The Corbett Report

Episode 268 – Meet John Kerry, Skull and Bones Ambassador

Corbett — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:22:19 +0000

This week on The Corbett Report we look beyond the mainstream narrative of John Kerry and his background to find the real connections that have catapulted him into the corridors of power. From his billionaire wife to his Ivy League education to his Skull and Bones membership, we examine the real agenda of the new Secretary of State.

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Documentation

President Obama Nominates John Kerry for Secretary of State
Time Reference:	00:15

Sec. of State Kerry Gives First Policy Speech at UVA
Time Reference:	07:36

Kerry’s 1971 Speech Against the Vietnam War
Time Reference:	08:50

John Kerry mixes up Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
Time Reference:	09:52

Secretary of State John Kerry ‘discovers’ Kyrzakhstan
Time Reference:	10:01

Russert Asks Bush/Kerry About Skull and Bones
Time Reference:	13:55

UF Student tasered at John Kerry Speech
Time Reference:	15:08

McGovern roughed up by Clinton thugs
Time Reference:	17:21

Episode 093 – Digging Up Skull and Bones
Time Reference:	17:52

John Kerry pimps carbon austerity at COP 15
Time Reference:	20:05

Kerry, Karzai make show of unity in surprise Kabul visit
Time Reference:	20:51

CIA buys off Karzai in Afghanistan
Time Reference:	22:04

John Kerry ‘strong evidence’ Syria used chemical weapons
Time Reference:	22:50

U.N. Says Likely Rebels Used Chemical Weapons NOT Syrian Government!
Time Reference:	23:23

Jeremy Rys (and Matt) on Skull and Bones
Time Reference:	25:51

Bush’s Zapata was CIA connected
Time Reference:	25:21

1990s report on CIA drug running
Time Reference:	29:26

Portland Defeats Fluoride, London Murder, Robot Surgery – New World Next Week

Corbett — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:36:16 +0000

Welcome back 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: Portland voters reject water fluoridation
http://ur1.ca/e0dlw
Syrian Rebel ‘Cuts Out Soldier’s Heart And Eats It In Horrific Propaganda Video
http://ur1.ca/e0dn1
Tami Canal on #MarchAgainstMonsanto
http://ur1.ca/e0dnf

Story #2: British Soldier Literally Butchered On London Street
http://ur1.ca/e0dnr
Syrian rebel ‘cuts out soldier’s heart and EATS it’ in horrific propaganda video
http://ur1.ca/e0do5

Story #3: Jury deliberations to begin in first case of 26 malpractice suits involving robot surgery
http://ur1.ca/e0dp1
Predator Drone Court-Martialed For Afghani Civilian Deaths
http://ur1.ca/e0dpc
Obama Adminstration Formally Admits Killing Four Americans In Drone Strikes
http://ur1.ca/e0dpn
Who is Accountable when Drones Kill?
http://ur1.ca/7yq98

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Previous Episode: Scandal Week, Angelina Eugenics, Mini-Bilderberg
http://ur1.ca/e0dq4

Interview 666 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato

Corbett — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:43:39 +0000

Story #2: British Soldier Literally Butchered On London Street
http://ur1.ca/e0dnr
Syrian rebel ‘cuts out soldier’s heart and EATS it’ in horrific propaganda video
http://ur1.ca/e0do5

Previous Episode: Scandal Week, Angelina Eugenics, Mini-Bilderberg
http://ur1.ca/e0dq4

Inside The Corbett Report Data DVD Volume 3

Corbett — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:03:05 +0000

James takes you on a tour of the latest Corbett Report DVD: The Data DVD Volume 3 (2010). This two-disc set contains every podcast episode, interview, article and video published on the website in 2010. Clocking in at 15 GB, the set contains hundreds of hours of media on two data DVDs that can be played in any Mac or PC DVD player. Buy your copy today and help support the alternative media.

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Interview 665 – Paul Craig Roberts on the Economic Dissolution of the West

Corbett — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:07:42 +0000

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts joins us once again to discuss his latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West. We talk about the failure of outdated macroeconomic theories to describe the current economic context. We also debate the role of deregulation in the current economic crisis and discuss the political and social dissolution that American society is experiencing.

This Is What A Tyranny Looks Like

Corbett — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:02:12 +0000

by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
May 22, 2013

“Tyranny” in the popular imagination is something that exists safely in the past. It’s the stuff of museums and oil paintings of long dead emperors and grainy black-and-white footage of goosestepping Europeans. “Surely there are no tyrants these days,” say the masses. “Not in our modern western democracies.”

This is a perception that is based purely on optics. Tyrants carry scepters and wear crowns. Or they wear military uniforms and scream like madmen. They aren’t the shirt-and-tie wearing, smiling, baby-kissing political candidates in Washington or London or Berlin or Tokyo.

But in the real world tyrants are not identified by sight, they are identified by actions. So are our modern day governments tyrannical?

One of the surest signs that you are living in a tyranny is that there is a two-tier system of justice: one for the tyrants and their friends, another for everyone else. Is this so in America? Of course it is. One need only look at the recent jailing of Lauryn Hill for one somewhat trivial example of this phenomenon. Like Wesley Snipes before her, she was dragged to court and eventually jailed for money allegedly owing to the IRS. The same IRS that recently attempted to cover up its politically motivated targeting of peaceful Americans by a pre-scripted lame duck apology. The hypocrisy is overwhelming: former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was himself a tax evader, having failed to pay over $40,000 in back taxes over multiple years. Yet Geithner was not prosecuted or jailed. His crime was barely even mentioned in the media. And virtually no one batted an eyelash when he was appointed Treasury Secretary.

That, of course, is a relatively trivial example. But it is representative of the deeper problem. The tyrants of our modern age are smart enough not to declare themselves to be tyrants. They simply don’t follow the rules that have been set for the common citizens. The other smart move that they have made is that the real tyrants don’t put themselves in the supposed positions of power. Does anyone really believe that the President is the top of the food chain in Washington? But if the political puppets aren’t the tyrants, then who are? The ones who can’t get prosecuted for their crimes, obviously.

Two months ago, Attorney General Holder made one of the most stunning admissions in the history of the United States. When asked about the too-big-to-jails in the financial sector, the top law enforcement official in the land responded: “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy. And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large.”

This is the most blatant admission of tyranny in modern day America that has likely ever been put on record by such a high ranking official. And it even identifies the tyrants.

Nor is this a hypothetical or a matter of conjecture. Over the past five years, not a single senior banker in Britain has been prosecuted for their part in the financial mess that brought the world economy to its knees. In America, only a handful of executives have faced legal sanctions of any kind, and fewer still have been convicted. Two-bit crooks are arrested and jailed every day for petty burglary, but the biggest thiefs in the nation continue to walk free because, in the words of the Attorney General of the United States, prosecuting them would have a negative impact on the economy.

And so we have decisions like the HSBC settlement late last year. After admitting to laundering billions of dollars for South American drug cartels and breaking every landmark banking law on the books, the DOJ elected not to prosecute, instead imposing a fine equivalent to five weeks of income for the bank.

In a tyranny, there is one set of laws for the common person and another for the tyrants. We are living under just such a system.

Nuclear Secrets: How America Helped Pakistan Get the Bomb

Corbett — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:30:50 +0000

by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
May 21, 2013

In this series of Eyeopener reports, we have been exploring the whistleblowers in the national intelligence establishment of the United States that have put their careers (and in some cases even their lives) on the line to shine a spotlight on the fraud, corruption and treason in the highest positions of power in the land. From the abuses of the NSA in its war against the American citizenry to the shocking details of Homeland Security informants participating in murders in Mexico with the full complicity of their government handlers, there is sadly no shortage of stories to explore. Perhaps one of the most unsettling stories, however, concerns what has been for the past half century regarded as one of the primary security threats not just to the United States but to the entire planet: nuclear proliferation.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani national, was working at a centrifuge production facility in the Netherlands in 1974 when he first offered his services to the Pakistani government to offer them help with their nuclear program. After convincing them to develop a uranium-based bomb, he began stealing nuclear designs from the Dutch company he was working for. What followed was a three decade affair in which Khan and the nuclear network he developed not only successfully helped Pakistan acquire the knowledge, equipment and materials to build their own bomb, but allegedly helped to proliferate that technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea as well.

As we explored in a previous edition of the Eyeopener, however, the Khan network was known about and actively protected from its very inception by the CIA.

Amongst the many pieces of evidence that come together to paint this picture of American involvement in helping to protect and even foster Khan’s proliferation network is the extraordinary story of former CIA analyst Richard Barlow, who, as a specialist in counter-proliferation in the 1980s, had a chance to discover and expose the shocking truth: that elements in the highest levels of the intelligence community, the state department, and even the White House knew about Pakistan’s procurement activities but actively turned a blind eye to them.

Shortly after joining the CIA in the mid-1980s, Barlow began amassing reams of evidence related to Pakistan’s nuclear activities. He quickly discovered, however, that senior government officials were actively working to suppress this information in direct violation of national and international proliferation protocols.

In the most egregious incident, Barlow and US Customs carefully developed a sting operation to catch Arshad Pervez, a Pakistani businessman, and Inam ul-Haq, a retired brigadier from the Pakistani army, attempting to purchase materials for a uranium centrifuge from a Pennsylvania company. Pervez was arrested, but ul-Haq, the main target, never arrived. Later, Barlow discovered cables proving that ul-Haq had been tipped off about the sting by high-ranking officials extremely close to the White House. Although the State Department did their best to cover up the incident, Congressman Stephen Solarz secured a closed congressional hearing on the issue at which Barlow was meant to testify about what had happened.

As Barlow told the Boiling Frogs podcast back in 2009, however, no one was interested in him actually telling the truth about what had happened.

Barlow bravely stuck to his guns and refused to mislead Congress on the details of what he had uncovered. As his reward, those offices in charge of America’s covert war in Afghanistan lined up to try and have him fired. Ultimately, he was vindicated: the Pakistani agents from Barlow’s sting operation were convicted and the Solarz Amendment was triggered. Immediately, however, Reagan issued a national security waiver and, in the words of Seymour Hersh, told Pakistan “that it could have its money and its bomb.”

Realizing he was now a marked man, Barlow left the CIA and took a position at the Pentagon, beginning work in the Pentagon’s Office of Non-Proliferation Policy on January 1, 1989 under incoming Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Despite the fact that the Afghan war was over and the Cold War was all but finished, however, it wasn’t long before he encountered the exact same pressures as before with regards to Pakistan’s nuclear program. This time, the attempts to cover for Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities centered around a $1.6 billion General Dynamics contract for F-16s.

Barlow’s story is chilling because it exposes the grim truth that all of the platitudes and rhetoric about the dangers of proliferation spouted by Washington year after year is precisely that: platitudes and rhetoric. Despite the condescending lectures that are delivered at nuclear security summits about the reckless nature of the Iranian and North Koreans in their nuclear programs, the sober truth is that the world’s largest nuclear superpower has also been responsible for protecting the network that enabled the very proliferation that they now hypocritically seek to condemn.

In most cases, even most national security cases, corruption, hypocrisy and double dealing is dangerous and lamentable. But when it comes to nuclear security, it is the very fate of the planet that hangs in the balance. And what has come of the brave individual who stood up to some of the most powerful political figures in the world to speak the truth on this issue? After an intense smear campaign designed to destroy his personal and professional life, his marriage fell apart and he was unable to find employment in his field of work due to the revocation of his security clearance. In 2005, the authors of an A.Q. Khan biography were shocked to find Barlow living in motor home in Montana with his two dogs.

This is the plight of the whistleblower in the face of the American political establishment. And until the story of Barlow and others like him is exposed and examined with the same vigour that the media now reserves for celebrity scandals and political minutiae, absolutely nothing will change.

Interview 664 – Radio Liberty: Origins of the Federal Reserve

Corbett — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:52:51 +0000

Today in their weekly conversation on politics and finance, James and Dr. Stan Monteith discuss the origins of the central banking system in the United States and its current form in the Federal Reserve system. They also take calls on a range of economic and political questions and discuss the non-fear-based solution of cooperation and building of alternative local systems.

G20 Policing, Chinese Internet, Troubled Waters – Asia-Pacific Perspective

Corbett — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:41:00 +0000

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:
Queensland government considering unprecedented police powers for next year’s G20 Summit
http://ur1.ca/dw2k8
Queensland police to use surveillance drones to “combat crime” ahead of G20 conference
http://ur1.ca/dw2kd
It’s Fortress Brisbane – the huge security operation for G20 conference
http://ur1.ca/dw2kh

STORY #2:
China’s state media praises online exposes
http://ur1.ca/dw2kq
China Graft Probe ‘Likely First of Many’
http://ur1.ca/dw2l4

STORY #3:
Japan PM warns of possible military response to Chinese subs
http://ur1.ca/dw2ll
South Korea, US launch two-day naval exercise amid regional tensions
http://ur1.ca/dw2lo
Taiwan threatens Philippines with sanctions
http://ur1.ca/dw2lu

Interview 663 – The Asia-Pacific Perspective with Broc West

Corbett — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:18:54 +0000

STORY #2:
China’s state media praises online exposes
http://ur1.ca/dw2kq
China Graft Probe ‘Likely First of Many’
http://ur1.ca/dw2l4