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	These women don't listen to the show.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	And it's Thursday, November 6th, 2014.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation, media assassination, episode 667.
	This is no agenda.
	Slinging my jug under my hips here in FEMA Region 6, in the capital of the drone star, open carry state, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm proud to be a podcaster, where's the red book?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	That's a bumper sticker.
	Proud to be a podcaster.
	Proud to be a podcaster.
	We need a little logo of like, you know, a penguin upside down or something stupid.
	Jumping around smiling.
	Exactly.
	That would be good.
	I have to interrupt the show right at the beginning.
	It's okay.
	What's going on?
	Are you missing the red book?
	Is there an issue?
	I'm going to go get the red book while you make this explanation.
	I just realized when you, in fact, I didn't do this.
	I'm going to go tweet.
	I just realized when you said, I'm sending out the bat signal that probably half or more than half of the audience, since you haven't explained it for years, just figure it's some sort of a gag.
	You know, you're thinking of the Batman movie, it's a reference or something.
	You actually have a system that I am now thinking to myself...
	You haven't really explained how it works to anybody in years, and I think they would like to know that there is actually a bat signal that is sent out to listeners who are more the fanatical type.
	Well, why would I explain it now when we can use this so perfectly well for our Christmas episode?
	Oh, you mean explain it in the Christmas episode?
	Yeah, but I was thinking that we're going to do a special...
	By the way, there's something...
	I don't know if this...
	Is it just me?
	I think my head...
	I think I blew my headphone up.
	Your headphone?
	You weren't headphones.
	You were in cans?
	I got one...
	Yeah, I got one...
	I think one side of the can...
	Let me see if it's...
	One side of the cans is busted.
	It doesn't matter.
	Yeah, I thought that for our Christmas episode, we were going to put together a deconstruction of the deconstruction, but also explain a little bit how everything works.
	You know, we do have...
	Okay, let's do that.
	I think that would be good, because I thought to myself, you know, self?
	Self?
	Hello, self.
	I believe that people hear that and they go, oh, yeah, it's funny.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Not realizing there's a mechanism in place.
	That actually tells people.
	I've heard it go off.
	Well, there's more than just one mechanism, John.
	Do you hear like a fuzz or something?
	Hold on a second.
	Can you just be still for one moment?
	I'm just going to turn off the noise gate.
	Let me just see if it's me.
	No, I think my headphone's blown up.
	The right...
	It sounds like right channel's blown up.
	Damn.
	That's kind of annoying I don't have a replacement here.
	Okay, sorry.
	Are you back?
	Hello?
	He was just like, oh, whatever.
	I'm just going to let Curry do whatever he wants to do.
	I'll go take a leak.
	I think there's a lot of things that would be interesting to talk about on a Christmas show.
	There is quite a number of systems that run the show, and people who run those systems, who are the unsung heroes, as always, and people who develop systems from The Shill to Dave Jones to Void Zero.
	There's lots of people who are involved in making it all work, and I don't think anyone really knows.
	We haven't really put it all together in one piece, and a part of that is our app developers and the BatSignal, which Adam Burkepile, I think, is the one who initiated that, I think.
	Right.
	I guess we could also mention Paul Couture.
	We can do a big thank you.
	Yeah, Paul Couture, thank you.
	Yes!
	Yeah, I took the Red Book and the last two pages of the Red Book now has a title that says Christmas Show Notes.
	Oh!
	So we'll talk about it, but I wrote it down so we won't talk about it and never talk about it again.
	We'll never talk about it again.
	That's another thing we should talk about.
	That we sometimes have a very serious email conversation and we'll have like a really good idea and it always ends with, but now that we've put this on email, we'll never talk about it or do it again.
	Well, that's the same thing if we ever see each other and go to dinner.
	It's just as bad.
	Except then at least we get, you know, like dinner.
	That's a bonus.
	At least we get to eat something.
	No, this is the problem with, of course, we've talked about this before and for some reason I love talking about it.
	Pre-interviews.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	Let's just save it.
	Just save it, John.
	Save it.
	I'll put you under the Christmas show?
	Yeah, Christmas show.
	Christmas show.
	Big Christmas show extravaganza coming up, people.
	Big one.
	A very big one.
	Very, very big one.
	And I will be doing a show before and after, I believe, from Mexico.
	Oh, this I did not know.
	You're going to be New Year's in Mexico?
	Yes, sir.
	How many times have I told you that part of our new regime is we're going to travel every, you know, five or...
	That you're going to Panama.
	That's February.
	Okay, so I go to New York.
	We go to New York on the 14th.
	We can get our two No Agenda listeners in Mexico to meet up.
	We go to New York on the 14th.
	Let me write this down.
	Hang on.
	Yeah.
	Now...
	December, New York.
	Yeah.
	And we're back on the...
	And I'm going to see Uncle Don.
	You're seeing Uncle Don on the 17th?
	And then on the 18th we fly back.
	That's Tuesday.
	But then...
	I've been called away for a secret mission to Europe, which I can't talk about on the show.
	Secret mission.
	A secret.
	They're flying me in for something.
	Coach, but okay, they're flying me in.
	They?
	They.
	They.
	But it's coach.
	So you know it's Dutch show business.
	It's not much of a secret mission.
	It's not that important.
	That's not great.
	Can I go business?
	No, you're not going at all.
	Can I have my own ticket?
	Well, yeah, you can.
	Well, I got them at least to give me coach, comfort, economy, comfort, or whatever that is.
	Right.
	And that's just for a week.
	Then I'm back.
	Then we go to Mexico.
	Then the first week of January, we go to Amsterdam because Miki has her show opening up on the 10th of January.
	Her solo show.
	Big solo show.
	10th of January?
	Mm-hmm.
	And then we come back.
	Then February is Panama?
	March?
	I feel like a schmuck.
	I'm just sitting here in this berg.
	Everybody's traveling around.
	I'll remind you that ever since we were able to put together the road gear, it's the same kit that I use here at home, where the show, as long as we have a decent connection, which has worked out reasonably well so far, we can make the show function and sound better.
	Almost identical to the way it is when I'm at home base.
	And that means I'm not hampered by, you know, jerry-rigged things, but it's just, it's working.
	You know, I can do clips.
	You got it down to a small box.
	I sling it over my shoulder.
	And so now we can go places.
	So the Panama trip will be...
	Are you making fun of me?
	No, I'm not.
	You're having a time of your life.
	Yes.
	I'm sitting here watching the traffic go by.
	Oh, here comes the train.
	Train, look at the train.
	No, no, no.
	You're sitting there watching legislation of big soda drinks.
	Oh my goodness.
	I didn't know this was on deck in Berkeley.
	So they tried it in New York, and now you actually have a tax on large sugary soda drinks in Berkeley, California.
	What fools!
	Well, JC and I were talking about this last night.
	I'll bet.
	You were like, damn it, my 16-ouncer.
	It's all scooters.
	My big gulp.
	Oh, there's just right now a train just went by with a whole bunch of private cars hooked to it.
	Like eight of them.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, and one of them was just, ugh.
	While you're talking about that, I'm going to order a new pair of head headsets.
	There they go.
	Screw you guys, you bastards!
	Anyway, um...
	What?
	I just smacked my lips.
	Yeah, you did.
	Oh, by the way, I've been catching that on...
	Everywhere.
	Everywhere.
	Oh, no, everywhere.
	Once you start noticing it, you hear it a lot.
	I know, it's horrible.
	So we were talking about the soda thing and how the idiots who'd let it get passed, you know, they did have some ads, but they were weak.
	And actually, JC, who should, I guess, be an associate in the Curry Dvorak meat consulting company, because he came up with this.
	He says, no, they played it all wrong.
	Because they still allow the diet sodas to be sold without the tax, they could have pounded him for saying, why is Berkeley promoting aspartame?
	Right.
	And then show Rumsfeld's face.
	And say, this man is behind aspartame, and this is what this is all about.
	He was.
	To make him rich.
	That's right.
	You fools.
	That's right.
	He would have gone down in defeat.
	Because if you're going to tax the sugary drinks, you have to tax them all.
	You can't let the crap with aspartame go through.
	You silly people with your bamboo utensils.
	Exactly.
	You know, I'd have to remind everybody.
	We got her off of that, but Molly Wood, she lives in Oakland, but she's kind of a Berkeley mom.
	Still lives in Oakland?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Moved to New York.
	Well, there's a kid and a kid's dad and everything.
	Yeah, but she came to our house in L.A. one time and she had her, you know, she's getting something out of her bag and said, what is this?
	Oh, that's my bamboo utensils.
	What?
	So that if she's eating on the road, she doesn't ruin the earth by using plastic utensils from the taco stand.
	And hilarity ensued for many, many months afterwards.
	Needless to say, she's never made that mistake again of bringing the bamboo utensils to our house.
	Bamboo utensils.
	I just ordered a new pair of headphones.
	I hope it's the headphones.
	It's not like something else.
	I don't hear anything.
	No.
	I think it's just one.
	The thing is, here's what I actually did.
	To see if it was just...
	This is almost as bad as my Greenwich Mean Time watch.
	To see if it was just the right channel, I turned the headphones around in my head.
	I don't know if something's wrong with me.
	This is very stupid.
	Well, that wasn't as bad as forgetting that you said Senco de Mayo.
	I know.
	Hey, but we have a new governor in Texas.
	Very excited.
	Ironside is what I'm calling him.
	We have Greg Abbott.
	Yeah.
	And he beat out Wendy...
	What's her name?
	Wendy Williams?
	Wendy...
	No.
	Yeah.
	Is it Williams?
	No, it's not Williams.
	Wendy...
	Wendy Williams was of the plasmatics.
	Someone else.
	Wendy.
	Davis.
	By the largest margin ever in a gubernatorial race, which is...
	That's kind of funny.
	But now the big thing here is, one of his promises, one of his campaign promises was, if a bill came before him...
	For legal open carry in Texas, he would sign it.
	So everyone, yeah!
	I'm getting, I got a holster and put on my belt.
	I'll be walking around.
	Hey, everybody.
	The legal open carry was already legal.
	I think it is, but I guess it's going to expressly do something.
	I'm pretty sure it's legal, but in Massachusetts it's legal, open carry.
	No one ever talks about that.
	Nobody walks around with an open carry.
	Everybody's in a tizzy.
	And you know me.
	I'm going to go to my spin class with the judge dangling off my belt.
	Hello, girls.
	Time for spin class.
	Oh, yeah.
	Just to do it.
	Come on.
	Well, the election came out pretty much as we thought.
	No, that's not true.
	You said you didn't see how...
	No, no, I never said that.
	Oh!
	Oh!
	No, you won't find it anywhere.
	You said you did not see how the Republicans were going to take the Senate.
	White man, speak with fog tongue.
	Let me explain what happened.
	We talked about this.
	We talked about how the Democrats were going with fear to scare people about guns.
	And the Republicans were going for the big picture, scare people about ISIS and Ebola, the fear factor to get them in.
	And I believe this is exactly what happened.
	And I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
	And it only happened within the last month.
	A month ago, or two months ago even, I would have never believed this was going to happen, but they turned it around with the Republicans' best trick, which is the scare of the public.
	Well, yeah, with open carry.
	Hey!
	And I have a couple of clips.
	I just want to say I have only one clip and I will wait until you're done because I was so annoyed by this entire process.
	The whole thing.
	And of course there were other things.
	I was doing the typical no agenda thing.
	Like what else is going on?
	Something's happening that we're not looking at.
	So I went deep under the covers to find other things.
	I do have one clip but please take us down memory lane of the most boring and I will say Nothing will change, people.
	Nothing's going to change.
	Well, actually, there is one thing that will change, and maybe I'll jump to that clip right away.
	And this is actually kind of...
	Secondary Republican...
	Okay, here.
	This is one thing that's going to change.
	It's going to maybe help our show.
	Actually, I think this election will help the show.
	And that's why I was excited.
	Yes.
	Secondary Republican kicker.
	This is the one that's going to...
	You've got to remember this is going to happen.
	A new sort of updated authorization of military force because the current law really applies to al-Qaeda and its allies.
	But there's a new sticking point, which is that Senator John McCain is expected to be chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
	He's arguing in many other.
	Nice!
	You've got to get field advisors with the Iraqi and Kurdish troops.
	And you can expect that he will use his platform as chairman of that committee to hold some high-profile hearings really questioning the effectiveness of this bombing-only campaign.
	Yes, you are correct.
	And I was reading the FBI, the Foreign Policy Institute, bulletin.
	This is the Kagan, Bill Kristol, you know, a-hole.
	That one.
	Yes.
	Congress must lead on rebuilding the U.S. military.
	Rebuilding is bigger than ever.
	I mean, it needs to be bigger.
	How big is this thing to get?
	Because of all these cuts, which as you always point out, were cuts to the increases.
	There are cuts to the increases.
	In other words, they keep wanting more money, and so they cut that a little.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's a cut somehow.
	You know what?
	We need to, you know, actually, we've missed the boat.
	My mistake.
	I should have known.
	I have really messed up our future.
	As a pilot, as a licensed pilot, not just a fixed wing, but a rotary aircraft.
	I should have been all over the drone thing, because we should have had a drone company going a long time ago.
	I would agree.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	I apologize.
	I completely messed it up.
	There's going to be so much money.
	We can probably just say we could still consult on drones or something, and we could still make money.
	There's going to be so much money flowing into the military-industrial complex.
	It will lift the American economy, by the way.
	The sad thing is we have to shoot this stuff off at people once in a while.
	It sucks if you're brown and you live in the desert.
	Yeah.
	Well, here's France 24 on the election.
	This is pretty international, so I don't mind doing all that.
	I have a number.
	I have about five clips.
	And this is what brings up our point, which we discussed, which is how the Republicans have...
	Grab, retaken the initiative from the Democrats in their fear campaign, which was all local, because they tried to, you know, you don't want to associate with Obama, you want local fear.
	Yes, fear.
	Vote Democrat, or you're going to get shot by a kid.
	Republicans went, both Republicans are going to get killed by these evil terrorists.
	ISIS. This is France 24 in the election.
	And specifically the performance of President Obama.
	And in the last month or so before the election, rising fear among the electorate about issues taking place outside the country.
	55% of the Republicans who voted yesterday were worried about...
	Which is highly unexpected, even a month ago.
	And they were more worried about foreign policy than they were worried about health care or the economy.
	Speaking of foreign policy, it wasn't really foreign policy so much as fear about the outside world.
	Terrorism, Ebola, that was mainly the foreign policy message.
	The general, broader message had nothing to do with the economy or anything else.
	So, I thought that pretty much summed everything up.
	And it was the fear campaign, which worked before.
	It worked with George Bush for years and years.
	Yeah, in certain states, for sure.
	Now, here's another one that got my attention.
	This was on the NewsHour.
	And this is the media, the economy, and reality.
	And this was a fascinating clip because it...
	It kind of says something that's weak, or at least to no agenda listeners, and you and I know to be true, which is that recovery is bogus, and we base this on shadow stats, the operation in San Francisco, and if anybody wants to look at these numbers...
	Right, when the president comes out and says unemployment is under 6%, but we need to get more people in jobs, there's something wrong with the statement.
	And if you look at the shadow stats, we have an inflation going on around 10%, even though the official number is less than 2 or around 2 is bullcrap.
	And the unemployment is continuing to increase.
	It's approaching 25% in real terms.
	Yep.
	If you do the calculation like it was done in the 1930s.
	With the U-68, 48, 22?
	No, it's actually sales that says their own calculation.
	The U-6 is a fake number, too.
	So they're both going down, and the real number's going up.
	The public, at large, I believe, senses this.
	Yeah, if you have no job, yeah.
	But the media...
	Who have jobs.
	Right, or they wouldn't be the media.
	They've got jobs.
	They have jobs.
	They have bought into the nonsense to the point where they're laughing at the public.
	When you listen to this disgusting clip with Gwen Ifill and some guy who's talking about this, they talk as if the public at large, which knows what's going on because they're out there.
	With no job.
	People are sitting there pontificating based on government lies, and you get a report like this.
	And then national issues got in the way as well.
	We talked a lot more about Ebola and ISIS and Ferguson than we did about the economy, and it showed in those numbers.
	Let me just add that when you look in the exits in terms of how people felt about the economy, they thought that it is worse than they did a couple years ago, and that it is getting worse.
	It will be worse.
	Objectively so, but it doesn't matter.
	What matters is how they think.
	So, kind of, the Democrats had two problems.
	They had to fall off in their lower socioeconomic voters, but they also had this perception that the economy is getting worse.
	Oh, my!
	I went crazy!
	They have a perception that the economy is getting worse!
	They must be dreaming, these crazy people!
	What idiots!
	Can you imagine these two?
	Gwen Ifill going, well, objectively, that's not the case.
	That's great.
	That's just nuts.
	How can that be?
	Well, that's just stupid people.
	They're not elite.
	They do not watch the real smart shows like mine on public television.
	These are stupid people.
	So I found that to be so...
	Oh, it's dismayful.
	Is that a word?
	Dismayful.
	I don't know if that's a good word or not, but I like it.
	That's a good title.
	Dismayfully disdaining.
	It's very disdaining when you're laughing at the public.
	At the public.
	They're idiots.
	These public, they think things are bad.
	So I decided...
	I was going to get one clip, and I want to be a positive one.
	Very hard to find.
	But I was listening to NPR during the day, and I watched some CNN. And what I saw, which I can't clip this because it's driving me.
	I just can't do this anymore with these people.
	But I heard Van Jones say, well, this was the other America that voted.
	Meaning the white racist redneck fucks or whatever.
	Really?
	Yes!
	That's a good clip.
	I would like to have had that myself.
	I saw it and I was like, no, I can't deal with it because it's such a propagation of hatred, racial hatred, that is so unquestioned by anybody.
	And I heard this continuously.
	No, but I heard this continuously.
	Well, the Latinos didn't come out to vote.
	The blacks didn't come out to vote because, you know, this was the other America that came out to vote.
	What are you talking about, people?
	Because, of course, these guys are all consultants, I guess, and they have to explain how this worked out, which is not that hard to figure out.
	Can I do my one clip here?
	Yeah, I have one or two more after you're done.
	Yeah, I just got one clip.
	That's all I got.
	This is Mia Love.
	Mia Love won a house seat in Utah.
	And Mia Love is black.
	Not African American, black.
	And she calls herself black.
	And the two hosts, which is our friend Michaela, who I think is more African American than black on CNN. What is Michaela?
	She's brown.
	Yeah, well, she also spent a lot of time in Brazil.
	Oh, she may be a Brazilian.
	Well, she married a Brazilian, moved there, and then she stayed there for a long time.
	So Mia Love is black, a woman, and a Mormon.
	So, like, pow, pow, pow, three strikes.
	How is it possible?
	And when you hear this so-called interview...
	And she's a Republican, right?
	A Republican.
	Oh, yes, a Republican.
	Important part to mention.
	And smoking hot.
	I just want to add all the things in.
	Let me get it all out.
	And she's, I think, the fourth district, which is white people, I might add.
	I think she might even say that in this clip.
	But how Michaela in particular, but her cracker-ass host, how they're sitting there going like, pretty much saying, well, it was about time they let the blackie at the table.
	Oh, yeah, about time they let the woman at the table.
	About time they let the crazy, the crazy religious person at the table.
	And Mia Love was not having any of it, which I thought was very good, and she made some points.
	But they're so tone-deaf.
	They didn't even hear the true bigotry that they were espousing.
	Like it was, oh yes, well, it's about time that you got your chance.
	No, how about people were sick and tired of whoever was running the crap there and they voted for her?
	They made history.
	You are the first black Republican woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
	And I want to point out, he's saying black.
	No, I'm African American.
	I'm not sure why, but it must be code, I guess.
	Who knows?
	It must be code.
	So two questions.
	What took so long?
	What do you think needs to happen?
	What do you think needs to happen for more, perhaps, minorities to be elected by the Republican Party?
	Well, first of all, I think what we need to mention here is this had nothing to do with race.
	Understand that Utahns have made a statement that they're not interested in dividing Americans based on race or gender.
	Like the media is.
	That they want to make sure that they are electing people who are honest and who have integrity.
	Okay.
	Who could be able to go out and actually make sure that we represent the values that they hold dear.
	And that's really what made history here.
	It's that, you know, race, gender had nothing to do with it.
	Principles had everything to do with it.
	And Utah values had everything to do with it.
	So that's the history that we made here.
	I want to challenge you on one point, though, because there will be...
	Yeah, because we've got to get some racial issue going here in the morning.
	Oza will say, not so much dividing on the basis of race, but just making sure that everybody has a seat at the table.
	A fair shot at getting a seat at the table.
	Fair shot!
	Again, you have to understand, Saratoga Springs, there are very few black members, black residents there.
	I wasn't elected because of the color of my skin.
	I wasn't elected because of my gender.
	I was elected because of the solutions that I put at the table, because I promised I would run a positive issues-oriented campaign, and that's exactly what resonated.
	Utah is tired of the bickering.
	They're tired of Congress not getting anything done.
	I hear a lot of talk right now about Congress not wanting to work with the president, president not wanting to work with Congress, and few people are talking about working with the American people.
	The House of Representatives is a branch of government that's closest to people, and that's who I am.
	I am a person of the people, and so my job is to make sure I'm representing them at every turn.
	I just found that whole exchange.
	Oh, and then the comment that, oh, so everyone has a seat at the table.
	That is nonsense.
	I mean, this is the whole problem that you have.
	Everyone has a seat at the table.
	You got every idiot at the table.
	You don't want that.
	You want people that are, you know, that are confident at the table.
	Yeah, smart people running a show.
	Yeah, no, that's a great clip.
	Yeah, and I like that.
	I didn't know anything about Mia.
	By the way, I think that if you have a name that your last name is Love, I think you have a better shot at winning no matter what.
	In fact, I'm thinking of changing my name.
	Adam C. Compassion.
	You know, something like that.
	Adam Love.
	It's Bubba the Love Sponge.
	You know, it's a good name, Mia Love.
	Yeah, I'll vote for that.
	Give me some love.
	So, Despicable.
	Just despicable.
	And I'm telling you, Michaela and her Greg, whatever the guy's name is, they don't even realize it.
	They think that that's normal.
	No, of course they do.
	This is normal, yeah, but that's very, very...
	So, thank you.
	I'm done.
	Give me some other clips.
	The media thinks this is normal in general.
	Well, let's try...
	This is kind of an interesting gotcha.
	I didn't expect to see this on...
	I think it was on NBC Nightly News, but they threw a little gotcha at Obama, and this is the clip.
	Obama and a drink with Mitch McConnell.
	Fresh off phone calls to dozens of members of Congress, including Speaker Boehner and presumed Senate Leader McConnell, he suggested the bitter campaign season could give way to compromise and maybe making those deals over a drink.
	I would enjoy having some Kentucky bourbon with Mitch McConnell.
	That's a sharp change in tone from just last year at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
	Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell, they ask.
	Really?
	Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?
	I just thought that was...
	I don't know why they pulled that out.
	Well, because there's a lot of that.
	It's always easy to...
	I mean, the president also, at one point, I saw a video pass by.
	He said, I have no interest in being the president of Congress controlled by the Republicans.
	Well, you know, okay.
	Yeah, well, then why don't you resign now?
	Now's the time.
	Okay, so...
	So here is the...
	We have another unintended consequence besides McCain, which is going to be...
	Oh, it's going to be a bonanza!
	But this is an interesting one because it tells us a couple of different things I didn't realize.
	And this is a report from NHK in Japan, and this is the Republicans in the TPP. Oh, yes.
	This is the fast-tracking.
	Trans-Pacific Partnership.
	Yeah, the fast-tracking of my favorite trade agreement.
	It may have a positive impact on issues involving Japan.
	For example, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
	The TPP is a proposed free trade agreement involving a dozen of Asia-Pacific nations.
	The negotiations have not made much progress, in part because a significant number of Democrats want to protect the US market.
	Here's what Thomas Mann at the Brookings Institution says.
	If the president's trade negotiating authority, the so-called fast-track procedure, would be reauthorized.
	If the Republicans decide to do that, and in principle they believe in it, but if they do it, I think that would increase the likelihood of the TPP. On the other hand, observers say the Republicans may demand a higher level of free trade in the TPP negotiations, such as the total elimination of tariffs.
	Japan would be against that, as would some Asian nations.
	Yeah, Malaysia.
	Thanks, Junpei.
	Our Washington correspondent.
	Malaysia.
	I think Malaysia will be...
	I didn't realize.
	I thought the TPP was about the elimination.
	I mean, you obviously took taking it apart and taught...
	Yeah, of course.
	It's all about...
	Yeah, what is it all about?
	It's all about elimination of import-export trade tariffs.
	That's the main goal.
	Yeah, so why would everyone want the TPP? The Asians want the TPP, but they don't want that part of it?
	Who is this guy?
	He's some analyst from one of the Japanese universities.
	Okay, well, I don't understand why he's saying that.
	There's also the TTIP, which is the European Trade Agreement.
	And I've looked at these, whatever, not everything is available.
	Yeah, well, what's available?
	You know, people get all in a tizzy about, oh, and the unions will be screwed up and it'll mess everything, you know.
	Yeah, probably will.
	But it'll be good for America.
	Smile all for it.
	Go ahead and screw them, people.
	I'm becoming a Republican now.
	Don't become a Republican.
	Now that we have this cute black girl in Utah who's a Mormon, we can do a secret handshake.
	That's what you should do.
	I'm considering.
	Hey, we have lots of LDS listeners.
	BBFs?
	BBFs?
	No, just LDS. No bareback.
	Oh, L. I'm sorry.
	LDS. Yeah.
	The last thing, this is an optional clip, but this is a little bit about the gender gap.
	It still favors the Democrats because the women have been scared, you know, witless into voting Democrats because they don't want their kids shot by a random shooter with a gun.
	Yes.
	But it's not helping at this point.
	It will help in 2016.
	You can play the gender gap clip for backup background.
	I want to start by asking you guys, as you look through all the detritus of last night and try to sort out what actually happened, one of the things that we saw in a couple of different states was Democrats playing by a playbook that worked for them before.
	And that was appealing to women voters.
	How did that work for them this time?
	Well, you know, we still saw a gender gap.
	So Republicans winning over men by double digits, Democrats winning over women by single digits.
	So it still exists.
	The problem for Democrats among women voters was that they made up a smaller percent of the electorate than they do in a presidential year.
	And in some of those states, like Colorado, where they made the issue of women's health, women's reproductive health, really the main focus, They weren't able to actually change the makeup of the electric.
	In fact, in Colorado, less than half of the electric was made up of women.
	Let's wrap this thing with this, which is the most important clip as far as I'm concerned, at least based on my thesis about things.
	I don't know if you knew this, but two more states legalized marijuana.
	Marijuana was on the ballot last night, lots of it, as voters in Oregon and Alaska chose to legalize the use of recreational weed.
	Washington State, where it's already legal.
	Washington, D.C. voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana as well.
	But don't start lighting up on the Capitol steps just yet.
	Congress has the ultimate authority over D.C. laws.
	I can't wait to hear that Norton woman.
	About that.
	Well, I gotta hear the Norton woman.
	I gotta pay attention to her now.
	Yes, because there's gonna be some controversy.
	Well, very good.
	Very good.
	You know, I think it's important as the country and the world goes down the tubes, we might as well be smoking weed.
	Weed!
	Weed, man.
	Weed.
	Is this guy in the 70s?
	What is this weed thing?
	I don't know.
	Weed.
	Weed.
	Fine.
	Good.
	That's my election report for you.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Yeah, good report.
	I'm happy you did that.
	As we know, nothing will change, really.
	Well, the marijuana has been legalized.
	Well, that's a plug.
	But I like the idea of lighting up on Capitol Hill steps.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't really do it anymore, so.
	No, I don't do it at all.
	No.
	Well, while this was taking place, there were a couple things that were happening.
	And this has been bothering me for a long time now.
	And it actually was something that I saw this morning that really made it all click together.
	I've been on this Ebola thing since day one.
	Not trusting it.
	Play the Calypso song.
	I'm sorry?
	Play the Calypso song.
	You're going to talk about Ebola.
	Yeah, yeah, I got it.
	It's mislabeled.
	Yeah, here it is.
	The Calypso song.
	Your favorite Ebola song, John.
	Ebola. Ooh, pa-pa-pa-pa-pa. Ebola. Yep, pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa. Ebola.
	They come from Africa and they're diarrhea.
	Everybody now.
	Ebola.
	And the thing that bothers me about Ebola...
	Is the lack of evidence of all of this horror that is going on.
	You see, when we talk about ISIS, ISIL, Kobani, the unimportant town, at least you can show stuff blowing up.
	There's lots of file footage.
	We just are not seeing, not even file footage of real Ebola sufferers.
	And I was listening to another NPR report.
	It actually was a BBC report.
	And I don't, I didn't clip it, but it's this woman, and it's like a, it's like a sound, a sight, what do I, I used to call it a sound seeing tour, I used to call them.
	And not really, there's a podcast.
	And she walks down this road, and she has an interpreter, and there's kids, and oh, that kid's sick, and that kid, you know, and it's not like the kids have blood coming out of their eyes, because she doesn't describe that.
	Oh, yeah, he's got a fever.
	Oh, don't let him come up to me.
	But not really any of the true, oh, yesterday there were 50 bodies here, but we never see it.
	And the World Health Organization, who is in charge of the numbers, down to the single digits, They just say a number.
	I don't know who's counting.
	I like to have a little bit of underlying data.
	I just like it.
	It's part of my Tourette's.
	I like knowing what's going on.
	I don't see any real evidence other than we have an OJ-like chopper following an ambulance in Atlanta.
	A guy walks out in his suit.
	Then we get a guy with a clipboard and his short sleeves.
	Nothing makes sense.
	And two things happened.
	First, we had this, it was a campaign, and it was a campaign underneath the electoral campaign, so it really didn't get the attention.
	They did make a video for it on whitehouse.gov, which I'd like to play for you, because it was a positioning piece that accompanied this letter from the president, and this came out yesterday, November 5th, And you probably didn't hear about this because, of course, all we're doing is analyzing how a black woman, if in Utah, a Republican could win.
	A letter from the President to the Congress in this whole emergency appropriations request for Ebola for fiscal year 2015.
	Now, I've been tracking the money.
	The United Nations already says that they've got a billion dollars.
	And now the president is asking for emergency appropriations request for fiscal year 2015.
	And I need to talk about money for a moment.
	If I said to you, the president wants $600 million, you'd go, wow, that's a lot of money, wouldn't you?
	Yes.
	It sounds like, and to people in general, $600 million, $700 million, man, that's a lot of money.
	But we've gotten into the habit of glossing over, I don't think the human brain is very good at processing the number, a billion.
	If you said $1,000 million, people might go, oh, that's a lot of money.
	So when the president asks for $6.5 billion, In emergency appropriations for Ebola, $6.5 billion, $6,000 million.
	And all I'm seeing is tents here or there and some people with ski masks on.
	This starts to bother me.
	And where is this money going?
	Who is it for?
	So let me play the positioning piece for you first, about a two-minute clip.
	And again, all you're seeing is they only have footage and pictures of the same tent, usually at night.
	It's well lit.
	It's beautifully done.
	It's almost like a movie set, if you see this thing.
	You'll see it in the show notes.
	It has purple lighting.
	It's all USAID stamped everywhere.
	But this positioning, which includes him with the doctors, where they put on the white coats quickly, That press conference did recently.
	And then people in the Oval Office, and then people from World Health Organization speaking.
	Just have a listen.
	It's positioning.
	We know that the best way to protect Americans from Ebola is to stop the outrage.
	I thought you were playing the music.
	No, no.
	This is the piece.
	With Obama talking with music in the background?
	It's a whole positioning piece.
	This is on the White House website.
	Terrible.
	And what he's saying at the very beginning is really the key.
	We know that the best way to protect Americans from Ebola is to stop the outbreak at its source.
	Okay, now I just want you to remember this as I play the rest.
	The narrative has changed.
	You will agree with me.
	That it moved from, we've got to, you know, quarantine.
	No, no, no, no.
	None of that.
	The best way to protect America is to fix the problem at the source, which is oil-rich West Africa.
	Okay?
	Bear that in mind as you listen to the rest of this.
	Ebola is a terrible disease that is causing great devastation in West Africa, and that's where the help is needed.
	It's like fighting a fire.
	You have to spray that fire extinguisher at the base of the fire, not just at the top of the flames or you'll never put the fire out.
	You know, in order to keep the United States safe from Ebola, at the end of the day, we need to be out in the field.
	We need to be out in the field controlling and contributing to getting the outbreak under control.
	What's different about this virus is that we actually understand a lot about the virus and how it's transmitted.
	And so we have procedures and protocols where we can protect people.
	We have the capacity to be able to do this.
	We have the logistics within our Department of Defense, the military folks that can go out there to track the disease in the communities, to get people out of their communities, to do outreach, to get them into treatment facilities.
	We've got hundreds of Americans from across the country.
	Nurses, doctors, public health workers, soldiers, engineers, mechanics, who are putting themselves on the front lines of this fight.
	When they come home, they deserve to be treated properly.
	They deserve to be treated like the heroes that they are.
	I think it's a great thing that the president wants to publicly show some gratitude to people who are willing to put the needs of others ahead of their own.
	You know, I'm one of a large group of people that are out there that are really trying to make a contribution.
	Many members of this audience have already offered themselves in sacrificial service to the people of West Africa.
	But the struggle is far from over.
	More medical personnel are desperately needed.
	So there's a need for technical support.
	There's a need for just human resources, people who can go in and work there.
	There's a need for supply.
	And it's because of the determination and skill and dedication and patriotism of folks like this that I'm confident we will contain and ultimately snuff out this outbreak of Ebola, because that's what we do.
	At this time, perhaps more than any other, we feel the impact of our position as citizens of not only the United States of America, but as citizens of the world.
	Yeah, we are the world!
	We are the children, baby!
	Okay, so...
	What was the smattering of applause?
	Obama's saying something here, a little smattering of applause.
	Yeah, this is when he had all the doctors...
	No, no, no, it's the little White House room where everything sounds much louder.
	Now, so when I hear patriots, saving the world, it's what we do, I'm thinking this is a military exercise because these are the same words that are used, whether it's terrorist or whether it's an evil dictator, most of which we know is not true.
	I think, and I'm not sure who put this together or if someone just said, holy crap, let's grab this, but now everybody's in on it, and I'm going to take you down the road so you can see How this is fitting together.
	First of all, in Washington, everybody, the people who are now, the people including the press, I believe, are in on the game.
	They know it's crap.
	Here is Jen Psaki explaining why our, who's the power woman?
	Susan Power, who was our United Nations ambassador, how she was able to go to West Africa to tour around, to look at all the You know, the things that we're never seeing.
	Did you see power touring around West Africa?
	Actually, I did.
	And did you see people who had blood coming out of orifices, were puking, were dead bodies?
	She was just hanging out with hoity-toity types.
	Right.
	So you would think that she would have...
	And she looks grim anyway.
	She looks ashen.
	And her eyebrows go in a funny direction, so she just looks like she's going to kill herself in it.
	Gray and ashen.
	And she would have to adhere by the CDC's rules.
	I kept this for a week.
	Of course, I haven't really heard much more about the 21-day quarantine for our service personnel.
	When they come back, it's just like getting a haircut, as more on Josh Earnest said when trying to explain it.
	And the question was, hey, doesn't Susan Powell, she's scheduled to talk in New York.
	Doesn't she have to go through some quarantine or something?
	Earlier in the week, you mentioned that Ambassador Powell, while in West Africa, When she returns, she and her delegation would abide by whatever state guidelines were in place.
	I know that tomorrow she has a public event in New York.
	That state at this point is requiring twice-day monitoring by a health official.
	Is she going to take part in that?
	Is she taking part in that?
	And is she doing anything beyond that?
	I'm considering she's just back from this affected region and she's still within that 21 day period.
	Sure.
	Well, she's on her way back.
	As we have said from the beginning of her trip, she will abide by whatever state and local authorities require of her.
	And know that New York actually has everybody going to some form of quarantine at this point.
	In addition to adhering to CDC recommendations.
	Based on the CDC classification system and her itinerary, we anticipate the trip will be considered low risk.
	But obviously that will be evaluated by the proper authorities.
	Her itinerary was also reviewed by CDC officials prior to her departure and was not deemed to pose a significant health risk to the traveling party.
	as now that she's concluding her...
	They are doing emergency landings in the United States because someone throws up on an airplane.
	Yet, Susan Power, who was there walking around, hanging out, looking ashen and grim, there was no risk.
	There was no risk whatsoever.
	It remains the case that she and her delegation did not have contact with those with Ebola.
	She did not enter any Ebola treatment units.
	They observed all hand-washing protocols and conducted temperature screening.
	And the delegation was accompanied by health control officers.
	Thank you.
	Can I just back you up a little bit?
	Because the thing, if you're going to go with the thesis, which you're going...
	I'm going somewhere where everybody's in on this.
	That woman, the nurse that said, screw you, I'm not going to put myself in quarantine.
	I know what's going on.
	She knows what's going on.
	She knows what's going on.
	And she sued and won.
	Yes.
	And she's out bicycling around.
	And meanwhile, I should point this out, just because of the manipulation of the media, we have the right wing media, all of them with very rare exceptions, panoramic.
	Oh my god!
	She is a scourge!
	Everybody should be quarantined.
	We should block the whole state.
	We should quarantine everybody.
	That's the only way to stop it.
	We're all going to die.
	Yes, and now we've gone from you can't get it from sitting next to one on the bus to oh well if someone sneezes and droplets spray on your face then you can get it on the bus.
	Now we have to make sure we have the military angle covered.
	Here is the leprechaun Dempsey, who is the chief of the chiefs, the head dude, chief of commander.
	What is it?
	Chief of staff.
	No, he's not chief of staff.
	Chief of staff of the UAE. No, it has a different name.
	Joint chiefs.
	Joint chiefs.
	The chief of the joint chiefs.
	He's the chief joint chiefer.
	He's got his lucky charms.
	And we need to make sure that he's playing along.
	And, of course, we know that the NBC crew, including their medical expert in residence, she didn't adhere to the home quarantine.
	She was out in a restaurant.
	So people are now, they know it's bullcrap.
	They're not doing a great job of hiding.
	But like you say, like the nurse, that story was dropped.
	Okay, it's done.
	It's over.
	Now we're not talking about it.
	Now let's look at how the military fits in.
	This is where it gets interesting.
	Mr.
	Chairman, can you talk about some of the specific items that the chiefs were talking about?
	I think someone has Ebola in the press corps.
	Talking about when you made your decision for the 21-day quarantine, and did the medical science ever factor into the decision, just the fact that the majority, the vast majority, if not all, of the U.S. troops who are down there are not going to be in any kind of contact with you?
	I'm telling you someone in the press corps has Ebola.
	You can hear the puking in the background.
	Ebola.
	Was that ever factored in before the decision was made?
	Yeah, so let me tell you the thought process.
	First of all, the men and women we've deployed over there are there in larger numbers than any other group.
	As you've heard the Secretary say, we anticipated we'll probably reach 4,000.
	Secondly, they'll be there longer than anyone else.
	These healthcare workers...
	Come and go because it's such an intense environment for them.
	You know, they may go for, you know, 30 or 60 days and then leave the area because of the intense pressure they're under.
	Intense pressure?
	Intense pressure?
	What intense pressure?
	They're in a poker game that has been son of a bitch because a couple of those guys are ringers.
	We're going to have our young men and women there for six months at a time.
	That's the duration of our deployment.
	Six months at a time, John.
	Six months.
	Six.
	Six months.
	Not in direct contact with Ebola, but they're there longer.
	So more of them are not health care workers, by the way.
	He's just important here.
	He says not that they're in contact with Ebola.
	That was a talking point or he wouldn't have jumped in like that.
	Yes.
	And making it clear they're not health care workers.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	You know, we're infantrymen and we're supply...
	Infantrymen!
	Supply clerks!
	Supply clerks!
	So when you add those things together, here's what I would tell you.
	We did factor in science.
	Science!
	Physics!
	Physics!
	Is the science we factored in.
	Wait a minute.
	Physics?
	Physics!
	He factored in physics?
	He factored in physics!
	And of course, there's no follow-up question, but what?
	I think he means this is code.
	You know, when we do...
	You know, this is not about small groups of people who are transient.
	There's protocols for that.
	It's also not about healthcare professionals in direct contact with Ebola.
	There's protocols for that.
	This is about a major military operation.
	Oh, really now?
	A major military operation?
	I find this poorly covered in our press.
	And big things on a global scale.
	Yeah!
	What?
	Yeah, big things on a global scale.
	My ears are perking up now.
	And so we took a conservative approach, and we'll assess it in 45 days.
	Okay, so you'll assess it in 40...
	Big things on a global scale.
	Hmm...
	Now I have the two clips that really brought it all home to me today.
	Okay.
	I'm on pins and needles.
	You should be.
	You should be.
	Wait until I hit the final punch.
	So there's this girl, lady, Aisha Cesse.
	Aisha Cesse.
	And she, I believe she works for the BBC. It could be, I think BBC slash CNN. But she is from Sierra Leone.
	And Sierra Leone, as you know, the numbers, the reports we're getting, which are kind of fuddled away, everything's good.
	They haven't had Ebola for more than 42 days, which is the magical number, as we know.
	Uh, yet, um, she brings us a report, which I found to be very interesting, and she really explains what is happening, and that is the, you think we were terrorized here?
	Ha ha ha!
	You know, they had several three-day-long lockdowns.
	Home base could not walk on the street for three whole days.
	And I assert to you that this is part of a big military operation, something on a global scale, as we just heard our Joint Chiefs of Staff say.
	Families are in pieces.
	Communities are in tatters.
	And these countries are basically on the brink.
	There are thousands of orphans across these countries.
	There are people dying of hunger because they can't get out to the farms and all the other issues with quarantines and whatnot.
	And yet, Brian, if you watch the coverage coming out of the United States, you would think the U.S. was under siege.
	You would think that Ebola was just around the corner and was about to be an epidemic in our midst.
	That is not the case.
	We know that to be so.
	Thankfully, because there in the United States, where I live, we have a robust public health care system, which I am incredibly thankful for.
	But the fact of the matter is, my family lives in Sierra Leone.
	My mother, my brother, my grandmother, and countless other loved ones.
	I know what is taking place on the ground, and somehow that has been lost in the coverage.
	That devastation, that suffering is not focused on enough.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Making people do what they want them to do.
	In the U.S. coverage.
	In the absence of the information, in the absence of news networks doing their part in shining a light at the source of the problem, what would life be like if the country you lived in was locked down for three whole days?
	Think about the United States, a lockdown and everyone in quarantine for three whole days.
	That happened to my country of Sierra Leone.
	There was barely any coverage of that moment.
	To the point of all news is local.
	We are a globalized world.
	So the issue of borders and boundaries and distinctions, those are amorphous beings in this age that we live in.
	So, you know, the problems of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, we have seen so clearly in the last couple of weeks with a handful of cases that have sprung up in America.
	We've seen that those problems are our problems.
	Our problems are their problems.
	We are all interconnected.
	So in telling the story, it should be told in an interconnected way.
	Aisha, what have you seen on the ground in the countries you've been?
	Have they turned a corner in this fight against this disease?
	Well, you know, I'm in Nigeria right now.
	I'm in Nigeria, which is a success story in the fight against Ebola.
	Can you stop for a second?
	Did that guy hear anything she said?
	No, no, nothing at all.
	Not a single thing.
	No.
	No, of course not.
	Wow.
	No, not a single thing.
	You know, as we do these...
	In fact, your clips today have the best examples of it.
	But as we do this show more and more, you hear the death...
	Deathness, yes.
	Deathness of the media to whatever anybody's saying to them.
	This happens, by the way, this is reflected in Congress.
	As we know, we've been playing these clips from the Senate hearings where the guy comes on and says, oh, no, it turns out that it's when global cooling causes wildfires.
	We've got all the documentation to prove it.
	And this could, you know, no, that would be the case.
	That's not the case with global.
	Any of these experts come on and give testimony.
	And then the senators act as if the guy said nothing.
	Oh.
	Well, I assert to you it's even worse.
	I assert that people amongst themselves, human resources and citizens of the world, are not listening to each other.
	I assert that women and men and people in intimate relationships are not listening.
	People are only thinking about what they're going to say next.
	It's a tough skill to listen to what someone is saying.
	Most people only have their narrative in their head.
	You and I have taught each other to listen to what the other is saying.
	Otherwise we have no retort.
	Retort or rapport for that matter.
	And it's hard.
	Sometimes it's hard work to shut up and listen.
	Sometimes I'm very bad at it.
	It depends on how the Tourette's is kicking me.
	I have something to fall back on, excuse.
	Yeah, I know.
	Use it as much as you can.
	Yeah, of course.
	I think most people really are only thinking, what is the next thing I'm going to say?
	And most interviewers are only thinking, what is the next great question I'm going to ask?
	They really are not listening to what someone says.
	30 more seconds of this and then we'll take it home with...
	There have been no new cases of Ebola here in over 42 days.
	That's an immense success story.
	But Brian, let me tell you, in Sierra Leone and in Guinea, the situation is bad.
	The situation is still bad.
	It is present, Ebola, in every district in those communities.
	And my own mother, to put it in a personal context, is afraid to leave the house right now.
	My brother is there.
	Something as simple as getting your hair cut, Brian, that we take for granted, all of us making these casual trips to the supermarket to get your hair cut.
	You have to rethink everything in your life at present if you live in those countries.
	Again, with the haircut comparison, which always bothers me, thinking that she might have read a similar memo somewhere about the haircut thing.
	No, she's in Nigeria.
	She's not saying thousands of people are dying from Ebola.
	She's saying the Ebola scare is keeping her mother in.
	She can't go to grocery shopping, etc.
	Now, just recall that this is a grand military operation.
	These people are not doctors.
	They're infantrymen.
	It's physics.
	I guess physics for carrying stuff and setting stuff up or whatever's going on.
	Blowing things up.
	I think when you say physics, you're talking about bombs.
	It's code.
	Well, that's even worse.
	I hadn't even thought about that.
	Then we get, this morning I see this on the BBC, I'm already irked about this $6.5 billion, $6.5 thousand million.
	Ha ha ha!
	See, that's so much money.
	When I was a kid, we never talked about, we couldn't even count, billion was not a number we talked about.
	So now we have billions, but it's as small as, you know, not hundreds, just six and a half thousand million dollars.
	Going to, and I do need to tell you what this is going to, because this is important for the story, 4.64 billion dollars.
	So four and a half thousand million dollars for immediate needs.
	Immediate needs.
	This is from the present.
	Immediate needs.
	$1.54 billion in contingency funding to ensure that there are resources available to respond to the evolving epidemic.
	This, by the way, this funding, because of course, where does it come from?
	The President says in his letter, So they've thought about where they can get this money from.
	Now we go to the fact sheet from the White House, which goes into a little more detail of where this money is going to specifically.
	The Department of Health and Human Services will receive $2.43 billion, and that is split up with $1.83 billion for the CDC. To fortify domestic public health systems,
	to improve Ebola readiness, to procure personal protective equipment, to increase support for monitoring of travelers, to control the epidemic in the hardest-hit countries in Africa by funding activities including Infection control, contact tracing, laboratory surveillance and training, all kinds of really military-type stuff if you look at this.
	And then the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund receives $333 million.
	God, I always love it when those numbers pop up.
	Nice catch.
	USAID will receive $2,000 million.
	This is the State Department, who then, of course, give that to contractors, usually NGOs and other types.
	The request includes further funding for USAID to scale up the U.S. foreign assistance response to contain the Ebola crisis in West Africa and assist in the region's recovery from the epidemic.
	The USAID is the lead agency.
	USAID is the lead agency.
	Now, the USAID, these are people who are lead agency everywhere that we go.
	This is the economic hitman.
	Thank you.
	Economic hitman.
	Then we have the Contingency Fund, etc.
	Okay, this morning I hear, I see on the BBC, an interview with a gentleman named Tony Banbury, who is from the United Nations.
	And I'm thinking, well, wait a minute.
	I thought the United States, we were saving the world.
	I thought that was our job.
	It's what we do.
	It's what we do.
	And we've got this six and a half billion dollars is what we do.
	And then this guy, who actually looked him up, As I'm listening to this interview, I'm thinking, this guy has nothing to do with Ebola.
	This guy is a PR guy.
	And you'll hear how he conducts himself in this interview.
	And when you hear what he is the PR guy for in the United Nations, then it all comes together.
	My first question has to be that there have been these reports that the spread of Ebola, the spread of the disease is slowing down.
	What's your take on that?
	It's a very mixed picture.
	In some areas, it's declining.
	We've seen important declines in the number of cases, for instance, in Monrovia.
	Really big, significant improvements in Monrovia.
	In other cases, we're still seeing significant accelerations of the disease.
	The more we get our assets on the ground, the more we're able to tailor our response to what's happening in different communities.
	We can't just look at this as one big theater.
	We have to attack the disease where it is, and the disease is shifting, and that's one of our greatest operational challenges.
	This guy, who was my age, born at 64, a U.S. citizen, currently serves as the Senior United States System Coordinator for Ebola.
	It's a new appointment.
	Prior to this, Mr.
	Banbury served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for field support.
	Field support.
	And before that, here it comes.
	He was the regional director for the World Food Program.
	And he is now more or less speaking on behalf of the World Food Program.
	When I last spoke to you about a month ago, you said that your ambition was to have 70% of all of the patients under proper medical care by December the 1st.
	That was your ambition.
	Are you still on track to do that?
	When we last spoke about that, I'm not sure that we were.
	Do you hear, this is a PR guy talking, do you hear it?
	Do you hear how he answers this question?
	I'm trying to meet it, but we have been working really hard for, as part of our 30, 60, 90 day plan, first 30 days, mobilize resources, people, material, put in place, logistics, bases, all that kind of stuff, so we could really fight the fight on the ground.
	Our 30 days has ended, and we've done a pretty good job in mobilizing resources.
	Now, the next 30 days, this month of November, it's all about achieving those targets, reaching those targets.
	And I'd say right now, in a very kind of cautious way, we are definitely moving in the right direction.
	It's too early to say whether we'll get there, but we're working very hard to make it happen.
	It sounds like a Silicon Valley guy talking to his board of directors, saying we have lots of interested registered users signing up who haven't quite completed the registration process, but we are conservatively, these are conservative numbers by the way, looking at 8 million registered uniques with time spent per user of 352 seconds per moon calendar.
	He's saying nothing.
	But how can you do that when the World Health Organization, the United Nations World Health Organization, says that in round figures you need about 4,000 treatment beds and I've seen their figures and they're only about 1,200 now.
	What we need to do is do our best estimation about what we need to put on the ground and then just flood the area with those kinds of capabilities.
	We need to carpet bomb the media.
	Alright, let's all stop this guy.
	World Food Program.
	This is what's going on.
	The United Nations is dumping all of this money, this Ebola money, and running it through their current World Food Program infrastructure, which includes this guy, Anthony Banbury.
	The World Food Program...
	If you recall, certainly in 2010, but it goes back to the food for oil, is one of the best covered, most corrupt organizations in the world when it comes to Africa.
	This is the thing that got the head of the U.N. I can't remember which guy his name is.
	Yeah, Kofi Annan.
	Kofi Annan.
	And his son.
	And what was happening is half of the money was being used to arm rebels in Ethiopia and Somalia.
	This is well-known, well-covered.
	And now we have the exact same people...
	Going in under the guise of Ebola with this big bucket of money from USAID, which I guarantee you is going to become arms because, you know, hey, someone's got to buy this stuff that we're about to produce really big time.
	Thank you very much, John McCain.
	And they've taken it so far, if you Google Ebola Bob Geldof, oh yeah everybody, he's back!
	To raise funds for the Ebola victims and their helpers in Africa, Bob Geldof is planning a 30th anniversary of his Band-Aid hit, Do They Know It's Christmas Time!
	And Bob Geldof doesn't do anything for free.
	He doesn't do this.
	And just like we are the world, it was only two years that the prophets went to USA for Africa.
	And after that, it reverted back to the writers of the songs.
	And the same with Bob Geldof and Mitch Yor, unless he recategorizes that, which I doubt he will.
	Go ahead and look.
	Bob Geldof is all over the news now about Ebola and Africa.
	Can I ask if you're saying the following?
	Go for it.
	Yours, because of all the players, all these same guys, all of a sudden we have these same old, same old show up, only now it's about Ebola, it's not about whatever else it was about before, correct?
	It's essentially to take this huge amount of money, which you like to put into terms of thousands of millions, and you...
	Target it at this problem that's non-existent, essentially.
	Yes.
	You hide, put people, make sure they stay out of their way as you bring in troops.
	And then you take the troops, the infantry, and the rest of them, and the physics, and you distribute them amongst, I guess, some rebels somewhere, and you take most of this six billion, and you buy guns and bombs and grenades, and you give it to some people to go rebel in this area.
	Yes.
	Your claim is that this is a front.
	Yes, sir.
	It's a grand contra deal kind of thing, where you've got a bunch of money, only instead of running it through the drug business, you actually just say, here's six billion bucks, look what we're going to do, we're going to fix Ebola, and it doesn't fix Ebola at all.
	It goes right into whoever...
	Well, now the thing is who?
	Well...
	Another thing happened, which didn't get a lot of play, just to the northeast of the Ivory Coast, but all, I would say, within the realm of Guinea, within the realm of Sierra Leone and Liberia, a little more inland, short clip...
	Two days after mass protests forced the president to resign, the people of Burkina Faso returned to the streets, this time to denounce a military coup.
	So we have a little military coup going on.
	Yeah, a temporary military coup.
	Yeah, temporary, sure.
	And it was one guy...
	We have not discussed the Burkina Faso thing, and I thought it was kind of interesting, and then they put some phony baloney guy in there to run the place.
	Exactly.
	Take this guy.
	Take this guy.
	Take this a little bit further, we would say that the idea is to create a buffer zone around the oil.
	Oh, man.
	Yes.
	By rubbleizing everything outside so you can't get in to take our, well, it's going to be our oil, to take advantage of, take our oil away from us.
	And so that's, so the money is going, is it, because you couldn't, If there was an honesty to the system, which you've talked about again, and you'd say, here's the deal.
	We've got this oil.
	We're going to steal it.
	And we're going to use it because we need this oil, and they don't.
	And they're going to make money, too.
	Everyone makes money.
	It's a win-win thing.
	But we've got to protect this oil.
	So we're going to take $6 billion of your money and we're going to arm a bunch of rebels around this area.
	And they're going to keep people from coming in and stealing the oil because they know they can make it.
	You know, they can sell it to them.
	And let's just look at the numbers.
	We know that about three thousand, three and a half thousand U.S. advisors and consultants is what is needed to train the Iraqis to fight ISIS, ISIL, IS, whatever you want to call it.
	I would say the same amount of troops would be enough on this this physics and this big military operation of global importance, as we heard the Joint Chief of Staff say, to arm and perhaps train whoever we need to in that region.
	It's the same numbers, it's the same thing.
	It's a beautiful scam because who the hell wants to go really investigate Ebola?
	No, no, I don't want to be in quarantine.
	Yes!
	So I don't know who came up with it.
	I don't know how this came about.
	Jagen!
	It must be.
	Someone really struck gold.
	Kimberly Kagan and her brother.
	This is so incredibly smart.
	And everyone will just believe it.
	I don't really need to see any real video of someone bleeding and big blisters all over their face and arms and blood coming out of everywhere.
	I believe you.
	I don't need to see it.
	It's genius.
	Well, they already figured that nobody wants to watch the beheadings.
	Yes.
	So, yeah, this is a good example of eyes, you know, cover your eyes, cover your ears, and don't see nothing.
	I see nothing, I know nothing.
	Nothing.
	And this is actually a good and I like this analysis.
	Thank you.
	Because it makes nothing but sense that the reason it works, of course, is it makes nothing but sense.
	And it's what we do best is rub a lies and can keep and get oil.
	I mean, that's what we do.
	We're a petroleum economy.
	People don't want to face it, but we are.
	We've made ourselves one.
	And yeah, we can get off it eventually.
	But we don't need to.
	We don't need to rush it out of it.
	The only thing I'm not quite sure about, I think I know what it is, is President Obama keeps saying, hey, other people got to step up.
	You got to step up, other countries.
	Is he inviting them into the cabal?
	Is he saying, hey, if you don't join us now, then you're going to be cut off from all the goodies?
	Is that what he's saying?
	Yeah.
	It must be.
	He must be saying to the French, or I would say probably he was meaning the French, But I guarantee, and I'm not quite sure what the next step will be, but the American public is now convinced.
	That part has worked.
	We now all agree.
	We have a dumbed-down public that doesn't want to analyze anything.
	And you couldn't tell them the truth because they'd freak out, and the political opposition would freak out.
	You know, the anti-oil people, the global warmest, those guys.
	Oh God, we can't have this.
	Oil is killing us.
	We're all going to die from climate change.
	So those guys, you've got the country divided in such unusual ways that you can't tell the truth to the public.
	But also so clear now that, yes, to protect America, we have to go fight the fire at the base of the fire, not the flames that are licking at the top.
	And it's the heroes, the true heroes who we just threw a lab coat on.
	It's those true heroes who are really saving the world because that's what we do.
	That's what we do.
	But what we're doing is we are creating rubbleization of West Africa, all this beautiful new oil, and we're going to be arming a-holes.
	Right, arming a-holes.
	That's exactly what we're going to be doing.
	Arming a-holes from sea to shining sea.
	That's what we do.
	Yeah, that's what we do.
	That's what we do.
	So the reason, of course, we can do this at all is just the way we put the model together.
	I had a guy call me from the Wall Street Journal.
	He said, I'm probably not going to get anything in his article.
	And I said, well, it's about advertising, because, you know, I guess this American Life, they have a new serialized podcast.
	I think it's called The Serial or something.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it starts off with a GoDaddy, not a GoDaddy, a MailChimp ad.
	MailChimp.
	Yeah, and he was flabbergasted.
	I said, you know, this is fantastic.
	This is the change that is happening.
	He was flabbergasted?
	He was flabbergasted.
	He didn't really understand that NPR has advertising.
	He writes for advertising and marketing.
	What do you expect?
	They're advertising, but they can't do a call to action.
	But when you take this popular programming and put it on a podcast, you get two things.
	One, you can do all kinds of calls to action.
	And two...
	Join today!
	Yeah, you're screwing the whole NPR model because the local stations aren't getting any of that money.
	And this was the way...
	I don't think he understood.
	So that's what you...
	He didn't...
	He wasn't clued into that?
	No, and then I said, we don't take advertising.
	Well, the new head of NPR is pulling the plug on all this stuff, supposedly.
	So what we do is we have our Global Intelligence Network produce the program for us, and believe me, they're on the stick all the time.
	And in our Christmas show, I'll explain to you how some of that works and how some of it could work better.
	And also, we took the time.
	I at least took 15-20 minutes to get to this point, which really wouldn't have worked unless I had John on the other side going, wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me play this back to you, what you're saying, son.
	And that is also thanks to our...
	Our producers, and I'd like to talk about them after I thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C. Love, Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to everyone in our chatroom, noagendastream.com.
	In the morning to our artists, thank you very much, 20-watt bulb, for the art, for the...
	The Mark of the Beast 666 on our brand new art generator dot com.
	And let us thank a couple of people who have come in.
	We asked some producers to thank for show 667, and we guys were kind of a letdown from the past couple of shows, which were kind of celebratory of some sort.
	It's all downhill from here.
	It's all downhill from here, especially when we spend the holiday season where nobody's home.
	But let's thank Sir Don Tommaso di Toronto and Kettleby Ontario, or Toronto, wherever.
	$424.24 to be a lead executive producer.
	Too many expenses lately to really give you what I think you deserve.
	But I'm compelled to give value for value.
	So here I'm donating peanut butter and jelly for the rest of the week for everyone.
	What an interesting number, 42424.
	Is that just the palindromer-ish that he did that?
	Definitely palindromer-ish.
	He's been donating a lot.
	Yes.
	Yeah, he's way beyond a just simple night.
	Yes.
	And then we followed up with Sir Mark Wilson, Baronet of Glasgow, UK, $300.
	Gents, no need to read out if Adam got my email before the Sunday show.
	Read it out anyway.
	Yes.
	A request for double helping of karma?
	Okay.
	Firstly, for myself, as I need some exam passing karma for my final exam ever.
	He's graduating, so he's a student.
	Secondly, for a good friend who is a student giving us $300.
	I want to remind that to some people who give us nothing.
	Secondly, for a good friend who's been fighting ALS for over a year now and has been told she has six months to live, which is, she's only 22, which blows, say the least.
	You know, that's a 22.
	That's terrible.
	Anyway, so we get a...
	Yeah, karma.
	Big time.
	Big time.
	You've got karma.
	And double that up.
	Sir Andrew LaMessany Barron of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
	Two, three, four, five, six.
	One of my favorites.
	I'm feeling a little fragrant.
	I want to get a de-douching before I go back to napping for humanity.
	We can do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	And I would say shower time.
	Yeah, wash your hands at the very least.
	Sir Chris Jacob.
	Hey, Chris Jacob.
	Baron Chris Jacob.
	Of the Baron of the Carson Valley.
	In San Rafael, California, 22333 in the morning.
	Sir Chris Baron of Carson Valley here.
	Just a quick note to thank Adam and John for all the hours of entertainment and enlightenment.
	And general purpose karma during my training for the New York Marathon, which I completed last Sunday.
	Yeah, he did.
	I knew I was fine when my coat check number for my luggage was 33, the magic number.
	It's a reminder we just throw out there from time to time.
	A little karma there.
	Good work, Sir Chris.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Chris.
	Sir Luke Rayner in London, UK. Where the pound is slowly coming down to reality.
	$212.12 since being made redundant from my teaching job in August.
	Oh no.
	How do you...
	You're in the sixth grade class, you say.
	Let's say you're teaching.
	Excuse me, you're redundant.
	Who's going to teach?
	Somebody else teaching this class?
	That's horrible.
	It's just a funny scene, it seems to me.
	I've had to change my way.
	I listen to the show as I no longer have a commute.
	So No Agenda is now my cooking companion.
	Uh-oh.
	I've made 25 pounds of food for my next cycling event.
	Is it really one show, 25 pounds?
	That's how we should measure the show.
	How long was the show?
	Oh, about 20 flapjacks, 20 pounds of flapjacks.
	20 pounds of flapjacks.
	The Essex Season Ender is the name of this event.
	I really appreciate the show.
	Whilst carrying out this task, please give me a little girl boom shakalaka karma shot to make this Sunday's Essex Season Ender.
	Bike ride, a fantastic event for all.
	Keep up the good work, gentlemen.
	Sir Luke of London.
	Thank you very much, Sir Luke.
	I'm going to give him a Jarbs karma while we're at it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	I love that kid.
	And then we've got Stephanie Reese in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
	Rhymes with $200.
	I'd like to thank you for continuing to broadcast the best podcast in the universe.
	We love your show and have made it a habit to listen to it together every Sunday morning.
	We even sneaked a CD of the show into a display at a hardware store and caught some people standing there listening to it.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	Could I please get a birthday shout-out to my fiancé?
	Jay, his birthday will be on the 7th of November.
	If it isn't too much trouble, could I also get a couple of clips?
	Okay.
	Two to the head, two-year-old yelling Putin, and a decapitation.
	Oh, decapitation?
	Her head is gone.
	Oh!
	Okay.
	Maybe you have a slicing sound.
	Well, no, I have the saw.
	You have the saw, and then her head is gone.
	Okay, let me do...
	Where's the saw?
	This is a lot of work now, all of a sudden.
	There's two to the head, two-year-old Putin.
	I gotcha.
	But I wasn't prepared for...
	Oh!
	I hate it when this happens.
	I'm sorry.
	There's something wrong with the...
	It's not working.
	Why won't it just work?
	Ah, here we go.
	I got it.
	Okay, two to the head, thing, saw.
	I'll do the sawing underneath the whole time.
	There we go.
	And her head is gone.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Took a while to set up, but we got it done.
	Yeah, it worked.
	It worked fine.
	So that was our show, 667 Producers and Associate Executive Producers, Executive Producers, Associate Executive Producers.
	I want to remind people, we do have a show coming up on Sunday.
	We always come up a little short.
	We expected that it to happen again.
	Hopefully it won't, and you can prove us wrong by going to dvorak.org slash nachanneldvorak.com slash n-a, or you can click on the button.
	You can find it there at the noagendashow.com and noagendanation.com website.
	Two quick notes.
	One, there's a brand new No Agenda CD out.
	It's called the Numerology Disc.
	Link in the show notes on the PR section.
	You can also go to noagendacd.com, Ramsey Cain, all over that.
	And I got a new healthy surprise box.
	Did you get one from Jeff?
	Ah, yes.
	And I will say the dried crunchy mangoes should not...
	Oh, I love those!
	Mine are so hard it'll break a tooth.
	No, I agree.
	I had a couple that were a little too crunchy.
	No, I threw them out.
	Toothbreakers.
	I love them.
	Well, when you break a tooth, you won't so much.
	I already ate them all.
	There's another thing that was no good.
	No, there was some good.
	There was no kale.
	Then they had some raisins from Syria or something.
	I haven't tried those yet.
	It's not that creative.
	I love the...
	What was the potato chip?
	There was a chip thing in there.
	There was a vegetable chip.
	Yeah, it was good, those chips.
	But they were like Ruffles averages.
	Yeah, but that's why they were good, because they were healthy.
	You could feel the healthiness, but it tasted bad, you know?
	It tasted like bad.
	Generally speaking, it was a good box.
	And I got a note...
	Adam, thanks so much for watching the news for all of us.
	You're so good at it.
	I know these words don't carry the gravitas to compel you, but I suggest that you take a few moments every day to deepen your breath and slow your mind.
	You have so many thoughts crawling around up there.
	Give my love to Mickey.
	I look forward to seeing you next time I'm in Austin with Love Joe.
	Is he telling me that I'm sounding a little kooky?
	Goofy?
	Kooky.
	Oh, kooky.
	Well, you're supposed to sound kooky.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's a protective...
	I have a message.
	Richard has good handwriting.
	And...
	It's a message.
	Yeah.
	He'll know what it means.
	Yes, okay.
	You can take that to the bank.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. As John said, we also need you to go out there and help us propagate our very important formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out...
	We'll hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Shut up, play.
	Shut up, slave.
	Just a funny interlude.
	Yes.
	A little funny interlude.
	I have a new section in the show notes called Banky Blunders.
	Banky Blunders?
	Banky, Banky.
	Banky, like Banky Moon?
	As in Banky Moon Blunders, exactly.
	Well, that should be filling up quickly.
	Let's see.
	Everything that is wrong about this guy, and I've asserted before, this is the wrong guy to be the Secretary General of the United Nations because you can't understand what he's saying, and you can dupe the guy into anything.
	And they duped him into appearing on stage with Conchita Wurst.
	What?
	Yes, you recall Conchita Wurst.
	Yeah, Conchita Wurst.
	Yeah, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest.
	Yeah.
	So it's the dude with the dress.
	Yeah.
	He's got the full...
	With the beard.
	Or you could say it's the girl with the beard.
	Whichever way you want to look at it.
	And who has absolutely no message...
	Yet Ban Ki's gonna stand up there and introduce her and quote her even.
	Eurovision drag diva Conchita Wurst met UN chief Ban Ki-moon in Vienna to call for an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation.
	Ban announced the extension of same-sex benefits to all UN employees, saying discrimination has no place in the United Nations.
	I stand strong for equality.
	I hope all of you join our global free and equal campaign.
	He sounds like one of those Howard Stern crew members.
	Doesn't he?
	If you close your eyes, you think of some crazy drooling guy on Howard Stern's show.
	It sounds like it.
	As Conchita said, on the night of victory, I caught...
	We are unstoppable.
	As Conchita said, we are unstoppable.
	I dream of a future where we don't have to talk about sexual orientation, the color of your skin, your religious beliefs, because this is not important when it comes to society.
	Of course it's important for the human being, but it's not important for society.
	What?
	Come on, people.
	That's the United Nations.
	Yeah, that's at work.
	Yeah.
	And then he went on...
	I'm not going to play the clip, but then he went on to make a mistake and he talked about...
	No, no, play the clip.
	I love listening to this guy.
	It's hilarious.
	Let's take a look at this objectively, because all you guys are making fun...
	Of this poor man who doesn't speak very good.
	This guy is the head of the United Nations.
	It's his job.
	His job is to communicate.
	To communicate.
	He should be taking intense English lessons every day until he speaks perfect English because that's what he's getting paid for.
	We are unstoppable.
	Unstoppable, as Conchita said.
	He's the head of the United Nations.
	He should take personal responsibility for self-improvement here.
	He's in Vienna with Conchita.
	I bet they had a dinner, too.
	And where is Vienna?
	What about?
	Where is Vienna?
	What country?
	I would hope it's either in Virginia or Austria, one of the two.
	I think particularly President Fischer and the government of Australia.
	Australia?
	Yeah.
	Was there a Vienna in Australia?
	Yeah, to Google.
	Okay, but now I'll play the rest of this clip.
	I assume he's not in Australia.
	No, he's in Austria, but he says Australia.
	And then he realizes his mistake when...
	At the end of his speech, then there's a question that comes up.
	And then he's going to correct his mistake.
	And listen to how the president of Austria...
	President, I think...
	It doesn't seem to be a Vienna anywhere in Australia.
	It's a contribution always to the goals and objectives of the United Nations.
	Thank you, Australia, for the unstoppable country.
	I like your beard.
	How do you think the international community, including Russia, should react to this election?
	Before answering your question, ladies and gentlemen, I'm told that inadvertently I recognize Austria as Australia, I think.
	Sorry for that, but I think you know that there is no kangaroos in Austria.
	You make a joke, son.
	Bunky Moon, son.
	You're very funny.
	And now listen to the president.
	Funny guy.
	Listen.
	Sometimes this happens.
	I hope you understand.
	I hope you understand, Mr.
	Minister.
	That's fine.
	That's okay.
	We know you're a douchebag.
	We're an idiot.
	That's all right.
	We're just here for the chicks and the hookers.
	We're all here for the same reason, Bunky.
	No one's doing any work.
	We know what we're doing.
	Hey, by the way, did you see that Conchita's worst?
	Elite.
	Maybe he likes beards on women.
	That's possible.
	It was just...
	Bunky moon.
	Bunky blunders.
	Conchita worst.
	I mean, please.
	It's insulting.
	It's insulting on so many levels.
	Stupid joke.
	Worst refers to a sausage.
	Worst as in worst.
	I mean, there's this levels after levels of insult.
	Huge, just hilariousness.
	I did see, speaking of international douchebags, there's the Luxembourg documents have been released.
	I don't know if you...
	A couple of people started emailing this to me starting yesterday.
	And this is the...
	Oh, I call it the Luxembourg leaks, I guess.
	Luxembourg, very interesting country, of course, really being run in the background by Junker the Drunker.
	um, Jean-Claude Juncker.
	And lo and behold, would you believe that some of the largest corporations in the universe, such as Pepsi, uh, Ikea, uh, the list goes on and on have been, um, uh, funneled federal express have been funneling their money through Luxembourg, funneled federal express have been funneling their money through Luxembourg, um, with help from, uh, who are the, what's the big, uh, the big, uh, price waterhouse
	And then they get these love notes or comfort letters, I think they're called.
	And I guess the way the scam works is you open up a bank in Luxembourg, as you call it the IKEA Bank, and then you lend money to your own corporation from the IKEA Bank, which is really only part of a licensing deal.
	And the way it all ends up is you wind up paying no taxes.
	And then you shuttle that money through Ireland and the Netherlands, and everything's perfect.
	And then you get suspended freely.
	Yeah, exactly.
	These scams are all over the place.
	Yeah, but this is the ICIJ, which I was unfamiliar with.
	It's the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
	Never heard of it.
	Yeah, it seems sketchy to me.
	ICIJ.org.
	And when I looked at this outfit, the only thing I could think of was, hmm...
	Someone's trying to screw somebody and they're doing it through this organization, this ICIJ, a global network of about 185 investigative journalists in more than 65 countries.
	I've never heard of any of these people and who they work with.
	And it seems like it's like a mainstream media kind of death star or something.
	But they've come up with a really cute video, one of those hand-drawn things which explains how the scam works.
	And of course the scam is perfectly legal, I'm sure.
	Everything is just legality.
	But it's being played up really big.
	And I'm not sure exactly why, other than maybe to screw one of the other countries.
	Because Luxembourg, what is it, half a million people live in Luxembourg?
	It's all banks.
	2,000 banks at one address.
	Yeah.
	I just wanted to put it on her radar because I'm not quite sure.
	The other shoe has not dropped, I guess, in this.
	But of course, we really don't know anything here in America.
	I was watching CNBC. Now, you think CNBC would know a little bit about Europe and money and stuff?
	Am I oversimplifying my...
	Did you get that clip?
	The guy, the idiot?
	Joe Kernan with the CEO of IDA. Is that the one you're talking about?
	No, I'm talking about the one where the guy goes, I don't understand why Ireland is not using the pound, that guy.
	That's the clip, yes.
	Guys, what an idiot.
	So Joe Kernan, who's been on CNBC for decades, he's there with the IDA, which is, is it the Irish, I think it's a part...
	It's like the Irish investment...
	Yeah, it's some Irish financial operation.
	So he's there with the CEO. Not Northern Ireland, Ireland.
	Well, I have the clip.
	And it's flabbergasting to hear how these guys who are supposed to know money and world affairs don't even know the simplest things.
	What has the weaker euro meant in terms of tourism?
	Yes, so I think Ireland's a very globalized economy, so we look to what's happening here as much as we do to what's happening in Europe, and we look to what's happening in Europe.
	You have pounds anyway, don't you?
	We have euros.
	You have euros in Ireland?
	We have euros, yes.
	Why do you have euros in Ireland?
	Why wouldn't we have euros in Ireland?
	He thinks that Ireland is a part of the UK, apparently.
	Yeah, obviously he does.
	I'd use the pound.
	No, we've had the euro for some time and we're very happy with it.
	What about Scotland?
	I was using Scottish...
	Scottish pounds.
	Scottish pounds.
	They use sterling.
	They use sterling?
	Yeah, they're part of the UK, douche.
	They use sterling.
	But we use euro.
	What?
	Why would you do that?
	Why wouldn't we do that?
	Why didn't Scotland?
	No wonder they want to break away.
	We're not.
	He doesn't even know Scotland.
	Ever hear that vote thingy they were doing, Kernan?
	Did that pass you by that they were doing that?
	Aren't you right next to...
	We're very close, but entirely separate.
	It's sort of the same island, isn't it?
	And in the north of Ireland, they have sterling.
	They do?
	What?
	What happened in Northern Ireland?
	It's just too confusing.
	But has it helped to draw people over with a weaker euro?
	Yes, I think it has.
	Tourism numbers have been extraordinarily strong, actually, this year, but particularly from North America.
	So it's a nice place to come and visit.
	I think that's, you know, we have some key attractors.
	Northern Ireland's the pound.
	Northern Ireland's the pound, yes.
	Oh my God, you guys ought to get it together over there.
	We've got to come over, hang out.
	You were just there.
	I was in Scotland.
	I would encourage you to visit us.
	We can show you, I think, why firms in particular come.
	Yeah, they want to go with them.
	I don't know.
	That's too confusing.
	Northern Ireland should be the one not using the pound.
	He doesn't even know the basics about Northern Ireland.
	And the thing about, you know, he doesn't know that Northern Ireland is part of the UK. He thinks that Ireland is for some unknown reason.
	He can't figure out why they're using the euro.
	And if he knew anything, he knew the Irish left in a revolution, not by a vote, from Britain.
	And when they left, they started their own banking.
	And they would never have anything to do with the pound.
	They hate the Brits.
	And so what is this guy?
	Where's this guy Ben?
	And he's Scotland, apparently, golfing.
	You're right.
	He's on CNBC as one of the experts.
	Yeah, that's what you get.
	Being the public, whatever.
	I don't know.
	It's just that it's beyond me.
	That's what you get.
	It was embarrassing to hear that clip.
	Embarrassing.
	And then he kept up with it.
	And that idiot, the guy who was sitting there was the New York Times, ex-New York Times guy, I can't remember his name, but he was a very poor broadcaster.
	He was always stammering and stuttering.
	He was like me.
	And he never jumped in to say, hey, hey, hey, because you could have stopped him early.
	I don't think he knew.
	But apparently nobody knew.
	But you should have stopped him earlier and said, wait, hold on a second.
	I think you're confusing Northern Ireland and the UK. Ireland is a separate country.
	It's broke off in the 20s or years ago, and it became its own country.
	It's got nothing to do with the UK at all, and they don't even like them.
	And it's a tax haven, and they've got nothing to do with England.
	What would make you think that they did?
	You should not talk anymore.
	It's pathetic.
	Anyway.
	And they all have computers in front of them.
	And they've got...
	It may be someone in the control room.
	Ah, Joe, shut the fuck up.
	Shut up.
	Shut up.
	Northern Ireland is one of the UK. They had...
	You ever hear of, like, the Northern Ireland?
	Like, war and beating people up?
	Ever hear that, Joe?
	Shut up.
	No, none of that.
	Yeah, you'd think so.
	That's actually what it should be.
	Then they all have IFBs.
	Yep.
	Everybody on that show.
	Yep.
	And there's absolutely no reason for them to do this, yeah.
	Right.
	Okay, in 1937 they put together a constitution.
	So it was when did they break away?
	They were removed from Ireland and was declared a republic under the Republic of Ireland Act of 1948.
	The state had no relations with Northern Ireland for most of the 20th century.
	The Irish Free State in 1922.
	War of Independence.
	Okay, that's when it began.
	Okay.
	Oh, well.
	Anyway.
	Oh, well.
	Yeah.
	Sterling.
	What?
	Why don't you guys get it together?
	All right.
	What else you got there, Johnny boy?
	Okay.
	So we had a Halloween.
	Now, every year there's a scare story.
	When I was a kid.
	When I was a kid.
	When I was a kid, it was needles and razor blades that people would put in.
	Put in apples.
	You heard this too?
	That was my kid's story.
	Yeah, my kid's story too.
	Razor blades and apples.
	Don't bite into an apple.
	And not just a Mach 3.
	No.
	One of those old disposable razors.
	There's old blades.
	Yeah, blades.
	And needles.
	Yeah, don't bite into it.
	Which, of course, I'm convinced was put in there by the Packaged Goods Company to make sure that you would eat more Mars bars.
	That would be no agenda thinking.
	Yes.
	So I've got a question for you because now times have changed.
	So Halloween Surprise Part 1.
	Woo!
	An eight-year-old girl goes out trick-or-treating and comes home with a lot more than candy.
	Andrea Vorva is in Hercules tonight.
	Andrea?
	Well, Liz, every year police officers warm parents...
	Stop.
	Yes?
	Okay.
	I cut it off before they say what it is, but part two explains it.
	I don't know why.
	But there's seven more seconds.
	Maybe it's on there.
	Oh, well, play the seven seconds.
	To go through their kids' candy stash before they eat it.
	This year in Hercules, that phrase?
	More than just lip service.
	And that's where it ends.
	Okay.
	Okay, good.
	Okay, that was the tease.
	Do I have to answer?
	You'll have to guess.
	Okay.
	So they have to go through...
	One guess.
	One guess.
	Modern.
	Modern.
	Do I get to...
	Can I ask a one question before I... You can ask one question.
	I may or may not refuse to answer.
	Is there...
	Are they blaming a group for this, such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda or anything like that?
	That would be better.
	But no.
	They are kind of in a vague way blaming a group.
	Yes.
	I'm going to guess rat poison.
	Hit it.
	That's not pixie stick sugar inside that pink baggie.
	It's meth.
	A dad who was going through his eight-year-old daughter's Halloween candy.
	He called Hercules PD. Who knew?
	Hey, Mom!
	I'm really productive right now, Mom!
	That wasn't candy.
	Pretty instantly.
	I mean, it's something that we see a lot in this area, the methamphetamine.
	The dose was only a tenth of a gram, but more than enough to harm a child.
	Big enough to either use via snorting or injecting.
	The child went tricky.
	We're treating here, in the promenade neighborhood of Hercules, a Norman Rockwell-esque place of wide sidewalks, bronze leaves, and actual white picket fences.
	Maureen Alberton says 400 ghouls and goblins came to her door Halloween night.
	There are times that you could have, like, 25 at a time.
	Pixie sticks.
	Lovely.
	Of course, it's been easy.
	Choke, brother!
	You know they're behind it.
	Wow.
	I would have to say yes to that.
	That's great.
	I knew you wouldn't guess it.
	No.
	No, no.
	Not in a million years.
	We're talking about this.
	Pixie sticks.
	Really?
	And what was that in California?
	Was that your local?
	It was up the street here in Hercules.
	Don't go near that house on the hill.
	He says he's got hundred dollar bills, but he'll make you eat the pixie stick.
	Now, meanwhile, there was a drug-related explosion in Concord, and there's a product here I want to ask you about, because you might know about it.
	I've never heard of this.
	Okay.
	Fire investigators believe the explosion was caused by two people living in one of the condos who had been making honey hash oil.
	It's made partly with marijuana plants, and butane is used as part of the process to make it.
	Butane, of course, flammable and combustible gas, and fire investigators believe that's what caused the explosion.
	Yeah, we've had a couple clips about this in the past.
	This is the big...
	I mean, it's making hash oil.
	I don't know why she added honey there, but making hash oil...
	Oh, I thought it's a honey.
	What was it?
	Honey hash or something?
	Honey hash oil is what she said.
	Yeah, honey hash oil.
	I never heard this.
	Yeah, we've talked about it where people...
	I know, they blow.
	I guess it blows up.
	Yeah, you can blow stuff.
	Yeah, if you don't do it right.
	Use the butane to make a...
	I don't know how you'd even make it.
	I have no idea.
	I mean, obviously the butane is used in an extractive process, and then you just boil off the butane in the process, and then it blows up if you're not careful.
	It's like if some people...
	These guys have got to be half dead.
	I mean, I don't know how you could get away with this, because no matter what you do, the butane is going to go into the air, and it stinks.
	It's got an odorant in it.
	We have many producers who have responded in the past.
	I think the Den Man is the one who responds the best.
	Da Den Man.
	Da Den Man.
	He makes this stuff.
	If you know what you're doing and a moron, you can do it.
	It's like, yeah, you can also have alcohol still in your basement and that can blow up.
	There's all kinds of stuff.
	But it's just more fear-mongering.
	It's like pixie sticks.
	It's like pixie sticks with meth.
	Which I think would be a great way to market it.
	We're like little skulls down the side.
	Pixie sticks.
	Yeah, you know you want.
	Hey, so a lot of people finally caught on to this bullcrap meme, but I tracked it back to the source and I did want to bring this to our attention.
	This was one of these anti-Putin memes.
	Putin!
	The headline was pretty much, Because Tim Cook is gay, Russians tear down Steve Jobs monument.
	What?
	You didn't hear this?
	No, I missed this once.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	That's funny.
	It's a good one, though, I had to say.
	I'm going to read you the...
	That's a beauty.
	Yeah, I'm going to read you a couple of these headlines.
	This is going back a couple days.
	There was this giant iPhone in front of the...
	in St.
	Petersburg, in front of the college...
	And this is from, I'll read you the Globe and Mail, citing the need to abide by a law combating gay propaganda.
	ZEFS, that would be the, I believe, the spokesperson for this university, said in a statement on Monday that the memorial had been removed on Friday, the day after Apple CEO Cook had announced he was homosexual.
	Quote, in Russia, gay propaganda and other sexual perversions among minors are prohibited by law.
	ZEFS said, not a person, but ZEFS. Noting that the memorial had been in an area of direct access for young students and scholars.
	After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was taken down to abide to the Russian federal...
	He did?
	He publicly called for...
	You just made that up.
	No, I'm reading a quote.
	Now, here's the cool thing.
	And this is what I think is important.
	Engadget.
	Just so you know what your tech news is doing, people.
	Steve Jobs' memorial dismantled in Russia because of Tim Cook's sexuality by Chris Velasco.
	Hello, Chris Velasco.
	Moron.
	After Steve Jobs died in 2011, a Russian holding company called the West European Financial Union, or ZFS in Russian, erected a big iPhone-shaped memorial statue that told visitors about Jobs' life outside of St.
	Petersburg College.
	Innocuous tribute, no?
	No.
	Nothing about the memorial itself was intrinsically troubling, but it's been recently dismantled all the same because of two reasons.
	First, EFS is looking at the act as a way of condemning the company for allegedly spying on users across the globe and informing U.S. security services about them.
	The second reason, however, sits on the fence between mind-boggling and patently offensive.
	In accordance with the controversial law, hyperlink to theatlantic.com, meant to curb gay propaganda...
	ZEFS took down the statue, quote, to abide to the Russian federal law protecting children from information-promoting denial of traditional family values.
	Seriously?
	These people are...
	And this guy goes on and on.
	What's interesting is that the...
	I wanted to find out where this came from originally.
	Because we know in Gadget and Globe and Mail, they just copy-paste journalism.
	It's actually a crime these people are getting paid to do their journalism.
	This comes from Reuters, John.
	From a Reuters report.
	Okay.
	Written by, filed by, I should say, Katya Golubkova.
	Moscow.
	Reuters.
	A memorial to Apple Inc.
	founder Steve Jobs has been dismantled in the Russian city of St.
	Petersburg after the man who succeeded him at the helm of the company, Tim Cook, came out as gay.
	Everything that has been extrapolated in these other bullcrap copy-paste journalistic stories comes from this Reuters article.
	I find that to be the real news here.
	Now, of course, this has been deconstructed.
	This is not real news by any means.
	We've discussed this for seven years.
	This is what goes on.
	Right, but...
	What is happening is now RT, of course, came out and said, hey, this thing was broken.
	They were taking it down because the touchscreen didn't work anymore.
	It was slated to be taken down six months ago.
	It was completely unrelated to the Tim Cook coming out.
	Yeah, I know that would make sense.
	It sounds more logical.
	Right.
	But shame on Reuters.
	How can you believe anything Reuters says if they're publishing this?
	We have identified Reuters as an agency for MI6 and some other intelligence agencies.
	This is not news to us.
	No, not to us.
	Of course not.
	But I want people to understand that Reuters is at the bottom or the top, whichever way you want to look at the pyramid, and then you get all these little...
	What's this boy's name again who wrote this Engadget crap?
	Chris Velasco.
	That's very much written like a good April Fool's gag.
	Oh, you should see Chris Velasco, his associate editor.
	And his picture on Engadget there has him with shades and rabbit ears.
	Yeah, that's about what you should be wearing, dude.
	Oh, now you got me looking, damn it.
	Chris, V-E-L-A-Z-C-O. How do you spell G-E-L? Victor Echo Lima Alpha Zulu Charlie Oscar.
	Look at his picture.
	Yeah, that's about all you deserve, dude.
	Copy-paste.
	Fools on you.
	How can we believe anything you say now?
	He's copy-paste from compromised Reuters.
	Tech news.
	I was making some comment.
	Did you see it?
	Did you see his picture?
	No, I got the wrong.
	I spelled his name wrong.
	I got some other guy.
	How do you spell it again?
	Victor...
	Just spell it to me.
	Don't give me the code.
	V what?
	Hold on, just close it.
	Okay.
	V-E-L-A-Z-C-O. Okay, that's better.
	Alright, now I go to...
	You don't have to treat me like an idiot.
	Well...
	Code.
	Okay, images.
	Code indeed.
	He's Chinese?
	Yeah, or he's Asian.
	Something like that.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Oh, there's a picture of him with two, like, lemons in his eyeballs.
	He's a goofball.
	Okay, I get it.
	Total goof nut.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what you do.
	That's today's model.
	We've gone over this.
	Nobody gets paid enough to do anything more than what he did.
	So I'm on his side.
	You're sticking up for him.
	I'm sticking up for him.
	Nobody gets paid enough to do any more than what he did.
	He didn't run the Reuters article full cloth.
	He took it and rewrote the article completely.
	And made some comments like, these guys are a-holes for doing this.
	Assuming that what they did was, you know, RT probably covered it properly.
	No, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	That's fine.
	Okay, fine.
	Then let me give you some actual tech news that happened.
	We don't need to play our tech news jingle.
	Mike Rogers, who is Admiral Mike.
	Admiral Mike.
	You know who Admiral Mike is?
	I think we've talked...
	This is not Mike Rogers, the congressman who's going to become a DJ. No, there's DJ Mike Rogers, and then there's Admiral Mike Rogers.
	Yeah, I remember Admiral Mike Rogers.
	Admiral Mike Rogers replaced their Kaiser at the National Security Agency at the NSA. And he has made a point.
	Every six months, he goes to Silicon Valley to go sit in an auditorium and talk and have little group sessions with the tech leaders.
	I'm surprised you were not invited, actually.
	I don't get invited to anything like that.
	I'm surprised you were not.
	I'm not a tech leader.
	I'm not a CE schmo.
	You know who was in the front row?
	Scoble.
	No.
	Jeff Jarvis, close enough.
	I only found this one YouTube video.
	This is at Stanford.
	And he's on stage.
	And the woman, who I think is his press agent, asks him a question.
	I cut all of that out.
	And the question is, when you find a vulnerability, Or a zero-day exploit.
	What are you going to do about it?
	Are you going to, like we know you have done in the past, when Der Kaiser was ruling you, we're going to keep that and exploit it so you can spy on people?
	Are you going to share that?
	And I think he made a revelation here, which to me was, what?
	Really?
	Really?
	So, I make two points.
	The first, what I tell the team as the new guy is, let there be no doubt that...
	Hold on, you've got to listen to how he's talking.
	What I tell the team as the new guy, let there be no doubt...
	The fundamentally strong internet is in the best interest of us as a nation and the world around us.
	Secondly, in terms of how do we strike this balance, the president has been very specific to us.
	Hey, look.
	Hey, look.
	I was going to say this again.
	Hey, look.
	The president came to me and said, hey, look.
	The balance I want you to strike will be largely focused on when you find vulnerabilities that we're going to share those.
	And the greater, I mean, by orders of magnitude, the greatest numbers of vulnerabilities we find we share.
	But he also talked about, hey, look.
	Hey, look.
	Does the president now say, hey, look?
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	And he's also a lip smacker, this guy.
	Hey, look!
	There are some instances in which we are not going to do that.
	And the thought process as we go through this from a policy side, as we make this deliberate decision, the kinds of things we tend to look at are how foundational and widespread is this potential vulnerability?
	Who tends to use it?
	Is it something that, you know, you'll generally find in one particular nation state or a particular segment?
	Or is this pretty wide across a large swath for the U.S. and for others?
	How likely do we think others are likely to find it?
	Is this the only way to potentially for us to generate the insights?
	Now, let's think of a really important thing that happened not too long ago.
	A big exploit that was discovered by...
	Oh, that's kind of in question.
	It may not pop to mind immediately, but he's gonna let us in on it.
	So Jeff Jarvis could hear it.
	Another alternative here that we could use.
	Those answers then generally shape, so what?
	Do we decide, hey, look, we're going to share this?
	Hey, look.
	Or do we decide not to?
	Again, by orders of magnitude.
	Wow, this guy's creepy.
	The default mechanism for us is we share the vulnerabilities we find.
	Okay, here it comes.
	Much of it you will never even hear about.
	You look at, in the immediate aftermath of Heartbleed, for example.
	The first media reporting I saw said, hey, NSA knew about this vulnerability and has been exploiting it against the U.S. for an extended period of time.
	Wrong.
	This first was outed, if my memory is right, on the 7th of April, first that we were aware of it.
	On the 8th of April, within 24 hours, using our information assurance mission, we developed a patch, a counter to the malware, and we shared that with the private sector.
	Wait a minute.
	Now he's saying that they discovered Heartbleed?
	What happened to the Google guy who discovered Heartbleed?
	What happened to that phony, baloney cybersecurity company that discovered Heartbleed?
	Do you remember that, John?
	Vaguely, but is that what he actually said?
	What he's saying is they discovered it, Then they shared it with the private sector, which to me means he told the Google guy and the malware guys, hey, we got this, go ahead.
	You don't have to, listen.
	And what we said was, you don't have to tell anybody this came from NSA. Just do it, because it's part of our mission.
	It's that information.
	Oh, you didn't have to tell anybody it came from NSA. Yeah, you can just say, you can just take credit.
	And they took credit for it.
	Oh, that's low.
	Lower than whale poop?
	I took credit for an NSA... Uh-huh.
	Oh, brother.
	Uh-huh.
	That hasn't been reported.
	Jarvis must have blogged it.
	Jarvis is not going to poop on Google because Google are the guys who said, remember there was the guy, oh, I discovered this!
	And then at the same time, what was the name of that other company that discovered it?
	Yes, it was some security company we've never heard of since or before.
	I'm going to look at it right now.
	Yeah, let's look it up.
	This is funny.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	The guy from NSA is out there showing dirty laundry?
	Yes.
	The guy has no clue about how to do this right.
	Well, he keeps saying, hey, look.
	And by the way, you don't have to credit us, even though I'm going to do it right now, and out you guys as phonies.
	Here you go.
	When it comes to online security, Neil Meta puts his money where his mouse is.
	The Google security researcher boosted a fundraiser for online privacy tools, blah, blah, blah, by donating the $15,000 reward he received for helping to expose the heart bleed bug.
	The freedom of the press?
	Isn't he the guy who just took over one of the divisions?
	Oh, it may be.
	N-E-E-L Meta.
	Could be.
	Oh, boy.
	So this guy's just a phony.
	Yes, it sounds like Google.
	Yeah, and you're right.
	Jarvis isn't going to say anything about it because it's Google-related.
	Neil Mehta.
	What was the name of the company that also took credit for it?
	Yeah, they were the same.
	They actually said, no, we found it first.
	No, we found it first.
	Bull crap.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Researcher, researcher.
	I can't find it, so...
	Maybe chat room can help out.
	NSA, NSA. Interesting, though.
	They immediately told everybody.
	And then he said, but you don't have to credit us, because that's what we do.
	He busts them.
	That's hilarious.
	Don't trust the NSA. Yeah, in front of everybody.
	That's the message that we're delivering right now.
	Well, there's more to that.
	Oh, my goodness.
	This has been reported, but I would say not in a big way.
	Let me just go to it here.
	This is Mike.
	No, I'm sorry, not Mike.
	This is their Kaiser.
	Turns out, so his financial disclosure forms, you may recall that the NSA said we cannot give you his financial disclosure forms because it would threaten national security.
	Now we're going back a year or so.
	Yeah, it's going to threaten his security.
	Well, yes.
	It turns out he was investing in a company that was about to get a big deal with AT&T, which was specifically for AT&T's contract with the NSA for some spy shit that they were doing.
	And so he was investing in the company.
	Yeah, which you can do legally, by the way.
	Yeah, it's disclosed.
	You just have to, like, not ask for it.
	Just don't ask for any disclosure.
	It's sickening.
	This is what they do.
	I've said this for years.
	The only reason you want to spy on the whole country is so you can listen in on these conversations with two big venture capitalists, get on the line, and listen to them talk about the deal they're going to do, and then invest in it.
	It's insider trading to take into the ultimate.
	And it's legal.
	Yeah, because they've made it legal.
	That was another great thing President Obama did.
	He made it legal?
	Yeah.
	That was the whole thing.
	The business we're not in.
	Yet another business we're not in.
	The SEC would be honest and they'd be threatening jail time.
	They threw Martha Stewart in jail.
	Comey no less.
	Our new director of the FBI. He threw Martha Stewart in jail.
	Yeah, he's the director of the FBI. He threw Martha Stewart in jail while this is going on.
	But nobody really cares.
	Before we take our break, I'd like to do a little bit of Agenda 21 global climate stuff news, if you don't mind.
	I'm all in on it, yeah.
	Even though it's earmarked for being a crackpot, apparently.
	Who said that?
	Apparently this is what they're saying now.
	Who's saying that?
	The media.
	Oh, if you're against, if you say it may not be true.
	It's just a document, it doesn't mean anything.
	Crackpots all think they're trying to, you know, enslave the public.
	Well, right now the meeting of the elders is taking place.
	What organization is this?
	Oh, you don't know about the elders?
	What's the elders?
	Oh, man.
	The Mormons?
	No.
	The elders, chaired by Kofi Annan, our friend from the World Food Program, is an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights.
	They were brought together in 2007 by Nelson Mandela.
	And so it is Mandela, Kofi Annan, and Richard Branson, who run this drinking club called The Elders.
	Oh, you've got to go to theelders.org.
	I'll tell you who's in it.
	Mandela, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu.
	Yeah, because I saw Richard Branson tweet, on my way to the Elders Conference.
	Oh, that's where you got it.
	Mm-hmm.
	Independent global leaders working together for peace and human rights.
	Yeah, this is a drinking club.
	And human rights.
	Yes.
	Oh, look at all.
	This is Douchebag Central.
	I know!
	But it's all about climate.
	And there's a Hedegaard, Connie Hedegaard.
	Europe's climate deal is a huge achievement.
	It's time for the rest of the world to match it.
	And this is the big push now.
	Jimmy Carter.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So here is a carry.
	Watermelon head carry.
	Now, I don't know if he got the memo or not.
	Let's try to get in this group.
	Oh, no.
	I would like to be a member of the elders.
	You can't.
	Why?
	Why can't I? But they're a bunch of racists?
	Ageists?
	No.
	You can only become a member of the elders if you were an important person who no longer is an important person.
	Before you play your clip, let me just mention what makes an elder from their own sight.
	Yes, read it.
	You can be a peacemaker with decades of experience mediating and resolving conflicts.
	That would be you and I. I think you'd qualify.
	The peace builders who have helped post-conflict societies to heal wounds and rebuild.
	Hello?
	I think we've been healing Heidi from day one.
	Yes, I think we've been healing a lot.
	The social revolutionaries who transformed their own countries by reducing poverty, improving the status of women.
	Hello!
	Wait a minute, why is it the status of women only?
	Or championing non-violent struggle?
	Yeah, we don't qualify for that.
	This is a bunch of women things going on here.
	Yeah.
	What about the pioneering men who have governed their countries and led internationalists?
	Spirit-headed movements to empower women.
	And this is started by a man.
	This is pretty presumptuous.
	An elder is also...
	Wait a minute.
	I'm looking at this.
	Man, man, man, man, woman.
	Man, man, man, woman, woman.
	Man, man.
	It's all men.
	An elder is also a changemaker.
	Someone who can lead by example.
	I have one of those little things you clip around your belt.
	I'm a changemaker.
	Changemaker.
	Changemaker.
	They're great, by the way.
	I think they meant they're fresh makeup.
	Isn't that the...
	How do they work?
	How do the elders work?
	What can we do?
	We open doors to gain access to decision makers at the highest levels.
	We listen to everyone.
	No matter how unpalatable or unpopular to promote dialogue.
	Oh, yeah.
	Kofi announced it.
	Kofi announced it.
	Creating space for campaigners and policy makers.
	Their big thing is climate change.
	Richard Branson, Peter Gabriel.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course, Peter Gabriel.
	Of course.
	The change makers.
	Cam Omidar.
	Omidar.
	Oh, yeah.
	Omidia, yeah.
	Always a big part of this.
	The wife of the Omidar guy.
	No, they're all in on it.
	It's a big club.
	Anyway, so while they're over there drinking around and talking about climate change and how other countries better get on board, I mean, someone's got to rein in Kerry.
	He was in, I think he was in Paris on his way, getting his hair done at Hillary's place.
	I don't know what he was doing.
	France 24 people just rag on him when they do their debate.
	And they should, because he says stuff that is so moronic.
	Okay, so maybe you're all in on climate change.
	You want to motivate people, right?
	And you want to motivate them to reduce carbon emissions, plant trees, don't use coal, don't use, well, we shouldn't use gas either, but I mean, just reduce, reduce, reduce.
	That is what the mission of a changemaker is.
	Would you agree?
	Yes, just for the point of debate, yes, absolutely.
	The United States and China are the two largest consumers of energy.
	And we are the world's two largest emitters of global greenhouse gases.
	Together we account for that roughly, you know, it's about 45% in climbing, unfortunately.
	So we need to solve this problem together.
	Okay.
	So far, he's got me.
	I'm feeling good.
	We are the indispensable nation.
	He represents the indispensable nation.
	We need to change this together.
	What can I do?
	It's what we do.
	What can I do, Secretary of State, Ambassador Herr Kerry?
	Why?
	Because neither one of us can possibly solve it alone.
	Even if every single American biked to work or carpooled to school or used only solar panels to power their homes, if we reduced our emissions to zero, if we planted each of us in America a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what?
	That still wouldn't be enough to counteract the carbon pollution coming from China and the rest of the world.
	Well, fuck it.
	Well, fuck it.
	Rev up the diesel.
	I don't care.
	What kind of messaging is this?
	It's not very good messaging.
	This guy is an idiot.
	Well, I think we've concluded that some time back.
	But not quite as big an idiot as Christine Milne of the Green Party in Australia.
	Green Party in Australia is one of the worst.
	Oh, very, very funny, though.
	And I love this.
	This is a Sky broadcaster.
	So, of course, he's going to crap on the Green Party no matter what.
	But it makes it all that much more fun to listen to.
	For the Greens, they're issuing their own warning today, which perhaps didn't quite go to plan.
	Here was Greens leader Christine Milne.
	Do you want death or do you want coal?
	That's what we're talking about here.
	Tony Abbott wants coal.
	Coal is not good for humanity just as Tony Abbott is not good for the planet when we're talking about global warming.
	Death or coal?
	Well, I think most people would probably pick coal.
	Death and coal might have been what the Greens leader said.
	Perhaps he was talking about, well, renewable energy or death.
	We'll wait and see if there's a clarification later on.
	You want death or coal?
	Death or coal.
	What an idiot!
	That is the dumbest thing.
	Oh, man.
	This is the Greenwich Mean Time Watch.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	I can't wait to get down there.
	I've already received a number of emails of people offering some suggestions, ideas.
	They feel that three weeks maybe pushing it is not quite enough to do Australia and New Zealand.
	I told you.
	Yeah, well, we're going to have to do something.
	Especially if you're going to do Perth.
	It's so beautiful, though.
	It's just a day in Perth just to hang out and then just because we always talk about it.
	How can we not go to Perth?
	You cannot go to Perth.
	You can just go to Perth.
	Go to Vietnam and Indonesia and Perth.
	No, I didn't make another trip.
	It's two trips.
	Yeah, I think Vietnam would be a different trip altogether.
	We're doing Australia and New Zealand.
	We're not going to veer off to other stuff.
	Well, you're not going to get to Perth.
	Well, that's what you say.
	They got internet?
	Then we can do the show.
	It'll be fine.
	Perth is fantastic.
	Anyway, I need a coordinator for each of these.
	I guess we need a coordinator for each province and a coordinator for New Zealand as well.
	We need coordinators.
	This is a big trip.
	I don't know enough about it.
	Yeah, if it was me, I'd just ad lib.
	Go over there, roam around, rent a car, drive around, get on a train, get off.
	What's all this sand?
	We've been driving around for a couple days now.
	I just go to the wine-growing area.
	I'm thirsty.
	I'm going to show myself mood by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Hey, hey!
	In the Well, we do have a few people to thank for show 667, and we'll thank them.
	Yes.
	Beginning with Greg Darr, who's in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and he came in with the memorable donation of 12345.
	It's my first donation of any amount greater than $5.
	Favorite number.
	And he needs a dedouching.
	Give him a dedouching.
	I'll be happy to give him a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Yes, student loans to pay off.
	We'll give him a karma at the end.
	Sir Grebulon in Tel Aviv.
	Hello, Sir Grebulon.
	Tel Aviv.
	This is a long overdue donation.
	He says, one, two, three, two, one.
	WJB wraps in Kirkrod, Limburg.
	Kirkrod.
	Kirkrod.
	$101.
	In Limburg, the home of Limburg Cheese.
	Right?
	Limburger.
	Yes?
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	Dave Bozeman in Wilmington, North Carolina, $100.
	Jared C. Wolfe in Appleton, New York, $88.94.
	Do you have a note there?
	Is that a check or what is that?
	That's a check.
	88.94.
	I think it was a check.
	Yeah.
	But it was a check from the bank.
	It was one of those bank checks that the bank sends, which a lot of people are adopting.
	I think it's fantastic.
	It's great.
	Sir J.D., Baron of Silicon Valley, 77.88 in San Jose, California.
	Happy 7th, he says.
	It's a little late, but it's good.
	Yeah, we'll take it.
	Brian Klimczak in Naperville, Illinois, 75.
	John Haller in Missoula, Montana, 69.69.
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	Schaffhausen.
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	Schaffhausen.
	Suisse.
	Joseph Monty in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
	6670.
	Richard Hillenbrand in New Woodstock, New York.
	He moved out of Old Woodstock.
	It was too muddy.
	667.
	Lucas...
	- - - - - - - - - - - - While driving from Leiden to The Hague, had an ugly reminder given by my car.
	666 kilometers of fuel left about not donating for the 666 show.
	Sorry for that.
	So he donated 66.67.
	Yeah, very good.
	I guess he didn't stop quick enough.
	Stephen McConnell in Cortland, Ohio, 66.66.
	Anonymous in Arnheim.
	But that'd be Arnhem, I think.
	Arnhem.
	Arnhem, yeah.
	Yeah, Netherlands.
	66.60.
	Angela Cumbera.
	Yeah, I want to read this.
	Okay.
	56.78, Prescott, Arizona.
	Hit it.
	John and Adam, I just sent you my first donation ever, even though my husband and I have been big fans of your show for years.
	I found out about your show through John being on Twit, and we were so happy we did.
	My husband and I have always appreciated the forthrightness spoken on your show and your courage to say so.
	Your unraveling of the media yarn is simply the best.
	In short, your show and you too are an asset to the general public and everyone should be listening to you and turning off their TV sets and the garbage we get fed every day.
	We turned off our cable years ago and now just enjoy what we get on a Roku box and that has suited us just fine for these years.
	Sadly, my husband Tom passed away six weeks ago today, September 24th, on a Wednesday.
	He battled cancer for years, and yes, in the end, he beat cancer, but the treatments and their side effects ultimately did him in.
	The radiation weakened his main artery, and he died of cardiac arrest due to acute hemorrhaging.
	This has been the saddest time of my life.
	My husband was only 54, and I am now a 47-year-old widow with two daughters aged 23 and 12.
	My husband Tom loved listening to your show Thursday and Sunday, and he did so without fail, even during the time of his treatment visits that went on for eight weeks, and afterwards, while he recuperated, he stayed tuned in.
	Your show was something he looked forward to.
	My goal is to make my husband a knight posthumously.
	He would have loved it, so that will be my gift to him.
	It is my hope that I'm able to set up a monthly donation amount so I can make this happy for him.
	Thank you for informing him as well as entertaining him throughout his years of battling this dreaded disease and all that comes with it.
	Sincerely, Angela Kamberra.
	Nice.
	It's beautiful.
	Yes.
	Well, thank you for the donation, and we'll look forward to donating him in absentia.
	And where is she from?
	Prescott, Arizona.
	Oh, we'll look her up in Arizona.
	Yeah, you're going to be there.
	You can go over there and say hi.
	Phil Rodas in Fairview Park, South Australia, 5555.
	He says, if you guys come down to Adelaide, I can have three knighthoods in the bag.
	I don't know if that's good.
	I don't know if that's good.
	There's the three guys.
	Kevin Dills, Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Sandra Ferreira in New York City, $55.
	And she's donating on behalf of her boyfriend, Pedro Gonzalez, on her fourth anniversary, and instead of a lame gift, I wanted to tell him that I loved him through my favorite podcast.
	Please send us some karma.
	Put that at the end if you want to thank you for doing that.
	This is very...
	That's love.
	Sandra loves Pedro.
	Big time.
	Yes.
	And I just did the sound, which was not a smack.
	It was off the side of my...
	Like a tsk.
	David Hoffman, Enola, Pennsylvania, 5432.
	James Gockel in...
	You know, I wrote back on this, and I guess somebody...
	I got a bunch of emails on this.
	He's at $50.60 in California City.
	Yes, and you know what?
	He proved it to me.
	I think the whole site is bogus.
	No.
	He sent me a picture of one of his W-2s.
	And it says California City.
	Uh-huh.
	Now, I can't tell you why.
	It's $55,000 for a three-bedroom, two-bath house.
	I don't know about that, but you just said it doesn't exist, but it exists.
	Where?
	In California.
	Where?
	California's a big place.
	It could be five states.
	It's California City, California.
	I looked at it.
	I saw the site, and I couldn't figure out where this was.
	Okay.
	We've got people dying of cancer here, and you're talking about where you don't believe.
	Well, I just had my doubts.
	Okay.
	Can...
	Oh, Dithrick.
	I'd say D-thrick. I'd say D-thrick. D-thrick. D-thrick. D-thrick. D-thrick. I'd say D-thrick.
	Whoops.
	Hello!
	Sorry about that.
	And he's in Lakeland, Florida.
	$50 and one cent would be at the top of the list.
	Yep.
	Because the rest of these are $50 and there's just very few of them.
	Christian, I don't know what this is.
	Is it in Deutschland?
	I think it's Krooper.
	I'm missing it because of PayPal.
	It would be Krooper.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's some umlaughted thing.
	We can't see it.
	He's been listening for some time now, being a German university student.
	There you go, students.
	I think that's an extra cast, so I thought I'd contribute.
	Hey, we've got some nights in Arizona.
	Let's go hang out.
	Let's go to Angela's house.
	We'll have a party going.
	Christopher Walker, $50 from Parts Unknown.
	David McLean, $50 from Cuba, Missouri.
	Macy Stolowski in Parts Unknown again, $50.
	Matthew Januszewski in Chicago.
	Chicago, Adam Beck in Tempe, Arizona.
	These are all 50s.
	Jason Deluzio in Chadsford, Pennsylvania.
	And finally, Sir Brett Farrell, I believe he's a knight in Oklahoma City.
	Contributors and helpers and donors and producers for show 667.
	I want to thank every one of them, and all the people that donated lesser amounts, and there's plenty of them, too, including there's one note.
	I have it.
	The birthday note?
	For my favorite, the money is tight right now.
	I've donated a while, but I couldn't resist a microbeast.
	No, I didn't see that one.
	Thanks, John, for booking me on KPFA's Guns N' Butter show.
	Sorry.
	Good.
	No, we got a late donation from 13-year-old Lauren Smith.
	I just donated.
	Hope it reaches you in time for today's show.
	I can't afford much.
	Only $28.14.
	But when I'm earning, I'll definitely donate more.
	You're 13.
	I want to send some happy birthday wishes to my dad, Kristen Smith, who will be another year older today.
	So we got him, Dad Kristen, on the birthday list.
	And let's do a, let's do a, let's see, let's do a jobs, because a lot of people are in school, in school no less, donating to the show.
	Thank you.
	So you definitely deserve jobs.
	And for Angela, we'll do a big F cancer, which always, this really makes me smile.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
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	And help us out for the Sunday show, everybody.
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	And change.
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	I'm going to watch it.
	Also, as we said, Lauren Smith says happy birthday to her dad, Kristen, who celebrates today, another day older.
	Very sweet and nice of you, Lauren.
	And Stephanie Rice, Reese, says happy birthday to her fiancé, Jay, celebrating tomorrow.
	And Sir Mark Tanner says happy birthday to his wife, Lady Beverly Tanner, celebrating today as well.
	Happy birthday from all your friends here, the staff and management and shareholders of the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy birthday, yeah!
	Shareholders.
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	ISIS. Yeah.
	No nightings.
	No nightings?
	No.
	Well, we had so many...
	Oh, I got my phone ringing.
	Hang on.
	Oh, okay.
	Is it the yeah, yeah guy?
	Let's see who it is.
	Oh, it's obviously some recording.
	It hung up before I got to it.
	Oh, boy.
	I'm going to see why you even bothered.
	Why do you even bother?
	Scams.
	Why do you even bother?
	I've been getting a lot of calls from some guys that want to work on my house.
	Hello, Mr...
	Hello, Mr...
	John?
	Yeah.
	John...
	Hey, can I talk to John, please?
	Dvorak?
	Dvorak, believe me.
	Yeah, and I believe you.
	These are not the kind of guys who know that word.
	I follow this guy, William Engdahl.
	He's a professor, and I've learned a lot of my pipeline theories from...
	He's written many books.
	He's very pro-Russia, but he is an American scholar.
	And he's now writing for...
	I don't even know what his outfit is.
	Journal-neo.org.
	I don't know what...
	But I follow his writing.
	And he wrote something...
	It was like two paragraphs.
	I want to read this on the show.
	This is all you need to know about Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and Russia.
	And Turkey.
	Let's throw Turkey into the mix.
	And I just want to read this paragraph because it's so simple when you view it in context of the fear that is being thrown at us of all these terrorists, etc.
	In 2009, Assad refused to sign a proposed agreement with Qatar that would run a pipeline from Qatar's north field, contiguous with Iran's south parse field, through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and into Turkey, with a view to supply European markets, crucially bypassing Russia.
	Assad's rationale was, quote, to protect the interests of his Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas.
	Instead, the following year, Assad pursued negotiations for an alternative $10 billion pipeline plan with Iran across Iraq to Syria that would also potentially allow Iran to supply gas to Europe from its south parse field shared with Qatar.
	The memorandum of understanding for the project was signed in July 2012, just as Syria's civil war started to spread to Damascus and Aleppo and Homs, and earlier this year, Iraq signed a framework agreement for construction of the gas pipelines.
	The Iraq-Iran-Syria pipeline was a direct slap in the face to Qatar, and of course, the reason for the Ukrainian blockage of Gazprom's business into Europe.
	Thank you.
	That's all that...
	They're connected, and that's all you need to know.
	Yeah, you know, it's kind of disgusting.
	I remember reading about these pipelines way before...
	I think around 2000...
	2003, probably.
	Like in the 90s.
	Oh, okay, in the 90s, yeah.
	Well, way before we started our show and before we started the No Agenda...
	Type of thinking, which is what we'll be talking about on the Christmas show.
	And Dave, I remember there was something before the Afghan war and all the rest, and somebody had this crackpot website saying, the whole thing is going to bust out because of this Unical.
	It was a Unical pipeline that was going to run through Afghanistan across here and there.
	I read this thing, and I go, this guy's nuts and bullcrap.
	And then after the war, after the 9-11 event, and then we had this situation in Afghanistan, then secretly behind the scenes, it was signed off.
	The UNICAL pipeline was signed off in a minor news story, buried in the back of one of the newspapers.
	I said, wait a minute.
	And then you look back on it, and it was like the conspiracy that was behind these pipelines running through Afghanistan all turned out to be true.
	It wasn't a conspiracy at all, just a business deal.
	It was an actual deal.
	Yeah.
	These are real deals.
	These are not...
	Oh, it's a conspiracy.
	Somebody's talking about our show that way.
	A bunch of conspiracy bullcrap.
	No, we're just pointing...
	It's on paper.
	It's a business deal.
	This is what's going to happen.
	One of the drug companies is pushing the vaccine thing as a profit center for this reason alone, and that's why we have things like anti-smoking vaccines and other misuses of the term.
	Yeah.
	And these are not conspiracies.
	These are just like business deals that people aren't reporting on.
	Specifically, that was Jason Calacanis who disparaged us on the Twitter.
	Yeah, you responded to it.
	I did?
	Yes.
	Wow, that's worse than me not knowing I said sank of the mind.
	No, I was thinking about somebody else who did that.
	That was no, it was Jason Calacanis.
	He said, what, Corrine Dvorak?
	Those guys think Facebook is set up by the Saudis and, you know, whatever.
	Oh, right.
	Mossad.
	I wasn't thinking of him at the moment.
	You're right.
	Yeah, he said that.
	Yeah.
	Well, he doesn't, you know.
	Okay, great.
	Fine, yes.
	A little, uh...
	Get out, Chiners!
	This Nicaragua Canal is heating up a little bit.
	Yeah, this is bound to happen.
	We should have...
	I mean, I think we kind of predicted it because there's no way that this is going to ever be a good ending.
	So now there's Chinese who are...
	So this is supposed to compete with the Panama Canal.
	And it is a Chinese...
	Nice and wide, and it won't have so many locks.
	And the good news, where they want to build this, it's a lot of indigenous people.
	This is good news!
	Because we can just kill them and just waltz right over them.
	But now the...
	Let me see.
	The Chinese would do that.
	We wouldn't.
	No, no.
	We wouldn't do that at all.
	Let the Chinese do it and then we'll take the thing over later.
	Yes, we let them do the work and then we go in because there's terrorism and we kick them out.
	Employees of a Chinese company are currently going door to door to collect details on residence and property in the path of the canal.
	But with the opposition to the project rising, they are now accompanied by police and soldiers with Kalashnikovs.
	That must look pleasant.
	And demonstrations are now taking place.
	Many of the signs the people are carrying read, no Chinos, which I think we need to start using this phrase.
	No Chinos.
	No Chinos?
	Yeah, C-H-I-N-O-S. No Chinos.
	I guess that's what they call Chiners in Nicaragua.
	So this cannot end well.
	No, it's not going to end well, and we're behind all the protests, I'm sure.
	Oh, well, of course.
	Oh, which reminds me, let's go to the Euroland for a moment.
	I've been tracking Hungary with the Internet tax.
	Yeah.
	And wow, so the president or the prime minister rescinded quickly.
	Oh yeah, I'm going to cancel that to internet tax.
	That was a bad idea, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, because the protests were in the hundreds of thousands.
	So I think now they're going to have to find something else.
	Maybe they'll find some corruption or something has to be found, because we've got people on their feet.
	We've got people moving.
	And I think we're looking at some regime change soon.
	Oh yeah, definitely.
	Also, Spain, we see something being played there.
	I've got a clip.
	No good.
	There's this news of a Google tax.
	And here it is.
	Spain implodes on Google tax.
	I don't know.
	Whenever I see some internet thing and the government's in trouble, I'm just thinking, okay, what are we doing there?
	What do you have on Spain?
	I don't have anything on Spain.
	I have stuff on the EU. Oh, okay.
	Good.
	EU. And this is underreported, and I thought this was peculiar, and I think this is just a part of my grand vision of what's going to happen in Europe, which is a fantastic civil war.
	Fantastic not being...
	Do we have Germany attacking France again?
	Is that the usual?
	No, but we have Britain.
	Listen to this.
	Britain and the EU. I did not know that they were taking this that seriously.
	Oops.
	A warning from Angela Merkel.
	According to unnamed sources cited in German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, the Chancellor will no longer fight to keep Britain in the European Union.
	Britain is inching closer to, quote, a point of no return.
	This says Prime Minister David Cameron's party says it would try to cap intra-EU immigration if re-elected.
	Following the Der Spiegel report, George Osborne, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, says Cameron will press on with limiting immigration from the bloc.
	The ruling Conservatives are facing increased electoral pressure from the anti-EU and anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, or UKIP. A first UKIP MP was voted into Parliament last month.
	For Merkel, imposing a quota on EU citizen migrants would interfere with one of the fundamental and non-negotiable principles of the bloc, free movement between EU borders.
	Despite the warning Germany's government spokesperson has made clear Berlin would rather have an active and engaged Britain within the EU. But that decision is up to Britain.
	Would you like to see our V2 rockets?
	You think?
	I don't know.
	I thought that was an interesting clip.
	And it hasn't been, it's underreported, obviously, in this country.
	Who cares?
	Right.
	But it's just, maybe something's going to happen here, which, of course, would split the, you know, the British, to have the Commonwealth, they don't need the EU. And they were, apparently, Mimi's best friend is in town.
	She lives in Cornwall.
	And I chatted her up a little bit.
	And, of course, she's not no agenda thinker, so she's going to say...
	She's a 60-year-old woman.
	So?
	Yeah, she's very hot.
	Thank you.
	And when she hears this, she's going to know that I said that.
	She's not going to listen.
	These women don't listen to the show.
	You know that Mimi posted a picture of her when she was really young?
	Like in her 20s?
	Yeah.
	Oh, my God.
	You dog.
	No, no, she was...
	Sexy!
	Yeah.
	Whoa, smoking hot.
	Yeah, it tends to fade.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so...
	Just for you guys, actually.
	It tends to...
	It fades.
	It's like a crepe paper.
	She's not going to listen to the show.
	Not after this, she's not.
	No, she won't anywhere.
	She doesn't listen to the show anymore.
	She used to listen to the show, and I don't know what happened.
	Doghouse meet Dvorak.
	Your Mimi's great looking.
	Yes, she is.
	She's a great looking woman.
	Can I finish what I was going to try to say?
	Yes.
	Which is that this is separating out the Brits so the French and the Germans will just be fighting amongst themselves until the Civil War breaks out and then England will have to come in and they'll have their asses handed to them and we'll have to save Europe again.
	That is what's going to happen.
	It's going to happen around 2020.
	Hmm.
	2020.
	I thought 2017 was the date.
	2017 is the collapse of the economy.
	And that's the global economy.
	Well, it's going to be our economy, too.
	Yeah, it's going to be the global economy.
	It has to be.
	Yeah, it'll be global.
	We have this thing, because now if you look at...
	It has to be right after the election.
	Or the U.S. election in 2016.
	Okay, right.
	Because if you look now, we have gold falling significantly.
	Silver is like down 40%.
	Oil is down.
	I mean, at a certain point, doesn't all this work against us?
	I mean, I think now even the New York Times is jokingly writing about how Kerry went to see his buddies there in Saudi Arabia and said, hey, hey, shake.
	Hey, royal dude!
	Why don't you screw everybody up with the prices here?
	Let's screw Putin a little bit.
	Let's bring this down.
	But won't that eventually start to ruin our so-called magical fracking oil that we've discovered because it just won't make sense to pull this stuff out of the ground?
	I mean, isn't this going to...
	Isn't it a spiral that cannot end?
	No, the frackers are going to take it in the shorts, there's no doubt about it.
	But we don't really like fracking.
	The only reason that fracking has been going on as long as it has, if you want to play this, fracking as a campaign issue is because the fracking lobby has been pushing both sides of the aisle by giving them lots of money to shut up so nobody says anything.
	The price of natural gas in America will rise.
	Republicans are intent on pushing this priority.
	Cory Gardner, one of the Republican Senate candidates to one last night in Colorado, he's made this one of his top initiatives and Republican leaders have signaled this is at the top of the list along with the Keystone XL. Now, of course, when it comes to Democrats and fracking right up to President Obama, they certainly have not distanced themselves from it.
	As someone tweeted last night, one organizer wrote, it's rough when you decide to throw a lot of people under the bus and then expect those same people to get you into office.
	Sure.
	The Obama administration has also been very close to the natural gas lobby.
	You know, I've done stories showing that the main lobbying group for the fracking industry, America's Natural Gas Alliance, ANGA, has actually provided dark money to the Democrats as well.
	Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, or current, soon-to-be former, Governor Martin O'Malley received funds for his own dark money group from ANGA, the natural gas lobby.
	Democrats have raised money from natural gas interests.
	Actually, in Colorado, the Democratic Party, one of the reasons for their defeat last night was that the Democrats There, we're very divided over the issue of fracking.
	An effort to place a ballot initiative that would have allowed local cities and municipalities in Colorado to ban fracking fell apart, and part of that disarray really helped Republicans.
	So Democrats have been very divided on this issue, and they have not been shipped.
	Okay, I didn't know that.
	Yeah, this is corrupt.
	It's corrupt.
	We have a corrupt government.
	I'm just looking for you.
	I want you to look in your crystal ball, man.
	I just want you to help me out here.
	Where is this going to go?
	You cannot have this.
	Everything's fake.
	The price of gold has got to be fake.
	The price of oil has got to be fake.
	Yeah, it's all rigged.
	It's all rigged, right?
	It's rigged.
	And, of course, the stock market keeps going up, which means, come on, suckers, keep putting money into stocks.
	Well, the idea with the stock market always seems to me is you get the thing up so high.
	This is a strange phenomenon, but you always see it over and over.
	It gets really high.
	Right.
	And then so the general public says, wow, look how high it is.
	I'm going to buy stock.
	Right.
	It's like, what?
	And then it crashes because as soon as the general public starts coming in, the smart ones.
	So that's 2017, after the election.
	Right.
	I think this thing is going to fly, yeah.
	Right now it's going to hit 18,000.
	No, that's crazy!
	Yeah, I know.
	That is insane.
	It's almost doubled in my lifetime.
	And it will be boosted by lowering the price of oil because that gives cheap energy to produce more goods and services and less people drive around like crazy.
	But what it also does, it will hurt the national, because it costs money, certain projects disappear, and the Keystone Pipeline might be one of them, because the shale oil in Canada, I think, I'm just guessing at the prices here.
	I could look it up.
	But if I'm not mistaken...
	If the price of oil goes below $40 a barrel, you can't extract that oil.
	That oil has to sell for something like $50 to be profitable.
	And when the price of oil is $100, yeah, you can get oil all kinds of places.
	You can go squeeze a rock, get some oil, I can make some money.
	You can do all these different things.
	But when the price of oil sinks down to $20 or $30 or $40, $40 where it should be, by the way, according to all the experts, including the Saudis, and they can make money at $40, apparently.
	Yeah.
	In fact, the Saudi, one Saudi guy, we had this clip on the show.
	It was from a 60 Minutes.
	He said that the Saudis can make money at 20.
	Oh, yeah.
	$20 a barrel, they can make shitloads of money.
	So explain this then.
	The Aramco pipeline was hit near Riyadh.
	Yes.
	By, I'm sorry, ISIS, whoever hit it.
	Is this now finally the control of Saudi?
	Are we now, is this a message to them?
	I don't know.
	That's a good one.
	I mean, we've been looking at this.
	Wes Clark has said, Saudi Arabia, be on the lookout.
	And this was, from what I could see, was a pretty massive strike.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Well, you know, Wes Clark's our guy.
	Our go-to guy.
	What he says is usually...
	He's our guy.
	He's a go-to guy.
	He doesn't say this stuff just for his health.
	No, no.
	He's actually telling us stuff.
	I don't know.
	Anyway, this situation is just going to get worse before it gets better, and it's just all leading to...
	It's no good.
	The end is not...
	No, you're right.
	What can we do to protect ourselves?
	Real estate.
	Real estate.
	That's all I said.
	That's my answer to everything.
	You want a deconstruction of something?
	This is a typical no-agenda thing.
	I'm going to play a couple of network-based clips, and then I'd like to tell you at least where this is coming from.
	I'm not going to get into the argument good or bad, but I'm going to tell you at least where it came from.
	Brittany Maynard's message was clear.
	In her interview for CBS this morning, she said she intended to die with dignity.
	So to the people who would say, well, you're choosing to end your life, that's suicide, you would say, no, it's what?
	No, cancer is ending my life.
	I am choosing to end it a little sooner and in a lot less pain and suffering.
	Last spring, Maynard was diagnosed with the most lethal form of brain cancer and given six months to live.
	She moved from her home in California to Oregon because of its death with Dignity Act, Which would allow her doctor to prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to end her life.
	Brittany's very public decision to end her life has put the right-to-die issue back into the national spotlight.
	It stirred this emotional reaction on both sides, which really shows that this right-to-die movement remains controversial.
	Gail?
	I'll say, Jan, thank you.
	Such a beautiful, brave young woman.
	So we got a lot of this, a lot of brave and beautiful.
	Yeah, it's been going on for a couple of weeks.
	And Facebook was, oh, so brave.
	It's been going on for, yeah.
	Actually, I almost had a clip of it in a couple of weeks.
	So much courage and everything.
	I never used it.
	Right.
	So I started tracking this because I come from a country where euthanasia is legal under certain circumstances in the Netherlands.
	And I know friends who have done it for their reasons.
	And I was just interested why this kind of, you know, it was driven.
	It felt like it was very driven.
	And then when I saw this video, this video was produced for CBS. It even said so.
	I saw this video.
	I saw this video and it is produced.
	In fact, it's an initiative of Compassion and Choices.
	Wish you can find it.
	Well, the slick website they have is thebrittanyfund.org.
	But they also have...
	Let me find the...
	Hold on.
	Let me get you the Compassion and Choices.
	Here we go.
	What's their website here?
	CompassionandChoices.org.
	And I look them up.
	I look at their financial information.
	They got a lot of money.
	They have $15 million in 2012.
	I was like, okay.
	That's a lot of dough.
	Where is this coming from?
	What is it for?
	And it turns out the Compassionate Choices used to be known as the Hemlock Society.
	Does this mean anything to you?
	I remember them.
	What do you remember of the Hemlock Society?
	They were a euthanasia operation.
	Right.
	So, what really this story of Compassionate Choices, who really built this story, you know, they managed everything.
	The website, the videos, the appearances, they managed the whole thing.
	And the move of this woman from California to Oregon, which has already implemented this right to die legislation.
	And Compassionate Choices has also through the Hemlock Organization has tried for many years to persuade the Supreme Court to put or to find a right to die in the U.S. Constitution.
	Now, let's just talk briefly about what that means, right to die.
	The way they're playing this is it is much better, less suffering to take your own life if you know the end is inevitable.
	And by the way, newsflash, we're all going to die.
	And of course you don't want to leave a mess with blowing your brains out, so just do some medication.
	What is interesting when you really get into this...
	You'll see that part of the reason for a lot of suffering of people who have terminal illness is Medicaid's policy in the United States, certainly, and we're talking about this is really a U.S.-only issue, their policy of not providing a lot of the pain medication and pain management that people really could use as they are dying from horrible illnesses.
	And the thing that annoys me about this whole campaign is the conversation project.
	And the conversation project took advantage of a grant From the New York State Medicaid outfit.
	And the purpose of the grant is to have the conversation.
	And this is also highlighted in, of course, this conversation, Compassionate Choices, to have the conversation, which is about end-of-life treatment.
	And this was funded by Medicaid.
	The purpose of the grant to entice hospitals serving large numbers of Medicaid patients to test ways of reducing, quote, unnecessary hospitalizations and thus expenditures for end-of-life patients.
	And so here you have not just Medicaid, but if you look into Compassionate Choices, one of the large funders is Kaiser.
	Okay.
	Well, good.
	I got some backup on this one.
	I know where you're going with this.
	These guys want to release some beds.
	It's cheaper to kill somebody than have to pay for expensive pain management medication.
	This happened to my...
	Well, there's more to it than that with Kaiser.
	And all these guys.
	These HMOs.
	They're like the guy...
	Kaiser is the largest insurer.
	Yeah.
	They remind me of Southwest Airlines.
	Southwest Airlines.
	The CEO once said, planes do not make money when they're sitting on the tarmac or at the gate.
	Right.
	They only make money when they're flying.
	And this is kind of Kaiser's attitude.
	They have...
	This was my mother when she was dying.
	I had her insurance packet in front of me.
	She was a Kaiser.
	The treatment was great.
	I'm not arguing about the quality of the doctors there.
	But they kept shuffling me off to these so-called social workers.
	And when you're talking to a social worker, you think it's like some...
	And the social worker's job, it seems...
	Is to have the conversation.
	Is to get you, to get your mother out of the hospital into some facility that you pay for.
	And the facility, now they've got the bed freed up and your mom can go die on your dime.
	That's the way I interpret it.
	And that's the way I saw it.
	And that's the way I think it was.
	But I luckily had my packet here.
	I said, no, she's got to...
	Because she was there like three days.
	And she's dying, literally.
	And she's going to die wherever she is.
	And she had like about a week to go.
	It was a long story I could explain in detail, but it's not the point.
	I had the package and said, no, no, she's actually got, according to her insurance, let me read you from the paragraph here, blah, blah, blah, this says that she has 60 days of care that you're supposed to give her at the hospital.
	And then it was like being in an old stereo store, where now they graduate me to the next level of social worker, a harder sell.
	It's better for you, it's better for her, it's better for me.
	And they go on and on, but I've still got this document in front of me.
	I've read it now completely.
	And I also got a lawyer who was an end-of-life lawyer out of Oakland, a very knowledgeable person.
	And she was telling me, don't say this.
	Never use these words.
	Don't say this.
	Don't say that.
	Don't agree to this.
	Don't agree to that.
	Just say no a lot.
	And so I was already prepped.
	And so she stayed in the hospital.
	She ended up dying in a Kaiser facility.
	And I would have been out thousands and thousands of dollars and it would have been just a disaster for everybody.
	Right.
	in their own contract of their insurance policy.
	And this is the kind of crap that goes on.
	This is obviously part of that.
	Because now it would be, well, you've got these smart people out there that aren't going to let, you know, they're not going to take their mom out of the hospital and take them to some crazy mid, there's a bunch of names for these things.
	And they're all crap.
	Put her in there.
	Let's kill her!
	Well, yeah.
	And what they want...
	And it's funny, because I started this conversation with Miss Mickey, and she has very set feelings about this.
	And I know people have taken their own, that's really what they wanted to do.
	But the minute you start to frame legislation around it, then it becomes very, very tricky.
	Because then the question is, who decides?
	Okay?
	And under what conditions?
	You said okay.
	Did I say okay?
	Yeah.
	Well, I meant right.
	I meant to say right.
	Look, right?
	Okay?
	Hey, look.
	It is about who then gets to decide this procedure, and the people who are against this type of legislation have an interesting argument that you cannot clinically or medically prove difference between someone who is terminally ill and someone who is completely depressed.
	Clinically depressed.
	You cannot discern the difference between those two.
	And they've done study after study.
	So what they're saying is, I think what the legislation is trying to come down to is to say, even if you're depressed, then you still should be able to sign the document.
	You know, and who gets to sign at what age.
	And funny enough...
	In some strange, twisted way, this kind of comes back, I hate to say it, this kind of comes back to the Republican talking point of death panels.
	But now that we have an insurance system which is so corruptly rigged and is really raping the American people, I can say this from my own experience, This is a very interesting little bit of propaganda.
	Very well done.
	Very, very well done.
	And the Conversation Project website is slick, and so is the other one.
	Extremely slick.
	Yeah.
	But these people have been around for a long time.
	They've been at this for a while.
	And I believe, certainly believe a lot of people are...
	I have good intentions, but you can't be taking money from Medicaid and Kaiser to fund your well-intended initiative.
	I'd say the optics are not so good.
	The optics are bad.
	And I'm sorry, no one questioned this anywhere.
	No, no, no, no.
	Anywhere.
	Everyone's all in.
	And it was a very successful campaign.
	If you look at Twitter, if you look at Facebook...
	Oh, you know, the courage, the courage, the courage.
	You're right.
	I never thought about it until now.
	This is a complete piece of propagandistic crap.
	And people were dying to benefit the big hospitals, to keep, like I said with my mother, to get free up the bed.
	Everybody is just a number on a spreadsheet, and that's what this is all about.
	Now, I get to tell a dead mom story just to even it up, because I feel that you've been, you know, you get like, dead mom, I want to do it.
	Can I do a dead mom story?
	You can do anything you want.
	You're under the mic.
	So my mom, as she was dying, she had everything prepared.
	She had a manila envelope to be opened upon my death.
	She had beautiful...
	Is there a videotape in there?
	No.
	But my mom had beautiful, longhand...
	I think I told you I found a cookbook she'd written in longhand for me.
	It's just beautiful, beautiful screen.
	But she was from the 50s.
	Bobby Sox or so.
	And so she had left these packets to be opened upon her desk.
	So she passed, and all the kids are there, and her second husband, Bob, is there.
	And it's beautiful and sad at the same time.
	Let's open the packets.
	We ordered pizza and opened the packets.
	And my mom's there.
	Your mom's there?
	Yeah, she died at home.
	She died at home, yeah.
	It was nice.
	She's sitting there dead?
	No, she's lying there dead.
	Yeah, but she's been in bed.
	Sounds like a bunch of vultures.
	No, no, not at all.
	We came from all different parts of the planet to be together.
	Left her in there, okay.
	This is what she wanted.
	Okay.
	John, she had a long, painful, horrible death.
	Okay, so we were happy.
	Like a big mover or something.
	No, no, no, no.
	And she was so clear.
	First of all, Adam, I want you to throw a 50s party for me like Happy Days.
	Thanks, Mom.
	Have you done that?
	Yeah, I did that the same week.
	Oh, yeah.
	I had old Chevys and I had a milkshake.
	Fonzie.
	Fonzie flew in everything.
	It was great.
	It was the most bizarre thing I've ever had to do.
	Okay.
	Did that.
	But then she was very clear.
	She said, I've taken out my insurance.
	I have everything for my cremation.
	I have everything.
	You are forbidden.
	Forbidden to pay for anything else.
	And it was very...
	And this was my mom.
	This was so my mom.
	And so, you know, this insurance...
	Dude, I'm telling you.
	Literally, at her cremation, there were three cups of coffee and three pieces of cake.
	And her ashes came back in a paper tube.
	But the whole time, the insurance people and everyone's, oh, this is a really horrible time for you.
	So your mother did have an insurance, but if you really want to do a little better than what the coverage is for, so they're upselling.
	The whole time they're upselling.
	Yeah, it's upselling death.
	Oh my goodness.
	And I'm seeing it, and I'm like, you know, God, I really want to, but my mom was really explicit.
	Yeah, but this is not for her.
	They have no shame.
	They're salespeople, and they're good at it.
	And by the way, you're weak in condition, so it makes it easier to sell.
	But we didn't do it.
	My mom was so specific.
	But it was so pathetic, really.
	It was really what you get when it looks good in the brochure.
	Oh, man.
	That did not look good at all.
	It was really, really sad.
	It was just totally pathetic.
	That's funny.
	But that's what she wanted.
	So anyway, so there's my dead mom story.
	And if you have a dead mom story, send it to...
	What's our P.O. box?
	So screw the vultures trying to make money off of killing you early.
	Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
	That's interesting.
	Well, I think that's a very good way to end the show.
	Okay, well, that's my cue.
	I do have one light clip we can play.
	Oh, stop.
	Okay.
	This is classic news from San Francisco.
	This happens all the time, and it's just something you have to deal with in the Bay Area.
	Okay, here we go.
	Kids from all over came seeking candy.
	Now police wonder, who may have done this?
	It wouldn't be easy for us.
	This is San Francisco.
	This says San Francisco News.
	Oh.
	Is that not the clip you wanted to hear?
	No.
	It says San Francisco News.
	Huh.
	Maybe if I play a little more.
	It might be later in there, but I don't remember keeping the segue.
	So this was not such a great clip to end with.
	No, no.
	I'll tell you what.
	Kill the clip.
	I'll play it on the next show.
	It's a very good clip.
	Okay.
	Well, then I won't put...
	I've got nothing left.
	I've got Weiss.
	No.
	These are all two...
	They start conversations we don't want to start.
	No.
	No, I think I agree with you.
	For Sunday, I've got one of our insiders from the Global Intelligence Network can tell us all about the Virgin Anomaly.
	It's like a glitch, it's Anomaly.
	And it turns out that our CNN, remember the CNN woman who was saying, oh, they won't have another thing for 10 years?
	Yeah.
	Bogus.
	Yes.
	Our insider really did work at the...
	He's a dude named Ben.
	How about that?
	I do have our buddy Stephen Cohen.
	No, no, no, no.
	Keep him for Sunday.
	Okay, he's queued up already for Sunday.
	He's queued up for Sunday and our Global Intelligence Network insider on the scalable outfit there in the Mojave Desert.
	And we'll have more, no doubt.
	No doubt at all.
	We continue to deconstruct.
	Oh yeah, there's plenty of stuff.
	Plenty going on.
	Thank goodness.
	Well, it writes itself.
	Heil, everybody.
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