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	They don't know anything.
	They're idiots.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, March 12, 2015.
	Time for your Get My Nation media assassination episode 703.
	This is No Agenda.
	Broadcasting live from the trenches of the Cold War.
	From Rotterdam, the Netherlands in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from old northern Silicon Valley, here I stand.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	You stand there, my friend.
	I'm standing here.
	You stand there.
	John, I hate to say it, well, I don't hate to say it, but I have been here for a few days now.
	I'm still not over the jet lag entirely, but I have reports and I have feedback and information from the lowlands here in the trenches of the Cold War.
	So you're enjoying it now?
	You finally get into the grooves, get your Dutch back to full tilt, and you're all there yakking away with the locals?
	Yeah, it's been okay.
	Well, Christina and I speak English, and I've been with her quite a bit.
	But, see, I visited Lex.
	Remember Lex, my buddy with the Warhols?
	Lex, the guy with all the good art.
	Yeah, but I visited his land house.
	He used to stay at his place.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah.
	But now I stayed overnight at his place in the country.
	Oh, he has a place in the country.
	I had never seen the Liechtenstein collection.
	Is that a walking distance place in the country?
	No, no, no.
	Joke about the size of the country.
	Never mind.
	Hey, yo.
	Hey, yo.
	I hear you.
	But I also spent a nice evening.
	I didn't sleep overnight, but I spent a nice evening at dinner with my first wife.
	Oh, you did now?
	Yeah, of course I did.
	Well, the word is, you're getting back together.
	Not just that.
	I've already sent my stuff.
	It's on our way.
	I said, you better make room.
	What paper had that report?
	It was the weekend.
	The Telegraph.
	They're the only ones that get this stuff right.
	Yay, Telegraph.
	Hey, did you tweet, man?
	Did you tweet?
	Did you retweet?
	No, I didn't.
	I used to do that.
	Yeah, Void Zero's like, hey, man, our turnout's not high enough on the live stream.
	John didn't tweet.
	Anyway, that was actually nice.
	I said, hey, I've got an idea.
	How about you...
	I said, how about you...
	Don't talk to the press about us anymore!
	What do you think?
	What do you think?
	She must have looked quizzical when you said that.
	She actually...
	Really?
	What?
	And her head went back and forth.
	No, her head cocked to the left.
	Like, really?
	What?
	She's alright.
	But that was actually...
	Oh, you're good.
	Yeah, it was good.
	It was good.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, great.
	I'm glad you guys are getting back together.
	And apparently I'm moving here because I don't know how to make any money.
	Which is true, of course.
	They're like, oh, poor guy podcasting at damn Shaq.
	He has to come back and be a DJ on the radio again.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	Yeah, what would you do there?
	Kill myself.
	I've got another week to go.
	But it's nice because I'm seeing all kinds of people I haven't seen in a long while.
	And I'm getting lots of information.
	Remember, Lex is...
	Well, I think actually they are married because they got married...
	An Islam marriage.
	Your wife and Lex?
	No, not my wife.
	His girlfriend, they went to Iran.
	But they couldn't stay in the same hotel room or even be anywhere near each other if they weren't married.
	So he went to one of the mullahs in the Netherlands and got married so they could do that.
	So his wife, I'll say.
	But she's Iranian.
	And we've talked about her before when I was in Bonaire.
	She's got all the inside dirt.
	Because she goes there four times a year and visits her mom.
	Oh, so she's keeping up with the gossip.
	Hell yeah.
	First of all, she says the Iranian people actually no longer know what the hell is going on.
	She says it's weird.
	They always knew that the U.S. and Iran were playing a game and playing together to do stuff.
	And now the word is from Iran is...
	The word on the street.
	The word on the street.
	Which you'll never get on any other show, I want to remind everyone listening.
	Correct.
	And this comes mainly from a source, Al-Khazan.
	And I'm not quite sure of it.
	I'm just saying it.
	Anyone could help me out in finding out if this is reliable or not.
	Is that the U.S. actually wants Iran to build a nuke to help them with the Syrian problem.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This is good.
	Well, it fits in with what Mike Morrell said, that this 5,000 centrifuges or whatever the measure was, was actually more than enough to make a bomb.
	It was just enough to build a bomb and not to do what you could.
	Right, right.
	We had that clip.
	Yeah.
	And that clip was something of an anomaly, if you think about it.
	He was baffled by it.
	He said, why are you going to do this?
	You're leaving him enough centrifuges just to build a bomb and not do much else.
	Well, that's an interesting twist.
	I could probably find that clip if we wanted to play it.
	Maybe not a big deal.
	Yeah, if you could find it.
	That's an interesting twist.
	Let's come back to the deal, right?
	So I don't think the focus should be on the number of centrifuges.
	In fact, there's a great irony here.
	5,000 centrifuges is, if you're just going to have a nuclear weapons program, 5,000 centrifuges is pretty much the number you need.
	If you're going to have a power program, you need a lot more centrifuges.
	So by limiting them, To a small number of centrifuges, we're kind of limiting them to the number you need for a weapon.
	Great irony here, right?
	Why don't we recognize that?
	I don't know.
	Why don't we recognize it?
	Because that apparently is the whole point.
	And that clip now makes sense.
	Makes sense.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	So, one other just sideline.
	31st of March is the Iranian New Year, which will be 1393.
	Just thought I'd throw that out there.
	You're not going to hear that from me.
	1393?
	Yep, 1393.
	Let's see.
	Wait, hold on a second.
	It is the...
	And they call it Nurus.
	This is the New Year.
	Nurus.
	Nurus.
	I've been practicing.
	She's fantastic.
	Fariba, she's so much fun.
	1393.
	And when is it?
	The 31st of March?
	Yep.
	Okay.
	This is a little aside.
	And, of course, the most important thing, she cooked for me.
	Holy crap!
	Crap?
	She cooked crab?
	No, she did not cook crab.
	I say holy crab.
	She cooked chicken and rice.
	And there's this, she made tideak.
	And tideak is a process where they have the rice with saffron and everything, you know, just all those nice spices.
	And they let the bottom burn.
	Yeah, this is the classic Iranian rice.
	Yes, and it's tideak.
	They sell that separately, apparently, in Iran.
	Just the burn part, yeah.
	Crack the bottom.
	Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	That was nice.
	That was way nice.
	Yeah, actually, that's the way I cook my rice.
	This is the basmati rice recipe I was talking to you about.
	Well, we need...
	This is how you cook it.
	You should have had her show you the entire process.
	Unfortunately, I was, of course, in traffic to get in there.
	I was all fucked up.
	And so by the time I got there, it was ready.
	But she showed me it had been on the stove for an extra 20 minutes or something.
	It was sticking up almost like...
	Like a science project.
	You know, the Rice was really just...
	I have no idea how she did it.
	I can ask her.
	I can ask her.
	No, you have to have her show you.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Okay, so I wasn't going to go in this direction, but since we had Mike Murrell, we might as well, speaking of Iran, listen to Dianne Feinstein on Meet the Press.
	I was blown away by...
	Actually, I kind of got a little respect for her for just saying it.
	Just coming out and saying it very clearly.
	I'm like, wow.
	And she actually kind of looked good.
	I think I'm turned on by Dianne Feinstein.
	This is sick.
	This is sick.
	Mike Morrell was at a New York police terrorism conference, and here's what he said about this current situation of sort of terrorism going forward.
	He said this.
	This is long-term.
	My children's generation and my grandchildren's generation will still be fighting this fight, referring to ISIS and al-Qaeda, and perhaps it's going to have another name in 10 years.
	Are you as pessimistic as he is?
	Yes.
	Oh, I am.
	I think this is going to go on and on and on.
	I love that.
	Thank you.
	Hello.
	Hello, military-industrial complex.
	Good to go.
	All systems go.
	Lights are green.
	We're go.
	And she's head of the Intelligence Committee, I believe?
	No longer?
	No longer.
	But she's just saying, oh, it's going to go on and on and on forever and ever and ever and ever.
	Until the new generations who are the would-be fighters come to the conclusion that the cruelty, the brutality, and the savagery of this group does not befit their participation, then I think the situation begins to change.
	Wait for it.
	I think the United States should pass a resolution to authorize the use of force without a time limit.
	Clear up the enduring operation, no enduring operation language that's in the present.
	Remember that was our favorite?
	Of no great duration.
	What was the word that they had in there?
	Weasel words.
	Don't constrain the executive branch on the number of troops you might use?
	Well, on special operations, on counterintelligence, on logistics.
	Logistics.
	I love how she says that.
	Logistics.
	Why would she say that?
	Logistics.
	Logistics.
	I thought that was kind of funny.
	Why would anyone say anything?
	Why was it logistics?
	On special operations, on counterintelligence.
	The Omega Project in the chat room says, because she's an old war dog.
	Apparently that's how the old war dogs say it.
	Logistics.
	Logistics on a number of different things where the United States...
	You don't worry that becomes a blank check?
	Well, not...
	Ickney on the ink blade checkmate.
	No, no, no.
	Well, not necessarily.
	No, no, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	Don't go spending our money.
	What we see is, of course, the Iranian military taking a major role now.
	Oh, right.
	Okay.
	Taking a major role now.
	I'm surprised we don't make more of a fuss about this.
	There's been report after report, the Iranians, especially with this one superstar general, I can't remember his name, but this one superstar general is over there directing.
	Killing people.
	Yeah, he's directing the movie.
	Yeah, okay, move it over there, we'll blow them up.
	Yeah.
	And they've taken over the place.
	I was thinking about this, because nobody is thinking of McCain.
	Well, one of these blowhards would be up there shaking their fist about this happening because they do bring up the fear that the Shiites from Iran will kick a few heads in of the Sunnis after this is over, but...
	There's, generally speaking, not a lot of complaining, which would be logical to me that they'd be complaining all the time.
	I think it's just to sell more crap to them.
	Well, listen to the second Feinstein clip.
	That we need Russia and Iran's help in moving Assad out.
	Ah!
	Ah, there it is!
	So we're negotiating with Iran for them to help us move Assad out, of course, because that is partially Iranian territory, but it is also territory of the Russians.
	They own the port, so...
	You cannot settle Syria and leave Assad in power.
	I love how you cannot settle Syria.
	Apparently overthrowing an entire country and regime is called settling now.
	That has to come.
	You cannot settle Syria and leave Assad in power.
	The degree to which we can work this out diplomatically is important.
	And of course that's where the nuclear agreement comes No!
	I thought it was just about nuclear.
	No, it's about nuclear and nuking Assad.
	Because as I look at it, the nuclear agreement could be a real sea change for Iran.
	Do you think we have to do a nuclear agreement in order to get their cooperation in Syria?
	I think we have to do a nuclear agreement to protect from a breakout.
	And I think that, you know, what Prime Minister Netanyahu did here was something that no ally of the United States would have done.
	Now, this is a big one.
	Here's Dianne Feinstein.
	Born Goldman, who is now going to speak on behalf, I believe, of a large faction of Jews in Congress and the Senate, saying, hey, we represent people, and screw you, Bibi Netanyahu, you douche.
	I find it humiliating, embarrassing, and very arrogant, because this agreement is not yet finished.
	To trash it, Before you have the final period on it, before you know what it is, I think is a huge error in judgment for our number one ally in that area.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you know, I've noticed this too.
	I think that, and she's making a good point, and I think they're making a statement about this guy's future in Israel too.
	But there is, some of this seems to have been a trap.
	For Netanyahu.
	Well, Netanyahu less so than the renegade Republicans in Congress.
	Right, to make them all look like morons.
	They make them all look like morons.
	And they all have their signature.
	You know exactly who they are.
	And as I understand it, somehow they violated the Logan Act by sending this...
	Yeah, the Logan Act doesn't apply to Israel.
	It's very clear.
	Okay, but it does to Iran.
	And I'm absolutely sure that they did violate the Logan Act.
	I'm just telling you what I'm reading.
	Yeah, no, I heard this too already.
	Amen.
	And it does...
	Thank you.
	And it doesn't apply to Israel, which is baffling to me.
	Now, check this out.
	I have a couple other things, but this is really unbelievable.
	This is Kerry.
	He's still trying to get this authorized use of military force.
	Everyone's trying to get that.
	And he is up on the hill.
	He's answering questions.
	And what he says right here...
	I don't know why this isn't like the headline news continuous soundbite.
	For Kerry, it's even short.
	The enduring transformation that has to take place here is not going to take place if the United States just comes in and we're to knock out ISIL and that's it.
	Go away.
	Not going to happen.
	We could do that, actually.
	We have that capacity.
	But we're not asking to do that.
	Nor are they asking us to do that.
	What?
	Hold on.
	Did you hear what he just said?
	Yeah, this is a good clip, by the way.
	A good series of clips, too.
	This clip, what he says is we could knock them out.
	Yeah, any minute.
	Yeah, we could do that.
	Which is bullcrap, of course, but the way he presents it is for some purpose.
	Yes.
	I'm not sure what it is.
	Yeah, I have the purpose.
	It's coming right up here.
	Okay, tell me what it is.
	So first of all, just for him to say that, I think that's news.
	Yeah, we could go and kick their ass.
	Well, he's done a couple of things recently.
	One was that we're not under threat.
	Remember that?
	Which you got everybody all upset.
	Mostly the talk show hosts on the right side of the spectrum.
	We're all going to die.
	These guys are going to come over here and they're going to kill us.
	And Kerry says, we got nothing going on here.
	We're fine.
	What are you, kidding?
	So he does that.
	And now he says this, which is probably true, I'm thinking.
	Because these guys are just a bunch of jokers and Toyotas.
	Probably true.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, The world needs help.
	It calls on America.
	And that's the story.
	Alright, let's listen to the rest of his reasoning behind this.
	Because I think they understand that the implications of that would be actually to aid in the recruitment.
	His rationale is if you go in and kill those guys, then the recruiting is going to be better than ever.
	Which fits in with their stupid-ass story that we're all being recruited by social media.
	It fits in with the doping narrative, you're right.
	Oh my goodness.
	To create a bigger problem.
	A bigger problem.
	And in answer to the question that was asked earlier, why do these guys like taking us on to some degree?
	Because if it's just us...
	That's how they grow.
	And that's what they want.
	And we're not getting suckered into that.
	That's why we built the 62 Coalition.
	That's why we worked so hard to get these five Arab countries engaged in the kinetic activities with us.
	Yeah, kinetic activities.
	Kinetic activities.
	Yeah, kinetic, baby.
	It's kinetic, kinetic.
	Did you see the most recent video?
	No, I'll stop watching these videos.
	From team...
	By the way, I... It was funny yesterday.
	I said to Lex, who's turning 70 this year, not that that means that much, but I said, yeah, I was just talking about stuff.
	He loves hearing my stories.
	He doesn't give a shit.
	He doesn't read anymore, but he wants to know what's happening.
	I tell you, all those videos are fake.
	He says, really?
	He says, I'm sure you're a proper guy.
	You know, my typical spiel.
	You don't want to watch him.
	He says, yeah, I do.
	I try to find him.
	I can't find damn videos.
	So I whip up search.nashownotes.com, and I show him the Burning Man video.
	Now, Lex has been in television all his life.
	And radio, but TV for sure.
	He's like, wow!
	This is great!
	This is totally fun!
	What a great production!
	And he saw everything right off the bat, completely clean.
	Well, this is bullshit.
	I say, uh-huh.
	And so then we look at the new one, which is...
	So we have...
	It's similar, not like the Burning Man, but like the beheading videos.
	That's the team that put this one together.
	And they have, again, a guy in a pristine, brand-new uniform and a kid who's probably 13, 14, 15.
	And they have this supposed Israeli spy and a whole bunch of al-Akbar and all this stuff.
	And then the kid...
	The guy's kneeling with his face toward the kid.
	He points the gun, which I want to talk about in a minute, and then it's all slow-mo, etc., and you see a blast of air blowing the guy's face, and then all of a sudden you see a little bullet hole, and then he falls forward, he's dead, and that's repeated several times with all these crazy effects that they put in there.
	A couple things, if you really look at this video, and this happens to be a Glock 21, and Which, that's not that I would recognize that, but this comes from one of our producers.
	Actually, I think...
	Hold on a second.
	Let me bring this up.
	This is from...
	Sir DH Slammer.
	And he says, I ran the money shot frame by frame, found many problems with the video, which you're probably already aware of.
	Yes, for instance, this being a.45 caliber, there was no, the back of his head was not blowing off.
	Also, the hole looked a little small.
	Yeah, the hole looked a little small.
	I mean, when you shoot someone point blank in the forehead with a.45, the back of your head is coming off.
	Right.
	So you don't see that, and they show it twice.
	But here's what he says.
	It's a Glock 21, as far as he can say.
	He says, you know, that chamber's a.45 ACP, which would be pretty difficult to obtain, certainly to get ammo for a brown purse in the middle of the sand.
	This is not a traditional weapon.
	And I implore all of our experts who know about this stuff to see if they can figure out why this particular weapon was used.
	The one they had there at the studio.
	That's right.
	Hey, what do we got left over there?
	Probably.
	But the lack of exit debris, if you will.
	That gun would have a nice kick to how the kid handled it.
	No problem.
	Sure.
	And you know what was really interesting?
	It hit me for the first time, really.
	The song they have, they have a little song that they play.
	Hold on a second.
	This one.
	Yeah.
	This could have been in The Lion King.
	It's a good song and it's catchy.
	And I have to say, I'm starting to get into it.
	Do we have anybody that can identify this song?
	I have it.
	Oh, you do.
	Yeah, I'm going to tell you exactly what it is.
	This is...
	Dawlat al-Islam Qamat.
	And if you try to find it on YouTube, it's been removed everywhere.
	Oh.
	But I have the...
	And why?
	Yeah, I don't know, because, you know, it's a good song!
	That's why?
	Well, I want you to get into the hook a little bit.
	It's kind of good, man.
	And they have a little marching in it.
	Hold on.
	Back it up a bit.
	Around here is where it starts to get kind of cool.
	I'm telling you, this thing is a hit.
	We could just do a remix or something.
	Here, check it out.
	I like it.
	Maybe I'm being recruited.
	Maybe I'm self-radicalizing.
	I don't know.
	You're self-radicalizing yourself.
	Put your pants back on.
	Someone needs to remix that thing and put it in the show notes so you can check it out.
	It's a good song.
	I recognize it anywhere.
	It's catchy.
	It's got a good hook.
	What's the lyrics?
	Do you have any further information?
	They pulled it off of Spotify because ISIS felt that they weren't getting enough royalties.
	Who sings this song?
	Is there an artist?
	Yeah, there is an artist.
	Hold on.
	That's also all in the show notes.
	There's a guy.
	Let's see.
	Here we go.
	It's the ISIS anthem.
	Is that what they're calling it that?
	It's called Daulat al-Islam Karmat.
	And it is done by...
	Who sang this thing?
	Now I don't know.
	I don't know who sang it.
	It's funny, I tried to do Shazam it.
	No luck.
	No, that's funny.
	So that thing doesn't work.
	Okay, so the translation of the song is My Uma Dawn.
	And I think it has some lyrics.
	Are there some lyrics maybe here?
	No.
	We'll work on it.
	I just wanted to identify that I thought it was a damn catchy tune.
	Well, there you have it.
	It has a real Lion King vibe to it.
	The kids love that stuff.
	So, you know, maybe...
	Yeah, they're dumb kids.
	Well, that's for sure.
	Yeah, well, anybody who joined that operation is nuts.
	So now when you're talking about, oh, we're going to have this at home.
	But you know, people should go, if you ever get a chance, if you haven't watched the movie All is Quiet on the Western Front, an old black and white film, I would recommend it.
	One, I think, a bunch of awards.
	What is the synopsis of the movie?
	It's about a kid being recruited with the same sort of gung-ho bullcrap.
	This is a German, it's about Germany.
	A kid being recruited out of high school.
	For all practical purposes, whatever that little school is called in Germany.
	And going to World War I, to the Western Front.
	Okay.
	And where he has to just witness all this mess, and he comes back ruined.
	And then he tries to tell the kids, because he runs into a bunch of kids that are being recruited, to go, you know, die from their country.
	Right.
	And he starts to lecture them, and then they turn on him and damn near kill him.
	It's more or less at the end for being a crumb bum, for not being all gung-ho.
	And you get a, it's a very good movie, and you can sense that, you know, these kids are, they're impressionable at certain ages.
	And if you really would turn on the pressure, you can get them to pretty much do what you want.
	Indeed.
	Indeed.
	And you can do it from a distance, I guess, according to the story.
	Well, you can do it with catchy tunes.
	Well, this catchy tune doesn't hurt.
	Well, so let's take an example.
	This is the guy from, in Ohio, this was the last, what we thought was probably a six-week cycle for the FBI. You are very weak.
	New FBI guy doesn't have a sense of drama.
	Right.
	So completely messed it up.
	No one really cares.
	They caught some kid, and he was going to pipe bomb the Capitol, or something like that.
	And then shoot all the FBI guys as they kept running out, waving their arms in the air.
	So...
	I have a feeling maybe this was a package, because it was sent to me from an Ohio local station.
	I don't know if it has legs or not, but apparently the guy, who is now in jail, pending his trial, etc., called the local TV station from the phone in his room in his cell.
	Are you with me?
	I mean, are you on the floor yet?
	They have a telecommunication system in the prison now?
	So apparently this guy...
	Well, of course we know what's going on.
	The FBI is making him call the station.
	That's what's going on.
	And the station is like, they're freaking out.
	So this woman...
	They're going, if I'm in the station and I get this call, I'm in the newsroom, you know, me and my four other people that are clipping articles from the New York Times and making them our own, go crazy.
	Yeah, well, I'll start the clip and then I'll interrupt and we'll talk a bit more about it because it's...
	It's really fascinating that this happened.
	Good evening.
	Tonight we bring you that exclusive interview that Trisha did yesterday with a suspected terror suspect, Chris Cornell.
	You know, this is really odd.
	We found it very odd.
	Yeah.
	But he called us three times on Wednesday evening, the third time of which, if you're watching the 10 o'clock news...
	Now, this is typical, right?
	When you are accused of trying to blow up the Capitol, hey, have a phone.
	Right?
	That makes total sense to me.
	Call whoever you want.
	As often as you'd like.
	You don't have one phone call.
	You get three.
	And we suggest this number.
	Because I kind of disappeared in the middle of the show because he has a phone in his room.
	See?
	So she's saying she disappeared in the middle of the newscast because this guy was calling.
	So just like you said, they were freaking out.
	And he wanted to get his story out.
	Yeah, his words are chilling.
	In fact, they're words no one wants to hear, but the truth is we all need to.
	And that's why we fought a court battle to bring that to you.
	They even give them the script, I believe, to read as the intro.
	Now, when you hear this thing...
	This is edited.
	So you see the newswoman, she's sitting in a sound booth, you know, like an editing booth with little corners so they can do voiceover shit.
	I'm sorry.
	Stuff for their packages.
	She has a phone and there's a microphone clearly recording her voice.
	But they cut back and forth between his voice on the phone and then her in the studio.
	There's one point where it overlaps.
	But even that, I'm not so sure.
	To me, it sounds like, we talked about this before, you got the big vinyl, here's the answers, you insert your own questions.
	It feels like a damn package, John.
	Tri-State terror suspect Chris Cornell, who goes by his Muslim name, Raheel Marouz Ubaida, talked exclusively to me, revealing his plan to attack our president, our capital, and our embassy, and referred to you and me as potential collateral damage.
	But that's not all.
	In an hour-long conversation, he talked about other possible terror cells in the U.S. and here in Ohio.
	And what motivates him?
	Oh, please.
	You don't want to hear it?
	No, no, no.
	I do want to hear it, but I want to just throw an interjection here.
	Please, please be my guest.
	This guy is going to tell us as if he knows anything about other terror cells.
	Oh, yeah.
	And the fact that he used the words collateral damage.
	Oh, wait until you hear him reading his side of the script.
	He's reading a script, too.
	You're getting me irked here.
	You better get to it.
	Get to what?
	Get to what?
	The whole thing is just beautiful.
	This is beauteous, man.
	The whole thing is beautiful.
	Oh, what happened?
	Hello?
	Four, here we go.
	You want to see and what his attorneys don't want you to see.
	Hold on a second, but I'm going to spin that back.
	What?
	Yeah, I know.
	You have to hear that again.
	Here we go.
	Yeah, I know.
	...Marouz Ubaida talked exclusively to me, revealing his plan to attack our president, our capital, and our embassy, and referred to you and me as potential collateral damage.
	But that's not all.
	In an hour-long conversation, he talked about other possible terror cells in the U.S. and here in Ohio, and what motivates him.
	Now, be quiet.
	This is so bad.
	You're going to talk over it.
	Listen.
	Sorry, sorry.
	Jesus, you almost talked at the same point.
	Now, we want to show you what the feds want to see and what his attorneys don't want you to see.
	Now, I'm sorry.
	Did she not just literally say, you're about to hear what the feds want you to know?
	Play that again.
	That's exactly what she said.
	Plan to attack our...
	Huh?
	I'm thinking, before you play it again, that can't be right.
	What do you mean?
	It can't be right.
	She couldn't have possibly said this the way you...
	I've played it three times.
	We'll do it again.
	President, our Capitol and our Embassy, and refer to you and me as potential collateral damage.
	But that's not all.
	In an hour-long conversation, he talked about other possible terror cells in the U.S. and here in Ohio.
	And what motivates him?
	Now we want to show you what the feds want to see and what his attorneys don't want you to see.
	What did you hear?
	What the feds want to see, but she didn't say what the feds want us to see, which sounds more...
	But still, bad.
	We also want to warn you, some of this is disturbing.
	No, what you just did was disturbing, lady.
	You should have warned me earlier.
	The event in which I planned on Tuesday, September 20th, in Washington, D.C., would have been a great attack against America.
	Do you hear the script?
	He's reading this.
	Yeah, of course he's reading it.
	This is great.
	The percussions will not stop.
	Although it would have been a major attack against America, events that will follow are dangerous and more enormous.
	I'm with the Islamic State.
	I have connections with many brothers over there.
	We've been corresponding for quite some time now, actually.
	The FBI finally caught on these past years.
	Was it there?
	Did you hear what he said?
	The FBI finally caught on.
	The FBI finally caught on these past years.
	Was it their idea for you to plant pipe bombs at the Capitol and have people running outside to shoot them?
	It was a mix of both of our ideas.
	What?!
	That was a mix.
	You know, we were hanging out drinking.
	Wait a minute.
	This part of the narrative was never revealed that they were actually involved with this guy?
	Yeah, it was partially there.
	So there was another one of these cons?
	Yeah, the six-week cycle.
	Oh, my God.
	There's a lot more.
	Y'all play.
	When did you first come in contact with them?
	I won't say that in specific either.
	Oh, he's not going to tell us.
	I'm going to kill the president, but I'm not going to tell you when I got in contact with him.
	Because that would implicate the FBI as being, setting up a honey trap.
	I think.
	Why else wouldn't he tell when he got involved?
	Because it was really a long time ago.
	You have to give me some insight on how somebody would go about contacting someone.
	How would I do that?
	How did you do that?
	Do you do that through YouTube videos?
	Great question, lady.
	Do you get in contact through YouTube videos?
	Yes, I encode secret messages in my YouTube videos.
	That's how I do it.
	YouTube videos?
	Video encrypted messaging.
	Oh, let's throw the encrypted messaging in there.
	Were you to carry out this plan to wage jihad in America?
	What?
	Okay, I'm a reporter, and somebody says that to me.
	Especially a dumb fuck like this guy, and I use the word...
	You don't use that word lightly.
	I don't use that word lightly.
	A dumb guy like this moron.
	Says to me, I use encrypted messaging.
	The first thing I say is, really?
	What program?
	What kind?
	Yeah, exactly.
	What kind of program?
	What do you do?
	What program are you using?
	I'm curious.
	You're using this encrypted messaging.
	I have some pet peeve about reporting in general about these things.
	Well, I have a couple of reports.
	2015.
	I mean, this is crazy when we don't ask these simple things.
	Erica.
	I'm very dedicated.
	By the way, I have a topper for you then, later.
	Are you going to top me?
	I'm going to, yeah.
	I've been waiting all my life.
	I'm very dedicated.
	Like I said, I'm a Muslim.
	I'm with the Islamic State.
	If you weren't so dedicated, I'm so dedicated that I risked my life.
	That should say a whole lot.
	If you weren't arrested that day when you were at a gun store, buying two guns and 600 rounds of ammunition, what would you have done?
	What have I done?
	I would have took my gun.
	I would have put it to Obama's head.
	I would have pulled the trigger.
	Then I would have unleashed more bullets on the Senate and the House of Representative Members.
	Then I would have attacked the Israeli Embassy and various other buildings full of kufar.
	And when the wage war against those Muslims.
	Can you give me an idea of other things that you would write on encrypted messages?
	Talking about how we used to waste jihad in America.
	Yeah.
	What do you think, dummy?
	We used to form our own groups in alliance with the Islamic State.
	When I say groups, I mean, you know, what would you call sleeper cells?
	I love how he laughs.
	What do you call sleeper cells?
	To bring this upon yourself so that it awakens the sleeper cells, so to speak.
	I don't know.
	You might have to stick around and watch.
	Ooh!
	Them fighting words!
	Man from cell with three phone calls.
	Comey!
	What?
	Kid, I want our boy Fletcher to get us a Comey.
	Because this is an amateur hour compared to what was going on with the last guy in charge.
	It's pretty damn sad, ain't it?
	This doesn't compare.
	Hold a candle.
	To anything that's gone on before, in terms of a setup and then a catch and release, as it were.
	Well, you'll hear him say in a moment, he has some messaging as well because the media didn't get it right.
	This is so amateurish.
	Oh, this is terrible.
	Off the charts, right?
	They must have shifted some people around in the agency.
	Well, we know they're doing that.
	We know they're doing that.
	We know CIA, FBI, everybody's moving around.
	They're all moving around, and so the FBI guys that were in charge of this counter, COINTELPRO, or whatever you want to call it, advertising, essentially, I'm using the word, essentially have been moved out of that position to be replaced by other people that think they can do it better, and they have shown that they can't do it better.
	This is terrible.
	Yes, it's very, very bad.
	We're going to try to fool the American public.
	Well, that is...
	Don't insult our intelligence.
	That is kind of going to work.
	If you just take little sound bites from this, and they only had eight minutes, and I've chopped it down, and she said she had a whole hour.
	This guy's no good.
	He's a crappy actor.
	He can't even read his lines.
	Yeah, well...
	This is just poorly done.
	Obviously, we would have passed on him.
	I mean, I would have said to his agent, don't you ever send that guy to me again.
	But you insane...
	Ever.
	Again.
	Give me the guy, like, a guy that does B.B. Nut and Netanyahu.
	Give me one of those guys.
	Those are actors.
	I think it's coming.
	But I think it's coming.
	Um, many things.
	There will be, indeed, many, many attacks.
	Oh.
	There will be, you know.
	Oh, please.
	I'll wait for it.
	We'll raise the bend of Tawheed.
	Over the Capitol.
	I'm not going to give away too much.
	Were you up until January in contact with people overseas?
	I won't give you that information.
	But I would tell you I'm in contact with many.
	How organized is the Islamic State?
	The thing is...
	Do you hear this?
	This chopping back and forth is horribly edited.
	We are indeed here in America.
	We're in each and every state.
	We're here in Ohio.
	We're here in Ohio.
	We're in every state.
	We're more organized than you think.
	How strong are you in Ohio?
	Ohio strong.
	You'll just have to wait and watch.
	Give me an idea.
	Wait and watch.
	We're pretty strong, yes.
	In every state, like I said, we're in Texas.
	Wait!
	Change my flight!
	Finally, human beings to shoot at!
	Come on!
	Come on, Ohio!
	Bring it on!
	Texas is ready for y'all!
	What a dick!
	Who says that?
	Who would ever say we're gonna commit terrorism in Texas?
	This is dumb.
	In Texas.
	Ohio, we're in New York City.
	New York City?
	We're in Washington, D.C. Oh, yeah.
	We're in every single state you can name, just about.
	How come no one else in Ohio has stepped up?
	Is he running for president?
	Yeah!
	Like you and being so vocal and trying to carry out their plan.
	Because we are waiting.
	We're waiting for the perfect moment.
	I'm one of those Americans.
	Yeah.
	And I'm trying to understand.
	And what would you say to these Americans?
	I mean, there's a lot of, you know, innocent people here.
	Don't you believe that, you know, I'm an innocent person?
	Your father, your family, they're innocent people.
	And do you want to bring them down as well?
	Understand, we don't kill innocent people.
	We kill those who fight us.
	Planting pipe bombs.
	This editing is atrocious!
	I know that on television, audio is like an ugly stepsister, but this is really poor.
	At the Capitol, to get people to run out so that you could pick them off with your 600 rounds of ammo.
	Leading the witness.
	But those people, some of which were innocent employees, somebody that works in a Capitol building, they're not passing laws, they're not picking up a gun, so therefore, it's a job.
	They're sending people out with guns, aren't they?
	Well, not the person that's answering the phone, not the receptionist that's going to get, you know, panicked because...
	Nice color commentary.
	Now it's just getting inane.
	Just wait for him.
	It's almost over.
	He's going to do his big promo.
	Pipe bombs are going out and she's going to be running across the...
	Yeah!
	Kill her!
	Like America says, there's collateral damage.
	You know, it happens.
	It's inevitable But that's not who I was targeting Like I said, I was targeting President Obama The Senate And the House of Representatives members What the media also failed to mention Was the planned attack against Israel The plan on attacking the Israeli embassy Bro!
	Excuse me media, you failed to copy the script.
	Please, we need some Jew stuff in here.
	Jew stuff.
	Jew stuff.
	We're going to attack the Israeli embassy.
	How come you didn't people put the Jew stuff in?
	Arab Jew.
	Jew Arab.
	Arab Jew.
	Fuck you, Comey.
	I hate this.
	Yeah, it's just wow.
	They must be having meetings about this.
	This is an epic fail.
	Yeah, whoa.
	Wait a minute.
	You said it, I thought it, and here it is.
	Exactly.
	Of epic proportions.
	Yeah.
	It's actually laughable.
	This guy reading, apparently reading this, whatever he's reading that was given to him, and calling three times and all the rest of it, just...
	It's insulting.
	It's insulting.
	You can say it again.
	It's insulting.
	Find the other guys who were doing this before...
	They're probably working for Universal Pictures now, or they're screenwriters.
	I don't know what they're up to.
	That's probably what they're doing.
	But find those guys and put them back in charge of this.
	I mean, it's not that these guys...
	It was a creative idea, I think.
	It was well...
	I think well-intentioned as a six-week scaram cycle.
	It was well-intentioned, but intentions don't count.
	Who is doing PR and marketing there?
	That's really the problem.
	You and I could have written this better, and just in one press release from the FBI, it would have been a better story.
	This, we never would have done this.
	At least not like this.
	No, I've been a lot different.
	And you try to cover up it.
	You do it in such a way that you're covering up the information that you want out.
	Yeah, precisely.
	The embassy thing is that you make it show we weren't supposed to say anything.
	Oh my God, this is terrible that this got out.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Exactly.
	That's an easier approach to take than botching the whole thing like this.
	Call again.
	Hey, she wouldn't answer the phone, man.
	Okay, okay.
	Hello?
	How do I get to the control room?
	Ask for what's her name.
	Okay, what's her name?
	Are you there?
	No, she's not here.
	Click.
	She wouldn't.
	Call again!
	I mean, this is terrible.
	Yeah, it really is bad.
	If the guy had made like a secret tape or something, that would work.
	Anything, anything.
	Yeah, we had one phone call, and he called to his handler.
	We could have done so many different things.
	Yeah, we...
	Right.
	There's a lot of...
	Oh, well.
	Yeah, this is going to continue, I think, every...
	Another six weeks, and see, that was the...
	Well, they're going to want a do-over, for sure.
	Well, they do it in six weeks, so that may be April 15th.
	Oh, at tax time.
	But here's what's interesting.
	Because we have this shift now.
	We know that what we can't do is go and kill everybody because that would just make the recruiting worse.
	And this has to go on and on and on.
	And our children, our children's children, our children's children's children, they're going to be dealing with this terrorism, homegrown, self-radicalized.
	So now we need to shift it.
	And Comey needs to step the F up.
	He really needs to get a better handle on what he's doing.
	He's an idealist of some sort, and he's a banker.
	Well, he's from HSBC, which is frightening.
	He's powerful, this man.
	But he doesn't know what to do.
	He's like your typical board member.
	I can be on the compensation committee.
	It's what he thinks it is.
	Anyway, just to illustrate...
	Yeah.
	I don't know why we're doing this.
	We don't usually have this issue.
	I was going to reiterate that because the next cycle hits on April 15th, I think there's opportunities there because it's tax day.
	Interesting.
	And we had...
	We like to do things on Tax Day.
	Around Tax Day.
	Boston bombing?
	Wasn't that...
	No, it was...
	There was something on Tax Day a couple years ago.
	Okay.
	So just to illustrate how the fake narrative, which is fake, for instance, beheading videos, etc.
	Well, really, the beheading videos and the Burning Man video.
	And then there's the other videos with the cages with the lock still on and with the key in it.
	Holy moly.
	Here is...
	That video with the key and the lock is a classic.
	Classic.
	So this is...
	That was just a botch.
	Now we're going back to Kerry for a minute.
	At the end of his testimony, no, I think as he was starting his testimony, at the end of the introduction, there's a protester, Code Pink, but a guy stands up and then he's yelling, hemming and hawing, actually in a kind of a...
	A civilized way.
	And he says something.
	He says, you know, you're killing...
	The American people don't want anymore.
	You're killing innocent civilians.
	Then Kerry makes a fundamental mistake as he actually pays attention and responds to the protester, which is a rookie mistake as far as I'm concerned.
	You do not respond to a heckler when he's in handcuffs.
	It's not necessary.
	Not if it was planned.
	Well...
	It could be planned, but it sounds like it's not.
	He's thinking on his feet, and he rolls out the narrative to a T. When I came here last time, I mentioned that...
	American people are speaking out.
	Secretary Kerry, we're tired of an endless war.
	We don't want to go in with a war with no time.
	The committee will be in order.
	Look, we appreciate...
	Another endless war of killing of innocent people...
	Okay, if this happens again, I would ask the police to escort immediately people out of the room.
	Why leave it there now?
	Well, hold on.
	Killing more innocent people.
	Killing more innocent people.
	I wonder how our journalists who were beheaded and a pilot who was fighting for freedom was burned alive.
	Fighting for freedom.
	What they would have to say to...
	Their efforts to protect innocent people.
	Now, he could have said, you know, Christians on the mountain, children.
	He could have come up with a million examples of ISIS atrocities.
	No.
	It's journalists and a pilot fighting for freedom.
	A pilot fighting for what?
	In Jordan?
	That's your free state we're talking about here?
	Freedom fighter.
	Freedom fighter.
	Jordan?
	No, I don't think so.
	Yeah.
	Then we had this guy...
	Was a total massive shill.
	Sikulo, I think.
	He's from the ACLJ, which is the American Center for Law and Justice.
	Do you know anything about that org?
	No.
	Okay.
	Well, he's in there testifying because, of course, he has the message.
	It's another part of the message which we hear over and over again.
	And I think the Islamic State's a perfect example of this.
	ISIS, now called ISIL, now just called the Islamic State, or advertising, has a view that if you are a Muslim that disagrees with them, you are an infidel.
	In fact, in one sense, they're worse than other religious groups.
	So that's why you're seeing this mass destruction within the Muslim community.
	I was talking with a friend of mine, Ken and Andrew White, who's the vicar of Baghdad for the Anglican Church.
	That's the guy who said the kids were being beheaded.
	Remember that?
	You're like...
	They're cutting off their heads!
	In England, he's now in Jordan, and he said that if you look at the indiscriminate nature of ISIS, they have a very narrow view of their version of Sunni Islam, but you now have this pledging of allegiance by these other groups.
	We don't want to call it, you know, no one likes to say you're in a war, in a religion war, but we are, Senator, as you said.
	No one wants to say we're in war with Islam.
	Well, Tell that to Khalif Ibrahim.
	It may not be the Islam that most of the people support.
	And here it comes.
	Granted.
	But it is this version.
	And this version is as toxic as the Nazis.
	Yeah.
	And I lost a lot of family members in Nazi Germany.
	So I don't say that like that.
	Bring on the Holocaust!
	I'm sorry.
	This is in no way like the Nazis and Hitler.
	I don't see the similarities.
	Unless you mean Jews, Arabs, Jews, Arabs hate Jews.
	No, there's no similarity.
	No, none whatsoever.
	Except here.
	The whole side of my family was wiped out of Nazi Germany.
	But it's that same kind of systematic approach.
	Systematic approach.
	No, this is not a systematic approach to killing Jews.
	But that's what it's being turned into, sadly.
	Sadly.
	Again, I'm seeing this idea, which may be a bigger notion than we think of it on this show, which is the idea of setting up something or other shop, setting up shop, and a lot of, you know, like the guy from South Sudan or wherever it was said that this is a setup, the whole thing was set up by the CIA and the Mossad.
	Oh, you mean the president of...
	Sudan?
	Mali?
	Was it Mali?
	Somalia?
	Somewhere.
	By now, this should have been an evergreen clip.
	We've called for this so many times.
	Here it is.
	Go ahead, continue.
	I'll find it while you're talking.
	That you set these things up, because the idea was actually a kind of a, I guess, a chrysalis of an idea during the Bush administration, which was, let's start this war...
	This was, you know, after there was no weapons of mass destruction, but let's continue this war in Iraq because it draws in fighters from all around into a group, into an area where we can contain them and then kill them in this, you know, in this never-ending battle and just keep killing them.
	It's like an ant trap.
	You put this thing out there and all the ants go into it and they go, oh, this is delicious, and they stay there.
	And then they die.
	It's delicious.
	I suggest that's because of the letter that was, because we pulled, I believe we now pulled that same stunt on the Republican Party, at least the conservatives in the Republican Party, who like suckers wrote that letter and put their names on it.
	Huh.
	Which is again a way of isolating people, finding out exactly who they are.
	And here's what my prediction would be on this.
	Find out the guys who came up with the idea for the letter.
	And they will be Republicans.
	Look into them and see what happens in the long term to them as opposed to the other people who signed the letter.
	Because I believe those guys are the phonies.
	And I'm reminded of a situation that happened in the University of California during the rioting years that took place where this guy, he was a very famous politician.
	I think he's still alive and he's still around.
	His name is Peter Camejo.
	He incited the students to run into Sproul Hall and occupy the administration of the university and knowing they would get arrested.
	He snuck out the back door.
	Hmm.
	And I think the Republicans who created this letter will be the one or two guys, maybe just one, who will sneak out the back door on this deal, and he'll come out smelling like a rose while everybody else is now isolated and condemned.
	So this may be a giant policy that's going on, and it all is honeypots, the honeypot theory of politics.
	It just seems that that is what we're looking at.
	Just briefly, for archival purposes, here's the president of Sudan.
	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. There you go.
	I haven't heard from them in a while.
	I actually just thought about one other thing.
	When they're talking about all in the UK news services and in the American news service, they talk about X number of Americans.
	They kind of know who they are, who've left the country to go fight with these guys.
	Yeah, they know the exact number.
	They know who they are, and they let them do it, and then they also seem to have methodologies put in place so they can do it easily.
	So explain one more time the letter, because I like this meta approach.
	Explain exactly what the letter was, because I don't think we made that clear.
	I believe it's 47.
	I could look it up and get the exact number, but there was a letter written by a sub-segment of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
	Do you have any names who were on that?
	Rand Paul, was he on it?
	No, I don't think Rahim might.
	I don't know.
	I can do that.
	Go ahead.
	I'll look when you talk.
	See the Republican letter written to Iran, and the letter said, look, whatever this president does, we still have to approve.
	They made the excuse that this was a lesson in government.
	That was sent to the Iranians so they would understand that even if the president does what he's going to do, whatever it is, do some agreement, it still has to go through us.
	And so don't get too cocky, you guys.
	And it was just kind of a crazy thing.
	I've never seen it before in my life, and it came out of the blue.
	Well, let's see what Voice of America writes about it, because we know that they are a...
	A direct propaganda arm, certainly of this administration.
	Let me see if they name names or if they put anything big.
	The names are there.
	But I'm talking about if they promote certain names to make it look...
	Oh, yeah.
	Let's see what...
	I don't see anything off the bat, but I like it.
	I like it.
	Yeah, we'll look into that further.
	I'll get the names.
	Keep on this track.
	This is good.
	Cotton, I think, is the guy who was leading it.
	Tom Cotton.
	But I don't know the rest of the...
	And Cotton, what is he known for?
	Have we ever had any dealings with him?
	You're hearing, by the way, how the show goes in real time when we're actually coming up with ideas.
	I'm going to look at the search.nashownotes.com and see what I come up with.
	I guess this is a mixture of senators and congressmen, because Cotton's a senator.
	Yeah.
	It was just Republicans.
	Well, it's all conservative Republicans.
	Tea Party guys.
	They're trying to do what they do.
	They're trying to screw the very conservative Republicans who aren't playing ball.
	So the Republicans could be in on it too, by the way.
	Oh, definitely.
	No, I think it's a Republican's idea.
	Okay, I got it.
	So McCain.
	McCain is running it.
	That would be the guy.
	Well, I don't know if McCain's that...
	Well, maybe.
	Well, just to wrap up this portion that I have, and we have been talking, and we need to have an email I want to read in a second, which pertains to helping people who come into the No Agenda family later on, and a lot of catching up to do.
	It's not always easy, but I think we also sometimes take for granted that everybody knows what we're talking about.
	Six-week cycle would be one of them.
	Yeah, as an example.
	Now, we have, from day one, called these beheading videos fake, and we have plenty of experts, even the Burning Man video of the Jordanian, the Freedom Fighter, the Jordanian pilot, all of that, totally fake.
	By the way, we did have one guy coming in with creds and said it was real, that burning video.
	He said, why would they go through all this trouble of faking this when it would just be easier to burn some guy?
	And I didn't answer correctly.
	The answer to that is because maybe they didn't want to burn a guy.
	It's like a studio in London someplace.
	They're not going to burn some guy.
	So here we go.
	Sky News Got a hold of an ISIS translator.
	And this is pretty much a guy who speaks decent English with, and he has the Hakib.
	So he's just got the letterbox, the mailbox in front of the I's.
	Whether that's a disguise or whether he's a woman, I don't know.
	Because we don't even know if it's really his voice or not because you can't see anything moving.
	And they ask, the question is posed, why are all these beheading victims so incredibly calm?
	Which is...
	Kind of the first irksome thing about these videos.
	This guy's just sitting there.
	Same with the guy in the cage.
	He's like, yeah, whatever.
	I'll walk in slow motion over here.
	I'll look at everybody up there on the hill.
	I'll be in there and I'll jump cut.
	Then I'll just stand while the fire is engulfing me.
	I'm not going to be freaking out.
	I won't try to roll over the cage.
	So why is that?
	Islamic State's ability to manipulate social media to promote jihad with professionally produced films is well documented.
	Although you are more than 8,500 kilometres away from the Islamic State...
	But it's the treatment and graphic murder of their hostages that's most shocking.
	Why are they always so calm?
	Saleh is nominally a translator, but he was used to do a different job.
	He was employed by a Turkish man to convince the hostages they were safe.
	Every single one of the murdered was subjected to mock executions many, many times.
	Until it became normal.
	And then they met John.
	He was saying to me, say to them, no problem.
	We only video.
	We don't kill you.
	We want from your government.
	Stop attack Syria.
	We don't have any problem with you.
	You are only our guest.
	And what he said there was, you're our guests or visitors.
	So the way that they're now being explained that these videos, the first fake thing you see is that everyone's so calm is because they've rehearsed it a thousand times.
	There's no life in the scene, people.
	You cannot over-rehearse things.
	I wonder about any of this.
	Well, hello.
	Or that guy.
	Well, you know what?
	If you're going to put some guy on and you're going to alter his voice, go with the higher frequencies instead of having the guy's voice so deep you can't understand a word he's saying.
	You can twist it the other way, you know?
	Yeah, of course.
	But it's Sky.
	It's a Murdoch outfit.
	This leads right into Junker the Drunker, big buona there to the European Union, calling for something that was promised would never, ever, ever happen.
	No, this is not going to happen.
	We're going to have a common currency.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's not going to happen.
	No, Beery is directing...
	Or referring directly to Article 27 and 28 of the Lisbon Treaty, which some of you, well, if you've been around the show for a while, this actually what got me interested in deconstructing media at all when I read the Lisbon Treaty and saw that what was being portrayed in the media had really nothing to do with it.
	You could be legally killed by police forces.
	There's all kinds of stuff in there.
	And now we have our friend Farage.
	Responding to Junker the Drunker's call for a European army.
	An EU force, everybody.
	They promised it wouldn't happen, but here it is.
	I've been wondering why David Cameron's been slashing our armed forces.
	Won't commit to 2%.
	He's happy for us not to be able to defend our islands.
	I think Mr.
	Junker's given us the answer.
	We're going to do it.
	At an EU level, we're going to have a European army.
	Now, when I raised this last year with the Deputy Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg, he said it was a dangerous fantasy to even talk about an EU army.
	I hope every Liberal Democrat voter has heard Mr Verhofstadt today, the leader of the European Liberals, crying out for militarisation at an EU level.
	Of course, the truth is, it's already happening.
	We already have a European Defence Agency.
	We already have EU battle groups on active service all over the world.
	We already have an EU Navy active against the Somali pirates.
	And who can forget, EuroCorp here in Strasbourg last year, virtually goose-stepping that ghastly flag around the courtyard.
	Remember that?
	Outside.
	And of course the Lisbon Treaty, Article 28, provides for all of this.
	Yeah, it does.
	And I looked it up.
	The common security and defense policy shall be an integral part of the common foreign and security policy.
	It shall provide the Union with an operational capacity drawing on civil and military assets.
	The Union may use them on missions outside the Union for peacekeeping, conflict prevention, and strengthening international security in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter.
	And this is all according to Article 28 of The task referred to in Article 27.1.
	Actually, it's the other way around.
	This is the one that says you can do it, but you can use it for terrorism.
	Here it is.
	Joint disarmament, operations, humanitarian, rescue tasks, military advice, assistant tasks, conflict prevention, peacekeeping tasks, tasks of combat forces and crisis management, including peacemaking and post-conflict stabilization and counterterrorism.
	Yes!
	So your whole little thesis here, the whole beginning of the show is, this is the punchline.
	It's kind of a shaggy dog story, by the way.
	Well, the punchline is that, now, and I want to say that you, I'm going to go all in with you on this, but I'm going to back off again and see how I wind it up.
	No, well, first of all, I'm going to throw in my opinion about the American's perspective on this.
	Very good.
	We have been sick and tired as a nation in a subconscious way, of course.
	Nobody expresses this, but it's the way everyone thinks, at least who knows or would have any influence on any of it, the elites, of getting involved in these European fracasses.
	World War I was crappy.
	World War II put us in the position we're in as an international policeman because we're apparently the only country that can...
	Spend so much money on all this stuff.
	We spend, and I don't have the clip on this.
	Every time I forget to bring the clip in, I had it on last show, which is the rundown of the amount of money everybody spends on military.
	And ours, our number, 600 billion, 600 billion plus, 660, something like that, is the entire budget.
	Military spending rundown?
	I have the clip.
	Yeah, play that.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me just grab it.
	I think I can...
	Hold on.
	I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...
	Fuck!
	Crazy shit.
	I'm sorry, but I get mad because it should just work.
	And I'm so proud that I got it.
	And then, okay, here we go.
	I'm sorry.
	It was Tourette's.
	It is worth noting that China's military budget pales in comparison to the United States.
	In 2014, the Pentagon's budget was a staggering $640 billion.
	China comes in second with $188 billion, followed by Russia with $87.8 billion.
	Saudi Arabia spends $67 billion.
	In Europe, France allocates $61.1 billion for military spending, the United Kingdom $57.9 billion, and Germany $48.8 billion.
	Rounding out the top nine countries is Japan at $48.6 billion and India at $47.4 billion.
	Combined, those eight countries spend $607 billion a year on their militaries, $40 billion less than the U.S. So we have to be thinking at some point, even though the military-industrial complex doesn't like it, that maybe it would be kind of cool if we didn't get involved in like a third fracas.
	Just a thought, perhaps.
	Because I don't think this would be a good idea, especially with all the nukes and things flying around.
	And maybe it's a good thing if the EU had a...
	Yeah, it would be...
	Let's face it.
	This is a German takeover.
	But...
	The Germans have been at it and at it and at it since the Franco-Prussian War or before.
	In the 1700s, they've been battling.
	Actually, if you go back to the Greek historian Tacitus, they talk about these Germans.
	Anyway, they're good managers.
	You know, they're kind of pushy about certain things.
	Nobody really likes working for them.
	They're good managers.
	But they could run...
	Light the oven, Hans!
	They would run a reasonably good, I think, maybe.
	I don't know.
	Maybe I'm wrong.
	Maybe the Brits should do it.
	Somebody would have a joint...
	management structure, I'm sure.
	But if they had one army, the likelihood of the civil war that would be between Germany and France once again within the EU would lessen, I think, and that's always my fear.
	And so I think we'd be behind this and encourage it.
	I think it would be a benefit to the United States if this...
	And we could also pass the...
	Hey, you guys, you should go down to the Middle East and go down there and do some work.
	Remember Rommel?
	I'm trying to just, again, like you said, we ad-libbed the show.
	I'm enjoying this.
	I'm enjoying it because this is actually the kind of thinking that I'm not always able to get out of you.
	Yeah, well, it's just to go on and finish up your...
	Okay, I'll just finish up with Farage because he gets interrupted by the douchebag from Belgium.
	Tony Blair was right.
	He said the European Union is not a project about peace, it's a project about power.
	And I think Mr.
	Juncker is trying to seize on an opportunity.
	We ourselves in the European Union provoked the conflict through our territorial expansionism in the Ukraine.
	We poked the Russian bear with a stick, and unsurprisingly, Putin reacted.
	But this now is to be used as an opportunity to build a European army.
	And when?
	When?
	Mr.
	Hofstra, I know that by heckling, you increase your hits on YouTube, because otherwise, nobody in Europe wants to listen to you.
	So now we go into translation mode.
	It's a little bit heated.
	The guy's like, what kind of babies are they in there?
	He's like, who is that guy?
	That was for Hofstra, from Belgium.
	The honorable gentleman from Belgium.
	Just a moment, please.
	Just a moment.
	This is, of course, the German guy.
	What's his name?
	That guy.
	Mr Farage, just a moment, please.
	Just a moment, please.
	Just a moment.
	Mr Verhofstadt, I turn to you.
	I have to ask you, please, to calm down.
	You may not like this speech, but we are Democrats and we listen to you, too.
	So please do not interrupt.
	Well, we certainly are Democrats, and we've never shouted you down, but you always try and shout us down.
	The point I was making is this.
	The opportunity is being seized, and Mr.
	Juncker said we must convey to Russia that we are serious.
	Who do you think you are kidding, Mr.
	Juncker?
	We do not want any part of an EU army, and I doubt the rest of the peoples of Europe do either.
	Exactly.
	Thank you very much.
	You know another interesting little possibility here?
	Mm-hmm.
	Especially considering our recent abilities as a nation to rebelize other countries.
	Yes.
	That if you could pass off, you know, get that EU to put some big army together.
	You know that armies want to do one thing and they want to do one thing only.
	They want to fight.
	And you push them over toward the Soviets, toward the Russians and Putin and just have these guys rebelize each other.
	You would wipe out probably everything between Berlin and halfway to Moscow, which is, you know, rebelizing results and rebuilding.
	Rebuilding results and profits.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is a potential money man.
	Well, check this out.
	What's happening in the Baltic states?
	It's an image from the Cold War, a Russian warplane flying along a NATO border, testing the West.
	But this fully armed Russian fighter jet was filmed just weeks ago above three nervous NATO countries.
	The Baltics.
	NATO planes are busy.
	They scramble and trap the Russians.
	Their missions have tripled in a year from their base in Lithuania, which fears it could be the next target of Russian aggression.
	Whoa!
	NATO is taking no chances.
	U.S. troops from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are not based in Lithuania.
	This a war game with local soldiers simulating conflict with a hostile neighbour.
	This show of force is aimed squarely at Russia.
	NATO is drawing a red line here with a message to Moscow.
	If you try to cause trouble here or try to invade, this is what you'll get.
	The question is, is Russia listening?
	You're ready for any threat?
	Yeah, we're trying to train and to be ready for any threat.
	Many in NATO believe Russia's real aim is not just to test the alliance, but to split and destroy it.
	This shows that the U.S. is willing to stand with...
	This is just an American soldier who just happens to be there.
	All of its NATO alliance partners shows that we're strong, Europe is strong, and there's a collective defense ready to defend against any foreign aggression.
	Yeah, it goes on and on and on.
	So, yeah, so this is, of course, but what is happening, and now this is the end of the Shaggy Dog story.
	I am seeing an actual breakdown of society here in the Netherlands.
	Ah, finally you get to the point.
	Here I am, yes.
	Good.
	The number one story in the past couple days, a national story, Was train conductors.
	Now, the Netherlands, a lot of trains.
	People use a lot of trains.
	There's a lot of issues with the trains.
	People get frustrated on the trains because, you know, there's a lot of suicides.
	Every day there's two suicides committed in front of trains.
	And there's a code for that for those of you in the Netherlands when you hear the traffic reports and they say, you know, the train isn't ride or drive.
	Train ride.
	Train ride.
	The train isn't riding.
	No, it doesn't sound right.
	No, it wouldn't be riding.
	It's rolling because of a problem with the overhead wires.
	That is code for someone jumped in front of the train.
	And it stops everything.
	This is a small country.
	It messes all the traffic.
	It's horrible.
	I'll bet it does.
	But people become so frustrated and angry by society and what their lives are here.
	The Dutch are very Calvinistic.
	They're very good at keeping up appearances.
	That multiple times per day, train conductors, the people who take the tickets, not the machinist, but the people who are checking your, you know, if you have a ticket, they're beating them up.
	Because people get mad, and they start yelling at them, kicking them in the shins, and they want to go on strike now.
	They can't handle it anymore.
	But worse...
	Wait, the passengers are beating up the conductors?
	Yes, but worse, not a single passenger is getting up and saying, hey, stop that.
	That, my friends, is a complete societal breakdown.
	Yeah, yeah, well...
	Hmm.
	Interesting.
	I cannot imagine that happening.
	The Shaggy Dog Story was one hour and 20 minutes.
	I admire you.
	You kept my interest the whole time.
	Well, I did want to wrap it up with one quick email, which is important, from Andrew Sawyer.
	Adam, I'm so thankful for you and John have been given a view of the world that I cannot stop looking at.
	Black is white and white is black.
	I know that the world is manipulated so strongly in terms of what people see and hear.
	I've long since turned off my television, but my friends have not.
	They are so convinced that terrorism is real.
	It's real.
	That brown people are out to kill us.
	I just got shit on so badly in a group text for standing up and effectively saying, pre-crime is horseshit.
	And I often find myself holding back in conversations where I know it's bullshit.
	I'm so burned out by this, Adam.
	I sometimes wish I was an ignorant slave.
	It would be easier to just buy into the situation.
	Please help.
	Well, the difference is that I don't want you to go around, I don't think people should go around with that glib smirk of knowing and just shedding up about everything.
	Oh boy, these guys are idiots.
	The key to this, of course, is the sense of humor.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	At some point in your life, if you look from above down on the action, it's funny.
	And if you can see it that way, and if you can see your friends being all upset about everything, you can't really discuss these things with them.
	It doesn't work that way.
	You don't.
	But you can be subversive and put little creative little comments.
	Like a little, oh really, you must think this.
	Let's have a little play time here.
	The no agenda players.
	I'm going to be...
	I'm all in on ISIS beheading videos.
	Okay?
	And then are you going to be in this conversation, John?
	Are you going to slip something in?
	Is this a good enough example for you?
	It's not the best example, but it's an example I can use.
	Okay.
	Man, I can't believe those guys, man.
	They burned this guy alive, man.
	His face was melting.
	These guys are going to come and kill us, man.
	They're already in Ohio and Texas.
	Jeez.
	You really believe that?
	Yeah, man.
	I saw the video with my own eyes, man.
	So what you're telling me is that instead of being like the cowardly lion, you're afraid of these guys, what kind of an American are you, anyway?
	The rule follower?
	That was a very good example, actually.
	That was a strong example.
	That was not just a little comment, but that was really approaching it from a different angle, saying, who are you, man?
	Thank you.
	We're Americans.
	America!
	We don't take crap from people.
	Don't tread on me!
	I'm sorry.
	That flag is now racist.
	There's other approaches.
	There's commentary that you can make, but it always has to be from a perspective of the guy's crazy.
	He's obviously a stooge.
	Let's use his example of pre-crime.
	I don't know where you'd even go.
	This one kind of bothers me because I don't even know where that comes into the conversation.
	Who believes in pre-crime?
	The same people who believe in pre-cancerous.
	Alright, well, I'll take that on.
	Okay.
	What would a good example of pre-crime be?
	Man, they arrested this guy because he was posting on Twitter that he was thinking about doing something.
	So what?
	Well, you know...
	Did he?
	Well, he could be self-radicalized, man.
	He could be, like, ready to go shoot somebody.
	Shoot up the school or the mall.
	Don't you ever watch TV? I did.
	Well, I don't believe that TV is true.
	These are fictional stories.
	Wait a minute.
	You're telling me.
	Let's go back to your thinking about pre-crime.
	Do you think it's okay to arrest somebody before they actually do something, even though there's no indication?
	Well, yeah.
	The first job of the president is to protect people.
	What?
	Well, then you can get a restraining order.
	What's wrong with that?
	That's been working for at least as well as it works.
	Not if the guy's crazy.
	If he's a crazy Muslim.
	You can get a restraining order.
	Hey.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	He wants to kill Jews.
	I'm a Jew.
	He wants to kill me.
	Genetic study on something?
	Somebody maybe should get you to give your DNA, and then we can take a look for some genes to see what you might do 20 years from now, and now pick you up, take you out, and shoot you in the head because it's something somebody says you might do in 20 years.
	So you're all in on that?
	Well, good.
	Why don't you go volunteer right now?
	Go put your DNA in the system and see if you're predisposed to do something.
	You think that's cool?
	Go do it.
	Volunteer.
	You're a conspirator, man.
	I mean, I don't think everyone should be obnoxious, I mean, to work this system, but you can take an approach.
	No, no, you are now, after that last one, you're the loneliest guy in school, let me tell you that.
	You have zero friends now.
	The conversation doesn't show up in school, but...
	Yeah, of course it's just showing up in school and colleges everywhere.
	Of course this is happening.
	But the main point that you made is you have to see the humor.
	That's why I'm always bummed that we're never nominated in the comedy category.
	I know people laugh at least once during our show.
	And it's not like a ha-ha because you felt the punchline coming, the punchline was good.
	It's because something unexpected was said or an angle was just approached from a humorous angle.
	And it's funny!
	And that's how you have to live through life because there's no other way to combat.
	Well, you put it in the newsletter.
	I liked it a lot and I wrote it down.
	You are being bombarded by misinformation, disinformation, false information, harmful information.
	No agenda is a valuable shield against the damage.
	That was some frickin' poetry right there.
	Frickin' poetry.
	I love that.
	That was nice.
	Yeah, that was a good one.
	Yeah, but it's absolutely true.
	It's so true that we have a jingle for it, I think.
	If you wake up with the blues, trying to play your day with news, there's one thing you must remember, no agenda in the morning.
	For a healthy, balanced news diet, try NoAgendaShow.com.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Hey, babes.
	And then I want to say, I'm sorry, one man operation here.
	In the morning to everyone in the chat room.
	There we go.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Actually, it's funny.
	The chat room has been different today.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	It's...
	There's some actual useful stuff.
	Yay!
	Also, thank you to our artists.
	Now, first I want to thank our artists who brought us the artwork for episode 702, Nick the Rat.
	And then I want to remind you, John, that you wanted to say something to the artists.
	Yeah, I did.
	Did you write down what it was I wanted to say?
	No.
	Well, I just wanted to remind the artist a couple of things.
	One, you do get the art into the newsletter, too, so just check that out.
	But make sure that the lettering inside within the art can shrink down to Adam's size.
	And I call it Adam's size because Adam...
	Humongous.
	Adam shrinks his art down quite a bit for the NoAgendaShow.com website, which he...
	He does that.
	He puts that one page together for the show with the artwork, and the artwork is on that page.
	One page?
	One page?
	It's a multi-tabbed environment, my friend.
	No, I'm talking about the NoAgendaShow.com page.
	Oh, okay, that one page, yes.
	Yeah, yeah, I got it.
	All the other pages, the artwork changes sizes.
	It's bigger, it's smaller, it's all over the place.
	But the minimum size it ever gets is on that particular page.
	But also visual gags, if that's the main visual gag, that's also hard sometimes.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	So make sure that you can read it.
	And sometimes you can't.
	Right, right, right.
	But there was something else I wanted to say, and I forgot what it was.
	That's okay.
	But you wrote it down to remind me, and I thought you'd write down a key word that would remind me what exactly I wanted to say to the artists.
	Well, now I know that I'm your secretary.
	I'll do that from now on.
	Yes.
	Thank you very much, secretary.
	All right.
	Let's thank some people.
	This is...
	This is part of why it all works, why we can speak freely and openly here, and we can say things on this program that can't even be said at universities.
	The nucleus of where learning and ideas and free flow of thought should be possible.
	Well, the universities nowadays are so sponsored by large corporations that they have vested interest in them.
	Political correctness is a design...
	Cultural Marxism.
	To maintain a status quo.
	Did you hear, just quickly, Facebook has removed the feeling fat emoji because people get, there was a digital petition and people are hurt by this.
	Yeah.
	Sad.
	So somebody would write, would just, I don't know, I don't use Facebook, but there's emojis on Facebook, I assume.
	Yep.
	And then you can click one, and it would go on your page to show what you're feeling at the moment, and the one you could click would be feeling fat, and this hurts somebody else's feelings who doesn't even know you, actually.
	Yeah, I guess.
	But just by you.
	No, it's a friend.
	It'd have to be a friend.
	But by you, using this emoji, you have hurt somebody else's feelings because you are expressing yourself.
	But it's also, of course, bad for children to express themselves as fat because we're all equal.
	We're just, you know...
	Is chubby okay?
	No.
	No, you can't say chubby.
	That would be a huge insult.
	I don't know.
	Oh, I do.
	Rotund.
	How's that?
	I prefer Rubenesque myself.
	Okay, well, there you go.
	Feeling Rubenesque.
	Use that.
	It's artistic.
	Let's thank some of the executive and associate executive producers.
	We have a few today.
	Nicholas starting with Nicholas Stowe at the top of the list at $420.33 from Austin, Texas.
	Yo-ho!
	Yeah, yeah.
	He's right down the street from you.
	That's right.
	Thank you for all your hard work, consistently performing the best podcast in the universe.
	I've been listening to No Agenda, the show, since episode 32.
	This donation puts me well over the mark for knighthood, as I've been supporting the show with monthly donations, starting at $5 a month, moving to $11.11, and finally to my current $33.33.
	By the way, $33.33, you can go to NoAgenda or Dvorak.org slash NA is...
	Now as officially the most popular monthly subscription.
	Really?
	Oh, okay.
	Outside of $5.
	It's a good one.
	It used to be $11, $11, $12, all these other ones.
	$33.33 is extremely popular.
	People just, I guess they get good, I don't know what they get out of it.
	You get a podcast license, you just have to email me so I can do it.
	Well, there's a magic number involved, too.
	I think it has something to do with it.
	Let me just interrupt right now.
	Okay.
	Letterman is quitting the show this year.
	They've been working together with Paul Schaefer for about 35 years.
	Yeah.
	35 years.
	Play this clip.
	You call it working together?
	I've always felt that Paul is really a subservient slave.
	Oh, well, he is.
	But that's, you know, they like to think they're working together.
	Whatever the case is, tell me what the meaning of this is.
	And by the way, when Letterman said this, he stuck his tongue in his cheek.
	This is Letterman's dance?
	Yeah, the bullshit, whatever it means.
	Yeah, whatever it means.
	And by the way, let me just tell you something.
	Paul and I have been doing this together.
	Doesn't make any difference what you think of it.
	Whether you like me or whether you like Paul, we've been doing it for 33 years.
	33.
	33 years.
	33, 33, 33.
	Later in the show, he says they've been working together for 35 years.
	Really?
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	That's what I said.
	I'd say the end is nigh.
	And the tongue, when he said 33, went right into his cheek.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	And what's this?
	He stole a joke of mine?
	Yo, you didn't know that?
	No.
	Oh, yeah.
	He still stole a joke from you.
	My joke.
	Yeah, this is the joke you wrote on the fly on Sunday.
	Hold on a second.
	You're telling me that a joke that I wrote on the fly, which apparently was successful, was stolen by David Letterman, and we can't get nominated for the comedy?
	This is your journey.
	So my material, we're not talking about your material, my material apparently is good enough for Letterman.
	Yesterday, by the way, not only Daylight Savings Time, but International Women's Day was yesterday.
	Oh, I know what he's doing.
	What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than by giving them a day that's missing an hour?
	Yeah, alright, fine.
	This is structurally different because he's got writers, like 12 of them or so.
	Yeah, and his punchline came out a little better, probably.
	No, no, actually, we did a good job because you, when I said Daily Savings Snipe, then you hit with the explanation.
	So as a team, I think we kick more ass.
	Yeah, totally.
	All right, so that's my, that's an aside.
	Let's finish the note from Nicholas, our new knighted Nicholas Stowe from Austin.
	Before 20, of course, haha, and 33.
	So he has a nice number, too.
	33.
	Nice number, yeah.
	No agenda show has been a great positive in my life.
	Laughing along with the show was essential to the recovery from a second bout of cancer a few years ago.
	Healing power of laughter could never be underestimated, making your point again.
	No agenda gave me the inspiration to move from the shooting gallery of Chicago to Texas, where everyone has guns and rarely anyone gets shot.
	Thank you.
	The show stream, along with the fantastic Android app, inspired my personal No Agenda weight loss program.
	Whoa, hold on a second.
	Which I've lost 100 pounds.
	Wait a minute!
	Stop the stop!
	Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	So he's developed a program, a weight loss program, that he's lost 100 pounds.
	I'd like to know the period.
	Because, I mean, we could be...
	Two years.
	Well, I don't know how long it took him to get there, but he's kept it off for two years.
	I mean, Marie Osmond, move over.
	Curry and Dvorak are here.
	When the fat lady starts singing, I get on my bicycle and ride the hills of Austin until the former governor says, adios, mofo.
	There you go.
	That combined with the elimination of poisonous Monsanto frankenfood from my diet.
	It might help just a little bit.
	Monsanto frankenfood.
	Please knight me as Sir Mr.
	Nick.
	As a long-life video gamer, I'd like my donation to be the guardian of the virtual realms.
	I would also like to request a one-time addition to the list of benefits for knights and dames of, get your pencil, video games, and vaporizers.
	Marijuana, not tobacco.
	Only wish one jingle.
	Eat more kale for my wife, whom kale has been the essential element in improving her health as she suffers from MS. Oh, man!
	Really?
	I'm just putting it in.
	Video games and vaporizers.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	Vaporizers.
	Okay.
	It's funny, because I didn't know he was going to request a thingy.
	I already had F cancer for him.
	So, hold on.
	What did he want, John?
	I'm sorry?
	Eat more kale.
	Eat more kale.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	I don't know where that is.
	I don't know.
	No, let me see.
	I'm sure I have it somewhere.
	Oh, yeah.
	I got it.
	Okay.
	And I'll do the F cancer, too, with the karma.
	Anything else on his list, or are we good to go?
	Uh, that would be it.
	So, have more kale.
	Have more kale.
	You've got karma now.
	Yeah!
	Not that I think it's great that some people love kale.
	Do you know, I was reading something about kale today.
	Kale.
	I have a clip.
	Wait for it.
	McDonald's reportedly adding kale to its menu.
	I have the clip.
	Oh my goodness.
	Well...
	Let's see, where is it?
	Would it be titled Kale?
	It could be.
	No, it's not.
	Or McDonald's?
	No?
	No.
	You'd think it would.
	Common Core, Common Core.
	How about Superfoods?
	Tim Cook Tech News.
	Oh, new at McDonald's.
	I got it.
	There you go.
	Yeah, it makes so much sense to have it.
	Yeah, here it goes.
	Burger King is dropping sugary sodas from its kids' meals.
	Instead, it will replace them with fat-free milk, low-fat chocolate milk, or apple juice.
	And McDonald's and Wendy's have announced similar moves.
	Also news today that McDonald's will roll out kale as an ingredient in the near future.
	Well played.
	You surprised me with your editing prowess.
	Yes.
	Something of a genius in that regard.
	A little too long.
	No, actually, I thought about it.
	Yeah, I think it was too long.
	And that clip was kind of funny because he does alternate his scream style enough that I put the whole scream in.
	I agree, it's too long.
	It should be just one little scream as a punchline, but I decided to go the Seth MacFarlane route and take it over the top and just make it crazy.
	Yeah, overdo it.
	Okay, if it had been like a cartoon.
	We could see Stuart do that.
	Dennis Passing in Issaquah, Washington.
	$333.33.
	Douchebag check!
	Oh, douchebag check!
	Douchebag check!
	I put off donating for far too long and finally decided to step up to support the outstanding product.
	Please de-douche me.
	You double douchebag me when my son donated from Singapore a month ago.
	And give yourself karma for the continued support of the show.
	Each of you, please choose a jingle for me.
	Thanks, and keep up the great work.
	I thought he...
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	Well, you gotta de-douche him first.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	De-douche him.
	Yes, here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	Did you have a jingle of preference?
	I am going back with my favorite clippity-clop, the song.
	Clippity Clop, The Song.
	That's a Hillary Clinton song.
	I know, I know, but for some reason that one keeps messing up.
	I don't know what's...
	Clippity.
	I'm going to have to think of about a few new ones.
	But see, the thing was...
	You always have trouble finding this one.
	Maybe this is why I keep picking it.
	If you could only not do that, then I would be...
	That'd be great.
	The message is clear.
	All right, and my jingle...
	I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
	You've got karma.
	Finally got it.
	Okay, Stephen B. in South Florida, 333.
	Wow, did you just put the mic down your throat?
	Oh, there he is.
	Dennis Possing, Stephen B. Okay, 333 South Florida.
	John, please credit me as Stephen B. in South Florida.
	Done.
	First time donor, long time boner, listener.
	I'm in huge needy of dedouching as I am remiss to give back value for value.
	I'm an ER pharmacist and have to agree with your assessment of the U.S. healthcare system, especially on immunizations, especially Gardasil and MMR. Why do they give our kids so many damn vaccines at once?
	And the need for a single-payer system, he's in agreement with that, too.
	Yeah, I had a lot of questions about it.
	People don't quite understand.
	I think we should address that on Sunday, because it's longer...
	Google it.
	I can pass along many stories showing how Obamacare is just padding the insurers' pockets, which is what I keep saying, and killing the...
	In fact, I have a clip today about this with another horrible number.
	Nice.
	And killing the sicker lower-class slaves quicker.
	The magical shape-shifting Jew on his path to knighthood thanks you for your courage.
	Keep deconstructing the garbage from the mainstream media.
	Can I get an Oreos or addictive bingo boom shakalaka LGY and a health and much-needed relationship karma.
	Absolutely.
	Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
	You've got karma.
	I thought he was going to ask for the magical shape-shifting juice, but I guess he didn't want that one.
	No.
	I'll put that on the list for some other time.
	I'll play it at the end of the show.
	That's a cutie.
	Eric Finkelbeiner in Seattle, Washington, 3-14-15.
	This is a pie donation.
	He says, Happy Pie Day.
	This will be coming up this weekend.
	We're having the Pie Day show on Sunday.
	Pie Day is actually on Saturday.
	But that's when you'll be donating.
	Sir Sean Connolly, Naperville, Illinois.
	3, 14, 15.
	Happy Super Pie Day to the best podcast in the universe.
	Looking for a bomb them, kill them.
	We came, we saw, he died.
	Amen, fist bump combo.
	Oh man, hold on a second.
	So bomb them, kill them.
	Yes, and then?
	We came, he saw, he died.
	Okay, that's Lady McDeth.
	Yeah, okay, and then?
	Fist bump.
	And then fist bump.
	Okay.
	I'm doing this on the road so it's a little harder to grab stuff.
	Yeah, you don't have the right gear.
	I don't have one computer to do stuff with.
	Okay.
	Bomb them.
	We need to kill and bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	We need to kill and bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	We need to bomb them.
	We need to kill them and bomb them again.
	So, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed.
	Yes, we came, we saw, we died.
	Amen.
	You've got karma.
	This show is not post-edited.
	This is done live.
	Live to tape.
	With a live studio audience.
	Yeah, well, that's the part we don't have.
	Let's see.
	Okay.
	Now we go on to Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
	I used to say that's where all the money is, but people got irked by that.
	And he doesn't have a note, and I don't see any email from him.
	John, if you have anything, Eric, let us go.
	Send this to us, and we'll go on Sunday.
	3-14-15, Pi Day.
	John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
	Murfrees.
	31415, this should bring my knighthood a couple of months early since I couldn't pass a pie day.
	I'd like to be Sir High Voltage of Middle Tennessee and have Maker's Mark and Mushrooms at the ceremony.
	Maker's Mark and Mushrooms, I believe they're already...
	In there, but I'll...
	I don't think so.
	We have Maker's Mark and marshmallows, maybe.
	Well, I think mushrooms would be more interesting.
	We have mushrooms and Maker's Mark.
	Yes, we do.
	It's on the list.
	You do?
	Yeah.
	Well, he said Maker's Mark and mushrooms.
	I'll switch.
	Okay, same thing.
	No.
	Keep doing what you're doing.
	P.S. A little general karma for all the listeners.
	May the douchebags soon redeem themselves.
	All right.
	Here it comes for you, sir.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	John Harrison, 31415, another buddy of yours in Austin, Texas.
	Big amen fist bump to the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy Pi Day.
	Sir Norman McDonough, Baronet, in Woodstock, Ontario, 31415.
	From Sir Norman, Baronet, I've always enjoyed you, Adam, and I really miss John on This Week in Razors, so I don't want to lose you both here.
	May I have the original co-music, we have to kill them, bomb them, and aim and fist bump them.
	Well, but he didn't want the music.
	He wanted just the original...
	The original no music.
	Yeah, no music.
	Yeah, I have those.
	I have those.
	We need to kill them.
	We need to kill them.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	Amen.
	- And fist bump. - You've got karma. - All right. - Okay, let's see.
	I'm just seeing if there's an email here from Kevin.
	Just for people who are new to the extravaganza that is known as our broadcast, executive producers who are credited more towards the beginning of the show, although we had a long opening, and associate executive producers, we read all your notes on the air.
	That's part of the deal.
	You know, it's like Chuck Lorre gets to put a title card at the end of every show he does bitching about stuff.
	So it's kind of the same idea.
	Yeah, Chuck Lorre, he does, he does that.
	Well, I also want to say that we try to make it entertaining, so it's part of the show, it's really, because some people have very interesting notes.
	Well, listen to the quality of the things that they're asking for, too.
	This is where we get to shine.
	So, Kevin Brousseau, I just closed him, again, Pi31415, sent a note in, and he says, after reading John's Desperate Plea for Producers in Saturday's newsletter, this is like a week ago, I felt overwhelming compulsion to donate.
	I've been contemplating becoming a knight for a while now.
	I finally took the donation plunge on episode 700 with a 70 donation.
	Let's say money well spent.
	The banter and analysis on Thursday's show was absolutely top notch.
	Thank you.
	And the superb quality I've come to expect from the best podcasts in the universe.
	You guys have opened my eyes to the absurdity of the mainstream media and elevated many of the anxieties caused by their never-ending stream of fear propaganda.
	Yes.
	Here's hoping this donation comes in time to save Sunday's show.
	It came late.
	Preach!
	He wants an Obama A-team, bump them, kill them, and an OMG amazing, as well as some buying new car karma.
	Okie dokie, I think we can arrange that.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, the world needs help.
	It calls on America.
	And that's the story.
	We need to kill them.
	We need to kill them.
	Bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	And bomb them again.
	You've got karma.
	Did I miss something there?
	How does that get so popular?
	Because it's insane.
	Sir Eric, it is insane.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sir Eridudarian there in Trabuco Canyon, California, regular $250.
	Love what you guys do.
	Was hoping that you could plug my podcast, HDTV and Home Theater Podcast.
	We're having a fantastic giveaway to celebrate 10 years of podcasting.
	Thank you, Adam Curry, for introducing me to this wonderful, wonderful medium.
	Check us out at HTGuys.com.
	All right.
	Well, you got a good one.
	Yeah, htguys.com, Black Knight, Eridurian.
	Thank you, sir.
	We'll listen to it ourselves.
	Maybe put it, you know, it might be good.
	I'll put a link in the show notes.
	Put me in the stream.
	Put me in the stream.
	Yeah, yeah, good idea, good idea.
	Viscountess of Tokyo, who sent a separate note in.
	I'm going to read this note first.
	ISIS couldn't lure me with Nutella, but the no-agenda jar in the newsletter totally got me.
	Just like I can't live without Nutella, I won't survive without my no-agenda fix.
	She is now, and in the letter, she added up her numbers.
	She is now Duchess.
	Wow.
	Put it on the Duchess of Japan.
	Woo!
	Well, yeah.
	Can I have Japan?
	And I said, of course.
	Of course you can have Japan.
	And she says, nobody's picking up the slack.
	So I ran the numbers on her and her partner, Mark.
	Yeah, in a background check.
	She actually lorded over Mark.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Mark has to obey her now.
	Well, I hope to visit Dame Astrid again soon with Christina, go to Tokyo, and I will be her sex slave for the weekend.
	Fact.
	Yeah.
	Sir Mark, don't get any ideas.
	All right, onward.
	Baronet Tess, Monica Lansing in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada.
	$211.11.
	Really enjoyed the analysis you provided.
	Keep it up.
	I'd like to request Karma for Ken and Lance.
	Karma for Ken and Lance.
	All right.
	Yes, here we go.
	You're right.
	I misread it, too.
	You've got Karma.
	And finally, last but not least, Mikhail Garber in Issaquah, Washington.
	$201.
	You got me at Digital Dingo from a few episodes back.
	That should bring me over a half-night mark.
	I pledge to become a full one in 2015 as more mad cloud money starts rolling in.
	Oh, nice.
	I want to thank all these folks for being the executive, associate executive producers for Pre-Pie Day.
	And show 703, is that what it is?
	703?
	703?
	703.
	703.
	And I remind you to go to Dvorak.org slash NA and get one of those subscriptions if you haven't subscribed.
	It doesn't cost a lot.
	All the kids are doing it.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And these are credits that we hand out to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	They're always on the homepage, noagendashow.com, live on forever in the show notes and episode edition show notes.
	And we're proud.
	We're proud of our executive producers and the associate execs, and they're proud if they put these credits wherever credits are necessary or accepted.
	Unlike the phonies in Hollywood, we actually will vouch if you need us to.
	Not a problem.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A Then of course we always need the effort of all to be out there propagating our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up!
	Shut up, slave!
	Slavelets!
	You little slaves.
	I have absolutely too much content for today's program.
	Yeah, you got Sunday.
	But I'm telling you this so that you can, because you know what I do is then I try to shoehorn it all in.
	You got to stop me so we're not doing this for the next five hours.
	Well, I didn't stop.
	You know, the first thing you did, which took up forever, I didn't have any complaints about.
	It was a shaggy dog story.
	It really wasn't a shaggy dog story because it wasn't that funny.
	But it was an interesting exposition of what's going on.
	And now we know new things.
	Like, it's possible that the U.S., you know, in our conniving ways, we're great at this, may actually want a nuke in Iran.
	But this is some really good intel, right?
	I think so.
	Yeah.
	And it's kind of, you know, I don't want to say, you know.
	It's kind of creepy.
	But it would definitely, and what difference does it make in the scheme of things when Pakistan's got a bunch of them?
	Hold on one second, John.
	Hey, Siri, play never going to give you up.
	I just wanted to rickroll everybody.
	Now let's listen to some Hillary Clinton.
	He responds not.
	It works, by the way.
	It works.
	It really does.
	Now...
	That's terrible.
	It works.
	We're going to talk...
	This is about the emails, I presume.
	But I have a lot on this too.
	Yeah, there's a couple of things here.
	I have a lot on this too.
	This is, again, a gripe.
	This is the topper I was discussing.
	A gripe about the media.
	Yeah.
	Now, they are...
	We're listening to NewsHour with PBS, and some guy, I can't remember his name, some independent, but he's a consultant for the Republican Party.
	He's a strategist kind of guy.
	And then Hillary's top dog, apparently, who was, I don't know if this name rings a bell with anyone, Hillary, was it Hillary?
	Yeah, Hillary Rosen.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yes, her.
	Okay, gotcha.
	Can she separate?
	I'm telling you, were you done with the setup?
	No, I'm so sorry.
	Do you remember Hillary Rosen?
	Give me a, you don't remember.
	Yeah, she's the Democratic strategist.
	She's a douchebagette.
	Douchebagette, former head of the RIAA. Ah, yes, thank you.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, of course.
	You got to remember that.
	She's the one who put old ladies in prison.
	Yes.
	No, seriously.
	I know.
	She's broken family.
	She's a horrible person.
	She shouldn't be.
	She should be booed off the stage.
	Broken family?
	What does that mean?
	Broken family.
	You got an old lady that all of a sudden has a $250,000 debt.
	Oh, I see.
	You know, because she was on, what was the name of that one service?
	LimeWire.
	LimeWire.
	Yeah, that and the other ones.
	There was a bunch of them where you were, if you downloaded...
	Napster?
	Napster?
	No, no, not Napster.
	The one where whatever, if you ever went on it, you were always a server from then on.
	Napster, you could choose not to be.
	I thought it was LimeWire.
	Well, maybe it was LimeWire.
	Maybe it was Views?
	Something?
	Grokster, Grokster, Grokster, Grokster.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, that was good work.
	Good work, chat room, yeah.
	So here's Hillary.
	Here's Rosen.
	She comes on and she's yakking away.
	And this first part, I just left it on so you can just hear her yakking away with kind of the memes that we're going to be hearing.
	And then Judy Woodruff comes and asks the question about the relationship with Saudi Arabia, which the guy goes into.
	And then Rosen comes up with some bull crap.
	And I want to talk about that when we're done with this clip.
	Can she separate real legitimate questions from reporters or from the public from what is clearly going to continue to be a Republican witch hunt for her?
	Just very quickly, Matthew Dowd, one of the things that came up today was a question about money that the Clinton Foundation has taken from foreign countries that have treated women badly, in some cases abused women, countries like Saudi Arabia.
	Secretary Clinton answered by saying she, the foundation, have been very open about what they do.
	Where do you see that issue?
	Well, I wanted to clarify, I actually think that issue, Judy, that you're bringing up now is actually a bigger issue than the email issue, is one, I'm an independent, so this isn't a Republican witch hunt.
	First, secondly, the New York Times, no Republican newspaper was the one that broke this story about this whole process, about the whole emails.
	But this idea that she walks around the world and claims that she says, I'm all for women's empowerment, I want women's rights, and I'm doing that.
	And I shouldn't say just claims.
	She's doing a lot.
	But simultaneously, the countries with the worst records on women's rights are giving large contributions to a foundation that she and her husband are part of is a huge problem.
	Hilary Rosen, final comment.
	One quick thing.
	First of all, the only reason we can even judge these countries is because of the total transparency of the Clinton Foundation, unlike other foundations.
	They've listed all of them.
	Secondly, you know, Saudi Arabia is a good example.
	When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, she issued the most scathing report on Saudi Arabia's treatment of Skating.
	That has ever been issued by the United States government, ever.
	And Saudi Arabia was a contributor to the Clinton Foundation.
	What she said today was, they know where I stand.
	It's not going to change me.
	It never has.
	It never will.
	If they want to give money to save people's lives in Africa or in Haiti, that's okay with me.
	All right.
	So let's start with a little understanding of how the extortion racket works.
	Just for one slight interjection.
	The question that they just discussed was asked by Andrea Mitchell, you know, who was married to Greenspan.
	Yes.
	Just pointing that out.
	I have the clip if you want to, if you call for it.
	Yeah, play the clip and the answer.
	Andrea, thank you, Andrea.
	Thank you, Andrea.
	Oh, thank you, Hillary.
	Madam Secretary, can you explain how you decided which of the personal emails to get rid of?
	This is the part that I liked.
	She's asking a very good question.
	How did you decide which of the 30,000 emails you wanted to delete?
	Which, of course, this is the worst thing in the world.
	Well, before you go there, because we did get to the other point.
	She asked it out of sequence.
	I'll shut up.
	You go ahead.
	I'll shut up.
	Well, I'm just saying that...
	I thought she was going to ask him about the Saudis.
	She has a two-part question.
	Oh, the first part is my second part.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's the reverse in the actual question and answer.
	All right, well, let's hold off on that.
	Okay, hold off.
	I got it.
	I just want to talk about what Clinton said to her regarding the Saudi Arabian thing, and then the response from Rosen, which was that this is a transparent operation, and they got all this money from Saudi Arabia, and I wanted to explain...
	That the extortion racket doesn't work that way.
	The extortion racket works...
	I mean, there's an extortion going on here.
	She wrote a scathing report.
	Okay, so what?
	It goes like this.
	If you're the Saudi guys, you say, we need some money from you.
	We're not getting enough money from you guys.
	And she, well, you know, you're going to say, you know, you wrote this horrible report about us.
	We still want more money from you.
	The report is the tip of an iceberg.
	It's exactly like what they did with North Korea.
	You want the iceberg or do you want the report?
	The report makes me look good and makes you look like we're on the up and up.
	So do you want the report or do you want the iceberg?
	Give us some more money.
	Okay, okay, okay, you get some money.
	That's the way it goes.
	It doesn't go the way Hillary Rosen did.
	So it's actually playing right into this moron's analysis.
	So she says, but she wrote such a scathing report of how horrible they are by saying that's how she was defending and on the up and up with these donors.
	It's really that is the scam.
	Yeah.
	That's great.
	That is a scam.
	Look what I can do.
	I got the scathing report, but there's an iceberg underneath it.
	Do you want the iceberg?
	No.
	But I don't want no iceberg.
	Then give us some money.
	How much?
	Here, take Uma.
	150 million bucks, for starters.
	Here, take my daughter, Uma Abedin.
	Presidential model.
	So to throw this at the public is nonsense.
	Oh, look.
	She wrote a skating report and then she still got the money.
	Huh?
	How does that happen?
	Are people...
	Is the press just dumb?
	Well, that's the part of my second part.
	Ah, there we go.
	This is Hillary nonsense regarding email.
	Andrea Mitchell asks a question.
	This is one.
	I don't know how often this question was asked or even this is the answer to Andrea's question.
	But I want to play the Hillary nonsense regarding email.
	They play Hillary.
	Then they go to this guy and then they go to Hillary Rosen and they go back and forth.
	And I want to clear something up here.
	Let's listen to one other excerpt from Secretary Clinton.
	This was an answer to a question about, she said, you know, how can the public trust, they asked, that she didn't delete emails that were professional but unflattering to her?
	Here's how she answered that.
	You would have to ask that question to every single federal employee because the way the system works, the federal employee, the individual, whether they have one device, two devices, three devices, how many addresses, they make the decision.
	So even if you have a work-related device with a work-related.gov account, you choose what goes on that.
	That is the way our system works.
	And so we trust and count on the judgment of thousands, maybe millions of people to make those decisions.
	Matthew Dowd, what about that?
	Well, I think she's right in that federal employees have to be held to a certain standard on how they conduct personal and that.
	But thousands of federal employees aren't the heir apparent for the Democratic Party to be the nominee as president and aren't ahead to be the likely president.
	If the election were held today, Hillary Clinton would be elected president of the United States.
	So I'm hoping that she sees herself as holding herself to a higher standard in the midst of this.
	No, no, no.
	This is not the way this should have gone.
	Somebody in the audience, or somebody should have suggested, aren't all the emails that go through the federal system archived as such by the NSA? Well, no, not even the NSA. As far as I know, this is what happened during the During the era when Reagan was in office and you had Ollie North and Poindex and all these guys, they dug up their old emails that were on archives.
	Yeah, they were erased.
	Ollie North would erase his emails.
	People do that to get your box cleared out.
	But that doesn't mean that mail is gone forever.
	Hillary was indicating that, well, we're responsible for our own boxes and we just erase what we erase.
	Nobody called her out on this.
	It's bull crap.
	Well, that is another one of these technical issues that we deal with more and more in this technological society that the mainstream media, the press in general, is not prepared to address because they don't know fuck all.
	They don't know anything.
	They're idiots.
	I'm looking at these guys, you know, there's like, in this Hillary thing, there was like, I'm actually adding up the value of the cameras.
	They're running these, you know, 5D Mark 3s, you know, a $2,000, $3,000 camera.
	They know how stuff works.
	With a $2,000 white lens at the end of it, they got like all this gear, and they can ask a question that's so obvious, aren't these backed up at the initial point where they're actually sent?
	And that's the problem with you having your own email server because you can do whatever you want with this stuff?
	But no, nobody says that.
	She goes on with it.
	If you played that clip again, actually, don't play that clip again.
	But that clip is a deceptive, bullcrap answer.
	And then nobody on the news hour says anything about it.
	One guy says, well, you know, she should keep herself to a higher level.
	Give me a break.
	Here is a question about the server itself, which again shows just the poor, poor knowledge base, or at least quality of questions.
	Well, the system we used was set up for President Clinton's office, and it had numerous safeguards.
	It was on property, guarded by the Secret Service, and there were no security breaches.
	The use of that server which started with my husband certainly proved to be effective and secure.
	Now, with respect to any sort of future issues...
	I trust the American people to make their decisions about political and public matters, and I feel that I've taken unprecedented steps to provide these group-related emails.
	They're going to be in the public domain, and I think that Americans will find that interesting, and I look forward to having a discussion about that.
	There are so many questions that should and could have been asked about this.
	Just to say there was never an intrusion, it was guarded by the Secret Service.
	What kind of server?
	What was the line that was connected to it?
	Maybe not for this press conference, but nobody seems to be asking that.
	And really, something else took place, which was between Matt and Jen, Which there's been a little bit of reporting on, but the State Department's email has been hacked and has subsequently been shut down.
	Which really plays into Hillary's cards, I think.
	Yeah, I know.
	I think it may actually be a setup to make Hillary look...
	Thank you.
	It's a setup that would be like, well look, it never happened to me!
	It seems to me a little bit unusual where we're in a position where hackers from Russia, from wherever they are, have more access to the State Department records and archives than the American public and Congress.
	He's asking a good question.
	Why do hackers have more access to your email than the American public and Congress?
	Does that not strike you as being odd?
	In what capacity, Matt?
	Well, they hack your email system.
	Okay, now this is where, as much as I love Matt, Matt, you need to call me.
	Because you could shine here, my friend.
	You could shine.
	By first not saying, well, it's been hacked.
	Let's use some real adult words, shall we?
	Did they penetrate a firewall?
	Was it an SSH issue?
	Was it maybe just someone who had a password or an administrator?
	Let's ask some real grown-up questions.
	They had to shut it all down, presumably, and they're still in there, apparently.
	They're still in there, Matt.
	No, no.
	There are no little green men running around.
	Help, make it out of the computer!
	And by the way, let me stop you before you go on.
	If he asked those questions that you just suggested, what do you think Psaki would do?
	She'd fall over.
	You can't answer those questions in a million years.
	She doesn't even know what you're talking about.
	I know, but we have to start.
	Somebody has to start somewhere, and she'd have to refer to some other expert.
	But then Matt Lee, I think he's a guy who will follow through.
	He might write up on it.
	What an opportunity.
	But just to say, they're still in there?
	Come on.
	That's crap.
	Or whatever it is.
	So they're seeing stuff that the rest of us can't see.
	What are they seeing?
	Just don't use stuff.
	Right?
	Well, I don't think you have an assessment of, unless there's something I don't know about your email capacity, of what actually they had access to.
	We take precautions.
	We fight thousands of attacks every single day.
	Stop!
	Could you please, is there a list of these thousands of attacks every single day?
	You are the most transparent administration in history.
	Could we please, are these DDoS attacks?
	Is it probing?
	What is it?
	Right, but that's still an issue.
	Right, Matt, dude.
	Issue, as far as you know.
	Oh, as we've said, it continues to be an issue.
	Obviously, cybersecurity remains a threat.
	No, but from this one attack that caused the whole system, caused you to shut down the whole open...
	Well, I'm just not going to get that specific.
	There are thousands of attacks we deal with every day.
	A thousand!
	Why don't we start there?
	Someone has to start doing this.
	This is necessary.
	The way things are going with the media.
	They're going to sacrifice me.
	I know.
	It's not going to happen.
	What do you think?
	Well, it gets worse.
	Here we have Hillary throughout this entire press conference, which was after the United Nations, you know, women of the world, we are the world thing, which he answered these questions and she made her statement.
	I watched the whole thing.
	Then he's like, oh, I should have used two devices.
	Boy, how dumb am I? I should have had a work device and I should have had a private device.
	You know, and oh, that was just not smart, not smart.
	Why didn't I do that?
	And then our journalist in the tech media, Recode, Kara Schwisher, gets this out of her.
	I have a, you know, an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone, and a Blackberry.
	Oh, it seems like she has plenty of stuff all of a sudden.
	Please.
	Huh.
	Blackberry.
	Yeah.
	iPad.
	Mini iPad.
	Why not an iPhone?
	Diane Feinstein.
	She said iPhone.
	She has an iPhone.
	She said iPhone.
	iPad, iPad mini, iPhone, Blackberry.
	You said iPhone and Blackberry?
	Yeah.
	Play that again.
	I gotta hear it again.
	Okay.
	Sorry.
	Uh...
	What was it called again?
	Recode.
	Here we go.
	I have an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone, and a Blackberry.
	She said an iPhone and a Blackberry.
	That's two devices.
	Hello!
	Why am I playing the clip?
	I wanted to confirm it because I didn't hear that iPhone-Blackberry combo.
	Of course, she's been called out on that, right?
	Not that I know of.
	Oh, okay, never mind.
	What was I thinking?
	Dianne Feinstein ran interference for her, though, which was quite endearing.
	Do you see a problem with how this was done, perception-wise?
	No, not yet.
	I don't.
	Because as I understand it, the regulations were unclear and there's no specific law.
	In November of last year, four months ago, the president in fact signed a law and that law said that if you use your personal email and there's government material on it, that government material must be transferred within 20 days.
	That in itself said the situation isn't clear.
	And I think what has to happen is it has to be cleared up.
	Diane running cover for Hillary there.
	It's quite interesting.
	Well, I think, you know, I think we've talked about this in the last show, not the show before, but Hillary's idea to do this was wise.
	Yes.
	It's much better than these.
	And still people got their questions in about the donations, about the scam.
	So the questions are there.
	But it's really all about the emails and the server and the two devices and the unprecedented and she's going to go above and beyond.
	Everyone buys into it.
	And let us remember that the New York Times broke this story and were really, really soft on it all.
	On, you know, being very careful because they were asked to come in and write the story and the source of the story and the Brazilian guy, whoever it was, the hacker, who discovered it in the first place.
	And, yeah, it was very soft.
	Yeah, they're wearing kid gloves here.
	There's a large group of the American media and the public that want Hillary to be president, and then there's a large group that doesn't.
	And of course, we'll see who wins that fight.
	Around Austin, I hear the typical Obama-bot women like Hillary.
	They're not really happy with her anymore.
	They're not ready for Hillary.
	They're not ready for Hillary.
	Doesn't sound like they're ready.
	They're not ready for Hillary.
	Man, man, man.
	You want to do something on Common Core, which I just want to remind you.
	Yes.
	Oh, wait.
	I'm sorry.
	I am remiss.
	About what?
	Well, I can't just do that without doing this.
	I was looking up a bunch of stuff.
	And, you know, again, you know, the whole Common Core thing.
	Now their children are revolting.
	The children themselves, they're doing walkouts, they're doing all the stuff that was reminiscent of when I was a kid, when the kids actually did protests.
	When I was in high school, I was involved in a walkout.
	Oh?
	Yeah.
	What was it about?
	It was pretty...
	Actually, what was it about?
	It was a...
	I'll tell you, the story said that there was some teacher that everybody loved, and they were going to fire him for some reason, and they thought it was unjustified.
	For fiddling.
	Sorry?
	No, no.
	I'm listening.
	And the students decided to do a walkout until this was resolved properly.
	So we did this huge walkout.
	Everybody left their classrooms.
	They just got up and walked.
	I don't even know who came up with the idea or why it was done, but everybody was involved.
	And back in the day, you weren't beaten down like little slavelets and drugged up on Adderall or Ritalin or Adderall.
	I guess that must have been it.
	Whatever the case was, it was exciting.
	And this is high school, so we all walked out of class and stood around outside.
	And then there was an announcement that whatever the situation was, and I wish I could remember it, was resolved and they're going to do this and that.
	So everyone went back in.
	And so I guess the news media got wind of this or something.
	They came over and some douchebag reporter pulled the fire alarm to get the kids to come back outside.
	So they could reshoot it.
	So they could shoot some pictures.
	Oh man.
	They ran that as the walkout.
	Wow.
	I think that may have been part of the genesis of my way of thinking about the media.
	Funny how they did that at Newtown as well.
	It's funny.
	Yeah, ring, ring, ring.
	And so they come out and, you know, what the...
	And then somebody said, hey, some guys from the newspaper, they just want to take our pictures.
	And so we went back into class.
	Oh, man.
	So the kids are going completely ballistic about this.
	And mainly because of what?
	It's crap.
	Well, it's a nine-hour test.
	And they know it's crap.
	And the funny thing is, so I've got some interesting clips here.
	And let's play the intro to it, which is clip one, which introduces us to the issue as it's now evolving.
	Testing for the Common Core Learning Standards in U.S. public schools began earlier this month.
	And just as a rebellion is brewing against the Common Core, there are now protests building against the national tests associated with them.
	Reports of students refusing to take the tests are coming in daily.
	And if those numbers keep building, it could endanger the goals of the standards themselves.
	Our special correspondent for education, John Merrow, has the story from New Jersey.
	We're live.
	We're live.
	Something big is happening in New Jersey, and it's being broadcast on YouTube.
	If you're, like, following us on Twitter or Instagram, make sure you use the hashtag.
	It's hashtag OccupyNPS.
	In Newark, high school students occupied the superintendent's office for three days.
	One of their issues?
	The Common Core Test.
	This is a pretty big deal.
	We're taking back our district.
	Politicians actually get very nervous when they see how many people are against one thing.
	They have money power, they have political power, but we have people power.
	It's happening in Montclair, where a protest group released this video.
	That's my own hood.
	We're fighting back.
	I'm trying to push back against the test because I'm not just a number and I'm not a dollar sign.
	We are refusing the test.
	Refuse the test.
	Wait a minute.
	Montclair, New Jersey?
	I know people in the school system there.
	Did they say Kimberly Academy?
	I don't know.
	I didn't hear that.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I'll get on that.
	So all hell's breaking loose with this test and people are bailing out.
	The test is a joke.
	You can go.
	I recommend people.
	I was going to add this to this.
	It's Montclair State, by the way.
	Yeah, I know people there.
	You can go online, Google...
	The common core test sample tests.
	And you can go take some of these tests.
	And the worst ones are from this operation, which is funded by Bill and Melinda Gates.
	Oh, of course.
	And that is what?
	What is it called?
	It's the one that Pearson owns.
	Pearson, which is begun by this operation called Achieve.
	Ah, yes, Achieve.
	We've talked about Achieve before.
	Achieve has...
	Colin Powell is in it.
	There's all these elites in it.
	It's got Craig Barrett, ex-CEO of Intel.
	Yeah, all these guys.
	It's got Lou Gerstner, the chairman emeritus.
	IBM, the guy who used to run IBM. I mean, the whole thing...
	Go to search.nashownotes.com, you'll find all of the topics.
	Yeah, and anyways, ARC or AP... I'm going to get it here for a second.
	Um...
	Oh, by the way, this one guy that's the head of it now is also the head of the Freedom, or one of the top guys in the Freedom Project.
	And that's...
	I don't know where that is.
	Apparently a PAC, a political PAC, owned by Boehner, John Boehner.
	Oh.
	So the Republicans are involved in the money-making aspect of this.
	But let's go on with a couple of these clips.
	Now, the second clip introduces, I think, is the star of the show...
	It's a little 12-year-old girl who is now testifying.
	In this clip, she's testifying before the state senate or the state assembly.
	And then she comes on later with an explanation of what she doesn't like about.
	And you can tell she's like a very sharp, charming girl that is...
	She understands what's wrong with this test, and even though she could probably pass it quite easily, but play clip two.
	And it's happening in the state capitol.
	In conclusion, the Park High Stakes standardized test will hurt our students, teachers, and school.
	That is why I am refusing the Park test this spring.
	And I heard about what happened in New York, how like 60,000 people opted out, and I thought, wow, that's something we can't do about it.
	Wait a minute, that kid's a shill.
	The kid is great.
	That kid's a shill.
	That kid's a shill.
	She's definitely a shill, and she's fantastic.
	Excellent.
	Park is one of two national tests of the Common Core state standards being given to about 15 million students, starting with third graders, in 28 states and Washington, D.C. this spring.
	The Common Core and the tests have their defenders.
	I think the Common Core state standards have upped the ante for everybody, that it is indeed more rigorous.
	So we needed a more rigorous assessment.
	Alright, so this is one of the apologists.
	The testing company is PARCC. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	They're the ones owned by Pearson Publishing, and there's all this Gates Foundation money and all this other stuff going on.
	I didn't realize it at the time, but most of these tests are incredibly computer-intensive.
	What does that mean?
	And so they need all of this new gear.
	And in fact, the little girl bitches about this.
	iPads or, no, Dell laptops and stuff.
	Windows-based.
	They're not cheap, whatever the case is.
	There's a short point to be made, I think, in clip three.
	We can play that.
	Julia Rubin is one of the founders of Save Our Schools, New Jersey.
	Nobody really cares about the ideology of the group.
	It's about saving our schools.
	It's about protecting those children.
	Strange bedfellows is what this is.
	And it's so much fun.
	One message, many voices.
	And that is the winning strategy.
	The message?
	Tests take away from teaching and learning.
	They're impacting the kind of education kids are getting because they're eating up a lot of instruction time with test preparation and test drilling.
	If what you're measuring is English and math, Then all these unimportant subjects like art and music and science and social studies, languages, you know, that gets put aside.
	So how was your day?
	Now, this is an interesting point.
	There's only these two tests, one for English and one for math.
	What happened to STEM? It's like bumping right into the other meme.
	Right.
	We got one meme, the Common Core meme, bumping into the STEM meme.
	And I think that's kind of interesting.
	But let's listen again to the little 12-year-old explain, with some logic, what's wrong with these tests.
	Her 12-year-old daughter, Raisa, singles out the PARC test.
	Have you taken it?
	I've taken some sample tests.
	What'd you think?
	It was very confusing.
	You're supposed to pick one right answer, which is hard for a lot of people.
	But the test must have a right answer.
	They did have a right answer.
	Like, they had a defined right answer.
	Dude, dude, dude.
	This kid.
	John, this kid.
	We need her.
	This kid's a goldmine.
	When I was 12, I was like, look, I have a pubic hair.
	I couldn't talk like this kid.
	This kid's amazing.
	Oh no, this kid's fantastic.
	Each of these is not a main idea, but all of them kind of tied in to the idea, so everybody had a different answer, because everybody interpreted the text differently.
	There's never going to be one right way to solve a problem, so why should there be one right answer?
	Left and right?
	MKUltra, John.
	MKUltra this kid, for sure.
	Object to the cost of the tests.
	They're saying New Jersey needs at least $575 million.
	I've heard of schools that have a shortfall of a half a million and three-quarters of a million.
	So it is something.
	This is costly.
	Wow.
	Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
	Okay.
	I'm liking this.
	I don't know.
	That clip seems to be cut off somewhere, but she mentions the...
	The number five has a little girl again, I guess.
	Does it?
	Yeah.
	Okay, play five, it must be in there.
	Students will spend up to 11 hours taking the test over nine days.
	Most will take them on computers, and everyone's expecting glitches.
	I don't know what the computer thing's gonna be like.
	A lot of them, there's like all these different problems, like dragging and dropping, and a lot of students don't know how to do this kind of stuff on the computer.
	I think the only people who benefit from this would be those who are selling the test.
	There's your answer.
	Wow, wow.
	Wow, wow, wow.
	Not quite clip of the day, but borderline.
	Borderline.
	Yeah.
	We have the Comic-Core Last and Kicker, which, you know, is the finale.
	You have six.
	Do we need to do six?
	Oh, six.
	Yeah, six has got one of the counter-advertisements they're starting to bring out to get people back on board.
	Occasion establishment has gone on the offensive.
	The old standardized test merely evaluated Tommy's ability to memorize basic facts.
	The new assessments measure deep understanding of the types of problems he will encounter in the real world.
	Critical thinking.
	Okay, let me bring something out there.
	Critical thinking, John.
	Here's an advisement.
	Go to Google and type Common Core Sample Tests and go on some of these sites where they have actual sample tests and go to the third grade one and take it.
	And tell me that this is appropriate testing for a third grader, A, and whether this is appropriate testing for anybody.
	It's got propaganda.
	You read this piece of propaganda about something or other, and then you have to analyze it based on some structural aspect, including I looked at some of these questions.
	This is advanced thinking.
	This is crazy.
	It's completely nuts.
	And So let's finish off the whole thing here with the Common Core last and kicker, and then we'll talk maybe about this.
	There's absolutely no data to show that imposing this quote-unquote accountability has improved educational outcomes.
	In fact, just the opposite.
	Inequalities increased.
	What the tests primarily measure is the wealth of their families.
	Whoa!
	The wealth of their families?
	That's what it comes down to.
	Are you kidding me?
	This one supervising woman who's all in on this was asked the question, doesn't this just show to these kids that they're failures because they can't pass this test because the test is...
	Just a piece of crap.
	And you're just not going to pass it if you're not really sitting there thinking about it.
	Very difficult.
	In fact, the questions that you take, sample tests, they give you two hours to do them.
	Because it takes forever to figure out what they're trying to get you to do.
	To answer, like the little girl said, yeah, there is a right answer, but it's pointless.
	And the woman says, yeah, well, that may be true, but they're going to find that out anyway.
	This is what she basically said.
	They're going to find out that they're losers earlier, and then we can deal with that before they get out of high school.
	Damn.
	It was very harsh.
	And if you look into this, it's all big money.
	The kind of money that's mostly...
	Well, that's where I wanted to go.
	You sent me off on a research hunt, and I diligently complied.
	And this is the Lumina Foundation.
	The Lumina Foundation, I was interested because the Lumina Foundation is part of the group that promotes the...
	What's this other organization?
	Yeah, go ahead.
	They give money and guidance to this other organization, which gives money and guidance to another organization, which gives money and guidance to the guys who put this Common Core together.
	And...
	If anyone wants to look at...
	There's a really good site.
	You can look this up.
	Arizonans Against Common Core.
	They got some very interesting things there that indicate that it's actually...
	Most of these ideas stem back to Tony Blair where they were stolen.
	But that's another discussion.
	But the Lumina Foundation, which got me triggered on that, at the bottom of this guy's lecture or essay in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, it says the Lumina Foundation is the largest private foundation ever In the United States, or one of them committed solely to enrolling and graduating more students from college.
	Right.
	And they have a billion dollars.
	And they have a billion dollars.
	And would you like me to take over for a second with some analysis of that billion dollars?
	I got my point out of the way, that there's a little 12-year-old out there we have to be leery of.
	First off, yeah.
	No, we need to employ this 12-year-old.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm not quite sure what for, but, you know, just imagine.
	Those beheading videos are completely bogative.
	I heard it on the Noah Jenner show.
	She would be fantastic.
	So the Lumina Foundation, they have a little promo video.
	video, I figured it's always nice to first listen to the way they market themselves and what their mission is and then go over to the Form 990, which is a legal document they file with the IRS, which of course tells us exactly what they do, not just in words, but also the numbers.
	It's quite obvious what this is all about.
	Oh yeah, it's a nice little background music.
	Come on, everybody.
	Come on.
	America's success in an increasingly competitive world economy depends upon our ability to solve two major problems.
	First, our educational system is not producing the results our country needs.
	The United States economy faces a shortage of 16 million college graduates by the year 2025.
	For the first time in U.S. history, younger adults are less well educated than their parents.
	We know talent and drive are well distributed across our population, but high income students are seven times more likely to get a college degree than our low income students.
	Our universities have to do better at nurturing that talent because we cannot meet our educational goals until we find ways for all students to succeed.
	The second problem is that universities exist in a competitive environment.
	This can work against us by keeping valuable ideas and strategies from spreading.
	We have hot spots of innovative student success initiatives around the country.
	Too often, these good ideas Are staying where they're born.
	There are nearly 700 public universities in the U.S. enrolling almost 7 million undergraduate students.
	We need to spread proven innovations and scale them up from place to place.
	Only then can we graduate a higher number of students, including low-income students with quality degrees.
	Solving these two major problems was the motivation for our 11 large public...
	I want to shoot myself.
	You get the idea.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, and there's also a couple interesting things in there.
	She kind of says, we have all these potential college students.
	I think she kind of says that there's a lot of wealthy kids that aren't going to college, and we've got to get those kids back on that track.
	Okay, now let's switch over to Form 990.
	The mission of Lumina Foundation is to expand access and success in education beyond high school, particularly among adults, first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color.
	The mission is directed toward a single overarching goal.
	This is it.
	To increase the percentage of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates, and other credentials to 60% by the year 2025.
	Nice, but a billion dollars?
	A billion dollars.
	And most of this money, where do you think it comes from, this billion dollars?
	I'm sorry, let me ask the question differently.
	So their gross, their income for 2013 was, I think, $92 million.
	Where do you think most of that income comes from?
	Because it's right here.
	The numbers are right here.
	I don't know.
	From investments in corporate stocks, investments in bonds.
	They have half a billion dollars in corporate stock.
	Well, actually $441 million.
	$552 million, half a billion in other investments, and they have a schedule attached to that.
	You see it's mainly bonds.
	They really don't spend a lot of money.
	This is...
	Well, actually, I can tell you what they spend it on.
	They spend it on themselves, obviously.
	But they spend it at conferences, $3 million.
	Research and publications, $3 million.
	Philanthropy, $7 million.
	So this is an investment vehicle, is what this is.
	This is a tax-free...
	Because it's a 5013C. It could be four.
	Tax-free.
	You just hand them their money.
	You get to deduct all that.
	And then they have this huge, beautiful drinking club, as you would call it, John.
	And I'll tell you some of the salaries of the executives who are trying to help our children.
	Hold on a second, let me scroll down.
	I have it all marked up in the show notes where you can find it at 703.noagendanotes.com.
	Oops.
	This thing is 200 pages, by the way, which is kind of nutty.
	Wow.
	Yeah, one guy dedicated to writing that thing.
	So first of all, all of the directors are being paid.
	You don't see this too often on a 990, at least not the kind of outfits we look at.
	It's not abnormal for a director of a publicly traded company to make money.
	These people, some of them have, here, zero hours.
	That's Gerald Bepko, and he's still got $5,000.
	So let's see, we have, that's per week.
	What?
	Yeah.
	No, his total compensation was $5,000, but he worked zero hours.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's $5,000 for a year.
	Right.
	But then if you take Laura Palmer Noon, she made $30,000 for two hours a week of work.
	So in other words, you make $15,000 an hour if you actually work.
	Yeah.
	But yeah.
	And, well, that's not entirely true.
	I think it's two per week.
	But it's not, it's bullshit.
	You know, a couple meetings, it doesn't do anything.
	But this is a philanthropic organization, isn't it?
	I mean, why do you need any?
	Don't you just join the board and say I'm on the board and leave the money in there to help kids?
	No.
	Chief Executive is making $700,000.
	Nice.
	The Vice President and Treasurer and CFO. Plus probably a lot of free expenses, you know, flights.
	All of that's in there.
	He's making half a million.
	You know, it just goes on and on.
	These people are making bank.
	Big money being made here.
	And, of course, they have huge expenses that goes towards the stockbrokers.
	So all this thing is is a write-off, presumably because they don't disclose who's putting money in or, you know, they just don't disclose that or where the money came from.
	You know, all these rich people are putting their money into this vehicle.
	This thing spends, you know, $10, $20 million a year doing some conferences, you know, whatever, traveling somewhere, hanging out.
	There's another clip that I don't know.
	Banging hookers.
	Huh?
	Yeah, I'm sure they're doing all of the above.
	There's another clip I don't have because it came in late and it was just showing up that apparently there is a lot of money going in from...
	I'll get this clip ready for Sunday.
	Money coming in from hedge funds into the Cuomo campaign and other campaigns in New York to promote the idea of more and more and more charter schools.
	Well, yeah, that's where the business is.
	That's where the business is and where the money is to be made.
	This whole thing...
	Random number theory.
	Random number theory, John.
	That little girl who made the comment that some of these kids don't even know what drag and drop is...
	When using a computer, because they don't, you know, the poorer kids, which she didn't say, but a lot of the kids can't do these things on the computer, because they're not just, you know, the third graders, for starters, and so the idea is to wash them out as fast as you can, get these charter schools up, take the kids that have some chops, Even the ones that don't have any money, but somehow they're really bright, and it puts them in the charter schools, marginalize everybody else.
	This is what I'm believing is going on.
	Marginalize everybody else, get them into the loser status as quickly as you can, and then back it up with the Corrections Corporation of America, another, or Corrections Corporation of America, Correction Corporation, CCI or CCA, that Bill and Melinda Gates, I don't know what this has to do with public health or anything or education, but they're big investors in the privatized prison system.
	And let's just build up the prisons, get these kids on a fast track to prison.
	We'll spot them early.
	That's what that woman said.
	Well, you know, these tests will find these kids, these dummies, find the dumbest kids we can, and we'll find them early, and then we know what to do, and she uses the word intervention, and that's what she's going to do.
	They're going to just route those kids right to jail, where they're going to be used by the federal operation that...
	That uses prisoners to do work.
	They build furniture.
	They do all these sorts of things for no money because it's a prison system of slave labor.
	And we're back in business.
	We're back in the 1850s and nobody seems to give a crap.
	And the...
	Democrat, black folks in the United States, have this happening right under their noses, and they don't seem to, well, yeah, I know, yeah, my brother's in jail, everybody's in jail.
	I believe there's another part to this, which is what I'll call the population enslavement complex.
	Originally, in the speech, it was not just the military-industrial complex, it was the Educational military industrial complex.
	Academics.
	Thank you.
	I'm going to add banking and education to this.
	Random number theory, coincidence, who knows.
	Here's President Obama in Georgia.
	And I'm going to play his opening jokes first because it's always funny to hear.
	This was very gay, by the way.
	He did a pretty gay joke.
	That's a pretty good looking crowd here.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I wasn't directing it specifically at you, but you do look pretty good.
	What do you think?
	I may not be the best gauge.
	Do what?
	I may not be the best gauge?
	Gauge.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Now this is what is happening to our children, who are now being encouraged by outfits like Lumina to eventually go to college.
	We need to enslave you from the get-go before you even go in.
	Here's the president.
	He's going to run down the incredible list of improvements we've made for your convenience.
	And really listen to this.
	This is just...
	And that's why we've acted again and again to make college more affordable.
	Five years ago this month.
	By the way, it's not more affordable.
	It's just to make your payment plan less obvious.
	It's hardly more affordable.
	It's not even close to being more affordable.
	It is still going up.
	Well, but he is changing the definition of affordable.
	The definition of affordable is how much you're going to have to pay each month based upon the slave job you receive.
	We enacted the largest reforms to the student loan program in history.
	Yeah.
	Elizabeth Warren, I believe, was a part of that.
	Let's make sure we remember that.
	We cut out the big banks that were taking taxpayer dollars and serving as middlemen in the student loan game.
	And we thought, hey, we can screw these kids.
	We're the government.
	And we said, well, let's just give the money directly to the students.
	And enslave them!
	Like you.
	Give the money.
	You hear these words.
	Just give the money to these students.
	Hey, where's my Obama cash?
	Obama.
	As a result of that change, we saved billions of dollars.
	We were able to expand tax credits and Pell Grants and put college within reach for millions more middle-class and low-income students across the country.
	Then we fought to keep interest rates on student loans low.
	Wait a minute.
	What do you mean you've had to fight to keep interest?
	If you're the government and you're handing out free money like you do to the banks, where you charge 0%, but you had to fight with somebody about the 6% you're charging the kids?
	Did you hear him said fight, John?
	Yeah, I hear him say fight.
	But do you remember a fight about this?
	I don't remember a fight.
	Isn't the government supposed to give us a good deal?
	Well, not that I know of.
	And capped how high those rates can rise.
	Here, check this out.
	And as a result, the typical undergrad is saving about $1,500.
	We also acted to let millions of graduates cap their loan payments at 10% of their incomes.
	This is it.
	This is the one that bothers me.
	That is enslavement.
	You come in here, and when you come in, here's what we're going to do.
	When you're done, we're going to take 10% of whatever you earn until you pay it off.
	That's a scary deal, man.
	That truly is enslavement.
	And here comes the just atrocious...
	This bothers me as an American.
	So in order to spur more of a conversation, to get more folks engaged...
	Okay, we know that's coming, a conversation.
	We're going to try something new to help do this.
	We're going to steal something sacred and make it marketing.
	It's not a fancy new program.
	It doesn't have a complicated acronym.
	It doesn't involve new spending or bureaucracy.
	It's just a simple organizing principle that I want all of us...
	Write that down, John.
	A simple organizing principle.
	He doesn't say that stuff without reason.
	...to sign on to.
	A declaration of values.
	A declaration of values.
	Notice how we're now putting words like declaration of values, declaration of independence, declaration of values.
	I find that sketchy, but then...
	What I'm calling a student aid bills of rights.
	A student aid bill of rights.
	This is not okay.
	What is this?
	You can't be using bill of rights in this manner.
	It's this trickery.
	Making this like you get some kind of great deal on affordable college and it's your right.
	And it's a declaration.
	This is stuff Goebbels would be going like, ah, this is good.
	Good stuff.
	Sehr gut, mein Herr Obama.
	And it says every student deserves access to a quality, affordable education.
	Deserves!
	Deserves!
	Every student should be able to access the resources to pay for college.
	Like money from the government.
	Every borrower has the right to an affordable repayment plan.
	And now you're a borrower.
	Notice you were a student a minute ago?
	Now you're a borrower.
	Oh boy, yeah.
	Sehr gut, Herr Obama.
	Every borrower has the right to quality customer service, reliable information, and fair treatment, even if they struggle to repay their loans.
	Now, I'll tell you, I would rather be dealing with commercial banks than with the government if I want customer service or fair treatment.
	Wow.
	This is beyond me.
	It's a simple set of principles that if everybody signed on to, Republicans, Democrats, state legislators, university presidents, members of Congress, it can focus our attention, all these different things that we're doing, into one simple basic idea, which is make sure that when you're doing the right thing that your society has got your back.
	And it's looking out for you.
	Yeah, looking out for you.
	Here's what's going to happen.
	Hey, kid, you didn't pay your 10%.
	Let's go to jail!
	Wow.
	That's a great catch.
	I'm giving you a clip of the day for that.
	Oh, that's very kind of you.
	And it's a good add-on to what I was just talking about.
	Well, that's why I said it was like random number theory.
	So I gladly...
	Gladly.
	Share my award with you, sir.
	I welcome being the setup guy for some of these things.
	Yeah, what bullcrap.
	Yeah, I know.
	Bullcrap.
	Do you have anything else on this?
	Kids, you know, they don't have a clue.
	They're clueless.
	The words that are being used is like...
	We're going to give you money.
	I'm going to give you money.
	First aid goes from the giving you money to you being a borrower.
	A borrower.
	Somehow a student in between.
	With great customer service.
	It's going to be the same guy who sat next to you in lecture hall who will be giving you the customer service for your loan.
	Borrower.
	Hey, borrower.
	10%.
	Wow.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Are we done with that?
	Well, now I'm just going to continue just the scam angle just a little bit more.
	Oh, good.
	I want to play this clip.
	I really have to get something to drink.
	Okay, we'll play this clip.
	This is a little clip.
	It's a good length of clip.
	You can get something to drink.
	This is about drug prices going up.
	It went up again.
	Every year they're going up.
	We know it's a scam.
	It has to do with the insurance companies and the rest of it.
	But there's one little tidbit in here from some new drug and what it costs.
	It is a gem.
	Okay, well, I'll be listening while I get the drink.
	I think I can hear it.
	You've no doubt heard it before.
	Drug prices are rising today.
	A new report from Express Scripts confirms that overall spending on prescriptions in the United States up 13% last year.
	That is the most since 2003.
	Meg Terrell now on what's behind the rise in drug prices and what's being done about it.
	How fast are drug prices rising?
	Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts says the increases are setting records.
	Express Scripts negotiates drug prices on behalf of insurers.
	It says the gains were driven by a 31% increase in the cost of so-called specialty drugs, like those for rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and especially hepatitis C. It's just not sustainable pricing.
	And so we have to do something to both bring the products to the marketplace, but also make it affordable for patients.
	The drug price wars came to a head last year over Gilead Science's revolutionary new pills for hepatitis C. Its Sovaldi and Harvoni cost upwards of $80,000 for 12 weeks of treatment.
	There you go.
	Meanwhile, there's this report purports to show what's behind and what's being done, what's behind the drug price increase and what's being done.
	They never mention what's behind it, except they hint at it, which is the drug companies just decide to raise the prices because they can.
	If you've got hepatitis C, you have to take this drug.
	You have no other choice.
	There's no other solution.
	And in today's world...
	Which includes gouging as part of the culture ever since they took the Ursa Reader laws and threw them away.
	It used to be you couldn't charge so much money for interest on a credit card or anything else for that matter because it was against the law.
	And that's when the loan sharks came around and they broke the law by charging too much interest.
	That was the real law breaking that they were doing.
	But now that's all gone.
	There's no more loan sharks.
	You just go to the payday place or some local little operation and you can get as much money as you want paying a huge interest rate.
	Because they can get away with it because nobody cares.
	And these drugs, they just jack up the price.
	What can we get for this drug?
	I don't know.
	About $80,000.
	John, remember on the last show, we were talking about how the domain registrars are being hounded by that, what was the name of the outfit?
	The company that is saying, hey, you can't do this.
	This is in Canada.
	We've got to get rid of it because everyone has the Canadian online pharmacies have much cheaper drugs and so they're going after the domain names and trying to bring them down and Yeah, it's all part of the same scam.
	And by the way, they had this one guy on from Regeneron who was the CEO. Hold on one second.
	So, I don't want to read you a question from the chat room.
	It's not a bad question.
	What nonsense, if they can raise the price, why didn't they rise them before, Oprah Dinar?
	Well, I don't, you know, it's like, is that your no agenda thinking cap you have on?
	That's a crazy question because it's like, Perhaps you didn't know that you could do, or you didn't, or the government had some, there was some oversight, or maybe there's some regulations, or there was a lot of different things in play.
	Obamacare wasn't in play, and then the whole country hasn't been taken over by insurance, which Obamacare is all about insurance, it's not about anything else.
	This entire scam has not been completely, before, like 10 years ago, the scam wasn't in place for this to work.
	Now it is.
	The scam is in place.
	Yes.
	My insurance company, everything goes through insurance now, so you're not really paying anything.
	Ten years from now, you would have probably had to pick up a huge part of that $80,000.
	Yep.
	And I'm going to die.
	I don't care.
	I can't afford it.
	Now...
	You don't pay anything.
	You pay a co-pay of $1,000.
	Let's say, well, I get $80,000 worth of pills for $1,000.
	Meanwhile, the $80,000 paid by the insurance company goes straight into the coffers of the drug companies.
	This whole thing is rigged.
	Gouged.
	And the insurance prices keep going up.
	How can we stop it, John C. Dvorak?
	How do we stop the insanity?
	Well, the only way to stop it is single-payer.
	I'm going to do that with you on Sunday.
	We're not going to do that today.
	We don't have any time.
	We have to thank people.
	Yeah, we better thank them, of course.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	All right, we do have a bunch of people to thank for today's show before we conclude today's show with all these complaining.
	uh Let's see, we got, oh, we have Luis, this is a Portuguese name, so it would be Luis Trindade, I think, yeah.
	That's the way you would pronounce it, I believe.
	And he wants me to pronounce his name.
	He's from Portugal.
	I've been living in Northern Ireland for 10 years.
	I wonder if any of you can pronounce my name without making it sound Spanish.
	And they do have weird pronouns.
	Maybe I'm pronouncing it like it was Brazilian.
	I could be off on this.
	Anyway, he...
	It has a USD dollar corresponding to his 14-month-old daughter's child and health benefit.
	It's only fair the donation should count toward her damehood.
	You're going to have to help remember that for us.
	We'll have to continue with that.
	He's got a whole theory here.
	$119.93 and he's in Antrim, UK, which I guess is in Northern Ireland.
	Yeah.
	John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
	Didn't we just have him up above?
	$111.11.
	Well, then add that $111 to his other donation.
	Adrian Verneu...
	Adrian Verneu...
	Exactly.
	Hustled.
	Hustled.
	$110.
	Like Hustled.
	Hustled.
	He just says hang in there.
	Dowie.
	And Della.
	Yeah, Andella.
	Dowie and Della in Mertensdijk.
	Mertensdijk.
	Mertensdijk.
	Remember, the I and the J is a Y. Dike.
	I like dick better.
	Yeah, me too.
	Funnier.
	It's funnier.
	Yeah.
	Matthew Helly.
	Matthew Helly.
	He says the dollar Canadian change rate is low, but it won't keep me from donating.
	Good for you.
	I think he says he should be a sir by now.
	Sir Brian Navarro from Los Angeles, California, 7777.
	Seth Harper, 7711 in Ripley, West Virginia.
	Sir Brian Williams in Streamwood, Illinois, 7373.
	Adrian Stride in Lighthouse Point, Florida, 70-70.
	Ex-boner here, first-time donor, he says.
	Sir Herb Lamb of Sugar Hill, Georgia, $70.30.
	Kalen Nistor in Northville, Michigan, $70.03.
	Matt Phillips in Wyandotte, Why and don't, Michigan.
	69, 69.
	Angel Alvarez.
	I just wonder what happened to Carrie Schoen.
	Yeah, she started the whole Swazzle Knopf thing.
	Yeah, she just...
	She's drifted.
	She's drifted away.
	She drifted.
	She's a man overboard.
	Woman in her case.
	Still don't have a sound effect for that, yeah.
	Angel Alvarado in Jeffersonstown, Kentucky, 69-69.
	Michael Henderson in Peachtree Corners, Georgia.
	Patrick Sullivan, Birmingham, and he's 67-89.
	Patrick Sullivan, 67-89 from Birmingham, Alabama.
	I wondered where that comes from.
	April...
	I think it's binding.
	He's got a note.
	Oh, she sent a note in.
	Yeah.
	Or April.
	She sent a note.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	Keep trying to wake the masses.
	I'm a long-time listener and first-time donor.
	Sorry it took so long if you could finally use some fuck cancer karma.
	Mm-hmm.
	Thanks and have a fun time.
	And it's pronounced beer-ing.
	Yeah, I'll add that on to the final sequence, of course.
	Alan Adler in Rolling Hills, California.
	Best 73 W6VA. William Fleming in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	57-57.
	Carrie Reeves in Houston, Texas.
	She sent a long note in with some photos.
	Photos of her.
	Happy 4th anniversary to her husband.
	Yeah, 4th anniversary to her husband who she calls JC. His name is James JC. Kind of a long note, but there's a couple of things in here.
	Um...
	Marks the fourth anniversary.
	I've been married to my longtime boner husband, and I can't imagine him appreciating anything more than a donation to the best podcast in the universe.
	I'm sure he'll hear this.
	Apparently he listens to every episode since 520.
	Oh, wow.
	And he has a 16-month human resource, and she sent a photo of the baby.
	Very cute, and it's a cute couple.
	Less than 10 minutes to go, okay?
	Hmm.
	Happy anniversary to JC. Justin Bloom, Madison, Alabama.
	You know, it's hard to read these things with all this pressure from that woman.
	Well, this is the rules of the show.
	Justin Bloom in Madison, Alabama, 55-10.
	Durandy Valentine, 55-10.
	Double Nichols on the Dime from Houston, Texas.
	Alex Hunsacker in Farmington, Utah, 55-10.
	Richard Zula.
	By the way, they're reintroducing the firing squad in Utah.
	Good work.
	Yes.
	Richard Zula in North Huntington, Pennsylvania, 5510.
	And Chris Kincaid in Tyler, Texas, 5510.
	He needs to call out his friend Jason as a douchebag.
	Okay.
	Douchebag!
	He also has a birthday.
	Dog Goddiggy.
	Goddiggy-diggy-diggy.
	He says, I hate cats, but the last newsletter had a dog in it.
	That motivates me to donate.
	Less cats works.
	Yeah.
	51.99.
	I feel so satisfied of all the research I do.
	From...
	So satisfied.
	Yeah, and he's a Hollander.
	Oh, yeah.
	Bob Warren in Sunderland, UK. Oh, you did not.
	Sir Kevin Payne, Richmond, Virginia.
	50.69.
	Cup O' Meat Productions in North Orange, New Jersey.
	They may be doing these videos.
	5033.
	Random Precision Inc.
	in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
	5033.
	John Fletcher, our buddy who screams a lot.
	Alongview, Texas.
	5005.
	And then Arthur Santos in Stanmore, Middlesex, UK. 5001.
	And now these are $50 donors and there's just a few of them so we'll almost be done.
	Scott Porter in Garland, Texas.
	Jakub Wojciak in North Vancouver, B.C. And Scott will get some house buying karma at the end.
	Stacey St.
	Amand in Kingston, Ontario.
	Hold on, John.
	She's drunk.
	Drunk donation, fuckers.
	Please de-douche me since I haven't donated in a while.
	Your show is the voice of reason and an onslaught of pure bullshit that is fed to us from the mainstream media and the government.
	Keep up the great work with the best podcasts.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	She must be a...
	Angry drunk.
	She must be a handful.
	Let's put it that way.
	Jason Verner in Schertz, Texas.
	50.
	Antonio McMullen, Parts Unknown.
	Sir Paul Vella, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
	David Peet in Aubrey, Texas is the last of the list.
	Don't want to get carried away even though...
	The next person says, not enough train whistle lately.
	And that will conclude our list of donors and contributors and helpers and producers for show 703.
	Don't forget we have a show on Sunday, 704, and that will be our Pi Day show.
	Oh, that's right.
	The Big Pi Day show.
	Fantastic.
	Fantastic.
	Thank you all.
	Thank you very, very much.
	This is how it works.
	You support us.
	We can continue to do this work.
	And it seems like we're going long today.
	What happened?
	Well, what happened was when we did our producer segment, we had a bunch of material.
	Ah, yes.
	Right, right, right.
	That'll teach people to fast forward, by the way.
	Yeah, you can always fast forward.
	But if you fast forward, you're going to miss.
	You're going to miss good stuff.
	We had a couple of funny things in there.
	All right.
	Thank you all very much.
	And as John pointed out, Pi Day, big day on Sunday.
	Looking forward to meeting you there once again.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. I hate that!
	You've got karma.
	All righty.
	I'm looking at the spreadsheet and the same time I'm looking...
	No, I guess it is right.
	Only one birthday today?
	Wow.
	Start the whole jingle up for that.
	Chris Kincaid turns 38 today.
	Happy birthday, Chris, from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
	I don't know.
	Then we have two nightings today.
	So I would like to invite the following gentleman up to...
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Let me just get my portables, my travel sword.
	Hello?
	Here.
	It's stuck.
	This gag has been going on for, what, seven years?
	Let me spray this ranch hand on here.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Spray the ranch hand.
	Okay.
	Thank goodness.
	There we go.
	Nicholas Stowe and John Knowles, to the podium please!
	Gentlemen, you are about to be inducted into the Roundtable of the Knights and Dames here at the No Agenda Show.
	And I'm very, very proud to pronounce the cake you as Sir Mr.
	Nick and Sir High Voltage of Middle Tennessee.
	For you both, we have the traditional hookers and blow-ramp boys and chardonnay, Johnny Walker and Green Label, video games and vaporizers, progressive rock and Russian imperial stuff.
	We've got maker's mark and mushrooms, bad science and perky breasts, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, breast milk and pablum, and of course there's always the mutton and mead.
	Thank you so much.
	Your favorite, as I can tell.
	It is my favoritist of all time.
	The most favoritist.
	Hey, by the way, since you've been there, the dollar has moved three cents or so.
	It's like 106 now?
	No, I think it's something like that.
	It's down.
	It's down, boy.
	It's down, boy.
	It's getting there.
	It's getting where it belongs.
	We have so much to talk about on Sunday.
	We have to talk about GigaOM on Sunday.
	Oh yeah, GigaOM.
	I think this is important.
	Why?
	Because it's tech press meltdown.
	You're going to see stuff melting down.
	I think the money is running out.
	On venture-backed news organizations.
	Oh, well, yeah, I think they've peaked.
	Peaked.
	All right.
	And...
	Oh!
	Well, yeah, I do have one tech news.
	I got a couple tech news clips.
	It's funny you mention that.
	I was just about to say, where is the tech grouch?
	Well, open the cage.
	My phone's my phone.
	The way I see it, the only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
	There you go, everybody.
	Sign for Tech News.
	I have the, my clip of the day is this one, which is, I think this is the, Apple has got to peek out with this, with this particular clip, and Tim Cook telling it like it is about the new Apple Watch.
	With a built-in speaker and microphone, you can receive calls on your watch.
	I have been wanting to do this since I was five years old.
	It's not clip of the day because I laughed the first time I heard it.
	When I watched the whole thing.
	Oh, man.
	What a dog.
	Hold on.
	What a dog.
	This is a dog.
	What's a dog?
	This whole watch thing is a dog.
	It is.
	You know the only thing that's cool?
	When I saw this, I'm really trying.
	I want to find something to like in this watch.
	And it's not going to be measuring.
	I don't have a band for measuring stuff about my health or tracking my steps.
	I'm not interested in that.
	But then this haptic feedback where you can tap and then your friend feels this tap.
	I'm like, yeah, re-enter Morse code.
	This is perfect.
	Well, Morse code could make a comeback at any moment.
	But there's no...
	I mean, I think that the future...
	If you want to have a wearable that I would actually be interested in, something that just vibrates on my wrist in certain ways, that's all it has to do.
	And it's not a watch.
	It's just a band or something or whatever.
	It's just something that vibrates based upon someone else doing something.
	I think there's something interesting there.
	It doesn't have to be connected to your phone or any of that.
	I don't know.
	Maybe just me.
	Well, then the counter story is this one, which I think is worth listening to.
	And this is the Tumors Tech News.
	Okay, this is interesting.
	Wearable technology grows in importance with each and every new technology.
	Whether it's wildly successful, like the shirt or pants pocket iPhone, or a bit too early for its time, like Google Glass undergoing a serious reworking.
	Tech giant Intel is pushing it as far as the imagination will allow.
	Wearables is just going to be how you live your life.
	Everything that's a part of your life will have some type of technology that's talking to some other type of technology.
	Wearables are a major thrust of consumer electronics makers.
	These are beats.
	And I wear them every day just to listen to music.
	A lot of this stuff is going to be more and more hands-free.
	It's going to be a lot easier for the average person like you or me to use.
	But, yeah, I'm really excited about what's to come.
	Coming soon, solar-powered clothing to keep all your wearables fully charged.
	But there may be a heavy cost.
	Exposed to what some people are calling electro-smog.
	Professor Joel Moskowitz of UC Berkeley School of Public Health says the devices emit differing amounts of microwave radiation that in their totality may cause some users to get everything from electromagnetic sensitivity to tumors.
	Putting a transmitter on your body, a transmitter that emits microwave radiation, is potentially harmful.
	Uh, microwave, he says.
	Tumors!
	That's pretty good.
	Tumors.
	Yeah, tumors.
	Yeah, sure.
	Once they make this connection, by the way, of having radio to your head constantly and brain cancer on that side of the...
	Well, I think that connection has been made.
	It's just it's not reported widely because, you know, these are big advertisers.
	I'm going to piss on Samsung.
	Very few people would talk about this if there's advertising involved.
	I actually saw some advertising stuff that is what you've always said.
	We talk about the Internet of Things, this bull crap that includes finally a refrigerator is going to be connected.
	So we have two stories.
	One is from Visa who say, yeah, you're going to be able to pay for stuff and you'll get ads, which is what you've always asserted.
	You get ads on your refrigerator.
	And Visa's the company that's going to bring it to you.
	And then a consortium of banks is saying, well, we're very interested in having the refrigerator communicate back to us how it's being used so we can determine if you're a good person to lend money to.
	Wow.
	And if our investment is being treated properly, Yeah, it's all about spying and selling us crap and keeping us stupefied in a daze, a smog of crap.
	Information, overload, ads everywhere.
	Here's the big money.
	Maybe we can quit this job right now and go make some money.
	Ads on the Apple Watch.
	Not that anybody's going to buy an Apple Watch, but they'll buy the company that puts ads on it.
	Yeah.
	A little advertising company.
	They turn over quickly.
	You've got 12 months for people to figure out that these watches take at least that long before the final verdict comes in.
	By the way, the one thing that I think is negative, I'm going to write about this somewhere, is Kevin Rose wrote in some publication that he considers the And the headline reflected this, that the gold Apple Watch is a douchebag alert.
	And then this guy became a semi-meme on Twitter amongst women.
	Oh?
	Oh, yeah, that'd be a douche.
	Anyone who has that watch is a douchebag.
	Oh, that's not good.
	Oh, that's not good.
	No, this is not good.
	This is all bad.
	Although I've heard real watch collectors who don't think twice about dropping 10 grand on a watch, they really want to have it.
	And it's not because of the money.
	Actually, they think, oh, that's cool.
	I want to have that.
	They like it.
	Well, that's funny because Rose considers himself a watch collector, and he says no to that.
	And why are we talking about him?
	I'm just saying.
	Is that tech news?
	It's tech news.
	Earlier I rig-rolled all iPhone and iPad users.
	I'm really getting into this whole idea of the incredible security hole as voice-activated systems become more prevalent.
	So, of course, I don't want anyone to feel left out.
	Okay, Google Play, never going to give you up.
	I got an email from Cade Clunan, one of our listeners, producers.
	Short time listener to the No Agenda show here.
	The Hey Siri feature of my phone, sorry, I activated it again, of my iPhone has been activated twice by audio from the best podcast in the universe.
	In both instances, the trigger word was Syria.
	How about that?
	Hey Syria.
	Hey Syria.
	Yeah, she went on.
	Yeah, hold on.
	That's fantastic.
	All right, before you close Tech News out...
	Let me just close everything out.
	Hey, Syria!
	Hey, Syria!
	You're going to get nuked!
	Oracle Tech News.
	I think it's tech news.
	Yeah, you are cranking it out today, my friend.
	This is great.
	A lawsuit filed by a sailor with the America's Cup champion Team Oracle has led to the seizure of one of the team's catamarans.
	Federal marshals say they seized Hall No.
	4 yesterday in San Francisco.
	Joe Spooner of New Zealand is suing Oracle for $725,000, saying he was unfairly fired over a pay dispute.
	The boat is essentially being held as collateral.
	Spooner works for Oracle Team USA during its America's Cup victories in 2010 and 2013.
	Cheap bastards.
	Exactly cheap.
	Seems like tech news.
	My phone, my phone!
	Alright, I got one wrap-up clip.
	Just one.
	One, one, one.
	I think that should take us out.
	Do you have a last one?
	I do.
	I have a topper.
	Okay, should I do mine?
	Then you'll top mine?
	You've just been topping me all day.
	Hit it.
	Alright.
	We'll have to set it up.
	This is, in the New Yorker, I think we may have discussed this, but in the New Yorker there was an article which was a theory about MH370, the aircraft that has still not been found but disappeared.
	And, you know, I'm often called a conspiracy theorist.
	Lots of people are called conspiracy theorists, particularly when you just come out with something that is, you know, technically feasible, but kind of crackpot.
	Just crackpot.
	So, I could say, even if I came up with a theory about what happened, and we've discussed this about the radar spoofing, etc.
	You know, I get emails, you're a nut job.
	You're a crackpot.
	Just because it's technically possible, you get the idea.
	But this guy, Jeff Wise, who wrote this article, I mean, if you just...
	No matter what your conspiracy theory is, as long as it ends up with Putin did it, it's okay, apparently.
	...locked hatch in the passenger compartment up at the front of the first-class cabin.
	You can get in there, access the computers that control the plane, control the communications, and indeed, that generate the signals that the mathematicians use to determine the plane went south.
	So at least in principle, it's possible to alter...
	These signals.
	So do you believe there was a hack by Russian special ops and Putin was behind it?
	Well, what's interesting is that if you assume that part of the data was spoofed, part of it can't be spoofed.
	It's just too difficult.
	And with that remaining data, you can still derive a flight path.
	And that flight path indicates that it went north, across India, along the border between China and Pakistan, and you wind up in Kazakhstan.
	As long as you blame it on Putin, then everything's okay.
	The Russian Special Ops.
	It is the stupidest thing I've heard for a while.
	Yeah, but it's okay.
	Yeah, it's okay.
	As long as you blame Putin.
	Okay, now I have this.
	I was going to put in tech news, but I decided to take it out.
	We're finished.
	I won't tell you anything else to say, but this is the report about the CIA. This is more of a security story.
	Trying to break into Apple.
	I don't know what the point of this is.
	You're going to have to think about it.
	There's something amiss with the story.
	Why are they even telling this?
	And, of course, the...
	The simple fact is that this story has a big hole in it.
	But let's play the bogus, it says bonus, break into Apple's story.
	And there is word today that the Central Intelligence Agency spent nearly a decade trying to crack the coding in Apple iPhones and iPads.
	The Intercept, an investigative news site, cites documents obtained by Edward Snowden at the National Security Agency.
	They indicate that the CIA tried to break into Apple products as early as 2006.
	It is unclear if the agency was ever successful in its attempts.
	Okay, two things.
	One, 2006 is not a decade.
	Two, the Apple iPhone came out in 2007.
	How were they trying to crack into it in 2006?
	Are they time travelers?
	Of all the things I thought you were going to ask.
	Yes, of course they're time travelers.
	What did we have to read?
	Let's read this.
	I believe I do have an answer.
	They, the, what I understand, I actually have a 20 second clip from CNBC about it.
	What I understand is they were trying to infiltrate into Xcode, which is the development tool that you use for all kinds of development for the Mac, OS X, but also now iOS.
	What I'm seeing about this Greenwald Intercept report seems to suggest the U.S. government was working on creating a version of Xcode, that's Apple's developer tools for software, not just for iOS, for the iPhone and iPad, but also for OS X. Is it clear at this point, and maybe I'm asking too far in advance, information still coming in?
	Yeah, whatever.
	That, uh...
	Is that what Glenn Greenwald said?
	I have not read it, but apparently...
	I can't...
	You know, these intercept pieces, man.
	You start and you're like, oh, I'll read this.
	This is where you have journalists, no editors.
	It's too long.
	Like this damn show.
	It's too long.
	Yeah, so the show is over.
	It's too long, I tell you.
	All righty.
	Yay.
	Yay.
	Okay.
	Well, we have lots of stuff for Sunday's show for sure.
	Yeah, but we're only going 245.
	On Sunday?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You've determined this?
	I'm just saying.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	It's a good number.
	People like the 245.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I like it, too.
	Thank you all very much for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	After all, it is your program.
	Completely yours.
	And continue to support us at Dvorak.org slash NA. We have the big Pi Day show coming up on Sunday.
	And what was it supposed to play at the end?
	Oh yeah, it was the Shapeshifting Jew.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Shapeshifting.
	Coming to you from the trenches here.
	Of the Cold War in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
	In the morning, everybody, my name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun has come out and everybody's happy, I'm John C. Korak.
	We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
	. . .
	Roll up, roll up for the magical shape-shifting Jews!
	Step right this way!
	Roll up!
	Roll up for the shape-shifting Jews!
	The Magical Shapeshifting Juice A little illustration The Magical Shapeshifting Juice It's such an aggravation The Magical Shapeshifting Juice Adios, mofo Amen.
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