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	People today are not educated.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	And Sunday, August 21st, 2016, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 853.
	This is No Agenda.
	Discovering that 1KY is a lot worse than Y2K. And broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State here in Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm stunned by that gag, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	At least I try.
	When you're shouting a gag like that, it's pretty hard to even track it.
	That's why I do it.
	I'm not even sure what you said.
	It doesn't really matter.
	1K is better than five times a dog or something.
	I don't know what it was.
	Exactly what it was.
	1KY. Which 1KY? The thousand year flood.
	Oh!
	Why are you referring to KY Jelly?
	I don't know where your mind is today.
	KY means Kentucky or Jelly?
	One of the two.
	I'm with the poor people of Louisiana.
	This is, you know, it's out of control.
	I really, well, of course, I don't enjoy it at all.
	Did you see the cartoon?
	I'm going to put it in the next newsletter if I remember.
	What's that?
	The cartoon, somebody's photoshopped like the floods and this car with Obama on top of the car with a golf club.
	No, I haven't seen that one.
	It's like hitting off the top of a car.
	It's very funny.
	So what's really interesting about this, and we talked about it on the last show, is that a flood, this type of epic disaster, doesn't translate to television.
	It just doesn't.
	So the TV has to resort to these little human interest stories.
	But the larger view, it doesn't even fit on the screen.
	You just wouldn't be able to see the devastation.
	But of course, we have lots of producers in the area, and it's very, very bad.
	Oh, that's kind of...
	Now that you mention it...
	So I went and visited...
	It was like 10 years ago.
	There was this massive hurricane that hit the East Coast in Florida.
	It was one of the Whoppers.
	And I went to Florida to visit, to look at the mess.
	And it is true.
	Television, you cannot catch the mess.
	I've noticed this on a number of...
	Even when I take a lot of photos, I've noticed as a photographer sometimes, you cannot capture certain things.
	It's too big.
	It's too vast.
	And if you don't have wind or anything...
	I went to the Ninth Ward, also in New Orleans.
	And you can't...
	It's more of an atmosphere that you just can't get.
	You can't capture it.
	Right.
	I think the overhead shots, though, from the choppers are, I think, quite appealing.
	Yeah, but that's...
	You don't have the feeling.
	From a television perspective, you need to see heartbreak and tragedy, and that's what they want to show.
	Now, of course, if you've been watching American news, not everybody who listens to the show has, there is a comparison being brought between Hurricane Katrina, when George Bush...
	You know, didn't show up.
	He did a flyby.
	And then there's this version, which is very similar.
	Similar area, similar type of devastation.
	Remember, it wasn't really the wind that, the Hurricane Katrina itself, which caused so much devastation.
	It was the breaking of the levees.
	And President Obama is on vacation in Martha's Vineyard, and he's playing golf, and he decided that he wasn't going to go to Hawaii.
	I think he's in Martha's Vineyard, I think.
	I know, he went off somewhere.
	Okay.
	So, you know, he didn't feel...
	And also, I'm pretty sure that he didn't understand the...
	You know, if it's not on TV, then is it really real?
	Doesn't matter.
	Apparently not.
	It's the way I see it.
	So he sends down J. Johnson.
	J. J. He's the director of the Department of Homeland Security.
	And J. Johnson is there to make excuses for the president.
	Now remember, he's playing golf...
	That's not even fair to say.
	He's on vacation.
	Let's just put it that way.
	You can also say he's out there riding his bike.
	You sound like a Republican when you say that.
	The fucker's playing golf!
	I'm telling you, the Democrats are making the same commentary.
	Here's Judd Johnson making up excuses.
	The press corps having none of it, but he continues just to...
	To push ahead and explain why the president is not there.
	Well, of course, the president can't be everywhere.
	I can tell you that the president...
	He can't be on the ninth hole and down here.
	...has been closely monitoring the situation here in Louisiana.
	He made the federal declaration in a matter of hours.
	It was expedited.
	Oh, that's bull crap.
	When they told him it was a matter of hours, it was two or three days, I believe, before that came.
	We're up to 20 parishes now.
	I will be briefing him on what I see here and what the status of our recovery and response efforts are.
	Administrator Fugate did the same thing after his visit here two days ago.
	So the president is closely monitoring the situation through his cabinet, through his FEMA administrator, and is very much on top of it.
	Would you recommend that you come in?
	As I say, the president can't be everywhere.
	I know he has a very busy schedule this fall and in the coming days.
	Very busy schedule, John.
	He has no schedule.
	He's on vacation.
	That's a lie.
	As I say, the president can't be everywhere.
	I know he has a very busy schedule this fall and in the coming days, and he is closely monitoring the situation.
	When you're the chief executive of the entire U.S. government, you can't be everywhere, including places you would like to be.
	But through me and through Craig Fugate, I know he is very much on top of this situation.
	Now, listen to this.
	This is the reporter just getting in his face now.
	The situation.
	Our press agreed on yesterday when the White House press pool began with the president playing around the golf with three people.
	You sit there and say twice the president can't be everywhere, but people in Louisiana are dying.
	So the journalist is saying, well, hold on a second.
	The president was on TV yesterday playing around the golf with three people, and you're saying the president can't be anywhere, but people in Louisiana are dying!
	People in Louisiana are dying.
	How hard is it you as the Homeland Security Director to know that your updates are going to the president on the golf course?
	Well, as I said, he is very much on top of the situation, and I know that he is aware of the level of federal assistance that can be provided and is being provided, and I'll be briefing him myself right after this visit.
	Well, just stop for a second.
	Good work, Joe.
	Stop it for a second.
	Yeah, it stopped.
	It stopped.
	And you think...
	I mean, how unwise is it to use this pat answer?
	He never released himself, Jeh Johnson, never released himself from the president can't be everywhere.
	Just this robotic-like answer to everything, including the last guy.
	Well, you know, he's out.
	He's out at the end of the month.
	He doesn't give a shit.
	He's like, I'll go down.
	Even more so.
	Why can't he be a little conversational?
	You must be good to the Fuhrer.
	You must not bring into question the game of golf.
	I don't know, man.
	But of course, I would sound like a broken record, even though I didn't put the record on.
	The comparison between George W. Bush and President Obama is obvious, but yet we're not really going to yell about that.
	No, but I did get a kick out of the Democratic apologists for Hillary because Trump shows up down there.
	And so what do they say?
	Well, you know, the guy's just getting in the way.
	Well, so this is part of the excuse is to say, well, you know, when the president comes down, I mean, it really disrupts everything.
	Right, I heard that one.
	You know what?
	If you and I were president, here's what we do.
	I don't give a shit.
	I'll parachute out.
	I don't care.
	We'll do it without all the massive...
	Just put the beast in the back of the plane, and we'll be fine.
	Have the other plane show up later, have it circled.
	There's a million ways you could do that.
	And I don't think that Trump's appearance was not...
	It was discovered, I'm going to say somewhat accidentally, by CNN. They were the first to report it, and they said, oh my god, look, this 18-wheeler showed up with stuff in it that Trump put in it, which looked like toys for kids.
	Sometimes I wonder, who needs a fire truck?
	The reporting is always going to be bad, so you don't know what it was really.
	No, I saw them unloading.
	I saw them unloading.
	How many kids want a fire truck right now?
	Yeah, well, again, you don't know if that's B-roll.
	You have no idea.
	Well, I saw Trump handling the packages from the truck.
	That's what I saw.
	Okay, they were sending out toys.
	I have no idea why.
	It's stupid.
	He was an idiot.
	But the point is that he was down there bitching about it.
	He's getting in the way.
	And then they ridiculed what he had to say.
	He said, you know, I have a lot of friends in Louisiana or something like that.
	Again, though, I mean, I don't know what he really said because he's not a guy who says, like, One thing.
	He goes on for 45 minutes, so he's a long talker.
	Because he's a long talker, he likes to yak forever.
	The PBS decided to do, or NPR decided to do a thing on people who speak too long.
	And who was top of the list?
	Stalin.
	And number two was Trump.
	And so they used it on the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me show.
	They had the Speak Too Long anecdote about Stalin, who produced one of his longest speeches, which I guess was two and a half, three hours.
	And it was recorded and put on, I guess, three records.
	And side six, or side eight, may have been side eight of the records, the whole side was just applause.
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	So I think I want to get a hold of this record now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You can have an applause track.
	Anyway, so yeah, it's hilarious.
	Yeah, but this is bad.
	This is really bad.
	No, no, this flood is ridiculous.
	I think the coffins floating down the street was my favorite image.
	That was pretty good.
	You know, I have to wonder about the coffin image not being staged.
	Well, it's very possible, but these things do float away.
	I mean, they're buried above ground.
	If you go to the graveyard, I went and was researching a Civil War veteran that I was going to do a biography of, another one of my projects.
	Sorry.
	John Bell Hood, who's buried in the New Orleans, one of the major cemeteries there.
	And it took me forever to find, because I wanted to get one of those things where you put the paper on and you scratch across it.
	It's called a rubbing.
	A rubbing.
	Yes, that's exactly what it's called.
	Women do that in churches on brass.
	I have a rubbing of this church.
	I think they do that other ways, too.
	Why don't you go give some dead guy a rubbing, John?
	You have...
	When I contacted the local Civil War club or enthusiast, they didn't even know Bell was buried there, which I thought was a personal victory to inform them.
	So I went into this place, and there's very few...
	I mean, most of the stuff's above ground because of the water table.
	And so it's possible that if some of these crypts...
	They would have to break open or the slab would have to move.
	The crypt has to break open for anything to come out.
	And it's not just from...
	I don't think...
	I saw very few graves.
	It's almost all crypts.
	It's like a whole graveyard full of them.
	And there's lots of, you have to supposedly be careful in these New Orleans graveyards because some of these are these little things with a locked door and then you have to get in there to find them and there's a bunch of dead people inside.
	It'd be weird if they were alive.
	Rab, you throw you in there and lock you in and you never get out.
	Well, it's sad that it takes dead people floating down the street to get people's attention versus live people who are screaming for help.
	Because that doesn't work.
	Because I retweeted the picture of the people like, oh, this is horrible!
	Okay.
	People drowning is apparently not important.
	We are conditioned to be blathering Nimkin poots.
	Floating coffins.
	With a dog on top would be the best.
	A lot of action, a lot of movement around reporting the Ministry of Truth.
	Some things came out in the past few days, and it deserves some deconstruction, because I don't believe these things just happen by mistake, or there's a reason for this.
	And what I'm referring to here, of course, is the State Department now copping to, admitting that This Iran deal were two separate deals, but they happened to flow at the same time, and therefore...
	Coincidentally.
	Coincidentally.
	And therefore, we could have known that we were going to wait to transfer this money, which we didn't know was going to be in cash on pallets, until we had our prisoners, and this, of course, seems to be a ransom payment.
	And the way the State Department and the President, the way they're trying to get out of this is pretty amazing.
	Blaming the media, really.
	Let me see.
	I'll start with...
	First of all, I honestly believe at this point that they never saw it as a ransom.
	That's very possible.
	Because you can think of it if you're completely dumbed down to a kind of an idiot state, you can see it for what they think it is.
	It was like we owe them the money, whether or not there are hostages involved.
	This is their money.
	Right.
	Well, the point, of course, is it was not disclosed.
	If anything, it was said, no, no, because we knew about the hostages.
	No, that's not a part.
	We have a big deal over here.
	This is not paying ransom for anything.
	And you media guys, you're stupid.
	You messed it all up.
	You hyped all this.
	This is why this happened.
	So it's more about not being the most transparent administration in history.
	But the blaming of media, saying, oh, you guys knew this, we told you this.
	Well, we kind of didn't.
	So here's the Morning Joe show with their opinion.
	We announced these payments in January.
	Many months ago.
	There wasn't a secret.
	We announced them to all of you.
	Josh did a briefing on them.
	This wasn't some nefarious deal.
	This was consistent across the board.
	You guys reported on it.
	It's your fault for missing it.
	How come you didn't see it?
	That's what it is.
	And this is a coordinated blame.
	And it wasn't a secret.
	We...
	We were completely open with everybody about it, and it's interesting to me how suddenly this became a story again.
	That's point number one.
	Point number two, we do not pay...
	Ransom for hostages.
	The president, it's interesting how indignant the president was while he was telling deliberate untruths, as the Soviet Union would say.
	He is dissembling and arrogant at the same time.
	At the same time.
	Saying, how dare you?
	What is, it was just, it was so condescending to the media.
	While...
	Not telling the truth.
	It's called a ransom payment, where you're actually rewarding the Iranians for being the thugs that they are, the thugs that they've always been, for being at the epicenter of terrorism since 1979.
	And yes, you are rewarding them for taking hostages.
	I think the president...
	And then lying about it.
	I think the president said it best himself about another issue once regarding some catching Republicans saying something that was out of sorts.
	And he said, if it sounds like a duck and walks like a duck, This is the duck right here.
	And they got caught in the lie.
	And that is MSNBC, remember.
	This is a very pro-Obama administration, so they are at least admitting it's a lie.
	Now the piece where...
	Now what happened?
	I think, again, this was because they felt insulted.
	Obama's insulting them.
	Exactly!
	MSNBC can only take so much.
	But, how this came to light is interesting to me, because we have a lot of moves right now between Iran, Saudi Arabia, where we fit in all of that, and Well, let's listen to Kirby trying to explain this away.
	But when you know that the sourcing of this news came from the Wall Street Journal and there were two State Department sources, who of course are unnamed, who gave this to the Wall Street Journal, you know this is not unexpected.
	This is, I will say, it's a leak.
	It was done on purpose.
	You know, you don't just get...
	Unnamed sources in the State Department to blow something like this wide open.
	There would be blood on the friggin' moon inside the State Department if this was a true surprise.
	So I'm pretty sure this was leaked for a reason.
	Why?
	I'm not sure exactly.
	Here is Kirby under the gun.
	You said that the amount of sanctions relief that they're going to get is often exaggerated.
	What is the accurate?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	This is...
	Oops, mistake.
	That lead-in, I love it.
	Yeah, the lead-in was great, wasn't it?
	I'm sorry.
	Well, it's a clip I need to play next.
	Here it is.
	I'm making no value checking on the decision.
	I'm just trying to get you to say what it is, which is very simple.
	I have described what it is for the last 15 minutes.
	I've got to use the Latin phrase if you like, but it doesn't mean that I haven't described what happened.
	Listen, this happened in January, and this is the first time you've ever said flat out that they wouldn't get the money until the prisoners were released.
	That took, let's count it, what, seven months?
	Why all the beating around the bush if it was such a great and noble decision?
	So evil reporters have made you dredge this up?
	No, I've never called you guys evil.
	You can't blame press coverage because you didn't say what this was seven months ago.
	We did describe it seven months ago.
	You did not say it was contingent.
	This was contingent on that.
	Now you're saying flatly out that this payment was contingent on the release of the prisoners.
	You did not say that in January.
	I said this was, as I said before...
	We, of course, wanted to seek maximum leverage in this case as these two things came together at the same time.
	John, you said that everyone all along at all points has been completely above board about this, but you would agree that what you're telling us today represents a new factual disclosure from the administration, does it not?
	I certainly would agree that this particular fact is not something that we've talked about in the past, but if you go back and look at the press coverage, your own coverage of this when it happened.
	Made any bones about the fact that these two processes were coming together at the same time and we took advantage of the opportunity we had with the closure of the nuke field, with the Hague Tribunal, and with talks to get our Americans back.
	We took full advantage of that and I don't think anybody in the administration is going to make any apology for having taken advantage of those opportunities to get these Americans home.
	And would you agree that a reasonable observer could look upon a situation in which cash is withheld until prisoners are released as something akin to ransom?
	Well, an observer, whoever he or she may be, can look at this however they want.
	I've described now over the last 10 or 15 years what happened and what our thought process was going through that, and I'll let others decide for themselves.
	I think a can is the way to go.
	Why doesn't he just say yes?
	He says yes, you can misinterpret this as akin to a ransom.
	It wasn't a ransom.
	Technically it was, and I agree with them.
	Technically, it wasn't a ransom.
	No, because a ransom works the other way around.
	However, we don't know the exact terms of these exchanges.
	It appears to me that there were two airplanes at the same time.
	So you can say, and I think that is really what, that is the sneaky part of this, is saying, no, no, we waited for the hostages to be released.
	Then we gave them the money in a traditional, having done this many times, in a traditional kidnapping case, you either show the money, put it in the middle between the two parties.
	or you hand it over first.
	But it's rarely you wait for the prisoner and then you give the cash.
	So even that, I think, is not reported properly.
	But really, getting back to it, why was this leaked?
	And why is the press getting the blame?
	In fact, I wanted to go back to January 16th of 2016 when Josh Earnest...
	This is what the president referred to.
	Well, Josh told you guys.
	He told you.
	You knew exactly what was going on.
	So I figured, why don't we go back and listen to exactly what he said?
	This would make it more understandable why the presses may be angry.
	You said that the amount of sanctions relief that they're going to get is often exaggerated.
	What is the accurate amount, or how would you describe what they are getting?
	Well, my colleagues at the Treasury Department can give you a little bit more detail on this.
	And I went to this Treasury Department website.
	I scoured all over it.
	I could not find anything.
	There was nothing.
	Not a news report.
	Maybe it was there in January, but it certainly isn't there now.
	The number that is often cited by critics of the deal is $150 billion.
	And our experts have indicated that that is, like I said, an exaggeration.
	The number that I have heard is that it's closer to 50 or 100, not 150.
	See, there was all that.
	There was all the, it's this much, it's that much, but never a mention of $400 million in cash.
	And the reason for that is, in part, that Iran has a lot of bills that have come due.
	And so...
	Hey man, the water bill's got to be paid.
	Much of the sanctions relief that they will receive will immediately be devoted to paying off debts that they have incurred.
	The second thing that's important for people to understand is...
	That the sanctions relief that they receive will merely allow them to get access to their own money that is currently in the international financial system.
	So it's not as if there's an impact on the taxpayers of the United States here.
	These are essentially sanctions that were designed by the United States, enforced by the world, to essentially limit or outright prevent Iran's access to their own money that was in the international system.
	All right, let's take a look at this now.
	And that's the way we understood it at the time.
	Yes.
	However, now it seems like if you take a whole bunch of things into account, I'm about to play something from Russ Baker from Family of Secrets and WhoWhatWhy.com, a very famous journalist who we hold in high regard.
	So we have this deal that, you know, this money, this Iranian money has been in...
	Well, now it's always in the international money system.
	Okay, that's right, fine.
	It was just hanging out there in cyberspace, I guess.
	We did a deal because we would never allow...
	The Hague Tribunal.
	We don't even recognize the Hague Tribunal.
	Since when do we recognize this shit, even?
	All of a sudden, it's like, oh, well, you know, the international court in the Hague, you know, they deserve this money and interest, and we made a deal, and we said, you know what, you know, we're going to make a deal, but it's given the money, but very little interest.
	Why are we doing that?
	Why?
	After 30-plus years, why all of a sudden are we doing this?
	It appears that, and this fits right into all the Hillary Clinton issues with Saudi Arabia and Iran putting this deal together.
	The Saudis are really not our, I don't think they've ever been our friends, but they're really on the outs and it seems we're choosing sides.
	A different side now.
	Russ Baker talks about Saudi Arabia and, of course, in connection with the 28 pages of the 9-11 Commission report which had been released, which is not discussed anywhere anymore in the mainstream media.
	Why would Obama declassify or allow this to be declassified at this point when previously he had said he wouldn't allow it to be declassified?
	There's obviously still a very strong alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
	Could we be seeing a potential shift in our relationship to Saudi Arabia in the near future?
	Yes, that's quite right.
	In fact, we have been seeing that shift.
	The Obama administration itself has significantly distanced itself from the Saudis compared to the Bush administration.
	We also see a whole bunch of developments All over the place, we see some Republican members of Congress who would have fought something like this when Bush was president.
	They were only too happy to see it come out under a Democratic presidency because sadly the public is not so well informed about these things and if something comes out during the watch of the opposing party, They don't necessarily understand that that's not the administration that's responsible for the thing.
	So I think there is some sense of that.
	Also, a lot of the reporting that we and some other organizations have been doing about the FBI's role in this asking questions, again, we're in a Democratic administration, and they've got to, in their Justice Department, have to work with the FBI.
	So they have to cooperate with whatever efforts there may be to try to prevent some of this from coming to light.
	So it's a very volatile and very complicated situation.
	Two more clips before we analyze this.
	We have also announced we are withdrawing our ground troops from Yemen as a part of helping the Saudis bomb the crap out of the Yemenis.
	And something that, I mean, you want to talk about something that does fit on television but was not reported, except, of course, I think on RT, is hundreds of thousands of people protesting in Yemen.
	Bombs are reported to have been dropped near a massive demonstration in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
	Hundreds of thousands of people are gathered to protest against airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition.
	But bombing raids on a mountain nearby sparked panic in the crowd.
	No injuries have been reported.
	Saudi Arabia has been leading a campaign to oust rebel Houthis since March of last year.
	The rebels took over parts of the country, including the capital, in 2014, and they forced the government into exile.
	Neighbouring Saudi Arabia has been criticised for retaliating with airstrikes which have caused civilian casualties.
	So we've withdrawn, and this is the time when everyone should just take a moment and go check out a map if you look at where Yemen is in relation to Saudi Arabia.
	It is right down there at the bottom near the Straits, which of course on the other side of the strait has Djibouti, where we have our drone airbase.
	So we were effectively protecting the straits from the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden, where the Stargate is.
	And we're not doing that anymore, so we are now allowing the rebels, or whoever is in control of Yemen, it seems like the population likes whoever's in control, we're just going to let that be, so we, I think, are effectively blocking Saudi Arabia from access there, or we're going to effectively block them from access.
	So this is a shift of ethnic proportions.
	I'm not convinced.
	No?
	No.
	How about if you take into account that the covering up of the edited video at the State Department, which seemed pretty innocuous, but we for sure didn't want to have any information out there that maybe there was some secret deal, plane crash with Clinton or not, that there was some secret deal.
	We really didn't want people to know about that with Iran, particularly because it was Hillary Clinton doing the deal.
	I think there's a seismic shift underway.
	Against Saudi Arabia?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Cutting them off.
	We've been doing this bombing and we've sold them $100 billion worth of arms.
	Well, nothing should stop the sale.
	Hello.
	No, I'm thinking.
	And then we're supporting this bombing the crap out of poor Yemen, which is pathetic and just criminal, to be honest about it.
	Yeah.
	You think we'd maybe not do that?
	That's what I'm saying.
	Yeah, we pulled a few troops out.
	We haven't told them to stop it.
	No, but pulling our troops out and pulling our ground support out is a pretty big deal.
	How much ground support did we have?
	In order to paint targets, you need ground support.
	That's why we have them.
	So if you don't have ground support to paint the targets for the drones, that's effectively over.
	So we're painting the targets to blow up the tools?
	Well, probably...
	Probably, yeah.
	We know that we'll take risk into account.
	We heard the State Department say it themselves.
	Well, you know, it's a calculus whether we kill 50 civilians or not.
	We've got to get one guy.
	Now, no coincidence, but this also happened during all of this about the ransom or not ransom, about the withdrawing of the troops from our coalition, our floating, flying, whatever the hell we call a coalition.
	Then this little ditty came in.
	Here's the bottom line.
	I'm sorry, I should probably set it up.
	This is the internal report from State Department about the editing of the videotape where there was a blatant lie being told about another person saying that something had started earlier and maybe there was a secret meeting with Iran.
	So they tried to cover it up.
	Well, we know, okay, we know there was a secret meeting with Iran because if we're going to buy in, at least I would assume there was, because I'm buying into the Hillary plane crash.
	Well, okay, but let's just step back for one second.
	The lie was that there was a meeting earlier than we admitted to having a meeting.
	That was the cover-up.
	Right, which was the one they had.
	Unfortunately, now that they're so entrenched in that cover-up, no one can talk about Hillary being in a plane crash.
	Now, they did an internal investigation about the editing of the video.
	Because this was clearly done to cover something up, and Josh has the results, which are indisputable, and there was no follow-up questions allowed about it.
	Here's the bottom line.
	We are confident the video of that press briefing was deliberately edited.
	The white flash that many of you have noticed yourselves in that portion of the video is evidence enough of human involvement.
	You remember how we discussed how that probably went?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Hey, man, throw a flash in there.
	Indeed, the technician came forward, recalled making the edit and inserting that flash.
	What we were not able to determine was why the edit was made in the first place.
	There's no evidence to suggest it was made with the intent to conceal information from the public.
	And while the technician recalls receiving a phone call requesting the edit, there is no evidence to indicate who might have placed that call or why.
	In fact, throughout this process, we learned additional information that could call into question any suggestion of nefarious activity.
	In addition to the fact that the full video was always available on Divots and that the full transcript was always on our website, the video was edited in a choppy manner, which made it obvious that footage was missing.
	We also found that the video likely was shortened very early in the process, only minutes after the briefing concluded, and well before the technician who recalled making the edit believes the request was made to make the edit.
	And in any event, before the technician would have been involved in the video production process.
	Alright, let's just stop here.
	So, this edit was called in, an editor was called and said, hey, can you pull that piece out?
	Okay.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	Didn't really give an explanation, which is possibly why an uninformed...
	I will believe that an uninformed video editor will be like, oh, that looks like shit.
	I can't just leave that in there.
	Let me make a little cross.
	I know.
	I'll put in a flash.
	That's what we learned to do from MTV. That means a young editor, too.
	And, you know, I'm not quite sure why I'm doing that.
	However, it seems that there is a theory about it.
	It is possible the white flash was inserted because the video had lost footage due to technical or electrical problems that were affecting our control room servers around that time.
	Oh, you mean a glitch?
	A glitch!
	Shut up about the glitch!
	A glitch?
	No.
	I went back and checked the Divids video, which he just said was available in its full form, and there was no problem with electricity.
	I presume it seems like exactly the same recording.
	So how does video get from State Department to divids?
	They give it to them.
	And there was no...
	I looked.
	It was in there.
	We even played the remove part.
	There was no glitch.
	There was nothing going on.
	Okay, well, get to the point.
	Oh, jeez, I'm sorry.
	Well, I mean, this is half an hour.
	I'm waiting to hear some conclusion here.
	Conclusion?
	Conclusion?
	You threw me off.
	Fine.
	I don't know what to say.
	Well, no, the guy...
	You've been grousing about this segment from the minute I started it.
	What's the fucking problem?
	They're lying.
	They're covering up because we're fucking the Saudis and we're going with Iran.
	That's the conclusion.
	You just don't buy into it.
	That's fine.
	I don't buy into it.
	Why is this all happening then?
	Just magical?
	Just magical the Wall Street Journal gets this?
	I think they're walking a tightrope.
	No, magic moment, the Wall Street Journal gets two insiders telling him about this transfer.
	At the same time, they're releasing reports saying, oh, there was nothing with the glitch, had nothing to do with covering anything up.
	Come on.
	I think you're on to something insofar as that there's some double dealing going on in the State Department itself, and somebody decided to leak this out to get everybody all worked up, because maybe they're like Hillary, kind of pro-Saudi.
	I mean, Hillary's not going to finish off this thing.
	She's going to walk a tight rope as long as she can, but the Clinton Foundation gets tons of money.
	They get more money from the Saudis than anybody else and all their kind of phony baloney outlets.
	So the Saudis are just in tight with Hillary.
	They always have been.
	They have been.
	In fact, they were accused of this way before Hillary even started running for president.
	The Saudis are going to be she's going to be working for the Saudis for all practical purposes.
	I don't.
	I think that's where you're wrong.
	She wanted she wanted her Cheryl Mills person, her announcement covered up that let's just presume because you're all in with the plane crash theory.
	She wanted that covered up because she doesn't want the Saudis to know until I guess she's pregnant.
	That's what I said.
	She's walking a tightrope.
	But I think at the end of the day, using that phrase, she's a Saudi operative.
	I disagree.
	I think she's turned.
	I think she's turned into an Iran operative.
	Why?
	She's gotten all their money from the Saudis.
	It's dry.
	It's dry.
	Yeah, that's why she doesn't want them to know that she was involved in the early deal.
	Why wouldn't she?
	It seems like we set up this whole deal with Iran.
	They're now our guys.
	They got oil.
	They haven't got Saudi oil.
	I don't believe for a minute.
	I'm going to just...
	Everything you said is great.
	Fantastic.
	Wrong.
	I think the whole thing with the Iranians is bull crap.
	We're not going to do anything with them.
	That's why we're inching out their money.
	We're not paying them anything.
	There's something else going on.
	Slow down their nuke deal.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Let's go back to the genesis of the Iran sanctions.
	The sanctions were really only about one thing.
	Who gets to have how much Iranian oil?
	That's where we looked at them.
	We looked at all the sanctions.
	You can have this much oil.
	You can have that much oil.
	You can't buy any oil.
	You can't.
	It was us directing the Iranian oil.
	Now we've opened that up under the cover of nukes, whatever.
	Which I don't believe.
	Whatever.
	Fine.
	The nukes thing, I think, is a red herring.
	This all really dates back to the Carter administration.
	All right.
	Because, you know, they took our guys and they kept them for 400 plus days and it was like embarrassing.
	It ended up with the Republicans getting in office and Ronald Reagan and the rest of it because of that incident was the genesis of Ronald Reagan.
	The Democrats aren't liking any of this.
	They don't like Ronald Reagan.
	They don't like it thrown in their faces.
	They don't like any of this stuff.
	They don't like the Iranians.
	The Iranians, this whole Iranian thing is a smokescreen for something else.
	And at the end of this whole cycle, it's all going to be back to Saudi Arabia.
	Despite, like you said, they're not even talking about the missing pages.
	There's the missing pages in the document.
	Let's look at it from the other way around.
	Maybe we are putting maximum pressure on the Saudis.
	Maybe we're saying, hey, you're not paying your fair share, or I want more, or I want to be president, or whatever it is.
	Well, I'm not going to argue against that possibility, because that makes more sense than what we're doing with Iran.
	Well, no, but you use Iran as a leverage, as a wedge, to say, oh, we're kind of friends with them right now, and, you know, look at Syria and which pipeline is going to go and not yours, and, hey, by the way, we're not going to help you out in Yemen.
	Maybe, again, it comes down to, for me, the key trigger is the Wall Street Journal is Getting anonymous sources inside the State Department who told them that we withheld the hostages before the money was transferred.
	That is a purposeful leak, and that is for a reason.
	Well, I agree it's a purposeful leak, but I'm not sure your interpretation is correct.
	Play my Yemen clip.
	And by the way, I'm open to discussing it.
	Just, you know, you're a little rude about it.
	In international news, the New York Times and the Guardian editorial boards are calling for the U.S. and British governments to end their support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.
	In an editorial entitled, America is Complicit in the Carnage in Yemen, the Times wrote on Wednesday, quote, Congress should put the arms sales on hold and President Obama should quietly inform Riyadh that the United States will withdraw crucial assistance With U.S. and British support, Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen for 17 months, causing the majority of the conflict civilian casualties.
	Last week, the U.S. approved the sale of more than a billion dollars of new weapons to the Saudis.
	Since taking office, the Obama administration's approved more than $110 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
	It doesn't sound to me like we're having a rift with these guys.
	Anytime soon.
	Well, you also should not confuse the military-industrial complex with the leadership of the country.
	It's not the same thing.
	Well, it seems to be with our relationship with Russia.
	Alright.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't think we've come to any conclusion here.
	It wasn't a breakthrough for me.
	I mean, I appreciate you taking the Wall Street Journal item and extrapolating it to some degree, but I don't know that it went anywhere.
	No, it's another issue.
	Then the issue is this.
	You'd hate it when I take a long time to discuss something and play clips.
	You said it to me before.
	But I believe that that is a disservice to the people listening to the program who are newer, need background.
	We sometimes need to explain things.
	You're very smart.
	You do this well.
	Yeah, except you don't like it.
	But it takes too long.
	It's too long for you.
	I didn't see it going anywhere.
	Well, yeah, okay.
	I mean, I was waiting and waiting, and it was going nowhere, and I was thinking, well, what's the point?
	You've already made that particular point earlier.
	I like giving background.
	I didn't think you were beating me up with something that was valid.
	If I'm going to be beat up, it better be something that's valid.
	I didn't beat you up.
	No, I didn't.
	Clip after clip of just this one little item is just, no, no.
	If you were making, I don't believe your thesis, the whole thesis.
	And that's okay.
	That's okay.
	I mean, you could be right and you could say I told you so at some point, but I just don't, you know, I'm thinking a lot of this is just, and I think this whole thing about the fact that it started at the beginning.
	I think the whole taking this thing about the hostage for ransom, a ransom, not ransom, I think that's blown completely out of proportion.
	I don't think it's that big of a deal.
	I think it was damn near nothing to see here kind of thing.
	There's all kinds of shit going on.
	We have two more murders of Hillary people.
	Well, hold on one second then.
	All right, since we're talking about that.
	Your newsletter was incorrect.
	I know it was.
	I got the...
	Right.
	It was.
	It was incorrect.
	And that's what we'll be talking about.
	I wasn't going to...
	I was going to send out a second correction.
	I said, no, we'll talk about it on the show.
	Yeah, I get all the grief, by the way.
	Aww.
	I get all the grief.
	I couldn't find John's email address, so I'm going to bitch at you about this.
	That's the number one thing.
	Yeah, no, my email address is such a secret.
	Yeah.
	By the way, the email address on that newsletter that's sent out on Sunday or Saturday is my email address.
	Well, how can somebody say that to you?
	Because that's how it works.
	You get away with murder and I get all the grief.
	This is a common theme of yours.
	You always accuse me of this.
	I'm not accusing you.
	I'm accusing the producers who are bitching at me.
	I'm not accusing you.
	They see you as the ombudsman.
	Now, that's a business card I need.
	Ombudsman or ombudsman?
	Which one do you choose?
	Well, I always pronounce it wrong, so it's probably the other one.
	It's ombudsman.
	Ombudsman.
	Okay, so let's talk about that for a second.
	Because we both found the information that...
	The reason why this is news now is that it was deemed a suicide this past week.
	This is the lawyer...
	It took place on Monday.
	Yeah, so this is the lawyer who works for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.
	He also is in the same firm as Clooney's wife, which makes it just that much more interesting.
	I thought so.
	And he was hit by a train and killed, and this was deemed a suicide...
	At 7.07 in the morning.
	Right.
	Now...
	This reporting gets more interesting because apparently he checked himself into the hospital the night before saying he was under duress.
	This was harder to get this information.
	Well, that's the only article I could find about it.
	The one from the Camden?
	Yeah, that's the only one.
	And they're apparently...
	Yes, he's checked into a nut house.
	Yeah.
	And then wandered off.
	Well, no, he signed himself out at five in the morning and said, oh, he looks fine.
	Apparently there's CCTV footage, though, of him jumping in front of the train.
	So that part, that I'd like to see.
	And we know for a fact that that can never be phonied up.
	Don't get me started on editing a videotape, please.
	Don't get me started.
	Um...
	So, your conclusion was that maybe this will spur Assange to release his new stuff sooner.
	I'm not sure.
	That was my conclusion.
	There's a lot of details.
	People who bitched that you were right.
	There was a lot of mistakes made.
	It could have been better.
	And the conclusion was, I think, still valid.
	That Assange looks at this stuff.
	And Assange must also have looked at the death of the writer...
	Which is just more recent.
	One of Hillary Clinton's.
	I'll have to look him up.
	I had it on the other machine and I forgot to transfer it.
	A guy who wrote something like 50 books about the Clintons.
	54 years old.
	Suicided.
	And that happened just recently, and so now you gotta wonder what...
	You can start Googling for it.
	You have to wonder what Assange is thinking, because he's a sitting duck in that place.
	Yeah.
	Which is why he's in there.
	That's the only protection he has, I think.
	It's barely, yeah, and it's not what I would call great protection.
	I realize my mistake now.
	I realize my mistake.
	Here's my mistake.
	I was trying to mesh two things into one.
	I was trying to mesh media, lies, and manipulation into the Iranian-Saudi story.
	That's where it went wrong.
	Because the lies and the manipulation by itself are already funny enough.
	Yeah, well, yeah, but that's an ongoing theme.
	Yeah.
	Have you seen, I'm sorry.
	I would...
	Have I seen what?
	I was going to say, did you see the latest, the Aleppo boy?
	Hashtag Aleppo boy.
	Well, I was commenting on that on Twitter.
	The Aleppo boy is that the guy who they...
	Five-year-old kid or whatever.
	Little kid.
	Cute little kid.
	They place him in a chair in an ambulance and let him stay...
	Nobody washed him or anything, so he's dirty and he's bleeding and he's like shell-shocked.
	And everyone took the same two or three pictures of him from different angles, and this became an international incident, very similar to the poor dead kid, which is really a pathetic picture.
	Oh, in Greece?
	Yeah, the kid washed up, face down, dead in the sand.
	Little boy must have been four.
	There's even a meme I already saw of the drawing of that kid, and then the kid dead on the shore, and then under the Aleppo boy, it says...
	This is what happens if we stay, and then under the dead kid on the Greek beach, this is what happens if we leave.
	I mean, holy shit.
	That's a good one.
	What a choice.
	What a choice.
	This is fantastic.
	That is a good one.
	But the thing seemed a little staged to me.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	It was a little more than staged.
	And there's enough tear-jerking little kids that are shot by photographers all over the place.
	And you see, if you watch any of these outlets, especially the European ones, it's endless.
	And the concentration on this one kid kind of bothers me.
	Well, the reason why is Russia is being blamed for it.
	That's what I'm hearing.
	This kid is because of Russia.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I didn't pick that up.
	Yeah.
	Personally.
	I can see how that would be a good idea.
	Well, I have a clip from RT, who understood it very well, of course, because they're on the receiving end of this.
	And here's the dispute.
	But that is really, if it hasn't shown up big time now, and if this meme goes, which I think it will, the Aleppo Boy is a good one.
	We change our Facebook avatar, actually, to the Aleppo Boy.
	That would be good.
	Those are very powerful pictures.
	Really, I'd say they epitomize the suffering that civilians in Syria have to go through in government-held territory, in ISIS-held territory, in rebel-held territory.
	The thing with powerful pictures is that they sell.
	The media loves them.
	They want to get them out there as soon as possible.
	You know, it's clicks, it's views, it's ad revenue.
	The story, the circumstances often become...
	That right there is a fantastic little bit here.
	Take the ISO. It's clips, it's views, it's advertising revenue.
	It's dynamite.
	You want me to do the ISO right now?
	Yeah, sure.
	Hold on a second.
	You can do it pretty quickly.
	That's the reason I say that.
	It's always fun to do that.
	Okay, let me see.
	Here it is.
	We have...
	The Aleppo boy, open it up into the edit.
	Those are very powerful pictures.
	In ISIS-held territory, in rebel-held territory, have to go through.
	In government suffering that civilians in Syria have to go through.
	In government-held territory, in ISIS-held territory, in rebel-held territory.
	The thing with powerful pictures is that they sell.
	The media loves them.
	They want to get them out there as soon as possible.
	You know, it's clicks, it's views, it's ad revenue.
	Okay.
	All right.
	You got that.
	Let me just save it.
	And this will be...
	Let me see.
	Aleppo Boy...
	Yeah, that sounds good.
	Leppo Boy clicks and add revenue.
	Beautiful.
	All right.
	See if that compares to mine.
	I have a...
	I'm going to isolate this down a little more, but play the angry black woman.
	Yeah.
	Is that people are used to seeing me.
	Women whose names you don't.
	Women who've been picked on.
	Women whose husbands put them down.
	Women at work or girls in school.
	I have one thing to say to you.
	Kiss my fat ass!
	Did you already ISO that?
	No?
	No, I haven't.
	Oh, come on.
	Now I have to ISO that one.
	Are you insane?
	I don't know why.
	Believe me, I don't know why I didn't.
	Kiss my f***!
	Kiss my f***!
	I so kiss my fat ass.
	I so nice.
	We are on a roll here.
	Okay.
	I did want to finish up that.
	I did want to finish up the Aleppo boy clip for a second.
	The Russians have a dispute why it couldn't have been them.
	It clicks, it's views, it's ad revenue.
	The story, the circumstances often become secondary.
	They say an alleged purported Russian airstrike, according to activists, a reporter.
	Russia is lying.
	It's carried out this airstrike.
	It's saying, you know, this is inconsistent with the damage a Russian bomb would have done.
	They're saying that this is consistent with a mortar shell, an artillery shell.
	Western media show the unbroken windows of the house nearby.
	This means that the location was hit by a mine or a gas canister, which are often used by the terrorists and not by an airstrike.
	And the Russians are saying it's also very close to two humanitarian corridors that they've established in Aleppo for civilians to be able to leave, to receive medical treatment, leave the rebel-held part of Aleppo.
	They're saying, you know, this story that we carried out this airstrike, it really doesn't mesh.
	Yeah.
	I believe that.
	Not all in for the Russians, but this is nonsense.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, back to the Morning Joe show, they had a guest on, Dr.
	Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute.
	I don't know if you've ever heard of this guy.
	Oh, yeah.
	We've had clips from him.
	Well, he laid it out.
	It even irked Scarborough.
	This guy just said it.
	I don't think I've ever heard this on mainstream ever about the Syria situation.
	Five years ago, we discussed on the show when the President of the United States launched a secret war to overthrow Assad, assigned the CIA to work with Saudi Arabia and Turkey to overthrow Assad.
	We escalated a war.
	We don't have the truth told to the American people till this day.
	This newspaper, the New York Times, refuses to cover the truth in the most basic way about what the United States is doing.
	And by the way, the New York Times had Aleppo boy on the front page, half of the, you know, all the way down to the fold almost.
	A huge picture.
	Yeah, it was a clear manipulation.
	You say or others say the U.S. isn't doing its job.
	It's just not doing it publicly.
	We have been pumping in weapons.
	We have been funded by Saudi Arabia, CIA, working together to keep this war going.
	This little boy has known only war because the United States, five years ago, We launched a war that we have not ended.
	And it's not the Russians.
	It's so easy to sit in America and say it's the Russians' fault.
	It's the Russians' fault.
	Where did this start?
	It started with Hillary Clinton and President Obama saying Assad must go.
	Jeffrey, you've said that.
	I know.
	It's true.
	No, no, I know.
	Sorry.
	It's five years ago.
	So my question is, we find ourselves here.
	It is the Russians dropping bombs.
	It is the Syrian government dropping bombs.
	It is ISIS spreading terror.
	So you have spent your life trying to alleviate suffering, trying to alleviate poverty.
	What do we do now as an international community to stop the killing?
	We're at 500,000.
	How do we stop it from killing?
	Why are they dropping bombs?
	Because there's a rebellion that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and Turkey have been supporting.
	They're fighting a rebellion that we are funding and arming.
	We should stop funding and arming a rebellion against a government.
	We should go to the U.N., work together with Russia to fight ISIS, because that's a real enemy.
	And overthrowing other governments, whether it's Qaddafi or Saddam Hussein or Assad, has just been disaster for the American people over and over again.
	Not to mention the people who are dead.
	The hundreds of thousands of dead people.
	It's a disaster for us.
	Yeah, it's horrible.
	I'm so hurt.
	Oh, my coffee.
	Let me try something.
	Let me try something here.
	Kiss my face.
	Fat ass!
	Get out of my vagina!
	Yeah, it works.
	I like that.
	It'll work.
	So, that was refreshing to hear him say that.
	I find he'll never get back on.
	Probably not.
	Probably not.
	But you can almost predict.
	The anti-Russia hate is so big right now.
	We know that State Department, CIA, they're all in on it.
	We know this from my own environment.
	The belief that, like my cousin, the belief that Vladimir Putin is a bad, bad, bad actor is really rampant and they really, really believe it.
	So you can almost put in the red book, before the election takes place, there will be a major terrorist event and Russia somehow will get blamed.
	Something will happen, Russia will get blamed.
	That's going to be very hard to orchestrate.
	I think also that any terrorist event, if somehow...
	Yeah, I'm not saying...
	If you make a mistake and you don't get blamed on Russia and it turns out to be something else, Trump wins the election.
	Right.
	So they don't want to do that.
	There's a lot of forces at work.
	Well, yeah, and they're all working against each other.
	What we try to do on this show, for people who don't listen to the show, we try to map it.
	So who's on whose side and what are they doing?
	So the CIA, we know, is all in on Hillary to an extreme.
	Well, yes.
	Which makes me wonder about a couple of things that we said earlier.
	Or what that guy said just now on the Scarborough show, which is if the CIA was behind this event and the New York Times wasn't doing what they wanted, the CIA is really...
	There are stories.
	I know two very good examples of things that happened at the New York Times that indicated that somebody was calling him from Langley and telling him to do something.
	Mm-hmm.
	And it's pretty well established that the CIA's got its fingers in it.
	And probably the Washington Post and the New York Times, too.
	I mean, I'm in the Wall Street Journal.
	To what extent, I don't know.
	I just, you know, I've done work for the New York Times.
	Did you get a call?
	I never get a call.
	Nobody calls me.
	They wouldn't hire me.
	I think we should change a couple things in your article here.
	Well, okay.
	I don't care.
	The pay is the same.
	Well, Russia is getting blamed for a lot now, though.
	That's obvious.
	Because putting Russia in a bad...
	And maybe it's short-sightedness on Clinton.
	I'm convinced it all comes down to the election.
	That is the most important thing right now.
	Well, if people want to get all worked up, they should maybe do some more atmospheric testing of atomic bombs and maybe straighten some of these people out.
	There was somebody who was on one of the Think Tank talk shows and it was like...
	There's very few living leaders that have seen an atomic bomb blast in any sense of the matter.
	They don't know how nasty they are.
	Right.
	And creepy.
	Apparently, when you witness one, even from like, you know, 50 miles away, it does something.
	It creates a low notice.
	It does something very creepy, and you get creeped out by it, and then you see the size of the thing.
	It's ridiculous.
	And they haven't done an atmospheric test since, I don't know, the 50s.
	So most of the people, world leaders, back then all witnessed them at some level, which kept anyone from wanting to use one.
	But all those people are dying, and so there's this sense now that, well, you know, there's this...
	That's like this new bomb they want to modify, so it's more accurate, which is, like, ludicrous.
	I don't...
	What happened to precision strikes?
	I thought we were, like, precision, laser-like precision.
	Yeah, now we're going to have precision A-bombs, I mean, which makes zero sense.
	So you can determine exactly where it's going to drop.
	Screw the 150 miles around it.
	So, uh...
	So that's a problem.
	I think it's a problem.
	I mean, I think that Hillary is the one that's the most dangerous.
	You've said so, too.
	She seems like trigger-happy Hillary.
	Well, we now have moves taking place.
	Of course, Turkey is, to me, is kind of the question in the equation.
	What are these guys going to do?
	And apparently...
	The U.S. has now started transferring our nukes from Incirlik Air Base to Romania because we don't feel it's safe anymore at the air base.
	At the same time, this rumor is floating around.
	I wonder if you're picking up on it, reporting that the Russians are also beginning to be given the authority to use the Incirlik Air Base by the Turks.
	Yeah.
	Not be surprised by that, although I have not heard that.
	Of course, that's where the U.S. airbase is.
	The center of the U.S. military operations in Syria is located.
	There have been signs of increasing cooperation between Moscow and Ankara, the Ankara government in Turkey.
	So I would not be surprised if that happens in the future.
	But it would be unusual, especially because it would be co-located with U.S. forces.
	Yeah.
	And I do have confirmation of the transfer of the nukes.
	That is happening.
	It should be done by Wednesday or something.
	Good idea.
	Hello, Romania.
	How do you feel now?
	Well, they'll put up with it for a while.
	It's only going to be temporary.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you got to get those things out of Turkey.
	Yeah.
	Those guys.
	So that's another, you know, a couple other pieces on the chessboard.
	And they're swapping the right.
	Right.
	We'll move out.
	The Russians will move in.
	Yeah.
	Hey, nice buildings.
	It's really insane.
	Take over the place.
	And then, I don't know.
	This is ridiculous.
	However, there's one other nice little data point.
	I got this from the $250 million WordPress blog, The Intercept.
	Let's see, there was a think tank.
	What was this think tank?
	Oh, of course, retired Army General Richard Cody, Vice President L3 Communications.
	We know them.
	L3, isn't that all the ex-DHS guys are in that?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Following the end of the Cold War, Cody said, peace had pretty much broken out all over the world.
	With Russia in decline and NATO nations celebrating, the wall came down.
	He said all defense budgets went south.
	Oh no, we can't have that!
	No!
	He says, it's a bonanza with this Russia stuff!
	This is fantastic.
	Weapon sales are going through the roof.
	It would be great to get a clip of that.
	I wish.
	I'd look for one.
	I wish.
	I wish.
	Yes!
	It's so obvious.
	I wonder if the Russians are in on it.
	I'm still not completely convinced they're not.
	Well, it's possible.
	It's also good for them.
	Putin's never been more popular.
	A lot of the products they're now selling, they've discussed this on various shows, in the Russian grocery stores and supermarkets are Russian-based.
	They're doing a lot of local, local products.
	You know, the big thing of the local is now popular in Russia.
	They have Russian cheeses instead of French cheeses because they can't get them.
	And then the only people that are really suffering between Russia and the United States who are making out in some ways, because Russia is supposed to be, their economy is supposed to be in the tank, but may or may not be.
	The ruble's down.
	It sounds like an investment opportunity.
	But the people who are really suffering are like the apple growers in Poland and people that...
	They can't sell all these apples.
	Well, not even that, because they're getting subsidized by the European Union, and they still sell them through the back door.
	I'm sure they do.
	It's really the population, the EU citizens who are paying the price.
	We know that.
	The tomatoes are getting through, the apples are getting through.
	They just put a different stamp on it, they send it to Turkey, and Turkey sells it.
	That loophole is well known.
	It's just not quite as fresh...
	Comrade, these tomatoes are soft.
	Let's throw a little wax on those fuckers.
	It'll be fine.
	Don't worry.
	No one will know the difference.
	No one will know.
	Beautiful.
	But this is a scam.
	Yeah, it is.
	But the players are all on the field.
	And these idiots are not just selling these weapons.
	They're using them.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, where are we going to use these weapons?
	Let's go and blow up a bunch of Yemenis.
	Some brown people.
	Traditionally, by the way, Yemen has been, there used to be two countries, Yemen and South Yemen.
	But these were the poorest countries in all of the Middle East.
	Poorest.
	And South Yemen in particular.
	So let's bomb them.
	Who cares?
	You know, Christina's on her way to Jordan right now.
	Why?
	She signed up for this show.
	Oh no.
	Yeah, I know.
	Reality show.
	They have to go rescue her.
	And the way it works is they tell you on the day you're going to leave where you're going.
	She's been doing this before.
	Yeah, that was not a good experience.
	This is...
	No, the other one was where she went to Africa.
	Yeah, and it was all actors.
	Yeah, it was all...
	She thought she was living with a tribe.
	That is the funniest, most humiliating story.
	So the idea was...
	She's not listening to the show.
	No, no, no.
	No, she'll be fine.
	It was like a celebrity big brother type, you know, get out of the jungle type thing, except the idea was these celebrities would go to Africa and live with an African tribe for a week or 10 days.
	And, you know, Christina called me about it.
	I felt really bad, the most bad.
	She said, what do you think?
	I said, look, I've traveled the world on someone else's dime.
	Grab the opportunity.
	Go, go, go.
	How great is that?
	So she's in there for a week, you know, and she's, you know, she's completely into it.
	Because this is my daughter.
	She's like, this is so stupid, but I'll just get into it no matter what.
	And, you know, she even had her boobs out, like all the other women in the camp, and just hauling firewood.
	And then, you know, like near the end, all of a sudden, they say, hey, surprise, we speak Dutch.
	And it was all a big joke.
	And she was devastated.
	Yeah, it wasn't a real tribe of anything.
	It was a bunch of actors with a bunch of bullcrap customs and rituals that they made it go through.
	That's so sad.
	I think that's a great idea for a show.
	I think it should have been done in the United States.
	No, no, no.
	It failed miserably.
	The audience did not like it.
	Oh, because it was over the top?
	Well, you can't make fun of poor African slaves.
	Something like that.
	Something like that.
	That would never fly.
	Take it out of Africa and move it into the ghetto.
	Yeah, that would work.
	The Deep South, Appalachia, because that might be offensive, too.
	It's hard to make it not offensive, but it is funny.
	So, the Jordan trip, I don't know.
	I said, well...
	Let me know, you know, please let me know where you are.
	You guys have to send in the no agenda SWAT, you know, the SEAL team agenda.
	SEAL team no agenda, go in and SEAL team 33.
	There we go.
	Took me a moment.
	SEAL team 33.
	Anyway, why did I bring that up?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Well, let's jump to a clip then.
	Okay.
	Since we're trying to keep up with this and we're still talking a little bit about Turkey, let's do this China and India and Syria clip number intro.
	Intro?
	Hold on.
	Oh, here.
	China.
	Yeah, yeah, I see.
	Why is it...
	Here we go.
	Well, currently the largest international force fighting in Syria is the U.S.-led coalition, which also includes the U.K., France, Saudi Arabia, and many other countries, all backing the rebels.
	But recent developments point to the possible rise of a new coalition in support of the government forces.
	Russia and Iran are already on board.
	It could also now include China.
	We spoke to Michael Malouf, a former Pentagon official.
	He thinks new players in the region are tipping the balance of influence.
	China has always had a presence throughout the Middle East.
	You see it in Lebanon a great deal.
	But they're very quiet about it.
	They're very subtle.
	They have been providing military assistance and training to the Syrian army.
	They're going to increase that now.
	I think that what this represents is something a little more subtle that you're not hearing much about.
	And that is that China and Russia are permanent members of what's called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
	Iran wants to become a member.
	And the SCO has really become, while it was economic in nature originally, it has become more of a counter-terrorism.
	All these countries are pivoting more eastward.
	And that appears to be where they're heading.
	And to assert that influence in the Middle East...
	It has basically filled the vacuum left by the political void of the United States' lessening influence.
	I wouldn't say it's actually a political void.
	I say it was completely messed up policy.
	It's a moral void, the way I see it.
	But here's the part two, which is some guy makes his other assertion that India is going to get involved.
	9am here in the Russian capital.
	There are increased hopes for greater international cooperation in Syria.
	It follows Iran allowing Russia to use one of its air bases to conduct anti-ISIL strikes, and China now saying it will offer military assistance to the Syrian government.
	RT's Gaian H. Jikan got a reaction from the U.S. State Department.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	You didn't warn me it was a Gaian clip.
	Do we have a jingle now?
	I'll make notes now from now on.
	I'll cut the little esterisk.
	Thank you, sir.
	D.H. Slammer.
	Iran and Russia say they have a strategic cooperation in Syria.
	For the first time, Russian jets flew out of an Iranian airbase to target ISIL and al-Nusra in Syria.
	U.S. State Department's Mark Turner called it unfortunate.
	It's unfortunate, but not surprising or unexpected.
	Russia continuing to carry out airstrikes, and now it appears with Iran's direct assistance.
	He said it was unfortunate that Russia flew out of the Iranian airbase.
	Russian authorities said that the strikes had eliminated five major terrorist weapons depots and training compounds in the area.
	Do you have information to refute that?
	If no, do you think it is unfortunate that they're targeting terrorist depots and weapons repose and training facilities?
	What we continually find is, indeed, there are among the airstrikes what we would consider legitimate strikes against Nusra, against Daesh, ISIL. But we also continue to see strikes that target moderate Syrian opposition forces.
	The U.S. may think Russia's cooperation with Iran and Syria is unfortunate, but we're now learning that China is seeking closer military ties with Syria.
	A senior Chinese military official just visited Damascus, where he met with the Syrian defense minister, sought to strengthen military ties, and according to Chinese news agency, Xinhua pledged assistance in training Syrian forces.
	What are your thoughts about China's support for the Syrian government?
	I can't speak to What their intentions may or may not be in terms of working cooperatively with this?
	I had a question about the Indian minister visiting Syria.
	And the minister is meeting the president and is also supporting, like, you know.
	And now you have the reports of China supporting, now Russia, now Iran.
	So there is a coalition that is supporting the I mean, I don't want to...
	Do you have any kind of credence to your question saying that there's some kind of pro-Assad coalition forming?
	They may not be pro-Assad, but to go after terrorists in Syria, Russia, Iran, and China support the Syrian army.
	These guys are so smart.
	Russia, China, they're smart.
	Look at this void.
	Look at the idiots in America.
	Yeah, let's go in and let's just take care of this once and for all.
	And then India tags along.
	Yeah, well, why wouldn't they?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's very pathetic.
	Just as a knowing our true business of war, because that's really what we do.
	We have tons of manufacturing in America.
	Unfortunately, it's only to build stuff that kills brown people in sandy areas.
	Yeah, we're great at making weapons.
	Yeah, we messed it up.
	So maybe we'd now just become the house supplier.
	Yeah.
	Hey, you guys go do whatever you want over there.
	We'll just sell you weapons.
	Guess.
	I don't know.
	It's very, very troubling.
	And the Chiners, man...
	Well, they want to get in the weapons business, too.
	I mean, they're working on their jet, and they're working on their bombs, and I think they still make the majority.
	They're weaseling in on our turf, man.
	Yeah.
	Screw that.
	I mean, the Russians have been traditionally our competitor, and the Europeans.
	There's been some European, you know, there's a good Mirage Jets and some of these things.
	The Russians got the SUs and all these...
	Wild planes.
	Meanwhile, you have the F-35 that still doesn't fly straight.
	Oh, the F-35 is a huge mistake.
	We're trying to get out of it.
	That's never going to...
	I was still living in Europe when they started that deal.
	I'm like, wow, how long is it now?
	20 years on this dumb thing?
	It's a pathetic piece of gear to everyone.
	At least that's what everyone says.
	It really is.
	So we have these three, but it's been always traditionally the United States making all kinds of bombs and jets.
	And then the Europeans making lots of bombs and jets, not as many bombs that I know of.
	And then the Russians have been huge suppliers to everybody that's fighting against our...
	They take their jets and put them against our jets.
	And the Chinese, what are they kind of horning in on this?
	This is not good.
	Why not?
	They're already in deals with Russia.
	It's obviously purely a resource deal.
	It's about the resources of the area.
	And now watch when those two team up in Africa.
	That's going to get interesting.
	Yeah, well, that's yet to be resolved.
	But, of course, the good news is it doesn't matter who becomes president.
	Either one of the leading candidates will fight one way or the other.
	Yeah.
	Yay!
	Yay us!
	Just as a little finish to that, since you have the candidate theme, let's just at least mention Jill.
	Yes.
	And so I didn't realize this, but I got three little clips.
	And I want you to tell me, if you notice a theme to the clip, then we can take a break, I think.
	Okay, okay.
	If you can tell me a theme to the clips.
	That sounds like one of the other two candidates is always harping on.
	Oh, okay.
	But let's start with Jill in 2012.
	Jill Stein, by the way, we're talking about is the Green Party candidate who's bitching and moaning because she can't get into the debates.
	Right.
	So in 2012, she went to the debates just to go to them, I guess, and they arrested her for showing up.
	Yeah.
	And this is the clip is Jill and the debates 2012.
	Come with us.
	Just come with us.
	I remember this.
	Everybody, we're going to ask you to please move back.
	Well, I'd say this is what democracy looks like in the 21st century.
	I'm afraid it's going to take some politics and courage here to get our democracy back.
	So, more to come.
	More to come, you said.
	So you're taken away, Dr.
	Jill Stein, from the Hofstra campus.
	Where did you and Sherry Honkula, where were you taken?
	We were taken to a dark site where nobody knew where we were, an unmarked facility that was basically being run by, I think, Homeland Security and the Secret Service and local police.
	We were surrounded by, according to Sherry, who counted them, Some 16 police and colleagues and handcuffed tightly to these metal chairs for about seven hours.
	Seven hours?
	Seven hours until the debates were long over and everyone had gone home.
	You're chained.
	What is the American political system?
	What is the American political system?
	Okay.
	Come on.
	I listened to this and I was actually, I hate to be sick about it, but I was almost in stitches just thinking about it.
	I didn't know this.
	This is crazy.
	It was, I think, an incredible testimony to how fearful the political establishment was and is that people should learn that they actually have another choice.
	In that race, and all the more so in this race, because we know that the current candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties are the most unpopular, the most disliked and untrusted presidential candidates in history.
	So people are clamoring for another choice.
	And we, you know, we're building a campaign to get into the debates and we'll keep people posted as to what our actions will be coming up.
	But we will not leave this just to the establishment to shut down political opposition, which is what this commission is doing.
	Do you plan to head to Hofstra on September 26th?
	Absolutely.
	Okay, I can't detect the theme yet because I need to hear the other two.
	The theme starts with the next two clips.
	We're going to be there with the American people who are demanding that we open up the debate and make it a real service to our democracy.
	You've sued?
	We have two cases, one of which has been dismissed, the other one is still technically in effect.
	We are not holding our breath that this is going to be favorably decided in a court of law, but there's every reason for this to be decided in the court of public opinion.
	Where public opinion is very clear that people have had it, not only with the rigged economy, but the rigged political system, and with the dialogue, which is rigged by the Democratic and Republican parties.
	Okay.
	I have a couple themes here.
	I'm going to listen to the third clip.
	You will have it.
	I'm sure.
	Let me guess.
	Lawsuits?
	Would that be?
	No.
	No?
	Okay.
	No guessing.
	I'm sorry.
	I spoke to libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson in his home state of New Mexico.
	He talked about the unfair nature of the presidential debate system as well.
	Right now, running for president of the United States as a libertarian, there is no way that a third party wins.
	There's no way that I have a chance of winning unless I'm in the presidential debates.
	There is the possibility of being at 15% in the polls, though, if I'm in the polls.
	That I could be in the presidential debate.
	You're part of a lawsuit going after the presidential debate commission?
	Yes, on the basis of the Sherman Act, that politics is a business, that Democrats and Republicans collude with one another to exclude everybody else.
	We think that the discovery phase of this lawsuit is going to provide national insight into just how rigged the system is.
	Wow.
	Come back to the fact that 50% of Americans right now declare themselves as independent.
	Where is that representation?
	Uh-huh.
	Rigged.
	Yeah.
	Rigged.
	Rigged.
	They keep saying rigged, rigged, rigged.
	And who says rigged, rigged, rigged all the time?
	Is it Clinton or Trump?
	Trump.
	Trump.
	Well, you know, that's...
	Okay, we can't take the break just yet because I have to play something.
	I think there's insurance taken out.
	There's an insurance policy, possibly by Clinton, When it comes to the rigged election, the rigged system, and it involves this story.
	A group calling themselves the Shadow Brokers claim that they've hacked the NSA, according to foreignpolicy.com.
	They say they stole malware and they're auctioning off the files.
	Security researchers say the claims appear to be legitimate.
	A former NSA scientist says it could be hugely damaging, blowing some operations up.
	They are auctioning off what they call the best files for at least $550 million.
	The agency didn't respond to questions about the alleged breach.
	So you can go, oh, well, you know, they stole all the best tools and they manipulated the machines.
	And I think it's insurance, this story.
	Explain.
	Okay.
	And by the way, we do have producer listeners, especially the Archduke up in Oregon, who wants us to discuss this story.
	Yes.
	Okay, here's the way I see it.
	Snowden confirms that these tools were stolen.
	Snowden has always worked for CIA. We're good to go.
	But it doesn't matter because it's out there.
	He confirms that this hack is real.
	He's with CIA. CIA is with Hillary.
	Should she start to lose?
	Should she lose?
	Well, hold on a second.
	Trump, you said it yourself.
	It's rigged.
	Let's see what's going on here.
	And you have to take into account this Manafort guy who he just got rid of.
	Is connected to...
	Oh, I forgot his name.
	He's the guy who helped Romney with what we concluded to be some odd behavior voting machines.
	It's all coming back to...
	The idea that it's rigged, but I think this is an insurance policy from CIA for Hillary to say, well, you know, and I'm not sure exactly what the logical conclusion would be.
	I mean, do you recount?
	I don't know how you do it.
	But this doesn't seem just like some off-the-cuff thing that happened.
	Yeah, I'm not ready to discuss it in any detail because I haven't...
	I'm waiting for this.
	I have to sense that there's something else that's going to pop out of this.
	Could be.
	I just haven't seen anything yet that has excited me.
	I mean, I think the hack is interesting.
	Well, the fact that Snowden confirmed it means something.
	Yeah, the Snowden was good.
	That was good.
	That was a plus.
	That means...
	Because the thing could have been just bull crap, but...
	This is a crazy situation that I don't think we're prepared to fully deconstruct.
	Well, here's what happened when I went to CNN.com, because this is one of your favorites.
	When you get a video that is about the story, but it's just words, and it's a backgrounder, it's big titles, it's produced, sometimes not even a voiceover, although in this case they did have a voiceover.
	So this is a big story, and I was expecting the video to be about...
	The hack itself.
	Instead, here's what...
	And I was lucky I was recording the entire experience.
	So I click on the video.
	Remember, this is a story about a hack.
	This is what I get.
	Being hacked.
	An intellectual property being stolen.
	That is cybercrime.
	And it affects each and every one of us.
	Microsoft created the digital crimes unit to fight cyber.
	So you get the idea.
	They are selling ads against this story.
	This is not some magical algorithm targeting.
	And then they go into a whole story about how your business could be under duress and under threat from cyber attacks after they roll out the Microsoft cyber cloud solution here.
	Coding and decoding messages has fueled war.
	And they just keep on going and going about that.
	It's disgusting.
	It is disgusting.
	It's funny, though.
	It's good sales.
	Whoever's doing the sales is on target.
	That's actually, generally speaking, considered a corrupt practice.
	Oh yeah, since when?
	No, that's normal these days.
	Well, when I was a kid, if you have a story about Problem B and you put an ad against it that addresses Problem B, which is in the story, if you put an ad across it, that is considered a corrupt practice.
	There you go.
	The Corrupt News Network.
	CNN it is, everybody.
	Of course, we don't have to worry about that because we live on a value-for-value model.
	And with that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for C-C-C-C-C-C-C-Con, Dvorak.
	And in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the names of the knights out there.
	In the morning to the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Good to have you all on board today.
	In the morning to, let's see, Bohemian Grove.
	That's the artist who brought us the artwork.
	No, no, no.
	Are you sure?
	Bohemian Groove.
	Oh, Groove.
	I'm sorry.
	You're right.
	Bohemian Groove.
	He brought us, or she, brought us the artwork for episode 852, Sorocracy.
	And that was the, it was a nice little concept piece.
	Yeah, we had to dig that one.
	Did we dig that one up?
	Yeah, we did because we had never even seen this one for some reason.
	It was an evergreen that cropped up in the evergreen box.
	Yeah, I don't remember seeing it before.
	It was nice.
	A little news and State Department and then Facebook.
	They're in a relationship.
	It was nice.
	Nice high concept piece.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all of the submissions and where you can submit yourself.
	We appreciate that.
	We appreciate the work.
	So we start off with today's executive producers and associate executive producers for show 853.
	We have one, two, three, four executive producers starting with Arch Duke up there in Pacific Northwest or Dwayne Mellon Son and Tigard, Oregon.
	821-16.
	I always want to say Tigard.
	That's the reason I paused there.
	Tai Chan from the Archduke of the Pacific Northwest.
	Great analysis lately.
	Looking forward to any NSA hacking insights you may have.
	It's been a while, so I decided to donate the date.
	Ah, excellente.
	Which actually makes him an 820...
	No, it doesn't make him anything.
	It just makes him a great donator.
	82116.
	And he would request a Sharpton We Much...
	And a karma for all producers, please.
	Hope all is well.
	But resist, we must.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	You know, that is still a remarkable clip, because that's actually what he said.
	Yeah.
	Anonymous in Westport, Connecticut, 808 cents, which is, he calls it, the double boob.
	Oh.
	Or no, he calls it a three-boob donation, because in that, he's using the zeros as potential boobs.
	Which is a different look at the way we did it.
	Because it would start off as Haxar, the eight being a bee.
	But this is a big boob.
	It's a boob.
	It's a boob.
	Big boob donation.
	Anonymous three-boob donation, both reflecting the error of my ways, plus to raise the boob bar toward Toleric calls three-boobed prostitute.
	You are the red pill of reality.
	You know, I always mix up those pills.
	I don't know which is which.
	I always want to use this to move my brother toward knighthood, or I want to use this to move my brother toward knighthood as a self-proclaimed angelic knight, who in 60 years has never been on a computer because he knows they control minds.
	This is why I think some people don't go to see 3D movies.
	So, Angelic Knighthood, please.
	Next 199.92 to follow.
	He asks his real name not be given, so he doesn't exist.
	So that's not today, then?
	It's not today.
	It's Angelic Knight, and he'll be the anonymous brother of the brother of the knight.
	Well, we like the three-boob donation.
	That's appreciated, big time.
	That is a great one.
	John Johnson Jr., JJ, Bolton, Connecticut, 55520.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	I'd like to thank my business partner, Mike Lambert, for calling me out as a douchebag last week.
	Been a boner way too long.
	I've been listening since way before you started, doing three shows a week, or twice a week.
	So he was listening to it once a week.
	This seemed like a perfect time to donate.
	I believe I've heard two other John Johnson juniors have donated in their last two weeks.
	Yes.
	Yeah, that's true.
	It's not an uncommon name.
	Call me Ray J. You can call me JJ. And I needed to lay claim to the nickname of Triple J in the No Agenda universe.
	Please do not de-douche me as it sounds like a very painful process.
	And let's face it.
	I should do more to support the value for value model so I can call myself out as a continued douchebag as triple nickels on the double dime isn't enough.
	Nice.
	One request, if you please.
	We need more JCD Pet Peeve of the Day.
	My all-time favorite segment that happens far fewer times than it should.
	I agree.
	You're way too happy.
	It's a moody thing.
	It's like I get irked.
	I still have a number of pet peeves of the day about people shopping and bringing their own bags.
	Anyway.
	All-time favorite, John Johnson, a.k.a.
	Triple J Bolton, and he's got no requests.
	I'm going to give him a karma since he didn't want to de-douching.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Dame Cathy and Sir Greg in West Chicago, $500, and they sent a note in, a very short note.
	Nice.
	Please accept this donation of $500 from Dame Cathy and Sir Greg for outstanding services.
	I have nothing pithy or witty to say, so instead of waiting for an inspired letter, I'm sending the donation.
	They're both baronet and baroness.
	I'm going to give them karma.
	Thank you so much, Kathy and Greg.
	You've got karma.
	Dean, Kathy, Sir Greg.
	Stepping up.
	Thank you.
	Russell Girton and Bomaris.
	It's hard to say how this is pronounced.
	It's in Australia, so they pronounce probably, I'm saying Bomaris, $200.
	As always, thanks for the revealing.
	This is our associate executive producer segment.
	As always, thanks for revealing such a revealing show.
	show you've done an amazing job showing the importance of context in what we say and what the media reports it amazes me how sound bites are twisted and cut together to influence public opinion your vigilance is appreciated by us all i'd appreciate some job karma so we can close the deal as always go podcasting did you hear that No.
	I hit the reverb on you just in time.
	You don't get that part.
	So you could be doing that all day.
	I'll try.
	I'll try.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	This is Anonymous in Moscow, $200.
	I own a small archival storage company in Russia, and I've been your avid listener since Joel Spolsky put me onto it back in 2010.
	Wow, interesting.
	Yeah.
	He's a famous software developer, isn't he?
	I think so.
	Yeah.
	I'll look him up.
	Imagine my surprise when I opened John's email message this morning and saw a photo made inside my warehouse several years ago with a no agenda sign over it.
	Really?
	John's message has a sign from above.
	Oh, it was a sign from above as far as he's concerned.
	I hereby wish to undergo a dedouching ceremony.
	And if you could give him now.
	Give him the dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Yeah, if he's been listening since 2010, he's overdue here.
	Long overdue donation.
	And my previous contribution was a couple of years ago.
	Thanks for all your hard work.
	And please keep me anonymous.
	Thank you.
	We will.
	Spolsky founded Stack Exchange.
	That's what it was.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty cool.
	Huh.
	Now, here's one.
	This is anonymous, which is from Schuyler, Nebraska.
	$200.
	I really appreciate what you guys are doing, and thank you so much.
	Take care.
	That's all he has to say.
	All right.
	Give him a...
	Karma.
	You've got Karma.
	I love this next note.
	Yeah, and I have to scroll down to it, sorry.
	Colton Robinson in Fresno.
	These are all 200.
	It's funny that there's another random number phenomenon.
	So all of the associate executive producers are exactly the same.
	They're all 200.
	I personally find that...
	Weird.
	I'm a long-time listener since I was 13.
	I'm now 20.
	Wow, it's like growing up with the show.
	That's great.
	He's definitely on board.
	So when you're 20, you're just in college now, right?
	I think.
	Yeah.
	You'd be a freshman or sophomore.
	Probably a sophomore.
	Or you could be a junior.
	I have had to live with being a boner because I didn't have a job.
	Well, you were 13.
	Well, no more!
	This is my first producer donation and I would like a good de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Is it Fresno?
	Interesting little town in the middle of this state.
	I would also like to call out my co-worker David as a douchebag for not listening even though he agrees with me when I use my patented no agenda talking points.
	I'll make this case for jingles.
	The tried and true jobs karma for my finances.
	Tamara.
	What do you think we're dealing with here?
	Tamara?
	Tamara and a WTC7 will never go away.
	What's Tamara?
	We have to think about this.
	And will never go away.
	And the song about John and his aunts at the end of the show.
	The aunts thing again?
	Yeah, people love that for some reason.
	Ants.
	He wants Jabba Karma for his fiancée.
	That's what it says.
	It's all garbled, I might add.
	Well, I have the WTC7, but I don't have it.
	Oh, no, for his fiancée, Tamara.
	Oh, I got you.
	Okay.
	Fine.
	WTC7 won't go away.
	Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got Carmine.
	Alrighty then.
	Figured it out.
	Figured it out.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	Good, good, good, good, good, good.
	Okay.
	Now we have Jennifer Tench.
	And she's in Oakville.
	And curiously, I just had the 2012 Robert Mondavi Oakville.
	Cabernet Sauvignon.
	And I have to report on it because people say, oh, you know, we need some more wine reports once in a while.
	And I believe this is a correct answer.
	And that is the exact voice they use.
	They might.
	I don't have that many voices.
	But I will report this.
	It's very good.
	Better than...
	It's a little expensive at $35, but it's very tasty and...
	It's got a good cabernet flavor, but astonishingly, and I mean astonishingly, when I was finishing up some of the clippage last night, I had some of this, and I had a half glass left.
	And I didn't...
	It's kind of a heavy wine.
	It's a big Cabernet.
	And I decided, well, you know, it's kind of too much for me to just down.
	Because it's too heavy.
	I put...
	I filled it half...
	50-50 water.
	Cold water from my...
	Sacrilege, I tell you.
	No.
	It was unbelievable.
	Huh.
	So you had to dilute it.
	That's interesting.
	A lot of wines actually do benefit from some dilution.
	In fact, many of them, like this one, I'm sure of it, if you use one-tenth of a glass and fill it with water, it'll look like a full glass of wine.
	It's got so much color.
	So you can do that.
	So it's a trick to go around cocktail parties and look like you're drinking when you're not.
	This is what you do all the time at cocktail parties.
	This is a known fact.
	You watch everyone get ham.
	You're bringing drinks to everybody.
	Hey, want another drink?
	And you're drinking like a thimble with water.
	I've seen you do this, yeah.
	I do this.
	I also do it with soda, and they call it a gin and tonic.
	So...
	I'm drinking G&T, man.
	Yeah, great.
	So, it's not a bad technique if you're working as a journalist.
	Now, which cab was this again?
	This was the Robert Mondavi Oakville 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon.
	And I'm telling you, 50% water and this wine is un...
	It doesn't taste like, you know, oh, this is a great cab.
	It is just delicious.
	I don't know how to describe it other than, holy crap, This is dynamite.
	And what is the average price of this bottle?
	$35.
	It's a little high.
	Yeah, it's a little on the high side.
	But it's really only $17.50.
	You're getting two bottles out of the deal.
	If you looked at it from that perspective, yeah, that would be what it is.
	Good.
	Okay, I can't get the beginning of this note.
	Oh, wait, maybe I can't if I get it.
	Let's see, Jennifer Tench?
	Yeah, when they get to the word instincts, I can read.
	First-time donor here, so I hope this note makes it to the right place.
	It did.
	I've scraped together Canadian dollaretts for this donation.
	Please count it towards the eventual knighthood of my baby brother Andrew, who fights his inner millennial instincts on a daily basis with a steady, nearly religious diet of no agenda.
	Yeah, he goes on.
	He's celebrating his 25th birthday on Monday.
	I think we have him down for the birthday call-out.
	And all he wants for his birthday is to be relieved of his douchebag status.
	Wow.
	This has been the case for so many millennials.
	He struggled to find a job after university.
	She's in Ontario.
	Okay, she can say it that way.
	Working in a warehouse.
	She's in Oakville, Ontario.
	I was talking about Oakville, obviously.
	For millennials, he struggled to find a job.
	Working in a warehouse to make ends meet.
	Your patent didn't know a job.
	Everything's patented today.
	Our patented No Agenda Karma gave him the boost he needed, and he finally landed his first desk job this spring.
	He's working hard and staying humble, and as his big sister, I couldn't be more proud to bestow upon him his moral self-license for the year.
	What a great sister.
	This is a great sister.
	Fabulous, yes.
	Canadian sisters are all great.
	If you don't mind, please give him a Chemtrails and a Donate to No Agenda chant.
	I know he'll turn the volume up knowing they're coming.
	Thank you so much for your sanity-saving show.
	You're more than welcome, and thank you for inspiring your baby brother.
	This is very good.
	And he gets a dedouching at the front of that, of course.
	You've been dedouched.
	Ten trails.
	Donate to a No Agenda.
	Nice!
	They give us shows week after week.
	Donate to a No Agenda.
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	Donate to a No Agenda.
	Listen to John and Adam speak.
	Donate to a No Agenda.
	Science is turning into a clique.
	You've got Carmen.
	That was nice.
	The chemtrails with that donate?
	Yeah, it worked like a champ.
	It's on the same key.
	Beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	And that concludes our group.
	We do have an anonymous guy coming up at $199.92 at the beginning of the next segment.
	And I want you to note that somebody supposed to be a knight wasn't Mark Such.
	I think it was vague.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, we want to remind you, we do have another show coming up next Thursday, and Dvorak.org slash NA is a good place to visit if you want to help us continue this pursuit of sanity.
	So I have him on the list, the $199.92.
	On the night's list?
	Yeah, is there anything else?
	Are we good with that?
	No, I'm just wondering...
	Okay, it just wasn't color-coded.
	Okay.
	No, we're good.
	We'll read that coming up.
	I do have one little promo item from Sir Slough, Chattanooga, and he took the...
	This was good.
	He was on the ball.
	He took that embedded string to track the NSA embedded malware.
	And that's that number, ACE02468BDF13579. If you plan to.com after that, it forwards to noagendashow.com.
	Oh, right, yeah.
	I know, that's funny.
	It's obscure, but we really do appreciate it.
	It's really obscure.
	Thank you all very much, our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	You really help drive this show forward.
	We appreciate it very much.
	And we'll be thanking our other donors above $50 in the segment later on.
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	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slave.
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	I saw your clip list, and I would like to push one of them to the foreground, because I have a follow-up.
	I like that you have the private prison overview.
	Do you mind if I play this clip of yours?
	I have two clips, actually.
	Okay.
	You might want to play them both, one after the other.
	One is private prison's overview, and then the report on the CCA by the reporter from Mother Jones who actually took a job there as a prison guard.
	Oh, fantastic.
	Okay, we'll play those two, and then...
	In an historic announcement, the Justice Department has told the Bureau of Prisons to end the use of private prisons.
	In a memo released yesterday, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote that private prisons, quote,"...simply do not provide the same level of correctional services programs and resources, do not save substantially on costs, and do not maintain the same level of safety and security," unquote, as facilities operated by the Bureau of Prisons.
	This is former President Bill Clinton speaking earlier this year about the need for prison reform.
	We need prison reform.
	He will tell you.
	We overdid it in putting too many young, nonviolent offenders in jail for too long.
	Now...
	90-plus percent of them are in state and local facilities, but the federal government can set an example.
	And this is something a lot of Republicans agree with.
	Let these people out of jail.
	We'll give them education, training.
	That was Bill Clinton.
	Laws enacted during Clinton's presidency increased the national prison population by more than 60 percent.
	Oh, yeah.
	The Justice Department's directive will affect 13 federal prisons but does not mean all federal agencies will necessarily stop using private companies for detention.
	The Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement also uses the private corrections industry and is not included in the order.
	I love how Bill Clinton says, we overdid it!
	We dialed the knob too far.
	What I like about that clip is that Amy didn't let it go by without bringing it up.
	That was Clinton largely responsible for this.
	I don't think network news would have done that.
	She kind of swallowed it, but yeah.
	Yes.
	Well, it's one of those thematic progressive issues.
	If you're on the progressive side of analysis, you're always, this is a thorn in the side of the Democrat Party.
	So there's two companies that provide the main commercial prison.
	Right.
	It's Correctional, what is it?
	Corporation.
	Correctional Corporation of American.
	The other one is like W, what is it?
	Something like GEO, something or other, GEO or something.
	Yeah, GEO, exactly.
	Yeah, GEO. And I think this guy discusses that a little bit, but he actually worked at CCA and he has some observations.
	The only reason, I just took part of his long spiel, but I took this part because he talks about, what are these guards?
	I'll ask you, just ask Adam, what do you think a guard, a prison guard guarding these horrible people makes an hour at CCA? An hour?
	I can tell you what I think they make annually.
	No, no, no.
	I want an hourly wage rate.
	Thirteen dollars.
	Okay.
	There was a need for them at one point.
	And their argument now has consistently been that they're saving money.
	And this is questionable, as the Department of Justice Inspector General pointed out.
	But what's important is to look at how they're saving money.
	The main way that they save money is through staffing costs.
	The prison that I worked at, guards were paid $9 an hour.
	This was $3.50 less than the starting pay of guards at state-run facilities.
	Medical costs.
	The company at the prison I worked, if they sent a prisoner out for medical care, they had to bear that cost.
	So there's a lot of resistance to sending prisoners out to the hospital.
	They had less mental health staff.
	There were days that I came into work where there were 24 guards for 1,500 prisoners.
	This is far below what their contract requires.
	And this problem has been found throughout CCA's state and federal prisons.
	The Inspector General has made reports on their audits showing that in one prison where there were riots, that the riot was caused by understaffing and poor medical care.
	It's interesting how this story tracks beautifully alongside Orange is the New Black.
	Yes, that's what a lot of people have noticed.
	Interesting.
	So, of course, I read the memo.
	I was watching this happen because the timing of this is what I found interesting.
	you know, memorandum for the acting director.
	And the bottom line on this is it really is only a reduction of federal prison system, the federal prisons.
	And the numbers boil down to changing 10,800 beds to a maximum of 3,600.
	So it's a very slight reduction, really, because, and I looked this up, the federal prison business is about, for CCA, I think is 11%.
	and for the other guys is the Geo guys, it's It's somewhere in the same region, 14% or 15%.
	All of their real money, the real deal comes from...
	From state prisons, which, of course, the Obama administration cannot change that.
	They are trying to lead the way, and in general, I'm for it.
	But the timing of this is what bothered me a shitload.
	I went back and I looked at these two stocks, this Geo Company and CCA, and this was a...
	Well, here's CNBC. Listen to what they said.
	Private prison stocks, as you saw yesterday, absolutely eviscerated down 35%.
	And that was not the low of the day.
	28 times average daily volume.
	Conference call, I think, is going to be happening.
	The company is disappointed in Justice's recommendation.
	As somebody said on Twitter, it's rare that you see a business model...
	Adjudicated, I mean, litigated, legislated, out of existence in the middle of a trade.
	Kind of one executive action, really.
	Although, you did have people coming in and defending the business model on some level and basically saying, this isn't like the revenue goes away instantly.
	Because of the mix of federal and state.
	This doesn't require the state contracts to break.
	Maybe it could be the start of the trend, but this is specifically the federal contracts with these private prisons.
	So what the heads there on CNBC are saying is, this is very interesting that you make this announcement in the middle of a trading day, and if you look at the charts for both of these stocks, they dropped down.
	They lost 40-50% of their value, even though the revenue is only a small percentage.
	I think, and I will be looking at the trades this week.
	You're not going to get anywhere.
	Maybe someone can help.
	I think you have to go into those bowels.
	Well, let me finalize the thought.
	Seeing as we know the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were investors in CCA, I think Buffett is an investor in CCA. Wouldn't surprise me.
	This reeks of...
	Because what happened here is people got screwed when the stock just dropped in like a heartbeat.
	And I'm pretty sure...
	The insiders were aware of it.
	You're the guy who knows insider stuff the best.
	I'm pretty sure that there must have been some covering or something must have been set up by people because it's a very, very, very poor form to do this in the middle of a trading day unless it's some kind of emergency or unless you're setting up something.
	Of course it's not an emergency.
	Unless you're setting up your buddies to make a killing.
	Well, you wouldn't make a killing on a day trade.
	No.
	I think the stock's going to recover.
	And I think you can make a killing on the upside once the people run the numbers.
	Right.
	But I'm sure a signal went out saying, hey, this is going to happen.
	And these were big.
	I haven't looked at it.
	I haven't been able to find it.
	You need to find this.
	I bet there were big chunks of stock that flew out.
	When this came out, for some reason, I was thinking to myself, there was a pre-warning of this.
	In the last few weeks, I just remembered it.
	I never made a clip or anything, but I do remember somebody saying something about this is going to happen.
	Oh, really?
	Yes.
	Huh.
	And I don't know why I didn't do something.
	We should find that.
	We should find that.
	Well...
	Okay, maybe not.
	It was one of those little things that you catch somewhere and go, oh, that's interesting.
	Well, it's about time those douchebags deserve what they get.
	But then all of a sudden this happens.
	I go, oh my God, what did...
	You know, I feel like flat-footed.
	Uh...
	I don't know.
	I mean, it would be interesting to see if Gates was out of it.
	Well, that's what I want to know.
	Because if that's the case, this needs to be investigated.
	Well, no big pieces of shares were sent out or were sold before this news.
	But it's odd.
	It's really odd.
	With any big shorts, that's where the real giveaway is.
	Where somebody may have bought some puts.
	Ask Horowitz, will you?
	Horowitz will probably know some of it.
	I'm sure he'll come up on the next show because he's always...
	Looking at scans of this sort of crazy stuff.
	Because it's really, you know, the drop-off had to have been huge amounts of stock being thrown out into the pool and maybe some short squeeze or something.
	I don't know.
	Short squeeze is when the stock goes up.
	Okay.
	And it wasn't that, was it?
	No.
	No.
	Maybe that'll still come.
	It seems to me that the short sales are probably covered.
	So probably won't be a lot of short interest.
	So I don't think so.
	Anyway, that to me was interesting that that happened in the middle of a trading day.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I felt the same way.
	I'm glad you got that CNBC clip.
	Well, they were surprised by it too.
	That's really what turned me on to it.
	Well, I have a kind of an off-the-walls kind of a standalone clip that might be interesting because it's talking about the – it's like a new – it's like reintroducing the WikiLeaks story on the DNC. Mm-hmm.
	On Russia Today, except to do the kicker, because they're blaming the Russians and everything, to do the kicker, they brought in one of my favorite guys who likes to talk forever, the ex-CIA guy, Ray McGovern.
	Well, yeah, we've played him before.
	Yeah, Ray McGovern is this cynical ex-CIA guy who thinks everything's hilarious and is like, wow, you expected this from these guys.
	He's very, and he's always on the money.
	And this is his, as a CIA analyst, and you can kind of see his analyzing.
	According to WikiLeaks...
	I'm sorry, no, you can kind of see him analyzing and coming to conclusions that are just pretty obvious to us and most of our listeners, but he puts it in a very more, kind of more humorous way.
	According to WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, there is absolutely no proof of Russian involvement in the leaks.
	Well, there's no proof of that whatsoever.
	We have not disclosed our source.
	And of course, this is a diversion that's being pushed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
	Now, next, there were calls for new sanctions against Russia to punish Russia for the leaks, even though there's no real proof of Russian involvement, and the contents were 100% true.
	U.S. officials are discussing whether to respond to computer breaches of Democratic Party organizations with economic sanctions against Russia.
	But they haven't reached a decision about how to proceed.
	Levying sanctions would require the White House to publicly accuse Russia.
	And now the icing on the cake.
	Writing in Forbes magazine, an expert from the NATO Strategic Defense Journal is calling for Obama to strike back hard and hack the Russians in retaliation.
	Joining us here in the newsroom is Raymond Govern.
	Perhaps he can help us understand how exactly we got here.
	The democratic candidate who was just about to be nominated stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders.
	What is Hillary Clinton?
	What are the democratic people on that national committee going to do?
	Well, first thing they did was fire the top four people.
	And then they said, who are we going to blame this on?
	We've got to divert attention from this because it shows that Hillary is the illegitimate candidate now.
	God, what?
	They convened their little propaganda team, and the PBT, which is the Putin bashing team, said...
	Wait, what did he call that?
	The PBT, the Putin bashing team.
	Their little propaganda team, and the PBT, which is the Putin bashing team, said, Ah, we got an idea.
	Let's blame it on Putin.
	And they said, well, yeah, but it wasn't Putin, it was Julian Assange.
	And then the ABT, the Assange bashing team, spoke up and said, we can say that Putin gave it to Assange and we'll get a twofer that way, okay?
	Hey, a threefer.
	We distract the tension, we bash Putin, and we bash Assange.
	Let's go with it!
	Elections are being rigged.
	Emails show all kinds of foul play and corruption.
	That's great.
	I'm going to give you a borderline for that.
	That was pretty good.
	If only because he said poutine.
	If only because he said poutine the whole time.
	That was good.
	Yeah, which is a French fry dish up in Canada, I believe.
	I like the poutine.
	Oh, hey.
	Have you been watching the Olympics at all?
	Yes, and I do have an Olympic report.
	Okay.
	I'd love to hear your Olympic report, and then I have some comments.
	Where is your...
	Well, my Olympic...
	Do I have it written down?
	I think it may be...
	Oh, wait.
	My Olympic report is not in clips.
	It's only in comments.
	Oh, let's talk about it.
	This is what I wanted to talk about.
	I have it in the red book.
	First of all, there's a couple of things I noticed.
	And I know you want to talk about the swimmer, I'm sure.
	No, no, no.
	Good.
	We don't need to talk about it.
	No, no, no.
	I want to talk about this.
	Take that back.
	I'm sorry.
	I watched fencing.
	Oh, you know, I was a champion in fencing.
	Yeah, I know you were.
	And so I'm watching fencing, and I want to just make a commentary here.
	I'm watching fencing.
	It's the Americans versus somebody.
	And so the American, this guy's just kicking, the American guy's kicking ass, and he gets like, I don't know how many points you're supposed to get, but he gets a point, and then he's fist pumping, and he's jumping up and down, and he's making a big, he's got a fucking point!
	Okay, so he's back again, pops the guy, oh, oh!
	Oh, yeah!
	He gets off the thing.
	He does a dance.
	He wiggles his knees.
	He's jumping up and down.
	I'm saying, wow, this is unbelievable.
	These Americans are like douchebags.
	Yes.
	Then I watched the Russians go off against somebody.
	Same thing.
	It's like all these fencers are douchebags.
	I had no idea.
	Well, let me tell you something.
	I was quite good in the youth brigade in the Netherlands.
	Maître van Oeveren is the one who mastered me in fencing.
	And I won a Dutch championship when I was, I don't know, 12, 13, something like that.
	And it was good because you can be kind of a reasonably uncoordinated person with lanky, with long arms, and you have some advantage and you can do pretty well.
	It was, without a doubt, frowned upon and not done.
	If you made a point or one, you did not do that.
	There's a gentleman's code in fantasy.
	Well, there was.
	I don't know what happened.
	I haven't followed the sport.
	I watched the Ukrainians versus the Russians.
	I have not followed.
	It was the same thing.
	It was considered bad form.
	There's a lot of official stuff.
	It's all in French, the way they start.
	Fist pumping.
	Screaming.
	This was not done.
	Dropping down, lowering, getting to a squat position, putting both hands and fists low.
	Not done.
	I'm very disappointed in my sport.
	Well, that's the whole sport that was doing this, and I know it's the Americans, I'm sure of it, that started it.
	I don't like it at all.
	Well, too bad.
	Of course, I watched my favorite sport, which is the most underrated spectator sport in the world, which, if I had my druthers, would be in prime time, and that, of course, is women's field hockey.
	Because, man, is that sexy!
	That is a sexy-ass game to watch.
	And it was the Brits versus the Dutch, so my two favorite teams.
	I think the Dutch got robbed in the final shootout.
	But, man, I just love seeing those little skirts that pop up when they're running around.
	I'm telling you, this is a great sport.
	It's absolutely pathetic.
	It needs to be promoted more.
	It really does.
	It would be great.
	Yeah, by the Herbert the Pervert.
	Hey!
	The number one spectator sport is NASCAR, but people want to watch crashes.
	I mean, what's worse?
	Yes, they do.
	That's the only reason they go.
	Now, as a follow-on to this, as I saw, again, many of our Olympians not adhering to the U.S. code of the flag and holding their hand over their heart.
	I was going to say this.
	Yep.
	I noticed that the guy who won shot put, big giant guy, and his buddy who came in third, they were both standing on the podium looking at the flag.
	Neither one of them putting their hand in the proper position that I didn't even know about until you actually looked it up.
	This is legal code.
	I have follow-up to this.
	Why did this code come into play?
	Why was this code put in the law books?
	When did this happen?
	I'm guessing...
	Because of those characters in the 60s, those Black Panther guys who stuck their fist up in the air during the thing.
	No.
	The U.S. flag code dates back a little further than that to 1942.
	And here's why.
	It was in all schools in the United States, and apparently also, I don't know if they were doing it.
	Oh, right!
	I saw this photo!
	The way you were supposed to address the flag was when the Pledge of Allegiance or the National Anthem, you would turn towards the flag, hold your hand out straight with your palm down.
	Yeah, Hitler.
	Yeah, it's the Hitler salute.
	Yes, I saw photos of this.
	And when Hitler started to use this salute, in the U.S., he went, maybe let's change this.
	And then in 1942, the code of the flag was put into law.
	I think we got jobbed.
	So in other words, they stole our salute, because that was apparently the salute in the 20s and 30s.
	And the Hitler groups, they started doing this to an extreme yelling, Heil Hitler.
	And we, instead of saying, wait a minute.
	Hey, you can't steal our Heil?
	So we just, we caved.
	I thought that was fantastic.
	If you do that to the flag today, somebody would hit you in the back of the head.
	Yeah, there's a great picture in the show notes of children saluting the flag in 1915.
	It comes from the Library of Congress.
	Like a bunch of little Hitlerjugend.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	It's fantastic how this is great history that no one ever dregs up.
	No one ever talks about anything.
	The people today are not educated in any real sense.
	Speaking of that...
	I think you might have seen this video.
	Not that we knew this, but go on.
	Well, there was a question and answer thing somewhere with Michio Kaku.
	You know, this is the scientist.
	Oh, that white-haired guy.
	He shows up and says, climate change is real.
	And he's a character.
	He's more interesting to me than Neil deGrasse Tyson, for sure.
	And he was on a panel and he just went off.
	Talk about pet peeve of the day.
	He went off on the American education system in something I believe is pertinent and important to this current election, depending on how things will go and what the policies will be.
	Science is the engine of prosperity.
	From steam power, to electricity, to the laser, to the transistor, to the computer.
	However, the information revolution has a weakness.
	And the weakness is precisely the educational system.
	The United States has the worst educational system known to science.
	Our graduates compete regularly at the level of third world countries.
	So how come the scientific establishment of the United States doesn't collapse?
	If we're producing a generation of dummies, if the stupid index of America keeps rising every year, just watch network television and reality shows, right?
	How come the scientific establishment of the United States doesn't collapse?
	Let me tell you something.
	Some of you may not know this.
	America has a secret weapon.
	That secret weapon is the H-1B. Without the H-1B, the scientific establishment of this country would collapse.
	Forget about Google.
	Forget about Silicon Valley.
	There would be no Silicon Valley without the H-1B. And you know what the H-1B is?
	It's the genius visa.
	Okay?
	You realize that in the United States, 50% of all PhD candidates are foreign-born?
	At my system, one of the biggest in the United States, 100% of the PhD candidates are foreign-born.
	The United States is a magnet.
	What?
	Duh!
	An H-1B is for foreign-born people, so 100% of them would be foreign-born.
	What, are they going to give one to you?
	Okay?
	Okay?
	You realize that in the United States, 50% of all PhD candidates are foreign-born.
	He says PhD candidates, not H-1D. No, no, keep listening.
	He says it.
	50% of all PhD candidates are foreign-born.
	At my system, one of the biggest in the United States, 100% of the PhD candidates are foreign-born.
	The United States...
	No, no.
	He said something different there.
	Born, born.
	The United States is a magnet sucking up all the brains of the world, but now the brains are going back.
	They're going back to China.
	They're going back to India.
	And people say, oh my God, there's a Silicon Valley in India now.
	Oh my God, there's a Silicon Valley in China.
	Duh!
	Where did it come from?
	It came from the United States.
	So don't tell me the science isn't the engine of prosperity.
	You remove the H-1B visa and you collapse the economy.
	In Wall Street Journal editorialized against a congressman who wanted to ban the H-1B saying they'll take jobs away from the American people.
	The Wall Street Journal said, look, there are no Americans.
	Who can take these jobs?
	These are at the highest level of high technology.
	They don't take away jobs for Americans.
	They create entire industries.
	And so that's why we have an Achilles heel, and that's the educational system.
	I think we should trade this guy out, no matter what.
	This is the litany you hear in Silicon Valley constantly.
	There's a professor up at UC Davis that has debunked this bullcrap for years, decades.
	I used to have him on the Silicon Spin show.
	Good, good.
	I've been looking.
	It's okay.
	You tell us.
	I'm looking forward to the debunking.
	Yeah, this is H-1B, UC Davis.
	He's up at UC Davis.
	Professor, and he's He's been bitching and moaning about this.
	It's a way to save money on labor.
	An H-1B guy coming in from India will work for half the price of an American coder who can do the exact same job, and there's plenty of people, unemployed coders, especially as they get older, Because of the ageism.
	I prefer software developer to coder.
	I think that's a little nicer.
	I don't care.
	And the point is that these guys come in and they take these jobs.
	They get paid a lot less.
	And that's the reason for the H-1B. Now, yes, it's true.
	There's a lot of guys coming in to get PhDs.
	And maybe in some places it's like a dominant number of them.
	And Cal Berkeley perhaps is more Chinese.
	And they go back because there's not a lot of jobs here for PhDs because we're in a depression.
	So they go back to China.
	Maybe they'll come back.
	I don't know.
	I think a lot of these generalities are not valid.
	Now, the idea that these guys are coming over here, he doesn't bring this up, that these guys are coming over here to exploit the system and then go back to their home countries.
	He never mentions that as a possibility.
	That does happen.
	There are people that might do that.
	But no, no, no, I just don't mention that.
	And how about encouraging more Americans or maybe lowering the fees to universities?
	I think, you know, the poverty, addressing poverty, getting kids ready to go to these universities, and then some kids have got the brains and they haven't got the money.
	It costs $70,000 a year, generally speaking, to go to one of these schools, any of them.
	And I mean, this is nuts.
	I'm just annoyed by this sort of...
	It's very...
	It's almost like reverse xenophobia.
	Well, what he's doing, I'm looking now...
	Did you find the guy's name?
	Did you find him?
	I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for...
	No, I'm looking at Michu Kaku's Wikipedia page.
	He must be consulting or working for some Silicon Valley companies for him to be on this.
	Of course, he's a Harvard alum.
	He's in San Jose.
	This guy is Silicon Valley.
	So he's shilling on behalf of the tech companies to keep the...
	Because I think, was it Trump who said that he wants to do away with the H-1Bs?
	I don't think he's ever said that.
	I think he's bitched about it.
	I think he bitches about, you know...
	Everything, but I don't think that he's ever said he wants to do away with them.
	I mean, there are legitimate reasons.
	March 10th, Trump vows to end H-1B visa program.
	I was in the debate.
	That's right.
	He mentioned that in the debate.
	I missed it somehow.
	I thought I'd notice that.
	So this guy's a shill, of course.
	Surprise, surprise, surprise.
	There's so much money to be made exploiting the worldwide talent.
	Children, children, children, it's children, face it, the children.
	I have another Depression-era signal, one that we missed.
	Uh-oh.
	So what do we have now?
	I caught another one just the other day.
	What was that?
	I can't remember.
	It was something we do.
	It went back and forth on the tweeters about it.
	Norm Matloff is the guy you want to look up, everyone out there.
	Professor Norm Matloff, M-A-T-L-O-F-F, and he's got an H-1-B webpage dedicated to these things.
	Oh, good.
	I'll put it in the show notes.
	Yeah.
	Good.
	He says it's all bullcrap.
	So we identified macaroni and cheese several years ago as a Depression-era signal.
	Yeah.
	Signaling the depression coming.
	No, that we're in a depression.
	In a depression.
	Yeah, not coming.
	Nothing's coming.
	Signaling we're in it.
	And then, of course, we found out about toast.
	Toast is another...
	Even better.
	Yeah.
	Now, I missed this.
	This happened last...
	The end of last year in New York.
	And by the way, there is a bread and water place, too.
	Yeah, I think it's a toast and water.
	No, no, it's bread.
	Bread and water.
	The big one in New York is broth.
	$9 for a cup of broth.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	Broth, isn't that just like you soak a dead chicken in some hot water and you call it food?
	Yeah, food.
	Broth.
	That's fantastic.
	Hey, Bill, you got a bouillon cube?
	I want to make myself a cup of broth.
	Nine bucks.
	For hot water and a bullion cube.
	Exactly.
	Why are we still in podcasting?
	That's the money right there.
	Holy moly.
	There was another one I ran into, but I forgot it.
	Alright, well you got one there.
	You got me on that H-1B thing.
	Almost got me into the pet peeve.
	Here's a...
	Here's one I got.
	I got Kirby saying something.
	I want to ask you about this.
	Maybe I've forgotten.
	Maybe I've made a mistake.
	Maybe I overlooked something or something happened.
	But how about playing Crimea?
	This is the news hour with Judy.
	She's got Kirby right there in front of her.
	Spokeshole for the State Department.
	Yes.
	Admiral Kirby.
	I think he's a rear admiral.
	Admiral's an admiral.
	Hmm.
	You just approach him from the rear.
	I don't know about that.
	Anyway, it's right there.
	It says...
	Subject, Ukraine.
	We know that the Russians have been beefing up their military presence along the border.
	We know that President Putin is in Crimea today, which Russia invaded two years ago.
	What does the U.S. think President Putin is up to?
	And what is the U.S. prepared to do if the Russians do go into Ukraine?
	Obviously, increased military activity along the border.
	Let's just stop there.
	They didn't invade Crimea.
	Keep going because that's the point I'm going to make.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	No, it's okay.
	Do go into Ukraine.
	Obviously, increased military activity along the border is not going to be helpful to creating a secure future here and to getting us past the tensions and towards a full implementation of Minsk.
	Now, the Russians have committed to Minsk implementation.
	We obviously want to see all sides contribute to that in a meaningful way.
	That means pulling back the weapons.
	It means pulling back the forces.
	It means allowing for monitors to go in, allowing for local elections.
	And we aren't there yet.
	And the secretary routinely discusses this with Foreign Minister Lavrov.
	That's the outcome that we want to see.
	On Crimea, we do not recognize the occupation of Crimea.
	Crimea is part of Ukraine.
	And we have said long ago, you can't redraw the borders of the map of Europe through the barrel of a gun.
	Well, you nailed it right away.
	And I think this was scripted.
	I don't think she wrote that.
	Invaded Crimea, can't do it by a barrel of a gun?
	How was Crimea hooked to Russia?
	Were they invaded?
	Was there a barrel of a gun involved?
	No.
	It was an election.
	It was a referendum.
	A referendum.
	They had a huge referendum during this, where all hell was breaking loose there, that we had instigated.
	Mm-hmm.
	And the Crimean people said, which were mostly Russians anyway, they just signed on to Russia and said, screw it, we don't want to be involved in this.
	And they did it by the vote.
	Where was it?
	Was a gun fired?
	Well, this fits into slamming Donald Trump about Russia going to Crimea.
	Somehow, everyone's laughing at him saying that, saying, oh, I'll never let the Russians go into Crimea.
	But they already invaded Ukraine!
	No, they didn't.
	There was no invasion.
	Now, that brings me to another point, if you're going to bring up Trump, this is one that's been...
	I will say, first time we've mentioned him, two hours and 16 minutes, not bad.
	Yes, we don't do a lot of Trumps.
	We try to avoid it, but one thing, every once in a while, something happens.
	So, in other words, he said Trump, so I'm going to play this clip.
	This is a mechanics, this is one that starts with mechanics lean, and this is Hillary bitching and moaning about Trump, and I have some commentary.
	In news from the campaign trail, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took aim at Donald Trump's record as an employer during a speech in Ohio Wednesday.
	It just really hits me personally when people are standing up and telling their stories.
	They were small business people.
	They were plumbers, electricians, painters who did work for Donald Trump and he refused to pay them.
	That violates the basic bargain.
	If you do your job, you're supposed to be rewarded for your work.
	Not stiffed.
	Not told to go sue somebody.
	Donald Trump was in New York yesterday for his first classified intelligence briefing with the FBI. Now, of course, the FBI thing gets...
	I don't know that it gets briefed by the FBI. It seems like...
	Why would you be briefed by them?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	But that's beside the point.
	What galls me about...
	I left it on.
	They're just a bitch.
	What galls me about this clip is that this is proof to me that the Democratic Party has lost complete touch with any real working people.
	There's...
	There's no way that anyone who knows how to pound a nail doesn't know about mechanics liens.
	You can look it up.
	I advise people to go look it up on Google.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	It's called a mechanics lien.
	If I pound a nail and you promise to pay me and I pound a nail and you say, no, I'm not going to pay you.
	I just, it's a very simple process.
	There's no lawsuit involved.
	That's a lie.
	She's a liar.
	There's no lawsuit involved.
	It's a legal procedure.
	It's a procedure.
	First of all, I'll tell you what the procedure is.
	Is it small claims or how does that work?
	No, no, no.
	You actually take, you can take over the property.
	That's how strong a mechanics lead is.
	This goes way back hundreds of years.
	Thomas Jefferson.
	This goes back to Dutch times.
	They still have this idea of freezing assets.
	That's probably where Jefferson got it.
	Jefferson introduced it to this country.
	And it's got a number of different names, but it's generally referred to as a mechanics lien.
	There's also artisans liens and there's a bunch of varieties.
	What you do, the guy doesn't pay you.
	And you're a guy who works for a living.
	You know about this.
	You're not an idiot.
	You're not an idiot.
	So the first thing you do is you send the guy a note saying, I need to be paid.
	20 days later, you send him through certified mail, a form you can pick up off the internet, claiming a mechanics lien, and you register it with the county or the city.
	And that's it.
	It's filed.
	You're done.
	Now you can go after the guy's property.
	You can actually if the guy pounds one nail into your house, he gets him.
	You put a mechanics lien.
	He can't even sell the place.
	This is bull crap.
	And she's pulling this out to a bunch of dumb fucks that don't know anything, apparently, because they've never worked for a living.
	This is a classic stupid people talking to stupid people.
	And they're all clapping.
	And then these idiots that are at Democracy Now!
	Play it.
	Nobody ever questions the fact that this is nonsense.
	John C. DeVore acts pet peeve of the day.
	Thought I'd force one out.
	Boom!
	Ha ha!
	Boom!
	I didn't know that.
	I know about the Dutch system where you can free someone's assets and you can put liens on stuff very easily.
	It comes from the old ship days.
	It's kind of the same thing.
	I paid you to bring me some stuff or to ship something.
	You didn't do it.
	I got a lien on your ship.
	I didn't know that was that easy in America.
	That's fantastic.
	Very easy.
	Only on the No Agenda show will you hear something like that, people.
	Well, there's a lot of guys out there who pound nails and they know about it.
	Because story after story I've seen, even the Hillary Clinton attack ads are, you know, like this, it was going around for a while, this guy, oh, I worked so hard on the Trump's Mar-a-Lago, and then he stiffed me, and then I was advised I should just take the pennies on the dollar.
	But if this guy was truly a contractor, then he could have done the mechanics lien.
	Yeah.
	I'm taking over Mar-a-Lago if you wanted to.
	This is bullcrap.
	This truly shows why this is the best podcast in the universe.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	And by the way, the real scam is when people put liens on your property and you don't know about it.
	And then when you try to sell it, you're stuck.
	It's a real problem.
	It's actually people scammish.
	Well, of course, people take advantage of it, but the intent is pretty good.
	Anonymous, again, $199.92 in Westport, Connecticut, and he's completing the angelic knighthood for the Anonymous brother.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	So...
	Okay.
	So there should be a thing there for Anonymous or the Angelic Knighthood.
	No, there's not, but I'll put it on here now.
	For his Anonymous brother who has no electronic fingerprints but knows all your analysis reflects his own experience.
	What does that tell us?
	He works in an interesting place.
	Yeah, he works in an interesting place.
	Sir Angelic Knight?
	I guess.
	Okay.
	Well, it wasn't on the list, so I'll put it on now.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Good.
	Good, good, good.
	Okay.
	Well, as long as he keeps...
	Make sure if he...
	By the way, I want to tell this other anonymous brother, the one giving us the money, that if he finds that we're horribly wrong about something...
	Let us know.
	And he knows that he...
	See if you can pass it along.
	Yeah, please.
	And we'll reanalyze.
	Please, please.
	Peter Hauk, or Hauk, in Highland Hill, Australia, 12345.
	He has something here.
	He's also going to be a knight, it looks like.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	He's been a listener since episode one.
	The show still makes him think and smile.
	I'm proud, really.
	I mean, I don't even recommend anyone listening to that.
	Two guys.
	What do you think?
	I don't know.
	I am proud to take part in contributing as a producer.
	I have the title of it like to be known as Peter of the Inner West.
	Okay.
	And he wants a shout out to Sir Snorkel.
	Yeah, Sir Snorkel!
	Alright, the ceremony coming up.
	Thank you.
	Michael Schumacher, Baron of Lake County in Kelseyville.
	And he actually has a note too.
	Yeah, he says, I'm a dude named Ben.
	I was a couple of episodes behind due to a major server upgrade project.
	I'm caught up with No Agenda again.
	On show 851, one of your producers and a brewing buddy in my protectorate of Lake County, Scott Serena, donated $100.
	I know this is not an astronomical amount, but this dude lost his home and all of his possessions last fall in Lake County's Valley Fire.
	If a man with a home that hasn't been rebuilt yet can donate $100, Also, sir, I believe.
	Yes, sir, Vaughn.
	Yes, it is, sir.
	I corrected a friend who misused the term bigot, and he said I was wrong.
	I pulled up the definition, and it stunned him!
	I know.
	Words matter, people.
	Yeah, people don't know what anything means.
	They just say it.
	Reed Ransom, a boob in North Belmar, New York.
	Zachary Gilbrecht, boob, parts unknown.
	Patrick Coble, our dude named Ben Sir Patrick, in Fairview, Tennessee.
	He caught boob.
	And he said he was at a meeting with a huge retailer and gave him badge number 333.
	I knew it was time again to donate.
	It's the indicators.
	Yeah, indicated.
	Every time you see 33, that's what it means.
	It means donate to no agenda.
	Bente Helt Edlich in Switzerland.
	Eight boob.
	Outstanding show.
	Keep up the good work.
	May I possibly have some building karma as my husband?
	Oh, Bente.
	Bente.
	And I need to finish the next extension.
	I can put it at the end.
	Building karma.
	Richard Furnival, boob in Rixieville, Virginia.
	And then that's our only boob people.
	Bill Cameron in Charlotte, North Carolina, 6969, along with Sir Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina.
	People trying to bring it back, it's not going to happen.
	No, it's a lost cause.
	That's because we lost our girl.
	The original, the original.
	Yeah, the original.
	She used to have no agenda.
	On her butt.
	On her butt.
	When she was running marathons.
	Right.
	We remember everything.
	A Black Knight search inside jobs there in Seattle, Washington.
	6666.
	Scott McKenzie in Wilmslow, Cheshire, Great Britain.
	Oh, this is Scott who said, this is your share of the royalties for sales of the boy with involuntary social network disorder.
	Available as a giblet on Amazon.
	That's nice.
	It's good.
	Very fun book.
	Yeah, it's very funny.
	Ian Larson in Riverhead, New Zealand, 56-43.
	It's good to have people from New Zealand come in once.
	Ian, I can't remember.
	Douglas Owen in Round Rock, Texas, 55-55.
	Corey Colton in Highley Acres something.
	I don't have the whole name.
	Florida, 55, double nickels on the dime.
	Ryan McConnell in Fall City, Washington.
	I didn't even know existed.
	51-05.
	Donation of freedom, $1.05.
	Lucas Mundi in Tacoma, Washington, $50.83.
	And then we have $50 donors, name and location, $50 from Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
	Thomas Leary in Oslo, Norway.
	Michael Worley in New South Wales, Australia.
	Some strange sounding place.
	I can't figure out how to pronounce that.
	Jason Clegg in San Diego, California.
	Joshua Defabo over here in San Francisco.
	Right next to Benjamin Smith in Oakland.
	And followed by Benjamin Wilson.
	I thought this was a crazy trio.
	Benjamin Wilson, another Benjamin in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
	And that's not a big list, but we thank each and every one of them for helping produce show 853.
	And I have two requests here.
	This is from Scott.
	Hi Adam, a very special karmic favorite.
	Ask, I've donated $5 here and there in the past.
	I'm legally blind.
	Barely getting by on social insecurity.
	My 8-year-old cat George, kudos if you know why his sister's name is Gracie.
	Yeah, old people like us know that.
	Had some pieces of ribbon in his stomach.
	It seems he's doing better after vomiting them up a bit.
	But some magical no-agenda karma could help.
	I've already budgeted $10 for a September donation.
	Thank you very much, Scott Maxwell.
	Of course, of course, we do care about cats here.
	And from Joe, great show Thursday.
	As always, John's clip about the mass cremations in Germany was in fact hysterical.
	I hit several co-workers in the mouth after finding your show deep in the comments section on Reddit years back.
	You sincerely keep me sane.
	There are four additional listeners.
	There are four additional listeners thanks to yours truly, and while two are douchebags to date, I know that you two have recurring donations.
	Year to date, I've given just about $100.
	Unfortunately, shortly after setting up my renewing $4 donation, I was removed from my position.
	Forcefully, I wonder?
	Worry not, the donation will remain.
	However, I need any jobs karma you can send my way, either live or in the back of your mind as you hit the jingle.
	Hunting for a new sales gig at the moment.
	Please send love, light, and everything else you can.
	You remain a bastion of freedom and consistency in a world of corruption and greed.
	Thank you for everything you do.
	Just wanted to highlight those two, because we don't usually talk about anything under $50, typically for reasons of anonymity.
	But a nice list today.
	Thank you all very much.
	It's highly appreciated.
	That's what you say.
	Yeah, it is.
	We really appreciate it.
	We really appreciate it.
	And we'll have another opportunity to support the show on Thursday.
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	Let's vote for jobs!
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	Alrighty, and karma everyone else needed.
	It's there for you.
	All right, just a quickie list today.
	We got Jennifer Tent saying happy birthday to her baby brother Andrew.
	He turns 25 on the 22nd.
	And Corey Cotton turns 45 on the 22nd as well.
	We say happy birthday to you from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
	I got mine.
	And I got yours.
	Good.
	Peter Hawk, step on up please, along with the anonymous brother, if you don't mind.
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	It is indeed the Noah Jenner Roundtable because of your contributions to the amount of $1,000 or more.
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	Give Eric the Shill all of your information and he'll get it right off to you.
	I wonder what level of what do you do when you have no like the agent who has no digital fingerprint.
	That's not an analyst.
	No, that's a spook.
	Yeah, big time.
	Yes, it's been a while.
	Yeah.
	Second half of the show.
	This should be interesting.
	Well, I have two stories.
	Oh, two?
	Yeah, the first one is this...
	I don't know if you saw this video from CERN. The Large Hadron Collider.
	This is about the weasel?
	This is about the human sacrifice.
	Oh, yeah, right.
	Yes.
	I did see this.
	I am stunned that you actually brought this into the show, but okay.
	Well, what I like about it is that it was filmed at CERN headquarters.
	They did this real spooky, kind of satanic ritual.
	Right.
	They didn't really sacrifice anybody, we don't think.
	Well, not that we know of.
	But CERN says, well, you know, this was filmed in our facilities, and these are people with security clearance, but it was just a prank.
	Just a joke.
	So you're thinking this is just a cover-up for the satanic cult that runs CERN. Something happened, yeah.
	Why would you do this?
	If the number one thing about criticism of the Large Hadron Collider is, it's going to suck us into a black hole.
	We're all going to die.
	We're all going to die.
	Satanic stuff.
	And then you make that spoof video?
	Nah, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	A little too much for me.
	Well, there may be somebody there with an intense sense of humor.
	Well, maybe we should bring up this one, then.
	This is a true report.
	It's real.
	It's real, everybody!
	The Chinese this week launched something called a quantum communication satellite.
	And basically, it's the ability to conduct communications without the physical transfer of electrons.
	And I'm not too clear on all the physics involved, but it involves the use of subatomic particles.
	They were said to be ready to use this for communications, and then Xinhua, the official state-run Chinese news agency, said that future applications could include some type of physical teleportation Nice!
	Those shiners, man.
	I can't wait to see that thing in action.
	They have a transporter satellite.
	You know, that's another story.
	I heard kind of parts of this one, and I just thought, I think there's a lot of missing information here.
	It's a communications satellite, all right, to spy on something.
	Always, always, always.
	Maybe it's to promote the new Star Trek movie.
	That wouldn't surprise me either.
	Is there a new one coming up or not?
	It just came and went.
	There's a new Star Wars coming up.
	Sooner than you'd expect if it was George Lucas' whole operation.
	But the Disney guys know how to milk it.
	They're going to get these things out of the way as fast as they can.
	I've got a story that's not nuts, but it's interesting.
	Apparently Sky News reported that there's a bunch of Russian soldiers that came into Ukraine to cause trouble.
	And so they had this guy, they brought a soldier on, and he talked about it, and it was a big story.
	It didn't get any traction in any place but Sky News.
	And so RT was irked about this, so they investigated and found the actor, a Russian actor.
	An actual actor, not a good actor, but an actual theatrical actor.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Bless you.
	Excuse me.
	Can we play this one?
	So play, yeah, this is just a clip from it because it was a very long report.
	And the RT got so carried away because the actor got suspicious and decided to tape.
	His job interview.
	And so the Russia Today guys were so into this.
	Well, they did take it to voice analysis to make sure it was the real guy.
	He wasn't a phony on a second level.
	But I left that out.
	This is just basically the story.
	Decided to dig deeper into the whole story.
	First, we contacted Sky ourselves to ask if they'd really used actors in their piece on Russian mercenaries.
	But we received no reply specifically commenting on the allegation.
	I even asked for clarification on social media, both from Sky and correspondent John Sparks, and received no answer.
	We then got in touch with the star of the NTV report, Alexander Agapov, to check his side of the story.
	They said, we have this information.
	You simply need to prepare yourself based on this information and make out that you were in the military in Syria, in the service of a private company.
	Well, Alexander said he'd been told the script was for a film.
	He may even land a role in Hollywood, for example.
	But once he became suspicious, he decided to record the whole conversation secretly to avoid any misunderstandings.
	He was definitely a hired actor, not a hired gun, returning from Syria.
	Let's take a listen.
	If tens or hundreds of Wagner fighters have died in Syria, where are the grieving families?
	Where are the people who have lost their loved ones?
	This I don't understand.
	Of course, all this exists.
	We just see one or two people at a time.
	The rest can't even reach their families.
	Who will let them?
	My son died in Syria.
	Wow.
	That was just him rehearsing.
	Yeah.
	So, that's, you know, okay, well, now we understand Sky News.
	Like we didn't understand them already?
	No, we always understood them.
	So, I've got a clip that apparently, I think a big news story that maybe not discussed, but we will now, as I guess the UN came out and said that they did cause cholera.
	Yeah, yeah, in Haiti.
	Yeah, here's the Haiti cholera from Deutsche Welle.
	Oh, hold on.
	Uh...
	Is that the first one, UN admits, or follow-up?
	UN admits, I guess.
	The office of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has acknowledged that the UN played a role in a cholera epidemic that killed more than 9,000 people.
	The UN said it would eschew a new set of responses to the outbreak in the next two months.
	UN peacekeepers are accused of negligently bringing cholera to Haiti during their deployment following the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
	A lawsuit in US federal court seeks billions in damages for the victims.
	Ban Ki-moon's admission does not change the UN's stance.
	It has legal immunity under a 1946 convention.
	Yeah, notice this comes right at the moment when there's a lot of pressure on the Clinton Foundation and their dealings with Haiti.
	It almost seems like someone...
	Dude, will you please, please do something, Ken?
	Do something like...
	That's what I feel.
	Maybe.
	Could be.
	It makes sense.
	Let's play the follow-up.
	Follow-up?
	Meanwhile, in South Sudan, the UN is launching an investigation into allegations that UN peacekeepers did not attempt to prevent multiple cases of abuse and sexual violence against civilians.
	Last month, troops fighting on behalf of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir went on a nearly four-hour rampage through a hotel compound frequented by foreign aid workers.
	Witnesses say civilians were gang-raped and a journalist was executed in the attack.
	Several witnesses told the Associated Press that UN peacekeepers stationed nearby did nothing to stop the violence despite pleas for assistance from those inside the compound.
	Yeah, there you go.
	There's your UN at work.
	Now, I just have the same thing about Haiti.
	This is Haiti cholera DW. This is another clip.
	Because I think there's a little fact in here that I think you'd think that Democracy Now!
	would have at least mentioned.
	Yeah.
	The United Nations has admitted for the first time that it played a role in Haiti's cholera outbreak in 2010.
	Researchers say that poorly treated sewage from a base used by UN peacekeepers was the source of the disease.
	Haiti's government says around 800,000 people have been infected.
	Almost 10,000 have died.
	I think 10,000 dead.
	Might be an interesting factoid.
	Yeah, I'll say.
	Also, 800,000 affected.
	And the source was not the cesspool.
	The source was their guys.
	Yeah, but their guys came in and I guess...
	That's the source.
	Yeah, but to say...
	That's the true source.
	That's the source.
	Yeah, that's ground zero.
	Now, I have a UN ISO here and I don't know what it is.
	Okay, are you ready?
	Three, two, one.
	The UN said it would issue a new set of responses to the outbreak in the next two months.
	Okay, now.
	Now, I know why I clipped that.
	What does she say?
	There will be some report in the next two months.
	What she said was they're going to reject a report in the next few months.
	The UN said it would eschew a new set of responses to the outbreak in the next two months.
	Yeah, you think she said eschew?
	Well, I think she said issue.
	I thought it was issue, but I listened to her.
	This was over and over.
	She said a shoe.
	The U.N. said it would issue a new set.
	No, it's you.
	It's just her talking issue.
	It's you.
	It's you.
	It's her talking.
	Well, you're probably right in the context of the thing, but she said a shoe.
	It sounded like a shoe.
	Eh, don't throw that shoe at me.
	A shoe.
	Well, let's just stick with politics for a moment.
	I do have a few shorty clips that are worth playing, I believe.
	Hillary Clinton, once again, pushing Blaine for her email usage, the way she used the server and email, etc., To politics now, sources tell NBC News that Hillary Clinton told the FBI that former Secretary of State Colin Powell recommended that she use a private email account for unclassified communication.
	Clinton says Powell made the suggestion both at a dinner party shortly after Clinton took over at the State Department in 2009 and also in an email exchange around the same time.
	Sources say that Clinton gave that account to investigators last month.
	the way that was worded at the end, when, say, sources say Clinton gave that account to FBI investigators last month, that account of that happening, or did she turn over some email account?
	You know, that was a tad confusing.
	I believe it's just the story that she told.
	Sadly, Colin Powell doesn't quite agree.
	All this as new details are emerging on Mrs.
	Clinton's controversial email server.
	The New York Times reporting that she told the FBI it was Colin Powell, her predecessor at the State Department, who advised her to use personal email.
	The Times cites an excerpt from Joe Connison's new book about Bill Clinton, saying that at a 2009 dinner party hosted by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Powell recommended Clinton use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State Department computer. which he had sent and received via a State Department Today, Powell's office responding in a statement that he had no recollection of such a conversation, but did write Clinton a memo regarding his use of a personal AOL account, saying...
	At the time, there was no equivalent system within the department.
	He used a secure state computer on his desk to manage classified information.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Now, you've got to be careful with saying that stuff to the FBI. Maybe that's why it was put in there, that she had given that account, that she had told that information to FBI investigators.
	You can't lie to the FBI under oath.
	And if Colin Powell was saying, no, I didn't tell her to do that, that could be problematic.
	Well, you know what bothers me about this report and that particular example?
	Colin Powell was not her predecessor per se.
	True.
	It was Condoleezza Rice.
	The twerp, yeah.
	No, she's not the twerp.
	She's a twerp.
	No, she's not a twerp.
	She's not that short.
	Oh, okay.
	Condoleezza Rice, you think is short?
	I think she's short, yeah.
	I don't think so.
	Okay.
	She's not who we call the twerp.
	No, but...
	Oops, long one.
	Consult the book of knowledge.
	I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
	She's 61 is all I get.
	There's no height.
	Let me see what I can find.
	5'8".
	Oh, you're right.
	She's not a twerp.
	Yeah, she's not a twerp at all.
	Madeline Albright.
	Wow!
	4'10".
	Oh, there she...
	Yeah.
	You can get a parking pass with that.
	You're technically invalid.
	Beautiful.
	So I find that annoying that they throw Colin Powell out there as her predecessor and they just throw that out as though he came right before her.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Uncle Joe made a boo-boo, which has Japan up in arms.
	And I didn't catch it.
	I watched, actually I didn't watch, I heard this speech in the car when he was shilling for Hillary.
	How'd you catch it if you didn't catch it?
	I didn't catch it when I was listening.
	But then someone said, did you catch this?
	I said, no, I didn't catch it.
	And here it is.
	In the meantime, he talks cavalierly about encouraging other nations, as Hillary pointed out, to develop nuclear weapons, as if a nuclear war is some trivial affair.
	Does he not understand we wrote Japan's constitution to say they could not be a nuclear power?
	Where was he when in school?
	Uh, rut row.
	This is one of those things that we don't really talk about too much.
	That after the Second World War, it's long been rumored that we pretty much wrote Japan's constitution.
	And here is Uncle Joe not just confirming it, but saying that apparently it's taught in school if you attend school.
	Because they did have a constitutional ruling in there.
	It says no nuclear weapons.
	Which, of course, was because we were going to provide, and we have, we're going to provide the protection and all nukes and anything else you need.
	And...
	The Prime Minister, you know, recently changed this so that they can have those weapons.
	But for Joe to say that in a public forum, it's like, hmm, you're not really supposed to do that.
	The Japanese don't like this face-losing stuff.
	That's a good one.
	I thought that was pretty funny.
	But then to say, oh, this is taught in schools.
	I don't think so.
	I'd never heard this.
	I've never heard anyone talk about it publicly.
	It certainly wasn't taught in school.
	No, definitely not taught in school.
	The campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, what is it, Benenson, I think is his name, he got grilled, drilled by Andrea Mitchell, of all people.
	He didn't get slammed?
	No, drilled, grilled.
	Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC regarding Hillary Clinton's health.
	Now, we have a lot of things that are going on, and also particularly the choice of medication that was slammed by Dr.
	Drew.
	A lot of producers wrote in and said, no, no, this is actually exactly the right prescription for her because you can reverse the coagulation issue if you stop taking the old school stuff but not with the new stuff, if that makes any sense.
	So there's clearly stuff wrong with her, medically, and this is how the campaign responds to these.
	And I think Andrea went pretty deep, actually, and at a certain point, you'll hear this long pause where she's just like...
	They've also been showing on social media and on Fox TV and elsewhere, images of her shaking her head vigorously, of slipping, they say, and being helped up by a Secret Service agent.
	And then there's an incident that they keep showing of her supposedly What is the rebuttal to those allegations, particularly the injection?
	Those things do not even rise to a level of rebuttal.
	They're ludicrous.
	They're ridiculous.
	They're trumped up allegations.
	Those things don't even rise to a level of rebuttal.
	Well, let's do it now while we have it.
	Hold on a second.
	That's a great one.
	Just throw it in any time.
	Those things...
	Let me see, where is it?
	Those things...
	Let's take out the...
	Just get to those things.
	Hold on, let me zoom in.
	Those things do not even rise to a level of rebuttal.
	Those things do not even rise to a level of rebuttal.
	Perfect.
	Just stand-alone funny.
	Rebuttal ISO. Okay.
	We're kicking ass, man.
	Today's the day for ISOs.
	Because they've got a desperate candidate who, since his convention, has had his net favorable rating decline by 15 points.
	The man is now 32 points underwater.
	Yeah, but just to be responsive to the question about the injection.
	Andrea, in fairness, these are, Andrea, in fairness, every one of these are unsubstantiated bombs being thrown by a notorious bomb thrower.
	Woo!
	That's what he's been doing, and it's why he's alienating the American public.
	And have your Secret Service personnel given you an explanation for this imagery that has gone viral?
	I don't talk to Secret Service personnel.
	That's not my bailiwick injury.
	They're beneath me.
	This is not a smart tactic.
	These guys gotta admit something.
	They can't just say this is dumb, crazy, conspiracy theory shit.
	They've gotta come out and say something.
	They gotta give us something of substance.
	Everyone knows she had trauma.
	Yeah.
	And they got the pictures of her slipping, walking up two steps.
	Unbelievable.
	And then they got the picture of her falling down in the airplane.
	Well, that's old, but yeah.
	That's old, but it's there.
	Yeah, but yeah.
	Honestly, that can happen to anybody.
	It can, but if you're starting to look for things, you see every one of these things.
	It's like when Gerald Ford fell down the stairway out of an airplane once.
	Next thing you know, they're looking for all these stumbles.
	And now you think he's like a spastic or something because...
	That's exactly what they turn...
	I remember that.
	I was young, but I remember, oh, Ford, he's the stumbling guy.
	He falls everywhere.
	Yeah, he falls down all the time.
	Every trip, yeah.
	And if you really look at his background, he's like a, you know, borderline professional football player, very, you know, graceful and sum up.
	Like Dan, what's his face?
	The VP. Dan...
	Quayle.
	Yeah.
	Oh, loser, moron.
	He runs the biggest financial firm in the, like this, what is it, Siberius?
	I was told by a friend of mine in D.C. that, who knew Quayle, said, you know, it's too bad that they made him out to be such a boob because he was extremely smart.
	Yeah, all because of his potato thing.
	The potato thing was the topper.
	But again, pretty much all...
	And by the way, if you looked into it, that was a legitimate spelling that he misspelled.
	Historically, it used to be spelling.
	Oh, really?
	Really?
	Yes.
	Oh, I didn't know this.
	Yeah, he was just old-fashioned.
	But again, you see, the media loves to pick apart Republican candidates and doesn't do it that much with Democrats.
	Yeah.
	No.
	Well, that's just the way it's always been.
	I have this next story as well, but I want to play your clip because it's from Deutsche Welle.
	This is about the Trump naked statues.
	This is a short piece of it.
	Yeah, and then I sent you an article that I thought was pretty good.
	That was done by the progressives, because the Trump naked statue has been showing up all over the place.
	And the progressives are saying, hey, we're the ones that are supposed to be condemning people calling people names.
	Body shaming, yes.
	Body shaming, micro phallus shaming, even though he doesn't have one necessarily.
	Maybe, but I don't think so.
	Wow.
	And all this kind of, this is disgusting, and my clip, I think, is as disgusting as it gets.
	I like that you call it a short piece.
	I think you really need to check your privilege.
	A familiar face has popped up in cities across the United States.
	Statues like these are a project by the anti-Trump activist group in decline.
	They've been drawing crowds and getting a warm welcome from some in San Francisco.
	I think it's brilliant.
	He needs to be brought down a peg.
	He thinks he's the greatest thing on the earth, and this is a very accurate depiction of who he really is.
	Yeah, they should definitely keep it.
	Why should they keep it?
	I'm the biggest guy with the biggest ego, but yeah, just a complete idiot.
	Yeah, the hypocrisy of it is very interesting.
	Absolutely fantastic.
	This is who he really is.
	Big fat guy.
	By the way, just as an aside.
	So there was one of these in New York, and New York people were going to take it down and get rid of it because it wasn't proof.
	So a guy grabbed him and put it in his shop.
	Now I'm thinking, as someone who does, as an archivist who collects art, This is a valuable piece.
	And I'm an expert for two different reasons, but I'll bring up my expertise based on the fact that I have watched Antiques Roadshow for 10 years.
	I'm good at pricing things too when it comes to Antiques Roadshow.
	I think this thing's worth 10 grand if it's worth a nickel.
	But, here's what I would do.
	The one in San Francisco is ripe for this.
	The thing has been abandoned.
	I think it cost 10 grand just to make one of them, really.
	No, no.
	It's pretty good.
	You can look at it.
	If you get a good look at it, they did a really good job showing this.
	This has got creases in it.
	This is cheap.
	It probably cost...
	It didn't cost...
	I would guess under $1,000.
	Anyway, whatever.
	I'd grab the thing off the street, put it in my store, call the police, and say, I have acquired this piece, abandoned piece.
	I would like to see if anybody wants it.
	Anyone wants to claim it, they can have it, otherwise I'm keeping it.
	All you have to do is put an ad in the Wall Street Journal, or like the International Financial Times on page 34 at the bottom.
	Well, you can do it with the police in most cities.
	And the police then, so if anybody comes forward to claim the peace, then you can at least know who they are.
	But I think you can abscond with these things, and I think you should if you have one nearby.
	I think that's what happened in New York.
	The guy's got a clue.
	He took it in his shop.
	You want to see it?
	You've got to go in his shop.
	Here's a U.S. report.
	Tonight, a life-sized statue of a naked Donald Trump has been removed from Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
	Viewer Casey Berner sent this video to us.
	You can see a man grabbed the statue and then put it in the bed of his truck.
	See, that's the smart guy.
	He's taking your advice.
	Like, fuck, I'm getting this in my truck.
	See a man grabbed the statue and then put it in the bed of his truck.
	As he drove off, bystanders tried to take it out of the truck.
	They failed.
	The same statue appeared in four other major cities today.
	Activist group, in decline, took credit for the installation.
	They said it was inspired by the fairy tale the Emperor has no clothes Now I do like that.
	I do like the Emperor has no clothes mean but on the face bags this this was problematic I saw post after post two days later mind you Saying mom this is wrong.
	We should not be shaming like this body shaming is wrong.
	This is not wrong And then I'm gonna read his face Alright.
	Get something better.
	That was made for...
	That is a bad, bad, bad...
	Well, I do have the ISO of it, which is a little better.
	The ISO is better.
	No, it's not.
	No, you're wrong.
	It's not better.
	It's not better.
	I have a face bag reading for you from Dave Weiner.
	Okay.
	On Thursday, I wrote a quick post that said body shaming was wrong unconditionally.
	But then, I read how Repubs are creating their 2016 Swift Boat campaign against Hillary Clinton about her health.
	So I changed my mind.
	This stuff works.
	Kerry's mistake was not responding immediately, not just with denials, but with attacks in kind.
	Trump's body is very much at issue, and the naked statues of Trump were not lies!
	So I say, go for it!
	Fight fire with fire.
	I'm sorry, but we have to get in the mud.
	Wow.
	Well, it doesn't take much.
	No.
	How about that, huh?
	It's idealism.
	Oh, we're all idealists.
	Oh, you can't do this, you can't do that.
	You have to be politically correct.
	One moment.
	Yeah, I know.
	You gotta love it.
	And you're all in.
	You gotta love it.
	Yeah, good work.
	Yeah.
	Final clip for me, final report, just because I thought it was kind of funny.
	Home from the grocery store, this Omaha man was unpacking Tuesday's dinner when an added course made for quite the detour.
	I brought some groceries in from the car and I cooked some.
	I heated some leftover pizza and I thought, oh cool.
	This guy's a real winner, isn't it?
	Heating the leftover pizza.
	I got groceries but I heated the leftover pizza.
	I heated some leftover pizza and I thought, oh cool, I got brownies to go for dessert with my pizza.
	You see, the police report helps explain it.
	It's a relative's car.
	The man's kids drove it earlier that day before dad unpacked the food.
	Well, not long after dinner, feeling pretty rough on the front porch, the man knew something was up.
	And I thought, I'm going to go out and have another cigarette.
	And I went out and I was having a cigarette and I was like, wow, I am really high.
	I love this guy.
	Dude!
	I'm really hot!
	Who knew?
	You should label these things.
	But how?
	We put two and two together and I thought, oh great, magical brownies.
	Magical brownies.
	We put two and two together.
	Hmm, okay.
	Hi.
	But how?
	We put two and two together and I thought, oh great, magical brownies, you know.
	I said, call the kids and tell them I had two brownies and ask them how high I'm going to get.
	The 19 and 20 year old children were radio silent.
	Yeah, no shit!
	I gotta ISO that.
	Hold on a second.
	This is ISO day.
	That's an obvious one.
	Obvious one.
	What is...
	Sorry.
	Anyway, so I just thought that was a funny clip.
	Let me just...
	Hey, man!
	Here he is.
	I am really high.
	No, wait.
	That's a good one.
	But I'm going to clip them together.
	No, I thought you clipped it already.
	No, no, no.
	I'm putting it together, so I want to like...
	Wow.
	I am really high.
	See, now that's a beautiful...
	That is a great clip.
	All right.
	I'm really high.
	All right.
	Well, I have my last clip, which I want to get out of the way.
	Okay.
	It's not a funny clip or anything.
	This is the...
	This is a report that Democracy Now!
	did, and there was a detail in here that I think the mainstream media just didn't want to talk about.
	And it was Aetna.
	Aetna's dropped their coverage for all this and that, but I didn't realize that this was some sort of a quid pro quo scam that Aetna propagated while actually making money.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Let's just play this.
	Aetna, the U.S.'s third largest health insurance company, says it'll cut its participation in the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces next year by at least two-thirds after the Department of Justice blocked its move to merge with another health care company.
	Aetna claimed it faces more than $300 million in losses this year as a result of the public exchanges, but in a letter sent to the Justice Department in July, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini threatened that Aetna would reduce its participation in the exchange if the Justice Department blocked its merger with health insurance company Humana.
	Bertolini wrote, quote, if the DOJ sues to enjoin the transaction, we'll immediately take action to reduce our 2017 exchange footprint, unquote.
	Aetna reported a 38% increase in its overall profits last year, despite the loss reported on the public.
	Last month, the Justice Department also sued to block a merger between healthcare giant Cigna and Anthem, which would be the largest health insurance merger in U.S. history.
	Yeah, this is pretty unbelievable.
	This is douchebaggery.
	This is douchebaggery.
	Total douchebaggery.
	How did they get away with that?
	You want to let us merger?
	Okay, we're going to screw you on something that the American citizens cannot get out of because it's a tax.
	Regardless of the next president.
	What do we do, John?
	This is a real problem.
	This is not just a campaign.
	You've got to go to single-payer.
	It's the only solution.
	Right.
	Single-payer, then you could do...
	I don't think...
	...overseeing everything.
	They have to hire a bunch of people to look out for scams because there'll be millions of them.
	Lots of scams.
	But you get the oversight of the pricing of drugs, the pricing of services, the pricing of everything, and it all comes out of one pot, and it's all taxpayer-supported, and you can't pull this crap.
	What they're doing is just gouging the public as much as they can because they know...
	These guys know we're going to single-payer eventually.
	Right.
	That's the only thing that works.
	You have to go to it.
	I know there's a bunch of people, oh, we can't do that!
	The government's going to tell us what we can do.
	No, no.
	It's all that's left.
	Wow.
	You can get that if you want.
	Yeah, that's...
	Well, I'm screwed.
	What happened?
	I have Blue Cross.
	Oh, I thought...
	Yeah, you are screwed.
	It's going up 60%.
	For just me, if I want something like where they can actually do something for me if I have an accident?
	Because that's kind of...
	I'd never go to the doctor otherwise.
	It's going to be over $1,000 a month!
	Me!
	Just me!
	Pay the tax.
	You know, but I don't want to be caught holding the bag, so to speak.
	I think there's ways.
	Find people that know how to do this right, which is avoid the whole system and pay directly and pay the government's tax because you don't have insurance, and then find a way that you can get insurance at the spur of the moment.
	On the back end, yeah.
	Okay.
	There's tricks to it.
	Well, if someone has tricks, I'd love to report on them.
	I'd like to act on them.
	That would be very handy.
	There we go.
	That's a lot of money.
	To the No Agenda listeners and producers.
	That's right.
	Hell yeah.
	All right, everybody.
	That concludes our broadcast moment for this day.
	The 21st day of our Lord.
	2016.
	And, of course, there will be more coming up this week.
	The 24th of August still marked in the book as a possible problematic date.
	Oh, yeah.
	All hell's going to break loose according to whatever.
	According to the circles I travel in.
	Yeah, well, so in other words, nothing's happening.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	Maybe.
	Well, you don't know.
	I wouldn't be in New York on the 24th.
	Well, that's just safe than sorry.
	And coming to you from the Crackpot Condo here in the skyscraper downtown Austin Tejas, we are the capital of the drone star and state.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where today's Sunday, I believe.
	Why is the traffic to San Francisco backed up all the way to here?
	Makes no sense, but I don't know.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	We'll return on Thursday.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA, right here on No Agenda.
	Okay, you know what?
	What?
	Listen, you're in my house drinking the booze.
	Shame on you.
	Wow, I am really high.
	Hi everybody.
	You can either stay and be quiet or we'll have to take you out.
	And if she should tell you, come closer.
	I have two words for you, predator drones.
	And if she tempts you with a charm.
	No, no, no, no.
	Hey.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, come on.
	No, no.
	Don't hurt me now for her love belongs to you.
	Shame on you.
	And if she should tell you.
	You should be doing this.
	Hey.
	And if she tempts you with a charm.
	Yeah, listen.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, come on, guys.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, come on.
	No, no.
	Don't hurt me now for her love belongs to you.
	You're in my house.
	Can we escort this person out?
	All right.
	Can we have this person removed, please?
	Just remember she said that to me.
	Come on, guys.
	No, no no no.
	No, no, oh no no no no.
	No, no, no.
	Don't leave me now for her love belongs to me.
	That's how we roll.
	And that's the storage.
	Kiss my fat ass!
	I got ants.
	I got ants I don't know if he had ants We had ant invasion.
	I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to a powder like a fine grind of black pepper, we were having dinner and I got an ant somehow in the meal and I ate it.
	These things are peppery.
	I got ants.
	These ants, they don't need a lot.
	And then you see, you find all the ones that are roaming around you.
	I know I backed them off by doing the burning trick.
	You just torch them.
	And you leave them there.
	There are occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch, and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back.
	I got ants.
	.
	Ants.
	Ants?
	Ants.
	A local toilet.
	She then picked a small child guilty from a local toilet.
	She then picked a mess that picked a small local toilet.
	It's a good thing for me.
	Small toilet.
	She's from me.
	This mess let a local toilet.
	A local toilet.
	A cold toilet.
	Small.
	This triggered her.
	She then picked a small child.
	A small child picked a giant.
	A small local toilet.
	A small child guilty.
	She then picked a small local toilet.
	A small child.
	This mess let a company built a small local toilet.
	A small child.
	A local toilet.
	She then picked a small toilet.
	She then picked a small toilet.
	This mess let a company built a small local toilet.
	This mess let a good suggestion built a small local toilet.
	A set is a gift suggestively that the mess.
	And I said it's a better job for a little.
	It's a better job for a little.
	It's a better job for a little.
	A better job for a little.
	The thing with powerful pictures is that they sell.
	The media loves them.
	They want to get them out there as soon as possible.
	You know, it's clicks, it's views, it's ad revenue.
	Hey man, fist bump.
	Adios, mofo.
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