Oh, everyone smells it. They just don't mention it - just like his Clark Kent pair of glasses "disguise" and the fact he wears his underwear on the outside.

"Is it a bird, is it a plane ... what the hell is that smell?"
"Dude! He just saved your life, cut him some slack."

Might be your bias against the Southern US accent.

Josh Clark also co-hosts the 'How Stuff Works' podcast and is a writer for their website. He is definitely not an expert on any of the stuff he discusses but he does pretty successfully convey sometimes complex information in a useful and entertaining way. The podcast is one of the most popular ones out there and I find it is a good way to kill 30 minutes learning something while cycling around town.

The Arthur C. Clarke quote at the end is what really nailed home my upvote!

Clarkium (after Arthur C. Clarke)
Saganium (after Carl Sagan)

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I broadly agree with what he's saying but he's wrong about Africa. Africa is different because the west's supply chains and the gimping of local resistance to this is already very strong and much more well established (also Somalia was in Africa last time I checked Wes).

The global supply of Gold, Diamonds, Cocoa and Coltan (used to make micro electronics) amongst others are all heavily based in African countries.
Were their supply to be jeopardised (especially Coltan) by local politics you can be assured that the relevant African country would swiftly become a scorching political hot potato.
Unfortunately such a good job as been done over the last 100 or so years of suppressing African development that such problems (with a little encouragement) tend to take care of themselves before they become a big deal. Then western interests can just back whichever co-operative warlord/corrupt regime comes out on top, quietly and without fuss.

The spice must flow!

Simply put, Africa has been beaten around by the west for that bit longer and harder than the middle east. The exploitation of Africa goes back 100's of years and around 100 years ago when western powers began to cede their direct control they made sure to fuck up the local cultural politics so badly that most countries have still yet to recover from the fallout.

The middle east only became a candy store about 60-100 years ago with the oil boom. Before that western attempts to control the middle east were largely religious in nature (though no less brutal I suppose).

I assume the "powers that shouldn't be" are well aware of this and as such the plan to which Mr. Clarke is referring represents a scheme to try and break the back of the middle east financially, politically and culturally while they still can.

That said old ideologies die hard and I suspect the old western religious motivation is still not to be downplayed. The Christian ideologues and Jewish Zionists may not use words like "Kafir" but in some way their beliefs demand that they think of outsiders in the same way.

If the God of Abraham does really exist I'm sure he finds this whole arrangement greatly amusing (I imagine nothing pleases an ego maniac more than watching sycophants fighting and killing each other for your affection).

God must die. God must remain dead. And we must kill him.

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He spoke out about it in late 2006, didn't he?

I vaguely remember reading about similar plans in Le Monde Diplomatique back in '02 or '03. Peter Scholl-Latour, I think, has been referring to similar plans at least since '02 as well, and was ridiculed for it. Until General Clark confirmed it in an interview in '07.

My understanding is that he owned a 2013 model. Also, @chingalera, my understanding is that the car was traveling south, and thus the engine was found a couple hundred feet in front (not behind) the vehicle.

Personally, I find this suspicious. Most suspicious is the call a few hours prior to the accident he made to a wikileaks attorney. Normally, I wouldn't expect official agencies to put out a "hit." There are just safer ways of going about preventing a damaging story, like detention, or smear campaigns. However, if it's possible he had damaging documents that he could release via wikileaks, it would be out of their control. In that case I'd entertain the possibility.

Also, Richard Clarke (former Counter Terrorism Czar) has points out that we have good reason to believe that major country intelligence organizations have the ability to remotely control cars. Further, he pointed out that this crash (especially the lack of skid marks) is consistent with such. He was careful, however, not to explicitly implicate any particular agencies. For my money, LAPD is at least as likely as the FBI. Those fuckers are no good.

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Comb his hair, remove the glasses and voila, you've got Clark Kent.

She really nailed the Valyrian, kudos to Emilia Clarke.