New World Last Week
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
April 30, 2023
Let me guess: you're sitting there in your Corbett Report T-shirt and your (brand spanking new) Media Monarchy baseball cap with your beverage of choice by your side, constantly refreshing The Corbett Report home page in the vain hope that the latest edition of New World Next Week will suddenly appear, right?
In fact, you're beginning to wonder if you'll have to turn to a fake AI "news source" to find out what's going on in the world if James and James don't appear on your screen soon, aren't you?
And now you're getting agitated: "I mean, are they even anarchists?!"
OK, first of all: breathe. It's going to be alright.
Having said that, I do have two pieces of bad news for you:
1) James and I are in the middle of a two-week New World Next Week hiatus;
and
2) You clearly didn't catch the end of last week's episode where we explained all this.
But trust me, I get it. It's a weird, confusing world out there, and it's nice to have a couple of friendly faces breaking it all down for you with their trademark wit, insight and humour, isn't it?
OK, here's what I can do for you. In this week's editorial I'll go through three news stories from around the world—stories that very well could have (would have?) been covered on New World Next Week if we were producing an episode this week—and I'll break them down for you the same way I would have on the de-program.
Deal?
Great. Now, enough chit-chat! Let's go!
STORY #1: Tuckered Out: "Tucker Carlson Fired By Lachlan Murdoch; Here's What We Know" via ZeroHedge.com
After an entire day wondering why in the hell Fox News would can the highest-rated cable news host in the world ever, The New York Times comes out with this:
Who:
"The decision to let Mr. Carlson go was made on Friday night by Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corporation, and Suzanne Scott, chief executive of Fox News Media, according to a person briefed on the move. Mr. Carlson was informed on Monday morning by Ms. Scott, another person briefed on the move said."
Why?
"[T]he power that Mr. Carlson, 53, wielded outside Fox News could not insulate him from a growing list of troubles inside the network related to his conduct on and off the air, some of which had been grating on Mr. Murdoch and his father, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, who co-founded the network in 1996, according to the two people with knowledge of the company’s decision.
"The host, a polarizing and unpopular figure at the network outside of his own staff, was exposed as part of a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems as a bully who denigrated colleagues and sources, often in profane and sexist language, and called for the firing of Fox journalists whose coverage he disliked. He has also drawn condemnation from the right and left for his role in fostering a revisionist account of the assault on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."
<WITTY PILATOESQUE ASIDE>But let's leave it to that most esteemed of Twitterati pundits, @DC_Draino, to tell us what really happened</WITTY PILATOESQUE ASIDE>
"3 days ago: Tucker’s opening monologue calls out mainstream media’s role in pushing the Covid vaccines despite their high risk for serious side effects and death.
"Today: Tucker is no longer with Fox.
"This is the power of Big Pharma."
My take: I will refrain from making any ad hominem attacks on Tucker Carlson, the bowtie-wearing Crossfire flunky whose preparation for his starring role as Bill O'Reilly's replacement at Fox doubtless involved practicing his distractingly stupid, open-mouthed gaze of bewilderment in the mirror for thousands of hours. After all, such superficial observations—however devastatingly accurate—would detract from the real point here.
So what is the real point?
Well, some—like @DC_Draino and RFK, Jr.—would argue the point is that Tucker was the only lamestream broadcaster daring to question the COVID vaccine lies, and thus the real point of Tucker's firing is that it demonstrates the terrifying power Big Pharma wields over its shills in the dinosaur media.
And some would argue—given that Tucker is the son of a literal deep state agent (Richard “Dick” Carlson, who participated in regime change operations for the U.S. Information Agency), that he has vigorously mocked 9/11 truth, that he was only ever cosplaying as a "populist" to win over would-be freethinkers, and that he serves as a vehicle for inserting globalist talking points into mainstream discourse and promoting flawed ideologies to a largely trusting audience—the real point of this saga is that Tucker Carlson does not deserve 1/10th of the veneration that he gets from the "alternative" media crowd.
And you know what? Both of these viewpoints are correct . . . which is to say they're both wrong.
Yes, of course Tucker Carlson demonstrably did go further in pointing out Big Pharma's lies than anyone else on network TV. In fact, he even called out the media itself for its role in leading us into the technocratic nightmare.
And, at the same time, no, he is not a shining Hero of Truth who deserves to be put on a pedestal and worshipped for being right some of the time.
But to me, the real point is this: the fact that people are devoting even a moment's thought to what is taking place at Fox News or at any of the other establishment media outlets is itself a sign that we have a long way to go before we break free of The Media Matrix. The idea that "if only Tucker Carlson could have remained on TV for a little while longer he could have saved the world!" is a manifestation of the same hopium that deluded people into thinking that "if only Trump could have gotten another term in office he could have saved us from the Warp Speed MAGA jabs that he claimed were his greatest accomplishment!"
Wake up! Stop worshipping media personalities! Stop caring what is happening on the tell-lie-vision! Start making things happen in real life!
STORY #2: Syria Comes in From the Cold via ronpaulinstitute.com
While the world continues to come to grips with the reality — and consequences — of the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East.
This one is orchestrated by the Russians. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan flew to Damascus last week, where he met Syrian President Bashar Assad. This visit followed that of Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad earlier this month to Riyadh.
The two countries severed diplomatic relations in 2012 at the beginning of a Syrian civil conflict that saw Saudi Arabia throwing its money behind anti-regime fighters seeking to remove Assad from power.
The startling diplomatic about-face is part of a new Saudi Arabian foreign policy, embodied in its historic new relationship with Iran, which seeks to engender regional stability through conflict resolution instead of military-brokered containment.
As the Saudi Foreign Ministry noted on bin Farhan's visit to Damascus, the Saudi goal is "to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis that would end all its repercussions and preserve Syria’s unity, security, stability and Arab identity and restore it to its Arab surroundings."
My take: The Syrian crisis has long since disappeared from the 24/7 news cycle, and as a result the TV-addicted normies have long since forgotten about the suicidal monster Assad gassing his own civilians. Predictably, they're too busy obeying the talking heads' command to wave blue-and-yellow flags to worry about the Syrian children they once pretended to care about. Sadly, even the so-called "alternative" media has (as usual) chased the MSM tail down the Ukrainian rabbit hole and forgotten all about the Syrian debacle.
So, just in case any of the clued-in, switched-on, hyper-intelligent New World Next Week viewers out there have missed the significance of this development, let me state it as clearly as possible. The reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and its Arab neighbours is one of the most significant geopolitical events of the past decade, not because it provides hope for peace and stability in a war-torn region that so desperately needs it—although that is important, to be sure—but because it signals two developments of world-historical significance. First, it tells us that the American Empire has failed in its decade-long quest to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. And second, it confirms that Saudi Arabia (the backbone of the petrodollar arrangement undergirding the global monetary system) is inching out from the American military/diplomatic umbrella.
To put it even more simply: the age of the erroneously named "Pax" Americana—the era of the unipolar world order—is truly coming to an end.
For those of us who have spent many years calling out NATO and attempting to set the record straight about the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the American Empire, this is a landmark moment.
. . . However (and you just knew there was a "however" coming, didn't you?) we should not use this seeming breakthrough as an excuse to turn off our critical thinking switch. There will be those who will hail the rise of a new military/diplomatic opposition bloc led by China and Russia and who will declare the threat to human freedom over. Unfortunately for those who are craving their next hopium fix, we need to critically examine whether this opposition bloc is actually in opposition to the aims of the technocrats.
As the Scott Ritter article linked above accurately reports:
Saudi Arabia has embarked on an ambitious project, Vision 2030, which seeks to transition the oil-rich kingdom away from its current over-reliance on energy production to a more diversified economy based upon modern technologies and non-energy economic initiatives.
Indeed, let's keep in mind that the very Saudi regime looking to thaw relations with Syria is the same Saudi regime that's attempting to position itself as a leader in the technocratic, "post-carbon" world by recognizing robot citizens and promoting Neom nonsense and launching its "Vision 2030," an overhyped globalist plan whose "Vision Document" mouths all the same platitudes about "environmental sustainability" and "digital transformation" that the UN uses to talk about its 2030 Agenda.
And let's also keep in mind that the very Russian regime brokering the Syria-Saudi talks and the Syria-Turkey talks is the same Russian regime that has gone out of its way to inflict the biosecurity agenda on its own citizens, pushing the same experimental genetic slurry clot shots on its population as the bad guys in the West (and when I say "the same shots" I mean literally the same shots, producing the same "died suddenly" results) and rolling out the Digital ID and Central Bank Digital Currency infrastructure to track, trace and surveil every Russian citizen in the same way the technocrats in the West want to track, trace and surveil their citizens.
So . . . yay! The US' ability to determine world events is waning.
But also . . . nay! We should not be excited about the rise of an "alternative" bloc that has openly demonstrated time and time again that it is no alternative whatsoever, no matter how much we'd like to believe it's going to deliver us from NATO's evil.
STORY #3: Specter of ‘Soylent Green’ raised in legislative debate over human composting, which proponents say is an eco-friendly way to deal with remains via The Chicago Tribune
Daniel Hennessy's mother didn't want to be buried when she died, because she didn't want her body to take up any land.
He wasn't a fan of cremation, but given his mother's request, he felt that was the only option when she died a few years ago.
Hennessey began reading up on a process called natural organic reduction, which allows human remains to be converted into soil. It’s also known as "human composting."
He came to find it both honorable and eco-friendly.
"I think that the human composting option appears to be the best for the environment. It makes sense. It's a slow process. So it feels a bit more dignified than being burned at 1,200 degrees," said Hennessy, a native of England who lives in Chicago.
At Hennessy’s urging, state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, a Chicago Democrat, tried early last year to push through legislation that would codify natural organic reduction as an alternative to handling human remains.
That effort failed, but Cassidy reintroduced the bill and, after a debate that included references to the 1973 dystopian thriller "Soylent Green," the Illinois House last month narrowly approved the measure, which is now before the Senate.
If Cassidy's legislation gets enough votes in that chamber and is signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois would become the seventh state in the country to legalize the process. Cassidy has also indicated that she wishes to have her remains go through human composting.
[. . .]
State Rep. Steven Reick, a Republican from Woodstock, voiced strong opposition to the proposal, and brought the abortion rights positions of Cassidy and other Democrats into the debate.
"This is coming, of course, from people to whom an embryo is nothing but a mass of cells that can be disposed of when inconvenient and now we see that at the end of life, we're nothing more than food for worms," Reick said.
Reick likened the potential effects of the legislation to the fictional scenario in Soylent Green, which depicts an environmentally degraded Earth of the future where the masses are left to eat the title substance, the provenance of which is bellowed out by Charlton Heston as the movie ends.
"I don't know if anybody remembers back to the old movie 'Soylent Green,' Reick said. "I think we're going to probably reach that point in this debate. Because as we all know, 'Soylent Green is people.'"
[. . .]
To break down nonembalmed human remains, they are placed in a container, or vessel, atop a bed of wood chips, alfalfa and straw, with similar materials placed over the remains, to enable microbial activity, she said. For about two months the microbial activity breaks down the remains into soil, which is given to the families.
"You can receive back, after they've been transformed, this soil that's actually nutrient rich, actually can go on to grow new life," Spade said. "And for many people, we hear that's very comforting to know that after they've died ... they will live on in a way."
[. . .]
"Turning human persons into compost for the purposes of fertilization that would occur with vegetable trimmings, eggshells, etc., it degrades the human person and we think it dishonors a life that was lived by that person. And it affects the memory of that person and all those who knew that individual," Gilligan said. "Every human being is not just something, but someone."
My take: Ugh.
This is another one of those stories that may sound perfectly innocuous to the innocent, trusting naif who takes mainstream narratives at face value. I mean, once you're dead, what does it matter how you dispose of the body? Whether you bury it or cremate it or turn it into fertilizer, it's all basically the same, right?
However, as I've pointed out time and time again, the globalist agenda is, at base, an anti-human agenda, and the fulfillment of that agenda is predicated on breaking down every vestige of our regard for human life. Humanity isn't something to be cherished, after all, it's something to be reviled. It's a cancer on our planet that's consuming too many resources and destroying too much of Mother Nature, and it would be best for the universe if we all just died.
In fact, this twisted line of thought goes even further: why do we value "life" at all? After all, as you'll recall from my discussion of the Biodigital Convergence document from Policy Horizons Canada, the coming transhuman merger of man and machine blurs the line between living and nonliving matter itself:
As we continue to better understand and control the mechanisms that underlie biology, we could see a shift away from vitalism – the idea that living and nonliving organisms are fundamentally different because they are thought to be governed by different principles. Instead, the idea of biology as having predictable and digitally manageable characteristics may become increasingly common as a result of living in a biodigital age. Any student of biology today will have grown up in a digital world and may consciously or subconsciously apply that frame of reference to bioinformatics and biology generally.
So yes, we should be very wary when dinosaur media outlets suddenly start giving free advertising to fringe ideas that seek to challenge practices as old as human civilization itself, especially when that challenge is itself based on more Malthusian nonsense about graveyards "taking up too much land" or other self-evident nonsense.
But the worst part about this entire idea is encapsulated in the reference to Soylent Green. You just know that once the globalists have successfully shoved the Eat Ze Bugs agenda down the public's throat (literally), the Eat Ze Humans agenda will not be far behind. I mean, we've already seen the "celebrity meat" idea being trial-ballooned and, as James and I have documented in the past, the media have been strangely obsessed with cannibalism for years now. I'm sure they've run their marketing studies to determine that they can most effectively overcome the public's cannibalism "ick factor" by introducing it in terms of "human composting."
"Remember grandma forever by using her to fertilize your tomato plants!"
And, as regular viewers of New World Next Week will know, there's only one reaction to this horrific thought, namely:
THE NEW WORLD NEXT WEEK SIGH
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