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In this edition of the ongoing Questions For Corbett podcast series, James answers your questions on a range of subjects, shows you a slice of life from western Japan, and answers the age-old question “Why are you still alive?”

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Episode 179 – What Caused the 3/11 Earthquake?

Corbett Report Radio 080 – HAARP, Earthquakes and Mind Control with Dr. Nick Begich

Official: US govt already seized hundreds of foreign domains

77.235.49.11/~corbett2

Protecting Yourself From Japanese Insanity

Corbett Report T-shirt (Red Hot Inkers)

Corbett Report Radio 109 – The New World Order Does Not Control Everything

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David L. Smith of GenevaBusinessInsider.blogspot.com joins us for our monthly discussion on economics, finance and politics. This month we cover the Cyprus bail-ins, the latest developments in the Bank of Japan’s quantitative easing plans, and the latest on the Swiss citizen initiative to account for the country’s gold.

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For generations we have been taught that the ideal journalist is fair, balanced and objective. But the idea of the objective journalist is a myth. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we explore the ideologies and assumptions behind all news media and what alternative models we have for journalism in the online era.

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Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: North Korean Army Says It Has Final ‘Approval’ For Nuclear Attack On US
http://ur1.ca/d9git
U.S. to deploy anti-missile system to Guam
http://ur1.ca/d9gkf
North Korea’s Threats Show That Canada Needs To Be Part Of U.S. Missile Defence Pact
http://ur1.ca/d9gr4
North Korea Vows to Restart Shuttered Plutonium Reactor
http://ur1.ca/d9gra
Ignore the Headlines: Korean Peninsula Has Been In A “State of War” For More Than 60 Years
http://ur1.ca/d9grd

Story #2: A Ridiculous Number Of Americans Believe In Crazy Conspiracy Theories
http://ur1.ca/d9grn
Public Policy Polling poll results
http://ur1.ca/d9gru
PPP Press Release on poll
http://ur1.ca/d9fyu

Story #3: Nokia Patent Covers Tattoo That Vibrates When Your Phone Rings
http://ur1.ca/d9grx
Stanford Creates Biological Transistors, Final Step Towards Computers Inside Living Cells
http://ur1.ca/d9gsc
President Obama Launches Initiative To Get Inside Your BRAIN
http://ur1.ca/d9gsn
Ground Zero: Short Circuit – Burn Out Your Dead
http://ur1.ca/d9gsv

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Previous Episode: Monsanto Protection, Kerry+Karzai, BRICS Bank
http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=7179

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by James Corbett
GRTV.ca
April 3, 2013

Recent events in the EU have taught many a hard lesson: that the Euros or Dollars or Yen or Pesos in your bank account are only as secure as the bank that is holding them. In fact, the lesson is deeper than that. That the money in your bank account is not cash at all, not pieces of paper sitting in a bank vault waiting for you to withdraw them, but mere digital ones and zeros in the bank’s database, capable of being subtracted from your account at a moment’s notice, or even less. Cash that is not in your hand, it turns out, is not cash at all.

This should be reason to give pause for thought about some of the deeper issues behind our current international financial order: what is money, after all, if it is not physical pieces of paper that we keep in our wallet? And if we don’t control it, who does?

As opposed to this system of financial control by a few bankers, heading as it is toward a seemingly inevitable financial collapse that threatens to crash the entire world economy, there are many alternate ideas for facilitating transactions. Some advocate for a gold-backed system, or some other hard asset backed currency that protects against rampant government printing and the possibility of hyperinflation. Others tout debt-free government-issued money, spent into the economy on infrastructure and other tangible benefits to the community and kept in check through taxation or demurrage. Yet others believe the answer lies in more technological solutions, pointing to the recent success of the online crypto-currency Bitcoin as an example of a different way to think about money.

While there are merits and demerits to all of these systems, it is vital that we realize the issue of monetary reform is not constrained to hoped-for changes to our current system that will possibly be implemented one day in the future in all-at-once changeover. In fact, there exists right now the globe examples of alternative currencies that are currently existing alongside the Federal Reserve notes and Euros and other bankster-manipulated debt-based fiat money systems that are already helping facilitate transactions and grow local economies all around the globe. [See this and this and this and this and this.]

These alternative systems do not require a resolution to be passed in congress or parliament, and do not require any wholesale change in the international financial order. These currencies already exist and are already thriving in numerous localities around the globe. Referred to as complementary currencies, they provide a way for communities to bypass the inflation tax and arbitrary confiscation that defines the modern era of central-bank administered currency. Just as the fiat money printed up by these central banks (or issued as debt in the form of back loans) are backed up by the collateral of the people’s promise to pay later through the sweat of their own labor, so too can these complementary currencies be issued through the people’s own labor. The difference being that in this system, the money is not controlled by banksters in closed door meetings in far away offices, but by the people themselves, in their own back yards.

One example of a complementary currency success story is the Ithaca Hours currency issued in Ithaca, New York. Launched in 1991 as a way to invigorate the local economy, Ithaca Hours have since facilitated millions of dollars in transactions and helped businesses and customers alike bypass the uncertainties of the Federal Reserve notes of the central banking economy.

Earlier this week I talked to Paul Glover, developer of the Ithaca Hours system, about the project, and how it has transformed the local economy of Ithaca.

Now, similar ideas are springing up all across America and around the globe. From mutual credit systems to time banking to private currencies and social currencies, there are no shortage of ideas for how to transition off of the current system in a gradual manner while increasing and facilitating local trade.

Last month, I had the chance to talk to Wayne Walton, one of the organizers behind the Colorado Mountain Hours complementary currency, about this idea, and how it is being implemented in the Summit County area.

As with so many other ideas for resistance of the status quo, the complementary currency idea is only as strong as the public’s willingness to use it. Sadly, the comfortable inertia that the status quo offers is enough to keep many from even entertaining the idea of using a different form of money. But as the people in Volos, Greece and other cash-strapped locations around the globe are finding, having an established complementary currency can help a community survive and even thrive in the midst of the economic chaos that we can all see coming.

Just as currencies like Ithaca Hours and Mountain Hours have proven themselves to be successful, so have many complementary currencies withered away from lack of community support. But in this age of Cyprus-style bail-ins, debt ceiling crises, and the ever-looming risk of hyperinflationary currency death spirals, it is incumbent on all of us to identify and support, or even create, a complementary currency system in our own local area.

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by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
April 2, 2013

When faced with the overwhelming evidence of the widespread, systemic conspiracies that take place at the very highest levels of government, the general public has been pre-programmed to respond with the all-too-familiar retort: “But someone would have talked.”

This reasoning is sufficient for most people to return to their day-to-day lives. No matter how much documented information is presented to someone in such a mindset, they can satisfy themselves that there are no whistleblowers who question the official narrative of 9/11, or the actions of the NSA, or the involvement of government agencies in drug running, or any of the other well-documented examples of conspiracies involving the upper echelons of politics and the intelligence apparatus of the government. To these people, the mere uttering of the words themselves are enough to dismiss any mountain of evidence: “But someone would have talked.”

The implication is that no one has talked on these issues, that no insider has ever stepped forward to reveal the uncomfortable truths of active conspiracy in the hallowed halls of government. This is, of course, an easy enough assertion to prove patently false.

It would be all too easy to continue going on (and on and on) with such examples from the modern era of American politics, let alone whistleblowers from other countries and other time frames. In fact, even a few hours of research on the internet these days would be sufficient to bring up more examples of similar whistleblowers than could even be enumerated in a short video like this. This embarrassment of riches in the search for counter-arguments to that favorite debunker refrain, “But someone would have talked,” brings up an important question: if so many people have, in fact, talked, then why are these stories so completely unknown to the public?

Sadly, the answer to this question is obvious enough. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? And if an insider blows the whistle on government conspiracy and no journalist reports on it, does it make a difference?

The refusal of the corporate media to report on these whistleblowers should be as obvious as their motivations for participating in the cover-up. Anyone who, in the post-Iraq era, any longer doubts the monolithic corporate-government propaganda nexus that is the mainstream “news” are simply deluding themselves. The defense contractors, financiers, and other multi-billion dollar industries that thrive off of the corporate welfare and government protection they buy from government regulators have too much invested in the status quo to ever rock the boat with anything approaching the muckraking journalism of yesteryear, much less to even mention the stories of these insiders and whistleblowers.

But as I have been documenting in my work here at BoilingFrogsPost.com and elsewhere for some years now, there is an even more direct attack on whistleblowers that is taking place now. Although attempts to silence dissent have always existed throughout the history of the American Republic and every other institutional power structure, these attacks began to be systematized during the Bush administration through the use of the state secrets privilege and other draconian measures, and have reached a crescendo under Obama, who has gone further than any other administration in the history of the United States to silence the whistleblowers who threaten to upset the officially-sanctioned war on terror / war on drugs narrative. [See this and this and this.]

The answer to this coordinated attack on whistleblowers is relatively simple: to document the abuses and to shake the public from the smug complacency that allows them to dismiss the reality of government corruption and illegal activity. Whereas the bought-and-paid for corporate media and the equally controlled foundation-funded media will never offer more than a cursory glance at these stories, the alternative grassroots online media still has (for the time being) the ability to operate independently and to shine a light on these gross abuses of power. This is why it is incumbent on all of us to educate ourselves and educate others about these insiders who in some cases have risked their very lives to bring this information to us.

To this end, we will present in the coming weeks a series of Eyeopener reports to introduce our viewers to the stories of various of these whistleblowers, stories that the vast majority of the public, and even followers of alternative media, know little about. And with these reports as a resource, perhaps finally we will be able to answer the age-old retort of the naysayers, “But someone would have talked,” with a rejoinder of our own: “But they HAVE talked. Now why haven’t you been listening?”

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The United States has sent F-22 stealth fighter jets, to participate in ongoing military drills with South Korea. Pyongyang earlier said it was in a ‘state of war’ with the South following the latest round of sanctions over its nuclear test two months ago. In turn Seoul warned that its ready to carry out a pre-emptive strike on its neighbour, in case of imminent attack. James Corbett, host of the Corbett Report – believes that the U.S. is playing a dangerous game by trying to benefit financially from the tension which could spill over at any moment.

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James Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net are pleased to bring you the latest edition of their monthly video series, “The Asia-Pacific Perspective.” In this episode, we cover:

STORY 1:
Australian Govt. to leave public in $165b worth of debt in this term alone
http://ap-perspective.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/australian-government-to-leave-public.html
Julia Gillard makes no promises to leave superannuation untouched
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/penny-wong-calls-for-calm-over-superannuation-tax/story-e6frg6n6-1226607390721
Rudd, Gillard and the impossible politics of Australian leadership
https://theconversation.com/rudd-gillard-and-the-impossible-politics-of-australian-leadership-12992

STORY 2:
Trans-Myanmar pipeline to give China a strategic boost
http://ap-perspective.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/trans-myanmar-pipeline-gives-china_27.html
Aung San Suu Kyi’s “Saffron Monks” stalk streets with machete’s – mass slaughtering refugees
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/aung-san-suu-kyis-saffron-monks-stalk.html
Politics in Myanmar remain murky
http://ap-perspective.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/politics-in-myanmar-remain-murky.html
A war of many interests in Myanmar
http://ap-perspective.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/a-war-of-many-interests-in-myanmar.html
Myanmar (Burma) “Pro-Democracy” Movement a Creation of Wall Street & London
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.jp/2011/11/burmese-pro-democracy-movement-creation.html

STORY 3:
Japan: On the cusp of energy independence?
http://ap-perspective.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/japan-on-cusp-of-energy-independence_27.html
Does Japan’s recent discovery change the global energy game?
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/03/25/does-japans-recent-discovery-change-the-global-ene/
TPP could see Japan being fooled again by U.S. political hoodwinking
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/770239.shtml#.UVPtsjfWNmM

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James Corbett of corbettreport.com joins Gary Franchi of WHDT9 on the Next News Network to discuss recent reports of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. They also talk about the new so-called Syrian Prime Minister-in-exile, the possibility of war in the region, and the implications of the government-media nexus.

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There are many arguments to be made against the concept of government: arguments from effect, arguments of morality. But there is an even more fundamental argument to consider: government authority does not exist. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore the most dangerous superstition.

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