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	Turkey's long overdue for rebelization.
	Adam Couric, John C. Dvorak.
	And Sunday, November 29th, 2015.
	And time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 777.
	This is no agenda.
	Thankful we may continue guarding reality once again and broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State of FEMA Region 6, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I see 777 in chemtrails, I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Chemtrails.
	Really?
	Not really.
	Not really.
	No, I didn't think so.
	In fact, it's a very clear sky, surprisingly, which means it's very cold.
	Oh, it's rainy here.
	Rainy and cold.
	And cold.
	Rainy and cold.
	How cold is cold to you?
	Well, for us, it's in the 40s.
	That's cold.
	Yeah.
	That's very cold for the Texans.
	Before we start, John, I do want to make sure everyone understands.
	My name is Adam Curry.
	I'm a podcaster.
	I'm cisgendered.
	I'm white.
	I am male.
	My preferred pronoun is dude.
	You're cisgendered?
	Yeah, so are you.
	What does that even mean?
	It's what we are.
	It's who we are, who we identify as.
	Okay.
	Cisgendered.
	I think it means kind of normal.
	Cisgendered.
	I wish I could remember that phrase that one woman had.
	Normative.
	Sexual normative douchebag.
	Wasn't it gender normative?
	Gender normative douchebags.
	Genite!
	Well with that we probably should play our content trigger warning just to make sure everybody understands who is new to this broadcast.
	The following podcast contains a trigger warning that uses the word trigger.
	Some listeners who have a trigger from the word trigger may be triggered when they hear the word trigger as the word trigger triggers their trigger.
	However, as I am meant to provide a trigger warning that warns that the trigger warning contains the word trigger and trigger may trigger someone's trigger, but by doing so we have already used the word trigger in the trigger warning and the trigger in the trigger warning may be the trigger, the trigger, the trigger of the word trigger, let me put this another way.
	See?
	Now that didn't hurt a bit.
	Listener discretion is advised.
	It's the first trigger warning that doesn't cause anal leakage.
	Wait a minute!
	Can we get someone to clean this up?
	Yeah, it's leakage.
	There's always leakage.
	There's always leakage.
	People need to realize that there is a class of medication out there that actually does provide anal leakage and is often disclaimed in these side effects.
	Oh, there's plenty.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	You have all the categories there?
	No, I don't, but I can tell you this from all the number of drug ads that we've played, that about half of them have the anal leakage disclaimer.
	Yeah, they just don't always put it in the voiceover, which is a shame.
	Well, sometimes they do.
	Sometimes they put it in the script.
	They have little writings on there.
	Think of the entertainment value.
	Anal leakage is not the thing that's going to make you drop dead.
	Oh, it may not get you laid either.
	It's not good stuff.
	If you're taking any of those drugs, you're not getting laid.
	That's what the little pink pill is for.
	That thing's a big flop, you know.
	Yeah, I heard it sold almost nothing.
	Yes, in fact, pretty much what it sold.
	Almost nothing.
	It's considered they lost more money in the marketing.
	They have yet to make a profit on that thing.
	Nobody's interested.
	Really?
	Women don't need such things.
	They can just lay back and pretend.
	Oh, John!
	You know, I have to say, our Thanksgiving Day special, the No Agenda Funny, 776.5, It was a hoot even after the third time.
	Do it three times?
	Well, you, my friend, you're funny.
	I'm hilarious.
	You are.
	There's nothing like the story of you trying to pick up the girl on the motorcycle when your face is frozen.
	Yeah, that's a favorite.
	A fact.
	The No Agenda Kids is a favorite.
	There's just a lot of favorites in there.
	This is very, very good.
	Of course, not representative of the best podcast in the universe in our normal deconstructive mode, which is, I think, what we have...
	Small tidbits that just show up in the show.
	The percentage of humor in a typical no-agenda show is probably 5% max.
	Maybe less.
	Probably less.
	I'd say it's less than that.
	Yeah, 1%.
	But when we bring it...
	One funny thing in each show.
	When we bring it...
	Maybe.
	We bring it, don't we?
	Well, if you put it all together in one show, it's pretty obvious that we can have it.
	Look at that juice.
	The juice that comes out.
	My hand is dripping wet here because I have nothing but juice.
	Yeah, there's a new one.
	There's a new juice.
	That guy up to.
	There's a new juice on the horizon.
	I don't want to know that guy.
	I think somehow you got onto a trend.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	I'm telling you.
	The juice is loose, baby.
	I think it's because food is dry nowadays.
	It's wishful thinking.
	How was Thanksgiving?
	How was the food?
	You did a Heritage Bird, right?
	I did a heritage bird, a Narragansett, a 10-pound Narragansett farmed by a woman in Port Orchard or Port Gamble or some little town.
	And it was interesting because I did it the night before.
	We did our Thanksgiving, Mimi and I, on Wednesday.
	Oh, that's un-American.
	No, we also had the same meal the next day.
	That's called leftovers.
	Not the way I did it.
	It was a completely different meal.
	But it was the same.
	But what it allowed me to do was to test market or test cook the bird.
	And what I discovered, and I guess I didn't really, you know, I've been cooking these heritage birds wrong.
	That's why I didn't have a recipe because I always do it differently.
	And you really do have to follow the, if you read all the literature, and my daughter read all the literature, including stuff that I didn't read, and she sent me some, but we went back and forth.
	And it turns out that these birds cook up A lot faster than even the literature does if you cook them correctly.
	You cook them extremely high temperatures.
	You start at like 500 or 550.
	Oh, my oven doesn't even go to that.
	Well, whatever it goes to max it out.
	375.
	Throw that baby in there for about, I don't know, 45 minutes to an hour.
	It's almost done now, but pull down the temperature to like 400 to 450.
	Now, do you have to put a foil hat on it when you do this?
	Yeah, I think you would.
	Well, they want you to use oiled parchment.
	And everyone says oiled parchment, oiled parchment.
	Well, if you do it the way the instructions are, the oiled parchment catches on fire.
	And so that's what you don't want.
	It doesn't really catch on fire, but it turns into like an ash.
	It turns black.
	It's horrible.
	So the bird that was supposed to cook for two and a half hours was done in my process in hour 50.
	It was a 10-pounder.
	That's hardly a turkey, man.
	Ten-pounder.
	It's a turkey.
	It's turkey.
	The other birds are...
	There's crazy giant monsters with the big breasts that can't stand up.
	Those are freaks.
	So anyway, the 10-pounder, the heritage birds are never going to be very big, but this 10-pounder was cooked an hour 50, and then so I warned the kids, because Eric was cooking a very similar bird, almost the same, in fact, the sister of this one, and Jay was cooking a bird, and it was, I think, about 11 pounds, maybe.
	And these were sisters, you say?
	Well, the one that I had and the one that Eric had was from the same farm.
	Separated at birth.
	Good.
	Well, the heads were gone, so who knows?
	And her head is gone.
	Oh, they're very similar looking.
	So we warned everybody, and so everyone had a perfect turkey.
	Because it was like, everyone was saying two and a half hours would have turned the thing to a smoldering block of charcoal.
	Anyway, that's what you meant.
	I made the sweet potatoes?
	Yes.
	Great job.
	I used the heavy cream, as you suggested.
	It was great.
	Right.
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh yeah, the heavy cream I think is better than using yogurt or something.
	Yeah, the heavy cream was good.
	And my stovetop turned out perfect.
	Beautiful.
	And passed it right off.
	Slaved over it.
	Anyway, it's always difficult.
	You come back after a week.
	I wasn't really able to check out 100%.
	I don't know if you were.
	It's so complicated.
	We had all these things happen.
	Yes, there was a number of events.
	Including the crazy shooting by a total nut job.
	I mean, if you look at this guy, where's the NSA when we need him?
	And then you get all these little racial comments coming out of the woodwork on Twitter.
	You're talking about the shooting in Colorado Springs.
	Yeah, at the Planned Parenthood office.
	And just before we start off...
	This guy, I mean, he pretty much has the setup I'm thinking of putting together.
	You got the trailer, you got the compound, you know.
	Exactly, that's you.
	He had an RV instead.
	This is you in 10 years.
	Yeah.
	Well, he seemed pretty nice.
	He was handing out anti-Obama pamphlets.
	Otherwise, you know, Curry seemed like a pretty good guy.
	It was kind of peculiar since Obama had been out of office for 10 years.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay, I didn't do too much with this story.
	Oh, I just have the one, the original rundown that came out on PBS is worth playing, because if you think of it as somehow, this seems to me to be like, if you wanted a perfect script for Obama to come out and say, enough's enough!
	Which is pretty much what he said.
	He said, this is not normal, I think, was his exact quote.
	Yeah, something.
	Obama really does have it on his checklist to do something about guns.
	Gun violence, even though it's not going to help anything in Chicago.
	I'll tell you, Facebook lost its collective crap over this.
	And it's so disheartening.
	People who I know very well are like, time for the president to ban all guns!
	Time for the president.
	Herr Obama.
	Time for the monarch.
	And I don't understand how people can even think that that will happen ever.
	You should put up a little web page about the Second Amendment.
	No, I need to get invited to these parties.
	I don't want to be banned up front.
	Well, no, I would be an anonymous little website.
	That says repeal the Second Amendment and then point people to it and have a bunch of really screwball arguments, you know, stuff that's just nuts, and put it on the website and then just leave it there as a standalone, not an active site, just kind of a brochure.
	And they say, well, if you feel that way, go here and just point them to that.
	If you won't do it, I will.
	Okay.
	Right after I finish my two books.
	So here's the Planned Parenthood scene.
	Now, if you think of the thing as a setup to find some nutcase and send him over to what he looks like, and send him over to do a shoot up the place, think of it as a scenario, a play, a script with actors, and then substitute when the policewoman says the word scene, think of it as a Broadway play.
	Right.
	A gunman is holed up inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs tonight, wounding multiple people and engaging in gun battles with police.
	Police said they are trying to evacuate as many people from the building as they can.
	They haven't yet identified the suspect.
	Lieutenant Catherine Buckley with the Colorado Springs Police Department briefed reporters a short time ago.
	There are an unknown amount of casualties.
	At this point, we know that the scene is going to be going on for the next several hours because there are items that the suspect took with him to the Planned Parenthood building that we have to check out once the scene is stabilized.
	This is not a stabilized scene at this time.
	What I read, and all the headlines screamed, you know, crazy guy, Planned Parenthood shooting, and then somewhere on the second or third paragraph, New York Times, Washington Post, everything, Guardian, say, well, you know, it's unclear what his motive was or where he really started shooting.
	It appears he may have started shooting out near the bank and across the parking lot.
	But because some unnamed law enforcement officer, unnamed source, Claims that he heard the guy mutter something about baby parts when they were arresting him.
	Therefore, it's obvious what happened.
	And at this point, what difference does it make?
	No one will care about the truth anymore.
	It's done.
	The people check out of these stories.
	Yeah.
	No matter what it is.
	They make their quick generalization, they're done.
	Yeah.
	And then you have the little racial comments that start showing up.
	If he was black, they would have gunned him down.
	Yeah, that was very strange.
	I caught a professor at one of the colleges, some Asian guy saying that.
	I called him out on Twitter.
	Oh, okay.
	I said, oh boy, that's a racist, shameful.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, you can yell racists at anybody if you want to start playing that game.
	Well, it's the same.
	I considered, in fact, I caught myself actually going to look for the thread on Facebook with my professor when we were talking about Clock Boy.
	Like, oh, this would have never happened if his name was Todd or Tim or John and not Ahmed.
	And now this little douche knuckle boy is suing for $15 million.
	And I got to post that.
	I got to post it on these a-holes Facebook timeline.
	I gave up on it.
	I really just gave up on it.
	What do you want to say about that?
	If the guy was named Tim or John or Jeff, would he be suing for $15 million?
	Probably not.
	It's probably not.
	Yeah.
	Meanwhile, in Chicago, there's one thing that went on during the week that we didn't discuss because we didn't do a show on Thursday is protests everywhere.
	Yeah, I have...
	It's like, this was protest week.
	Hold on, I have...
	What is it?
	It's not just in the U.S., actually.
	No, no.
	It's happening everywhere, which I like.
	I like protest week, but, you know...
	I see a lot of very professionally made signs.
	They're all professionally made.
	There's protests in London.
	There are protests in London over the bomb.
	You know, Cameron wants to bomb Syria because it's like they've got a bunch of extra bombs.
	They don't quite what to do with them.
	And so they think they can just drop them over there and that gets rid of them.
	It's like a recycling program.
	And so the protests are going on in London.
	Tons of them with people holding up these don't bomb Syria signs, which have obviously been printed by the same people because there's thousands of this exact same signs.
	Here, I have a clip.
	Making their voices heard as Britain weighs up whether to take military action against ISIL in Syria.
	Anti-war activists have taken to the streets of London to reject any extension of airstrikes already underway in Iraq.
	The government wants a green light from MPs as early as next week.
	I'm very much opposed to David Cameron's plans to have a vote in Parliament to bomb Syria.
	The bombing has already been going on for more than a year by other forces.
	At the moment, Syria is being bombed by the two biggest military powers in the world, the United States and Russia.
	Despite his casual look, this is a tense time for Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, for while the veteran left-winger is personally opposed to bombing, his parliamentary party is deeply divided.
	Spain has no immediate plans to get involved in airstrikes, but pacifist protesters in Madrid are also determined to have their say, with less than a month to go before the country's general election.
	Yes, exactly.
	So that's going on there.
	Did you see this kid, the stare-down kid, I'm calling him, in Chicago?
	Oh, that went against a cop?
	Yeah, but this guy is a professional.
	There was some research done on him that I stumbled across, and he seems to be very cozy, hanging out with the teachers' union.
	A lot.
	With the president of the teachers' union, with the vice president of the teachers' union.
	He's a professional stare-down artist.
	Professional stare-down artist, yeah.
	Wow.
	That's a good catch.
	Yeah, here's Megyn Kelly on him.
	I just want to jump in as we're seeing an extraordinary moment.
	Look what's happening here.
	Well, listen, you're going to have guys like this, you know, they want to instigate, they want to create a...
	What is he instigating, Bernie?
	I'm sorry, I've got to interrupt.
	Richard, look at him.
	This is a cop out there accused of doing nothing wrong, trying to keep the peace.
	This guy is having a silent protest with his police officer.
	This is his first amendment right.
	He gets right in his face and stares him down?
	This cop hasn't done anything wrong.
	That is his first amendment right, Megan.
	To get in a cop's face and stare him down there?
	This is his first amendment right.
	I don't understand.
	You think that's fine?
	You have no problem with this?
	It's not a question of what his constitutional rights are, it's a question of what's appropriate.
	His name is Lamont Record.
	R-I-C-C-O-R-D. Well, for police that listen to this show, I have a concept.
	Because this could happen to anybody, I suppose.
	But I would say that if you could carry one clove of garlic in your mouth.
	Pop that into your face and breathe back.
	Start chewing it, and then just...
	Which is, you know, it burns a little bit, but you can get milder garlic.
	And then just kind of puff, right?
	Could you please...
	The guy will back off.
	We'd like to know what kind of milder garlic.
	Do you have a brand name that we can...
	I mean, there's just different varieties of garlic.
	Everywhere you go, there's somebody that's a garlic nut that grows garlic, and they have all these different varieties you can get.
	You want to get one that doesn't burn too much, but still has a stench, and then you can chew on it, and then...
	I guarantee the guy would back off.
	Garlic breath is one of the worst things to really be close to.
	And of course you exude the stomach.
	I was going to say, if you take it way in advance, it'll just exude through all your pores.
	Right, but it's not quite the same as coming out of your breath as this guy's standing one inch from you.
	John, your crowd tactics are noteworthy, my friend.
	Thank you.
	So this guy is a paid shill.
	And what's disappointing, of course, is that no one is doing any research into the guy.
	And look at him.
	He's media friendly.
	He looks great.
	He's doing everything very, very well.
	But he is, well, the technical term would be an agent provocateur.
	Yes.
	Well, I have a couple of clips, because Chicago was, this was over an event that took place over a year ago, and then they, well, play this protesters in Chicago odd clip.
	Thousands of protesters marched through Chicago's rainy retail district today, voicing their anger against the shooting death of a black teenager by a Chicago policeman last year.
	The magnificent mile on Chicago's Michigan Avenue the day after Thanksgiving, usually filled with holiday shoppers, today flooded with protesters.
	Thousands marched along the main artery, while others blocked store entrances to take part in so-called Blackout Friday.
	Their goal, to shut down the busy retail district to protest the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
	We have to come together.
	And it's power and impact when you touch the economy.
	And that's what we're trying to do.
	The police are murdering people in the city with no repercussions.
	They can't do that.
	You charge one officer and there's hundreds of other children dead with no charges.
	Today's demonstrations are the latest since the city's police department released video Tuesday night of the shooting.
	It showed Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is white, firing at McDonald, who was black, 16 times.
	Most struck him while he was on the ground.
	McDonald, who was holding a knife, had allegedly punctured the tires of a police car.
	Prior to the video's release, Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder.
	But today, many, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of the event's organizers, said protests will continue.
	Yeah, when Jesse Jackson shows up, you know there's a scam going on.
	Yes, extortion.
	Now, let's go over a couple of points here.
	One, the guy was charged with murder.
	It was a year ago.
	How does a year ago match up with the following?
	What do we want?
	Justice.
	When do we want it?
	Now.
	It appeared to me, the way this all happened, is we had a very embarrassing situation for the president.
	Everything was kicking loose in Syria with the Turks and with the Russians.
	And it's almost as if a call went out And I was like, hey, get Rom on the phone!
	Get Rom on the phone!
	Come on!
	Hey, Rom, remember that video you pulled about a year ago to make sure that nothing endangered your re-election campaign?
	Well, time to release it, brah!
	The timing was obvious.
	Now, I have a clip, too, and there's a gaffe in here.
	And one other thing before you play that clip.
	Why is it always the teacher unions?
	Do you remember when I went to Occupy LA and I walked around with a sign, Don't Dromey Bro?
	And I went to the tent camp.
	Yeah, it was a while back.
	Yeah, it was 2012, I guess.
	I don't know.
	And within 15 minutes, I discovered, oh, wait a minute.
	There's a microphone here, but the only people allowed on the microphone were the people affiliated with the teachers union, who at that point co-opted the entire Occupy movement.
	These teacher unions must be very strong.
	Well, in Chicago, yes.
	Not everywhere.
	In California, for sure.
	But play two, this is, find the gaffe in this, because I think there's kind of a subtle little thing going on here.
	What am I playing?
	This is Chicago 2, find the gaffe.
	Ooh, lovely.
	In a separate Chicago case today, police announced first-degree murder charges against a man suspected in the death of a nine-year-old boy as gang retaliation.
	Police believe 27-year-old Corey Morgan and two others lured Tyshawn Lee from a park into an alley and killed him earlier this month.
	It was evidently to get back at the boy's father.
	Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy said the arrest was made possible by police coming forward with information.
	Wait a minute.
	Police coming forward with information?
	Were they part of the gang?
	How did that work?
	That was the gaffe.
	Oh, that's bigger than a gaffe.
	I don't know where she got it.
	If it was on the script, because she's a reader.
	Let me just hear that.
	Let me hear the read again, because that was intense.
	This month, it was evidently to get back at the boy's father.
	Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy said the arrest was made possible by police coming forward with information.
	Strange.
	It should have been written public.
	Yeah, oh, public.
	Because they went into a package after that about how the public helped.
	Oh, well, you know, maybe she just made her misread it.
	That's possible.
	Police, public.
	That's a really bad misread if true.
	Anyway, there's nobody protesting the shooting of a little nine-year-old by gangs.
	But it's okay, you know.
	Yeah, but this, of course, has now become a Republican talking point.
	Not that I'm accusing you of that.
	I don't know that because I haven't been watching it.
	Yeah, I do because I actually was, Teeny the Keeper turned me on to that story about the nine-year-old and two days later, you know, it was all over the face bag.
	Well, I relent.
	It's okay.
	It's okay.
	Let's see, there was just so much happening.
	Well, we're on the thing with protests.
	Let's stick with that, because I have another bunch of short clips.
	Because the other protests, and this one was extremely well organized worldwide.
	Yes, I know what you're talking about.
	The COP21 event is taking place.
	And let us remember a little memory refresher that it is very fortuitous that we had this horrible event take place in Paris, so all eyes are focused on Paris.
	For the COP21 climate change event, and as we know, reiterated by Prince Charles...
	There's very good evidence, indeed, that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, far enough, was a drought.
	It lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land because the water ran out, their crops failed and so on.
	And increasingly they came into the cities.
	Already full of Iraqi refugees from that horror and that crisis.
	And this combined to create a very difficult situation.
	And it's bad enough now with refugees.
	We think what's going to be like if we don't deal with the problem which is actually able to cause it.
	Because the conflict very often comes from movement of people as a result of not being able to survive.
	So are you suggesting that there is a link between climate change and conflict?
	and terrible well one of our producers sent in I'll put it in the next newsletter so we should keep tabs on that The next newsletter will have this picture.
	One of our producers sent a picture of a poster in, I guess it was in Dublin or Edinburgh.
	I think it was Dublin.
	It was on the island.
	I think it's Edinburgh.
	In Borough.
	Borough.
	Borough.
	And it's a picture of these, it says climate causes, you know...
	Anal leakage.
	It causes refugees or something, it's just along those lines.
	And it's huge, it's like covers a whole church or some facade of some sort.
	Anyway, so there's these coordinated protests around the world, all on the same day at the same time.
	How does that happen?
	I don't know.
	But it's all about, you know, we've got to do something about climate change.
	This is probably, and I was thinking about this, this is probably the most subversive thing that we've seen.
	And the fact that governments are going along with it is kind of surprising to me when you have the prince there, that guy.
	Well, okay.
	Okay.
	I have some contra noises, but yeah.
	Well, you can do that, but let's play a couple of these.
	Let's start with COP21 protests.
	Okie dokie.
	Well, 150 world leaders are arriving in Paris for UN climate talks, where they hope to agree on how to reduce greenhouse emissions to help control global warming.
	Yeah, that's not why they're really there, but okay.
	As thousands of people have started to demonstrate in different parts of the world to call for a strong outcome of the climate conference, as Shana Bhattacharya reports.
	A haka for the planet.
	In Auckland, thousands said no to more oil exploration and yes to saving the Pacific Islands at risk of being submerged by rising waters.
	I'm not with a particular group.
	Just, yeah, really care about these talks and the future of the planet, and I feel like this is one thing I can do.
	Now, before I go on, that voice at the end is like an Ask Adam.
	I have an ISO on it.
	Play the ISO so you can get...
	I want you to visualize what this woman looks like.
	Okay.
	She's a New Zealander.
	Usually good-looking.
	New Zealanders are usually pretty good-looking.
	Well, play the clip and then describe her.
	Okay, closing my eyes and go.
	These talks in the future of the planet and I feel like this is one thing I can do.
	Oh, she's a redhead.
	No?
	I don't know.
	I don't remember that part.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm wrong again.
	I'm sure.
	No.
	Okay, well, let me listen again.
	Let me just see if I can figure this one out.
	Because you're asking me for a specific reason, no doubt.
	These talks in the future of the planet, and I feel like this is one thing I can do.
	She was a redhead with a limp.
	Give me her age.
	These talks in the future of the planet, and I feel like this is one thing I can do.
	I can do!
	She's middle-aged.
	Okay.
	Redhead, got a limp, good-looking.
	All right.
	She's about...
	Wait, wait, wait.
	She's a twerp.
	That's good.
	I like all that.
	Okay, but it's not just wrong.
	Because she's anything but.
	She's smoking hot.
	She's a gorgeous 18, 19 year old.
	You set me up!
	She's like a millennial, a really good looking one, and she sounds like an old hag.
	With a limp!
	Are all the women in New Zealand, do they all talk like this?
	Like some old, like, oh dear, no!
	I mean, this was like taken aback by this.
	I feel screwed.
	Well, she's quite pretty.
	But I know why they came.
	I know why they came, because they heard the president's call.
	As one Parisian said, Paris will always be Paris.
	And next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the Global Climate Conference.
	What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.
	A very loaded comment.
	One, of course, all terrorists are shaking their boots.
	That's obvious.
	But it's so beautiful because what the president is saying here, I'll roll it back just to eight seconds.
	He's saying...
	It's a fact.
	It's a given fact.
	We are going to join hands globally.
	Mano a mano.
	Womano a womano.
	And we're going to show them terrorists.
	What a rebuke.
	What a powerful rebuke.
	What a rebuke.
	To the terrorists it will be.
	Yes.
	When the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.
	Take that, terrorists!
	We're driving battery cars!
	Screw ya!
	Alright, before I go on with my other clips, which are very, you know, they're just interesting because they're from everywhere in the world.
	I want to hear that thesis of yours that rebukes my commentary that this is a subversive, crazy, crazy subversive movement.
	I was rebuking something else, you said.
	Okay, well then let's play a few more.
	Yeah, play a few more and then I'll slide into it.
	Cop 21-2.
	Okay.
	Australians were the first to take to the streets on Saturday.
	In Brisbane, close to 5000 people demanded a cleaner and fair world.
	With its large mining sector, Australia is one of the biggest carbon dioxide producers on the planet.
	Mining was on the minds of activists in South Africa as well, where 90% of electricity comes from coal.
	Let's just shut down everything.
	I'm telling you, this is not good.
	Play COP21-3.
	This is an important one.
	COP21-3 sea level?
	Yes.
	In Manila, religious dignitaries led the climate march.
	Students and environmental activists followed, demanding change to allow the Philippines to stay above sea level.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Did someone actually have, you know, a sign that said, keep us above sea level?
	Did that happen at all?
	I'm sure.
	Let me hear that again.
	That was pretty...
	I think it is...
	In Manila, religious dignitaries led the climate march.
	Students and environmental activists followed, demanding change to allow the Philippines to stay above sea level.
	Oh yeah, you got it.
	Deserve it.
	And you knew it.
	Then you knew it.
	Then you knew it.
	You knew it.
	I knew it was funny.
	Well, let me roll out a couple things here before you continue with your protest.
	So here is...
	Now, I took a little different tact.
	I'm very interested in what the deals really are.
	What is really happening?
	We know that there's two degrees.
	That's just for the stupid people.
	We just remember something simple.
	Oh yeah, we need to cool it down two degrees.
	That's simple.
	But it's really all about the money.
	You raised one important issue, and that is climate finance.
	So far, with the target of...
	Climate finance, baby!
	Love this term!
	$100 billion we've reached, between private and public sources, $62 billion.
	And that target did not need to be met...
	Until 2020, based on our original commitments.
	So, we're well on our way to meeting these commitments.
	And it's a smart investment for us to make.
	You know, sometimes back home, critics will argue, there's no point in us doing something about getting our house in order when it comes to climate change, because other countries won't do anything and...
	It will just mean that we're in a less competitive position.
	Okay, so I went looking, I went searching, and lo and behold, I found one of the I think one of the main vehicles for this climate finance.
	And would you know, it's partially funded by the Dutch government.
	Nonprofits in Holland are rampant.
	I think half of all businesses are probably non-profit.
	It's very strange.
	Well, actually not strange.
	What happens in a socialist government?
	You've got all these little non-profits funded, little bits and bobs.
	And one of them is the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance.
	So I looked into this outfit, and I have two clips.
	And it's very obvious you've got financial people who are not media stars at all.
	But I know how this goes.
	You set up your non-profit.
	Okay, we've got the money, and we're going to get this going.
	Okay, we need to put some promotional material out there.
	and then they have you know the the founders and often people who are just not really media savvy and i have two clips one is uh the guy who is within the global innovation lab for climate finance and he is leading something called climate investor one now these this may sound like a strange name it's like a spaceship but no this is very typical for fund management because you'll have you know kleiner perkins five right that's the I said right, geez, sorry.
	I'm talking, when I talk about Silicon Valley companies, I start talking like Silicon Valley douchebag.
	Right.
	Right.
	So they just give it a number.
	So this is Climate Investor 1, formerly known as the Climate Development and Finance Facility.
	And what you're saying, the way you're describing it, is that this is a fund, like a Kleiner Perkins fund.
	The ones that they made money on, by the way, are 1, 2, and 3.
	It's worse than that.
	No, it's worse than that.
	So I can't invest in this?
	Yes, you can.
	Ah, good.
	But it's not exactly like a Kleiner Perkins fund because the initial seed money, which I believe is, I think they've collected $50 or $60 million, comes from governments.
	And the idea is you invest in this fund.
	I think it's in the clip here.
	I think they intend to build it to $2 billion.
	And this is just one.
	Just one little rinky-dink operation partially run by the Dutch.
	So this is not a big deal.
	This is the first one I've really found with a lot of information.
	And they are pretty much guaranteeing investors...
	Guaranteed by the nations who back this fund that you'll never lose your money.
	And what they do with this money is they invest it in, you know, solar and wind projects in poor countries.
	Which, of course, will be a bonanza for corporations investing in it because you have no downside.
	You only have upside.
	Listen to the explanation of Climate Investor One.
	Climate Investor One specifically seeks to address these challenges by combining three innovative facilities into one to provide an end-to-end financing solution for wind, solar, and hydro projects.
	The facility supports projects at various stages and at the outset will support developers through the provision of commercial, technical, and financial assistance During construction stage, the facility will cut out complex negotiations by providing a large single check to fund construction through the operation stage.
	This is my favorite part.
	Of all financing I've ever heard of in my entire life, when it comes to construction...
	Yeah, one big check.
	Never is there one big check.
	I'd rather be on the other side of this deal.
	Well, I think that's the idea, is that you want to be one of the economic hitmen executors who goes in and takes the big check and, yeah, we'll build something, don't worry about it.
	Every construction project I've ever known of, you get a piece here to start, we check how you're doing, then we get you the next piece.
	No, otherwise you get ripped off.
	One big check, everybody.
	What did you do with my big cheque?
	I don't see anything.
	Well, you know, we need more money.
	I think it's actually one of those giant cheques, the real big ones that you give out.
	A single cheque to fund construction through the operation stage.
	Once operational, the facility provides an access to institutional investors To invest and get access and exposure to...
	Mind you, institutional investors, very important.
	Institutional investors are not just you and I. I'll tell you what that means.
	That means everybody out there, your retirement funds are screwed.
	Once operational, the facility provides an access to institutional investors to invest and get access and exposure to operating stable assets in attractive investment jurisdictions.
	Over the next six years, we are hopeful of building out at least 10 new projects, mobilizing something of $2 billion.
	We hope that will connect, send our 4.5 million new customers to power.
	Hold on a second.
	$2.5 billion will connect 4,000 customers to power.
	No, it was more than 4,000.
	I don't think so.
	No.
	Hold on.
	Roll it back.
	Half a million new customers.
	Half a million...
	Maybe I just misunderstood what he was saying.
	Something in the year of $2 billion.
	We hope that will connect four and a half million new customers to power.
	Why did I think that was?
	Avert one and a half tons of CO2 emissions.
	One and a half tons?
	What?
	My car delivers more than that.
	That's nothing!
	That is absolutely nothing!
	Isn't the price of one ton of carbon like 30 bucks?
	This can't be right, but yet here he is saying it.
	Of CO2 emissions.
	Wait, let me just play back.
	He said one and a half tons, moron.
	We hope that will connect four and a half million new customers to power.
	Avert 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions, as well as create something in the order of 8,000 jobs.
	All of that done at a cost in the order of 15-18% lower than business as usual at the moment.
	Climate Investor 1 has been developed.
	I know, I know, I know.
	And supported by FMO, the Dutch Development Bank, and Phoenix Infraworks.
	Hold on a second.
	We've got our money in this fund, and we can spend it better than somebody who's doing it commercially?
	Apparently.
	Ridiculous extreme?
	Apparently.
	It's still money.
	The money can only buy so much you can buy a bolt.
	But John, you know what the secret is.
	The secret is one big check.
	Magic.
	One big check.
	No, it's one big check.
	Yeah, the one big check, that's what does it.
	Do you want to hear the two founders of this outfit?
	Do you want to hear them?
	I have to keep playing.
	This is interesting.
	Okay, that was over.
	Here's the two founders.
	One guy is a real finance guy.
	And I believe the other one, she may be Dutch, let me say.
	I'm Tom Hiller.
	Executive Director of Climate Policy Initiative, which serves as the Secretariat for the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance.
	The Secretariat?
	And I'm Barbara Buchner.
	I'm Senior Director of Climate Policy Initiative, and I am managing the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance.
	Global Innovation Lab.
	As nations work to address climate change, access to finance has emerged as a critical element.
	Enough capital exists to move the world on a low-carbon, climate resilient economy.
	However, current investments in climate-friendly development falls far short of the need.
	This is particularly true in developing countries, which are often unable to attract private investment Now, this guy has a typical New York banker face, and you can tell that he's annoyed he has to do this because he just wants to get the money flowing.
	This is a money guy.
	He doesn't give a shit about you, your kids, or the earth, or anything.
	To low-carbon and climate-resilient activities.
	And this resilient activities is a joke.
	Climate resilient activities.
	Well, I think sleeping is a climate resilient activity.
	Napping.
	Napping for humanity, yes.
	All of that is valid.
	At the scale needed to reach their emissions and energy access goals.
	As we move toward and beyond Paris this year, the need for action is on the ground.
	On the ground.
	The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance addresses these challenges by identifying, developing, stress testing, and launching cutting-edge climate finance instruments.
	Now, that is banking!
	Cutting edge usually means high risk.
	Financial instruments, it's bonds, it's derivatives.
	You can make anything.
	Bitcoin, it could be anything.
	You can make anything.
	As long as you can create it and package it up and add about 1,000 pages of legalese, which is what it always amounts to.
	And it's annoying that these people aren't, you know, audio is crappy.
	In jail.
	That's annoying, too.
	But what they're saying is highly important.
	This is what it comes down to.
	This is just one.
	Well, stop for a second, because one of the things that's not discussed in this all the COP21 and all the rest of it is China.
	What they seem to be talking about here is Africa, because that's the place where you can do all these development deals.
	The problem with Africa is the Chinese are coming in there and doing all these deals on their dime.
	The term that I heard with the last guy said was private equity.
	We need private.
	We need some companies in there.
	But they never mention China.
	China is never mentioned in the COP21 thing.
	This is almost like something to stop China.
	I mean, when we talk about Africa and talk about China, we never talk about China.
	It was addressed in the Senate hearing.
	Senator Brasso was talking to Todd Stern.
	He's from the State Department.
	And, hold on a second, he has an interesting title here.
	He is the United States Special Envoy for Climate Change, leading talks at the United Nations Climate Change Conferences and Smaller Sessions, appointed by the Secretary of State.
	And he was initially appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
	His message is very clear, and I have to say I enjoyed what he was saying, because we are pretty much out to screw everybody else, we being Merck.
	I wonder if you think that it serves the interest of this country to establish a precedent that international commitments are made in a manner designed toward the constitutionally-derived oversight role of Congress.
	What he's saying is, hey, hold on a second.
	If you guys are going to be making some kind of deals over there, you better make sure that we sign off on.
	That's what he's worried about.
	The answer is somewhat surprising.
	The United States Senate.
	Well, no, I would not think that would serve the interests of the country, Mr.
	Chairman.
	We are going to look at the agreement once we have an agreement, and we will evaluate at that time And we will act fully in accordance with law.
	As you know, there are different procedures by which the United States has historically and continues to join international agreements.
	So we will act fully in accordance with law.
	We don't know yet what the agreement is going to say.
	So does the administration plan to submit any climate change agreement produced in Paris to the Senate for its advice and consent?
	Mr.
	Chairman, we don't know yet what the elements of the agreement are going to be.
	It's hard to speculate at this time.
	As I said, we're pushing hard for an agreement that does not include binding targets, which are kind of the heart of the agreement.
	So we're looking for something that is not binding in that regard.
	So it's something that is not legally binding.
	If there are parts that are...
	I love this.
	Yeah, we're going there, but we're not really going to do anything for real.
	You crazy?
	We're going to non-binding.
	Non-binding agreements.
	But what's the point?
	It's pointless.
	It is going to be a good time for everybody.
	They all go into Paris.
	Everybody's already there.
	They just stayed on.
	In fact, Amy Goodman went.
	She didn't go during the crisis.
	She went now because she wants to be there a whole week.
	And so she takes off, I guess, on Thursday because the whole Friday Democracy Now!, which I hope to get some clips from, the entire show was devoted to some guy's lecture.
	Oh.
	Which they played the whole lecture of this guy, and they never had any news at all.
	Oh, dumb.
	I mean, even we.
	Even we had a clip show.
	Yeah.
	We had a clip.
	Want to hear some more of these climate finance people, or are you done with them?
	Play a little more.
	A little more.
	The lab brings together high-level members from the public and private sectors, and by drawing on the experience of its membership and the climate finance community at large, it moves quickly from talk to talk.
	To walk to action.
	To walk to action.
	Just over a year of operation, the lab has launched four climate finance instruments that have collectively already raised nearly 200 million U.S. dollars in initial funding.
	These initiatives include, first, Climate Investor One, or formerly known as the Climate Development and Finance Facility, which will fast-track renewable energy projects in developing countries.
	Fast-track.
	Second, the Agricultural Supply Chain and Adaptation Facility, which will partner with agribusiness companies to help local farmers make climate-resilient agriculture.
	Climate-resilient agriculture.
	This is the biggest bullcrap term I've ever heard.
	Climate-resilient.
	You know what?
	What does that even mean?
	It means you're resilient to climate.
	Water-resistant, I think, is the same.
	This watch is climate-resistant.
	The lab members, by the way.
	Resilient, I'm sorry.
	The lab members, the lab, great to call it a lab, these are all African companies.
	So we have Principal, Oliver Andrews, CIO, Africa Finance Corporation.
	We have Private Sector, Africa Development Bank.
	We have, let's see, Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy.
	We have the BlackRock NTR Renewable Power Fund.
	Bullshit!
	We have, let's see, Allianz Climate Solutions.
	Well, this may be...
	This may be part of a bigger scheme which began in the 70s.
	And I have a clip.
	Play it.
	Play the AIDS in Africa update.
	AIDS is now the main cause of death for African teenagers.
	Wait a minute.
	I thought they were dying from climate change.
	The UN Agency for Children, UNICEF, reported that since 2000, AIDS-related deaths have tripled in children between the ages of 10 and 19.
	One reason?
	The global push to eradicate HIV focused on babies, and not as much on the second decade of childhood.
	Oh, that's the reason.
	We have to kill them all.
	That's the reason.
	What a crock.
	We didn't do a good job.
	It's unbelievable.
	So this thing, it truly is.
	The Brazilian Development Bank, of course, they have a couple of dudes.
	Like, they don't have enough problems of their own.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	A couple more seconds.
	Third, the energy savings insurance, which will ensure the value of savings generated by energy efficiency investments.
	Energy savings insurance.
	Everybody's in on the scam, John.
	Everybody, except us.
	And fourth, the long-term foreign exchange risk management instrument.
	Now, this is pure derivatives.
	Long-term currency exchange, what do you call it?
	Investment protection or something.
	But that's what you use derivatives for.
	Which will ensure the value of savings generated by energy efficiency investments.
	And fourth, the long-term foreign exchange risk management instrument, which will provide the tools to address both currency and interest rate risks related to climate-relevant projects in developing countries.
	Oh, God.
	How to hedge your money!
	Guys, these guys are pros.
	Yes!
	You know how to do this stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	...has been endorsed by the G7. If they're piloted and replicated at scale, they have the potential to unlock billions of climate finance in and for developing countries.
	Building on the success of the first year, the lab has launched a second cycle and is also working to expand into India.
	And we are looking forward to the next generation of instruments that can make an impact on the ground.
	Expand into India from where?
	Wherever they want to do it from.
	Africa.
	Yeah.
	So this is mainly Africa.
	Yeah.
	So this is all about money.
	We are not going to commit to anything binding.
	And I didn't play at the very end of that Todd Stern clip.
	He says, you know, well, we already kind of preset our deal with China, which, you know, is just bogative.
	There's nothing.
	Nothing.
	Well, I might as well play the last COP21 clip, which is number four.
	Well, before you do that, I have one last one that I'll put up.
	What is it?
	Number four?
	Yeah.
	You raised one important issue, and that is climate finance.
	So far, with a target of $100 billion, we've reached, between private and public sources, $62 billion.
	And that target did not need to be met until 2020, based on our original commitments.
	So, we're well on our way to meeting these commitments.
	$100 billion?
	Yeah, that's my hollow tooth.
	$100 billion?
	Yeah.
	I have potholes out here on Highway 80 that need fixing.
	It's a smart investment for us to make.
	Smart investment?
	Even the president's talking about investments.
	I agree.
	We have other things we can invest in.
	Yeah, like the potholes.
	And it's a smart investment for us to make.
	You know, sometimes back home, critics will argue, there's no point in us doing something about getting our house in order when it comes to climate change because other countries won't do anything.
	I'm sorry, we played it.
	That was bad enough.
	Yeah.
	The reason I want to play this fourth clip is because after everybody runs out of all this bull crap, like the Philippines will be underwater, that sort of thing.
	It's under sea level.
	Under sea level, somehow.
	And then it's like, you have to have protests over.
	What do you think Tokyo, I'm going to give you a guess here.
	I'm going to stop the clip and say, what do you think the Japanese are going to complain about?
	About being underwater.
	No, and you would have never guessed this.
	This is in the clip?
	In Tokyo, Japanese protesters raised their voices too, concerned about the number of animals going extinct due to climate change.
	Of course, I could have known.
	Everything is because of this.
	I found one more way.
	This is an astonishing thing we are witnessing.
	Oh, it is.
	This will be written hundreds of years after we're dead and gone.
	This will be written about.
	Maybe.
	Maybe not.
	The TCX Fund is another one of these outfits.
	This is the Currency Exchange Fund for Climate Resilience.
	Yeah.
	I love this climate resilience.
	Yes, and they have products.
	By providing hedging instruments, TCX facilities facilitates the establishment of a local currency business line for its investor and clients.
	So TCX can hedge the lender, TCX can hedge the borrower.
	You don't think anyone's in the middle making money, do you, somehow?
	Not yet, but there's got to be some credit default swap vehicles out there that should be purchasable by the average guy somehow if he can even find out about it.
	Most of these things are secret.
	So the Currency Exchange Fund is a special purpose fund that provides OTC derivatives.
	That's pink slips.
	Pink slips.
	To hedge the currency and interest rate mismatch that is created in cross-border investments between international investors and local borrowers in frontier and less liquid emerging markets.
	The goal is to promote long-term local currency financing.
	To achieve this objective, TCX acts as a market maker in currencies and maturities not covered by commercial banks or other providers.
	Notably, there are no offshore markets, no long-term hedging, or in extreme cases, no market.
	We need to get Horowitz on this.
	What we need to do.
	Well, he'd probably say the same thing.
	It's all kept under wraps unless you're part of the game.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That is the problem.
	It's true.
	Just all the people involved in this.
	This one woman from Holland who's leading one of these non-profits just...
	I made my skin crawl.
	Anyway.
	Alright.
	So I think that's all we have for COP21, just waiting for it all to kick off, and I'm sure there'll be plenty of things to talk about.
	Do you have anything else on this?
	No, I think I'm done with COP21. I think, you know, it'll...
	I'm expecting to just watch Amy Goodman.
	She's going to be there gushing over her.
	And her hair will look great.
	Her hair will not look great.
	I saw Brooke from CNN wearing a pink scarf over her head.
	Very Parisian.
	Yes, I'm in Paris now.
	I'm wearing a Parisian headgear.
	Oh, yes, it's lovely.
	Douches, all of them!
	Well, the real problem is it's freezing there at this time, so everyone will be inside eating.
	The optics are never good for climate change or global warming when it's really freezing outside.
	It doesn't look good.
	I don't see why these people don't get that.
	Seems so simple.
	Do it in May or April.
	This would be a good time to be in Rio.
	But with that, I want to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for Climate Resilience, Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, and also in the morning to all the ships at sea, and in the morning to all the boots on the ground, the feet in the air, and the subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
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	I guess he's had his own Obama-bot dinners.
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	Trevor Baxter writes, I'm on the brink of declaring my protectorate.
	Oh.
	Pending my coming donation, I'd be granted the Baron of Antarctica.
	To my knowledge, no one has claimed it.
	I don't think so.
	And it's very important someone claims it for the future of the No Agenda Empire.
	Very good.
	Yeah, you can claim it, sure.
	I think so.
	Not a problem.
	I hate further instruction.
	I gotta tell you, man, I'm so happy that we have this podcasting thing for as long as it lasts.
	Until the government shuts it down.
	Although we will get the podcasting license to continue.
	Oh, the license will continue.
	Podcasting is really one of these mediums that was invented for the revolution.
	The media revolution.
	Well, let's face it.
	No revolution is going to be started on Facebook or Instagram.
	Change your icon.
	You didn't change your icon.
	Are you with us?
	They're against us.
	Oh my goodness.
	Yeah, so please keep your podcasters rocking it.
	There's a new puppet on the scene who I'd not heard of before.
	Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
	Have you ever heard of her?
	She is a Democrat from Hawaii.
	No.
	Now, I like her.
	She is...
	First of all, she's good looking.
	No.
	I will say she's hot.
	Hold on, let me just double check.
	You would say that.
	Yeah, but I want to make sure.
	I wrote that as a note to my...
	Now you got me looking her up.
	Tulsi Gabbard.
	Let me see.
	What a name.
	She's 34.
	No wonder she looks hot.
	She's 34.
	She's young.
	And she's...
	Yeah, so as I said, she's...
	How do you spell Tulsi?
	T-U-L-S-I. Tulsi Gabbard.
	Well, while you're looking her up, I have a multiple-parter here.
	I was blown away that she is even...
	Well, she has the balls to say it, but she came out and just said over and over again exactly what is happening with Assad, with the United States, with the rebels, with ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, call it whatever you want.
	And I like this lady.
	But there's a bigger issue here that I'm concerned with, and that is the fact that the U.S. and the CIA are working to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad, while Russia, a longtime ally of Assad for decades now, is working to defend or uphold the Syrian government of Assad.
	And this puts us in a position of a possible direct head-to-head conflict with Russia, as long as the U.S. and CIA continue down this path.
	She keeps saying...
	CIA! She keeps...
	Yeah, she's gonna get a visit.
	Well, I think it's Brolf who's interviewing her.
	What do you think?
	Will Brolf say, hey, wait a minute, is the CIA doing this?
	Do we have covert operations there?
	Is this something that I should know about?
	Well, how do you...
	Is he an idiot?
	Why, yes, yes.
	The CIA continued down this path.
	Well, how does the U.S. and Russia avoid that head-on contact?
	Because you're absolutely right.
	The U.S. wants to get rid of Bashar al-Assad.
	The Russians want to boost him and protect him together with the Iranians, their allies, the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
	They're trying to prop him up.
	What?
	He's going on and on.
	How do you avoid that potential collision?
	Very simple.
	The U.S. and the CIA should stop this illegal and counterproductive war to overthrow the Syrian government.
	Illegal and unproductive war.
	Attention Hawaii.
	Attention Hawaii.
	You should not go into any hot tubs.
	And should stay focused on fighting against who our enemy is, the Islamic extremist groups, because right now we're seeing why this is counterproductive.
	By working towards that end, by working towards overthrowing the Syrian government of Assad, we are not only strengthening our enemy, the Islamic extremists, who will walk in and take over all of the country of Syria.
	Right now they have about half of The country under their control.
	But it also puts us in that position of a potential direct head-to-head conflict with Russia, which brings us to the brink of a potential larger conflict of a World War III-type situation.
	She's speaking my language.
	She's crazy.
	She's in the wrong party.
	She'd be a Republican.
	One, she's one of the two female combat veterans, along with Tammy Duckworth.
	That's right.
	In Congress.
	And she's actually an American Samoan.
	And a Hindu.
	That's why she's so pretty.
	Those bloodlines make her look dynamite.
	She had a couple more things to say to our friend, Brolf.
	This is, well, some very obvious advice.
	Maybe you should not be arming these morons.
	Why do you say the U.S. effort to get rid of Bashar al-Assad's regime is counterproductive and illegal?
	Why?
	Because it is.
	Because it all is, bro.
	Well, first of all, there's not been a vote in Congress to authorize the use of force, to authorize a war, to overthrow a sovereign government.
	And she is right.
	The only authorization of military force, which the president keeps saying he wants to have a new version of, is for those responsible for the 9-11 attacks.
	That is the literal text of For as long as I've been there, that hasn't happened.
	It didn't happen before I got there.
	So the American people haven't had a choice to speak their voice, to approve or disapprove such A war.
	Therefore, it's illegal.
	Secondly, it is counterproductive because right now U.S. arms are getting into the hands of our enemy.
	Al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, these other groups, Islamic extremist groups who are our sworn enemy.
	These are groups who attacked Assad 9-11 and who supposedly were trying to defeat, yet at the same time supporting them with these arms to overthrow the Syrian government.
	So you don't even want the U.S. to provide weapons or arms to these anti-Basharalists?
	No, not to Al-Qaeda, bro.
	No.
	I don't want the U.S. government to provide weapons to al-Qaeda, to Islamic extremists, to our enemy.
	I think it's a very simple concept in my mind that you can't defeat your enemy if you're arming them and helping them at the same time.
	It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
	Have you told this to officials at the White House?
	We've had conversations, both in hearings and otherwise, and I think it's important for the American people to stand up and say, look, we don't want to go and do what happened in Iraq with Saddam Hussein, do what happened in Libya with Gaddafi, because these are countries that have fallen into chaos and that have been taken over by these terrorists because of the actions that the United States and others took.
	And she pretty much brings it all home by saying, hey, you want more of what we've seen in the past?
	Then continue on this path.
	Yeah, well, if it concerns me deeply to see this tremendous and tragic human suffering, I think it's important for leaders of the world, leaders here in the United States, to look at this issue, though, and say, okay, if you do in Syria, what happened in Libya, what happened in Iraq before?
	Because the same things that are being said about Assad right now were said about Gaddafi.
	They were said about Saddam Hussein by those who were advocating for the U.S. to go in and intervene.
	She's going to get read in on this, and she told to shut up.
	This will be the last time you hear her talking about any of this stuff you watch.
	Now, the funny thing about her, I'm still reading her bio.
	This will kill you.
	She was a Hare Krishna.
	Really?
	Hari, Hari.
	Dancing around in the robe.
	Hari, Hari, Krishna.
	Dancing around in the robe at airports.
	Collecting money.
	Oh, yeah.
	Huh.
	Really?
	How long was she a Hare Krishna?
	It doesn't quite say.
	It just mentioned that it was in the...
	She's a vegetarian and a Hindu who follows this Krishna guy.
	And she was a Krishna, Hare Krishna movement.
	Especially, it doesn't say.
	I think she should have a dot on her forehead.
	She's beautiful and she's smart and she's right.
	And she's done.
	She's done for.
	She's going to be taken aside.
	And they're going to read her the riot act.
	And bring one of her kids with a gun to his head.
	And say, you know, you've had your day.
	You had your fun.
	You had your nice little speech.
	You got on the CNN show.
	Isn't that sweet?
	By the way, you stepped in front of somebody in line to do that.
	Oh, yeah.
	And you can stop now.
	And that'll be the end of it.
	You just happened to catch it.
	Well, I like her.
	You'll never hear from her again.
	Sad.
	I challenge you.
	Very, very sad.
	I think this kind of leads into that Azrael thing you sent me this morning.
	This really irks me.
	I had a lot of thoughts about this after seeing these couple of videos you sent me.
	And this is not normal that John sends me something to look at?
	No.
	At all?
	Because he'll dig into it and then he'll edge me out.
	Yeah, you send it to me last minute.
	It's his last minute.
	You have to.
	Otherwise, it's like I got my conclusions.
	I got my thing.
	I'm working on it.
	Well, the way it turns out that there's this NGO in South Africa.
	I was like, oh man, I have no time to dive into this.
	But I have thoughts about it.
	Which one?
	Give us the background.
	Okay, the first thing I ran into there, first everyone, I want to keep a lookout.
	I want everyone to keep a lookout for a new site that is kind of like a Vice clone called Vocative.
	Vocative?
	Vocative is an up-and-comer, and they're starting to feed news feeds into different, like, PBS and other outlets.
	And if you read their wiki page, the wiki page, let me just say, is full of crap.
	Vocative news from the dark web is what they...
	They claim to be big, dark, wet.
	Wait a minute.
	Is this a Rita Katz job?
	What is going on here?
	It's a Mossad front.
	Ah, okay.
	Let's start there.
	All right.
	Gotcha.
	And the guy who runs it is a very famous Israeli industrialist, and now he's a very famous American real estate guy, and he's got lots of connections with Mossad.
	And what's his name?
	Oh, you can look at the wiki page and get his name.
	It's some Israeli name.
	And he's hired a bunch of, mostly millennials, even though they claim they're, oh, we're stealing our talent from the Beast and the NBC and CBS. No, they're all ex-interns.
	I mean, some of the guys are functional, but they're young.
	And the thing really appears to be just a propaganda arm of Mossad.
	And that's where I first ran into this.
	They did a whole video on this character, Azrael, and people can look him up and check out his videos in particular.
	Both of them are in the show notes, both videos.
	Those two, but you can also look him up on YouTube, A-Z-R-A-E-L. And let's hear the run now.
	This guy has been promoted by someone for some reason.
	I'm not sure what, but he appears to be like a celebrity.
	They call him the Rambo.
	The Iraqi Rambo is what they call him.
	The Iraqi Rambo.
	And it looks, the videos that he's produced to promote himself on social media.
	You look a lot like Rita Katz produced.
	Looks a little like Rita Katz.
	And there's just a bunch of guys standing over a hill shooting their gun and not wearing helmets.
	I love it when he loads up a machine gun with a belt and then just holds it over his head and just fires indiscriminately and blows the whole belt in a second.
	Yes.
	And then they're in the gym working out, these guys.
	Him and a bunch of other guys are big dudes.
	They're...
	They're almost like the PC bros in South Park.
	Exactly.
	Well, the first clip is a background on it.
	It's the Asriel F24 rundowns from France 24.
	In this edition, one man against the Islamic State group, a vigilante hero in the city of Baghdad.
	We follow the man who set himself up as a single-handed force against the jihadists.
	Abu Azrael is a rough, tough, and determined man.
	He's nicknamed Rambo.
	Rambo.
	And he's become a propaganda symbol of the fight against Islamic State, or Daesh.
	He's almost a caricature, carrying his armory around in his car, working out in the gym.
	But to many, he represents the hope of one day winning the battle against the jihadists.
	Our report by Julian Foucher begins with the hero worship Abu Azrael inspires on the streets of the Iraqis.
	Isn't the name...
	Is Israel almost already hinting that maybe there's some Israel behind this guy?
	Or is that just me?
	I don't think it's you.
	Whenever he steps out of his car, it only takes seconds before people crowd around Abu Israel.
	These Baghdadis all want their picture with a man who many see as a national hero.
	I'm ready to do anything for him.
	Anything.
	I swear.
	You're everything to me.
	People worship Abu Azrael, an only gay which literally translates to the father of the angel of death in Arabic.
	The Shiite militiaman is the most renowned fighter in Iraq.
	His bravery has turned him into a living legend in a country still in shock after the Islamic State ousted the Iraqi army last summer.
	I stand by my words.
	That's why people prefer having me instead of a dishonest politician who announces measures on TV but does nothing.
	Abu Azrael has spent all night in Fallujah district fighting the Islamic State organization.
	In the trunk lies this equipment, always at hand.
	That's an M4 with a grenade launcher.
	These are explosives.
	A grenade.
	A smoke bomb.
	This is another smoke bomb.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's loaded to the gills with smoke bombs.
	Smoke bombs.
	And, you know, in that video, then, he's like, oh, he's...
	They keep talking about how he...
	I don't know if you have this on the clip, about how he's, you know, shooting video for the fans back at home on his cell phone.
	Do they have cell phone coverage in these areas?
	Because it seems like he does.
	Because, oh, I just posted it on Facebook.
	And then they go to some hill.
	It's like, oh, they're right behind this hill.
	And then they're shooting over the hill where they end up in the end.
	Yeah, you never see any shot.
	You never see any shot.
	Time to go.
	We all should leave now.
	Because there's nothing.
	I think there's nothing there.
	You shouldn't get nothing.
	I think it's all bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	Well, and the guy has a catchphrase.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	I'll turn you into dust.
	Oh, no, grind you into dust.
	Grind you into dust.
	So the French 24 guys, they got into his house, and I only have two more clips, and here he is in the house, and he's pontificating, and it's disgusting, throwing out a couple little tidbits there that are worth listening to.
	I'm sorry, you had more?
	No.
	Oh, okay.
	In this simple home, the decoration consists of religious books and this portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini.
	These militias obey Iranian religious leaders more than their own government.
	Abu Azrael says he's ready to pursue his war beyond the borders of Iraq.
	If the Imam tells us to march on Saudi Arabia, on Mecca, we'll go.
	If we have to go to Yemen to help our Houthi brothers, I'll go.
	All we ask for is to fall as martyrs.
	I've had a decent end, and God willing, I'll die a martyr, or we'll win.
	He works for the Iranians.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he works for the Iranians, and the whole thing is some propaganda stunt.
	I'm not sure who's behind it, how they're doing it, who's producing this, but it does have the stench of Rita.
	Yeah, big time.
	Now, meanwhile, to do this report, they grilled the reporter, the French 24 reporter, and I thought if you can understand him...
	Which you have to really key in on this French accent.
	You can kind of hear what he has to say.
	He does give away something kind of interesting about how he got the interview in the first place and how it got clear and how he got into the guy's house, which apparently was a challenge.
	Fouche, was it easy to convince Abu Azrael to take part in this film shoot?
	It was not easy.
	It was the first time Abu Azrael accepted an interview with a European journalist.
	It was the first time also he accepted to be filmed off the battlefield at his gym and especially at home with his family.
	To convince him, I had to get through a powerful Iraqi businessman, member of the Iraqi diaspora here in Amal.
	I'm going to need some translation.
	I can't catch all of it.
	What is he saying?
	It's coming up.
	They have close ties with the Iraqi politician, the brigade commanders of the Shiite militias.
	And so they convinced the Abu Azrael commanders to be shielded by Western journalists.
	The businessmen, those Iraqi businessmen wanted to show...
	Okay, stop, stop.
	When you resume the clip, you cut out the part that...
	I'm sorry.
	I'll summarize.
	Some guy who's in the diaspora, the people that left the country of Iraq and moved to Washington, D.C. As one does.
	He says there's this business guy in Washington, D.C., who he contacted.
	It was, I guess, like, he was the front man or he's the roadie or something for this character.
	And he talked him into letting them approve it to, I guess, skid the track so he could get in.
	Yeah, it was well arranged.
	It's clearly property.
	I think the State Department is involved.
	It was a fake.
	In other words, this whole thing was a scam.
	And they had this on France 24.
	It was like a 17 to 20 minute special about this guy.
	And it ran in March or April or May.
	I mean, we missed this when it first happened with this character because he has not been promoted in this country at all.
	Well, keep an eye out for him.
	The Iraqi Rambo, it's good.
	They've got some good stuff going there.
	Yeah, Iraqi Rambo.
	I'll grind you to dust.
	Grind you to dust.
	Grind you to dust.
	So a couple things back home.
	Mike Morrell was on Charlie Rose.
	Mike Morrell, of course, former second-in-command at CIA, and later ran CIA for a little while.
	He still runs...
	What do you call it when you run?
	Operation Pundit.
	Operation Pundit is him.
	And, you know, imagine Mike Morrell, who has kind of this weaselly, mousy face.
	When he's saying this on the Charlie Rose show...
	He's smiling.
	He can't contain his glee.
	Attack the funding that they have, attack the ability to sell the oil.
	We've seen attacks on that oil transfer taking place now after Paris that didn't take place before Paris, which is your original question, which it would be doing now.
	So this is one of the collateral damage questions, right?
	Right.
	One of the collateral damage questions, right?
	Right, Charlie?
	Right?
	Right?
	So, prior to Paris, there seemed to be a judgment, right?
	I don't sit in the sitting room anymore, but there seems to have been a judgment that, look, we don't want to destroy these oil tankers.
	Now, this is about the...
	The shoot-down of all these where they...
	Well, they're trucking all the oil from the ISIS-now-controlled oil fields in Iraq into Turkey, run by, what's his name, Balil, I think, is Erdogan's son.
	Yes, and by the way, I think we missed the timeline, which is the Russians show these tankers and humiliate the Americans for not shooting them.
	We then shoot them.
	The legal gets screwed in the deal, and so they shoot down the Russian plane.
	Yeah.
	Well, before we get to that, I want to just stick with the tankers for a moment, because I have two clips, two varying opinions.
	Now, we did not blow up this entire, what do you call it, what do you call one of the convoy?
	We didn't blow up the entire convoy of trucks.
	No, just enough to get some photos.
	Do you know why we didn't blow up?
	There's two opinions.
	Mike Morrell has an opinion, and then we will hear from the Department of Defense.
	I have a theory.
	What is your theory?
	What is Mike Morrell's theory?
	I don't know what his theory is, but my theory is that they ran out of bullets.
	I'm going to give you Mike Morell's theory first.
	There seemed to have been a judgment that, look, we don't want to destroy these oil tankers because that's infrastructure that's going to be necessary to support the people when ISIS isn't there anymore.
	And it's going to create environmental damage.
	And we didn't go after oil wells, actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls because we didn't want to do environmental damage and we didn't want to destroy that infrastructure, right?
	Right.
	So we hit oil on trucks.
	So now we're hitting oil on trucks, right?
	And maybe you get to the point where you say, we have to also hit oil wells.
	Woo!
	Hit them all!
	Those are the kind of tough decisions you have to make.
	Rubble!
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	Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to rubble-ize!
	I love that Mike Morrell plays right into your thesis that the plan may ultimately be to just rubble-ize the whole place, make the oil fields completely unusable.
	But of course...
	It's obvious we were not going to bomb this entire convoy because it's sending oil up to Turkey.
	There's a lot of people who were involved with Erdogan and this kid and all this oil, and it's a big, whatever you do, don't talk about the oil.
	Now the Department of Defense...
	Says the following about why we did not go out and blow up the whole convoy.
	Again, on the fuel tanker strikes, it looks like from the video that they were targeting specific trucks instead of targeting them on maps.
	There were many in a line, for example, and only one was targeted.
	Can you sort of talk about what the plan is with that?
	Is that a design to kind of send a message, or is it meant to block other trucks from being able to move?
	Why only one when it seems like you could target all of them if you wanted to?
	Now, the beginning of his answer is already fabulous.
	Well, they did target all of them.
	You know, the way they did it, that's just a factor of kind of how the video comes out, the way we, you know, cut it, because otherwise it would be hours long.
	So we were just looking for the good shots.
	Hours.
	We were just looking for the good shots, he said.
	It would be hours long.
	Oh, yeah, hours long.
	Just looking for the good shots.
	You know, we just wanted to put together a snappy, snazzy video for you.
	It's called propaganda, dude.
	That you'd like.
	Um...
	But they go through, and again, because it's about precision, right?
	And again, it's not a movie where you kind of fly along and just strafe and...
	No, it's not like a movie where you just fly along and strafe and blow...
	We can't do this now?
	This has been bullshit?
	We can't fly along...
	And blow them all up?
	No.
	You know, the trucks blow up.
	No.
	They struck each truck or groups of two or three trucks.
	It is a machine gun, so there is a certain area aspect to it, right?
	The gunfire isn't laser-guided.
	Wait for it.
	Ballistics will cause the bullets...
	You know, the rounds to move a little bit in the air.
	So it's individuals strike a truck or two or three trucks, move to the next batch, strike them, move, strike, move, strike.
	And so the goal was to destroy every truck in the air.
	They ran out of ammunition before they were able to do that.
	There you go!
	You nailed it!
	We ran out of ammo!
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Let's get this convoy!
	Shit, man!
	We ran out of bullets!
	They're shooting the convoy with a gun?
	Come on!
	That is the worst excuse I've ever heard.
	You said it as a joke, I'm sure.
	Right?
	Didn't you say it as a joke?
	I said it as a joke!
	It's true!
	Quite honestly, they ran out of ammo.
	I'm sorry.
	Did you go back and reload?
	The convoy's still there.
	I'm sorry, Obama has some great things to say about the terrorists out there.
	The message I have is that those of us who are charged with protecting the American people are going to do everything we can to destroy this particular network.
	Once this network is destroyed, and it will be, there may be others that pop up.
	Pop-up!
	In different parts of the world.
	Pop-up!
	And so we're going to have to continue to take seriously how we, the infrastructure that we...
	Write that one down, John.
	Pop-up terrorism.
	Good one.
	Good one.
	Built to prevent this.
	But it doesn't have to change the fundamental trajectory of the American...
	People.
	And the media needs to help in this.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Pay attention.
	Let's get our pads out.
	Do you have your pad?
	I'm ready to take your notes.
	All right.
	Are you ready?
	The media needs to help in this.
	All right.
	I just want to say, during the course of this week, a very difficult week, it is understandable that this has been a primary focus.
	But one of the things that has to happen is how we report on this.
	Oh.
	John, pay attention.
	We're not reporting right.
	We're not doing it right.
	It has to maintain perspective and not empower in any way these terrorist organizations or elevate them in ways that make it easier for them to recruit or make them stronger.
	Okay, put them back to JV. No, no.
	You stepped on the line.
	No, it's not a JV. Or make them stronger.
	They're a bunch of killers.
	With good social media.
	Now, would you shut the fuck up for one second?
	You keep talking over the punchline.
	Jesus!
	In ways that make it easier for them to recruit or make them stronger.
	They're a bunch of killers.
	With good social media.
	There you go.
	Ow!
	Step on anything.
	That's how we work.
	That's how we work.
	And that's the story.
	Skills is bullcrap.
	Now, the president is also trying to save his own skin, and he's getting a lot of help because of the...
	And by the way, stop.
	If this is not going to encourage people, one of the reasons people are joining is because they are a bunch of killers, and these 16-year-old boys in the middle of nowhere that have miserable lives want to go be killers.
	I want to be a killer.
	And they have good social media.
	Yeah, so they can keep up with their Facebook account, and they can be killers.
	Yes.
	They're just making this worse.
	Because it's bull crap.
	The whole thing is a scam.
	It is.
	It's all about, in this case, just getting Assad to go.
	We'll talk about that in a moment.
	Well, we should also mention, was it Project Hornet's Nest?
	Yes.
	Yeah, this rings a bell.
	Why does it ring a bell?
	Because it's another thing I sent you last night really late.
	Yeah, I didn't get to.
	Thanks.
	Too late.
	Sunday.
	Thursday.
	Thursday.
	The president trying to save his own skin because, of course, he said it was a JV team.
	They're contained.
	He said that pretty much the day before the Paris attacks.
	He's been wrong everywhere.
	Time to blame the intelligence.
	One of the things I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that...
	I don't want intelligence shaded by politics.
	Shaded.
	I don't want it shaded by...
	Shaded.
	The desire to...
	This shaded thing.
	Have you heard this term that the kids today are using?
	Hey man, don't throw shade on me.
	No.
	Oh yeah, you gotta look out for it.
	She threw shade on me, man.
	It's like when you look at someone like they're a douchebag and make them feel small.
	The shading.
	So it's shaded.
	That's bullying, man.
	Good story.
	We can't make good policy unless we've got good, accurate, hard-headed, clear-eyed intelligence.
	Uh-huh.
	Good, accurate, hard-headed intelligence.
	That's right.
	I guess you didn't have it, sir.
	I believe that the Department of Defense and all those who head up our intelligence agencies understand that.
	They understand it.
	Aiming this at the DIA. Oh, yeah.
	That I have...
	It made it repeatedly clear to all my top national security advisors that I never want them to hold back.
	This is really sickening.
	He is really blaming everybody else.
	One last thing I'll say though, as a consumer of this intelligence...
	Can I become a consumer?
	Is there a website I can sign?
	I'd love to get this intelligence.
	It's not as if...
	And by the way, it's very, very important that he says as a consumer of this intelligence.
	I don't know.
	I'm just consuming the intelligence.
	I think everyone knows they're supposed to do it right, but clearly something went wrong.
	Consumer of this intelligence?
	Hold on a second.
	What is he specifically bitching about?
	He's saying, well, what he's trying to say is the intelligence on ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, IS was wrong, but he's just a consumer.
	When he doesn't have good information, then he can't call the shots.
	That's why he made mistakes in saying they're a JV team and, you know, they're contained.
	He's trying to cover his ass for his commentary.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	As a consumer of this intelligence, it's not as if I've been receiving wonderfully rosy, glowing portraits of what's been happening in Iraq and Syria over the last year and a half.
	So, to the extent that it's been shaded...
	Shaded?
	Again, I don't know the details of what the IG may discover, but...
	Yeah, he does.
	They're doing an investigation?
	Is that what he implied?
	Oh, yeah.
	The IG. At my level, at least, we've had a pretty...
	At my level?
	He's the top guy.
	It sounds like there's a level above him that we are unaware of.
	The details of what the IG may discover, but it feels to me like, at my level at least, we've had a pretty clear-eyed, sober assessment of where we've made real progress and where we have not.
	Okay.
	A lot of mixed messages in that little thing.
	And then there's one thing I would like the press.
	I can't ask.
	That was a message to somebody.
	Oh, the message is there's an investigation going on.
	You're screwed.
	It's not my fault.
	Or maybe it was a message to the inspector general saying, at my level, hey, did you want to have a career anywhere, IG? You want to be careful what you're doing.
	Here's the one thing that I really want, and I've heard it so many times now, and I went looking for it, could not find the answer.
	A coalition of 65 countries who've been active...
	And pushing back against ISIL for quite some time.
	I would like to know what the 65 countries are.
	Why don't you not even bother?
	Why don't you just play the clip you've got right there?
	The bullshit clip.
	Oh, well, of course.
	Bullshit!
	France has been a central part of that crime.
	France won, yeah.
	As have European countries.
	European countries.
	Well, let's just pull...
	Is it 22?
	Something like that.
	Screw it.
	We'll give them 25.
	But France is a part of that, so it's 25.
	25.
	Arab countries.
	Arab countries.
	How many Arab countries?
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, about 12.
	12.
	Okay, so now it's 37.
	Countries as far flung as Australia.
	38.
	Countries in Southeast Asia.
	What's in Southeast Asia?
	Cambodia, South Vietnam, Vietnam, not South Vietnam, Vietnam.
	Let's just call it...
	Indonesia, Malaysia.
	Fine, fine.
	We're up to 50 then.
	50.
	I'll give you 50.
	That's a lie.
	Russia right now is a coalition of two.
	Iran and Russia.
	I don't know.
	Isn't France in that coalition?
	Apparently he doesn't want to...
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I don't want to hear anything about France.
	And my ears are closed.
	I really, really, really want to know what all the 65 countries are.
	I know that Germany is sending 1,500 soldiers now.
	This is new.
	Ooh.
	Yeah, I didn't know they still had them.
	Germany and I think the Netherlands is sending a helicopter or half a helicopter once they get to steam up the speed.
	It's...
	It really is just not true.
	No.
	And then, one of our producers sent me a note, and I always like to follow up on every kind of angle I can when it comes to what's really going on in the world, and I'm not afraid of religious texts.
	I'm not afraid of looking into them.
	And one of our producers sent me a story, which is in the Old Testament, about Gog and Magog.
	Have you ever heard of these two jabronis?
	Of course.
	I'd never heard of Gog and Magog.
	Oh, you have to have heard of Gog and Magog.
	No.
	Yes, very famous Jewish characters.
	Well, not only Jewish, but they also appear in the Quran.
	They also appear in other religions.
	And what it seems to me, if the second half of show material, not really, because I got some first half of show clips.
	It seems that that, you know, whenever Gog and Magog are called into some kind of conflict, it is end of times.
	So it's book of Revelation stuff.
	And I just went searching around to see who has used this Gog and Magog analogy.
	And I ran across, I think it was a Democracy Now interview with Kurt Eichenwald, I think his name is, a New York Times reporter.
	And he reported on the first, well not really, prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush called up Jacques Chirac.
	And he said, look, this is the Freedom Fries call.
	You guys got to get on board because, well, it's time.
	And we'll listen to what Eichenwald said.
	You write that Bush said to Chirac, quote, Jacques, you and I share a common faith.
	You're Roman Catholic.
	I'm Methodist.
	But we are both Christians committed to the teachings of the Bible.
	We share one common Lord.
	Bush goes on to say, quote, Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.
	Biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.
	This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a new age begins.
	End quote.
	Can you elaborate on that?
	It was a very interesting day when I heard that.
	I love that question.
	Can you elaborate on that?
	This was a phone call.
	At that point, Chirac had been expressing a great deal of doubt about the intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
	His doubts, obviously, were well placed.
	So there was this phone call, and Bush is giving many reasons why...
	France should become part of it.
	Why Chirac should be joining in.
	And he's not having a lot of success.
	And suddenly you shift into this religious conversation.
	And Chirac's response to this was, you know, he gets off the phone and other people have been, you know, have been in on the call.
	And he looks at his staff and says, does anyone know what he was talking about?
	Clearly the leader of France at the time was as dumb as I was.
	His administration, someone there reaches out to an expert on the Bible in Switzerland.
	And this person, because it's like, what is Gog and Magog?
	And this person writes up a report for, I just say this and it's surreal.
	He writes a report for the French president explaining these biblical terms that were cited by the President of the United States in this national security conversation.
	And Gog and Magog are from two books of the Bible, one the book of Ezekiel and one the book of Revelation.
	And it is central elements in the apocalyptic world.
	The Armageddon concept.
	And so Chirac's response when he reads this is, I'm dealing with a fanatic, and I'm not going to make national security decisions for France based on the president's interpretation of the Bible.
	I love that story.
	Wisely.
	Well...
	Of course, it resulted in freedom fries.
	And then I found another clip from an imam in Britain who has his own interpretation based on the Quran of Gog and Magog.
	It's just, I think these things are good to listen to.
	Who are Gog and Magog?
	Are they funny looking people or are they normal human beings?
	I don't know.
	To answer that question, we have to locate a people who prior to Wailul-Lil-Arab, prior to the time of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ had no special links with the Holy Land.
	But after the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ are now obsessed with liberating the Holy Land.
	Only one people qualify.
	It's Europe.
	Europe after the Prophet Muhammad to Islam embarks upon the Crusades.
	It's the white people doing it.
	The European...
	It's not an essentially Christian phenomenon.
	Why?
	Because no other Christians are involved in the Crusades.
	Only Europe.
	So the Crusades are an essentially European phenomenon masquerading as Christianity.
	Secondly, the obsession with the Holy Land continues with the Zionist movement.
	But the Zionist movement is European.
	But it is masquerading as Jewish.
	How do we know that?
	No other Jews are involved in the effort to liberate the Holy Land, only the European.
	This strange obsession on the part of Europe for liberating the Holy Land, which they eventually did in 1919, indicates that Gog and Magog are located in European civilization.
	We can refine it even more than that.
	We can be specific within European civilization.
	Because the hadith is that when Gog and Magog are released, the first of them will pass by the Sea of Galilee and start to drink the water.
	And by the time the last of them pass, they'll say there used to be water here.
	Who are they who are drinking the water from the Sea of Galilee?
	Not the Egyptians, not the Jordanians, not the Syrians.
	Wait!
	Israel!
	Jews!
	Who in Israel?
	Not Banu Israel, the European.
	It is the European Jew who controls the state of Israel.
	So we can identify Gog and Magog not only in Europe, But also in that part of Europe, which is Jewish.
	I'm telling you.
	That's a roundabout way to just condemn the Jews again.
	That's exactly what's going on.
	But be on the lookout for this Gog and Magog.
	Because just looking back in history, the Gog and Magog meme has been evoked many, many times.
	And it does pretty much...
	Or usually ends in rubbleization.
	Well, we're getting rubbleization taking place as we speak.
	Yeah.
	But I'm not going to discount the religious undertones.
	So I would guess the Kagan's.
	Robert is Gog.
	Yeah.
	And maybe Newland is Magog.
	Victoria Newland, Magog.
	Well...
	She would be Magog.
	She's the one who keeps showing up.
	Yeah.
	She shows up when rebelization follows.
	You know, what we haven't done is we haven't looked...
	She kind of looks like Magog.
	Hold on a second.
	Do we have a...
	Oh, my machine is freaking out today.
	It's not happy.
	I wanted the Noodleman jingle.
	She's so slick, she's taking that away from me.
	Yes, that's what Magog can do.
	You have to be careful.
	She's going to Turkey.
	Well, it's about time.
	Exactly.
	Turkey's long overdue for rebelization.
	Yeah, they may get it.
	The Russians have already closed the border.
	They used to be passport-free to go to Turkey.
	That's no good.
	They're going to pull the oil.
	Yeah, I have a clip on the sanctions Russia's imposed on Turkey.
	Moscow has announced a package of economic sanctions against Turkey over the downing of a Russian warplane on the Syrian border.
	Hey, can we agree?
	Can we stop saying downing, downed, the downed?
	Can we just say shot down, blowed up?
	I'm sick and tired of downed.
	It has to do with cattle.
	And it gives me trigger warnings for Down Syndrome.
	So stop!
	It's very disturbing.
	Downed.
	It was downed.
	Why is this term used all the time?
	I'm kind of amused that it irks you so much.
	And then on the second level, I have not noticed this, but now that you mention it, why do they keep saying it?
	Why don't they say shot down or shot or the shooting or the destruction of the plane?
	It's always downed.
	It was downed.
	When's the last time you downed something?
	I downed a beer last night.
	Okay, you can down a beer, but that's...
	That's a Beaujolais.
	Beaujolais should be drunk in that fashion.
	You're not drinking an airplane, you're drinking a Beaujolais.
	Downed.
	I don't like downed.
	I think it's chicken shit.
	Moscow has announced a package of economic sanctions against Turkey over the downing of a Russian war plane on the Syrian border last Tuesday.
	Rugs.
	Turkish firms operating in Russia.
	It also calls for an end to charter flights from Russia to Turkey and for Russian travel companies to stop selling holiday packages.
	We're looking at restrictions on imports.
	We don't know what exactly will be restricted yet.
	We'll find out next week.
	But Turkish firms will be restricted from doing business here.
	Turkish workers will be restricted on coming here.
	In terms of tourism as well, we know that charter flights will certainly stop and that travel agencies are now being told to stop selling holidays to Turkey.
	Now, that's a big deal for Turkey because something like four million Russians went to Turkey last year on holiday.
	Obviously, those people, the Russians as well, will be affected by this measure.
	But it does seem to stop short of affecting energy politics between the two countries.
	It seems that the gas tap won't be turned off, the oil will continue to flow, and scheduled flights between the two countries will continue.
	That was something which had been discussed, whether or not all air transport between the two countries would in fact be stopped.
	Okay, so the main thing is the oil will continue to flow.
	That is the main thing.
	I don't think anything else matters.
	Well, four million tourists amounts to an awful lot of money.
	Oh, it's a big deal.
	That's like four billion dollars because they probably spend a thousand dollars a piece.
	Oh, yeah.
	So that's a lot of money.
	When they start telling the Russians that are in Turkey to leave the country, then I'd be worried.
	Assad, meanwhile, is still available for interviews.
	He is.
	Is Charlie Rose going to interview him yet again?
	No, we got some chicky from Phoenix TV in Hong Kong.
	I mean, anybody can go interview the guy now.
	And I think he did a very smart move.
	The most important thing to the Chinese people now, China is one of the greatest countries in this world.
	And to be a great country doesn't mean to have great military and great economies.
	You need to have great values.
	And that's what the Chinese have today.
	So we look toward what the Chinese people and the Chinese government will do for our world in the future, near future.
	Seems to me like that was an open invitation for the Chiners to come and join in the festivities.
	Come on by, we think you people are smart.
	Yeah, they got great value.
	Sure, play this clip, China Crackdown on Descent.
	And in China, a prominent human rights activist was sentenced to six years in prison as a nationwide crackdown on dissent by the Chinese government continues.
	48-year-old Guo Feixiang was arrested for, quote, gathering crowds to disturb social order after a week-long peaceful demonstration outside a newspaper office two weeks ago.
	It's all coming here.
	It's all good.
	Just getting ready for it.
	I think we should wind up this segment with Diane Feinstein.
	I can say this.
	Director Comey and I think John Brennan would agree that the Achilles heel in the internet is encryption.
	Because there are now...
	It's a black web.
	It's a black web now, John.
	A black web?
	I've heard of the dark web, but a black web.
	She went to the black web.
	Trigger warning!
	Racist?
	The Achilles heel in the internet is encryption.
	Because there are now, it's a black web.
	And there's no way of piercing it.
	Can't pierce the black web.
	If only I could reach my utility belt, I could pierce the black web.
	And this evening commercial products.
	PlayStation, John.
	PlayStation!
	Which our kids use.
	Kids.
	If the two ends communicate, that's encrypted.
	Whoa!
	So terrorists could use PlayStation to be able to communicate.
	I mean, it's fantastic.
	You use PlayStation to train while shooting, and then you can use it to communicate.
	And there's nothing that can be done about it.
	You know, I have visited with all of the general counsels of the tech companies just to try to ask them to take bomb-building recipes off the Internet.
	Recipes that have been tested and we know can explode a plane.
	Explode a plane.
	Where did she get her education?
	Explode a plane.
	I mean, this is five-year-old talk.
	It exploded the plane.
	Explode a plane.
	Directions, where to sit on the plane to blow it up.
	Blow it up.
	She should have said to down it.
	That wouldn't have been much better.
	Where to sit to down the plane.
	Directions, where to sit on the plane to blow it up.
	We know there are bombs that can go through magnetometers.
	And...
	To put that information out on the internet is terrible.
	And her head is gone.
	Terrible, I tell you.
	Just terrible.
	What an idiot.
	I think she's senile.
	She doesn't look right if you see her.
	Her eyes are sunken.
	She's got a vacant look in her face.
	I think she's...
	The Botox has seeped.
	Yeah, I think she's been Botoxed.
	Hey, how come...
	It's pathetic.
	Good clip.
	I just hit a jingle.
	That's a borderline clip of the day, by the way.
	I hit a jingle and it didn't go.
	What's going on?
	Something's wrong here.
	Hold on.
	Huh.
	Oh, now you have two things for me to do.
	Hold on.
	I had the borderline clip of the day and I wanted to get into our segment.
	Well, apparently nothing works anymore on your machine there.
	In fact...
	You've got too much stuff going on.
	Hold on a second.
	It actually doesn't seem to be working.
	I think it's out of control.
	It's decided...
	It's striking.
	I'm...
	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 fabulous.
	I miss my borderline clip of the day.
	Yeah, too bad.
	You might get another one later.
	You seem to have a lot of good clips.
	Well, I had a little bit of time.
	All right, well, let's thank a few people for helping us out on the show.
	777 is going to be a long list because we have a lot of people that gave 77.70.
	Nice.
	But let's start with, I don't know why, I have no idea why this says Sir Alan Bean when it should be Sir Robert Smiley and make sure he's on the birthday list, which I think he is.
	$177.70 from Holland, Pennsylvania.
	I have Sir Alan Bean is wrong?
	Yes.
	Sir Alan Bean.
	Yeah, I got him.
	Okay, I got him.
	Yes, Sir Alan Bean did contribute to this show.
	This is normal $50 that he sends in from Oakland.
	But that's not...
	I don't know how this got here like this, because it's Sir Robert Smiley, who is an international spy.
	He's a novel.
	No, he's not.
	But he's named after a famous character in a Le Carré book.
	Kirk Ann in Genesco, New York, $130.57.
	He's got a couple of things going on here.
	Joachim Fornalaz in Zurich, Switzerland.
	I don't know how to pronounce his name.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Donald Borowski in Spokane Valley, Washington.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Oops, oops.
	We have to stop because this is a member of the United Federation of Planets.
	Ah, we have the letterhead.
	He's got the letterhead.
	That means I must read the note.
	I don't know why nobody else takes advantage of this.
	I guess they can't join anymore.
	Here's a bit of support for the show, even though I can't listen.
	My DSL service has been out for five days so far.
	Oh.
	That sucks.
	They should have mentioned who it was so we can shame them.
	I'm surviving on old shows that I downloaded previously.
	Cheers, Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles.
	W-A-6-O-M-I, I guess.
	Spokane Valley.
	Yes.
	Clay Gilliland in Chandler, Arizona.
	1-11-11.
	Wayne Lacombe.
	Capital L. Lacombe.
	Sunnybank, Queensland, Australia.
	And this, he's got a knighthood coming, so I think we have him on the list.
	Outstanding, yes.
	Stephen Hawkins in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. $100 flat.
	Dame Beth Borazon, the Baroness of Baja, Arizona.
	Tucson, actually, in 89.48.
	Thank you for your courage, she says.
	Benjamin Ritgers in Ames, Iowa.
	88.88.
	Joe Campagna in Ontario, California, 7777.
	Kent Anderson in St.
	Louis Park, Minnesota, 7777.
	Sam Menor, 7777 in Box Hill South.
	Brian Hastie in Hudson, Wisconsin, 7777.
	Trevor Baxter in Aurora, Indiana.
	And he had something to say, and he had a note, too.
	I think, wait a minute.
	Trevor Backstrom.
	I have, thanks for all you do.
	The service is worth so much.
	I give you what I can.
	Sometimes I can't.
	I don't know what I would listen to without you guys.
	Everyone is lying to me except you.
	Yeah, well, that's for sure.
	Thank you for your courage.
	There was a note here from him that came in.
	I think it's separate than that.
	All right.
	Onward.
	Whoops.
	The thing...
	Drew the paper down on the mouse, and the mouse clicked something, and now I'm way off here.
	There, Dane Borizan.
	Dick Monday.
	Dick Monday.
	Oh, yes.
	By the way, he sent a note in saying he wants to be anonymous, and so I think Dick Monday is a bullcrap name.
	Okay.
	But he went by that name, and I said it was not to say the city.
	Baroness Monica Lansing is in with 7770.
	These are all 7770s from here on out.
	She's in Drayton Valley, Alberta.
	Catherine Lee in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
	She sent a note saying she can't give us more Malaysian news.
	But to sum it up, at the end of the day, we have Prime Minister who equals Clinton in the Murder Club kill list.
	Good to know.
	Robert Goschko in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Now, Robert Goschko has a note.
	He says, I see that I have accrued enough value for value to be promoted to Earl.
	So this donation, I would henceforth like to be known as Sir Robert Goschko, Earl of Alberta.
	I think Eric missed that one.
	He is the Alberta Earl at this point.
	Sir Robert Goschko.
	Sean Mountain in Nuevo, California, 7770.
	Joel Blazek in Reno, Nevada.
	Christopher Dexter in Richland, Washington.
	James Zuckel in Los Angeles, California.
	Daniel Votor in Scarborough, Ontario.
	Dame Tanya Wayman in New York City.
	Nicholas Frost in Canberra, Australia.
	Canberra.
	I said Canberra.
	Canned Bear.
	Dan Reeder in Maudsland, Queensland.
	Robert Dricusen in Oshkosh, Bogosh, Wisconsin.
	Eric Wesseldyke in Burlington, North Dakota.
	Jay Kincaid in Roswell, Georgia.
	Aaron O'Farrell in...
	Jay is first-time donor, wants a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	There you go.
	Thank you.
	Aaron O'Farrell in Elk Grove, California.
	Harvey Lee in Federal Way, Washington.
	David Villieu in Concord, California.
	Ryan Wolfe in Covington, Virginia.
	Nicholas Ragucci in Hanover Park, Illinois.
	Irina Marchenko in London, UK.
	Brent Dombrowski in Westminster, Maryland.
	Richard Gardner, Sir Richard Gardner in Parts Unknown.
	John Geiser in South Elgin, Illinois.
	Happy Thanksgiving, everyone says.
	Richard Gardner in Chicago.
	Sir Richard Gardner in Chicago, Illinois.
	He has something to say.
	Lonely Exist is not having other No Agenda producers in the immediate circle.
	Meetups.
	Yeah, meetups for sure.
	We have to actually get on the stick.
	2016 will be the year of the meetup.
	We will try to encourage local No Agenda.
	Because you're in Chicago.
	There's probably about 50 No Agenda people in the Chicago area.
	You can meet up with all of the Tina the Keeper sisters.
	Yeah, there you go.
	So there's a meet at Chicago that was ripe for a big meetup.
	And then once you meet, you can hang out or do whatever.
	Because everybody, I don't know about you, but every time I've seen No Agenda listeners get together, they all like each other.
	Oh, always.
	Even if they differ in opinion, they all get along.
	Yeah, they get Democrats and Republicans.
	It's beautiful.
	It's beautiful.
	Aaron Guzman in Redding, California.
	Dr.
	Java in Loveland, Colorado.
	Dave Carey in Clermont, Florida.
	Armando Guerra.
	Ah, there he is.
	Ah, the mailman.
	The mail carrier.
	I'm glad.
	The mail carrier.
	Yes.
	The mail attendant.
	The mail engineer from Austin, Texas.
	Armando.
	I think it's great that he still listens.
	It keeps him going.
	He's walking that route every day.
	He probably listens to the show where he walks.
	Yes, he does.
	That's a great idea.
	Dennis Jarnett in Hollister, Maryland.
	Sir Charles Walters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
	Vincent James in Madison, Alabama.
	A dude named Benonymous in San Leandro, California.
	He did send a note in, which says, let's see if I should look at it.
	These notes are, you know, just says, oh yeah, KJ6RHJ. K5SLN, 7.3s.
	And the new name, Benonymous, is the end of our list of 7.7.70s.
	Now we go.
	Continue with Got Nate in Draper, Utah.
	69, 69.
	Ellen Murray in Missoula, Montana.
	67, 89.
	James Wolfe, 67, 89.
	Los Angeles, California.
	Not sure what the 67, 89 is.
	I'm not sure either.
	Ellen did send a note.
	It's just nice.
	67, 89.
	It's nice.
	Oh, 67, 89.
	Duh.
	Ellen says, seriously, you guys make life brighter.
	Oh, thank you, Ellen.
	James Wolfe, 769, said that.
	Sir Insight Jobs, Black Knight of Seattle, Washington, 6666.
	Sir Brian Warden in Down, Illinois, 6433.
	James Katsheen II in Herndon, Virginia.
	We need more Virginia money.
	We've got a birthday coming up there.
	6050.
	John Bolzovich.
	Bolzewicz, I think, in Warren, Michigan.
	60.
	Good Polish name, I can't pronounce it.
	Now, this next one should be holobooks.com.
	That's not what's free, Holobooks.
	No, that's the whole point.
	He changed it because they're no longer free.
	It's holobooks.com.
	He's got a business now.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, it's holobooks.com.
	5678.
	Another good number in Summerfield, North Carolina.
	And he's launching on Cyber Monday.
	Cyber Monday.
	Cyber Monday.
	What a crock!
	Mark Magpio in Cerritos, California.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Josh McDonald, double nickels on the dime.
	Parts unknown.
	Andrew Dawson in, oh, one.
	Tyrannus South, Victoria, Australia.
	5280.
	David Swanson, 5280.
	And Grants Pass, Oregon.
	And these are the Mile High Club.
	There's only five of them.
	Six.
	Alan Fleetwood in Cottage Grove also has a birthday.
	Oregon, 5280.
	Howard LaCuro in Worcester, Massachusetts.
	Or Worcester, I guess, 5280.
	Kathleen Bowman in Quartz Hill, California, 5280.
	And Vale Pilly, Parts Unknown, 5280.
	Sir Eric Hochul in Berlin, 5280.
	And then onward to Marcos Murayama Nagasaki in Linz, Lima, Peru, 5150.
	Karma, karma for everybody.
	Well, we do have a couple of karma requests, including one of them for a daughter who needs work.
	Okay, so that would be a jobs karma?
	That'll be at the end.
	Yeah, I gotta get that right.
	So pay attention.
	Eric Osnes in Lawndale, California, 5150.
	Sir Brian Kaufman in Phoenix, Arizona, 5050.
	Gregory Davis in Lawton, Oklahoma, 50.
	The final ones are $50.
	That includes Gregory Davis in Lawton, Oklahoma.
	David Dural in Malta, New York.
	Gerald Inabene in Union, South Carolina.
	Ross Turpin in Troy, Kansas.
	Peter Totes in the UK, 50.
	Shad Rich, and I won't say it, parts unknown, 50.
	Donald Napier in Chicago, Illinois.
	Brian Evans in Berwick, Victoria, Australia.
	A lot of Australians today, thank you.
	Paul Davis in Feltham, Middlesex, UK. A lot of Brits today, thank you.
	Joe Schwartzbauer in Florissant, Florissant, Florissant, Florissant, Missouri.
	Matt Comstock in Walcott, Connecticut.
	And wrapping up, we got Sir, I think it's Sir Sandy Geisler in Watkinsville, Georgia, 50.
	Amy Herbert in South Windsor, Connecticut.
	And Alan Bean, Sir Alan Bean over here in Oakland, Sir Bogdan Lehendro in Roanoke, Virginia, and that concludes our list of well-wishers for the last two shows.
	That's right, it was two shows, right.
	There's a two-show list for 776.5 and 7770.
	I want to thank all of you for helping us keep going here.
	And also thank you to everyone who came in with the affordable donation, as you...
	Stated in the newsletter of $7.77.
	A lot of those.
	That was very good.
	A lot of them had little notes that were very nice.
	And yeah, it was John Bolzewicz that had the daughter who was looking for work.
	And a lot of go podcasting.
	Well, for some reason people like putting that in their donation note.
	Go podcasting.
	That's right.
	Go podcasting!
	All right.
	Hey, thank you all very much.
	This is great.
	This totally carried us over for the two shows.
	And again, thank you to Sir Cyber for the No Agenda Funnies on Thanksgiving, which traditionally is a very, very slow day for listening and for producerships.
	So I think we...
	I'm happy.
	I'm thankful.
	No, I'm thankful.
	That's what I am.
	How about you?
	Yeah, I'm very thankful, and I think this is a very slow week.
	Thanksgiving week is miserable.
	People are not listening on Thursday.
	Hopefully they will listen because the show is so funny.
	And today's show probably has a minor audience, too.
	Hopefully they'll just download it and play.
	The one thing I saw consistently when everything was going down this week was, oh, man, why did we have to wait until Sunday?
	People want to hear the voice of reason, whatever we provide.
	Which, of course, is completely unfettered.
	We have nothing to worry about for what we want to say.
	Because we don't have commercial interests involved in the show.
	Because commercial interests will always make the show slanted.
	It will ruin the show.
	That's why we ask for contributions.
	And we prefer plugging all these people, mentioning them by name, than talking about some product you should buy.
	Exactly.
	And quite honestly, there's not a lot of products I like anymore.
	You?
	Well, not really.
	I'm sorry.
	What were you going to say?
	I don't know.
	I've got things around here I kind of like.
	I like the slide whistle.
	All right.
	Let's hand out the jobs karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you very much for your support.
	support is highly appreciated.
	And the list reads as follows, sir.
	Sir Alan Dean turning 54.
	Turned 54 yesterday.
	Kevin McLaughlin celebrates his birthday tomorrow.
	James Kachin II. Kachin II. His happy birthday to Doug Yu.
	His birthday is today.
	Alan Fleetwood celebrating tomorrow.
	And David Bradshaw will be celebrating his birthday on December 1st.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Title on it.
	Hold, hold, stop, stop, stop.
	Did you say Sir Alan Bean instead of Sir Robert Smiley?
	That's what I asked.
	Sir Alan Bean.
	No, I said Sir Alan Bean.
	At the beginning, I said Sir Alan Bean was listed for $177.70, but it was for Sir Robert Smiley, and he's the one who should have gotten the birthday call-out.
	I said I have Sir Alan...
	Well, I didn't hear you correctly.
	Okay.
	So...
	Tell me what it was.
	Sir Robert Smiley has a birthday.
	He's 54.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	We say congratulations to Sir Robert Goschko, becoming the Earl of Alberta, Canada.
	And we have a nice list of knights today.
	We have one, two, three, four, five, five.
	Five knights.
	So I'd like to invite onto the stage while I get my blade here.
	John, yours please.
	You can get that out.
	Kevin McLaughlin.
	Want him on?
	Yeah.
	You got it?
	It was some ranch hand.
	It's stuck in here.
	Uh-oh.
	Sir Lloyd of...
	Okay.
	Perfect.
	Sir Lloyd of Brisbane, Joachim Fernandez, and Wayne Larcombe.
	Come on, gentlemen.
	All of you are now joining the roundtable of the Knights and Dames of No Agenda.
	I hereby pronounce the KD. Sir Kevin.
	Sir Lloyd of Brisbane.
	Sir Joachim.
	Sir Wayne Larkholm.
	And Sir Benjamin.
	Order of dudes named Ben.
	For you we have hookers and blow rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got dilaudid and dramamine.
	Crickets and cream.
	Cheap wine and chili dogs.
	Ah, screw it.
	Just get some mutton and mead.
	Oh my God.
	Tough list.
	Please all go to NoahGeneration.com slash rings.
	I'm pretty sure that's all going to stay open, right?
	Just because we've sold out the inventory, the rings part stays intact.
	The rings are not, you know, they're being made as we speak, so they won't...
	Oh, it'll be a little while?
	Eric says they'll be around Christmas when they get shipped out.
	Oh, but it'll be a lovely Christmas gift.
	Yeah, make sure to post it on Twitter or something so we can, you know, repost it.
	Excellent.
	Retweet it.
	Excellent, excellent, excellent.
	Thank you all very much.
	It's really, really appreciated.
	Let me see.
	A couple more things that were going on that...
	Oh, yeah.
	I thought this was kind of cool.
	I really enjoyed Jeff Bezos and his rocket ship that landed.
	Looks like a big dick.
	Most rockets do?
	Most rockets do.
	No, this looks really bad.
	I mean, this is like one of those things that you would have in one of the movies with Mike.
	I can't remember the name of those films, but where he played this shag me character.
	Oh, Austin Powers.
	Austin Powers.
	It reminds me of that bit that you did in there.
	I really liked that Elon Musk is all pissed off about it.
	That's the thing I like most.
	No, I didn't know this.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's been tweeting saying, well, we've been doing these for many years now.
	Oh, God.
	What a baby.
	Every single one of his attempts, of course, fails.
	He hasn't been able to land it like this one did.
	It landed back on Earth.
	It was damn cool to see.
	And he was on with Good Morning America, and I... Bezos...
	Bezos?
	No, Bezos.
	Musk.
	Now, Musk is all teed off, you know.
	And Bezos, you know, he's got this cool video, which is, of course, animated.
	And you see people go up into space, and they're floating around in what looks like a really nice capsule with big windows.
	Which would be the head part of the dick you talk about.
	And it's just fun to listen to Bezos laugh.
	And your website actually teased some information about Wendell C and space travel.
	Is that something that you could possibly be planning?
	Yes.
	Right now, we just flew this vehicle successfully.
	This is the beginning of a long and very deliberate test program where we're going to fly the vehicle many, many times.
	And then when we're completely confident in it, we're going to start using it to take people up into space.
	That should take another couple of years.
	Wow.
	Now, do you want to go to space one day?
	I mean, it's one thing to launch the rocket successfully.
	You know it.
	Absolutely.
	I've wanted to do that since I was a five-year-old boy.
	It's a passion.
	It's deep in You guys are invited if you want to come.
	I'm the takers on that offer.
	You're going to go?
	Some of us only fly first class.
	I'm a coach guy myself.
	I get a window seat.
	Why wouldn't you want to do it?
	Because at first I was thinking no, but you're right, Jeff.
	It's a great adventure and you're going to test it over and over again.
	I still haven't seen the Grand Canyon.
	I know.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	I love how Bezos laughs.
	This is so great.
	Unfortunately, it was good.
	While you were playing that clip, I was thinking the same thing that one of them said, which is most people haven't even seen the Grand Canyon.
	Yeah.
	But they're going to take one of these rides.
	I'm sad that he offered that to Good Morning America and not to Al Roker.
	Put that fucker in space, please.
	Get rid of that guy.
	Look at that juice.
	The juice that comes out.
	My hand is dripping wet here because I have nothing but juice.
	Attention all the human resources.
	No answering.
	Second half of the show.
	All right, second half of the show.
	Oof!
	It's a short one today.
	I caught some breaking news on CNN the other morning and I was dumbfounded once again.
	Once again, I just can't believe why people don't see through this hoax.
	Okay, everybody, we have breaking news on this daily hit, breaking galactic news.
	A mouse has been found on Mars.
	Wait, what?
	Yes.
	Wait, what?
	Look at this.
	Wait, where is it?
	Oh, so it's like a Where's Waldo thing?
	Yeah, but where is the mouse?
	I need it spot shadowed.
	Oh, there it is.
	Is that a mouse?
	Yeah, that's a mouse.
	Or is that an optical illusion?
	Well, I think it's a mouse.
	A Mars.
	It's a Mars mouse.
	That looks like a cockroach.
	That doesn't look like a mouse.
	You see its ears to the right?
	I can't believe this.
	This is breaking news.
	When will they just say, all right, it's New Mexico.
	Come on.
	A mouse.
	We know.
	It would be different with those little rodents that are really nice.
	It's really, it's really nuts.
	Well, you're going to do that.
	I get to do sports news.
	Oh, wait, wait, wait.
	We have a jingle for that, I think.
	Is this about football?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay, then I say, here we go.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Yeah!
	Now it's in the sports!
	Sports!
	John Tito Morag with sports!
	Well, there's been a breakthrough in the kind of sports coverage we can expect in the future from ESPN.
	And there's an exemplified here by this report.
	They had the coach of the LSU Tigers.
	What are they, the Tigers?
	I don't know what they are.
	But their LSU team.
	I think they're the Tigers.
	Maybe not.
	What is the LSU team?
	Somebody in the chat room must know.
	Whatever the case, they had the coach out there.
	They're interviewing him.
	And because he's surrounded by all the players, he breaks into song.
	Coach, you just got off the shoulders of your team.
	Tell me what this moment feels like for you.
	It's great.
	I love this team.
	Great young men.
	They fought like hell.
	I'm going to have to sing the alma mater now.
	I'm sorry.
	Molder of mankind.
	May greater glory, love unending, be forever thine.
	Our world It reminded me of you, Adam, so I had to play it.
	Thank you so much.
	So that's our sports report.
	I think that may be a good new segment.
	I kind of like it.
	Now, I have one other thing that's kind of interesting, offbeat, since you've got the half-second, half-show stuff.
	If this was done as a native advertisement, this is a native advertisement.
	I believe it was a native ad.
	I could be wrong, but whatever it was, it failed as any sort of report.
	This is the KTLA dingbat clip.
	Hmm.
	Well, the FDA has ruled that genetically engineered salmon are safe to eat.
	The ruling paves the way.
	Yeah, right there.
	That's the big mistake, right there.
	For the first altered fish to eventually reach supermarket shelves.
	Now, that decision ends a five-year battle waged by the company Aqua Bounty Technologies to get approval for its salmon, which has been shown to grow much faster than farm-raised Atlantic salmon.
	No word yet on when the first batches of fish would be sold commercially.
	Not that you would buy it anyway.
	Yes, nor would I eat that ever.
	Oops.
	Nothing modified.
	Why would you eat something modified?
	That doesn't even make sense.
	Yeah.
	You're here.
	Thanks, Kai.
	Cheer, cheer.
	Oh, that's why we're educated about those things.
	It's important to stay healthy.
	Well, outside we go and...
	Hello.
	Is this advertising department?
	Yeah, you probably heard about the deal we had for our salmon, our genetically modified salmon.
	I'm a little confused.
	We do a lot of deals.
	Excuse me, is the customer wrong?
	I'm calling, I am your customer.
	I'm sorry, I don't know who you are.
	I'm from the GMO salmon company.
	Oh, right, right, right, right, right.
	Yeah, we did it.
	We placed that ad in one of the KTLA. Yeah, but I'm not understanding why your morning team decided to then tag this.
	This was not the agreed to tag.
	This is not how it was supposed to work out.
	No, we agreed to talk about it a little bit after it played.
	Can't you keep these people in line?
	We agreed that we'd talk about it.
	What they had to say, it's fine.
	I mean, you got your plug.
	No, they then said that they would never eat anything genetically modified.
	This is an outrage!
	I want make goods!
	Make goods!
	Make goods!
	You're not getting it.
	You're lucky to be in business.
	Bye.
	I just, hold on.
	I just snotted.
	Hold on.
	I don't want to be on the end of that phone call.
	They messed that one up.
	Why eat anything modified?
	It makes no sense.
	I caught a thing on CNBC. I think the Obamacare exchanges are open.
	And there was a profit warning and a big notice from UnitedHealth.
	Now, UnitedHealth is one of the largest health insurers.
	Yes, one of the big boys.
	There are only, what, only three or four, aren't there, like really big ones?
	We've got Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealth, and...
	Eventually, there'll only be one.
	Here's a former CEO of Aetna, and he's talking about, and this is on CNBC, about UnitedHealth possibly considering leaving the exchange.
	Well, I think what we have to recognize is that in the individual insurance market, maintaining affordability requires you have a mix of members in that insurance pool.
	You need people who need health care today, tomorrow, and in the future.
	And where we stand now, because of some of the special enrollment periods, is we have a mix and balance.
	We have more people who need health care today and fewer who are making a decision to purchase the insurance before they actually need the health care.
	Could what happened today be the biggest threat and the biggest hit of all to the health care law?
	I mean, UnitedHealth is so big and so powerful, it has to be hurting the other guys, too.
	Well, I think we have to keep it all in perspective.
	The reality is it is better for people to have insurance than to not have insurance.
	The debate is how do we do it and how do we structure it in a way that we maintain affordability.
	For the people who participated in Medicaid expansion, there are 7 million of them.
	They have no out-of-pocket, no expense.
	It's been a big win, but it's been a Medicaid expansion.
	For individuals who purchase and families who purchase through the exchanges, we need to find better ways to make certain that it's an affordable product.
	I don't think it's the end of the exchanges.
	I don't think it's the biggest thing we'll see.
	The health plans will look at their costs, and they will price their product to reflect the cost.
	But it is a blow.
	I mean, $500 million for the biggest health insurer on a loss just from these exchanges next year, that's not going to be good for the health care law, which needs these companies.
	Well, I would agree, and I think what we'll see is each plan will look at their costs, they will take whatever write-off is necessary, and they will price those plans.
	The question is, what kind of regulatory pushback will they get, and will they be asked to go forward with premiums that are not actuarially supportable?
	If that happens, then the plans will not participate, would be my judgment.
	Ah, so that worked out fine, didn't it?
	Well, all the co-ops, with the exception of maybe one or two, have all folded.
	Oh, the co-ops were out earlier.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're gone.
	There's still a couple hanging.
	But they are actually out of business.
	Some of them have closed.
	They folded because it didn't work, and they couldn't afford it.
	It just went out of business.
	Now, let me ask you this.
	This whole thing is an outrageous scam.
	Agreed.
	Question.
	Because that last bit there about the regulatory oversight, would they be allowed?
	I'm thinking...
	Now, this, of course, will be the next president, probably, when this takes place, I think.
	I have a feeling that UnitedHealth will be maybe seen as too big to fail or something, and they'll get some kind of pass on jacking up the rates more.
	Oh, you think this is just an extortion gimmick?
	Yes.
	Yeah, probably.
	Could be.
	Yeah, something like that.
	Oh, John, by the way, we need to update Dvorak's law.
	Why?
	Well, because of the sandwiches?
	Yes, I would like a curry amendment to Dvorak's law.
	I will read Dvorak's law.
	This came up, of course, in the Best of for the Funny show on Thanksgiving.
	It's in the Urban Dictionary.
	Dvorak's law.
	I quote verbatim, the worse the economy, not only do the hookers get better looking, but they get cheaper.
	And then there's a little subscript here.
	Some postulate that additionally, hookers get more business during a worse economy.
	However, Dvorak himself attributes this to supply and demand, which often leads to an increase in business, which is driven by the need to compensate for loss of revenue caused by the same reduction in costs stated in Dvorak's law.
	All, of course, continuously being proven true.
	But I would like a curry amendment to Dvorak's law, if you don't mind me weaseling in on your action.
	Well, it depends on the amendment.
	The amendment...
	I mean, if the amendment is Adam Curry's great...
	Well, you should just have that bumper sticker anyway.
	No, so based on the news out of Greece where prostitution is legal, the price of sex has fallen from 50 euros to about $2 or the cost of a sandwich.
	But the amendment would be that the hookers also get younger.
	These are teenage prostitutes now, John.
	Oh, well...
	So, better looking, price goes down, and the hookers get younger.
	See, I'm not going to buy into that one completely, because I think the hookers get older, too.
	And should we not?
	I think the age range just expands as more people become hookers in the crappy economy.
	Okay, well, that's a reasonable point.
	You're saying that the scale expands on the young side and the old side.
	Yeah.
	Okay, then the amendment has been denied.
	What do you say?
	That one is struck down.
	My amendment has been downed.
	Downed.
	My amendment is downed, people.
	Alright then, let's go look at my favorite obsession, which I'm sure we'll keep going for the next couple of years.
	Migrants in Europe!
	Oh boy, we're on the border between Greece and Macedonia, and we have our BBC man on the spot.
	All these people are stranded now.
	I'm going to show you something which is quite disturbing, so you've been warned, look away.
	Alright, close your ears if you can't handle it.
	You don't want to see it, but these people say they will not eat, they will not talk.
	And to prove their point, around a dozen, I've sewn up their mouths.
	Have you seen this?
	I'm sorry.
	I couldn't understand what he said.
	So they're protesting.
	They're not being allowed into Macedonia because they are not Syrian or, I guess, Syrians and Iraqis.
	I don't think anyone else is allowed to apply, a lot of Iranians.
	So they're sitting there.
	They have sewn their mouths shut.
	What?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's disturbing.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	A protest.
	A protest to what?
	That they're not being allowed past the border into Macedonia to continue their voyage into, I guess, Germany.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	So they're sewing their mouths shut.
	It's an old tactic, but I think it's always effective.
	Well, it's always disgusting.
	And effective.
	And effective.
	Alright, well that was a nice depressing piece.
	I got plenty more.
	Oh, we finally did get a very disturbing report from General John Campbell about the attack on the Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan.
	Oh, we're finally getting to the bottom of it?
	It was a big, big glitch.
	Strike began at 2.08 a.m.
	At 2.20 a.m., a SOF officer at Bagram received a call from MSF advising that their facility was under attack.
	It took the headquarters and the U.S. Special Operations Commander until 2.37 a.m.
	to realize a fatal mistake.
	At that time, the AC-130 had already ceased firing.
	The strike lasted for approximately 29 minutes.
	This is an example of human and process error.
	The investigation found that the strike resulted in the death of 30 staff, patients, and assistants, and the injury of 37 others.
	U.S. Forces Afghanistan is currently working hand in hand with MSF to identify the injured and the families of those who lost loved ones in order that we may offer appropriate condolences.
	Send a card to the right address.
	Based upon the information learned during the investigation, the report determined that the proximate cause of this tragedy was a direct result of avoidable human error, compounded by process and equipment failures.
	In addition, the report found that fatigue in a high operational tempo contributed to this tragedy.
	It also identified failures in systems and processes that, while not the cause of the strike on the MSF Trauma Center, Contributed to the incident.
	These included the loss of electronic communication systems on the aircraft What kind of outfit are we running?
	That's boog.
	And by the way, if you remember the early reports, one of the guys on the plane said, hey, we're not supposed to be shooting at that thing.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	No, no, shoot.
	Radio's not working.
	The nature of the planning and approval process employed during operations in Kundo City and the lack of a single system to vet proposed targets against a no-strike list.
	Yeah.
	We have reviewed each of these failures and implemented corrections as appropriate.
	We have learned from this terrible incident.
	No.
	We'll also take appropriate administrative and disciplinary action through a process.
	Wait a minute.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why disciplinary action if it was all a glitch?
	Why disciplinary action if it was a glitch?
	A glitch.
	That is fair.
	He should have just said it was a glitch.
	And everyone would be, oh, okay, gotcha.
	All right, let's go home, boys.
	Pack it up.
	There should be no disciplinary action if what he says is true, which is bullcrap.
	He considers the available evidence.
	The cornerstone of our military justice system is the independence of decision makers following a thorough investigation such as this one.
	You know, something just hit me.
	Someone told me that Jag lawyers are infiltrated everywhere throughout the entire U.S. court system.
	Did you hear about this?
	No.
	Sounds like a conspiracy.
	It is.
	And the JAG lawyers are always going to, obviously, help the armed forces.
	But apparently, they're spread out now throughout the entire criminal justice system in the United States.
	Well, I don't buy the argument that they will always do something or not do something.
	Well, okay.
	Good point.
	Unless they're still being paid by the Navy.
	And I'll tell you why.
	Because when I was an air pollution inspector...
	Having come from the oil refining business, I had no problem being harsh on the oil refiners.
	It was, oh, it's just a revolving, you know, you worked for an oil company, now you're inspecting them.
	That's corruption.
	No, it's not true.
	It's not the way you operate, the way normal people operate.
	A JAG lawyer, if he was in the Navy, is, yeah, pro-military, you have a military background, and then he's now a civilian and he happens to be an ex-JAG lawyer.
	He's not going to, he may go just the opposite.
	Mm-hmm.
	I mean, if you talk, for example, about, like, Navy captains, everybody knows it.
	And on these smaller ships, these little boats and oilers and things like that, they're all a-holes.
	And everybody in the Navy knows it.
	If you got out of the Navy and you had a chance to get back at one of these clowns, you would do it.
	So I'm not buying it.
	Okay.
	It's just something that hit me.
	Yeah.
	And I learned something.
	Did you learn anything hanging out with the Millennials over Thanksgiving?
	Yeah.
	I was with my wife.
	Oh, I thought the Millennials were there.
	No, no, no.
	They were down here eating dinner.
	I mean, so we had to distribute all the information about the turkey.
	Oh, okay.
	I learned something from one of the Keepers Millennials.
	I learned a new word.
	Didn't you give me that word a little earlier?
	Well, no, I'm going to give you the word now.
	Then it ties into something your millennials identified earlier.
	It is related.
	Yeah.
	It is trypophobia.
	Never heard of it.
	About tripe?
	Trypophobia.
	And this is a real thing.
	I saw it before my eyes.
	About tripe?
	Trypophobia.
	T-R-Y-P. Trypophobia.
	I don't know what that is.
	Trypophobia is the fear of objects with small holes.
	What?
	Yeah, I know.
	Fear of objects with small holes.
	And a honeycomb is one.
	Coral reef is another.
	A tree trunk that a woodpecker's been at.
	Could even be a pancake with holes in it.
	A strawberry.
	Small holes.
	Golf ball.
	The inside of a cantaloupe.
	These kids are fucked.
	Well, let's take a look at how fucked they are.
	I have a couple of clips.
	Please!
	They're listening, so let's hit it.
	Let's start with Sherry Turkle's new book about conversation and discuss cell phones and how they are affecting the way people have conversations.
	I'm not a big fan of Sherry Turkle normally.
	Who is she?
	She's an MIT professor who always writes about technology from a professor's perspective.
	She's never been in the Valley.
	She's not a technologist.
	But I have to say this new book is interesting.
	Let's play.
	I got three little clips.
	Let's start with Sherry Turkle, Phone at Lunch 1.
	You see something, a very specific problem, a loss of empathy, of our ability to empathize with others.
	Explain that.
	Well, it's very typical that when two people are having lunch, They put a phone on the table between them.
	And all the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation.
	It will make the conversation go to trivial matters and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other.
	That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.
	Even if we don't look at it.
	Even a silent phone disconnects us.
	Really?
	Well, I'm buying into this, and I kind of like what she's up to here.
	I mean, it's a stretch, a little bit of a stretch, but she's got some documentation.
	Let's play Phone at Lunch 2.
	There's a 40% decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past 10 years.
	That's not okay.
	So even if, I mean, our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't pull ourselves together and say we need to talk to each other because it's in conversation the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.
	So she's making these points, and then she wraps it up with the stats final.
	But somehow not take it seriously.
	In the latest Pew study, 89% of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone.
	And 82% of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.
	So, my favorite line in my book, kind of author's choice, is technology makes us forget what we know about life.
	We know we're doing something that's not good.
	You put your hand up in somebody's face and say, excuse me, I just need to interrupt this conversation for a moment, and yet we do it anyway.
	Well, I was thinking about this because when I have the millennials over, they're always doing this.
	Mm-hmm.
	You're having dinner, you're talking about something, and then somebody checks their phone, and then next thing you know, they're obsessed with the phone, they're fiddling around, and they write, okay, I'll call you later, or whatever they do.
	And it's a very common thing, and it does, I think, make things deteriorate.
	And I think it happens when you go out to lunch with somebody, and you're right, and she's right, you put the phone, you know, people...
	I would say 15 years ago, before this empathy thing started ruining everything...
	If you went, it was always considered rude.
	Maybe it was 20 years ago.
	It was always considered rude to have the phone on.
	It was just rude.
	Well, 20 years ago, if you had a phone, you were a dick.
	Don't you remember that?
	It's like, what are you, important or something?
	Maybe it was a little longer than that.
	Maybe it was a little longer.
	Whatever.
	I do remember when it was rude to have the phone.
	The restaurants would get upset with you if you had one.
	Oh, you'd have to go outside to take a call, even though you'd interrupt a meal to do it.
	But this thing is a nightmarish little device, and it doesn't really...
	Unless you're a doctor on call, there was no reason to be constantly checking this phone.
	This began with the BlackBerry, and I never thought...
	I felt that the BlackBerry, they used to call it, when the BlackBerry first came out, anyone who had one was constantly checking it.
	And if you were on an airplane with somebody who had a BlackBerry...
	Well, that was really the first portable email machine that really worked.
	Right.
	And people were checking it and checking it and checking it.
	And that was the beginning.
	And I always said when people tried to copy and try to make inroads with the popularity of the Blackberry, I said, well, the mechanism isn't the same on these other smartphones or dumb phones or whatever they were, the flip phones.
	And so they can never catch what the BlackBerry had, which was this crazy addiction people had to it.
	But once Steve Jobs came along with the iPhone and it started taking the place of the BlackBerry, and BlackBerry's a dead product now, everybody now has a smartphone and everybody is completely addicted in an old BlackBerry-like sense where they're constantly checking this device.
	And it just interrupts everything.
	And it used to be considered rude.
	But because everybody's addicted, nobody thinks it's rude anymore.
	So they have them, you bring the phone out, you put it on the table when you have lunch, and you check it every once in a while, you use it to look stuff up.
	Anyway, she's got a whole book about it.
	She thinks it's ruining us all.
	I would agree.
	We have no...
	We as a human species who still have tailbones have absolutely no idea how to handle this much information.
	We're not...
	We have not evolved yet to be able to equip it, which is why we naturally gravitate towards pictures, emojis.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And...
	And we all know what that eggplant is for.
	We all know what that emoji is for.
	Come on.
	Now, continuing with the millennials.
	Okay.
	PBS Living at Home.
	Oh my goodness.
	Not part two, part one.
	Let me make sure I got part one.
	It doesn't say part one.
	No.
	Parents and plenty of 20 and 30-somethings are well aware that many young adults move back home these days after they finish school.
	And they're back on the payroll.
	Analysis of census data out today from the Pew Research Center underlined the extent to which this is happening.
	It finds that 36 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 34 are living at home with parents or relatives.
	That is higher than at any time since 1940.
	An earlier analysis also found that nearly 43 percent of young men lived in a similar arrangement last year.
	All right, we have that element going.
	And so if we play part two, they always seem to overlook the one factor that I think is kind of part of the problem, but they brush past it.
	At 36%, more than 36%, the biggest percentage we've seen since the Great Depression, what's behind this?
	I would point to sort of three factors sort of for the long-run sweep.
	The low point was about 1960.
	We're about 24 percent.
	So it's been on the rise slowly, markedly picked up in the new century.
	Three factors.
	Number one, young adults are much less likely to be married than was the case 50, 60 years ago.
	When young couples get married, they don't live with their parents.
	So that delayed marriage has sort of reduced the incentive to leave the nest.
	Secondly, particularly among young women, many more of them are college students.
	College enrollment by young women has gone up by about five-fold since 1960.
	College students, if you think about community college students, students going to the local universities are much more likely to be living at home.
	Maybe that's why the president proclaimed this coming week National Family Week.
	Well, what's ignored by this is they discussed since the turn of the century, which was, of course, the dot-com crash and the economy's never recovered.
	We're in a depression.
	So no wonder this is going on.
	They said since the Great Depression there haven't been anything like this.
	It is the depression, and it's the simplest explanation for the phenomenon.
	And there's no jobs to be had by anybody.
	It's a dependent group.
	And...
	I love bugs!
	We'll all be eating them.
	We will be eating them, people.
	Tastes like poop.
	I have another oddball clip.
	Okay.
	Have you ever listened to Erdogan speak?
	Yes, yes.
	He screams like Hitler.
	Like Mussolini was more my thought, but yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, Hitler, Mussolini, either one of them.
	But I just have this clip where they're translating it, but in the background you can hear him and he screams his speeches.
	Pazartesi günü Paris'te...
	On Monday, there will be a meeting in Paris.
	I believe Mr.
	Putin will be there attending.
	I would like to meet him there and maybe talk about this in a reasonable way.
	We are very disturbed by the fact that this issue got escalated needlessly.
	There is a big potential for cooperation between the two countries, and we do not want this issue to hurt our current or potential relations.
	Putin's foreign affairs adviser said the Kremlin had received the meeting request, but wouldn't say if it was possible.
	Here is freedom!
	Subjugation is liberation!
	Contradiction is truth!
	Those are the facts of this world, and you will all surrender to them!
	You pigs in human clothing!
	All right.
	So let's just call it, John.
	When will we have someone just say, this is World War III, we're screwed, this is not good?
	I mean, do you have a date?
	Well, I think it's already past the date.
	It's only World War III for a while.
	Yeah, but someone has to call it.
	Call it.
	I think a bunch of people have called it.
	Yeah, but not of presidential level or prime minister level or anything.
	Do you think that will happen?
	They're not going to call it.
	Not going to call it?
	No, because what they're going to do is they're going to beat around the bush about it.
	I think the date would only be determined by one bomb being dropped somewhere by someone and blowing up a whole area.
	Yeah, or my original thesis, which would be to blow up a nuclear reactor.
	Yeah.
	That would be kind of okay.
	I really expect it.
	I would like to see a bomb.
	Great.
	I'm so happy.
	Yeah, it'll be fine.
	Let's see a bomb.
	We have to talk about Project Hornet's Nest and the whole ISIL, ISIS versus Israel thing, because it's getting more and more apparent.
	Do you have a summary on what Project Hornet's Nest is?
	Supposedly, according to one source, a European source, it was part of the information that was held back by the Guardian in the New York Times, That the whole ISIL-ISIS thing is...
	Oh, this was Snowden documents, right?
	Snowden documents saying that this was Project Hornet's Nest, and it was designed by the Israeli and American intelligence, which is what everybody thinks in the Middle East.
	Here's the rundown.
	I've got it here.
	This is according to documents that we have not seen, which would have been withheld, Snowden documents, which are usually PowerPoints.
	ISIS leader al-Baghdadi was once a super high-level prisoner of the U.S. government, despite the fact that the U.S. had offered a $10 million reward for him.
	The Obama regime ordered his release in 2009, which I think is verifiable.
	The Obama regime, with major support from Senate neocons John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have given hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Sunni jihadists in Syria.
	We've actually seen the meetings.
	ISIS posted pictures of al-Baghdadi and other fighters meeting with John McCain.
	Completely ignored, these pictures, by mainstream media.
	Israel has directly aided Sunni jihadists in Syria by bombing Syrian military assets.
	True.
	Israeli Prime Minister has reacted to the ISIS spearhead Sunni-Shia civil war in Iraq with borderline glee.
	The U.S. and Britain have provided Sunni jihadists with Toyota trucks, yes, through the State Department, when an army of ISIS fighters rolled over the Syrian-Iraqi border.
	It looked like a commercial, of course, for Toyota.
	So we would need to get a hand on...
	Why has WikiLeaks not come out with these yet?
	Do they have copies of the Snowden documents?
	I don't know.
	We have to start digging around.
	I have no idea.
	I don't think so.
	But I mean, this falls into place with the memo that came out that we discussed on the show saying that this needs to happen.
	We need to create this situation.
	And what really stands out like a sore thumb is that these guys aren't shaking their fists at Israel.
	Yeah.
	No, nothing ever happens.
	Almost all these operations, oh, Israel's gotta go, it's gotta go, it's gotta go.
	But they never do anything in Israel, yeah.
	They don't do this.
	They're not shaking their fists at anybody, except us.
	Let us review.
	For me, it appears, well, first of all, question for you.
	If Daesh...
	Which is now the hip term.
	We've been following this for, what, two years?
	But it's now the hip term to call ISIS, ISIL, IS, call them Daesh, because they hate it so much.
	Right?
	Have I heard this correctly?
	That was one argument.
	There's another argument.
	But when the president or the vice president or the secretary of state keeps referring to them as Daesh...
	Isn't that the same as, did anyone in World War II of that presidential nature or stature say, you know, the Krauts, the Huns, the Japs?
	Did we say any of that?
	The Japs was used quite a bit.
	But I think it's inappropriate.
	But it seems inappropriate if you know that this is only going to make them mad, which is what I've understood.
	Why would you keep doing that?
	The right wing would argue that the president has gone out of his way, not to mention Islam, Islamists.
	They make a big stink about this.
	He won't say Islamists or Islamists.
	Ragheads.
	Towelheads.
	He won't say no.
	It's just Islam.
	He won't use the word Islam in any of his complaints.
	And ISIL incorporates the word Islam.
	And so somebody said, well, what are you going to do about that?
	And so he said, well, we're going to change it to Daesh.
	That would be a conspiracy right-wing thing because for various reasons, Obama will not condemn the Islamists under any circumstance using the word Islam.
	Right.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea why they've changed it to Dash, but this whole thing is some sort of a, we're being scammed as a public.
	Which I think we've concluded.
	And if you look at the...
	In fact, I'll run one.
	I've got a cartoon.
	I'll run it in the next newsletter.
	Okay.
	Please subscribe.
	And it's a cartoon from the Middle East showing...
	It's classic.
	Everybody believes it's in the Middle East.
	They all think that this ISIL-ISIS group is financed and controlled by us, the United States.
	And this cartoon clearly shows like an American, you know, an Uncle Sam with a puppet...
	And the puppet is the ISIL guy scaring all the other Arabs, and it's all bullcrap.
	I mean, that's what they believe, and there's some evidence that they may be correct.
	The man on the street in the Middle East, if you ask one, you'd hear this argument.
	We're the only show that discusses it.
	Well, it clearly has become a quagmire, because we know that our CIA and DOD groups are there.
	They're being attacked by Russia.
	Meanwhile, Israel's sitting around getting a free ride there in the Middle East.
	Yeah, they don't have to do much.
	But no, the Russians must be in on this idea because they're doing this just to irk us.
	The Russians that get screwed on this Ukraine thing.
	There was one other thing that happened just before the...
	I think it was just before the Russian jet got downed.
	There was an attack on the grid in Crimea.
	Did you see this?
	It was really underreported.
	Yeah, all the power.
	I don't know if it was an air drop bomb or some other form of IED, but it blew out all power on Crimea.
	I haven't heard this.
	No, no.
	But it's kind of what you want to do.
	That's how you send a message.
	So I don't know if that came before.
	It's hard to find the timeline.
	I don't know if it came before the jet or after.
	Regardless, message is being sent and I think well received.
	Hmm.
	Well, this is a lot of back and forth that's unnecessary.
	I mean, this is part of that.
	Seven countries in five years thing.
	Yeah, the West Clark.
	I mean, this is the Kagans and the Victorian Newlands and these people.
	They have to be stopped.
	They're dangerous.
	They're putting us all at risk.
	Newland is going to Turkey.
	So you know what that means.
	Rebelization follows.
	That's right.
	It always does.
	Regime change.
	Rebelization always follows Victoria Noodleman, Newland, Kagan.
	Alrighty.
	Okay, that's an uplifting little ending here to show 777.
	This shows how many damn shows we've done.
	777.
	Well, we've done more than that.
	We've had a couple of.5s.
	A couple of.5s here and there, yeah.
	Well, I enjoy doing it, John.
	I can't live life without thinking, oh, maybe that's for the show.
	How about this?
	Oh, that would be great for the show.
	Oh, this is just dandy.
	Let me record this.
	I'm amazed I have a relationship at all.
	Yeah, you can work it in.
	As long as the relationship understands what you're up to.
	Saving the world for truth.
	And we will continue to save the world for truth on Thursday's episode of the best podcast in the universe.
	Please support us at dvorak.org slash na.
	John, a pleasure as always.
	It sure is yours.
	It is.
	As I sit here in FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the drone star state in the morning, everybody, my name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I await show 778.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
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