribly on my side.
	I don't know.
	Everything seems to be okay.
	No porn being downloaded?
	I'm the only one here.
	Oh, okay.
	But that doesn't mean there's no porn being downloaded.
	But no.
	Do you want me to call you back?
	No, I can suffer.
	I'll tell you to call me back when it's a problem.
	It would be a new next step, and I have a feeling...
	I'm not sure why Wes Clark came in with Saudi Arabia.
	I'm sure Saudi Arabia will have to...
	There's a lot of noise about, oh, you've got to get out of your castle and get out of your palace and do something.
	It would be a big one.
	But if that happened, then you would see the wrath of God.
	And it would all be Hollywood.
	But it would finally be the whole thing, because Israel cannot be left unprotected.
	And just, I'm seeing all this news of ISIS, ISIS, ISIS internal, they're going to slaughter.
	All you need is enough guys in those black suits with the really white shoes and the Toyotas, and you just double the image enough, and it looks really scary.
	Oh!
	And they're going to get the palace and then burn the palace.
	And then they install their Sharia caliphate, whatever it is.
	And then we go to town.
	See, this is not my view of it.
	No, I know.
	My view is that we want the ISIS people to be a buffer state between the Iraqis and the Iranians to protect the Kurds and our oil.
	And that's as far as it goes.
	I think this is going to fizzle out.
	Okay.
	Could be.
	Because if anything else happens, and we have to do what you described, go to town, then it's going to ruin the buffer state.
	The Iraqis will be back where they were, bumped up against Kurdistan.
	I see it differently.
	I think Israel will just expand everything out.
	No, they can't get away with that.
	They're already retreating.
	They wouldn't have given up Gaza and the West Bank.
	Well, there's so many...
	Well, the West Bank would be something that they'd take back completely.
	They had been doing.
	The settlements are in the West Bank, which bumps up against the Jordanian border.
	I don't know.
	I feel...
	Sometimes I'm from the future.
	I don't know.
	I feel something's going on.
	Well, if Jordan was attacked by these guys, it wouldn't work out.
	Well...
	For these guys.
	I mean, I agree that all hell would break loose if that happened, but I'm just not...
	I don't know.
	I just don't see it.
	I just can't see it because I think in the scheme of things, we're running this show and we want this bony baloney caliphate to be in there shaking their fists at things left and right and chopping heads off.
	But we also need some real war and we need our buddies going in and everyone needs to be participating in the war machine and I think we both agree that there's nothing better than having war weaponry created and shipped off Probably not even used.
	And not a single American soldier will die because we're giving it to some other guys.
	No, I agree with it in terms of the financing or the financial benefits of doing these things.
	But I think the real bonanza's got to be in Africa.
	We'll get there.
	We'll get there.
	Just listen to who's on board with this.
	Australia has agreed to join an airlift of military equipment.
	Yeah!
	Bonanza bitches, let's go!
	To the Kurds.
	We've agreed to join this airlift at the request of the Obama administration in the United States and with the permission of the Iraqi government.
	Other countries involved in the airlift of military equipment to the Kurds include the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Italy.
	I also can announce that Australia has participated in a humanitarian airdrop to the besieged town of Amelie.
	Unfortunately, it's all a Vegemite.
	In northern Iraq.
	What is this?
	It's salty.
	We don't need salt in the desert.
	That's just a good thing.
	Andrew, one of our producers, sent me a quote from Legacy of Ashes, which I wanted to, it's a little passage I wanted to share.
	He says, Adam, John, I'm reading Legacy of Ashes at the moment, and something jumped out at me I felt was important to note, given our current predicament in the Middle East.
	The president, and this was President Eisenhower, said he wanted to promote the idea of an Islamic jihad against godless communism.
	Quote, We should do everything possible to stress the holy war aspect, he said in a September 1957 White House meeting attended by Frank Wisner, Foster Dulles, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, William Roundtree, and members of the Joint Chiefs.
	So this is not a new idea.
	This is us meddling.
	Let's play a couple of clips from the United Nations.
	Slowly switching to Russia.
	Is this Samantha?
	You got more?
	You got a punchline to this?
	Yes, we have two things going on.
	One is finishing up with Foley.
	We got a lot of notes about ground truth And, of course, I was looking at the Ground Truth Project, the foundation funded by all these big names that funds Global Post, which in turn makes videos for the national public media in the United States.
	Right.
	So, did you know that James Foley, the so-called beheaded journalist, He reported and brought back with his team and received an Overseas Press Club of America award for the video of Gaddafi when he got sodomized.
	Gaddafi was sodomized?
	Yeah, they stuck a stick up his butt.
	Oh yeah, I remember.
	He was in a tube or something.
	Right, but then they found him in the tube, and then they sodomized him, and then they beat him up.
	And there was a lot of question about if that was really him.
	It was very unclear.
	So this is another Global Post production.
	So these guys had that video.
	Okay.
	So he won an award for taking a film of that?
	Yes.
	Well, the Overseas Press Club, it's been around for 75 years.
	Have you ever heard of this, this little drinking club?
	Isn't it the same as the Overseas Press Association that gives the awards out, the Golden Globes or whatnot?
	No, that's the foreign press.
	Okay.
	This seems to be, they have a little scholarship fund thingy going on.
	It's the Overseas Press Club Foundation.
	And when you look at the, if you do a Google search for Overseas Press Club Foundation and Global Post, you see that there's a lot of money flowing back and forth.
	And again, it's kind of, you know, they make a, they donate money for a scholarship and Which is, in turn, of course, the way I see it, I think the whole thing is a corrupt organization.
	Everything is set up so they can then train kids to report bullcrap or whatever the message is, or just take orders and follow rules and make cute little videos and send it back.
	And then they give these awards to their own journalists.
	Yeah, Playboy magazine used to do that.
	So I find it all to be very sketchy, although the organization overseas, Press Club Foundation has been around for a long time, doesn't mean it's not corrupt.
	Well, you know, a lot of organizations get co-opted.
	We always have to remember that.
	Co-opted would be the way to look at it.
	And Brian the Gay Crusader stumbled on something.
	We have a lot of good people in our global intelligence network.
	He found, he was looking at the names on the Global Truth Project Foundation, or the project that funded.
	And one is the Bake Family Trust.
	Do you recall we were looking at that, we couldn't find anything?
	Right, this is the one that I couldn't find anything on, and it seemed somewhat, this would be the one you'd find something that would be interesting if you'd find anything, and so he did.
	He did.
	And he must be in love with you.
	Because you said it.
	I can't find anything.
	He went, I shall do something for Jean.
	So first you go Google the Bake Family Trust, and it's interesting.
	It turns out this is a Dutch guy, a Dutch-Australian guy.
	That's interesting.
	Does that ring a bell with that other Dutch guy that's getting involved in that other operation?
	Well, yeah, we'll get to that with that other operation.
	So when you look at this guy, now remember, this is someone putting money, giving money to a foundation who are reporting on the situation in the Middle East specifically.
	They really do a lot of the Middle East.
	That's their reporting where they have their stringers, their freelancers.
	So this guy owns Emerald, and Emerald is an Irish corporation, majority-owned subsidiary of Aqua Ventures.
	All of this is in the show notes, which is a United Arab Emirates company.
	So you see how kind of the money flows.
	So it's in the UAE. And this Aqua Ventures company, Is 100% owned by the Bake Family Trust.
	Now, this guy, Christopher Paul Bake, has the Aqua Sailing Team.
	So he's kind of an elitist douchebag, kind of like a...
	What's his name?
	The Oracle guy.
	Allison.
	Allison, a little bit.
	Trying to be like him.
	But when you follow his money...
	So we followed it back to Aqua Ventures, and then Mr.
	Bake is the sole beneficiary of the trust, the Dominion Fiduciary Trust Limited, which is incorporated in Isle of Jersey, of course.
	And he is the trustee of the Bake Family Trust.
	No other person or entity holds any ownership over 5%.
	He has the majority of it.
	And his business is vital.
	He's the chairman of Vitol.
	V-I-T-O-L. Do you want me to just give it away, or do you want to guess what Vitol is?
	Well, they're a Dubai company.
	Uh-huh.
	And what do they do?
	I'm looking.
	Oman Trading.
	3,200 employees.
	Big-ass oil company.
	Revenues of $307 billion.
	$307 billion in 2013.
	And they are funding the journalists in the Middle East.
	Yeah, and it's out of the UAE. Thank you.
	Which, of course, includes...
	I don't think they're specifically a UAE country, but they're part of the Circle of Friends, which includes Qatar, which is very much involved in journalism since they own Al Jazeera.
	Exactly.
	Qatar is the one calling the shots on all this stuff, in my opinion.
	As opposed to Dubai, where this guy's located.
	I think there's a connection.
	I'm just looking at him with $307 billion in revenue in one year.
	Yeah, that's good money.
	And he's funding the journalist the operation.
	Here's another little interesting tidbit for you.
	For one thing, he's also your age.
	Yes.
	50.
	And his other association, his education is from guess what state?
	Oh, West Virginia.
	Texas.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	Yeah!
	Texas.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Texas.
	University of Texas.
	Nice, nice.
	He also gives them a lot of money, along with another one that people can look into, which I guess it would be, I don't know if it's different than Vital, but it's the VTTI Energy Partners LP. I'm looking at his Bloomberg's profile.
	Okay, that's good.
	Oh, good.
	I just saw the wiki profile on that.
	Bloomberg would be better, I guess.
	So he is managing the acquisition of the Fujii-Ra refinery, which is a key asset somewhere.
	He doesn't say where.
	The Vital's offices are in Bahrain, London, Buenos Aires, and Houston.
	That's interesting.
	Oh yeah, this guy's no slouch.
	No wonder you can't find out.
	I'm glad that somebody did some work on this that I should have.
	That's Brian.
	Mr.
	Baker Service is a member of the group of VTTI, a degree in international business and marketing from the University of Texas.
	Y'all.
	Onward to our next shill, and then we can slowly move over to Russia, which is very important.
	A lot going on in the Euroland zone.
	A Dutch gentleman in the Netherlands who I have some history on, and I think it's very interesting to see why he came out with...
	The Terror Laptop of Doom.
	The Terror Laptop of Doom.
	here is its official jingle.
	That's what the price of admission. .
	The Terror Laptop of Doom.
	I must play for you the interview that Jake Tapper had.
	Oh, man.
	I love me some Jake.
	Jake Tapper with...
	Where is it here?
	Hey.
	Yeah, here it is.
	With Harold Dornbolz.
	And I think I should probably tell you about Harold first.
	Harold Dornbos, he got fired from his...
	I think it was in a newspaper or magazine in the Netherlands.
	I think it folded.
	But anyways, he was out of a job and he started freelancing.
	And he is known for going to the Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	Let me just grab the...
	Grab my notes here.
	Here it is.
	And was it Bosnia?
	He was looking for...
	He went to Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo.
	And he went with a couple of other freelancers looking for the...
	What was the guy's name?
	The crazy...
	The Rajnik...
	What was his name?
	The Karadznik...
	Like the guy who was running the show there.
	Where?
	In Sarajevo in 2000.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, those guys.
	Right.
	And then they got apprehended and were accused of being CIA agents.
	And they wound up writing, I think it even became a movie.
	He wrote a, I think, or co-wrote the book The Hunting Party, and there was another, Scott Anderson, who was with him, a journalist, and he wrote an article called How I Spent My Summer Vacation, and that's what the movie The Hunting Party was based on.
	And the whole thing is that they were journalists running around and they got stopped and said, hey, you guys are CIA. They said, no, you're not.
	I said, yes, you are.
	And I have to say, when you hear that this is the guy who got this magical laptop...
	He's probably CIA. You know, it's not that crazy that you have people like this.
	That is the number one job of intelligence, is to infiltrate media.
	Right.
	Half the journalists, especially the ones that are caught on the border of some sketchy country, you know, from the University of California Journalism School.
	And I'm talking about the people that were caught in the Iranian mountains hiking.
	Hiking.
	Sure you are.
	Hiking.
	And to get to where they were hiking, they had to go through a minefield.
	As we recall, we discussed this in great detail three years ago.
	And then, of course, we had our Ting Ting and Ling Ling, these two dingbats that were caught in North Korea.
	Ting Ting and Ding-a-ling.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And they were the same thing.
	Oh, it was just an accident.
	We happened to be hiking.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So this guy, now it's very funny for me to listen to this guy because he's Dutch.
	I can do the accents very well.
	I've got to tell you, we have this crazy, this laptop of terror, laptop of doom, man.
	It's just nuts.
	Alright, so you're going to hear him talking to Jake Tapper and we're going to pull this guy apart because I understand the cadence and I understand how people talk.
	It is an ominous indication of what ISIS may be planning.
	A computer that was found in an ISIS hideout in Syria is being called the terror laptop of doom.
	The And who called it the Terror Laptop of Doom?
	Yeah, really?
	This guy himself.
	He wrote an article in...
	Oh, he called it the Terror Laptop of Doom.
	Yeah.
	Good one.
	Let me see where he...
	Well, he knows branding.
	Yeah.
	Oh, it's very good.
	It's the...
	What article is this?
	It was in...
	How do people...
	This is kind of baffling to me.
	How does the media in general buy into...
	This is a lock, stock, and barrel nonsense.
	Once they started the branding process, it would seem to send off a bunch of alarm bells, it seems to me.
	Foreignpolicy.com.
	Come on, this is...
	Foreignpolicy, that's the mouthpiece for the accounts on foreign relations, right?
	Yeah, this is total think tank business here.
	And right there, the exclusive written by Harold Dornbos and Jenna Musa, who is...
	What does she do?
	She is the roving reporter of Dubai based on TV. Right, okay, fine.
	And so this Dutch guy is walking around, and it says here his profile on foreign policy is a journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
	But okay, he's roaming around with his buddy, Janan.
	He or she, I don't know what it is.
	And then they wind up writing this article in foreign policy, found, colon, the Islamic State's terror laptop of doom!
	And then the subhead here buried in a Dell computer captured in Syria are lessons for making bubonic plague bombs and missives on using weapons of mass destruction.
	And with good reason, on it was a treasure trove.
	Treasure trove!
	Oh, this is one.
	This is Jake Tapper.
	How can the guy sleep?
	He is reading the script, the treasure trove.
	This is the same words they use when we got Bin Laden, the treasure trove, on the laptops.
	And it doesn't even have the laptop.
	There's a picture of this laptop.
	They don't even have the laptop because, well, here's the story.
	Documents, tens of thousands of hidden files detailing everything from how to make bombs and rockets to how to weaponize the bubonic plague.
	Joining me is foreign policy reporter Harold Dornbos.
	Yes.
	Harold, there's a lot of debate here in the U.S. about whether ISIS is a threat specifically to the U.S. homeland.
	But the idea that bubonic plague is possibly in their arsenal is stunning.
	And according to files on this laptop, I'd like to know, how would they create and launch such a weapon?
	Now listen very, very closely to what is being said here, because this is the biggest bunch of bull crap you'll ever hear.
	Very difficult to say, but they have a manual for it, and we found it on the laptop.
	Yes.
	What I think is very important and what is kind of worrisome are three elements.
	We have basically a Tunisian national, a chemistry student, who traveled to Syria, joined ISIS, and who carries this manual of biological weapons on his laptop, who clearly has an interest in trying to develop it.
	Okay, so here's the information we have.
	It came from Tunisia...
	Where the Arab Spring started.
	Let's not forget there's a lot going on in Tunisia, certainly when it comes to intelligence.
	These are the guys who were sent down to kidnap Stevens in Libya, or sent over, not down, over, and messed it all up.
	Tunisia is, we kind of own a lot of the intelligence going on there.
	So this is not, there's no ISIS as far as I know in Tunisia.
	Okay, maybe that's new.
	Some chemical student with this laptop comes from Tunisia.
	These three factors make it very worrisome.
	How far they are, we don't know.
	Maybe the guy, the laptop owner, maybe he's dead.
	We don't know.
	Okay, so we don't know who the laptop owner is.
	The guy, maybe he's dead.
	We don't know.
	We don't know.
	We know nothing.
	But we know that there's a certain interest among ISIS people.
	We don't know who the guy is.
	How we know he's ISIS. With a science background into developing these kind of terrible diseases.
	Yes, and developing these terrible diseases.
	Yes, as you know, it's science.
	Science!
	You must always accept the science.
	The laptop also includes a fatwa or an Islamic ruling.
	Yes, the fatwa on the laptop.
	I have a fatwa on my laptop.
	From a radical Saudi cleric, essentially justifying the use of bubonic plague or other chemical, biological weapons.
	What more can you tell us about that?
	Basically, this fatwa explains that if you cannot beat the unbelievers, the kufar, in some kind of way, you eventually can use weapons of mass destruction against them.
	Yes, this sounds very much like Islam to me.
	If they don't cooperate, then you can use weapons of mass destruction.
	Have they developed it?
	I don't know.
	Are they currently developing it in Syria, inside Syria, inside their caliphate?
	I don't know.
	Oh, the caliphate is already everywhere?
	How specifically did you come into possession of such a treasure trove of files on ISIS from this laptop?
	We found it through a rebel commander who commands moderate Syrian rebels.
	Who was not named.
	There's no picture of him.
	Why didn't he give it to them?
	They fight against Assad regime.
	Well, here's his reason.
	But they also fight at the same time against Islamic radicals of ISIS.
	They attacked an ISIS safe house, and they found this laptop there.
	Eventually, we convinced the commander to give the laptop to us, so better he allowed us to make a copy of it on our external hard drive.
	And we got 146 gigabytes of material in it.
	Thousands of documents, 35,000 documents.
	And, you know, somewhere really worrisome.
	Yeah, very worrisome.
	And I have a problem with this, John.
	The problem that I have with this is it was not encrypted.
	And as we know, they have the new encryptions.
	For years, al-Qaeda had used an encryption program written by its own coders.
	Do you remember this one?
	Do you remember?
	Good call back on it.
	They called it Mujahideen Secrets.
	Most Al-Qaeda affiliates used it to scramble their communications.
	Since its introduction in 2007, there had been some minor updates.
	Then, in late 2013, after the Snowden leaks, the program got a major overhaul.
	Major overhaul.
	Why am I whispering?
	Because it's very, very cool that we know.
	You know, they would have put a bullet in that thing anyway, but that's beside the point.
	So this thing is either a plant, which I doubt.
	I think it's just the whole thing is staged.
	Oh, it's totally staged.
	And by the way, so I'm looking at the financial, or what's the name of the foreign, what is the name of that magazine?
	Foreign Policy.
	Foreign Policy.
	I'm looking at their blog.
	And so they have the exclusive, found the Islamic State's a terror laptop of doom.
	And there's a picture, it says, photo of Muhammad S. found on his laptop.
	Digitized.
	Why have they, what is the point of digitally altering it?
	Why?
	It's all pixelated.
	So he doesn't sue people?
	No.
	Hey, wait a minute.
	That's me, you're sure?
	Yeah.
	What is the point of this?
	Yeah.
	Well, they instead show his picture and put one a dead or alive.
	Well, let's just listen to the last 40 seconds of this stellar interview.
	This is the biggest crock of crap.
	Luckily, the American public is so dumbed down by the Kardashians, they can't be outraged.
	Well, yeah.
	Bullshit!
	Is there more that you have yet to read, or at this point, have you gone through all of the documents?
	And this is also very well done, because now we have a treasure trove of documents.
	It's so close to Snowden.
	It has all these little callback-type thingies back and forth.
	What else did we have?
	Can we find some more information that's coming out?
	What else do we have?
	Pretty much.
	We've gone to more or less all of the documents.
	There are other documents in, like, how to steal cars.
	Oh no!
	Fucking ISIS stealing my car!
	Fuck my radio, man!
	Really.
	This is important information.
	Stealing cars.
	How to steal cars.
	But the thing is, I stopped it specifically.
	He'll say cars, because there's probably a document somewhere that says how to steal a car.
	Or maybe it's a trailer for Gone in 60 Seconds, the remake.
	And then he just rattles off a whole bunch of other stuff, which doesn't sound like he's truthful about it.
	On through all of the documents, pretty much.
	We've gone to more or less all of the documents.
	There are other documents in, like, how to steal cars.
	They're all kind of related to jihad.
	Yes, the car jihadi!
	Stealing cars, now related to jihad.
	So it's like how to steal cars, how to make rockets, how to make bombs.
	Basically, it's how to destroy the world.
	How to destroy the world by stealing the cars, man!
	You take your car, you steal it, bitch!
	In short, also we found documents of how to get fake passports, how to travel from one jihadi hotspot in the world.
	Wi-Fi hotspot.
	How to connect to the hotspot for the jihadis?
	To another jihadi hotspot in the world without being caught by the authorities.
	Oh, authorities!
	It's for sure a very interesting laptop that we got.
	Yeah, no, you didn't get a laptop, you only made a copy, yes?
	How to Destroy the World, a chilling summary.
	Harold Dornbus, thank you so much for your time.
	Thank you, Jake.
	How to destroy the world.
	There's a couple of things in here that I think are interesting because they portend of other possibilities.
	Good word.
	One, I like the car stealing thing because that gives our law, if we can promote that a little more, that gives us law enforcement more resources when car thievery is up in the United States.
	It could be ISIS. Now terrorism.
	Yeah, terrorism, exactly.
	But the thing that got me on that clip is the subtle mention of Saudi Arabia again.
	Mm-hmm.
	Out of the blue, radical Saudi cleric is behind the fatwa, which brings us back to Wes Clark's little admonishment of Saudi Arabia.
	So I think Saudi Arabia may be just another target on their back for something to happen there.
	I think that's what's going to happen to them.
	I know they're removed from everything, but...
	Well, I thought this was just an outstanding move.
	The headline, it's been pushed out.
	It grabbed immediately.
	And it's not even a catchy thing.
	You know, the terror laptop of doom.
	Laptop of terror.
	I mean, if we had to make up a headline...
	I don't know.
	Terror laptop of doom?
	It seems like there's...
	Islamic State's terror laptop of doom.
	It seems like it's...
	I mean, it sounds like a crappy headline written by...
	No offense to the editors out there, even though none of them listen to this show.
	But this is one of those things.
	Most people don't realize that when you write an article...
	For a newspaper or a magazine, you headline it yourself, the writer does.
	But very rarely does that get used because the editors feel that they must have something to do with this.
	They must get involved.
	And so the 90% of the time, the headline is changed to something they like.
	And often, unless the guy's talented, which is, it does happen.
	There are some talent headlines.
	We have some good ones coming in.
	Tablet of Terror, that would have been better.
	Tablet of Terror, I like better, even though it's not a tablet.
	Indiana Jones and the Laptop of Doom.
	That's where that came from, by the way.
	Yeah, of course.
	They could have done something.
	What is that new Windows device?
	Can I ask you another offbeat question?
	We have pictures of the laptop, but they said they never took the laptop.
	They just took a copy.
	Maybe that's a picture of it.
	I don't know.
	What, they take a picture of the laptop?
	Hey, can I take a picture of the laptop?
	Before I get a copy of the hard disk?
	Yeah, that's what it looks like.
	Before I make a copy?
	At the ISIS safe house, which makes no sense.
	Because the ISIS, you know, let me, here we go.
	This is, so right after...
	The safe house.
	Yeah, I know.
	You're right.
	That's just a buzzword.
	We like using it because it's in all of our TV shows.
	So what Jake does...
	With the terror laptop of doom.
	So right after this guy, Jake gets Bob Bear on the honker.
	Now, Bob Bear is our favorite guy.
	Oh, Bob Bear.
	Here we go.
	It's basically, it's the CIA show.
	So we had the Dutch stringer.
	And I'm calling, but I hope I meet this guy.
	Maybe I can find out where he is.
	He's Dutch.
	If he's in the Netherlands.
	Yeah, he's in Langley right now, getting debriefed.
	Or maybe some other station.
	And then just bring in MI6 for all you know.
	It's more likely, it seems to me.
	It's a one-two punch.
	You got this guy who's the field op, and then you get Bob Bear who's going to smooth it over.
	And, of course, bubonic plague.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	ISIS is much bigger than the 10,000 to 15,000 people we keep hearing.
	They are being supported.
	This is much bigger than the 10,000 to 15,000 we're now hearing of.
	By the tribes in eastern Syria, by the tribes in Anbar province, not all of them, by some of them, and by the Sunni middle class.
	We're seeing a Sunni uprising, and they may not share the ideology with ISIS, but they're going to use them until they don't need them anymore.
	Additionally, they've seized gold.
	They've got the oil fields around Derisor.
	They've got wheat production.
	They control a large part of the Tigris River.
	Who needs a safe house?
	Electricity generation.
	They've got electricity generation.
	Refineries.
	They've got refineries, John.
	They have refineries.
	I like the wheat farms.
	That's interesting.
	On and on.
	So they are self-sustaining.
	So if we think that ISIS is going to go away in six months all by itself, I think we're badly mistaken.
	Well, we got your message, Bob, really.
	We understand what you're saying.
	Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, we got it.
	And the question is, if we have to go in and destroy them, which is possible, our military can do it, will they take revenge?
	Against the United States.
	And I think it's almost certain, although they don't have a track record so far of international terrorism.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Now, here's Bob just rolling it out for us.
	Today, when I heard the news...
	It was a very, very tough day when I heard the news, Jake.
	I heard about the terror laptop of Doob, and I thought to myself, oh, man, that's a day record.
	This is worse than I thought.
	It is.
	Wait for it.
	Today, when I heard the news, bubonic plague sounded a bit strange to me, and I called up an expert who works for the Pentagon.
	You shall go unnamed.
	An expert who works for the Pentagon.
	CIA said, forget bubonic plague.
	The vector is fleas.
	Spreading this in the Western European capital of the United States is very remote.
	It's not a particular danger.
	But what they're looking at today is Ebola.
	Yeah!
	Ebola!
	Now you're talking CIA! You know, you simply put somebody, a victim, in a centrifuge.
	Now listen...
	Hold on a second.
	So in other words, Bob Baer and his boys, this other Dutch jerk-off, he puts bubonic plague in, probably because it sounded a little bit like Ebola.
	Yeah, because he's Dutch.
	It's a mistake.
	What is the Ebola bubonic plague?
	We zeggen gewoon, we say bubonic plague.
	Oh, scheisse, it was bubonic, it was bubola, not bubonic plague.
	What was I thinking?
	Oh, crap.
	So then Baer comes in and straightened it out.
	Yeah, I gotta fix that.
	Exactly.
	But then my favorite is you put a victim in the centrifuge.
	I mean, this is a whole new take.
	Just get comfortable.
	Once again, one of those giant things that spins you around, like the astronauts go on, and all the goop that comes off of you, they collect it.
	Yes, listen, listen.
	Today is Ebola.
	You simply put somebody, a victim, in a centrifuge.
	You get the liquid out of it.
	It's just like making vinegar, John.
	I mean, you should not...
	Atomize it.
	Wow.
	You atomize it.
	And...
	And you're good to go.
	You know, spread it around in a transportation system.
	That's what has them scared.
	It's easy.
	And it's very easy to do.
	As long as you have a centrifuge to...
	Go around with a spritzer.
	Would you like a spritz?
	Would you like a little spritz?
	Oh, pretty much.
	It's like peppermint.
	And Macy's.
	Would you like to try the new Calvin Klein?
	Easy!
	And it's something compromised.
	Okay, we need to listen to that again.
	Because that is...
	I just need to write it down.
	I can't believe this wasn't on the laptop, because that's the instructions you want.
	That was...
	I think that was supposed to be on the laptop, but Dutch or Goffman remember.
	Fucked it up.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is what it should have been.
	We got the Ebola.
	You grab a victim.
	You put them in the centrifuge, which is a whole new take on the cat in the washing machine.
	I really like that.
	That's such a good vibe for me.
	Centrifuge.
	Back it up for a second.
	This is one of Bob's best appearances.
	You simply put somebody, a victim, in a centrifuge.
	You get the liquid out of it.
	You atomize it.
	And...
	You know, spread it around in a transportation system.
	That's what has him scared.
	Hold on a second.
	Now, doesn't Jake Tapper say, gosh, Bob, that seems a little far-fetched.
	How do you even do that?
	What, are you kidding me?
	He says that, right?
	Worse.
	Not only does he not say anything, Bob says this is easy.
	It's very easy to do.
	As long as you've got a centrifuge.
	And it's something that they're aware of.
	I mean, it's extremely alarming, and it's very unlikely to happen, but it's a possibility.
	Oh, pussy.
	Pussy.
	He did that out of guilt.
	Yeah.
	He threw that little zinger in there at the end out of guilt.
	I know this is crap.
	I agree.
	You can only do so much for the agency, especially when you're retired.
	Well...
	And we should remind people that this guy, Bob Barrison, ex-CIA. Yeah.
	Which, you know, by some thought, it means you never leave, and so you're still kind of working for him.
	Yeah.
	Well, he's part of the pundit program, which is...
	And he's part of the pundit program?
	You're laughing.
	That's the real name.
	It's the real name.
	It's where they write the books.
	They got reams of people writing books for you and getting you appearances, writing the scripts for that.
	Yeah, it's called the pundit program, the CIA pundit program.
	And, yeah, so it's all a part of the big script.
	And Jake Tapper, you know, he's just reading the script.
	Yeah, he's probably part of the Pundit program, too.
	Why not?
	It seems like a really good gig.
	It's a great gig.
	Can you imagine the number of books that I've been promising that would actually get done?
	You can just kick back and order people around.
	Vinegar book, forget it.
	I'd have books on how to make anything.
	What book do we need?
	By the way, there was a good report on PBS, if there's any such thing as a good report on PBS or NPR, actually.
	They were talking about these people joining, which I believe the ISIS is also a honeypot because it draws in all kinds of great people.
	Oh, yeah.
	And now there's the meme going around, at least amongst the liberal media, but I mean not the liberal media that's actually liberal, but the ones that are actually purported to be liberal, that all these out-of-the-blue converts, Muslim converts, who are going there to join ISIS as converts and bringing with them books like...
	Oh yeah, Jihad for Dummies.
	Yes!
	I saw this.
	Dummies.
	Well, you'll recall that we talked about...
	For dummies.
	You'll recall that we talked about Minneapolis as a hotbed, and of course now we've had this one guy, this 33-year-old, who died, and his buddy...
	So this guy, this McCain, Douglas McCain, I think his name is, he was killed.
	All of a sudden, breaking news, breaking news, Minnesotan, Minneapolis, I'm sorry, Minneapolis guy killed in ISIS, but his buddy was, and they had this, they brought the recruitment video.
	And they were part of the production team for the recruitment video, which is 35 minutes.
	And it's very hard to find this Al-Qaeda recruitment video.
	But it is out there.
	And here's a little package that CNN was running about these two guys.
	Note the very slight mention that this other kid was killed in 2009.
	But they make it seem like the jihadis are coming from Minneapolis.
	Minneapolis, I will say, a lot of KGB in Minneapolis, too.
	According to a friend, Abdurrahman Mohammed is the latest so-called Minnesota martyr.
	A Minnesota martyr!
	An American giving up his life to fight with the ruthless terror group ISIS. He's well-known in the community.
	He was involved in Somali politics.
	For some reason, somewhere down the road, he changed allegiance to a different set of philosophy.
	Muhammad was killed in Syria, where he was fighting along with another American jihadist from Minneapolis.
	But this is...
	Very strange that they're putting it this way because this guy who was fighting alongside died in 2009.
	Douglas McCain.
	While it's still unclear how well McCain knew Muhammad, McCain knew the man in this terrorist recruiting video very well.
	If you guys only knew how much fun we have over here, this is the real Disneyland.
	Now, see, this is where the scripts start to cross over.
	This is where Mike Rogers got his jihadi Disneyland from.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	That's a good one.
	You get the same writers and all this stuff, or maybe different writers, or no editor at the top, and it flows over.
	So this is the Jihadi Disneyland.
	I believe it would have to come from this recruitment video.
	Troy Castegar and Douglas McCain were high school friends.
	Castegar, who appeared in this training video, died in 2009 fighting with Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
	In Somalia, but then he was in Syria.
	The whole thing is very...
	Discombobulated.
	Castigar's mother tries to explain how her son and Douglas McCain went from basketball team buddies to terrorists.
	There was like wanting to have a, you know, wanting to be, have a purpose and wanting to The fear that a Minnesota terror recruit will someday attack America is a real concern.
	We're investigating exactly how ISIS has been able to recruit.
	How are people being radicalized?
	What methods are being used?
	And what are the logistics behind the travel of some of these young men?
	Ann Allison, the FBI here in Minnesota estimates that a handful of other young men from the Minneapolis-St.
	Paul area are overseas in Syria fighting for ISIS. That's right.
	Be afraid.
	Why don't we do what we did with Snowden and revoked our passports?
	It's not that hard.
	Exactly.
	Why don't we do that?
	I'm asking you now.
	Well, because it's bullcrap.
	That's why.
	And I have...
	There's actually...
	There's a good article from...
	Is it Harvard Law or Yale?
	About this.
	Just to bring it back up about...
	Because we talked about at the time...
	The Yale Law Journal.
	Here it is.
	We talked about this...
	Snowden passport revocation, and it is not only bullshit, it is unconstitutional.
	The Yale Law Journal has this whole article specifically about Snowden, and that the State Department has no right, you actually have a right as a citizen to a means of identifying yourself abroad.
	A U.S. citizen's ability to keep a passport while abroad is a document proving legal identity and citizenship.
	It's a function of the U.S. passport the Supreme Court has recognized since 1835.
	The revocation of the passports of Yemeni Americans is similarly suspect.
	If the U.S. State Department contests the legality of their naturalizations, their cases should be brought to court on the claim that there's a good cause to revoke their citizenship.
	The cases differ, but Snowden's citizenship is uncontested And therefore, they have no legal jurisprudence or precedence or, in fact, it is constitutionally not allowed to cancel your identifying document for travel.
	No one will ever fight them on that, of course, but it's nice to know that it's just bullcrap.
	Yeah, it probably is total bullcrap, but some agency needs to keep Snowden in Russia for some reason or other.
	Yes.
	So he's there.
	Yes, he is.
	Like it or not, Snowden.
	This is your assignment.
	There is no actual book called Jihadi for Dummies.
	No, but there is Islam for Dummies, and that's the book they were with.
	Really?
	They were carrying around.
	I thought it was Jihad for Dummies.
	Oh, the Quran for Dummies?
	Yeah.
	Well, that's cool.
	The Quran is an easy read.
	I like the Idiot's Guide to Islam.
	Corporate Religion for Dummies.
	Five-minute Guide to Islam.
	There you go.
	I don't believe any of this, of course, that they're wandering around with these books.
	Oh, please.
	I mean, why would they report this?
	I mean, it's just so stupid.
	If it's agency guys, if it's just agency guys going over there, why not?
	Since you mentioned 33, I do have to read the letter from our friend.
	Because I thought this was a theory worth discussing.
	Okay.
	One of our producers, Mountain Vortex.
	Mm-hmm.
	Now, this theory is interesting.
	I don't know that this is the reason, but we've always known that the number 33, and if people listen to the show a long time, they don't need to hear this, but 33 is always associated with bogus stories that you shouldn't pay attention to.
	Nothing to see here.
	This story is either rigged or it's not important or it's been scripted.
	All we know is that when the number 33 shows up, there seems to be a correlation between that and something sketchy.
	Hey, I was just sitting here waiting for my Sunday dose of no agenda media deconstruction.
	A little light bulb went off over my head.
	Maybe it's not always the brightest little bulb, but it keeps me thinking.
	I'm sure your old school radio guys would know the answer to this.
	In the golden age of radio, before the television came along, weren't there some of the syndicated news reports?
	No.
	Most of the shows, the radio shows, not news reports...
	News reports could be read by anybody.
	But things were distributed to radio stations.
	On a big lacquer.
	On a big piece of lacquer that was a 16-inch, and it ran at a slow speed.
	And it may have been 33, because 33 did come into play, according to...
	He did some looking into this, and he said the 16-inch discs were 33 and a third, which is 33, 33, 33.
	It's 33 forever.
	Yeah.
	Playing about 15 minutes a side.
	That's wrong.
	I don't know where they got that.
	Those things used to play a half an hour.
	I used to have them.
	They were half an hour.
	If I'm not mistaken, they weren't 15 minutes.
	No.
	They'd have whole radio plays on them, and a radio play would run a half an hour.
	Yeah.
	And I think was the reason everything was divided into half an hour and an hour.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, those came out in 1930.
	So he said perhaps an annoying use of 33 in today's story is nothing more than a signal to the inner circle that the story is bogative because it's a fake.
	In other words, they would play something as though it was live when they used these things.
	And you and I talked about this.
	When you were in radio, they used to have these phony interviews.
	Oh yeah, everything was cut out.
	You just inserted your question.
	Right, which was made fun of by the TV show, White, I can't remember the name of it, but there was a show that mocked it where you'd have all the answers and you'd ask different questions.
	Well, Jon Stewart showed us a version of that, of course, when they're interviewed.
	It's a different version, and it's twisted, it's well done.
	Whatever the case is, it's an interesting theory.
	I like it.
	So bullcrap coming, it's 33, you get the third.
	It's better than anything else we've come up with, or just as good.
	And it's better than the Masonic thing and all the rest of it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, yeah, it's better.
	Actually, it's true.
	It's better than anything we've come up with.
	There you go.
	John, before we move into the Eurozone, I would like to run down this list because it's a very important month, September, coming up.
	We have, of course, Labor Day 2014.
	That will be this Monday.
	That will be the 1st of September.
	That is, obviously, the President proclaims that officially.
	And we are supposed to honor the legacy of our working women and men who have played a defining role in the American story.
	And all those who carry forward our nation's proud tradition of hard work, responsibility, and sacrifice.
	From assembly lines to classrooms.
	A little harmonically nice.
	From assembly lines to classrooms.
	Across highways and steel mills.
	American workers strengthen the foundation of our country and demonstrate that our economy grows best from the middle out.
	There you go.
	Well, I thought you were going to say in the morning.
	No, not yet.
	It's coming.
	It is National Wilderness Month.
	National Child Obesity Awareness Month.
	Oh, there's a fat kid now.
	Well, this is bad.
	Someone messed this up because not only is it National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month by presidential proclamation, it is simultaneously National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
	I don't think that you should have...
	Oh, that's terrible.
	They should do that.
	That's bad PR. Yeah, it's bad, bad.
	It is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
	Another conflict of interest.
	And it is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.
	National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
	Uh-oh.
	And then finally...
	In times of emergency, our nation pulls together.
	Neighbors support each other.
	Communities react with compassion.
	And afterward, our country emerges stronger and more resilient.
	But before emergencies occur, we must make sure we are ready to respond.
	And it is every American's responsibility to be prepared.
	It's the Boy Scouts marching song.
	There are simple but important steps we can all take to ensure we know what to do and what needs we need in the event of a crisis.
	National Preparedness Month.
	It's Prepper Month, John.
	It's an opportunity to talk with our families, friends, and colleagues about the risks of our communities and to practice our responses in all the places we regularly visit.
	And it is, therefore, a fantastic reason for everyone to go get your ham radio license.
	Ah!
	Shaggy dog.
	Good.
	But you're going to thank me later.
	You'll thank both of us.
	Yes.
	Because it is...
	It is something very important.
	10-4.
	And with that, a good buddy.
	Yes.
	That's right.
	Over.
	Over.
	And with that, I want to say thank you very much for your courage.
	And in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Over.
	It's about time.
	And in the morning to you, Adam C. Curry, and also in the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and also in the morning to all the dames, and in the morning to all the knights out there.
	Yes, and everyone in the chat room, noagendastream.com, merci beaucoup for being there, and in the morning to our artist, Patrick Bausch, brought it on for 647.
	Yes, very good.
	We had so much art.
	We had a lot of good art.
	We're having a lot of good art.
	Actually, we encourage it.
	We don't want it to stop.
	And to show you that it's actually making our post-mortem that we do after the show, picking the thing and getting the show finished, it makes it a lot longer.
	We actually had a long discussion over this art this week.
	Yeah, we did.
	It was the Dutch shoes.
	For the polder jihadis, there's so much good.
	It's just a lot of good art.
	You guys are doing great.
	And it doesn't go to waste.
	It's documented.
	It stays around.
	It gets used in newsletters.
	Cosmo came in and took all his out.
	Yeah, I don't like that.
	That's not okay.
	I don't think that's good.
	It was all stolen and he wanted to get it off there.
	That's also possible.
	So let's thank our producers for show 648, including another...
	We're stringing them out.
	We're getting...
	Let's hope this doesn't end.
	Oh?
	Another Instanite.
	Wow.
	Empathy Loudermilk in Boca Raton, Florida.
	$1,000.
	This is saving us.
	This is great for the dog days of summer.
	Thank you.
	So here goes, he says.
	After listening forever, yes, since the beginning, I'm finally stepping up after a few years of struggling in the ed tech space.
	I finally got a hit.
	Check out www.alvaedu.com.
	This is the tech ad.
	Do you get it?
	It's my new company.
	I need a dedouching karma and everything you can throw at me.
	So I'd throw a couple of extras.
	Yeah, I'm happy to.
	Well, this is great.
	Thank you so much.
	Do you want to do that URL one more time?
	Just so we have it?
	Yeah, it's A-L-V-A-E-D-U, all one word, dot com.
	Okay, definitely check that.
	Here's your dedouching.
	You definitely deserve that, my friend.
	Here we go.
	You've been dedouched.
	We are here, hashtag America, near our hashtag target.
	Soon.
	Boom Shakalaka!
	Boom Shakalaka!
	You've got karma.
	Kids love our show.
	I like that Boom Shakalaka kid.
	He's a cool kid, isn't he?
	That's Nick's kid.
	Hey, Nick.
	Uh-oh.
	Hey.
	Oh.
	I wasn't paying attention.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	And in the red corner, wearing the black trunks with gold trim, he has a record of 33 wins, zero losses, and one draw.
	He is the Grand Duke of Belgium and France, Sir Stephen Von Hellsmacher!
	Ha ha ha!
	That's right, everybody.
	When you are a Grand Duke of the No Agenda Show, you get yourself your own jingle.
	Hi, TM, gentlemen, he writes.
	A few days early, I realize, but this is a special birthday donation for Adam.
	Aww.
	Topped off with a generous double dollop of swazzle enough karma.
	The total is five, six, nine, six, nine.
	Holy macaroni.
	One for the man, the myth, and one for the woman in him.
	Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	With him.
	Sorry, I got that right or wrong.
	I do realize that this is terribly short-changing Mickey since she way more than puts up with him, for which we are all extremely grateful.
	So in all seriousness, I got to tell you, Young man, a very happy birthday to you, Adam.
	And daiki knuffel and karma to you all in this very special occasion.
	Have fun in the lowlands.
	Thank you very much, Grand Duke.
	Dikke knuffel terug!
	You've got karma.
	Sir Don Tommaso di Toronto.
	Yeah, he's kicking it.
	He's kicking it with $543.21.
	From Don...
	He puts his name there again.
	Don Tommaso de Toronto, dear Asterix and Obelix.
	Here's my launch sequence donation to the No Agenda show.
	Adam, please do not publish your audio setup giblet as I have occasion to do some video voiceover work and I dig the sweet NA sound.
	He actually says, please do publish your audio setup.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm blinking too much.
	Well, you know what?
	The Grand Duke is doing something for me.
	Is he?
	Yeah, he contacted the...
	Which Grand Duke?
	Foley.
	Foley.
	Yeah, he's Baron of Silicon Valley, the Grand Duke of the entire United States.
	He contacted Universal Audio, and I said, you know, we're nuts.
	We should have an entire line of plug-ins.
	You know, it should be the No Agenda Show configuration plug-ins, and they should be selling it just like, we could do interviews with podcasters.
	You know, this is what I use.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's so simple.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so he's so awesome.
	It's a great idea.
	I'm glad somebody's...
	Well, he's the entrepreneur.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, Karma for All from Don Tommaso.
	I'm just laughing.
	You've got karma.
	You sent me such a funny email the other day about the conference.
	Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel, James Pyers, 33333 from Escondido, California.
	I do not want to donate to the show this week, but I just had to.
	With the impending ISIS takeover of Washington and the Iranian missile that is going to destroy the entire country, I figured if I don't donate now, I'll never get the chance.
	Yeah, good point.
	I kindly have a couple of requests, if it's not too late, of course.
	No.
	Please give karma to my newly married April 14th daughter, Natalie, and her husband, Mike.
	Nice.
	Okay.
	And wish Natalie a happy birthday, 9-1.
	She's on the list, I believe.
	Yep, she's on the list.
	Love you, Miss Natalie.
	Play mac and cheese life for them, too.
	Please play the clip of Chris the Dude in Club 33, in which I have provided to you an email.
	Did you get that?
	Did I get it?
	Yeah, I did.
	I have it.
	Okay.
	Give yourselves an amazing jingle for your exquisite and dark arts performance of the past months.
	I appreciate the tremendous work you two do and accomplish each week.
	And the only thing that would make it better is if you two were in prime time.
	We are.
	What are you talking about?
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	Have a great long weekend and thank you for your courage.
	Sir Weir of the Hidden Jewel, a.k.a.
	James Pyres of Escondido.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	We'll be right back.
	This little lady just got back from a tour of duty and she's looking for IEDs.
	That means no IOUs.
	Give it up for Kimberly.
	That's a genius.
	You put your hands together for Amber.
	These bombshells looking for Santa Claus so she can show him her cookies and milk.
	Amber!
	His latest night at No Agenda Lounge gives some hand-clapping love for Chris the Dude and Leo on the main stage with some man-on-man action.
	Guys, close your eyes.
	Chris and Leo.
	Go to stage four and five champagne rooms where Hillary and Angela will pop your corks.
	Dances are half price.
	Lap dances are half price with a bottle of bubbly.
	And don't forget to tip your waitress.
	Bring them on, Hillary and Angela.
	Stage four and five.
	Get over there.
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	You've got karma.
	But a good, um, that was good.
	That was good stuff, man.
	Some of your best writing.
	Yes.
	Some of your best work.
	And that is over.
	The place burnt to the ground, sorry to say.
	So, uh...
	I believe that this is the first time both Grand Dukes chimed in on the same show.
	I think you're right.
	Sir David Foley came in with $333.33.
	ITM John and Adam, thank you for your courage, delivering the best podcasts in the universe over the holiday weekend while fighting the network gremlins across the planet.
	Please give Adam a dose of No Agenda Karma for his birthday this week.
	Thank you very much, Grand Duke.
	That is highly appreciated.
	You've got karma.
	Sam Lung, Baron Sam Lung of Toronto, Ontario.
	Another 333.33.
	We got lucky.
	Hi, gents.
	Another good show Thursday.
	In spite of the technical issue, here's my 333.33 pre-order payment for Dvorak's 200 kale recipes.
	We'd appreciate it if you could kindly serve up a little girl, Boom Shakalaka, which is going to be our new, I bet you it's going to be very popular.
	Karma for everyone this long weekend.
	Thank you, Sam Barron of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	You mean Nick's Kid?
	Is that...
	Yeah, the one you played a minute ago.
	Oh, okay.
	I don't know if that's a little girl.
	I don't know if it's a little girl.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it is.
	Boom Shakalaka!
	Boom Shakalaka!
	I think it sounds like a boy.
	I don't know.
	Could be.
	At that age, you can't tell, really, when they're screeching.
	Yeah, when they're screeching.
	Screeching.
	I did have an idea for your book, by the way.
	Alright, we have an email here.
	We have Marco Strauss in Ithaca, New York, 264, and I am going to take a little time out.
	Oh.
	Didn't notice this earlier.
	Can I do a little dance?
	Yeah, do a little dance.
	Make a little love?
	Get down tonight.
	Hey now!
	John C. Dvorak.
	Very good.
	Let's see.
	Oh, come on!
	Well, I was going to...
	Well, okay, I have...
	While you're looking for that...
	Have you ever had the problem where you go into the thing and you...
	No, never had that problem.
	Okay, Mark goes...
	Oh, yes.
	Okay, right.
	I remember this.
	I'm sorry I didn't print it out.
	Dear host of the No Agenda, best podcast in the universe, Drunk Donation.
	Ah, time.
	Nice.
	Here we go.
	I'm going to do it.
	Let me just take a little drink of something first.
	Of scotch?
	Mmm.
	Single malt.
	That's good water.
	Finally, I made my third donation to the show that I already wanted to bake for butts.
	Well, sometimes drinking helps to get shit done.
	This is a very delayed world champion donation.
	Delayed because I had to wait until the security deposit from my last apartment was finally returned.
	I'm German, but living in the U.S. for almost five years now.
	Working here and sciencing stuff with great pleasure.
	And my only remaining attachment to Germany is football.
	Yes, soccer.
	Sad but true.
	Maybe not, so not so sad.
	So Germany made 17 goals during the last World Cup and won four World Cups in total.
	17 times 4 equals 68 bucks.
	Are you still drunk?
	Stryker Miroslav Klose broke the all-time record for the most shot goal, 16, and played four World Cups.
	16 times 4 is 64 bucks.
	Number of world-class hosts in the best podcast in the universe, two.
	Therefore, 68 plus 64 times 2, two are 64 bucks.
	Does it make sense?
	Who cares?
	Also, as a side note, eight times 33 is 264.
	He's really drunk.
	Who cares?
	Could I please get a karma shot so that I can get funding we need so I can keep the best job I ever had?
	Otherwise, I'll be unemployed and deported back to Europe, which I don't want for all the several reasons, but also because, as you certainly analyzed past Thursday, Europe is fucked!
	Also, can I get a get laid by a hot chick karma shot?
	Because I really would like to get laid by a hot chick.
	Thanks so much.
	Continuing the great entertainment and analysis and cheers, Marco.
	I'm all done!
	All right, man.
	Hot chick.
	You've got karma.
	That's funny.
	Not as drunk sounding as he might...
	Hey, Ben.
	Well, no, but whenever someone does the, like, 132 times 2 is 264, there you go.
	You're really drunk when you're doing that.
	I always get that kind of craziness.
	Brian Ferguson, by the way, $250 from Rancho, Foothill Ranch in California, impressed by how your previous coverage on ISIL, ISIS, and whatever else they call it prepared me for the current bull crap.
	Yeah.
	It is like an actual wag the dog scenario is happening, and you told us ahead of time.
	After listening to DH Unplugged, I want to hear John C. Dvorak pronounce El Polo Loco.
	That cracked me up.
	You guys are doing great work.
	Give me a boom shakalaka karma.
	Which boom shakalaka should we do now?
	The regular one.
	The regular one.
	I'm on a little gun shine.
	I wish we wanted to be rolling out.
	You've got karma.
	Maybe we should just, uh, just for good measure.
	Boom shakalaka!
	Boom shakalaka!
	Bingo, boom shakalaka!
	Sir Dr.
	Sharky, our buddy in Jackson, Tennessee, $202.
	$200, $200.02.
	This will be our final associate executive producer for show.
	648.
	Dear SpongeBob and Krabs, Mr.
	Krabs, as a professor of family medicine, one of my most important jobs is to teach human resources how to be effective family medicine physicians.
	After hearing your discussion of moral licensing, I've decided to introduce the concept into my lesson plan.
	Self-licensing.
	He doesn't say that, but it's moral self-licensing.
	Yeah, moral self-licensing.
	That's what it is.
	I have a patient suffering from a worthy disease.
	I will walk her into the hospital room, announce how much I support her cause, and then pour ice water on my head and walk out.
	Problem solved!
	I'd like some You Will Obey mac and cheese karma.
	Please, thank you.
	ITM, Dr.
	Sharkey.
	Okay.
	Does he want the combo, you will obey mac and cheese, do you think?
	I think so, yes.
	Okay.
	Let me just...
	It's a little small here.
	You will obey.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Cheese macaroni and cheese cheddar melted together.
	Mac and cheese.
	Living the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	There you go.
	you Woo!
	Is there karma in there?
	I didn't hear it.
	Oh, no.
	I'm so sorry.
	I'm a fool.
	I tell you.
	You've got karma.
	We did have, uh...
	We had something about moral self.
	Oh, yeah.
	By the way, I like the idea that he presents.
	Somebody says something to you that you dump the water on your head.
	Can you imagine going to a doctor's office and you say something and then he brings out a bucket of water and dumps something.
	You're cured!
	You have no fear!
	Have you seen this email going around?
	It's interesting to me, because this never works, and I'm not quite sure why people are doing it.
	When this started off, the first thing I did is I went to the ALS Association.
	I got their Form 990 to see what their finances were.
	They have...
	I think they have $19 million continuously in the bank.
	And they're a typical fund awareness driving organization.
	And, yeah, I find it disgusting, too, that the CEO makes $340,000 a year.
	And that's just the base.
	That's probably closer to a half a million.
	But, okay, it's fine.
	But what's now going around is...
	And you can get it from their report.
	You don't have to calculate it from the 990.
	But 73% of all donations are...
	Used to fundraise.
	And for overhead, executive salaries, so less than 27% is actually going to the research.
	But you have to understand, this is common.
	We don't want all the money going to research because we might cure it, and then we wouldn't have a job.
	You lose your job, and what else are you going to do?
	And by the way, I guess they did try to attempt to copyright or trademark Ice Bucket Challenge.
	Oh, really?
	I didn't hear about this.
	Yeah, and it was rejected.
	Or no, they dropped it because they were getting bad feedback.
	You bastards.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And...
	But the thing that gets me is, people, this makes no sense.
	Do you think anyone gives a shit about what these people make?
	I just remind you of Haiti.
	We raised $100 million for ALS. That's good.
	Haiti, $6 billion.
	We had Clooney.
	We had concerts.
	We were texting our money.
	We had three presidents.
	Three!
	Three!
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water...
	Just send your cash.
	Known fact that billions of these dollars are gone.
	Gone.
	Stolen.
	Gone?
	They're in Clinton's pocket.
	Well, yeah.
	They've been used differently.
	And the Haitian people have cholera.
	No one cares.
	You know, this is...
	I think it's...
	It's genuinely warming that you continually bring this up.
	And this is something the mainstream media doesn't do.
	And we do it because we believe there's a bunch of memes and things out there that people need to be reminded over and over.
	Because it's the news cycle, the way it is.
	And these things, you need to be reminded about this, because it's a scam.
	It's an ongoing scam.
	It's not like it went away.
	It's not like the Haitians are all, everything's fine and hunky-dory.
	They're still building hotels and letting people die of cholera.
	And the UN was sued over it, and the UN says, ah, screw you.
	So we don't care if we made it happen there.
	But it shows you, once someone writes the moral self-license, They don't care.
	The people are done with Haiti.
	I texted my money.
	I texted my $10.
	I changed my icon.
	I did my bit.
	I don't care.
	They do not care.
	Yeah, that's the problem with the internet.
	And if you actually go around saying, well, these guys are scamming the money, you will be ridiculed and accused of being petty.
	So I'm not going to do that.
	I don't want to receive any scorn for what is your self-licensing.
	We don't need scorn.
	We don't need any more scorn.
	Scorn is out.
	And ALS, this is hoerig.
	That's a Dutch, but I'm sure you can understand what it means.
	Hoerig.
	What do you think that means?
	I want to remind people that we do have a show coming up on Thursday.
	We work through the holidays, and holiday weeks are usually pretty slow, so if you would be so kind as to contribute or donate or help us for show 649-49, it'd be dvorak.org slash na, channeldvorak.com slash na as an alternative.
	Also, noagendashow.com has a link, and so does No Agenda Nation.
	And to imprint it into your mind, we have a catchy little jingle.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A Also what we need is a lot of people going out there and doing an important work.
	It's propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, slay!
	Shut up.
	Fear is freedom.
	Subjugation is liberation.
	Contradiction is truth.
	Those are the facts of this world.
	And you will all surrender to them.
	You pigs in human clothing!
	I have a letter that came in I want to read before I get onto part two of the show.
	I'm just going to do a quick ALS thing just to piss you off.
	What would it be?
	I'd rather be...
	Go ahead.
	It says here your most recent place of employment was Red Lobster.
	I kind of patted that one.
	Have you ever cared for someone suffering from a major degenerative illness?
	Not really.
	Okay, well, I was...
	What did you mean by not really?
	This is the trailer for the brand new Hilary Swank movie, which has been already to release for several months, and God, wouldn't you know it, it's coming out now, where she has ALS in the movie You're Not You.
	Hoorich is what we call that.
	Hey, ALS is hot.
	Let's release the movie now.
	Yeah, this is how it goes, people.
	I told you, all things are scams.
	I mean, in terms of public relations, ALS is real.
	But anyway, so here comes Lauren Smith.
	She writes in because of, I think, feeling guilty over your concept that there's a social, it's an illness, a sickness, the Facebook liking and the selfies and all the rest.
	And you get this note.
	The international health crisis.
	International health crisis, exactly.
	I'm ashamed to admit this, but this is what my phone looks like.
	A picture was sent of the phone.
	And by the way, I want to get this background.
	I saw that.
	It's all smiley faces.
	It's quite funny.
	With organized folders, no less.
	Yes.
	This is a good representation of most of my friends' phones as well.
	As someone still in school, I know the...
	I don't know if Lauren's a girl or a boy, probably I'm guessing a female.
	But Lauren is also a non-sex name.
	Like Pat.
	At school, not in school, which is interesting.
	I know the Facebook thing is just liking a selfie of anyone on my feed as also the main arguments between others in my form are, don't you like my picture?
	Or why haven't you followed me?
	Or what do you mean you're not on Instagram?
	I think you have to say, what do you mean you're not on Instagram?
	You have to say it more like that, I think.
	What do you mean you're not on Instagram?
	What do you mean you're not on Instagram?
	In the summer holidays, so all my social media is full of people's pictures from holiday.
	It is integrated into our minds that as soon as we see something, no matter what, we have to take a picture of it.
	Let me take a selfie.
	Yep.
	Anyway, that was...
	So the social pressures are on these kids.
	She's in school.
	He's in school.
	He's she.
	I'm sure it's a female.
	And...
	And, yeah, it's a nightmare.
	There's a...
	Facebook at all, you don't have any of these issues.
	In the show notes, there's a link to the MIT Technology Review article, evidence grows that online social networks have insidious negative effects.
	Yeah.
	Insidious, no less.
	Send that to Mimi.
	You know, why do you want me to do your dirty work?
	Because I'm a fool to do your dirty work no more.
	Yeah, well, there's a follow-up to that.
	I can't remember what the line is.
	So what we have, and I used the word so, is a couple of clips that I like to get out of the way.
	We do have the thing that I think is most important to you.
	And I'm surprised you didn't bring it up right away.
	Well, I have some reason for that, and this would be...
	Okay, well, you're going to give it to us, but let's play the beginning of it, which is Ashton's out!
	Yep, she's out.
	The original goal of that meeting on Saturday was to fill several top EU posts.
	Leaders chose Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as the next European Union president to replace Hermann Brzezinski.
	Tusk is the first Eastern European to hold such a senior post in the bloc and is known as a tough critic of Moscow, especially with regards to Ukraine.
	Catherine Ashton will be replaced by Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, who is named as the group's new foreign policy chief.
	May I do something that we are very good at here?
	The best podcast in the universe.
	I would like to correct the mainstream media with the pronunciation of the new president of the council.
	It is not Donald Tusk.
	Donald Tusk.
	Tusk.
	Donald Tusk.
	Tusk.
	Tusk is how you pronounce it.
	Yeah, no, Donald Tusk is...
	That was in House of Cards.
	Yeah.
	So that's where they're calling it.
	So let's play part two and we'll listen to what...
	There's a little bit about this Mugarini woman.
	Seems sketchy, if you ask me.
	Oh, yeah.
	After a hectic five-year term, Catherine Ashton hands over the reins to her replacement.
	Federica Mogherini is to become the European Union's new foreign policy chief.
	Federica Mogherini will participate in the hearings in the parliament and will take up her role on the 1st of November when the new commission starts.
	Hey, he also might have found a laptop, you know.
	Yet just two months ago, she had seemed to be out of the running.
	At the last EU summit, Eastern European and Baltic countries rejected her nomination, criticising the 41-year-old for a lack of experience and a soft stance against Russia, a position she has since adapted.
	Arguments swept aside by Social Democrats pushing her candidacy.
	She's young, but she already has experience.
	She's the Minister of Foreign Affairs in her country and deals with, unfortunately, the same crises that we're facing all over the world.
	Federica Mogherini has been Italian foreign minister for just six months under Matteo Renzi's government.
	Matteo Renzi, whose support added valuable weight to her nomination after he himself scored more than 40% of the votes in the last European elections.
	Okay.
	Can I say something?
	You'd never hear this on any mainstream media thing, and I think I'm being rude when I say it.
	But this woman's a little better looking, to say the least, than Chinless Ashton.
	The Chinless Wonder.
	The Chinless Wonder.
	Who had to do her interview twice because she failed the first time to get the gig.
	She's dumb.
	This woman...
	How does she...
	She's got no experience, essentially.
	She's got six months in office in Italy.
	Who did she blow?
	Okay, well, here's the analysis.
	I'm sorry.
	Okay, I'm back.
	Here's the analysis.
	I mean, am I being rude when I say that?
	No, it's not a matter of blow.
	This is a matter of...
	This is how the...
	The European Union works, and this is also a political correctness, cultural Marxism, the leftist nutjobs who run most of the world.
	This is how it works.
	Now, Hela Thornton-Schmidt, the selfie woman with President Obama, who I really thought was the shoe-in, would have gotten the gig, the Haiku Herman gig.
	But a couple things changed.
	And, of course, we know that The real important job is Junker, the drunk, who is now in and he's running.
	He's the real president.
	Yeah, rhymes with drunkard.
	Yeah, Junker the drunker.
	Junker the drunker.
	The problem is Russia.
	And we need to have the EU really be anti-Russia.
	And our man Donald Tusk, who is completely wrong for the job.
	His English is crap.
	He speaks no French.
	He's great at German.
	But if you want this job like Haiku Herman, you've got to have some skills in French.
	It really is the political language of the elites in the European Union.
	Always has been.
	It used to be the political language of England, actually, during Elizabethan times.
	Now, just as a side note, there is good news.
	Of course, I was very upset.
	You know, knowing that Haiku Herman's term was coming to an end, and, you know, he wouldn't have all these great haikus.
	Yeah.
	I miss it.
	Well, luckily, Junker is a singer.
	Oh, this woman's a singer?
	No, no.
	No, I'm sorry, Junker.
	Toosk is a singer?
	Well, he likes to sing.
	Oh, no.
	Hey, Junker, don't make it bad.
	Take a sad song and make it better.
	He's got to hurt.
	That's him.
	I mean, I would give you a clip of the day for bringing that one out of the blue.
	That's a good one.
	Good one.
	Continue with your analysis, sir.
	So, we needed someone who hates Russia.
	Yes, in fact, they mentioned with this woman, she was a pro-Russian, and then she redacted Russia.
	Yep.
	But because we needed the Tusk guy who hates Russia to be in there so we can start the war with Russia, whether it's by proxy or not, we couldn't have a Helen Dornsson Sex and the City lady.
	So we needed a woman to add.
	We need a one plus one.
	One man, one woman.
	And she is more left-wing.
	Tusk is conservative, slightly right-wing.
	So in the politically correct bullcrap world of Brussels, that's why they had...
	You don't think it had anything to do with blowjobs then?
	If I were on the committee, I would still tell her that the blowjob is necessary for her to get the gig.
	I mean, I would not say, you're good to go.
	Am I going to get notes from some of our female listeners for making this assertion?
	No, I don't think so, because if you look at what Katie Couric said, was it Katie Couric?
	Who was it that wrote a book and said that Diane Sawyer blew people for interviews?
	Yeah, that was some mainstream bullcrap news.
	It's just one way of getting an interview.
	Yeah.
	So this is an important...
	I just imagine...
	I must feel lewd today.
	I kind of like you like this.
	I'm imagining the interview with Diane and the interviewer is kind of staring at her as she's talking.
	Wait, first she's drunk.
	She's drunk.
	She's interviewing him and he's staring at her and then he lifts his hand very slowly to the corner of his mouth and kind of wipes it.
	As an indicator that she might have.
	She's drunk.
	Sorry.
	I am so sorry, but it's a holiday weekend.
	You know, sometimes I get a little nutty.
	It's okay.
	Have you been drinking?
	Are you drunk?
	No, I wish I was.
	Okay.
	There is some...
	There's some very important stuff going on in the Eurozone.
	This is all...
	Let's stay with the Russian stuff.
	Well, that's what I'm saying.
	Russia is the Eurozone.
	Okay, go on.
	Hit it.
	Okay.
	First, in this bogative Ukrainian government, They captured some Russian soldiers who had snuck into the country across the border as proof.
	As proof, everybody.
	Proof is proof.
	Putin!
	And I want you to listen to this for a moment.
	Evidence is mounting of Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine.
	Ukrainian security forces have released images and video of soldiers who they have identified as Russian paratroopers operating in Ukraine's east.
	Ten men identified as paratroopers from the 98th Airborne Division based in central Russia were detained near the village of Zerkalny, about 50 kilometers from Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk.
	Ukrainian forces released a series of videos in which they questioned the Russian soldiers.
	How did you end up in Ukrainian territory?
	We wrote in a column, not along the roads, but through the fields.
	I didn't even see where the border was.
	A Russian journalist released a screenshot of a conversation over social media in which he contacts the wife of one of the soldiers.
	She identifies him as a member of the Russian Armed Forces and says that he was sent by the army.
	Okay, so a couple things here.
	One, again with the social media as proof.
	Again as proof.
	And what happened here...
	is a direct and clear and well-known violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.
	Prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity.
	It is a breach of the Convention to put Prisoners of war on television to partially humiliate them, but to make them a curiosity of the public.
	It's a violation.
	Yeah.
	And no one says this.
	No one.
	No one says anything.
	Well, this is also true.
	No one says anything.
	Let me play...
	I thought there was a good back and forth between your buddy Samantha Power.
	I can't listen to her.
	But when you do a clip, I can no longer...
	You are now in charge of Samantha Power clips.
	Samantha Power.
	Well, you know, you and Rachel Maddow, Samantha Power.
	She's like an hour and 30 minutes this woman is talking.
	I can't listen to this woman.
	Well, this one here is not an hour and 30 minutes.
	This is Samantha Powers on Russia, which I believe, if you listen to it, this is just like the day before yesterday.
	On Thursday, the U.S. and Russia...
	Stop, stop, stop.
	I'm only pointing this out because doesn't she just say this constantly?
	This is like a repetitious monologue.
	I think it's interesting to hear the retort from the Russians, but place power, sorry.
	On Thursday, the U.S. and Russia had a heated exchange in the United Nations over the situation in Ukraine.
	U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power accused Russia of duplicity.
	Instead of listening, instead of heeding the demands of the international community and the rules of the international order, at every step, Russia has come before this council to say everything except the truth.
	It has manipulated, it has obfuscated, it has outright lied.
	So we have learned to measure Russia by its actions and not by its words.
	In the last 48 hours, Russia's actions have spoken volumes.
	Putin!
	And she should also say the Ukrainian government cannot violate the Geneva Convention by putting out the prisoners of war for public curiosity.
	Well, she's not going to say that.
	The Russian ambassador gives a nice retort that I think is somewhat funny.
	Samantha Power's Russian counterpart, Vitaly Churkin, blamed Ukraine for escalating the situation by not honoring political agreements.
	He also advised the White House to stop meddling in world affairs.
	Now the American ambassador said what kind of message can we send to Russia's neighbors?
	Well, I would suggest that we send a message to Washington.
	Stop interfering with the internal affairs of sovereign states.
	Stop trying to undermine a regime that you don't like.
	Restrain your geopolitical ambition.
	Then, not only Russia's neighbors, but many other countries around the world would breathe a sigh of relief.
	Yep.
	I'd breathe a sigh of relief if I was any other country.
	Well, you want to do more or can I get into some analysis here on this?
	Because I'm reading the papers.
	I'm seeing what's going on here.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Yeah, you have a different perspective.
	I just wanted to get a few background things out of the way.
	Yeah, of course.
	Before you do that.
	That's very good.
	Because I'm not going to be able to play these afterwards.
	No.
	There's a guy named Jonathan Steele who was a Guardian reporter that was stationed in Russia, and he's one of these guys who seems to be a straight shooter.
	No, no, no.
	He's a top 40 disc jockey.
	Jonathan Steele.
	Hey everybody, it's Jonathan Steele.
	Good morning here.
	How you doing?
	We got some hits for you today.
	Jonathan Steele with Weather and News on the 8th.
	It's definitely the right name.
	But no, this is a different one.
	This is a stuffy guy.
	So I don't think he can handle top 40, to be honest about it.
	But there's a couple...
	He was on Democracy Now!
	also.
	And he had a few things to say that I thought were interesting.
	And this is the...
	It's your beat.
	Democracy Now!
	is John's beat.
	The one I think is the most interesting is the media coverage clip, which I think everyone has to pay attention to.
	And Jonathan, what do you make of the media coverage in the West or the lack of media coverage over the carnage and the civilian casualties in eastern Ukraine as a result of the Ukrainian forces advancing?
	Well, I mean, I'm very glad that in your report, at least, you put in the point that the UN has come out saying that 2,600 people, civilians, have been killed.
	That's more than have been killed in Gaza in the recent months-long Israeli offensive.
	It's a huge...
	Humanitarian disaster and crisis going on there.
	It's hardly ever mentioned in the Western media.
	These are UN figures.
	And as you also pointed out correctly, the UN says the majority of those casualties are caused by the Ukrainian army against civilians because they are trying to capture huge cities, Donetsk, Luransk, where there are hundreds of thousands of people.
	Many have fled, but there are still hundreds of thousands remaining.
	Now, Russia tried to highlight that whole issue two or three weeks ago when it sent this A humanitarian convoy from Russia into Ukraine.
	And what happened?
	The Ukrainians immediately said, this is the pretext for an invasion.
	This is an invasion.
	The Russians then allowed people to look into those convoys.
	The OSCE looked into it.
	Ukrainian border guards looked into it.
	Western journalists looked into it.
	There was absolutely no sign of any military potential at all.
	It was simply humanitarian supplies.
	And eventually it was allowed in.
	Well, it wasn't allowed in.
	The Russians drove it in because the Ukrainians No, he was invading.
	This has been the narrative here.
	Thousands of, they've invaded, right on with the so-called prisoners of war.
	I know Russia, they tricked out their trucks and they were not filled with food.
	It was a Trojan horse!
	A Putin horse.
	I'm very happy that in Europe there, especially in the Netherlands, that they're going along with our program.
	That's great.
	Well, yeah.
	Hey, NATO! We're all part of the same happy family.
	You can't move away from that.
	No!
	Fantastic.
	Just a little checkmark.
	Holland.
	Good to go.
	All in.
	It's the most morally bankrupt government I've ever seen in this country.
	It truly is.
	That's great.
	And they're on vacation from July to November.
	Oh, when in July?
	Because in France they go on vacation from July 15th, Bastille Day, until, or the 14th, 15th, I can't remember.
	14th.
	And then they take off all the way to September 1st, which is a really nice holiday, and the whole country shuts down.
	Very difficult to travel in France during that era, or that period.
	I believe the Dutch government has all of September, or most of September off, that's what the political editor was telling me, now, you know, it's...
	We don't have a lot to do.
	I said, there's nothing going on in the world politically?
	Everyone's on vacation.
	Okay.
	I said, Elizabeth Warren.
	That blew his mind too, by the way.
	A couple things that have been discussed here.
	There was a meeting between Putin and Poroshenko.
	And this was not played up very big in America.
	Are you...
	Is it a candy wrapper?
	They did play this...
	This was played a little bit.
	Briefly.
	Yeah, but it was mentioned.
	They didn't say any analysis.
	No, of course it's mentioned.
	You can't deny it.
	They have to show the B-roll.
	Well, they don't mention anything about the slaughter of these poor civilians much.
	No, because it's...
	None of it's relevant.
	Because that's not what any of this is about, obviously.
	Now, right now we have Merkel, Olanda, Cameron, Tusk.
	We need more NATO troops.
	More NATO troops.
	More NATO, more NATO, more NATO. That is what the mission is here.
	We need to get in more.
	We need to really start some form of war with Russia.
	And the stupid Europeans are going to have new sanctions.
	That are now being discussed.
	Merkel and Obama discuss new sanctions.
	Now, it doesn't matter that much to Germany, and this is what I think certainly our European listeners need to understand.
	There's one thing that...
	That Putin has on his side and the EU does not have.
	It's called winter.
	Winter is coming and you're going to need your gas for a number of reasons.
	Now, gas is not just gas to heat your home, but gas is power, energy, electricity.
	It's for your Tesla, people.
	By the way, there's so many Teslas in Amsterdam with a free parking spot.
	It's infuriating.
	Huh.
	Yeah, there's energy-free plugs, two cars to a bay, and every single one is occupied by a Tesla.
	What an interesting marketing scam.
	Yeah, I just want to key that shit.
	So, of course, oh, but it's saving the world.
	Saving the world.
	So Yatzenyuk has now come out and said that, and right after this meeting, Yats, you know, the Yats, the Victoria Nuland's boy there, Yats.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop.
	He's still in there.
	I know, he's still there.
	Stop.
	I just had to stop you because I'm thinking now, are we subsidizing?
	Because the American public is giving him $35,000 a car.
	Are we subsidizing the cars now that are in Holland, I wonder?
	Of course.
	So the American public...
	Fine.
	Good.
	That's great.
	Go on.
	Sorry.
	Well, it's the American system.
	If you've got money, you've got a parking place.
	It's very hard.
	You cannot buy a parking spot in Amsterdam.
	It's very costly to buy a full-time pass.
	And people, you know, they try and find spots and they move around.
	And, you know, I don't think they have the boot anymore.
	The boot used to be really bad.
	But you get fines and they tow you and it's always been horrible.
	It's Amsterdam.
	It's a bike city.
	And then there's the A-holes with a big-ass Tesla sucking off free energy.
	From the little pole with a free parking spot.
	That's so wrong.
	Yatsenyuk said Russia is going to cut off the gas to Europe this winter.
	Russia is doing anything but.
	And I've learned a little bit as I've been studying this for the past few days.
	Okay.
	You have to call me back.
	I can't take it anymore.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I wonder what happened there, honey.
	No wonder he's cranky.
	I hate it when John gets cranky.
	He's never nice when he's cranky.
	Seemed like an analysis.
	I actually need to hear all the words.
	Yeah.
	Oh, thank you.
	Was it really that bad the whole time?
	You've been living through all that?
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	Is it better now?
	Is it getting better?
	Yeah, it's fine right at the moment.
	Strange.
	Just need a different route.
	Well, if it happens again, let me know and I'll call you back immediately.
	Yeah, okay, go.
	So Yatsenyuk says, Russia's going to turn off the gas.
	I have learned a lot about how the gas works.
	This is not a continuous flow, it turns out.
	What Gazprom, I should say, has done is they've turned on the gas, and a lot of it is stored in Ukraine, and a lot of it is stored at different storage points.
	Now, one of those is here in the northern part of the Netherlands, where they take what the Khas Uni used to own.
	It's where all their gas came out of.
	They put it back in the ground.
	So there's now gas that is pre-stored for several months.
	The problem is, so Ukraine, again, it's not like gas is continuously flowing from Gazprom all the way through to the Netherlands or the UK where there's also storage.
	They run stuff.
	They run as much as they can.
	It's stored in these spots, and then from the storage, it moves on because the compressors don't run all the time.
	It would be very inefficient.
	So Ukraine now has a big storage, and what they've been known to do in 2000, 2006, 2009, they steal the gas and don't pay for it.
	And they keep doing this, and that is not their gas.
	They have not paid.
	Russia has not, Gazprom has not given Ukraine any more gas because they are $6 billion behind in payment, but there is gas in Ukraine for their customers to be sent off to Europe.
	It's important to understand.
	So it's here, it's sitting there, and of course Ukraine is not going to get any gas for themselves, so they will cipher it off and they will steal it.
	Which will put most of Europe in certainly an economic hassle.
	I don't think they'll run out.
	It depends on how cold the winter is.
	With global cooling, it could be pretty bad, but it'll just be more expensive.
	That's what always happens, just the way the market forces are.
	But here is the interesting thing.
	The Nord Stream, which is where the other half of Gazprom gas goes, Flows in...
	That's what flows past Norway, past Poland.
	Not through Poland, but on their territorial water.
	It's underwater, this thing.
	What was the first country you said?
	I think it was...
	I think it's Norway or Finland?
	Norway.
	No, no, no.
	No, I wouldn't be it.
	Let me see.
	Yeah, I could be wrong.
	I want to check now.
	Are you sure it wasn't Norway?
	Hold on.
	I don't know.
	I got it.
	Well, you asked me, so let's do it.
	Nord Stream.
	Let's look at the map.
	So it flows through.
	I've got it here.
	And these things are new.
	This is from 2011.
	You know, this is Finland.
	I'm sorry.
	Past Finland.
	Yeah, that would make sense.
	Past Finland.
	Across the Baltic Sea.
	And it goes right into Germany.
	This is why we spy on Angela Merkel.
	She has a direct pipeline from Russia into Germany, and there it goes into the Opal pipeline.
	This is the one that's interesting.
	The Opal pipeline is another consortium, but it runs from north to south in Germany and connects to the distribution pipeline, which goes into Europe after they take whatever they need.
	And so you have all the Netherlands is in this, and everyone's got pieces of it, and even the Italians.
	But this transit is not susceptible to any taxes, but they can charge any fees they want to get it into the system to any country that wants gas from them.
	And I find this to be very funny as Angela Merkel is now helping to decide that gas effectively will not transit through Ukraine at all and that probably Ukraine will start stealing it just because of more sanctions.
	In the meantime, butter, cheese, dairy, all dairy products, flours are rotting away, rotting away because Russia will no longer take these products.
	So it's really, it is economically hurting the EU more than it is Russia.
	Even though I don't know the Russians, they can take a lot.
	But Angela's got everything she needs.
	And she's going to be in charge.
	She is in effect Russia.
	She is Russia.
	And no one is seeing the obvious scam that's taking place.
	Where they're going to control Russia.
	Germany, again, is going to control everything.
	And I think that Ukraine is...
	It'll never become NATO. It can't.
	Not while they're fighting, or unless they change the rules, I guess.
	But it has no advantage.
	Just stop everything flowing through there.
	The pipeline, the Nord Stream, can really compensate.
	They can really ratchet that up.
	It's a big pipe.
	They can pass a lot through it.
	And then maybe they'll get the South Stream running, which the EU is now blocking that themselves like a bunch of idiots.
	Well, we're telling them to do that.
	Yes.
	Well, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it seems that they're a bunch of idiots.
	And the EU and the people do not understand that while everyone's sitting there yelling about...
	Putin!
	Their own governments are screwing their economy.
	It's going to be a disaster, and it will happen this winter.
	Because when energy goes up, and that's the basis of everything...
	It's not just, oh, my heating in my home.
	No, no, it's everything.
	It's from the cars on the street to the little poles that feed free electricity to Teslas, to the company's manufacturing products, to the chicken plucking machines in the Netherlands, and everything in between.
	And what did we just do?
	Street lights.
	We just made the president of Europe a guy who hates Russia.
	Of course, the Polish should hate Russia, by the way.
	Of course, because it's always Poland that gets screwed.
	Let them take over the place.
	Well, you know, I think that Putin's just going to sit back and wait, and he's just going to wait for the winter to come, and I think he's going to be, oh, I hope it's a real cold one.
	But this is, I think, people should be rioting in the streets right now about this policy.
	But all they're being shown is the Russians.
	The Russians are coming.
	They're in Ukraine.
	There's thousands of them.
	They snuck in.
	They're killing people.
	They don't care.
	They just want to kill.
	They hate NATO. They want to create all the states.
	They want to recreate the Federation.
	And they're being lied to by their...
	Government and the media is tied right in.
	That's another thing that I discovered with Remco, the political editor.
	He said, did you hear about the Dutch public broadcast system, which has three television stations, and they were called Nederland 1, Nederland 2, Nederland 3.
	Netherlands 1, 2, and 3.
	They have now changed their name to NPO 1, 2, and 3, which stands for Nederlands Public Omroop, or Dutch Public Broadcast Channel 1, 2, and 3.
	And I said, I know exactly why this is happening.
	As we know from the tolerance documents, guidelines, the entire idea is for all public broadcasting to be run from central EU home base.
	And the first thing you do is denationalize it by taking the name the Netherlands out.
	Yeah, this reminds me of the crazy stuff that the EU was doing with jellies and jams, where you couldn't put the country of origin on some of these, which is really hurting certain...
	Like in Finland and Germany, there's certain areas, it's like we have in the United States, the Pacific Northwest, olala berries or whatever, some berries that grow in the specific areas, and they're very good, and you need to know that they came from there.
	But they're doing stuff like that.
	It's very disturbing.
	Oh, I just heard that the pole in Amsterdam is not free.
	I saw that in the chat.
	I'd love to know how much it costs.
	It can't be really expensive.
	Oh, it's not free.
	It's still only the Tesla guy.
	Well, the parking spot sounds like the winner.
	Yeah.
	In Finland right now, there's Russian cheese for five cents in the supermarket.
	I'm sorry you have to say that again.
	In Finland, you can buy Russian cheese.
	It's not...
	I can't hear a word you're saying.
	Okay.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, no, I'll call you back.
	No problem.
	Very interesting.
	Why is this happening?
	Everything okay with the stream, right?
	We have no problem there?
	You know, it's almost as if that buffer that was disconnecting us every 15 minutes is now just deteriorating the line.
	Because you sound great at first and then very slowly.
	Yeah, I'm seeing a seven...
	I'm seeing big packet loss on my outgoing...
	Oops, it just went down.
	Okay.
	I'll pay attention to it.
	I don't know.
	I'm seeing 7% packet loss going out.
	So it's on my end.
	I don't know.
	Do you hear me at all now?
	Anyway.
	You got me?
	Hello?
	You hear me?
	I can't hear a word you said.
	You can't hear a word I'm saying.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	What should we do about that?
	You want to switch your network, see if we get a better peering?
	I could.
	Let's do that.
	Yeah, try that.
	I'm on Comcast now, but let's try something else.
	Yeah.
	You switch it on the fly, right?
	I'm going to switch to the other guy.
	This takes a second, unfortunately, but it doesn't take that long.
	Adaptor settings.
	I will unhook the wireless.
	Disable.
	I will enable.
	Because the show stream is good, and that's going to...
	Okay, I'm back on the other network.
	Okay, well, it's like nothing changed.
	Do you hear me?
	Yeah.
	Wow, that was slick.
	It's just pretty interesting the way I can do that on the fly.
	You are a magician.
	Okay, I was saying that in Finland, you can get Russian cheese, which isn't Russian cheese, but has Russian packaging because it's meant for the export for five cents or something.
	Oh, this is the time to stock up.
	I know it's butter.
	Butter is the same.
	Butter you can freeze.
	It freezes beautifully.
	Cheese, not so much.
	But you can freeze butter.
	I'd buy a year's worth of butter and freeze it.
	So that is what people in Europe...
	Meanwhile, keep yelling about the Koch brothers, everybody here.
	Good job.
	Good work.
	Stupid idiots.
	So the rest of the clips I have from this character, Jonathan Steele, the big 910, he has a bunch of theories.
	He says that...
	Yeah.
	But the Ukrainians, they want to have some sort of military victory that they can brag about.
	And it's been a standoff.
	The Russians don't like the idea of being stooges in this silly game.
	And Merkel is in with the Russians on this, saying that we should pay more attention to the Russian needs, which includes, you know, there's a bunch of factories in Ukraine.
	And then, by the way, when Obama talked about it, he said the Ukraine.
	Oh, what a douche.
	Which I thought was interesting, because we fight that.
	But let's play a couple of these clips and see what we have.
	How about the Guardian guy, Russia's Intention?
	OK, Guardian Guy coming right up.
	Eastern Ukrainian leadership had this referendum two or three months ago about joining Russia.
	Putin said they should not hold the referendum when the referendum nevertheless took place against his statements.
	They didn't recognize the results of the referendum.
	So there's no evidence that Russia is seeking to, as it were, recreate the Soviet Union or the 19th century Russian Empire and seize this part of Ukraine.
	It's simply trying to defend people who have legitimate interests, who are worried about Kiev's very anti-Russian, including anti-Russian language strategy, and seek to defend them.
	So I think it would be better if Russia was more honest.
	On the question of the The prisoners, that may well be true, that those people strayed into Ukraine inadvertently.
	There have been Ukrainian troops in the Russian side, and the Russians have returned them without making a big propaganda fuss about it when they've lost their way.
	Yeah.
	Now, I don't want to...
	People sometimes get on...
	Particularly people who are Ukrainian and don't live in Ukraine, like they live in Canada or New Zealand.
	Man, you're so wrong, Russian...
	Putin...
	Is that what they sound like?
	That's exactly what they sound like.
	People, you don't...
	Putin made...
	No world leader is going to be a nice guy.
	Except Obama.
	He golfs.
	He likes to golf.
	You got to make decisions.
	But I have seen really all the evidence is that you're right.
	I mean, Russia really wants to try...
	It doesn't seem like he's...
	This crazy wet job.
	No, they're rolling in dough.
	They're making tons of money.
	They have a lot of oil and monopolies.
	The state now owns it, of course.
	Yeah.
	And it all goes through the system, and they're enjoying things, and they're getting screwed by us because we're not getting a piece of the action.
	That's right.
	We're the world's gangsters on this deal.
	It's like, hey, we want a piece.
	We want some points here.
	We want a little bit of the action.
	Not a lot.
	Is there a different way?
	We get nothing from this guy.
	Wasn't there a different way?
	I guess he just said screw it.
	Screw-ski you.
	Screw-ski you.
	Screw-ski you and then...
	We do have to remember the fuck the EU comment.
	And apparently the EU, I guess, oh well, whatever.
	They didn't pay much attention to that.
	Didn't really figure out that it's real.
	That it's really happening to you.
	Yeah, well, apparently we're in control.
	I mean, I talk to people.
	I talk to people.
	You know, I talk to people on the street.
	I talk to the cab drivers.
	And, you know, they know.
	It's like, dude, industry is dying here.
	They're dying.
	But no one...
	You see, you can't say, stop the sanctions because, well, particularly in this country, well, Putin killed 300 people, including AIDS researchers, on that plane.
	Yeah.
	So it's so politically incorrect to say anything.
	I can't believe that they can buy into that argument.
	That's the dumbest thing.
	Oh, John.
	It's ongoing.
	It's every single day.
	And of course, now it's been distracted with the polder jihadis.
	And so, you know, people need to be whacked around.
	It'll come back.
	Back, back, back.
	What, what, what?
	And it turns out there was some secret agreement made with Ukraine and Russia and the Netherlands and Malaysia about how they were going to do the investigation or not.
	Shenanigans, my friend, shenanigans.
	And I actually heard someone at the dinner table say, well, you know, we have to wait for the official results of the official investigation before we can really talk about the sanctions.
	I'm like, are you crazy?
	That'll be years!
	Oh no, it's going to be Swift.
	Like 9-11 Swift?
	It's in these years!
	Swift's boated.
	I'm contemplating telling my daughter to have a go-bag.
	Oh, that's not a bad idea.
	That's not a bad idea.
	If I see crap going down, you've got to come over to Austin, girl.
	I don't want to scare her or anything.
	Probably nothing will come down.
	The winter's coming.
	She'll be freezing her ass off.
	Play Cease Fire Theory.
	I'm sorry.
	Russia was trying to highlight the civilian casualties, which is also why they keep pushing for a ceasefire.
	And unfortunately, the Ukrainian authorities insist on winning a military victory.
	First, they thought they could do it by earlier this week, which was their Independence Day.
	They'd said they were going to, quote, liberate, unquote, Donetsk before Independence Day, but that hasn't happened.
	And they should now recognize they are not going to win a military victory.
	And Russia's latest actions show that they're going to make sure that the forces there, the rebel forces, are not defeated.
	What does this sound?
	Who speaks so much truth?
	This is this guy, Jonathan Steele from the Big 910.
	The Big 910, everybody.
	He's an ex, I guess he lived in Russia, and he's a bit pro-Russian, it seems, with these arguments, but at the same time, he does make a lot of sense, and he does have these little tidbits That aren't being reported by anybody.
	No, of course not.
	Except him, I guess.
	And he's not even reporting him much.
	He's just talking about him on this particular show.
	Let's play the clip Jonathan Steele on Russia and NATO. This is another angle.
	You want the intro or you want the...
	Yeah, the intro.
	The problem is his packaging is all wrong.
	That's why no one pays any attention.
	Well, except us, of course.
	Well, somebody's got you.
	You know, he's like, John of the Steel, the big 9-10, everybody got some news about Russia.
	To Democracy Now!, what do you think it's most important to understand about the crisis in Ukraine right now?
	I think it is that Russia is trying to prevent Ukraine joining NATO, which is, of course, what some people in the West, particularly in the Baltic countries, in Poland, and sort of neocons in Washington would like it to do.
	I think the situation could be dramatically escalated if President Obama now, and at the big NATO summit that's going to be held in Britain next week, would say that— Ah, Wales.
	The U.S. respects the current strategic position of Ukraine, which is non-alignment, and would also say that there is no prospect of Ukraine joining NATO for the next at least 10 or 20 years.
	I think that would dramatically escalate the crisis.
	Putin would be immediately impressed and would be willing to make the concessions that are necessary.
	Wow, okay, done.
	Dynamite.
	I think he's right.
	Do you think it'll happen?
	That's not going to happen.
	Because these neocons are led by Kerry and the guys who snuck in.
	Newland, FTEU, and Kagan.
	They're going to just push for this.
	But they should not push for this.
	They should give up on this idea.
	This has gone as far as it needs to go.
	Kagan!
	But, you know, anyway...
	And we're just being brainwashed over here about that.
	But I'm glad to hear it's worse than all of that.
	Actually, it sounds worse to me.
	Oh, it's much worse.
	Oh, it's much worse, John.
	Mickey and I cannot believe...
	You know, Mickey, as you already saw from the donation notes, it's already tough living with me.
	You know, I can't watch anything.
	It's hard.
	I mean, I understand why you have a different arrangement.
	It may be what I need in the future, because sometimes women, too, they just want to say, it's a fashion show.
	Just watch it.
	Shut up already.
	But even she's going, oh, this is so bad.
	So bad.
	And it's low quality, low...
	The signal-to-noise ratio is very, very poor.
	It's just bad.
	It sounds like the worst of the worst memes are being propagated like there's no tomorrow, obviously by the Dutch media.
	And the fact that this political guy, writer, who writes for, I guess, op-eds and political commentary and analysis, was so taken aback by the simplest of no-agenda things, that's disconcerting.
	It's structural.
	An example, I was talking about Christina.
	So I went to see her in Rotterdam.
	And Rotterdam, I was blown away by Rotterdam.
	You arrive there at the Central Station.
	You can't drive anymore on the Dutch roads.
	You take the train, and it's 40 minutes, and it's very efficient.
	Oh, and yes, I had to have my RFID-equipped card That you load up, because you can't just pay cash.
	And it was even worse.
	I could only charge it at the station itself because I don't have the chip credit card.
	So only at the station can you use a credit card or a debit card to fill it up.
	You're putting digits from one card onto the other.
	It's really mind-boggling when you think about it.
	Is there a fee involved with the moving?
	Oh!
	There's all kinds of fees.
	I went from...
	It's the intercity from Amsterdam Central to...
	And it has one stop at Schiphol, the airport, which is the only way you want to get to the airport, too, by the way.
	And then it goes on to Rotterdam, and then from Rotterdam it ends up in Breda.
	And...
	So first you buy the card, and the card is 18 euros and 50 cents, and the lady at the tobacco store says, okay, it's 18 euros and 50 cents for the card, anonymous card, which is nice.
	I don't have to have my picture on it or anything.
	No one knows I bought it.
	I guess they do because I paid for it with a credit card there.
	But I couldn't charge it any further than the 10 euros.
	What do you mean 10 euros?
	Yeah, it's 18.50 and it's 10 euros on the card.
	So the card costs 8 euros and 50 cents.
	What?
	For a fucking card.
	Yes.
	I'm sorry, I didn't mean to swear.
	It's outrageous.
	Okay, fine.
	And then, when you travel, you have to have two tickets, or you have to have two charges, because for some reason when you go from the Schiphol to the Rotterdam, there's a surcharge of an extra six euros.
	Who can understand the system?
	I don't know.
	Very confusing.
	But then you arrive in Rotterdam, and of course Rotterdam was completely annihilated in the Second World War, so they've rebuilt everything.
	And this area around the Central Station, and let's be honest about it, the money is in Rotterdam.
	Amsterdam has shit.
	They've got nothing.
	Nothing.
	They tried their tourist passenger terminal.
	They've got a harbor here with everything.
	All the Russian oil that is stored there and the gas that's stored there, it's all in Rotterdam.
	That's where all the money is.
	You look at some of the architecture, it's contemporary, it's really modern.
	It's just beautiful steel and glass, interesting, real architects doing fun stuff.
	Beautiful.
	Of course, the problem is 50% of the population is Muslim.
	Walking around not speaking any Dutch, you go into a store, they don't try.
	They don't try.
	They've been here 12 years.
	They don't speak Dutch.
	And you're stupid.
	What, you don't understand me?
	It's very frustrating.
	I'm not even a Dutch guy.
	So the whole of Rotterdam is Muslim.
	I feel out of place.
	I don't have my burqa.
	I don't feel good.
	I don't have my hajib.
	Hajib Najib.
	My balaclava.
	So I stay with Christina.
	And she has an upstairs neighbor.
	And this guy is a teacher.
	But his main passion is Boy Scouts.
	He is a troop leader.
	And I'm like, oh, that's very cool.
	I'm a ham radio operator, and I'm sure we'll have you with a J-O-T-A. I'm trying to look cool for my daughter, right?
	Like, I'm not the total douche.
	And he's kind of young guys, like 35, 38-something.
	And he's like, oh, yeah, no, of course.
	But we don't really do J-O-T-A. You know what J-O-T-A is, John?
	Jamboree on the air?
	I've heard of it.
	Jamboree on the air is once or twice a year.
	All the Boy Scouts around the world, they get their ham radios, and they make contact with all the other Boy Scout troops.
	And I guess Girl Scouts are part of it.
	QSL Fest.
	It's a QSL bonanza.
	And he says, well, we have J-O-T-I. So what is that?
	A jamboree on the internet.
	That's no good.
	This is what I said!
	Jeez!
	So, isn't the whole point for the Boy Scouts to be prepared?
	This is the structural thing I'm talking about.
	That's structural, right.
	Yeah, the whole idea is you can camp, you can start fire with sticks, and you can communicate.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	The radio.
	Yeah, no, we really, no, we just do Jamboree on the internet.
	Jamboran the internet and cashless society.
	Oh, sounds like a winner.
	It's utopia.
	Here is a lady from Visa.
	On CNBC, I think this is their morning show, and this is about the rollout of the new Visa cards, which will include the chip, which will be useful now in Europe.
	And, of course, this is coming next year, and we've seen this coming, and we know that the great part, there's two parts to it.
	One is it moves liability to the cardholder and the shop owner, and the bank is no longer liable.
	Which is great, but the problem is...
	It's going to store cash, though, right?
	That's the reason.
	Correct.
	The real problem here is...
	Hackers!
	No, in the United States, it's just the amount of money to do it, to do the card, not just the cards, but the terminals.
	I think hackers, this is a way to get some free money.
	And Ellen, just as we wait for the chip and pin cards to come from Visa and from other card issuers to replace the traditional magnetic swipe cards, what's an update on the progress there and when can we expect Visa to fully roll these out?
	The progress there is pretty amazing.
	So actually, Visa is not rolling it out.
	Remember, she is from Visa.
	She's from Visa.
	You can be expecting to get those cards direct from your bank.
	And we recently did a survey along with the whole industry to find out how many cards are going to be in the market by the end of 2015.
	And the answer was over 500 million cards.
	I believe it was 575 million cards.
	So you're going to be seeing those cards coming thick and fast in the near future.
	I don't want anything coming thick and fast near me, lady.
	And then we're also doing a survey in the next few months of the merchant environment to find out how many places you'll be able to use them, and we'll get that information out in the next few months.
	Hey, finally, Alan, do you recommend that consumers have a stash of cash on hand in case they are the victim of fraud, either through the bank or not, and have their cards interrupted?
	I don't think that should be necessary because...
	You gotta listen.
	It's like...
	So this is Visa, and this is a form of native advertising, if anything, because, you know, it's Visa, Visa, Visa, Visa.
	She's talking about the industry, and this guy goes off script and listens to the answer.
	You can hear the, like, what?
	That was not what we agreed to.
	I don't think that should be necessary because when your card is interrupted, your bank is going to get you a new card, replacement card, literally in a matter of days.
	Literally in a matter of days?
	What do I do in a matter of days?
	Pound sands?
	So I personally use my cards without any fear that I need to keep, you know, cash under the mattress.
	Well, Ellen, we will leave it.
	I don't need to keep cash under the mattress like an idiot.
	That's not what he asked.
	Should I have some cash?
	No.
	Not under the mattress.
	That doesn't do me any good.
	What a douche.
	Give her a douche bag.
	I can't take it.
	Douche bag.
	Where she could have said, well, you know, but these people are, this is what my point is of playing this.
	It's so obvious they want to do away with the whole, you should not be, how can you even mention cash, you a-hole?
	Cash does not exist in our vocabulary.
	It's Visa.
	Pin and chip.
	There is no such thing as cash.
	Pin and chip.
	She didn't even want to talk about the word cash.
	She almost puked.
	And that's what's coming.
	That's what it is.
	And so what was this you got that from?
	CNBC, the morning show.
	And nobody said to her, this is a disaster waiting to happen?
	This is a way to lock down the public?
	So every transaction, you guys get a piece of the action with cash that doesn't happen?
	They didn't grill her at all because, right, it was native advertising.
	And that's what people have to realize when they're listening to these shows.
	They are being bamboozled by this stuff, which is the reason that our show is so important.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	Very good.
	And we'd like to thank a few people.
	It's almost like you cued me with a red light.
	You think?
	Jeff Yerke is right at the top of the list here.
	Now he's going to be knighted today.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Concord, California.
	We do have to read him since he's a knight.
	We will give him this little one.
	Of course.
	It's only taken me five years, but as of today, I'll be a knight of the No Agenda Roundtail.
	My deposit today brings me to the most revered group.
	Revered.
	Reverend!
	I like that.
	The most revered group.
	And just in time for my birthday.
	He's got a birthday, too.
	Oh, good.
	Is he on the list for the birthday?
	I don't think so.
	When is his birthday, does it say?
	September 2nd.
	It does.
	September 2nd is on the list.
	Now, because of the well-known reputation for converting real-to-real audio tapes to digital files, I wish to be known as Sir Jeff of the Magnetic Fields.
	And he would like to get a Dr.
	Kiki Science and a shot at karma if you would.
	I think he deserves it.
	Of course.
	We have a Dr.
	Kiki for you right here, my friend, coming up.
	Hit it, Kiki.
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	Can I do that for you?
	You've got karma.
	Now, Rob Van Dyke in Herpin, $100.
	He does have a douchebag call-out we have to mention.
	I don't know where that is.
	It's in Holland.
	It could be a misspelling.
	Some PayPal gaffe.
	It could be.
	Can you call out Martine And Ed, as douchebags are not going.
	That's Martine.
	Douchebag.
	And Ed, Martine.
	It's Martine.
	Martine.
	Douchebag!
	Okay.
	Got it.
	Okay, onward.
	James Cates in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
	Sack of seven.
	Hold, hold, hold.
	Stop.
	Why did you just skip this important invitation?
	We got an invitation?
	Yeah, it says, Adam, if you ever need some R&R, we will gladly welcome you at our resort.
	And he's got a website.
	It says he's inviting you, not me.
	It's the Harper Giant.
	Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
	Ooh, he's got fiber optics.
	Yeah, this looks really cool.
	The little vacation bungalows.
	It looks like a pretty good deal, actually.
	So they have swimming, restaurants.
	It's in the fiber optics.
	And a little chateau.
	Oh, it's very nice.
	Check it out.
	Yeah.
	I'm assuming that I have an invite.
	James Cates in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
	This is celebrating our seventh anniversary.
	We had a number of well-wishers come in on this show 648.
	James Cates happens to be all of them.
	With the sack of sevens.
	Okay, well...
	Oh well.
	Joshua Borklund in Mills, Wyoming, 7337.
	Stuart Rushing in North Augusta, South Carolina.
	He came in with a...
	A check.
	6969 is new.
	And he just said overdue from Kobe Stew.
	I'm not sure what any of that means.
	Maybe he makes, grows Kobe beef or something.
	Yeah, could be.
	Joel Blazik in Reno, Nevada.
	6666.
	Joe Hawkins in Princeton, Ontario, $66.60, our one-loan mini-beast donation.
	Yeah, that's working out real well, isn't it?
	Yeah, some of these initiatives have not worked out.
	In fact, today's number of regular donors is really low.
	Jesse Simonin, but it's the holidays.
	Double niggles on the dime.
	Eric Hochul, our buddy in Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, $52.00.
	Keith Reynolds in Hudson, Iowa, 5150.
	Herb Lamb in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	He says, happy birthday to Adam, 5033.
	He gave you the 50 and the 33.
	We should put that on the list.
	Donations for Thursday's show.
	Yes.
	We'll do that.
	5033 for Adam's birthday on Thursday's show.
	5033.
	You can do it now.
	Yeah.
	And finally, $50 donations from three whole people.
	Lee Caldwell in Lewiston, New York.
	Peter Hollett in Tokyo.
	And finally, last but not least, is David S. Funk.
	Another new donor came in with a check, and they put notes on these checks.
	It's $50 from Redding, California.
	And this note said, Hamas, would that make a list?
	That's what it said, literally.
	I don't know what it means.
	Maybe David can send us a...
	If you put Hamas on your check, do you get put on some kind of watch list?
	Yes.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, you're on a watch list now, David.
	Congratulations.
	Good work.
	Anyway, so that's our donations and the helpers at Lester, the over $50 donors for show 648.
	Hopefully, of course, it's a holiday and it always drops off and that's just the way it goes.
	I want to thank everyone.
	Also people who donate under the $50 level, which many do for anonymity, but many people on these long-term knighthoods.
	And I think Timothy Loudermilk, who will become knighted today, it takes people five, six years, but you do get there.
	And it's pretty cool.
	And I did have a question, John, just before we move on into the birthdays and the knighting ceremony.
	When you achieve the status of Grand Duke, there is no peerage, really.
	There is no higher.
	And I see our two Grand Dukes, David Foley and Stephen Pelsmockers.
	We still have to have some kind of reward for them.
	Above Grand Duke?
	Well, now we can start giving out ribbons of merit.
	Well, I was thinking maybe some of our other producers can blow them or something.
	Yeah, well, that's an interesting idea, Adam.
	It's the right thing to do.
	I think that we have to arrange that somehow without it being illegal.
	Well, yeah, but I think that's a great idea.
	I think the idea is, because you know, it's not sexual relations.
	This is why it's completely...
	According to Clinton.
	Just forward.org slash N-A.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm going to watch it.
	Well, too, we've got Jeffrey Yerke celebrating on Tuesday, one day before I do.
	And Sir Wire, James Pyers, says happy birthday to Miss Natalie.
	She'll be celebrating tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from your friends here at the best podcast in the universe.
	And as I said, we have two nightings.
	This is always nice when we get to do some of that.
	I brought my big blade.
	John's got his.
	It's not stuck to...
	It did get stuck.
	There you go, that's better.
	Timothy Laudermilk, step forward.
	Jeff Yerke, come on down.
	Both of you have contributed to the No Agenda show in the amount of $1,000 or more and therefore are very welcome.
	And we'll be inducted now into the round table of the Knights of the Dame.
	So kneel before us as we pronounce the Sir Laudermilk.
	Sir Laudermilk.
	And Sir Jeff of the Magnetic Field.
	Gentlemen, for you, hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, root beer and Legos, ass cream and bear fillings, girlfriend experience and good bourbon, porn stars and pot, puppies and pork, mushroom and maker's mark, whiskey and wet wipes, bad signs and perky breasts.
	Of course, we've always got the mutton and mead, which a lot of people do seem to enjoy.
	Go to noagenternation.com slash rings.
	Eric from customer service will be happy to hook you up and take care of yous.
	All right.
	Let me see.
	Did you guys get into the story about this kid that was supposedly, you know, this family that took a kid out of the hospital and then Interpol tracked him down?
	No.
	It's a strange story.
	I got a clip here that kind of explains it.
	But some kid that was being operated on over and over again, I guess it was breaking the bank, or they didn't like him being in this...
	He's got brain damage or something.
	And so the family says, screw this place, we're taking the kid home.
	And so they...
	So they called on Interpol.
	This is in England, of course.
	Oh, of course.
	Where everything's a state crime.
	It's the worst country ever.
	Well, the hospital called Interpol.
	Well, no, the UK government eventually called Interpol.
	I don't think you can just call Interpol.
	Do they have 1-800-INTERPOL? 1-800-INTERPOL, maybe.
	The British five-year-old taken from a hospital without medical consent has been found.
	Aisha King and his parents had driven from England to Spain.
	Police there arrested Mr.
	and Mrs.
	King after a European warrant was issued in their names.
	The boy suffers from a brain tumor and needs feeding through a battery-operated system.
	He had last been operated on just nine days ago.
	His parents are Jehovah's Witnesses, but it's unclear why the couple took their son.
	We were most disturbed today to find that his face is all over the internet and newspapers and we've been labelled as kidnappers, putting his life at risk, neglect.
	There's been a lot of talk about this machine.
	As you see, it's all plugged in.
	We've got loads of these feeds here.
	We've got iron supplements, and we have cow pulp.
	As you can see, there's nothing wrong with him.
	He's very happy, actually, since we took him out of hospital.
	He's been smiling a lot more.
	He's been very much interacting with us.
	I don't know.
	Just seems like a weird story that came out of the blue and is being played here.
	Sounds like you were hoping I had some intel on it, which I don't.
	I was thinking.
	I want to go to our friends in Australia.
	It's very hard sometimes when, of course, we lost Julia Gillard, although I think she's maybe trying to make a comeback.
	She is.
	Ever since she did that face plant, you know, this is not much better than that.
	That was just one of the most beautiful face plants ever seen.
	But we do have a guy who we can make fun of, and it's always, that is one of our priorities here.
	The best podcast in the universe known as the No Agenda Comedy Show.
	This is George Brandes.
	He is the Attorney General, and he is explaining, there was a, the Premier, is it the Premier or the Prime Minister?
	I said, look, you know, listen, people, we got ISIS, we got all this crap going on.
	We are part of the Five Eyes, of course.
	We need to collect some metadata on all these citizens of Australia.
	And typically, politicians are very good at a lot of things.
	What are they good at, John?
	Lying.
	Yeah, not very good at technology.
	The Prime Minister said today it's not what you're doing on the internet, it's the sites you're visiting.
	So will it be the sites that you're visiting?
	It wouldn't extend to, for example, web surfing.
	So what people are viewing on the internet is not going to be caught.
	So it's not the sites you're visiting?
	Well, what people are viewing on the internet when they web surf is not going to be caught.
	What will be caught is the web address they communicate to.
	Okay, so it's only...
	Sorry, the web address, if I go to an internet site...
	That will be recorded and available?
	The web address is part of the metadata.
	The website?
	Well, the web address.
	The electronic address of the website.
	Okay, but if I go to the Sky News website, the Australian website, a more questionable website, is that what we're talking about here?
	What you're viewing on the internet is not what we're interested in and that's not what we regard.
	You'll be able to see whether I've been to that website or that website or that website.
	Well, what the security agencies want to know to be retained is the electronic address of the website.
	When a connection is made between a one computer terminal and a web address...
	A computer terminal.
	I love that too.
	Is this guy that stupid?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We're on the vax.
	Connect to the vax with the terminal.
	That fact and the time of the connection and the duration of the connection is what we mean by metadata in that context.
	But that is telling you where I've been on the web.
	Some people, Aussies, just be infuriated by these people.
	Get that guy out of office.
	Put him where he belongs, you know, into some sort of douchebag hospital or something.
	I've got a clip for you.
	I'm just giving him a little douchebag.
	He needed that.
	He deserves it.
	I've come to the conclusion that a lot of times we like to put other armies into play so we can just have them talk in broken English as spokespeople so the elites can laugh at them.
	Just because they're military or just because they're...
	Just because it's funny.
	At least really, you know, they like to...
	If they're not pulling the wings off of flies...
	Tell me it's a brown person.
	Tell me it's a brown person.
	Yeah, a brow at that...
	Jeez.
	You have to state the obvious?
	Here we go.
	So we like to have these African guys, but here's some Filipino guy.
	Now, there's something he says in here, which is, you know, if you were going to just pretend to be an elite, you'd find it hilarious.
	Now, I want to see if you can figure out what it is that caught my attention about this guy going on and on about being some sort of a military operation.
	I didn't know the Filipinos had an army in Syria or doing peacekeeping for the UN or whatever, but I just thought there was something right in the middle of this that was hilarious.
	A Filipino military spokesperson says the soldiers will continue their mission in the Golan Heights.
	Syrian rebels initiated an attack on position 68.
	Our troops defended their position.
	The Syrian rebels attacked on board pickup trucks.
	Our peacekeepers returned fire in self-defense.
	Our troops fought back bravely.
	And successfully held their positions after a seven-hour firefight.
	Filipino peacekeepers from both positions 68 and 69 have been successfully repositioned to come swan.
	The armed forces of the Philippines and the United Nations will not compromise the safety and security of our troops while in their pursuit of their duties.
	You're so right.
	And...
	Position 69 is my favorite.
	I think...
	What is 68?
	I don't know.
	I'm giving it to you.
	That was funny.
	You got me laughing.
	On the cusp, though.
	On the cusp.
	And you're right.
	Position 69.
	Watch what this guy says.
	We gotta get this on national news.
	This guy's hilarious.
	This is so funny.
	We gotta get it on.
	Come on, come on.
	Put that clip, man.
	Quit pulling the wings off that fly and listen to this.
	I have one downer news.
	This is vaccine news.
	As you know, we are not anti-vaxxers, but we do question certain types of vaccines and the business model behind them.
	This is a story from Columbia.
	Dozens of girls have gotten sick in a town in northern Columbia, and their parents suspect that it's because they were vaccinated against cervical cancer.
	More than 200 girls have been hospitalized in El Carmen de Bolivar with symptoms like headaches, fainting, and numbness of the hands.
	They've since been released.
	All of the girls had received the popular cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil in the last few months.
	The town's mayor said that health experts found no evidence that the vaccine caused their symptoms.
	Colombia's health minister insists the vaccine is safe and that the symptoms are unrelated.
	But the girls' parents have demanded an investigation.
	Now I bring this up with a back story.
	Of course, we've seen all kinds of issues with this particular vaccine, and it certainly does not stop all cervical cancers, only seven strains.
	You can Google that and get your own story.
	I've been following this for a long time.
	Someone pointed out to me, one of our producers, because they are fantastic and just smart, pointed out that Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen...
	And I have read this on the show before, particularly when we're talking about earthquake machines.
	Do you remember when I was really big on the earthquake machine?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember.
	You were big on the earthquake machine.
	You had documentation from the U.N. saying that these things are illegal.
	It's documentation from our very own United States government, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen.
	This is from April 28, 1997.
	Right.
	And it's part of testimony.
	Actually, with Lugar and some other fogies who are still around.
	You know, this earthquake machine thesis cost one of our producers his job, as you recall.
	No, what happened?
	I don't really remember.
	Yeah, I remember the story.
	The guy wrote in.
	He says, yeah, I was talking.
	I had this job.
	And then the guy said, oh, I'm a producer of No Agenda.
	And the guy says, no agenda?
	The earthquake machine guy?
	Oh, that's right.
	Well, okay.
	Sorry.
	You already apologized.
	It's fine.
	He got another job.
	So this is the Nun Lugar question and answer.
	This was public, and that's why the documentation is still public.
	And it was brought to my attention to read again regarding the capability of making biological weapons like earthquake machines to set stuff off.
	I think geological weapons.
	I'm sorry, geological.
	And let me just...
	So here it is.
	And this is in the show notes, obviously, at 648.nashownotes.com or noagendanotes.com.
	And so the question is, and there's a lot about...
	It's funny, actually, when you read it, there's a lot about Iran and the same people.
	It's the same people, 1997, talking about Clinton.
	We're still talking about Clinton.
	How prepared is the U.S. government to deal with evidence that's inaudible?
	Answer, I think we have to really intensify our efforts.
	That's the reason for the Nunlugar Program 2.
	That's the reason why its local responsibility, such as the Department of Defense, is going to be taking the lead as far as supervising the interagency working groups.
	They're very serious about what's going on.
	Question.
	Let me ask you specifically about last week's scare here in Washington and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with inaudible at Benai Brith.
	I don't know what happened in 97 at Benai Brith, but some kind of scare.
	And the end of his answer is...
	Others are engaging even in an ecotype of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes and volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
	So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations.
	It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.
	But what he said before that, which I, of course, had not thought about, Well, it points out the nature of the threat.
	It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances, but as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called, and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question, about phantom moles.
	The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole, which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and even years, in a search.
	The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of chemical weapon or biological one.
	There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola virus that would be a very dangerous phenomenon to say the least.
	Alvin Toffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races, and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops, and then he goes on to the climate, the earthquakes, and the volcanoes.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	This is what we said.
	And we're doing it.
	We're doing it.
	We're killing Colombian girls.
	There's a lot of stuff going on.
	But also the MMR, this is now a whistleblower from the CDC. I don't know if you've heard anything about this.
	They covered up results that African Americans, there was a group of African Americans, black, American blacks, who responded very adversely to MMR vaccinations.
	And that data was covered up.
	And this will not see the light of day.
	No, but you'll be using it.
	Everyone needs this shot in Africa.
	I think there's something going on.
	I do have an Ebola report that I keep promising, and every week I get more clips for it, so I don't have to do something because it's getting long.
	But I believe there's something going on.
	This Ebola thing is a tip of another iceberg, so I'll discuss in a future show.
	Now entering second half of the show.
	So that was the real stuff.
	Now I get the second half of show stuff.
	The show's almost over.
	Well, is it still the second half?
	Yes, it is still the second half.
	This will be the second half of the second half.
	Misho Kaku.
	Oh, that guy.
	The strings guy.
	I hate this guy.
	Really?
	He's so full of crap.
	Like the opposite of love?
	You really hate him?
	I dislike him in a very...
	Him and his phony hair and that phony accent and his phony bullcrap.
	He is full of it.
	And he's all in on climate change.
	But anyway, go on.
	To make it even worse, he has a new book out.
	Don't you hate him extra now that he wrote a book?
	I don't hate him.
	I dislike him.
	So he wrote a book which is about the brain science course.
	About how we'll be able to alter brains and our brains.
	Actually, this has been, yeah.
	This was discussed on the Today Show.
	I actually had a clip of him.
	This was months ago as the book was being published.
	Okay, go on.
	So he's on book TV. On C-SPAN, as I'm cruising through my C-SPAN clips to take a look.
	And he's at the book TV, some book fair, and he's taking calls, because that's what they do best on C-SPAN. They do, I agree.
	Good afternoon.
	Please go ahead with your question or comment.
	Yes, I wanted to ask the doctor if he thought that all these breakthroughs could be weaponized, and what are some of the downfalls of this new technology?
	Thank you, sir.
	The question is, can these technologies be weaponized?
	The answer, unfortunately, is that, well, any technology can be weaponized.
	A hammer, for example, is neutral.
	You can build buildings out of it, but you can also weaponize a hammer so it becomes a sword or becomes a missile launcher.
	I had to stop there for a second.
	Why not weaponize it as a hammer?
	You can weaponize a hammer to be a sword or a rocket launcher.
	No.
	You can weaponize a hammer by bashing someone's skull in.
	With a hammer, yeah.
	About 100 people were coming at you with hammers to pound you.
	This is not good.
	So the question, just to remind everyone as we finish this clip, can you weaponize this science of brain manipulation?
	Now, the CIA, back in the 1950s and 60s, instituted something called MKUltra.
	We thought that the Russians were experimenting on hypnosis and drugs and mind-altering things, and so the U.S. military spent millions of dollars funding through universities and private institutes studies on LSD, studies on hypnotism, mind control, with psychics and all sorts of cockamamie things.
	Cockamamie!
	Another good word we need to reintroduce.
	Cockamamie things.
	Cockamamie.
	Fortunately, nothing came out of it.
	Nothing came out of it.
	Nothing?
	Nothing.
	Not a single piece of usable information.
	Not a single piece of usable information.
	It came out of this multi-million dollar secret plan called MKUltra, which you can read about on the internet now.
	You can read about it on the internet, where it's not my book, which is official and correct, but the internet where the crazies live.
	However, this technology now that I'm talking about is for real.
	We're not talking about psychics.
	We're not talking about charlatans.
	We're not talking about hocus pocus.
	We're talking about reproducible experiments in the laboratory.
	And yes, I think that at some point we have to have an oversight to make sure that people don't try to use this technology for something like mind control.
	Okay.
	I love the discreditation of...
	Of everything that came before him.
	Yeah, I think that's interesting.
	So this sounds to me like a disinformation book produced specifically by the CIA with this character of being the front man who doesn't really have time to write a book like this.
	Correct.
	That's the thing you always have to remember, is that most of the people that get these books cranked out for them, I mean Woodward of course is our favorite example, And it's well documented.
	But also, Bill Clinton, rightly pointed out by Void Zero, apologized in public to the American public for the experiments that were done on people.
	This is not just cockamamie.
	Yeah, that's bad.
	I think that is a depressing clip.
	So I can go take us out with something that's not depressing, but it's foreboding.
	Okay, I just wanted to give everyone some homework as a part of what we just listened to and talked about.
	A patent, and I have the patent in the show notes.
	It's actually under NA Technology, Tech News, kind of Tech News.
	Tech News.
	Yeah, not really.
	We're not going to do Tech News.
	No.
	Patent US76299R18B2. The Multifunctional Radio Frequency Directed Energy System.
	And I want you to have a look at that.
	Repeat the number for the audience.
	76299R18B2. There'll be a link in the show notes.
	And this is...
	This is a patent for a system that would look very much like a cell phone antenna that can be pointed towards you and can scramble your thoughts.
	Yeah, we've seen this in action.
	Yeah, with the newsreaders.
	Newsreaders, yeah.
	It happens to them constantly.
	Somebody in the audience or somebody working there has got one of these things and he thinks it's funny to use it.
	I'm sure every time somebody launches one of these little, I would say, an attack, they get called by someone telling him not to do it again.
	Well, the good news about a patent, and that's why I bring it up, is the information is public.
	So you can get your Arduino...
	And your Raspberry Pi, and we can build a couple of these.
	Yeah, it's a patent violation, but you can do it.
	What?
	To build it?
	It's not a violation to build it.
	Yeah, it is.
	But you have to get caught.
	It's very impossible to get caught.
	Wait, you can't build it?
	I'm not selling it.
	I just want to build it.
	You're not allowed to build it?
	No.
	A patent disallows me from building it?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, it's patented.
	You can't do anything for 26 years.
	You're not supposed to build one.
	It has the schematics right there.
	Yeah, I know they do.
	That's how you get the patent.
	I thought you couldn't commercially exploit it.
	You can build it, can't you?
	No.
	Well, people do.
	Yeah, you can technically, you can build one.
	And nobody's coming after you for making a copy.
	But you've just cost the guy a sale.
	Okay.
	Listen, I want one.
	Well, make one then.
	It'd be very funny at the dinner table.
	Or no, take it to go to the Obama bot dinner.
	And just push the button once in a while.
	We've got to follow this.
	This will be on the upcoming shows.
	We've got to end the show.
	This is running too long.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Just a news item.
	I think it's going to be important because there's oil involved and God knows what else is going on.
	Conflicting reports from Lesotho.
	Prime Minister Tom Tabane fled to South Africa, accusing the armed forces of seizing power.
	The military, however, rejected the suggestion of a coup d'etat and says soldiers returned to their barracks.
	On Saturday, the army took control of key police facilities in the capital, Maseru, and surrounded the prime minister's residence, according to witnesses and diplomats.
	One soldier and four police are reported injured.
	Yeah, we're...
	Where is this again?
	And Lesotho.
	Which is in nowhere, Africa.
	It has some resources and there may be some pipelines going through.
	It definitely has oil.
	But the associate...
	Yeah, it's not a coup because the assistant prime minister or whatever took over.
	They kicked out the guy who actually should be prime minister.
	But the military kicked him out and then the new guy takes over.
	Now, no, no, we're going to get nothing to do with it.
	Something's up.
	Okay.
	Breaking, so I don't know what's up.
	I've tried to get something quickly.
	I couldn't come up with anything.
	So I just keep an eye on Lesotho.
	Yeah, I hear you.
	All right.
	I'm done.
	You're getting cranky.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Because I'm running low on sugar.
	I ran out of tea, and I'm done with my water.
	Okay, man.
	I need something to eat.
	Alright, I'll be celebrating my birthday on Wednesday and I'll have a full rundown of the festivities of the surprise birthday festivities.
	We'll be suggesting a $50.33 donation for your birthday on the next newsletter, which will be on Wednesday.
	Indeed it will.
	And coming to you from the 40 megahertz bandwidth enabled Wi-Fi in the canal house and the pipe in the center of Amsterdam.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, on a holiday weekend, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.

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