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	Turning us into Canadians.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, January 18th, 2015.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 688.
	This is no agenda.
	Putting the O in new world order from FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the drone star state, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm the podcaster A. Curry.
	And I'm from north of Silicon Valley, where I'm fogged in.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	I'm sorry, I didn't mean to throw you for a loop.
	You did, you threw me for a loop.
	I know, I know.
	Everyone's saying the Prophet Muhammad, so I think...
	A. Curry?
	Everyone's saying the Prophet Muhammad, so I figured I could be the Podcaster A. Curry.
	Okay.
	We should also say, Jesus, the Son of Christ Jesus.
	You need this.
	The Podcaster A. Curry.
	I think the bat signal's broken, by the way, for some reason.
	Yeah, somebody mentioned that on the tweeters.
	I don't know what's going on.
	Some guy says he'll help you fix it.
	But have you noticed this?
	Everyone's saying, the Prophet Muhammad.
	The prophet Mohammed.
	I'll notice it now, but I have not yet.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, you just sit there and just wonder, can't you just say, they're a holy man, they're God, no, the guy who talked about the God, they're Moses.
	Would he be like, they're Moses?
	No.
	No.
	All right.
	The prophet Mohammed, the podcaster A. Curry, the podcaster Dvorak.
	See, that sounds good.
	Curry is too short, but the podcaster Dvorak.
	Sounds good.
	Yeah, it does.
	I think they'll take on that moniker.
	And by the way, the podcasting awards are coming up, and we hope people out there nominate us.
	Every single year, we give it another try.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We have more chance of winning Miss USA than we do a podcast award.
	Well, you never know.
	It could happen.
	Things can change.
	Bonjour, Jean-Claude.
	Yes, bonjour to you.
	Comment ça va?
	Ça va bien?
	No, pretty good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, everyone's talking French these days.
	It's the big thing, you know.
	Yeah, well, good.
	People need to talk more French.
	And we were so disappointed with Jean Cary, with his French.
	I really was astounded how poor his French really is.
	Mad to the bone.
	Yeah, and not only that, this is how Cary thinks.
	Cary is seriously, hello, 1970.
	We would like our musical icons back.
	So, Kerry has to go to Paris to give Hollande a big hug, which he did.
	I don't know if you saw that video.
	Very uncomfortable.
	Oh, very uncomfortable.
	Oh yeah, Carey's like...
	Did he hold him to his bosom?
	Yes!
	And Olan's like, what?
	You know how you go in for a cheek kiss and you do the wrong one and your lips almost touch because you're both trying to go for the same cheek?
	That's kind of what happened to them.
	Whoops!
	I'm going to call you back, Joe.
	We've got this simplex thing going on for a second.
	Hold on a second.
	I'll call you back.
	It won't take but a minute.
	Won't have to edit a single thing.
	We just want to improve your experience.
	There we go.
	Just want to make it better.
	Yeah.
	Hey, you changed your icon again.
	Why are you this?
	You're the only person I know who changes the art on his Skype every other week.
	Why?
	Why do you do this to me?
	So John Kerry does this whole thing with this uncomfortable hug, and he brings him in again.
	He's like...
	What, he gave him a double hug?
	Yeah, kind of.
	Huh.
	Yeah, and John Kerry...
	That's something to do with how you're supposed to, when you're in certain parts of Europe, you kiss both sides.
	Or three, or three, or three.
	Well, yeah, I guess you could do three.
	The Netherlands is big on three kisses.
	Three?
	Three, yeah.
	Well, how's it go?
	Right, left, right, or right, left, left?
	That's the whole thing.
	That depends on who is the dominant player in the embrace.
	Yeah.
	Is it an embrace and a kiss?
	Yeah, so I like to grab people by the shoulders and then I can steer them.
	It's like you're granting them honors or something?
	I grant you a kiss.
	Please do not smudge my sash.
	Yeah.
	So Carrie goes to...
	It's kiss, kiss, kiss?
	You're kidding me.
	No, not in the Netherlands.
	It's one too many kisses.
	It's interesting that people you don't know...
	It depends on the setting, but let's say I'm meeting my friend's best friend, and she's female.
	Then I would say, oh, and my friend...
	You're trying to get a cheap extra kiss in.
	No.
	No, I'm not really...
	That's terrible.
	No.
	Alright, never mind.
	I won't explain it then.
	No, no, I want to hear, I want to hear.
	I need to know this because I'm obviously making a mistake because my thinking was it was always either one or two depending on the culture.
	I've never heard three.
	You're completely blowing my mind.
	Okay, so one, I do one here in America, one, unless I want to show that I'm from Europe.
	Oh, excuse me, I'm doing two.
	We are so used to this.
	You get another cheek?
	I'm sorry to be holding on to you a little longer than appropriate, but I need the other cheek.
	I'm from Europe.
	Does it include a slap on the butt?
	I am from Europe.
	I'm supposed to slap you on the butt.
	This is our custom.
	It is our culture.
	Please, do not mess with...
	This is one on the cheeks and one on the butt.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	I'm serious.
	I've never heard that.
	Well, it's true.
	In the Netherlands, it is actually the...
	If you know someone...
	If you really don't know someone, you're going to kiss them more than if you do know someone.
	So if you know someone, you're very familiar.
	Hey, done.
	And men still occasionally kiss.
	There's some men that I kiss on the cheek in Europe.
	Occasionally.
	I've seen that, yeah.
	But not three.
	No, not three.
	No.
	Dude, what are you doing?
	Hey, back off.
	Back off.
	One was enough.
	Back off, jerk off.
	No, this is not going to happen.
	All right.
	So Kerry does this very uncomfortable thing.
	And when you look at his face on profile, in profile, it is really his mouth and chin.
	It's also flat.
	And you can just, it looks like if you're close to him, I'll bet he has those white strands of goo in the corner of his mouth.
	So that's why Orlando's like, ugh!
	Ugh!
	Get back away from me, you crazy American!
	And so, to make up for this incredible faux pas of missing out, not having our president, our vice president, or even our secretary of state, marching in solidarity in the little enclave known as the leaders of the free world who, for our free speech, he brought James Taylor...
	What?
	James Taylor.
	Yes.
	He brought James Taylor to sing You've Got a Friend.
	I think James Taylor lives in Paris.
	He brought James Taylor to the podium.
	To the whole affair.
	Why?
	To say, I'm sorry.
	You've got a friend, France.
	You are our friend.
	Oh, man.
	And here's the tail end of it.
	Hey, James.
	James.
	I know him.
	James.
	But you've got to come over, man.
	These fucking friends.
	They're freaking out.
	You've got to...
	Look, man.
	Just do me a solid.
	Just sing it.
	Say something in French at the end, okay?
	Just say something in French.
	All you've got to do is call.
	Oh, I will be there.
	Yes, I'll be there.
	You've got a friend.
	Don't I meet?
	You've got a friend in French.
	Yeah.
	Jeez, that's so pathetic.
	Bring Jay-Z or something.
	Hey, James Taylor.
	Maybe someone said, hey, you should bring Jay-Z. Yeah, James.
	James, good idea.
	He didn't hear it right.
	Let's get back to this three kisses thing.
	It's only in Holland?
	You've never understood this has not existed anywhere else?
	This, Belgium.
	Oh, the Belge.
	The Belge, yeah.
	Belgium.
	Denmark.
	Denmark.
	I wouldn't know.
	I don't think I've ever been to Denmark.
	I've been to Sweden.
	I've been to Norway.
	Denmark is pretty.
	It's pretty.
	Everyone's depressed in Denmark.
	Well, that could be.
	But the place itself is pretty.
	I think I was reading an article.
	Where was it?
	It might have been The Times.
	Everybody's depressed in Denmark.
	Yeah, no, it was about Denmark and how liberal thinkers, certainly in the United States, always say, oh, Denmark.
	You know, they've got...
	School is free.
	Everybody's got the same amount of money.
	Taxes are outrageous.
	Nobody's better than the other person.
	Everybody's equal.
	There's free healthcare.
	There's free everything.
	And everybody's depressed.
	Well, we don't get any donations from Denmark.
	Rarely.
	I think we have one Copenhagen.
	That's a good point.
	That's a very good point.
	It's because they're depressed.
	They should listen to our show and they'd liven up.
	In a heartbeat.
	By the way, so I have a possible prediction here or something.
	I think something bad is going to happen.
	Wow, John, do you need a whole book page for this to put this in?
	And do you think it would be something here in America?
	No, no, this is, I think, Obama going to India to take part in their Independence Day celebration, which I could not find a good clip for to play.
	I think it's just a bad idea.
	I think it's a security problem.
	Well, the first problem that I've been following, because of course I come from the region, is what...
	No, I do not come from India.
	No, I come from the European region.
	Yeah?
	This is where things are actually happening.
	Unless you want to move on more about India, or you want to stay in here?
	No, no.
	I just think he's going to this thing to be, it's like a big deal, and then there's a bunch of...
	I had some clips saying he's good buddies with Modi.
	Well, you know why?
	It's because...
	That's bullcrap.
	No, it's Pierre Omnicar DriveMyCars guy is the personal advisor to Modi.
	I didn't know this.
	Yes, we've talked about it a couple times on the show.
	Yeah, Pierre Omnicar, guys, I think he was a general manager of something, of the Omidyar Institute thing, philanthropy, whatever.
	We're on our top game today, folks.
	No, I know that this guy...
	Right, exactly.
	This is what's happening in Europe though, and I found this to be very interesting to then read how the Dutch are dealing with it.
	Europe is on high alert following anti-terror raids in several countries.
	Across Belgium, France and Germany, more than 20 people have been arrested on terrorism-related charges.
	Belgium has become the latest country to deploy troops after five people were charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group.
	Which means, what is that?
	Is that running around with flags in white shoes driving Toyotas?
	What exactly is participating in a terrorist group?
	Toyota trucks with machine guns on the back.
	Belgian authorities are looking for this man, 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abbaoud, who lived in Brussels before reportedly going to fight in Syria.
	He's now thought to be in Greece.
	Abbaoud is suspected of having links to a terrorist cell that was dismantled during raids in the eastern town of Verviers on Thursday night.
	Police in Germany have also stepped up security after receiving warnings of a heightened risk of attacks on central railway stations, specifically in Berlin and Dresden.
	The warnings followed the arrests of two men in anti-terror raids on Friday.
	Everywhere on every TV news channel I'm seeing these maps of Europe.
	And now they keep mentioning the Netherlands.
	Oh, the Netherlands.
	Oh, yes, the Netherlands.
	Anything could happen.
	And, of course...
	By the way, what's happened?
	Well, nothing.
	Has there been a...
	Has there been a secondary attack?
	Are they ganging up on old ladies?
	Anything going on?
	I can tell you the population, the Dutch population, is so confused because their politicians are saying, yes, we must be vigilant.
	Meanwhile, Belgium...
	Now, you have to understand, it's like Dallas and Houston.
	It's kind of the same country.
	You can get there, and depending...
	From Amsterdam, you get to Belgium.
	You can walk.
	You can...
	Backwards.
	Um...
	So it's very close by.
	The languages are similar.
	It truly is that kind of comparison.
	The languages are similar.
	We use the same money.
	But they've now got the military on the streets.
	And the Dutch, I don't even think they have a military anymore.
	They're out looking for the bicycles from 50 years ago.
	And the Dutch, if you read...
	Online comments on these news articles, of course, they're online comments.
	People don't understand.
	Why is their government not doing anything similar to the neighbors?
	And everyone feels it can only be a matter of time before something happens in the Netherlands, which is not uncommon.
	The first really big Muslim things happened there with Theo van Hoogh.
	Yeah, when was that?
	2000, 2001.
	Oh.
	Yeah, this is a long, long time.
	Almost 12, 13 years ago.
	Yeah.
	Now, I understand why you mock and why you scoff, but the Netherlands is, of course, a prime...
	Well, look, they're great.
	You know, you can blow a plane out of the sky.
	And no one complains about it.
	Yeah.
	It's been six months.
	No black box.
	Whatever happened to the black box, which they did recover.
	Yes.
	So what did the report say?
	I have not seen...
	As an aviation expert, I want to know.
	As the resident aviation expert, I have not seen a report.
	I have only read that people...
	I'm going to tell you.
	I have read that people who have seen the results of the black box...
	Say that it is consistent with massive decompression and some form of penetration of the hull from the outside.
	Duh.
	What it doesn't say is, yeah, that was a Buk missile launcher from Russia.
	But they're trying to...
	Of course, there's something in there that is not good for the rest of the world to know, so we're never really actually going to see it.
	Well, that sucks.
	This works in closely with Greece, where apparently there's also all kinds of Muslim terrorists.
	Greece is pretty much dead now, but might as well throw some terrorism on them.
	Athens, and a night in custody for four terror suspects being held by Greek police.
	One was initially thought to be the ringleader of an Islamist militant cell in Belgium.
	But the authorities there are now saying they do not believe that wanted man is among those being held.
	Good morning.
	The arrests come as Europe remains on a heightened terror alert.
	For the first time in more than 35 years, troops are on the streets of the Belgian capital.
	Around 300 have been deployed in Brussels and Antwerp to guard sensitive sites.
	Among them, the European Commission building, the US embassy and synagogues.
	It's a deployment of, for the moment, two companies of defense in support of the National Police Force.
	The task that has been given is a task of static defense of specific locations and the people on these locations.
	Static defense.
	You have time for a long clip.
	You can interrupt it as much as you want, but I want to play it.
	Sure.
	So I'm watching...
	I don't know what this was.
	It was either France 20...
	It was one of the...
	I don't think it was...
	It may have been France 24, but whatever the case.
	This is the...
	This is the real-time dossier with a meme at the end, which I didn't realize was a meme until I heard it in this report, because I've been hearing this.
	The meme, which is...
	You've heard it, too.
	The modernity?
	No, no, no.
	The meme is it takes 25 to 35 cops to surveil one guy.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is a Giuliani thing.
	Right, that's where I think, yep, I think you're right.
	Yeah, Giuliani, because we need more cops, we need more money, more money, more money.
	Yeah, more money is what it amounts to, but this meme shows up here.
	So this is a cock and bull story about the French guys who shot up Charlie Hebdo and then took over to the grocery store, and how they were intertwined for years, apparently.
	The French were all over this.
	Yeah.
	For a decade.
	So they unwind this French real-time dossier.
	I'm listening to this.
	This is a long clip.
	You have to interrupt it.
	I'm listening to this saying, this is bullcrap!
	And his older brother, Saeed, sons of Algerian immigrants, were orphaned at a young age.
	It already sounds like the Tsarnaev brothers, doesn't it?
	Yeah, right.
	Bullcrap backgrounder.
	I'm still trying to get over the...
	The ID card in the automobile.
	Oh yeah, the ID card was priceless.
	You got an ID card you can leave behind?
	What was it doing out?
	Oh, we had to go through a toll booth or something and show you?
	I don't know what the point of that was.
	He was buying cigarettes.
	He got ID'd.
	They grew up in a center for vulnerable and troubled youngsters.
	Saif was interested in hotel management.
	Sharif hoped to be an engineer.
	There was some training, but not much success or sense of place or purpose.
	This peaceful park in the neighborhood of Boudshaumont changed that.
	It's here that the process of radicalization seems to have begun.
	About a decade ago, a group of young Muslim men wouldn't cheer for jogging and other sports.
	In 2005, these guys were already known by the cops there.
	But they were coming with a man from this neighborhood, a self-taught radical cleric.
	Ah, self-taught radical cleric.
	And they were linked to a nearby mosque.
	And plans are being laid to recruit young men to go and fight against American troops in Iraq.
	Farid Benyatu was the mentor.
	And by the way, I will say of all the reporting that I've seen, I have watched an incredible amount over the past 48 hours.
	No doubt, no doubt, particularly in France, but I can see it happening in Spain, I can see it happening all over the EU. No doubt, if everyone is out of a job, the youth unemployment is so incredibly high, you know, it's like, you're sitting around, hey, I got an idea, let's go to Syria.
	Let's go fight, doesn't even matter, let's go fight somebody.
	Yeah, whatever.
	I think you can convince anybody to do that within a week.
	Probably.
	Hey, you know, we're pretty damn good convincing kids to join the US Armed Services to go protect our freedoms.
	Yeah.
	In fact, the guy who, that Kyle, the mysterious death of the sniper, the American sniper guy, they brought, by the way, I don't know if this is, just to take a little side trip here, I'm starting to notice, on C-SPAN, they did the interview with the guy a year before he died, and then on NBC News, they had This guy there did an interview with him a year before he died.
	The Kyle character who wrote The American Sniper.
	And I'm watching this over and over again.
	The guy did have some interesting stories about how he was recruited.
	But this is Clint Eastwood at his absolute best getting pre-promotion for the Oscars.
	If he wins, because I've only seen a couple of these, I know they're all over the place, because Eastwood's an old Hollywood pro.
	Yes.
	He knows how these awards work, and he hires the best people, and they are dropping this old interview of a dead guy all over the place.
	Not to jump the gun on another segment, but I was looking at Leon Panetta's new civil thing, which is the Panetta Institute, which is a think tank, of course.
	Out here, actually, in California.
	And guess who's on the board of advisors?
	Who?
	Clint Eastwood.
	And his wife.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	All right, let's go back to this French thing.
	A janitor in his 20s whose real interest was jihad.
	Of course.
	I mean, you can't be interested in...
	All janitors.
	Yeah.
	We need to screen all janitors now.
	Kids, parents, tell your kids to keep an eye out for that janitor.
	That guy.
	Some jogging and weapons training didn't amount to much.
	But France's Le Monde newspaper called it the first school for Jihad.
	This group became known by security services as the Boute-Pchemant Network.
	Love the music.
	One of the leaders was this self-taught imam, Farif Benyatu.
	These guys are all homeschooled, man.
	This is...
	Benyetu met Sharif Kouachi in 2004 at the local mosque.
	One year later, Kouachi was part of the network and was arrested preparing to leave for Syria en route to Iraq.
	Then, during his time in prison, he met Ahmed Koulibaly, who was serving time for armed robbery.
	It's believed that in prison, both men met another key figure in their radicalization, Jamel Begal.
	He's a French-Algerian jihadist jailed in 2001 for a planned attack on the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
	And there's another key meeting.
	During the Charlie Hebdo attack, the Kowalshi brothers say they're part of an al-Qaeda network.
	Now, there's a lot of stuff in here that is background that I'm not sure how they know this about.
	Where did they get this from?
	That's the question I'm asking.
	This is very, very peculiar that they have all this information.
	Yeah, almost to the minute.
	Oh, and then on Tuesday, while having lunch in prison, he met another man.
	It truly is exactly like all the dramatizations we've seen of the Boston Bombing Brothers.
	Yeah.
	And the music, and then did they go black and white and all security cam footage and stuff?
	Well, they had a lot of B-roll that was just random.
	Just B-roll, yeah.
	Yeah, a lot of B-roll.
	Like, people in the desert training.
	And then later in this report, you'll hear they talk about it.
	And here we have surveillance photos of the guys from five years ago.
	I want to hear it.
	I want to hear it.
	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. In 2009, Saeed Khawashi had traveled to Yemen to receive training.
	He met the charismatic American-born cleric Anwar al-Aluwaki.
	You know, it's almost like they pull this thing off and then they send, you know, an old tattered kind of frayed script.
	One name and put it in another.
	They had an Al-Awakian.
	Got to get that in there.
	Who was then leading a QAP.
	Because that justifies killing an American citizen without due process.
	It's so obvious.
	No, it's a subtle, one more subtle hint that it was okay.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Justification.
	Al-Awlaki, later killed in an American drone strike, had repeatedly called for attacks against Western targets.
	That included the killing of cartoonists, who insult the Prophet Muhammad.
	I've never heard that from him.
	The killing of cartoonists.
	I don't believe I've seen that video.
	Maybe he mentioned it at his luncheon speaking gig at the Pentagon.
	Yes, we'll try a clip about that, too.
	How annoying is it that these things happen, but yet are never really brought back up by the media?
	You know, it's like, I saw some official guy, some lieutenant general say, he was not a cleric, he was a fake cleric.
	He was a speaker at the Pentagon at a luncheon.
	Doesn't anyone find that peculiar?
	No.
	He's not just some random guy.
	I have been a lot of places in my life.
	Let me think.
	No, Pentagon haven't received an invitation recently.
	You?
	No, no, no.
	I wonder why.
	Not radical.
	Relationship with Jamal Beghal that brought the Kowatchee brothers and Koulibaly onto the radar of the French security services after they were released from prison.
	These surveillance photographs just released show the three men regularly met Beghal in the south of France.
	He was widely connected.
	Considered one of the main recruiters for Al-Qaeda in Europe, he'd also spent time in London.
	But when a trail of suspicious activity by the Kouachi brothers and Koulibaly seemed to tail off, so six months ago did the surveillance.
	Why?
	It's very simple.
	It's because there are many more people like him than there are resources.
	You know, it takes 20 to 30 police officers to track a suspect 24-7.
	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
	Right.
	So they were on him.
	Yeah, they were on his case, but they had to stop because they didn't have enough guys.
	They didn't have enough money.
	Yeah, guys, money, same thing.
	Yeah, we can have our own little spooky music when we talk about these things.
	So the thing that I was following...
	So here's what I've been following.
	First of all, the whole Muslim, Jew, Palestine, Israel, Arab, Jew, Zionist, this is everywhere now.
	And it's not just me observing it.
	It truly is showing up everywhere.
	Here's a story.
	Let me see who wrote this, where this was published.
	About a cartoonist in 2009 who worked at Charlie Hebdo, who was fired for his anti-Semitic cartoons, mocking the relationship of Sarkozy's son with some wealthy Jewish woman.
	And so he's now out and about running around saying, hey, what is this?
	Freedom of speech bullcrap, as long as it's not about the Jews.
	Then there is the...
	Actually, I may have a clip that kind of relates to that, but go on.
	Well, here's the clip that I had, which I just love, from MSNBC. And it's very hard to get stuff from MSNBC because really nobody watches anymore.
	So no one is saying, oh yeah, hey man, there's something you need to watch.
	Except maybe from the Rev.
	Guys, still people watch him.
	That's crazy.
	This is MSNBC mocking the theory that is now prevalent in places around Paris that this was an Israeli plot.
	It was an Israeli plot.
	Mossad.
	Mossad.
	Well, they don't mention Mossad, but even better here.
	Get ready for it.
	There are serious doubts about what really was behind last week's attacks.
	Dana Kennedy is a Paris-based American journalist for the Daily Beast.
	She's written about this, and she joins me from Paris.
	You talked, Dana, to some of these French Muslims who say this was all a conspiracy.
	What do they mean?
	Well, I went out to what they call the suburbs of France, which are not what Americans think of as suburbs.
	They're really the housing projects.
	It's the same here, darling.
	The suburbs in America are now also housing projects.
	They're outside Paris, and there are a couple areas inside Paris where a lot of poor Muslims live.
	And I talked to a cross-section of mainly French-Algerian young men who said to me it was pretty much, they felt, the attacks were actually a conspiracy by the Jews to make Muslims look bad.
	And they told me, one person told me that, in fact, they weren't just regular Jews that were doing this.
	In fact, they were a race of magical Jews, shape-shifting Jews that were master manipulators and could be everywhere at the same time.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	Wow.
	Magical shapeshifting Jews, man.
	Uh-huh.
	Uh-huh.
	And they even bother to report this.
	This is your MSNBC people.
	Come on, man.
	Magical shapeshifting Jews.
	Shapeshifting.
	Oh, brother.
	Something I could have come up with.
	Yeah, no, in the second half of the show, I would expect it.
	And then there's this email.
	I love this.
	I've just been looking at the conspiracy stuff.
	Yeah, Zionists behind insulting Prophet Muhammad.
	This is from the Vice Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Syed Muhammad Sharudi.
	So the Muslims who want no part of this, they're the ones running around saying, hey man, this is the Jews.
	It's the Zionists.
	They're trying to make us look bad.
	The magical Jews who can shapeshift.
	There is a...
	I need to get me a pair of those.
	In the house.
	Just in the house.
	Can you change it to a pair of shoes?
	Pumps.
	Play my clip.
	This is a freedom of speech clip of sorts.
	This is I'm Not Charlie in Paris.
	Okie dokie.
	There's a debate now raging in France about free speech where it is different than free speech, the principles of free speech as exercised here in the United States.
	There are certain limitations, particularly in regards to anti-Semitic speech, things like that.
	No, there's not.
	Hold on a second.
	In America?
	No, he's talking about France.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Rules against anti-Semitic speech.
	I'm sorry.
	I thought he said in America.
	I was like, what?
	He's claiming that we have better free speech than their free speech.
	Yeah.
	But this is again, you know, just...
	Let me hear.
	I want to hear.
	Uh-oh.
	What just happened?
	Are you still there?
	Yeah.
	I thought I lost power for a moment.
	Here we go.
	It's about free speech, where it is different than free speech, the principles of free speech as exercised here in the United States.
	There are certain limitations, particularly in regards to anti-Semitic speech, things like that.
	There's been an arrest this week of a comedian for anti-Semitic remarks.
	How is that argument playing out in France now?
	This is the argument.
	What's going to happen and what's going to happen with people who perpetrate...
	Wait, I mean, who is this?
	This is this crazy...
	We've had her on before.
	Who is this woman?
	The woman with the most extreme French accent I've ever heard on television.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	The accent I want.
	Yes.
	It's so over the top, I almost can't believe it's real.
	Yeah.
	Let me tell you a little bit.
	I don't care about what you say.
	You're more fool.
	You're crazy.
	American.
	Antisemitism act.
	The problem we see in France at this moment especially is...
	Hey, could you take that penis out of me?
	You know what's funny about listening to her is that you can actually, when you get into the rhythm of her voice, you can actually understand her.
	Oh, I understand exactly what she's saying.
	Yeah.
	Hey, why don't you go give me some french fries?
	Hey, kick the bitch out!
	Two days is what now the French people are calling the emotional hangover.
	Hangover.
	I have an emotional hangover, like Diana Ross say.
	You don't know in which direction this country is going to go.
	Yes, the country seems really united.
	There was a lot of emotion, but nobody knows what's going to happen next, especially in the bad suburbs near Paris.
	We see...
	Especially in some classrooms, young people from Muslim origin who are refusing to stand up for what happened last week in Paris.
	They're saying now, officially, I'm not Charlie.
	Of course, it's the minority, but it's happening, and people are worried about this minority movement which begins in France.
	You know what?
	I have to say, she put the cunt in country.
	Okay.
	Here, tying right into that, this is our version of that woman in America, Eleanor Clift.
	Eleanor was on the McLaughlin Group.
	I watched this show and I couldn't get a clip off of it, but you did.
	Oh, come on.
	You didn't get this one?
	No.
	Eleanor Clift is well known from her love for our president, as she knows.
	He's a constitutional lawyer!
	And she really, she knows a lot about the Constitution, in particular about free speech in the United States.
	And the French clearly are much better at it.
	Two million people showed up in Paris, another million in their countryside, to recognize it.
	The next day they arrested 54 people for hate speech.
	You know who didn't show up.
	That is an issue.
	They're hypocrites.
	There is hypocrisy in Europe.
	They went and arrested this comedian, this Cameroonian comedian, who's famous over there for hate speech after 4 million marched for free speech.
	That's totally mistaken.
	What's your point?
	But it shows the effort to find the line between hate speech and free speech.
	We have issues in this country, and Europe has much tougher laws against We need laws against hate speech.
	Wow.
	That didn't catch your ear?
	You know, no.
	She's a dingbat.
	Yes, but she's incredibly representative of an entire swath of American thinking.
	The left are pathetic Obama bots who are still robot-like roaming around.
	John, here's the problem.
	Nobody on that show said, excuse me, Eleanor, hate speech is also protected under free speech.
	That's what I was waiting.
	No, no.
	The old guys...
	Yeah, it's so scripted.
	Yeah, it's scripted, I know.
	But I was like, what?
	It's like hate crimes.
	Oh, please.
	All right, so I got just my end of this whole thing.
	I do have, now you said that no one's talking about Alawakie and all the rest of it and what he used to do.
	That's not completely true, because if you go to RT... I was going to say, where did you go?
	You went to the well, yeah.
	You went to the well.
	RT is always there to remind us.
	But what makes the story of Awalaki even more interesting is that at one time, he was held up by the Pentagon and the White House as being a moderate Muslim imam who had condemned the September 11th attacks.
	According to CBS News, in the months after 9-11, Awalaki was invited as part of an informal outreach program in which officials sought contact with leading members of the Muslim community.
	The official said that at that time, Awalaki was widely viewed as a moderate imam at a mosque in Northern Virginia.
	According to documents from the FBI, found by Fox News, an agent had heard the imam speak in Northern Virginia.
	Hold on a second.
	Documents found and uncovered by Fox News?
	Really?
	Did they find something?
	Some incredible secret, which we've been talking about for five years.
	I don't know why he references Fox News.
	This has been a known fact.
	I think it has to do with that little pixie girl.
	She's the one that broke that story on Fox, if I recall.
	And she made a big deal.
	You know that little pixie girl?
	Any number of them.
	No, it's the dark hair, the brunette hair, the small, small, short pixie girl.
	Oh, the gill foil?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Short, short, short, like pixie hair.
	Well, it's actually short.
	Tinkerbell hair.
	Oh, Perino?
	No, no, no, no, the brunette.
	I don't know of a short pixie brunette.
	I'll think of it.
	of it.
	Except for that CIA woman.
	There we go on.
	So what happened?
	How did a moderate imam in Northern Virginia help to spawn al-Qaeda in Yemen and help to radicalize so many young men in that country?
	Well, to answer that question, we have to ask this one.
	Who radicalized the radicalizer?
	In March of 2002, the FBI began raiding homes, offices of Muslim leaders in Virginia.
	Awolaki, living in Northern Virginia at the time, was upset by it, and that month left the United States for Yemen.
	In August of 2006, Awolaki was grabbed by Yemeni security.
	He was held and tortured for more than a year as part of a secret investigation.
	Yemeni officials said they arrested him with a group of five Yemenis suspected of kidnapping a Shiite teenager for money.
	Awalaki was accused of being the group's spiritual leader.
	He was released without trial after a year in prison.
	In 2007, he was arrested again, held for two weeks, and then released without charges.
	But it was in an interview afterward that Awalaki said it was clear that U.S. government officials had asked Yemeni officials to do so.
	In February 2008, U.S. counterterrorism officials link Awalaki to terrorism, but would not say why.
	And then in 2009, the U.S. conducts a series of drone strikes in Yemen that kill large numbers of civilians.
	Meanwhile, a series of attempted terror attacks take place, including, as I mentioned before, the failed underwear bomber and the Fort Hood shooting.
	Catherine Herridge.
	Yeah, the CIA woman.
	Yeah, you're right, Catherine Herridge.
	That's her name.
	Yeah, this Awalaki framing, I would say, not as in he was framed, but just framing him up, is...
	Makes a lot of sense.
	If we had any hand in any of this somehow, somewhere, or certainly in the media portion of it, yeah, get that in there.
	What else are you going to do with this?
	Yeah.
	I mean, let's not talk about the ID card left behind.
	Let's not talk about his shoes not being tied properly.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on, man.
	Don't drive off yet.
	Let me get my shoe.
	He actually picked up his shoe.
	Yeah, I know.
	I saw that.
	Yeah, I know.
	Yeah, no.
	Now, the other thing I noticed, I was watching the RT for some of this stuff, and they discussed his 16-year-old son who was blowed up.
	Now, my understanding was he was blowed up at a cafe with a couple of his buddies.
	They claim, and I think this story is ever-changing, but now they claim he was blowed up at a barbecue.
	Now, it was a coffee shop, but after he was blowed up, it was barbecue.
	Yeah.
	So I don't understand what the point of moving the venue is.
	I think the point was that they used to make the argument, the Hayden and the other guys that were all for all this stuff, they would say, we had to use the drones on these dangerous people, the dangerous 16-year-old and his buddies.
	We had to use the drones because we couldn't find any way to grab them, which we would have done.
	If we could, well then that kind of doesn't sound right if they were at a cafe sipping coffee, because you could have just driven up and picked them up.
	But now if he's at a barbecue in some obscure part of the country, which may be surrounded by armed terrorists, it makes a little more sense.
	So I think we're losing the narrative where he was at a cafe and we're picking up the narrative that he was at a barbecue.
	All right.
	I just wanted to alert you to that change in the script.
	I don't know why we had this script changed so late in the game.
	Well, it happens.
	You've got a script doctor comes in.
	Someone was unhappy.
	One of the executive producer's wives was unhappy about something.
	Well, no, I think one of the executive producers looked at this and said, look, here's an argument.
	We have to deal with this debate.
	We've got to move him out of the cafe and push him out so he was at a barbecue.
	Because it makes more sense.
	Now, was this more like a Texas barbecue where it's just hours of smoking meat?
	You know, I don't know what a Yemeni barbecue is like.
	Or do they have a hibachi next to the 50 cows?
	I would assume it's a big giant fire with a goat.
	Next to the.50 Cal in the back of the toilet.
	With some guy turning the spit.
	The spit, yeah.
	Which looked like a Gatlin gun.
	I mean, let's be honest.
	We'd have to blow him up.
	Ah, yeah, actually, I can see that.
	CNN last night was on a tear.
	And everybody is showing...
	Again, what is happening now, the only people who are being threatened are journalists and politicians in their seats of government, which is why this is all really happening in fast tempo, because these people are like, I'm a journalist, I'm getting blowed up, I'm getting my head chopped off, we must report on this.
	And the politicians, it goes hand in hand.
	You understand why that works.
	But now, particularly with the Smith-Mund Act, and you can you can propagandize the American people as much as you want with that act being repealed.
	They've had on a just a slew of people, Bob Bear, of course, who now Bob Bear is he just sits in Telluride all day long.
	He might put on a jacket if he gets a little chilly.
	He has a set.
	Yeah, but it's non-stop.
	He's got a camera set up.
	And Bob Bear's here again.
	Really?
	I don't know what kind of line they have him hooked.
	He's probably satellite, but whatever.
	It's Colorado.
	He's outside his house.
	There's very little delay.
	I doubt if he's going to a studio to do this.
	I don't think so.
	I saw him wear a jacket the other day, like a little fleece.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I'm chilly now.
	Yet again.
	And he...
	So he doesn't even have anything to say anymore.
	No, no.
	I don't think he's read into a lot of stuff either, because he's just ad-libbed.
	The whole idea for him is just to say, be afraid.
	Be afraid.
	It can happen here.
	Be afraid.
	And I guess it was...
	Who's the...
	I forget her name with the blonde...
	Harley.
	Poppy Harlow.
	Poppy?
	Poppy Harlow?
	Is that her name?
	Poppy?
	I don't even know who this is.
	And so she just brings on one after another, after another, after another.
	And Bob Bear's like, whatever, just be afraid.
	Because these terrorists, they can do anything.
	You know, they've got invisible bombs.
	They've got morphed.
	Magical shape-shifting juke talents they've got.
	It's crazy.
	Or we're too focused on the wrong threat.
	Bombs instead of bullets.
	Ah, this is a very good question.
	Let's go to our former CIA operative, which is how he's always introduced.
	What does that even mean?
	I mean, what does operative mean?
	Let's look this up.
	Is he a field agent?
	Is he a guy who's an analyst?
	I know analysts.
	I know field agent.
	I know these things.
	I don't know what operative is.
	Operative.
	Define.
	Yeah, I feel personally that that is probably a misnomer, because he's not former anything.
	He's a current CIA operative, as far as I'm concerned.
	Good point, Bob?
	Well, I think, Poppy, we should be worried about both.
	Both, yes.
	Asiri, the bomb maker for al-Qaeda in Yemen, is very capable.
	He can take PETN, which is a high-brisance explosive.
	He's been able to conceal it in a toner cartridge.
	Looks just like the ink.
	Looks just like ink tastes just like chicken.
	And of course there was the underwear bomber.
	The underwear bomber failed because he kept the explosive on his leg and it's hydroscopic.
	It absorbed water and didn't go off.
	Was he peeing down his leg?
	That is actually the truth, yeah.
	If you read the reports, he left it on for days, if not more than a week, and he was pooping and peeing all over the thing.
	What?
	You didn't hear this?
	Oh, yeah.
	That's the story.
	Knowing what they were doing, they could have brought that airplane down.
	Hygroscopic?
	Is that what he said?
	Or hydro?
	No, hygro.
	Hygro.
	What does that mean?
	It means it sucks up water.
	And what scares me is that Al-Qaeda is advancing in its technology.
	Wait a minute.
	Hold on a second.
	Something scares Bob Bear.
	Let's back that up.
	Something scares him.
	Hydroscopic.
	It absorbed water and didn't go off.
	Now, if they had known what they were doing, they could have brought that airplane down.
	And what scares me is that Al-Qaeda is advancing.
	Back it up.
	I've got to play that again.
	Thought I heard something.
	...explosive on his leg, and it's hydroscopic.
	It absorbed water and didn't go off.
	Now, if they had known what they were doing, they could have brought that airplane down.
	And what scares me is that al-Qaeda is advancing in its technology, just as the Khorasan group is...
	Wait a minute.
	Why did you just throw another name?
	You just threw in a horizontal group.
	Wait a minute.
	And there's no reason why they can't both do a military-style assault in Paris and go after airplanes.
	It's extremely difficult to bring down an airplane, but if these guys are getting better, will they get to that point?
	I'd have to ask the experts.
	I have a feeling that there's magical shape-shifting Arabs as well.
	I mean, these people...
	There's something to do with the Middle East.
	So then she brings on Lieutenant General Mark Hartley.
	This guy has the look.
	Yeah, I think I've seen this guy.
	He's another one of these.
	Blockhead.
	Yeah, Blockhead.
	He's a Blockhead.
	What's his name again?
	Hartley.
	Lieutenant General Mark Hartley.
	Retired.
	Retired.
	So he's obviously in on the...
	He's being sent out.
	He's being deployed.
	All right, we'll put you with a Bob Bear.
	Whatever you do, just make people afraid.
	We're dealing with an adaptive enemy.
	Adaptive...
	The shapeshifters!
	Ah!
	Shapeshifters!
	You know, by the way, this explains now how they get themselves into those little lamps that you rub when they come popping out.
	It explains it.
	Yeah, they're shapeshifters.
	They're just like Genie.
	What was her name again?
	Barbara Eden.
	Barbara Eden, yeah.
	We're dealing with an adaptive enemy, Poppy.
	And I think, whereas we still have to be very concerned with the aviation community and what they do, this is an enemy that's shown that they are going to use potentially lone wolf attacks in individual operation cells, like we saw in Paris, and like they were about to do in Belgium, stealing police uniforms.
	This is another good one.
	Stealing police uniforms.
	This is great.
	No evidence of this, by the way.
	And by the way, you know, you can go to just one of those stores.
	Yeah, you can buy a cop.
	Just buy a police uniform.
	Is it a stripper?
	The badge you gotta steal.
	Is this a stripper, Graham?
	Or are you a jihadi, shape-shifting terrorist?
	Hmm.
	That would be funny if you just show up at a party in a cop uniform.
	People are like, oh, you're a cop.
	No, I'm a jihadi terrorist.
	With a cop's uniform.
	And like they were about to do in Belgium, stealing police uniforms, getting into potentially secure locations.
	And there are a lot of other potential things as we've seen in combat over the last 12 to 14 years.
	There are opportunities everywhere to hide an explosive device.
	I'm very surprised not to try and be scary.
	Oh, you don't really mean that.
	You really do.
	I'm very surprised we haven't seen more attacks like occurred in Paris in the United States yet.
	They're relatively easy to do.
	And again, we're dealing with an adaptive enemy.
	They're easy to do.
	But he's surprised.
	This is why he's very surprised.
	He's not stunned.
	No, he's not stunned.
	He's surprised.
	He's just not saying it.
	I think he said he was very surprised.
	He said he was very surprised, but I'll bet you he's stunned.
	Let's listen to how he said it again.
	Attacks like occurred in Paris in the United States yet.
	They're relatively easy to do, and again, we're dealing with an adaptive enemy.
	We have to be more concerned about the environment and also various ways that these kinds of attacks can occur.
	But he's not trying to scare anybody.
	Thank goodness.
	Here is the...
	Do you mind?
	I just want to power through these CNN clips.
	No, no, I want to hear all this stuff.
	So incredible.
	Here is the CNN version of jihadis all over Europe!
	Belgians woke up Saturday morning to something they haven't seen in more than 30 years.
	The deployment of soldiers from the armed forces into Belgian cities.
	Brussels and also Antwerp.
	And this is in response to some of the security threats that have emerged not only in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, but also after police went after a suspected jihadi cell in the eastern Belgian city of Verviers.
	It resulted in a gun battle Thursday night in which two suspects were killed and a third was This, by the way, is a great time just to take some people out.
	I, you know, a suspected terror cell in Verdvier's really?
	Okay.
	I think this is just, hey, listen, these guys are so freaking annoying.
	Let's go take them out.
	I think there's got to be some of that.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	Now, Brussels is not only the capital of Belgium, it's also the capital of the European Union, a Europe that is increasingly on edge amid more and more reports of Europeans who have gone to Syria to join the Islamic State, ISIS, and are coming back and posing a threat to the continent.
	There are thousands of Europeans who have made a similar journey But this little country, Belgium, is believed to have per capita more suspected jihadis than any other country in Western Europe.
	What?!
	Yeah, they're all in the Parliament there.
	Suspected jihadis.
	Okay, let's go to Leon Panetta, former CIA director, former Secretary of Defense, now leading the Panetta Institute.
	Hold on, I want to get that whole page for you.
	With Clint Eastwood?
	Yeah, there's a couple other people on that.
	Actually, I found the...
	I found the board of directors to be weak, quite honestly.
	Hold on a second, let me see.
	Panetta...
	Oh, why is that new working?
	Panetta Institute...
	I have it in the show notes, just can't find it that quickly.
	Here we go.
	Panetta Institute...
	What is their mission statement?
	This is relatively new, I think.
	His website is kind of like 1992...
	As a nonpartisan center for the study of public policy, the Panetta Institute helps our communities and our country meet the challenges of the 21st century.
	We work in particular to attract thoughtful young men and women to lives of public service, I see, helping them expand their knowledge of the policy process, blackmail, and develop their skills as future leaders.
	So go to aboutus.com.
	Looking at the board, you're right.
	There's a bunch of drinking clubs.
	So they have an academic advisory committee.
	But here's the national advisors.
	I think this is good.
	So they have Nancy Baker, I think Jim's wife.
	Then we have Cruz Bustamante from California, former lieutenant governor.
	They've got Louis Butler.
	There's a lot of California people, obviously.
	Leon Panetta, Sylvia Panetta, there's a lot of wives.
	Yeah.
	There's on the board.
	Yes.
	Anyway.
	Former chairman, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange.
	Cokie Roberts, Bob Schieffer, got to have the news people in there.
	Former Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala.
	They shouldn't have news people on there.
	I forgot to mention that.
	We didn't really talk about that in the, about the interview, the movie, the Rogan James Flocka movie.
	Yeah, what about it?
	Again, all, you know, so many journalists acting in the movie.
	Oh yeah, no, that's right, you're right.
	And I know there's a pet peeve of yours.
	Yeah, I don't, I think it's so incredibly wrong.
	They really should not be doing that.
	I agree.
	I think they're either going to be, you want to be an actor?
	Be an actor.
	Be an actor.
	Then we have this package which was an incredible...
	It was 19 minutes long and I cut it down to a minute and a half just because I wanted the guy himself.
	This is a package about Jeh Johnson.
	Jeh.
	Jeh.
	Jeh is our new Napolitano, new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
	He calls himself J, but it's spelled J-A-E-H. No, J-E-H. J-E-H.
	Yeah, J-E-H. J-E-H.
	No, no, J.
	That'd be J. J. J. J. J. Johnson.
	And of course, we are responding to the shape-shifting Jews and Muslims everywhere.
	They're just everywhere now.
	So we have to be vigilant.
	We've evolved to a new phase in the global terrorist threat.
	The head of Homeland Security revealing even more airport security measures are on the way.
	We're looking at doing more in the short term in reaction to some of the threat streams that we're seeing now.
	Threat streams.
	What could that be?
	A threat stream.
	A good threat stream.
	Somebody coming at you peeing.
	I wonder, is that an audio stream?
	That would be a threat stream.
	That would be a threat stream.
	But is a threat stream like a thread?
	Threat.
	Okay.
	I know, but a threat stream.
	A threat stream.
	A threat stream.
	DHS announced earlier this week ramped up searches at U.S. airports over fears terrorists are creating non-metallic explosives.
	We're back to those boob and anus bombs.
	Capable of passing through some airport scanners undetected.
	So when you talk about more measures as far as aviation goes, what would that look like?
	What's the timeline for that?
	And what is this new intelligence?
	Well, we're looking at it right now, and I told my folks that I wanted an assessment in the very short term.
	And so I expect to get that in the next couple days.
	So it's unclear what those extra measures would be.
	We're looking at it right now.
	Additional random passenger and luggage checks are now happening at the gate once travelers have cleared TSA checkpoints.
	After Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula published a step-by-step guide to building hard-to-detect bombs.
	This is the...
	Now, this is it.
	That's that stupid thing.
	This is the new Inspire edition.
	Yeah, that's the one I said you talked about in the last show.
	Yeah, I know.
	But this...
	And a dumb bomb that got in there.
	Following September 11th, transportation systems continue to be a target for terrorists.
	See this doesn't work unless you remind people of the horrible atrocities.
	In 2005...
	You mean from 13 years ago?
	Yeah, well now it's only 10.
	Now she's back in 2005 and we're going to do 7-7.
	...side bombs detonated within seconds of each other on a bus and three different trains traveling through London Underground stations.
	In 2010, Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty for plotting to blow up New York subways.
	We need to focus more on homeland-based threats.
	Ah!
	Just this week, an electrical malfunction caused smoke to fill a D.C. metro station.
	This is my favorite part of the story.
	It's the last bit.
	So now anything that happens, anything, anything that is some kind of annoyance or something that is bad, I think a woman died of smoke inhalation or maybe she had some other medical issues already.
	Anything that happens now immediately has to be equated to, but if this was a terrorist attack, where were the authorities?
	Huh?
	Huh?
	Killing one and injuring dozens more.
	One does have to wonder what would have happened had that fire been set by terrorists.
	And clearly the response is inadequate.
	Well, Johnson struck a reassuring tone, saying that the department is assessing new intelligence and threats every day and every hour.
	So this...
	So you can look at this two ways.
	They're turning us into Canadians.
	When I was...
	That's an outrage.
	I'm writing that down.
	I listen to a lot of Canadian news when I'm up north.
	And the typical news, you have like a massive earthquake happens in Southern California and you listen to Canadian news.
	A massive earthquake happened in Southern California.
	What would it be like if it happened here?
	And everything is like, what would it be like if it happened here?
	What would it be like if it happened here?
	So there's this complete supposition style of news reporting, which is not to report the news, but to report what would happen if it happened here.
	Well, it's even worse than that.
	This is CNN. When did CNN become Fox?
	So they've been wanting to be Fox forever.
	Or, as I continue to assert, Fox is actually run by Democrats.
	Probably the same people who are running this outfit.
	Now, here was my...
	This has got to be my favorite.
	So we've had everybody on.
	We've had Panetta.
	We've got Bob Baer.
	He lives there.
	We've got Johnson.
	We've had the Lieutenant General on.
	Let's bring in...
	Now, they could have called you and I for this.
	And, in fact, I'm a little disappointed because the woman who comes on here...
	She's pitching her company.
	Not directly, but it's so obvious.
	And she's pitching her services.
	And this is about brand.
	About brand ISIS. Which, of course, we know everything about.
	We've analyzed this.
	We've analyzed the Al-Qaeda branding, their subsequent reverse mergers, their franchising of the brand.
	And now some other woman gets on CNN and talks about it.
	ISIS has created a really successful brand.
	And a brand is an emotional connection.
	I love this.
	We know these women.
	Just insert here.
	They're everywhere.
	Instead of ISIS, insert Facebook.
	Brand is an emotional connection with people.
	And when you make it a connection, you can scale that connection.
	And ISIS has been really effective at using propaganda to move their brand along and to continue to expand their footprint.
	In the face of a successful brand where people are looking at ISIS as a winner, I mean, there really needs to be an alternative narrative put out there.
	Where are the images of ISIS losing?
	Where are the images of setbacks actually being placed in their path as they move forward?
	I think there's a real void in the narrative out there of the public perception.
	Do you think that when it comes to...
	Jay, shut up, lady.
	We don't want any losing ISIS. This is all about...
	We've got to have cool videos.
	Most people, right?
	Those that aren't attracted to what ISIS does, which is the majority of people...
	Who is this high schooler?
	This is the CNN woman.
	This is...
	Sounds like she's in high school.
	Yeah.
	When they put videos out of these horrific beheadings, for example, aren't they in a sense only digging their own grave?
	Aren't they in a sense only turning us away?
	We have such an aversion to seeing that.
	No, no, this is great.
	We love those videos.
	We could not watch them and still talk about them.
	This is great.
	I think you're absolutely right.
	For the majority of the people in the world, it's an awful image and it's an awful brand.
	It's an awful brand.
	I don't know, this tickled me for some reason.
	It's an awful brand.
	I associate...
	You've heard this bull crap before in Silicon Valley.
	Every week.
	That's not who they're talking to.
	And then you get a $5,000 bill.
	Right.
	They're targeting the mostly young men.
	Ah, yes, the target audience is mostly young men.
	Okay, now get back to the business.
	I mean, if you think in France...
	What?
	What's the demo?
	The demo is just mostly young men.
	I think it's 18 to 24.
	It's the number one prime demo.
	I agree.
	Male.
	Male 1834.
	Very hard to get.
	ESPN has these guys.
	That's where they should be advertising.
	In fact, this is where they should be recruiting these ISIS guys.
	They should go on ESPN. Full image and it's an awful brand.
	But that's not who they're talking to.
	Right.
	They're targeting the mostly young men.
	I mean, if you think in France, 40% of the young Muslim men in France are unemployed.
	That's a perfect target audience for...
	Somebody feels disenfranchised.
	Disenfranchised.
	They see winning.
	They see domination.
	They see success.
	Hey, kids.
	The PlayStation.
	Don't go to Syria.
	Buy a PlayStation.
	You know, that's a logical magnet for some of those people to turn to.
	And from a marketing and branding perspective, what can start to put some boundaries on that is an alternative set of images and an alternative to that brand story, really.
	I do really question from a brand building perspective.
	Do you think that there's a bunch of guys sitting around going...
	Ahmed!
	What are we going to do from a brand perspective?
	We have only a beheading brand.
	Whether or not there's something that can be done effectively to at least broaden the attitude toward the position of ISIS. And it's such an important point, given how many people now are radicalized and even trained online through these videos.
	They don't need to travel to Yemen to get this training and to carry out these horrific attacks.
	You don't even need to travel.
	You can just sit at home and get radicalized.
	I know how it happens, too.
	They do it through song.
	We're social media.
	We can spread the word and grow our reach and find our fans in their new state.
	Let's get social.
	That's how they radicalize.
	You can play the whole song.
	Why don't you promise to play the whole song at the end of the show?
	Okay.
	Let me put it in the thing then.
	Hold on.
	The whole song.
	Yeah, that'll keep people listening because everybody loves this song.
	I have to say, that's not true.
	People are like, I can't sleep.
	I can't.
	I only hear the song in my head.
	It's driving me crazy.
	Make it go away.
	Make it go away.
	Well, of course, this woman doesn't understand that we're the ones who are behind the whole thing.
	The branding's working fine.
	It's working great in England because...
	Oh, yeah.
	Cameron's all in, as you played a clip, and I'm gonna...
	You know, I have...
	Well, I have...
	That actually transitions into something else.
	Well, I have one little transition.
	Yeah, let's do it.
	What do you got?
	Well, the clip I have...
	Now...
	John Boehner now is on, as far as I'm concerned, I never liked the guy that much, but I didn't care.
	He was just the Speaker of the House.
	But now he's all in on the surveillance state.
	He's a complete douchebag, and he was called out for his stupidity in this particular clip, which you'll find very amusing.
	Let's listen to what House Speaker John Boehner said today about the foiled plot for an attack on the United States Capitol.
	The first thing that strikes me is that we would have never known about this had it not been for the FISA program and our ability to collect information on people who pose an imminent threat.
	Mr.
	Speaker, do you know something that we don't because apparently he was on social media talking about this?
	Is there more to this than things that we don't know?
	Well, we'll let the whole story roll out there, but it was far more than just that.
	It's not just social media.
	First he says that we would have never found out anything if it wasn't for Pfizer, which is bullcrap.
	Because the social media thing was what triggered somebody saying, hey, look what this guy's doing, and they started to track him.
	So this guy is a liar.
	Oh.
	Gee.
	There's gambling going on there.
	Yeah.
	It's unconscionable that these people are still in office and the American public doesn't seem to care.
	And we don't.
	We don't.
	However, I care very much, and I am very humbled, humbled and honored in your presence.
	John C. Dvorak, in the morning to you, and thank you for your courage, sir.
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning, everybody in the chat room, checking us out today live, noagendastream.com.
	That's where you can get the stream live and also listen to or get into the chat room.
	Helpful today, chat room.
	Well, we have a few people to thank, producers.
	I'm sorry, before you do that, let me thank Martin J.J., For the artwork for episode 687, we appreciate all the work that our artists do.
	Good to see Martin back, Martin JJ. Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Please contribute to that.
	I saw you use the Penguin one in the newsletter.
	These things get used.
	Even if it's not necessarily on the artwork for the individual show.
	That shot was protected.
	It was a copyrighted shot that I didn't want to use as album art, but I thought I'd slip it into the...
	To the newsletter.
	It's a funny picture.
	I think it's one of the funniest pictures ever.
	It's not a penguin, by the way.
	A puffin.
	A humorous puffin.
	Well, let's thank a few people.
	We did get a number of people because I sent out a plea for help because we did so poorly on Thursday.
	We caught up today, which is good.
	Basically equaled out.
	I don't know why the Thursdays have been so poor.
	But Sir Don Tommaso DiToronto came in with $567.89.
	My note for today's show is no note.
	Just 2015 karma for everybody.
	All right.
	Happy to do that.
	You've got karma.
	Then we have two people that came in with $500 each, Daryl Arnett from Norman, Oklahoma, and Truman Child in Provo, Utah.
	And I looked in the mailbox to see if Arnett had anything.
	Do you have a note from him?
	Because I don't.
	I have a note.
	Let me see what I have here.
	Yes, I have Truman.
	I have a note from Truman.
	I don't have anything from Daryl Arnett.
	Okay, if he has something to say, he'll tell us later.
	But if you have the Truman note, you can read that.
	Yes, I have that.
	That came in this morning.
	Adam and John, first I'd like to double dip with karma requests out of the gate.
	Dip one, regular karma for me, and dip two, show donation karma for the show.
	Thank you.
	I'm enjoying a nightcap of 12-year-old Glenn Livett as I type and listen to Thursday's show.
	More listening than typing.
	Also at my desk sits the newly arrived History of the Arabs by Hitty, next to the ultimate book of whiskey that my wife gave me for Christmas.
	Looking forward to learning more on both subjects.
	Best regards, Truman from Provo, Utah, and he wants a double dip of karma coming right at you.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	You've got karma.
	Accept it.
	On everyone's behalf.
	$400 from Phoenix, Arizona.
	Brian Kaufman got a big year-end bonus, so making a tithe to the best podcast in the university, writes, please play the Sunday morning service jingle.
	No karma jingle necessary.
	Karma comes from the act of donating, not the jingle.
	And can Eric DeShield do an accounting very easily, or do I need to do it myself?
	Well, it depends.
	You're probably better off doing it yourself, because Eric can only look at the stuff that's It's come through PayPal.
	Yeah, right.
	I know what he wants.
	And karma, anyway.
	You've got karma.
	I know he didn't ask for it, but it fits so nicely.
	Dwayne Melanson, Duke of Mystery, and Tigard.
	This is new, this is new, this is new.
	33333.
	ITM gents, great work lately as usual.
	I hope more people pitch in and I plan to reach Archduke in 2015.
	I know.
	I would also like to officially claim my Ducey, changing title from Duke of Mystery to Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	Alright.
	So he's now the Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	Which is good.
	It's a good area.
	Excellent.
	Sir Atomic Rod Adams.
	Hot Rod!
	This is our resident expert on all things.
	To whom we differ.
	Yes.
	3333 from Forest Virginia.
	Great job on Energevenda.
	Energevenda.
	Deconstruction on show 686.
	I have two words for a government that says it wants to eliminate both coal and nuclear emissions.
	Natural gas.
	Take a look at the employment history of Gerald Schroeder, the German chancellor that Merkel replaced.
	He played a key role in negotiating and selling the original plan to phase out nuclear energy in 2002.
	So what he's telling us is that this is bull crap that they're doing this because of Fukushima.
	Oh yeah, and Gerhard Schroeder was also the guy who negotiated the pipeline that they decided not to run through Poland.
	That runs along the coast from the Russian pipeline.
	Yeah.
	And I'm pretty sure he helped kill the Polish government on that plane crash.
	Anyway, long before Merkel made her 360-degree turn in the topic in two 180 segments, please keep up with the great work.
	Maintain your questioning attitudes.
	Sir Rod Adams to you.
	Thank you very much, Sir Rod.
	And check him out, atomicinsights.com.
	He's got podcasts, he's got articles, and a lot of experts when it comes to actual nuclear energy, people who are running these things.
	You'd be surprised and amazed at what is possible with today's technology.
	Yeah, we're not dealing with the 50s technology that all the hippies are worried sick about.
	Right.
	Anonymous from Ozark, Missouri.
	3333.
	Thanks for all you do.
	I have two hours in the car each day, and you are a pleasure to listen to.
	This is sadly my first donation.
	Please de-douche me and give me a campaign karma as I'm getting ready to run for a local office, which, in case you were wondering, is not where the money is.
	Keep up the good work and give yourselves karma while you're at it.
	Is there a reason why this person wants to be anonymous?
	Will we be a black mark on this person's record?
	He could be running as a Democrat.
	Well, we could perhaps help.
	And we'll assume.
	It could be a she, for all you know.
	It could be a she.
	I have no idea.
	But de-douche him or her.
	Did you throw a car made?
	Yes, car made.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you.
	Sebastian White has an equivalent $250 donation because he sent a couple of drones out, plus $100.
	And his call letter, by the way, is KE0BBX. Kilo Echo Zero, Bravo Bravo X-Ray.
	Now, did you get your drone?
	Is it in the P.O. box?
	No, no, no.
	He's supposed to send one directly to you.
	Then it would be the P.O. Box.
	My P.O. Box.
	I don't know.
	It's your P.O. Box.
	I haven't seen it yet.
	Did you get your drone?
	Yeah, it just came.
	And what kind of drone is it?
	Is it a good one?
	It's a very small, little bitty beginner's drone.
	Oh, okay.
	It's one free in the house.
	It's just to get used to the controls before you start taking a big one up and wrecking it.
	Okay.
	So I'm thinking what I'm going to do is learn how to fly these things, because everyone's into it.
	And then I'm going to get a big one with a camera, and then when people walk up the street outside my house and down the street, I'm going to launch it and then follow them down the street taking their pictures.
	This truly is nothing new.
	Yeah.
	You know who's big into this?
	Sir Gene.
	He must have 10 drones at home.
	Oh, let him go to the shooting stage with him.
	He goes and stands in line to, you know, ah, the new drone is coming out.
	I'm going to be one of the first ones to get it.
	Huh.
	Yeah, that's a big...
	Michael the Koch.
	The Koch.
	The Koch.
	The cock.
	The cock in Chandler, Arizona, 23456, one of my favorite numbers.
	In the morning, John and Adam, with this donation, I claim to write to my seat at the round table of the No Agenda Knights, and I humbly request to have some progressive rock and Russian imperial stout served in today's knighting ceremony.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me put that in.
	Progressive rock and Russian imperial stout.
	Okay.
	I deeply appreciate all the work you both do to bring us this amazing show that keeps us all informed and entertained.
	Thank you for your courage, and please hit me in with some job karma as I'm prepping for a second technical interview for a dude named Ben position at a certain bookseller in Seattle.
	Sincerely, Mike DeCock, accounting.
	And he's got the accounting numbers.
	He shows that he made his money.
	Dude named Ben.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	I can't think of that bookstore, but there's a very famous bookstore.
	I know where he's going to go to work.
	It's obvious, because it's the only bookstore in town that's that big enough to need a dude named Ben.
	James Lavin in Louisville, Texas, 23456.
	Please apply this donation.
	My past donations below to bestow a damehood on my daughter.
	She would like to be called Dame Rocco of Portlandia.
	I recently turned her on to the show, and hopefully she finds you as informative as I have in the past.
	And then he said, send H. Hmm.
	I don't know.
	Send pictures.
	I'd like to be called Dame Rocco.
	Anyway, I think karma would be in order, for sure.
	No problemo.
	You've got karma.
	I also didn't get a note from brianbarrow.com from Royal Wooten Bassett.
	$214, so if he has something, he'll send us.
	I don't have a note from him either.
	Let me take one last look here.
	Let me take a second.
	Barrow, Barrow, Barrow, Barrow.
	Search.
	Is this a squirrel male?
	Squirrel mail?
	Yeah, squirrel mail.
	You're doing your search, huh?
	Yeah, it has a search box.
	You type in search.
	No, it's just this thing came from PayPal.
	I don't see anything.
	It's pretty fast.
	Dallas Spongberg in...
	Sure.
	I think it's Sure Dallas.
	I think.
	Sure.
	Sure.
	I'm not convinced of this, but it's possible.
	Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, $202.
	I decided to donate to the greatest podcast in the universe once again for my simple karma for my family in 2015.
	Keep doing what you're doing.
	I'll keep paying my part of the value-for-value model.
	Cheers from Canada.
	He's in the chat room.
	It is indeed Sir Dallas Sponberg.
	Okay, Sir Dallas, sorry.
	I thought so.
	He needs a karma for the family for 2015.
	Here it comes.
	You've got karma.
	And Brian Barrow, by the way, gets a double producership because he came with $214.
	Oh, it's the $214.
	He's the only one today for the $214.
	This is for our February.
	So he must have a call-out for somebody.
	So we'll call out whoever it is on Thursday.
	Must be somewhere.
	David Kay in Tempe, Arizona, $200.
	I asked for karma to help me with my death penalty case, and a few days later I got the word that my main expert witness dropped dead.
	So, is the karma good or not good?
	Needless to say, that freaked my shit out.
	I won't blame the No Agenda Nation for killing this guy, but I'll never doubt your...
	Oh, man.
	And then the rest is gone.
	Oh, no.
	We'll never know what he wanted to say.
	Well, we'll find out later.
	Is this PayPal doing this?
	Well, it doesn't do to everybody, so I don't know.
	That's strange.
	I think when you hit the return key or something, I don't know.
	I think there's either that or there may be some, because they're not very good at Unicode or double-biting code.
	There may be, like, someone does a symbol or something, like a comma or a semicolon or something, and then PayPal goes, ugh, whatever.
	You better give them some karma.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Well, I hope it's working for you now.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Andrew Harms in Durham, North Carolina, $200.
	Checking with Value for Value.
	Checking in with Value for Value.
	Please send job karma as I'm currently waiting to hear back about interviews for faculty jobs in electrical engineering.
	Love you guys.
	Sir Andrew Harms, KC0W1...
	India, India, India, India, India, India, India, India.
	You've got karma.
	Bye.
	I listened to the show, which is good.
	Yeah.
	Paul Boyer in Howell, Michigan, $200.
	And by the way, you hams, mention the show, you can do that.
	Mention it on your racist rants there on 80 Meters, please.
	Last night I was convinced to attend a local dinner theater.
	While waiting for the show to start, the newsletter came in.
	I was admiring the dancing puffin when one of the employees walking by gave me an in the morning.
	This was my day and I decided to donate and then he got cut off too.
	This is a day of being cut off, so he needs some karma.
	I'm sure of it.
	Okay, happy to You've got karma.
	I have the note for this.
	For Crosset?
	No, for the anonymous.
	I'm sorry, did I jump on?
	No, I don't have a Crosset.
	C-R-O-S-S-E-T, right?
	Yeah.
	James Crossett.
	No, it just came in as the donation from PayPal.
	Let's see if there's any note attached to this.
	None.
	Okay, that's fine.
	James Crossett, $200, St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	Anonymous, $200 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
	Nuts.
	No name, please.
	Just peerage.
	Also, see email with a subject bag check.
	Here we go.
	I was being herded through TSA today.
	I was struck with an unusual compulsion to donate to the show.
	As a long-time listener, I've been programmed with NA in neurolinguistics to respond to certain stimuli.
	I'll say.
	Sometimes these manifest themselves in unexpected ways.
	While I followed my fellow cattle through the processing plant, I was awakened by the anti-terrorist battle cry of, BAG CHECK!
	My programming followed a mind-numbing array of memes and jingles and delivered a sound, self-inflicted hit square to the mouth.
	Despite having a couple of rings, I haven't donated in over a year.
	What a douchebag!
	That's what he says.
	Sadly, it took a bullcrap TSA bag check to awaken me from my slave days.
	Nice.
	D-A-Z-E, to face this fact.
	I'm sure there are quite a few others in a similar trance of other priorities, forgetfulness, and outright denial.
	I'm so pissed at myself for allowing this to happen that I now call for a no-agenda douchebag check.
	All right.
	Douchebag!
	Check.
	This is a call to awaken the dazed, including the following.
	To my fellow knights, if you've lapsed as I have, I call bag check.
	Drop a few bucks to continue getting the regular therapy that no agenda provides.
	To those that donate on occasion, good on you.
	But if it's been more than six months since your last donation, I call bag check.
	To those that are newer listeners, if you get enough enjoyment to continue downloading, listening to No Agenda, and you haven't donated, I call bag check.
	Come on.
	It's easy.
	It only takes a couple of minutes, and you only need to drop a 5 or a 10 spot.
	Better yet, do a recurring 5 or a 10 spot.
	If you're a long-time listener and you've never donated, I call bag check.
	You can claim you can't afford it, but that's bullshit.
	If you've listened to this, you're very unlikely to be destitute.
	If you've bought a cup of overpriced bullshit coffee in the last year, you've never donated, let's not fool ourselves, you're a freeloading piece of crap.
	We'll always come up with some excuse.
	Do us all a favor.
	You're just a listener.
	Become a producer or F off.
	And finally, if you truly can't afford it, you can still contribute.
	Hit others in the mouth and wake them up.
	If they have the means, like they can afford a donut for breakfast, they'll help pick up the slack.
	Let me see.
	He has...
	If you're in good standing...
	Anyway, sir, apologies for my own lapse.
	No dedouching necessary.
	I was bagged to such a degree that I'll take more than...
	It'll take more than a jingle to wipe off the residue.
	All right.
	Thank you very much, our good sir.
	Yes, that was good.
	Very good little lecture.
	Nice little rant.
	And that concludes our folks.
	What an insult!
	Where's my number?
	What show number?
	688.
	How come it's not anywhere on the sheet here?
	You need to talk to the back office.
	The file is called na688.xls.
	Anyway, that's our group of great, great folks and producers, executive and associate executive producers, folks, for show 688.
	And we do have a show coming up on Thursday.
	I don't know why it's dropped off so much, but hopefully we'll kind of even out these contributions so they're not, you know, a bunch of them, then none, and a bunch of them, then none.
	These are credits that go under the moniker of executive producer or associate executive producer.
	Go ahead, look at television, look at the credits.
	That's what happens at the beginning of the show.
	They open up, they tell you all the people who are at the top of being responsible for each episode.
	And of course, we also have a credit roll, which we'll do later on.
	These are real credits.
	They work anywhere credits are accepted.
	Unlike the douchebags in Hollywood, we will gladly vouch for its authenticity.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Now, one thing you can always do is be out there continuing to propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Uh, hey, today, by presidential proclamation, is that today?
	No, that was yesterday.
	No.
	What is today?
	18?
	No, it was Friday.
	Just by coincidence.
	Just by coincidence?
	Like, I don't know how it happens.
	It was Religious Freedom Day.
	What?
	Yeah.
	On Friday.
	Yeah.
	I think they just make it up.
	Like, what's going on, huh?
	We got, like, shape-shifting Jews and Arabs.
	I know what we'll do.
	Let's call it, let's do a Religious Freedom Day.
	That should bring people together.
	Yeah.
	By presidential proclamation.
	The First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing...
	All it takes.
	All it takes.
	He says the First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion.
	Hmm.
	That's an interesting way of interpreting it.
	The First Amendment protects the freedom to worship anything, place, object, person, God, whatever you want.
	That's different from prohibiting the government from establishing religion.
	But I'm not the constitutional lawyer!
	Interesting.
	We must continue our work to protect religious freedoms around the globe.
	Yes, we must.
	What else is it today?
	Oh, I had drinks.
	Too many drinks, I'll be the first to admit.
	Friday...
	Which would be what, two drinks?
	You had two drinks?
	I had four.
	Holy crap!
	Yeah, and it's...
	Well, they probably pour light in that beer.
	No, no.
	Two of which were serious bourbons.
	And you know that point where you go like, oh man, I was hammered.
	You were hammered.
	Yeah, I was.
	But not before I at least got a little bit of information out of our former New York banker.
	Oh yes, we need to know.
	Yeah, so his wife was up in Houston, Miss Mickey was not back from Amsterdam, so dude, let's go out drinking.
	And there's this new place in Austin called Fix, F-I-X-E, Fix?
	Yeah, Fix.
	Fix, and it is dynamite.
	Why?
	The food is really, it's a little complex, I would say.
	Like, potato salad has all kinds of stuff in there, including quail yolk, but it's really good.
	Really, really good.
	These guys used to run Eddie V's, which is a very famous kind of steakhouse place.
	And that got sold, and then these guys started.
	And it's big.
	This place is huge.
	And it was jam-packed.
	With nothing but hotties and us.
	What?
	Yeah, yeah.
	They're coming from Dallas, I think.
	No, they are.
	What?
	The hotties usually stay in Dallas.
	No, no.
	It's Friday night, man.
	Come on.
	Or maybe from San Antone.
	I don't know where they were coming from.
	San Antone is a little more of a logical drive.
	Because Dallas is a long way.
	Dallas is too far.
	You're right.
	But they look like Dallas.
	Oregon for a drink.
	They look like Dallas girls.
	Well, Texas.
	And because Christina, I dropped Christina off at the airport.
	I took my phone.
	I have a phone, just not a smartphone.
	I don't know.
	The kid's traveling.
	She has to go through Atlanta.
	I don't know if something could happen.
	She can always text me if there's something going on.
	I have to explain this.
	For texting, I use a Google Voice number.
	If I need to text...
	That's fine.
	You can pick it up on Google.
	However, you cannot text a European number from Google Voice.
	This is true.
	This sucks.
	I'd pay for that.
	Why can't we do that?
	That's lame.
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	There's like three girls.
	We're at the bar and on the other corner of the bar.
	And one of the girls goes, Wow, it's been a long time since I've seen a Nokia like that.
	Ha ha ha!
	Maybe she was giving you a come on.
	That was like a...
	Yeah, no.
	This is the time where the phrase, yeah, no, is appropriate.
	Yeah, no.
	No, she was not coming on.
	Okay.
	Two things I've learned from our friend, the former banker from New York City.
	One, oil prices.
	Okay.
	This I'm interested in.
	Because I said, this is obviously being manipulated.
	He said, yes, but really it's not one entity.
	It's not just, you know, who was it?
	Was it HSBC or Morgan or whatever?
	He says, really what happened here is there were hundreds and hundreds of people just trading oil contracts over and over and over again.
	And what happened is really too many people wound up owning oil they really didn't need.
	He says, that's what really did it.
	He said, that's what really brought it down.
	There was just too many people in the game, just overextended, and yeah, maybe it had a little push, but he said it was so easy.
	It was just the market was completely saturated with these little traders, and I said little in quotation marks, that really just now own this oil that they really didn't need.
	And it's on barges, floating around, and it's just too much.
	Okay.
	Sounds feasible?
	Yeah, the market's saturated with oil.
	Yeah.
	Then, he told me something very interesting.
	He said, I want you to understand that we talk about junk bonds and about inflation and also about what happened with the Swiss franc, which was beautiful.
	This was an American banker's dream.
	Everyone was off in Switzerland.
	The minute they unpegged from the euro, screwed the euro yet again.
	Everyone went on a shopping spree in Germany.
	Took their Swiss francs and started buying stuff across the border.
	Just absolutely an American Swiss screw you to the EU. And he says he has staked his personal fortune on the following.
	He says interest rates will remain low.
	Low for at least another decade, maybe two.
	Okay.
	I thought that was interesting.
	That wouldn't surprise me.
	This happened in Japan.
	The Japanese never work.
	It is exactly the example he brought up.
	Right.
	Once you get into this kind of funk with the interest race, you can't really get out of it.
	Without collapsing the stock market, no one wants to do that.
	And so he said that what he did is he put his personal fortune into anything that will yield 4%.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	And he says if you put that in for the next 10 years, that's the safest, it's the best thing to do, that's where you need to put all your stuff.
	Yeah.
	That is my report from the front lines of finance.
	Come on, it's better than nothing.
	But it is.
	It is what it is.
	It's better than nothing.
	Come on, it's not all that bad.
	Well, you probably forgot most of it because you had that extra shot.
	I did not forget it.
	And the girls came over to flirt with you.
	It's been a while since I've seen one of those.
	Hey, blonde, you must be from Dallas.
	Not from Dallas, you crumb.
	They left.
	You guys are wasted.
	Yeah, that guy.
	Hey, stop serving him.
	Funny, funny, funny.
	There was a couple of things.
	I got a funny letter.
	You got it, too.
	From Brendan, one of our producers.
	Savoie?
	Sorry?
	Savoie?
	Brendan Savoie?
	No, no.
	I don't know if he wants us to say his name, so I'm just going to say Brendan.
	All right.
	He was grousing about the LA Times and all these coordinated reports that 2014 was this...
	Oh, the single...
	Yeah, yeah, I got that.
	Oh, by the way, so the banker...
	Now I'm blitzed, right?
	Now I'm completely hammered.
	He says, no, Adam.
	He's also hammered.
	No, tell me.
	He's hammered too?
	You both got hammered on four drinks?
	I think he had six.
	Okay, that's worse.
	And he says about him, now, you know, I don't know if you're just an entertainer, or you're a journalist, but how do you, what is this?
	You read it, everyone agrees.
	Hottest year on record.
	How are you going to, what's your evidence that it's not?
	Like, oh, Jesus.
	I'm drunk.
	I can't do this now.
	But I actually read Brandon's letter to him.
	Brandon's letters.
	Oh, you did?
	Yeah.
	I know what I'll do.
	He talks about the reports.
	He says, they failed to mention how they managed to measure the temperature of the planet in 1880 and 1950, for that matter.
	They calibrated the satellites.
	A highly difficult task even today.
	Were the satellites calibrated properly in 1880?
	Hmm.
	I'm guessing the measurement of the average temperature of the planet is plus or minus at least 1.4 degrees even today.
	Never mind compared to 1880.
	No matter how many locations you measure, the temperature will still have to assign a weight to each sample, and that requires a huge assumption.
	We moved from near the beach in Southern California a few years ago to five miles away slightly inland, and during the summer it's frequently 10 to 20 degrees warmer.
	Which one are they measuring?
	And if both hours each weighted against the other.
	And in fact, this is a point that he goes on.
	And this was brought up by the guy that started the Weather Channel, who's a big anti-warmist.
	And he mentioned that they changed the...
	For one thing, they moved these boxes over the years to average the temperatures.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you can do a satellite thing, but that's only recently.
	It's even better.
	2014, it looks like 2010 was warmer, but then they took some ocean temperature from somewhere and said, ah, look, we'll just add this up and we'll divide it by two and we'll put something in there and then all of a sudden it became the hottest on record.
	Which, of course, USA Today had the best reporting.
	Federal scientists, it says, I like that.
	Federal scientists.
	That is so beautiful.
	Federal scientists.
	A show that is the warmest year on record.
	And here it is.
	A quote from Jonathan Overpeck, an atmospheric scientist, which is not the same as climatology, but okay.
	He says, quote, humans are literally cooking their planet.
	If we literally were cooking our planet, then there would be smoke.
	We're not literally...
	Yes, pouring down the gas.
	We're not literally smoking the planet.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, so there's enough to...
	It's just statistics.
	There's enough to refute this.
	But this is really one of...
	Lies, lies, and statistics.
	Yeah, this is really one of those that just, you know, you get NASA, you get the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, they come out and they say, oh, we've looked at all the numbers, we've backed it into it being the warmest ever on record.
	Yeah, give us more money.
	And meanwhile, in the UK, another blizzard, The Arctic storm hits.
	Scotland, Wales, Southwest, Central England.
	And then we have reports like this.
	This is Abby Martin, who's getting worse, by the way.
	She's so glib now.
	She's almost disgusting.
	It's hard to watch her.
	But here she is talking about this hot year, and this brings to mind a comment that I must make.
	So amidst the debate over Keystone XL this week, Senator Bernie Sanders took the opportunity to essentially trick GOP-ers into admitting their denial over climate change.
	See, Sanders introduced a resolution to the Keystone bill declaring that Congress agrees with the scientific consensus on climate change.
	But it's real and man-made.
	Meaning if Republicans attempt to block the resolution, they're blatantly rejecting science.
	And the issue is more important than ever, with a report just published by NASA and NOAA determining that 2014 was the hottest year on record.
	I just want to say one thing.
	I tried to get a clip of this Sanders thing, because he was on, actually it was before Thursday, he was on a number of shows.
	Yeah.
	Nothing really there, but the meme is, you're denying science.
	That is now, you're denying science.
	Not denying global warming or climate change.
	You just deny science.
	That is what Bernie kept saying.
	Yeah, well, Bernie is a shyster.
	Dick.
	And let me just put this before you.
	the only way you can make your point is by as abby said trickery trickery yeah if you're using trickery to get people to agree with you or to do something this is like the the people that do the spam they send spam out it says oh here's a good note for you from your wife and then you read it's a spam thing this is trickery who would do business with a person online
	that tricked you into opening an email or tricked you into something but are they lied to you or they call you up on the phone and try to trick you into buying something that you don't even know who this person is using trickery to make your point like that is douchebaggery at its at its height and it would be accepted by abby martin as a cool thing shows what an asshole she is yeah no i agree Thank you.
	you And I saw a number of people who Bernie was on, and they were all really, oh, this is really good.
	So they have to admit it.
	You're tricking them into that.
	They have to admit it.
	Either they're in or they're against or whatever.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know.
	Don't trick them.
	I know.
	I have about four different stories on that in the Agenda 21 categories.
	You can take a look at it.
	It really, truly is not clear if 2010 was warmer than 2014.
	But it's irrelevant because you get the LA Times.
	Screw that.
	USA Today.
	Yeah, New York Times.
	Yeah, New York Times.
	And federal scientists.
	How can you even...
	I love the federal scientists.
	Now, you have to admit, sometimes it feels like we're living in...
	By Ayn Rand.
	I think it feels like it.
	It doesn't feel like it at all.
	Gosh, okay.
	Well...
	Because I don't see everybody running off to the gulch.
	Well, okay.
	Here is...
	Okay, this is something I've been working on.
	This was my main focus.
	And there's a couple of new...
	Wait, hold on a second.
	Why did you bring the Anne Rand thing back up?
	Out of the blue.
	No.
	Out of the blue?
	Not out of the blue.
	When you talk about federal scientists and this coercion, this trickery, yeah, that's...
	I could have triggered that.
	That's exactly what Atlas Shrugged is about.
	The government becomes a bunch of all-in douchebags, and if you're not on board, then you have to disappear.
	That's the part that is not real.
	Okay, okay.
	All right.
	I don't want to belabor this.
	I think many people will go, yeah, Curry!
	I don't think so.
	The podcaster, A.C. Curry.
	Alright, here is what I've been working on.
	We had David Cameroon show up, and he had a little meeting there, and he and Barak, Barak, Barak, how did he say it?
	Thank you, Barak, Barak.
	He says it in there.
	No, he doesn't say Barak, he says Barak.
	I like Barak.
	Barak.
	They did this stand-up together.
	Some of it was about there, which I have in the show notes, a number of sharing initiatives, some cyber initiatives, which is worth looking into, but it's kind of more of the same.
	What I found interesting was both comments about Iran.
	And here's Cameron quickly, and then we have a longer piece here.
	On Iran, we remain absolutely committed to ensuring that Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon.
	The best way to achieve that now is to create the space for negotiations to succeed.
	We should not impose further sanctions now.
	That would be counterproductive and it could put at risk the valuable international unity that has been so crucial to our approach.
	So this was interesting.
	And luckily, during the question and answer session, one of the journalists came in, asked the president, and then also specifically asked Cameron about something.
	And this was, you know, Barack gave a 20-minute non-answer, of course.
	It was so boring.
	It was droning on and on and on.
	But this is about the P5 plus 1.
	And for some reason, whenever I hear these, oh, 3P, 3 plus, I zone out and I never think to look at it.
	This time, I did a deep dive.
	P5 plus 1.
	This is the negotiations, the diplomatic efforts with Iran.
	Apparently for its nuclear program.
	And this is the, of course, the UN Secretary Council.
	We have the United States, Russia, China, the UK, France, plus Germany.
	So Germany is the plus one.
	Why is Germany the plus one?
	Because this, of course, has nothing to do with Iran's nuclear program.
	Why is Russia in there?
	Why is China in there?
	This can only be one thing.
	What?
	Resources, of course.
	I brought this up.
	Why are we cozying up to Iran?
	There's a reason for it.
	Here's the ABC reporter who asked the question, and look to the extent that David Cameron is coming to the United States to stop the now Republican-majority houses.
	From imposing further sanctions on Iran.
	This will not stand.
	The President will veto anything that comes across his desk, and I think it's going to be very obvious why.
	You mentioned your opposition to the sanctions bill on Iran.
	And this is obviously a bipartisan bill supported by some very senior top members of your own party in Congress.
	Why do you oppose a bill that would only impose sanctions if you fail to reach an agreement and if the Iranians fail to agree to take steps to curtail their nuclear program?
	Would you go so far as to veto a bill supported by top Democrats in Congress on this issue?
	And to Mr.
	Prime Minister, I understand you've been making phone calls to senators on this issue of the Iran sanctions bill.
	Is that correct?
	Are you actually lobbying the U.S. Congress on this?
	Something must be important.
	When I came into office, I made a commitment that Iran would not obtain a nuclear weapon, that we would do everything we could to prevent that.
	If Iran obtained a nuclear weapon, then it would trigger an arms race in the Middle East, make our job in terms of preventing the proliferation of nuclear materials much more difficult.
	Now, in that context, there is no good argument for us to try to undercut, undermine the negotiations until they've played themselves out.
	Now, if Iran ends up ultimately not being able to say yes, if they cannot provide us the kind of assurances that would lead myself, David Cameron, and others to conclude that they are not obtaining a nuclear weapon, then We're going to have to explore other options and I will be the first one to come to Congress and say we need to tighten the screws.
	We don't make these judgments blindly.
	We have been working on this for five, six, seven years.
	We consult closely with allies like the United Kingdom in making these assessments.
	And I'm asking Congress to hold off because our negotiators, our partners, those who are most intimately involved in this, assess that it will jeopardize the possibility of Of resolving, providing a diplomatic solution to one of the most difficult and long-lasting national security problems that we've faced in a very long time.
	A little flub there, but okay.
	So we have, this is about a national security problem.
	All of this, all of this, please, please, please don't fuck with our negotiation right now is all because of some nuclear thing we're trying to thwart?
	I think not.
	I think the big picture is very clear.
	The sanctions that America and the European Union put in place have had an effect.
	And let's talk about these for one moment.
	The sanctions, as we have deconstructed them on this program, are really only so that the United States and arguably our allies, like the United Kingdom, control who gets to trade with Iran and how much.
	And it is oil.
	It's most definitely.
	The oil, all kinds of things are going in and out, but we have put sanctions on so we determine, really, we are in charge of their sales.
	That has led to pressure.
	That pressure has led to talks.
	And those talks at least have a prospect of success.
	And I would argue with the president, you know, how much better is that?
	than the other potential outcomes.
	And that is what we should be focusing on.
	But to answer you very directly, yes, I have contacted a couple of senators this morning and I may speak to one or two more this afternoon.
	Not in any way, as British Prime Minister, to tell the American Senate what it should or shouldn't do.
	That wouldn't be right.
	But simply to make the point, as a country that stands alongside America in these vital negotiations, that it's the opinion of the United Kingdom that further sanctions or further threat of sanctions at this point won't actually help to bring the talks to a successful conclusion and they could fracture the international unity that there's been, which has been so valuable in presenting United Front which has been so valuable in presenting United Front to Iran.
	And I say this as someone who played quite I think a strong role in getting Europe to sign up to the very tough sanctions, including oil sanctions in the first place.
	Okay.
	I don't think David Cameron really needs to spend his time lobbying the United States members of Congress and Senate because of some nuclear deal.
	Bullshit.
	This is about the parse field, and we just need to look at a couple headlines and then review what has been happening with Syria.
	The whole reason for the Syria cabal is the choice by Assad to go with the Iraq-Iran gas pipeline to Syria and not with the Qatar.
	This is the south to north Qatar, Syria, Turkey pipeline.
	And this is the whole thing.
	And now let's look at the headlines.
	Iran hits highest record of daily gas production.
	Iran will start exporting gas to Iraq in May.
	Iran and the Kurdish regional government are building two pipelines.
	This is happening.
	This is happening.
	This is happening come hell or high water, and we are pumping our gas and our resources from Baku, from Azerbaijan.
	Part of Parse, we are pumping it straight through Iran, and it's going into Iraq, and it may go into Turkey, but I still think that it's more than likely that this will go out through Syria, depending on what happens when we send the next round of troops and trainers into it.
	And this is what this is about.
	The whole nuclear weapon thing, it's a front, it's just to shut people up, just to keep this conversation going.
	Why is Cameron there?
	British Petroleum, a shell.
	This is about the pipeline coming from Iran, and they have more gas than anybody else.
	And why else is China and Russia in the P5 plus 1 talks, and Germany?
	Because this is about getting this into the Mediterranean, up into the EU. All right.
	Could be.
	The whole thing is bull crap, and they're just really about the oil, and they're just scheming.
	Well, it's gas.
	It's gas.
	I have the map here.
	I mean, gas.
	Gas is different.
	I have the map here.
	It's the proposed Iran-Iraq-Syrian pipeline.
	It's in the show notes.
	I don't have a direct URL for it.
	But the idea was always...
	With all this gas coming out of these places, why is the helium market still in disarray?
	Maybe it's an investment opportunity.
	Something's fishy about that, because all the helium comes is just extracted from natural gas.
	That's where it all is.
	Maybe that's part of the sanctions with Iran.
	We should take a look at it.
	Anyway, so we need to move on Syria.
	The next move is not widely discussed, but here is Rear Admiral Kirby, who I find to be...
	This is the...
	What was the thing he said...
	What was their noses?
	Schwashel?
	Their noses?
	Snozzle?
	What?
	Schwanked?
	I forget what it was.
	What did he say?
	Schwanked, wasn't it?
	Did he schwanked?
	Schwanked?
	How many noses we schwanked or schwunked?
	Whatever.
	Schwanked.
	We will be sending trainers.
	I have it in the book.
	Trainers.
	Schwacked.
	Schwacked.
	Thank you, chat room.
	Schwacked.
	Yeah, this is the guy who talks about schwacking, and we're going to send some trainers, but not just trainers, all kinds of people, to help the moderate Syrian rebels who wear funny hats, I guess.
	We have to identify them somehow.
	I think what you can expect is several hundred U.S. troops being sent over there in a training capacity to the various sites that are still being established.
	I think you'll start to see orders for some of those troops over the next four to six weeks.
	Some could be given orders very soon, perhaps as soon as within the next week or so.
	But they'll flow in, I think, over the next four to six weeks.
	I'm hesitant to give an exact number on that because I think some of the sourcing solutions are still being worked out.
	Sourcing solutions?
	But several hundred is about the right range.
	What does that mean, sourcing solutions?
	I don't know.
	That must be because it's coming from...
	Yeah, black water.
	Trash talk.
	And they'll be spread out accordingly, a portion to the different sites.
	Again, it'll depend on the requirements and the site preparations.
	There will also be, in addition to, back to the U.S. side, in addition to the several hundred trainers that we think we'll need to provide to this effort, I think you can expect to see there'll be additional U.S. service members going in a support capacity.
	Support capacity.
	Yeah.
	Let's not question that.
	These guys are training.
	These guys are getting their coffee.
	And what we traditionally call enablers.
	They're enablers.
	Wow, is that what they're calling them these days?
	Enablers.
	Bring in the enablers.
	That kind of thing.
	So, I don't know.
	Again, some of these sourcing solutions are still being worked.
	No orders have been cut as we sit here today, so I can't get into any specifics just now.
	There has been no active recruiting yet.
	That said, they are working with the Syrian moderate opposition leadership to identify potential Syrian moderate groups from which recruiting could occur.
	But no recruiting has actually yet started.
	No trainees have been identified and enrolled in this program just yet.
	Wow!
	I love this.
	We haven't recruited anyone to enroll in our program from the moderate Syrian opposition.
	You know, the good guys.
	And the press just sits there and goes, okay.
	Well, I mean, what the guy said, what are you going to do as a press member?
	This is gobbledygook.
	The guy isn't saying anything.
	He's saying that, well...
	What he's saying is that we're building a guerrilla force, a terrorist force, inside someone else's country with a bunch of people trained.
	Actually, that's not true.
	We're doing it in our friend's country, so Jordan, etc.
	And then we're going to train these guys to go in and screw everything up.
	It's an act of war.
	Whatever.
	We have a lot of active wars.
	I must just be nuts.
	Pay no attention to me.
	You are nuts.
	I'm nuts.
	It's not an active war.
	We're helping these people.
	When is helping people an active war, I ask you?
	We're providing selective solutions in case of abandonment.
	We're sourcing selective solutions.
	And you'll like it.
	Executive order came out from the President.
	This is the one we've been waiting for.
	This is the Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition.
	This, of course, is regarding the very disturbing equipment acquisitions by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States, which include tanks, bayonets, and other things to use upon the citizens of the United States.
	And we're happy.
	The President's going to do something about this.
	As he says, there's some concern about the Employment and deployment of controlled equipment acquired by the LEAs, the law enforcement agency.
	So what are we going to do?
	What is the president's executive order?
	Are we going to reduce this?
	Are we going to stop supplying this stuff?
	Which of course is all part of the military industrial complex.
	I would guess we're going to monitor more closely.
	Ah, even better.
	We are going to create the Law Enforcement Equipment Working Group.
	Oh!
	Another committee.
	That's it.
	That's his whole executive order.
	We'll have a group, and then we will talk about it so we can see that at least the law enforcement...
	Even C-SPAN won't put that on.
	I'm telling you.
	The working group within 120 days shall provide the president with recommendations and implementation plans as set forth in Section 3.
	Let me just get Section 3 here for a second.
	Oh, that must be in the expanded version.
	But really, here it is.
	Developing policies to ensure that law enforcement agencies abide by any limitations or affirmative obligations.
	Planning the creation of a database.
	There's an IT piece in there, dude named Ben.
	A database that includes information about controlled equipment purchased or acquired.
	Ensuring a process for returning specified controlled equipment.
	When no longer needed.
	Hey, these bayonets are all bloody.
	Let me send them back.
	Requiring local civilian government review of the request for stuff.
	Providing uniform standards for suspending LEAs from federal controlled equipment programs if they violate any laws.
	Please!
	Please!
	What law would they violate?
	Civil laws.
	They're always doing that.
	Yeah.
	Creating a process to monitor the sale or transfer from an LEA to third parties.
	It's not anywhere does this executive order say, hey, let's not give bayonets.
	That's just dumb.
	No, that's not in there.
	Working group.
	This guy has so many working groups.
	Yeah.
	It's a good way to get out of the whole thing.
	Get out of responsibility.
	So I was watching Newsnight or whatever that thing, that once a week show that BBC puts on.
	Newsnight?
	It was on last night, wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They had your buddy on, Gren Greenwald.
	I don't rock, Gren Greenwald.
	And they were talking about it.
	I thought there were some good points he made.
	He's changing his cadence a little bit with the way he talks.
	I didn't see this.
	But it was obvious to me in clip two, I've got three clips, and In clip two, it's obvious to me that the BBC is all in on the fascist takeover of Western civilization.
	But I think we may have known that, but it's never been so obvious.
	But let's play Greenwald on Cameron being hasty.
	In other words, jumping right away, wanting to put together these You know, set up a furtherance of a Patriot Act-like act in England.
	Crazenness with which Western leaders like David Cameron have moved to exploit the emotions surrounding the Paris attack has really been stunning.
	I mean, even the Bush administration had the decency to wait a few days after the 9-11 attack before it started introducing new spying and detention legislation.
	And Prime Minister Cameron and others haven't even waited that long.
	The victims haven't even been buried, and already they're demanding more powers.
	I mean, if this were a reason debate, they would examine what happened here and commission experts to talk about any gaps, legitimate gaps.
	But that's not what they're doing.
	They want to exploit fear and exploit the emotions surrounding this event to gain still more spying power for themselves.
	And I think the public will be rightly wearing that.
	Don't drop it.
	Public is not going to be rightly wary.
	Public doesn't give a crap.
	Who are you kidding?
	Oh, man.
	No.
	So the BBC guy comes on and he makes his commentary, which says to me that they're stooges, and this is kind of an interesting little back and forth.
	But I just wonder whether it's quite difficult for you to make the argument at times like this, that we need to be wary of the security authorities rather than the fanatics.
	I don't think it's hard at all to make the argument.
	I think this is the crucial time to make the argument.
	I think people resent when their emotions are exploited and trifled with and when governments try and use Fear-mongering to get more powers for themselves.
	It's definitely an effective tactic, and that's why governments do it.
	But that's what has led the West to things like destroying Iraq and torturing people systematically and putting them in prisons for years without charges, is this constant fear-mongering and exploitation of emotions surrounding terrorism.
	And I think it's the responsibility of journalists and others to demand reasoned discourse.
	Well, reasoned discourse, but you do respect the right of public since countries where maybe they have different views to yours, and in a reasoned discourse have decided that they think they would like them to have more powers.
	You're almost as if you don't think the public have a right to the opposite view to you.
	They're perfectly entitled, aren't they, to take whatever view they want of the different risks.
	Wow, yeah.
	I was listening to Radio 4...
	When I go to bed, I put it on the Sonos through tune-in radio, and then you can listen to all these radio stations.
	All you hear on Radio 4, which is their news kind of channel, BBC, is this.
	Is this all in?
	Yeah, we need to trust the government.
	They know what's best for us.
	This makes so much sense.
	Let them have all the powers they need.
	I mean, these people have spy cameras in their trash bins.
	I mean, come on.
	They love it for some reason.
	Well, that's what this guy's arguing with Greenwald.
	In the next clip, we can play that.
	I think it's pretty short.
	Yeah, sure.
	People in democracies all the time embrace authoritarianism.
	There are all kinds of cases where that's the case.
	People have the right to want to live in an authoritarian state.
	They have the right to have their government monitor and spy on everybody.
	But at the same time, there are basic individual rights that even majorities are not permitted To infringe upon.
	That's why most Western countries have constitutions and most countries around the world have subscribed to treaties.
	So even if 89% or 97% of the people of a population want to trample on the rights of others, they actually don't have the right to do that, even in democracy.
	And I think mass surveillance does that.
	But the more important point is...
	Why did this terrorist attack occur, even though these Western countries are spending so much on surveillance?
	And I think the answer is that if you focus on actual terrorists and surveil them, you can be successful in stopping attacks.
	But when you engage in mass surveillance, putting hundreds of millions of people under a surveillance microscope, it becomes extremely difficult to find the people who attack the Boston Marathon or the people who attack Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
	And I think it's a failure of governments when they do even more mass surveillance in the wake of these attacks.
	I think that's a good point, but I think what Greenwald's missing, besides the fact that the other guy's arguing for the fascist state and saying the public wants that, but I think what Greenwald's missing is that he actually believes That these guys are just wrong-headed with this mass surveillance.
	He doesn't get the blackmail state aspect of it.
	He's never once mentioned that this is used for blackmail.
	That's what this surveillance is for.
	Or he's subject to it.
	I've always thought he was subject to it.
	Oh.
	I never considered that, but now that you mention it.
	Haven't seen a lot of Snowden docs.
	That's now been pushed off to Apple thing.
	Applebaum.
	I.O. Error, who is now a journalist for Bildt.
	He and Poitras are writing articles.
	Poitras.
	Hold on a minute here.
	The latest...
	Article was...
	Well, he definitely doesn't say anything new here.
	He's just philosophizing.
	So you might be right.
	Maybe he is a subject to the blackmail approach.
	It does work.
	Here it is.
	This is the most recent one.
	Snowden...
	New Snowden docs indicate scope of NSA preparations for cyber battle.
	Cyber battle.
	Which is just more PowerPoint.
	Did you see that there's a...
	Uh, there's a theme for, um, what is the, uh, not, uh, is it open office?
	Yeah.
	Or Libra office.
	There's a, uh, it's not called PowerPoint.
	What's it called?
	Presentation or whatever there.
	Yeah.
	Something like that.
	They have a theme, which is the Snowden theme.
	No.
	Like those lame ass PowerPoints.
	Just, they have this document.
	Yeah.
	You just put your own words in there.
	Like, Oh, it looks great.
	Which it is.
	I mean, this is...
	It's okay.
	And the article, by the way, is interesting in the regard that according to Poitras and Applebaum...
	NSA, what they do is they hijack other people.
	They could hijack your computer if you might have been subject to a botnet takeover and you are part of a botnet.
	They will take your computer takeover to hide, basically making it like man in the middle, to go and do counterattacks.
	Which I think should fall under the Third Amendment.
	That soldiers can't take over your house in a time of war.
	Why should the NSA be allowed to take over your computer in some kind of so-called cyber warfare?
	I agree.
	It needs to go before the Supreme Court.
	Yeah, right after the gay marriage thing.
	We'll get right to that.
	That's why I tell people, turn your computer off at night.
	Yes!
	There's no reason to leave the thing running.
	It's using a valuable wattage.
	And then someone else, maybe an attorney, sent me this link.
	It's from, what is UMKC? Is it Kansas City?
	University of Kansas City?
	I think so.
	There's no University of Kansas City.
	UMKC.edu, what is that?
	I don't know.
	Let's find out.
	U.M. Okay.
	And it's part of a project from the university, whatever university it is, called Exploring Constitutional Conflicts.
	It is the University of Missouri.
	Missouri.
	There you go.
	The issue, does the Constitution protect the right of privacy?
	And his assertion is, even though this article pretty much says all the way through, that yes, of course we have the 14th Amendment, but we have obviously the privacy of beliefs, the First Amendment, we have the privacy of the home in the Third Amendment, privacy of the persons or possessions in the Fourth.
	They don't even put the Fifth in here, but I would say the Fifth is privacy to your, you're protecting your own self and speech.
	The Ninth Amendment...
	No, privacy to your thoughts.
	Your thoughts, thank you.
	The Ninth Amendment, which a lot of people say kind of covers everything else, yet it is asserted in this article that privacy is really only proven by case law and not by these actual articles.
	And this producer thinks that this also may come before the Supreme Court, and he says that it's arguable that your actual privacy is not constitutionally protected, that it is protected by case law over years, and therefore new legislation can be created which would protect your privacy, except, of course, and therefore new legislation can be created which would protect your privacy, except, of course, for a couple of annoying bits like when the government wants to read something Yeah.
	And that this is the direction things are going.
	Yeah.
	yeah No, it doesn't make sense.
	It makes no sense.
	It makes nothing but sense.
	You can't make sense out of this.
	You can't say that...
	Yeah, it's just to screw us.
	Screw the public.
	Okay, but would you say that your right to privacy is constitutionally protected, or do you think...
	Yeah, I would say yes to that.
	Well, this is going to be argued that it's no.
	Well, this will be fun to watch.
	Yeah.
	Good for the show.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, you know, I got the constitutional lawyers here.
	There'll be lots of drinks I'll have to have.
	It's the kind of bull crap you get from the Congress, because they don't care.
	And they're showing the Boehner, for example, that guy, douchebag.
	So I'm watching this, I'm watching a hearing, and this came up, and I was just like, oh, this is a massive, one of the, he's just outside of Boston, I can't remember his name, but he's a Massachusetts representative, and they're talking about the budget and how they're going to have to spend money this way, that way, the other way.
	He's a Democrat.
	Mm-hmm.
	And he thinks that we've got to think more about infrastructure.
	And then he just drops a bomb in the middle of this little discussion that kind of ends on it.
	And I'm just going, oh my God, now it's nuts.
	Mr.
	Neal.
	I think what we're trying to get to here is the idea that there are economic outcomes that come from significant...
	Infrastructure investments that are not only long overdue, but have been resisted by the majority in the House.
	And the path forward seems to me to be one that would include, for example, an investment in two huge union stations from Hartford to Springfield, putting a lot of construction workers on the job, the rail being improved, broadband having been extended to the hill towns of western Massachusetts so that children who,
	by the way, live in communities that have first-class colleges have to go to the parking lot at the local library During the evening hours to connect to the internet.
	And I think that those are the sorts of measurements that we want to be assured of as we go forward.
	If we're only going to apply this to tax cuts, then it seems to me as though it's ill-considered.
	And if we decide that we're going to talk about long-term investments, what better way to do it than improving rail transportation?
	Just for our colleagues here that are dubious about high-speed rail...
	That first train, when we got to western Massachusetts on the way to Vermont and to a couple of small towns, that train got up to 79 miles an hour.
	All aboard!
	Trains good, planes bad.
	70 miles an hour!
	79 miles an hour.
	That's good.
	Couldn't quite hit 80.
	Even though cars can go 80 on the freeway, this train could not get to 80, but this is, by his definition, high-speed rail.
	We are limited by law in the great state of Texas to 85 miles an hour by car.
	Yeah.
	And high-speed rail, according to this boat, is 79 miles an hour.
	And he's bragging about this as though this is a big deal.
	We want to assure you that we got to 79 miles an hour.
	What kind of maniac is this guy?
	Oh, the same people who think 350 parts per million is a big deal.
	Well, they're all idiots.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fun.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	We do have a few people to thank for show 688 and start off with Craig Cavell in Chicago, Illinois, who donated 12345, one of my favorite numbers.
	Timothy Tillman in Prince George, Virginia, 11815.
	Kyle Winfield in Cedar Park, Texas.
	He's a dude named Ben, by the way, $101.01.
	Lon Baker, Walnut Creek, California, right up the road from me, $100.
	Mark Crapels in Wayne, Pennsylvania, $100.
	Crocutta Computer Services in Pacifica, California, $100.
	Frank Pugh in Tallahassee, Florida, $75.
	Nicholas Principe, In Raleigh, North Carolina, $73.73.
	Sir Chris Abrams, $73 in Arlington, Virginia.
	Need some karma.
	Put some at the end for you there.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, $69.33.
	Andy Benz in St.
	Louis, Missouri, $68.80.
	David Helm in Fargo, North Dakota has got a birthday deal coming up here, $66.33.
	He bought groceries to make the double-dip depression slave stew, and the total came out to $66.33.
	On top of that, it's my birthday on Sunday.
	These things reminded me to donate.
	The double-dip depression slave stew shouldn't be that expensive.
	I think he bought a lot of other stuff with it.
	Okay, because you've got to buy the cheap, cheap, crappy meat.
	Yeah, and you cook it for a long time, and it's delicious.
	But, yeah, 66, 32.
	I'm sure it wasn't just meat.
	I'm guessing.
	Bradley's Shell Nut.
	Of course, he could have gone to Whole Foods.
	I would rack it up.
	We have a Whole Foods that just opened up around the corner.
	I like shopping there.
	You know what it is?
	It's a pick-up heaven.
	There's a lot of women in there looking around.
	But they also have...
	I enjoy shopping there.
	They have a lot of variety.
	It's not cheap.
	They steal your money.
	Yeah, they're taking a lot of your money.
	But everyone's very pleasant.
	They're all very knowledgeable.
	You can ask them anything.
	They know exactly where it is, what's going on.
	They'll give you a whole story.
	Yeah, and there's some outstanding products.
	I agree.
	Apparently, I was told by one of the checkers that in Oakland, there is a massive Whole Foods, maybe one of the biggest in the country.
	Now I have to go check it.
	I says the thing is like a couple of football fields.
	Another fine Austin company.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Bradley Shellnut in Mountain View, 55-55, another birthday in that list.
	Aaron Arnold, Arnold?
	Yeah, Arnold, in Las Wages, Nevada.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Sir HMFIC, our buddy, 55-10.
	Mofo in charge.
	Answering the newsletter call, he says.
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	In Vermont.
	It's the Black Knight of the U.S. Army.
	Randy Vizantine in Houston, Texas.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	David Alston.
	Yes, we want to thank you for answering the call to the newsletter.
	We did have to move things up a little bit.
	David Alston, Yukon, Oklahoma.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Jason Fortune.
	Parts Unknown.
	5510.
	Sam Cutts in St.
	Louis Park, Minnesota.
	5510.
	Another anonymous lesbian.
	A different one.
	A new one.
	In Portland.
	Send pictures.
	5510.
	Please credit me as another anonymous lesbian great show.
	Hope support picks up.
	Appreciate it when you keep the casual sexism to a minimum.
	Send pictures.
	That's minimalistic.
	Casual sexism.
	It's minimalistic.
	It's not casual with him.
	Me, yes.
	Send pictures.
	Casual minimalistic.
	Christina Caldwell in Brisbane.
	By the way, who has ever heard of a lesbian in Portland?
	I'm shocked.
	Stunned!
	Christina, good, Portlandia.
	Christina Caldwell, Brisbane, Queensland, 55.
	And the following are $50 donors, Edward Almaguer, I think, in Waxahachie, Texas.
	Waxahachie.
	Yeah, Almaguer, I'd say.
	Is it Waxahachie?
	Waxahachie.
	Anonymous, Milton, Ontario.
	Michael D. Brown in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
	Kajel of FEMA Region 3.
	Gwynn Oak, Maryland.
	Kajel.
	I wonder if that's...
	Kajel.
	You want some karma for my late mom, Evelyn.
	Of course.
	Right at the end.
	Kajel.
	Maybe it's Kajel.
	Kajel.
	Could be Kajel.
	Stuart Fawcett in Liverpool, UK. Edgar, have you ever been to Liverpool?
	Yes, I have.
	I've always wanted to visit.
	Oh, really?
	It's terrible?
	No, it's alright.
	It's not worth going.
	Here's what you do.
	When you're in Liverpool, you walk around, just stop someone on the street and say, Hey, where did the Beatles rehearse?
	Yeah.
	And then you get punched.
	Knee to the groin.
	Edgar Decker, Scottsdale, Arizona.
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	Dave Evans.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Austin, Texas.
	Dave again.
	Dave, yeah.
	Michael Gates in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
	Rosalind Furness in Turnbridge Wells, Kent.
	A lot of UK people today.
	That's great.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Favorite name of a town.
	Amitav Hajira in Daleville, Virginia.
	Linda McAvoy in Dublin, Ireland.
	And then we have a couple of Dame Melody Mann.
	I think she's upgraded or something.
	She's in Ringgold, Louisiana.
	And finally, Sir Mark Tanner.
	In Whittier.
	K-gel is Swedish and it's pronounced Shell.
	Shell.
	Shell.
	Shell of FEMA Region 3.
	Okay.
	Which is Sweden.
	Apparently.
	I guess.
	Anyway, that concludes our 688...
	Donors at the $50 level and higher.
	Yeah, and let's definitely kick this up for Thursday's show.
	I have no reason why...
	I have no understanding why Thursdays have been difficult, but we'd love for you to...
	Yeah, I don't know.
	And there's an extra day in the week and all the rest of it.
	Not sure.
	People are starting to understand the value proposition more and more, I find.
	And it doesn't have to be these numbers.
	It can be under 50.
	It can be a monthly.
	We have plenty of different programs you can get in on, even if you want to be anonymous as well.
	Of course, love you considering being an executive producer or associate executive producer.
	Whatever you do, if you're enjoying the program, if you derive some value from it, then give us some value so we can continue.
	It's that simple.
	Or just go back to...
	Who was the producer who came in as an exec today?
	He was talking about how...
	Oh, Bagcheck.
	That was our anonymous Bagcheck guy.
	Who will be knighted today?
	We have some knights coming up.
	We certainly do.
	All right.
	Thank you, everybody.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. That's right.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And we say happy birthday to David Helm turning...
	Well, I'm not sure.
	It's his birthday today.
	I don't know how old he is.
	Bradley Shelnut says happy birthday to his friend Miles, January 14th, and himself, who is celebrating today on January 18th.
	And Christopher Lind Hartson will be 25 tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from all your friends here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Then we congratulate Sir Dwayne Melaton.
	Duke of Mystery, who is now changing to the Duke of the Pacific Northwest, which is Garuvi.
	And did Truman want a particular title?
	Let me see.
	He wanted...
	You might have something, let me see.
	No, I have, because I have the note.
	Oh, that's right, you have the note.
	No, I don't think so.
	Nothing, just Sir, we'll just make him Sir, I think Sir Truman sounds good.
	He does.
	Honestly.
	And then we have Michael DeCock, who will become Sir DeCock, James Lavin's daughter, she'll become Dame Rocco, and Anonymous.
	Okay, let's grab the blades.
	Okay.
	Wasn't it Dame Rocco something?
	Of Portlandia.
	Oh yeah, Portlandia.
	Grab your blade, man.
	Yeah, I'm trying to get it out of here.
	There you go.
	Here's mine.
	Here's mine.
	Okay.
	All right!
	Truman Child, Michael DeCock.
	Miss Rocco of Portlandia and some anonymous guy in Plymouth.
	Come on up to the podium.
	All four of you now will be joining the round table of the Dames and Knights and hereby I pronounce to KD Sir Truman, Sir Cock, Dame Rocco of Portlandia and Sir Stokes in order of Pugner.
	For you, my friends, we have quite a list of hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, progressive rock and Russian imperial stout.
	We've got ass cream and bear fillings, Cuban cigars and single malt scot.
	Hot pants and booze, bong hits and bourbon, and of course, there's always the mutton and mead.
	Head on over to NoahGeneration.com slash rings and feel free to tweet out pictures of your rings.
	Yeah, we had a good one the other day.
	I did retweet.
	It was a guy had his ring.
	He had a couple of challenge coins.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	And it was very well framed.
	It looked very professional.
	It was artistic.
	Yes, it was very good.
	Very beautiful.
	I agree.
	I saw that too.
	It was nice.
	We're done.
	No, we're not.
	I have two things.
	A couple things here.
	If you want to go to a new segment, we can do tech news.
	Whoa!
	Oh, man.
	You'd be making me crazy with that.
	I'm ready!
	I bought my phone.
	The way I see it, the only good phone is a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
	Remember, there's nothing like tech news when someone says, it's been a while since I've seen a Nokia like that.
	It is Sunday.
	It's time for tech news.
	Are you going up to Fort Landia?
	No, no, no.
	No Fort Landia today.
	Uninvited?
	No, no.
	I was invited.
	I can go.
	You can go whenever you want.
	I know.
	Well, tech news, what do you got, John?
	I got a robot report.
	This sounds...
	Do you need an intro?
	Actually, before you run it, I will mention that this robot report sounds vaguely familiar, and I'll explain after the report is over.
	This sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but we may be just a few years away from having our own personal robots to help out with household chores.
	Chris Van Cleave reports the robot revolution is already taking hold at one popular San Jose store.
	I can help you find things in the store.
	At this California hardware store, the future is now.
	Sure.
	Follow me.
	The OshBot helps customers find what they're looking for.
	I think I'm here.
	When you're looking for unique items, something like this is ideal.
	The test program is part of a robot revolution.
	From a cruise ship bartender to an all-seeing security guard.
	Yeah!
	Or a hotel butler.
	Robots are increasingly joining the workforce.
	Hospitals are using them to disinfect exam rooms and Amazon employs an army of robots to fill orders.
	This robot technology could soon be coming to many homes.
	Is this the lab where the future comes to life?
	We hope so.
	Peter Allen is a robotics professor at the Columbia University School of Engineering in New York.
	He sees a bright future where people can buy their own personal robot assistant.
	People are going to say, you know, I want one to, you know, fold my laundry or answer my door or go get me a beer from the fridge.
	All right.
	Okay.
	That last thing in particular was...
	Oh, the fridge again?
	Now, this, of course, if you do any research, which I failed to do often, but this time I didn't, this is obviously a precursor, a planted story.
	God knows who's behind it, but it's a public relations company to promote the movie Chappie, which comes out on March...
	Chappie!
	Hold on a second.
	Chappie, the story is after being kidnapped by two criminals during birth, Chappie becomes the adopted son of the strange and dysfunctional family.
	Chappie is a gifted one of a kind.
	A prodigy also happens to be a robot.
	Ah, yeah.
	So that's the Robot Buddy movie coming out in March.
	And so let's talk about robots.
	But what I got a kick out of was this Bring You a Beer, which is what triggered this to be...
	Isn't that what you have a wife for?
	Well...
	The Bring Me a Beer Robot appeared in 1981, 1982, when Androbot was actually a company run by Nolan Bushnell.
	And in the 80s, when I was the editor of Infoworld at the time, we did a, what's going to happen the next year?
	And, you know, it's a yearly prediction thing where you ask different experts, people that show up.
	Yeah, what's going to happen?
	We're going to have next year.
	Wearables!
	Wearables!
	Everybody predicted that 1982, I believe was the year it was targeted, was going to be the year of the robot.
	Now, the year of the robot, Bushnell had these two robots that he came out with, and then there was all these other robots that showed up.
	And they were useless robots.
	They were programmed by an Apple, and usually had to be hooked up to the Apple.
	Which robot was this?
	This was the And Robot Company, and there was two robots that he designed.
	If you look up And Robot on Wiki, you'll find the robots.
	They had names.
	I can't remember what their names are.
	But the one thing that was noteworthy was at the Comdex show that year they had these robots and one was specifically designed to get a beer!
	So this is nothing new.
	This is old news.
	The robot has some little basket, and then he took it.
	It was like a ride.
	He rode to the refrigerator.
	I have no idea how he managed to open the refrigerator, but he pulled out the refrigerator, and there's a special device in there that was like one of those things for a Lionel train that would put barrels on a car, and a beer would roll down this little thing into the little basket that the Robot had, and then the robot would close the door and go all the way back and give you the beer.
	And so I heard this and said, oh my god, the beer.
	This was like 30 years ago.
	I have the official trailer.
	This is some movie, John.
	Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver.
	Yeah.
	Let's see what's going on here.
	Let's see.
	This has been approved for appropriate audiences, so that should be okay for the No Agenda listener.
	Hit it!
	Tension music.
	Here comes Chappie.
	Oh, it's from the director of District 9.
	Okay.
	Oh, it's going to be dystopia.
	I hated that movie.
	This...
	The robot's pouring milk on the floor.
	Because, of course, the robot is dumb, you see.
	The robot has to be programmed to...
	I can feel.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	To meet Chappie.
	Chappie.
	Wow.
	Okay, that looks horrible.
	That looks good.
	These are all solutions looking for a problem that has been ongoing ever since I've been involved in anything computers, which goes back to the Sinclair ZX80. I think that was my first computer.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	No, it's always been...
	Yeah, you're right.
	It's exactly...
	It's always been...
	The fridge will know when to order the milk.
	Yeah, all this bullcrap.
	A robot gets you a beer.
	I'd take a blowjob.
	Well...
	No.
	A robot better be better looking than this chappy thing.
	A horrible looking thing.
	Stay tuned for chat.
	You'll hear a few more robot stories out there promoting chat.
	Not directly promoting.
	That's the cool thing about it.
	They just make you aware.
	It's the awareness thing that works so well.
	It's good.
	It's good.
	Well, while we're on, can I close the tech news segment?
	Yeah, let's close.
	All right.
	My phone, my phone!
	There you go.
	Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay.
	Thank you.
	All right, that's tech news.
	But let's stay with movies.
	This year, is the Academy Awards like this Sunday, today, or tonight?
	When is the Academy Awards?
	No, I think it's in about three or four weeks.
	So we had the nominations.
	Oh, yeah.
	And did you hear about Sharpton?
	No.
	Oh yeah.
	Big headlines.
	Sharpton calls for an emergency meeting at the White House regarding these awards because apparently, let's see what the headlines say.
	They're racist.
	Yes.
	Yes, I know.
	Well, this is what I'm tying into with a clip.
	Al Sharpton calls an emergency meeting because of Hollywood's all-white Oscar list.
	Hold on a second.
	How can they put up with this idiot?
	Wait a minute.
	He called for an emergency meeting at the White House?
	Well, he's the White House...
	I know, but now I want to know what this is.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me see.
	Sharpton emergency meeting.
	This is the only good nomination with Selma.
	Well, no.
	Selma is the problem.
	Because Selma did not get all of the nominations it should have.
	And of course, Oprah didn't get nominated.
	So this is the real problem.
	The Queen has not been nominated.
	Al Sharpton criticized for calling emergency meeting.
	He calls emergency meeting.
	Because it's an emergency.
	It is.
	We need to stop this immediately.
	Okay.
	So, all of a sudden, everywhere, there's this thing going around, the Oscar nominating committee, white racists hate the black man, hate the black man, hate the black woman.
	This is why Selma has been snubbed, and they had an actual conversation about this.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	We need to have a conversation about this.
	This is a conversation we should have in America.
	A conversation about our Oscars.
	We need an emergency meeting.
	According to a Los Angeles Times investigation, 94% of the Academy's 6,000-plus voting members were white as of 2012.
	Racist, I tell you!
	Racist, racist, racist!
	It also says that after that investigation came out, the Academy made efforts to be more diverse in terms of those that vote on the video.
	Less racist!
	It notes that an African-American has been president of the academy since 2013.
	Token!
	Token!
	Mark, to you, are these things that should be considered in the debate?
	They should be considered, but again, certain forms of representation don't make the problem resolved.
	There's a president of the United States.
	Doesn't mean that race isn't still in issue.
	Hollywood has a diversity problem.
	Hollywood has a diversity problem at the production level, in terms of who gets greenlighted for films, and in terms of who gets represented on screen.
	That's something we have to work through.
	Just because a black person doesn't get an award doesn't mean Hollywood is racist.
	But, let's be clear, Hollywood is racist.
	There you go.
	Just be clear, Hollywood is racist.
	Hollywood is racist.
	Unbelievable.
	We have to find something.
	Hollywood's racist.
	My goodness.
	Yes.
	Hello.
	Yes.
	Hollywood's racist.
	Did you not read the emails?
	Why are these Hollywood bigwigs, Rudin and the woman, the Sony girl, why have they not been vilified?
	No.
	No, no, no.
	Because they're Democrats.
	And the only thing they get is, well, insensitive.
	It's really not nice their emails were exposed to the public.
	Bullshit!
	These people are racist cocksuckers.
	You like your new liberal voice?
	You like my liberal voice.
	You're picking it up.
	You got that from Texas.
	I think so.
	I have to tell you.
	I like it.
	It's a good voice.
	It's kind of a little bit of Valley Girl, but you have to throw some Rachel Maddow.
	You also have a kind of a...
	Yeah, you're swallowing it somehow.
	Yeah, the little nasal...
	But really, Hollywood's a racist.
	So that's what Al Sharpton should have called an emergency meeting about one of the biggest producers in the business.
	You nailed it.
	They're Democrats.
	You can't do that.
	And I'm sure they headed the academy.
	That black guy's probably a Republican.
	Black Republicans.
	You know what's next?
	Here's what's next.
	This is coming.
	You ready for it?
	Write it down in the book.
	Write it down.
	NASCAR is racist.
	No black NASCAR drivers.
	Is there one single black NASCAR driver?
	No.
	There might be in the lesser, not in the cup, not in the top category.
	Racist, I tell you.
	It's good old boys, racist, keeping the black man down.
	Where really the black man is just thinking, bitch, I'm not getting in that car.
	That's how the black man thinks.
	Crazy!
	It's just crazy.
	I'm like a driver on that left-hand turn the whole time.
	That's just nuts.
	Basketball is racist.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It's reverse racism.
	What am I talking about?
	Oh, I hate, of all the things I don't like, you know, yeah, there's the fear-mongering about, you know, ISIS and the brand ISIS and we're going to come and kill you and be, if you're, you know, cower in the corner.
	Okay.
	But the racist thing, like this a-hole, Al Sharpton, he makes me mad.
	This guy is an extortionist.
	He's a crook.
	He's a crook.
	He's a crook and he gets to call emergency meetings.
	Crook.
	Crook.
	Thankfully, the whole government is crooked.
	And this was, I think, one of the best.
	It's too bad Matt didn't ask the question.
	It would have been a fine Matt and Marie show.
	Marie Harf did have to answer the question.
	First, here she is.
	Oh, and this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy.
	The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said that the State Department spent $4 billion on counter-narcotic initiatives in Afghanistan.
	Despite this, the United Nations reported that Afghanistan set a record for producing opium in 2014, and that 80% of the total opium production in the world It comes from Afghanistan.
	Was it the goal of the United States government to eradicate poppy production in Afghanistan while we've had horses there for 13 years?
	All right, before we go to the answer, first of all, this girl is new to the press corps.
	Oh, she's going to be kicked out.
	She's cute!
	That's nice.
	I don't know her name.
	She's very cute.
	It's a great question, by the way, and I don't use that lightly because I always ridicule people to say that, but I think in this context it was a great question because she looked at the one thing, $4 billion being spent on drugs in Afghanistan, some way to use it as a marketing, $4 billion for marketing and distribution has got to be what it was used for.
	It's just for local marketing and craft services.
	Absolutely.
	Actually, that's where most of it went.
	Four main meals in the fields.
	So the question is, if we put $4 billion over 13 years into eradicating poppies, and as we know, we looked at the United Nations Office for Drugs and something, Office and Drugs, whatever.
	That when they say poppy production is up, they literally mean the fields are bigger.
	There are more poppy fields.
	So this $4 billion was somehow not sufficient To reduce the size of the poppy fields, which are right next to all the camps.
	Can we assume that the $4 billion wasn't really used to reduce anything, but maybe to buy some plowing gear and hire some people?
	That's $4,000 million.
	That's a lot of money.
	$4,000 million.
	For some poppy feels.
	Well, let's listen to the answer.
	Let me check with our folks, obviously.
	Let me check with our folks.
	We need to check with our folks.
	Let me check with our folks about that.
	I'm not so sure.
	We've had forces there for 13 years.
	Let me check with our folks.
	Obviously, while we've had military operations underway in Afghanistan, we have focused on other issues.
	We were busy.
	We're busy with other stuff.
	Including the narcotics trade.
	Certainly, we've talked about this a lot.
	And I know we have put a great deal of effort into helping the Afghans grow their capabilities to crack down on this.
	No, no.
	To help them grow their capabilities for more.
	Growing capabilities for more growing.
	Please.
	Check with our team and see.
	I hadn't seen that CIGAR report.
	Oh, I have to check with our team about the $4 billion.
	How annoying.
	For helping the Afghans grow their capabilities to crack down on this.
	Let me check with our team and see.
	I hadn't seen that CIGAR report.
	I'm happy to check.
	The Congressional Research Service says, quote, Well, I can certainly answer your second question and say no, obviously.
	In terms of staffing and where people are located, I can check and see if there's a specific reason for that.
	But clearly, we have people in Afghanistan and back at the State Department very focused on this issue.
	Yes, I would say this is the best question and the best answer I've heard in the State Department in years.
	She didn't answer the question.
	That's why it's a great question, great answer.
	She literally said, I've got to talk to my folks.
	I'm not familiar with this report.
	Saki would have had a tab for this.
	Yeah, but that's why I'm saying this girl is coming in.
	She's some kind of shillerama.
	I have never seen her before.
	Her eyes, she has mascara on, but kind of the way some women do it where you look like a Raggedy Ann doll, like your big popping eyes with your lashes, like, hey...
	I need to know who she is.
	You know what I mean, though, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Emma Stone does that look pretty well.
	Yes, yes.
	And Emma Stone.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Hmm.
	Ran into an interesting little tidbit on book TV, which is one of the things I really enjoy.
	C-SPAN 3.
	I watch it all the time.
	And this is a little anecdote for the Reagan followers.
	Oh, Reagan was the greatest.
	This guy wrote a book on Reagan, and he worked with him since the 50s, apparently.
	And he says Reagan never had any friends, which I thought was interesting.
	But he had this little, apparently, a feud, or I guess it didn't last that long because the guy was assassinated.
	But he had a thing going on that I think was interesting to me anyway, with Bobby Kennedy, who I've always believed is kind of a corrupt character at some level. .
	Reagan had a hero in the form of Eisenhower, but he also had a villain.
	Not well understood as the arch villain in Reagan's life was Robert Kennedy.
	He became Reagan's supreme nemesis for unusual reasons.
	In 1961, upon becoming his brother's attorney general, Bobby Kennedy pursued corruption with a vengeance.
	As a sidebar, he also targeted political opponents.
	In February of 62, Kennedy hauled Reagan before a grand jury.
	Two weeks later, after that, the Justice Department subpoenaed Reagan's tax returns.
	The matter never resulted in an indictment, but in April of that year, Reagan lost his job as host of the General Electric Theater.
	Reagan's teen-eyed kids got that news over lunch one Sunday.
	I just lost my job, the future president told his son Michael.
	The Kennedys threatened General Electric.
	His daughter Maureen confirmed that conversation in her memoirs, saying, quote, Bobby Kennedy had a hand in this cancellation.
	Wow, I think I've heard this about the General Electric thing.
	I don't know where.
	It seems to be just a corrupt operator or they get pushed around a lot.
	I don't know what it is.
	Who was running GE back?
	Not Welch.
	Who was running GE back?
	No, that's pre-Welch.
	I don't know.
	Must be.
	Must be.
	Hmm.
	That was just a good little thing to know.
	I like that.
	Was this on the Discovery Channel where they do history?
	No, no, this was on the C-SPAN Book TV. He's got a book.
	Everybody has a book.
	And by the way, I like book TV because you don't have to read these books.
	They bring these guys on, and they pretty much tell you everything that's in the book and the thesis and the subplots and everything from the beginning to the end.
	And it's concise from the horse's mouth from the book author.
	And you've read the book.
	It's a very convenient little show.
	Yeah, I like reading the book, though.
	I like reading the book, too.
	Some books, like the Hindus, that you couldn't possibly talk, the show would be 20 hours long, but some of these Lester books, I don't really feel like reading.
	I might rather hear, oh, it's interesting, I'm done.
	Well, I started to read the...
	Man, that thing is a big book.
	I got the hardcover.
	The what?
	Wendell, the one you recommended about the world history of the world.
	Oh, the Quigley.
	Quigley book, yeah.
	And I have the underbridge.
	I've got the right one.
	I don't have the one.
	But you've got the right one.
	You can still get it.
	It's still on Amazon, the right one.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	And it's a beautiful book, just to, you know...
	Oh, and it's a great read.
	And what I like about it, you can read it like the Bible.
	Yeah.
	It's not really that linear.
	Yeah, I've been just trying to plow through it.
	I started at the beginning.
	But it's a big book.
	It's thick.
	Yeah, it's a monster.
	And I got this other book, which is Blondie's photograph by her husband, Chris.
	It's a picture book.
	Yes, I know that.
	It's beautiful.
	It's all 70s bands in New York.
	A lot of it, of course, Debbie Harry.
	Mostly it's around Debbie Harry.
	Oh, man.
	No wonder we were so in love with her.
	So beautiful.
	I ran into her once in New York.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	I don't think I've ever...
	That's one person...
	No, I don't think I've ever met her.
	Wow.
	She's still around.
	Of course.
	Yes, I need to go on a quest to meet Debbie Harry.
	No.
	We were playing, you know, Fab Five Freddy.
	The Rapture, man.
	That was the jam.
	That was our jam.
	First, I would say, first crossover rap.
	Debbie Harry.
	That was Rapture.
	Okay, Russia says to Greece, exit Europe and we will lift the food import ban.
	This is coming up on the 25th.
	This is going to be very interesting to see what happens with this snap election.
	And I think everyone's ready for it.
	I think the Grexit is real.
	Meanwhile, we are seeing Schengen visas being, the Schengen area, visas being annulled.
	I think that this...
	The Schengen area?
	Yeah, so you have the Schengen agreement, the Schengen region...
	Where's the Schengen region?
	This is the borderless Europe, EU. And basically, the UK is the number one guys who are not a part of it.
	So if you fly in or out, if you come into the UK, your passport gets checked.
	It's not a free walk on through.
	And if you fly from the UK to any other EU country, a member state, I should say, you go through passport control.
	Okay.
	Right now, okay, I remember.
	That's the Schengen area.
	Schengen area, yeah.
	So these are European countries that have abolished passport control.
	Right.
	Which is hilarious when you're driving around the area and you go right past the thing that used to be passport control.
	Yeah, but...
	Okay.
	But part of the...
	There's a lot of this...
	Part of this is also the ESTA program, which is now being called for in U.S. Congress to at least kick some countries off.
	That's the visa waiver program, which would be a horrible mistake.
	But this is, you know, these boneheads, they think, oh, we have to do this.
	Oh, immigration.
	Oh, they're coming.
	ISIS is going to come and kill us.
	Sick and tired.
	Brand ISIS is going to come in and kill us.
	But anyway, in Europe, so everyone's all freaked out about all kinds of things.
	Russia, of course, you know, now we have...
	What is the most recent thing that Russia has done?
	Well, here's Lithuania.
	This is from RT. Was this from RT? I'm not sure.
	Yeah, the mocking tone makes it from RT.
	Lithuania is preparing for the Russian invasion.
	A Russian occupation survival manual is to be distributed in Lithuania.
	The country's defense minister says it cannot rule out future Russian aggression following its alleged activities in Ukraine.
	And it seems pretty serious.
	Genuine wartime advice like this.
	Keeping a sound mind and not panicking.
	That's key to surviving occupation.
	Don't panic!
	Save water.
	But if things get really bad, perhaps you can resort to drinking out of the toilet.
	Don't get curious if you hear fighting.
	Just run for your life.
	But keep in mind that gunshots outside your window is not the end of the world.
	You can fight the occupiers with strikes and rallies, and don't try too hard at work.
	Oh, there's no winning.
	We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot.
	Now everyone hug and share a secret.
	There you go.
	That's a goodie.
	Yeah, that's a classic.
	Yeah, that's what's happening.
	And I am really enjoying reading all the European publications about the Muslim problem, which has been on the radar for a good 20 years, and here it is.
	Incited, induced or not, it is really, really, really messing with people's heads.
	Yeah, well, that's how it works.
	Yeah, it is.
	Now, those of you listening to the No Agenda Show, best podcast in the universe, obviously you know how to look through this, look past this, to not be scared and sickened, literally made ill by the propaganda, which is what we do.
	And for that very reason, we need your support.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Remember us throughout this coming week, and of course we'll be back on Thursday.
	Keep an eye out for the number 33.
	33 shall be around and look out for something in India.
	Something going on, India?
	Something.
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	And I am the podcaster, Jay Dvorak, from northern Silicon Valley, where it's foggy.
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	Yeah, exactly.
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