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We are just inundated with propaganda that we're going to be attacked any minute.
Yes.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, November 22nd, 2015.
Time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination.
This is episode 776.
This is No Agenda.
Shining a ray of light in the dark corners of Gitmo Nation.
I'm broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State here in FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I can look out to the mudflats in advance and say the tide is slightly in, the mud is down a little bit.
bit.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Yo.
Hey.
In the morning.
In the morning.
How you doing?
Good.
Yeah, I'm not so good.
Oh, you have a cold?
You have the flu?
No, no.
That's just ongoing.
That'll go on until April.
No, it's...
The news has become, as always happens, boring.
Well, this is a cycle.
It sure is.
It's Thanksgiving.
Don't forget.
Yep, true.
It's all scammed, so they don't have to worry about having to cover anything.
Pre-packaged.
It's pre-packaged.
All the B-roll is all ready to go.
Everyone can sit at home with their Thanksgiving dinner.
I think they've already started taking the week off.
And I noticed that they had the Malley thing covered their butts pretty well.
And by the way, I think we talked about something happening in Malley about...
Two years ago?
A year and a half ago?
Yeah, two years ago.
Yeah, wasn't that from our...
Yeah, our economic hitman.
Economic hitman, yeah.
He kind of alluded to that.
Yeah.
Well, he's only a year and a half behind.
It's okay.
We can keep him on the team.
No, he's a year and a half ahead.
Oh, yeah.
It's different.
Exactly.
Oh, John, before we start, we need our content trigger warning.
Oh yes, please.
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Yeah, everybody.
Welcome to the best podcast in the universe.
Ah...
The Mali reporting was astounding because an old friend of ours came back all of a sudden.
Did you see that?
Better known as the One-Eyed Marlboro Man.
French authorities believe this man, who was once thought to have been killed in a raid, was probably behind the deadly attack on a hotel in Mali on Friday night.
Mokhtar Mbel Mokhtar, an Algerian, is a veteran Islamist militant leader and has been a key figure in North African insurgencies for years.
Last June, Libyan authorities said he was killed by a U.S. airstrike.
But his group, al-Murabitoun, have claimed responsibility, along with al-Qaeda, for the deadly attack on the Radisson Blue Hotel in Bamako that killed at least 27 people.
Wait a minute.
I thought ISIS did this.
Now it's al-Qaeda?
Well, it's the...
I'm very confused.
I have a couple of analysis.
But it's a...
No, it's the...
And they renamed, they rebranded.
Yeah, what are they now?
Let's start with my side on this because I do have two clips.
One...
Well, actually, the better clip.
Play the...
Play the...
Now, here, play the...
This is the...
Well, play the...
Alright, goodnight everybody.
We'll be here all week.
Caffeine, John.
Stop with the decaf on Sunday morning.
Let's go with the PBS on Malley Attack analysis.
This is a short analysis by some...
This guy, I decided, you know, the Atlantic Council, they always talk about the Atlantic Council.
I've decided that is an organization that is filled with the DIA. It's not a CIA thing, it's a DIA. And here's what that guy has to say.
For more on the attack in Mali, we turn to retired Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Attala.
Where does he work now?
Did you check it out where he works?
Atlantic Council.
Oh, okay.
He served as Africa counter-terrorism director at the Defense Department.
He's currently a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a non-profit think tank.
He's also chief executive officer of a security consulting firm.
Rudolf Attala, welcome to the program.
So based on what you've learned so far, who do you think was behind this?
Well, it's still unclear.
It's going to take time to really reveal that, but some news agencies are claiming that it's Al-Murabitoun.
Al-Murabitoun was headed by Mokhtar Balmokhtar, an individual that was targeted by U.S. operations back in June.
Presumably killed, but certain contacts say that he is still alive.
Nobody really knows for sure.
And who is this group?
What's connected to Al-Qaeda?
This group is an offshoot of AQIM, Al-Qaeda, and Islamic Maghreb.
And Mokhtar Balmokhtar has been trying very hard to link himself directly to Al-Qaeda Central and break away from Al-Qaeda and Islamic Maghreb and try to run things himself.
No.
Okay.
It's just...
Yeah, I feel the same way.
This guy, he's like bad Mexican food.
He keeps coming back.
Oh, there he is again.
One-eyed Marlboro, man.
Come on.
Well, you're the one that said the guy was a fiction.
Well, he still may be.
I think he might be, too.
He personally has not come out of his group or whatever.
This guy goes on and on for a long time, and he also talks about how they rebranded.
Here's what he said.
They rebranded, and they're now the Kaida something or other, and they don't want to have anything to do with the Magreb group because they're just incompetent boneheads.
Well, they should come up with a different thing, then.
Well, they all want to have associations.
So we move over to the Democracy Now!
report, which is a little...
I actually have three rundowns, but you already played a rundown.
I think it was adequate.
But this play, this is kind of Democracy Now!
which has a slightly different take on it, and And they bring this writer on, and I have to make a comment about this guy, but play D.N. Maliwan.
Well, a hostage crisis is underway in Mali where suspected Islamist militants have stormed a luxury hotel in the capital, Bamako.
The gunmen opened a fire while taking over 180 people hostage.
At least three deaths have been confirmed so far.
Malian special forces have launched a rescue operation and have exchanged fire with the militants inside.
Dozens of people have reportedly been freed so far as Malian commandos go door to door.
There are reports the captors have released those hostages who are Muslim while keeping those who are not.
Mali has faced a radical insurgency for over three years.
Islamist militants seized northern Mali in 2012.
A French-led intervention ousted them the following year, but violence continues across the country.
For context on this hostage crisis in Mali, though we don't know a lot of details, last week we spoke to Nick Terse, who's the author of the book Tomorrow's Battlefield, U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa.
Yeah, I actually ordered that book.
I haven't received it yet.
I think you just wasted your money.
Okay.
Whoops.
It's alright.
Sometimes we have to do that.
Other people don't have to.
We're happy to.
Yeah, part two.
We're going to hear what this guy has to say.
Now, we're going to talk about Africa and America's intervention, and he goes on and on about one thing or another, and he kind of leaves out the elephant in the room, and as far as I can tell, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Tursk focuses on the expanding American battlefield in Africa, where he says the U.S. military is now involved in more than 90% of Africa's 54 nations.
In a recent interview with Democracy Now!, he discussed how the US-backed intervention in Libya helped fuel the ongoing militant violence in nearby Mali.
One example is the case of Mali, where you had a U.S.-trained officer who overthrew the democratically elected government there just two years ago.
Mali was supposed to be a bulwark against terrorism.
It was supposed to be a stable success story.
Instead, you have that occurrence.
Then last year, a U.S.-trained officer overthrew the government of Burkina Faso.
I think it's troubling.
And you hear the talk about professionalism of the military and that they're instilling values, human rights, these sorts of things.
But in reality, what we're seeing on the continent is very different.
And if you look at...
The groups that were training on the continent, the militaries were training, and then you compare them to the State Department's own lists of militaries that are carrying out human rights abuses, that are acting in undemocratic ways, you see that these are the same forces.
The U.S. is linked up with forces that are generally seen as repressive, even by our own government.
What is the U.S. interest in Africa?
Nothing, nothing.
We don't care about that.
There's no minerals, no oil, no nothing.
It's difficult to say for sure.
I think that the U.S. has viewed Africa as a place of weak governance, you know, sort of a zone that's prone to terrorism and that there could be a spread of terror groups on the continent if the U.S. doesn't intervene.
He never mentions China.
It's interesting you say that.
I was just Googling Chinese in Mali.
That's exactly where I was going.
He just wrote a book.
She asked him the question, what's the U.S. interest in Africa?
And he says, I don't know.
What is it booked for?
Maybe I can send it back.
I would cancel it immediately.
I didn't get the rebranding part, though.
That hasn't been made clear enough to me.
About what?
About the rebranding.
Is everybody rebranding?
Everybody's rebranding.
We have to rebrand the show.
We have to rebrand our show?
For the benefit of the French, it's going to be agenda non.
Agenda non plus.
The Washington Post had an interesting article, actually pretty...
Pretty lengthy.
And they did an associated video, which I like a lot, because it's always funny when you have news, you know, print guys doing video.
They all sound all official and everything.
You have a variety of looks.
Yeah, and I think they made some key mistakes, perhaps not in their...
Well, I think the mistake's in the video, and then they don't have any of this in their research.
But they went inside, this is the title of it, inside the surreal world of Islamic State's propaganda machine.
And I learned a lot.
And is the Washington Post still considered a good newspaper?
Yes.
How do we measure it against the paper of record, the New York Times?
They're competitors.
Are they also deemed a paper of record or not?
No.
No.
So sometimes do people think they're lying sacks of a boyfriend?
When we talk about the paper of record in the media, I think we're referring to the fact that in broadcasts, in particular radio stations, in very particular, especially around the country, tend to run stories that are in the New York Times and tend not to run stories that aren't covered by the New York Times.
Okay.
So you can't get fired if you quote the New York Times, is what you're saying?
Pretty much.
Okay.
Well, let's listen to the intro of this.
I was astounded, and if this is true, we are doing it all wrong.
There are hundreds and hundreds of operatives who are using cameras, who are using computers, who are experts on editing, who are experts on filming.
It is a pervasive presence in the Islamic State.
In our story, we compare this to a medieval reality show.
We have to understand that for the Islamic State, the media operation is as important as the actual fight.
Media is as much a jihad.
They also do a little too much on the background music, to be quite honest.
Yeah, I was going to ask, what is with this music?
Is it far out?
Yeah, it's very scary.
It's a science fiction show.
It's a jihad.
Every fighter that we talked to, every defector said that the media wing, its status in the organization exceeds that of its fighters.
A lot of these operatives and the important players arrive with a lot of skills to begin with.
Some of them had previous jobs in news organizations, media organizations, software companies, things like that.
So there's a lot of built-in expertise.
Wait a minute.
He's telling us...
First of all, he says the media arm, which is the propaganda arm of ISIS, IS, ISIL, Daesh, whatever you want to call them.
Let's just blow them up.
Right!
He's saying not only that, he's saying they come from news organizations?
Are you kidding me?
So reporters, I've not heard of this.
Reporters are defecting.
That's why.
Yeah, well, okay.
Well, this guy has some very specific information about the...
Who is this guy that's talking?
This is, he works for the Washington Post.
He's the one that, he does, I looked at his, I have to go in and see exactly what his name was.
I looked at all of his writing.
You know, he writes about all that.
He writes about, you know, ISIS. Duh.
He's got the ISIS beat.
He actually wrote it with somebody else.
Let me see if I have it here.
I'll look for it while we listen to the second part, which is probably just as funny.
And even after the filming, there is an enormous amount of work that sometimes takes weeks or even months to turn this into a highly polished piece of propaganda that's ready for release.
ready for release ready for release they have a release day polished piece of propaganda that's ready for release the Islamic State produces an avalanche of propaganda an avalanche of propaganda oh yeah on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, the United States and its allies have really struggled to find any way to answer it just thinking about what he said, sometimes it takes months in the post production
But the timing is pretty well orchestrated then.
If they take months to do one of these burning videos, which of course, as we know, took months and months of CGI and all kinds of other special effects, they time that perfectly with, oh, we got yourself...
It's like this piece itself.
Yeah.
It's propaganda.
Absolutely.
They should be ashamed of themselves, the Washington Post.
I don't think that's ever going to happen.
Monthly basis.
The United States and its allies have really struggled to find any way to answer it.
The number of fighters and recruits who are still traveling to Syria, who are still joining the Islamic State, has not tapered off.
And we saw from the attacks in Paris that the organization's reach, if anything, is expanding.
Ooh.
His name is Greg Miller.
Greg Miller.
This is a source of enormous anxiety and concern.
Some, if not all, of these attackers in Paris were drawn to the Islamic State largely because of its propaganda.
See, he knows stuff that we haven't even figured out yet.
He knows from the dead terrorists, he knows that they were drawn by propaganda.
I mean, he's got a crystal ball.
Largely because of its propaganda.
The FBI director, Jim Comey, talks repeatedly about his concern that Americans who don't even leave this country, who don't even attempt to travel to Syria, are going to be radicalized by this group's message.
Is it a problem that we're going to be confronting for years and years and years?
No problem.
And this guy says that we have no answer to this, hasn't this guy ever watched the Jenna Marbles video?
There's one last clip of this, a short one.
I love the music, it trips me out.
This is a source of enormous anxiety and concern.
At least some, if not all of these attackers in Paris were drawn to the Islamic State largely because of its propaganda.
The FBI director, Jim Comey, talks repeatedly about his concern that Americans who don't even leave this country, who don't even attempt to travel to Syria, are going to be radicalized.
We're all going to die!
There you go.
That's the point.
By the way, I don't want to go too far off topic.
I just want to mention, I saw Jim Comey with the head of, what's her name, the Justice Department woman?
Oh, Loretta Lynch, the country singer.
She's another twerp.
Oh, yeah, yeah, she is.
She shows up underneath way...
If she was standing next to Comey, I don't know if Comey's very tall, but I don't think so.
Yeah, Comey is 6'7".
Comey is 6'7".
The guy's huge.
Oh, I didn't know he was that tall.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, she would come up somewhere under his nipple.
The top of her head would be under his nipple.
Let's talk about the propaganda machine for a second.
Well, before we do that, can I just mention one thing about the Molly thing?
Of course.
There was a lot of mentions, and this is a no-agenda tip.
There was a lot of mentions that they tried to, they shot everyone who wasn't Muslim, and that one guy from the Defense Department who is now with the Atlantic Council, he mentioned that what they actually did, and I think a lot of these guys are doing this, they're asking, you know, they go up to you and they have you recite the Shahada.
He's the only guy who mentioned this.
Now, there's been two things I've noticed.
Wait a minute.
The Shahada, you said?
Yeah, the Shahada.
You can look it up.
Go look it up on Wikipedia, because there's actually a clip in there of it in Arabic.
There is no God but God, and Allah is his messenger is essentially what it is.
I think you might have to get it.
The Shahada is a testimony of faith.
Yeah.
It's like the number one on the Muslim list of hot tips.
There is none worthy of worship except God and Muhammad is the messenger of God.
That's it.
That's Shahada?
So that's what you have to remember?
That's not the one that I remember.
The one I'm looking at is there is no God but God.
Muhammad is the messenger of God.
Okay.
You mentioned the word God.
This is the New Testament version.
I don't either.
Okay.
But I think if you said that...
Then you don't get killed.
You don't get killed, you're out.
Now, if you go to the Shahada page on the Wikipedia, there is an Arabic, at the very bottom to the right, there's an Arabic way of saying it.
And I think you'd probably be better off learning that.
If you click on that, you can probably play it if you're on that page.
Let me see.
You can play it right from the wiki page?
Yeah, it's new.
Okay, hold on.
Oh, it's new.
Interesting.
New feature.
Let me see.
I have the shahada.
Oh, here it is.
Audio.
Let's see if that works.
A shahada.
A shahada.
No, no.
Further down, there's the actual shahada.
That's just the word.
On the right, on the right column all the way at the bottom.
Okay.
Oh yes, here we go.
Okay, let's try this.
I'll tell you that there is no God except Allah, and I'll tell you that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Man, Kanye is the Messenger of Allah.
They're very verbose.
Kanye lyrics are easier than that.
Yeah, it might be tough.
The other one is, and I've noticed this in a couple of situations, they give you a quiz.
This happened on a bus that was hijacked.
Yeah, okay.
These are no agenda tips.
Survival tips.
Save your life.
No agenda caliphate survival tips.
Yeah.
They ask, and I can't remember, you know, I didn't bring it up right now, and I still can't remember this, but I've looked it up.
They ask you, who is the wife of Muhammad?
Oh, man, I'm already dead.
I'm already dead.
Isn't her name, what is her name?
Well, there you go.
Oh, I don't want to be dead.
Well, you better start memorizing more.
You don't know either, do you?
No, that's why I'm not looking it up, because I'm irked by myself, because I've looked it up a couple of times, and I know what it is, and I can't remember it either.
No, I don't think that's how you pronounce it.
Here's how it goes.
Sorry.
Didn't know her name.
Please.
Okay.
Those are your no agenda tips for...
Yes, no agenda survival tips.
11-22-2015.
Survival tips.
I'm confused just in general about this propaganda stuff.
If we're hearing from reasonable journalists who are respected that the propaganda arm is really the most important thing, why aren't we really doing anything about that?
Because we're doing it.
Thank you.
That would be the easy answer.
But couldn't they at least put up some kind of, you know, I don't like a...
False front.
Yeah, something like that.
Well, actually, Robert...
At least fake it.
Robert Gates is...
Now, he was the...
Was he...
He was the Secretary of Defense, I believe.
Who was FBI? FBI? What's his name?
He was over at Facebook all the time, and he was there for the whole reign of our show.
Right.
Okay, so Robert Gates was Secretary of Defense.
I think you're right, Secretary of Defense.
He, of course, is out with all kinds of groups consulting, and eventually you run out of people to talk to, and so they bring him in.
He's also working for that crazy group that you're always bitching about, Rita Katz's operation.
Gates is working for that?
Yeah.
Well, there you go.
Now it makes a lot of sense.
Here he is pushing.
I'm pretty sure.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.
That would be pretty.
I'll look at it while we listen to this clip of Robert Gates and his idea of what needs to happen now, because, of course, this is all about the cyber caliphate.
I think the President and the Congress ought to have the Director of the National Security Agency tell them what capabilities does NSA have to track these guys that they are prevented from using now.
And what would those capabilities give us in terms of added capability of tracking potential terror plots in the United States or elsewhere in the world?
And then if he says there are capabilities that can be helpful, we ought to take advantage of that.
And I think, frankly, there may be time for a heart-to-heart talk between the president and some of the leaders of the tech companies in terms of them providing some help to the government on some of these highly sophisticated encryption devices.
Ah, highly sophisticated encryption devices.
That's right.
He was director of CIA, Robert Gates.
Wasn't he with the Defense Department during the Bush administration?
Well, he was...
Just look him up.
He was a part of the Iran-Contra affair.
He was a part of that.
He was?
Yeah.
Yeah, he was very close to a lot of people in that.
Uh-huh.
As director of CIA. I think he was CIA then.
I remember being in the CIA. Well, I think it says that, yeah.
Yeah.
The American Statement Scholar President served as Secretary of Defense.
Yeah, Secretary of...
Okay, served for 26 years in the CIA and NSC, which is the White House.
Director of Central Intelligence under George H.W. Okay, he is the H.W. guy.
Yeah, that's how he got involved.
Okay, so he would be obviously involved in the Contra thing.
Yeah.
So he's calling for...
We've got to do something about the sophisticated encryption technologies.
They're so sophisticated.
Well, that brought up a kind of a...
Brennan kind of came up and said something to him.
This was covered with Democracy Now!
And, of course...
Ah!
Don't wrap Greg Greenwald!
Greg Greenwald comes on, and he...
Gwen Greenwald.
Gwen Greenwald.
Don't wrap.
Friend.
He comes on and bitches.
And I only have a part of this because he goes on and on and on and he lists everything that's ever happened pretty much that they didn't catch me because they were blaming Snowden and encryption.
Oh, perfect.
And here's kind of the Brennan and Greenwald clip.
To find these terrorists much more challenging.
That was CIA Director John Brennan.
Glenn Greenwald, could you respond to what he said and also to how the media has covered Brennan's comments?
Let me guess.
He starts off with, well, it's totally ridiculous.
No?
It's actually better.
We have not heard such blatant, shameless lying from intelligence and military officials since 2002 and 2003.
Is he back in Brazil, John?
Is that where he's doing this?
Yes.
Okay.
Safe.
And by the way, he can't seem to breathe through his nose.
No good, but that's okay.
he's saved from Brazil.
And they propagandize the country into invading Iraq based on utterly false pretenses.
It is actually shocking to listen to John Brennan say that.
And in fact, the proof of just what a liar he is, is the fact that yesterday, the New York Times editorial page, which is usually very constrained and very establishment oriented, published an editorial that was remarkable in terms of the rhetoric it used in which it called what the CIA was doing in terms of exploiting the Paris attacks a new low and disgraceful.
And it also pointed out that John Brennan, the head of the CIA and Obama's closest national security aide, is a pathological and an inveterate liar.
And it detailed all the ways that he has been lying to the public about numerous issues.
Now, did you see this article?
Yeah.
And?
The New York Times says that Brennan's a pathological liar?
Not in so many words, I suppose.
Oh, okay.
For many years, and said, how can anyone possibly believe a word that comes out of his mouth?
As far as the specific claim that he just mentioned goes, there's so many reasons, so many obvious, clear, evidence-driven reasons why what he's saying is utterly false.
To begin with, think about how many large-scale mass terrorist attacks were successfully perpetrated long before anyone knew the name Edward Snowden.
All right, he's still out there protecting Snowden.
Okay.
Yes, and he goes on and on, and he lists all these things, and then he talks about encryption and how they're trying to, this whole thing's about encryption.
There's absolutely zero evidence, we don't have a clue, and it's actually this, and I hate saying actually over and over, the column I wrote in PC Magazine, I discussed this, where these guys are all buddies, a lot of them.
They're friends, come with a couple of relatives, and they lived in the same building.
Why do they have to communicate with encryption?
They just go have a meeting.
Also, I told you I've been watching the Americans, the series, and of course it's set in the 80s with the height of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
But you see how spies communicate.
They don't need encryption.
They just drop off stuff at the park bench and stick it under the soda machine.
I'm sure that works just fine.
A little booklet with codes.
Like the booklet with the codes.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, we got another coded message.
Oh, God, are you going to do this one or is it going to be me?
This will take me an hour.
There's a good show on.
Can we do it after football?
The emperor has no clothes, and that, of course, is the big elephant in the room.
Everybody has all these great intelligence services, and yet this continues to happen.
Well, the one thing Greenwald never says, and he goes on and on, believe me, I could have made this clip infinitely long.
He never says the one thing.
Why are they collecting all this data?
He does say that, I didn't clip this, but at the very, just as he says, he was going to say something.
It's funny, but the screen did go dark.
The show went dark.
I couldn't catch the rest of it.
But he doesn't say the obvious.
They're collecting this data for blackmail.
Oh, of course.
Why would you collect data on everybody you can collect data on unless you're going to blackmail them?
Right.
Because you're always going to find something that's kind of shady in everybody's background, even though I never do anything wrong.
I have nothing to hide.
Well, you probably, one, that's beside the point because they're going to be blackmailing lawmakers and not you, bonehead.
But you probably do have something to hide if you think about it.
Hold on a second.
I went out Friday amongst the people.
I had to get out of the house.
I don't think I'd left the house since Tuesday night.
I went to get my hair cut and everybody I talked to You know, they'd be just talking like, ah, everything's good, and then just somehow the Paris, you know, ISIS comes up in the conversation, and it's like a switch is thrown.
I don't know if you talked to anybody after Thursday's show.
Curiously, I got my hair cut, too.
Huh.
And did you have any no-agenda-like conversations with your hair professional?
Um...
No, we talked about the Warriors.
Okay.
Well, okay.
Yeah, there you go.
Everyone's real concerned out there in the Berkeley area.
Berkeley, what do you expect?
No, but you see their faces go, oh, yeah, I'm really concerned about it.
Really, for the world, the shit, oh, man, it's really scary out there.
And this is working.
It's working extremely well.
It's really scary out there.
When I go to Whole Foods, I'm always aware.
I look left, I look right.
I try not to mock my friends that way.
You really don't have to be that worried.
Human beings have very poor risk assessment skills.
You should jump and go, did something happen here?
Did something happen here?
No.
Do you know something?
Do you know something?
You know something's going to happen?
Something's going to happen?
You know what's going to happen?
You know what's going to happen?
Why are you worried?
This is not a good no-agenda tip.
It's not okay.
Something's going to happen?
Something's going to happen?
Well, I was listening to, or actually I was watching Charlie Rose, and this is kind of where it comes from, because I do wind up telling people, well, you don't have to be worried, but this is the beginning of World War III. It's kind of cool to see their expression go, what?
What?
King Abdullah of Jordan was on with Charlie Rose, and they did not discuss the sexuality in his DNA, but he said, and I was glad that Charlie jumped on this.
For once, he was awake in an interview.
In my view, you've got now this phenomena that has created a problem for all of us in the international community.
This guy speaks some good English, too.
Where was he educated?
King Abdullah of Jordan.
I think in England.
I could be wrong.
I'll look it up.
But he's married to an American.
But yeah, a hottie, I'll bet.
Former model.
These guys.
And that's the issue of foreign fighters.
So you have now foreign fighters coming from all over the world, coming to fight alongside ISIS in Syria and now today inside of Iraq.
If you look at from the Russian point of view, Cheshan extremist fighters are coming in to fight in Syria and Iraq that are going to be problematic because eventually they go back to the corpses and create problems.
Not only that, all the other jihadists that are looking for the next place to fight will also go back to the corpses.
They have as much of a problem, I believe, if not slightly more because of the numbers involved than, let's say, other European countries, France, Germany, Italy, or anywhere else.
So I think we're all in the same boat.
I mean, you'd probably be surprised that we're picking up Chinese from Western China.
That's pretty cool.
In Syria, there's Chinese from Western China.
What do you think they're doing?
They're fighting there with the Chinese from Western China?
Those are...
Are those the extremists who are knifing everybody?
Western China is the industrialized part of China.
Aren't those the guys who are knifing people out there in West China?
On the train?
Is that what he's talking about?
I don't think so.
In Syria and in Iraq, and actually not too far away from our borders.
So this has really become a global problem.
And how do you deal with that global problem?
Well, on the other side, I personally believe that we as Arab and Muslim countries, as I said to our parliament on the opening of parliament two months ago, this is a Muslim problem.
We need to take ownership of this.
We need to stand up and say what is right and what is wrong.
This is no reflection of our religion.
This is evil.
And all of us have got to make that decision.
We have to stand up and say, this is the line that is drawn in the sand, and those that believe in right should stand on this side, and those that don't have to make a decision stand on the other.
It's clearly a fight between good and evil.
I think it's a generational fight.
As I said, actually, to President Putin, I think this is a third world war by other means.
You're saying this is a third world war by other means, and that's what you said to Putin, that's what you'll say to the President of the I love that.
Is that what you're going to say to Obama?
And of course, he walks him back.
He walks that one back.
I'm just going to play you his reaction.
So that's what he told Putin.
I guess King Abdullah is hanging out with everybody.
He's the guy who hangs out.
Yeah, well...
Is that what we call a fair-weather friend, perhaps?
You're saying this is a third world war by other means, and that's what you said to Putin?
That's what you said to the President of the United States?
What I believe I've already said to the President, I've said to other leaders.
This is a generational fight, and I hope that...
Generational fight?
I hadn't really considered that.
Oh.
Yeah, if you look at...
Because I'm looking at these suicide terrorists.
They're all millennials.
And we know how easy it is, within means, for example, the FBI in the United States, to string along some, doesn't even have to be a millennial, but I'd say most of these are millennials.
String them along for a couple of months, get them all hyped up.
There are so many, certainly in Europe, there are so many young people who have not just no job, but no real prospect at the moment.
And we have youth unemployment of 50%.
What is happening?
It's kind of funny and disgusting at the same time that it really is some of the propaganda.
Maybe not what is being touted and what you see on Twitter.
Who gives a crap about that?
But it's not that hard to radicalize these millennials.
Well, which reminds me, talking about radicalizing the millennials, it doesn't go off topic too far, but there was a nice article on, I guess it was in the Washington Post, why college student protesters are battling free.
I think I emailed that to you, didn't I? Maybe.
Battling free speech.
Yeah.
And there's one graph they show people that would just assume that the question was percent.
This is from the Pew guys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Percent saying that government should be able to block offensive comments about minorities.
And right at the top, right near the top is millennials.
They all say that.
The bottom is the Republicans at the very bottom.
They say no to any of that, which is a good thing.
People with college degrees say no.
White men say no.
Boomers, it starts to go up, but not much.
Gen Xers, not much.
And then it starts to move.
It starts moving with, I think, women.
Say it's okay to do that, and then it gets worse with the UK, the United Kingdom saying it's okay.
Spain says it more than millennials and the French.
The millennials shouldn't be on the list with these European countries.
They should be down at the bottom with the people that understand that the Constitution protects this sort of thing.
They don't.
They don't get that.
They're easily influenced.
Yeah, I think I sent you an article about, it was called The Revenge of the Coddled.
Right, that's a different article.
Yeah, you're right.
And there's also the, I'm a liberal professor and I'm afraid of my students.
My liberal students terrify me, that's what it is.
Now, we think some of the, we take some of this lightly, but the thing, in fact, I don't...
Can you stay with your thinking so I can just take a little shaggy dog thing going here?
Play the Attack on Woodrow Wilson clip.
Ah, yes.
Do we need any background or just...
Just play that, then we'll background after the fact.
We'll back the background into it.
Back the background.
In New Jersey, Princeton students have ended a 32-hour sit-in at the university president's office after administrators signed a commitment to begin conversations about addressing campus racism.
The sit-in began Wednesday amidst massive national student protests.
Princeton students are demanding the removal of Woodrow Wilson's name.
As president, he ordered the resegregation of restrooms and cafeterias in Washington government buildings.
In some federal offices, he ordered screens to be set up to separate black and white workers.
His racist views were so widely known at the time that W.E.B. Du Bois wrote an open letter to Woodrow Wilson in which he called Wilson's policies, quote, the gravest attack on the liberties of African Americans since emancipation.
Now, Woodrow Wilson, of course, a big hero of the Democrat Party.
They don't know quite how to deal with this.
Well, back in the day, it was reversed of what the narrative is today.
Republicans now racist.
But back in the day, Abraham Lincoln was Republican, and now we see Woodrow Wilson, well, he was a Democrat.
So, yeah, it's probably brain-frying some people.
This is the cognitive dissonance that is needed to keep people screwy.
Now, the thing that wasn't mentioned there was that they did a big deal in Princeton, similar to what happened in Yale, where they had to remove the word master.
From a whole slew of titles.
Yes.
Especially in...
Like a Master of Arts.
Well, they didn't do that yet.
That's coming.
Oh, okay.
I'm talking about the Master of Various Dorms.
That sort of same thing that happened at Yale.
I agree.
They should change it to Massa.
So they're taking the word master out.
So, and I'm thinking this is just the beginning of the end for trying to, you know, we can't even talk about anything at any level.
No.
And you can't use the word master.
So I'm over dinner with JC and his wife.
Both millennials.
Both millennials.
He says that he is fighting right now in Silicon Valley the move that To remove the master-slave relationship with hard disk drives.
Yeah.
Oh, this has been going on for a while.
And he got into an argument with one guy about it.
He says, just the terminology, he says, it's offensive.
And J.C.'s response was, to the hard disk?
It's offensive to the hard disk.
No, no, no.
No, no.
This is very offensive to the quadriplegic black programmer.
I don't know.
Just sounded better.
I don't know.
I'm just throwing some extra shit in there.
This is indeed completely ridiculous.
There's a lot of examples of this.
But I'm reading now that they're talking about changing actual scholarly titles, such as a master's in fine arts.
You can be reading that, but I haven't read that yet.
But that's coming.
Of course it is.
So what do we do?
I mean, I'm a little bit...
What about the poor MBAs out there?
What are they going to be called?
This is just to get their goat.
A massa.
Yeah, I... It's...
And I'm really looking at my generation, and you have kids in the same range as mine, by coincidence.
I don't know what that was.
You had nothing better to do.
Make some kids.
Get to the point.
Yeah, but what have we done wrong?
What have we done wrong?
I don't think I've done anything wrong because JC is a defender of the language.
I gotcha.
I don't think I've done that much wrong with my daughter either, but just look at what has gone wrong.
Someone has to...
It's the influence of the academic institutions.
I can't prove this, but once they became corrupted by money, because you have to remember that only recently when they came up with this idea of student loans, and so the student can get any infinite amount of money...
Yeah, that's when students became customers, and there was a lot of money to be made.
Yeah, students are customers, and so they can jack up the price.
There's no reason for the...
But especially when you consider the fact that I more or less went to the University of California, at the time the top-rated school, both private and public, in the world for free.
Yeah.
There was a pittance of a fee.
And books were cheap, by the way.
And you could buy used books for your courseware and all the rest of it.
Now it costs as much to go to Cal as it costs to go to Stanford.
I don't know why anyone would go to Cal if you have a choice nowadays because it's not as prestigious a degree.
And the football team stinks, which is another story altogether.
Yeah.
I want to read this.
This is an essay from this professor who says he's afraid of it.
And he's changed his curriculum.
He's taken out anything that might be deemed offensive.
And he says here, the real problem, a simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice.
This shift in student-teacher dynamic placed many of the traditional goals of higher education, such as having students challenge their beliefs, off limits.
While I used to pride myself on getting students to question themselves and engage with difficult concepts and texts, I now hesitate.
What if this hurts my evaluations and I don't get tenure?
How many complaints will it take before chairs and administrators begin to worry that I'm not giving our customers, students, the positive experience they're paying for?
This phenomenon has been widely discussed as of late, mostly as a means of deriding political, economic, and cultural forces writers don't much care for.
True.
Commentators on the left and right have recently criticized the sensitivity and paranoia of today's college students.
But really, these students are in a perfect state of mind to be riled up against anything, as long as you put the right words in there, and they'll get on board.
Yes, and this is the way the ISIS folks...
Have managed to, in fact, you get a lot of, if you get enough of these long format news shows like NewsHour and Democracy Now, and you get to listen to some of these people going on and on about it, they say it's a cultural thing.
It's a cultural difference.
And the ISIS folks, even though it's stupid what they do, you know, let's blow ourselves up and put up a memorial and we'll be in heaven and all the rest of it.
Right.
They actually convince these guys that this is a lifestyle that's worth it.
It's more fun than what you're doing now.
What are you doing now?
And it probably is in many cases.
Yeah.
Shoot a gun.
It seems a lot more fun.
Get to kill someone.
Get to blow yourself up.
I mean, what are you doing now?
You're sitting around, you know, grousing.
This is going to continue to worsen because there really are no jobs out there.
Nobody wants to talk about that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You're right.
And with the continuous lying and number jiggering of the economy and joblessness rates, certainly in the United States...
Who are we kidding with 5% unemployment?
Yeah.
Where it's really more like 20.
22.5.
Yeah.
If you take all the people who have just given up on looking into account...
But this is, because we're at a point now, we always are looking at, okay, who did this?
You know, who was really going in for an attack, the scale of the attack in Paris?
Even in Mali, you know, this is not just a bunch of millennial kids who are disillusioned and going all in on whatever they've been mind-controlled to.
But that is happening.
Now it's really happening.
Yes.
You were talking about Abdullah.
I wanted to have a couple of anecdotes about him.
Okay, tell me about Abdullah.
Well, he comes to San Francisco a lot.
Oh, and by the way, here's his education we discussed earlier.
They bring people back up to speed.
Abdullah began his schooling in the Islamic Education College in Amman, and then attended St.
Edmund's School, Hindhead in England, before continuing his education in the United States at Eagle Brook School and the Deerfield Academy.
And by the way, he also came back in 1987 and attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.
So he's got a lot of connections to the West.
Oh, he's married to the Toddy, to Rainia.
She's outrageous.
And so he shows up a lot in San Francisco.
And every once in a while, I was actually in the city when he was floating around, and he drives around in these huge escalades and these goofy-looking guards.
And I think, I don't know how they allow this in San Francisco, but they've got automatic weapons, and they're sticking them out the windows.
Excellent.
While they're driving by the streets of San Francisco?
Yes!
Well, at least you know who really has power.
I bitched about this.
But anyway, so you're there and they're driving.
Actually, I saw them somewhere and then they got in these cars and they drove off with all these guns sticking out the windows, aiming at people in the streets in the Union Square of San Francisco.
It's ridiculous.
I asked around and it turns out that he likes to come into Union Square because he loves it.
He gives speeches at the Commonwealth Club and different organizations.
He must be here three or four times a year.
He likes to eat at Morton's Steakhouse.
He likes to eat homeless people, maybe?
He likes to eat at Morton's Steakhouse in San Francisco.
It's his favorite place.
Hey, pick that guy up.
I'm sure Morton's can slice him into a nice little steak.
Jeez.
You know, I had an Uber driver, I think, Friday night for like 10 minutes.
I didn't record.
I should have, really, because as I'm kind of driving along, I say, where are you from?
Oh, Jordan.
Like, oh, man.
And after a very short conversation, he says, you know, Jordan can turn into Syria any day.
He said, but you've got Queen Rainey.
I said, oh, yeah.
That's all the more reason to be careful.
Because this is...
Assad, also beautiful wife, Vogue magazine, everybody loved him, Brad and Angelina hanging out.
Of course, the New York Times, if you read it now, has completely changed that into bloody, horrible dictator.
He's been a problem for years.
You know, this is...
He's killing his own people.
It's almost like the way a corporation treats a guy they just fired.
Yeah!
He's a dream.
This is the best salesman we've ever had.
The guy was no good.
Since the President was out and about, and he probably pre-recorded his weekly podcast, good old Joe did the podcast, the weekly address.
Okay.
You want to hear a bit of Joe?
This is your beat.
Yeah, I couldn't really pull out a single clip because the whole thing is good, but we'll just play it until we're tired of it.
You know, man, Joe, when he talks like this, he looks presidential.
He's exactly the kind of guy we want, I have to say.
Good morning, everyone.
Hey, everybody.
How you doing?
This past week, we've seen the best and the worst of humanity.
Yeah.
The heinous terrorist attacks.
Heinous?
Isn't that heinous?
Heinous.
Why does he say heinous?
I don't know.
Maybe you can say heinous.
I don't know.
Elvis the pelvis and his brother heinous.
I thought it was heinous.
We've seen the best and the worst of humanity.
The heinous terrorist attacks in Paris, in Beirut, in Iraq, in Nigeria.
They showed us once again the depths of the terrorist depravity.
At the same time, we saw the world come together in solidarity.
Parisians opening their doors to anyone trapped in the street.
Taxi drivers.
Yeah, try that now.
Hey, can I come in?
No.
Turning off their meters to get people home safely.
People lining up to donate blood.
These simple human acts are a powerful reminder that we cannot be broken.
And in the face of terror, we stand as one.
In the wake of these terrible events, I understand the anxiety that many Americans feel.
I really do.
I don't dismiss the fear of a terrorist bomb going off.
There's nothing President Obama and I take more seriously, though, than keeping the American people safe.
In the past few weeks, though, we've heard an awful lot of people suggest that the best way to keep America safe is to prevent any Syrian refugee from getting asylum in the United States.
And then he goes into the whole thing about how all people are good and what are you talking about?
You must be nuts.
And I have the reply.
That's a good summary.
Well...
Because, you know, what we have now is there's this big conversation about can we vet these people properly?
Let me tell you something about the U.S. customs process.
They vet.
I mean, if you're a celebrity, they don't vet.
Now, you remember, I went to get my card, my...
What is it?
The trusted traveler card so I can go to the kiosk when I come into the country?
Right.
And the guy knew who I was and you recall the story.
He's like, don't worry about it.
It's all good.
But the personal interview, having done this twice now, I think that process is reasonably good.
Are you going to have one guy slip through?
Yeah, maybe.
One in 250,000?
Yeah, maybe.
One in 250,000 people in America kill someone anyway.
That's the statistics now.
I think this is...
I thought it was higher than that.
Could be.
What I found was it's about the same.
One in about 250,000.
I'm not too worried about this process.
It's obviously only done for...
It doesn't even matter.
We're already there.
You can light off a bomb anywhere and just say ISIS, and it'll be accepted.
That's the danger.
Now, the Republicans, they always get to do a podcast that counters the president, I guess.
And I'm looking at now 53 views.
This thing is hot.
This thing is number one on the iTunes podcast chart right here.
Martha McSally from Arizona.
Are you familiar with her?
You know, their name rings a bell.
She is a former Air Force, so she's coming out and she's like, we gotta go kick some ass.
But her cadence is very, very disturbing.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Paris as they recover from last week's horrific terrorist attacks.
While we mourn this tragedy, let us be reminded, those attacks could have happened here.
This is not to instill fear, but to remind us to be...
I'm not trying to scare you.
I'm not trying to scare you or anything, but it could happen here!
What could happen here?
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Paris as they recover from last week's horrific terrorist attacks.
While we mourn this tragedy, let us be reminded those attacks could have happened here.
This is not to instill fear, but to remind us to be vigilant.
That's why we're calling on the administration to step up, provide global leadership, and put together a coherent and aggressive strategy to defeat ISIS. I need no reminders about the threats we face.
Before being elected to Congress, I served 26 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a full colonel.
I was the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat and the first to command a fighter squadron in combat in U.S. history.
In my career, I flew 2,600 flight hours, including over 325 combat hours in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
You can kind of see which faction she represents.
She is of the let's go kick some ISIS ass faction.
I deployed to the Middle East and Afghanistan six times, serving in leadership positions for the initial air campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and counterterrorism ops in Africa.
All right.
After I was elected, I had the privilege to be appointed to a task force on combating terrorist and foreign terrorists.
I thought she was she has a very offensive militaristic tone, which does not as bad as Carly Fiorina.
Yeah, but she's running for president.
She has no time for this.
Now, I want to mention something.
You're off by a factor of 10.
Oh, really?
It's 25,000?
Yes.
Huh.
Well, so just being in America is potentially more dangerous than being in ISIS-controlled territory.
Actually, those numbers are really high.
Oh, man.
Ah, not good.
Um...
So before we take our break and thank some people, I thought maybe we would just check in with our buddy.
There in the world is...
Victoria Kagan Noodleman.
Yeah!
Victoria Kagan Noodleman.
Ah, yes.
I'm so annoyed not to bring this in because, uh...
There was one of these long reports, and I guess I didn't clip it out, on Mali.
And there were interviews with a State Department.
There's two things.
One, they had a talk with a State Department person who happened to be in Mali, coincidentally.
It happens.
And they also mentioned there was some sort of a peace negotiation conference taking place in that hotel that nobody talks about.
Yes, there was.
And you're right, there's very little reporting on it.
I did catch that.
The whole thing is very poorly done.
Let's talk about Noodleman.
Well, I play Noodleman because her husband has finally surfaced and he is clearly one of the other advisors that President Obama eschews.
And he wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, you gotta love this guy.
Remember, this is Robert Kagan, he and his brother Frederick, and Bill Kristol, and Dick Cheney.
Part of the neoconservative warmongers.
The war lobby.
Who I believe are still running this operation.
I think the president is not in control.
Right.
At all.
At all.
He's just responding now to whatever he can do.
And Robert Kagan wrote, I think, a very important piece, which everybody should read.
Titled The Crisis of World Order.
You know, I love it when these guys throw it into your face.
And he has a new concept called the liberal world order, which of course is crap, according to him.
And here's what he wrote.
The flip side of European pleasure at America's newfound Venusian, which is because now we're all freaked out, is the perception widely shared around the world that the U.S. is a declining superpower.
This is from Kagan.
This is the guy who pretty much you'd presume would want America to be a huge superpower.
And that even if it is not objectively weaker than it once was, its leaders' willingness to deploy power on behalf of its interests and on behalf of the West has greatly diminished.
As former German Foreign Minister Fischer recently put it, the U.S. is quite obviously no longer willing or able to play its old role.
And Kagan goes on to say that Fischer was referring to America's role as a dominant power, of course, in the Middle East, but since the refugee crisis, which he's now calling refugee instead of migrants, and the attacks in Paris, America's unwillingness to play that role has reverberations and implications well beyond the Middle East.
What the U.S. now does or doesn't do in Syria will affect the future stability of Europe.
The strength of transatlantic relations and therefore the well-being of the, quote, liberal world order.
So what we did, so this migrant crisis in the United States has kind of become important for Europe in a strange way, the way Kagan puts this, if you read his whole article, is that we are so much the winners in all of this that whatever we do, Europe is just sitting there going, ah, we don't know, please don't F us, and we're probably going to.
Oh, yeah.
And I had dinner with the former New York banker Friday night and his wife.
And he was agreeing on everything.
It was like he was no agenda guy all of a sudden.
He's like, oh yeah, we're screwed.
Oh yeah, Europe is going down.
Oh yeah, it's all over.
And of course he's coming from the American banks won, the European banks lost.
That's still his mantra.
Yeah, well he's probably right on.
I'm going to read something from the Kagan thing.
I believe that this piece, I looked it over, I didn't deconstruct it properly, Completely, but it rings with dissonance.
I think it's designed to confuse people, of course, because it's Kagan's.
But this one graph really got to me.
This is no doubt the last thing that Mr.
Obama wants to hear and possibly to believe.
Certainly he would not deny that the stakes have gone up since the refugee crisis and especially since Paris.
At the very least, Islamic State has proven both its desire and ability to carry out massive coordinated attacks in a major European city.
It is not unthinkable that it could carry out a similar attack in an American city.
Period.
And then he says, this is new.
This is bullcrap.
This isn't new.
It's new that ISIS, but we are just inundated with propaganda that we're going to be attacked any minute.
This is not new.
So why would he put this as new?
It's not new.
It's new that one little group is going to bomb us?
What difference does it make at this point?
Yeah, that's exactly it.
He's saying that, oh, ISIS did it.
Now that's new.
And of course, we were joking about ISIS. You know, how are they going to sail their Toyotas to America?
No.
But now, because we have this magical propaganda force that sucks children into blowing themselves up, that's the so-called the new thing.
But that's not new in a meta sense.
There's been every number of groups besides the lone wolves that are going to kill us any minute and all the stabbings that are taking place here and there with little ISIS wannabes.
This is not new.
So why does he put that it's new?
What is the point?
What is he trying to engender in the reader to convince?
This is fear porn.
This is bull crap.
This whole article is a piece of shit as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, of course.
It is a...
Yeah, but it's important because he's signaling what the other team outside of the president really wants.
And they want 50,000 troops.
They want a no-fly zone.
While we're at that, let's listen to one of the more obscure presentations by Jeb Bush that was played on Democracy Now!
This is Jeb Bush calling for war in soldiers.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has proposed deploying U.S. ground troops to fight the so-called Islamic State.
Speaking at a military college in South Carolina, Bush called for a no-fly zone over Syria, arming Kurdish forces and increasing troop presence on the ground.
The United States should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out ISIS with overwhelming force.
As the words of French President Hollande have made clear, the United States will not be alone in galvanizing this global effort.
Militarily, we need to intensify our efforts in the air and on the ground.
While air power is essential, it cannot bring the results we seek.
The United States, in conjunction with our NATO allies and more Arab partners, will need to increase our presence on the ground.
Yeah, let's elect that guy.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, Hillary's saying the same thing.
She's saying troops, she's saying no-fly zone.
That is unclear if our president has any strategy.
President Putin, though, did a nice little piece.
This guy, I've got to tell you, he's got the cool factor down.
So he's sitting at his desk, God knows where.
It's all gilded.
He's got the gilded chair.
He's got the flags all looking hot and shit.
And then he's got a big monitor on his desk with what looks like 12 different Skype windows of video.
And that's his advisor.
So he's not in some situation room down in the basement.
No, he's chilling at the palace.
He just brings up the screen.
Hey, everybody, how we doing?
Russia launches massive strikes on Syria.
The intense campaign comes as Moscow confirmed reports that Islamic State was responsible for downing a plane full of Russian tourists over Sinai in Egypt, killing all 224 aboard.
As Putin checks in with military officials, he offers thanks, but adds that the campaign is far from over.
I want to thank all of you, but I want to stress that for now it is not enough to cleanse Syria of rebels and terrorists and to protect Russians from possible terrorist attacks.
We face a lot of work, and I hope that the next phases will be conducted at the same high level, just as professionally, and will produce the results we've come to expect.
We'll have to see what happens next, but he's as cool as a cucumber.
Cool as a cucumber.
Well, the Russian army has always managed to...
Get the reputation as being just a bunch of a-holes that nobody wants to deal with.
I like the word cleanse.
That's always a little frightening when someone talks about cleanse.
But Putin...
Now, I have to say, I don't know where all of his education came from, but somewhere along the line, he somehow picked up the John C. Dvorak marketing methods.
Okay.
And this is, I'm not going to compare you to Putin, don't worry.
But the guy is smart.
What do we do?
What do we do?
What is the number one use of this object, so-called object, but it's a living thing, when we want to really make people feel good about our newsletter?
Puppies and kittens.
Russia says it will send a puppy to replace the police dog, which perished in last week's terrorist operation in Paris.
The Interior Ministry in Moscow says it's meant as a sign of solidarity.
The puppy, a female, is called Dobrynya, after a popular folk hero in Russia.
She's so cute!
Diesel the dog died in a raid on an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, where several militants were holed up.
I'm telling you, man, Putin, I'm putting all money on Putin now.
He understands how to work puppies into it.
This guy is good.
Yes, I saw, I remember when that clip came through and I got a kick out of it.
I got it.
Diesel, the dog is, and they said a cute little puppy over there.
Oh, the puppy.
We didn't do that.
No.
Well, no agenda would have done it, but no, we didn't do it.
We would have sent a puppy.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also, in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, subs in the water, feet in the air, and all the dames and knights out there.
And in the morning to everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
We had a nice little pre-stream, actually, today.
You want to check into that once in a while, Thursdays and Sundays, half hour before the show.
In the morning to our artists, I want to thank specifically Kara P., who brought us the artwork for 775.
This was a very good piece, although...
I think misunderstood or not even caught by most.
And this was the Catherine de Great art with the French flag over her face.
And I don't think most people got Catherine de Great as a...
that even recognized her as such.
Right, the Russian monarch who...
Now, she was completely crazy about France.
She was nuts over France.
Yeah.
And she was in the late 1700s, and she's the one who made all these great buildings, and a lot of them in Russia are fashioned after French buildings.
And they tried to up the ante, make it even, you know, more grand, and they would exchange diplomats all the time, and they'd look at each other's stuff and go, ooh, that's great.
Excellent.
Would you like some more caviar?
Yes, we have buckets full here in Russia, much more than you'll ever get in France.
And she was loose, wasn't she?
Wasn't she loose?
Didn't she get around?
I don't know.
I think so.
Before my time.
Otherwise, you would have known.
Yeah, exactly.
It would have been in the gossip rags.
Noagendaartgenerator.com is where we have all of our art submitted.
Happy to see you upload some stuff.
You can always take a look.
You can print that out for yourself.
Put it on the wall.
There's some great art.
It is a big...
Oh, and with our new RSS feed, we have the new feed generator.
Feed Builder, I guess we'll call it, part of the Freedom Controller.
Dave Jones released it, which of course I immediately cocked up on the last episode, but we're getting it to work.
Now we have episode album art in our feed, and so we're going through all of these different podcast clients to see which one supports this, which has been a feature for, I don't know, you know, 10 years.
Or over 10 years.
Almost 10 years.
And guess which...
Podcast client on a mobile device handles this perfectly.
iTunes?
Nope.
Windows.
Windows Phone has its own podcast client built in and it works perfectly there.
But not on the podcasting app.
On Apple's, no.
It doesn't work with the Apple?
No, not yet.
But we're talking about the Overcast guy and see if he'll put that in.
It's cool because then you see every single episode that you have in your list has the appropriate album art.
Just trying to do better than the next guy.
Well, it's the way it should be.
We should have a specific album or it's a different album.
Yeah.
Yes, but most people don't do that.
In fact, very few shows do it, and then, I guess, therefore, no one supports, or very few support the feature, but we're working.
Every show is different.
Yeah, every show is different, correct.
But that's, most people don't have this, John.
They don't have an army of talented artists.
It's like if you had just, like P. Diddy, every album he did had the same exact label.
Yeah, cover.
Like Chicago.
Him in a white tux.
Chicago, he just changed the number.
Yeah, well, even that is a change.
Alright, well let's thank a few people, including Crash EMT in Herndon, Virginia, who came in with 777.77.
We only have one show left for that to become a...
Double producer's credit.
Glorious truth sayers, thank you so much for keeping us all sane for these past years.
I have three short requests.
This is accounting for knighthood.
I've been deficient in my value for value model.
It was my first donation in 20...
From my first donation in 2012, asking for divorce and job karma.
That dose worked out well, so then I met a beautiful woman on a singles cruise nine short months after my request and will be married in December.
Aww.
I didn't know they had singles cruises.
Are you kidding me?
Of course they do.
Nine short months after my request will be married in December.
For such an occasion, please accept my humble make good donation of 77777 and my claim to no agenda knighthood.
Number two, now comes a time where I call out a friend.
But unlike normal call-outs, it's to honor him.
in a silent night for many months.
He has contributed well over what is needed for his recognition.
Therefore, by the powers vested in me as one of the dudes named Ben, I hereby demand that my best man, sir, Dr. Red provide his accounting and ring size too.
So he may sit at the round table to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
Yeah.
And I will mention CMT sent me his ringside instead of following the process of going to no agenda nation.com slash rings and just filling out the form. I don't know how I'm going to do with it.
Finally, for those of you listening, this show is kept alive only by you and your contributions.
I request don't be a boner, be a donor.
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I don't think it's the one he was looking for, but it's the one I got.
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Jason Wall is the second executive producer in the final one.
We don't have a lot today.
In Regina, Saskatchewan, 300 bucks.
Thanks for the job, Karma.
It worked.
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Tithe.
Tithe.
I'd like to hear don't eat me Hillary, two to the head, Hillary cackle.
Keep fighting the good fight.
Don't eat me Hillary Clinton.
Is it please don't eat me or is it don't eat me?
No, I don't know.
Please don't eat me Hillary Clinton.
Two to the head and a cackle and then a karma.
Give him a karma.
Yeah, okay.
We got all of that for you.
Don't eat me Hillary Clinton!
You've got karma.
And last but not least, John White in Jackson, Tennessee, comes in as an associate executive producer for $200.
He says, ITM gents, in times like this where the terrorists want to kill us all and the government media industrial complex wants us to just cower in place and eat our mac and cheese, that your services are needed more than ever.
Please accept my meager donation and use it to propagate the best weapons we have against the world's current evildoers.
Hit them in the mouth with jingles.
Can I get some stuttering Obama and whip it with the Constitution?
P.S. Please use the...
Please use the two cents to help out some film.
Yeah, he dropped two pennies on us.
$200 and two cents.
Oh, I missed it.
I thought I was just doing...
There you go.
Help out some film nights who need the extra penny to join the ranks.
That's all we want.
And that's the story.
Get out there!
Whooping, whooping, whooping! Whooping, whooping, whooping! Whooping with the Constitution! - Ah!
You've got karma.
We have a holiday.
This is what happens.
We've got one associate executive producer, two executive producers.
I want to remind people, we do have a special show coming up on Thursday, which does need support still.
And this show will be one of the...
It was hard to believe it's as good as it is.
It is fantastic.
And it is one of our producers.
You have his name.
SirCyber.
SirCyber.
SirCyber came and clipped Our goofing around part for, I guess, it seems like about two or three years worth of these, which took a lot of listening.
Yeah, it's two hours.
Maybe you're listening with an editor running the show.
I'm not sure.
Then you clip stuff and it makes it a little easier.
Very hard to do what he did.
I couldn't do it.
I don't think I could listen to us that long.
It's Thursday.
But when you hear the good parts, the funny, the humorous bits, let's put it that way, which is some of our skits...
Some of our new skits that we do.
It's going to be good.
Yeah, it'll be Thursday, and that'll be show 776.5, and then next Sunday we'll have show 777 to celebrate 777 shows.
Astonishing number of shows, and a lucky number.
Indeed.
And please remember us for that show at...
And of course, you can be sitting out there with all your friends and family for the holiday.
Propagate the formula!
Our formula is this.
We go out...
We hit people in the mouth.
Hey, citizens.
Shut up, slave!
Shut up, slave!
We did have a presidential proclamation, which, since we won't be doing the show on Thursday live, I think it is prudent to compare the president's story of Thanksgiving to the actual story, which has been a staple of the No Agenda show.
So the President does, of course, proclaim, and this will be the 20th day on November, he proclaims that for the November 26th National Day of Thanksgiving.
That's the official title, the National Day of Thanksgiving.
Now, John, I'll read this and you tell me where you think the President goes astray.
You ready?
Right there.
Our modern celebration of Thanksgiving can be traced back to the early 17th century.
Upon arriving in Plymouth, at the culmination of months of testing travel that resulted in death and disease, the pilgrims continued to face great challenges.
As indigenous people, The Wampanoag helped them adjust to their new home, teaching them critical survival skills and important crop cultivation methods.
After securing a bountiful harvest, the settlers and Wampanoag joined in fellowship for a shared dinner to celebrate powerful traditions that are still observed at Thanksgiving today, lifting one another up, enjoying time with those around us, and appreciating all we have.
Does this sound good so far?
Well, you know, the way he's presenting it is truthful, but okay.
I don't think...
I mean, it's exaggerated, of course, because it wasn't like everyone was just palling around, slapping each other on the back.
Well, this is where they taught us how to...
Hugging bro hugs.
But this is...
Bro hug.
This is where the Indians taught us how to make sweet potatoes with marshmallow and whiskey, right?
Yeah.
Carrying us through trial and triumph, this sense of decency and compassion has defined our nation.
President George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving in our country's nations, calling on the citizens of our fledgling democracy to place their faith in, quote, the providence of Almighty God, and to be thankful for what is bequeathed to us.
Still sound good?
I missed something there.
You started over.
Read that part again.
President George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving in our country's nations.
Wrong?
Well, yeah.
I believe that.
I don't think George Washington ever proclaimed a Thanksgiving.
He may have.
But this was like something that was done on a year-to-year basis.
And it wasn't a...
You know, they make it sound like it started with these Indians and some feast in the 1600s.
And every year since then they've been doing this.
How about this?
President Abraham Lincoln acknowledged the plight of the most vulnerable.
Lincoln is the one who started, I think...
It really stems to Lincoln.
He declared...
It wasn't for that.
Thanksgiving then was used to thank...
It was a thank God that we, you know, our soldiers...
It's for soldiers who died.
It was a celebration.
Well, not according to this.
It wasn't...
And that was what Thanksgiving generally was.
It was a celebration of our dead soldiers.
Oh, actually, no.
No, no.
A little different.
The president says, President Abraham Lincoln acknowledged the plight of the most vulnerable, declaring a, quote, day of Thanksgiving on which all...
Wait, wait.
Let me finish the sentence.
You're the most vulnerable.
Are you heckling the president?
If I was in there, I'd have the duck call with me.
Declaring a day of thanksgiving on which all affected by the violence of the time, widows, orphans, and mourners, and sufferers of the Civil War.
There we go.
A tradition of giving continues to inspire this holiday and its shelters and food centers on battlefields and city streets.
Really?
Battlefields?
And through generous donations and silent prayers, the inherent selflessness and common goodness of the American people endures.
Yeah, unless you're from Syria.
Fuck you.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Don't want you at Thanksgiving.
We're very thankful that there's no Syrians.
That's how America thinks now, ladies and gentlemen.
So, John, I think I need from you, just briefly if possible, the perfect Dvorak turkey.
I don't have one.
I always experiment.
I never make turkey the same way twice.
What are you doing this year?
I'm going to give a recipe, but it's a recipe for yams.
Or sweet potatoes, as you might call them.
But they're generally yams.
And this is a recipe that's dynamite.
Is this the Maker's Mark recipe?
Yeah.
Ah, dynamite.
This is not my recipe.
This is from Emeril Lagasse.
And the first time I had it, I said, my God, why am I making yams any other way?
So you bake some yams for about an hour and a half, and then you cut them open.
Hold on, hold on.
Bake them.
What's the oven setting?
Depends.
375?
375 is fine.
And do I wrap them in foil?
Make sure you poke some holes, just a knife, and put a couple of gouges in the top of the thing.
So it's just not in foil, it's just there.
Just put it in foil.
Then you never can get the skin off.
You want the skin to crisp up so you can pull it off.
I'm just asking questions.
Yeah, I know, and I'm just angry about it.
Clearly you're very annoyed by my questions.
No, these questions are good though.
That's a good question.
But I'm not going to say that.
I'm going to get irked about it instead.
That way it adds to the importance of the answer.
Oh my god, if you did that you'd all die!
I'm drooling.
Go, continue.
You bake the...
375, right?
A couple of yams.
375.
It takes about an hour to an hour and a half.
I give it more time than less because as it overcooks...
But now the juice will start...
The juice will come out and there's a lot of sugar formed.
And then...
Now, I have a new trick that I added this year.
Oh my gosh!
Can you see that juice?
Sorry, I'm just looking at the juice.
I got from Christmas last year a couple of interesting gifts that I pulled from China.
One are these gloves you can wear that are not like chain mold, but they're made out of some plastic.
So when you're using a mandolin or some cutting device and you happen to catch your finger, the gloves will protect you.
Oh.
Oh, this is good.
And they're thin, so they're not like a chain mold glove or anything.
The other gloves are these, they look like just cotton gloves, but they're not asbestos, but they prevent it.
Prevent burning.
You can go right into the oven and grab the hottest thing.
You can't hold it forever.
So they're flexible?
They're like chain mail kind of?
No, the first ones are, there's two kinds.
One is to keep it from getting cut.
Which is a different glove.
This is a heat glove.
And it looks like a cotton glove.
It doesn't look like anything special but a couple of cotton gloves.
But you can grab hot crap right out of the oven with their hands and put it down.
Well, these gloves allow me to do something I've never been able to do with this recipe that I'm describing to cook the yams.
Which is I can now grab the bottom of the yam and hold it.
Huh.
If I had done this under any other circumstance, I'd have a third degree burn.
Right.
Because these yams hold heat, as anyone knows, works with yams.
They burn hotter than coal, I'm told.
So you cut it, you cut it, and then you grab a big spoon and you spoon out all the insides that you can without getting any of the skin, which should be kind of crispy, into a bowl.
And you put like maybe three or four yams in there, how many you want to do.
Right.
And so you get all this goo.
And it should be so cooked that with a whisk.
Now, what about the skin?
You got to take the skin off?
No, you scoop out from the skin and throw the skin away.
The skin is hot?
The skin is, well, yes, the whole yam is extremely hot.
And if you can do this without these gloves, but it's very, it's not easy.
But with the gloves, holy mackerel, it's fantastic.
I just made, the reason I say that is because I just did this yesterday.
Um, So you put the pile of yams in.
It should be so soft that you can whisk them with just a regular whisk and fluff them up like mashed potatoes if you want to.
But what you add, and this is just the simplest ingredients, you add a couple of little salt if you want, but I don't do it.
You add, I don't know, a couple of teaspoons.
Say you've got four yams.
Maybe a half a cube of butter.
European butter preferred, of course.
I always like to add a little bit of yogurt.
Yeah.
In this recipe, I don't use yogurt.
I do.
Fine.
So you add...
The problem I have...
I won't talk about it, but this is my recipe.
You can do it your way.
Keep going.
I know what's next.
Put a bunch of butter in there, and then you put almost an equal amount of cream, like full, heavy cream.
And then you probably can put, I don't know, as much bourbon as you have to taste.
You want a bourbon-y bourbon.
So any one of the, you know, good bourbon.
Maker's Mark is what I've used.
Maker's Mark is a good one.
I last used a George DeKal, a single barrel.
Beautiful.
Put a bunch of bourbon in there.
And then, just to round it out a little bit, some maple syrup.
Not pancakes or maple syrup.
And then you take the whisk and you whisk it up so it's kind of like a very fluffy product.
And then you serve that up.
It is absolute dynamite.
I actually added a little more bourbon at the end.
You can add bourbon into it if you want more of a bourbon-y flavor.
It's fantastic.
That is the dish of the day.
Once you have this dish, you'll go, why am I creating this?
Great product.
Yeah, so what I always do with Thanksgiving is I make this exact recipe, except I use yogurt instead of the heavy cream, and then I always make my famous stuffing, which is a stovetop put into my own bowl, and I lie, and it really works.
People love that.
Oh, man, the stuffing is so great.
Yeah, it's a family recipe.
So I recommend everybody.
Would you know if I showed up with stovetop?
You wouldn't know.
I would.
You know why I'd know?
Because you already told me.
Okay.
It's just a thought.
No, I actually stuff a turkey with stale bread and sage and marjoram, which are the two main spices you want in your stuffing.
Marjoram, yeah.
And then a bunch of some celery, onions, some bouillon or some chicken broth and make it kind of gooey and shove it in there.
But I don't have a recipe for turkey that I can just rattle off.
Look it up.
I thought maybe you'd have one.
I thought maybe you'd have one.
My daughter is...
I'm going to be in Port Angeles for Thanksgiving.
My daughter's cooking turkey for the first time for everybody down here.
Okay.
And she's giving me recipes that she's...
Can she cook?
Is she good?
Is she a good cook?
She's a baker.
Oh.
She's a really good baker, but as a cook, you know...
We'll see how that works out.
But she gave me the one recipe about all the fat, the idea of shoving a bunch of fat and stuff inside, under the skin, and a heritage turkey, or butter.
I saw that two years ago, it was very popular on all the TV shows for Every TV cook to come out and shove butter under the skin.
That would be something I'd do.
That sounds right.
Just shove some butter in there.
I like butter, but come on.
Alright, that's your Thanksgiving yam recipe, everybody.
You can add it to the many recipes here on the best podcast in the universe.
I think the president was in Malaysia.
I think he already started to sample some of your yams.
I don't know if he's really tired.
Did you hear him?
Just listen to this, like the 15 seconds here.
Meeting with ASEAN. With allies and partners, the United States will be relentless against those who target our citizens.
Do you hear him go relentless?
Yeah, he said relentless.
We'll continue to root out terrorist networks.
I don't know.
You might be right.
I never thought of this.
Maybe you had a couple of lewds or something.
Meeting with ASEAN. With allies and partners, the United States will be relentless against those who target our citizens.
Relentless citizens.
Citizens.
I think hammered.
Hammered.
Hammered for sure.
Totally hammered.
Sad.
Let's see.
Check in with the migrant situation in the EU lands.
We have lots of problems.
Lots and lots of problems.
Everybody closing down borders.
The Balkans, of course, is where now all the refugees are stacked up and stopped and can't come in.
The knock-on effect of tighter border controls in the Balkans is starting to show.
Here in Romania, a seven-kilometer traffic jam resulted in hours of delays for travelers attempting to cross the frontier into Hungary.
Border police say the measures, introduced one week after the Paris attacks, are in response to possible threats.
Authorities believe at least one of the Paris suicide bombers travelled a known migrant route into Europe via Greece.
From there, those making the journey move north into the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
But it is now only allowing entry to migrants from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Some writers from Nepal.
Thousands from countries not recognized as war zones are stranded at the border and tempers are starting to fray.
On Saturday morning, on the Greek side of the frontier, riot police pushed back huge crowds attempting to cross over and continue north.
It loses a lot without the video.
It's really to see the video of what's happening here and to see these...
People.
There's becoming a collection of B-roll that is just fantastic.
And it's just being used over and over, for sure.
But it's fantastic, especially the one, my favorite one, where you have like a six across stream of people, six across or five across, but it's wide, and it goes to the horizon.
Yeah.
And they're all just kind of slowly moving.
It's the damnest thing I've ever seen.
And something you don't see more than probably once in a lifetime.
Stuff like this is incredibly rare and obviously the media is underserving most at really understanding and seeing what is happening.
Don Lemon on CNN had Clooney's handler on.
Isn't Nicholas Kristof, isn't that Clooney's handler?
I think so.
No, Clooney's handler is...
Oh, that's the other guy.
That funny-looking character.
Sounds like that, though.
Well, Kristoff is the New York Times, right?
But he must be some kind of operative.
I don't know.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you can tell by listening to him, I'm sure.
I think he might be.
He's obviously been sent in to demonize anyone who was against allowing Syria.
This whole conversation about making sure they're only Christians, not Muslims, which is kind of the same as what ISIS does.
It's kind of cool.
With them, if you say you're Christian, boom.
If you say you're ISIS, boom.
We're all part of the war now.
But he brought it right there.
He brought it to Godwin's Law.
I mentioned before this poll, it's a Bloomberg poll, it finds that 53% of adults polled that they say that they don't want the 10,000 Syrian refugees that the U.S. is planning to bring here.
And it said that they take only 28%, only 28% say that it would be okay, and 11% say they take only the Christians.
Oh, God.
An idea that President Obama has said is shameful.
Is this really surprising?
This almost exactly matches up a poll in January 1939 of whether or not to admit 10,000 mostly Jewish children into the U.S. And it was, again, two to one saying, no, we shouldn't.
And in retrospect, we clearly acknowledge that was a shameful period in American history.
So everyone who is for that legislation or wants to have a conversation...
They hate Jews.
Hitler!
Clearly, Nazi Jew haters.
Yeah.
Oh, it's fabulous.
Yeah, when I saw that come out, and everyone played it as a meme.
It was like, you know, all the liberal media played the same stupid meme.
It's an eye roller.
Well, something interesting is happening.
We're seeing more and more people point towards the financiers of a lot of terror, which, of course, is Saudi Arabia, Qatar.
We now have reports coming out in mainstream news.
It's OK.
It's your own news.
But Saudi Arabia has the largest number of ISIL supporters on Twitter.
How about that metric?
Huh?
I mean, could Twitter use that in their financial in their quarterly call?
Hey, everybody.
Great cue.
Yeah, it was really great.
Yeah, hey, thanks for calling in.
Yes, well, one of our metrics, our new metrics, is now a number of ISIL supporters who have accounts, and we're way above everybody else.
We are kicking Facebook's ass.
They could, yeah.
That'd be a great metric.
It could.
But now, of all people, to hear Hillary Clinton go after the Saudis and their financing of terror, that...
Oh, you know why?
Tell me why.
To gouge them for more money, of course.
She was at the Council on Foreign Relations.
She gouged, that Clinton Foundation, they have probably close to a billion dollars and maybe more, I could be wrong, in Saudi money.
So I think what she did here...
Apparently didn't pay their quarterlies.
Right.
I think what she did here is she chose CFR specifically because it gets a lot less press and they don't have a bunch of people going crazy for Hillary.
It doesn't have the backdrop that the press likes to pull a quote from.
So here's less than a minute, but very clear.
She's saying these guys are problem.
And as the no agenda thinking goes, they're probably going to have to pony up to the Clinton Foundation to get her to stop.
Ultimately, our efforts will only succeed if the Arabs and Turks step up in a much bigger way.
This is their fight, and they need to act like it.
So far, however, Turkey has been more focused on the Kurds than on countering ISIS. And once and for all, the Saudis, the Qataris, and others need to stop...
The Qataris?
But she said gutteries.
Isn't it Qataris?
Yeah.
She said gutteries.
Saudis, the gutteries, and others.
These must be high.
Need to stop their citizens from directly funding extremist organizations, as well as the schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path to radicalization.
I want to stop there for a second.
That's going to change.
Well, yet another article in USA Today, who seemed to be the only outfit really reporting on this, about the Gulen movement funding free trips to Turkey for lawmakers all over the U.S., but certainly the state of Texas.
Including that woman or friend.
Yeah, Barbara Jackson Lee.
Jackson Lee.
USA Today has identified dozens of large campaign donations now attributed to people with modest incomes or from people who had little knowledge of to whom they had given or from people who could not be located at all.
All the donors appeared to have ties to a Turkish religious movement named for its founder, Fethullah Gulen.
Not like they'd report that he's in Pennsylvania at the CIA's bequest.
Well, the little details they leave out, you know, what are you going to do?
So, top of the list here is Senator Kelly Ayotte, who at one point we thought might be a candidate for a presidential run, but she can't talk.
She's an idiot.
She's the nervous one.
I never thought she was ever going to run for president, personally.
Of some of the 19 Turkish-Americans donating to Ayotte, all lived outside New Hampshire, seemed to know little about the first-term senator, who was a woman.
So they've tracked a couple of these people down.
Iman Cesari said, he's a good guy.
He's doing good so far.
Kelly, that's a guy's name.
Well, no, Kelly Ayotte, it's a her.
Yeah, I know, but Kelly is a guy's name.
Yeah.
So if you don't know who the hell she is, you'd think it was a guy.
And that's a 30-year-old, let's see, Nassau County employee in Long Island who gave Ayotte $1,200 to a woman he thought is a dude.
I just like what he said at the time.
Wanted to make a donation, said Hayati Kamlika, who owns a Long Island auto repair shop, who donated $2,400 to Ayotte on the same day.
Five of the Turkish Americans who donate to Ayot that day could not be located at all.
In some cases, neither could the employer listed in the Federal Commission's records.
Oh, man.
I hope someone really lied.
Where's Greg Greenwald on this?
Someone needs to really dive into this stuff.
So all of these campaign donations coming from Turkey.
These guys are evil.
Well, that could also be all...
That could also be a setup, because they're out to get her.
Aote, right?
Aote, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
And this could be dirty tricks.
Hillary has 20 seconds left.
And USA Today is not really, and like you said, they don't bother mentioning that it's a CIA compound.
He's staying in Pennsylvania.
None of that.
That's not mentioned.
So this whole article may be a part of the entire dirty tricks process to besmirch Kelly Aote.
I don't know if she's standing up for Turkey or doing anything to do with that part of the world that she would be getting these donations in the first place.
Well, listen to this.
Did she get one of the trips?
That's not in this article.
If she didn't get one of the trips, then this is bullshit.
More than two dozen other candidates and lawmakers across the political spectrum received Gulen link donations, which you've only heard on the No Agenda show, pretty much, that appear questionable, including Clinton and Jeb Bush.
The movement runs more than 100 charter schools and dozens of Turkish cultural centers and intercultural dialogue, I think they should have said interfaith dialogue, groups around the country.
Employees move around among the schools, among the non-profit groups, so it's hard to keep track of those, of who is working where at any given time.
The feature of the Gulen movement has been called Strategic Ambiguity.
And it makes it impossible to trace the root source of funding for any Gulen activities.
Many teachers and administrators of the movements Harmony, Horizon, and other charter schools have provided one-time $1,000 to $2,000 contributions, amounts that are usually associated with wealthier donors.
What happens is they get much higher pay than their American counterparts, who are usually very young, fresh, new teachers.
And what I believe is happening is they take that money and then they recycle that They're supposed to donate X amount to whatever they're told to do.
Right, you just get paid more, but that more you get paid has to go.
It has to go to whoever is designated.
Yeah.
This is a scandal of epic proportions.
Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Well, Killing Ed is the movie.
That's Mark Hall's movie.
Killing Ed.
KillingEdFilm.com.
Look it up.
He's documenting this.
It's just the beginning.
Just the beginning.
Here's 20 more seconds of Hillary.
And I think that the Saudis have a multiple level of responsibilities.
First and foremost, stopping their own citizens from continuing the financing for extremists.
And, you know, Saudi financing is still a major source of revenue for terrorist groups inside Syria, inside Iran.
Hello?
Hello, hello, hello.
Is this Hillary Clinton campaign?
Yeah.
What is she talking about?
You know, that was just a mistake.
You know, what happens is that she gets a report.
She's a very emotional woman.
You've got to be careful.
I know she's very emotional.
She has a bump.
She got the morning report.
She got the morning briefing.
And apparently, there was something like a fall-off in donations from you guys that was like...
What are you talking?
Well, you're down like a quarter of a million dollars.
No, I'm sorry, $250 million.
You're down a quarter of a billion dollars on your yearly.
Where are my spreadsheets?
She thinks that you are abandoning her.
That's all.
I mean, she just blew up.
It's just the way it goes.
I mean, I don't know why.
Have you just given up?
You're not going to give us any more.
Give me Bill.
Give me Bill.
Bill understand much better.
Bill is not here.
Give me Bill.
Bill is in the isolation chamber.
He's in the de-aging chamber.
He's in the hyperbaric chamber.
He can't be removed for this day.
I wonder if she gets the call or he does.
Bill probably takes it.
I bet he does.
Hey, listen.
I think.
I think you guys are a little behind.
So, since we're talking about financing, I do want to play this clip and get it out of the way.
Now, this is a clip from the Thursday show, the November 19th show.
And I'm going to check your team if you can look it up.
The clip is called Hawala, H-A-W-A-L-A. Hawala, H-A-W-A-L-A.
We are going to the system.
Yes, play it now.
Now, let me set it up.
This is one of the financing systems that is used in the Arab and Muslim world.
Oh yeah, the Hawaii.
Okay, yes, I recognize it now.
And this is a report where they're using it in India and it gets everybody all pissed off.
Apart from the cyber fight against IS, governments are also trying to cripple its finances.
A hard task.
It's the richest terrorist group in the world, and it uses an ancient payment system known as Havala.
It's illegal in many countries, but actually widespread.
Here's just one example of how it works in everyday business.
Being a real estate agent opens doors to new heights, but it also puts Akash Agarwal in a precarious position.
His customers prefer using Hawala, which is illegal in India.
The buyers use a network of money brokers without actually moving the cash, and because it doesn't go through the regular channels, the payments dodge taxes, leaving governments out of pocket, the equivalent of billions of euros in lost revenue.
Rather than transferring the funds directly, the Hawala system uses middlemen.
A buyer gives the money to a local Hawala broker, who then contacts another middleman close to the seller.
This second contact then pays the seller directly.
The transfer is quick and there's no record.
The system is widely used in Muslim countries.
In some nations, many poor people rely on Hawala because it's often cheaper and more reliable than traditional banks.
So many don't see anything wrong with it.
How can people say this is illegal?
It helps and supports poor people.
Minimal costs bring maximum efficiency.
Since the system is opaque, it also provides a way to mask money transfers to fund criminal activities and it is also used by terrorist groups to move money around.
I don't understand.
Why don't these guys use Bitcoin?
Sorry, was that your punchline?
Why don't they use Bitcoin?
That sounds like Bitcoin to me.
I think this is going to happen.
Bitcoin is going to...
Well, we'll see.
We're going to see what the blockchain, what it's really made of.
Because they're going after it.
Because this, you watch, this will be the, oh, they finance it through Bitcoin.
If you have some kind of Bitcoin traffic running on your machine, ooh, we may have to, I don't know, it's not good.
Not good.
Yeah, we have now the Reuters talking about some of the ISIS technology that's being used, and of course they're going back to the well on Telegram.
They push Telegram as though it's owned by the CIA. I think that that may be the point.
I mean, they are really pushing Telegram.
Oh, and then they use Telegram.
They're all using Telegram.
I think they want...
We went to Telegram for some reason or other just to play with it.
We immediately got...
We were talking about it.
We immediately got, uh-uh, do not use Telegram.
Bruce Schneier, Schneier, Schneier, Schneier, Schneier.
Bruce, the security guy?
Bruce the Goose, yeah.
Bruce the Goose.
He said it's not safe.
Use Signal.
He said Signal, but not Telegram.
Let's just listen to the report, because you're right.
I think they want them to use this.
And they want everybody to use this.
Please use this, because we can get in.
Mobile messaging app Telegram is racing to shut down broadcast channels used by the militants.
The Berlin-based company says it's closed 78 IS-related channels in 12 languages on its site.
Interesting.
I didn't realize it was a Berlin company.
That adds an interesting twist.
That makes it worse.
That adds an interesting twist for international relations.
Comey, what are you going to do with that?
Of course, it's BND that's sitting on the inside of this app.
But the group continues to create more.
Security researchers say the encrypted service is being used to spread propaganda and recruit members.
It was also the way IS claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks last Friday.
Yeah, and they show this message which doesn't say we take responsibility because we know the person who took responsibility was Rita Katz with her own version of a Twitter message.
I don't think she had anything about Telegram.
I wish they could get their reporting straight.
Telegram says it's making efforts to block public channels used by Islamic State but wants to protect freedom of expression.
The service is used very widely around the world, often by people who have something they fear from their government, political dissidents.
Oh, podcasters.
Telegram wants to keep those channels open for those people.
Islamic State is exploiting that, and Telegram is finding it hard to strike a balance between those two audiences.
Yeah, audiences.
I think we need to keep our eye on Telegram.
I didn't realize that was a German company.
Well, it could be the German intelligence group working with us.
Could be.
You don't know.
Could be.
But it's...
I don't...
I wouldn't...
I'd be scared.
I'd be careful.
Play this one, too, because this might as well get this stuff out of the way about ISIL financing.
This is another old one.
This will be looked up under D, capital D, capital W, interesting report.
Hold on.
Interesting report about ISIL financing?
Yes.
Okay.
Moving on to one of our other top stories, IS militants claimed responsibility for the Friday the 13th attacks in Paris.
In response, world leaders have said they want to fight Islamic State not just with military force but also on a financial level.
It's an extremely tricky situation given what Russian President Vladimir Putin told the group of 20 leading economies yesterday, or rather what he didn't say, without disclosing names.
He said funding for IS comes from sources in about 40 countries including several members of the G20. The militants also generate their own cash, but then they have to buy all their equipment from someone.
Kurdish troops captured these weapons and vehicles belonging to the Islamic State.
IS apparently acquired American and Japanese pickup trucks the old-fashioned way by paying for them in cash.
An estimated 40% of...
What do you mean the old-fashioned way?
What happened to 0% APR and $2,000 cash back?
They might get a gun.
Hey!
Hey!
Win my cash back!
Win my cash back!
I was 0% APR! Win my cash back!
...
belonging to the Islamic State.
IS apparently acquired American and Japanese pickup trucks the old-fashioned way by paying for them in cash.
An estimated 40% of the money comes from oil and gas fields captured by IS. This propaganda video shows the takeover of a natural gas plant in Syria.
IS is said to earn some $1 million a day selling oil.
The G20 wants to cut off this source of revenue.
I have a question.
Have we really checked that $1 million a day in oil?
Have you done any research on that?
Yes.
Is that accurate, the one million a day?
It's close to accurate, yes.
But the oil passes through middlemen and other countries, and it's hard to track.
Oh, really?
Where's this report from?
DW. Deutsche Welle?
So it's hard to track?
It's hard to track the...
They can't track anything, let's face it.
The trucks driving through the desert?
Well, they bomb them now, but it's not the same.
Experts suspect even...
By the way, just to stop this for a second, it was interesting that there was a report recently and it had the guys yakking about something and in the back they had one of the trucks...
But it was obviously a brand new Mitsubishi.
And they had Mitsubishi painted across the back in very bright red letters.
We're good, too.
We have trucks, too.
We have trucks and really good trucks are Mitsubishis.
Oil passes through middlemen and other countries and is hard to track.
Experts suspect even G20 member Turkey might be a buyer.
Oh!
A buyer!
In addition, IS has formed a kind of state within a state in Syria and Iraq.
It has created its own currency and even collects taxes.
So the Islamic State imposes roughly a 20% tax on all economic activity.
Now that includes everything from agriculture to electricity production, mobile phone networks, internet.
So cracking down on that would be very difficult.
And if you did, it's likely to have a very significant impact on the local population, which might actually be counterproductive.
Locals who live near archaeological sites under IS control help sell those looted artifacts that aren't destroyed, another source of revenue for the Islamic State.
But money also arrives from Europe in the form of donations from radical Muslim supporters.
Western intelligence sources say that until recently, funding had been coming for years from countries such as Qatar and even Saudi Arabia, which is also a G20 member.
Private donations are believed to continue, but now the G20 wants to end all outside financing.
Find and freeze IS accounts around the world.
Huh.
They can't with the system they have.
These guys are quadruple dipping.
They're stealing the oil money.
They're getting as much as they can.
They're taxing the public.
They've set up cell phone operations and they're overcharging.
They're just rolling and dough.
This is a money-making...
This is just like you set up shop...
You can pull this off.
You steal everything.
You take the artifacts, you sell them.
And all the Western buyers, there's nobody.
What can I get this?
Oh, this is much, this tapestry is much cheaper than you'll get anywhere else.
Best price.
Best price.
So best price.
So these guys are just raping the public.
They're raping the people.
They're stealing everything they can.
They've already robbed the banks.
This is a criminal organization, the likes of which we've never seen.
Which is probably why it's run by the Pentagon and the CIA. It's astonishing.
It's very good.
Well, what is interesting to me, if we look at the European side right now, is Belgium.
And by the way, this is the only news outlet who will correctly pronounce the word Molenbeek.
That is how you pronounce the town.
Molenbeek?
Molenbeek.
Exactly.
Yeah, Molenbeek.
Yeah, but what do we hear?
Molenbeek.
Molenbeek.
In the town of Molenbeek.
No, Molenbeek.
Take a little time to learn how to pronounce it.
And, of course, I lived in Belgium, although I lived in Antwerp, but I certainly have been to Brussels.
I've been to Molenbeek, actually.
And we've known, well, they didn't have a government for, what, five years?
How long were those guys without a government?
Remember that?
Molenbeek didn't seem to make a difference.
Well, the difference is, now you have Brussels.
This is where the EU sits.
This is the capital of the EU. Right.
And all this crap is going down in their backyard.
What is going on in Brussels?
Well, we're still stuck indoors.
Brussels remains on lockdown as the hunt continues for a fugitive suspect of the Paris attacks who remains at large.
The streets in the normally bustling Belgian capital are eerily quiet.
Brussels and its region have been placed on the maximum level of security alert.
The alarm was raised when intelligence suggested a heavily armed Salah Abdel Slam had returned to the city following the attacks a week ago.
The 26-year-old is believed to be hiding in the area.
I mean, at this point, don't you almost just think that the EU and everyone, all the diplomats who were there, the whole infrastructure, maybe ISIS is working for those guys.
How can you have all this happening right in the EU command central backyard?
It's ludicrous.
It really is.
It's insane how this can take place.
The borders closing is something that will probably have to happen, or maybe I should look at it the other way.
The European Union Open Borders Project, the Schengen area, which is now going to be drastically reduced and perhaps closed down altogether, resulted in something that you could have kind of expected if you had your head on straight.
And we're thinking before we came up with this grand project of it's all going to be beautiful, all these cultures, and if the borders are open, well, then stuff happens like this.
Military-grade arms have flooded into the country, almost impossible to keep track of.
It is very difficult to have a real...
This is Paris, a Paris counterintelligence expert.
There are thousands of arms flowing again from the Balkans, from Eastern Europe, because of the porous borders also that exist in those countries.
After their shooting spree, most of the attackers blew themselves up using suicide belts, all of them identically manufactured.
A clue, the expert says, that the devices were made abroad.
These beds were made by a professional, and we know by experience that we don't have such a person here in France.
So obviously it came from abroad.
That's interesting.
We don't have a person that can do that in France, so they know that.
That's odd.
Jean-Paul Ney has researched extremist groups in France and says almost all of them sourced their weapons from Belgium for a simple reason.
French criminal gangs won't sell rifles to jihadists.
This guy's pretty funny.
He's like a gangster who has some legit business consulting, but he talks completely like a gangster and is in the weapons trade.
They don't want to have a problem with the counter-terrorist police, you know?
Because if you start to have the highs of the counter-terrorist police on your business, it's over for you.
The French jihadists get the weapons from Belgium because in Belgium it's different than France.
There is no walls, concrete walls, between criminality and jihadism.
I like that, that the French...
Armed smugglers have a sense of morality.
We don't do that for jihadis, man.
But in Belgium, the criminals and the jihadis are all the same.
It's all the same thing.
Something else that we had picked up immediately, that there was yet again, with one of these big events, there was a drill going on, and it was a drill for exactly this, and I put in the show notes a compilation of the director of the, I think it was the SAMU, or it's kind of like the hospital and emergency services director, and he was on every French talk show, it's all subtitled.
Where he's saying, you know, wow, it was so great, this coincidence, that we had just done a drill that very morning, so we were all ready, we knew what to do.
And you can hear these news broadcasters and interviewers going, wow, how lucky are you guys?
Kind of the opposite of the no agenda thinking.
Yeah.
And just to prove that that really...
It was a coincidence, I think not.
BBC Radio 4 had a guy on, I don't know if it was the director, but he adds a little twist to the fortunateness of having this drill.
Dr.
Pellew thinks that he and his team saved perhaps 50 lives on Friday night.
Perhaps in part, and this is extraordinary, because he was preparing for what happened only a few hours before the attacks began.
We work through a scenario of an attack.
We know since Charlie Hebdo and the Perkashers, they take Kalashnikov and they kill everybody, like in Call of Duty, you know, the game, stupid game.
So, in the morning, we have this exercise.
So, exactly what happened.
Yes, yes.
On the very same day.
Yes, yes, fantastic.
And he's bringing up Call of Duty?
For a doctor, that was interesting.
It was just like Call of Duty.
That is interesting.
We need to keep our eye on that.
And then the biggest lie...
Let's put the simulators to work to train people.
So when that real deal happens, you actually have some built-in way of responding that's accurate.
I liked his...
I like his comment, though.
Stupid game.
Stupid game.
Why?
Why is it a stupid game?
Well, you play it if it's a stupid game.
Anyway, we don't need to be worried about suicide vests or Kalashnikovs anymore.
No, we're ratcheting it up one more notch.
After the carnage of the Paris terror attacks, French authorities fear in the future terrorists could go even further, possibly launching chemical attacks.
Yes!
While the possibility appears remote, the government is ordering first responders...
It's remote, but yes.
But yet still, we're going to bring it up and scare you all, and the French government is getting ready for it.
Be prepared.
At this hospital near Versailles, Dr.
François Grandin is upgrading the atropine stock, an antiserum for nerve gas.
Atropine.
I looked this up.
Yeah.
This atropine.
Are you familiar with atropine?
Oh, yeah.
It's not really like an antidote or anything for chemical warfare.
It just jerks up your system and pushes off the toxin.
Yeah, it does two things.
What I understand from it, it decreases...
Well, first, it amps up your...
It inhibits the parasympathetic nervous system.
I guess it affects your nerve system somehow, so that it won't propagate any nerve gas, and it slows your heart rate.
I think you become like a zombie.
Yeah, a zombie!
Before, we had a civilian dosage, he says, but from now on, we will use military-grade atropine.
It's more concentrated and easier to use in case of such an attack.
Atropine is used, for instance, in cases of sarin poisoning.
Sarin gas was used in a massive attack in Syria's capital, Damascus, in 2013, killing around 1,400 people, according to the State Department.
Yeah, and of course we know who really did that.
It was the rebels.
That gas attack.
Or do we follow the narrative that that was Assad's gas?
Because that's what...
You can't have it both ways.
You can't say...
Well, they keep...
You know, we can give up.
I mean, it's been proven that those rockets were not Assad rockets by academia, by investigators and everybody in between.
But we cannot resist...
Because the phony narrative that's used to embarrass Obama because of the red line that crossed, whatever.
We keep hearing this crap, the same thing over and over from every official.
The gas attack, the gas attack.
And we can't resist it because there's just too much of it.
There's how many people are...
It's like the global warming thing.
It's like you just keep being hounded and hounded.
You just can't do much about it, even though there's more resistance with that.
I noticed a couple of cool things that happened recently about global warming and some of the fudging the numbers again.
These guys can't resist doing that.
We're going to talk about that.
But, you know, it's hopeless.
These guys are in control.
And again, we have the story ramping up about, what is that drug, capetamine, it's like an amphetamine, that the fighters like, that they need in order to...
Oh, yes, cap is something.
Captagon?
Captagon.
Captagon.
I never looked up what's in that stuff.
It sounds like an amphetamine to me.
Yeah, I think it's Adderall.
It's Jihadi Adderall.
Jihadi Adderall.
Captagon, let's see.
Which is just amphetamines.
Captagon, ISIS favorite amphetamine.
This is from Vox, so you knew that it's true.
Let's see, what is it called?
Well, everyone's talking about this now.
Captagon.
It's mostly a run-of-the-mill amphetamine.
There you go.
I thought it was phenethylene.
You know, that phenethylene.
Phenethylene, or whatever it's called.
Also called phen-phen.
You know that pharmaceuticals is your beat.
But yes, phenethylene.
Also spelled with a P-H, or with an F, known as amphetamineotheloplicantempateleline.
Chemical linkage of amphetamine and theopoline, which behaves as a pro-drug to both the aforementioned drugs.
It's a hamburger helper.
It's an amper, yeah.
Isis hamburger helper!
It's an amper for the fen-fen.
But I had to think of this when I heard Trey Gowdy railing, because I don't like Trey Gowdy anymore.
He's become annoying.
I think he's a stooge for the other side.
He may be.
And he had this rant and just caught this.
Actually, one of our producers caught this for me.
Terrorists took the lives of over 100 innocent people in France and injured many more for no other reason than the fact that they could.
They killed a hundred because they couldn't kill a thousand.
And their objective is evil for the sake of evil.
It is murder for the sake of murder.
It is wanton and willful violence, premeditated depravity.
Oh!
Premedicated?
Did he say premedicated?
Listen to him.
Premedicated depravity.
You said premedicated, premeditated.
How do you have premeditated depravity?
You're either depraved or you're not.
Because he's thinking about it.
Because the truth wants to come out.
And medicated, of course.
We've got to look into this Captagon.
Maybe it makes you all jihadi.
Well, that's what I've heard claimed on certain radio talk shows.
I'm willing to try if we can get some.
Does anyone have any?
It's Fen-Fen.
The internet sells it.
Fen-Fen?
Yeah, it's what it's called.
Before I stopped getting spam, I used to get this.
Just Google here.
Fen-Fen?
Yeah, P-H-E-N-P-H-E-N. Fen-Fen.
Okay.
Or no, F-E-N-F-E-N. Well, you can get it.
Yeah, oh.
F-E-N-F-E-N. Here, FEN-FEN, F-E-N-P-H-E-N, Safety Update Drug Information.
So you can just buy this over the counter?
That seems unlikely.
No, you can't really get it over the counter, but you can get it.
Well, does anybody have some?
I'm willing to take one for the team.
Well, you can probably take ten.
Well, it seems like those guys are taking ten.
They're just down in these things and running around.
Well, what if this was a drug that really did something?
What if it's been engineered?
Yeah, maybe you could turn jihadi.
That would make this show interesting.
Yeah.
All right.
Send it to the P.O. Box.
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.
Before you take this stuff, make sure you check because I think it blows out your kidneys.
I think it blows out your kidneys, which is nothing you really want to do.
I have two of them.
Yeah.
I said blows out your kidneys, plural.
Not one dose.
Jeremiah Tribal.
Tribal or tribal?
Tribal.
Are you referring to a suicide vest?
Once you take it, then your kidneys get blown out.
$101.01 from Longview, Texas.
He, uh...
We'll put these at the end.
The two to the head and the head has gone juice thing.
Okay, I'll put it in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andela, wow.
Water technique.
Well, water technique.
Andela water technique.
Water Technique BV. Yeah, that's something from Holland, isn't it?
Looks like it, yeah.
Water Technique.
$100.
Okay.
Baronetis Janice Kang, $77.78.
Which he calls Lucky Sevens Plus One from the Baronetis.
Thank you.
Sevens Plus One.
Thank you, darling.
Sir D.H. Slammer, the Baron of Central California.
77-77.
Ryan Martinez in Centennial, Colorado.
77-70.
John Helmer in Shawnee, Kansas.
77-70.
These would be some nice 77-70 people.
Justin Holt in Mountain View, California.
Kerr Graham Stanton in Point Cook, Victoria, Australia.
Scott Knyswander in Waterville, Ohio.
Joel Daroon.
In Bakersfield, California.
Sir Doug Dodge of the Channel Islands.
Uxnard, California.
John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
That's where our buddy Patrick Coble lives.
Sean Fincham in Modesto, California.
LDTeachers.net in Suwanee, Georgia.
Kevin Predick.
Predick.
Predick or Predick?
Predick.
Predick is White Sam in Washington.
7770.
Daniel Tortorello in...
Parts unknown.
Anonymous in Columbia, British Columbia.
77 to 66.
That ends our little group there of 77 and 70s.
Kevin Dills, 6432 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It's a long note there.
Why don't you read it so there's anything in it?
Jason Pleat.
I think that's Sir Kevin Dills, by the way.
Jason Pleat in Millador, Wisconsin, 55-55.
Caitlin Williams in Seven Springs, North Carolina, 55-55.
Henry Barta in Winfield, Illinois, 53-80.
Vail Pili in Boulder, California.
Vali Pili.
Vali Pili.
Oh, there it is.
Vali Pili.
That's the first donation from his new job.
Congratulations.
It's a big donation.
52.
Hey, man.
5280.
Is that the right number?
Hey, man.
Pass the fin fin.
Adrian Bollinger in Falls Church, Virginia.
50.
These are all $50 donors.
He's a first-time donor.
He would like to be de-douched.
You've been de-douched.
Oh, this is our No Agenda Jingles app producer.
Oh, good.
Excellent.
Thank you very much.
The rest of these are all 50 bucks to finish this off.
Andrew Martin in Torella, New South Wales.
Patrick Mackom, Sir Patrick Mackom, I believe, in New York City.
Brendan Menk in Tempe, Arizona.
Jason Daniels in Parts Unknown.
Carl Dietrich, Lakeville, Florida.
Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
Aaron Checkrin in Innisfal, Florida.
Alberta, I guess.
Some place in Canada, whatever AA is.
It has to be Alberta.
Justin Geiger in Frankfort, Kentucky, which I've been through.
Aaron Lewis in Henderson, Nevada.
Steve Winslow in Bristol, Avon, UK. Sir Mark Tanner up down there in Whittier, California, donates a lot.
Is that his second donation today?
He does twice a month.
50 bucks twice a month.
Great guy.
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Can people still donate?
Yes, of course, you can still donate for that show.
We always admire that, and everyone who donates will get pushed to show 777, where we hopefully will have a large donation segment, although you never know.
But we would like people, of course, to support the shows when we do these special shows like 777, which is 6.5.
And you're going to like it.
You're going to like it, I guarantee.
It's very, very funny.
I want to thank everyone who came in under $50.
We have a number of them who come in for reasons of anonymity.
Of course, people on the subscriptions.
Let's see what we have.
We have 3333s.
We got 1212s, 1111s.
Of course, a lot of people with $7.77.
They will also be listed on the Mile High Club?
No, they wouldn't be listed.
Why would they?
Isn't 777 a Mile High Club donation?
No, the Mile High Club donation is the altitude, 5280.
But I thought we were doing it for every Boeing version there was.
Yeah, we are.
The 787 is where it ends.
Oh, duh, of course.
787 is where it ends.
All right.
Wow, it's going to be a great website with all those names.
Yeah, it's going to be fantastic.
The things we dream up, John.
Yes, well, it's all for the cause.
It is indeed all for the cause.
And everybody appreciates it.
We have a lot of supporters that we really like to thank for keeping this show.
I mean, the show is produced by the supporters, all the people that help us out on these donations.
We don't do anything else.
We don't double dip.
We don't advertise and then ask for money.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, you see, you either...
So you ask for money, you're still compromised.
We ask for money because we don't want to be compromised under any circumstances about anything, so we can't take advertising.
We do have people complain about this.
Oh, you're advertising all these people.
It's the same thing.
No, it's not.
No, I don't have to meet with them.
Having General Electric advertising is not the same as mentioning, you know, Justin Geiger in Frankfurt, Kentucky.
It's not the same.
And it's always nice to see that this model is catching on.
We have, what is it, Tom Merritt always thanks us.
Which is really a thanks to our producers.
He's always thinking that he switched to our type of model.
Not entirely exactly the same, but he's always promoting us.
That's cool.
Jen Briney is something closer to what we do.
That's right.
We have an entire army, John.
Two.
We've got an army of two.
Be on the lookout.
We're coming to kick your ass.
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Let me see.
I didn't know much about this.
I'm still unsure exactly how this happened or what happened.
And I think I just need some historical perspective.
Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a phone conversation with Jonathan Pollard's wife, Esther.
His office released a statement with the contents of that conversation saying he told her after decades of endless efforts, Jonathan Pollard will be released from prison.
Throughout the duration of the arrest, I kept bringing up to the American administration the release of Pollard.
We now wait to see Jonathan Pollard's release.
Israeli officials I've been speaking to say they hope that once Pollard is released in November, he'll immediately be able to fly it to Israel.
Under the terms of his parole, he'd have to stay in the States for five years.
They hope President Obama will grant him clemency.
Okay, so this guy was arrested 30 years ago as a spy.
He was selling a U.S., was it Department of Defense?
He was selling American secrets.
Yeah, to the Israelis.
Right.
And so two things.
One, why is he now free?
Two, why will he be allowed to just walk out of the country even though he's supposed to stay for five years?
One, why was he released?
What happened?
I think he had a...
It wasn't a life sentence for what he did.
Oh, I thought this was...
30 years in jail seems like enough time to get out.
Oh, he just got out because it's time?
It was just time to get out?
I think so, yeah.
I thought there was some kind of deal that he was let out early.
No, if there was a deal that had been a swap or something.
But we don't...
Israelis, we don't really do that.
The guy was punished for being a spy.
You can't do that.
You can't spy for anybody.
You can't spy for Britain.
You can't spy for our allies.
You can't spy for the Israelis.
What is the sentence, typically?
Is there a mandatory sentence?
Not that I know of.
Or espionage?
Let me see.
There must be some guy.
Maybe it's 30 years.
I don't know.
I just found it interesting.
It's a pretty long sentence for most things.
I just thought it interesting.
The guy just pops up all of a sudden.
Yeah.
The reason he popped up is because he made a big stink.
You know, he looks just like that guy we were talking.
He looks like Randy Quaid.
That's what I was saying.
He looks just like Randy Quaid.
When I first saw him, I said, what, Randy Quaid's out of jail?
Free Randy!
And then the guy's grousing.
That's what got him all the attention.
He thinks the whole thing is bullcrap.
So it might be.
I mean, you don't know.
We haven't looked into it at all.
It's old, you know, okay, now what are you going to do about it?
He does look just like Randy Quaid.
Holy crap.
He's got the beard.
Yeah.
I always find that peculiar.
But anyway, so Netanyahu is saying, well, you know, every time I went there, I had this conversation.
Get this guy out.
Get this guy out.
Now he's free.
It just seems like it is a deal.
That's why I bring it up.
I don't understand why he was let out.
Just because he's grousing?
No, he's grousing once he got out.
He wasn't grousing so much inside.
Hmm.
I don't know.
You want to look into it.
I do.
I thought that there was some kind of backroom deal.
I don't think so.
No?
Okay.
All right.
Especially with the Obama administration.
I don't see him doing that.
He doesn't like Netanyahu.
I don't think he likes Jews.
Who?
Obama?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
No, he's a Muslim.
Yeah.
Could be.
Could be.
You never know.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
Ah, you had a spectacular newsletter, John, which highlighted some documents and information that also had come across my desk with more phony baloney doctoring of the numbers.
Do you want to summarize?
Yes, apparently NOAA, the Atmospheric Administration, the National Oceanographic Organization of A-Holes.
That's it.
And they've been doctoring the numbers to make the global warming thing work.
I mean, the NASA people have been kind of doing the same thing, and they're just feeding us all a bunch of crap.
But the thing that I got was this quote from this woman who is the head of the U.N. climate operation.
Oh, Figuera, her name is?
Figuera.
Oh, she's scary, man.
She's scary looking, and she came out, and you look at the newsletter, there's a link to her quotes and a picture of her.
You did a total Trump picture of her.
You picked the scariest picture.
That's the picture.
The scariest picture.
I didn't do anything.
Nothing is the only picture I could find.
That's great.
I mean, if I wanted to have some fun, I could have gone into Photoshop and I could have, you know...
No, no, this was good.
She looks like an evil person.
She does.
She looks totally evil.
She might have pointy ears even.
She didn't quite say it directly, but it was implied that she wants to end capitalism because that's what's causing the problem.
And we have to end capitalism.
I'm paraphrasing to an extreme.
To end capitalism, you've got to find any mechanism you can, and in this case, global warming, which people seem to think is like a religion, you can create this group of people that all want to, you know, the only way it can really end global warming and climate change is to change from a petroleum-based worldwide economy, which is what we're running on, it's And just destroy that.
You destroy capitalism.
We have to find new mechanisms.
And that would mean a new economic system.
Which is what she said.
Changing the economic system.
And this is crazy.
And anyone who did.
Why this wasn't.
This happened in.
She made this commentary in February.
Nobody picked up on it.
In fact, they finally got around to it just a few weeks ago.
Or they just got around to it.
I guess they got around to it early, but nobody else did in the investor's business daily.
And I found it was frightening, unless it's a hoax, and I don't think so.
No, this is the point.
This is why the Pope is all in on.
There's your socialist Pope.
Right.
Yeah, no, this is a revolutionary...
This is a backdoor revolution to overthrow the world's leading economic system.
This is the only one that seems to work.
And who do you believe is leading this?
Al Gore.
Even Al Gore has an Uber.
This would be the elites.
This would be your internationalists, the people that want one world order.
They're all in on this because it's great.
And they can discuss it openly.
That's why that picture of her that's in the newsletter was taken at Davos, where she speaks all the time.
She goes to Davos.
That's what she does, yeah.
It's a big international economic summit where everybody goes and they tell everyone what they want to do.
And Gates is there, but it's all internationalists.
They all want one world order because look what happens when we don't have it.
We have all this crazy stuff going on.
We just need one government.
And of course, this doesn't, you know, it just doesn't, you can't get there from here.
And normal people that don't fall for the bullcrap Which is a lot of people that fall for the bull crap, you know, the global warming information, which makes no logical sense when you start really looking into it.
But they want to, you know, shut down everything.
And I had a guy, in fact, when I met with a friend of mine at this trade show I went to, he's a no-agenda listener.
He says, don't you think it would be better if we didn't have all these oil drills and we all went to wind power and all this bull crap?
And I said...
I don't care.
Maybe it would be better, but it's beside the point.
We are an international petroleum economy that relies on this product.
And what is it really?
Transportation is only, what, 30% of the use?
I don't even know if it's that much.
With the plastic bottles we drink from, the eyeglasses we wear, the paint we use.
The iPhones, the paint we use to paint our houses.
Ikea.
Building materials, boxes, coat hangers.
Pharmaceuticals.
Pharmaceuticals, a lot of them come from petroleum-based.
It's just outrageous.
And you can't do it.
The only thing I'm worried about is just with life imitating art, if you go back to The State of Fear, Michael Crichton's book.
Right, which outlines the whole mechanism we're dealing with.
And of course he died shortly thereafter.
Coincidence?
The thing I'm a little concerned about is that, you know, so we have, of course, we have climate justice, which is what we all need.
That's what this is about.
Climate justice for the poor countries who are screwed over by the rich countries.
Right.
In fact, let's play, just so we keep up with the news, let's play the climate justice canceled in Paris so we can know that this is going on.
French authorities have also announced they've canceled the November 29th, March, the day before the opening of the U.N. Climate Summit, due to, quote, the heightened security situation.
As many as 200,000 people were expected to attend.
In response, French campaigner Nicolas Ehringer of 350.org said, Oh, God.
Climate justice.
There you go.
Yeah.
Climate justice is otherwise known as money.
Take money from one and give it to another.
Yes, that is.
Very socialistic, if anything is.
Which is part of the Climate Change Fund.
And the idea is, every year, to start off with, for the rich nations to send $100 billion to the poor nations.
And, of course, what we're trying to figure out, or what the elitists are trying to figure out during their...
Is it now 10 days or two weeks they're going to be in Le Bourget, which is right outside of Paris?
It's not even in Paris.
In a big convention hall.
Yeah.
And our portion of that...
It's not huge.
I think we only have a small percentage of what we would supposed to be paying, but it doesn't seem like anyone's ponying up.
Nobody but us.
Senator Inhofe.
The Chinese won't be ponying up.
They're not doing anything about anything until 2030, they say.
They hope it blows over by then, of course.
They're not stupid.
They know what's going on.
And the Indians have already said that, yeah, we can't deal with it.
Well, we're kind of saying the same, at least some of us in Senate.
Today we're especially here to discuss the potential legal form of the COP21 agreement.
I think that goes without saying, but there's been a lot of things published about is it legal, is it binding, until yesterday when we had...
In the Financial Times, Secretary Kerry announced that there would be no binding agreement from COP21. No binding agreement from COP21. And that, you know, incurred the wrath of President Hollande, of France, along with several other people.
So, but anyway, that was an honest statement because there won't be any.
So when it comes to the financing, I know that a lot of people over there, the 192 countries, I would assume that Americans are going to line up.
And joyfully pay three billion dollars to this fund, but that's not going to happen either.
I don't think so, he says.
Yeah, no, that's not going to happen.
Not going to happen.
Well, you know.
But the president is really trying.
He terrorized.
Actually, I'm going to have to say, the president acted as a terrorist, as a climate terrorist for these poor kids in Malaysia.
Oh, and Philippines, too.
He did the same thing there.
And he went around talking to refugee kids.
See, they're all cute.
They're not jihadis.
Change your marketing team.
But he, of course, went all out to scare the children of Malaysia.
First of all, I think that so many of the young people here understand why climate change is so important.
So important.
The science is very clear.
Clear!
That because of the carbon emissions that we send in...
I love how he just goes to carbon.
Not carbon dioxide.
No, it's the carbon emissions.
Carbon emissions by themselves are, I don't believe, a greenhouse gas, are they?
It's called soot.
Yeah, it's pollution.
But he's talking about carbon dioxide.
And the way they change this to carbon pollution is just unscientific.
Climate change is so important.
The science is very clear that because of the carbon emissions that we send in, mostly from the use of fossil fuels...
We send in?
Send in, yes.
Like troops.
We send in, all right, we need a battalion of carbon emissions.
Oil, gas, coal.
The temperatures worldwide, on average, are getting higher.
Higher.
And...
That begins to change weather patterns.
The oceans begin to get warmer.
That's interesting.
We are right back to climate is weather.
The ice in the Arctic.
Whatever is convenient.
Whenever it's convenient, yeah.
Well, there's also this whole, he's got this isolated, what is it, resonating effect?
Listen to it.
That begins to change weather patterns.
The oceans begin to get warmer.
The ice in the Arctic begins to melt.
It's so simple when he explains it.
And you get a feedback loop.
Oh, feedback.
That as things get warmer, that creates even more of a trend towards warming.
And if we don't stop the amount of carbon that we send out and we don't find new ways of creating energy, then you'll see the oceans rise, more extreme weather events, more drought, more extreme weather events, more drought, more flooding, bigger hurricanes, typhoons, and it could have a devastating effect on countries all around the world.
That's cool when you terrorize the Malaysian kids with typhoons.
In Paris, our hope is to get all the countries to agree that they will set targets for reducing carbon emissions.
It won't be the same for every country.
Again, carbon emissions.
I don't think they're setting carbon emissions limits.
Greenhouses.
Well, that's an interesting change in strategy.
I mean, these guys are always on the move.
They must have meetings.
Let's start using this term.
Yeah.
By the way, since we started the show, I guess it was probably, I guess, maybe it was just slack-tied or something that was going on, but whatever covered the mudflats is now gone, and that's just mudflats again.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Is that how we do mudflats?
No, the way we do mudflats is this way.
Because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
Hit it!
This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
Look out your windows, baby!
That's right, time for the mudflat update.
Climate change is upon us or not.
Here's John C. Dvorak.
Well, I'm looking out the window at the mudflats and they're still there.
Because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
Look out your window, baby.
Big favorite amongst all producers, the John C. Dvorak Mudflat Report. .
They do love it.
Michelle Obama was also on hand in Malaysia to talk to the children after the president scared them sufficiently.
Yes, here's a little one.
You come on up.
You person, right?
Look what you've done!
I'm melting!
That's right.
Sorry.
A classic.
Can't help it.
Uh...
I saw the latest Star Wars commercial, which they're doing twofers now.
We're going to have to have seen the whole movie by the time it actually comes out.
I am proud to say I've not seen a single trailer except this one commercial, which is not even a trailer.
I can't be bothered.
I don't know why.
This just shows the slave mentality.
It was all jacked up on a 30-year-old movie or a concept.
Yeah, really.
1977 is when that thing came out.
It must be a form of escapism somehow.
It's almost 40 years.
Now they've combined Star Wars with more slave material.
Look at this, huh, guy?
Hey, Dad?
Yeah.
Why do you keep all your toys in boxes?
How do you play with them?
I don't.
I collect them.
Does Mom know you keep mac and cheese in here?
Okay, this isn't for eating.
I collect these, too.
So, toys you can't play with and mac and cheese you can't eat?
This is a room of lies.
Star Wars Grab Maccarilla and Cheese.
I like the line, it's a room of lies, but what's the lie?
Oh, the lie is that it has all these Star Wars figurines and then there's mac and cheese, but you can't play with the figurines and you can't eat the mac and cheese.
Right.
Yeah, so that's the lie, I guess.
How's that a lie?
What sort of lie does it represent?
I don't know, but...
I thought the combo of mac and cheese and Star Wars was enough.
I admire what you did there, but I'm actually deconstructing the ad itself and wondering what kind of message they're trying to send.
Well, maybe we have to listen to the beginning again.
Maybe we missed something.
Look at this, huh, guy?
You dead?
Yeah.
Why do you keep buying toys in boxes?
Why do you keep buying toys in boxes?
How do you play with them?
I don't.
I collect them.
Does mom know you keep mac and cheese in here?
Okay, this isn't for eating.
I collect these too.
So toys you can't play with and mac and cheese you can't eat?
This is a room of lies.
Yeah.
I guess children...
I think this is a subtle hypnotic kind of thing.
Lies to promote consumerism.
That wouldn't be a first.
I just find it disturbing.
Either that or more of this dissonance issue where you just confuse people with, oh, it's a room of lies.
Yeah, you've been using this term, cognitive dissonance, a couple times.
I'm very concerned about it.
Ever since it came up in the conversation with somebody else in one of our clips, I've decided that that's part of the way the system works to break people down.
So we have a lot of people that donate to the show...
Not just an anonymous lesbian who I first noticed it with, but she'd always write sanity down in the little note.
But other people do it.
And some people do it on the checks that come from the bank that says sanity across the top.
There is a cognitive dissonance issue in this country with people...
You know, being told one thing and then being told another and trying to push those two things together, which logically don't make sense being pushed together.
And I think it includes the climate change issues and a lot of other things.
The Planned Parenthood thing, I think a lot of abortion, you know, abortion is, you don't, you know, it's very important that lives sanct, sacrosanct, and you can't do abortions, but let's kill everyone in the prisons.
I mean, there's this kind of, like, self-contradictory thinking that goes on, which I think is used to keep people befuddled and going along with the program, and you run into it constantly with your Obamabot reports, which everybody really loves.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because they're very entertaining, but it's all this sort of thing.
It's all this confusion, this illogic, this...
And a lot of people listen to the show because it says, well, you know, you may...
Ah, I've been...
You heard this a lot.
Ah, that's what I was thinking, but nobody confirmed it until you guys came along.
I thought this was crazy.
It didn't sound right.
Right.
And this is what is going on, and so I'm using it to point out these various versions of it, and I think this is one of them, this room of lies or whatever.
It's got nothing to do with lies.
What kind of lie are we talking about?
I don't get it.
Right.
But this, I don't think that this was created specifically for cognitive dissonance.
You don't know that.
Well, unless, and I'm not aware of this, unless marketing and advertising has some theory about cognitive dissonance, that it works better?
Or that it has a deeper impact?
I was in an ad agency doing this ad.
Alright, you want to try it?
And I would be a copywriter.
You want to try it?
I don't know if we can, but let's try it.
Alright, we have this client craft in there.
Look, we got a tie-in.
Can we do a tie-in with something?
What do we got?
We got the Star Wars tie-in is what we're going to do.
We also have mac and cheese we want to promote.
We've been promoting mac and cheese across the country, and we want to slip it in there.
Sales got to go up.
We need more mac and cheese.
So we got a couple of people that can come in on this.
We got the Star Wars guys, and then we got the mac and cheese.
It's got nothing to do with each other.
And here's what we're going to do.
We're going to create a cognitive dissonance, which is going to sell people on both these products by confusing them.
First, we're going to have these two, this guy collects, get this, play this, visualize this.
I'm visualizing.
The guy has got, he's collecting Star Wars toys.
Star Wars toys.
Which people do.
They do.
And he's collecting mac and cheese boxes.
Oh my God, that's brilliant!
You're putting our product right up there with Star Wars.
It makes zero sense.
Yes, you now associate mac and cheese with the valuable Star Wars.
High quality products.
And then to completely throw people off, you say, it's a room of lies.
Yes.
What does that mean?
Nobody knows, but they're so confused during the process that they associate the value of mac and cheese with the expensive Star Wars toys.
It's a winner.
And every single time you see a Star Wars toy, the kids are going to think mac and cheese.
Exactly.
You got it.
Do you hear Miles ridiculing my sass?
What's sass?
Sass plus ass equals sass.
And after three kids, my badge is like the Holland Tunnel.
Yeah.
Sometimes I walk around and it sounds like somebody's stirring mac and cheese.
Yeah, we'll do a couple of native ads like that.
It's a winner.
Oh, man.
And then we move from that to getting the public to eat bugs.
That'll be a great cat.
Man, and that is really cranking up.
I love that Kickstarter with the bug drawer so you can make mealworms.
Bug drawer's good.
And the new thing I saw, big story, big headline story, people being tested on an ultra-high-end hamburger made from grasshopper.
High-end.
High-end, no less.
Yeah, they're going to make it a prestige item.
They had the same meeting, these same guys had a meeting, and they were talking about, what we have to do is we have to make it look like it's elite's food.
We don't want to make it look like some poor bastard starving in the desert and he has to find some cockroaches to eat.
Yeah.
Yeah, that thing is so surprising.
Is there a cycle in the bug eating thing?
There must be a cycle.
I think this is just a gag.
Sadly, a lot of people are getting in on it.
That's because they're idiots.
Are they?
Or should we have our own line of bug food?
We're not selling bug food.
How about bug juice?
Bug juice used to be the slang term for soy sauce in my family.
Oh, bug juice in my family was like crappy Kool-Aid, like off-brand Kool-Aid.
Apparently World War II Navy.
My dad was in the Navy in World War II. They called it bug juice.
Soy sauce.
Okay.
And he would say, I remember now, this is all coming to me.
I didn't even forget about this.
At the dinner table, he'd say stuff like, pass the bug juice.
We'd all pass the soy sauce down.
That's the bug juice.
Excellent.
I've got to write that one down in my memoirs.
Oh, this will come out after the Vinegar book?
Oh, yes.
Right after the Vinegar book.
And the Depression book.
Don't forget that one.
I've got to finish these books.
Are you ever going to finish one, you think?
Yes, I'm going to.
I've got a bunch in the can.
I'm working on my book.
Okay.
It's about my life.
Oh, okay, good.
I'm going to finish it after I'm done.
Well, while we were talking about the...
I assume we're off the topic of the...
Yeah, I'm done.
I'm done.
We're back.
I just want to get this clip out of the way.
This is...
I think that Merkel's losing her...
You know, she's a coalition leader.
Yeah.
She doesn't have...
Her party doesn't own the place.
And she's kind of losing the steam.
Well, here's a report from Deutsche Welle on her talking to the CSU, which is one of her groups that she's one of the parties.
Yeah, that's her coalition partners who don't like her.
They don't like her much because of the refugee thing, but here she is.
This is a good report.
Merkel talking CSU. And in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her refugee policy before her Bavarian coalition ally, the CSU. Merkel has run into stiff opposition from the CSU to her open arms policy of welcoming migrants, including Syrian refugees, to Germany.
Hold on a second.
Was that her?
I thought something else was playing behind.
That's just her?
The variant is where most of these migrants arrive when they first arrive in Germany, and it is struggling to cope.
Merkel renewed her call to address the root causes for mass migration and to increase cooperation at an international level.
Well, earlier we spoke with our correspondent, Rupert Wiederwald, who watched Angela Merkel's speech and asked him what kind of reception the chancellor received.
Well, at first the reception was rather friendly, surprisingly friendly, I would say.
But the longer Angela Merkel's hold her speech, and the more it became clear that she was trying to move around the crucial points, especially around the controversial refugee gap the CSU has been eagerly pushing for in the last weeks, The more the tension grew during this convention here, and the more it became clear that this won't be the day of Angela Merkel.
And what was rather extraordinary in the end was that after her speech, CSU party chairman Horst Seehofer came up on stage and talked for about 15 minutes while Chancellor Merkel had to stand beside him.
And it all looked a little bit like the teacher is telling its smaller pupil how things are done properly.
And in the end, Angela Merkel left the hall with as much as no applause.
That was rather extraordinary.
Yeah.
Well, of course, that party represents mostly, I guess it's Bavaria.
Yes.
Which is where the...
Where she's from, isn't she from?
She might be, but whatever the...
I think she's from Bavaria.
But these refugees, that's their entry point.
So they're inundating this part of Germany, and it's not going over.
Right.
Because we talked about this big stream, the 8Y, as far as the eye can see, coming down the road.
It's like army ants in Africa.
Yeah.
And there's so many of these videos about the Open the Gate, there's versions of that, that I put a couple in the show notes at 776.noagendanotes.com.
It's really quite incredible to see.
Anyone I show that type of video to, they're like, oh my god, I had no idea.
I said, what do you think it was?
It's not being shown.
It's just not.
It isn't being shown.
I'm only seeing the good videos outside the U.S. newscasts.
We do the big three, ABC, NBC, CBS. They do close-up shots.
They do on the scene.
They've got a guy standing there with a microphone and a few guys straggling past.
The framing is very tight, indeed.
The framing is tight.
They don't pull back and show this line to the horizon of hundreds of thousands of people slowly trudging along the way and pooping all over the place.
That's never been addressed.
I think I'm done for now.
Unless you have any tech news...
I almost had tech news, but I think we can put that off until next Sunday.
I don't really.
Other than I got the Lima.
I got my Lima in.
You know about Lima?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, Lima was a Kickstarter idea, and it's a little, it's like a little, it's almost the size of an iPhone, like twice, like two iPhone chargers stacked together, and you plug it into your router, you plug a drive into it, any size you want, So I got a one terabyte drive.
And then that creates a cloud, your own personal cloud, for any device you have, including your phone.
Western Digital has a thing called a personal cloud.
It's a six-terabyte drive.
You plug into your main router, and then it does the same thing.
It's just a drive that does it all?
It's a drive and some software and the hardware and the drive.
It's an NAS with six terabytes, and you plug it in, and you're only...
You, for all practical purposes, only pay for the six terabytes.
You're not really paying for anything else.
So that's the same idea, except these guys, you buy the dongle for $99, which is expensive, but I understand what you're doing.
That is expensive.
And then you have to buy a drive.
But I've got to tell you, the software is not ready for prime time.
I would recommend the Western Digital.
There's your tech news.
There's your plug.
That's pretty good.
I didn't realize that was out there.
I think Seagate has something similar earlier, but Western Digital is really pushing theirs hard.
Because they're finding, like with me, I'm using the Microsoft Cloud, and the other day it just wouldn't accept files anymore.
No, we're not interested.
Cloud drive?
That's what you use.
I mean, the files are still there and they're intact, but I can't move anything to the cloud.
And I'm having to move to my regular dock file.
But since I'm running a fairly thin, my main machine is fairly thin in so far as internal hard disk space, I'm going to drop this.
I'm going to start using this six terabyte drive cloud.
And I can also back up to it from my place in Port Angeles because it's on the Internet, even though that's a dangerous cloud.
Years ago, it was considered very dangerous to use in any network-attached storage, but I think now, I think it's not so much because there's so much...
I mean, the cloud is, for all practical purposes, the same thing.
Yeah, they're trying to do something which I think the main idea is they have apps and then the app jiggers your phone so when you take a picture it's automatically also uploaded to your Lima drive.
Yeah.
But they market it more like, oh, you'll now have a terabyte on your phone.
But it's not really true.
In fact, it could not be further from the truth, quite honestly.
So I would say not necessarily a gadget we need.
But I'm still loving the Amazon Echo.
Yeah.
And despite reports coming out that...
That what?
That it's listening to you.
Duh.
Ah, cool.
Duh.
Of course it's listening to you.
Alright, I think tonight I'm going to check for Illuminati signals on the American Music Awards.
Yeah, you said to yourself, I asked you about this, and you said to yourself, that's really the Grammys where those show up.
It is, but considering today's state of affairs, maybe there'll be some messaging going on in the show tonight.
Alright, well...
So, it's my beat.
It is your beat.
All right.
We'll get to beauty contests.
So everybody remember, we have a spectacular special edition of the program on Thursday, on Thanksgiving Day, brought to us by Sir Cyber.
We'll be in there with a head and a tail and a little thing in the middle, and we'll talk a little bit for you.
But we will not actually see each other until one week from now on Sunday.
Sunday, Sunday.
And we'll be thanking everybody who supported us for both of those episodes.
Right, and have a happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
Yeah, make some yams.
You know how to do it now.
Get the yam recipe, go for it.
Coming to you from FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, just up the hill from the mudflats and swamplands, I'm John C. Devorak.
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