Episode 299 · Thursday, 28 April 2011

It's Tiara Time!

A massive Pentagon leadership shuffle and a Taliban prison break in Kandahar are obscured by a perfect storm of royal nuptials and birth certificate conspiracies.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 299

About this episode

The White House announced a massive leadership shuffle as General David Petraeus moves to lead the CIA and Leon Panetta takes over the Pentagon. This consolidation of the military-industrial complex coincides with President Barack Obama releasing his long-form birth certificate to dismiss what he termed carnival barkers. These structural shifts are occurring under the cover of a media-saturated Royal Wedding and Ben Bernanke’s first-ever televised Federal Reserve press conference.

Donald Trump appeared on CNN with John King to claim credit for the birth certificate release while simultaneously demanding aggressive policies on Libyan oil and Chinese trade. In the Middle East, nearly 500 Taliban insurgents escaped Sarpoza prison in Kandahar through a 360-meter tunnel, raising questions about internal collusion despite millions in Canadian security funding. Meanwhile, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney warned that China’s J-20 stealth fighter and rapid airport infrastructure development are outpacing American capabilities. Tensions also flared between Aisha Gaddafi and Hillary Clinton as the Gaddafi family reportedly sought asylum in Venezuela following NATO strikes.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak analyze the strange intersection of celebrity activism and global policy, from Ryan Gosling’s campaign against Congo conflict minerals to the personified depression bugs in Abilify commercials. The hosts also examine the rise of 3D body-scanning kiosks in shopping malls and the bizarre WikiLeaks claim that Casio F-91W watches are used by interrogators to identify potential terrorists. The 299th episode concludes with a look at FEMA earthquake drills and the USDA decision to allow Monsanto to self-police its environmental impact studies.


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CHAPTER 01 / 27 Discussion

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak Open Episode 299

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the 299th episode of the No Agenda podcast. Curry describes suffering from a severe viral infection for seven days, comparing the lethargy and "downer" feeling to the after-effects of dimethyltryptamine (DMT). The hosts discuss technical issues with the Skype connection and Curry's physical symptoms, including night sweats and low energy levels.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· hilltop watchtower· southern california· silicon valley· sickness· dmt

00:00 I've seen the picture of the hole on TV. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, April 28th, 2011. Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 2-9er-9er. This is no agenda. Preparing to duck and cover for the EQ machine drills here at the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, and Gimel Nation West in the People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, plain and simple, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. In the morning to you, John. Well, in the morning to you. I am still sick. I'm sorry? I'm still sick. Oh yeah, what happened?

00:43 Don't know this is now day seven of of this viral infection and sees Sunday was really bad of course, but throughout the week man It's just like you know it's like I get like two hours of energy And then I and then you literally and Mickey too. She's today She's really bad today, and they just you just fall down you got like no energy And then you have to sleep in you sleep. You know do you know um I can I can best explain it I It's kind of like being hung over all day long. Well, actually, I have a more accurate description. Have you ever done DMT, John? DMT, dimethyltryptamine? Yeah.

01:23 No, I don't do drugs. No, I've done it twice in my life and if anyone's ever done that for like three days after you have this kind of like which is a good reason not to do it by the way. If you have like this complete downer stoned feeling and that's what it is like 24-7. It's just it's unbelievable in the morning we get up and we you know like and there's I have night sweats and it's just it's bad it's really really bad. I think I'm running at like 65% energy level right now. It sucks. Well, at least it's mimicked by the Skype connection which gives you about a 65% throughput. Really? I'm hearing you great. Well good, that's fine then. I'm not going to change anything. Well, I don't want you to have problems hearing me. No, I can hear you but it's like... Do you ever gargle?

CHAPTER 02 / 27 Discussion

Media Distractions, CIA Leadership Changes, and Donald Trump

The hosts theorize that major media events are orchestrated to distract the public from significant structural changes in the U.S. government. They point to the simultaneous timing of the Royal Wedding, Donald Trump's focus on Barack Obama's birth certificate, and Ben Bernanke's first press conference as "perfect storm" distractions. These events allegedly mask the consolidation of the CIA and the Department of Defense, specifically the movement of military leadership into intelligence roles regarding Afghanistan poppy distribution.

cia· department of defense· afghanistan· donald trump· barack obama· birth certificate· ben bernanke

02:11 Why yes just moments ago I was gargling. Sounds like you still are. Yes, okay, I'm sorry. It's okay. I can understand you it's just that it's not like crystal clear like I would hope. You sure you don't have something running there like your bit torrent pouring up or something? No, nothing's going on. Okay, alright. So, uh... You know, I want to do it before we got started here. I wanted to kind of apologize to the audience for some of the some of the lunatic material that we produce. in advance. I want to apologize in advance. And I want to specifically discuss the fact that, for example, you know, we have this kind of, I don't know, maybe we're just joking around, this underlying theory about how Afghanistan is a kind of a stronghold for the poppy distributions that may involve perhaps the CIA and the military. But, you know, to be honest about it, for anything like that to actually happen

03:11 happen you'd have to have like you know the CIA and perhaps the Defense Department. They had to be working together or something. They had to be working together so you'd have to have things like the head of the CIA although you know Bill Gates, he was a CIA guy which you know kind of fits into the picture but but they can't keep that's just a coincidence I mean you'd have to move a CIA guy can't you can't expense that apartment and then you'd have to like move a military guy that really knew what was going on in Afghanistan and move him to the CIA which seems impossible the only way you could do that yeah it's actually you had

03:49 these huge distractions you'd have to have the public that the lame-brained public would have to be all shunted off to some stupid you know event that no American should really care about. Hold on a second let me just reiterate here for a second so what you're saying is the stuff that we've been talking about on this show which would of course actually if for years now this is our fourth year which would involve for years Which would involve the CIA and the military industrial complex actually in collusion together, and you'd have to put like some ex-military guy into the CIA. And it's not like we've ever been talking about this, and what you're saying is that should someone want to have this take place, you'd have to distract the public.

04:34 Yeah, and you'd have to distract the politicos with something. You'd have to like, for example, if you wanted to talk about politics, you'd have to have like one, like one of the stupidest issues. What could that be? I mean, what could we come up with to do that? Well, you know, if it was me, I would find some guy who's like a very famous reality show host. and I would have him like run for president, just as a joke, and then have him bring up this old bromide about the birth certificate of Obama and just let all the talk shows from O'Reilly to Rachel Maddow, on both sides of the fence, all they talk about is this issue. That's a distraction. And the other distraction would be to find some stupid event that Americans should care less about.

05:20 But that gets rammed down our throat so we actually do care about it, you mean? Yeah, so you'd have to have all the entertainment shows, Today Show, the Good Morning America, all these shows that are on TV. In fact, I'd even say that even if you had like Ben Bernanke doing his first press conference, if you were like CNN, you wouldn't be doing that, you'd be paying attention to this other distraction. That's how good it would be. Exactly and the likelihood of all these this is like a perfect storm It's never gonna happen. No never gonna happen. Is this my cue? I don't know I've just ran out of steam right there. You're watching Central Coast ABC Kate Middleton's wedding nightmare about to come true

CHAPTER 03 / 27 Discussion

Royal Wedding Media Coverage and Ellen DeGeneres

Television networks including CNN and NBC provide exhaustive coverage of the upcoming Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Media reports highlight "wedding nightmares," security secrets, and commemorative merchandise like bunting and clocks. A segment features Ellen DeGeneres claiming to be a 15th cousin of Kate Middleton, while Anderson Cooper reports live from a locked-down London.

royal wedding· kate middleton· prince william· cnn· anderson cooper· ellen degeneres· london

06:18 unforgettable moments. I mean that's just cheap. The Royal Wedding on CNN Friday starts live at 4 a.m. Eastern As for me, I wasn't going cheap. For new pics, Kate today bracing for a wedding disaster. The bad news she just got about her dream day and the elaborate security secret. I've got secret details. Robin, I wanted something timeless. Alright, commemorative clock to commemorate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine. CNN tomorrow night at 10. Oh, here's an idea. Bunting. Because who really doesn't love some royal bunting? Anderson Cooper live in London for the royal wedding. The stories, the celebration. I believe it's Worshire.

07:03 AC 360, CNN tomorrow night 10 East Square in London with some breaking royal news. Terry, you discovered a new member of the royal family? Yeah, Mario, before I landed in London, I flew to Vegas to catch up with the long, long, long lost relative of Kate Middleton, Ellen DeGeneres. London on lockdown, 1,900 VIP guests invading England for Willa Kate's royal wedding. But one special family member will be missing. Everyone knows that Kate is my cousin. Yes, cousin Kate. Ellen telling Terry she discovered through a genealogical society that they're actually related. We're 15 cousins. 15th cousins? Yeah. It's not like we're distant cousins like 20 or something. Hear them dancing inside. Off with their heads!

07:49 The royal wedding beheaded what the Queen wants she gets. Too good for me. Thank you so much. I love all the presents and I love your coverage. You guys are doing a great job. Yes. Yes. I'm so glad I'm a guy. All right, that's it for us here in Hollywood. And that's it from here in London, Lara. We'll see you right back here on Insider tomorrow. Good night everybody from England.

08:33 Say cheese And you know John good work by the way nice little that took an hour so you have like if you ever heard a teaser in your life a network of any sort teaser that goes At 4am! Yes, coming up at 4am you want to wake up with NBC! Live at 4am! Live at 4am from London everybody! It's gonna be great! Get up and be distracted! It's funny because the president of course contributed to this in a very beautiful way and of course we know now that the perfect way to get someone to do something is to tell them not to do it. And I think as parents we already know this, John.

CHAPTER 04 / 27 Discussion

Barack Obama Birth Certificate Release and Numerology

President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate, warning against "sideshows and carnival barkers." Analysis of the document suggests historical discrepancies, noting that the country is listed as Kenya despite being known as British East Africa in 1961, and the hospital name allegedly did not exist in its listed form until 1978. A numerological observation notes that the birth date and signature date (8/8/1961) sum to 33.

barack obama· birth certificate· trump· kenya· kapi'olani hospital· numerology· british east africa

09:27 So, El Presidente came out and I'm happy I have this clip because I don't know if any of the five minutes that the president addressed his birth certificate were actually aired anywhere because of, you know, of course the royal wedding. It's important. But the words that he was using just blew me away. And I'm confident that the American people and America's political leaders can come together in a bipartisan way and solve these problems we always have but we're not going to be able to do it if we are distracted. Like, really? Isn't that the whole point? Is to distract the slaves? And he doesn't do it once, he does it twice. And by the way, beautiful, beautiful wording towards Herr Trump here. We're not going to be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other. We're not going to be able to do it if

10:28 We just make stuff up? What are you talking about? That's the whole point. That's what the press does, make stuff up. When you hear the president come out and say this, it's like, you know that he's like, please go make stuff up. This is what you're supposed to be doing. He's giving the press their marching orders. And pretend that facts are not facts? Hold on a second. Facts are facts. We're not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers. That's what we're supposed to be. We're supposed to be sidetracked by sideshows and carnival barkers and be distracted. It's just beautiful the way he said that. And of course, for him to do this, he's fanning the flames.

11:19 I mean, it's, I mean, duh, what, so what happens immediately when, when this takes place is everyone's like, oh, it has layers in it and it's fake. And you know, it's like, ah, it's purposeful, completely purposeful, unless you read it some other way. I don't know. That's weird. I will tell you this though. Three things I noticed about the birth certificate. Um, I don't know, layers, no layers, whatever. And it's kind of irrelevant, but here's the only things that I've... because of course I had to research this. This is my job. This is what I do, even from my deathbed. So his father, Barack Obama, I listed his father on the birth certificate. Country of origin, Kenya. Unfortunately in 1961, Kenya was still known as British East Africa.

12:13 It didn't become Kenya until 1963. Are you sure? Yes, I looked it up. It was the British East Africa Protectorate. Furthermore, in 1961, the hospital, which is named on the birth certificate as the Kapi'olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, 1961 it was actually called the kuakualani Children's Hospital. It didn't change its name until it merged with the Kapi'olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in 1978 so minor discrepancy there I don't know what the other to say other than whoops. Thank you very much for starting it all over again. But the best one and here's the here's the here's the true clue is

13:05 So he was born on, what was it, August 4th, 1961. So the birth certificate was signed August 8th, 1961. Of course if you add the numbers together, 881961, what's the total John? What? 33. Hot buckets! So you know they're just messing with me. They're just like, hey Curry, grab this one. Just messing with you right there. Well there you have it. You just got the whole thing in a nutshell. I can't help myself. It's just that good. It's just that good. Yeah, you know I looked at that when I never I didn't get to go over there because I didn't get it I didn't find a copy because I was working on this on this just three minute clip show that I just played the

CHAPTER 05 / 27 Discussion

Birth Certificates as Financial Collateral Theory

A theory is presented suggesting that original birth certificates are difficult to obtain because they serve as financial collateral for the United States' national debt. The claim posits that every citizen is valued at approximately $9.1 million at birth, and these records represent the "ownership paper" used to borrow money from foreign entities like China. This is cited as the reason the state of Hawaii allegedly resists releasing original receipts of birth.

birth certificate· hawaii· collateral· national debt· human resources· china· treasury

13:52 But I had a... none of this surprises me because I just had the sense that there was something sketchy about this thing all of a sudden appearing when it could have been. You know, the question, if you listen to the pundits, they keep bringing this up and nobody really has an answer for it. It's, well, why didn't he bring it out earlier then? Well, why didn't he bring it out earlier then? Well, why didn't he bring it out? tell you because I looked into that. So there was a pre-briefing and the pre-briefing, there are notes of this and you can read through it. So they gave the White House Press Corps and none of this ever shows up which is a shame because they had the information. Of course I don't have it because I'm not invited to sit there nor would I be allowed in. But they got, so what happened is they had the assistant to the Attorney General flew to Honolulu

14:39 Or to Hawaii after the president wrote a personal memo which was a request which was drafted by his personal attorney because apparently in the state of Hawaii and other states they they will not Give a copy of the original birth certificate that's been lost since like, you know 1980 or something and And you have to request it and you can't just like get that for some reason. And that to me is much more interesting is why is that? Why can't you just get a copy of the actual receipt of your birth? And the only thing I can come up with is because that is the actual collateral that the United States uses for all of these crazy loans were taken out. Remember, we're all worth $9.1 million at birth.

15:26 And that's like the ownership paper that the United States has. So if China ever says, hey, can we just see your collateral? That's when they have to show these records. That's why they don't hand them out. This is the actual collateral that the United States uses to borrow money against the human resources. Because we're slaves. You can put that part of it. You do this great deconstruction of the Bursa Treaty. And then I come up with that. You come up with the second half of the show story. I'm ill, John. What can I tell you? But I thought that was kind of interesting to have those three little nuggets. Those are gems. Take it for what you want. In the weeks ahead, believe me, those gems will be going around like wildfire. Yeah, they'll surface.

CHAPTER 06 / 27 Discussion

Donald Trump and John King CNN Interview

Donald Trump appeared on CNN with John King to discuss the release of President Obama's birth certificate. Trump claimed credit for the release while refusing to immediately accept the document's validity until his own investigators reviewed it. The hosts characterize Trump's performance as high-level "political entertainment" and suggest he is playing a scripted role to vocalize aggressive policies regarding Libyan oil and Chinese trade.

donald trump· john king· cnn· birther movement· libya· china· political entertainment

16:09 obviously. Because that's what Trump, Trump's already hinted at it. Trump, here's the deal with Trump, if you did this whole thing is scripted let's face it. So Trump is on with, in fact do I have the John King Trump thing on there? I'm not sure I sent that to you. Yes, Trump's last stand with John King, that's the one you want? yeah this is a John King on CNN gets together with Trump and he starts grilling him about that and Trump pays no attention to what King has to say it's actually kind of funny but but at one point he tries to get Trump to grab the copy of the birth certificate and Trump refuses to do it because he says he's gonna have his people look at it so you can just see act two is coming out of course of course but you might as well play this and we get this out of the way and we see where Trump you know how Trump treats this guy

16:55 of the birther movement for him to release his long-form birth certificate. The president did that today in part the instigation of Donald Trump who keeps saying he's tired of talking about the issue even as he keeps talking about the issue. Tonight John King called him on it. But you raised this, saying the president should release this. No, no, you raised this. No, I did not raise this. You raised this. I didn't call a press conference in Palm Beach earlier this week. I haven't been on all these television shows. You raised this. And every time I sit down with the press, all they want to talk about is the birth certificate. And I got him to do something that nobody else could get him to do. And I've been given great credit for it. And you raised this issue of his credibility, that if he has it, he should release it. Absolutely. There are some people who question yours in the middle of all this. The other night, you went on Anderson Cooper, and you said your investigators told you it was missing.

17:37 Or it wasn't there? Excuse me. What was that based on? Excuse me. Very simple. I had people looking into it. Now I don't have to have the people. I can call them back. I hope. I mean, I haven't seen this and I'm sure that a lot of experts will analyze it. But if they told you, would you ever pay them? If serious people told you it was missing or not there. Here it is. Would I pay them? I don't know. Maybe I'll let you negotiate for me. Some people think you just made that up though. I can say this. Let me just tell you. I don't make up anything. Let me tell you something. I have done a great service to the American people. Let's bring in Andy Card, former chief of staff under President George W. Bush and Democratic strategist. He is such a patriot and we should almost play the Gitmo National Anthem for him. He's such a fantastic patriot. But I got to tell you, I got to tell you, he's in there and he's in there for a reason and he's in there to

18:29 It's like, you know, you need to have the two wrestlers and you've got to have the guy in white and that is what Trump is playing. I mean, and he's doing a really good job at it. And I don't, you know, I wonder if he even himself realizes how manipulated he is because, you know, the guy isn't, isn't, is egomaniacal and that's what we love about him. And, you know, he's, he's, It's almost like the bigger the lie is, the less people will look at it. So when he comes out and he says, hey, you know, Libya, great, let's go in there, let's grab their oil. China, let's kick their ass. So he's actually kind of saying what is happening, only, you know, it'll be much more deniable when people say, oh, you know, Trump is crazy and wants to kick the Chinese ass. But that, of course, is exactly what the policy is. So I think that he's in it, but I don't even know if he understands himself that he's in it.

19:23 What do you think? Well, that's a possibility. You might be right. I mean, I see the whole thing as a, I mean, first we have the Kate Middleton deal on one hand, entertaining the masses. By the way, by the way, by the way, I'd tap that. And then on the other hand, yeah, good luck. And on the other hand, you have this form of entertainment. And by the way, when people go, oh, I think Trump, you know, Trump, this Trump that I, you know, this whole birth certificate thing I just think it's one of the highest forms of political entertainment I have ever seen in my life. It is hilarious. I mean I'm sick and Mickey's like you know have you had enough time to prep? I said I just have to do a Google search on Trump and I'll have half the show don't worry about it. It's just crazy. He's even on C-SPAN now. They put him on C-SPAN.

CHAPTER 07 / 27 Discussion

CIA and Pentagon Leadership Shuffle

The White House announced a major personnel shift involving General David Petraeus moving to lead the CIA and Leon Panetta taking over the Pentagon. Former President George W. Bush commented on the appointments during an interview with George Stephanopoulos. The hosts argue that the White House used the birth certificate announcement to distract the press from briefing on these significant military and intelligence leadership changes.

david petraeus· leon panetta· cia· pentagon· george w. bush· robert gates· george stephanopoulos

20:16 Yeah. It's great. C-SPAN by the way was relatively boring in the past week because of course everyone's on vacation. So they run a lot of repeats. Yeah, I know, they spent a terrible week for news. Yeah, they run repeats. Coming back to your original point though, I did find it rather interesting, this little ditty. This was two days before and of course today is the announcement of the personnel changes as they're called. And the press, by the way, was not getting any answers at this pre-briefing for the birth certificate. And I read through the whole thing, and I do this as a service to the show So you know the White House publishes the literal notes as far as we know of course And it's not broadcast anywhere and everyone's saying hey, what about the personnel changes? They're like no We're not gonna tell you you know you'll get it. You'll hear tomorrow and one of the guys actually said that's BS man Everyone knows it everyone knows that this is happening. How come you're not briefing us so the White House purposely held that back and

21:12 to distract everyone with the birth certificate announcement by the president. Now George W. Bush, you know, George W. Obama's brother in arms, still the ruling family I believe, was on the compromised ABC with his old buddy George Stepanopoulos. and uh... and here's what happened to the mispresident a couple of things breaking this morning we just learned that uh... the man you sent to iraq to command the search general david betrayers is actually coming back to washington to run the the c i a and leon panetta at the pentagon what's your action that uh... you know uh... both of our good man i have the great respect for david betrayers i got to know him well i also got to know leon panetta not as well as i did david and both of them are good good public servants and uh...

22:03 uh... you know it was a modest gossip or truth that's true for reporting at this point is done has been as it's been it's been announced that this week which is because you're reporting it as you might recalled and Just cause you're reporting it, doesn't mean it's true as you remember. Remember when I told all that bullshit? George. And he's like, it's done, it's truth, it's fact, we're reporting it. That means us proud. Unbelievable.

22:41 So, that's a strange thing because Gates was a Republican and Panetta is a rather famous Republican. uh... that he began i think is in california he was the uh... he worked for it he was a he was a big wheel in california is a big shot and uh... i think reagan brought him over and uh... betray us a you know is a military guy me i it just seems it seems that it just seems rigged because as the you think obama put me be putting his democrat friends into these positions and now

CHAPTER 08 / 27 Discussion

CIA Budget Transparency and Drone Warfare

The merger of the CIA and the military-industrial complex is criticized for its lack of transparency, particularly regarding the "black budget" used for drone strikes in Pakistan. The hosts speculate that the agency utilizes "pin money" from unrecorded sources, such as international drug trafficking, to finance operations and influence journalists without congressional oversight or public bookkeeping.

cia· pakistan· drones· military industrial complex· black budget· drug money· transparency

23:21 The one thing of course that is obviously just disconcerting, and actually to use one of your words, abhorrent, is that we now actually have the CIA and the military industrial complex completely combined. The CIA of course are the ones who are sending drones over Pakistan. And these drones, that's a good little chunk of change. I mean this stuff is good. It works. It's making everybody money. And now it's just all one big cabal. So now we don't even have to be transparent. So yeah, everyone's focusing on the defense budget. But do you know what the CIA's budget is? Do you have that anywhere, John? No.

24:02 So nobody has it and the fact is they even have all this extra you know if we go by our theory which is they're also you know getting pin money as it were from pin money pin money it's a word that when you have just a little extra cash to spend oh it's like stuff in the cookie jar that way you can just buy off everyone you can from journalists to everyone in between and you don't have to even account for it you don't even care what do you mean just go up and say shut up shut up bitch or I'll shoot you that's what the CIA does You don't even need, you don't even, let's face it, you don't, if you, let's say that the theory that all this drug money is somehow being siphoned off as just pin money. Yeah, just to finance stuff. So you could just have like pockets full of cash. You don't have to do any bookkeeping, you just throw it around like crazy.

24:51 Where's our donations from these guys? I don't get it. Really? For all we know, a lot of it is from the CIA. Keep it going. Keep them all distracted over there thinking they're right. It's just amazing. And you're right. So we have these huge distractions and no one is actually reporting on the news. On the actual news. I do have a clip from Ben Bernanke which just cracked me up. Which should we thank some people here because we've got the 300 Coming up on show 300 want to make a point of this and we have our promotion for the 300 clubs and We have a number of people that joined up to get credit as executive producer for both this show 299 and show 300 double shot of the executive producership is what it is

CHAPTER 09 / 27 Discussion

No Agenda Producer Donations and 300 Club

The hosts acknowledge numerous donors and "executive producers" contributing to the 300 Club ahead of the show's 300th episode. Listeners from various locations, including Illinois, Indiana, and Alberta, receive "karma" and "de-douching" rituals. Notable mentions include a student using stripping to pay for tuition and a producer reporting a TSA agent's skepticism regarding body scanners. The hosts contrast their "value for value" model with a new U.S. Treasury website soliciting public donations to pay down the national debt.

value for value· 300 club· executive producers· karma· de-douching· student loans· stripping

25:40 yeah and of course show three hundred itself is going to have like you know a slew of producers because we all everyone who's a member of the 300 club is a producer show and they've been donating for weeks now for this which is on sunday so we want to remind anybody this is your chance to get in on this and let's just name the people that are the executive producers for today's show and 300 club members uh Matthew Stroh who's got nothing to say he says no nothing to see here he says nothing to see here nothing to see here right and things victor greg in atlanta georgia uh... he's uh... also uh... Wants to be an executive producer. Yeah, he is he's on for show 299 and 300 Longtime listener true night future night. I'm sorry who'd love to see a third weekly show Maybe you start a club for contributors to do that blue jewels Arlington no side gloss that over blue jewels Arlington, Virginia in the morning Hope you're feeling better. He's not I recently sent an episode 300 donation by mail and wanted to introduce myself so you have some context and

26:42 Oh, he wants to remain anonymous. Thank you very much, Eric. AJ Tissier. Is it Tissier? Yeah. Yeah. Normal, normal Illinois. He's donated before. I love that town, by the way. Angelique Overbeek and and Adam. Hold on a second. Scherpenzeel. Sherp and Zale no serpent Zale you can do it sharp as ale Sherp and Zale This is a Anjali Angelique is she's actually a producer. She's been sending lots of good stories She's gone through a tough time herself and here. She is helping us out on the show which is highly appreciated

27:23 Ryan, Emil, Roanoke, Indiana. A couple notes. A TSA store is leaving out of Seattle last week and opted out of the naked body scanner while waiting for my pat down. The TSA agent at the scanner leaned over and said, smart man. Oh really? You made the right decision. Really? Trust me, you don't want to go through this thing. Oh my god. No, there you go. Before I could catch up to what he was saying I was whisked away from my groping I figure he's either a no agenda listener, or they know something and then he wanted to also say Adam for the value for value model that we've pioneered with no agenda. Hey, well my sliced liver You know that the yeah, the US Treasury is now using our model as well. Yeah, I heard that they're asking for donations They have an actual donation page and you're welcome to donate to help reduce a jar. Yeah, it's like

28:16 You gotta see this. There's a link in the show notes. NoAgendaShow.com. It's unbelievable. They literally are saying, hey, if you'd like to help, you know, you got a little extra cash laying around, just, you know, send it our way. You know, literally. We just need cash. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash. Right there on Treasury.gov. Amazing. Guys have no shame. So Ryan has a website WP candy.com which is WP sounds like WordPress candy might be an interesting site. Kristen Winter, McTank, Venice, California. Damon Daling, D-A-L-I-N-G in Waterville, Washington. I don't even know where that is. Dear John and Adam, please give me a complete de-douching and un-boner me.

29:02 Alright, stand back, cause that could hurt. You've been de-douched. And de-bonered. Here's the un-bonering. Oh boy, that's gonna be a new feature. You better be able to replicate that one. Cheers in the morning. Uh, frustrated with Adam. He doesn't like you interrupting the sound clips. Oh, sorry. Daniel Foster in May, Nurdville, Tennessee. He'd like to keep the theme of magic numbers and become a triple member of the 300 Club. Thanks you guys. I can... no longer watch television. You're welcome. At any time. Especially the news about without griping about it. Well, we yell at our TVs too. Oh yeah. Drives the kids crazy. Yeah, it does. And the wives. Gerald Gianet, or it could be Gianette, but he's in London, Ontario. Gregory Laudrup in North Hills, California. James

29:57 and let me just move this down a little bit. James Herken of Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia and he wants his name read as James Herken this time as last time I was listening as Jay Herken or IJ Herken. John Snyder, Sir John Snyder, I'm sorry in Chicago. Curry should be making his own biscuits. Why what is the point of this number because the biscuit tin exploded in my hand that gave me like? This is actually on Snopes as as like a myth OPS Yeah, this is listed on Snopes as a myth that this you know that people have the it's the the bullet biscuit story where you know the can of Here's what happens. Here's how the story goes so I know I'm my best friend and

30:44 So she had one of these biscuits explode and she thought she got shot in the back of the head and then her brain, she was holding her brains in but it was actually the dough that was stuck against the back of her head. But I gotta tell you this thing, it exploded with a lot of force. I mean I have two actual blood blisters on my finger from the edge of the can. But you're right, I shouldn't make my own biscuits, you're right. I'm sorry. How hard can it be? I was ill! I mean come on, it was Easter and I was ill. You didn't sure you didn't hallucinate the explosion Kenneth keel holes in Hamilton, Ohio you guys are simply the best show on the internets Please keep up the great work my commute would otherwise be lousy my commute. I'm sounding like they would The elite my commute would be otherwise allows you to commute commute commute my commute as we get from our material and

31:39 To be my comm you would otherwise be lousy. Hopefully you can stop in or around Queen City on your tour Love to meet you guys. Yeah Another anonymous, I think anonymous from Rydia 300 odd Riyadh why do I keep saying Rydia because you're an old fart? No This show is literally hours and hours of great content weekly Riyadh I'll never got you know what I'm never gonna if I ever see it written. I'm always gonna say Rydia listen I as I was I'm trying to get rid of ya I was on my commute to Rydia to supply some material to realize the commute the commute commute into a comedy to Rydia before this material for the allies I

32:22 You know people who are new to the show are going what? What? We have a theory for newbies that people encode certain kinds of mispronunciations to let you know that they're in some wink wink nudge nudge operation. Yeah Hillary Clinton does it and the press corps that travels with her is doing it. Well Jill yes let me talk about the material. So Marcel Heijmans and she'd like to say congratulations, or he would like to say congratulations for show 300. Right, thank you. Mark Randall, his name is Ren Aden. I'm looking forward to your RV trip. Please

33:16 Release some video podcasts of the trip and try to make it out to pull Paul's bow Washington which by the way And he's in Bellevue it says but it must be in Paul's bow Paul's bow is one of the great cities in Washington State as a little tourist place. It's a Norwegian It's like a duplicate not a phony one, but because it was settled by Norwegians and the town is a little Norwegian town That's right out of Norway. Well, that's just great John. Thanks. I they have a huge bakery and they did blah blah blah anyway you got a cinnamon roll for 250 no okay Matthew Greensmith sir Matthew Greensmith Melbourne Victoria 300 club I have an email from him watch and we have an email read read read read Nicholas Nicholas Wallace in Toledo Ohio

34:08 Instead of karma like a dose of inspiration. Oh, you need to kick in the ass to get moving on the issues going in my life I think karma would not hurt you need some karma give us some karma instead. That's good. You've got karma Sir Rob Sealock in Cochrane, Alberta where all the money is Also want to thank Ourselves for making the coin deal right mighty good of you. It's from the oil capital of Canada Calgary, Alberta Calgary where they have the stampede stampede. I've been there I've never been to the stand. I have a belt buckle from the stampede. How is it is it worth going to it's awesome It's a it's a really long ride

34:51 Scott Schoenberger, Malibu, California. Sebastian Nielsen in Stockholm. Long time listener, first time... I don't know. From around the episode Corks Grow on Trees with the epic segment of Listen to Me, I Know What I'm Talking About, really impressed how you keep all the memes juggled through the show, both on the long running ones and the ones for the current episode. Squirrel! The work of professionals. Thank you. That's right. We are pros even though we're ill. We're here and we're keeping the memes running. I'd like to ask the boners, not the donors out there, to really check themselves. If you find just one out of around 20 to 30 segments of the show have value, brings you insight, truth and entertainment.

35:38 Is it then not worth more than your average mainstream news show? The show is my main resource of news and great counterweight to get insight on the mainstream's agenda. Hope to see some news touching the Nordics and maybe also provide you with some myself. and then we have our pal. Oh, Baron. The Baron. Sir Baron von Pelsmakers from Belgium. You know, it's like I have to put his name in right because you know we say it's his name is Stephen Pelsmakers but I put in like Sir Baron Stephen von Pelsmakers of the of the Noah Genegatemonation of Brussels Sprouts and he always is like, um, you misspelled my name.

36:26 for the 300 club. He's also got another knighthood but he doesn't know who to give it to. How about a third contribution, regular subscription or otherwise that came in on April 21st in honor of my son Nicholas's first communion if that is not too hard for Eric to figure out. This is such a beautiful guy. Stephen Pelsmacher is our number one patron. No he is, he's way up there, way ahead of everybody else. So we should, this looks like a knighthood we should be giving to Nicholas. Okay, well then does it Nicholas already have a night? I think he does I think I think we're you where we put this in a Bantz and give a black knighthood to somebody In the weeks. Well, I will have Eric and and the Baron work something out I mean, we can't just let a knighthood go to waste. That's no no, it'll go to something. Yeah auction it off

37:13 black knight vernon white pearl in texas server and white serve server as black sir right sorry matt hovey in oakland michigan michigan happy to donate this to for opportunity my first installment toward knighthood and co-ed stripping through college keep up with the great work that i did some karma to help me with my software business yes absolutely stripping you've got karma We love the co-eds stripping through college. And then we have members of the 299 club. Oh, the 2-9-9-er club, great! Wow. Jason Southwell, who will become a knight today. Sir Larry Lee of Granite Shoals, Texas, who hopes he's not the sole member of the 299 club. In fact, he's not. And then again, Stephen Von... No way! Oh, wow. Apparently, yes.

38:02 he's a wants to be a he wanted to be a member the two nine nine club that's a uh... and a unique number and to associate executive producer in the nick mcneil and bruce salkowitz nick uh... mcneil's in oakland uh... after months of listening and getting call out as a douche bag i've realized that enough is enough i'm currently finishing grad school at uc berkeley they got another student uh... students don't need to go to the show which is not so appreciated uh... he does currently finishing grad school thing is not had a resort to stripping to pay for my tuition but seeing as my graduation student research business quickly coming to an end you need some karma if you give him some course he's kidding me absolutely happy to do that you've got karma he also says that it's very important he's got to start working off his original student loan debt of nine point two million dollars so uh... listen to my throat

38:58 So, since listening to the show, he's non-violently propagated the formula to all of his puzzle-faced students he teaches. I can just... wait a minute, he's propagating this to his students? Good on ya! At Berkeley! No way! They're like, what? Really? What does he teach at Berkeley? He's at grad school. It doesn't say specifically. That's fantastic! I wonder what he actually says. I mean, you gotta record some of your lessons, man, and then what the kids say. Because you know they walked right out of class into the CIA recruitment arms. Yeah, Berkeley is loaded with these guys. So he says if he can donate as a poor grad student anyone can do their part so just do what he says. And finally like I said Bruce Salkovitz in Warrington Pennsylvania is doubling down on his Deuce Club donation.

39:46 and muscle top for show 300 thank you and send some karma to his wife she just lost half of her job okay here's a full-on karma you've got karma so since this is a rather long segment and I'm not gonna repeat every single name but everyone of course gets a special mention on the next show episode 300 we appreciate all of the help for all of our 300 club members excuse me gas It really is great and this is the kind of boost that the show needs. Because this is what we do for those of you who are new to the program. We take no commercial money We're not shilling and although it does seem to be a popular idea as now the the Treasury of course is asking you to contribute to pay down the national debt and you're welcome to Give your money to them and have it go towards bombs that are thrown on to brown people in sand which is one way of spending your money or you could just Help us and support this show

CHAPTER 10 / 27 Discussion

Website Forwards and Casio Watch Terrorist Profiles

New website forwards for the show are announced, including abhorrent.us and subjugate.me. A segment discusses a WikiLeaks revelation claiming that Guantanamo Bay interrogators identified potential terrorists by their use of cheap Casio F-91W digital watches. The hosts joke about creating No Agenda branded Casio watches to trigger TSA security protocols. Additionally, a donation match for Doctors Without Borders is highlighted for a producer running the Stockholm Marathon.

abhorrent.us· doctors without borders· casio· wikileaks· guantanamo bay· tsa· terrorism

40:48 A couple of PR mentions I do have to get to, John, as we get ready to propagate the formula. Brand new forwards to noagendershow.com, which is our main website, abhorrent.us and abhorrent.org, which is a great, and this is one of our words, one of your words. Abhorrent is available. Abhorrent.us and Abhorrent.org. What would Abhorrent.com got to say? By the way we do we did miss one I'm sorry to do this to you we do need we do need one karma for the blue jewels guy which is his anonymous name by the way. Oh good. He's starting a

41:25 New business so not only that but I'd also like to hand out some special karma to all of the folks in Tornado alley in the south of get mo nation-states. Yeah, it's really bad crap going down there some karma for everybody you've got deserve it Really horrible. Of course, we don't want to talk about that either. You know, you gotta talk about the royal wedding. Um, we have... Oh yeah, heck with the storms. Yes, we have Sir Clancy, one of our knights, who was running the Stockholm Marathon on, uh, that's today. He's raising money for Doctors Without Borders, which John and I both think is a fine, uh, a fine organization, a real organization. That can be trusted. That can be trusted. Rent your money. And he's personally matching 10% of any money he raises, uh, for, uh, uh,

42:09 medicine song frontier, which is a French for doctors without borders to the no agenda show it's right there on his site, which is no agenda thon.com and He is very funny how he's worded that on the site. It's great. I This is one I missed on the last program. Pat me down, feel me up dot com. Hey, you know, this fits right in with did you know Miss USA was. Yeah, yeah, it's all the news. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she is. Well, TSA protocol dot com also pointing to no agenda show dot com. We are going to get into trouble one of these days. Subjugate dot me a fine forward.

42:53 We really love that subjugate dot me and of course based upon the the last program where John noticed that there is a high correlation between people who Take RV trips as miss Mickey and I are planning as a part of our knowage in the nation tour and wife swapping We have sir cram a lot calm forwarding to know agenda show calm I no one came up with blow up and drive calm. I'm sorry We missed that one and I was just thinking there's a great new premium that we should probably get in on you probably heard that Based upon the wiki leaks latest wiki leaks publication that if you are wearing one of these Casio plastic watches you are pretty much a terrorist and I was thinking maybe we could get a couple of these really I'd miss that you missed that one. Oh, it's great. I

43:46 Yeah, and these like they go for like seven bucks or something. So the government, the guys at the TSA, the checkpoints, they're looking for what kind of watch you're wearing now and if you're wearing a cheap Casio. Well, so the interrogators at Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, identified potential terrorists by the type of watch they would wear on their wrist and apparently the cheap Casio, the black one with like the LCD display, that's a giveaway. That's like their night ring. is the Casio watch. Oh really? Yeah! So like if someone could grab a couple of these and get some No Agenda logos on them, this is awesome! We could get pulled over all the time. Yeah, we'd be good to go. What are you doing with that watch, sir? Anyway, we highly appreciate the support we've received and recor-

44:31 excuse me and of course show number three hundred gonna make it through you gonna make it for the hour I sure hope so everybody else who was just out there and we hit people in the mouth and we should all say it loud and proud, SHUT UP! SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

45:18 Slash and a you'll never get out of your head ever again be a very appreciated and help carry us Through another week so of course we had the most beautiful weather in weeks here in Southern, California in the People's Republic here at Gitmo Nation West as Miss Mickey and I are sweating it out sitting around completely lethargic and I was like really excited because Ben Bernanke The chairman of the Federal Reserve, which is a collection of private banks who run everything, did his first PR press conference. And they're going to do these four times a year. It's part of the new transparency program.

CHAPTER 11 / 27 Discussion

Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve Press Conference

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held his first televised press conference to discuss economic transparency. Bernanke attributed rising gasoline prices to global supply and demand, specifically citing emerging markets and Middle East disruptions rather than monetary policy. The hosts mock Bernanke's claim that the Fed cannot lower gas prices without "derailing growth entirely" and criticize the lack of challenging questions from the press corps.

ben bernanke· federal reserve· gasoline prices· inflation· supply and demand· middle east· goldman sachs

44:31 excuse me and of course show number three hundred gonna make it through you gonna make it for the hour I sure hope so everybody else who was just out there and we hit people in the mouth and we should all say it loud and proud, SHUT UP! SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

45:18 Slash and a you'll never get out of your head ever again be a very appreciated and help carry us Through another week so of course we had the most beautiful weather in weeks here in Southern, California in the People's Republic here at Gitmo Nation West as Miss Mickey and I are sweating it out sitting around completely lethargic and I was like really excited because Ben Bernanke The chairman of the Federal Reserve, which is a collection of private banks who run everything, did his first PR press conference. And they're going to do these four times a year. It's part of the new transparency program.

46:00 And of course I'm really excited because I'm like, yes, finally, someone's going to say, Mr. Bernanke, could you please explain why the Federal Reserve lent money to the wives of high-ranking bank executives? Oh, Mr. Bernanke, I have a question. Could you please tell me all the banks that are members of the Federal Reserve? These are going to be the questions, right? Yeah, right. Yeah, so I watch this for two hours It was the most boring thing the most boring thing ever I did I did get one little ditty. No. Yes I did I did I got a little ditty from Benny and of course now we know that

46:44 The president came out this week and said, or yeah, it was the beginning of this week, he said, you know, hey, I got a task force because we want to make sure we got no oil speculators, you know, like trying to rig the game on these prices. Now, actually it was a producer Doug who said, gosh, Adam and John, don't you know what this means? Don't you understand how this works? Did you see this note from Doug? Yeah, I did. He says this is solicitation for campaign funds in other words the US government says hey oil companies You should be donating to the president's reelection campaign or we might You know investigate you Yeah, that's how a no agenda producer should think makes total sense and

47:31 Yeah it does. We're getting some good thinking going on outside the show. But of course there's no speculation going on and Ben Bernanke lays down the ministry of truth talking points like no one else's business. Coming from higher gasoline prices. Now listen to his voice by the way. His voice gets all high and all like... Because here comes the lie. Here comes the lie like it's written on his forehead. Now, our interpretation of the increase in gas prices is the economist's basic mantra of supply and demand. Okay. But it gets better. This is like a rerun of the old run-up. It gets... well, that is just the same script. Can't they get new writers? No, they're all tied up on the Jon Stewart show. So, but listen to what he says. This is the most beautiful thing in the world.

48:27 On the one hand, we have a rapidly growing global economy, emerging market economies are growing very quickly. So blame it on the Chinese, right? Oh yeah. And the Brazilians, not us. So I guess we're doing our job as good little slaves. We're driving battery cars and you know we're turning off the lights and we're training our kids that you know you have to have cancer light bulbs instead of old ones. It's all good. We're good. We're good. We're good. And their demand for commodities including oil is very very strong. Indeed, essentially all of the increase in the demand for oil in the last couple years in the last decade has come from emerging market economy. Okay, bad, bad, bad, bad, emerging markets, those guys who don't participate in the climate change, carbon credits, those guys, bad, bad, bad. Now John, do you know where these supply problems come from? Well, the supply problems? Yes, because it's supply and demand, John. This is supply and demand. There's no manipulation.

49:29 Do you watch television, John? Do you watch television? Apparently I'm missing a... Do you watch television? In the United States, our demand for oil, our imports have actually been going down over time. So the demand is coming from a growing economy where we've seen about a 25% increase in emerging market output since before the crisis. And on the supply side, as everybody knows who watches television, we've seen disruptions in the Middle East, North Africa and Libya and in other places. Didn't you watch our show? Didn't you see my reality show called the Arab Spring Reality Show? Come on, everyone who watches television, you know! It's because of all the... it's because of the revolt! The Twitter revolution! For this guy to say this is abhorrent.

50:20 I'm sorry you spent time on this. This is pathetically vapid. insofar as information is concerned. I did get one thing out of this, I heard part of it and I did hear where he says, well you know our unemployment situation is going to continue until 2013. Yeah which is when the big uh... How does that sound to you all? I think that might be a part of this clip actually. I have constrained supply, the supply has not been made up and that in turn has driven gas prices up quite significantly. Here comes the funniest line, he has lines, he has good writers. So again, this is a very adverse development. It accounts in the short run for the increase in our pretty much almost all of the increase in our inflation. Pretty much, except for the manipulation that's going on. He stumbles right there. This accounts for all, I mean pretty much except for you know like all the Goldman Sachs manipulation that's going on. Forecast at least in the very near term. There's not much the Federal Reserve can do about gas prices per se.

51:18 at least not without derailing growth entirely. Now what does that mean? He says we can't do anything unless we derail growth entirely. How does that, wait a minute, that's a great clip. Wait you can't, does that even make any, not so vapid anymore all of a sudden. Does that make, well you got me. Does that make any sense whatsoever? Let's lower the price of gasoline, that will ruin everything. What's the logic here? That's literally what he's saying. Yeah, literally. At least not without derailing growth entirely, which is certainly not the right way to go. Lord, oh brother.

51:57 What is he just throwing in this thing as well? You know we we try to solve crime we could probably put more police on him. But why do that? Crime would be out of control. We would ruin it. We could get more police and we could you know put some cameras on the streets but then crime would go out of control. Yeah we'd ruin that. So how do you go from that? Does he think he's gonna get away with this logic? Of course, because the journalists go, uh? Well yeah, because it was two hours of boring crap that you just watched and you just happened to get lucky enough to find it. I didn't get lucky. I watched it and I took notes from my sick bed. Yeah, but how did you not fall asleep is the question. This is what the pros would do.

52:38 The pros... The pros are all sitting there like, is it my time for the mic? Do I get the mic? I wanna have the mic. Like Steve from MSNBC. And Bernanke actually said, well thank you for your question, Steve. Did you see that? Because everyone else is like, hi, it's uh, hi, I'm Dan from the Financial Times. I am from the Chinese Financial, my newspaper, I'm Japanese. And then it's like, Mr. Chairman, and then Banankee goes, thank you, Steve, for your excellent question. Douchebag Steve. You know the guy I'm talking about? No. Yeah, you do. He's always the guy who gets to talk to Bernanke from MSNBC. That douche. He's his buddy. Yeah, of course. And he goes, thank you, Steve. Here's the question I'd like you to ask. Yes. Now, let's listen to this again, because the best is still to come. Derailing growth entirely, which is certainly not the right way to go. After all, the Fed can't create more oil. Well, we can create more oil.

53:36 Really? I thought you had an oil machine, Ben. passing into other prices and wages throughout the economy. How does that work? How do you do that? He can do it. He's Ben. He's magic Ben. How do you do that? Yeah, you have to pay more for gas and you have to pay more for your gas for the truck that hauls the lettuce but somehow it's gonna be, we can control that somehow. Because we're awesome. Shut up slave.

54:14 Do you know how to ask questions? What are you, a journalist? Creating a broader inflation. Oh, by creating broader inflation? I don't understand. Which would be much more difficult to extinguish. Again, our view is that... Back, back, back, back, back, go back. We missed a clause in there somehow. No, he just says, he just says we can do this. It doesn't explain how. Again, our view is that most likely, of course we don't know for sure, but we'll be watching carefully, our view is that gas prices... I'm sorry, I didn't go back far enough. I missed it. There we go. Most likely, of course we don't know for sure, but we'll be watching carefully. Our view is that gas prices will not continue to rise at the recent pace. No, it'll rise at a slower pace. They stabilize or even come down if the situation stabilizes in the Middle East. Oh, okay. If the situation stabilizes in the Middle East, it's supply and demand, you doofus. You idiot.

CHAPTER 12 / 27 Discussion

Aisha Gaddafi and the North African "Cat Fight"

Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, has publicly criticized U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Dubbed the "Claudia Schiffer of North Africa," Aisha questioned Clinton's character for remaining in the White House following her husband's infidelity. The hosts describe the exchange as a "cat fight" occurring amidst reports that the Gaddafi family may be seeking asylum in Venezuela following NATO surgical strikes on their compound.

aisha gaddafi· libya· hillary clinton· muammar gaddafi· claudia schiffer· venezuela

55:13 Supply and demand supply and demand that that will provide some relief on the inflation front, but we'll have to watch it very carefully Yeah, you watch that Ben. You know we'll just be over here pounding our pud while you watch that for us Ben What is that? Oh my goodness Meanwhile as we speak about the the Arab Spring and I'm just going because I have energy now John and then I'll Collapse him because I actually get dizzy when I'm doing this. He got dizzy. I know I got dizzy the last time too So of course we you and I have been harping on the techno experts And gx2 actually made a song about this the text techno experts Hillary Clinton calls her Her Twitter bots and her entire cyber team who of course are out there on Twitter and Facebook making stuff up She calls them techno experts

56:09 And so of course, you know, we've been looking for kind of, you know, little details here and there. We've been really searching far and wide for, okay, so how exactly does the State Department Inject these fake messages or these you know this insight so-called revolutions that are then picked up by the Idiot people like Anderson Cooper and presented as truth instead of just you know the fact which is this is what the CIA does is we go in and we start crap in other countries and then we go and save the day by bombing the you know bombing the leader and taking him out and

56:46 So, John, right? By the way, I love the no-fly zone. Now this time they sent a bunch of missiles at Qaddafi's headquarters, his house literally. Surgical strike. Boom, boom, boom. Of course, Qaddafi's long gone and so now there's all this news cropping up about how he's like He's you know, there's like direct communications going on with Caesar chef. Yeah, exactly We said when this thing started that they were planning the move to Venezuela because that's the only real country They'll take him. Did you see that? Gaddafi sister came out and She's beautiful by the way This is what's her name? Looking at him. Oh my god. No, they call her the

57:33 What do they call her? They call her like the... hold on a second, I'm bringing... Aisha, Aisha Gaddafi. And they call her the... hold on a second, I'm just loading up this page here. The Claudia Schiffer of North Africa. Wow Because you see where the headscarf this is what I always say This is what I'm always saying these headscarves are good because you know you unwrap that little present and behind there There's a massive surprise and she is stunning sure she is be a first name a isha Aisha Aisha Gaddafi Let me see here

58:23 I'm sorry, I'm just losing it for a second. Anyway, so she... Oh, she doesn't even look like anything like him. No, but she's beautiful, right? She's very attractive, yes. She's stunning. So she's coming out and she's harping directly on Hillary Clinton saying, hey, how come you didn't leave the White House when you found out about your cheating husband? So now it's getting personal. Oh really? Yeah, she's like, hey you stupid biatch. You know your man cheated on you and you couldn't even do anything about it, biatch. Pretty amazing, right? Is this just coming in out of the blue right now? Yeah, this came in this morning. This is a cat fight! It is, it's a total cat fight. I love it. Anyway, let me get back to the story at hand. So on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart has Gigi Ibrahim

CHAPTER 13 / 27 Discussion

Jon Stewart Interview with Blogger Gigi Ibrahim

Blogger Gigi Ibrahim appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss her role in the Egyptian revolution. Ibrahim revealed she learned about revolutionary tactics in a class at the American University in Cairo titled "Social Mobilization under Authoritarian Regimes." The hosts suggest this confirms that the "Arab Spring" was fomented by Western-backed academic and social media programs rather than being a purely organic movement.

jon stewart· gigi ibrahim· tahrir square· egypt· american university in Cairo· social mobilization· bloggers

59:15 And she of course was one of these bloggers who was immediately on CNN and MSNBC and on all the talk shows because she of course was one of the revolutionary techno experts who started the whole revolution in Egypt in Tahrir Square. and she sits down and like right out of the gate I could not believe what was being said here even Jon Stewart like had to step back and say what did you just say? here it comes. How did you end up in Tahrir Square during the protests and how did you end up becoming known as part of this group that helped Egypt rise up against Mubarak? I took a class

1:00:04 She took a class apparently John. She just took a class and that's how she helped and and even Stewart goes what? Would you like to just say that one more time for me? Yes, I took a class at the American University in Cairo. It's called the social mobilization under authoritarian regime What? It's called This is great, this is great. This is very funny. She's in competition with that Google guy who's trying to take credit for the whole thing. He loses. What's the name of this class? We gotta take this class. It's called the social mobilization under authoritarian regime. The social mobilization under authoritarian regime. Yeah, at American University in Cairo. And they're letting them teach this at the school there? This is hilarious. Well, luckily, Jon Stewart's no dummy and he actually says this. That's good. Yeah, woo! Hey, that's awesome! Oh wow, I gotta go home and change my Twitter icon for that.

1:01:10 Just out of curiosity, how authoritarian can a regime be if a college in Cairo offers... A private American. Oh, it's private American. Right. Who do you think is running the private American school? You mean like those Muslim schools in New York City? Yeah, exactly. Oh, it's a private American. Yeah. So we were there in many respects fomenting Revolut, we are ignited. Ignited. Ignited, fired up as the president would say. Are you fired up? Are you ignited? Are you fired up? Are you ready for some revolution? Thank you. Yes. What did they teach you in this class that you found valuable and would you have had, because social media is not, those were real people on the square. Those were not tweets on the square. Those were real individuals. Absolutely. What did you learn from the class that gave you the courage to go there?

1:02:01 Well, I was very out of touch with the opposition movement because it's not something that you read in the paper or it's advertised, you know, sign up here, you know, you don't find that. So, you had to get in touch with the right people, I guess. And, the class was a great way to learn about what was the history of it. And of course, who was teaching the class? What was happening? And I really wasn't aware that there was such an opposition movement that was great. happening for decades really. Yes with ups and downs but then we had a great speaker who's actually a great blogger and activist himself Hussain Alhamalawi.arabawi.org So I tried to, I played that back like, I know, I know. I tried five times because I'm like I want to know who this guy is. Hamalawi.arabawi.org He's a great blogger. Great blogger. I know, I've heard all about him. He's a great blogger.

1:02:53 I couldn't, I could not get the name. No way. Don't get sneaky with the plugs here. Let's have our listeners get his name and then we can do a follow up. Oh yeah, we've got to figure out who this great speaker was. Now just listen to the ending because that's also quite revealing. you know through him I got to meet a lot of people I went to one protest and the rest was history I was in Tahrir January 25th January 25th which of course was the hashtag so this is where it all started it started the privately funded American University what was the name of the class again John? uh something about kicking ass and authoritarian under an authoritarian regime right so shows with social media yeah social media and then they get a bunch of thugs to show up and

1:03:40 And then they throw Anderson Cooper in there and you're good to go. And then we throw the douchebag out who we don't like or whatever. It's like, it's duh. Who he used to, wait, wait, who we don't like today. He was our buddy like a week earlier. So was Gaddafi was our buddy. He's always been our buddy until he like started messing around with the Chinese. Then he wasn't our buddy all of a sudden. We're fickle. We, you know, we put up with a lot. But it's amazing how this is just out there and it's, you know, where's Anderson Cooper on this? Where's anybody on this? Jon Stewart brings her on, she drops a bunch of bombs, boom, boom, boom, and there's not one person following up except us. That is quite sad. Sorry, I was blowing my nose with the mic closed.

CHAPTER 14 / 27 Discussion

Media Criticism of Anderson Cooper and MSNBC

A C-SPAN panel featuring Mary Matlin discussed the state of journalism, reportedly criticizing Anderson Cooper as a "joke" in the industry. The hosts discuss Rachel Maddow's subtle pressure on Cooper regarding his personal life and note that media elites have begun referring to MSNBC simply as "MS." They argue that C-SPAN provides more substantive content than mainstream "reality television" news.

anderson cooper· mary matlin· rachel maddow· msnbc· c-span· journalism· vanderbilt

1:04:33 Anyway, yeah, no, it's there was some thing I couldn't get any clips from it. There was this discussion on C-SPAN about journalism and they had What's her name? Matlin You know the wife of Carville? Yeah, Mary Matlin. And a couple other respected journalists on the panel and it was like an hour long discussion and I was trying to get some clips from it. It was impossible because they're all just boring. Oh yeah, they're blowhards. But they all hate Anderson Cooper.

1:05:10 They do? Oh yeah, they're like, well you know, and Anderson Cooper, he's not considered a journalist, it's like he's the worst thing that ever happened to journalism. What? Yeah, oh yeah, it was unclipable. But I was just like, really? Anderson Cooper is a joke in the news media apparently. And there's another thing. How is he any more of a joke than anybody else? Well you gotta have, he's a Vanderbilt. That's why they don't like them. They don't like coming to his defense. This is bad. And there's another. I don't see the rationale here. He's just another talking head on the on the TV. He has a team of writers. He's just, you know, the typical meat puppet that's just doing his job. How is he any different than Katie Couric? He's handsome.

1:05:55 But also, you know, Rachel Maddow is now also like kind of hinting at the, you know, he should come out and it would be good if he would, you know, if he's had, he has come out. Well, not, not good enough for Rachel apparently. What is he supposed to wear a big badge saying I'm gay? Or wear a big tight fitting sweatshirt that says I'm gay on it? It would be a start. Oh crap. She has her nerve. Why don't you mind your own business? It would be a good start. I'm now an Anderson Cooper fan. I think you should wear a badge that says I heart Anderson no I heart AC 360 This should this should be your new your badge. I heart AC 360 There's another thing I noticed they don't talk until they talk about Fox and CNN, but they don't say MSNBC It's called MS

1:06:47 What? Yeah, so they keep talking about MSNBC but they just say, you know, I watch MS and I watch Fox and CNN. MS? Like Multiple Sclerosis? Yeah, they call it MS. And they say it's the worst channel ever. So they just call it MS. Well, they got that right. Yeah, but they just call it MS. It's crazy. It's like the elite people, it's, you know, people don't understand that And if anything the takeaway from our program should be the reality television that you're watching is so poor Compared to the stuff you can get for free on C-SPAN. I mean that is really good riveting television You know, we just you can't watch it all because you'll kill yourself, you know You're literally wanting like, you know, just hop into the tub and drag in the toaster. I

CHAPTER 15 / 27 Discussion

Boeing CEO on China Infrastructure and Stealth Jets

The CEO of Boeing, speaking on C-SPAN, highlighted the disparity between U.S. and Chinese infrastructure, noting China's plan to build over 50 airports while the U.S. has none planned. He also identified the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter as a significant new competitor in the global defense market. This contradicts 2009 predictions by Defense Secretary Robert Gates that China would not have operational stealth aircraft until 2020.

boeing· china· airports· j-20· stealth fighter· aerospace· robert gates· infrastructure

1:07:31 But when you find... What are you doing with a toaster in the bathroom, honey? When you do, when you find those nuggets and of course we point to them in the show notes at abhorrent.us or shutupslaves.com or seanhannity.com. It's really good stuff and it's just, it's hilarious. So you should watch it. I have my, I'm gonna chime in here with my C-SPAN discovery. Lovely. What you got? So, the Boeing CEO is on, he gave his long lecture to a group of people about how our industrial base is falling apart and we suck. But he drops a couple of interesting little tidbits that I didn't know about. Now, late in the speech he brings this one up which I thought was kind of funny which is, play the Boeing CEO on China airports.

1:08:24 much more efficient. I was just gonna set it up with saying you know he brings, as I heard this I'm thinking oh you know China we're pointing to China as the great you know high-speed rail model. Right. Yeah play it. Much more efficient than the ones that we initially delivered to our customer years ago. In terms of noise another incredible story you know over the last 50 years we've been able to reduce the the noise footprint by some 90%. Infrastructure though is going to be a limiting factor In the U.S., as many of you know, it can take up to 20 years to get all the permits in place and also to build a new runway. And you compare that to what's going on in places like China where they plan to construct from 45 to 55 new airports over the next five years. And to the best of my knowledge, there aren't plans to build any new airports in the United States during that time period. Air traffic management. Really? That's good. That's amazing.

1:09:22 Yeah, 50 so I don't know about the high-speed rail. Well, it's such a financial success It's a disaster. You're gonna see airports will make up so meanwhile So I'm watching so I'm listening to this guy and he has this this other little comment and as soon as he drops this I You know, I think I probably and I think you you would be the same we try to follow the news as close as we can and But when something like what he just about said, see if you can find a little gem in here that is like why, maybe you know about it. I don't. But see if you can find it and tell me what you think I think it is. And the government was willing to put a lot of work offshore. And unfortunately that didn't happen.

1:10:09 But I don't think anybody should think that just one program is going to be enough to sustain the industrial base in this country. It's not. You know, the second threat to America's leadership in aerospace concerns innovation and technology. And we're seeing much more competition on the commercial and defense sides from around the world. In commercial aviation, I talked about the new entrants from Canada, from Brazil, from Russia, and from China. And we're also seeing other people enter the defense market as well. I know that many saw the new J-20, the Chinese stealth fighter, as a threat. I really saw it as a new competitor in the global defense marketplace and it will be. I think to win in the face of increasing competition and subsidized competition, the only way that we can do that is through better innovation and technology. And a Boeing... Canada?

1:11:06 The J-20, have you ever heard of a Chinese stealth fighter? No. I sent you a link to some pictures of it. This is a hot jet. Apparently the Chinese have been building a fleet of different kinds of jets to compete with our jets on the international market. So you'll be, you know, we'll have one of our jets fighting one of their jets. You know, the Russians, I guess, are out of the picture. and uh... you know the europeans only have a few fighter jets that they sell. Well they've got the big thing, the big albatross is the joint strike fighter that's the one that uh... Yeah that thing's a piece of crap. Wow this thing is amazing! Isn't that a beautiful plane? Oh my goodness! Hey baby thank you. Oh my goodness that's, wow I'd fly that, I'd fly that biatch in a heartbeat. Wow!

1:12:01 Well, so a couple things I learned from that clip. First of all, besides everything in the world being about oil, it's all about guns and weapons. That's it. Oh yeah, well the oil is to pay for the guns and the weapons. Well of course. It's just like, are we, why are we even fooling ourselves that it's about anything else in the world except for weapons? Again, let's just go back to the fact that we now have the military industrial complex and the CIA in cahoots in the United States and everyone's concerned about the royal wedding. This is just, it's unbelievable. And of course, so yeah, so maybe even Gaddafi was maybe even trying to like do a deal with the Chinese for one of these puppies.

1:12:40 And who is that? Who's the ch- It could be. Who needs those jets fighting our jets? Those things would be- Holy moly! But apparently the Chinese have a whole slew of jets that they're making. Products, John. Products. Products. Products. Products. They're doing a bunch of products. They're taking our- you know, they've already taken away half of the stuff that we used to make here. Now they're gonna take away our aerospace? That's the only thing we do! We're screwed if we lose our aerospace business. I think we better start learning some new languages. Chezan Wu, Johnson. And where is the news media about this like raising the alarm? Fox, where's Fox? Where's any of you know the right wingers you think they'd be saying some hey look at these jets the Chinese are doing they're now selling them into the world market against our jets who needs it pretty soon we'll be buying these jets well it's a better price yeah really

CHAPTER 16 / 27 Discussion

Ron Paul Appearance on The View

Ron Paul appeared on The View, where he argued that the U.S. should simply "march home" to end foreign wars. He criticized both Democrats and Republicans as "war parties" controlled by the military-industrial complex. The hosts discuss media bias against Paul, citing Fox News's alleged "dirty tricks" during CPAC coverage and the hostile reception he received from hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar.

ron paul· the view· whoopi goldberg· joy behar· war party· cpac· fox news

1:13:34 Chengdu's development record and official statements cast doubt on US Defense Secretary Robert Gates's 2009 prediction that China would not have an operational stealth aircraft before 2020. Dude, the thing is flying! They got like pictures of this thing flying! It's beautiful too! Wow. It's funny because... So now why isn't that a big scandal? That, oh don't worry about it, 2020, long ways away. Because... You know, we've got the Royal Wedding. What's wrong with you? Can't you get with the program? Why do you have to be difficult? You really have to just... you know, in fact... So I have a... I got a clip here that I want to play. I know you couldn't sit through it, but I found it to be quite interesting. This is Ron Paul on The View.

1:14:33 Oh, you know I watched this and I couldn't pull a clip out of it and I just got... It just made my teeth itch to watch Joy Behar give him the stink eye. She just hates him. Well... She is such a creep. Well, Whoopi Goldberg, who in her own... She has quite a bit of creepology herself. So she comes out with the stupidest, most idiotic, slave, stupid, moron, retard comment ever. Which Ron Paul just answers beautifully. I have two questions for you. The first is, how would you get us out of the war? Because it seems to be an answer that has eluded everyone. Okay, I'm Whoopi Goldberg. I'm like, I'm wondering how do we get out of the war? Do you think Joy Behar is bad?

1:15:30 My God. How do we get out? That's what I mean. I would like to know because I'd like to. I would like to get out, but I'd like to talk about it. I'd like to get out of all of all of the wars. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I don't think it's complicated. How did we go in? We just marched in without permission, without a declaration or so. A good president would just march home. There you go. That's how you do it. You just march home. You just stop and get out. How hard can that be? This shows you how programmed people are. Now stupid, moron. They were just elite. To be fair to you, you said this about George Bush's war. To be fair to you, to be fair to you, to be fair, you said this about George Bush too. On Iraq also. He is very consistent. Both parties are war parties.

1:16:21 I love it when he talks like both parties are war parties. Thank you. Let's face it That's what we have to why because it increases the economy I don't know why I don't know it might even be a conspiracy Don't say those things are Pete don't talk about nothing Don't use the C word but it seems like the military industrial complex Controls both parties because a lot of weapons are sold and you always have to have an enemy think of many weapons have been sold already just bombing Libya How many dogs... like a sea cow. You don't want to hear it. These women are nuts. So I'm looking at the March edition by the... and people should... you know this is kind of an interesting little newspaper called the Rock Creek Free Press. You go to... you can look it up on... I think I've seen it before, yeah. And right on the top it says Fox News dirty tricks against Ron Paul no quote-unquote mistake.

1:17:14 Forgive me for being cynical, but Fox News has claimed that the wrong concern that airing the wrong conservative political action committee CPAC footage and then introducing an interview with Ron Paul on the false premise that he had been booed. You remember we did this on the show, right? Yeah, I know, but I just want to remind people out there that Ron Paul is who's running for president he's actually now he's I don't think he's announced yet no but he's he's one step away because he put the committee together okay he told the federal election committee he's gonna run okay or he's gonna he's he's headed that well he bet he's gotta run he's like the only point is is that they just are out to this guy is dangerous him and Kucinich

1:17:54 which is interesting because they're both, you know, they're on different political perspectives. I think Trump had it right. Trump made the announcement for the elites. He says, Ron Paul can't win. Ron Paul's not running. Don't vote for Ron Paul. He said this at CPAC. We had that too on the show. And it's just, you know, you hear Ron Paul come out with this simple logic and it's like... I think he has announced it. The chat room is saying he has announced it. I've been ill. Sorry. I guess he has announced. I didn't think he had done it officially yet, but I guess he has. Good. Good, because I'll vote for him again, like the last time. I'm gonna have to vote for him. Thank you, that's great Joe. Thank you darling. How you feeling? You okay? Yeah. So I have, since you mentioned the royal wedding a second ago, and before we go to it. By the way,

1:18:39 He can win. And there's another... Yeah, I know he can. There was another... He can, as in C-A-N. There was another piece of that interview, and it was so funny, because what's the... Hasselbach, is that her name? She's like the token Republican on the show. Yeah, it's Hasselbach. She's dumb. But she said... She's dumb. So she's hot, but she's dumb. How can you win? What are you gonna do? And Ron Paul, I guess, get more votes? It's like, oh, really? Get more votes? How can you argue with that? It's just beautiful. Go Ron Paul. Go Ron Paul. So I wanted to play the one last, and I'm never gonna talk about it again, this wedding clip that I didn't collect. A standalone.

CHAPTER 17 / 27 Discussion

Entertainment Tonight Royal Wedding Night Vision

Entertainment Tonight utilized night vision cameras to film a 2:45 AM rehearsal for the Royal Wedding at Westminster Abbey. Correspondent Jane Seymour reported on the "tiara time" and the "smell of diamonds." The hosts mock the hyper-dramatic production style and the focus on trivial details like garment bags and boxes, contrasting it with the lack of coverage for substantive global news.

entertainment tonight· jane seymour· royal wedding· night vision· westminster abbey· mary hart

1:19:23 This is and from the number one news Entertainment news is still the original entertainment tonight And so now they've got Jane Seymour working for them on this particular way. She looks beautiful Jane Seymour, what is she 63, 64? She's had some work done, let's face it. So what? No I know and she looks good. Whoever did the work has not made her look like a different person which is the problem. No she is beautiful. It's not a problem, this is anything but a problem. No I say the people that looked weird you know isn't a problem. So Jane Seymour who was really a sharp operator. Yeah.

1:20:08 She is uh... What is she doing working for Entertainment Tonight? I have no idea. But if you listen to this clip, apparently they've gone so far as to bring in a night vision group with cameras and everything to record this stuff going on at two in the morning. And this is like, this to me was the end of ridiculous. Now, Entertainment Tonight, the most watched entertainment news magazine in the world. Mary Hart, Jane Seymour, Nancy O'Dell. The brand new shots of the bride with a bouquet, carrying a garment bag, lifting boxes. Plus, the best man, Prince Harry. And William and Kate in a Range Rover paying a visit to Westminster Abbey for their final run through. Entertainment tonight at the Royal Rehearsal with night vision cameras. The carriages, the cavalry, the clip-clop of hundreds of horses.

1:21:06 You cannot imagine how close we are to the royal wedding rehearsal. It's 2.45 in the morning. It is 4.32 right now. The all-night affair with ET cameras rolling. The royal wedding dress rehearsal is in full swing. How they tried to keep it a secret. There are police everywhere but we are one of the few crews on the ground. The crowning of Queen Elizabeth. The lost footage you haven't seen in years. Taking her throne, the crown, the scepter, a young Prince Charles waving, the rampaging crowd. And it's tiara time. Stunning Mary, gorgeous. Did Mary and Jay try on the priceless tiara Kate may wear? I love the smell of diamonds in the morning. Now in depth on all the news from the royal wedding. Hello everybody and hello everybody.

1:21:56 Hello everybody! No wonder no one listens to our show. We don't have this kind of promo. We suck. My guts. It's tiara time. I love the smell of diamonds in the morning. My god, that's professional. It's very slick. At the very beginning, and by the way, they just have a bunch of- we should do our show this way, where there's just a bunch of nouns. The scepter, the crown, the veil. Hello everybody! So at the very beginning when they're talking about Milton, I swear to God, she says, holding scepters, trying crowns, lifting putzes. We've got night vision goggles! She says lifting putzes. She apparently, I guess, you know, lifted putzes. I don't know, but that's right. We've got night vision goggles, we're lifting putzes! It's tiara time! I love the smell of diamonds in the morning!

1:22:50 Oh my god I love the smell of diamonds in the morning It's what's great though is you hear our show and then you play a clip like that and then everyone I think people then all of a sudden realize what is actually happening to them the assault that is thrown at you when you keep just turn the box off Turn it off go turn it on read a book really turn it off thing Turn it off, please I feel sorry for people that are addicted. That show actually is really, it's taken back, you know, extra, I thought it was getting the jazzier openings, but Entertainment Tonight has picked up their game. Oh, they're kicking ass. They are, well, you know, they're kicking ass. ABC, by the way, had a very interesting piece, and I think a lot of people emailed about this, as the control grid starts to close in on us once again. This is, and I looked this company up, of course,

CHAPTER 18 / 27 Discussion

Unique Solutions Body Scanners in Shopping Malls

A company called Unique Solutions is installing "My Best Fit" kiosks in shopping malls, which use 3D body imaging to help consumers find clothing sizes. The hosts warn that this technology is conditioning the public to accept TSA-style body scanners while building a massive biometric database. They note that the company's privacy policy allows for data licensing to marketers and potentially the Department of Homeland Security.

unique solutions· body scanners· biometric data· homeland security· malls· privacy· rapiscan

1:23:46 Because that's what no one will do. I mean, it's certainly not any so-called journalists. This is a little a gizmo from Unique Solutions Incorporated. And the compromised ABC Good Morning America was happy to demonstrate it for us. Consider a woman with a 27 inch waist. In Marc Jacobs, she'd wear an 8 or a 10. But at Chico's, that same woman is a triple zero. But now this device will size you up. Literally. It's called My Best Fit. Shoppers stand in this kiosk in the middle of the mall. Step on inside and assume the position think TSA minus the fun pat down. How beautiful is that?

1:24:28 Unbelievable! This is the winner of the day. This is the full-on body scanner that sizes you so you never have to worry about getting the wrong... You don't even have to go into the dressing room anymore because... This is reminding me of the days in the 50s and 40s and 50s where they would... you'd go to a shoe store... Yeah, Keds. Or was it Kinney's? Kinney's? And you put your feet into the fluoroscope and get your feet x-rayed to crap so you can see how well the shoe fits. And now you walk with a limp, right? Oh yeah. But I love how she said... And no toes. Let me just hear that little bit again. Because it was so beautiful what she said. Think TSA without the groovy groping or whatever she says. Unbelievable. And in this kiosk in the middle of the mall.

1:25:13 Step on inside and assume the position. Assume the position, slave. Bend over, assume the position. Think TSA minus the fun pat-down. Oh, the fun pat-down. Fun pat-down. What a bunch of subtle propaganda we have here. First of all, the booth is nothing... Subtle? Okay, it's outrageous. First of all, you have the booth, which is a, you know, so when you go to the airport, you think, well, it's like a fitting room. It's like when they sized me up. And oh, I could have the fun pat-down, one of the two. Isn't that a fun pat-down? This is so... What is wrong with these people? Okay, so I'm not even going to play the rest of the clip because I'm so sick and tired of it. However, I did look up this company, Unique Solutions. So here's how it works. RapaScan is the name, right? No, no. And I don't know what kind of technology they're using. They don't really say it on their website. There's VC money in this.

1:26:10 So what happens is and I'm like, okay, so these these are not cheap machines No matter what you say and they've got them in malls all across America now Of course what they actually want is they want to get this is biometric data I mean it they're taking a picture of your your body and they are building a database and Also at the same time conditioning you to feel really groovy about all of this so I am Yeah, let me just read you unique solutions. They have been leading a revolution in personalized shopping since 1994 So they've been around for a while. They do 3d body imaging and data capture. They've been doing this for more than a decade Here it is. We hold the largest database of body measurements that Reflect the true size and shape of today's consumer the largest database, right? You with me?

1:27:07 Yeah, and then we look down a little bit further. There's a bunch of it. Let me go Let me let me let me just read this what they do unique licenses its customer measurement database for use in body research and technical design applications. This data could also be licensed in aggregate to apparel brands or used for marketing to consumers through their affiliate programs through our MyBestFed service. And here comes the data may also be valuable to direct marketers in fitness, health, pharmaceuticals and other industries like Department of Homeland Security.

1:27:44 Yeah, there is that. Now, there is, bodies do have a, you know, they have these dummies that the people put dresses around and they change every year. You have to buy a new one every so often if you were a dressmaker. And they do have, so some of this argument is valid and logical and I can see people using it, especially manufacturers of clothes. But the thing about the person actually going into these, they used to find other ways of measuring the average woman. What does a six look like? Is there a butt down by the ground? Is there a butt up in the air? You know, all this sort of thing. And so they had to make these dummies for that. But the myth here, the thing I think that the shoppers are getting screwed on this deal is that

1:28:32 It's pointless to be to have somebody say you are you're a six or a five or a four or three or whatever you are Because all the sizes that they they phony up the numbers on the dress You actually have to still have to try this dresses on in your in your size range. No, you're wrong bullcrap. No, you're wrong I'm sorry. You're wrong because what they do is they recommend that this is how they make money, of course they don't, they make money by selling all this data. What they're saying is it recommends to each individual manufacturer and so it works. I mean of course it works. What is the point of the person? What is the point of some woman going into the machine?

1:29:11 to get her biometric data so we can track your ass through satellite technology at the Department of Homeland Security. That's the point, but it does work. No, I'm saying what is the point from her perspective? So you don't have to worry about sizes anymore. If you listen to the whole thing, if you can actually sit through the stupid Good Morning America crap. This is bullcrap. Yeah, it is. You're right. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. So besides the members of our 300 club we do have our regular members and producers that have Donated to help the show get done, and we're gonna name a few of them now Tyler Gieske Gieske

CHAPTER 19 / 27 Discussion

Producer Credits and Pocket No Agenda App

The hosts read a second round of producer donations, granting "karma" to listeners facing job searches, cancer treatments, and student loan debt. They mention a new feature in the "Pocket No Agenda" mobile app that allows users to selectively disable push notifications for specific shows on the No Agenda Stream. The segment concludes with a reminder of the "value for value" funding model.

value for value· karma· student loans· cancer· multiple sclerosis· pocket no agenda· donations

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CHAPTER 20 / 27 Discussion

Knighthood of Sir Jason Southwell and Psychic Ads

Jason Southwell is officially knighted into the No Agenda Round Table. Following the ceremony, the hosts play a commercial for "California Psychics" that aired during Anderson Cooper's CNN program. They analyze the ad's target demographic and the use of "drug commercial music" to lend an air of legitimacy to psychic hotlines.

jason southwell· knighthood· california psychics· cnn· anderson cooper· advertising

1:37:45 Jason Southwell, please step forward sir as you have reached the giving level sufficient to make you a knight of the Noah Jenner Round Table. We're very happy to have you on board which means the forthcoming knight rings, one of them will come into your possession as you kneel and we hereby pronounce the Sir Jason Southwell Knight of the Noah Jenner Round Table. Please sir, come over here. We've got your cabinet and rent boys, your hookers and blow anything you need. It's right here. You are now part of that club! Oh, an extra twist there on the knighthood. Nice. So, um... Very good. I have a couple of things here that... Isn't this second half of the show? Don't I get to go? I think you did your second half of the show already. I just have a couple of little items I want to just change the pace a little bit. I got a couple commercials. I have the...

1:38:38 This is what CNN... Stop teasing it. Let's just get to it. You can always tell what the audience is like by the commercials, right? Right. Here's the not a drug ad on CNN. First time I've heard it. Quite interesting. Why do I feel lost? Should I change careers? Is this true love? I need someone to listen. California Psychics has been helping people just like you since 1995. Call now to have one of our friendly customer care representatives find the perfect psychic for you or browse bios online and get to know our psychics. Our psychics are screened and tested for accuracy, ability, and a desire to help others. The psychics are linked to you from across the country. We found that when a psychic is in their own home environment, they're the most effective. When they're not taking porn calls for their other business.

1:39:30 Your calls are secure, discreet and confidential. Our top rated psychics and customer care team are available 24-7. New customers try us for just a dollar per minute. If your psychic reading is not the best you've ever experienced, it's free. California Psychics, the best or it's free. That's awesome. So, wow. I often wonder, you know, I'm watching a show that apparently people who call psychic hotlines watch and I'm like, what am I? CNN. There's something wrong with me. Wow, my goodness. CNN. Wow. This was during Anderson Cooper. Oh, of course. Well, of course. His audience is totally into that. Yeah, this is why people don't like him in the news business. I guess.

CHAPTER 21 / 27 Discussion

Abilify Cartoon Commercial and Side Effects

A new animated commercial for the antidepressant add-on drug Abilify features a woman interacting with a personified "depression bug." The hosts mock the lengthy list of contraindications, which include increased risk of death in elderly dementia patients, suicidal thoughts in young adults, and uncontrollable muscle movements. They question the logic of marketing a drug that causes "confusion" to people already struggling with mental health.

abilify· depression· pharmaceutical ads· cartoon· side effects· dementia· suicide

1:40:23 And by the way, all those people, they get to vote too. And I, by the way, liked the fact that they got drug commercial music playing dee dee dee dee dee dee dee in the background to give you that drug commercial quality. It's a beautiful thing. Anyway. Well, do you want to do more? I mean, or is it my turn? I got another, I got a drug ad that's kind of interesting. I do have a new Abilify. Abilify came out with a new ad. Abilify is the stuff, it's like a hamburger helper for your existing drugs, right? Yeah, you have a condition called depression. Yeah. And you're still depressed because you're taking too many pills and you take this, add another one.

1:41:00 But this was a weird commercial because this is the updated version of a commercial. It's a cartoon. This is new by the way. This is breaking new grounds for drug commercials. Nice. It's a cartoon. Is it for the kids? Is that what it is for? Well, I don't know, but the woman's a cartoon and every time she talks about depression, it starts off with a hole next to her and this weird looking amoeba-like bug. A hole? Yeah, a hole. Like a hole that she's falling into in her depression? No, she's looking into the hole and this bug, this huge looking amoeba-like bug comes out with two eyeballs and smiles at her. It represents depression. And when she starts taking the bilify, the thing shrinks but keeps following her around as kind of a shrunken version of its old self.

1:41:45 And he's making all commonly constantly making faces like oh, I'm so sad I'm a sad depression because she's getting rid of me or I'm so but I'm gonna hang out and so it's following her around meanwhile then she when the drug guy comes up with all the disclaimers it's it's not like a voiceover She out of the blue in some bizarre hallucination she pulls down a movie screen one of those kind used to have in high school that he you know had four legs or three legs and tripod and pulls down a screen a Doctor appears on the screen another cartoon and he reads her the the contraindications. This is fantastic I can't wait learn about a free trial offer from Abilify. Here's me and here's my depression.

1:42:29 Before I started taking Abilify, I was taking an antidepressant alone. Most days I could put on a brave face and muddle through, but other days I still struggled with my depression. I was managing, but it always had a way of creeping up on me. I felt stuck. I just couldn't shake my depression. So I talked to my doctor. He said adding Abilify to my antidepressant could help with my depression and that some people had symptom improvement as early as one to two weeks. He also told me about a free trial offer from Abilify. Now, I feel more in control of my depression. Abilify is not for everyone. Call your doctor if your depression worsens or if you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide. Antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults.

1:43:12 Elderly dementia patients taking Abilify have an increased risk of death or stroke. I'm sorry, I can't, I can't. I just can't listen to it anymore. It's like, that's the guy on the screen. Elderly patients who are fucking retarded have a, you might die. Call your doctor if you have high fever, stiff muscles and confusion to address a possible... I have confusion! Must call my doctor life-threatening condition or if you have uncontrollable muscle movements, oh I got that become permanent high blood sugar has been reported with a bill of I and medicines like it in some cases extreme high blood sugar can lead to coma or death other risks include decreases in white blood cells which can be serious I love like the Muppet

1:43:58 theme song. It sounds like something Sarah, what's that with the comedian? Sarah Silverman would play. Depression used to define me. But now I have impaired motor skills. And my doctor added Abilify to my antidepressant. Now I feel better. Call now for information and a free trial offer from Abilify. Alright, so if you're gonna have impaired motor skills and confusion, how are you supposed to call your doctor? I can't remember his name and I can't find the buttons on the phone. I'm confused.

CHAPTER 22 / 27 Discussion

Taliban Prison Break in Kandahar

Nearly 500 Taliban insurgents escaped from Sarpoza prison in Kandahar through a 360-meter handmade tunnel. The Governor of Kandahar, Tooryalai Wessa, claimed in a CBC interview that the escape was a "new technique" involving a tunnel dug through "weak cement." The hosts express extreme skepticism, suggesting the escape was likely facilitated by internal collusion or that the tunnel story was fabricated to cover a mass release.

taliban· kandahar· sarpoza prison· afghanistan· tunnel· nato· cbc

1:44:44 Wow, I got I gotta do some actual news here because this is just making me crazy So this is this is a news that comes to us from Canadia Because they there's still some real reporting going on up there so while all of these distractions are happening while we have the royal wedding I'm dizzy again John I Think I'm to call my doctor My bill of I is confusing me I Did you hear about this minor, it's just a small news story, just a little thing, a minor, minor thing, about 500 Taliban leaders who dug a...

1:45:23 a half-kilometer tunnel and escaped. A picture of the hole and the guy standing over it, the cop standing over the hole. Escaped from like cold it's it's like are you kidding me and and 500 500 Taliban I didn't see anything it's like what is this Hogan's Hogan's heroes are what is this show? Hogan's heroes couldn't do 500. So of course I looked I look everywhere I look everywhere for the news story and the only place I can- seriously, the only place I can find anything

1:45:59 is on the Canadian CBC. It's an act reminiscent of the Great Escape. Right there, it's like, it's an act. Okay, just so you know, it's an act because the whole thing is set up and rigged. That could have dire consequences for security forces in Afghanistan. Kyrgyzstan. Nearly 500 Taliban insurgents escaped from Kandahar's Sarpoza prison this morning, right under the noses of prison guards and NATO forces. A handmade tunnel dug into the prison that took months to create allowed the prisoners to take flight. The second time, hundreds of insurgents have escaped from the prison in the last three years.

1:46:36 Toria Lewis is the governor of Kandahar. I don't know where this guy came from but this guy is hilarious. Again you don't need to watch Chloe and Lamar. The funniness is just in the truth of the world. We reached him in Kandahar city Afghanistan. Hello, hello, Kandahar, Kandahar are you there? Governor Wessa how was the Taliban able to do this prison bust? Well, that's a good question that you should ask the Taliban. How did you do it? You should be asking the Taliban! I don't know! The Taliban, no? Mr. Taliban, Taliban banana. So, I mean, it was a new technique. It was... A new technique! We used a spoon!

1:47:29 A new technique, it's a hole! A new method! A new method! Please, let me just get the... So we got 500 guys, they're sitting around... This is literally like... This is Hogan's Heroes. This is Colditz. Escape from Cold... Like, hey... Got a spoon. Yeah, I got a spoon. Let's dig a hole and how are we gonna get rid of the dirt? There's all these little minor questions, but it's a new technique apparently have you been able to see the tunnel? This is the best I could find about this amazing escape even go personally, but the mission was there we brought some photos and videos and

1:48:23 So I look at that. And what does it look like? It looks like a hole! It is coming from outside, like probably around 700 meters to the south of the prison. It's coming to one of the rooms which there were political prisoners. Right into the room where the political prisoners are. Right. And that's a cement floor. So how are they able to dig down through that cement and open that mouth of the tunnel? Is this real? Is this an actual interview with the governor of Kandahar, where we have NATO troops the best our countries can provide protecting Taliban leaders? What? That was not a very strong cement. That was just like probably

1:49:20 About an inch. Oh, it was not strong cement, John. It was just an inch or so. I don't even believe there's a tunnel. I think they just let these guys out and just made the whole tunnel up. I'm not even believing it. Well, I've seen the picture of the hole. On TV? Of course. Yeah, on TV, same as him. And it's a hole, and you don't know, did anybody go in there to check it out? I don't know, it doesn't sound like it. Yeah, I think you're right. I think the whole thing is bull crap. And now he's just high, now he's just smoking opium.

1:49:58 what with governor this is a tunnel that's probably by varying estimates to be about half a kilometer long it goes out of the prison and it goes past put security checkpoints and a highway how do you think that no one was able to notice anything was going on over the five or seven months it took to build the time answer that here at that point of surprise for us to do it I tell ya, we were really surprised about that. I was really surprised. Oh my god. As end of show clip, I've got a follow up with this guy.

1:50:39 from the next day. It was so good, the ratings were so stellar after he was on, they're like, hey bring that governor guy back from Kandahar. He's hilarious. He's awesome. So they brought him on again. And I'll play that as an end of show clip. So of course, first of all, if the actual tunnel was built It was dug from the outside. But the guy in this in the end of show clip, he talks about, you know, well, how they hid the dirt because, you know, it's not like insignificant. If you ever watch those escape movies of World War Two, they're like, you know, they got they're walking around the yard and they're letting sand out of their underpants down their pant leg. And this is this amazing operation. So I think the whole thing is bogus. There's no tunnel. I show some pictures. Sounds bogus to me. I just let all these guys out. No one's going to notice 500 guys.

CHAPTER 23 / 27 Discussion

Ryan Gosling and the Conflict Minerals in Congo

Actor Ryan Gosling has become an ambassador for the Eastern Congo, campaigning against "conflict minerals" like coltan used in electronics. A British journalist reports that over five million people have died in the Congo war, which is driven by Western and Chinese corporate demand for cheap minerals. The hosts criticize the lack of mainstream media attention compared to the intervention in Libya, noting that the Congo is three times the size of Texas.

ryan gosling· congo· conflict minerals· coltan· china· hillary clinton· cell phones

1:51:29 That's a huge contingent of people roaming around or leaving or disappearing from the place. I mean, come on. It's just hilarious. Now, meanwhile, there's another little ditty as we had a celebrity ambassador show up. What's his name? We both got this. Yeah. Ryan Gosling. Yeah. Who is now the the ambassador to the Eastern Congo and once again that douchebag is his handler. Yeah, Prendergast. Prendergast, the same guy who handles George Clooney. Right. So I have some actual news

1:52:05 From a British journalist in the Congo now, let's shall we just discuss the Congo for a moment now Of course we are we are bombing Libya surgical strikes on Libya's the evil headquarters of of Gaddafi because he's horrible and he's you know massacre and killing people and the path to Persia marches as we're going to do the same in this in Syria and So I guess that, you know, as good Samaritans we should do this for every country around the world, should we not, John? If like there was a massacre going on... You know like, uh, you know they say never again. Oh yeah, I think if you got more than 10,000 people for example being just butchered by their government, I think we should jump in. Yeah, do you think five million would suffice? Would that be good? Would that be good enough? Five million. Do you think five million would be good enough for- Five million. For douchebag McCain to go visit the Congo? You think that would be okay there McCain boy? Five million. Five million. Interesting. Yeah, let's uh, let's have a listen.

1:53:04 To take briefly about one of the other wars we're involved in Intimately involved in it's the worst war in the world in terms of death. I reported on it in 2008 the war in the Congo It's very hard to give people a sense of how horrific the war in the Congo is it's been the deadliest since the Nup now by the way This is some shocking stuff. He's gonna talk about seriously. I'm not kidding So you just want to be like prepared for what he says 5 million people have died you go there and You know, you go to any hospital in Eastern Congo, you say, show me round, they'll say, sure, do you want to see the ward for the children who've been stabbed or for the women who've been gang raped and shot in the vagina? It's the most unimaginably vicious war. Now, what is this all about? So, who's in the Congo, John? Who's in the Congo? Who's in the Congo? Yeah, you know who's in the Congo.

1:53:51 The Chinese are in the Congo. Of course they are. The Chinese are in the Congo. It was, you know, by the way, it was the Belgians who raped the Congo first. It's kind of fitting they have no government now. Of course, those people now have nothing to do with that. From 1908 to 1960, it was the Belgian Congo. They raped it. They totally did. And they were killing people. They were just like, and it was British too, right? They were just going in and they were doing the exact same thing the Chinese are doing, but I guess we're too chicken crap to go in and kick the Chinese ass as they are killing people. And what are they killing people for? Well, that's really interesting. We know what the war is for. We know how it's been caused. The UN had a major investigation into it and they said the words they used were

1:54:31 Armies of business have invaded Congo to pillage its resources and sell them to the knowing West. The most valuable thing they get from Congo is Coltan, which is used to make the metal in the mobile phone I'm talking to you on now, games consoles, laptops, it's a really important metal for the global economy. We can get it from loads of places but it's actually very cheap to get it from Congo. What happened is we went in And the war is a war to control the mines that give us our condo. The UN explained very clearly, you know, they listed all the major Western corporations responsible. They said if you choke off the supply, it will end the war. We've refused to do it. You know, if we were so concerned about humanitarianism that we would be prepared to bomb other people, surely we would start by simply stopping our corporations going and causing the worst war in the world. So now we've got Ryan Gosling who I'm sure will produce some puff pieces of bull crap so we're actually placated and think, oh yeah, don't worry about the Congo because Ryan Gosling's there. It's all taken care of.

1:55:31 It's all covered. I don't even know who Ryan Gosling is. He's an actor. Yeah, well I know he's an actor but it's not like if I saw him walking down the street that I'd say, oh look, Ryan Gosling. Well, first of all you'd be pronouncing his name weird. I don't know. I don't know who he is either. I don't care. Let me take a look. Ryan Gosling campaigns against Congo's conflict of minerals. Let's see. He made a video during his trip which is unwatchable. I tried to clip something from it but it's just like, you know, black people crying. Raise hope for Congo. Please stop this bloody business. I don't know what Gosling does. He's a bee.

1:56:25 Yeah, he's a B or a C level guy. He's not like a Clooney. I don't know why they couldn't get somebody better. Weren't we looking at some woman a couple weeks ago and she was going to do the Congo and she must have gone down and said, oh my god, I'm not doing this. Judd, right? Ashley Judd. Yeah, she must have taken one look and said, I'm out of here. I'm not doing this. And by the way, there's no mention of her in this article. There you go, she's bailed. She must... Of course you bailed! It's horrible! The stuff that's going on there is outrageous. And by the way, if you want to stop this, you know, throw out your iPhone. Throw out your Apple. Your Mac. That's what this is about. We're evil. People are evil. Well, nobody means to be. Someone's a... What do you mean no one means to be?

1:57:14 Hillary Clinton, she means it. Nobody knows that there's this information is kept from people. Nobody knows that their iPhone is you know probably some dead African is in there. Oh my god, it's not in there. That's horrible. The Democratic Republic of the Condo is also huge. Oh yeah, it's like twice the size of How big is it actually? It looks like it's about twice the size of Texas. Yeah, so that's what I was gonna say. I think it may be bigger than that. The total area is 2.3 square kilometers. Yeah, that really helps me. 2.3 million square kilometers. 900 million square miles. Wow.

1:57:56 I'm sorry, 900,000 square miles is what 900 million is the whole we have to earth. 900,000 square miles of what is Texas? I don't know but that's... Well then I'll look it up while you talk. So what I'll say is when people say to us, you know, I don't listen to any other news source, that's it because you don't have to because this we are giving you the actual news. Now this will never make it into mainstream. You can see Anderson Cooper. Please Anderson Cooper, where are you Mr. Humanitarian? Why don't you show these women who have been shot Okay, it's 900,000 square miles. Texas is 268,000 square miles. So it's three times the size of Texas, which is big. Yeah, it's huge. That is huge.

1:58:38 Hey, so I just gotta lighten it up, because that really bummed me out, that clip. Thanks for livening up the show so we can walk away happy. No, but you know, we gotta do this too, it's important. Yeah, we should, we gotta get on this Congo thing, this is a big deal. Yeah, it is a huge deal, and the more information the producers can find about it, the better. Remember, no agenda. Yeah, because nobody else is covering it. No one. Where's Anderson Cooper? Douche. Vanderbilt. I heart AC 360. Be nice to Anderson, they're picking on him. NoagendaNewsNetwork.com if you want to contribute just send me an email and put No Agenda News Network in the subject. We've got more and more people coming on every single day. It's a great resource. It is totally all No Agenda all the time. It's fantastic.

CHAPTER 24 / 27 Discussion

Alzheimer's Awareness and Planet of the Apes

A coordinated media push for Alzheimer's awareness is identified, including a Larry King special and a plotline in the film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." The hosts suggest the pharmaceutical industry is "gearing up for a bonanza" by lowering diagnostic thresholds for the disease. They also play a clip from the TV show Glee that portrays parents who don't vaccinate their children as "hippies."

alzheimer's· larry king· rise of the planet of the apes· vaccines· glee· pharmaceutical industry

1:59:23 So we had two, not one but two of our producers, as you know our listeners are not listeners, they're producers, they're active in the cause of getting true information out there, who completely found what's going on with the Alzheimer's thing, John. Now we've noticed that there's been a huge push about Alzheimer's. I had a clip of Larry King on the Jimmy Kimmel show last night. Oh, do you have it? Do you have the clip? No, I didn't take it because it wasn't interesting. It was just mentioned in passing, but go on. So it's everywhere. Oh yeah. Grey's Anatomy, which I had actually hoped you would have a clip of that. You know I don't watch Grey's Anatomy. People say it's about Grey's Anatomy because they're pushing it but Larry King is doing a special this Sunday on Alzheimer's. Oh really? Yeah on CNN. Oh really? Oh geez. Now so of course there's a dual agenda.

2:00:17 Obviously, on one hand, it's the, you know, they're talking about, oh, we've got this vaccine coming out and in two years we can solve Alzheimer's. They've downgraded the diagnosis for Alzheimer's. We talked about this on the last show. So now if you just seem a little confused, Alzheimer's. Immediately, you got Alzheimer's. So this is, of course, is the pharmaceutical industry. gearing up for a bonanza. Free publicity. A total bonanza on this vaccine, which may or may not help. I mean, Alzheimer's is a horrible disease. I've seen it. It sucks. But they're getting ready for this bonanza. And of course, we cannot forget that we have a new movie coming out this year. And this is a movie where we discover a vaccine for Alzheimer's

2:01:12 You like this? You like where it's going? A vaccine for Alzheimer's and it's a fantastic, beautiful vaccine. Unfortunately, it accelerates the brain growth in apes. And it's tested on apes and here's a little bit of the trailer. It's a rise of the planet of the apes. This drug allows the brain to repair itself. We call it the cure. What's the cure?

2:01:48 We're ready to move on to the next phase. That's right, test it on gorillas. Coming August 5th. This one. It's a strong will. It has the potential to change lives. That's right! Some things aren't meant to be changed. Alright, so of course you gotta see the trailer for it really to take effect and of course then the apes take over. And this is a big movie. I have always wondered how the apes took over in the first place. Now I know it's the rise of the planet of the ape so it's a double whammy ladies and gentlemen well We got the Larry King thing coming up this Sunday, and by the way is James Franco This is like an Oscar award winner. This is not like you know John Lithgow I mean, this is a huge movie so no wonder no wonder they're pushing it. It's always about a movie yeah

2:02:49 Fantastic. So I'm... Movies and drugs, that seems to be the main thing we got. Within the countries it's movies and drugs and distractions and outside the country it's oil and war. Yeah, well we have some more promotion for the... Hey, what happened? Oh, there it is. Some more promotion for vaccines brought to us on the number one show in the nation which of course is Glee! Wait, I get the three of you being on the team is it because two of them are Asian and already wears glasses? No. Brittany Liz Schneider was our fourth, but she got rubella. Her parents are hippies who don't believe in vaccinations That's right hippies who don't believe in vaccinations. She got rubella. Yeah, just out of the blue I thought that clip was funny because it was just like Boom just drop this bomb out of the blue by the way if you're if you're against vaccines your hippie your hippie crazy hippie Your old-fashioned and a hippie. It's all wrong. Oh by the way. I do have Yes

CHAPTER 25 / 27 Discussion

FEMA ShakeOut Drill and Earthquake Preparedness

FEMA and the National Guard conducted the "Central U.S. ShakeOut," a massive earthquake drill involving 11 states and over 3 million people. Adam Curry proposes a theory that these drills are preparation for "earthquake machine war" or weather modification attacks. The hosts review an online "Quake Quiz" from San Francisco, mocking the advice to stay in bed with a pillow over one's head during a major seismic event.

fema· shakeout· earthquake· weather modification· drop cover and hold on· california· arkansas

2:03:49 I do I have to mention a couple people that I forgot to mention because of the oh, what did you forget? Oh, no, you forget some 300. No, this is good. This is fine. This goes to show 300 There's a couple guys that mail this checks and I'm just gonna mention them on Sunday on the show 300 I thought that was for 299 but not anyway, so we have today of course the great central u.s. Shake out John you've heard of this. I'm sure It's already actually taken place. This is the drill that FEMA and the Army and the National Guard... Which is a prelude to an earthquake, of course. Well, of course it is. And this is what it's about. You see, here's my theory on this. It is second half of the show after all. So you have to go to ShakeOut.org

2:04:32 And it's all over the place. Over 3 million people in 11 states practice drop, cover and hold on. Which is the slogan. Drop, cover and hold on. Hold on to what? Hold on to your ass. I don't know. Let me see. Is there a... They should have a cartoon. Oh, they do. Hold on a second. Learn about, drop, cover and hold on. Well, let's see what this is. Hold on a second. There's some video here. I didn't even see this. Let's see, mysafeLA, drop cover and hold on. Let's see, earthquake awareness and preparedness week. Oh, that's showing some devastation video here, that's always nice. January 17th, 1994, Northridge, California, dead people. Scientists know that when it comes to earthquakes in Southern California, it's not a matter of if, it's when.

2:05:31 So, of course, John, you will recall, drop and cover, drop and cover, right? This is when you were a kid, right? When we were all... Yeah, you get under the desk and they did this to us every couple days. And what was it for? What was it for? Well, in case the Russians attacked with their A-bombs, they'd blow up, we'd be safe somehow. So it's for war. For war. for war. Right, so what's happening here is we are in an earthquake machine war. We are using weather modification. The Chinese have demonstrated it by doing it to Japan. Just second half of the show stuff, this is just Adams theory, you don't have to buy into it. You can do all the slide whistle stuff you want and so now of course we have an obligation to protect our human resources because they have actual value, 9.1 million dollars and that's what we borrow against.

2:06:22 And so, you know, they know that there's a war going on and we are going to be struck by an earthquake falsely, like generated by, you know, some some foreign entity. And so we have to teach the slaves once again to drop and cover. And now it's hold on. It's the same thing. I knew I had to. Of course, I had to add something. Where's this taking place? In it's in 11 states. Just everywhere? I mean just, you know, random places? Or is there any specific location? Well no, it's in the central US of course, and I've already said... I'll tell you what it is. Here are the states. It's... this is the... so it's the whole entire mid-US. The central US, I'm sorry. For earthquakes? Yes! Yeah, Arkansas and stuff. It's been predicted, man.

2:07:09 Where you been, boy? Here we go. So we've got all of California. In fact, John, in Northern California, did you not participate in the drill this morning at 1015? I was doing the show. Yeah, well then you missed your opportunity to drop cover and hold on. I do that every time we do the show. Hey, let's play the Quake Quiz. Cool. The Quake quiz. This is hilarious, this is great. I wonder if there's any sound. Oh, I wish there was sound. What's the... This is a test. Click each scene to test how your Quake knowledge and learn how you can get prepared for an earthquake in San Francisco. Begin. Okay. So what do we have here? Why don't they have any sound? That's kind of lame.

2:07:53 Oh, you're sleeping in your bed? Oh, earthquake, earthquake, earthquake! What are you supposed to do? In the event of an earthquake while sleeping, A. Roll onto the floor next to your bed, B. Get in the doorway, or C. Stay in your bed protecting your head with a pillow. I would say protect your head with a pillow. Okay, great job! You're correct! Really, that's amazing. Next. Access your surroundings and put on shoes before getting out of bed. The hell is that? Wow. What do you do with your pets? Tip 6? Make them- HELL WITH THEM! Screw em. What about your kids? The hell with em. No, the kids you gotta grab and get em out. Or put a pillow on their head. I don't know. What does it say? Put a pillow on their head. Go in there, go in there and get them and put it- MOMMY! HE'S TRYING TO KILL US AGAIN! Shut up kid. Wow. Well, we're all gonna die.

CHAPTER 26 / 27 Discussion

Monsanto Self-Policing and Episode 299 Outro

The USDA announced a pilot program allowing Monsanto to conduct its own environmental impact studies. The hosts also note that George W. Bush canceled a trip to Switzerland due to potential war crimes charges. The episode concludes with a series of "33" sightings in financial news and a mention of a House bill mandating the construction of moon bases.

monsanto· usda· tom vilsack· george w. bush· moon bases· 33· epa

2:08:52 Anyway, so I hate to say it, but I am very very bearish on this whole thing. I'm dizzy. I think you're actually bullish. No, I'm bearish on... yeah, whatever. Let me just... I got this quick... Monsanto will be allowed to conduct its own environmental studies of themselves as part of a two-year United States Department of Agriculture experiment. They're gonna see if they can basically make sure that Monsanto essentially will now be in charge of making sure their products don't cause any environmental harm.

2:09:42 I mean, let's not forget that Tom Vilsack, who is the head of the, the secretary of agriculture, is a Monsanto, ex-Monsanto guy. Yeah. And so he's in now and he's saying, you know what, I have a great idea. Let's do a test, only a test, to see if Monsanto can police themselves. I'm sure they can do it. It'll be great. Meanwhile, you know, kids will be born with three heads. Now, I was talking about little interesting news items. There's a story, I guess it was underreported, but I ran into it in this old edition again of this Rock Creek Free Press. George W. Bush canceled his February 12th speech in Switzerland due to fear of his being arrested for... Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Because they were going to arrest him for war crimes and send him to The Hague. I think every president since Clinton is going to have this problem.

2:10:38 Yeah, well that's why they don't all go to... Why do you think all the elites are in Switzerland? Because they know no one's gonna show up. That's why Mark Rich and all those guys from Glencore are all in Switzerland. ZUK. ZUK Switzerland. Alright, anyway, last story. Do you have any 30s? Any 33s? Yeah, I got some 33s, but more importantly, a bill has been introduced and this of course, again, I'm just going to say, I mean, everyone laughs at me. I say, look, we've had moon bases for decades. They're up there. You know, they've been identified. And now finally we have a bill which is going through the House right now, which would mandate that we build moon bases.

2:11:22 I mean, you know, actual moon bases. So the way this works as usual is have the moon base. People like me start uncovering it, talking about it. We might as well say let's make it official. And we just, yeah, here's a moon base. That's how it goes. But you don't have to believe me. I'm glad you're back on the track there. I'm falling off the rails here. State regulators. State regulators list 33 ways EPA rules aren't working as a part of our magic numbers. Union Pacific profit trails estimates as fuel costs rise 33%. No. Yes. There's a little clue for you. That's right. Gasoline at a 33-month high. Bristol-Myers Post 33% profit jump. Three is the magic number.

2:12:13 It's the magic number that's right. It's a magic number everybody And there's a couple other things that you might want to check out in the show notes and no agenda show calm Great video the first the season opener of Jamie Oliver's food revolution where he shows you where your beef comes from Please watch that. It's great. You can also find that at no agenda entertainment calm we have a whole network of awesome sites of people who support this program and There is now finally a low sodium salt substitute which is, you know, they've been working on this salt thing for so long as a part of the Codex Alimentarius to get people to stop taking salt. Cardiomate is apparently the brand that will be replacing our salt. So we finally have something now. Cardiomate.

2:12:56 Well, there's a couple more 33s that I just wanted to get out of the way. Sure. Just because it's financial, I'm going to probably do Horowitz tonight. Oh, okay. And so, you know, AT&T and Foden customers jumped 33% over Verizon. Amazon profits down 33%. American Express profit is up 33%. Nice. Bristol-Myers also up 33%. So, the financial guys have got the same clues. Are you going to talk about that on... No, we don't talk about such craziness. Oh no. I mean, why do that? So, alright, well I think I've actually... I'm falling down now. Oh by the way, the spam is down 33% after the Rust stock take-down. Oh that's right, that's where the FBI now can legally invade your computer.

2:13:48 And just sit there and wait and make it turn into a honeypot? Yeah, we have to work on that. We do. Sometimes. So we try to do what we can. We do and sometimes we get duped but I think we've had some revealing moments today during the program. John, as always, I appreciate not talking to you all week except for during the show. It's so much more fun. And anybody out there, we mentioned a few things that if anyone's got some insight, we'd appreciate it. And oh, and by the way, tomorrow is the big wedding. So get up at four in the morning and watch it. So remember, we've got the Afghanistan clip as the end of clip show. And after that, Mr. Oil's crude oil show on NoahGenTheStream.com where you can always hear something awesome happening in the morning as it's in the morning somewhere.

CHAPTER 27 / 27 Discussion

Post-Show Report on Kandahar Prison Security

A detailed report by Graham Smith of the Globe and Mail examines the security failures at Sarpoza prison following the mass Taliban escape. Despite $5 million in Canadian funding for prison upgrades and staff training, prisoners were able to escape over a four-hour period without detection. The report suggests that the escape serves as a failure of the "hearts and minds" counterinsurgency strategy in the region.

sarpoza prison· kandahar· graham smith· canada· taliban· counterinsurgency

2:14:39 Coming to you from Gitmo Nation, West in the People's Republic of Southern California, where I am ready to drop cover and hold on. I'm Adam Curry. And with no further ado, I'm in Northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak. We're back here with show number 300, Sunday on No Agenda. The prison break in which suspected insurgents escaped from Sarpoza jail in Kandahar is, was stunning for more than one reason. The detainees spent months digging a tunnel, hundreds of them filed out through it, and no one did anything to stop them. As the Governor of Kanderhire told us yesterday, how they pulled it off warrants an investigation. This jailbreak comes three years after another one at Sarpoza. And that one prompted Canada to spend millions of dollars fixing up the prison and training its staff, all it would seem to no avail.

2:15:37 Graham Smith is a reporter for the Globe and Mail and he's been following this story closely. We reached him in Quetta, Pakistan. Graham, is it possible that no one knew about this escape plan before the jailbreak happened? No, absolutely not. The Quetta Taliban say that it took five months to excavate this 360-meter long tunnel, big enough for many, many people to crawl through. The government says the tunnel is even longer, and one way or another, you're talking about a lot of earth, you're talking about a big operation.

2:16:13 and even inside the uh... jail itself uh... prisoners are supposed to be locked down every night around nine p m uh... andy jubber started uh... report table ten thirty some say eleven p m uh... and so somehow the president's got out of their cells after hours and somehow uh... throughout this entire evening in one of the highest security facilities uh... in in kandahar uh... nobody bothered to check it seems on the prisoners as they spent at least four hours escaping. So, no, it's really not possible that all this could have gone down without attracting some kind of notice. The Taliban actually put out a press release saying that they managed to get everybody out and it was about, they said, four or five hours before anyone inside the prison seemed to have noticed that they were missing. Is that possible?

2:17:11 Yeah, the Taliban say that they had everybody out by sort of the middle of the night, sometime between 3 and 4 in the morning. And it wasn't until after daybreak, maybe about 7.30 in the morning, that anybody raised the alarm. We managed to get a hold of a prison official at Saposa who spoke on condition of anonymity and he said, look, you know, that's just not possible without the collusion of some of my colleagues, sadly. You know, I wasn't proud of that fact, but it does appear that to some extent, anyways, this was a job.

2:17:48 Now, as far as what happened outside of the prison and the actual civilian population around the prison in Kandahar, if there were so much dirt being dug out of this tunnel, and apparently they were just taking it into town, they were digging it up and taking it to town and selling it, but many people would have seen them doing that. Why do you think no one in the town alerted the authorities that this was going on? This is what I find so fascinating, actually, is that the area around Sarpoza Prison and the prison itself have in some ways a case study for counterinsurgent strategy. That whole area is heavily guarded. Canadians have been focusing on protecting the western approaches, Kandahar City, and pushing the Taliban back away from the western side of the city.

2:18:41 Since about 2006, it's been the bulk of Canada's effort in Canada. We've spent millions of dollars, about $5 million allotted to fix up prison and train the staff. The whole question of whether you can win hearts and minds, whether you can persuade people that you're not so bad after all by making them feel safe and by doing useful things in those areas. That whole theory seems to fall apart a little bit when you use this Sarpoza prison break as a case study.