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	Hey, want to come to my bomb shelter, kids?
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, January 3rd, 2016.
	Time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 787.
	This is No Agenda.
	Kicking off another year of guarding your reality, deconstructing the ever-shrinking mainstream media, and broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State in FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Brotherhood, Lacon Valley, if I can spit that out.
	By the way, it's the first show of 2016.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's crack, run, and buzzkill in the morning.
	You hit the post perfectly.
	Good job.
	I don't know how you do it.
	Hey, Happy New Year, John!
	Happy New Year!
	Chips and sea boots on the ground.
	What'd you do?
	Did you just hang out at home?
	Yeah, I do hang out at home because there's millions of cops out there.
	You can't even drive from point A to point B without getting stopped whether they've done anything wrong or not.
	They just stop everybody.
	It's a police state.
	Why should I go out?
	Yes, this is a very good point about the police state.
	And then if you took Uber to try to bypass a lot of this, even though it gets stopped anyway, you have to pay like 5x.
	Oh, it was 10x in some cities.
	Well, 5X, 10X. I don't care.
	That's fine.
	Too many X. Well.
	So, yeah.
	Yes, I had to find you.
	So I stayed home.
	But I get to see fireworks.
	There's fireworks.
	You know, I can watch it.
	We got so lucky.
	I was at home with Tina for the actual celebrations.
	But at 10 here in Austin, there was a 15-minute fireworks show on the river that I could see from the back of my building.
	It was fantastic.
	At 10?
	That was the weird thing.
	Like, what are you doing at 10?
	I'm telling you, so we, you know, I faced the north side, but all we had to do was just go down the hall to the elevators and this huge window and you look out the south side.
	And, you know, it being 10 o'clock, there were a lot of kids there.
	And it was a, I mean, we couldn't have been more than a block away from, two blocks away from.
	Oh, it was fantastic.
	Really nice.
	But 10 o'clock?
	And then, you know, we'll go and check again at midnight.
	Midnight comes, nothing.
	Very strange.
	So they just did a 10 o'clock and then shut down the town?
	I think they didn't want to have excessive bangs going off at midnight since midnight also marked the beginning of our open carry laws here.
	I have a clip.
	Oh, so do I. But I'll listen to yours.
	Where is it?
	What you got?
	You're setting off a heated debate across this country over gun laws.
	In the coming days, President Obama expected to take executive action, expanding background checks.
	While in Texas, a new open-carry policy taking effect today, allowing gun owners to visibly carry weapons in public.
	ABC's Ryan Owens in Dallas tonight.
	Some Texans spending their New Year's Day proudly wearing their weapons in public.
	And as of today, it's all perfectly legal.
	A very historic day for Texas.
	Registered gun owners can now wear their guns in a holster in church, in banks, and many other businesses.
	As long as they show their license, gun-toting Texans can even visit the state capitol without going through a metal detector.
	Yeah!
	I think the bad guys have guns, so we should all arm ourselves, too.
	The Lone Star State just became the 45th and most populated to allow registered gun owners to open carry, as it's known.
	I do want to point out to everybody that we're not the only crazy people.
	It's not only Texas, 45 states.
	Supporters of the new law say it will make this state safer, that bad guys will think twice if they see a good guy with a gun.
	Not everyone is convinced.
	I don't want to be, like, a victim of someone's idiocy because I'm going to try and be like Rambo or something and try and sue some people.
	Some police departments are worried, too, that 911 will be flooded with calls.
	They have a gun.
	One department even producing this video to educate nervous citizens.
	Is the gun out of its holster?
	Is the person acting reckless?
	Be open, carry away.
	Shoot him down!
	Any private business here in Texas can opt out of this new law, and plenty, including Whole Foods, have.
	All they have to do is put up a sign just like this one.
	It's also important to note you still cannot carry a gun to your child's school or in a courthouse.
	No.
	Tom?
	Turns out we had exactly the same clip.
	Exactly the same clip.
	That doesn't happen often.
	Yeah, exactly the same clip.
	There's a couple other things going on at the same time, though.
	The president did his podcast, his New Year's podcast, about how we need to protect America's children.
	And instead of playing the podcast itself, which...
	Actually, I'll play the opening.
	He sounded drunk, man.
	Well, it's New Year's.
	It's possible.
	Yeah, let's see here.
	President Obama.
	No, that's not it.
	This is last year.
	He did it last year.
	He should just be plastered the whole year.
	Well, listen to this.
	Happy New Year, everybody.
	No, listen to him.
	Can't pull me out.
	Yeah, listen.
	This is very funny.
	Listen.
	Happy New Year, everybody.
	He's slurring right off at the beginning.
	I am fired up for the year that stretches.
	Let's go to the end.
	You can hear he's drunk at the end, too.
	It's really strange.
	So I know there are a bunch of us who care about this.
	If you are one of them, I need your help.
	Change, as always, is going to take all of us.
	The gun lobby is loud and well-organized in its defense of effortlessly...
	Effortlessly.
	What is effortlessly?
	Why doesn't someone say, Mr.
	President, let's do that one over?
	Because they don't like him?
	It must be.
	Like, ah, screw him.
	Let him flub around.
	That's actually something the MTV control room would do all the time.
	Ah, screw her, Julie Brown.
	Let her flub around.
	Gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone.
	The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well organized in our defense of our kids.
	That's the work of citizenship.
	To stand up and fight for the change that we seek.
	I hope you'll join me in making America safer for all of our children.
	Thanks, everybody.
	CBS did kind of a deconstruction and explained what he meant by the entire podcast.
	President Obama is beginning his final 12 months in office with a renewed effort to reduce gun violence following a year that saw 331 mass shootings, incidents in which four or more people were shot.
	Mr.
	Obama is planning a series of executive actions which would not require the approval of Congress.
	The president is wrapping up his vacation in Hawaii.
	Chip Reid is there.
	It was just after the mass shooting at an Oregon community college in October that the president decided he had to take executive action on guns.
	He made the announcement today in his weekly address posted on the White House website.
	I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence.
	Hold on, stop, stop, stop.
	Isn't gun violence been steadily falling since about 1990?
	I believe that even is mentioned in this report, interestingly.
	Well, if that's happening, what's all this panic?
	Why panic mode?
	Why rush all these things through?
	What's the hurry?
	Well, John, you know what it is.
	Maybe if he didn't do anything, it would continue to drop.
	Maybe by doing something, it would shove it back up again.
	Yeah, possible.
	Possible.
	This is about throwing crazy people in jail, ultimately.
	And yes, of course, it's to get rid of all guns.
	And on Monday, I'll meet with our Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, to discuss our options.
	And we'll sing a song, a country and western song.
	Sources tell CBS News those options include expanding the definition of who is in the business of selling guns so that more gun sales trigger background checks and requiring enhanced reporting and tracking of lost and stolen guns.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on.
	This was a...
	Further deconstructed this to say, you know, gun collectors, for example, can they swap a lot of guns around?
	Now, I want to ask you something.
	Is the last big shooting down in San Bernardino, or was there any shooting that was shot, the guy used a gun that he, it's a collectible?
	No.
	In fact, we still do not know exactly which guns were used in San Bernardino, nor do we know exactly which guns were used in Paris.
	So you think they were collectibles?
	They went to a gun collector and found some antique guns and used those?
	Muskets, muskets, muskets.
	Boston stolen guns.
	Today, the president blames the Republican Congress for giving him no choice but to take unilateral action.
	No choice.
	We know we can't stop every act of violence.
	What if we tried to stop even one?
	What if Congress did something, anything, to protect our kids from gun violence?
	Last month, Senate Republicans blocked Democratic proposals that would prevent people on the terror watch list from buying guns and require background checks for online gun purchases.
	I have a couple of clips related to this.
	Yeah.
	San Bernardino shooting?
	How many kids were shot?
	None.
	This is referring to Sandy Hook.
	So there's a lot of different ways that people are getting involved in trying to help the president to remove guns from society in the United States.
	And one of them is this project called Unload Your 401k.
	And the idea is, although in this report you'll see it's kind of futile.
	Is a 401k a gun?
	No.
	The idea, well, the unload your 401k.
	The idea is, if you have a 401k, there's ways to call up your manager of the fund.
	And say, I do not want any investments in gun manufacturers.
	So this is the new, brilliant push.
	Trauma surgeon Sheldon Tepperman treats a gunshot victim almost every day at Jacoby Medical Center in the Bronx.
	He's been doing it for 32 years.
	You see all this senseless violence, and you see it year after year after year.
	When you called your financial advisor, were they surprised?
	He was not surprised at all.
	All I had to do was sign the memo and give him the instruction not to allow any of my money to be invested in these killing machines.
	Tepperman is part of a national effort called Unload Your 401k.
	There is a lot of profit to be made for all of this sorrow, all of this death, and all of this destruction.
	It encourages investors to check their 401k plans and divest from gun stocks.
	Most of the spokespeople are victims' family members.
	Leah Gunn Barrett, who helped create the campaign, says if you own stocks in large mutual funds, you may own shares in gun manufacturers.
	So we have to build awareness, just like we did for the divestment campaign during the years of apartheid in South Africa.
	Currently, pension funds in Chicago are vowing to sell off firearms investments.
	In Philadelphia, they already did it.
	In California, the state teachers' retirement system, one of the largest pension funds in the nation, voted unanimously to divest.
	But equity analyst Brian Ruttenberg says divestment just creates opportunities for someone else.
	You have hundreds if not thousands of other funds that will take up the slack and don't have those restrictions.
	There's only a handful of funds that are going to get that pressure and will divest.
	In 2015, most gun manufacturer stocks did very well.
	Smith& Wesson grew more than 133%.
	So on the face bag...
	Hold on a second.
	So why don't we put this effort into ending poverty and homelessness?
	That's a great idea.
	You talk about this guy getting shot every day in the Bronx?
	Why is that?
	Poverty, homelessness, maybe those two are elements.
	It's guns.
	It's guns.
	There's guns everywhere.
	Poverty, guns, equals death.
	I think that's the idea.
	Maybe the poverty part of the formula is the one that should be adjusted.
	Let's get rid of the guns and make them even more impoverished.
	So this open carry thing is freaking a lot of people out.
	45 states have got this law.
	So what's new?
	Nothing really new.
	In fact, you guys are a little late to the game.
	It's an opportunity for people to come up with great ideas.
	And one of them kind of went viral on the face bag.
	I saw it over the past few days.
	And it's an idea that sprang from a professor of...
	I think he's...
	Sociology?
	I'll have to look him up.
	University of North Dakota.
	And he has the solution, John.
	And it's a longish clip, so we can stop any time.
	I think you'll be interested in hearing the entire theory and his explanation of why his brilliant idea is going to work, how we are going to force open carry to go away.
	Are you ready?
	No.
	I have to ask you where you got this clip first.
	It's the university professor himself.
	He filmed it in the university.
	And then how did he get distributed?
	Oh, well, he posted an article on the university website.
	He says that went viral.
	And then so here he is explaining it in video.
	Why?
	Why?
	Why did you want to know where I got it?
	Oh, because I want to know if it came from a trusted source.
	It's from the professor himself.
	Hi, I'm Jack Russell Weinstein, professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Life at the University of North Dakota.
	I'm here today because I posted something on our blog, pqed.org, that went viral.
	Much to my surprise, 113,000 people shared it, and there were thousands of comments in response.
	I really wanted to talk as a philosopher about the gun rights debate.
	But most specifically, I wanted to talk about open carry activists.
	Because for me, it's problematic.
	But I didn't just want to be a voice in the gun debate.
	I wanted to be a philosopher asking how to solve an intractable problem.
	What's the problem?
	This is the stuff people love on Facebook.
	Oh, yes, we're a great solution.
	Gun carry activists, particularly in Texas, who want to go places like Target and restaurant and carry loaded guns, often high-powered automatic weapons.
	Oh, automatic, no less.
	Automatic weapons, John.
	Not semi, but full automatic weapons.
	Really?
	Yeah, apparently.
	I didn't know that their automatic weapons were legal in any state.
	I'll give the guy a break.
	...and restaurant and carry loaded guns, often high-powered automatic weapons.
	And then there are people who are scared of it and don't want to eat in a restaurant with people who are fully armed.
	Both of those positions may be understandable.
	So how, as a philosopher, do I deal with that?
	The answer I came up with respected both people's rights.
	The people in the restaurant who are uncomfortable just leave.
	But they're supposed to leave because they're afraid.
	And that leads to another philosophical problem.
	If you're afraid for your life, do you pay the tab?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	You see where this is going.
	On Facebook, you can now print out cards.
	That you would leave on the table and say, I feel threatened by people with guns here.
	I'm leaving.
	I'm not paying for my...
	I'm not paying the tab.
	And my answer...
	Yeah, I think you've summarized this, whatever point it is, because he's going to make.
	And my answer was no.
	My answer was, if you're afraid for your life, you just get up and leave.
	Maybe the restaurant pays the bill themselves, maybe the activists pay the bill.
	But in reality, if you're genuinely concerned that someone is going to shoot you...
	Then why go to the restaurant in the first place?
	...kids, it makes no sense to pay the bill.
	It makes no sense to go in and rip off the restaurant guy.
	Oh, no.
	He's going to explain.
	This guy's a criminal.
	He's going to explain.
	This is bullcrap.
	If you're in the state of Texas, you're going to go into a restaurant.
	There's going to be a guy carrying a gun.
	It's going to be in every restaurant.
	Or no restaurant.
	So they're going to have that sign out in front, which, by the way, they can do.
	There's that sign they showed on the ABC report that you can put...
	Well, that is...
	Yes, anyone can do that.
	Whole Foods has done that.
	The HEB has done that.
	Yeah.
	So what's the big deal?
	This guy's a showboater.
	I think it's important because people believe this guy and I'm telling you this is a movement now.
	People are seriously considering doing this.
	This is because of the face bags.
	Yes, of course!
	That is where everyone's getting everything.
	I don't want to say that people freaked out because most of the people who commented on the blog supported it.
	And in fact, lots of people felt that this idea was a rational, safe, calm idea that respected everyone's right.
	But there were a group of gun activists...
	He doesn't respect a restaurateur's rights to make a living.
	He's going to explain exactly why that is right.
	This is the thing that's crazy.
	This thinking is insane.
	...who felt that this was theft...
	That this was taking advantage of the situation and then ultimately that this was some form of discrimination and intolerance.
	That people didn't like gun owners and so they wanted to leave.
	How would it be if I didn't like an African American?
	Or I didn't like a tall person?
	Or I didn't like an immigrant?
	Would it be okay to leave then?
	And the answer I came up with in a different post was that it is completely different.
	First of all, it's not thievery.
	If you are leaving the restaurant because you don't want to pay the bill, then you're a thief.
	I'm a philosopher.
	I'm not talking about you.
	On the theoretical level, I'm concerned about your intentions.
	I'm concerned about what's going on in your head.
	If you leave because you're afraid, that's moral.
	If you leave because you don't want to pay the bill...
	What if you leave because you're afraid of a black man?
	Well, that's exactly the right question.
	Somehow he's able to say that you are in your right if you feel threatened.
	You don't have to pay the bill.
	If, however...
	You want to compare it to the history of discrimination?
	Then that's not quite right.
	First of all, under the Constitution, we have protected groups and traditionally marginalized people, women in this country, African-American in this country, gays and lesbians in this country.
	If you leave because they're there and they're no threat to you, then that's a problem.
	I think what the open carry guys in Austin should do is we've got a whole bunch of gay black guys To go into the restaurants and then say, hey, wait a minute, you want me out?
	That's discrimination!
	Well, first of all, I don't know how long you want to keep playing.
	No, no, we don't have to listen anymore.
	He is full of himself.
	And he actually thinks this is some sort of a solution, even though it doesn't make any sense.
	Especially when he brings up the Constitution.
	Well, if there's protected groups, there's also protected gun ownership.
	Second Amendment.
	Of course.
	That's the thing he doesn't mention.
	Of course it's protected.
	Of course.
	And it would also be disingenuous to go into a restaurant, eat, and then say I feel threatened and walk out and consider that moral.
	This guy's just encouraging scofflaw.
	Yes.
	And it's catching on.
	There's everywhere on Facebook.
	It's not going to go anywhere.
	I don't believe it's going to happen.
	You think you're going to get away with it?
	You think you're going to go to a restaurant and stiff the owners and then walk out and then not get busted?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I think that it might get to that.
	It's pretty naive.
	It might get to that, John.
	In Austin, people are strange here.
	Well, I'd like to see it happen.
	I can totally see people printing it out, going, oh, I'm not expressly finding a place, of course.
	You have to scheme it.
	First of all, it's premeditated if you bring the card in in the first place.
	Ah, good point.
	It's not like you wrote a little no.
	You went in with that card for the intention of ripping off the restaurant.
	I don't see how any judge or jury is going to see it any other way.
	It's premeditated.
	You have the card.
	You're ready to do it.
	I'm glad you're all upset about it.
	I find these people annoying.
	Yeah, this is people educating the millennials.
	Well, we don't know how the millennials react to anything.
	Although I would say you're probably right.
	You're the one that's on the face.
	You're following it.
	I'm not.
	I have to say, I do Twitter, and that's about as far as I go.
	Anyway.
	And I didn't see a...
	Did you look at Instagram?
	Yeah.
	Instagram is the future.
	Instagram broke their API. Yeah, I think that's hilarious.
	Have you seen the new president's Instagram?
	No.
	Oh yeah, we've got an official Instagram, all with the most staged photos.
	I mean, Instagram began as, you've got a cheap little phone, you take a photo, you fix it up a little bit and post it.
	These are all like, you know, staged photos with high-end gear.
	And they have the one thing, they have the top one, they've got Obama in the Oval Office.
	What is his Instagram?
	Is it Instagram slash POTUS? No, it's something else.
	I'd have to go to the other machine to get it.
	I'll find it.
	You can look it up.
	And he's there with the Star Wars characters.
	Barack Obama.
	That makes sense.
	Yeah, Obama's there with the little robot and one of the guys in the white outfit.
	Stormtrooper?
	Stormtrooper.
	The guy in the white outfit.
	The stormtroopers who wear this white thing and it doesn't stop a pebble.
	The plastic white outfit.
	What's the point?
	They might as well be naked.
	But it did remind me of...
	That's funny.
	I have a clip.
	I don't want to go completely off to another topic.
	That's all right.
	But the various levels of honesty with different presidents, I've come to the conclusion, after listening to stuff on C-SPAN and then relating my own story, that the last honest president we ever had in office was George H.W. Bush, who served one term.
	Everybody since then has been corrupt, and I would say Obama plugging the Star Wars movie in his Instagram account is a good example.
	What clip is it?
	That's the clip, actually.
	The speech writer?
	Yeah, this is a clip that C-SPAN had an event, or they covered an event that took place at one of the East Coast universities.
	And they brought in all these presidential speech writers who had all these tales to tell.
	And it was actually very entertaining.
	But this one woman came up to discuss...
	She was one of George H.W. Bush's speechwriters to discuss the correspondence dinner and how you wrote jokes for it.
	I found it very enlightening.
	So what we would do for the big White House correspondence dinners and Gridiron and all those is we'd have the researchers come up with lists of all the current stuff, the top movies, the top songs, the celebrity train wrecks, you know, whatever.
	And then we would call in all these funny people, whether they were professionally associated with us or not, and we'd put a big bottle of scotch in the middle of the table.
	This would be at 6 o'clock at night, not at lunch or something.
	Sure, Mary Kay.
	And we'd all start saying, okay, what can we do here?
	In those days, it would be like something with Michael Jackson and the Speaker of the House or whatever.
	You'd come up with these funny, incongruent things.
	95% of it completely unusable by the President of the United States.
	We were particularly constrained because George Bush did not like humor that belittled other people or insulted people or in any way made fun, especially of his political opponents.
	I think that was a great credit to him and a reason why he got so much done in a bipartisan way, because he did not stoop to insulting his political opponents.
	I didn't know that.
	I thought the correspondence dinner was always used kind of to roast everybody, especially the political opponents.
	And HW didn't do that, apparently.
	So we were left with jokes about broccoli, Millie the dog.
	And we could never and you can't make fun of states.
	You can't make New Jersey jokes, West Virginia jokes, anything like that.
	So so the list gets smaller and smaller and the pile on the floor gets bigger and bigger of all the stuff you can't use.
	But it was but it was great fun.
	And it's it really makes you appreciate the people who have to stand up every night and do a comedy monologue.
	President Bush used to say the American people did not elect me to be a stand up comic.
	Why do I have to do this?
	Yeah.
	Right on.
	Yeah, why does he have to do it?
	He's not a stand-up comic.
	No, not at all.
	Obama loves it.
	Yeah.
	Well, he loves it so much that Jerry Seinfeld considered him a comedian to be on his show.
	That's how he's premised the whole bit, yeah.
	Did you watch it?
	I tried to watch it.
	For one thing, he doesn't get to leave the White House ground, so he brings his Corvette and he drives around, you know...
	I thought the president was really arrogant.
	Trying to be funny, but it came across to me as just incredibly arrogant.
	Oh, he was incredibly arrogant.
	I thought it was hard to watch.
	I watched about...
	I got into about six, seven minutes of it, and I just killed it.
	It wasn't funny.
	No, it wasn't funny.
	And they weren't interacting well, and the president was full of himself, and it was weird.
	Weird.
	I suppose it was starting to make me itch.
	I understand the feeling.
	Well, while we're on the topic of the president...
	Well, it's time for some presidential proclamations.
	It's not a very good jingle, but it's going to have to do.
	That's right!
	It's the start of a new month, a new year, and time for your presidential proclamations as signed into law by the president of the United States.
	We have three, I think, that are of note.
	The first one is this is National Mentoring Month.
	National Mentoring Month.
	Ah!
	As throughout our history, Americans of every background have worked to uphold this ideal, joining together in common purpose to serve as mentors and lift up our country's youths.
	During National Mentoring Month, we honor all those who continuously strive to provide young people with the resources and support they need and deserve.
	So whenever these presidential proclamations are published, you always have to look and see, you know, what is the political part?
	What is this a part of?
	Then something's either it's legislation, there's always some kind of proclamation about guns when there's gun legislation coming up.
	This one, I had to read through the whole thing, and then I found it.
	There it is.
	My administration is committed to fostering opportunities for mentorship because when our children have strong, positive role models to look up to, they grow up to be good neighbors and good fellow citizens.
	Through the My Brother's Keeper initiative, we're working with local governments, businesses, and charitable organizations.
	This is a blatant native ad for the president's post-presidential job, which is the My Brother's Keeper initiative.
	Wow, what gall!
	Yeah.
	Which is a complete non-government...
	An NGO. It's an NGO, yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, that he's going to run with his huge mailing list.
	Yep.
	Yeah, he learned from the Clintons about how to do this for a scam.
	Oh, yeah.
	The president also proclaimed this to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, which seems obvious.
	Our intelligence teams have devoted more resources to identifying trafficking networks.
	Law enforcement officers have been working to dismantle those networks, and prosecutors have striven to punish traffickers.
	And they're doing it through utilizing better technology.
	Great.
	And one of our old favorites, which is always misunderstood here on the show by presidential proclamation, it is National Stalking Awareness Month.
	We always love this.
	There should be a logo for this of somebody peeping out the window looking for a stalker.
	Oh, man.
	But really, it's only about women.
	You know, it goes on to talk about the violence against women.
	It gets stalked all the time.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	In fact, when it comes to stalking, I think it's one of the big travesties of our justice system.
	Yes, men definitely get stalked.
	I signed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women's Act, a groundbreaking law that recognizes stalking as the crime it is, provides more resources to victim.
	The act also created new protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender victims, as well as for immigrants and Native American women.
	Obviously, straight, middle-aged white dudes are fair game!
	Stalk away!
	Well, that's a good way to start the year.
	It's nothing uplifting from him, man.
	Nothing.
	Although, I have to say, we have to be extremely worried at this point.
	We only have 23 weeks, 21 days left until we die.
	According to who?
	Al Gore.
	January 26?
	2006?
	Americans have been hearing it for decades, wavering between belief and skepticism.
	And he said this in 2006.
	Here's what he said.
	Politicians and corporations have been ignoring the issue for decades to the point that unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return.
	And I also believe he said in 2006 that...
	He had a number of no return points over the last 10 years.
	Yeah.
	But this was the big one.
	This is when he came out with Inconvenient Truth and won the Oscar.
	It was all about 10 more years.
	And if we haven't fixed it, which we haven't, we have not.
	We haven't fixed it, no.
	So we should be dead in about three weeks' time.
	Well, it'll be the halfway point, he says.
	It's the point of no return, so what's the length of the flight?
	What do you mean?
	We have 10 years.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Yeah, 10 years to undo it.
	It didn't begin in 2006, so if it began in 1705, then the halfway point is at the end of the month, and it'll be 2300 before we have to start worrying.
	Right.
	Well, the Verge...
	Because they never determined when it began.
	No.
	Have you noticed this?
	Yeah.
	Well, the Verge did a piece, and the Verge, of course, is...
	I think it's a native ad.
	I'm not quite sure.
	They're one of the top native ad buyers.
	I know they are.
	I know they are.
	Creators.
	And they did a, you know, we've always been talking about Miami, the fish are flopping in the streets.
	Oh, the fish are flopping everywhere.
	So they did this piece, which is unbelievable.
	And it's The Verge, you know, they've got a big audience, and it's kind of like a BuzzFeed, where people go, oh, watch that, oh, I believe anything I see.
	And this is pretty much where we're all going to die.
	Forget about the ball dropping and confetti crowds in Times Square.
	Miami has an all-night dance party, La Gran Naranja drop, and, of course, Pitbull.
	And I love how they kind of bring the global warming climate change into popular culture with Pitbull.
	Pitbull loves Miami, and so should you.
	But now's the time to enjoy it, because the city probably won't exist in the next 100 years.
	Oh, enjoy it now!
	We're all gonna die!
	Miami is one of the first U.S. cities already experiencing the effects of climate change, and it's only going to get worse.
	60% of Miami-Dade County is less than 2 meters above sea level, and unabated climate change until 2100 could result in a 4.3 to 9.9 meter sea level rise.
	Oh, 949 meter!
	Meter!
	That's 27 feet.
	27 feet.
	Wow.
	As if that weren't enough, Miami's geology renders it uniquely vulnerable.
	The city and its beaches are built on porous limestone, which soaks up seawater.
	The seawater forces sewage up from its pipes where it can pollute fresh water.
	South Florida is mostly at sea level.
	About 2.4 million people live less than 1.2 meters above the sea.
	But that's enough.
	The Netherlands is, I think it's seven feet below sea level.
	Yeah.
	Seems dry as a bone when I go there.
	Well, don't fall in the canal.
	That's like if all the residents of Wyoming, Vermont, and New Hampshire were at risk.
	I love how they do that.
	So they just take a bunch of random states and say, that's like all these people in these states would be at risk, which is just it's not journalistic what is going on here.
	Up from its pipes were complete freshwater.
	South Florida is mostly at sea level.
	About 2.4 million people live less than 1.2 meters above the sea.
	That's like if all the residents of Wyoming, Vermont and New Hampshire were at risk.
	Miami isn't the only city facing an Atlantis like future.
	An Atlantis like future.
	Mmm, that sounds like several more meters than just the, uh...
	You know, the nine she's talking about.
	What is the point of this story?
	Just to scare the stupid people that read this publication?
	No, no, it's just another way to promote Pitbull, I think.
	Here in the U.S., New Orleans is also under serious threat.
	And half of Mumbai, India, home to more than 20 million people, will be submerged if the Earth's temperature raises 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
	Who writes this shit over there?
	The people will be submerged!
	In Egypt, just a one meter increase in sea level could force 10% of Egyptians, mostly in the Nile River Delta, from their homes.
	Bangladesh will be 17% underwater by 2050, displacing about 18 million residents.
	2014 was the hottest year on instrumental record since 1880.
	Ten of the last hottest years, with the exception of 1998, have occurred since 2000.
	There's something going on with this.
	There's two new pieces of information I have not heard in the last 10 years on record with the warmest ever.
	One, she said, back to 1880.
	I'm not sure.
	There's some significance to that.
	And the other one was, except for 1998.
	Have you heard that before?
	No.
	1998, apparently.
	Everyone's got different numbers, man.
	And 2015 is on track to surpass 2014 by a significant margin.
	In India, 2015 had an extreme summer heat wave, causing 2,200 deaths.
	Actually, on screen it said 2,200 climate deaths.
	Up north, Greenland's ice sheets experience historically low ice cover.
	Unfortunately, current projections say...
	Climate death.
	Climate deaths, yeah.
	I love that.
	On screen it said 2200 climate deaths.
	I like that new word, climate, or phrase, climate death.
	We should write that down, yeah.
	I just did.
	Yeah, I'll write it down too.
	Climate death.
	Greenland's ice sheets experience historically low ice cover.
	Unfortunately, current projections say 2016 isn't going to be much better.
	Long term, we're looking at a U.S. which could look more like this.
	They show the U.S. shrunken and like Florida is completely gone.
	Half of California is gone.
	Just a little blob of turf and that's America.
	And a world that looks like this.
	Yeah, there's like nothing left.
	So, as you're celebrating the new year, ask who's going to last longer?
	Here it comes.
	Miami or Pitbull?
	Yes!
	My money's on Mr.
	305.
	That's right.
	She thinks, by the way, I can't even watch Pitbull.
	She's that guy.
	Bald.
	He looks like he's wearing a suit all the time.
	He looks like he's just a screwball act.
	I don't see what the appeal is.
	I mean, we must have the best public relations.
	No, he's the male J-Lo.
	Well.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, it sounds like it's time for my report, then.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Let me get the report ready.
	What has changed?
	Something's changed here.
	Hold on.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Well?
	Yeah.
	Well, you can't do...
	Oh, I... No.
	That's strange.
	You can't do your report.
	I can't?
	Well, okay.
	Maybe if we're lucky.
	Because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
	Here we go!
	This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
	Look out your window, baby.
	Time for a Mudflats Report.
	We switch over live to John C. Devorak.
	Well, I'm looking out the window, and the Mudflats are still there.
	There hasn't been any sea rise at all.
	But more importantly, over Christmas, one of our nice Mathieu Helly in Quebec sent me a couple of maps, USGS maps.
	I don't know where he got them.
	They're beautifully put and laminated and the whole thing.
	And the one, he got me a map like a year or so ago, which shows the mudflats clearly.
	Mm-hmm.
	And then he got me a map from 1895.
	Oh, nice.
	Which is actually quite entertaining to just go over and look at the little town of Giant, which seems to have disappeared.
	The people, there's a...
	We have a Richmond San Rafael Bridge.
	And it turns out that the...
	Where the Richmond site is, that was actually a standalone island in a bunch of mudflats that were filled in.
	It's very interesting, the old map.
	Well, the funny thing is, the mudflats that I'm reporting on were there.
	They are just as they are now in 1895.
	Where is the sea level rise?
	We're talking about over 100 years, 115 years.
	And we have no change?
	I'm not seeing what Gore's talking about.
	I think the message is, if you don't vote for Pitbull, you die of climate change.
	Whatever the case, boom.
	Still out there.
	To summarize?
	Bullshit.
	Just the mudflash.
	Just the report.
	Just the report.
	Nothing else.
	Look out the way!
	We're still alive!
	Outstanding.
	Anyway, I really appreciate that map.
	It was very interesting.
	The family now goes, it's at the dinner table, we're all looking at it.
	Oh, look at this!
	This is the old Oakland mole where it became the Bay Bridge, and you can see there's no bridges.
	Old maps are great to look at.
	Old maps are great to look at.
	Yeah, especially when it's detailed.
	This is a very detailed map.
	Cool.
	Who made that map?
	The USGS. Oh, cool.
	Excellent.
	I think we need to discuss what's going on in Oregon.
	I call them the Oregon Authors.
	This is about a group of guys taking over the Malher National Wildlife Refugee Headquarters.
	Have you followed this at all?
	I'm remembering.
	It's starting to come to me.
	It's nothing I've been following, no.
	So what the news is reporting, and it's just kind of starting up now, they're using one consistent word.
	I'll read you just three headlines.
	Militia takes over Malher National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters.
	Armed militia occupy Forest Reserve Headquarters.
	Armed militia protests Occupy Oregon National Refuge Building.
	So it appears to me, just generalizing from those three headlines, that they're emphasizing militia.
	Yes, exactly.
	So I spent probably about an hour and a half last night.
	I should also mention that it has a connotation that's been developed into public consciousness over the last...
	Probably in the last 40 years has been militias are bad.
	And to say militias means, you know, it brings in crazy gun rights guys because...
	White supremacists.
	An armed militia, the right to bear arms, white crazy guys.
	And the way it's being presented is, you know, these are just those crazy gun guys and they're authors and they're against the government.
	But really what's happening in this case...
	Explain what an author is before you continue.
	There's a group of people who call themselves authors, and they solemnly live by the oath to defend and uphold the Constitution.
	And so, of course, there are...
	Just like the President.
	No, no, that's not...
	Okay, it depends on your view.
	Yeah, just like the President.
	And so the way this kind of comes across, because a little crossover and, you know, a little confusion with the Bundy Ranch and the Bureau of Land Management, but what is happening here, it took a while to get into it to really figure out what the actual problem is.
	There were two guys.
	Who lived there in that area.
	And they were using their land for their cows or cattle to graze on.
	And they had started fires on a couple of acres to burn it down so the grass can grow again.
	And one of these fires got out of control and burned down a couple acres of land that these guys had no right to be on.
	And this happened years ago.
	This happened, I think, seven or eight years ago.
	And they were convicted.
	They each got three months, I think, and they had to pay back $400,000 in damages for the land that was burned.
	And the court came back and said, no, no, we're arresting you again.
	You now have to go to jail for five years.
	And the reason why this changed is because they now have charged these guys under the 1996 terrorism law that states if you commit arson...
	And then you are a domestic terrorist and you will be jailed for no less than five years.
	And the judge is now saying, hey, you know, you clearly are a terrorist because you committed arson.
	And it's 1996 terrorism law is very strange.
	I don't think we've ever discussed this or read this.
	And it's a pretty large document.
	And so they've been re-sentenced under the terrorism law.
	And that, of course, is the road.
	Under whose encouragement?
	The Attorney General, I guess.
	Well, you don't know.
	That I don't know.
	No, I don't know.
	But I think that's the...
	Here, whoever maliciously damages or destroys or attempts to damage or destroy by means of fire...
	Or an explosive, any building, vehicle, or other personal or real property in whole or in part owned, possessed by, or leased to the United States, or any department or agency thereof, shall be imprisoned for not less than five years and not more than 20 years.
	So because the fire burned on federal land...
	It was a grass fire?
	Yeah.
	Terrorism.
	Yeah.
	It's in the 1996 terrorism law.
	Yeah, that's what it says.
	Yeah.
	Now, the way this is being handled in the media is completely different, of course.
	I don't think you'll see that discussed at all, what the case is really about, other than, hey, it's a bunch of authors, crazy militia guys.
	And I was watching CNN. I could not believe what...
	What's the guy's name?
	LZ Granderson?
	What's his name?
	The ex-football guy?
	I don't know.
	With the dreadlocks?
	Yeah, you know who I'm talking about.
	LZ, I think his name is.
	LZ. So listen to the conversation where he takes it.
	This does not happen in a vacuum.
	This happens because for years, people in the media, people in politics, people in positions of power have ratcheted up this rhetoric about revolutionaries, about Tea Partyism.
	Minutemen have made an explicit comparison between where we are and the 1770s.
	You see, this is the meme, this is all crazy, revolutionary guys, 1776, all nut jobs, and then...
	And I think there's a very good chance it ends in violence.
	That's the thing about this episode that frightens me more than the crazy comments that got blown up and became a political issue.
	To piggyback off that though, can you imagine what would have happened if a black man and his supporters who didn't pay taxes stood in defiance of the federal government with semi-assault rifles and weapons standing there saying, don't tread on me, if a black man was in that situation?
	No, probably there would be no issue at all.
	That's disgusting what he did there.
	Is that what they were doing?
	That's what they're doing.
	Oh, imagine if it were a black man.
	No, I mean, is that what they were doing?
	Standing there, brandishing their weapons?
	No, they were not.
	Some of them were caring, but not brandishing by the technical...
	Hands up, don't shoot.
	But for this guy to say, oh, imagine if it was a black guy.
	Oh, he'd be shot in the head right away.
	No, no, I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	But that kind of rhetoric, that is real rhetoric.
	Well?
	Did you walk to the bathroom?
	I didn't walk to the bathroom.
	I went to get a sheet of paper.
	But I wanted to hear more.
	You stopped after the black guy.
	Well, that's all I got.
	I'm sorry.
	It's all the same thing.
	This has got to be some bigger scheme here.
	Now you've got to get me to look into it.
	It's coming.
	It's coming.
	I think this is the scheme.
	Again, to point out, it's great timing.
	The president's going to bring in some executive orders.
	It's great timing.
	Say, well, we also got these crazies out there.
	Militia.
	Militia.
	It's a group of guys.
	They don't have uniforms on that are coordinated uniforms.
	They don't have ranks.
	Do they have patches?
	No.
	Some are wearing camo pants.
	That would be about it.
	Big deal.
	You can't go anywhere without wearing camo pants.
	But I'm quite worried that this is not going well.
	It's already not being reported as to what the actual issue is, but it's going to be used as you heard.
	You know, oh, these are crazy guys.
	You know, they love this stuff.
	Yeah.
	Against the federal government.
	Hate them.
	Tea partiers.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Huh is right.
	All right.
	Well, let's see what else we got.
	Oh, I got it.
	Let's start with the beginning of the year.
	Here's the January 1 reports.
	This is January 1.
	This is ABC's kind of a look at what's ahead.
	And we begin with terror concerns and that deadly attack in Tel Aviv.
	The urgent manhunt for a gunman.
	You see him there, caught on camera, pulling an assault weapon from his backpack, taking the first steps of a shooting rampage.
	And in France, soldiers opening fire, wounding a driver who ran into them, trying to ram his car into a mosque.
	High tensions on this the first day of 2016, and we start with ABC's Alex Marquardt.
	The attacker paces and pretends to shop before heading for the door, putting down his backpack, and opening fire with an automatic weapon.
	The next door bar sprayed with bullets as people try to flee.
	The quiet of New Year's Day in central Tel Aviv shattered.
	Two dead and seven wounded.
	The motive of the gunman, reportedly an Israeli Arab, is unclear.
	Amid reports he was mentally unstable and smiled during the attack.
	And I hide myself under the bar and I hear and I'm waiting that it's finished but it was like horrible.
	Israel is hardly new to violence and terror, while Europe, after the Paris attacks, is a continent on edge as it starts to grapple with a new reality and new possible threats.
	In France today, soldiers guarding a mosque fired at a driver who twice tried to ram them.
	They wounded the attacker who ended up in a ditch.
	French authorities say they're investigating the motive.
	Munich shut down two train stations on New Year's Eve after intelligence warned of a specific attack involving ISIS suicide bombers.
	Here in London, 3,000 police officers were deployed for New Year's celebrations and there were no incidents.
	But there's no mistaking the jitters across Europe now with one top German official calling the situation a general permanent terror threat.
	Tom?
	A sobering phrase.
	All right, Alex, thank you.
	It's a sobering phrase.
	I have a report.
	A permanent, what was it?
	You've got to go play a little bit of clip at the end, because that's like the phrase, a permanent threat.
	And by the way, I want to ask you.
	Let's roll back.
	I don't know if it was maybe before your time, but there was the Munich Olympics, and then a bunch of terrorists killed a bunch of Israeli athletes, and then there was a guy named Jackal who used to blow up planes, and there was the raid on Entebbe where a plane was hijacked, and in Uganda, a bunch of people dead.
	How come we...
	That's what's been going on since I was a kid.
	What's changed so much that we have to have this complete fear tactic aimed at the public that's not...
	It doesn't seem new to me.
	In fact...
	I mean, it seems like old and so what?
	Let me take you back in time to 1975, January 29th.
	No, January 1st, 1975.
	Here is the report on the news at the time in 1975.
	We interrupt the Gene Shepard program to bring you this further update in connection with the tragic disaster at LaGuardia Airport tonight, in which a powerful bomb explosion that devastated the baggage area.
	In the main terminal at the airport, killed at least 12 persons and injured at least 75 others.
	Okay.
	This was the bombing at LaGuardia.
	It happened on December 29th, 1975.
	Between then and New Year's, New York Transit's authority didn't shut down.
	Dick Clark did not cancel his New Year's Rockin' Eve.
	A huge crowd did not decide to not come to Times Square.
	Travelers had upcoming flights.
	They weren't canceled.
	Now, there's your question as to what happened.
	Okay.
	That's not the question.
	That's just more proof of what I said.
	Well, yeah.
	Yes.
	That's proof.
	Thank you.
	It's proof that we were not like this.
	We were not all scared out of our wits and all nutty.
	We didn't like it.
	I'm sure.
	Now, in Brussels, I had a clip of this somewhere along the lines.
	I screwed up and lost it.
	And it wasn't much more than what I'm going to say.
	So Brussels shuts down because they're all freaked out.
	So they shut down the whole city.
	They're not going to have their celebrations.
	Nothing, right?
	Yep.
	And I said right on purpose.
	You did.
	But I did it to elicit you to say yes, which is different than just saying it.
	I'm just mentioning that to people who keep track of this.
	Well, instead of yes, when you say right, I'll say right.
	Right?
	Right.
	Right.
	Or say no.
	No, I won't do that.
	So these kids, and this is all over YouTube, take somebody's car that's just parked casually on the street, a bunch of hooligans, They take his car and they push it down one of the closed train station stairways.
	Have you seen this?
	No, no.
	It's hilarious.
	So the car starts going down the stairways and it picks up speed and it goes all the way down onto the platform into the train station.
	It rolls over a few times and creates a big mess down there.
	The kids all run off.
	Never to be caught.
	Of course not.
	What is all the security?
	We're looking for terrorists.
	They didn't look the part.
	They didn't have towels on their head.
	Oh, man.
	Unbelievable.
	Well, almost as unbelievable as Munich shutting down on New Year's.
	What is wrong with these Germans?
	year's eve amid fears that militants were about to launch attacks police say they received very concrete information from the intelligence agency of a friendly country yeah let me think us hey hey bnd um yeah terror january 1st uh scaring better stop be afraid be afraid be afraid that isil was planning to strike The Federal Criminal Police gave us specific information about possible attacks here in Munich, he says.
	It concerned the main station in Munich and Paysing Station.
	There was a unanimous evaluation that the information was to be taken seriously.
	That's why we took the appropriate security measures.
	Police also say that ISIL had planned to use suicide bombers in the attacks.
	People in Munich were advised to avoid the train stations and crowded areas amid the terror alert.
	Yeah, but this is how you do it.
	This is how you do it.
	This is how you scare the bejesus out of people.
	It's working.
	It is.
	And if you look, if you did a Google search for bomb threats, actually Mimi pointed this out to me, they're all over the place.
	It's like everywhere you go, the schools have been closed down, there's one thing after another, every little town's got a bomb threat.
	By these, by punks...
	Mm-hmm.
	Because you can now, you know, through Google Voice, all kinds of different ways you can find to get around the normal POTS system, the phone system.
	I mean, there's so many holes, you gotta wonder why we aren't just under constant attack.
	I know, there's just holes everywhere.
	So many holes.
	And so these kids, I think a lot of them are just jokers, are making these threats to shut down the school because they don't want to go to school.
	There's a million possibilities.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, I don't want to go to school today.
	I can imagine being doing that.
	Let's go do something else.
	Well, how are we going to do that, Bill?
	Ah, let me make a call.
	And so the school shut down.
	And of course, they haven't caught anybody.
	They're going to have to create a sacrificial goat.
	Well, we got one.
	We got one on New Year's.
	Okay, well, they're going to need to get a few more and they're going to have to throw the book at them and scare these other kids so they stop doing this.
	This is going to continue.
	This phony bomb threats are going to continue throughout 2016 if something isn't done about it.
	I don't know what you can do about it.
	I have before me the criminal complaint against Emmanuel L. Lutschman from December 25th through the 30th.
	This is what we would call a six-week cycle event.
	And now it's only 11 pages.
	I read through the complaint.
	These things are published almost immediately, so you can know what's going on.
	Here is CNN's take on this guy who was planning on blowing up Times Square.
	His name is Emmanuel Lutchman.
	He's 25 years old.
	And what the FBI says he planned to do was to carry an attack at a restaurant in the Rochester area tonight, New Year's Eve.
	And he was in touch with and directed by, according to the FBI, an ISIS member overseas.
	His plot was to carry out this attack using pressure cooker bombs and knives, perhaps kidnap a couple of people and kill them.
	And the FBI really says, though, that, you know, this guy's got a long criminal history in New York, including for robbery and for mental health issues.
	And he plotted with a couple of FBI informants, including one who was paid $19,000, another paid $7,000 for their work helping the FBI with these cases.
	He recorded a video yesterday pledging allegiance to ISIS before carrying out what he planned to carry out this attack today in Rochester.
	So here's another one of these saps.
	25-year-old kid, mental problems.
	I'm waiting for the following scenario.
	Because I know it would, even though it wouldn't maybe be a lot of money, it would cause all kinds of problems in congressional hearings.
	Some smart cookie for a change, acting stupid, you know, instead of the normal dummy that just goes along with anything because he's an idiot.
	But some smart guy gets the FBI embroiled in one of these deals where the guy's like, yeah, I want to blow up the whole place.
	I'm going to take down the entire Empire State Building.
	Well, what are you going to have to do?
	This is good.
	We'll get you to, you know, subscribe to the ISIL theory or make a pledge and soak the FBI for like, I need $20,000, man.
	I need $25,000.
	It seems that if you're the guy who's the target, you may get like a hundred bucks.
	No, you're going to have to get...
	If you're a good grifter, you should be able to soak them.
	Soak the government for 50k or something.
	And then take off.
	Just disappear.
	So from the criminal complaint, there are not one, not two, but three confidential sources.
	These are the guys that were paid money.
	They got a collective almost $30,000 from the FBI for sucking this guy in over months and months and months.
	It's just so disgusting.
	He's being charged with an attempt to provide material support and resources, namely himself, as personnel and services to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, knowing that ISIL was a designated foreign terrorist organization that ISIL had engaged in and was engaging in terrorist activity and terrorism.
	Now, this is what we were all talking about and warning about many years ago.
	That the change of definition of terror, and we saw that earlier with the guys who were being thrown in jail for five years because they're now terrorists.
	So you're a terrorist if you even have intent.
	Intent.
	So this, let's see, here we go.
	Emmanuel L. Lutschman, a 25-year-old United States citizen.
	He's a kid.
	He's younger than my kid.
	He's a moron.
	These kids are still morons.
	They're not full human beings yet.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Did you look that up?
	Yeah, there's mental hygiene laws.
	Didn't this come up...
	I don't remember us talking about mental hygiene laws.
	Not the law, but I think we even made a joke about how's your mental hygiene.
	Well, it turns out there's quite a number of mental hygiene laws.
	And if you're not considered to be, you know, this is how you get 5150.
	You get thrown in the loony bin against your will.
	Onward.
	His plot to kill a civilian.
	In November and December 2015, Lutschman had several electronic and telephonic communications with confidential source 1.
	In these communications, Lutschman made numerous statements expressing his strong support of ISIL. So that is right there.
	That's you're in violation.
	In late December, he told CS Confidential Source he had been in contact with an overseas individual who identified himself as an ISIL member.
	Who knows who he was talking to?
	On or about the 25th or 26th of December, he communicated with the overseas individual who identified himself as a brother with ISIL. In those communications, Luckman asked what it was like in ISIL. This is where he starts to get radicalized.
	A dream came true.
	If you can't come over here, you've got to prove yourself by blowing something up over there.
	And then these sources...
	Oh, here he is.
	So he needed to get ready to blow something up, and he talks to Confidential Source 3, and he says, well, let's go get some stuff.
	You know, you could use a knife.
	This is what they said to him.
	You could use a knife or maybe a pressure cooker bomb.
	That's what they're saying to him.
	To him.
	And he said, well, I don't have...
	They're selling him on the idea.
	Well, even better, he didn't have enough money, so they went to a Walmart store on Hudson Avenue in Rochester to purchase supplies.
	Two black ski masks, zip ties, two knives, a machete, duct tape, ammonia, latex gloves...
	Due to the fact that they got that through the line?
	Well, that's interesting you bring that up.
	...who have nothing really to live for.
	And they say, why don't you go out with a bang, quite literally.
	The other point I have to make is this.
	Wait, wait, hold on.
	Stop.
	They told them you've got nothing to live for?
	No.
	Not according to the criminal complaint.
	But they did say if you want to, they did not say blow yourself up.
	If you could prove yourself, then you'll be welcome in the Islamic State headquarters.
	Who have nothing really to live for.
	And they say, why don't you go out with a bang, quite literally.
	The other point I have to make is this.
	Evan mentioned that these guys, including one FBI informant, managed to buy, I wrote this down because this is extraordinary, two black ski masks, zip ties, two knives, a machete, duct tape, ammonia, and latex gloves, and they got away with it at Walmart.
	Whoever runs that Walmart in Rochester should be fired.
	What kind of an imbecile cashier allows two men to buy this kind of equipment so close?
	I know why.
	These guys are smart.
	They chose the black checker.
	He's too busy getting him out of there.
	Fast and efficient.
	He's blasting through the machine.
	They're out in two seconds.
	That is a callback to a previous episode.
	Then they recorded a video.
	The confidential source paid for all this stuff.
	Then they arrest the guy.
	Classic.
	They could have waited longer.
	I think they should have built some bonds.
	Actually, I'm glad to see that the FBI is staying onto this theme because no one has busted their chops for doing it in Congress.
	No.
	It says, stop this bull crap.
	You find it some moron on the street and then talking him into doing something like this and paying for the whole thing while coaching him.
	This is not a guy that should normally be doing this.
	I think the point where he wants to go buy materials or he's coerced into buying materials.
	You don't know how much the guy says, well, I don't think this is a good idea.
	Well, I don't think this is a good idea.
	You don't know.
	That's never brought out.
	The guy may have been reluctant the whole time, but he's one of those guys you can sell on anything.
	You get a good salesman in front of anybody, anybody, and they can sell.
	That's what sales is all about.
	I mean, this guy needed to be picked up, and he needed his mental hygiene checked.
	Because who in their right mind is an idiot like this?
	He's an idiot.
	There's bunches of these people out there.
	They should have just stopped this kid.
	Stop him.
	Just sit him down and say, no.
	What's your problem?
	Let's look at your problems.
	So a form of six-week cycle.
	Yeah, kind of.
	It's like the old throw.
	I think this is just for old time's sake.
	Just to ring out the new year.
	Just to keep the department going.
	Hey, the budget's going to be killed on our department.
	What do we got?
	Hey, who are we paying out there?
	This confidential source.
	We paid him 20 grand.
	Tell him to go get somebody.
	How about this clown?
	Unbelievable.
	They could target some poor sap.
	Well, yeah, they do.
	Yeah, I know, but I mean, somebody that you don't like.
	Like somebody that's, you know, stirring things up in some small community and trying to make things better.
	Maybe fight poverty.
	Target him.
	Yeah.
	That's great.
	Yeah, so it's kind of, you know, this year the same as last year.
	Well, that's good for the show.
	And with that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the names of knights out there.
	In the morning, everybody in the chat room, welcome to 2016.
	Thank you very much for tuning in at NoAgendaStream.com.
	Thank you to PewDiePie.
	We have kind of a Nick the Rat PewDiePie thing going on with the artwork.
	PewDiePie really had a good one, though.
	And this, of course, was...
	Yeah, because he got his mind back on doing art instead of just slamming it.
	Slamming it.
	Poor Nick, exactly.
	This is for the episode Come Together, and he did the small batch edition with the salt, which it was the best piece.
	Yeah, it was.
	Loved it.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Please, do whatever you can.
	That is a great way to help the show, if you have talent.
	Well, even if you don't have talent, you have a good idea.
	Some of the good ideas aren't, you know, they're just great.
	You don't have to have, well, you have to have talent.
	I think a little talent is...
	A little talent wouldn't hurt.
	Or at least desire.
	Well, let's start off by thanking executive producers and associate executive producers.
	We have one, two, three, four executive producers and one, two, three, four.
	It's a perfect balance.
	Outstanding.
	Starting with a big one, though.
	Jeanette Hill in Dayton, Texas.
	One, one, five, four.
	She becomes an Insta Knight.
	Wow.
	Insta Dame.
	Insta Dame.
	She's become the first Dame of 2016.
	Mm-hmm.
	There you go.
	And does she have a note?
	Yeah, she sent one in in advance of the whole thing.
	Let me see if we'll find it.
	Here it is.
	There's Jeanette's...
	Well, she says this part's unknown, but I guess I blew that up.
	Well, actually, that may just be where the bank is, because this came in as one of those bank checks.
	Oh, the ones that the bank sends out electronically.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, printed.
	Yeah, cool.
	Longtime fan of JCD's writings, etc.
	So when I was looking for podcasts over Thanksgiving weekend, she's new.
	No agenda was a natural to try.
	This is what I like.
	Someone she's been listening for a month and she's coughed up, become an instant dame.
	That's fantastic.
	As someone who spends free time double-checking MSM information that just doesn't seem right, no agenda's a blessing.
	I've learned so much in a short time.
	I'm so pleased with Adam's staunch support of the Constitution of the United States and reminding oath holders it is their job to uphold, which is your bit.
	Yeah, well, like the president and elected officials who forget this, yes.
	As I listen to back episodes, I'm already hitting people in the mouth to help educate as many slaves as possible in an effort to help them earn their freedom.
	I believe it's important to set an example of paying for products used especially when solely supported by the listeners.
	I'm therefore paying it forward.
	I've figured each episode's proceeds are divided between the two of you, and then as independent employees, you pay both halves of Social Insecurity to the IRS. It gets a half of that, leaving you with each about a quarter of the income to live on.
	And Matt's about right.
	Also, I'm sending a check so PayPal won't reduce the amount even more.
	And then she goes on with a long list of where this and that goes.
	888-999-1345, one of JCD's favorites.
	She's given every kind of iteration and adds up to what it did.
	Does she want any special jingles?
	Yes.
	She would like to be named Dame Janet or Jeanette.
	It could be...
	I think it's Jeanette.
	Well, it could be Janet.
	But anyway, this we don't know.
	Of the Lone Star Sky, S-K-Y-E. Let me just make sure we have that in there.
	I enjoy many of the jingles, but would request a boom shakalaka.
	I'm just writing it down.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Go podcasting.
	Lone Star.
	Yes, go podcasting.
	The Lone Star Sky, you said?
	S-K-Y-E. Yes.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	And she wanted a bingo boom shakalaka.
	A bingo boom shakalaka.
	Okay.
	And a karma, I presume?
	Of course.
	Bingo boom shakalaka.
	Boom boom shakalaka.
	Boom boom boom shakalaka.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Welcome to the round table.
	Dame Jeanette.
	Look forward to the ceremony later on in today's program.
	Yes, that was great.
	Now we have Dame Kathy and Sir Greg Simunich in West Chicago, Illinois, who came in with $758.
	That seems like a lot, but not when you read the note, which I have.
	Here's our donation to start out the new year.
	$758 should be the amount to give both Greg and I baronet status.
	How about a no, no, no, no to the climate gate jingle pair?
	So she wants climate gate.
	No, no, no, no.
	I guess it is a pair somehow.
	Happy New Year to you both.
	Keep up the great work.
	Warmest regards, Dame Kathy and Sir Greg.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	The gong does it.
	It makes it.
	It's hard to tell what the gong sounds like on your side.
	Well, you could always listen to the show.
	Yeah.
	You might know.
	Sir Dwayne Melanson, the Baron of Duke, Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	ITM, gentlemen, Happy New Year.
	This donation is 667, the neighbor of the beast.
	This is $667.
	The neighbor of the beast.
	Ah, next door.
	Brings me to the level of Archduke.
	He's up to Archduke.
	Dang, good.
	I would like to...
	You're going to get a song if you keep going.
	Yeah, that's how it works.
	A new song.
	I would like to expand my protectorate to the Archduke of the Americas.
	Or, if that's too long, Archduke of the West.
	Well, you're bumping into the Grand Duke of Silicon Valley and...
	Grand Duke of USA. The USA. So we're going to have to deal with this in a meeting.
	Keep up the great work.
	Karma to all knights, please.
	Absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	Of course, America is United.
	It'll be interesting to figure this one out.
	Happy New Year to No Agenda, says William Granger from Marion, Indiana.
	33975 is his amount.
	Let me do something here on this spreadsheet before I continue.
	Come on.
	Damn it.
	Okay, no.
	There we go.
	I have to shrink this and I'm reading this little bitty type, and it's just like...
	Can you just print this out?
	Is that easier than doing...
	Oh, God.
	Oh, I guess not.
	Have you ever printed out one of these things?
	Uh, no.
	No.
	Oh, man.
	No.
	I guess, like, you get...
	Oh, it comes up with hundreds of pages, and it's just...
	These things do not print out.
	Anyway, William Granger.
	Okay.
	Um, click happy new year.
	No agenda.
	This amount should make me at least a night.
	And since I don't live in the same place for very long, I humbly request to become Sir William, the red night.
	This will be even cooler nickname.
	Once I reach the title of Baron.
	Yeah.
	I like it.
	It is a good one.
	Outstanding.
	No one's thought of that.
	Please accept a small token as appreciation for your insightful analysis and quickly becoming one of my primary news sources for the last year, this year, and hopefully for many years to come.
	I strongly urge the listeners who aren't donating to seriously consider finding a way to donate to this excellent program.
	I challenge anyone out there who can find a program that offers you real news and delivers it in such an entertaining fashion.
	With that, I also humbly request the following jingles.
	Eat bugs and the poop police.
	I love bugs.
	Bugs, bugs, bugs.
	Tastes like poop.
	Detective Dookie.
	Detective Dookie.
	Poop Police.
	SPU. Special Poopers Unit.
	You've got karma.
	Wow.
	Lucky I knew what he meant.
	I forgot that one.
	Lucky.
	I was lucky I knew what he meant.
	Yeah, it is.
	Nailed it.
	Sir Brett Mahoney in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
	That's $250.
	He becomes associate executive producer for show 787.
	I've been ages, ages, I say, since I donated in May 2014.
	Been broke as hell since college and finally got some money to donate.
	You can both call me out as a douchebag and e-douche me if you feel.
	I'm not going to call him out.
	No, we're not going to do either of these things.
	We're going to thank you.
	We're going to thank you and give you some karma.
	Says he finally got a job after being unemployed for six months.
	I guess a college degree isn't that useful anymore, he says.
	But thankfully I didn't pay for college.
	Ha ha ha!
	Thank you, U.S. government.
	T-Y-F-Y-C. And thank you for your courage.
	Sir Brett Mahoney, welcome back.
	You've got karma.
	Ben Truman in Leicestershire, UK 233 in Asby de la Zouche.
	Zouche.
	Zouche.
	Zouchey douchey.
	Asby de la Zouche.
	Hello, I'm the douche from Asby de la Zouche.
	Nice.
	I've never heard of him.
	Happy New Year, gents.
	Please accept my apologies.
	I've been a long-time listener, but a no-time donor.
	I've been a dickhead, but no longer.
	Thank you.
	Your podcast has performed a sterling job for my sanity and expanded my mind.
	Later in today's show, we'll talk about the continued attempts on Nigel Farage's life.
	My better half has even started listening to your show regularly.
	Admittedly, not through choice, as she's stuck in my car while I drive us both to her parents four hours away.
	Wow, this guy put his marriage on the line.
	But the other day, she didn't fall asleep, said she was enjoying it, and learned a lot.
	Well done.
	I look forward to every episode, always appreciating your phenomenal media deconstructions, comedy, and wit.
	Keep up the excellent work.
	Ben Truman, Ashby Deleuze.
	Outstanding.
	Well, hoping she's still listening, we'll play a little jingle for her and hand out karma to both of you.
	That's one mother I like.
	You've got karma.
	I'm telling you, they pretend like they don't like it, but they like it.
	That's your theory.
	I'm sticking to it.
	Jake Lester in Glade Springs, Virginia.
	$200.33 in the morning, John and Adam.
	Here's a small token of my appreciation for the show.
	It certainly has helped me keep sane over the last year, or a show that I've been listening anyway.
	I hope the show keeps going for many years to come.
	I'd like to take this opportunity to give a shout-out to Kyle, my best friend in the world, really like a brother to me, as he's shipped off to Marine Boot Camp this morning.
	I'm extremely proud of him, but at the same time, I will miss him a hell of a lot while he's gone for the next three months.
	I was hoping I could get some no-agenda karma for him as he goes into the next chapter of his life and for all of his friends and family back home.
	Could I also get a Reverend Manning jingle?
	Of course.
	Now, get out there and whoop Obama's behind!
	You've got karma.
	Thank you.
	you Thank you.
	you you you And finally, last but not least, Circumvent the Law, Protector of Privacy, $200 in Boston, Massachusetts.
	And he has this donation of $200 that made up a 52-80 mile high club for Ingrid Jackson and also for himself.
	$33 for Ingrid and $33 for Circumvent.
	And then he adds some extra money at the end.
	He says, we're in Dallas at the moment, so we'll be heading to the meetup on the 9th.
	Yes, that's Saturday.
	That's coming up.
	Can we have a Don't Eat Me Hillary?
	Her head is gone.
	So juicy.
	And finally, jobs and travel karma.
	Also, call out to Soph Patrou and Artha Doyle.
	These are two douchebags.
	Sorry.
	Yep.
	Sophie Petrou.
	Douchebag.
	And Arthur Doyle.
	Douchebag.
	And they should donate so they can get some karma.
	Thank you for your courage and the amazing job you do each and every week.
	Not sure how the sheep will continue to be so blind.
	Circumvent the law.
	Protector of privacy.
	Outstanding, my good man.
	Outstanding.
	Don't eat me!
	And her head is gone.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	I might try and make it up there for the meetup.
	Yeah, you said that.
	Yeah.
	But it's far.
	It should go.
	It's far.
	It's a train.
	Is there a train from Austin to Dallas?
	There should be.
	Hmm.
	It's not something people do regularly, that's for sure.
	There is this crazy bus service.
	One of those huge luxury buses, almost like a tour bus.
	I've taken one of those buses from the Hotel the Moscone in San Francisco.
	It's only a few blocks, but it's still a nice ride.
	Five hours may be a little different.
	Before we...
	Well, I want to remind people this is another show coming up on Thursday.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go.
	And I want to thank Ryan Hoskins.
	He says, you know, I was listening to your New Year's Eve show.
	I love the idea of Uber for trains for the rail cars.
	And he came up with the name, he says, railax.com.
	Just book with us and railax across the country.
	And it already forwards to a noagendashow.com, of course.
	Relax.
	I don't know.
	It kind of grew on me.
	At first, I was like, eh, I don't know.
	What do you think?
	Well, I'll think about it.
	Relax.
	I mean, I like the axe part.
	Yeah.
	Relax.
	Relax.
	Yeah.
	In style.
	It's better than anything else that we think of offhand.
	A huge amount of thanks to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	We'll be giving some people new titles and some daming going on later on in the program.
	Looking forward to that.
	And as John said, we will have another program on Thursday.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. A new year.
	We've got new chances to be out there amongst the people and propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Amen.
	Shut up, Slade.
	Shut up, Slade.
	So have you heard about the greatest achievement, America's greatest achievement in 2015?
	No.
	Did you hear about this?
	No, I must have missed it.
	Oh, here, just play the clip and then we'll discuss it.
	What's up, Mark?
	The U.S. State Department's also been in a bit of a reflective mood taking a look at the past year, and to the surprise of many, not least Syrians, it outlined bringing peace and security to Syria as one of America's greatest achievements.
	Wait a minute.
	You missed that one.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Just bend over.
	Clip of the day.
	You were ready for that, weren't you?
	Oh, man.
	No, not really.
	Oh, come on.
	That's great.
	What hubris.
	It's hilarious.
	Hey, those of you drowning off the coast of Greece, enjoy your peace.
	Wow.
	Apologies.
	Yeah, I looked into it.
	It was like Kirby or something.
	Apologies for being such a-holes.
	Kirby, do we have Kirby actually saying that?
	I wish I did.
	That's grand.
	It's written all over the place, but I don't have a clip of it.
	That is grand.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Well, I think it's a great achievement.
	I'm very proud of the work we've done.
	We know how to do things right.
	We sure do.
	So what we had expected, we even did a little skit about it.
	We were fully expecting the lie that Hillary Clinton told that ISIS was using Donald Trump in recruitment videos.
	Of course, none of those could be found.
	A quick reminder.
	She's a liar.
	She's a pathological liar, folks.
	She's a liar.
	I wanted to play...
	I have two clips of archives.
	Here's the clip that you played in regard to the lie.
	Together.
	You are not our adversary.
	You are our partner.
	And we also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that Trump is sending around the world don't fall on receptive ears.
	He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.
	They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit ISIS. More radical jihadists.
	So I want to explain why this is not in America's interest to react with this kind of fear and respond to this sort of bigotry.
	And then we had the spokesperson for the Clinton campaign.
	This is the woman who we joked about.
	I just clipped a little bit.
	I heard something new that happens so often.
	When you listen to something a couple times, you might pass over it.
	We were probably laughing through this thing.
	This is a woman who was hyperventilating, trying to cover up this blatant lie that her boss made.
	And she brings up Rita Katz of the Sight Intelligence Group, who, of course, already had this.
	They didn't, but we knew they would come up with it.
	I heard something new in this bit.
	You know, what Secretary Clinton was saying last night is that one of the many dangerous things about Donald Trump is that his hot rhetoric, saying we should not allow Muslim refugees into the country, is being used.
	And this is something that the Cite International Group has, who monitors social media on ISIS. But there have been no videos.
	Well, what they have said is that they are using him.
	He is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda.
	She didn't have a particular video in mind, but he's being used in social media.
	Okay, so the last part I hadn't caught.
	First of all, pay attention to the tense.
	Hillary Clinton says, you know, it's happening now, it's present tense.
	She says, Sight Intelligence Group, that's what they do.
	Listen to the end.
	She keeps saying, they do this, they do this.
	At the very end, she says, well, she said, listen to it very carefully.
	Social media by ISIS as propaganda.
	She didn't have a particular video in mind, but he's being used in social media.
	She didn't have a particular video in mind.
	I missed that the first time.
	So they had already spoken to Rita Katz.
	No, I thought she meant Hillary when she said she.
	I thought in context she's talking about the Sight Intelligence Group.
	No.
	Let's listen to the last 20 seconds again.
	I have a feeling...
	Here we go.
	But there have been no videos.
	Well, what they have said is that they are using him.
	He is being used.
	So she said Sight Intelligence Group.
	Well, I'll back it up.
	She never said Sight Intelligence Group.
	Yes, she did.
	Yes, she did.
	Back it up more.
	Crapo.
	Here we go.
	It's being used, and this is something that the Sight International group who monitors social media on ISIS has said that...
	But there have been no videos.
	Well, what they have said is that they are using him.
	So they, that's Sight.
	He is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda.
	She didn't have a particular video in mind, but he's being used in social media.
	Yeah, so it's they and then she.
	The way it came across to me initially was that it was just talking about Hillary didn't have a particular video.
	But you're right.
	The references are all site, site, site.
	And then she.
	That has to be a reference to somebody in sight.
	Thus, it was Rita Katz.
	So, a video comes out, lo and behold, an insanely dumb thing.
	Oh my god.
	They just hacked an existing video and threw in that piece about Donald Trump.
	Yeah.
	They just did a re-edit.
	They didn't have time to do more.
	By the way, video takes a long time.
	We've talked about this before.
	Yeah, but they had enough time to do something good.
	They did.
	I don't know why they did.
	Well, I love the news coverage.
	Remember, present tense, they're using Trump.
	This is ABC. Good morning, America.
	Breaking overnight, Donald Trump starring in a new terrorist recruitment video.
	Starring.
	I love this.
	He's starring in it.
	No, he's not starring in it.
	He's jacked in with one line.
	Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown.
	Of Muslims entering the United States.
	And I found the...
	It's in the show notes.
	The original video, which is...
	What is it called?
	It's...
	It's called the...
	I can't remember.
	It's in the show notes.
	You can see because it goes from Anwar al-Awlaki, who's speaking, and then just continues.
	But in the new video, it goes from Anwar al-Awlaki to Trump, and then it continues.
	I have the original video.
	They spliced it in, these lying sacks.
	Hillary Clinton may have actually been right.
	They are going to people's...
	They might have been right.
	This is so transparently bullcrap.
	Now they're saying she predicted it instead of she said it was already happening.
	ABC is example after example of this.
	The United States.
	So does this mean Hillary Clinton may have actually been right?
	They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims.
	This is the first known instance of extremists using Trump's language to attract followers, although not by ISIS, as Hillary Clinton predicted.
	He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.
	The Democratic frontrunner ignited a war of words with...
	This is interesting what they've done.
	They have changed her discussion from he did this in those videos to they changed it to predict it.
	To make it soften the blow because she didn't say it.
	She just predicted it.
	They're lying.
	They're lying.
	It's unconscionable almost.
	She didn't predict anything.
	They never call her out.
	And where is Trump saying anything anti-Muslim?
	Well, he didn't say that.
	He said this.
	They've created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama.
	There you go.
	That'll do well in the general election.
	Let me finish up the ABC report.
	Clinton predicted he is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.
	The Democratic frontrunner ignited a war of words with Trump when she warned that his rhetoric would become recruiting fodder.
	They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.
	Now, there's a whole bunch of things coming together with this.
	I think the plan is to do an all-out, we'll pull it all into one bundle, as now we have, this is also ABC, They're really, they're pulling out all the stops.
	I think ABC's given up on their support of Jeb Bush and they're going with Hillary.
	Also breaking tonight, a terror group revealing its new propaganda video featuring Donald Trump using his call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. as a recruitment tool.
	The very issue brought up during the last Democratic debate.
	ABC's senior national correspondent, Jim Avala.
	Now, just so you know, this is a slight variant, but this came after the first where, you know, Hillary Clinton predicted this would happen.
	Now there's a variation.
	As more.
	Muslims of the West.
	It's not from ISIS, but the Muslim extremist terror group Al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda arm in Somalia, has posted a recruitment video using Donald Trump's famous vow to bar Muslims from traveling to the United States.
	Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown.
	...of Muslims entering the United States.
	The video is titled, The Past to Paradise, and encourages African Americans in the U.S. to convert to Islam.
	There!
	This is new!
	We're bringing that in again!
	...and join the jihad.
	Trump's words are sandwiched between the recorded words of the U.S.-born cleric, Anwar al-Laki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike four years ago.
	He says the West will eventually turn on its Muslim citizens.
	And seems to use Trump's words to support his premise.
	Hillary Clinton said ISIS would produce video.
	Would produce video.
	Would produce video.
	No, she said they have produced videos.
	Using Trump's Muslim travel ban as a recruiting tool.
	But until tonight, there had been no evidence of anything even close to that.
	Jim Avila, ABC News, traveling with...
	She never said that.
	No.
	That is just a false report from ABC. A false report.
	And they're bringing in the Black Lives Matter thing.
	Oh yeah, this is a false report.
	Here's an interesting thing too.
	This is, and I believe, where did this come from?
	This came off of MSNBC, I think.
	Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
	And this was a little, this is kind of related.
	This is Howard Dean.
	Oh, I have this clip.
	Oh, my God.
	Well, Howard Dean comes on.
	Oh, man, I can't believe you.
	You stole, this was going to be my clip of the day.
	Oh, this was going to be my clip of the day, but I already got a clip of the day.
	Then let me play the clip.
	You can play your clip because I was just jaw dropped that anyone would say this.
	This is, well, we know it's true.
	Howard Dean ran for president.
	He screwed up.
	They took him out.
	And now he runs, he's a big dude in the party, right?
	Yeah, he was the head of the party for a while.
	And now he's just a blowhard.
	Well, he's a blowhard and he tells the truth.
	It is going to be very interesting, Howard Dean, to see how Bill Clinton handles Donald Trump on the trail.
	What can we expect?
	I would say that Donald Trump has finally met more than his match.
	Bill Clinton's the best politician in this country, probably the best politician we've seen in this country since Franklin Roosevelt, and he's not going to respond to Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump is really good at what he does.
	His skills don't compare to Bill Clinton's skills.
	So I think he's just helping us by criticizing Bill Clinton.
	Bill Clinton's not going to let it float.
	He'll come up with a couple of great one-liners that are going to put him down.
	This is like Newt Gingrich complaining about being in the back of the plane and completely undid the whole Republican attack on Clinton in 1996 or whatever it was.
	You just don't mess with Bill Clinton.
	You're going to be finding yourself six feet under before you know your name.
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	That's right.
	Everyone knows it.
	Don't mess with Bill.
	Yeah, you'll find yourself six feet under.
	I love that.
	I love that.
	I can't believe this guy.
	He said it.
	Yeah, well, he's an idiot.
	The good thing about all of this is that the video did not come from ISIL. It came from Al-Shabaab.
	And the reason I like it is because it gives me an excuse to play the jingle.
	Al-Shabaab.
	Al-Shabaab.
	Meanwhile, Hillary abusing children once again.
	She abused a young boy for her messaging in a recent stand-up, and she did it again.
	Brought a kid on stage, and this is so prepped, the kid is reading off a cue card, standing right next to her, reading the card.
	When you become president, what is your plan to connect mental health problems and guns to make sure that me, my brothers, and my friends are safe from violent at school?
	I'm going to do everything I can do.
	Can you believe that?
	That's terrible.
	Terrorize this child.
	Yeah.
	Terrorize the child.
	And scare the kids, thinking that something's going to happen at a school.
	How many schools have been attacked?
	Ever.
	Well, probably.
	How many schools are in this country?
	100,000?
	I think it's 80.
	Okay, close to it.
	It's a lot of schools.
	Yeah.
	People don't, I mean, again, this is like nothing new.
	This has happened ever since I was a kid, these sorts of events, and now it's all, you know, let's scare everybody to death because we can't scare them about the atom bomb.
	Although, if we keep going with our attitude with the Russians, it's possible we can get that back into play.
	That'd be fun.
	Yeah.
	Sell some bomb shelters.
	When I was a kid, people had bomb shelters.
	They built these bomb shelters.
	I think in the suburbs of most of America, you will find homes that also have a bomb shelter built in the backyard.
	And the bomb shelters are usually used for expanded pantries.
	I suppose if you listen to the seed guy, you probably keep your seeds and your ham radio down there.
	Yeah.
	We had a guy in our neighborhood that had a bomb shelter, and the kids would all get to visit.
	He'd like to give tours.
	Hey, want to come in my bomb shelter, kids?
	A lot of these bomb shelters, I can remember some of this, where they would dig the big hole in the backyard instead of putting a pool in, and then they'd drop in what appeared to be a giant gasoline tank.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	Made by the same guys who made gasoline tanks for gas stations.
	And the gasoline tank was outfitted with some ports that would come up through the ground so you can get fresh air.
	Good times.
	Lights.
	So now we have this, you know, the media is just loving everything that's happening around.
	Donald Trump saying he's going to spend more money.
	And of course, we all love the Trump versus Bill Clinton brouhaha that is going down.
	But when you listen to CNN, they think Bill Clinton's poop don't stink.
	What will be interesting, Errol, is when we see Bill Clinton out of the campaign trail next week in New Hampshire, does Bill Clinton address any, get within a million miles of any of this?
	Well, you put your finger on exactly what is going on here.
	Donald Trump wants to take Bill Clinton out of the equation.
	He wants to either embarrass him or otherwise frighten him off the campaign trail.
	Unlikely to happen, but that is the strategy, to sort of get him out of the picture so that he can go after Hillary Clinton without her biggest booster, one of the most popular Democrats in the country.
	I don't think that's going to happen, but, you know, after what we've seen with Bill Cosby and with old accusations, there are about 14 women who could be said to have made claims at one time or another.
	Is that right, 14?
	Well, I mean, if you go to sort of the right-wing websites and the talk radio crowd...
	Junk radio.
	14?
	That's not possible!
	That's not possible!
	It's a lot more than 14, I can promise you that.
	Nice fabric.
	And there was a good conversation on Fox.
	Conversation.
	About Trump's ad spend, which I thought was worth sharing.
	Billionaire Donald Trump is expected to next week launch a major ad campaign costing upwards of two million dollars per week.
	So how will this ad blitz shape the race in 2016?
	Two million dollars a week?
	Hasn't Donald Trump been bragging about the fact that he's gotten so much coverage from the media he hasn't had to spend any money on ads?
	So why now?
	Well, right.
	Why should he start spending money now when he's gotten all of this advertising for free?
	It's been all Trump all the time, just about 70 to 80 percent of the coverage.
	And he has played the media like a Stradivarius.
	Why should he start investing in ads now?
	Won't that be, as Donald Trump himself said, too much Trump, too much Trump?
	Honestly, I don't think he's going to.
	Because Judith is right.
	He doesn't have to.
	He is playing the press like a fiddle.
	He's playing all of you all like a fiddle.
	I've got to say this.
	He says this because it's going to be non-stop coverage.
	Just him saying so.
	Him saying that he's going to spend money on advertising.
	For a politician to say that, that's like a reporter saying, I'm going to write a story.
	There's no there there to that statement.
	Everybody does that.
	I think he's right.
	Yes, but everybody picked it up.
	Yeah.
	It can't self-analyze their own stupid stories.
	It's genius.
	That's great.
	I love it.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Well, let's take a little entremont.
	I got an entremont.
	Okay.
	In other words, it's got nothing to do with anything.
	It's just kind of interesting.
	Yeah.
	It's something the chef prepared for.
	I've seen this building in Oakland for years, and I didn't know anything about it, and I always thought it was kind of a funny name for a college.
	But play the Oaksterdam clip.
	Ah, yes.
	Oaksterdam University was first founded in 2007 here in Oakland, California.
	Since then, nearly 25,000 students have crossed through our doors to learn everything about cannabis, growing cannabis policy, and how to change the law in their neck of the woods.
	Being a student here at Oakstradam University is like being a student anywhere else.
	We read, we study, we have midterms, homework.
	It's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun.
	Oakstradam University, America's first cannabis college.
	Can I get a student loan?
	Can I get a student loan for that?
	It's like an ad on, I think, Al Jazeera or CNN. Oh, fantastic.
	I think in Oregon now, they're starting the new year, 25% tax on marijuana sales.
	That's a good deal.
	Well, yeah.
	I think that's a great deal.
	Yeah, Oregon's finding their way.
	I mean, Colorado, they should never just copy what they did.
	They did a fine job of it.
	Worked out well.
	Yeah.
	Let's see.
	What do I have?
	Oh, yeah.
	If we have hams in New York City, I found something pretty cool on one of the ham bulletin boards, amateur radio operators.
	Yes.
	It turns out that the IFBs in New York City, so what they use in the studio, we have a little earpiece.
	That's your, is it called, is it internal foldback, I think, is the breeze?
	Something like that.
	It's got some crazy name like that.
	Right.
	And the idea is you hear the control room, you hear whatever else you need to hear.
	But not necessarily your own voice, I don't think.
	Right.
	But these are wireless, most of them.
	And I have a list of 15 frequencies.
	And it's all in the 70 centimeters, so like 450 megahertz.
	Probably within half a mile, you can just go near the studios and you can record.
	These things are open and live all the time.
	Ooh, it'd be nice to record a few of those.
	Yes, this is my thinking.
	Or maybe someone can set it up on Broadcastify.
	If you're in the area, just put a receiver up and then stream it on the web.
	I think it'd be fantastic.
	That'd be great.
	And they're unencrypted?
	Yeah, why was it encrypted?
	Well, for the very reason that we're going to send ham radio guys to go record the horrible things that are being said.
	Now that you mention it, but you're not thinking that way when you're setting up shop.
	No.
	Yeah, I'd love to hear the IFB on some of these people.
	Wouldn't it be great?
	Cut him off!
	Cut him off!
	Get him out of here!
	Get him out right now!
	Yeah.
	So there's a number of interesting things going on internationally that we need to at least be aware of.
	Yes, good.
	What do we got?
	Let's start with Taiwan.
	Apparently, the Taiwanese are about to elect as their new president, the new honcho, a woman.
	And this is actually becoming disconcerting for the Chinese.
	They don't like women running things?
	Well, they don't like this one.
	Okay.
	I hit it.
	Well, the reason why I think there's so much interest in these elections, the sixth since Taiwan became a democracy 20 years ago, is that for the first time in a Taiwanese presidential election, a woman is the clear front-runner.
	She is Xi Jinping, 59 years old, single, and leader of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party, which is why China is watching these elections so closely.
	If she wins in two weeks' time, she would become Taiwan's first female president, as well as the first female president in a Chinese society.
	She has said she wants good relations with China, but worries that Taiwan is becoming too economically dependent on Beijing.
	In Saturday's debate, one of her rivals said she was becoming an isolationist and was taking Taiwan down the road to uncertainty.
	But most commentators believe that she won Saturday's debate.
	Opinion polls give her a commanding lead over her two main rival candidates, but 25% of voters also remain undecided, which means the election could still be a very close one.
	And then what will happen?
	What will happen?
	So that's a big deal.
	Yeah, what do you think will happen?
	I think she's going to win.
	And then they're going to have to sweet talk her to be nice to her.
	Because, you know, the Chinese have been irked about this Taiwan thing.
	And the one thing they don't want is Taiwan to declare complete independency and...
	Would you mind giving us a little detail on Taiwan?
	These are the things that never come up again when discussing it.
	I'd love to know what...
	During the Communist Revolution, just to shorten it up, during the Communist Revolution, there were two forces fighting...
	Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists and the communists led by Mao Zedong.
	The communists were winning and they drove Chiang Kai-shek and his army off the mainland and they all went to this A place that was called the Garden Island.
	And they...
	Taiwan.
	And they went there and set up shop as an independent...
	As China, actually.
	And the Republic of China.
	And...
	Became kind of an outcast.
	It was never recognized as a standalone country by the, you know, technically by the United Nations.
	I don't believe they're, maybe they're in the United Nations, but last time I looked they weren't.
	But it's a big deal that they're still kind of connected a little bit to China.
	It was always, the Chinese were fearful that the Chiang Kai-shek was going to reorganize and then re-attack China.
	The mainland and take it over to the point where if you go visit China, if you get to go along the coastline, especially in the Xiamen area and some of these other places, somebody knows what they're doing, they'll show you these little gun turrets and all this old stuff from the 40s that's set up along the Chinese coast to prevent the Republic of China going back and taking over the country.
	It's kind of amusing now.
	When I was growing up, everything I owned came from either Taiwan or Pakistan.
	And made in Taiwan was like the big joke at a certain point in my youth.
	Did they make anything anymore in Taiwan?
	Well, they own many of the companies that make a lot of stuff that we buy, but it's now all made in China.
	This is what this woman's trying to do.
	The Taiwanese have largely...
	Made amends with the manufacturing people in the mainland.
	And most of the stuff, like Acer, for example, is a Taiwanese company.
	But all this stuff is made in China.
	And they bring it through, they ship it through Taiwan.
	And it's just kind of a, it's a screwball situation.
	And the Chinese wanted it resolved in such a way, the same way it was resolved in Hong Kong, where you have two systems, one government, or whatever they call it.
	They have some name for it.
	And they have a big, giant billboard.
	A scam is what it's called.
	They have a huge billboard off the coast of China, which I've seen.
	It's this huge, giant letters that, I don't know, it's about 10, 15 stories high.
	It says, you know, two systems, one nation, I think, or something like that, or three systems, one nation, depending on where they count Hong Kong into this.
	And it's right on the coast.
	So if you're in Taiwan, they light it up at night.
	You can see it with binoculars.
	And it's a tourist attraction for the Chinese.
	They all stand by it and take pictures, Instagram pictures of the sign behind them, and they're standing in front of it.
	So this has been going on for a long time.
	And we had this during the 60s, this problem with Kumoy and Matsu, I think were the two islands.
	One was China and one was Taiwan, and there was the Kennedy administration that always had to deal with, he's going to start World War III over these two stupid islands.
	It's been going on forever.
	This woman is going to bring it to a head.
	Now, do we protect Taiwan?
	Is that one of our jobs?
	We're supposed to.
	We're supposed to protect Taiwan, but everyone wonders if we actually would.
	Let's see.
	Arms sales Taiwan.
	Let's see what the most recent...
	Well, we definitely sell stuff to them, that's for sure.
	November 25th, U.S. preparing new arms sales to Taiwan.
	I guess they were all set up.
	$1.83 billion going to Taiwan.
	Yeah.
	So they're still worried.
	The Chinese military...
	And we do our best to keep them worried.
	I said, the Obama administration, since coming to power, as Bloomberg states it, has sold approximately how many billions worth of military equipment to Taiwan, do you think, in the past eight years?
	Ten.
	Twelve.
	Twelve billion dollars worth of stuff.
	What do we have?
	Amphibious assault vehicles, Apache helicopter.
	Who needs that?
	Stinger missiles, please.
	Hmm.
	Ah, okay.
	So they're trying to sell F-16 fighter planes.
	Well, that's good.
	So we should see the media start to ratchet up the scare tactics so that we can do another, oh yes, let's sell some more.
	We can free up some more sales.
	Well, we haven't heard any reports about this woman yet in the U.S. press.
	No.
	And if she gets in and there'll be something going on, it'll be reported as a threat to world security.
	Yes.
	It'll be a good news story on ABC. You watch.
	Oh, we don't know what to do.
	The Chinese are very upset.
	And then they have the opposite message, which is the first female.
	Because we've got all these female leaders around the world.
	And every time one crops up out of the blue.
	First time in China.
	It's too bad we haven't.
	It's astonishing that the Chinese cultures had their first female elected president or whatever she is.
	And we still haven't had that in the United States.
	We must have a female to promote Hillary.
	So that's ABC again.
	Yeah.
	That's my prediction.
	No.
	I mean, of course, they never mentioned the evil empress Wu who ran China.
	There's been plenty of empresses.
	That's because no one is taught history anymore, as far as I'm concerned.
	Like the Ottoman Empire.
	Like, no one knows.
	No one keeps an eye on what's going on over there.
	Except your no agenda show.
	Well, now that you mention it, I do have Erdogan comparing himself to Hitler.
	Yes, this is a very good clip.
	Turkey's leader has defended his push for greater executive powers by using Nazi Germany as an example of effective presidential systems.
	When we look at other countries, we see that it is possible.
	You can see this when you look at Hitler's Germany and other countries.
	Government officials then defended President Erdogan's words, insisting he was actually attempting to highlight Nazi Germany as an example of what can go wrong.
	The Turkish leader believes the ceremonial role of the president should be changed to be more like a chief executive, a system that other countries currently have.
	Turkey's president's no stranger to controversial statements, of course.
	Last year he said that foreigners like seeing Turkish children die.
	He insisted equality between men and women goes against nature.
	That social media is the worst menace to society.
	And Erdogan's publicly said he doesn't care what the international community thinks about his actions.
	And so this is obviously a hit job.
	The origin, I found it in The Guardian.
	I trace it back to there.
	And I'm pretty sure that he didn't say, oh, Hitler was good.
	So it's a hit job.
	It's a hit job.
	Yeah, of course it's a hit job.
	Who's orchestrating it, not The Guardian.
	Well, The Guardian a little bit because they're socialists, but it's the Russians.
	Yes.
	They're going after him.
	Watching Russia today, it's like half the news is about Turkey.
	I got a clip.
	To Turkey now, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey must accept that it needs Israel.
	The two countries are seeking to normalize ties.
	This is an interesting move that's going on here.
	Pay attention.
	Turkey was a key regional ally of Israel until the deadly storming by Israeli commandos in 2010 of a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza.
	Our Ankara correspondent Jasper Mortimer describes the moves towards rapprochement.
	President Erdogan told journalists on his plane coming back from Saudi Arabia yesterday that Israel had agreed to allow Gaza to import goods.
	He didn't say want goods.
	Yeah, oil.
	And construction equipment.
	Yeah, to build the oil rigs.
	Via Turkey.
	But Turkey was waiting for Israel to put this in writing.
	These guys are unbelievable.
	The Turks are just, or let's just say Erdogan, unbelievable.
	Yeah, but we're in on it with them.
	Well, of course we are.
	And I think the ISIS thing, which has been exposed by the Russians again, which comes down to self...
	Yeah, there's like 10 guys left or something.
	It's like there's no one left.
	This is the Turkey-ISIS-KURDS clip.
	And this is like a rundown of what is going on with who's bombing who.
	Despite the fact that NATO is heavily involved in the fight against ISIS, a report from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry reveals a secret that Turkey, a NATO country, is buying oil from the terrorists.
	Secret-held documents reveal that most of the oil that ISIS has smuggled out of Syria and Iraq has ended up in Turkey.
	Has a higher priority in the conflict in Syria at the moment, and that's to prevent Kurdish autonomy in the region because it fears that that could lead to separatist movements within Turkey.
	So ISIL comes second in Syria at the moment.
	I think that as long as it seems to Turkey that the result of defeating ISIS will be strengthening the Kurdish forces in Syria, then that's going to be a bigger problem to them than ISIS. Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, because, and then if you play this, this is the Russians again.
	Turks training ISIS, part one.
	I'm sorry?
	That's it.
	Adding to the claims of Turkey's links to Islamic State are the jihadists themselves.
	This week, a captured terrorist alleged that ISIL uses camps in Turkey to train recruits.
	RT obtained interview footage with the captive from the Sputnik, Turkey news agency.
	Abdurrahman Abdelhadi is a 20-year-old militant who says he's been in the ranks of ISIL since 2013.
	He claims he's been mostly fighting against the Syrian army but was captured in November by Kurdish forces and is currently being held in prison.
	Abdul Hadi says he was trained by ISIL in Turkey and spoke in detail about the experience.
	In August 2014, I was training in the Turkish town of Aden with one of ISIL's emirs.
	There were 60 of us in a village not far from the airport.
	Media reported that we were training in the Free Syrian Army's camps, but in fact all 60 of those who were there were ISIL members.
	In the morning we woke up and did training drills.
	Once a week, we had shooting classes where we were taught to use Kalashnikovs, machine guns and other weapons.
	We had two instructors.
	One of them was from the military.
	He spoke only Turkish, so another one had to translate for him.
	We were trained in Turkey because ISIL's commanders thought it was safer there than in Syria because of the bombardments there.
	As for Ankara's position, it states that it trains only Syrian rebels that are fighting against Islamic State and strongly denies allegations that it aids any terrorist group.
	But the captured jihadists claims the recruits moved freely inside Turkey and across the border.
	Now, we've talked about how the U.S. has warmed up to Turkey and has been buddy-buddy with this character for some time.
	If the basic thesis that we own, which is that ISIS-ISIL is run by the CIA and the State Department, two different groups, as you pointed out, this would make nothing but sense that they'd be doing the training in Turkey.
	And this is one of the reasons that we're so chummy with the Turks under these circumstances, which is pretty anti-American.
	And the guy wants to be Hitler.
	It's pro-caliphate, I'd say.
	Yes, well, of course, because the Turks think they can become the center of the caliphate, like they were when Constantinople was in business.
	So what this comes down to is the NATO issue.
	And, let me see, I think I have a clip here.
	Yes.
	So, NATO is a problem for Russia, because, of course, you know, so Turkey, a member of NATO, shoots down a jet.
	You know, what's Russia going to do?
	If they seriously went and attacked a NATO country, we know Article 5 comes into play, and it's pretty much all over.
	But there is some real reason for the Russians to be afraid.
	Of course, this deals mainly with Ukraine, but it all comes into the same thing of how they cannot deal with Turkey.
	And the reporting that has come out about Ukraine and Putin declaring NATO a threat has to do with something else that happened on January 1st.
	And a stunning new security strategy in Russia, which is now declaring NATO a threat.
	President Vladimir Putin endorsing the plan last night.
	It says NATO's military buildup threatens his country's national security.
	Frederica, thanks.
	That's right.
	There's a couple of points to come out of this document, which is a sort of official document that Russia has to update every six years.
	It was last updated in 2009, so time was ripe.
	for this new description, essentially, of the threats to the Russian state as the Kremlin sees it.
	It says that it sees the expansion of NATO, the Western Military Alliance, as a major threat to Russia's national interests.
	And it also says that's because of Russia's what it calls independent domestic and foreign policy, which has triggered a counteraction from the United States and its allies.
	And so I think the reference there is to the fact that Russia has engaged in military activities in Ukraine.
	It's engaged in Syria as well, carrying out airstrikes against ISIS and other rebel groups in support of Bashar al-Assad and his allies.
	And that's angered somewhat the United States specifically, but also NATO countries in general.
	And so this is a formal document essentially which says look NATO is a threat to Russia's national interests but it doesn't necessarily represent a big shift in the thinking of Russia itself.
	Russia, and Putin in particular, has been describing NATO as a strategic threat to Russia for some years now, and indeed that threat has come to a head over the conflict in Ukraine, where Russia has essentially deployed military forces, although it denies this, to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and other Western institutions.
	So it wants to prevent the spread and the expansion, the further expansion of NATO, and it's made that now a priority in terms of its national security.
	So the way I understand it, we, the West, we made a promise to Russia.
	We said not an inch east.
	Now, the Russians say that the West promised we would never expand NATO or expand any of our unions.
	As of January 1st, the Ukraine-European Union Association agreement is in effect.
	So they are now effectively trading.
	They have a free flow of any kind of materiel going back and forth.
	This is absent from all reporting, of course.
	But it goes against some promise we made.
	Yeah, we discussed it.
	We had a tape of this promise.
	The way the promise goes with the neocons.
	It was the reunification of Germany, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that was the deal.
	And it was one of our heads of something.
	The State Department is supposedly sanctioned by the president.
	But the way the neocons look at this, they say, well, yeah, we did say that, but it's not in writing.
	We're Indian givers.
	But it's not in writing.
	We pulled the old it's not in writing thing, which is something we do that no other country does.
	Horrible.
	Because, you know, it's not in writing.
	It's not in writing.
	Let me see the paper.
	So since it was not in writing, we can do whatever we want.
	The new guy comes along.
	Of course, our policies always change from president to president.
	And we have the neocons, which have pretty much taken over the place.
	Including the Obama administration, and they're warmongers, and they want to blow everything up so the Americans can rebuild everything.
	It'd be a great boom economy, rebuilding all the rebelizing that we've done.
	It is such a form of marketing.
	Yeah.
	Are you guys on a hiatus from the Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged show?
	Well, two weeks, yeah.
	I miss it.
	I miss my financial news.
	Oh, well, there'll be something on Tuesday.
	Because it's getting bad here.
	You can even see it in Austin stores, empty storefronts.
	La Vie restaurant just closed, which had only been open for two years.
	Yeah, you've mentioned that.
	They closed.
	Now, they lost their chef, though.
	Well, the chef, yeah, she left about a year ago.
	Yeah, why'd she leave?
	I read that little story about it.
	Nobody says why.
	Well, I'm not entirely sure, but I do know the entire business, general manager, executive chef, everything was all women, and that was supposed to be one of the big appeals.
	And then the executive chef, she took a leave of absence and never came back.
	And we went there maybe six weeks ago.
	And, you know, it's still operating full steam.
	Was it as good without her?
	No.
	I actually said, what happened to...
	They were very unclear.
	But there's something else...
	She took the sommelier with her.
	Probably.
	But there's something else that I'm noticing that kind of shows how...
	And I know I don't like it, but I guess it's part of what's happening with the economy.
	Retailers, for my eyeglasses, I have to go get my glasses fixed.
	I made an appointment for January 4th.
	I went in there and talked to the lady.
	She saw me put it in my phone and everything.
	It doesn't matter whether it's that or if you make a reservation at a restaurant.
	Then I do it through OpenTable.
	This is what happens every single time.
	You get them calling up, and of course, I don't answer the phone.
	It's like a 512 number.
	I don't know who that is.
	I'm not going to answer it.
	It goes to the voicemail.
	Hi, we have reservations for tonight, 715.
	We just want to make sure that you're going to come, and you do have to call us back so we can keep your table.
	When did this happen?
	This started about 10 or more years ago in San Francisco and New York and some other places that have extremely high-end restaurants with a limited number of tables.
	These are just regular tables, man.
	These restaurants are not like crazy.
	Well, I'm telling you how it started.
	It was these places, and it was so expensive to eat there that they couldn't take a chance on people stiffing them.
	And so that happened, this recall, the call you back thing, was the first part of it.
	The second part of it, which you haven't experienced yet, which is coming everywhere, is they make you put a deposit in Yeah.
	Down to...
	Now, that happened for our New Year's dinner, and I was okay with that.
	I get that.
	I get that.
	Well, there are places in San Francisco that make you give them a deposit for any day of the week.
	It's not a low-end deposit either.
	It's a few hundred dollars.
	So if you don't show up too bad...
	And this is all margin issues, it seems to me.
	They're not organized correctly.
	But it's economic issues then.
	Yeah, margins.
	But for the ophthalmologist, you have to call me back.
	That doesn't make sense.
	Come on, please.
	And I made the appointment in person.
	Well, there could be something else going on in certain communities.
	Yours might be one of them.
	People just stiffen these businesses left and right.
	Make a bunch of appointments.
	This is like car rentals.
	You can make a car rental appointment.
	You don't want to get a car out of Seattle and you call up.
	You just tell them.
	And they put you on the list.
	You go in there and you get your stuff.
	You don't have to give them a credit card.
	There's not a car rental place that asks for a credit card.
	And so you can stiff the car rental places once you get to the airport.
	Say, whoa, they got a better deal over at budget.
	I'll go over there.
	I think this is a short-term thing.
	Well, I see nothing but opportunity in Austin.
	For what?
	For a new restaurant.
	They've got a bunch of restaurants.
	I was reading that.
	They're closing.
	I have a formula for Austin that will be killer.
	Okay, I'm all ears.
	Guns and bugs.
	Guns and bugs.
	Open carry all you want in our restaurant and have some bugs.
	And we serve bugs.
	It's going to happen.
	You identified this very early on.
	We'll be eating bugs.
	Alright.
	Okay, onward.
	What else we got on the list here?
	Cool stuff that's going on.
	But we might as well keep, let's get a catch up.
	Let's go, this is not being covered by U.S. news at all.
	Let's play the Corsica clip.
	Corsica, as in Corsica off the Isle of Greece?
	No, no, no.
	Corsica is...
	Where's Corsica?
	Spain, Spain, Spain.
	It's up in between, it's off of France near Italy.
	Yeah, that's what I meant.
	Now calls for independence are getting louder on the French island of Corsica, where the Nationalist Separatist Party has become the main political force following regional elections.
	More from the island now with RT's Daniel Bushell.
	Pro-independence passions here are strong but also focused in working-class neighbourhoods like this one.
	Block after block announcing planned protests for amnestia, Corsican for amnesty.
	It's an organised movement to free dozens of people some Corsicans call political prisoners.
	But France is jailed for terrorism and even assassination of top officials.
	Ah, is that like the French Gitmo?
	No, of course, it's not the French Gitmo.
	It's its own.
	It used to be kind of its own country.
	They have their own language.
	And this is part of this giant movement around the world, this kind of Baltimization.
	You've got your own language, you've got your own culture, and you've got some French guys telling you what to do.
	It's like, no, no.
	And this is what the Turks are afraid of with the Kurds.
	They're taking it a little too seriously.
	And this is happening everywhere.
	I think...
	Everywhere.
	See, in the Philippines, with the Muslim community there, it wants to become its own country.
	So this is like a major trend happening all over the place.
	And is this just the people who are doing this?
	The people just want to separate?
	No, there's troublemakers behind it, obviously.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But there's a lot of these troublemakers, and they're all over the place.
	I mean, here we have...
	Remember on our show we discussed, because our economic hitman warned us about Mali.
	Yes.
	And now there's this battle going on between Mali and Senegal, and they block the road that goes back and forth.
	They do a lot of trading with each other.
	But this particular clip is interesting.
	This is the Senegal-Mali border clip, but it's interesting because in it they asked a woman on the street, who's a Senegalese, about...
	She's a Muslim and she says something which I should probably ISO because you have to understand what she says about the government to understand why a lot of the procedures, a lot of the initiatives of the United States to democratize everything are just going to go nowhere.
	The suggested measures haven't made it to Parliament yet, but they're already a source of heated debate.
	Islam plays a key role in this country.
	So does economic ties with neighboring West African countries.
	President Makisal says these measures are necessary because the threats of attacks on Senegal are real.
	Senegal police recently made several arrests, including the imam of this mosque and religious school.
	He's accused of having links with Nigeria's Boko Haram, a claim mosque worshippers strongly deny.
	They accuse the government of attempting to destroy Islam.
	The state idolizes values like secularism and republican laws.
	They are making a big mistake.
	As Muslims, we do not accept the law of the state.
	We only accept the rule of God.
	Senegal has so far prevented any attacks.
	The government says it will take whatever steps necessary to protect its citizens, even if it causes inconvenience for some.
	Nicholas Honk, Al Jazeera, Khedira, at the Senegal-Mali border.
	Okay.
	Basically, they have the border blocked, and there's all this trade that goes on between these two.
	It's hours and hours and hours to get through.
	Did you check for the obvious pipelines?
	I didn't check for pipelines.
	I'm sure pipelines are involved.
	I was more interested in the political thing when this woman went on about, you know, this secular crap is bull.
	We want our law from God, and they let these imams determine what God has to say about it.
	And I think this is a major problem, if you haven't noticed.
	Yeah, it seems to be a worldwide thing.
	It's interesting that way.
	I would like to tease for the D-block Nigel Farage's attempt on his life.
	Yeah.
	And I'm going to leave that to you, but first...
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	That's right.
	In the morning.
	All right, we do have a few people to thank.
	Madison Risco in Austin, Texas, right around the corner from you.
	Yep.
	123.45.
	And it has a note that I think I'll read.
	Okay.
	Love the show.
	You two keep this very young millennial.
	He's 17.
	Whoa.
	He's a 17-year-old giving us $123.45.
	Thank you.
	People should think about this.
	He says, keep this young millennial sane while I'm at work 40 hours a week.
	So as a first-time donor, I hope you accept my contribution for show 787.
	I'm also hoping you'll give my loving boyfriend, Josh Wiley, And this is Madison.
	Yeah.
	So Madison's a...
	It's a Madison.
	Yeah.
	Hello, Madison.
	Mm-hmm.
	I'm hoping to give my loving boyfriend, Josh Wiley, in Fenton, Michigan.
	Ah, long-term, long-distance.
	Yeah, long-distance relationship.
	A birthday shout-out, and we do have that down.
	Yeah.
	It'll brighten his mood.
	I'm going to give her a little karma.
	17, working 40 hours a week, first-time donor.
	Thank you very much for your courage.
	You've got karma.
	Very cool.
	Richard Leiter, $102.
	Sir Richard.
	Sir Richard.
	Sir Richard in Lincoln.
	Holy crap!
	You read his note?
	Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	This is horrible.
	Belated Merry Christmas and New Year's.
	A few days before Christmas, I was laid low by a heart attack.
	Crap.
	I was out of it for a week or so, but surprisingly, I'm okay now.
	They say that I'm very lucky and we're able to insert two stents quickly enough that I have.
	I'm going to give you some stent karma because he deserves that.
	He's a serve.
	You've got karma.
	We always break for our knights and dames.
	Mike Snyder, KN8J, Harrisville, West Virginia, $100.
	Seven threes.
	Dittos.
	Brandon Panna in Gaithersburg, Maryland, $100.
	Donald Gogan of $100 in Westminster, Massachusetts.
	Amanda Rossett in Vernon, Connecticut, $75.
	Sir Kevin Dills in Charlotte, North Carolina, $64.32.
	Michelle Mathray in St.
	Petersburg, Florida, $57.20.
	Brian Edmondson in Poway, California, 55-55.
	Howard LaHero in Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester, 55-10.
	Sir Alex Farrington in Santa Maria, California, 5380, which gives a little more in there.
	Yeah, he says, 5280 for my 787 Mile High Club membership, as well as 100 shiny pennies to refill the change jar in case Adam is getting low.
	Okay?
	Yeah, we need 100 more pennies.
	Always good to have pennies.
	I love pennies.
	Now we have people that contributed for the Mile High Club, which will be put in the database.
	And people don't get on the database and did what Alex Farrington did because his name won't come up when you search for 5280.
	He's going to have to write in again.
	Although I'll try to remember.
	Meredith Calligan in Sacramento, California.
	Andy Benz in St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	Ralph Massaro in Kirkland, Washington.
	These are all Mile High Club members.
	Robert Brooks in Columbus, Ohio.
	Mark McAvoy in Modesto, California.
	Anonymous in Salton, Washington.
	John Jolly in Yukon, Oklahoma.
	Nathaniel Starlin in Attica, Ohio.
	Jay Cattaccini.
	Nathaniel actually said This is for my wife, Jerry, to join.
	I have already joined.
	Hmm.
	Okay, well.
	By yourself?
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	I suppose you could solo.
	Yeah.
	I think it counts, doesn't it?
	Why not?
	Jake Cotaccini in Newark, Delaware.
	Jared Glidewell twice in Muncie, Pennsylvania.
	He's in twice.
	Good.
	What does it say over there?
	What is he talking about?
	Um...
	You can look at it while I'm going on.
	Peter Puky, or Puky, Puky, P-U-K-Y, I don't know how to pronounce that.
	Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, 5280, Sir Fudge Fountain in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	Stephen Bussinger in Erie, Colorado.
	Jared, he bought one Mile High membership for himself, and the second one is gift to fellow slave and mouth hitter Benjamin Fossey and his wife.
	As a belated anniversary present.
	There you go.
	Oh, nice.
	Very nice.
	Michael Moss in Belvedere, Illinois.
	Kevin Brosseau in Milton.
	Milton.
	I don't know how you pronounce it.
	We say Milton.
	Milton.
	Milton.
	Milton, New Jersey.
	Chris Perry in Silver Springs, Maryland.
	Brian Warden in Downs, Illinois.
	Ron Pepper in San Francisco, California.
	Douglas Chick in Gatineau, Quebec.
	Sir John Adams in Stratford, Connecticut.
	We have a good group here.
	Ed Zollo in Rostrover, South Australia.
	5280.
	Kevin Thomas in Smyrna, Georgia.
	Wait, he becomes a knight with this?
	Does he?
	Yeah, I think Ed becomes a knight.
	Yes, very nice.
	Is he on the list?
	Yes, he is.
	Rostrover.
	Kevin Thomas in Smyrna, Georgia.
	5280.
	Jean-Claude Schmid.
	Jean-Claude.
	Jean-Claude.
	Jean-Claude Schmid in Tustin.
	Tustin, California.
	I'm trying to track down an artist, Dustin from Tustin.
	Dan Victor in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	Andrew Francis in Rochester, New York.
	Michael Papesh in Cumming, Georgia.
	David Fugizotto, Parts Unknown.
	He's out in Mainz, Germany, I guess, is where he is.
	He's in Deutschland.
	Raleigh Hawk in Anna, Illinois.
	BrianBarrow.com in Wooten-Bassett, Wiltshire, UK.
	And finally, Ben Doran in Millersport, Ohio.
	You're all in the Mile High Club.
	Congratulations.
	Yes.
	Onward with Thomas J. Gruska in West Seneca, New York for 5133.
	Stephen Thexton in Hayward, California.
	Where Jack Del Rio comes from.
	5033, he'll get that.
	Sir Slough in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 5027.
	And the following people are $50 donors, beginning with Robert Amanula in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Keith Powell, parts unknown.
	Justin Barber, Los Angeles, California.
	Eric Miller, maybe a sir, in Norwalk, Connecticut.
	Shane Rozdilski in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
	Mark Tanner in Whittier, Sir Mark Tanner in Whittier, California.
	Sir Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City.
	And last but not least, Jason J. Deluzio in Shadsford, Pennsylvania.
	I just want to thank all these folks for helping us out.
	It does a great job on the show.
	787 Mile High Club closes at midnight.
	And every other donation after that will be just $52.80.
	And what are we doing?
	We're publishing a huge list with all of the Mile High Club members?
	Yeah, so people can refer to it when somebody says, ah, bullcrap.
	No, it's official.
	Solo.
	Solo.
	It's official.
	It is solo.
	It should be in parents if somebody wants to.
	Solo.
	I like it.
	All right.
	And that will be published sometime in the next few days.
	Shortly.
	But as fast as we can.
	Okay.
	And it has to be corrected because there's a bunch of people that won't get on because they did one of these, you know, I've been donating 33 for this and 44 for that and it totals like something outrageous.
	So what I would recommend, John, is because the Freedom Controller is real easy to publish and to change because, you know, we always have issues with credits that something just happens.
	If you can give me the whole list, I'll be responsible for the publishing.
	Unless you had something fancy in mind?
	Nope, nope, nope, nope.
	I'll just get that published.
	Eric pulled the list.
	Wait, on your spreadsheet?
	Do you have your spreadsheet still up?
	My spreadsheet's right here, yeah.
	So if you had a spreadsheet, can you export to HTML? Well, you want the whole thing?
	I don't know.
	Donation in the world on here?
	No, no, just if you made a new spreadsheet.
	Uh...
	Well, you can always export to HTML. I don't know what the format is.
	Can't you export to front page?
	That's what I'd like to try.
	Why don't I just give you the CSV and then you can deal with that?
	Yeah, just give me the CSV. I'll deal with it one way or the other.
	Outstanding.
	Thank you all very much.
	Enjoy your solo trip on the Mile High Club.
	Thank you all, everybody, for being a producer of the best podcast in the universe.
	This is why we continue to roll.
	No commercials, no advertisers, only people who we make the program for.
	That's why you were called Producers, because you are producing it with us.
	And please remember us for the next show on Thursday.
	What happened there?
	What?
	Indeed.
	Indeed.
	Here we go.
	Misfire.
	And we have a short list, Matt.
	Madison Risco, as we know, says happy birthday to her boyfriend, Fenton.
	He's celebrating today, so happy birthday to you.
	And we have Amanda Rosette, who celebrated yesterday, and that wraps up our list for the first birthdays of the new year of the best podcast in the universe.
	Title changes today.
	Dame Cathy and Sir Greg Simonich become baronets, and Dwayne Melanthon, Sir Dwayne Melanthon, becomes Archduke.
	This is fantastic.
	He's on his way to, as you said, on his way to having a song.
	It's fantastic.
	One, two, three, four.
	We need Jeanette Hill up here on the podium.
	Careful, careful, careful, careful.
	Step around that.
	Brian Vaughn.
	We need William Granger.
	And John, you got your blade?
	Yeah.
	Ed Zollo.
	If we can get those four people up here, please.
	We are about to walk.
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	Just putting your information in for the rings doesn't actually do that, but I think people can kind of figure it out.
	Before we go into the Nigel Farage, I realized something else.
	You were listening to this rhetoric about Donald Trump being used for recruitment for ISIS. Now, let me just understand.
	Donald Trump said, I would like to bar Muslims from entering the United States until we can figure all this stuff out.
	That's what he said.
	And that is now apparently, and I've said this before, is pushing Muslims over the edge because they're so stupid.
	They're so stupid.
	Oh, that guy?
	I've got to go kill somebody now.
	Why is it that we don't have 11 million Mexicans killing people and joining the cartels because he wants to deport them, which I think is worse than not having people come in?
	Why aren't they up in arms?
	Should we not be worried about this?
	I don't have a clue.
	Because I'm not making this stuff up like Hillary does.
	Sometimes we get so embroiled in whatever the messaging of the day is that you forget the pure logic that it makes no sense whatsoever.
	I mean, Trump has been very adamant about kicking Mexicans out.
	Very clear.
	Building a wall, everything.
	Yet we don't have any organized crime.
	He's even said we're going to get the drugs out.
	We don't have any Mexican cartels or gangs saying, oh, we're going to go and kill you people, you horrible man.
	Is that because Mexicans are different than...
	They're peace-loving.
	Ah, so maybe...
	Those bloodthirsty Muslims.
	There you go.
	That's what I wanted to point out.
	Yeah, it makes zero sense at all.
	Yeah.
	But you can use that if you have an Obama bot dinner.
	You say, you know, I don't understand.
	Yeah, just go into that whole thing just like that.
	Yeah, you'll never be invited back.
	But otherwise, it's a good thing to test.
	No, the other big news was the mass beheadings at the end of the year in Saudi Arabia.
	And then they killed some very famous Shia cleric.
	And now all hell's breaking.
	That was a mistake.
	Yeah.
	Now, the best report of this I found was, of course, on Russia Today because they hate us.
	And so they like to emphasize things that we won't emphasize because the Saudis are our buddies.
	And so let's get a rundown so everybody can catch up to what's just happened.
	Again, with the Saudi embassy in Tehran, which has been pelted with Molotov cocktails in response to Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia cleric.
	Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was executed along with 46 other people on charges of foreign and domestic terror.
	Iran, which is mainly Shia, has warned Riyadh of dire consequences over the killing.
	Angry mobs also attacked the Saudi consulate in the Iranian city of Mashhad.
	Nimr al-Nimr was an outspoken critic of the Saudi government.
	He called for respect for Shia minorities and demanded a Shia autonomy if rights were not respected.
	He was arrested several times before being sentenced to death.
	He organized anti-government rallies in 2011 and 2013, but encouraged the demonstrators to remain peaceful.
	Outrage over the execution in Saudi Arabia itself has led to public protests, including in the city where the cleric was born.
	And anger has spread further around the globe as well.
	Iran, as the leading Shia Muslim power in the region, has a long history of disputes with Saudi Arabia, which is led by a hardline Sunni monarchy.
	Both governments have accused each other of supporting terrorism, and some of those allegations relate to the Syrian conflict, where the country's back opposing sides.
	Saudi Arabia is a close US ally, whereas Iran has strongly opposed Washington's influence since the 1979 revolution.
	Both states, of course, are also major oil producers, but they've got conflicting strategies within OPEC. Prominent Shia Muslims in Iraq and Lebanon have also lashed out at Saudi Arabia and called the execution a service to Islamic State and warned that it has opened the gates of hell and will set the region on fire.
	Experts we spoke to say the killing of al-Nimir is a grave warning of the growing rift between Shias and Sunni Muslims across the region.
	Now, what is going to happen with this?
	Well, one of the things that I've noticed, and I've kind of been suspicious about this since the Iraq activity that began in 2003-2004, I think that we've been inciting, because if you notice, it came in and out of the conversation, we've been inciting a civil war between these two groups, which really don't like each other.
	They just need more prodding.
	This is the divide and conquer strategy?
	Between the Sunnis and the Shias.
	Yeah.
	And we have, and if you remember a lot of the reporting in the late 2000s, before about, maybe 2009, 2010.
	I was smoking too much weed then, I don't remember much.
	There was all this, oh, it's a civil war, it's a civil war, and it was always in Iraq.
	Oh, it's a civil war, it's a civil war.
	Yeah, like Syria, civil war.
	Yeah, it's a civil war, and then you talk to the man on the street, and they say, that's not a civil war.
	We get along fine.
	I also love the dichotomy of the term civil war.
	It just always tickles me.
	Oh, it is funny.
	Well, it's not a dichotomy.
	It's a, what is it called?
	It's not an oxymoron.
	It's a...
	Yeah, maybe it is.
	Whatever.
	It's a self-contradictory statement.
	It's civil.
	But it's war!
	Yeah, civilized.
	Yeah.
	Now, we've been promoting the civil...
	I think it's been us that's promoting the civil war idea.
	And we keep doing it.
	We keep prodding.
	I mean, the whole thing in Syria is part of it.
	Wasn't it just part of the rebelized strategy?
	I think so.
	It's part of the rebelized strategy.
	Yeah.
	Rebel on the double!
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It never really took off early on.
	We just kept doing it, though.
	And I think now, with this killing of...
	I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't encourage it.
	Killing this cleric who looks like he needed to go anyway.
	I mean, this guy should have been drummed out of the country.
	All he's doing is advocating overthrowing the government and setting up shop as another country.
	It's almost like a one-man Kurd operation.
	So they killed him and now hell's breaking loose.
	Well, we of course supply all of the weaponry to Saudi Arabia.
	Yes, but the Russians supply the Iranians.
	So we have another proxy war.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Fabulous.
	Yeah.
	Well, this is going to be the year, John.
	It's impossible for any civilization to live under this stress.
	It's horrible.
	The stress of being killed by ISIS. And this ISIS thing.
	It's all coming our way.
	These citizens need to turn off their televisions.
	They need to stop, check out for a while, because this is not healthy, what's going on.
	Or just listen to our show.
	We try and bring you some version of truth.
	I think it's a good version.
	Yeah, well, of course.
	Yeah, meanwhile, another thing that's underreported, you might as well play this clip, this is the continuing strife in Bahrain.
	Okay.
	Hundreds taken to the streets in the Bahraini city of Sitra.
	This is the latest episode of a five-year uprising against the country's monarchy.
	The protests resulting in clashes with riot police who fired tear gas.
	This comes only a day after 23 opposition protesters were convicted on terrorism charges following another demonstration that killed a policeman.
	The way I see it, anything that has anything to do with terrorism charges or terrorism anything, is our doing.
	Yeah.
	Because we're the ones who, the United States, we're the ones who promote the idea of terrorism as a thing.
	They created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama.
	Created with Obama.
	There you go.
	It's not like it's not being said.
	Right.
	It is being said.
	It has been said.
	It's being said a lot, actually.
	Oh, I got a great note from one of our producers, millennial producer, in regards to the Pentagon claiming they will not be ready for their 2017 audit because the systems are all COBOL and they can't integrate with the new fancy systems they have.
	Why do they need to integrate anything?
	You go into the department, you run their COBOL systems, you audit them.
	Then you go to the next department, you run their COBOL systems, and you audit them.
	Why can't you do that?
	One department at a time.
	Actually, I want to bring up the written report that we talked about in the previous show.
	And they had some very specific notes.
	Let me see.
	Was it under military-industrial complex, I think?
	Yeah, here it is.
	Yeah, there was a Reuters investigation.
	That's what was so crazy about it.
	Behind the Pentagon's doctored ledger is running.
	Okay, all the way at the bottom, it says...
	Let me scroll down.
	The Pentagon can't manage what it can't measure.
	And Congress can't effectively perform...
	No, that's not it.
	It's before this.
	Where they specifically said they had to integrate.
	I want to get the exact verbiage about the COBOL stuff.
	Hold on.
	Here it is.
	Reuters has found that the Pentagon probably won't meet its deadlines.
	The main reason is rooted in the Pentagon's continuing reliance on a tangle of thousands of disparate, obsolete, largely incompatible accounting and business management systems.
	Many of these systems were built in the 1970s and use outmoded computer languages such as COBOL on old mainframes.
	They use antiquated file systems that make it difficult or impossible to search for data.
	Much of the data is corrupted and erroneous.
	That part, I believe.
	That part is different.
	Yeah.
	And so I got this nice note from producer Jimson.
	I was shocked to hear pundits describing programs written in COBOL as useless and antiquated.
	I'm 25 and finishing up a degree in computer science at an American university.
	Modern students, at least at my school, are in no way discouraged to learn old languages like COBOL. In fact, our data structure class is primarily taught in ADA95 specifically to encourage developing skills on working on existing software, which is the vast majority of the systems in government industry.
	COBOL was also allowed and accepted.
	People at my school who major in management information systems, a business computing degree, still actively study COBOL along with SAP and the more, quote, modern tools.
	Just a month ago, when I was walking around the statistics building, I read an excellent poster-based study of a student's master project that involved parallel processing of COBOL programs.
	COBOL ain't dead.
	There you go.
	Who's he bitching about?
	The pundits?
	Was that you saying we were saying?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	What Reuters said.
	Reuters aren't pundits.
	He's 25.
	You know what he means.
	Okay, I'm just kidding.
	Hey, come on.
	Don't give the guy any crap.
	Well, he's right.
	This is nonsense, and it's being lapped up by the mainstream media, hook, line, and sinker, which is a mixed metaphor if you've ever heard one.
	I love that one.
	Lapped up, hook, line, and sinker.
	I gotta write that down.
	Anyway, it's horrible.
	Yeah.
	They're lying to us.
	They're ripping us off.
	There is corruption afoot.
	That's the only reason.
	Our budget is bigger than all the other military budgets in the entire world put together.
	Ours is bigger.
	Why do we need more money?
	Why do we need more money?
	Ours is bigger than everybody's.
	All combined.
	Add China to Russia.
	Add the EUs to that number.
	Keep adding numbers.
	You're never going to get to our number.
	What are we spending this money on?
	Bull crap.
	Well, there's got to be a lot of bull crap going on.
	And it needs to be fleshed out, and it means somebody's got to go audit the Pentagon.
	And let us remember.
	Sorry.
	Let us remember.
	Start your cover-up work now.
	You know what it is?
	They figured it's going to take them over a year to cover up the mess.
	Yeah.
	And so that's why, oh, we can't do anything for over a year.
	We're going to miss the deadline.
	They're going to cover up the mess and then try to slide out of this.
	And we need to remember that on September 10th, One day before the well-known 9-11, Donald Rumsfeld made a very interesting statement.
	Let's see if I can pull this from the YouTube.
	It's everywhere, so you can find it.
	Here we go.
	CBS News report.
	Before 9-1-1, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war, not on foreign terrorists.
	The adversary is closer to home.
	It's the Pentagon bureaucracy.
	He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.
	In fact, it could be said that it's a matter of life and death.
	Rumsfeld promised change.
	But the next day, the world changed.
	And in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.
	My 03 budget.
	Calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending.
	I don't think it's in here.
	What Rumsfeld says on September 10, 2001, is $2.3 trillion are unaccounted for at the Pentagon.
	Six, 15 years ago.
	Yeah.
	Can you imagine how big the hole is in that place?
	Unbelievable.
	Ah, it's crazy.
	I want to remind people out there when they talk about, oh, defense, they want to cut the defense, but they want to cut, cut, cut.
	They want to cut the defense.
	No, they want to cut the increase.
	The defense budget has not been cut.
	It never gets cut.
	It's the increase that gets cut.
	And that already got taken care of in the omnibus bill.
	It's done.
	They increased it.
	That already slipped under the radar.
	They didn't even cut the increase.
	They increased it more.
	Yeah.
	Jen Briney did a show on the Omnibus.
	I haven't listened to it yet, but probably she'll have something in there.
	I'll have a listen.
	Yeah, she starts cussing a lot.
	That means she's really unhappy.
	Hey, final thing I noticed, and we don't have time for tech news, but it appears now that FaceBag is also doing verified status for users.
	So now not only can you be a verified user on Twitter, but you can be...
	Well, here's my...
	Of course, I'm not verified, obviously.
	Of course, you'll never get verified.
	I'm thinking, when you live in a police state, you do not want to be on any kind of list of any kind.
	This actually may be a very bad thing.
	What are they going to do with those verified people?
	I don't know.
	I agree with the basic thesis.
	I'm thinking it's not a good idea to be on lists at this point in time.
	You're probably right.
	So, if you're looking for something, I suggest the show notes.
	Noagendanotes.com.
	You can find an archive of that at archive.noagendanotes.com.
	And of course, we have places for you to search that.
	Search.nashownotes.com.
	All of that in the show notes for today's episode 787 of the best podcast in the universe.
	And with that, Jean-Claude?
	Oui.
	We will see each other again on Thursday.
	And we'll see what else we have to do.
	Deconstruct.
	We'll be rolling.
	There'll be plenty.
	Plenty to do.
	Plenty to do.
	Thank you, chat room.
	Thank you, everybody listening.
	Happy New Year.
	And coming to you from FEMA Region 6 in the Crackpot Condo in downtown Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the trains are going by just routinely, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Soon to be featured on RailAxe.com.
	And we'll be back Thursday, right here on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos.
	The U.S. State Department's also been in a bit of a reflective mood taking a look at the past year, and to the surprise of many, not least Syrians, it outlined bringing peace and security to Syria as one of America's greatest achievements.
	They've created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama.
	Created with Obama.
	Five, four, three, two, one.
	They're in Victoria Kagan Noodleman.
	Yeah!
	Let's get social!
	Let's get social media!
	Give it up, Mary McCoy!
	Woo!
	Yes, the beaches are back open!
	Woo-hoo!
	Yeah!
	ISIS uses social media like a job fair.
	Troubled soul, come to the caliphate.
	Come to the caliphate.
	Because we and our allies sent 600 tons of weapons into that civil war.
	We have people being vandalized, kids being executed, being executed.
	We'll be back one day to fight our own weapons.
	They were known as normal teenagers.
	They punished us for doing things that we take for granted.
	Normal teenagers.
	We are killing them, and we will continue killing ISIS terrorists that pose a threat to us.
	very good at that.
	Jamila, is it funny or is it important?
	Yet as we look around the world, we encounter upheaval and conflict and chaos.
	I said propaganda.
	And her head is gone.
	We are here, hashtag America, near our hashtag target.
	soon.
	Caliphate!
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	Adios, mofo.
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