Hey, there's some really cool pictures of you with this hooker.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, January 11th, 2015.
Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination.
Episode 686.
This is No Agenda.
From the sick bay to the city by the bay, and I'm live from FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the drone star state, Austin, Texas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where they closed the Golden Gate Bridge on me, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
Did you hear my voice crack in the opening?
Sounds good.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Calling ourselves the crack brothers.
So you had the...
There you go.
You had the lingering cough from the flu.
Yes, I still have it.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Oh, man.
This is now two weeks for you?
Yeah, it's just a lingering cough.
It's no big deal.
Until you start coughing, you don't want to.
For me, it was a sore throat.
Yeah, the sore throat.
I had the sore throat during the process.
It didn't get that bad, but it was annoying.
It was one day, I think, of sore throat.
Oh, just bad.
Hey, um...
You still have the sore throat?
It's just a little twinge.
And it actually was okay, and then I made a huge mistake last night.
Okay.
I had a piece of bittersweet chocolate.
That shouldn't do anything.
I didn't think it would do anything.
Man, it just kicked in.
Maybe there was something in it.
Maybe there was some allergen.
There must be something in there.
And it just kind of brought everything back.
I suck some lozenge.
I'm wondering how many people who came back from CES are going to have...
I'm telling you, it's got to be a hotbed of contagion.
Of activity, yeah.
Well, Christina's here, and I've just been trying not to get her sick, but I don't think I was contagious anymore.
You probably...
And of course, you know, the kid's here, so I can't be laying around in bed being sick.
That's not fun.
Right.
Yeah, so I pretend...
Here's how it goes.
No, I'm fine.
Come on, let's party.
Ha, ha.
Hey, John, I think France is on board.
France is on board?
I think we finally got them on board.
Oh, yeah, you mean with the police state, the security state?
Yeah, I think they're on board now.
They were reluctant.
It's a matter of time.
They were reluctant, but I think we...
It's a matter of time.
I think they understand the message now.
It's like they've got to be on board with everything.
Yeah.
My goodness.
It's...
This is truly, and of course, I'm following a lot of the European news through multiple channels.
The Dutch channel is very interesting.
Yeah, that's probably a little skewed, I would think.
Well, of course it is.
Of course.
But skewed towards a European perspective.
Or maybe an anti-European perspective, you could say.
This brings the whole immigration thing back to the forefront and right into the wheelhouse of Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, and others.
You know, the Nazis, obviously.
I'm sorry, they're all Nazis.
And the UKIP. Racist Nazis.
Racist Nazis.
Horrible.
Right-wing.
I get the biggest kick out of the way people always...
When you bring up UKIP... They're a racist group.
They're racist, racist, racist.
But there's no...
I mean, there's members of the party that, yeah, but there's members of the Democrat party that are racist.
There's members of the Republican party that are racist.
So what?
Here is Nigel Farage.
This kicked up some dust.
And it is one phrase in particular, which you can interpret in multiple ways, which I thought was interesting.
Oh, you have to tell us, find the worst way to interpret it.
Of course!
This was sent to me.
Well, even David Cameron interpreted it in the negative way.
This was sent to me as play this.
Wait a minute.
Let me do the voice.
Play this.
So he is racist.
We'll prove to you.
I think there is a very strong argument that says that actually what happened in Paris today is a result.
And we've seen it in London, too, is a result, I'm afraid, of now having a fifth column.
Living within these countries.
You know, we've got people living in these countries, holding our passport that hate us.
Now, luckily, their numbers are very, very small, but it does make one question.
You know, the whole really gross attempt at encouraged division within society that we've had for the last few decades in the name of multiculturalism.
I want us to live in a Europe where we trade together, cooperate together, and are friends together.
But what is happening in Europe, and we're seeing it between Greece and Germany, with increased antipathy between those countries, because they've been forced together inside the straitjacket of an economic and monetary union.
And indeed, I would argue that the free movement of peoples has actually increased tensions between European countries, and we're now further apart from each other than we would have been.
So, Nigel, of course, takes this immediately towards his platform.
Excuse me.
But the term fifth column is what kicked up all the dust in the controversy.
Yes!
Saying that this would be, that they were the fifth column.
Well, I'm reading from the, you know, we haven't played the jingle in a while.
We probably should do that to a crowd.
Yes, which we often do.
Wikipedia.
So the fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group, such as a nation or a besieged city, from within.
Now this can be interpreted in two ways.
One is it is paralyzing the nation, that it is like an ant colony.
The other one can be deemed as a resistance movement.
So you can interpret it multiple ways.
And the person who really used this the most, most interestingly, who was credited with using the term, Madeleine Albright.
In what sense?
Madeleine Albright, in a lengthy account of German sympathizers in Czechoslovakia in the first years of World War II, reserved it for the possible response to a German invasion.
Many, perhaps most of the Sudetans would have provided the enemy with a fifth column.
Okay.
But anyway, I think the way it is being interpreted is all UKIP and Farage, and of course this goes for everybody else.
Why would somebody think that this was bad what he said?
Well, Because they feel it is racist?
Where's the racism?
It's a misnomer.
The problem is the Poles and the Italians, everyone who was running into the UK on the freedom of movement and the legality to work in any EU country taking away the British jobs.
It's nationalism.
Which is what it's about.
Nationalism is different.
Yes, but it's being called racism.
Mainly by people who are, I think, Polish, who want to go work in the UK and take away the UK jobs.
That would be the people who are smart.
Yes, of course they are.
Here's kind of a downside.
My sister does that too.
It's fantastic.
I've heard this story no place else.
This is a downside of this issue that's kind of plaguing some of the EU, specifically the UK. Play this clip, Traveling Crime Ring Hitting London.
Low-cost flights and visa-free travel may be enjoyed by tourists across the EU, but now another kind of passenger is taking advantage of cheap trips.
Travelling gangs are highlighted as Europe's new criminal threat.
Laura Smith takes a look at why Britain's the new number one destination for this.
Here at Heathrow Airport, a plane takes off or lands every 45 seconds.
They're carrying the usual tourists and business people and another kind of passenger, criminals.
Cheap flights and visa-free travel inside Europe mean mafia-type gangs are flying in criminals from Eastern Europe, doing a space of robberies and then flying them out again before the police can catch up with them.
According to the chief of Europol, organised gangs are bringing criminals from places like Romania and Bulgaria specifically to commit crimes, particularly old school ones like house burglaries and jewellery store robberies.
They can then get out of the country almost immediately to be replaced by other groups.
And there are unwilling participants too.
In December, Scotland Yard revealed that trafficking victims were being brought over by UK-based gangs for robbery weekends in London designer clothes shops.
Plane ticket records suggested the gangs were block booking seats on budget flights.
Hey John, let's go do a little road trip.
Hey everybody, it's the...
Coming to rob you in the UK. This, of course, is stirring up a lot of noise on MSNBC. This is Christopher Dickey.
Do we know who he is?
Columnist from Newsweek.
No.
Do you know this guy?
No.
Well, he's analyzed it as such.
The bad news is there were attacks on at least three mosques and prayer rooms in France over the last day, day and a half, in reaction, obvious reaction to the Charlie Hebdo events.
And in the broader context, this is an issue that's going to be used very effectively and cynically by the far-right politicians, not only of France, but especially in the rest of Europe, places like Dresden, places like the Netherlands, where...
What is their message?
Their message is essentially that Kill people?
Huh?
They don't like immigrants.
They don't like Muslims.
They don't like foreigners.
Their message, if you want to just take all the coding off of it, is essentially racist and xenophobic.
But in order to avoid...
There you go.
There it is.
Racist and xenophobic.
This is where it comes from.
From a guy who I don't think lives in Europe.
Racists and xenophobes.
What do they say?
They say, we don't like Islam.
And why do we not like Islam?
Because Islam is an intolerant religion, and therefore we in Europe cannot tolerate those intolerant Muslims in our midst.
It's a very effective argument.
It's one that's been politically very successful in the Netherlands, for instance, and it is going to be fueled to a quite hot level by this incident and any further incidents that take place.
Yeah, well, that may be the intent.
Has anyone thought of that?
Maybe that's just the intent.
Spain is now proposing to introduce border control between the Schengen countries.
Just to give a little background on the Schengen agreement, this was part of the Treaty of Rome, but it all folded into, of course, the Lisbon Treaty and what is now known as the EU. 1985 is when this started, I think the first five member states of then the European economic community.
This is like boiling frogs.
This has been going on for a long time.
Bit by bit, they moved forward.
I always thought it was peculiar when you...
I mean, the idea, the previous clip, the one I ran, which was the gangs, which can now just roam around freely, and that report continued, and they discussed how the police in London, once the guys leave the country, you have no idea where they went, and if you did know, they wouldn't get any help from these other people anyway.
The Romanians aren't going to give you any information.
Right.
And now they're going to bring the Ukraine into the EU. That will really make things funny.
Well, they're not bringing Ukraine into the EU. That's not going to happen.
That you know that's what they want.
Yeah, but that won't happen.
I'm just saying not now.
I mean, it could take a decade.
Okay, well, they've got enough bad countries, you know, bad, and I do mean bad, countries that are kind of crime-ridden, poorly managed, crappy countries.
And Bulgaria, Romania come to mind.
How many Romanians do we have that contribute to the show?
I don't think there's any.
Well, they're not all just because of the Romanians.
They're not all crappy.
No, no, no.
What are you saying?
Well, maybe I sound like a UKIP racist.
John at curry.com.
I'm a UKIP racist.
If I've ever heard one.
It seems to me that you're getting this systematic...
Systematic problems, they're not resolvable in the structure that they have existing, which is the EU structure.
It's just not a good structure.
It stinks.
Oh, I agree.
But that's exactly what they're doing now, is they're saying, oh, you know, now we need political union, now we need, so we have the banking union, that's the most important one, control the money, you can control everything.
And then it's going to be, you know, we should probably have a, you know, like an EU police force or something, you know, recognizable by their fine-looking armbands.
Well, they did discuss in that report, it was something called EU poll.
But, you know, they're like a bunch of ball-less wonders.
I mean, they don't have any real...
But they eventually will get that.
I mean, it's just like the Homeland Security in this country.
Oh, yeah.
That would be amazing.
Nothing going on.
Overnight, now they're running the place.
It's going to be fantastic.
Well, they're already calling this the 9-11 for France.
The most people killed in a single attack for 50 years, and all the stats are out.
This was truly...
The Merv Griffin show of terrorism.
I mean, we've got everything in this thing.
We've got Anwar al-Awlaki, the underwear bomber.
Everybody's connected.
Al-Qaeda in, let's see, AQAP is saying that they directed this, that we did that, and ISIS is saying, yeah, didn't we do a good job?
Everybody's just pile-jumping.
Which leads me to believe that this is an entirely different group altogether that actually pulled this thing off.
Depends on your definition of pulling it off.
But it was fantastic, man, with the big firefights.
And then, of course, now we bring in the Jews.
It's really against Jews.
Yeah, we had the...
Now, according to this report, if you want to play a backgrounder...
Yeah, I got one, too.
This is the Paris Report backgrounder.
There's a little tidbit in here I thought was hilarious.
Thousands of people leave flowers outside a kosher supermarket during a vigil to honor the four hostages who were killed at the store Friday.
The large crowd included members of the local Muslim and Jewish communities in a show of solidarity after a frightening week.
We're in one of the most civilized countries in the world.
There's always some kind of threat.
Personally, I feel a little bit in danger sometimes.
I don't feel sick.
Meanwhile, a global search is on for Hayat Boumediene.
Boy, and that was beautiful.
That's that voice.
Let me just roll that back for a second.
That sounded like a professional voice guy that was just thrown in there.
Well, he was translating, so it was a translator.
Ah, okay, that's what it did.
I feel a little bit in danger sometimes.
Yeah, I'm not seeing the video, of course.
I don't feel safe.
Doesn't matter, really.
I don't feel safe.
It doesn't even matter, because...
That's the kicker.
The effect is the same.
Yeah, I don't feel safe.
A global search is on for Hayat Boumediene.
Police believe she may have been involved in the murder of a French policewoman.
Did you see the still graphics of this lady?
Yeah.
I like the one where she's holding a little...
A crossbow.
Crossbow.
Oh, man.
Pointing it at the camera guy.
This is fantastic.
That's good.
I like that meme.
You can't beat it.
That is great.
And the attack.
You can't beat it.
It's just unbeatable.
This is good stuff.
Whoever's producing this is great.
They describe Boumediene as armed and dangerous.
Why is she involved?
Where did she come from?
She wasn't there.
She wasn't even in the country at the time, but she's good.
She's kind of like...
Kind of like a perverted eye candy.
Yeah, she completes the story.
Yeah.
But some reports say she may have fled to Syria, possibly before the attacks even started.
Her alleged accomplice...
Well, then, who cares?
...common-law husband, Améry Koulibaly, was killed when police raided the store.
A French radio station released a recording said to be Koulibaly, in which he lashes out at Western military campaigns against extremists.
What's the opposite?
I was born in France.
If Muslims hadn't been attacked elsewhere, I would not have done this, but they are attacking.
But many others, including the brother of a policeman killed in the terror attacks, are calling for calm and acceptance.
To all the racists, Islamophobes, and anti-Semites, extremists must not be confused with Muslims, crazy people of no color nor religion.
There have been massive demonstrations across the country to show support for the victims, and a big unity rally is planned for tomorrow, expected to draw as many as a million people.
Now, not only a million people, which means it's well organized in a very short amount of time.
We have Angela Merkel.
They already had their meeting this morning, along with Cameron.
I don't know if any other world leaders have shown up.
The brother of the cop...
In his actual statement said something a little different than in that report?
Amalgamate a religion.
Islam is a religion of peace, love, of sharing.
It's not about terrorism.
It's not about madness.
We have nothing to do with that.
My brother was Muslim and he was killed by people who pretend to be Muslim.
They are terrorists.
That's it.
We would like to see all the pictures.
When we see my brother on the pavement, Dying.
Being killed.
Two things here.
Now, in context of what he said, you can interpret it by saying maybe they were Muslims, but because they were terrorists and killing people, they are therefore fake Muslims.
But using the word fake is a little different than saying these are not true Muslims.
And the picture thing is interesting.
As the French...
If officials are refusing to release any photos of the slain terrorists, then the brother's very upset.
He's saying, why can't we see the pictures of these guys that you killed when we saw my brother dead for laying on the pavement?
We have the old missing dead guys.
Yeah, we're not going to show you the picture.
And why?
Is it because Je suis Charlie?
If you show the pictures, then it's going to incite more violence?
Isn't that exactly the whole point?
Is to not self-censor?
I'm not understanding that.
Netanyahu jumps into it.
I think this is significant, what is taking place now, and I have two examples.
So first of all, was it the French Prime Minister?
Do they have a Prime Minister?
Yes, the president is the prime minister is that other guy.
And so he was standing, which I thought was cool, by the way.
He stands amongst the people in the crowd, which, you know, our politicians should do that instead of sitting with Brolf in the studio all cozy or at the Capitol on the remote.
Go stand in the midst of some people.
And his quote was, today we were all French Jews, so he took it to the Jews.
Even though there's no evidence, I don't believe they were yelling death to the Jews.
Do we have any evidence of that?
No.
Netanyahu says to Selene and all French Jews and to all European Jews, I would like to say the state of Israel is not just the place to which you turn in prayer.
The state of Israel is also your home.
And the neocons here in the United States of Gitmo Nation, do you remember James Kerchick from the Foreign Policy Initiative, FPI, the neocon outfit?
I know.
This is the guy who orchestrated Liz Wall's exit from RT. Remember, he was tweeting, and it was all set up.
Yeah, right, right, right.
And he's the drama queen who got kicked off RT for yelling about Putin's anti-gay laws, and he just went on and on and on and on and on about it.
So he writes this article.
Do Jews have a future in France?
The FBI, these kinds of think tanks, they know how to get their message through.
They know how to publish, and this is on the Daily Beast, and the guy's going to show up in interviews.
And he starts off, there's no future for Jews in France as long as Europeans refuse to confront the tacit acceptance of violence by many of the continent's Muslims.
That an assault on Jews would follow an assault on cartoonists came as no surprise.
Huh.
Indeed, there was a grim, if not explicitly expressed foreboding in the aftermath of Thursday's attacks on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that the Jews would come next.
Did you know that?
No.
For satirists and Jews are markers of modernity.
And it is modernity that the Islamists who committed these heinous atrocities detest most.
Well, that's an interesting meme because that was the meme that cropped up around 2002 in all the publications that were trying to analyze the 9-11.
And this modernity thing was a big issue and it continued to be for a few years and then it was dropped like a hot potato and I don't know why.
And now it's re-emerging.
Big time, I think.
And it's really not a...
It kind of made sense in 2002 because of the presentations that were being made from both sides.
But then it kind of died because it wasn't necessarily accurate and maybe bullcrap from the beginning.
And so it was just completely swept under the rug and now they're bringing it back out for some reason.
You know, these guys, I mean, the ISIS people who are probably epitomized...
They're killing Muslims, they're not killing Jews.
Well, they do that too, but they have rationale for it, that that is reasonable.
But the modernity argument, I never heard it since, really, for almost 10 years.
It's kind of the reversal of what Pim Fortin was talking about when, in 2000...
Before he was assassinated, and he was devout anti-multicultural society for integration of the immigrants in the Netherlands, which really is the problem, is how the multicultural theme integrated these new immigrants.
And by the way, these countries that...
That was talked about.
It was the Newsweek guy or whatever.
These countries have no problem with immigration.
The Netherlands, as an example, has had Brits, Italians.
They were always called guest workers.
We had Turks.
We had Surinamers.
We had Moluckers.
We had some problems with the Moluckers.
They took the train hostage and that turned out bad.
But, and the Turks came after that actually, and the Turks have completely integrated because they integrated.
And, you know, now with the Moroccans, it's been a huge issue now going on 15 years.
And what Pim Pertan would say is they are a backward culture.
And so it's kind of reversing by saying, you know, the, But yeah, that was modernized.
Yes.
Exactly.
Instead of saying...
Nobody says backwards anymore.
I mean, I did a few minutes ago when I discussed the Bulgarians.
But I... Of course, I was...
But you're racist.
You're racist.
Xenophobes.
It's obvious.
Besides that.
I was channeling a UKIP representative.
Yeah, so they've changed from backwards.
And my mother used to use that term all the time.
All those people are backwards.
And then that morphed into this rejection of modernity.
Modernity.
Yeah, it's interesting.
And that disappeared.
And now it just went completely away.
And now I don't understand the point of bringing it back into the conversation because it really doesn't fit.
Well, the only thing I can imagine is because Netanyahu is now involved in this.
Is to somehow bring in more attention to Israel, that Israel's going to be attacked.
I don't know.
Why else is Netanyahu jumping on this?
Well, possibly when you go back to your original argument, which is that we've gotten friends to come over to our side, maybe explaining a lot of this.
You might want to play this clip, which is another one, to scare the public.
So let's play Sleeper Cells Activated.
Developing news out of Paris tonight where there is a worldwide manhunt for this woman, a fourth person French police believe was involved in recent terror attacks.
Also today, during high-level briefings, French police were told terror sleeper cells have been activated over the last 24 hours and that officers should erase their social media presence and carry their weapons with them at all times.
This comes as France and its supporters around the world are mourning those who lost their lives this week.
The supporters of France or the supporters of the French?
I'm not quite sure.
That's a short list.
So now we've got a bunch of cops armed or flying around.
This is going to be great.
I'm sorry.
I have to top you with this.
Mike Rogers, who has just said...
Did you see his teary goodbye in the house?
I wish I had.
Oh, no, you don't.
38 minutes of...
I promised myself I wouldn't do this.
I didn't have time to cut it down.
But he did a stylized piece.
On CNN. Because, of course, as you know, he is a disc jockey.
Now he's a broadcaster.
That's right.
A broadcaster.
Yes.
A pronouncedicator.
So he will be doing some kind of radio show.
And he is also now officially the terrorism correspondent and resident expert for CNN. And they've done a stylized piece with him hanging out in some swanky CNN backstage kind of set.
And he's leaning against the table.
He's always wanted to be in show business.
And he's got a whole little lead-in music here.
Check it out.
And he's going to scare the bejesus out of you people!
We know that in places like Syria, in Iraq, with ISIS members, that they're encouraged to either stay home in a place like France or go back home to a place like France to conduct a terrorist activity.
It's very, very difficult.
There are thousands of individuals, we believe, from all over Europe and the United States, by the way, Canada and Australia, who have traveled to Syria and come out.
It's hard to say that it's a failure if they don't get everything exactly right.
What it was is that we just didn't catch up in time to this individual plot.
Oh, we just didn't catch up in time?
This is not a failure?
I've been concerned when I was chairman, I'm still concerned today, that the sheer volume of those possibilities are just one plane ticket away.
They fight in Syria.
Now, when he says that, just one plane ticket away, they cut from a side shot to him close up.
It is truly programming.
It's just one plane ticket away.
One plane ticket away.
They fight in Syria for some determined period of time.
They become more radicalized.
They have combat experience.
They go back to their home country somewhere in Europe.
They decide they want to conduct an attack in the United States.
They buy an airplane ticket and come here.
And if the intelligence services don't catch them coming in or out of a theater of battle like Syria and Iraq, Then they're going to be allowed to come back to the United States.
That's very, very concerning.
And candidly, it is a matter of time before something like that happens in the United States.
Candidly?
Candidly, some inside dirt?
It's just a matter of time.
You guys an asshole.
Now, did you notice that other meme that was...
I didn't think much about it until I started hearing Rogers here, but now I'm thinking about it.
Again, like you said, I think your thesis at the beginning, which is we've got to get France into the security state.
Get him on board, yeah.
Get them all on board.
Is this meme, which is, well, the United States had these two men on their no-fly list.
Yeah.
And unfortunately, nobody paid any attention to it.
This is bullcrap.
Well, this is a lie.
Let's look him up.
No, for one thing, they don't do whatever their names are.
It could be a million variations, which is the real problem with no fly list.
Spelling and all that stuff, yeah.
And so, yeah, they were sure.
Why would they be on the list in the first place?
Just to kind of hint to us that we have our tentacles are all over the world, and these two Frenchmen who have never been to the United States that have, you know, somehow we put them on the no-fly list.
I'm not buying it.
I think it's just a bold-faced lie.
And MSNBC, Ed Schultz, is preparing you for...
How much more can we tighten the grip on society to prevent things like this?
I mean, there's a great deal of pervasiveness that's going on right now that a lot of people object to.
But now when something like this comes up, when you start talking about the militarization of police, you start to understand it a little bit, or maybe view it in a different light.
Your thoughts?
Well, you know, as I was listening to Heather's very wise comments, I was thinking, yes, these attacks were professional, but they reminded me of many of the massacres we've had in the United States in the last few years that have typically had about the same number of fatalities and sometimes more.
Yeah, we're an old hat.
We know how to do this.
Newtown had more.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so you look at it in a different light.
Yes, I'm starting to get it.
Now I understand why we need SWAT teams and giant...
Do army tanks in every little town?
To protect the French.
Issue a warrant for somebody's arrest for not paying his traffic tickets?
Yeah.
That's why we need the militarization of the police department.
Bust in and say, you owe us money for a traffic ticket.
You've been podcasting without a license.
Well, that's coming.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know it is.
So Ed Schultz is all in on this.
Well, now it makes sense.
It makes sense to me that we have it because of this.
What has happened in the United States of any consequence, especially statistically, that involves terrorists, Arab terrorists, or Muslim terrorists?
And the things he cited, the shooting from, I guess, one of the tower shootings, the University of Virginia, Newtown, which is bogus, and all these other ones.
Where was the Muslim terrorist thing?
I don't see it.
Open up the door, Jim Dyer!
Now!
You better stop it!
Actually sounds pretty good.
No, it's not there.
It's not there.
But this is...
But Ed Schultz sees it.
Yeah.
It's a visionary.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is...
This is what I'm worried about.
I'm not...
I mean, there's nothing we can do about...
There's a lot of people obviously still following him that didn't really shoot the guy on the ground.
Yeah, all of that's true.
We need to move beyond that kind of stuff because this is moving at breakneck speed.
They expect a million people to be, maybe they already are.
But the French like to have big events.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
And rightly so, what are you eating?
They go on general strikes.
What are you eating?
In France.
It's against the law in the United States to have a general strike.
What are you eating?
Oh, you can't do that.
Oh, okay.
Whatever you say.
I won't do it.
What are you eating?
Because it shuts down things.
You can't shut down things.
In France, you go general strike.
Everybody takes a day off.
Can I ask you a question?
No.
Yes.
What are you eating?
That's a lozenge so I don't cough.
Okay.
I put it in my mouth and then I take it out so you don't constantly hear the clunking against the lozenge against my teeth.
Oh, because I hear you taking it out of your mouth and putting it back in and I hear the ruffle of the bag.
Is that more annoying than the thing just leaving it in there?
I hear the bag ruffle.
No, this is what you're hearing.
I don't let you hear the bubbling of the bong.
Come on, man.
Be professional.
You're more professional than I am.
There you go.
That's it.
Interesting response from Zbig.
Oh, he's, oh.
Zbigniew, yeah.
So they put some oxygen on him, snapped him out of it, and he came out and said something.
I think they actually wheeled him into the studio, his daughter's studio, Mika.
Cool.
Yeah.
I'm liking her more and more.
Yeah, you keep saying this.
She must be doing something hypnotic, and you're like, you're falling for it.
Yeah, yeah.
If only she could sing, then I could switch from Team Taylor to Team Mika.
This is the big new Brzezinski.
Brzezinski, of course, famous as National Security Advisor.
DeCarter.
DeCarter, yeah.
There's video of him touching down...
He was famous for his books.
Well, there's a great video of him.
His chopper touches down in Afghanistan, and he's riling these guys up and saying, all this land, this will be your land, we're going to help you take care of it, you're going to take your land back.
And this was the Mujahideen, of course, who we armed and set up and later arguably became Al-Qaeda.
So he was deeply involved in non-pacifist activities.
And, of course, yes, his book, The Grand Chess Board, I think, is the most famous one.
Yeah, it's the one you refer to or used to.
Right, which, you know, the pieces of that game, as described in his book, are fitting nicely into every single slot.
But he is, if this was the beginning kind of of a World War II, where, you know, we've got all kinds of things happening, he would be the Chamberlain arguing for appeasement To go easy on the terrorist elements.
But we have to be patient and realize that this is going to be a long-haul challenge to us.
And we have to be also very measured in how we conduct ourselves.
The most important thing we have to do, in my judgment, is to avoid becoming the enemy number one of Islam.
In the eyes of the believers in the world of Islam.
And I think we have to draw clear lines and be patient and also be responsible.
We have to preserve our rights, that is to say the freedom of expression and the freedom to express our views.
But at the same time, we must avoid being provocative and unnecessarily nasty because some forms of humor directed at, for example, profit in recent times and some publications in Europe We're extraordinarily provocative because obviously we are democracies, we have that freedom of expression.
But it doesn't do any harm to be measured even in humor and to avoid engaging in forms of humor, sardonic or whatever, that then becomes profoundly offensive to the deepest religious motivations.
Of people who are insecure, who are confronting modernity for the first time, who easily interpret slights into offensive, intolerable acts, and who can then be swept up by fanatical movement.
I hadn't heard it the first time.
There it is.
This happens a lot, by the way.
No, that's the way the show works.
So the modernity thing, that, and Zabig doing that, now it's a thing.
Now it's a thing.
Yeah.
That's a thing.
Apparently it's been brought back into the meme fest, the meme go-round.
Yeah.
Modernity.
Modernity.
So what do we have to do?
Be less modern to be nice?
I'm not sure I understand.
I don't know what he's talking about.
But you did mention something, and I have to now relate an anecdote, which is I was watching television the other day.
Oh, no!
This is not what we do.
And I'm flipping around, and I see the James Bond movie, The Living Daylights.
This was a Timothy Dalton Bond movie, wasn't it?
You have great memory.
Yes, this was the Timothy Dalton dogs of the Bond series.
But in this movie, which was done in 1987...
That's when Reagan and the boys were supporting the Mujahideen, which I never pronounced correctly.
Mujahideen.
And so he's in the Middle East during this story.
This is a movie worth renting just to see what was going on.
The entire, what became Al-Qaeda operation, which was fighting against the Russians largely, because the Russians were totally corrupt, and they were fighting against the Russians, and we were fighting with them, was run by the British MI6, like the top Arab guy, was a Brit, with a British accent.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, it was very funny.
Like, wow, this movie, because it was all pre-The Switcheroo.
Well, yeah, context, 1987.
So this was before the wall came, before Hasselhoff brought the wall down.
Yes, before a lot of things changed.
So it's a very interesting film.
I think it's one of the more revealing in terms of...
The structure of things then.
I mean, the other movies, there's so much fantasy, it was like out of control.
But this was less fantasy.
I think it was just they were trying to do with Dalton, trying to bring him down to earth.
And this was very, I would recommend people watching this if they have a couple hours on this.
Storyline.
James Bond's mission is to firstly organize the defection of a top Soviet general.
When the general is recaptured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskoff was sent to murder him.
Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker.
Everything eventually reveals itself to Bond.
Yeah.
Dough.
Oh, this was Hume Kirby was in this one.
Dutch guy.
Dutch actor.
Huh.
Okay, you're right.
That's worth the...
Now, on that note, Christina and I went to...
It's raining here in Austin.
It's freezing rain at night, actually.
It's really crap.
Yeah, it's crap.
So what are we going to do?
We went to Recycled Reads.
And I think we talked about this.
This is where I brought half of them when we moved to the new place in Austin.
This is where I brought half of my books.
And, you know, it's connected to the Austin Library.
And then they clean them up.
They categorize them.
Oh, yeah.
Recycled reeds.
I was thinking, what are they?
Take clarinets and sell them to the poor?
R-E-A-D-S-E. Recycled reeds.
Yeah.
Or, you know, I have a reed.
Not quite.
And so you can buy a book there for a buck, you know, paperbacks, 50 cents.
And the cool thing is everything benefits the library.
So what you typically do is you go and you buy a crap load of books, you read them, and you bring them back and give them back.
And at the same time, they have some money.
And they can sell the book again.
It's not a bad idea.
And so I'm roaming around, and I pick up this book.
I think, oh, that's kind of interesting.
Maybe I should buy that.
And it's a small book.
It's called The Arabs, A Short History.
And what's interesting, and this needs to go on the list, this was published in 1937, and it was kind of a fluke, this professor from Harvard, Philip K. Hitti, H-I-T-T-I, and his buddy.
They were just looking for something to do, and they said, you know, why don't we put together a little history on the Arabs?
I'm sure that's the way they pronounce it, too.
And they threw this book together, and right around that time, maybe a couple years later, there was an insatiable need in the United States, specifically, for knowledge of the Middle East.
This was now kicking in, and nobody knew anything.
What was the writer's name on this?
Philip K. Hittie, H-I-T-T-I. The Arabs, A Short History.
I got it on Google Books, I'm looking.
And...
And so this thing became an overnight class, well not overnight, a year later or so, a super selling book.
They've done multiple revisions.
It just keeps getting published over and over and over again.
Yeah, it's been recently published by Regnery, and everyone's familiar with that publishing company.
I'm not.
In 1996.
Yeah.
The one I have is the 96, but it's a 2002 printing that I have.
Okay.
And here's what's interesting about it.
There's an introduction, an intro that kind of explains the history of how the book came to be.
And it goes through the 800 years leading up until the 50s, I think, now with the reprints and the new editions.
But 800 years of the Arab and the Middle East.
But skips 400 years in the middle, which is the Ottoman Empire.
Just completely ignores it.
Which is interesting because it makes the book a lot shorter.
Yes, it would.
But also, when you think about it, it's really...
That's a whole separate deal that just almost stands by itself.
But when you look at all leading up to the Ottoman Empire, so many inventions and science and poetry and so much came out of this region.
And by the way, Syria...
That Syria, greater Syria, I guess it's still known, you start to get some context about what's happening today, truly was Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel.
It was a whole region.
So when you talk about, you know, the Islamic State and what they really want.
Yeah, that's what they're trying to push back together.
And then it came into context for me, and I'm almost done with the book.
It's really easy to read, but you just sit and you go, oh, wow, okay.
Now I get it.
Now you understand a lot better the differences and the Semitic, which is, of course, all people from the region, anti-Semitic, if not just anti-Jew, and the difference between the Arabs and the Jews, and you really start to get a feel for it.
And now I understand...
When the president says degrade and ultimately defeat ISIS, he's really saying we want the three-state solution of the Middle East.
We want Kurdistan, we want Iraq, and we want this other thing, Islamic State, which would be Syria, basically.
But just throw everything else in.
And in my view, that's purely for, you know, pipeline reasons or whatever.
But, you know, have those guys manage it.
But they're not that important.
It would be a transport thing only.
And Kurdistan needs to, you know, the Kurds need to be independent and need to be protected.
And Iraq needs to be protected.
And you can see that this is what the deal has been all along.
And it really comes into focus by reading this book.
I highly recommend it.
It's a great book.
And it's just, I was, it was complete, well, karma, I don't know what it was.
It was magic that it fell into my hands.
Serendipity is the word you're looking for.
That is the word, serendipity.
Alright, well, I'll take a look, I'll look for it.
Yeah, I recommend it.
Because, you know, it's so complicated.
What do we know about any of this stuff?
We don't know crap.
We don't want people knowing about these things.
Well, no, that would ruin it.
Then we can't tell them what it is.
And you can't yell at the UKIP for being racist and all the rest of it.
What a bummer.
Hey, by the way, just going back to the Charlie thing.
I'm not sure if it happened or not, if it's being covered up.
Helrik Freddu apparently was one of the, if not the police commissioner, one of the lead investigators, committed suicide.
During this whole ordeal with his service weapon at his desk.
What?
I know, and it's only being reported kind of by, not really a mainstream reporting, so where do I get proof that this really happened?
But when you search around, Helric, H-E-L-R-I-C, Fredou, F-R-E-D-O-U. H-E-L-R-I-C, Fredou, F-R-E-D-O-U. What?
O-U? Yeah.
So they're saying...
Have you gone to Google.fr and looked around there?
No, no, I haven't done that, no.
Here it is.
Another Mossad victim.
See, that's the stories that I keep bumping up.
They're like, okay, fine.
I would just like an official report that says the guy killed himself from France 24 or Le Monde or give me someone...
Who's really reporting, not Sputnik.
I can see what the point of this is.
They're trying to...
Okay, so this guy...
I know what the point is.
They're trying to say the Mossad did.
The point is to make it look as though this entire Charlie Hebdo thing was...
It's by the Mossad.
Mossad to stir up shit between the French, which has this huge Arab, not Arab, but Muslim population, and the French...
And a huge Jewish party.
We should stir up shit to get things to come to a head, or maybe even to get Netanyahu re-elected, which is going to be something of a challenge.
This is another thing.
This is another thing.
But I think this is just after-the-fact bullcrap.
I don't have any real evidence that this actually took place.
I just can't find a report that I feel comfortable with.
That the guy committed suicide or that he even existed?
Yeah, or that he's dead or anything.
Now, mind you, I'm still recovering from the flu.
I've got my daughter here, so I was a little weak on the...
I did deep dives on some things, but not on this.
I figured it would be better to throw it out to the producers.
No rush.
It'll be around.
We'll figure it out later.
This thing's going to be around.
You can look at Google.fr and see what I get.
Let me see a couple other things that I had on this.
In the Netherlands, according to the Telegraaf, Which got it from Bildt, a German publication, which I would say is reasonably respectable.
Former U.S. General Michael Flynn, who I believe at one point was DIA, Director of Intelligence, he was clear in telling Bildt That these brothers had contacts and were in contact with other like-minded terrorists everywhere, including the Netherlands.
You're next, Holland.
You are next.
Be afraid!
Which, honestly, you should be.
Because this will happen.
More is on its way.
It has to.
This is the theme.
Just scaring people.
Of course, now we've got a lot of these laws in place.
Let's not forget that we had...
What's her name?
Theresa May.
Time to play that one.
I love that one.
This legislation is important.
The substance is right.
The time is right.
Oh, yeah.
Timing is everything.
right.
It is a properly considered, thought-through set of proposals that will help to keep us safe at a time of very significant danger.
It has been drawn up in close consultation with the police and security services.
In an open and free society like ours, we can never entirely eliminate the threat from terrorism.
But we must do everything possible, consistent with our values as a country, to reduce the risk presented by our enemies.
It is a struggle that will go on for many years, and the threat we face right now is perhaps greater than it ever has been.
And we must have the powers we need, powers we need, powers we need to defend ourselves.
. .
Well, they got the powers they need, and if there was any question, we need more of them.
I think this Ferdue guy may have been another victim of chemical drug-induced suicide.
He's suffering from depression and all the rest, and the next thing you know, he kills himself in the middle of writing the report.
This comes from...
If you go to Google.f...
Okay, so there's real reporting on it?
Good.
Yeah.
Anyway, onward.
Yeah, unless you have anything else.
Well, I mean, I think that's all I've got.
I wasn't prepared to do too much on the French thing since it's still developing.
But I think your initial thing was the...
You're on board.
France is on board.
Was getting the French to get into a police state like ours.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And I have to say that it'll be very interesting because the French really do, you know, they kick up a storm, man.
What do we do?
I just have all these thoughts as I'm going through it.
The French still go out on the street.
Of course, I don't know what the internet usage is in France.
I'm sure it's retarded compared to the United States.
Although they were very forward-thinking with the Minitel systems back in the day, which I always thought was pretty cool.
But they also kept the Minitel for a long time while people were saying, Hey, we want AOL, we want America online.
Please, we want France online if we can have it.
But in America, this is the moral self-licensing.
You just go on your Facebook and you say, Hey, you damn you!
We won't back down freedom of speech!
And then you go and smoke some crack or meth or whatever, and you're done.
Because that's all we've got to do here.
We don't actually have anyone doing anything.
Because you've given yourself the moral self-license.
Hey, I screamed.
I yelled at him.
And I'll show those terrorists...
Yeah, I posted.
I posted.
I changed my icon.
Not a lot of people changing the icon to the Prophet Muhammad, as I suggested, which shows me.
I think somebody else had a good one, which was changing to Muhammad Ali.
Just kind of strange irony.
Even our super...
What's the guy who did Felix the Cat?
What's his name?
I don't know.
Yeah, the American guy.
American cartoonist.
He's famous.
Yeah, I know Felix the Cat.
Yeah, who did that?
The guy's not still alive.
Who's the guy?
Okay.
The cat guy's got to have been dead for 20 years.
Who is the American cartoonist in France?
He lives in France now.
This guy is...
Yeah, this guy.
This guy.
What's his name?
Robert Crumb.
Robert Crumb lives in France now?
Yeah.
Huh.
Felix the Cat.
Fritz the Cat.
I'm sorry.
Fritz the Cat.
Not Felix.
Fritz the Cat.
Keep on trucking.
That's what he says.
Yeah, Robert Crumb.
I met him once.
Yeah.
What a character.
He's just looking at him.
He looks like a character.
What was the context of your meeting?
There was something going on when they were revitalizing the San Francisco Examiner when Hearst took it over and they had this big party and he was one of the guys there.
And I went up to him to ask him if he would do an illustration for a book I was working on.
Did he shine you?
He told me to fuck off, basically.
He seems like that kind of guy.
In not so many words.
He seems like that kind of guy.
And then he did an illustration of exactly what I was looking for.
For someone else.
Another douchebag.
Okay, now we know what he's made of.
So he was pressured that people were saying, hey, man.
Yes, there's no doubt about that.
He was being pressured.
Hey, man, how come you don't do a Muhammad thing, man?
Come on, man.
What you doing, man?
And then he copped out.
He did a Muhammad's ass with like a hairy ass with flies flying around it.
And then underneath is like, you know, not, you know, there's like Muhammad, you know, Muhammad, my friend, or maybe even said Muhammad Ali or something stupid like that.
He didn't cop out.
Oh, Muhammad Bakshi, I'm sorry.
The ass of Muhammad Bakshi.
Okay, well...
Well, he doesn't need the aggravation.
No, nobody needs the aggravation.
But, you know, the question is...
And he's an American underneath it all.
You can live in France all you want, and you still have an American...
Oh, I don't think so.
I don't know if it's a good idea.
Yeah.
Yeah, well...
And I think that is true in our completely politically correct world of the United States of Gitmo Nation.
Yeah.
I think even we're politically correct at some level.
Absolutely.
Yeah, no, I think you're right.
At what level do you think that is?
It's a really low level, thankfully.
But it does exist.
I don't think it hurts the show, necessarily.
And it makes the show probably more palatable.
Yeah, there are limits.
But I'm only thinking of the listener.
I'm not really thinking of anything else.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
It's all we think about.
We're doing this show for a group of people that are listening to it, and they want us to do the show.
They want us to do the show for a number of reasons.
One of the reasons is because we do bring some insight through research that they don't have time to deal with, but they have suspicions that a lot of this stuff is bullcrap, and now they've got a show that tells them it is bullcrap.
Their suspicions are confirmed.
Yeah.
And, on that note, I would like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John, Charlie Dvorak.
And in the morning to you, Adam Curry, Charlie.
In the morning to all the ships that see, by the way.
We also have boots on the ground, feet in the air.
We have subs in the water.
Lots of subs.
Lots of dames and knights out there.
Lots of subs in the water.
We'll be talking about that in a bit as well.
In the morning to the chat room, everyone checking us out on the stream.
Noagendastream.com is where you can find both of them.
And in the morning to our artist, which was 20 Watt Bulb again who came back with the artwork for episode 685.
And that was the self-censored graphic.
Nice piece, by the way.
Yes, I agree.
That was a nice piece.
I believe also sent us, or he sent me at least, some graphics for our...
I told him we're never going to do this.
It just was some idle chatter that we tend to do on our show of things that we'd like to do or maybe you wouldn't like to do, we'd like to talk about.
So he sent us a Golden Globes red carpet art.
Oh, was that tonight's?
Yeah, it is tonight.
Yeah, yeah.
It's gonna be great.
It's gonna be great.
Christina and I are going to a chicken shit bingo.
You're going to bingo?
Chicken shit bingo.
What does that mean?
Oh, you're not familiar with the chicken shit bingo?
No, and you can keep saying it.
I'm still not going to be familiar until you explain it.
Okay, you go to this bar, and then there's a big bingo board on the ground, you know, with numbers.
It can be depictions of prizes or anything, but it's typically, you know, like a bingo sheet.
And there's a cage around it, and there's a chicken in there.
And the chicken walks around, and he takes a dump, and then whatever he dumps on, that's the next number.
And chickens dump a lot.
This sounds like a Texas thing.
It is.
Yeah, you could be there all night if the chicken's constipated.
No, then we'll get a new chicken.
And you feed him things, too.
You throw things at the chicken.
And you've got to entice him.
You yell at him.
Hey, man, poop over there.
Brother.
And there's alcohol involved.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Probably giving something to the chicken wouldn't hurt.
Alright, we have a few people to thank for the show.
686 Palindrome.
Palindrome, nobody picked up on it.
It also sounds a lot like an Intel processor.
I'm running to 686.
Really good for you.
This is getting to be a slow time of year.
It's pretty obvious that we're struggling a little bit.
I would hope people would pick up the pace somewhat.
Anonymous from Orange County, New York, came in at the top as the executive producer at 34567.
He's first and foremost, Caps Lock Dvorak for your courage and all the work you do for the best podcast.
I'll get to expand this a little bit here.
Hang on.
First and foremost, thank you, Podfather Curry, John Caps Lock Dvorak for your courage and all the work you do for the best podcast in the universe.
Oh, I see that.
You get a C for Caps Lock.
Jesus, this goes on forever.
I should open it with something else.
I can't even get it on the screen.
Really?
I'll read it.
I'll you work on it.
I humbly request you bestow some NA karma for my father, who was flying today, January 11th, to the belly of the Gitmo beast, Washington, D.C., to compete to be selected as a representative for America's road team captains.
Okay, I'm back.
This is basically the Super Bowl of being a truck driver, and it means the world to him to be able to take part in it.
I hit him in the mouth a few months ago, and now I know that he listens to the show every week, and he drives doubles.
He drives doubles.
Is he going to drive triples?
You know what those are, right?
Yeah, it's two trailers.
Yeah, have you ever seen the three?
No.
The triples?
Well, you can't drive a triple in and out of New York City, I don't think.
No, no, no.
Double is even crazy.
You can drive them, I think, in Oregon.
They're legal.
It's frightening when you drive and buy one of these things.
Anyway, notice a shot at Carmel.
Give him the courage to do his best this week in D.C. and emerge victorious.
And then he sends a link to what his father is competing in.
You ever heard of this?
A trucking?
Well, there's lots of trucking shows.
Yeah, it's some sort of a competition.
I like it, yeah.
Well, truck driver's the backbone of America, everybody.
Here comes the karma for your dad.
You've got karma.
Father Anonymous.
What?
Win for no agenda.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Put an in-the-mornings thing on your rig.
Yeah.
Find your rig.
Which is your worthy $250 to Miami, Florida.
JCD has note.
John and Adam, I wrote for Karma for some family members before Christmas, and I'm back.
I'm back in hopes of finishing that job.
Okay, this is vague.
Well, this seems a little like buying indulgences.
Somebody picked it up.
She's the first one to notice this.
Explain.
Well, in the Catholic Church, you have a reputation at some point for, you know, you'd go in and you'd buy, you'd give them money, in this case for karma, and they would give you a blessing or something or other because of your donation.
And it's essentially, and I've said essentially twice in the century.
I'm not going to stop you.
Go ahead.
I'm not saying you should.
I'm just saying, I'm telling you, I noticed this.
And, uh...
It amounts to indulgences of a modern sort.
By the way, I want to mention to people out there who notice these kind of religious connections like this particular one.
It was never our idea to sell karma.
We're not selling it.
It's not being sold.
We're not selling karma, but it was never our idea to even indulge in giving people karma.
It was the listeners who demanded it.
Yes, we only did it once in a while, just as a little joke, and people want it.
And, for whatever reason, it seems to work for them.
Yes, we have too many anecdotes to ignore the result.
I think it's a global...
You know, matrix-type, herd, connective thing.
I think it's the magic of the jingle.
Well, there's that, yeah.
It is a magical jingle.
She continues, I'm requesting relationship karma for my grandson.
He needs a new girlfriend.
And job karma for my daughters.
They're going in the right direction, but let's give them a little push.
I also think the donation puts me over the $1,000 mark, and if I'm picking my new name, you have a pen?
It's not on the list, I presume.
Okay, hold on.
I have a little mini pad, actually, for this now.
Patricia of Biscayne Bay.
Okay, hold on.
Dame Patricia of Biscayne Bay.
Then she has her accounting.
Looking forward to each edition of the No Agenda show.
Thank you for liberating me from listening to the news.
Happy New Year to everybody and everyone in the No Agenda family.
All right.
Let me hand out the karma there.
Relationship karma for her grandson.
Is that what she said?
Grandson?
And then job karma for her daughter.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yay!
You've got Carmen.
Nice.
And we have plain old Davey here from Texas, 23456.
I wish to make this donation anonymously, and he goes on.
The donation should put me over the threshold for knighthood.
We have you down.
As attested by my accountant attached, it meets your approval.
Please knight me as Sir Davey of the Sooner State.
My great-grandfather was detained as a Sooner in the Oklahoma land rush of 1889, so I thought it would be a fitting title.
You know what the Sooners refer to, right?
No, I don't.
I don't.
Okay, this is one of those periods where the government was going to say, okay, we're going to cordon off the state of Oklahoma in this case.
And then at midnight or noon or whatever time it was, everyone's going to go grab some property and it's all yours.
You can homestead it.
Oh, cool.
And so there was a group of cheaters.
From Texas.
Well, probably.
But they took off early.
They didn't wait for the time.
That's un-American, man.
They were called Sooners because they went too soon.
And they were detained.
They were arrested.
And a lot of the irony of this story, depending on who tells it, is that a lot of the sinners were arrested, but then they were later allowed to go grab the property because nobody took the whole damn state.
You got so many acres, I believe.
I don't know what the number was.
And they got the worst part, like what's left over, the stuff that nobody wanted, which turned out to be the places where most of the oil was.
They got the taint.
Yeah.
Anyway, I'm starting a new adventure with my smoking hot best friend.
She likes Okie Sooners a lot more than Texans.
Another reason for the Sooner references is my title request.
I donated a smaller amount in October hoping for a shot at karma when she and I got together for the first time in more than 10 years.
Although you were unable to completely honor the request, all due to my short-sightedness, by the way.
Short-sightedness.
The karma came through anyway.
We renewed our friendship and now I'm on my way back to continue that renewed relationship.
Thank you and thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
Yay!
Send a picture of her.
So I guess we need some karma for him.
Yeah, of course.
I'm happy to do that for him.
You've got karma.
Yo, yo, yo.
Sir Sheets, Esquire.
23456 in Brewerton, New York.
Lads, you rock.
Stay loud and proud.
A suggestion.
We have knights and black knights.
Recently there was a posthumous knight.
Could you call a posthumous knight a white knight?
May I ask for some relationship karma?
Rock on.
I remain schwacking for freedom.
Sir Sheets.
No, a white knight?
No, I don't think so.
It could be a silent knight.
That's red lame, I agree.
Alright.
We don't have the ability to count every nose that we schwack.
You've got karma.
Schwackin' for freedom.
Schwackin' karma.
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He comes in with a check, I think, almost monthly.
And no note.
He emails once in a while, but nothing related to this particular donation.
I want to thank him and all the rest for contributing to the show, 686.
And remind people that we do have another show coming up on Thursday.
Thursday and demarc.org slash NA is your target location to visit.
We'll be halfway through the month already by then.
It goes so fast.
Too fast.
Or is that just as you get older it seems to go faster, which is what I think.
I don't know why, but...
No, there's actually a reason for that.
Okay.
I don't know what it is, but it's a chemical reason.
There's something that doesn't, in your system, it goes at a faster pace or something.
It makes things seem like time is going faster than it is.
Okay, so yes, as you get older, it seems time is...
Somebody can explain it to us in a note, and then we'll read it.
Oh, I'm very interested in that.
Yes, as you get older, things go by faster.
It's ludicrous, actually.
And it especially makes you wonder when you go to the store and you get this old woman who probably must be flying and she's taking forever to dig through her purse to get the panty out.
It's like, lady!
Swipe already!
No sense of time here.
Pre-swipe, lady.
I'm sorry.
I want to get to my complaints today, by the way.
Okay, well first let me thank all of our producers, executive producers, and associate executive producers for helping us out.
I know we were in deep trouble until John sent out the newsletter.
These are works of art, by the way.
I have to tell you, it's works of art.
I really enjoy what you're doing.
You know what?
Well, I appreciate that compliment, but there's something I find peculiar.
You know, we push everybody to get on the newsletter list.
And of course, then they have to tolerate the newsletter, which is a work of art, and some people don't like art.
To me, we promote, promote, promote, but people donate.
Here's what I do.
I have the main mailing list, and it comes in automatically because as people subscribe, it goes into the MailChimp automatically and gets added.
And then I go to PayPal and every couple of months I scrape all the people that donated and put them on the list.
So everybody who donates is automatically put on the mailing list eventually, not right away.
And it's always, like we get a lot of donations.
Some of them are five bucks, some of them are very, you know, ten.
But every month it amounts to about a hundred new people.
And so I pull in, because when he pulls in, it does a merge purge, and it says, oh, there's 100 new names.
Why didn't these people subscribe themselves?
It just befuddles me.
I don't know.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I'm stunned.
Well, I think...
Okay.
Every time I bring the 100 in, the new 100 people, and I look at how there's 100 people that didn't subscribe to the newsletter, but they donated, which makes no sense to me, but it's just the way it is, I guess.
Um, I think people are, you know, they expect to, the way people usually get on email lists and newsletters is spam.
Like, it should just be here already.
So I don't know.
I don't know what that is.
Yeah, there's a lot of things.
One of the reasons I enjoy doing the show is some of the back office stuff because you learn these crazy things about people's, how they react to things, how they do things.
And it's just interesting.
But yeah, it's always baffling.
Again, thank you.
It's not that we don't mention that they should subscribe to the newsletter.
And the link is everywhere.
On every single show notes page, everywhere you can find No Agenda, you'll see a link.
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This is the best resource we've ever had for this show in this category.
We've had people doing translations, transcripts, all kinds.
And usually it peters out when people find out that, crap, that's a lot of work.
But this is, it's kind of like a, in fact, it's very much like a SoundCloud where it's annotated, but not necessarily by people going, whoa, funny, hey, cool, little comments, little blips, but it's annotated by topic.
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I believe anyone can do it.
And you click on it, and it goes right to that spot in the show.
You can tweet a link.
You can copy the link from there and send it to somebody.
It's brilliant.
Brilliant, I tell you.
A great resource and highly appreciated, of course.
We don't do any of this work.
This is all part of you.
The producers will be thanking producers later.
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You almost killed two guys this week.
You almost killed two guys.
Yeah.
Two like real guys?
Like human beings?
Yeah, people.
That would be amazing.
Okay.
Bicyclists.
Oh.
I'm going down the road and then there's this crosswalk and some idiot shoots in front of me through the crosswalk as fast as they can on a bicycle.
They're not on the road.
They're on a sidewalk.
You don't have time to see this.
The person was not even in view and shoots across the crosswalk in a situation.
These bicyclists, they're all over them.
They never stop.
Aren't they supposed to follow the rules of the road?
Aren't they supposed to stop at stop signs and red lights?
No, they go right through the red light and they just go on as though they own the place.
The cops do nothing about this.
These bicyclists want all these, oh, I want my own lane, I want this, I want that.
And then they don't obey any rules.
And then you hit them, almost hit them every so often.
You'd find this to be the case in Texas?
In San Francisco now, there's more bicyclists screwing up things because they don't follow any rules.
They're going in the middle of the intersection.
They've got cars going every which way, and they're working their way through the cars.
Obviously, I come from a biking nation.
I've learned bicycles as transportation from a very young age, around seven.
Which was a radical departure from the bicycles that I had when I was, before seven, riding around in Maryland, Kensington, Maryland, on the sidewalks.
And I had one of those Schwinn with the banana seat and the chopper version.
Remember that?
Oh, yeah.
Those were cool, man.
You had the playing cards in your spokes.
But you had to ride on the sidewalk.
You couldn't ride on the streets because it was like a recreational thing.
And the Dutch bicycles are sturdy.
They're like tanks.
You have big spots for big, you know, like milk crates on the front to put stuff in to carry, to transport your kids, whatever.
And it is a biking culture.
This is the mistake that the pro bicyclists make.
We have in Austin a huge bicycle movement.
I like the idea.
Just like in New York City, in Manhattan, we have the city bikes.
It's very effective and you can grab one, you can bike, you can park it.
It's even free if it's under 30 minutes that you use it.
However, it is a drastic mistake To think that anywhere that you can just put in bike paths even and it's all going to work.
It will take decades for the culture of biking to be embedded into the psyche of the population.
When I drive to this day, when I make a right-hand turn, I am always looking in my right-hand mirror to make sure I'm not about to cut off a bicyclist or drive over one.
These things take decades before that kicks in.
Here in Austin, yeah, you can ride a bike and you'll be accepted.
Of course, we have a biking culture from Lance Armstrong, but now we have bikes really not just as racing, but as transportation.
And the good old boys, after like 1 in the morning, you do not want to be riding a bike down Congress.
Because the good old boys in the trucks, they're going to coal roll you.
Because it's not ingrained yet.
So it'll take a long time.
And you can be arrogant like that in the Netherlands.
The bikes, they don't pay attention to lights or anything, but it flows.
It works.
And no one gets mad.
No one gets mad.
Like, I'm sorry, man, I bumped into you.
Whatever.
It'll take a long time.
And you and I, I think, will have expired before...
I think that it'll never happen in this country.
It's possible.
It's possible.
By the time it does approach in some areas happening, and by the way, part of this is a...
Kind of a liberal idealism.
Oh, they do.
Look at Amsterdam.
Oh, I went to Amsterdam for the first time.
Oh, these people are on bicycles.
It is so much better.
It will not happen like that.
We're a car culture.
We use a lot of oil.
Oh, this would solve the problem of energy.
And it's all bull crap.
And we're a huge country.
You can literally bicycle across the Netherlands if you wanted to.
I've done it!
I have bicycled across the Netherlands.
As a young man?
I'm always trying to shoehorn what must be better.
It's got to be better.
Yeah, tell that to the Dutch when their bicycles were stolen by the Germans how much better it was.
It didn't work out that well.
It's the same with electric vehicles.
Our country in the United States is too big for electric vehicles.
It's just too big.
It works great in smaller countries.
Yeah, you can drive an electric vehicle across the Netherlands.
Not back again, but you can drive it across once.
It's true.
We are a nitro-burning, crowd-pleasing...
What other culture has drag racing to such an extreme?
I don't think any.
Big tournaments.
Is there drag racing anywhere else?
10,000 horsepower cars.
That should tell you right there where we're coming from.
Get over it.
Get over this, you people out there that think we should all be on bicycles.
You know, the arrogance of these assholes, too, was they used to have, they don't have it so much because I think they arrested the leader, but this critical mass, which was a thing they would do on the last Friday of the month or some commute day, and all these bicycles would come out of the woodwork in San Francisco and clog up traffic.
Right, and everyone's dressed in costumes.
Right.
And just to make everybody's life miserable.
And then one time I was in the...
I swear this was fun.
This was about 10 years ago, though.
They stopped doing this.
I think, again, they arrested the leader, and that was the end of it.
There's always some one guy who's got a lot of charisma, gets people to do this stuff.
I'm shopping.
I'm in the vegetable section of Andronico's, a store in Berkeley.
And I'm shopping, and here comes about 500 bicycles into the store.
And so these bicyclists are everywhere, and they're yelling at everybody, telling us to get out of our cars and get a bicycle.
And I'm saying, I'm on my feet, picking vegetables.
I don't know what you guys are talking about.
You're crazy.
And then they would just harass everyone, and they all took off like a rocket.
Everyone just shot out of the store after making everyone miserable for a few minutes.
It's these guys.
All right, all right.
You don't like the bicycles.
I get it.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
No, it's okay.
I understand.
I don't hate the bicycles.
I know how to live with the bicycles.
I come from that culture, but it's just not that simple.
And that is what you said, this liberal idea, which of course Austin is extremely liberal.
Which I like.
This liberal idea of, you know, we'll put the bike paths in.
Oh, we have bike paths and it's all going to be great.
I'm getting a little involved in local politics.
It's so small.
You know, there's a bike path on Marin in Berkeley.
People should go check this out.
I didn't mean to set you off.
All the way up Marin from Buchanan.
There is never a bike on it.
All right.
The President's Podcast.
Yeah.
I had to take a little clip of this because he is touting his numbers, how great everything's going here, which arguably is true.
The numbers are good.
There's people starving.
It's not great.
There's people with no jobs, and people falling off the end, but he needs to tout it, and he's listened very carefully on how to communicate his message these days to other broadcasters, which I like.
But of course, as always, we have to start off with this hallmark.
Heil, everybody!
Hi, everybody.
About a year ago, I promised that 2014 would be a breakthrough year for America.
And this week, we got more evidence to back that up.
It's been six years since the crisis.
Those years have demanded hard work and sacrifice on everybody's part.
So as a country, we have every right to be proud of what we've got to show for it.
America's resurgence is real.
It's real!
That'll be the focus of my State of the Union address in a couple of weeks.
It's real!
I couldn't resist.
It's real.
You just played that just to do that gag?
Yes, I did.
I know.
I'm sorry.
You should be.
I should be sorry.
I got an interesting report that was...
I do want to say one thing about every single podcast the president does is always off balance.
The left channel is always almost 50% louder than the right channel.
I don't understand why.
Because nobody knows how to turn a knob.
No one's paying attention.
Hey, Barack, just read that.
Yeah, they just push a button and they leave the room.
You're right.
Okay.
Hit it.
So we have all this stuff going on with Russia and the sanctions, and Merkel, we know, is a pal.
Yes.
Of Putin's, like a buddy.
And they talk, both of them talk German and Russian.
And they have a direct pipeline with each other, literally.
Yes, they like to chat.
But she went all in to some extreme on the sanctions, and even though she was against it, she knows it's hurting German's economy more than anybody's.
But she's still all in, and it makes no sense.
So I found this report on Russian television.
And they, I think, are baffled by it too, and so they deconstructed what they believe might be going on with Merkel, and this kind of explains it all, although I think it's a bit of a, eh, I'm not buying it 100%, but I liked it, and at least it gives us something to think about.
Okay, the deconstruction.
Political analyst Nebojish Malic thinks that Germany is following America's lead on sanctions because of Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal ambitions.
Oh.
What is the next step from being Chancellor of Germany for somebody who's obviously not ready to retire, not ready to relinquish the limelight, not ready to relinquish some sort of power and influence in the world?
The rumors in the German newspapers about how she's eyeing the spot of the UN Secretary General, which according to UN custom belongs next to a European.
The European certainly suggests that they fit the entire story, they fit the facts, they fit the behavior.
If Angela Merkel wants to become the next UN Secretary General, and we all know that anybody who has incurred the wrath of the United States will not stay long in that position.
Or even get elected if they don't have the support of Washington, then the appeasement policy towards Washington, for lack of a better word, suddenly starts making a whole lot more sense.
From the phony anger over the phone taps to the persistent damage to Germany's economy in this U.S.-engineered conflict with Russia...
Thank you, RT. Why would you want to be, by the way, another non-English speaking Secretary General.
Yeah, that's what we need.
Can we get someone who just speaks English for once?
I don't think Angela is very good at English.
I've never heard her speak English.
No, no, I don't think she is either, but she's not stupid.
But why would you want to be Secretary General?
It seems like a shit job.
Well, we may be wrong about this.
Is there real power in that job?
I mean, you get to hang out with, you know, movie stars and stuff.
That's cool.
I mean, I get that.
I don't know.
Now that you mention it, it's possible that we're overlooking the hidden power of the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Well, I'm skeptical.
I mean, when it comes to the Security Council, yeah, I understand.
Because we're, you know, we're, yeah, I understand how that works, but, hmm.
Seems like he's a big bureaucrat, but I could, you know, we don't know.
We could be, just, the entire American public and much of the world might be completely off base when we think of, we just think of, you've got Banky Moon, these other clowns that have been in there.
And Uncle Don is, like, really, he speaks very highly of Banky Moon.
Which may just be a hierarchy thing, but even then, really?
I don't know.
I find it strange.
We know there's going to be a next United Nations.
That's clear.
We went from League of Nations to United Nations.
We need a next one when the Trilateral Commission decides to truly implement the new world order.
Okay, here's where my research went.
And it wasn't even that hard, actually, when it came down to it.
Russia will not issue driving licenses to transsexuals or transgender people following a recent government order.
According to a report by Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed off an order last week indicating people Moscow has not elaborated on how exactly the law will be enforced,
but says it's necessary to try and stem the large number of road accidents in Russia.
Around 30,000 people are killed every year in Russian road accidents, according to government figures.
Human rights groups have deplored the Kremlin's crackdown on the LGBT community.
Okay.
So this is...
Before you say anything, this is a report according to the bullcrap artist from us.
This is a report from American radio.
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty.
And I believe that they instigated this.
This reporting.
Which is very good.
Because the BBC, actually I'll pull up the BBC, they don't have a video report.
And it's not an attributed article, which...
I didn't know the BBC did that.
It doesn't even say that it came from a news organization or not.
They do it when they're told to.
Okay.
Russia says drivers must not have quote sex disorders.
Russia has listed transsexual and transgender people among those who will no longer qualify for driving licenses.
Fetishism, exhibitionism, and voyeurism are also included as mental disorders.
Now barring people from driving.
The government says it's tightening medical controls for drivers because Russia has too many road accidents.
Pathological gambling and compulsive stealing are also on the list.
And let me see.
And, of course, they go into, in 2013, Russia made promoting nontraditional lifestyles illegal.
And then they go in here.
They say they're not quite sure how it's going to be implemented.
So whenever we get the...
Putin hates something, and we always love Putin hates gays, and now Putin hates the trannies.
He hates the transsexuals.
Gotta go.
This is affecting him, and this is now catching some speed.
So before it goes completely and utterly viral, which I expect it to do, just depending on what happens in...
Je suis Charlie Land.
Let me give you the background so you can amaze your colleagues, friends, and family with your No Agenda knowledge.
John, I think you'll appreciate this too.
I'm all ears.
And there's a copy of the translated copy of the legislation in the show notes at 686.noagendanotes.com.
It is Russian Federation Law 16440.
There's a paste bin of it.
The government...
The approved attached list of medical contraindic...
Contra constraints to management of vehicles, listed medical indications for motor vehicle means, listed medical restrictions to driving agent.
And they say, I'm going to paraphrase, in this document that you cannot have a mental disorder and be an operator of a motor vehicle, which arguably makes sense.
I'm not quite sure how we get around that.
Do we have questions in the United States?
Do we test if you're insane or if you have a medical disorder?
I don't know if that takes place anywhere.
I haven't taken a test for a while.
I don't know if they ask.
Are you nuts?
Yeah, we're standing in line.
In the legislation, it says you must not have any mental issues.
And these mental issues are listed as defined by ICD-10 mental and behavioral disorders as determined and codified by the World Health Organization.
So...
Russia has not made this list.
The World Health Organization has made a list of mental and behavioral disorders, definitions thereof, and that is what Russia is touting as the true list of disorders you cannot have.
That just being gay, transgender, bisexual, lesbian, whatever, LGBTQIAP, by itself is not a mental disorder.
It says it specifically in the list that this law refers to.
However, they do have a number of caveats where you can be severely depressed as you're going through a transgender situation.
A gender reassignment transformation.
And that's where all of these different mental disorders are codified.
You can have a severe gambling addiction, and that can bring on other issues.
Mental traits that would make you ineligible to operate a motor vehicle if diagnosed by a professional.
So in no way, in no way does this law say if you're trans or gay or lesbian, you cannot have a driver's license.
It says if you have a mental disorder, and it shows the ICD-10 from the World Health Organization, which lists a lot of things, not just this, Then you can be deemed ineligible.
And this has now been turned around without anyone that I've seen yet in mainstream say that this is actually a list from the World Health Organization and that that is where the mental disorders is coming from.
So even the BBC is just writing down, oh, you can't be gay.
Huh.
Uh-huh.
I'm stunned!
I am stunned.
That we'd be lying about Russia and its motives.
I am stunned.
For once, I am stunned.
The previous thing that Brian the Gay Crusader did with the white paper on really delving into the law about the promotion of alternative lifestyles was a lot more complicated.
This is simple.
It says it right there.
By the way, we may use the same standards for certain mental health disorders and qualifications.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure what we use as the standard, but the World Health Organization, that's kind of the global standard, and they're using that.
They're referring to it in their law.
And now everyone's like, Putin hates trannies, man!
Go look at Joe Ingo's Facebook.
You don't have Facebook.
New law includes...
We're all bent out of shape about this.
Of course.
Why don't people just listen to our show so they get the facts instead of being pushed around by the media using you?
The media uses you.
It's called abuse.
It's called abuse.
Abuse.
It's not just use.
Abuses.
Abuses and use.
It's abuse.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, it's terrible.
Abuse.
And it's abuse of my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters and my trans friends.
It's just lame.
And you should be outraged.
Seriously, outraged.
And someone needs to call these people to atone.
Nobody's outraged.
No, I know.
Well, hey, I said it on a podcast.
I'm done.
My moral self-licensing.
You're good to go.
I'm good to go.
Who needs any more?
I did it.
I said it.
I schwacked the nose.
Well, since we're on the topic of Europe, let's go back to Germany.
Yes.
And apparently Germany is going to sacrifice.
Of course, this is us.
I think we're trying to ruin them in some funny way.
Well, yeah, if you ruin them, you ruin the Euro.
We rule.
Yeah.
Makes sense, yeah.
Everything's working out, it looks like.
So we have a number of things going on, but a lot of it has to do with...
Nuclear energy and just energy in general.
And Germany apparently has a lot of energy problems because the country is apparently run by, I don't know, idealists or green nutballs.
Can I have a backgrounder?
Backgrounder on this is the Energiewende after the 2012 Fukushima Daiichi accident.
Germany said, we are going to shut down all of our nuclear power.
We're going all renewables, wind, solar, etc.
And now the manufacturing in Germany is dying because of the cost of energy.
Because it's just so incredibly expensive, half of it's being subsidized, and they want to turn it back because it's killing the country.
Well, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Let's play Energy Problems 1.
This is the most comprehensive climate protection package that the German government has ever presented.
After saying no to nuclear power by 2022, Germany is now aiming to go even more green by getting ready to say goodbye to coal as well, as part of the ambitious plan to cut CO2 emissions by 40% to 1990 levels.
About 45% of power generated in Germany still comes from coal.
And as the government aims to reduce this dependency, the question isn't only about what to substitute it with, but perhaps even more importantly, how much it will cost in a country where energy bills are already among the highest in Europe.
Indeed, German consumers have already spent an extra 106 billion euros since 2000 to cover cleaner energy initiatives via a charge added to their bills.
Germany is Europe's industrial powerhouse with the biggest appetite for energy on the continent.
The government's ultimate goal is to switch to renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass, currently generating around a quarter of the country's needs.
But skeptics warn no matter how green they may want to go, a fossil fuel backup is vital to keep industries working.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's idealism, yes.
Agreed.
Yeah, they're pushing them in this direction, and they're all getting sucked down the hole.
A lot of investments now with big industrialists in Germany are taking place here.
In fact, BASF, and I think one of these reports mentions it, is dropping $3 billion in America.
Because we're not America.
In America.
America.
Because we can get...
Because the energy to run their factories, their chemical company...
It's too expensive.
It's too expensive.
It's cheapest in the United States, so we're getting a lot of foreign...
This is why the stock market, by the way, people ought to understand what the stock market's going up.
This is part of it.
We're scamming everybody, and we're largely behind pushing a lot of this stuff.
In fact, I was listening to some C-SPAN that was...
This idiot, and I want to talk about the hypocrisy, and I want to mention to people, you'll notice that the United States always signs on it like Kyoto.
Yeah, yeah, we'll do it.
Then we never ratify.
We never ratify.
Never.
We never ratify.
Ah, well, it's because of the Republicans.
It's always something.
And then when I heard, and blame the Republicans, the Republicans, fine, just don't do it.
We'll take the blame.
We hear these phonies like Bernie Sanders go off against, you know, what we should really be looking at is nuke power, of course.
But listen to Bernie Sanders, and I have a comment about this.
This is the Bernie Sanders clip before I go back to Germany.
Whether within his definition of the kind of energy system he, on point four, that he hopes to transform our country to, whether that includes nuclear power, which today produces 60% of our carbon-free electricity.
No.
Senator Sanders.
I have serious concerns about nuclear power.
I find it hard to understand how people want new nuclear power plants when they will be the most expensive form of new electricity production in the country, far more expensive than wind and solar.
And also wanting new nuclear power plants at a time when we don't know how to get rid of the very substantial waste that we have right now.
So to answer my friend Senator Alexander, my hope is that over a period of time we will phase out nuclear electricity and power electricity in this country.
Ah, don't vote that guy back in.
Oh, what a douchebag.
Hold on, let me douchebag that guy.
Douchebag!
Well, I think it's just bullcrap anyway.
I just want to say one thing.
The new reactors can, in fact, take the existing waste and use it.
Yes, we know.
We keep up with this, but Sanders is a phony.
And so I got to this thinking because White House, this guy White House...
I'm going to shut up.
I just want anyone who thinks that they are in tech...
Okay?
Anyone who does a tech show, tech this, tech that, ladies, if you're doing tech, you need to understand the technology of the new nuclear reactors.
Otherwise, you are not in tech.
You are full of crap.
All these guys are talking about is tech from the 50s.
This has changed.
We're talking about 50 years of research.
It's not the same as it used to be.
So this guy Whitehouse, who I'm always complaining about because he won't be the head of anything anymore as a Democrat, but he's always talking about, oh, we've got to get renewables, we've got to do this, although tides are going up, the global warming and all the rest.
Somebody, one of our...
One of our producers, I guess in the D.C. area, went and did some research and found that most of his investments are in old-fashioned energy.
Of course.
Oil.
Of course.
But they talk a big game.
But we're not as an entire society suckered by the bullshit.
We tend to, like, that's why we don't sign these agreements.
We go, oh yeah, we'll show up at Kyoto and we'll show up at these various conferences, whatever they're called, that they have every year in some place or other.
They had one in Copenhagen.
Yeah, the COP, the COP. The COP stuff.
We show up and then we, you know, yeah, oh yeah, whatever you say.
Meanwhile, these other boneheads like Germany seem to take this stuff in hook, line, and sinker because of the greenies actually being taken seriously.
Well, it's greed, John, because in Europe, certainly in the Netherlands, I saw it.
I know how it works.
I actually once had to move a windmill, a power windmill, At great expense for the heliport in Amsterdam.
And then I found out these are all little LLCs, or BVs in that case, and their share structure is owned by, amongst other people, former politicians, current politicians, other little LLCs that are owned by politicians, because it's subsidized.
It's a license to print money, and it's just stealing from the people.
Same in Germany.
So let's play German energy number two.
Germany needs a certain base load of electricity.
That's a load which has to be always day and night, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week available.
And this base load is about 40% of our total electricity demand.
So this base load, it's impossible to provide this by wind and sun.
Substituting coal with natural gas is another option, but that would also mean a bigger dependency on energy imports and, once again, more figures on those costly energy bills.
The private consumer has to pay the bill in contradiction to the big companies who get these exceptions or they just leave the country and go to North America where the energy prices due to the conventional gas and the oil sands is quite cheap.
Couldn't really hear the end there.
Well, he said that these companies are all packing up and going to North America.
Yeah.
United States and Canada, mostly, where the energy price is cheap.
That's what we've done.
We've created this situation.
I mean, we always try to tax it and screw the public, but compared to what you pay, and this has been the case since, I don't know, 50 years or more, where gasoline, for example, is discouraged.
Its use is discouraged in most of Europe, and it's extremely expensive because of the taxes.
If it's not one thing, it's another over there.
Well, let's play part three, and then I can wrap this.
One of the biggest chemicals producers in the world has already invested over $5 billion into facilities in the U.S. Some analysts warn unless Europe stops lagging in energy production and the price gap remains wide, we may see a chain reaction of more investment to American shores.
And frankly, it's unlikely that saying no to both nuclear energy and coal will help keep this money, at least, on German soil.
No, don't count on it.
Don't count on it.
Did I talk about Iran and the Azerbaijan pipeline on the last show?
I was so out of it.
I don't remember.
You might have.
Yeah, I've always been trying to figure out why are we cozying up to Iran and why are we trying to get them all involved.
And I think I might have talked about it.
It doesn't matter.
I just want to reiterate quickly.
Talk about it again.
That Iran is now joining the EU gas race.
They want to...
And this is kind of the funny thing, because the whole Syria issue started over a choice of pipelines.
The West and the Western oil companies wanted Qatar up north through Syria, Homs, Aleppo, all those towns that we called months before anything happened, into Turkey or off to the left there into the Mediterranean, into Italy or Greece or Cyprus.
And that's the pipe, but really through Turkey.
That's the pipeline that was intended to happen.
The Arab, what are they calling it?
Well, it's the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline.
That's the one that we had to stop.
And in a strange twist of fate, maybe it was plan B or maybe it was the idea all along, it seems that that pipeline, and certainly if ISIS can protect it for us, may actually come into play as Azerbaijan will be pumping their gas through may actually come into play as Azerbaijan will be pumping their And then they want to complete the pipeline.
And there's a number of options for the pipeline.
It can be the Persian pipelines, what we would call that one.
There's also the Southern Gas Corridor, which is a U.S.-British-French initiative.
Now I understand why we're trying to make friends with Iran, because we want to bring them back into the fold, under our complete control, of course.
And I'm pretty sure that the nuclear thing is really to slow them down to say, hey, man, don't get so popular with your nuclear energy here.
You're going to make that stuff complicated.
We've got to push that back.
We just want the gas to flow.
But there's interesting new reports coming in about Iran entering the gas sector and really wanting to sell their gas as well as from Azerbaijan, which we own.
That's Hillary Clinton's.
That's where we had the Eurovision Song Contest.
Baku.
We own a lot of that.
So they're coming into the fold, and I find that, of course, that's fascinating.
Along with this, we have an interesting speech from Elizabeth Warren.
And completely misinterpreted by everybody in the mainstream, of course, which is why you listen to this show, this podcast, as the House, now filled with Republicans who have the majority, passed a bill that would allow for the construction of this final little itty-bitty piece of the Keystone XL pipeline.
And we know that most of this thing is already running.
This is a little piece.
And it's really the only reason why this is being debated is Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, big Democrat supporters.
It is huge for them.
They're trained running the oil in and out of Canada.
And that cannot be disturbed.
It's a bonanza for those guys.
Really, truly is.
They don't even want...
Farmers can't even get a freight train, a car to move their stuff anymore.
So Elizabeth Warren...
Yeah, no, that is actually a huge problem for the American farmers.
Yeah.
And by the way, I want to mention that since you brought this up, Buffett has come out and publicly came out and supported the pipeline, which is bullcrap.
This is typical of these guys.
They say one thing.
Liars.
They work on making sure it doesn't happen.
So when you hear Elizabeth Warren with her allegations, and by the way, the respect that she's getting for this is, you know, John, you called it early on.
She's a real contender with this.
And I believe she's a contender because she has now, she has Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in her pocket based upon this two-minute speech.
Thank you very much, Madam Chairman.
And also, congratulations.
Let me just blow you.
On a new post.
I'm very much looking forward to working with you on energy issues.
I got you when I'm president.
And with our ranking member, Cantwell.
You know, we've heard a lot about today about some of the problems with the legislative proposal.
And by the way, just listen to this and think of the old bots.
They'll be like, yes, yes, she's so right.
Screw those Republicans.
To force the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
My question is simpler.
I want to know why the pipeline is the very first number one item on the agenda in this new Congress.
Is this about jobs?
The number of jobs the pipeline will create is disputed, but most estimates put it at a few thousand or less.
What if we focused on highways instead of pipelines?
We urgently need to pass a permanent highway bill.
She's a good one.
Yeah, she's hitting all the points.
The American Association...
Stop it for a second.
I just want to point out that Elizabeth Warren, who I follow closely because I'm convinced she's going to do something drastic, like run, has always talked a big game.
Always.
She's always talked a big game.
Oh, consumer protection.
As soon as I get in office, we're going to fix consumer protection.
She doesn't do anything.
She is a biggest phony, big talker, great talker, gets everybody all worked up and doesn't do anything.
Correct, because we've read the scammy notes that I've received here at home.
Capital One and all these guys, it's all still small print scammy and you get screwed.
So as far as I know, nothing really happened.
No, nothing.
State highway and transportation officials says it would create 8 million jobs.
Okay, but she's now just saying, oh yeah, if we had a highway and road bill or bridge and tunnel, it doesn't say how much that would cost or whether it was coming.
That's just, you know, rhetoric, I guess.
Just talk.
Talk, yeah.
Over the next four years.
And by the way, I'm all for it.
I mean, let's print up a whole bunch of money and put 8 million people to work.
Yeah, I'm good to go, but just shut up and do it.
There's roads around here are horrible.
They're worse than L.A. There it is.
There it is.
If we could pass a highway bill, we could put people to work in good jobs and fix crumbling roads and bridges.
So is the pipeline about lowering America's energy costs?
Evidently not.
Even its supporters admit that much of the oil in the pipeline would be exported for use outside the United States.
So it's not about jobs.
It's not about energy.
Why is this bill so urgent?
Let me ask you the question now.
Why do you think it's urgent for the Republicans to panic?
Well, I would think if it was true politics, it would be to screw over Buffen Gates.
That's what I think.
Or get some of these trains to be pulling, you know, to lower the cost of food because you have to pay a premium now to get a car to put some weed in it because they're using these things for oil to such an extreme.
There's all of them happening in the Midwest.
That's the problem.
We have a weed shortage?
Weed, yeah, weed.
Weed.
Time to panic.
Oh, weed.
Or I should have pronounced wheat.
Wheat, yes.
Well, I think if it's true politics, I think they would only be doing this to blackmail Buffett to get some campaign donations.
Yeah, it would be part of it.
Well, whatever the case is, cheese will look crap.
The answer is money.
Money and power.
The pipeline might not do much for the American people, but it is worth a whole lot to the Canadian oil industry.
According to an analysis...
By the way, supply most of our oil.
Yeah, they're the number one supplier.
That's our foreign oil supplier.
Let me ask you another question.
Since when did Politico become a reference point?
Because everything else has become so lame that it just did by default.
I don't know that it knows anything more than the New York Times.
Well, that's my point.
It used to be, you know, the New York Times or maybe the Wall Street Journal, maybe, you know, or some institute, perhaps, a research operation.
Now it's just Politico, and everyone goes, oh, well, Politico, oh, well.
Oh, well, Politico.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Politico.
Is Politico making money?
Isn't that one of those things that's just funded out of...
Yes, I think it's making money.
I have no idea.
In the oil industry.
According to an analysis by Politico, since 2009, TransCanada has spent almost $7 million in lobbying expenses related to Keystone.
So much money industry-wide is being spent that Burdette Loomis, a political science professor at the University of Kansas, previously described the Keystone XL bill as, quote, a lobbyist support act.
And now TransCanada wants what they paid for.
Who does this new Republican Congress work for?
Foreign oil companies or the American people?
Today, their first priority is to advance a pipeline that means a whole lot to an army of well-paid lobbyists and a whole lot to a giant foreign oil company.
But we know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks.
And it just won't do much to help the American people.
I didn't come here to do favors for TransCanada.
Republican leaders may disagree, but I'll be voting no on this.
Oh, it's the Republicans.
Yeah, Republicans and...
And by the way...
There's two million miles of pipeline in America.
TransCanada spent seven million on lobbying.
That's a spit in the bucket.
I can't imagine what...
I'm looking for it, but I can't find it.
Well, here's a...
Just a few of these things are like 10 in the billions for highway lobbying.
Oh yeah, of course.
It's much bigger.
So this argument is specious.
Yes.
No, they're spending 7 million and they're buying our votes.
They're not spending enough.
Yeah, I know.
And I think she's being...
She's a phony.
Well, and she's probably being supported by Buffett and Gates.
I'm sure she's going to be.
With that kind of talk...
No, no, she's definitely a winner.
Never, ever.
I think we're the only people to talk about Gates owning most of the Canadian Railway.
It's a huge shareholder, and Buffett owns Burlington Northern.
He owns it outright.
Yeah.
Not a shareholder.
It's his little toy train.
It's his toy train set.
I know, it's great.
He must have a private car that is dynamite.
Oh, a private rail car?
Yeah, that must be nice.
I would love one of those.
Yeah, they're cool, I have to say.
That is the ultimate.
I'm part of a consortium and own part of one.
There's a whole club of these people.
After the jet and all that, nah, you gotta have that.
Jet.
Yeah.
Well, he owns NetJets, that's his.
He does?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
NetJets.
Mm-hmm.
Amidst all of the...
Everything has been going on.
We see CISPA being revived, and I think if they really introduce the bill, I think it'll pass this time.
Oh, really?
The one that all the techies are all against?
Yeah.
Change your icon!
Yep.
Dutch Ruppersberger.
Well, it wasn't just changing your icon.
You'll recall Wikipedia went dark.
It actually was dark, dark, like not accessible, I think.
Is that not true?
There are a couple places that just...
Maybe Craigslist?
I doubt that'll happen again.
No, you can't.
They give up.
Oh, we did that already.
We stopped it.
We stopped it.
Yeah.
This is Dutch Ruppersberger, the old coot.
Another one.
Another one that needs to be voted out.
And he, of course, is referring to...
This is all about cyber sharing.
That's really what the CISPA deal was about.
I'm going to bring it back up.
If they show...
I don't know if it's going to be a revamped version or exactly the same version.
He says he's putting the bill in.
He's doing it himself, reintroducing the bill.
And he bases that on the Sony hack attack.
Hack, hack, hack.
Hackers hacked.
What would this bill have to do with Sony?
Nothing.
But it's about, the bill is about share.
It's not SOPA, it's CISPA. Oh, this is that bull crap where they want everybody all in.
Yeah, they've been promoting this with the Sony.
Oh, you know, if you guys are working with us, this wouldn't happen.
Yes.
You guys are working with us.
Share your data.
Yep.
That's it.
Let our guys get into the back end of your machines there and you wouldn't have this problem because we'd be able to stop it.
Sure you would.
And the admiral there over at the NSA, Michael Rogers, is saying, well, yeah, you know, the FBI, we did all that work for them.
We partner.
When they ask us for our technical ability, we specifically did that.
We provide our technical expertise to prove that it is North Korea, NK. We're part of a broad interagency effort.
Yes, we're part of that.
We do that.
That's how we do it.
That's how we roll.
Alright, clip?
No, I wish.
I wish.
No, I know.
These guys are smart.
Let's not give those no-agenda a-holes more content.
No, I don't have a clip of that, unfortunately.
Well, I do have a clip that says you brought the FBI up again.
Let's play this.
This is a clip from RT. A lot of RT work this week.
That's all right.
And this is their rundown of the FBI collecting calls.
Welcome back.
The FBI says it doesn't need permission to listen in on cell phone conversations in public places.
A report claims the agency and other law enforcement bodies are eavesdropping on calls using light aircraft circling cities.
The system was reportedly designed to pinpoint criminals, but it's unknown how many innocent people's private chats are being listened to.
Marina Portnaya explains.
You know, we talked about this on Thursday, right?
Yeah, I know.
Okay.
I just like the Russian report.
No, we'll do the report.
The U.S. has more than 325 million mobile phones in use.
And if they're being used in public spaces, the FBI says it doesn't need to obtain search warrants before scooping up private phone calls and text messages with interception devices.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the federal government is using devices that mimic cell phone towers to drag net data from thousands of phones while hunting for a suspect.
The devices, known as stingrays or dirt boxes, attach to planes and cars, tricking cell phones into reporting their unique registration information.
The severe amount of data that can be pulled is raising concerns.
There's no reason to suck up 10,000 innocent people.
I mean it's bad enough that they're doing warrantless interception of one person's cell phone calls.
What the FBI is apparently doing, if that report is correct, Is they are just throwing out an electronic dragnet and everybody within reach of their fake cell tower, their stingray, their dirt box, whatever the slang du jour for it is, they're sucking up everyone's phone calls.
Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that the fake cell tower devices reportedly determine which phones belong to suspects and eventually lets go of the private data belonging to innocent citizens.
Problem is, it's not clear what steps are taken to ensure citizens' private data.
Good news on this front, and I'm not sure if the Stingray is different from the dirt box, but we have a producer who has used a DRT in the field, and he is going to be sending me details on exactly what it does.
Okay, good.
Now, I have to remind everybody that the reason for all this is not to protect anyone against terrorism.
It's to create a web of blackmail.
Yes.
As far as I'm concerned.
Yes, where it starts.
To get people in Congress.
It's not about you, necessarily, the person on the street.
It's not about you or Adam, me.
It's about Congress or people that have voting power to blackmail them so they get their way, so they get more money.
And I don't think people even realize that that is, or even, it doesn't even cross people's minds.
It's such the logical thing to do.
I know.
It's the most logical thing you can imagine.
I mean, that's what you want to get all this.
And by the way, and if nobody doesn't, if people don't realize this, the FBI is a blackmailing operation from years ago during the day one.
Day one.
That's what they do.
He was he's keeping his secret records and he going.
That's how the guy stayed.
That's why they in fact, the blackmail aspect of the FBI is why they passed the law saying you couldn't be FBI director.
More than 10 years.
More than 10 years you had to leave.
You had to leave.
Even though they extended it with the last guy.
Yeah.
Well, he had all the...
Because the guy will become...
He could become, if he wanted to, he could become, you know, run the whole country with blackmail.
I mean, this is...
The reason for that law was the blackmail.
But, no, no, no.
They're good guys.
You know, they help us solve crimes.
Now let's look at the current director of the FBI, James Comey, and why it might be interesting to have this capability of blackmail.
He comes from big-ass business.
BAB, big-ass business.
Besides being General Counsel Vice President of Lockheed Martin, he was on the board of HSBC, a bank that was very good at laundering hundreds of billions of dollars.
Right, a massive corrupt bank.
Massive.
He was a member of Bridgewater Associates, investment management firm, very important financial firm, very important firm.
And he was actually in HSBC. During all of these scandals of, you know, the LIBOR and the URIBOR, all...
So this guy is...
You cannot just say, oh, here he comes.
He's always...
He's a lawyer, of course.
You know, this is a perfect guy for the FBI. Yeah.
With a blackmailing operation going on.
And not just that, insider information.
And if anybody thinks that that's not happening...
Well, fine.
Oh, yeah.
If I was running this thing and I just had...
And, oh, Warren, I could now just wiretap anybody because it does...
The blackmailed Supreme Court or whoever said, yeah, no, you don't need a warrant to do any of this stuff.
If it's a cell phone and you're in public, well, yeah.
What if you're in a room by yourself because you want to be private?
No, no, no.
We get it all.
We grab it all.
The first thing I'd do is I'd be right on John Doar's phone.
Hell yeah.
What deal is he doing?
I'd be on all the Kleiner Perkins phones, listening to what deals they were doing to see if there was an M&A opportunity that I could invest in.
Yes.
How about the Maverick?
What's his name?
Maverick's guy.
I don't know.
There's a lot of these.
The Shark Tank guy.
That guy.
Cuban?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's got all my...
Cuba's not a realer dealer like these others.
There's realer dealers out there.
I mean, Carl Icahn, that'd be one of the guys I'd do.
That'd be all over that guy.
Whatever he was talking about, I'd want it to be transcribed and on my desk in the morning.
I want Taylor Swift's photos.
I'm sorry.
I'll make this personal so everybody understands how this really works.
I believe there are people in our audience who have, either for your spouse, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, maybe your kids, you have gone onto the computer and checked out their Facebook.
Whether you had the password or not, maybe it was still logged in.
Maybe you looked at some history in the browser.
What is he or she doing?
And that's human nature.
It's human nature to do this.
And that's why it goes all the way to the top.
And when there's big bucks involved, it gets more interesting.
I think everyone can understand that.
It's like you're drawn to it.
Oh, man, I really need to look at what could be going on.
And imagine if you're like one of the...
FBI, we're going to use that as our example, even though I would say these other agencies do the same thing, but you're working in Silicon Valley, and you're hanging out trying to do some work, and these douchebags, and you meet these guys, they are the dumbest douchebags ever.
They happen to be in the right business, in the right place, in the right time, and for some reason...
Oh, they don't understand at all, no.
Many of them are worth billions.
And you look at this guy, why is this guy, I met this guy, I've talked to him, he's an idiot.
Why am I working for the government?
So at some point you start to think about, well, how can I get a piece of the pie?
And you get involved in the blackmail, it's the way to go.
Or spying, listening to people, seeing there's a deal you can do, a stock pick.
I think stock picks are probably, for the average guy, more important than the blackmail.
The blackmail is only going to be targeting legislative people.
So you get your votes, you get your money, you get your allocation.
Right.
Yeah, well, I'm glad you're going to vote against it.
Hey, there's some really cool pictures of you with this hooker.
And it's always hookers.
If we could just stop being so uptight about hookers, then there wouldn't be blackmail.
It's always sex that's a black male.
Isn't that strange?
Well, it's not that strange because there's a lot of married couples, a lot of women, a lot of men that don't like their spouse.
They're hanging out with hookers all the time.
They just don't like it.
They say, you know, I'm sick of you hanging out with hookers.
I'm getting divorced.
I'm taking half of everything.
I'm trying to say something different.
That is the big moral crime where no one is saying, hey, that guy's killing people with drones and innocent civilians.
You're right on that.
That's never the big moral crime.
No, no, no.
You screwed a hooker?
Which, by the way, stimulates the economy as it is being counted towards GDP in all of the EU member states.
So you're actually being very patriotic.
And while discussing this sort of thing where you're, you know, the spying and blackmailing and all the rest, a lot of this stuff, of course, a lot of people bring it on themselves.
And I thought the funniest story this week was this one, which is the guy, the ISIS guy, tweeting away like crazy and leaving his geolocation information in the tweets.
That he's in Washington, D.C.? Well, no, this guy was apparently floating.
There's a good story.
Play this tweeting ISIS dummy.
Oh, okay.
I had a different one.
Security agencies worldwide are busy tracking down foreign recruits traveling to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria, but one Islamist has unwittingly made their job easier.
A New Zealander believed to be fighting with Islamic State has been broadcasting his whereabouts by geographically tagging his tweets.
Well, Mark Taylor made it possible for a Canadian intelligence group to track the routes he travelled late last year.
Geotags on his tweets revealed he was fighting in Kaffa Roma in October.
He then retreated to the group's stronghold of Al Tabkar in early December.
After realising his blunder, Taylor deleted all of his tweets, but it was too little too late.
And, as if that wasn't bad enough for him, in one Twitter photo update he revealed the face of another fighter in the background.
Yeah, there was another guy, another Islamist, you know, jihadi thing.
This is maybe two weeks ago.
And the tweet location showed up as Washington, D.C. Nah!
Yeah, it's funny.
A phony.
But even this stuff by itself.
Do you think that it's not possible for the FBI to subpoena the tweeters, a Twitter, and at least trace back to the...
The origin of the IP, maybe it's this proxy, but it's like all of this social media stuff.
They probably have a hose already.
Exactly.
All this social media, the expertise of ISIS is bullcrap.
Yeah, they are, because Hillary Clinton trained them personally.
They're called techno-experts in her book.
Well, I think it's also, I think they call them these experts in, you take a group, you know, this is the sociology of it.
You tell somebody they're dumb and everyone tells them they're dumb, they start acting pretty dumb.
If you start telling these guys that they're the experts, social media experts, they start believing it.
And so they end up doing a lot of dumb shit on social media by giving their positions away because they don't really understand any of the mechanisms.
They don't understand about geotagging.
I mean, who does?
And so they leave all these things on, or they like to take pictures because of the social media.
I think they've been encouraged to use social media, not that they're actually experts in any way, for this particular reason.
Because they're dumb.
It's just a giveaway.
You know how that encouragement happens, don't you?
Another like, fan, or share, so we need another post to show up everywhere.
There it is.
I hope as we scatter that we never forget.
Let's get social.
Social.
Social media.
I can listen to that whole song, you know.
I got an email.
I love that song.
An email from Tristan.
My 12-year-old son was in the car with me listening to the latest episode.
He says, stop, stop, stop, back it up!
What was that song thing?
I explain about the song, move on, thinking nothing of it.
Get home, next thing, I hear the whole bloody thing blaring out of his room.
I go in, he's on his bed, almost in tears, cracking up, can't stop laughing.
He loves it.
Of course.
It's funny.
Well, actually, when you see the actual YouTube video, it's like...
It's a jaw-dropper in so far as humor.
And then, of course, the jerk that did it says, oh, no, no, it was a parody.
We were just trying to get something to go viral to show you how it works.
Yeah, to show you how it works.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Right.
Yeah, right.
It's impossible to...
It just doesn't work that way.
Well, I love it.
I'm very happy.
I'm very happy it exists.
Somebody complained to me on one of the emails.
You must have got it.
One of our producers said, I was sick and tired of that ISIS song, which I had it running through my brain constantly.
You should play that one, too.
And then you start playing this.
Now I got rid of ISIS. Now I can't stop hearing this thing.
Well, let's play this one.
And then we had ISIS.
You mean this one?
The James Brown one.
Oh, the James Brown one.
Right, right, right.
Okay, hold on a second.
What happened here?
Sorry.
Sigh.
Yeah, well, I'm really working on fixing the problems I've been having, and it's been good so far on the show, I think.
Except for this one little glitch, is what we call it.
Glitch.
Yes, it was a glitch.
Okay, here we go.
ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell.
ISIS. I feel good!
Ah, man, that's good.
The jingles are what makes it great.
Great little ditty.
Who did that?
Oh, um...
I don't know.
Maybe it says it here.
It's one of our better ones.
Yeah, but there's...
We have a lot of good...
If we just strung together all the songs and the little G-Jaws...
We could release an album on iTunes.
Not a bad idea, actually, now that I think about it.
However, we prefer our traditional value-for-value method.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Me.
We do have a few people to thank for the show 6, whatever it is, 86, that sent something.
Chuck Bennett is at the top of the list.
One, two, three, four, five out of Boise.
This is Chuck Bennett in Boise.
Is Adam going to...
I'm not going to read all these, but I'm going to read this one.
Because I think you have talked about this to an extreme already.
Is Adam going to tell us what audio filters he's using?
I think it's been asked before, but I can't find where it was answered.
No, I have not done that.
I need a little bit of time.
He doesn't really use audio filters.
He uses a string of software.
Well, it's audio filters.
Software audio filters, they're classics and they're just stacked.
Yes.
And the idea is...
I think you have talked about it.
Yeah.
Because we talked about the Neve.
Neve.
Whatever.
No, the idea is to release how I did it, how I put it together, what we use, including the files, should you want to replicate the system.
That's the idea.
It's one of those projects.
You know, it's like your educational special, which is now six years in the making.
I got it ready to go.
And it's about a 97% of scientists agree article that we're co-authored.
Yeah, yeah, that's coming.
Yeah, yeah.
Someone else is going to do it, you know.
I think somebody did.
Although not as good as we could.
Baron Sander Hoeksbergen in Zandam.
One, two, three, four, five.
Yeah.
He has a question here.
This is an off-show note, he says.
He wants to be the baron of a region in Europe.
Like the baron of the Alps.
Fine.
Yeah, we can do that.
Yeah, Alps are good.
Alps are good.
I need to protect the idol of eyes.
And you can be anywhere in there because you're under the auspices of the Grand Duke.
The Edelweiss.
And you have subsections.
Travis Benelli in Iscondido, California, $111.15, which is a new thing we offered for $11.
Oh yes, this was in the newsletter.
Yeah, today's $111.15.
Nice.
And he wants some karma, so I'll put that at the end.
Brian Pollack in Florissant, Missouri, 111.15.
Sir Sam Lung, Baron, I think, in Toronto, Ontario, $115.111.15.
He said the picture of the panda torture in the newsletter was just too much and compelled me to donate.
He's also about Finnish reading Pot Shards.
He says the book is truly excellent.
That's my Uncle Don Gregg's book.
Insightful.
Yes.
Yep.
Baron Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia.
He has something about...
Damn!
$111.15, yes, the ants, my ants.
Jeremy, they're still around, but it's not as bad.
Jeremy Johnson, JJ. You can call me JJ, you can call me, but don't call me Johnson, Jeremy.
Nobody will get that joke, $111.15 in Port Angeles, Washington, right down the street from me.
Jason Daniels, Dallas, Texas, $111.15.
Daryl Coquillet, I'm sure that's what it is in Cortland, Illinois.
Same, 1115.
Sir Jason Fortune in Geneva, Illinois, also $111.15.
And Christopher Dolan in Berlin, Connecticut.
By the way, it's Sir Jason Knight of the Fox Valley.
Jason Daniels, $111.11 in Dallas, Texas.
Wait a minute.
Hold on a second.
He comes in twice.
No, maybe he did.
So maybe he should be an associate executive producer, unless he doesn't want that because he split it up.
No, no, no.
I think we should give it to him whether he wants it or not.
Alright, remind me.
Jason Daniels, 111.11.
John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 111.11.
Mark Roos, 111 Flat in Amsterdam, California.
He says he's been listening for over a year and he...
Doesn't really need a jingle, but he perforated science already, if possible.
Try to remember to put that at the end.
John Glover in Zillow, Washington, $109.97.
$100 because he was a boner.
$9.97 is for John to spend on a book I wrote, Drone University, on Amazon.
It would help you build your own professional drone from scratch.
Danny Baker, Morristown, Tennessee, $100.
Now we have an upcoming night, or no, he's upgrading Sir D.H. Slammer.
He's completing his baronet.
Now he had a question here.
He wanted us to do something, which, I don't know, you want to do this?
He has like a script.
I don't know, what does he say?
He says, thank you for your courage, I'm saving an appropriate donation.
Some with a request that you and Buzzkill read a voicemail greeting script.
During the show warm-up.
Oh, the warm-up.
It was not to take time during the normally distributed portion of the show.
Alright, we'll do it tomorrow on the Thursday show.
She still can't get her American ass to sit in a circle with our friend's family.
The Dutch circle.
The Dutch birthday circle.
Don't do it.
It's the Dutch birthday circle.
Don't do it, Danny.
Don't even go shopping.
There was a picture yesterday on last night on Facebook.
Mickey had her big opening in Amsterdam.
And afterwards, she had friends and family go, I guess, to her cousin's house.
And there was a picture.
It was a huge circle.
A big circle.
It was an after show, after art show opening party, and all the Dutch were sitting in the circle.
Yeah.
It was really, really weird.
Weird.
I said it.
It was weird.
Creepy.
Sir Adrian Vernoy.
Vernoy.
Vernoy is $60 from Hasselt.
The I and the J is pronounced as a Y or in combination with the two O's for oy, for noy.
Okay, I just wrote that down.
Uh...
You got some karma we got.
We had a question.
I donated $66 last Thursday.
Asked for karma.
Shout out for my brother, John.
You got so sidetracked with looking at the Eurodollar rate that you missed reading my request for karma that came with a donation.
Please credit this amount.
I'll post my last donation to Benjamin for Noyes' account and hand him a shot of karma so he can sure use it right now.
Yeah, and put that at the end.
Yeah, of course.
And you can do the bookkeeping for us.
That way it won't get screwed up.
Jason Payne in Spokane, Washington, 5412.
Brian Sidorowicz.
Thank you, Jason, for breaking with the seed man to come over to us.
Good.
Sidorowicz in Hamburg, New York, 50-50.
Now, the following are all $50 donations, which I will read in order.
Alexander McKenzie in Delta, BC. I didn't know there was such a place.
Marin Kurta in Split.
That's a hot happening real estate investing town in Croatia.
Oh really?
It's good to hear Croatians.
How do you know that?
Because a friend of mine was buying property in Croatia, and he mentioned it, talked about it, and I looked it up, and yeah, there it was.
It's a happening place.
If I was going to live in Croatia, Dubrovnik has got to be the place you want to live.
What a great place.
Anyone who's traveling in that area, go there.
Antonio McMullen, $50, parts unknown.
Paul Vela, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire.
50.
Ben Hutton in Manchester somewhere.
UK. Manchester, UK. 50.
We have to do this.
Call him out as a douchebag.
He wants to be douchebagged.
He wants to be douchebagged?
Yeah, that's what he says.
Douchebag!
Title of shame.
David P. is going to cause him to be undouchebagged.
David P. in Aubrey, Texas.
Right up the street from you, 50.
And finally, we have a short list today, to say the least.
Angela Castaneda in Henderson, Nevada.
Yeah.
Angela...
Angela is what I say.
No, Angela.
That's right.
It's our friend Angela.
But she's in Henderson, which is a smarter place to live.
And that concludes our show 686 producers.
And we want to remind people to go to Dvorak.org slash NA for show 687.
So we have 678 in the next numbers.
687, 678.
So it's important.
It's a lucky number.
It's not in the right order.
Ah.
It shows 700, people.
Yeah.
Now, if you're going to Vegas, Angela's the one you want to hook up with, for sure.
All right.
Well, thank you very much, and thank you everyone who came in with amounts under $50, mainly for anonymity reasons, but also you're on one of our programs.
And these programs pay off.
We keep getting more and more people now after months, or in some cases some years, are achieving the status of knighthood, damehood.
Finally catching up to them.
Yeah.
And that makes me happy.
It means that people have been with us for a long time.
And I guess we're not boring then in that case.
This is good.
We're not boring.
That's what I mean.
I know boring.
Yeah?
Nothing.
Oh, okay.
We had a long karma list of things that we need to do, so let me do that right now.
Oh my god, that is amazing!
Shut up already!
It's science!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Karma.
That would be amazing.
And Brian Churchill says happy birthday to his wonderful girlfriend, Susie, turning 33 tomorrow on the 12th.
And Jos van Tilthopen says happy birthday to his wife, Tanya.
And it says here, celebrating August 1st.
Must have missed something somewhere.
I've got to check that out and see if I can understand what's going on there.
At any rate, happy birthday from all your friends here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
It's your best!
He said it was belated.
Oh, okay.
Well, or early.
Well, it is both, actually, now that you mention it.
Now we have...
This was already in there, I guess.
Baronet Sir Siswell of the Upper Horseshoe.
We have him.
That was from last week.
I guess that carried over somehow.
But then we have Sir D.H. Slammer.
And what was his...
He became a baronet.
Yeah, I think so.
And he wants to pick some area, I guess.
Was that again, the Alps?
Was that the Alps?
Let me double check.
I think it was.
Well, he just wanted to know if he could.
He didn't actually pick anything.
What's the difference?
We're talking about DH Slammer?
Yeah.
No, he doesn't say anything.
He doesn't say, no.
It was...
No, it was the other guy.
Okay.
No, he wants to know the Baronet of Santa Barbara County.
DH Slammer.
Hmm.
Okay.
There we go.
Well, that's done.
The peerage will be updated.
Then we have, let's see, one, two, three.
You have Brian Williams, Kilo Charlie Nine Yankee Juliet Mike, Noah Jenahan there, Patricia Worthington, and Davey.
If all of you could...
Whoa, watch out, because as you're getting up on the podium here, whenever we draw our blades, you can get a little dance.
All right, Brian Williams, Patricia Worthington, and Davey, you all now enter the table that is round for the Knights and the Dames.
The Noah General Roundtable, I hereby pronounce the KB, Sir Brian Green Knight of the Hams, and Dame Patricia of Biscayne Bay, and Sir Davey of the Sooners.
For you, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnays, sake and sushi, root beer and pepperoni, pizza puppies and Taylor's Vintage Pork.
Malted barley and hops.
If you want some whiskey and wet wipes, we got it for you.
We also have vodka and vanilla.
And mutton and mead.
And thank you for supporting the program.
Please go to noagenternation.com slash rings.
Fill out your information.
Eric the Shield will get right on that.
And when you receive everything, which is a nice little package, including your certificate, the sealing wax, and the ring, please tweet a picture.
So we have that for prosperity.
And so the FBI has it.
Yes.
It actually goes into the Library of Congress.
They have an entire...
Don't they have the nose?
Yeah, no.
Government?
Yes, not yet.
No, yes.
Yes.
So you should definitely take a picture of the ring and the certificate and tweet it, and we'll retweet, and that means it'll go even more.
It'll be in, it's a permanent record in the Library of Congress.
It'll be famous.
Yeah.
A hundred thousand years from now.
Yes, that's right.
Along with our peerage map.
Can we submit that to the Library of Congress?
All we have to do is tweet it.
You want to put something permanently into the Library of Congress?
Anybody out there, just tweet it.
I wonder what they're storing that on.
Probably a large system.
I'm assuming they're storing the photos.
I don't think so.
I would be stunned.
I would be stunned if they weren't storing the photos.
Not all photos.
I think maybe if you're using Twitter's photo system, but if you link to something, I don't know.
Well, use Twitter's photo system.
That's what I do.
I just upload.
Yeah.
I don't use Twitter's system at all.
I do it all through my...
To the freedom control.
Because that way it comes into the tweets as a photo.
It comes into stream.
It's got photo, photo, photo.
They want you to put a lot of photos in.
Twitter does.
That way the government can track you better.
They can see what you're taking pictures of, where you are.
There might be some good XF data in there that's useful.
Find you if they need it.
You know, that's what you want to do.
Move on with the program.
You won't stir up any suspicion.
I'm just wondering if they store the photos.
And actually, now you've got me looking into this.
All right, well, you'll know by the next show.
Well, it's your question.
Why don't you do some research?
I don't care.
That's why.
Okay.
All right.
Ah, all right.
I have a...
You've been on rant mode today.
Well, this is one that really gets me.
I didn't know this was going on, as a matter of fact, because we've seen specials, that sports show on HBO with Brian Gumbel, and there's all these other reports over the years about...
Speak for yourself.
I don't watch that.
Well, I do.
And there's a lot of reports from here and there that have documented to an extreme that anyone accepting an Olympic bid for the summer games will more or less break their city's budget.
It's a loser.
You lose tons of money.
You end up with abandoned stadiums.
It's just bad.
Yeah, look at Greece.
How'd that work out?
It's horrible.
They got a bunch of abandoned stadiums and just wasted a lot of money and pretty much broke the country.
So I'm listening to the local news, and this Olympics bid thing comes up.
I'm thinking, what are we thinking?
The Bay Area's dreams of Olympic gold were dashed today when the United States Olympic Committee pitched the East Coast over the West Coast.
It selected Boston as the U.S. bid city for the 2024 Olympic Games.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. were the other cities in the running.
Boston's mayor says their goal is to host a summer games that is innovative and walkable.
Despite getting passed over, San Francisco's Olympic Committee seemed pleased with its pitch.
We were disappointed, but you know what?
It was a tremendous effort by a lot of people, brought a lot of folks in the region together, so we have no regrets.
The final selection is up to the International Olympic Committee.
Boston will now be up against Rome, Berlin, Paris, Doha, Melbourne, and one of four potential African sites.
Who would do this?
It's a known loser.
Rio, of course, is on deck for 2016.
Oh yeah, this will break the back of the Brazilians.
They did the World Cup and they had to build a bunch of stadiums that are unused.
And this is a country that has tons of football teams, soccer to you.
And they can't find a use for these things.
China, a lot of stuff they built for the Winter Olympics is now falling into decay.
Nobody wants these things.
These are white elephants.
Maybe no one has just thought about a great use.
You know, they can stack bodies, like in Rio.
Maybe some prison internment camp might work.
It's not big enough, unless you're stacking.
Tokyo, of course, is on deck for 2020, and they have perfectly...
I heard this from Mark and Astrid, our Viscount and Viscountess there in Tokyo.
They had a perfectly good stadium, and there was a bid on one crew who wanted to revamp the current stadium, which would have been the way to go, but oh no, oh no, we've got to build a whole new one.
Which, of course, is, you know, with the current state of Tokyo or Japan, and that's for 2020 is when they have the summer games.
So this would potentially be for 2024 then, I guess?
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
As we say in Holland, wie dann noch leeft.
Which means?
Well, whoever's alive then.
Well, there's that.
Dutchism.
According to my cycles theory, it should be an exceptional world war going on during that period, so they should really think this in advance.
I got a note from Dame Bang Bang, and I put the entire note, she did research for us, on Uber in Santa Barbara, California.
And I just wanted to give her the executive summary, but it's very interesting.
An entire research about, I think it's between Uber and Lyft.
Yeah.
And she says that actually, Uber has been an incredible boon for mothers, single mothers, for good income, flexible working hours.
And everything was going swimmingly well, but now the crackdown is happening.
I'm hearing this everywhere.
You have to have at least a 4.8 star rating, otherwise you can get quote-unquote fired, let go.
Everybody hates the surge pricing because the drivers just get nothing but grief from the passengers.
Or, I'm sorry, riders.
The system downtime...
It affects the driver's statistics negatively because you have to stay logged in for 50 minutes of every hour, and you have to respond to at least, I think, 90% of all calls that are pinged on your device.
This, of course, is to keep people from driving for multiple services.
And I think it's going to get very ugly very soon.
This is not going to end well with the competition.
Huh.
Well, that makes nothing but sense if you think about it.
Of course, of course.
It's the way things work.
It's the American way, for sure.
But the research that she has in there and the questions and what came out of it I thought was interesting.
So look at that in the show notes.
686.noagendanotes.com The best way to get to everything is archive.noagendanotes.com Remind people of that.
Okay.
Big changes with the Leviathan gas field.
This is the one that we found off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean, which we've been running, Noble Energy, Texas firm, with Bill Clinton on their board of advisors.
Along with the local company, the Delecq Group, and Israel.
So it's all been developed.
Now everything's good.
These guys have invested, I think, how much are they?
Like $6 billion over a decade and a half.
And now Israel's antitrust commissioner says he's going to recommend a breakup of this partnership because you just can't have one or two companies, a little consortium there, having control over all this gas.
You can't do that.
Yeah.
So screw you is the message.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's a big deal.
And this is not going to make a lot of...
It's going to make it difficult to do a lot of these joint ventures with Israel.
They're going to pull that crap.
They're starting to look like Russia.
That's what Russia would do.
Yeah, totally.
I'll keep my eye on that.
Well, play the fracking going bust clip.
Oh, this is good.
Okay.
Altware, oil prices are continuing to tumble.
U.S. crude fell below $50 this week, its lowest level for five years.
Non-conventional producers are already feeling the pinch.
On Friday, a shale company in Texas became the first U.S. fracking enterprise to go bankrupt.
The shale business is very costly, and with declining oil prices, some of the larger drillers are cutting production.
Analysts say it's proving particularly tough for small firms.
All forms of unconventional oil production now are at risk.
Arctic oil, Canadian tar sands, deep offshore projects, oil fracking, anything that requires a price of 60, 70, 80, 90 dollars a barrel of oil to break even, all of these projects are at risk.
And many of the fracking projects in Texas and North Dakota are at risk because they can't survive with prices below $50, $60 a barrel.
So I do think many of the smaller companies are going to go bust.
Which would be what they want.
If you want smaller companies to go bust, get them out of the way, of course.
How long do you think this will last, John, these prices?
I wouldn't be surprised if they were permanent.
The natural price is $40.
Right, which I think it will go to $40.
The traditional historic price is $25.
I think $40 is the number.
It's only an anomaly that they were up to $100.
Yeah.
Well, this is good then.
Well, it's good.
It's back to normal, let's say, good.
No.
But it's almost as though it was a Lucy and the football thing.
I mean, this is pretty much...
The fracking guys, the guys get all carried away.
The Tar Sands guys, they all get carried away.
The next thing you know, they want this and they want that.
And they're going crazy and they're making money.
Yeah.
Because it's 100.
And then they pull the football away and it's back down to 40 and you can't make a nickel.
Right, right, right.
What's the...
You know, the...
Gives Saudi Arabia and those guys who...
I've talked to people about this as bullcrap, but I've heard...
I'm telling you, I heard a Saudi Arabian expert say that they can pull oil and make money out of the ground at 10.
Yeah, it's completely possible.
Yeah.
There's a report that came out that I thought was interesting.
Now, of course, it's a...
What's the name of this outfit?
The Drug Policy Alliance.
Who would be pro-drugs.
Legalization of marijuana.
Let's put it that way.
And they have a report.
Marijuana legalization in Colorado after one year.
But we are one year, right?
Retail sales.
Two years of decriminalization.
And the way they calculate it.
I shall read this to you.
We have...
This is the executive summary.
The state of Colorado has benefited from a decrease in crime rates, a decrease in traffic fatalities, an increase in tax revenue and economic output from retail, marijuana sales, and an increase in jobs.
It seems like a winner!
Sounds like a winner to me.
So what's the problem?
And violent crime, of course, is down for the first time in a year.
Yeah.
Because, you know, despite what they will tell you on the mainstream, when people smoke marijuana, they're just not really into killing people.
Hey, man.
I don't feel like killing anybody right now.
You got any snickerdoodles?
We have one or two more.
Yeah, this thing...
We should have talked about that in regard to the FBI. The New York Times came out with a big piece, and it's now everywhere.
FBI and Justice Department now seeking charges against General Petraeus, former General Petraeus.
Oh yeah, we have to talk about it.
We should hold that and talk about it with more detail, because this is very interesting.
Set it up, because this will be something we can do on Thursday.
Yeah, what did Petraeus do that all of a sudden now they've decided to charge him with a felony?
I mean, the initial thought...
I know, but I know he wants to run for president.
That's what he did.
Yeah, that's the initial thing that you would think, is he wants to run for president.
This will keep him from doing it.
As if he had a prayer.
Yeah, okay.
So I think that's bogus.
Well, he knows about...
The thing with him is...
He knows about Benghazi.
Benghazi, exactly.
He knows what happened.
Yes, he knows what happens.
He knows the whole story.
And he is just being, and I don't know, maybe he indicated to somebody that he was...
Here's what I think.
Write a book.
Yes, well, I think he was writing a book.
If he wasn't or if he didn't have someone doing it for him, then he's nuts because it's free money in the bank.
The advance alone could be, it should be at least a million dollars for a guy like that.
And I think that he was writing the book and someone got wind of it and said, oh, no, you don't.
And he should have released a book a long time ago.
He's got to do it quick.
He's got to come out and do something quick.
And it would be...
Can you imagine the Petraeus true story of Benghazi?
And it would protect him if he did it.
Because then if he gets killed, well, you know, hey.
Well, I guess it wouldn't protect him.
But there would be no reason to kill him then because the cat is out of the bag.
Yeah.
Anyway, so we'll have to discuss that a little bit.
I do have a story, just a nice story to finish off.
Just to continue, I think thematically today we're talking about idiots a lot.
From the bicyclists to the other idiots we discussed.
Yes, sir.
Big headline, the Telegraph on the UK. BBC chef Tom Carriage criticized for eating a puffin.
Now, this guy apparently goes to Iceland.
And I've been to Iceland.
Anyone who's been to Iceland knows this.
They eat puffin.
That's pretty much their main food.
They eat puffin burgers.
Explain to us a puffin.
Puffin's a very pretty little duck-like creature that's got kind of a parrot-like bill, beautiful head.
And people just look him up and they're just considered so pretty.
In Iceland, they are like pigeons.
They are everywhere.
You walk down the street, you step on one.
And so they eat puffin because it's a decent bird to eat.
Even though they eat fish, they don't taste fishy.
They have puffin burgers and roast puffin and puffin breast and they have all these different puffin dishes.
And it's absolutely fantastic.
It's a delicious product.
And that's what they eat.
They eat tons of puffin.
So apparently this guy who's a BBC food and drink chef is being...
Just excoriated by the media, by the liberals, and all these people for eating such a cute little bird.
Oh, how could anyone eat one of those puffins?
Iceland has, let me read from the article, Iceland has the world's largest puffin breeding colony.
Around 10 to 10 million of the 15 million population live there.
Now the fresh heart of the seabird is eaten raw.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Eaten raw is a traditional delicacy.
The meat is also smoked.
So what is wrong with these people?
Hmm.
Apparently Ramsey in 2008 ate a puffin and was criticized roundly by all these.
42 viewers complained to Ofcom in 2008 when Ramsey caught and ate a puffin.
Are they tasty?
Yes.
Yeah.
What do they taste like?
It's all dark meat.
What do they taste like?
They taste like a duck a little bit, a little bit like a duck, a little bit like a chicken.
Oh.
Somewhere in the middle.
So you could buy a turdurkin.
You can eat a beautiful turpuffin.
Turdurkin.
People eat beautiful mallard ducks.
That's one of the prettiest birds in the world.
We eat mallards.
But no, you can't eat a puffin.
But who is saying that?
I haven't read this.
This is the BBC. This is the British public.
This Sarah Napton, the science editor, wrote this column.
The BBC food and drink chef Tom Carriage has provoked anger after boasting that he ate a puffin in Iceland.
I don't know what this is.
Let me ask you a different question.
Food related.
Did I hear the foie gras ban has ended in California?
I haven't heard this.
I thought it had.
Someone told me it ended.
I think that's a lie.
As far as I know, it has not ended.
It just began.
No, I think it just ended.
No, it just began.
It was on a hiatus.
I mean, there was a long waiting time.
Foie gras is back on the menu, it says here.
Yeah, but I know you're annoyed by me.
Well, I'm reading this, too.
It's on NPR. Yes.
The chef celebrated the overturning of California's ban on foie gras.
There you go.
How did this happen?
Well, it was a Judge Wilson rejected the ban as unconstitutional.
You should be able to eat whatever you want.
I agree with the judge.
Me, too.
Oh, this will get everyone outraged.
They'll turn their anger against the puffin eater and back to the foie gras of people eating duck liver.
And by the way, the foie gras in the United States generally is duck liver.
It's crap.
Don't even bother with it.
You want goose liver if you want good foie gras.
I think I've told you before.
We have one restaurant here in Austin, Jeffrey's, and they serve foie gras, which makes me cry.
Why?
Because of the way they prepare it.
First of all, it is goose.
I know the owners, or the previous owners of the restaurant.
Makes you cry?
Are you against this?
No, it's so good.
It's so tasty.
Yeah, real goose foie gras is delicious.
I had this little cake that it's presented on with some pineapple, and it's just...
It's so nice.
If you ever come to Austin, I'm treating you to that.
Okay.
And then finally, for my end, I only have one thing that was Sharpton.
I guess there was a...
Finished a show with a Sharpton clip?
Not a clip.
It's a little story.
Civil rights lawyer Sanford Rubenstein's apartment was searched by police investigating a woman's claim that he had raped her after Sharpton's 60th birthday bash.
And in the apartment, they found a Viagra prescription bottle with Sharpton's name on it.
Oh, there's a photo.
Photo pop.
Isn't that great?
Yeah.
I like that a lot.
That's pretty funny.
Al.
Hey, Al.
Oh, man, oh, man.
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