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	So they call him Ash.
	Mm-hmm.
	The Big Ash.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, February 22nd, 2015.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 6, 9 or 8.
	This is No Agenda.
	Day 7 of Trips disease here in the Crackpot Condo, live from FEMA Region 6 in Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And it's the Chinese New Year here in northern Silicon Valley, where I'm retweeting.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Oh, man.
	What?
	I'm still sick.
	Yeah, well, that's what happens when you get that thing.
	Oh, man.
	As we say in Texas, no way home.
	No way home?
	Exactly.
	Are you there at the house now?
	No way, no.
	The bee is silent.
	No way, no.
	I'm working on my Spanish.
	You better be.
	Yeah, I only have one meal.
	My daughter's got this whatever ailment, too.
	With the cough?
	Not so much the cough.
	It's mostly, I don't know what it is.
	It's just kind of a malaise.
	And of course, we also now have, it's the height of the allergy season here in Austin.
	Oh, the double whammy for you.
	It is.
	It's Cedar Ohm.
	You bitch about this every year.
	You know that?
	Yeah, I know.
	It affects me.
	Yeah, it affects me.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	You don't even know.
	You can't.
	It transitions from the flu to this.
	You can't even.
	It's seamless.
	I know.
	Yeah.
	You have to think.
	What do I have?
	Allergies or flu or what is it?
	No, it's bad.
	And mold.
	Mold is the worst.
	But I looked at the chart today, and I could actually say it's off the chart.
	What?
	The lines went off the chart.
	For mold?
	Yeah, for mold, and for oak, and for elm, and for...
	No, cedar is low.
	Woo!
	Well, cedar's the one that really gets to you, isn't it?
	No, no.
	Mold.
	Mold is...
	Mold!
	Yeah.
	Well, mold, I think, affects everyone.
	Yeah.
	But I think the Elm and the Oak is...
	Who cares?
	But you were in a moldy house before.
	Yes.
	But enough about my ex-wives.
	I hear it.
	You hear it?
	I'm sorry.
	There he goes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I did try to get out yesterday.
	Just to get out.
	Went to Green, Texas.
	Green?
	Yes.
	There's a town named Green?
	Well, it's spelled Gruen.
	Wait a minute.
	G-R-E... G-R-U-E-N? Gruen?
	Yeah, Gruen.
	But you say Green.
	That's another German town?
	Mm-hmm.
	It's historic Gruen.
	Well, Green, Texas.
	We don't say Gruen.
	It's historic Green, Texas.
	And this is pretty much a...
	They have one of the oldest dance halls.
	It's another one of these old-time cities in Texas that people...
	Apparently, motorcycle gangs go to.
	I felt a little out of place.
	Oh, there was a motorcycle event?
	No, there's a big biker bar.
	I think it's probably the Weekend Warriors.
	The guys are dentists and surgeons or whatever.
	You should go in there and call them out.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Hey, who's a pussy here?
	Hey, you big ponies.
	I should try that.
	It was actually quite cool.
	Although I learned...
	I received a lesson in Texas driving.
	Oh, somebody cut you off.
	No, I wasn't driving.
	No, I wasn't driving.
	Who were you out with?
	Nurse Tracy was driving.
	She's never been to Groon either?
	Yeah, it was her idea.
	Oh, okay.
	She's trying to turn you into a Texan.
	Well, check this out.
	So, and I'm sick, you know, so I'm way back.
	I'm like, I'm, yeah, I'm dying.
	Give you a couple of shots of something.
	Morphine, something, anything.
	I'm sworn to secrecy.
	And, uh...
	So I'm kind of dozing off.
	I have this weird sensation like we're going very fast.
	And we're braking a lot and going fast.
	But she's a lead foot.
	Oh, man.
	No, it's worse.
	She said, this is how we drive in Texas.
	If I'm in the left lane and I'm coming up behind somebody, they have to move out of the way.
	I'm like, okay.
	Sounds like the Autobahn in Deutschland.
	In fact, she mentioned the Autobahn a couple of times.
	But, you know, it's okay.
	We'll get there.
	No, this is how we drive in Texas.
	You don't understand.
	Okay.
	Man.
	I was unawares.
	Well, now you know.
	Yeah.
	Apparently, that's how we do it here in Texas.
	I said, do whatever you want.
	Next time, I'm bringing a piece.
	Just in case.
	Oh, yeah.
	Leadfoot women.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's exactly it.
	Damn, men.
	It's really what it was.
	I don't know.
	Surprising to me.
	Just surprising.
	It's always a surprise when you run into one of those.
	Hey, big news.
	Let me get us killed!
	I didn't say that.
	I didn't say any of that.
	I was just wary, you know.
	Hey, man.
	I was thinking it.
	Yeah, kind of.
	Big news, John.
	There's a new ISIL video.
	And they have, this is, there's something new, something new has happened.
	They now have...
	All of my tea down my throat, lungs.
	They now have mic flags with their Caliphate logo.
	Wow!
	Yeah, I knew you would think it was big news.
	That is big news.
	Here's our problem, Abdul.
	Branding.
	It's branding.
	We need mic flags.
	For those of you who don't know what a mic flag is, it's a little cube that fits right underneath the head of the microphone that has your corporate logo on it.
	Yeah, like CBS. Yeah.
	In this case, it's ISIS or ISIL. It's the little Raiders logo.
	The little flag.
	Yeah.
	The thingy in the middle of the flag.
	Yeah, so they have like 20, it looks like 20 new hostages in cages with no bottom.
	Smaller cages now, which I guess they're going to burn them or whatever.
	And then they have a guy who's their roving reporter, and he's got a little Mike flag with ISIS on it.
	So they're stepping up.
	Well, they have their own network pretty soon.
	Now, since we're on that topic right off the bat, let's start off with this.
	I was thinking about all this because of that clip you had, maybe you can dig it up, the one you ran last show, where the guys came out and said, well, you know, ISIS is a creation of the CIA and Mossad.
	Oh, you mean the president of Sudan?
	Yeah, that's who it was.
	Yeah, but we can play that for a second because it's short enough.
	Here it is.
	This is what triggered my thinking on the following clip.
	Um...
	That was...
	Well, gee, you'd think I... Hmm.
	Was that the last...
	Just forget.
	Yeah, it is.
	Okay, well, let me just...
	Oh, yeah.
	Hmm, sorry.
	Here we go.
	Uh...
	No.
	You're gonna have to...
	Let's move on.
	I can't find it now for some reason.
	All right, well, we remember that it was a guy who came out and said...
	Well, it was the president of Sudan.
	He said...
	The president of Sudan.
	He's in the know.
	Yeah.
	So I'm listening to the big thing going on right now in talk radio is the discussion over, and the right-wingers are all over this, is over Obama's refusing to call it Islamic extremism.
	Right.
	And he calls it violent extremism, and he just continues to do that, and they had this big meeting, this extremist meeting, where even the FBI guy wasn't there, but they had all these crazy people.
	Yeah.
	I want to play a couple of clips from the NewsHour, including this one, which is Islamic versus extremism terminology.
	Okie dokie.
	So, David, let's start with this summit the White House held on confronting, they called it confronting violent extremism, looking at how do you prevent terrorist acts from happening in the first place, local communities.
	The criticism the White House got was they're bending over backwards, they're going out of their way not to use the term Islamic extremism.
	What do you Well, are we allowed to call the Islamic State Islamic?
	I mean, they are.
	In some sense, it's a stupid debate.
	Because is it true Islam?
	Is it perverted Islam?
	The fact is, religion is all interpretation.
	God doesn't come down here and tell us exactly what he means.
	We have interpretations within Christianity, within Judaism, within Islam.
	And if you call yourself a Muslim, you're a Muslim.
	And they have different interpretations, but it's all interpretations.
	So one is a perverted or a sick form of Islam.
	A lot of people, fortunately, have a much more peaceful form of Islam, but it's all an interpretation of a faith.
	So what's the real one?
	It's all a matter of interpretation.
	I think they should probably call it Islamic extremism.
	It is Islamic extremism.
	The second, I think, and more important issue is how we diagnose the problem.
	And there are three elements to this sort of terrorism, as we just saw in the segment about that Egyptian young man.
	First, there's economic and political dysfunction.
	So that young man wanted to be a personal trainer and he couldn't.
	So he was alienated from that and marginalized from society.
	But second, there's spiritual ardor.
	A guy wants to be a hero.
	The guy wants to be seen as strong and a hero like that young man.
	And third, there's theological conviction.
	And Islamic State has theology to it, real substantive theology.
	Who is that?
	David Brooks?
	Yeah, now, I got another one from him, which actually says W-A-T-F shields, but it's actually Brooks.
	I want to play it after I make a little commentary here, which is the reason, potentially, with it in mind that the ISIS operation, according to the...
	I have that clip if you want it.
	Oh, okay, play this clip.
	The president of Sudan has warned that the fight against jihadist extremism must engage militants on an ideological level and not solely concentrate on military action against them.
	Omar al-Bashir warned that simply using violence against young radicals who fight with organizations like ISIL and Al-Qaeda could lead to even more extremism.
	He says the CIA and Mossad are behind Boko Haram and ISIL. I haven't heard from him since, by the way.
	Now, with that in mind, is it possible that Obama's real reason for not going on with Islamic extremism as the moniker is because he knows all this is true and he can't really, he doesn't feel like lying about that one thing and having it thrown in his face someday.
	So just violent extremism, just a generality worldwide, it's got nothing to do with anything.
	Lying about what one thing?
	I don't quite understand what you're saying.
	Well, if he starts calling the ISIL group Islamic extremists and all the rest, it was set up by the CIA, he'd have that thrown in his face someday, and it will hurt his long-term reputation.
	So he just wants to be honest.
	Exactly.
	I'm sorry.
	It's a long story.
	This is a first?
	That's the only excuse I can think of.
	He can call it whatever he wants.
	But meanwhile, Brooks and Shields keep going back and forth on the news hour.
	Neither one of them is saying much.
	In fact, it becomes kind of...
	Borderline nonsense.
	They keep calling this group perverted and pervert, you know, and all the rest of it.
	They're pornographers?
	And this little kicker at the end of the whole thing is an eye roller.
	See if you can tell me why.
	Their souls are involved.
	And I'm saying you have to conceive of them as moving, as acting in a religious way.
	And you have to have religious alternatives.
	And they're driven by an end times ideology.
	They think there's going to be some cataclysmic battle and Muhammad will come down.
	And if you ignore that part or write it off as sort of marginal, that they're being produced by economic dysfunction, I just think you're missing the main deal.
	When in the history of the entire religion of Islam...
	Does Muhammad come down?
	Is Muhammad coming down?
	Coming down from the mountain, maybe.
	What is that?
	This is a Christian projection.
	I mean, we have the return of Christ.
	Easter.
	Easter.
	We have the return of Christ, but there's no discussion of the return of Muhammad, which again is a Christian projection.
	I kind of like that.
	Get this.
	I think it should be like, you know, something like, alright Muhammad, come on down!
	You're ready to spin the wheel!
	So these are the commentators of the news hour going on with Mohammed coming down.
	Okay.
	I'm all in.
	I'm closing the book on these guys.
	This is not just a right-wing conversation.
	I picked up a couple of, actually, the anti-Semitic angle to this, which, boy, the Prime Minister of France...
	He ranted in, what is it, Parliament?
	I guess it's Parliament.
	I don't know that much about it, actually.
	Is it Parliament in France?
	Yes, Parliament.
	And he was just ranting and going on and on, saying, this is crazy, this, you know, if...
	If they're killing Jews, this can't be France.
	And it was very clear, the French government believes that the attacks were against Jews, which of course also this administration, our administration, Obama, is just not agreeing with.
	What did he call it?
	He called it a random attack or something.
	So there's a lot of strange things happening.
	And it seems like the leftist media...
	Let's play one of my favorites.
	I don't often resort to her.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, yeah.
	I have to do it.
	Too often.
	You should have changed the wording to too often.
	Rachel Maddow had on...
	Actually, no.
	I'm going to start with...
	John Kerry.
	I know, I got two in a row.
	Jeez!
	You're killing me!
	I think I found some stuff that you can actually handle.
	But I'm hearing similar wording.
	This is what we're trained to do across the political landscape and the media landscape.
	Here is...
	The watermelon head, Kerry, and he's telling us here in this little spiel what motivates these terror recruits who then ultimately go join ISIS, which, this is in Europe, certainly the messaging, your children are going to join.
	It's unavoidable.
	If it isn't the Nutella and the kittens and the emojis, it's just unavoidable.
	Your kids are going to join.
	Listen to this.
	Why do people make what to many of us...
	And by the way, I think he wrote this one himself again.
	What do people make to what?
	Well, he wrote it himself.
	That's what he said.
	I know.
	Why do people make to what?
	Many of us.
	Why do people make to what?
	To many of us.
	Why do people make to what?
	Any of us.
	What's your problem?
	Would seem to be an utterly wrong-headed choice.
	Wrong-headed.
	And become the kind of terrorists that we're seeing.
	It's a question that we need to approach with humility.
	But also with determination.
	Because you cannot defeat what you don't understand.
	This is some classic stuff here.
	Is he talking about terrorism or Hillary Clinton?
	I'll give you an in the morning for that one.
	In the morning!
	I love you cannot defeat what you do not understand.
	Okay?
	Certainly there is no single answer.
	In our era, poisonous ideas can come from almost anywhere.
	Where could poisonous ideas come from, John?
	I don't know, the poison bottle?
	I have no idea.
	From parents, teachers, friends.
	They come from parents and teachers and friends.
	Preachers.
	Politicians.
	From the pretty woman on a radical website.
	Whoa!
	Oh, hey, Gary, you're telling us too much.
	The pretty woman.
	The pretty woman on the terrorist website.
	Hey, babe.
	Come here, my pretty.
	I'm the pretty woman on the terrorist website.
	You will commit jihad.
	Business ideas can come from almost anywhere.
	From parents, teachers, friends, preachers, politicians.
	From the pretty woman on a radical website who lures people.
	Lures?
	Or the man, or the next bad bitch.
	This guy's nuts, man.
	Politicians.
	It's like he got suckered by some woman on a terrorist website.
	He's still pissed about it.
	And he's mad.
	He thought it was, you know, like a webcam girl.
	From the pretty woman on a radical website who lures people.
	Lure.
	Or the man in the next cell who proselytizes while in prison.
	They might grow from pictures seen on the nightly news or from acts of discrimination or repression that you don't think much about on the day of occurrence but which come back to haunt.
	This guy sounds like we're just screwed.
	There's no escaping it.
	This guy is crazy.
	Can you imagine if he was elected president?
	It would be fun for the show.
	Dynamite for the show.
	No, it wouldn't because he's still too verbose.
	You just happen to have a segment of probably a two-hour speech.
	I actually cut that down.
	To haunt.
	It could come from the desire to avenge the death of a loved one.
	Yes.
	In some cases, they may come from a lost job or from the contrast between one family's empty dinner plate You know, it could come from a lost job.
	It could come from slipping on a banana peel.
	It could come from a stubbed toe.
	It could come from walking down the street and then kicking a rock and hurting your foot.
	It could come from somebody driving by and throwing a piece of paper at you.
	How long does he go on with this?
	Is this guy crazy?
	Uh, yeah.
	Lavish menu.
	The lavish menu.
	The poison might even come from within.
	Oh.
	In the form of rebellion against anonymity.
	Yeah.
	The desire to belong to a group.
	Yes.
	The rebellion against what?
	Anonymity.
	What?
	That means if you're introverted, if you're a nerd, if you feel locked up, if you have a red stapler.
	...against anonymity.
	The desire to belong to...
	Chat room.
	A piece of undigested liver.
	Yes.
	There's a lot more.
	People who want a moment of visibility and identity.
	Or the hunger for black and white answers to problems that are very complex.
	I got a hunger for some black and white answers.
	Does this guy just go on and on?
	He's almost done.
	I love him, though.
	This is so insane.
	This is an insane person.
	Yes, he's insane.
	In a remarkably more complicated world, there's been a silly debate in the media in the last days about what you have to do.
	You have to do everything.
	What?
	You have to take the people off the battlefield who are there today.
	But you're kind of stupid if all you do is do that and you don't prevent more people from going to the battle.
	Ah, yes.
	So we have a broad challenge here.
	Well, how do we win?
	How do we stop this?
	We need to kill them.
	Something I would agree with.
	We need to bomb them and bomb them again.
	Are we killing enough of them?
	We're killing a lot of them.
	And we're going to keep killing more of them.
	We're very good at that.
	They're coming for us.
	That's right.
	Thanks, Conan.
	Good job.
	They're coming for us.
	On Bill Maher's show, this continued now.
	Now beginning to the Jew...
	You're on a left-wing kick for this...
	You know, I've seen what the right is doing.
	It's just interesting.
	It's all about Jews versus Arabs.
	Muslims, I'm sorry.
	I should say it properly.
	And on Bill Maher's show, we had...
	Let's see.
	We had Rob Reiner...
	Oh, brother.
	Always good for a laugh, Rob Reiner.
	We had Elhei Izadi, I think her name is.
	Now, this is an interesting woman.
	She is a news...
	She's a journalist and a stand-up comic, which I think is a...
	Isn't it the same thing?
	It is nowadays, yes.
	Exactly.
	Elhei Izadi.
	I wasn't familiar with her.
	She's a DC-based journalist.
	This is from her own website.
	She doesn't have a wiki page.
	With experience covering politics and demographics, she currently writes for the Washington Post.
	So you'd think she would know what she's talking about.
	She's about to propagate some pretty big questionable truths.
	And also on the show, it couldn't get any better, Bill Nye, the climate guy.
	Oh, no.
	Well, this was a show I wouldn't be able to watch.
	Speaking of which, you know, what about this anti-Semitism that's going on in Europe?
	Yeah.
	By the way, they don't care what their elected president is saying.
	Uh-uh.
	It's just anti-Semitism.
	Done.
	Now listen to Rob Reiner.
	It's never gone away.
	That's the thing.
	It's all, you know, thousands and thousands of years we've had anti-Semitism.
	It's been lowered.
	It comes back.
	We had it, you know, obviously during the Second World War.
	And then all of a sudden we have Germany emerging very liberal and all that.
	But this undercurrent of anti-Semitism has always been there.
	Just like racism.
	It's always there.
	And then it just bubbles up to the surface every once in a while.
	And it's horrible now.
	Netanyahu is asking European Jews to come to Israel.
	Come home to Israel.
	That's what he said, right?
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, he is the...
	But the people have never been there.
	They grew up in whatever, in Germany or France.
	It's a shame that they should have to move.
	Well, they probably won't either, because it's not their home.
	No, but you could understand...
	Now, listen to Reiner.
	Reiner pulls up.
	He's almost like a Yenta here when he does this one, which I've heard people say it just like this.
	But you can understand it.
	There were German Jews that lived in Germany during the Second World War, and that was their home.
	Look where it got them!
	And, you know, at a certain point, you know, if your life is in danger, you want to go to someplace where you're going to be protected.
	So, what do you do about it?
	This is pretty extreme stuff.
	What Rob Reiner is saying here...
	Is that it is about to get as bad as World War II, where Jews are going to be exterminated in a massive holocaust, and, well, you know, you better be safe than sorry, but we'll move to the desert.
	That's what he's saying.
	Yeah, no, that's exactly what he's saying.
	You said, yeah, no.
	I did, and I heard it that time.
	I think you get to know your neighbors.
	That's going to take, what, does it take a century?
	What the hell is he doing?
	You got to get to know your neighbors.
	And the Dutch are still waiting for their bikes to be returned.
	What are you talking about?
	Who said that?
	Was that Bill Nye?
	Science guy.
	Yeah, Bill Nye.
	Moron.
	He's in danger.
	You want to go to someplace where you're going to be protected.
	So, what do you do about it?
	I think you get to know your neighbors.
	Does it take a century?
	Something like that?
	I mean, this is a...
	He's insane.
	He says you've got to get to know your neighbors.
	Don't fight with your neighbors.
	It's going to take a century to know your neighbors?
	I hate to break it to them, but very few people live that long.
	And they're very seldom in the same neighborhood.
	If it's going to take 100 years, you're not going to know your neighbors.
	Now listen to the journalist slash comedian from the Washington Post...
	I take offense to the...
	This is another one of these statements, or actually she has a number of statements, that is very much like, you know, Russia was aggressive towards Georgia.
	You know, what are all these big lies we have, John?
	The big ones.
	Oh, that the right-on situation wasn't run by the Americans?
	Just all these things that just stated as facts.
	We should have a list in front of us.
	We should, actually.
	Well, here she's going to do a number of them.
	Factually untrue.
	I mean, this is a big problem in Europe.
	You're also seeing the rise of a lot of right-wing populist political parties.
	Okay, so far, so good.
	You can call it right-wing populist parties, fine.
	Okay.
	What do you think she'll associate with that?
	Hmm.
	Many of these countries.
	And they also have, in addition to having anti-Semitic tints to them, they're also very anti-immigrant and have a lot of nasty rhetoric about Muslims as well.
	Yeah, nasty rhetoric and the Nazis, the Nazis, anti-Semitic.
	UKIP. Yeah, UKIP, Geert Wilders, although the Jews support him, but okay.
	Whatever you want, Washington.
	We can't pay attention to that piece of fact.
	Washington Post lady.
	So this is kind of a confluence of factors.
	You had last year 7,000 Jews leaving France to Israel, but you also have been seeing a lot of Jews leaving Israel to move to Berlin.
	So there's a lot of migration happening throughout the region.
	And to your point, yeah, a lot of European Jewish leaders this week have been saying in response to those comments that Europe is our home and this is the culture we help build.
	And the leaders are expressing, the leaders of those countries are expressing support.
	But what is the next step?
	How are they going to combat this in their countries?
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, I think she should go take a little tour of Europe and see what's really going on.
	Now I go to Maddow, and she has on an American-born, Brooklyn-born woman who is Muslim, Linda Sarsour of the National Network for Arab American Communities.
	And so she's sitting there.
	She's wearing a hijab.
	So that covers her hair and her neck and her face.
	It's a pretty face.
	I love these.
	Actually, what you're describing is not the hijab, but go on.
	I think it is the hijab.
	I actually looked it up to make sure I was going to say it right.
	What do you think it is?
	I thought the hijab actually had partial coverage of the body.
	No, that is the niqab.
	Oh, it's also the burqa.
	I'm thinking burqa.
	The burqa, but the niqab, you see the eyes.
	The burqa, the eyes are shielded.
	Yeah, okay.
	You're right.
	I actually put it in the show notes because I didn't want to sound stupid by not knowing what the hell it was.
	Well, there's a bunch of things.
	There's also that little thing that goes around the head that the guys wear.
	It's called a name.
	Everything's got a name.
	Okay, she's wearing a hijab, which is like, hello, look at me.
	I like the hijab.
	I've never...
	I've got some woman that looks attractive.
	Looks attractive, yeah.
	Alright, so...
	What's the one that covers the face?
	The one that covers the face except for the eyes?
	Yeah, except for the eyes.
	Is the hecob.
	Okay, and what's the one that covers the face and the eyes?
	That's the burqa.
	The burqa is basically just a burlap sack over your chick's head, the whole body.
	Just, you know, tie a rope around her neck.
	You can see through the barriers.
	There's a little, yeah.
	Our government operates massive surveillance program, unwarranted surveillance in Muslim communities, chilling free speech, making people feel afraid.
	I mean, a lot of Muslims have come to the United States to get away from regimes where they feel like their freedom of speech is infringed on, where some people don't have freedom of religion.
	We come to the U.S., 22 states with anti-Sharia bills trying to ban us from practicing our faith.
	Mosque oppositions.
	We're fighting, you know, zoning boards across the country.
	Hold on a second.
	Some states with what?
	Anti-what?
	I know.
	I was waiting to see if you can.
	There were a couple of things there.
	She rips into this thing so quickly that you can't hear what she said.
	Yeah, there's a couple of things that are pretty outrageous that she says that Maddow does not challenge.
	I'll back it up a bit.
	What she's saying is that for Muslims in America, that this is horrible because it's kind of like World War II. Get ready with the internment camps for the Japanese.
	That's her point, and I'm sure there's a lot of truth to this.
	I wanted you to back it up and play that again.
	I want you to say anti-Suchin's, anti-what laws?
	Sharia.
	Anti-Sharia.
	Anti-Sharia laws?
	Duh!
	I know.
	Well, wait, it gets better.
	And Madhouse says nothing?
	Wait, it gets more outrageous.
	Our government operates massive surveillance program, unwarranted surveillance in Muslim communities, chilling free speech, making people feel afraid.
	I mean, a lot of Muslims have come to the United States to get away from regimes where they feel like their freedom of speech is infringed on, where some people don't have freedom of religion.
	We come to the U.S., 22 states with anti-sharia bills trying to ban us from practicing our faith.
	Okay, 22 states with anti-Sharia bills, which he equates to stopping them from practicing their faith, but it's a little different than that.
	But wait.
	Yes, it is.
	It's totally different.
	But wait.
	It's mosque oppositions.
	We're fighting, you know, zoning boards across the country.
	You can't build your mosques.
	Who isn't?
	Our kids are hearing this rhetoric.
	We have people, mosques being vandalized, kids being executed, Islamophobia, leaders.
	Wait a minute.
	I'm sorry.
	Kids being executed?
	I miss the kids being executed news.
	What state is that taking place in?
	And Manos has nothing.
	Madhouse says nothing.
	She says kids are being executed in the United States because they're Muslim.
	And she just sits there silently.
	No, but she has her little code at the end there, which we heard Rob Reiner say.
	That's why I wanted to play this piece.
	Ban us from practicing our faith.
	Mosque oppositions.
	We're fighting, you know, zoning boards across the country.
	Our kids are hearing this rhetoric.
	We have people, mosques being vandalized, kids being executed, Islamophobia, leaders on national television saying that, you know, holy wars and these people want to take over America.
	I mean, it's just, it doesn't, for me, reflect what we do stand for as a country.
	And these very, the minority in our country who are the loudest voices are reflecting what we are.
	And that's not who we are as a country.
	I'm an American and I'm a Muslim.
	Should I cut myself in half?
	What side am I on?
	I'm born in Brooklyn.
	This is also some kind of code, this cut myself in half thing.
	I'm not quite sure what that is, but it returns as well.
	I can't take that away, and no one can take that away from me.
	I can't be deported anywhere.
	So it's just a really hard conversation to have with young people, especially young Muslims, who don't know what side they're supposed to be on.
	I'm on the American side.
	I'm on the right side.
	I'm on the side of justice.
	That's the only sides that I'm on.
	And you can't split yourself in half to do that, and you shouldn't have to.
	And there is a big difference between talking about our values and living them.
	I think what's happening domestically around issues about bigotry right now is spooky.
	It's not like it hasn't existed before, but the way it's bubbling up right now and being mainstreamed right now.
	See, she's doing the same thing that Reiner's doing, this bubbling up thing.
	Like it's always there, but it bubbles up.
	I'm not sure.
	First of all, I don't think it's true.
	Well, you know, this could be milieu-related.
	Possibly.
	And not really anything.
	Possibly.
	Possibly.
	I mean, their talking points are derivatives.
	You hang around the same people.
	There's a group down in Texas.
	Well, let's listen to them.
	Anyway, you hang around the same people, and the talking points emerge differently.
	And I think a lot of them emerged from this CVE, the Countering Violent Extremism Woodstock, that was thrown together.
	Here is Oren Segal, Segal, I guess, from the Anti-Defamation League's Extremism center.
	Speaking, I had to go back and really, because this thing was thrown together hastily.
	Well, that's an interesting point, because people have all noted this, but nobody has come up with any explanation for the hasty throw-together.
	Well, what I'm finding is there's a lot of, well, there's a lot of this.
	And talk about some facts that are just being thrown out there.
	In the Jewish community, the concept of violent extremism is not abstract.
	It's very real.
	And so at ADL, domestically but also internationally, when we're trying to deal with, mitigate this threat of violent extremism, we don't have the luxury, frankly, to focus on one extremist movement over another.
	And so, you know, this discussion today and in the coming days and for a while, it's really imperative for us, you know, based on our research, based on the trends that we're seeing, and frankly, based on the threat not just to the Jewish community, but to the entire American community, violent extremism is not a Muslim community problem.
	It's an American problem.
	It's...
	Okay, now wait for it.
	It's also a problem that's international.
	That's where ADL steps in, because of our research.
	And so, if we take, for example, the threat of white supremacists and right-wing extremists, and look at the amount of murders in this country in the past, say, 10 years, 95% of murders against Americans, and that includes law enforcement, have been caused at the hands of right-wing extremists.
	Okay, then.
	Oh, brother.
	Okay, then.
	Let me just get this right.
	95% of all murders in the United States, he threw that out there?
	Including against law enforcement.
	Right-wing extremists.
	Holy mackerel!
	And he got away with that?
	Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	I know.
	That's crazy.
	Most murders are domestic violent murders.
	I mean, you know, people killing their spouse or black-on-black murders and random murders.
	95% of all murders in the United States are caused by right-wing extremists.
	Can we hear it again?
	Holy, I can't believe this guy got away with saying that, and nobody, except you, called him out on this.
	I didn't hear that, by the way.
	Well, he's the...
	This is the Anti-Defamation League's extremism center, the guy in charge of the extremism center.
	If you have that kind of bias...
	Oh, yeah.
	You're useless.
	It's kind of weird when he's actually in the Anti-Defamation League, yet he's defaming other people.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	...threat of white supremacists and right-wing extremists.
	And look at the amount of murders in this country in the past, say, 10 years.
	95% of murders against Americans, and that includes law enforcement, have been caused at the hands of right-wing extremists.
	Caused at the hands of?
	It's even better than that.
	Caused at the hands of right-wing extremists.
	We have to remember that fact when we're coming up with strategies.
	Remember that fact, people.
	Wow.
	Remember that fact.
	So you make up some fact and tell people to remember it when we come up with strategies.
	And so the real problem here is the right, this is why he blamed the whole thing.
	If you go back to the beginning of the clip, he says, this is not a problem with one group.
	This is a problem with America.
	The United States is causing this problem.
	Right-wing extremists.
	It's right-wing extremists.
	In France.
	That's bunched in with white supremacists, so you have the associative aspect to it.
	So you're thinking, whitey.
	Yeah, yeah.
	As Susan Rice luckily has the answer.
	The twerp.
	You know, I have to stop and give you Clip of the Day for that.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, well, you should apologize, because it was...
	I agree.
	Clip of the Day.
	I mean, sometimes you don't get Clip of the Day because I'm, like, knocked on my ass by something like that.
	And you pull this right off C-SPAN, you know?
	It's televised.
	It's real!
	Alright, here's Susan Rice, who we affectionately call the twerp.
	It has nothing to do with her size, but it doesn't help.
	And she's going to tell us how to solve this.
	How you can solve...
	Because, you know, if your kids are being radicalized, you know, who better?
	Who can stop this?
	So we'll work more closely with civil society and tap the talents of communities which might otherwise be left on the sidelines.
	That includes, critically, women and girls who are some of the most effective voices in countering violent extremism.
	Huh.
	Who is better than a mother to spot unusual behavior in her child and intervene?
	Around the world, the United States is supporting projects to train women to recognize the signs of recruitment and radicalization in their families and communities and to devise prevention strategies.
	Is there training that I missed?
	I missed the training.
	This woman is...
	This fits in with a couple of clips I have, which are the...
	And I think this is all part of this.
	Whatever mechanism they're trying to bring down on the public to get us to be paranoid about whatever...
	Our kids!
	Our kids are going to stab us in our sleep.
	People aren't buying any of this.
	But they keep trying, but the best they can do...
	I think the British are probably going to be a little easier to train because of the three stories...
	I'm sorry, the three girls story.
	Yes, yes.
	And I have two clips of this.
	Good, good, good.
	I have one is the one from the International News has this one.
	This is...
	This is the short one.
	This is the three-girl story developing.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, play this?
	Yeah, play that.
	British police are appealing for help to find three schoolgirls thought to be on their way to join the fight in Syria.
	The teenagers were seen at London's Gatwick Airport last week boarding a flight to Istanbul.
	Turkish media is being used to try to contact the girls.
	600 British Muslims are thought to have traveled to Syria and some to fight alongside ISIL. Alright, so we have three girls, so it's three, so we know that this is a code.
	Right.
	And now, this is on every news outlet, these three girls, and they have pictures of them and everything.
	They're cute.
	They got the pictures of them at the airport.
	I guess they couldn't stop them, but they got the picture.
	Oh, there's a picture.
	And they're all going to Turkey, and then they're going to go on to Syria somehow.
	Yeah.
	Now, they even play this on the local news, and here's the local report, which has the same wording at the very beginning of the story.
	A desperate appeal today from the families of three teenage girls believed to be trying to get to Syria to join Islamic State fighters.
	The girls, a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds, flew from Gatwick Airport in London to Istanbul on Tuesday.
	Today, their families released statements calling for the girls to return home.
	One family said they understood the girls were moved by the suffering of the Syrian people, but they say they pray the trio will return before they get to Syria.
	You know, I watch all these reports, and I listen to what's being said, and either it's totally bogus, which I think it is, or we have lost touch with our children, and there's no contact whatsoever.
	There's absolutely just completely, we have no idea what they're doing.
	Yes.
	And they're hopping on airplanes.
	To the point where a 15-year-old can get enough money to take a plane from England.
	And by the way, I don't know why they have to keep mentioning Gatwick.
	That's got to be code.
	There's no reason for this information.
	There's no reason to tell us it was Gatwick's unnecessary detail, yet it's in every single story.
	So I don't know if that's a promotion for Gatwick Airport, I'm not sure.
	But there's no reason for this.
	There's unnecessary details in a lot of these news stories.
	You have to wonder why it's in all the stories.
	So they got the money to fly to Turkey and then to continue on into Syria.
	Where did this money come from for a 15-year-old?
	She hooking?
	Ha ha ha ha!
	That would be a good follow-on story.
	I think we could do another three-part series if the girls are actually prostituting themselves to get money to go fight the jihad because of their feelings of empathy towards the Syrian people.
	Makes sense.
	It just seems to me that this is the first question I'd ask and nobody's asked it.
	Do you want to hear the NBC expert?
	Oh, we have another one, yes.
	They were known as normal teenagers, good students.
	But on Begum's Twitter account Sunday, a message to a female ISIS member, a known recruiter, asking for a private conversation.
	That's how it starts.
	Private conversation request via Twitter.
	All of that triggered Scotland Yard's unprecedented alert.
	And it comes amid growing concerns that more and more young people are being enticed by ISIS. They're not the disaffected.
	They're not necessarily the unemployed youth.
	Instead, we're seeing educated young women.
	It's your children, people.
	Be afraid.
	Who are engaged in politics.
	And ISIS makes them think it offers something worth fighting for.
	I think the idea that you can give your life meaning by performing jihad, and that's very exciting.
	Listen to what she just said.
	She actually just propagandized.
	She said, I think the idea of giving your life for jihad is very exciting.
	Yeah.
	And ISIS makes them think it offers something worth fighting for.
	I think the idea that you can give your life meaning by performing jihad, and that's very exciting.
	Really?
	So, two things.
	One, is that truly something that children think?
	Yeah, after watching some guy get burned to death in a cage.
	And two, she actually said, she didn't say, or the way the piece was cut, let me be fair about it, she's actually telling people, oh, you know, to give your life for jihad is quite exciting.
	Well, thanks.
	Experts say perhaps more than 300 women from across Europe have joined ISIS, many of them from the UK. I need some video or photographic evidence at this point.
	There must be thousands of women and girls there eating Nutella, Playing with their kittens.
	The story, there's so much contradictory information that either the women have become whores or forced into being wives.
	The B-roll you see when they're doing this is you see girls or women in niqabs, so that's the burqa with the open slit for the eyes, with AK-47s blasting away.
	That's the B-roll.
	Yeah, which is strange because, and I've actually commented on this before, I think over a year ago, there was this woman that was Jihad Jane or whatever, and she had a gun, she had the thing over everything but the eyes, and like you said, the hijab with the slit.
	Niqab.
	And you got it.
	I'll catch up to you.
	But then meanwhile, the ISIS guys all claim that women should be in their place.
	Shut up.
	Shut up.
	Get out of the way.
	And let me beat you and rape you.
	I mean, the messaging here has fallen apart in every which way, at least.
	I think it's as though the Western media with these stories is trying to straighten out a flawed script.
	Ah, well, it goes from the media right back to politics.
	So we're hearing now about these children...
	And they're educated, they're involved in politics, so this is your kid.
	You think your kid's smart?
	Ha!
	Your kid is up next.
	I hate to do it, but I gotta go back to the watermelon head.
	The people that groups like Dash are recruiting can come from any country.
	They can be male or female.
	They can be any ethnicity, with or without spiritual convictions.
	Last year, two young men left Great Britain to join Daesh.
	Among the books that they ordered before departing were Islam for Dummies, the Koran for Dummies.
	So let's be honest.
	Those recruiting for Daesh are not looking for people who are devout and knowledgeable about the tenets of Islam.
	They're looking for people who are gullible enough to believe that terrorists enjoy a glamorous lifestyle and pliable enough to do whatever they are told and who are attracted by the perception of success.
	Oh, okay.
	There's one way of culling the herd if you think about it in some meta sense.
	Yeah.
	This is bullcrap.
	By the way, there's no evidence.
	Do we have any evidence?
	No.
	Is there even a couple of books like that?
	Jihad for Dummies?
	Yeah, I remember the news story.
	I think it does exist.
	I think there's Islam for Dummies.
	What was the first one?
	There was two books.
	One was Islam for Dummies.
	The other one was something else for Dummies.
	The Quran for Dummies, I think.
	Oh, the Quran for Dummies.
	Yeah, those exist.
	Those are real.
	I'm going to find out while you talk.
	Okay.
	Then I will pop out of this and go back to, actually, Josh Earnest.
	So we had this big hoo-ha, this big shindig.
	And by the way, something very interesting, this new guy, I don't know if he's new, but he seems to be doing a lot of the questioning in the White House press briefings.
	I'm sorry, I failed to look up who he is.
	Someone maybe in the chat room will know.
	And he's asking some pretty poignant questions of Josh Earnest, which I would say almost seem at the scripted level.
	The question he asks is, so why was the director of the FBI, James Comey, not invited to Yeah.
	This was a big deal on the right-wing talk shows, too.
	So this guy's probably from Fox or something.
	But what I liked about this is Comey's answer.
	Just let him play all the way out to the end how he actually explains what is going on with the violent extremism.
	This gush of Verbal diarrhea comes out, and it goes into...
	I had to laugh, and every single time I hear the clip, I got a laugh at the end of what he thinks this is about.
	Coming back to the three-day summit on combating violent extremism, why was FBI Director James Comey not invited to that summit?
	Well, a couple of reasons.
	One is his boss was.
	How would you like to be Comey right now?
	Wow.
	His boss was.
	His boss was invited.
	Wow.
	That comeback is a chicken shit answer.
	It's poor form, too.
	I mean, Comey is not a...
	He's a force to be reckoned with.
	You know, HSBC, he's part of the big...
	Yeah, he's part of the banking scandal.
	Yeah, you want to be careful around these guys.
	Don't get in a hot tub, Ernest.
	...on combating violent extremism.
	Why was FBI Director James Comey not invited to that summit?
	Well, a couple of reasons.
	One is his boss was.
	The nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney's Journal Eric Holder, attended.
	The second is we also have local law enforcement officials from across the country who could talk about their own experience in working with community leaders to counter violent extremism in their communities.
	And the third is, you know, we wanted to make sure that...
	A couple of reasons.
	It doesn't include a third, by the way, just to point that out.
	He said a couple of reasons, now he's on to number three.
	Well, he's also really struggling to explain this one away, as you'll hear.
	There wasn't a...
	That there wasn't a perception that this conference was overly focused on law enforcement.
	Now, he's going to tell us about this conference.
	Certainly, law enforcement has a very important role to play.
	That's why we had the nation's top law enforcement official in attendance.
	That's why we had police chiefs and other law enforcement officials from communities across the country in attendance.
	But the focus here is on the broader set of tools that are available to communities all across the country to protect vulnerable people who could be susceptible to violent extremist ideology that's propagated on social media.
	Okay.
	Let me just play that last 15 seconds back.
	He's saying the whole focus of this thing was to get people tuned into and understanding how vulnerable people are being duped, I'm paraphrasing, duped into violent extremism propagated via social media.
	This was pretty much a...
	Like a South by Southwest conference or something.
	We're all just talking about Twitter.
	Listen to them again.
	But the focus here is on the broader set of tools.
	The broader set of tools.
	I should write this down.
	We're going to want to remember this.
	A broader set of tools.
	Now, what could a broader set of tools be?
	It could only be social media things, I presume.
	Well, I think it...
	Let's listen to it again.
	I think tools, in this case, actually refers to people, not in the negative sense of tools.
	Because there are some other reports that came out all around this thing showing that, oh, now we're going to have all these hundreds of counterintelligence tweeters.
	Did you see this report?
	No, wait.
	No.
	No.
	Yes, they're going to have counterintelligence tweeter, people that go on Twitter, and all they do is post all day in response to other people.
	They say, oh no, you're full of crap.
	You're going to get killed if you go to this jihad.
	When did this...
	This was on a couple of reports.
	I see it here.
	I see tweeter on Twitter, top US spy that creates...
	This is an older report, though.
	It's like from December.
	There was something that was recent.
	Let me write this down.
	So you have a broader set of tools.
	The country in attendance.
	But the focus here is on the broader set of tools that are available to communities all across the country.
	That are available to communities all across the country.
	Okay, well this is different then, because if it's available to communities, what does that even mean?
	Well, that's why I'm writing it down.
	Communities all across the country.
	Okay.
	To protect vulnerable people who...
	To protect...
	To protect the dummies.
	Get that straight.
	Vulnerable people.
	By the way, I did look up that there is a dummies book for all these things.
	Yeah.
	And I realize that I'm now on a watch list.
	Oh, yeah.
	Congratulations.
	Could be susceptible.
	Could be...
	Could be susceptible...
	Susceptible.
	What is susceptible?
	Does that mean you're dumb and you're gullible?
	Yeah, gullible and dumb.
	To violent extremist ideology.
	To violent extremist ideology.
	Ideology...
	Propagated on social media.
	Which is propagated on social media.
	The whole thing falls apart when he ends it by...
	People are going to be inspired to kill, to bomb, to blow crap up, to...
	Burn guys alive.
	Burn guys alive.
	Then you got my attention, but then it's like, at the end, on social media.
	What?
	Oh, if it's just on social media, well, I got an idea.
	Don't look at Twitter.
	Problem solved.
	Or let's make Twitter illegal.
	This is a long-term run at the social media attempt to...
	This will be a long-term run at invading Facebook in such a way that you can censor it.
	Why bother?
	It's working out fine.
	Everything's great.
	Everyone's afraid.
	It's perfect.
	There is that.
	There's one more piece here to this.
	This guy didn't let up.
	And Comey made this gaffe again, which I thought was pretty funny.
	But Josh, in terms of combating violence...
	Let me try that again.
	In terms of combating violent extremism...
	It's countering violent extremism.
	Okay, countering.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Huh.
	Oh, this is interesting.
	This is quite interesting that he wants this terminology.
	It's countering.
	It's countering.
	What is the difference?
	Countering.
	Countering.
	That's the room full of tweeterers.
	They're countering.
	They're not necessarily combating.
	But let's take a look.
	We've got to look at the definitions of these two.
	Here it is.
	Here it is.
	A verb.
	Speak or act in opposition to.
	That's what?
	That's tweeting.
	To counter.
	That's tweeting, yeah.
	Yes, tweeting.
	And combating is fighting.
	I think physically fighting.
	Physically fighting.
	Huh.
	And he's very clear to point this out to this guy.
	Excuse me, hold on a second.
	Just so you know, we're not combating, we're countering.
	It's like a parade.
	But Josh, in terms of combating violence, let me try that again.
	In terms of combating violence...
	It's funny, he also starts his question over.
	But Josh, in terms of combating violence, let me try that again, in terms of combating violent extremism.
	It's almost like he flubbed the line.
	He said, let me try that again.
	Yeah, he said in terms of combating violence, and when he said that, he had to realize he wanted to say violent extremism.
	Yeah.
	This is reiterating the president's terminology as though he had a script.
	And so the idea is, from my perspective, the media is told to use this term.
	And he screws it up.
	Instead of saying countering, he says combating.
	And he gets called out on it.
	He's going to go into the doghouse for this screw-up.
	But Josh, in terms of combating violence...
	Let me try that again.
	In terms of combating violent extremism...
	It's countering violent extremism.
	Okay.
	Countering.
	So we want to combat it, too.
	We do.
	So in terms of countering violent extremism...
	Got it.
	Isn't the FBI... Nailed it.
	Nailed it.
	Tailed it after number three.
	Josh should have just said, there you go, nailed it.
	Good job, son.
	...violent extremism.
	Isn't the FBI director the head of the agency that is on the front line of doing exactly that?
	You're having a summit, a three-day meeting on countering violent extremism, and you don't invite the lead official in charge of countering violent extremism.
	That's right.
	We just invited his boss.
	And he does it again!
	That's right.
	We just invited his boss.
	Don't you think that's important enough?
	That wasn't a reiteration of an earlier clip.
	He said it again.
	That's right.
	We invited his boss.
	We invited his boss.
	Okay.
	And then, so you invite the attorney general.
	You don't have the FBI director.
	But you did have the head of the Russian...
	No, the rest is unimportant.
	Well, he was going to say the FSB guy was there.
	Okay, well, yeah, you can hear it if you want.
	Security service there.
	How does that look?
	Hopefully he was listening carefully when the president was talking about the importance of governments respecting and protecting basic universal human rights.
	Oh, man.
	What a douche.
	Here, let me douchebag him.
	Douchebag!
	Douche...
	Do you think that's such a strange message to have the head of the Russian FSB, the successor to the KGB, at this meeting and not the FBI director?
	Well, to be clear about the Russian official who attended, the United States issued an invitation to the country, and Russia, in this case, made the decision about which official from their government would represent them.
	So it wasn't as if there was an invitation that was sent specifically to this official.
	This is the official that the Russian government Was there any hesitation of having an official there from Russia, given that he is on the European Union's sanctions list related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
	Not that I'm worried.
	No, no.
	That was no problem.
	This guy is interesting as a kind of a...
	Promoter of this one single question about Comey.
	And then these other questions are all clarification questions that are softballs handed up to Josh Earnest.
	I said it felt like a script in the beginning.
	Scripted to a point where the giveaway to me was when he...
	Because there's no reason to say this.
	Again, this is like maybe the theme for today's show.
	Why do you say something like this if you weren't either told to say it or it wasn't scripted for you?
	I agree.
	And it goes like this.
	You have the head of the FSB, which is the former AGB. Making sure that he's explaining for the audience.
	He's explaining it for the audience.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Because he's asking Josh Earnest.
	Earnest knows, and the audience should know too.
	Well, it's the same audience that needs a broader set of tools to be available across the country to all communities to protect the vulnerable people.
	It is for the audience.
	It's for the dumb, broader audience that doesn't know.
	What?
	The KSB is no more?
	It's the FSB now?
	What?
	I like this.
	The second definition of counter is respond to hostile speech.
	I mean, they truly are just in a war of tweets.
	Fascinating.
	Fascinating, I find it.
	I'm not liking this.
	Meanwhile, of course, the Russia Today folks are just doing nothing but giving everyone the needle if they can.
	Yeah, needle clip.
	And since we just heard a little needle there of needling of Russia and their human rights violations, this is a clip I picked off of RT, because right now in Russia, Moscow, they're having, you know, not today, but they had a bunch of celebrations.
	Yeah, they're celebrating, or they're protesting the coup in Maidan.
	The coup.
	And a coup is the word the Russians want everyone to use.
	Which would mean an American coup.
	Yeah, the Americans' coup of Ukraine.
	Now, this little document, this guy documents all this.
	I have a couple of comments after this, but this is documenting the Ukraine coup by naming names and who was there and all the rest.
	This is just to remind our audience what was going on before the country turned pro-European.
	Ukraine did.
	Free speech in British...
	This is the clip you want?
	It says documenting the Ukraine coup.
	Okay.
	I'm sorry.
	I had the other clip lined up.
	Yep.
	EU officials actively supported last year's protests, which forced out the old administration, as did their American counterparts.
	Let's show you a well-known picture here, the American Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, handing out sandwiches on Maidan Square.
	Days later, Senator John McCain met then the opposition leader, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
	Let's show McCain again with Senator Chris Murphy at another anti-government rally.
	They're just rolling it out, aren't they?
	They're having a lot of fun with this.
	In March, the Secretary of State John Kerry in Kiev to honor the victims of the violence.
	The next month, the Vice President Joe Biden, he popped in to say hello as well.
	And then in May...
	Don't forget to mention Hunter Biden, who's got a good gig there in Ukraine, running an oil company.
	Yeah, I didn't get that.
	And then with the snipers, we had the no-neck monster.
	What was her name?
	Baroness Kathy Ashton, the high priestess.
	Yeah, but she's not an American.
	He's just sighted them.
	Oh, they're snipers, really?
	CIA chief John Brennan made a...
	A secret visit to Kiev, which was later confirmed by the White House.
	We spoke to political commentator Daniel Patrick Welch.
	He says the U.S. itself would never allow a revolt or even an engineered coup in any one of its neighboring countries.
	Looking at it as if Ukraine were Canada and if Russia and China were fomenting a coup in Canada and how the US would react.
	It's a crazy, really illogical thing for the US to think that they can get away with such a blatant and obvious coup.
	It's a coup just like all the other coups that the US has sponsored.
	It's unimaginable to think...
	Anyway, this guy, by the way, this last guy, he had ranting.
	All I could find about him, he's a blogger.
	He's an anti-American blogger that apparently RT can, you know, they rousted him to just go on and on about this.
	But I think the Russians themselves could have done it.
	Well, I mean, I think the point of the whole thing at the end of the, and I hate to say it, but at the end of the day, is the Russians were flat-footed on this deal.
	Once Victoria Nuland was in town, they should have taken her out.
	No, I mean, I don't want to be gruesome about this, but it seems to me...
	But that would have been the clue.
	Like, oh, hold on a second.
	Seeing as she's married to the Kagan clan.
	We made the connections very quickly.
	Yeah, we had it connected immediately.
	And meanwhile, the Russians, I guess, were just, I don't know.
	Maybe she likes the place.
	I had no idea what they were thinking.
	The whole thing goes down and then they're, what?
	Here's the Euronews report on the march in Moscow.
	Thousands turned out for a rally in Moscow to condemn the popular uprising in Ukraine's Maidan Square, which...
	Notice the words.
	...ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych one year ago.
	Chanting the slogan, we won't forget, we won't forgive, police say around 35,000 people attended the rally, which was heavily promoted by state media.
	I'm here to support Russia.
	Maybe in the close future a war could come here.
	Of course America supports all this, NATO as well.
	I'm ready to go to war, but what war will it be?
	If we didn't have Putin, it would be my down here already.
	And when I saw how he manages all of this, I'm very proud.
	You see, I bought a jumper with Putin on it.
	I bought it immediately.
	My friends didn't believe it.
	They said, but you voted for another guy.
	I said, no, Putin is our man.
	Putin is our president.
	Despite the fervor.
	Some protesters' Russian Internet Forum spoke of payments being handed over for attendance.
	The previous night saw a pro-Maidan protest where at least five people were detained and then later freed.
	Okay, so there's a lot going on here.
	Well, you know, the one thing I want to say before you go on with that is I think that the myth about Putin is completely backward.
	I think he's done a crappy job.
	He didn't keep Ukraine in line.
	He had to scramble and did a sloppy job of getting Crimea back.
	That wasn't very well done.
	He managed it, and I don't think anyone can complain about it.
	And he's got these two little operations down south on the eastern part of the country, which should have already been over on the Russian side.
	This is just a botch.
	Anyway, go on.
	That's a good point.
	Well, what caught my attention in that report is the guy saying, I'm ready to go to war.
	I'm like, ugh, okay.
	Yeah, I know.
	I got that.
	I got that, too.
	But that would be another botch.
	I mean, the way I see it, you know, I just started thinking about this.
	Everyone's, oh, Ukraine, the great chess, or not Ukraine, Putin, the great chess player.
	Oh, he's playing chess while Obama's playing checkers.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm not seeing any evidence of this.
	It looks like he's got his sanctions against him.
	He's got all these issues.
	He couldn't even keep Germany in his camp.
	He's losing every pipeline deal going on.
	He's about to lose Syria.
	How is this a great chess master?
	It depends on what the game is.
	Well, it better unfold pretty quickly.
	Well, so here's what...
	Germany is now making interesting moves.
	First, we have Germany now canceling a delivery of armored vehicles to Lithuania, which is making Lithuanians and other countries in the region nervous.
	Right, which would be part of our scheme to make everybody nervous.
	We have to move NATO further east.
	And Poland, we saw this coming, has now kicked off an unprecedented military spending spree.
	Of course.
	Hooray for us.
	Hooray.
	Good on us.
	What did they buy here?
	They're not buying Russian goods.
	Let's see what they got.
	They have purchased...
	Let me see.
	There's a whole list of stuff.
	Missiles, choppers.
	Oh, drones.
	We're also exporting drones now.
	Will anybody fly a drone?
	Poland is earmarked 33 billion euros on the upgrade, which includes missile shield, anti-aircraft systems, armored personnel carriers, submarines, and combat drones.
	So that's a nice little sale there.
	Good work, everybody.
	Oh, the Irish defense minister, as we discussed a couple shows ago, is now...
	We need to ramp up here, people, because we got Russia flying jets in international airspace, but close to us.
	Okay, good.
	And then we have...
	Let's see.
	This is...
	This is actually an interesting little exchange here between our man, the man who I go to bed at night hoping he'll ask some questions.
	That's all I ever ask of him.
	Matt Lee, the Associated Press, our Diplo writer.
	Big fan.
	Love your work.
	And he's talking to Jen Psaki, who truly is at this moment in this clip Do you perform propaganda?
	Can you perform propaganda?
	What is the verb of propaganda?
	The verb?
	Propagandize.
	She is propagandizing the media.
	And he calls her on it.
	And it turns into an interesting exchange.
	And this is about the violations of the Minsk agreements.
	And, well, listen to how this went down.
	I thought this was good that he called her out.
	And I think she really doesn't understand what she's doing is fundamentally dishonest.
	And Ukraine?
	Yes.
	You said that there were 250 violations.
	Were they by the separatists or the total violations?
	Separatists, yes.
	Okay, so what they're talking about is there was an announcement, 250 violations of the Minsk agreement by these separatists.
	Since September.
	Since February 15th.
	Since Saturday.
	Yes, since Saturday.
	Since Saturday.
	You have acknowledged before that there have been violations by the other side as well.
	Do you have a tally of how many times...
	I do not.
	I think one of the challenges we have here, Matt, and obviously I reference the Ukrainian government because they are the ones who have said 250 violations, is that the OSCE, while they've confirmed ceasefire violations by the Russian-backed separatists, they don't have access to a number of these areas.
	They are the independent evaluator of these violations.
	The OSCE doesn't have access to Ukrainian-held positions?
	To Debaltseva and some other areas where they can get a sense of what's happening.
	I have not seen them speak to Ukrainian violations.
	Right, but if they're there to be impartial and if there all have been violations, I mean, and you've said perhaps understandable violations because they're defending, in your words, I mean, wouldn't it make sense to also have a count of how many?
	Well, the OSCE would put out that sort of information.
	I have not seen them put out that information.
	But the information on the 250 is from the OSCE? No, it's from the Ukrainian government.
	She said, well, no, we trust the Ukrainian government to give us the facts.
	Hello?
	Who needs the independent agency?
	Be quiet, Matt.
	That's not the same as the OSCE, right?
	Correct, but the Ukrainian, if the OSCE would have access to a number of these areas, they would be able to give their own evaluation, but they don't because the separatists are preventing them from having access.
	I'm not sure I understand.
	It is the OSCE who is supposed to be monitoring the alleged ceasefire, not the government of Ukraine.
	Correct.
	So the OSCE you see as a neutral party in this, right?
	Yes, as does the international community.
	And you see Ukraine as being neutral in this?
	I didn't suggest that.
	Obviously, Ukraine has a stake in the outcome here.
	Right, exactly.
	But you accept their figure of 250 violations by the rebels.
	I cited their figure because I think it's relevant information.
	I'm not suggesting that it's wrong.
	I'm just wondering why you're accepting it from the Ukrainian government, who obviously have a stake in this.
	If there are violations being thrown out there by the Ukrainian government against them, then let's talk about that.
	There you go.
	Fine.
	Just take whatever they want and just say, there's 250 violations.
	Yeah, it's good.
	It sounds good.
	Yeah.
	Sounds believable.
	Unreal, man.
	Bastard Russians.
	Unreal.
	It truly is unreal.
	You know, I'm thinking about this Putin thing even more, and I take it back to the botch on the outstanding Winter Olympics they threw, and all the negative publicity that was thrown at them, and all the killing the dogs and the gays and all this propaganda, and it just continues to this day.
	I just don't...
	I'm now convinced that Putin just can't handle this job.
	I think he's too old or something.
	I read a report somewhere, I wonder if I have it here, that said that he is a lazy drunk It could be.
	He could be a lazy drunk.
	Remember that time that he was almost killed or something near Vladivostok?
	Oh yeah!
	And he disappeared for a little while there.
	Disappeared.
	He may have been brain damage for all we know or bumped in the head.
	Binge.
	Who knows?
	Drinking binge.
	Well, just along the lines of what you just mentioned, World Press Photo...
	Photo of the Year 2014 First Prize Contemporary Issues goes to Danish photographer Mads Niesen, which is the gay rights photo.
	And it's a photograph that highlights the difficulties I'm reading from their press release.
	Facing sexual minorities in Russia has won the World Press Photo Contest top prize.
	John and Alex from the project called Homophobia in Russia shows an intimate moment between a gay couple from St.
	Petersburg.
	It's a nice photo and all.
	Yeah, and if the situation is so bad, how come these two haven't been rousted and hung?
	Always asking the tough questions.
	They're still there, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, I want to explore this idea that you have that he is really...
	that he's failing.
	Now, there are people out there who continue to...
	I mean, he might be like the Obama of Russia, if you think about it.
	His main thing is that he knows how to get elected.
	He was elected to run the place, and then he switched roles with the other guy for a while, and then popped back into the prominence.
	I mean, his whole thing is to stay in power.
	That's his only real skill.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	He has a nice demeanor, I think.
	Yeah, for a short guy.
	Although he's the same height as Hollande.
	I noticed I was walking together.
	So I guess he's short too.
	I think this is a good point.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm tired of hearing this.
	Oh, the great chess master against the checkers player.
	That kind of thing.
	And I'm seeing zero.
	None.
	I don't see one piece of evidence that this guy is the grand chess master.
	He hasn't done anything.
	Not one thing right.
	He got fucked on the Olympics, you know, with the bullcrap stories that were everywhere about, oh, there's no running water.
	There was no front door on my room at the hotel.
	Hackers are being my phone.
	And hackers, right?
	Richard Engel, the guy comes, oh, he's in Moscow.
	It was a luxury place.
	He's going to get hacked.
	We've got plenty of them there.
	Oh, I've just been hacked after putting this malware on my phone.
	How does that happen, these damn Russians?
	Yeah, no, this is just...
	Or, or, or, or, or we're seeing a game being played out that is much more nefarious than we...
	I like the idea of the long game, but how long does the long game go?
	This has been going on forever, and nothing has come of it.
	Well...
	There is no long game.
	It's a myth.
	How about this for a long game?
	What if the long game is to just really destroy all other natural resource market suppliers, be there financially or by rebelization?
	That's our long game.
	Yeah, that's what I mean.
	Of course it's our.
	I'm talking about our long game.
	Oh, I thought you were talking about Putin's long game.
	No.
	That's why I said I've never seen it.
	There's no evidence he's got a long game because it would have started to be implemented by now.
	So our long game, yeah, no, I said it.
	Ah, got it.
	Yes, our long game seems to be, is really an empire.
	I saw a guy on CNN today, the unconstitutional douche.
	This is a new show they're doing, The Unconstitutional Douche, Fareed Zakaria.
	And he said that we're in the middle of a change and that our back-end shale, that we can now, we can actually, he says we can extract under $50, which I found sketchy, but okay.
	Well, there's a lot of, well, the back-end's got all kinds of reserves of different sorts.
	The shale part, I've never heard that you can do it for less than 70 or so.
	But it's not shale that we're talking about.
	Backend's got everything.
	They've got fracking gas.
	You know what?
	Something's up, John.
	Crude oil.
	Something's up.
	Something's up.
	The theme of today's show.
	Something's up!
	Alright, let's just rest for one moment as we ponder through all of that, and I want to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. The Warack!
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry, in the morning to, and also in the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground.
	Subs in the water.
	Feet in the air and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to everybody in the chat room.
	In the morning to Void Zero.
	He's ill.
	He's in a hospital.
	But he's on his laptop in the hospital, monitoring all systems.
	Void Zero is ill?
	You know, everybody's gotten that flu.
	Yeah, this may be something else.
	I don't know.
	It is pulmonary related.
	We need Void Zero.
	Yeah, don't die on us!
	Void Zero is the man.
	He's in the hospital?
	Yeah, he's in the back channel from the hospital.
	The hospital's the worst place to be.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	Yeah, because it gets sicker in the hospital.
	There's lots of documentation for this.
	Get out of the hospital!
	We'll be sending him karma for sure.
	Also, in the morning to our artists, thank you very much, Festus.
	That's who the art came from for episode 6, 9, or 7.
	And now I have to think, what was it again?
	No, you could just type it in.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Oh yeah, it was the free Nobel Peace Prize with an order of shrimp tacos.
	It came from the...
	That was an old evergreen that we've been sitting at.
	To remind people, we do that.
	We do look at...
	Evergreen, sure.
	Evergreens.
	And every once in a while, there's one that just...
	And it wasn't that the art was weak.
	It was like none of it was...
	Just didn't fit.
	Didn't fit.
	Quite hitting the homer.
	It's a...
	I think you said last time, it's a black art.
	Black art.
	Art is art.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	And today, we start this portion of the program by thanking...
	Our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	Beginning with...
	Girls Markers!
	There he is!
	Is this going to be it, the scream?
	Yeah.
	Okay, well, Stephen Pelzmacher, our grand duke that owns Belgium and France, has come in with a $700 congratulatory donation for show 700 coming up.
	We'll get a double producership.
	He's in Belgium and he says, Heil everybody, 700 shows of the BPITU, double producer credit.
	Who can pass that up?
	Thank you, gentlemen, for your courage and your praiseworthy deconstruction of all the mac and cheese avoiding, for all of us, the mac and cheese avoiding folks.
	On to the next 700 or until you are deemed to spread unlawful content on the internet.
	And I realize that we...
	I just want to reiterate for a moment where the mac and cheese comes from.
	We have new people who are saying, what is this with these guys with mac and cheese?
	Yeah.
	This is based upon John's expert analysis of cycles, returning occurrences.
	That he's always on the lookout for.
	And during the Great Depression, if I recall correctly, this is when the grilled cheese sandwich was created.
	Is that the right?
	No, the mac and cheese was created during that era.
	I mean, mac and cheese has been around for obviously ever.
	But it was popularized.
	During the Depression.
	I thought you said it was grilled cheese.
	No, no, I said mac and cheese.
	What's the connection with mac and cheese?
	That this is the new version of it during this Great Depression.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	Oh, okay.
	No, it was mac and cheese.
	Hey, you know what?
	Would you please explain the mac and cheese thing to me?
	Because apparently I don't know where it came from.
	It was a Depression food.
	It was the Depression food.
	People didn't have a lot to eat.
	You had mac and cheese.
	It was like dinner.
	How did I come up with grilled cheese then?
	I don't know.
	You just came up with that on your own recently.
	I never mentioned grilled cheese.
	I'm sorry.
	Grilled cheese is not the same.
	It's a sandwich.
	Yes.
	This is a dinner.
	Yes.
	It's a meal.
	It's a meal.
	Wait, there's a new commercial.
	Listen to this.
	This is great.
	This is the new Kraft to add.
	Did you make Kraft mac and cheese for the kids?
	Yep.
	Did you cook some protein to go with it?
	That has nine grams of protein per serving.
	This is their new thing.
	And they have a little logo.
	Nine grams of protein per serving.
	Yeah.
	They've put protein.
	So the wife comes in there and she finds the old man.
	It's better.
	Mac and cheese, which comes in a box.
	It's even better than this.
	This is so multi-tiered.
	It's the pushification.
	So she calls him out on the protein because normally in the modern era, until recent depression, which began a few years ago, in the modern era, Before the Depression, mac and cheese was a side dish, which you could get at it.
	You'd have dinner.
	I used to cook mac and cheese.
	Now it's an entire meal.
	Now it is the meal.
	That is the earmark of a Depression.
	And so she's calling him out on this, and he calls her, tops her, But no, there's plenty of protein in it, which is probably the dehydralized crap that they get from pink slime and they make it and they dump it in as a filler.
	Because I don't even know if there's any cheese in that crap dish.
	It's powder.
	Cheese can you make it with powder?
	I've made this mac and cheese, the very one they're selling in this ad.
	Yes.
	Do you remember the Mexican guys were painting in the house and they looked at me and they went like, ay caramba.
	Yeah.
	You're going to eat that?
	I don't remember the punch.
	Was it gross?
	They couldn't believe I was eating it.
	Oh, well, Mexicans have a cheap cuisine that's absolutely delicious.
	Yeah.
	Can't see anybody eating something so stupid that tasteless is mac and cheese.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	There we go.
	Thank you.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you to our Grand Duke.
	And we have another $700 donation from our buddy Sir Dwayne Melanson, the Duke of the Pacific Northwest from Tigard, Oregon.
	Greetings from the Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	Stellar job of late, particularly with the Matt Lee coverage.
	Always my favorite.
	Though it has no jingle.
	Karma for all, especially the producers and tilted, titled, I'm sorry, tilted, and the titled members of the community.
	We would also love a fact, ah, if you please.
	Fact, fact, fact, ah, on the best podcast in the universe.
	You've got karma.
	I knew what he wanted.
	You got it.
	You nailed it.
	And another $700 donation from Sir Philip Smith in Oslo, Norway.
	So we have an international crowd congratulating us.
	United States, Belgium, Norway, France.
	Nice.
	You hook.
	Okay.
	So this makes me baronet now.
	Sir Philip Smith, baronet of Oslo.
	Right on.
	Okay.
	You rock, I think is what it's supposed to say.
	Autocorrect fail.
	Autocorrect fail to U-hook, which means we're knitters or something.
	Crochet.
	Crochet, where the C stands for crochet.
	Matthew Elward in Fort Worth, Texas, 33333 in the morning.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Shows in the past month have been incomparable and a consistent source of entertainment in my life.
	I thoroughly enjoyed your deconstruction regarding the use of the Final Cut Pro by ISIS, ISIL, Dash, whatever you want to call them, as well as the gems the State Department spoke holes do.
	I cannot help but laugh out loud at times when I hear Marie Harf getting testy with Matt Lee.
	I want to say that no agenda karma works.
	Works.
	I asked for a job hunting karma in my last donation in October because my position is ending in April.
	Since then, I've received two unsolicited job offers, an interview, and an interview went so well that I had an offer the next day in promotion.
	I accepted the offer after some back and forth and will be starting on my new role come May.
	Please consider this donation as a token of my appreciation for the karma, 33333.
	This donation will put me over to knighthood threshold, that's the accounting below, and would like to be knighted as Sir Matt of the Moon.
	So I can lay claim to the Israel moon bases and any other items of interest up there.
	You can throw in some Johnny Walker green label for me at the round table.
	That'd be great.
	It's not too much trouble.
	I'd like to get a Judge Jeanine We Need to Kill Them remix and an In the Morning and a Dr.
	Kiki.
	It was worth it.
	Keep up the great work.
	Okay, let me first add his Johnny Walker green label.
	I've never even heard of that.
	Oh yeah, we've talked about it on the show.
	Oh, okay.
	When we talk about the cheese sandwich.
	Yeah, okay, you're the alcohol guy.
	I want to play the new mix by Cohen.
	I kind of like that.
	It's Judge Jeanine and it's Marie Harf all bundled together in a little bit of killjoy.
	Well, how do we win?
	How do we stop this?
	We need to kill them.
	Something I would agree with.
	We need to bomb them and bomb them again.
	Are we killing enough of them?
	We're killing a lot of them.
	And we're going to keep killing more of them.
	We're very good at that.
	They're coming for us.
	I'd love that.
	Conan had that?
	No, this is our Conan.
	Conan, our producer, Conan S. He made for us.
	Oh, good.
	It was worth it.
	It was worth it.
	You've got karma.
	That's an excellent one.
	We're killing enough of them.
	That is Chris Matthews.
	These guys are bloodthirsty.
	Are we killing enough of them?
	We're killing enough of them.
	Woo!
	Yeah.
	Let's go out for a beer.
	That's good.
	Maybe we can think about it.
	Let's go to have a beer and talk about killing people.
	Yeah.
	I feel good now.
	Andrew Martin in Torella, New South Wales, Australia.
	250 bucks.
	He's the associate executive producer for show 698.
	I quite enjoy the research and yes...
	I like the comedy on the show.
	I really appreciate the hard work you guys put in and whatever sacrifices you've made coming in or coming from the suburbs of the Western Empire.
	It's great to find folks from the capital, i.e.
	Americans, who you can relate to.
	And don't leave you wondering if they're from outer space.
	We are more alike than you know, I would say.
	There's some of that.
	Yeah.
	And that's why, in fact, when I had my Australian sling box, which seems to fail, I don't have it anymore.
	Whoever had that can maybe read.
	I thought Maynard had set you up with a new one.
	Well, maybe.
	I might have missed that.
	I'll have to dig around.
	I'll have to reset all my sling box.
	Here's how it usually happens.
	John ignored my email, so I'm sending it to you.
	So with the sling box, you watch Australian news, it's mostly, it's like, I'd say, at least half American news.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Brian Dennison in Danbury, Connecticut.
	Oops.
	I see that he's a blank here, so let's see if there's anything in the emails with his name on him.
	Sorry.
	How do you spell his last name?
	Dennison.
	D-E-N-N-I-S. Let's see what we got.
	I don't see him.
	No, he's got the notification, and then I'm going to just go the extra mile here.
	He has his, okay, let me try this, just to see if his Gmail address.
	Oh, you're really doing some forensics.
	Well, you know, I just, no, nope, nope, nope, nope.
	Well, Brian, send us another note.
	But it is your favorite number, 23456, so that's good.
	Yes.
	23456 from Danbury.
	David Fugazotto in somewhere.
	Let's see, where does he say he's from?
	Anyway, 23456 also.
	In the morning, gentlemen, I've been freeloading for far too long, and therefore I'm in serious need of a de-douching.
	Okay, we can do that for you right now. - Bye.
	You've been dedouched.
	He lives and works in Europe and travels frequently through Ukraine.
	So your analysis on all things Euro and on the ongoing shenanigans in Eastern Europe are especially enlightening.
	Additionally, I've been studying for and recently took the State Department's Foreign Service officer test to try to join the Noodleman gang.
	Wow, we need you there.
	Yes.
	Good.
	Imagine my surprise when I saw a practice question on the Smith-Munt Act, and you got it correct!
	Something that would never have happened if I didn't listen to the show.
	So please accept a small contribution, a portion of which is earned in Ukraine, and earmarked for the first step toward my eventual knighthood.
	Even though it's no longer in the news, I'd like to request the Ebola lady saying Ebola.
	Yeah.
	Ebola.
	Followed by Dr.
	Kiki's It Was Worth It and the Bingo Boom Shakalaka Mix.
	All right.
	Finally.
	I'd really appreciate some foreign service test karma, and the results are due out any day now, perhaps some.
	Yeah, Dave.
	You have to let us know how that.
	Propagate the formula in that august body.
	Thanks for an always entertaining and informative show.
	Dave in Deutschland.
	Hey, can't wait, man.
	It would be great if he made it in.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	All right.
	Congratulations.
	A karma coming your way and the clips as you requested.
	It was worth it.
	It was worth it.
	Bingo, boom, boom, chag-a-la-la, boom, boom, boom, chag-a-la, boom, boom, boom, ebola.
	You've got karma now.
	There you go.
	You ask, we play.
	And then we've got Ryan, aka InstaNightMe.
	InstaNight, this is not how you get InstaNight, but okay.
	He's already an InstaNight.
	Okay.
	He's a nice.
	Oh, that's his name.
	A.K.A. usually means that's his name.
	Yeah, right.
	What does A.K.A. stand for?
	Also known as.
	Oh, there you go.
	A.K.A. 222-74 in Medina, Ohio.
	I've been a monthly donor of five bucks a month for a year now, but in the recent promotion and corresponding raise coincident with my 41st birthday following on Sunday's show, I figured I was in the middle of a superstorm of cosmic karma and wanted to share it with the best podcast in the universe.
	Therefore, in clothes, there was a long wait for that sound effect.
	Therefore, it closes my first donation of any substance.
	This is not the instant night for the No Agenda show.
	And a nice, even number, 22274, that can be split down the middle between John's Keyboard Battery Reserves and Adam's Airstream Procurement Fund.
	This donation, along with my paltry past year's monthly pittance, has brought me to an unofficial level of quarter night.
	I hope that I can continue my steady march toward knighthood and achieve the dubious distinction of a night of the No Agenda roundtable.
	Abel, thank you for you both.
	Thank you both for your in-depth global policy analysis and the first rate media deconstruction since becoming a listener.
	It's hard for me not to chuckle whenever I see a meme played out on a television screen.
	Yeah.
	Which, by the way, I think is the goal of this show.
	To make people self-aware.
	Yeah.
	To scrap and to laugh.
	In celebration, please finish this reading with the Reverend Manning.
	Whip it with the Constitution, Porky Obama twofer, and round out the festivities with karma for all listeners, douchebag boners, and exalted donors alike.
	Special shout-out to all the folks on the No Agenda Google Plus community.
	Get out there.
	Whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping with the Constitution.
	Yeah.
	That's how we go.
	That's how we work.
	And that's the story...
	You've got karma.
	Good call.
	Yeah, that was good.
	Good call.
	Let me look up Winkler.
	I know I had a letter from him.
	I thought I printed it out, but apparently not.
	I see something.
	There's text in the box.
	Yeah, but it falls apart.
	That's what his concern was.
	Oh.
	He sent two things, and unfortunately, I just clicked on the wrong one.
	Okay, here we go.
	In the morning again, in addition to my birthday...
	By the way, this is Donald Winkler in Deutschland.
	He's in Berlin, Germany.
	Another Deutscher.
	Yeah, I think he's an American in Deutschland.
	Yeah, so is Dave.
	Might be Winkler.
	Winkler is a German...
	Dave and Donald should get together.
	Dave and Donald...
	Is he a Winkler, too?
	In the morning again, in addition to my birthday donation for Sunday, and after I heard how much better the other jingles were on the Bomb Them clip, I sat down and gave it another shot.
	What can I say?
	I'm obviously a fan, and this is sending another clip.
	Did you get the clip?
	This clip?
	This is his clip.
	I don't think so.
	Bomb Them jingle number two by Donald Winkler.
	I don't think I ever got that one, John.
	Let's see.
	Send it to you?
	I should have forwarded it.
	No, he sent it to you.
	You can look it up.
	You can look it up.
	We can play at the end of the show.
	You sent it?
	No, he sent it.
	You're on the list of people that received this email.
	Yeah.
	Can you forward that to me?
	It's Donald Winkler.
	I don't have it.
	Can you just forward it to me?
	Okay.
	I'll do that and we'll play later.
	From your squirrel mail?
	Squirrel mail.
	Damn squirrels.
	And anyway, Donald Winkler will close out our producers for show 698.
	I want to remind people, we do have a show on Thursday.
	Again, we're getting into the cycle.
	We're getting more money on Sunday, and Thursday's falling off.
	I know.
	So now's the time to get a producership quick, and it's our last day for a double producership on Thursday.
	Show 699.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Yeah, we're getting up to this big 700 number.
	699er.
	It's astonishing.
	It truly is.
	That's great.
	It's an accomplishment.
	700 of anything is a lot.
	Yes.
	Of course, we could not do that without our producers across the board who help us with information, help us financially, and these are executive and associate executive producers.
	Highly appreciative, certainly, of our...
	Always good to see the peerage come in and help us out.
	Okay, I got that jingle.
	I'll check that in a second.
	These credits are real.
	You can put them in...
	People seem to like putting them on their IMDB and it does get you views or something.
	LinkedIn.
	I'm sorry.
	I said IMDB? No.
	Well, IMDB would work too.
	But LinkedIn is where you want to have it.
	And of course, as John said, we will have another thank you segment coming up later in this program and another show on Thursday.
	Dvorak.org.
	And obviously we always need everybody out there doing their best and their utmost to propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Water!
	Shut up, Wayne!
	Shut up, Wayne!
	I had Thursday after the show.
	I probably shouldn't have done it because I was really in no shape to go out, but it was the only time he could meet me.
	I had dinner with our ex-New York banker.
	He always has something interesting to say.
	He always has something interesting to say.
	He had a number of things.
	Of course, we talked about Grease, and I wanted to get his take on it.
	And he says, well, really, it doesn't really matter anymore.
	He says it's all covered.
	It's all been baked in.
	This is just theatrics.
	He says the only people who are going to get hurt 100% guaranteed is the Greek people.
	Really?
	Gee.
	And he said there's only two ways this can go, and one is a run on the bank, which has kind of already been happening.
	I think 18 billion euros has already been extracted.
	But he says no matter what, it's the people who will suffer, and no one else is going to get hurt by this.
	It's theatrics.
	But then he said something very interesting, and I'm not sure I quite understand it exactly, and he couldn't really explain it to me.
	I think it just is what it is.
	He said, have you noticed how any news coming out of banks, American banks, is kind of humble, downplaying their salaries, and just kind of really...
	Really soft about compensation, how things are going.
	And I said, well, no, I haven't.
	But now, of course, I went back and looked.
	And these are, you know, they say, well, we 20% less salaries.
	Oh, the poor babies.
	Yeah, but what he says, what that is, that's what bankers do when they've won.
	I said, what do you mean?
	We won.
	I said, who's we?
	The American banks.
	What do you mean?
	We won.
	He said, you'll see.
	We won.
	Well, that's our job.
	We win.
	Right.
	We're winners.
	And by the way, we lost, you and I. Oh, yeah, we.
	But I think he speaks as a banker.
	No, I'm not talking about that.
	Mechanics Bank has been sold.
	Oh, no!
	Yes, to that Texas douchebag.
	Oh, man.
	They were already starting to suck, and now...
	Which douchebag is this?
	Some flipper.
	I don't have his name at the tip of my tongue, but he's a bank flipper.
	He buys a bunch of little banks, little community banks that serve the community and actually improve the community, and they're public-oriented.
	They're helpful.
	And he puts them together as a package and sells them to Chase.
	Oh, jeez.
	Or Bank of America, or Crown O'Bell, or one of these big monsters.
	So what are we going to do now?
	We're screwed.
	They had already sold half of it, I think.
	Yeah, the guy who already had the camel was in the tent already, but anyway, this guy.
	Most people, observers in the area, I mean, we can go to, if Umpqua opens up a bank in the area closer than Walnut Creek, we can switch to them, but I don't think that, I think we're going to have to just, I don't know what we're going to do.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's sad.
	But, yeah.
	You know who told me the deal finally closed?
	I can't believe this.
	A checker at Whole Foods.
	Really?
	Yeah, I go to Whole Foods and buy occasional stuff.
	It's overpriced.
	Whole Foods is the most amazing rip-off place ever.
	And the clientele is alien to any clientele I'm normally...
	It's a bunch of hipster dudes with beards?
	No, no.
	It's mostly a bunch of...
	Here it is.
	It's a bunch of people who don't care about the social...
	Don't care about money.
	They don't care about money.
	They think everything there is better.
	They've been still building goods.
	They're classic knee-jerk people that have just...
	Whatever you tell them, they believe.
	They're kale eaters.
	And they are kale eaters.
	A lot of kale eaters.
	And the place is overstaffed.
	At least they are charging too much, but at least they've got a lot of people working there.
	I mean, there's way too many people in that place.
	Of course, they're not getting union wages, so they can afford to have bigger staff.
	But the place is clean, I have to say.
	I find them to be quite helpful.
	It's out of my way.
	No, they are helpful.
	And the lines at the checkers, there's never more than one person.
	There's always a bagger.
	You really get in there and you get out.
	I can't go there because I can't buy candles.
	They don't have just normal candles.
	Candles?
	At Whole Foods, a candle is $12.
	You don't buy candles?
	Yes.
	So when you take a bath, you can have the candles?
	Is it a bubble bath?
	No, I don't take bubble baths.
	I like candles.
	You're going to burn the place down.
	And they also don't sell sugar smacks.
	So, you know, why bother?
	What?
	Yeah, sugar smacks.
	I don't even know what that is.
	Sugar smacks?
	It's a breakfast cereal.
	Oh, my God!
	It's cardboard with sugar.
	Ugh.
	Yeah.
	Okay, I got the breakfast cereal that I'm going to recommend.
	Newman's flax, honey flax flax.
	Flakes.
	Now, I would never see that as kale.
	Is this an old guy thing where you poop better?
	What is this?
	No, it can't do his poop.
	Flakes are delicious because they maintain a crunch for hours.
	And you crunch and they're the loudest, most crunch, crunch, crunch.
	It's a...
	Fabulous.
	Newman's.
	Here we go.
	Newman's.
	Oh, they do have honey flax flakes.
	That's it.
	Honey flax flakes.
	I see it right here.
	Absolutely the top of all cereals.
	Look at this.
	It's on Amazon.
	They have a deal.
	Newman's own honey flax flakes wheat brand cereal, 16 ounce, a pack of five for $36.99.
	Huh.
	Plus $11.74 shipping.
	What?
	I get it at the grocery outlet for like three bucks a box.
	I prefer the sugar smacks, you know, because it wakes you up.
	I'll bet it does.
	Because the cavities in your teeth are starting to ache.
	While we're talking about pop stuff, we have to mention that today is the Academy Awards.
	Yes, correct.
	And I intend on watching.
	And so I have a pertinent clip, a little segue, a little entrement.
	Very good, yes.
	That kind of applies to me.
	And entrement, this is something Chef has prepared for you.
	Yes, it's something Chef has prepared especially for you.
	I love that.
	We have a little entrement here.
	This is something Chef has prepared especially for you.
	It consists of a shaved beet.
	This is like a shaved beet and some horseradish on a spoon.
	That's my favorite entrement.
	Entremont's supposed to be a refreshing mid...
	It should be a sorbet-like thing.
	It should be like some sort of...
	Yeah, a palate cleanser.
	Like a light ice.
	Yeah, like a sorbet.
	Yeah, or something.
	Here, I've been served entremont before the hors d'oeuvre.
	Oh, that's at the beginning of the meal.
	That's something special the chef has made, especially for you.
	Sorry, not the chef.
	Chef.
	I'm making a mistake.
	It's something Chef has prepared, especially for you.
	For me.
	Because he knows you're at the table.
	Yep.
	And he's looking out all the time.
	Oh, look who's there.
	It's Adam.
	He makes something especially for you.
	Let me shave a beet.
	You know, I got into a beef, actually, with a waiter over this once.
	Oh, boy.
	I was at...
	Charlie Trotter's, which at the time, which was maybe 10 years ago or longer, at the time was this hoity-toity place in Chicago.
	It was the best restaurant in Chicago, more or less.
	And it was famous Charlie Trotter.
	And I was there for a business meeting.
	I was taken there to discuss some things.
	And I'm with one of the publishers at Ziff.
	And we're being interrupted constantly by chef.
	Once this chef says, chef wants to welcome you.
	Chef has made this for you.
	And I said, look, the chef doesn't even know we're here.
	Will you stop this now?
	Because it was bugging me.
	I couldn't get Edward in with it.
	We were having a conversation.
	And then what?
	He said, huh.
	And he left.
	And then he just brought the meal saying nothing ever again the whole meal.
	Never came by.
	Well, you showed him, didn't you?
	Well, he didn't spin in the food, I don't think.
	Uh-huh.
	Maybe he did.
	Chef.
	Chef.
	Where the C stands for chef.
	There we go.
	John Chef Dvorak.
	All right, so Academy Awards.
	I thought this was funny.
	You got an Academy Awards clip?
	Yeah.
	Where is it?
	I don't know.
	Spielberg versus God.
	Good.
	We don't know who's going to win, but we have a good idea who they might thank.
	The website, Vocative, analyzed all the Oscar speeches ever given, and Steven Spielberg has been thanked literally more times than God.
	Spielberg has been thanked 42 times, God 19 times.
	There you go.
	I'm interested.
	I have not seen all the movies, unfortunately.
	I'm pissed I haven't seen Birdman.
	I know you told me I have to.
	It was really, really good, and I do want to see it.
	So that's...
	I don't know.
	That's fine.
	I'm really interested to see if Laura Poitras, if she wins Citizen Four.
	I think it will, because they tend to be political when they...
	So the question is, what will the political...
	What will the acceptance speech be?
	You probably have to think about that, because ever since Michael Moore came up there and made a fuss, they have been very careful about choosing people they know aren't going to be big blowhards.
	I don't think that she's going to be a big blowhard.
	But here's what I would expect to happen.
	I would expect to go live to Moscow and have Snowden appear with his broken nose pad glasses.
	Brand Snowden should appear.
	Oh, that's a good call.
	That seems pretty obvious.
	They've got that set up.
	Well, you know, if I was producing this thing, I'd be sketchy about it.
	Do we need this?
	Do we need to have Snowden?
	Yes, it makes the Academy look good.
	It makes us look like we're forward-thinking.
	Well, you'll recall, was it last year, or was it the year before, when Michelle Obama was waiting in the White House with Marines and stuff to hand out?
	Come on, they produced these things.
	Well, yeah.
	So, why wouldn't you have Snowden standing by?
	Well, here's the other counter-argument.
	Isn't he a little passé?
	It's like old news.
	Well, he's still...
	No.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think he's still a...
	Okay, I'm gonna go with no Snowden.
	Okay, I'll go with Snowden.
	And...
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	It's fun.
	It's entertaining.
	Really, I like watching the red carpet stuff more than anything to see what people are wearing.
	I do.
	Yeah, I know you do.
	I like it.
	Yeah.
	I'm actually interested.
	I'm sorry.
	Who?
	How did she choose that dress?
	Yeah.
	Oh, my God.
	Well, now that Joan Rivers is dead...
	Because I was a big fan of...
	I work with Joan Rivers.
	Big fan of hers.
	Loved her fashion police because she just sat there as an old cranky lady and would say really horrible things.
	Can't beat it.
	But now what they've done is they've brought in Kathy Griffin.
	Oh, Kathy Griffin?
	Is that her name?
	Griffith?
	Yeah, Kathy or Griffith.
	Griffin Griffin.
	She's the one that, yeah.
	But what's interesting...
	Well, you know, she's pretty mean-spirited, too.
	But what's interesting is Juliana, who is the E-girl, their big superstar, Juliana, whatever her last name is, she's always been on the show, but she's funnier than Kathy, which makes it really uncomfortable to watch.
	Anyway, I'm sorry.
	Yes, I do watch that.
	There you go.
	Apparently.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	So I'm watching this week.
	I spent a lot of time watching CCTV. Mm-hmm.
	Now, CCTV America, they add that to the end, is the Chinese government's station.
	And you can kind of, if you watch it enough, you can kind of see, hmm, what the Chinese are up to in certain ways.
	And so I got this clip, which is a little long, and you might want to interrupt it.
	You can even stop it if you feel like it.
	Well, before you play it, before you intro it, the ex-banker from New York did give me some info about China.
	Oh, well, talk about that first.
	He said China is in so much trouble that they have to start some kind of war or some distraction, otherwise everything's going to fall apart.
	He says they are in dire, dire, dire straits.
	He believes they're going to either...
	It could even be a war internally, on their own turf.
	They've got to blow something up big, otherwise they're in big trouble.
	Does that fit in with this clip?
	No, not at all.
	But it does fit in with another clip, kind of.
	Which is a clip that the big trouble thing is kind of...
	I wouldn't say it's totally discussed, but the Chinese apparently went nuts.
	This is Chinese New Year.
	We're still celebrating.
	It goes on for a week.
	It's not like just a one-day thing.
	And so they all travel.
	Everybody's supposed to go to their hometown.
	There's like travel mania that goes on in China for this week.
	And a lot of them go to Japan.
	I got it.
	And they go there to buy stuff.
	But recently, Chinese tourists seem to have found a new favorite, bidet's toilet seats.
	Featuring warm water options, heated seats, and the ability to kill germs and unwanted odors, bidets are not cheap.
	2,000 yuan or about 300 U.S. dollars apiece.
	But the price is no deterrent.
	You don't need to choose among brands.
	When you see it, just take it, or you will miss it.
	All the toilet seats have sold quickly after being restocked.
	Many Chinese stores are buying them this year, and manufacturers have no time to make enough products to meet their demand.
	These toilet seats are also sold in China, but they are cheaper and better quality in Japan.
	I feel like I should go to Japan and buy a new product.
	In Japan, even smaller products become huge attractions.
	Facial brush, electric toothbrush and vacuum cup.
	I heard the best quality products are stocked and sold only in Japan, so I buy them here.
	Shut up!
	Now, the Chinese apparently are flocking to Japan to buy the...
	Now, the irony of all this is that most of the products sold around the world are made in China, but they're made to specifications that the Chinese will not...
	I don't know why they don't just copy more of these, but they don't.
	Apparently, they have a good contract, a good deal.
	And so they...
	Make the spec product and send it someplace else, and then maybe it's tweaked a little bit.
	Who knows?
	But they love this stuff in Japan.
	They're buying Japanese goods because it's cheaper, which is a Chinese thing, but there's also the quality is better, which is, I think, a new Chinese thing.
	Now, after this presentation, which was also on CCTV, I'm not sure why, just maybe I think some messaging went on with the following guy who came in, which is going to be harder to hear, but this guy...
	It's a business consultant and he talks about, you know, the big change that's taking place amongst the Chinese consumers where they're actually buying quality and they can't find the quality product in China, which is just ironic in a lot of different ways.
	But he talks about the future of marketing.
	And the reason I made this clip, I think our listeners, many of them who have small businesses and have to think about these things, they're trying to...
	Move the Chinese industry to use public relations and advertising and all these things they don't like to do because their marketing scheme was always just best price.
	So they made a cheaper product that was cheaper, literally, in every way.
	So the quality wasn't there.
	But if things are changing because they believe American influence, you want a good product, you want to pay more money for a better quality, and then, of course, somehow it's cheaper.
	But let's listen to this thing to get a little sense of, if you can understand this character, about what's going on marketing-wise in China.
	I think the, you know, made by Japan, made by Germany, or even made by the U.S., they are heavily based on consumer research, which really cannot be matched by Chinese companies yet.
	And the type of service, the type of sophistication in the marketing strategy, I think these are the practices that Chinese companies can really benchmark.
	So now we do not only create the utility, but we really need to create superb advantage to the eye of the consumers.
	So what really do Chinese manufacturers need to do to upgrade their product quality and compete with foreign brands?
	So I think one is that they need to carefully study the consumer taste and particularly to predict The transformation of consumers' preference.
	Ah, big data!
	That's where this is headed.
	Hadoop!
	Full of poop!
	And second, from the onset, along the entire value chain from the research and development, they need really to look at the consumer needs before they really begin to launch a pilot production.
	And then the seamless pipeline of service need really to step up to match.
	And then also they need to work with the great partners overseas, particularly when they are abroad.
	And right now many of them still sell to retailers and then they stop there.
	If I can just interject, it sounds to me like part of the problem is they need to get their internal market going.
	Well, they're internal marketing.
	See, they don't care about the imaging.
	The Chinese are susceptible to American advertising and public relations as anybody.
	Why wouldn't they be?
	Because it's a human thing.
	It's that good, and we're good at it.
	We're great.
	And the Chinese manufacturers are still stuck in the 50s with this best price idea.
	And they don't know about...
	The guys, the Chinese...
	Many billionaires that have figured out that advertising...
	I mean, to get the Chinese to advertise is like pulling teeth in the high-tech world.
	They never do it.
	They won't do it.
	What's the point?
	It's just a waste of money.
	They just think it's price.
	Yeah, because we have the best price.
	Why would we want to advertise?
	Everyone just check price.
	Ours is best.
	We check price.
	Good price.
	No marketing?
	They're being lectured now to change their ways, which is, again, we propagandize and they're finally thinking this way.
	And I don't think any of it's big data, the market research stuff.
	I think a lot of it is like there's a system in place, like we talked about with the fashion industry, where the colorists, the people who like phantom, these guys invent the next season's color six months before the colors become popular.
	That sort of thing is part of a mechanism that is already in place.
	And the Chinese are not part of.
	And so they're just more or less OEMs for everybody else.
	I mean, here's the spec, make this product, and then we'll get it cheap from you.
	And they don't have any clue.
	I mean, I would suspect that if you're in a Chinese factory and you see them making whoopee cushions or something, and they're wondering who the hell's buying this stuff, and they're totally clueless.
	And I think they're trying to fix that.
	Now, if they do fix it, I think it's going to be a problem for us.
	But I don't know that they can.
	I think...
	And I hate to just ramble on here, but there was something, this is again CCTV, they were talking about, they have these soccer schools in China, and they're huge, and they're all run by like, what's the one in Madrid?
	I can't remember the name.
	Real Madrid?
	Yeah, they have a school in China that's the size of a university with like 50 soccer fields.
	Wow.
	And the British have one of these operations going on.
	The French have one.
	There's a bunch of them.
	The Brazilians have one.
	And they're all training.
	Beckham should get in on this.
	This is what he should be doing.
	Actually, Beckham might be on it already.
	Whatever the case, they're finding kids in school and they're starting to train at age five and up.
	It's like a boarding school.
	And you bring the kids in and there's like thousands and thousands of kids playing soccer.
	And this British analyst came over and he studied the whole thing.
	He says the problem is this is, again, the Chinese trying to do something, thinking that just by doing it, you know, by having...
	Thousands of thousands, just by sheer numbers, they hope to get the world's best soccer team.
	Apparently it's FC Barcelona, not Real Madrid.
	Yeah, it's the Barcelona team.
	And they, he says it doesn't work because he says the experts have come over and he says, yeah, these kids are talented, they're unbelievably athletic and all the rest, but he goes on, none of them have a soccer mind, a football mind.
	He says they don't, they're just robots.
	Mm-hmm.
	And this is a cultural thing, and the Chinese can't seem to get over it.
	And so they just think by throwing, you know, let's make a bigger factory.
	Maybe then people will buy our product kind of thing.
	And I think, you know, this is going to be the big challenge for the Chinese.
	But if the whole country is going to fall apart, you know, in the next...
	Well, this is what the banker said.
	He said China needs to start war.
	His exact words.
	Well, they have been, like, building ghost cities and throwing money at anything.
	And he mentioned the ghost cities, too.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	I was not in top form, so I didn't...
	Maybe I missed some important subtle information.
	He never really gives it to you outright, you know what I mean?
	Yeah.
	Banker way.
	Well, the bankers can talk amongst themselves like that and know exactly what they're saying.
	What?
	What did they just say to each other?
	I know what to buy tomorrow.
	I'm shorting that stock.
	And this is why I'm pretty sure the president is now pushing very hard now for the TPP and the TPIP. These are the trade agreements.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	This is right now.
	In fact, I think his podcast today was, I didn't clip it, but I think his podcast was all about the TPP. He's pushing that in again.
	Alright, that's my China report.
	Again, you just keep watching the one network and you get a lot of interesting...
	The stories become clearer as you listen and watch.
	Let me see.
	I do have, as you're looking there...
	This is just an offbeat clip.
	This is a clip, I think it was on RT. No, this is Al Jazeera.
	And this is a story about what's going on in Syria.
	And they're using some, they're sweetening the sound.
	And I want to get this sound.
	This is a guy in the background screaming.
	And it just sounds terrific.
	It sounds like it's something you want to put in any of our discussions.
	I see Assyria Part 2.
	You need to tell me.
	Assyria Screaming Guy.
	Okay.
	I wish I had that one.
	Yeah, you do.
	Oh, no, it's Curious Screaming Guy.
	That's what you said.
	Sorry.
	Well, in Syria itself, rebels have attacked government positions north of the city of Aleppo.
	Video on social media appears to show fighting near two villages.
	The clip didn't work, but at the very end, you can hear this guy screaming, and I'm thinking, why is this in there?
	Because this is not on the Twitter.
	Anyway, that was a fail.
	But I've got the idea, and I'm going to start using it.
	That they're using...
	Well, no, not that they're sweetening the sound, but it's a specific kind of screaming.
	Like screaming.
	Yeah, you gotta work on that one a little bit more.
	Yeah, well, it didn't come out very well.
	The Drudge Report...
	Drudge Report had a very strange article...
	I'm going to read it to you.
	Shockwaves are being felt all throughout Tinseltown today as federal authorities move to arrest several who are accused of aiding and abetting a foreign terrorist organization by producing ISIS recruitment videos.
	What?
	Yeah, it had long been...
	I'm not sure.
	I'm not really buying this.
	Is this a Drudge written thing or is this a Drudge linked to something?
	Let me double check.
	I think it's Drudge...
	It usually links to something.
	Well, this is a drudge report.
	Let me see if this is a story that he copied and linked, maybe.
	It came first from the national report, whatever that is.
	Okay, he probably copied it.
	But he did copy it on the drudge report.
	It had long suspected that ISIS videos were being produced from an outside source due to their above average production value, but no one had imagined an American production company could somehow be involved.
	Well, yeah.
	I think we had imagined that.
	But then he talks about this company, which was the Final Solution Productions, and their website, finalsolutionproductions.com, which pretty much is like a parking site now.
	Oh, here it is.
	Finalsolutionsproductions.com.
	Sounds like a red herring.
	At Sunset and Vine.
	Oh, bullcrap.
	Yeah, that's not where any production companies are.
	But here's who we are.
	If you're looking for a fun group of people to help create your next commercial, you've come to the right place.
	Apparently, they did arrest people, according to this report.
	FBI special agents arrested with the Department of Homeland Security.
	Eight people being held to suspects in distributing and creating terrorist propaganda are awaiting formal charges.
	I don't know.
	The way they apparently caught it, according to one source, is authorities learned of video elements being sent via encrypted FTP servers to a producer, quote, somewhere in the United States.
	Tech experts tell us that once a server containing this media could be intercepted, it wouldn't take long for someone with the right resources to be able to track the IP address of where it was ultimately being delivered.
	I don't know...
	How real that is?
	It's a funny idea.
	It's long been suspected that the ISIS videos were produced from an outside source due to the above average production value.
	But no one had ever imagined an American production company could somehow be involved.
	That changed last night when authorities moved in and raided Final Solution Productions.
	A production company off the famous intersection of Sunset and Vine.
	Yeah.
	Sunset and Vine?
	That's where the Mevio thing was, wasn't it?
	No, that was Hollywood and Vine.
	Oh, right.
	I was thinking the same thing.
	Ron Bloom.
	Bite-sized TV. What are we going to do for business?
	I know.
	Let's produce videos for these guys.
	That would be pretty funny.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	But that's the only report I've seen about it.
	Nothing else.
	It came and it shows up everywhere.
	The same exact report is a national report.
	It's one of those word for word things.
	It seems like a I don't know.
	It's like an underground of news sources.
	It's on national.
	It's in the national report.
	It's on above top secret.
	Same report.
	It's on.
	Yeah.
	I guess it's only two.
	This hasn't gotten a lot of play if they're trying to get publicity.
	Here it is, Hollywood producing 1260info, which is apparently some news site.
	I have no idea what that is.
	Huh.
	What the hell is this one?
	Posted by Svetina 2.
	Less than 10 minutes to go, okay?
	Okay.
	Let's do this real quick.
	E-bola.
	E-bola.
	We come from Africa.
	Major Ebola drug trial cancelled.
	Pharma company Chimerix, who had a nice little pop on their stock, is unable to find sufficient patients for its trial in Liberia of the antiviral drug Brincidofovir.
	So they're canceling that.
	Gee, do you think this whole thing was a scam?
	You think?
	The president now talking about bringing back our troops who were there.
	It's amazing.
	We licked it, I guess.
	Yeah, well, I still have some troops there just in case.
	We're certainly not going to bring everybody back.
	Yeah, we need them there.
	But can we now, can everybody just admit that it was a scam for the elections?
	That's what it was used for?
	To show whatever?
	Well, it showed our resolve.
	Can you open the climate gate?
	I have a report.
	I would love to open the climate gate.
	This is always good.
	Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	It's been a while.
	Every week, every show for the last five shows, I had one of these reports, and this time I wasn't going to let it go by, which is, you know, some of the climate change information out there, the global warming in particular.
	And the report is East Coast chill, in case people in other parts of the world don't know what's going on.
	A deep freeze of the winter of 2015 tightened its grip today across much of the eastern U.S. In the process, it left a legacy inscribed in ice across rivers and record books alike.
	Morning commuters in Washington faced a bone-chilling walk to work.
	It's freezing.
	It's like freezing, freezing.
	Have you ever seen it this cold in D.C.? No, never.
	I was born and raised here.
	I've never, ever seen it this cold.
	No one else had either.
	The official low in the nation's capital dropped to six degrees, breaking a record set in 1896.
	And even icing over the tidal basin around the Jefferson Memorial.
	The story was the same up and down the East Coast.
	It was two degrees in New York City's Central Park, breaking a 1950 mark of seven degrees.
	Trenton, New Jersey hit zero, surpassing the low of six degrees set in 1936.
	And in Baltimore, the reading was two degrees, erasing the record set in 1979.
	The Arctic air made for spectacular sights.
	The Delaware River in Pennsylvania was frozen as far as the eye could see.
	And wind chills around Philadelphia plunged to minus 25.
	I have like four to five layers under this, a sweater, fleece.
	Climate change is real!
	It's real!
	Yeah.
	Climate change.
	Ice age.
	Yeah.
	No, you can't.
	It's gotten so nutty.
	In fact, Sir Gene just sent me a picture of the cover of the new National Geographic.
	Which I presume he subscribes to.
	So it's the actual printed version.
	National Geographic March 2015.
	The War on Science.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's the clip I had last show.
	There's two people talking.
	That one guy was the guy who wrote that article.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	So here, on the cover, climate change does not exist.
	Evolution never happened.
	The moon landing was fake.
	Vaccinations can lead to autism.
	Genetically modified food is evil.
	The war on science!
	And here is, in the midst of all of this, and he's sitting, I think, in the...
	I don't know if it's CBS, not CBS. In one of the morning news programs, entertainment programs.
	Bill Nye, science guy.
	Climate guy.
	Climate guy.
	Split screen.
	Him on the right.
	On the left...
	Nothing but footage of snow, and big snow, and snow, and cold, and freezing snow, and here's what he says.
	What I would hope for, my dream, Joy, dream, is that you all, you and the news business, would just say the word climate change, just like it could be climate change.
	It's a possible connection to climate change.
	Is this evidence of climate change?
	Can you just toss that in now and then?
	I would like to toss it in every single time.
	I think it's MSNBC, actually.
	That's Joy Reed.
	I would like to toss it in every single time.
	The other thing I would say, I know MSNBC is in many ways regarded as a progressive station as opposed to a conservative, I say station, news organization.
	I will say to the conservatives, We need you.
	This is to say, we can't have everybody be a progressive, liberal, bleeding heart, and so on and so on.
	We need people on both sides.
	But if the conservative side is going to continue to deny what 97% of the scientists in the world are saying, we're not going to reach a consensus.
	We are not going to make progress.
	I throw in one more thing.
	People say to me all the time, what can I do about climate change?
	Just talk about it.
	If we were talking about it, we'd raise awareness and we would get to work.
	And I, as a guy born in the U.S., would like the U.S. to be leading this effort.
	Okay, now wait for this ending.
	She's annoyed that he's going on.
	He's doing more and more and more.
	And then she does something at the end which I'm just going to start using.
	President's Day.
	Let's go.
	Let's leave.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Still not a science guy.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Come on, John.
	Let's say it.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	You gotta say, you gotta kind of get the cadence.
	Amen, fist bump.
	I can't get to the cadence of that.
	I can't do it without sounding like an idiot.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Anyone sounds like an idiot who says that.
	Amen, fist bump.
	That's the show title.
	Amen. Fist bump. Amen. Fist bump. Amen. Fist bump. Amen.
	Fist bump.
	God.
	Amen, fist bump.
	No, he doesn't want people to talk about it.
	He doesn't want any discussion.
	He wants as goes.
	There's no discussion.
	Bill Maher, I wish I had this clip.
	It was like one of these things I couldn't bring myself to clip in it.
	I don't know why.
	I don't understand how these news organizations can't just talk about climate change more.
	More.
	We don't talk about it enough.
	Oh, man.
	Now the Republicans are going to investigate the climate change data tampering by NASA. Ow!
	What did you just do?
	Oh, that wasn't too good.
	Something fell.
	Don't worry, I'm okay.
	Part of the...
	Oh, yeah, well...
	Part of the...
	My soundproofing fell down.
	Oh, did it hit you in the head?
	No.
	No, I'm good.
	Let's hope not.
	Amen, fist bump.
	What do you say, John?
	Amen, fist bump, man.
	Amen, fist bump.
	I think we just...
	That's the word of the day.
	I'm going to show myself all by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Amen, fist bump.
	Okay, we do have some people to thank for show 698.
	Can you do this while I'm reconstructing stuff?
	Yes, because I do have to read Donald Winkler's note.
	Donald Winkler sent an email in between after he just donated 234-2222, something like that.
	He's the one where I sent you the link.
	I read the wrong note.
	He said, sorry to interrupt you, but you read the wrong message.
	Here again is my complete message for my donation, which we do read all the donations over $200, and here it is.
	It's his 40th birthday on Sunday, 222.
	Do we have that on the list?
	I'm doing something here.
	I specifically asked you if you could wait while I did this.
	Oh yeah, I'm brain dead.
	I'm sorry.
	Alright, hold on.
	What's his name now?
	Donald Winkler.
	Winkler.
	Winkler.
	Yes, he's 40 today.
	We have him on the list.
	Okay, now go do your thing.
	Alright, good.
	So I thought I'd give myself a big step toward my knighthood as a gift.
	And become the associate executive producer for show 698.
	Please include me in the birthday wishes, which you did, and play me the Ebola Calypso, followed by her head is gone and some karma for the rest of my life.
	We're going to put that at the end of the whole read.
	So we'll put those things.
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	And we will, you are on the birthday list and we'll take care of that shortly.
	Now, the regular donors in this group include Zach in Salt Lake City, $133.33.
	And he only wants to be called Zach Ansela, Ansela van de Leste in Amsterdam, $111.
	She is, remember we did the birthday shout out for her man Paul who did the Obama Team America jingle and something went wrong with her payment.
	So this is, her make good, she came through as promised.
	1-11-11.
	Patrick Mangan in Tacoma, Washington, 100.
	Keith McColpin in Imperial, Pennsylvania, 100.
	There's a lot of hunters today.
	It's unusual.
	Mark of the Great Northwest of...
	Mark?
	What?
	Mark of the Great Northwest...
	Sir Mark, I guess, of Indiana.
	Oh, he's going to be working on it.
	He sent a note in requesting a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	No problem.
	Meanwhile, Rob in Colorado Springs sent $100 in, and he did send a note in that it needs reading because it's pertinent as opposed to just non-pertinent, which...
	Getting drunk and listening to 697, I felt compelled to donate because of your mention of the Toyota pickups.
	Ah!
	I have been rebuilding a 93 Hilux for a couple of years.
	It's the Toyota of terrorist choice.
	Yes.
	I bought it cheap and used it for work.
	This thing, he says this thing in caps, this thing is built like a tank and I can essentially work on the entire thing with a box of hand tools.
	Yeah, this is what you want when you're in the desert.
	It'll be a well-engineered, easy-to-fix product.
	But doesn't ISIS just go to the dealership when something's wrong?
	He says, I listen to the show while I work on this truck.
	I have to laugh every time you bring up these trucks.
	Anyways, he says, here is some money.
	I would like to have gone to $9.99, but he sent in a $100 bill saying cash.
	He says you asked for cash, so we got cash, which is not common, but we do get it once in a while.
	It goes into the bank as such.
	Mm-hmm.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	That would be George Bush, because we don't need blankets and water.
	Brandon St.
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	Douchebag check.
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	These are all the $70 donors.
	There's 700 dimes.
	Vavello in Eindhoven, Holland, 70.
	And these are 70.
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	We've got some karma for you at the end.
	Paul St.
	Laurent in Renton, Washington.
	And Mascom Rudolph in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
	That's nice.
	We've got some Slovenians listening.
	Job Karma, we'll get that on.
	What was it?
	Ex-Gridstore employees?
	Gridstore.
	Oh, that's the next one.
	I'm sorry.
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	And we've got some Job Karma for the ex-Gridstore employees.
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	Thank you for the outstanding work you both do on a regular basis.
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	Okay.
	Douchebag!
	And?
	Butch?
	Oh, Butch, sorry.
	Douchebag!
	Andy?
	Andy.
	Oh!
	Douchebag!
	We're all long-time listeners like myself who rarely ever donate.
	Okay.
	Nailed them.
	Sir Kevin Payne in Chantilly, Virginia, 5069.
	And the rest of these are $50 donations from Andrew Martin in Torella, New South Wales.
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	And the next donation came in from Benjamin Smith in Oakland, California.
	Part of the random number thesis.
	Those people and everyone that gave less from us would like to thank for providing Producing and helping us with show 698.
	And remember, we've got another 699 coming up, and then we're going to hit 700.
	Big day.
	Yes.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Always happy to bring this to you.
	Very happy to have people supporting the show.
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	Under $50, most of it for anonymity purposes, but also thank you for those on...
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	We appreciate all of it.
	Thursday will be another show.
	Lots more to deconstruct since we're under full-on assault and attack of bullcrap from the Ministry of Truth.
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	And on the list today, as we discussed earlier, Donald Winkler turning 4-0, Ryan 41 today, and our buddy, our man from the NoAgendaCD.com series, Sir Ramsey our man from the NoAgendaCD.com series, Sir Ramsey Cain.
	Happy birthday to all of you from your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Ramsey...
	I forget how old he was.
	Ramsey.
	I think he sent it in a note.
	And he's never requested a birthday shout-out.
	Yeah, there's a number of people that do that.
	And at some point, they do.
	And he said he's never done it before.
	He's been around with us forever.
	Sir Ramsey.
	This guy.
	Sir Ramsey.
	34 today.
	34.
	And then we have, let's see, Sir Philip Smith, as discussed, becomes a baronet of, is he of Oslo today?
	Is that what, if I recall correctly?
	I believe so.
	Let's just double check.
	So the peerage will be updated, itm.im slash peerage.
	Yeah, he will be the Sir Philip Smith, baronet of Oslo.
	Perfect.
	And then if we can just get our swords out for a moment here.
	There you go.
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	Eric DeShill says the new rings should be here in about two weeks.
	Mid-March, I think?
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	Three weeks?
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	Yeah.
	Very good.
	And the rings will be out.
	Yeah.
	And can you add, since we had a associate executive producer make this request, add these to the end of the show?
	The Ebola Calypso, followed by her head is gone?
	Okay, Ebola Calypso, her head is gone.
	Right, plus the new bomb them thing, I guess.
	Yeah, we can do that.
	We can do that for sure.
	I think this was tweeted earlier in the week, and I just wanted to Circle around to this particular story so people know what's going on.
	This is about Mars 1.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, and it...
	Yeah, good.
	I'm glad you're talking about this, because I kept looking at this thing, and they had this all over CCTV, too, by the way.
	Really?
	Yes.
	So what we had here in Austin, headline, former Austinite could be one of the first people to live on Mars.
	And so this outfit called Mars One is...
	By the way, I want to stop you for a second.
	This is the dumbest...
	Publicity stunt I've ever seen for, I guess it's going to be a reality show.
	And the clues are everywhere.
	First of all, it's a Dutch organization.
	Let me tell you something.
	Dutch not so well known for their space exploration.
	Just low on the space totem pole.
	But if you look at who's in this outfit, which is very fun to see, that you have the original executive producer of Endemol's Big Brother, This program is one of the advisors.
	They actually have a pretty good list.
	This is one of these scams very similar to the space, you know, the Richard Branson flying space thing.
	Here's how the scam works.
	You promise that you're going to be, you are buying a ticket to do something outrageous, like in this case, it's a one-way ticket to Mars.
	But really what is going to...
	Well, first let me explain what happens in the regular scam.
	This is a variant.
	So you pay $100,000 for your ticket, and then you go through a number of training exercises, which means you get on the Vomit Comet, which is the zero-G plane.
	You're paying an extra $20,000 for that weekend.
	It's really for rich people to feel good about being rich.
	And doing all kinds of fun things with other rich people.
	It's questionable if you'll ever actually get on some plane and fly into space.
	With this particular one, I like this a little bit better because they've already done an elimination round and it's not about how much money you can bring in because the money in this Mars One outfit, in fact, here's the business.
	They have a page, mars-one.com.
	What is the Mars One business model?
	Well, let's take a look.
	They actually just spell it out here.
	What's the website again?
	Mars-oneone.com.
	Mars One will be humankind's mission to Mars.
	When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, the whole world was watching.
	Too bad we don't have the video anymore.
	In the next decade, about 4 billion people will have access to video images.
	Mars One expects that virtually every one of them will watch when the first humans land on Mars.
	Mars One intends to gain funds to send humans and cargo to Mars by using a variety of ways.
	As Mars One is a private and not a governmental initiative, it gives anyone interested in the mission the possibility to cooperate in realizing the mission.
	This is never going to happen.
	The targeted means of funding are as follows.
	Exclusive partnerships...
	Let's look at the partners who we have here.
	Oh, yeah.
	We have good partners here.
	We have Lockheed Martin.
	We've got Paragon Space Development.
	We've got Talis Space.
	This is great.
	It really is government money that's slush-funded through.
	Sponsorships?
	Hey, maybe we get no agenda on, like, a logo on the Mars...
	Or one of those pods.
	Yeah.
	The No Agenda Pod.
	And here it is.
	Sales of broadcast rights.
	Yeah, this is really what it is.
	Oh, and another part of their business model, says you're right in the list, involvement with high net worth individuals.
	Yeah, that's your business model, taking money from high net worth individuals.
	But if you look down below, their money is really coming majority from broadcast revenues.
	Then they have domestic sponsorship, ticketing, licensing, and they expect to do $8 million just up until, I guess, they start to build the training mission.
	Now, I'm going to stop you for a second here, because I'm looking at their page and reading this.
	It seems to me, of course, they've got this little sales pitch, and they say, astronaut selection and preparation.
	In a thousand years, they say, everyone on Earth will still remember, if there's anyone left on Earth, by the way, will still remember who the first humans on Mars were.
	More than 200,000 men and women from around the world responded to the first call for astronauts.
	So, let me get this straight.
	Supposedly, and I actually believe this is possible.
	200,000 people decide they would rather take a one-way trip to Mars than continue living their life the way they're living it, whatever it is.
	Which seems like a bigger threat than these ISIS recruiters.
	And Kerry should say something about this.
	These people are dangerous.
	These people are crazy.
	I'd rather take a one-way trip to Mars than continue this crappy job in Google.
	This reality show, and again, if you look at the people who are involved, this is a reality show.
	They're selling the broadcast rights.
	They will build several Earth-based simulation outposts for training, technology, tryouts, and evaluation.
	This is what's called selling the format.
	Probably the first televised version will be in the Netherlands, and they'll have these pods, and it'll be Big Brother meets Survivor meets Expedition Robinson.
	It's all the same thing.
	But for some reason, this has grasped, the mainstream media has taken this and is all in on believing this is real, and the people are volunteering to go to Mars.
	One way.
	That's my best, that's the best part of it.
	One way.
	What if you want to come back?
	No, no, I've decided to take an optionless life.
	I'm going to make a decision that I cannot rescind ever.
	It's like getting a tattoo, by the way.
	So this is from the Austin paper.
	If chosen, this is our Austinite, Van Meter will have to leave her director's position at Austin-based Stanford-Kaskey, her family and home planet for good.
	The potential colony will be a permanent one, meaning the Mars One crew will not be returning to Earth.
	She's a hero.
	There are still few obstacles that Van Meter must face before she can call Mars her new home.
	Dubbed the Mars 100, Van Meter and the rest of the finalists will take on a series of team-building tests and simulations, all of which will be the focus of a, oh, reality series.
	In a moving column in Texas Monthly, Van Meter's husband, Jason Stanford, discusses the potential voyage and the loss of his wife.
	This has got to be great for a married couple.
	Honey, I'm sick of this relationship.
	I'm going to Mars on a one-way trip.
	I will mourn her a million times before she dies.
	You know, if somebody went to Paris on a one-way trip, I think it would make some sense.
	This is so good.
	I will mourn her a million times before she dies.
	I will not like any of this, but I love her.
	And this is a horizon worth crossing.
	Like those astronaut wives before me, I shall man up.
	Oh, God.
	He didn't say that.
	Yes, it's right here.
	He said I'll man up?
	Yeah, like those astronaut wives before me, I will man up.
	Oh, fist bump.
	Amen, fist bump, brother.
	Yay.
	My goodness.
	It's serious.
	People...
	I mean, are they morons?
	Yeah, I guess.
	Why am I even asking?
	Yes, they are.
	But if anybody's all in on this bull crap and you brought this up the way you just did...
	Oh, yeah.
	Negative Nelly.
	Yeah, you.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I suppose you don't believe in global warming either.
	I got an interesting letter from somebody that was kind of like brought up a point I had never considered.
	Ah, I know exactly what this is.
	Yes, and I'm going to read it.
	This is from one of our...
	Producers, Zach Brown.
	Have you, hey John and Adam, have you seen a dramatic rise, or I have seen a dramatic rise with my friends on social media that are being sucked into the propaganda of science, especially with the movement of mandated vaccinations?
	Yeah, well we talked about the adult vaccination program and all the rest of the last show.
	Every time someone starts yakking about how we need government legislation to force vaccinations in order to save helpless children who are vulnerable and could die, I tend to find them to be pro-choice as well.
	If you mention all the discussion, once I ask them how someone who is adamantly pro-choice completely disregards their own beliefs when applied to vaccinations, according to them, government should stay out of my body, right?
	Then the conversation ends.
	Thanks for a great show that keeps me sane.
	I never considered that, but that is a good one.
	That many of the people who, because they're all in for government, this and government's control of schools and, you know, federal Trump state and all the rest of the nonsense.
	And they're all pro-choice, but, oh, we need vaccinations.
	We have to, this should be government mandated.
	It's just exactly right.
	It's crazy.
	This is the insanity of people who are politically left, right, or anything that they're, you know, solidly entrenched in, and they don't think in a broader sense of what you try to do on our show.
	Yeah, it's a bit like the, if you believe in climate change, a man-made global warming resulting in climate change, there's a high probability someone who really is all in on that also believes in peak oil.
	At which point I say, don't worry.
	It's all going to end.
	It doesn't matter.
	Yeah, this is the knee-jerk checklist version.
	You find checklists for the right and checklists for the left.
	And, you know, once you start being on one of those check, check, check, check the boxes, it makes it very difficult to have a reasonable conversation with anybody else besides the group which you've subscribed to.
	Well, I'm very worried, though, about this just turning into calling people signs deniers.
	Oh, yeah, no, if you don't like this Mars thing.
	You're denying science, yes.
	You probably don't believe in evolution.
	Is that Mars rover still in New Mexico?
	Did they stop sending stuff back?
	Well, I once shot the picture of the dead cow head.
	That was the end of it.
	Bill Clinton was on some forum...
	And he said something that I thought was interesting about...
	I think it was saying, hey, Mexico, there's a lot of crap and we actually were responsible for some of it.
	It was about the war on drugs.
	And just listen to the actual words he's using here.
	I know you're frustrated.
	I wish you had no narco trafficking.
	But it's not really your fault.
	Basically, we did too good a job of taking the transportation out of the air and water.
	And so we ran it over land.
	I apologize for that.
	We ran it.
	Yeah.
	Play that again.
	What did he even say?
	We took the transportation out of the air and water, transporting illegal drugs?
	I believe what he meant to say, or the intent was, I apologize, we did too good a job of stopping the drug trade from Mexico to the United States over air and water, and instead we ran it over land.
	Sorry about that, as though he's part of it.
	Frustrated, I wish you had no narco-trafficking.
	But it's not really your fault.
	Basically, we did too good a job of taking the transportation out of the air and water, and so we ran an overland.
	I apologize for that.
	Is he like the Midian cartel now?
	Well, they're long gone.
	I mean, now we have...
	have.
	I had this clip on the last show on the show before, at least two shows ago, and we just never got to playing it, which is Guzman being arrested, and then a whole bunch of Sinaloa guys going down.
	And this has not been discussed by us since we had the accusation by the guy who was arrested and brought to Chicago, who claims that the Sinaloa cartel is in bed with the Justice Department.
	And if you can find that clip, it'd be nice, at least a little background on Guzman.
	Let's see what I have here.
	It's called what?
	Guzman.
	Guzman.
	Guzman and the prosecutor?
	I don't know, maybe.
	Where will they continue?
	Does it make a difference?
	Is that the one?
	No.
	No.
	I don't know what that is.
	I don't know what that is.
	Well, Guzman brought down the cartel.
	I was thinking about this, and I wish I had that clip.
	But the cartel seems to be under duress, especially a couple years ago when they made these accusations that the whole thing was a scam and we were running guns.
	Our people were running guns.
	I'm almost of the opinion that the deal fell apart because once that I don't know.
	I think it's our guys who just said, you know, we can't put up with this.
	You've embarrassed us.
	We've got guys trying, they're an indicting holder.
	They're putting it, you know, contempt of Congress.
	Right.
	They haven't pursued it because the prosecutors in Washington, D.C. can't, they just won't do it.
	Right.
	But I think this is a payback.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, we will discuss this more in a future show.
	Yeah, it's just one of those things that's cropped up and it's like, wow, okay.
	I do like catching him and just making note of it.
	With the no agenda, I always call it no agenda thinking, we can come up with these alternate conclusions which actually make more sense.
	Yes.
	Meanwhile, Ashley, everyone's calling him Ash.
	Ash.
	It's Ashton.
	I think it's Ashton.
	It's Ashley, which is a girl's name.
	No, it's Ashton.
	It's not Ashley.
	It's Ashton.
	Oh, I thought it was Ashley.
	No, it's Ashton.
	Oh, it's not Ashley.
	It's Ashton.
	But we just call him Ash.
	So they call him Ash.
	Mm-hmm.
	The big Ash.
	They had something to say about, apparently, the idea that we're going to go in and out of this ISIS thing and...
	Well, he's the one that is waiting for the sign-off of the authorization for use of military force.
	He's the one that is, in fact, the president did something very interesting.
	Let me see if I can find this.
	There was, I think, today, I saw some kind of memorandum thingy.
	Hold on.
	Where did that go?
	I'll play your Ash clip and then I'll see if I can find this memorandum.
	The new U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has clarified that there is no time frame for the operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL. His comments came after two Republican senators criticized CENTCOM for revealing operational details.
	That is one that will be Iraqi-led and U.S. supported.
	And it's important that it be launched at a time when it can succeed.
	And so I think the important thing is that it'll get done when it can be done successfully.
	And even if I knew exactly when that was going to be, I wouldn't tell you.
	Because I'm now, I have clearance.
	I don't have to talk to you.
	I think your thing about, and I think your original take on this, we're taking a new tact in getting Syria.
	I think you're coming around at every kind of different angle.
	Ran into this interesting clip.
	This is a UN guy.
	Somebody asked a question from one of the outlets, and this weird kind of petite...
	The guy's talking as a petite male.
	He's about...
	Looks like he's about 5'2".
	Very thin.
	Classic petite male.
	Like Richard Marks.
	The clip is you and guy with the lists.
	Your lists of perpetrators.
	What sort of impact, if you decide to publish, could that have?
	To date, we have prepared four lists which have been submitted to the UN High Commission of Human Rights for Safekeeping in the safe.
	We are also considering today, this month and next month, the pros and cons of whether or not to release the lists.
	I hope I'm not on the lists.
	Now, the lists are lists of war crimes, supposedly, that are being done by the Syrians.
	And then the follow-up question, which is Syria Part 2, about the lists...
	Describing the Commission as biased.
	Are you worried that key officials of your government, of the military, even the name of President Assad might be on that list?
	All this propaganda aims at diabolising the Syrian government and misleading the public opinion.
	They did it in the past and they will do it in the future.
	The commission has repeatedly asked for the situation in Syria to be referred to the International That's never going to happen, though, because Russia will use its veto here in the Security Council.
	So now, for the first time, it's asking for the urgent consideration of the idea of setting up an ad hoc tribunal.
	In other words, a special court for Syria.
	Oh, interesting.
	Okay.
	We can't do the old-fashioned way.
	Let's just set up a shaggy report.
	Let's find him guilty.
	Well, here's the presidential memorandum the president signed, which I have not seen anyone talk about.
	But they have an RSS feed, so it comes through.
	It's funny.
	It's called journalism.
	autism.
	Presidential Memorandum Determination and Waiver Pursuant to Section 1209 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. Buck McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015.
	This is important.
	It's a setup.
	Determination and waiver.
	Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including Section 1209 of the CAR 11...
	Hereby, I determine that sections 40 and 40A of the Arms Export Control Act, section 2249 or A of Title 10 U.S. Code and chapter 137 of Title 10 U.S. Code would impede national security objectives of the United States by prohibiting, restricting, section 2249 or A of Title 10 U.S. Code and chapter 137 of Title 10 U.S. Code would impede national security objectives of
	What are stipends?
	Cash.
	Palace of money.
	Construction of training and associated facilities and sustainment to appropriately vetted elements of the Syrian opposition and other appropriately vetted Syrian groups and individuals, and I hereby waive said provisions of law to the extent necessary to allow the Department of Defense, with the coordination of the Department of State, to carry out the purposes of Section 1209 of the NDAA fiscal year 2015.
	And this is exactly how it was written.
	He just says, you know what?
	All bets are off.
	We can now, instead of not being allowed to send all of that stuff, including pallets of money, you can now do it.
	You, Kerry, and you, Ash, you guys go ahead and set it up.
	And it's pretty damn broad.
	Appropriately vetted elements.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Didn't we do this in what's called Iran-Contra, and it was all wrong, and now we do it, and it's okay?
	Appropriately embedded elements?
	Better than back then.
	That was an experiment.
	Yeah, we didn't know what we were doing.
	It was all wrong.
	Yeah, no, they didn't do a very good job.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	All right.
	If you got one more, I... I do have one.
	I might as well just run this one out.
	All right, then we'll go.
	Um...
	Because, you know, the red carpet's starting.
	I have to be ready.
	Yeah, you gotta get down there.
	Gotta see what people are wearing.
	Who are you wearing today, John?
	Who are you wearing?
	Are you wearing Croc?
	I'm wearing Target.
	South Sudan.
	This is a story that I just never heard anyplace else, and I just thought I'd run it out there, which is in South Sudan.
	And by the way, at the end...
	Ask yourself, where's Kony?
	Armed groups raided a South Sudanese school and abducted 89 children.
	This is according to the United Nations Children's Agency, UNICEF. The kidnappings occurred near Malakal, where thousands of people have taken refuge following months of violence in the nation.
	Citing witnesses, the statement added that armed men surrounded the community and searched house by house, forcibly taking boys older than 12.
	It is not clear which group carried out the abductions.
	Watchdog groups have persistently accused South Sudan's warring factions of actively recruiting and using child soldiers.
	Hmm.
	Where's Kony?
	That's nowhere near Sudan.
	He's in Uganda.
	I'm just saying.
	This child thing is another group of them.
	They can't even catch Kony.
	No.
	Oh boy.
	Okay.
	One last clip.
	Yeah, okay.
	I have RT again needling the...
	I just love these clips, by the way.
	Needling the British educational systems for being a bunch of a-hole, censor-oriented, politically correct bozos.
	Free speech in British university campuses is in danger of being silenced.
	A new survey shows UK educational institutions are pulling the plug on debates and societies they deem controversial, often going far beyond an illegal requirement.
	RT's Polly Boyker investigates.
	They're supposed to be bastions of free speech, but according to new research, Britain's universities are becoming citadels of censorship instead.
	A survey for Spiked magazine found that 80% of the UK's colleges had restricted freedom of expression.
	The Sun's been banned from over 30...
	Well, that's the place you should...
	Ban freedom of expression.
	Schools and colleges.
	You can't have any free thought going on there.
	People got to get programmed with the message.
	What is going on?
	Free speech in British...
	Oh, sorry.
	Didn't mean to roll it back that far.
	Damn.
	...they deem controversial, often going far beyond an illegal requirement.
	RT's Polly Boyker investigates.
	They're supposed to be bastions of free speech, but according to new research, Britain's universities are becoming citadels of censorship instead.
	A survey for Spiked magazine found that 80% of the UK's colleges had restricted freedom of expression.
	The Sun's been banned from over 30 unis because the tabloid's traditional page 3 feature contains topless models.
	Sombreros and Native American outfits aren't welcome in Birmingham University.
	They're deemed too racist.
	And budding pole dancers should avoid Swansea University after the student union voted to outlaw the fitness trend on campus because of its links to the sex industry.
	It's broadly from any type of political affiliation that could be seen as that bit offensive, and I think that's the most troubling thing.
	A lot of students go to university because they want to get involved in politics, involved in kind of political contestation, whereas now students are going, they're finding that they can't form the societies that they want to, that they can't hold controversial debates.
	For example, students at Oxford University didn't get to discuss abortion after a debate by a pro-life pressure group was shelved because the university's women's campaign threatened to disrupt it.
	Euthanasia!
	Comedian Kate Smirthwaite's...
	A stand-up show at Goldsmiths University was scrapped the day before it was meant to take place.
	Ironically, it was about free speech.
	And suddenly it was cancelled.
	I would get that if we were talking about, you know, these sort of extremists.
	You know, I've heard about people having sort of extremist, fundamentalist Muslim speakers who demand that the audience be segregated by gender.
	But we're not talking about that.
	We're talking about, you know, feminists and social justice campaigners and human rights campaigners.
	Being told, oh well, you know, we think that your attitude towards this is the wrong one.
	Last summer, University College London's Nietzsche Club put posters around the university asking if there was too much political correctness.
	Well, they never got to answer that question because they were barred from holding their meetings here.
	The Union Council ruled that discussing Mussolini's favourite philosopher could encourage fascism.
	In fact, the wrong attitude could also get students into trouble with the law.
	The government's new counter-terrorism and security bill obliges lecturers to report students they think could be drawn towards terrorism.
	Oh, my God.
	You know, I had this this morning.
	And with this report, I'll just read this to you.
	François Hollande has pushed through new legislation in France Forcing internet service providers to block terrorist or child pornography content within 24 hours or face potential fines.
	So whatever that means.
	How do you do that?
	Yeah, well, website, blog, whatever it is.
	And I was watching the clip of Bill Clinton.
	And I thought for a moment, I thought, you know, because I get most of my clips from the web.
	Unlike you, you get a lot of your stuff from the TV itself.
	You got your whole setup there.
	Most of my stuff comes from web-based things.
	And I thought, but even if it was from the TV, maybe none of this is real.
	Maybe this is a big game.
	Like the Matrix, you know?
	It's just...
	Who knows?
	How can I know if any of it is real anymore?
	Does that make any sense?
	No.
	That's good.
	I like it, though.
	I was like, maybe this is all just fake.
	I don't know.
	This is the codeine finally kicking in.
	It's kicking in, ladies and gentlemen.
	Okay.
	Party!
	All right, everybody.
	Okay.
	Well, we're going to keep the feet on the street, boots on the ground, and ankles behind the ears to make sure we...
	What?
	Feet in the water.
	Feet in the water, yeah.
	To make sure that we are on the lookout for you as guardians of reality.
	I'm the prophet known as Adam Curry.
	And the lack of prophet...
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	Something I wanted to talk about.
	Magnetic loops?
	Science.
	It's science.
	Just to prove that I don't hate science.
	Coming to you from the Crackpot Condo in downtown Austin Tejas in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
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