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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Live Free Now show,

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bringing you the news, views, tips, and tools you can use to live free,

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prosperous, and healthy life.

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We've had a couple evening editions of the program.

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Last week, we interviewed Tom Barnett on Natural Law. That was at six o'clock

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because he was in Australia, down under.

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Our next guest is coming in from the other side of the world, kind of.

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I guess he'd go this way. But really excited to hear from the one,

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the only, James Corbett The Corbett Report, CorbettReport.com He's an OG conspiracy researcher,

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solutionary That has been in the game for quite some time And the beauty of

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being in the game for a while is it gives you perspective,

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Because a lot of folks wake up, quote-unquote wake up And it's like a fresh

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thing And there's a tendency to get caught in a reactionary trap.

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But when you're rooted in principles, when you've seen cycle after cycle after

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cycle, you start to pick up on patterns.

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And so I really want to dive deep on that with Mr. James, because we want to,

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you know, kind of protect our movement in a way.

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And unfortunately, far too often we see people fall victim of a psyop within a psyop.

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And we kind of feel like, oh, we got it all figured out. We were awake.

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We were red pilled. And all the normies, they're being taken for a ride by the mainstream media.

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And then, unfortunately, the alternative media, maybe it's clickbait.

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Maybe they want to play up the sensationalism. But then there's also maybe some

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intelligence influence in some of this alternative media or mainstream alternative

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media, as some would call it.

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And so I just want to make sure that folks get grounded in some principles.

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Don't get taken for a ride. as part

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of the conspiracy movement because it's a

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huge thing now and and they're like how do we deal with

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this oh let's co-opt it classic move and

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of course we're going to talk about solutions uh james is somebody that really

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it was an interview james did with derrick bros i went back and backtracked

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i think it was 2016 and that's really what helped us get the freedom cell network

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the first little growth of that network which has since turned into a big global movement.

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But without further ado, let's bring on the one, the only Mr.

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James Corbett. How are you, James?

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I'm doing all right, John. Thanks for having me on. And first of all,

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how's the connection? I noticed a little bit of a hiccup there when we started rolling.

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It's good. It's good on my end. All right, good. I hope my picture quality is holding up.

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I did my test earlier and everything looked good, so I'm going to monitor it

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over here on the YouTubes.

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Okay, cool. Yeah, a lot of people are familiar with you. People have been following

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you for a while, but if folks aren't familiar with James Corbett and the Corbett

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Report, if you just want to introduce yourself real quick.

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Sure. I'm James Corbett, CorbettReport.com. I've been living and working in Japan for 20 years.

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I've been doing the Corbett Report for 18 years. I started back in 2007.

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And at that time, I thought I was late to the podcasting game.

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Turns out I might have been a bit on the early side. And it's a good thing I

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was because over that time, I've been able to build up an audience of people

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who are able to support my work so I can do this full time.

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Basically, I talk about news and politics and society and philosophy and science

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and history and absolutely anything else that tickles my fancy.

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And as you say, I like that term solutionary, because I certainly have taken

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more and more and more of a solutions focus.

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Because as you say, once you get the perspective on these things,

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after having done it for a number of years, you start to realize,

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yeah, the problems and the conspiracies and the questions are all fascinating and intriguing.

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But once you know, essentially, what this is about, then it's time to start

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asking yourself what to do about it.

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And speaking of what to do about it, I noticed my head is particularly shiny

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in this light. So why don't I switch to my studio lights here?

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It's an aura.

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There we go yeah yeah and that's i hear what you're saying like it's the same strategy.

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That the predator class what term

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do you like to use predator class new world order globalists which

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one whatever you want to call them um the pathocrats the cacostocracy i mean

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we could come up with a million terms i like the powers that shouldn't be but

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whatever you call them yeah look i like that people i used to call them the

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elite and people are like no they're not elite Don't give them that prestige.

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So how about elitists?

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They are elitists. Not elitists. They are elitists. That's right.

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Derek, I first heard Predator Class from Derek, and that kind of resonated with me.

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Me and Derek are iron sharpens iron kind of vibe going on there.

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So I'm always borrowing from him, and we're borrowing from each other.

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But the strategy, it seems to be the same strategy.

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Problem, reaction, solution is a big one. um fear

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push people turn people against the

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other implement greater police state

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surveillance state people will go for it because they want to be protected they

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feel insecure and unsafe so the strategy stays the same so i appreciate what

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you're sharing is like we can research it till we're blue in the face uh but

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at the end of the day it's the same damn thing and i get it folks are all excited

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about it and it feels good it doesn't feel good actually when you first get started.

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It feels very poor and you're angry and you've been lied to.

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But then you kind of start being like, okay, I kind of see what's going on.

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And then just like Marty McFly's like, I've seen this one. It's a rerun.

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It keeps happening over and over and over.

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So let me ask you this. Let's talk about the freedom movement,

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truth movement, health freedom, this whole thing we're a part of with various factions.

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One thing that I've come to realize is It's almost like,

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In the beginning, they tried to keep the truth, the conspiracy,

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a secret, and they would discredit folks.

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And early on when we would talk about 9-11 truth, we were considered kooky, and that was the play.

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Let's make them seem silly and discredit them so no one takes them seriously.

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But then because of shows like yours and people passing out DVDs and info jamming,

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and remember when everyone used to shout 9-11 was an inside job at media events and stuff?

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It punctured into the mainstream culture, and then it kind of became a meme, so to speak.

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Now it seems as though the powers that wish they were the predator class is

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kind of like, okay, we can't keep it silent. So what can we do to kind of control

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it? What's your take on that? Is that what you're seeing also?

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Oh, absolutely. It was an identifiable trend that occurred.

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And I would say it was sometime in the 20 teens where conspiracy mainstream

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culture started to eat conspiracy culture.

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And you started to see it reflected in And just even the cool clothing trends

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with All Seeing Eyes and Illuminati and stuff like that, it started to get sort

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of mainstreamized. And of course...

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In the process, watered down and made into nothing more than a clothing trend

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or a meme or, you know, something that, you know, weird celebrities talk about or something.

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And unfortunately, in the process, of course, losing a lot of the meat from the bones.

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But there are good and bad aspects to that. One of the things that I always

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point to about the 9-11 truth movement in particular and what it accomplished,

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if it managed to accomplish anything.

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One thing I always go back to is that back, I remember back,

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you know, 18 years ago when I was just starting this, it was an uphill battle

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just trying to explain to people the concept of a government.

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Why would a government attack itself?

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And you'd have to explain various aspects of that and false flag terrorism and

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the history of this, et cetera, et cetera.

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At least at this point, people now know about this and it is now a daily part of regular headlines.

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I just saw a Miami Herald headline just the other day about Maduro is saying

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that they caught the CIA agents there that Trump sent into Venezuela,

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and they were plotting a false flag attack.

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And they don't have to even explain what a false flag attack is in the news

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anymore, because that's been mainstreamized.

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That sort of at least awareness is to the good.

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But having said that, there are obviously downsides to this,

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one of which is I also remember 18 years ago, and I was just starting all of

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this, that the common thing that you would hear from people in mainstream land,

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which at that time, of course, meant television news, CNN, and what have you.

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Those types of talking heads would laugh at people. Where did you hear that? On the internet?

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As if, oh my God, it cannot be true if you've heard it on the internet.

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Of course, now, fast forward nearly 20 years,

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and those very same people are now either flooding onto the internet on Substack or what have you,

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trying to get a piece of this pie, or are finding their dinosaur media jobs

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are evaporating because the comet struck a couple of decades ago when they were

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busy making fun of the comet. So here we are.

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It's definitely a different landscape than it was. And that's to the good and the bad.

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Yeah, I saw that article, too, and just thought it was a total trip.

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And let me see. Let me pull this up real quick, because there was one thing

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that they referenced, which I thought was pretty cool, which used to seem kooky. Right.

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There we go. Maduro false flag. So check this out.

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I thought that this was rich. And this is New York Post. I don't know how credible they are.

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They're the ones that were trying to put out that uh

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hunter biden laptop thing originally and

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then they got shut down all right so venezuela claims it captured mercenaries

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with ties to cia plotting a false flag attack and they actually go in here and

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say rodriguez this is the venezuelan official likened the purported plot to

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the 1898 explosion of the uss maine they took it old school and of Of course,

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the Gulf of Tonkin incident,

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which was most definitely proven.

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This one's a little fishy. It's kind of hard to prove that was so long ago,

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but there's a lot of research showing that that was a false flag attack.

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But I just love that this is out here. So let's go and get down to this one

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then. Actually, let's stick with that. Yeah.

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Uh let's see sorry i'm jumbling

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up here there we both are and wait

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a second wait a second ah there we are okay we're

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professionals we know what we're doing here i'm throwing everybody off

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uh it's a mind control make sure you stick with them um okay so what can we

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do as a movement especially folks that are new to this scene to kind of inoculate

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themselves from this deception that could be within our movement,

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mainstream alternative media?

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How do we tell when something is a good source, when someone's an authentic

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journalist? And how can we tell if it's all blending together now?

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And there's even like paid 7,000 bucks to push pro-Israel.

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That's one tell. If you're pro the Israeli regime, that's probably someone you should avoid.

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But what are some things to look for that you've picked up on in your journalistic experience?

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I would say that the exact same things that we should have been looking for

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in the old mainstream media paradigm are the things that we should be looking

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for in the independent media paradigm, which is to say there is no shortcut to critical thinking.

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You still have to critically and rationally examine your sources and what it

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is you're taking on board.

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And that's why I always try to dissuade people from trying to find a good source.

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Oh, this guy is a good source.

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This guy is reliable. You can trust this outlet.

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I don't like to think in that mindset. And I don't want people to think that, for example, about me.

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I mean, you don't know. I could be a secret intel operative or whatever, or at the very least.

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We're in a lot of trouble if you're batting for the other team there,

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James. Well, hey, but at the very least, I'm human.

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I could get things wrong from time to time. Right. And how would you know?

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Well, why don't you check my sources?

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I'm this is why the corporate report was predicated on, founded on from its

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very inception, open source intelligence news.

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The point was that I would cite my sources. When I say talk about a document,

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when I talk about a video or something, I will link you to that so that you can.

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And obviously, no one has time to check absolutely everything that everyone says.

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But if you're interested in something, check into it and see the source and

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see, OK, what is this source and where is it coming from?

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And can I triangulate that information? that is

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one of the best ways to understand or try to

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get a handle on things that you do not have first person contact

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with is to see if you can triangulate the information from

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different sources and they corroborate each other and then you start to create

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a scaffolding of facts that you can establish from which you create a broader

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narrative and i certainly have my own narrative but i'm fully open about that

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i have a narrative i have a stance i am a voluntarist i come from a certain

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political ideology and a philosophy,

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and that's my guiding North Star, as it were.

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And that's how I understand the world, and look, I think this fits into it,

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and this fits into it. If you're not from that perspective, great.

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That doesn't mean that the things that I'm saying are wrong.

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It just means that you might have a different interpretation of them.

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And so in the end, I think, again, it comes down to the exact same things that

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people should have been doing 50 years ago are the exact same things that people should be doing now.

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Examine sources, examine evidence, see if you can triangulate information,

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see what works and what doesn't.

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And obviously, you will find those people that you think are more on the ball,

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who tend to get things more right. There's more signal than noise,

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but that's a calculation that you're going to have to make for yourself.

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And when you are critically thinking, it will be a relatively easy calculation to make.

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I know when I see a source that is consistent and reliable, it doesn't mean

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I trust everything they ever say.

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It just means that I think, oh, this is at least worth following.

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And the whole other question about this is, who do you follow?

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How do you follow them? Because the how part of it is actually incredibly important.

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Because if you are relying on social media, if you just go to Twitter,

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X, whatever it's called these days, and you're letting that algorithmically determined feed

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then determine what it is that you're looking at on a daily basis,

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then you're going to get lost because it is going to start shaping you.

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If you want to take direct control of that, hey, there are already resources

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out there for you to do that.

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And I always blow the horn for RSS, really simple syndication,

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because that is how I get my news.

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I do not rely on Twitter or whatever else to try to feed me what it is I should

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be seeing on a daily basis.

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No, I know I want the news from this website and this website and this website

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and a bunch of different places, mainstream and independent and everything in

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between so that I can then have exactly as it should be.

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And I wish social media still worked this way, but a chronological list of here

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are all the people that you follow and here's exactly what they posted in a chronological way.

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And I can go through it and see every single day what headlines I want to look

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at and which ones I can discard.

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And that to me, the how is almost as important as the who, because if you're,

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again, if you're letting the algorithms determine where you're going,

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you're going to get directed one way or another.

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Good stuff. Good stuff. As you were sharing that, I was reminded that you gave

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a talk at the Greater Reset 3 before the People's Reset now coming up in January in Mexico.

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Guys, I'll be there. Would love to see folks live in person.

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The greater reset dot org for tickets. The ticket sales go up at the end of

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this month, November 1st. So if you're going to join us now is a better time.

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I'm going to drop this link there. You did a whole talk on how to conduct online research.

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So for folks that want to go deeper on that, James has been doing journalism

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and research for 18 years. So that was a great talk.

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And thanks for always supporting our efforts with the Greater Reset,

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People's Reset and the Freedom Cell Network and pumping that transmission out there.

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So something that I was talking, I forget who it was recently,

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we were talking, it was Tom Barnett on the last week's show,

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about how in some instances it may be the case that the freedom,

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especially the truth movement, in some ways may have a higher propensity to

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disempowerment precisely because so much energy and attention is focused on

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this big, giant, all-powerful boogeyman.

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And they're not big, giant and all powerful by any means.

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They only have that power, which we give to them, that authority, which we give to them.

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But there's so many fear sensationalist clickbait journalists.

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They don't even rise to the level of journalism, really influencers out there

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that our movement latches onto that.

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In part, because like we're turned on by that.

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I remember somebody was talking smack about me in this group back in the day.

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And it was this really personal thing.

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And I was like, I don't have time to bother with this. My policy is not to engage.

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My reputation stands on its own. But then I found myself going back to check

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at my own shit show dumpster fire.

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And I realized like people seek this kind of thing out.

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It's like a thrill, like amusement park roller coaster kind of thing.

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And so there's like people are focused on it fear

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and it drops all this adrenaline they almost become addicted to

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it but a lot of people in our movement feel that

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the predator class is all powerful they're on they're omnipotent they're omnipresent

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they're everywhere they're omniscient they know everything and that in turn

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takes away their power leading them maybe less likely to go do all the research

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because they want somebody to do it for them you want to riff on that like do

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you think that's a tendency in our movement that we need to watch out for.

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Oh, undoubtedly so. And I think you can see victims of this all the time.

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People who have basically decided in their head that nothing will work and nothing

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could ever possibly work because the Illuminati or whatever you want to call

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them, they control everything and everything that everyone ever does.

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And to me, I call that the cartoon version of conspiracy theorizing because

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it's about the smoky cabal in the back room who literally controls everything.

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And I suppose these people think that there is like some sort of literal script

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that is handed out to all of the political puppets around the world.

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And OK, now, Putin, you're going to say this.

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And now, OK, Xi Jinping, you're going to say this as if it works on that level. Of course, it does not.

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Of course, there are powerful interests who have accumulated power by being

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part of a certain networks that have intergenerationally predated on their own

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populations and created a system of economic and financial control that is mind

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boggling to the average person. That is all true.

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But as you say, they have the power that we give them.

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And this is not a particularly new insight. It's been around for at least half

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a millennium now with Etienne de la Boétie and the discourse on voluntary servitude.

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And he made the point 500 years ago that the tyrant is not some sort of all-powerful, amazing emperor god.

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It's just a person that people listen to and follow orders from.

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And in order to break that spell of the tyrant, all you have to do is not follow his orders.

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It's not some kind of gigantic revolution with people, guns blazing and people on the streets.

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It is simply refusing to follow orders. And I would say the other side of that

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is taking that time, that energy,

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that attention, all of those resources that we put into building up this system

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that we all know is inhuman and is not functioning correctly and taking that

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time and energy and putting it into what we want to create.

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And that's why, in fact, that is exactly why I started Solutions Watch,

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because as people in your audience may or may not know, I was doing something

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called Propaganda Watch for a few years before Solutions Watch,

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back in, I think, 2017, I started.

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And that was me week after week after week after week looking at different pieces

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of propaganda and explaining to people what was happening, the psychological

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manipulations, the techniques that were being employed, how to protect yourself against them.

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I think it was some good and valuable work. But after a few years of that,

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I started to realize, hey, even myself, now that I'm doing this weekly series

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on propaganda, I'm always looking at and for propaganda. Oh, I could talk about that.

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Oh, I shouldn't talk about this. Oh, I should do this. And I'm always in that propaganda mindset.

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And it took it took me a few years.

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But I realized, OK, that's great and wonderful. And now we know that.

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The much more important thing is, what do we do about it?

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And that's why I started Solutions Watch, so that instead of week after week

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after week after week looking at propaganda, now it's week after week after

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week after week looking at solutions and people with ideas. And certainly not

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all of the ideas will pan out and not all of them will work for you in your particular situation.

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But I think at the very least, just getting into the mindset of identifying

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solutions is an incredibly rewarding mindset to be in, because then you start

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to realize there really is power from from us.

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We really do have power in our time, our energy, our attention,

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our resources, and we can start building the world that we want.

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And I get that isn't click, baby. I mean, demonstrably so. Because you've got to work.

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You've got to do stuff. My solutions to watch episodes consistently get maybe

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half of the views of my regular episodes.

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So I know that people, you know, a lot of people will be turned off by this. Who cares?

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Solution? Oh, I want to hear about the latest juicy conspiracy gossip.

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But anyway, I don't care. I'm going to continue doing this because I know it is valuable.

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And I know that the people who benefit from it really benefit from it.

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And that there will be, if there is to be any change in the direction we're

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heading, it will be from those people who are out there actually implementing

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solutions rather than the people who are just endlessly studying the conspiracy culture.

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Yeah, for sure. Yeah. It takes action to bring about change,

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not just research or knowing things. You got to do things.

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Knowing things is important. And I always like to say, let's not research the

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predator class's agenda just to know it so we can feel morally superior or like word vomit.

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Everybody like knows this stuff. And then they proceed to word vomit all over their family.

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And they like tarnish relationships. And it's not even worth it.

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But no, we should study the conspiracy so we can know how to navigate around it and opt out of it.

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And I just remember, too, I was your first Solutions Watch segment.

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That is right. Yeah, I'm going to drop that one. We talked freedom cells in

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the greater reset back in the good old days.

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That's right. I kind of thinned out a little bit from that one.

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I'm a little healthier as I get a little bit older. That's good to see.

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Okay, cool, cool. So I want to dive into solutions. And you had a great article.

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I get your email newsletter. Guys, CorbettReport.com is the website,

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CorbettReport.com, and he's got a ton of videos and a bunch of old classic documentaries, too.

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So you come down to this documentary stream, and this kind of dates James here,

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going back to some classic stuff, especially the classic 9-11 stuff.

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And then everyone's talking about the conspiracy, but nobody's like,

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well, who could have possibly been responsible?

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That's pretty bold to really name names and such. But lots of good material

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Classic stuff Stands the test of time And then you'll see the recreation.

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Like there was so much overlap Between the COVID PSYOP And the 9-11 PSYOP And

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how they rolled it out And the propaganda,

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But come check it out Join the newsletter too.

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Here's newsletter So yep,

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great post on agorism before we get into that let me ask and

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folks if you have questions put your questions in all caps i want

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to invite some questions i'll bring on some of the better questions that

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i think most people can relate to so ask some questions we

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got james corbin in the house if you're just joining us as a lib free now show

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uh live normally we're wednesday 11 a.m central but

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we're 6 p.m because james is over in tokyo did a great article about agorism

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we'll talk about that let's get to a topic that's less controversial now and

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maybe that's by design especially on x x is like bipolar swinging between sensor

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all of the anti-israel stuff and,

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trumpet and play up all the anti-israel stuff now

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it's back to the sensor and protect israel phase i don't know what's up with

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that but i'll preface this question with a little backstory i don't know if

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you were familiar maybe you were taking jabs at me on y'all's little thing about

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elon musk or whatever it was and you're like some character and i was like i

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hope he's not jabbing that The character is not you,

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but I did remember your Elon Musk defense. Yeah. Yeah.

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Derek was always giving me one time. Derek interviewed me and he did like this

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ambush journalism thing sucker.

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And he's like, so tell us about your support for Elon Musk, or do you still

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really feel that way in light of this and that?

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And I was like, come on, Derek, you don't have to hit me like that.

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But for a while I was a Musk fan and it mostly was rooted in and people could

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debate about this. I think I would.

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I think the truth is that I do believe he is an entrepreneur and he gets shit done at a massive scale.

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And as an entrepreneur myself, yes, he gets government subsidies,

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yada, yada. But as an entrepreneur myself, I was studying like,

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wow, what is this guy's work ethic like?

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What are the first principles and all this stuff? And I was emulating it.

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And I drove a Tesla at one point.

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Now I got a Ford F-250 pickup truck. But I was like, OK, I see that he is playing

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ball with the Department of Defense.

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And it's my belief that he's a maverick, independent, and he's playing ball

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as a means to the end of allowing the U.S.

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To shoot his rockets up into orbit so he can fulfill his desire for humans to

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be a multi-planetary species.

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But he's still a maverick, even though he's playing ball with them.

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He's not a libertarian or an anarchist.

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That was my thinking. Maybe I was just making excuses for myself.

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Then when he went, when he like said some offhanded comment about Israel,

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that wasn't even that bad. And he was like replying to somebody's post.

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And then he had to tuck tail and do an apology tour with Netanyahu.

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And then he started really pumping the message of Netanyahu and the Israel regime.

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And so at the time, I was still of the mindset that Elon is a maverick and he's

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just playing the Department of Defense mutual benefit kind of thing.

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But then I was like, oh, wow.

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Israel has Elon by the balls. And I think I thought Elon was this independent

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billionaire power center of his own right.

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But israel's obviously has him on a leash now

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whoa and then the gaza stuff was kicking off and for the longest time in the

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conspiracy movement as you know people are always like it's israel it's the

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jews it's all the jews they're at the top of the pyramid and i would always

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dismiss that because it's a bunch of different factions competing for power

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some have more power than others but i really.

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Israel, especially Zionists, do have immense influence, more than I originally

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thought, on world affairs.

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And they definitely have influence over U.S. politicians, most likely under

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the work of Whitney Webb and others through their brownstone operation,

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where they blackmail these folks, get them in precarious situations.

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And Mossad apparently had a big role to do with that. So let me ask you the big question.

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Hopefully it doesn't cut the YouTube feed. How much power do you think Israel

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has? How high up in the pyramid of power, as Derek describes it, do you believe they are?

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And is it also a PSYOP where they're allowing this anti-Israel sentiment maybe

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to unleash free speech controls or something? I don't know. What are your thoughts there?

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Yeah, no, I mean, it's a good question, both sides of it.

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The first question, I think the answer is increasingly obvious to everyone that

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obviously Israel punches way above its weight, at the very least,

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on the geopolitical scale, right?

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How is it that this tiny nation out there in the Middle East is able to,

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if not dictate American foreign policy, at least certainly influence it in very

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incredibly important ways?

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And you have to look, for example, at the neocons who infested the Bush administration

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directing the War of Terror, and pretty much all of them to a man admitted and avowed Zionists.

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Some of them, of course, involved in even drafting the clean break document

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for Netanyahu during his initial term in 1996, then going on to found PNAC in

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which, you know, in both cases.

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Uh in both the clean break document and in the pnac documents

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it just turns out that we got to get saddam why does

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u have to get saddam will you real quick what's a zionist

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and then what's pnac because a lot of folks may not right okay

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especially but what what's a zionist and what's okay let's go

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back to brass tacks yes okay so zionism was uh

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a a 19th century um into the

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early 20th century idea of the jews need a

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homeland and um there were various proposals as

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to what where that homeland should be and what should happen um it

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started to coalesce after world war one um or during

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world war one during the uh after the uh the balfour declaration where

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the um british home secretary foreign

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secretary whoever it was at the time um essentially pledged palestine to the

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jews which was odd because it wasn't even a british mandate at that time it

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did become one but um anyway that's that's the british writing checks uh that

00:28:51.171 --> 00:28:56.791
they can't cash um but that that That was specifically that letter was addressed to Lord Rothschild.

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The British version, the British branch of that infamous family, et cetera, et cetera.

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And of course, it did ultimately become a reality after, of course,

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there was the British mandate of Palestine.

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But then we saw the terrorism that was enacted by Zionists, people who wanted

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that homeland and wanted it established there, were committing spectacular terror

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attacks, including the largest terrorist attack in the world at that time.

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The bombing of the King David Hotel that killed Brits and Jews and Muslims and others.

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Of course, that resulted in the creation of Israel, the state of Israel.

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So Zionists are ones who traditionally it was about the establishment of the Jewish homeland.

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Now that Israel exists, it is about essentially Israeli supremacy and the maintenance

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of that supremacy and people who are wedded to the Israeli state.

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So that is, and of course, that does not mean you have to be Jewish to be a Zionist.

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There are many, many Christian Zionists who are invested for a number of different reasons.

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Some of them financially, some of them blackmail, some of them because of a genuinely religious.

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Held religious belief that this is the

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holy land in an order of course christ will come again after

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the creation of the third temple and the big you know battle between

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the antichrist and christ will come back and all of

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that so there's this eschatological philosophical theological

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thing going on that motivates many of the

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people at this table including billions of devout believers around

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the world because of course jerusalem is the nexus of christianity and

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judaism and and islam so anyway um

00:30:31.826 --> 00:30:35.126
that's zionism and the other question was a

00:30:35.126 --> 00:30:38.046
project for a new american century which

00:30:38.046 --> 00:30:41.646
was founded i believe officially founded was it 97 or 98

00:30:41.646 --> 00:30:46.406
at any rate it was a it was the neocons um including all the people that you

00:30:46.406 --> 00:30:49.806
wouldn't recognize from the bush administration including of course cheney and

00:30:49.806 --> 00:30:54.586
rumsfeld but also douglas feith and uh richard pearl and all of those types

00:30:54.586 --> 00:31:00.086
of people who went on as i say to infest the bush administration and direct its foreign policy We,

00:31:00.348 --> 00:31:04.328
including, of course, the Office of, not the Office of Special Plans,

00:31:04.388 --> 00:31:08.248
I can't remember what they called themselves, but essentially the Pentagon sub-office

00:31:08.248 --> 00:31:13.188
that was feeding all of this false intelligence through Chalabi and what have you about Iraq.

00:31:13.548 --> 00:31:18.628
And making it so that from day one after 9-11, that literally on the evening

00:31:18.628 --> 00:31:21.828
of 9-11, they were already starting to talk about, well, we got to go after Saddam.

00:31:22.048 --> 00:31:25.288
Why? Because that was part of the clean break document that these same people

00:31:25.288 --> 00:31:27.448
had authored for Netanyahu back in 96.

00:31:27.728 --> 00:31:31.228
It was part of the PNAC documents that they'd been issuing for years.

00:31:31.388 --> 00:31:34.308
And so they just made it part of the American foreign policy agenda.

00:31:34.328 --> 00:31:38.628
So why did America go into Iraq? Yeah, oil and things like that too.

00:31:38.788 --> 00:31:43.768
But of course, part of it was this Zionist need to secure greater Israel by

00:31:43.768 --> 00:31:45.768
toppling the opponents in the region.

00:31:46.128 --> 00:31:50.728
It ended up backfiring in a number of spectacular ways because in the power

00:31:50.728 --> 00:31:56.168
vacuum after Saddam, Iran ended up having a outsized influence on what was happening

00:31:56.168 --> 00:31:58.728
in Iraq and actually growing its regional power.

00:31:58.728 --> 00:32:02.508
So now we have to go after Iran, which was also part of the PNAC plan.

00:32:03.928 --> 00:32:05.148
Yeah, yeah. And so...

00:32:06.686 --> 00:32:10.606
We were talking about this Zionist control of the foreign policy.

00:32:10.746 --> 00:32:15.326
You know, when I was in college, I used to think like, oh, Israel is this satellite

00:32:15.326 --> 00:32:19.066
of the United States foreign policy in the Middle East.

00:32:19.226 --> 00:32:22.726
And then as I grew older, I started to realize like maybe the United States

00:32:22.726 --> 00:32:27.006
is a satellite of Israel as far as the influence and control.

00:32:27.886 --> 00:32:32.746
But that document that James was referencing, well, this is one of the documents.

00:32:32.746 --> 00:32:36.186
It's like a policy document called Rebuilding America's Defenses,

00:32:36.766 --> 00:32:42.766
Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century by this organization of neoconservatives,

00:32:43.006 --> 00:32:45.966
many of them of Jewish descent.

00:32:45.986 --> 00:32:50.226
Not that that means anything, but they are also Zionists that are pushing this

00:32:50.226 --> 00:32:54.826
agenda, and they'll push this agenda at any cost, even genocide.

00:32:54.826 --> 00:32:58.826
And this policy calls for these new, this document calls for these new neoconservative

00:32:58.826 --> 00:33:03.766
policies, the ability to fight multiple wars on multiple fronts at the same

00:33:03.766 --> 00:33:05.266
time, preemptive strikes,

00:33:05.626 --> 00:33:10.786
which wasn't an American thing for a while, except for dropping the atomic bomb, I guess.

00:33:10.906 --> 00:33:14.446
That wasn't necessarily preemptive, I should say. Anyway, they say further,

00:33:14.646 --> 00:33:18.686
this was written on September 2000, I believe, in September 2000.

00:33:18.966 --> 00:33:23.006
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change,

00:33:23.166 --> 00:33:30.326
is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.

00:33:30.506 --> 00:33:34.406
And then exactly a year later, of course, 9-11 happened, which is a trip.

00:33:35.066 --> 00:33:38.126
And by the way, let me just throw in the quick COVID parallel with that,

00:33:38.286 --> 00:33:42.366
because people know that back in October of 2000, 2019.

00:33:43.064 --> 00:33:48.144
Am I getting? No. Yes. October of 2019. So just a few months before the scandemic

00:33:48.144 --> 00:33:48.964
that changed everything.

00:33:49.204 --> 00:33:52.384
The Milken Institute was holding a conference in which there was,

00:33:52.644 --> 00:33:55.304
for example, Anthony Fauci and Dr.

00:33:55.384 --> 00:33:58.744
Richard Bright and other people that are important in the bios, the U.S.

00:33:58.864 --> 00:34:01.964
Biosecurity state, at least at that time, who were talking about this,

00:34:02.004 --> 00:34:06.164
these wonderful new mRNA DNA vaccines that are going to be available.

00:34:06.164 --> 00:34:10.884
But it's going to take these pharmaceutical companies at least a decade of,

00:34:10.904 --> 00:34:14.924
you know, incredibly costly trials and experiments and what have you,

00:34:15.104 --> 00:34:20.424
unless there was some sort of big spreading flu pandemic or something that some

00:34:20.424 --> 00:34:22.804
perceived biosecurity risk and the U.S.

00:34:22.864 --> 00:34:25.884
Government could come in and mandate them, which, lo and behold,

00:34:25.984 --> 00:34:28.064
is exactly what happened. Wow. Unbelievable.

00:34:28.764 --> 00:34:32.264
That's a wild parallel. That's a good a good point. There's so many of them.

00:34:32.264 --> 00:34:36.224
I often point out to people, too, because this is something you'll be familiar with.

00:34:36.524 --> 00:34:41.204
People that make a career out of this or that are just constantly in this game,

00:34:41.384 --> 00:34:46.844
activism, spreading the message, solutions, we stay at it all the time.

00:34:46.864 --> 00:34:51.304
And it becomes a lifestyle living this exit and build freedom life.

00:34:51.704 --> 00:34:55.044
But a lot of people and I don't fault anyone or blame anyone because I know

00:34:55.044 --> 00:34:57.904
it's hard to make ends meet oftentimes and inflation, this, that and the other.

00:34:57.904 --> 00:35:03.364
But a lot of people only take action or start paying attention or start building.

00:35:03.924 --> 00:35:07.964
Opting out when there's like the New World Order is breathing down their neck.

00:35:08.124 --> 00:35:13.624
We see the phenomenon happening now in the wake of the UK digital ID big push.

00:35:13.844 --> 00:35:17.104
Of course, we saw it during COVID. But then in the off season,

00:35:17.364 --> 00:35:21.624
people go about their business and get caught in a hypnotic rhythm of life and

00:35:21.624 --> 00:35:24.424
paying the bills and just hanging out, watching TV and such.

00:35:24.424 --> 00:35:29.304
So I just really want to encourage people to keep at it because it may appear

00:35:29.304 --> 00:35:33.404
as though things cool down, but the predator class is constantly changing.

00:35:33.630 --> 00:35:38.070
Pursuing their agenda. And then under Trump, especially technocracy in the U.S.

00:35:38.130 --> 00:35:39.930
Has advanced at a rapid rate.

00:35:40.130 --> 00:35:45.530
But always know that it's one false flag away from the agenda accelerating 10x,

00:35:45.670 --> 00:35:51.550
100x, just like it did with 9-11 and the police state, surveillance state,

00:35:51.770 --> 00:35:55.150
and the military industrial complex, just as it did with COVID.

00:35:55.310 --> 00:35:58.690
So you got to stay on that game. And with that, let's talk. I see the questions

00:35:58.690 --> 00:36:01.370
coming in. So thanks, guys. Some of these are great solutions-oriented questions.

00:36:01.530 --> 00:36:05.550
We're going to get to them, but let's set the stage with what is agorism?

00:36:06.050 --> 00:36:07.870
Why does it excite you so much?

00:36:08.650 --> 00:36:12.690
And why is it important for people to understand this philosophy,

00:36:13.050 --> 00:36:16.130
strategy, principles? I saw your article there.

00:36:16.270 --> 00:36:18.990
You're kind of breaking that down with good stuff. What's it all about?

00:36:19.433 --> 00:36:23.813
Right. So I would encourage people who are interested to start by maybe reading my editorial.

00:36:24.033 --> 00:36:27.793
But from there, you will find links to resources that will help flesh out that

00:36:27.793 --> 00:36:31.493
picture, including, of course, the Agora's Primer by Samuel Edward Konkin III.

00:36:31.493 --> 00:36:35.773
So for people who don't know, he was a libertarian activist slash philosopher

00:36:35.773 --> 00:36:41.973
slash science fiction writer, et cetera, who was influential in those circles

00:36:41.973 --> 00:36:44.773
back in the 70s, 80s, 90s.

00:36:44.913 --> 00:36:50.273
And he wrote The Agora's Primer, which essentially laid out the vision for what Agoraism is.

00:36:50.453 --> 00:36:54.813
So for people who don't know, Agora is a Greek word. It means essentially the marketplace.

00:36:55.193 --> 00:36:59.013
But that's a polluted word. People are going to think of that in a certain way.

00:36:59.013 --> 00:37:02.273
No, when they're talking about the Agora, the ancient Greek Agora,

00:37:02.513 --> 00:37:05.493
what they're talking about is essentially the public square where people would

00:37:05.493 --> 00:37:08.453
congregate to, yes, buy and sell and trade their goods and what have you,

00:37:08.533 --> 00:37:14.953
but also to talk, to argue, to share information, to just come together as human beings.

00:37:14.953 --> 00:37:20.253
And it was a free and open marketplace of exchange of ideas and goods and everything else.

00:37:20.373 --> 00:37:23.673
And that's the idea of the Agora. That's what we want as free,

00:37:23.973 --> 00:37:26.193
individual, sovereign human beings. That's what we want.

00:37:26.293 --> 00:37:30.793
We want to cooperate and agree and disagree and interact and transact and not

00:37:30.793 --> 00:37:35.813
interact with whoever we want in the free and open marketplace of ideas and goods.

00:37:36.093 --> 00:37:40.633
And so that's what we're working towards. Right. And so Samuel Edward Conkin

00:37:40.633 --> 00:37:44.473
III, he, SEK III, as he styled himself, his idea was,

00:37:44.833 --> 00:37:50.073
okay, great, yes, so we're libertarian or voluntarist or whatever you want to

00:37:50.073 --> 00:37:51.793
call yourself insofar as, yes,

00:37:51.893 --> 00:37:55.933
all human relations between people should be voluntary, as in nobody is forced

00:37:55.933 --> 00:38:00.293
or compelled or put under the force of a gun or extortion or what have you in

00:38:00.293 --> 00:38:02.473
order to do this or that. Great. Yes.

00:38:02.753 --> 00:38:06.613
All relations should be voluntary. It seems like a pretty basic moral standard.

00:38:07.093 --> 00:38:10.333
But how do we get to that society? What does that look like?

00:38:10.473 --> 00:38:12.313
How does that even happen?

00:38:12.853 --> 00:38:18.593
And SEK3 was advocating for agorism as in counter-economic activity.

00:38:18.853 --> 00:38:22.513
And counter-economic activity is anything that is...

00:38:23.134 --> 00:38:28.554
Either not explicitly sanctioned by the state or anything that is actually forbidden by the state.

00:38:28.694 --> 00:38:33.274
So gray and black markets, what have you, anything up to and even including

00:38:33.274 --> 00:38:37.874
going, you know, one mile an hour over the speed limit is counter economic activity

00:38:37.874 --> 00:38:39.894
because it is prohibited by the state.

00:38:39.994 --> 00:38:45.674
But the point was, this is activity that is done specifically in specifically

00:38:45.674 --> 00:38:49.834
in defiance of the state and specifically to reduce the state's scope of action

00:38:49.834 --> 00:38:52.854
and its ability to enforce that scope of action.

00:38:53.054 --> 00:38:57.914
So theoretically, anything that reduces the taxes that you're going to pay to

00:38:57.914 --> 00:38:59.034
the state, et cetera, et cetera.

00:38:59.174 --> 00:39:01.594
So working under the table for cash and all of that kind of stuff.

00:39:01.894 --> 00:39:08.574
And he made the point that that counter-economic activity is the path towards

00:39:08.574 --> 00:39:11.354
that free society. It is also that free society.

00:39:11.594 --> 00:39:15.334
Because ultimately, that will be the free society. It is all the free and voluntary

00:39:15.334 --> 00:39:21.014
things that we do, not under compulsion of state theft and extortion and what

00:39:21.014 --> 00:39:26.254
have you, but as free human beings and our negotiations with other free human beings.

00:39:26.734 --> 00:39:32.654
So that article that I wrote specifically was in reference to a video that Larkin

00:39:32.654 --> 00:39:34.714
Rose put up recently, why I don't talk about agorism.

00:39:34.754 --> 00:39:38.454
And he made the point that voluntarism is a philosophy. So I talk about the philosophy.

00:39:38.874 --> 00:39:41.934
Agorism is a strategy. So I don't concentrate on the strategy.

00:39:42.094 --> 00:39:45.654
There's, you know, there's many ways to get there. But I think SEK3 would argue,

00:39:46.034 --> 00:39:49.374
no, no, no, the strategy is the goal.

00:39:49.514 --> 00:39:54.494
They're not separable because what is a free society other than the free counter

00:39:54.494 --> 00:39:56.274
economic activity of all the people?

00:39:57.054 --> 00:39:58.834
Yeah, and he writes about that.

00:39:59.449 --> 00:40:02.869
The strategy and means and ends.

00:40:03.009 --> 00:40:06.789
And, you know, one thing about Larkin, I love him and boy, he is doing great

00:40:06.789 --> 00:40:11.329
work for our movement and to spread the message, but he is a message guy only

00:40:11.329 --> 00:40:15.369
and kind of light on solutions, which is maybe why he's, I don't know.

00:40:15.449 --> 00:40:18.409
I didn't watch the video that he did, but maybe why he doesn't talk about it.

00:40:18.449 --> 00:40:21.029
You should watch the video. I have no qualms with Larkin and what he's doing.

00:40:21.349 --> 00:40:25.649
He's woken up so many people to the truth about voluntarism and what have you.

00:40:25.809 --> 00:40:27.949
So my hat's off to Larkin and all the work he does.

00:40:28.329 --> 00:40:32.069
To some extent, this comes down to semantics. And I think he was probably motivated

00:40:32.069 --> 00:40:35.469
by the people who get the sort of the purist attitude.

00:40:35.649 --> 00:40:38.489
Oh my God, you drove on a government created road.

00:40:38.769 --> 00:40:43.049
Therefore, you're not a pure agorist or whatever. I think that was kind of where

00:40:43.049 --> 00:40:45.309
he's coming from on that, which I understand to be fair.

00:40:46.029 --> 00:40:48.949
Yeah. Yeah. And everybody's always like, why don't you talk about my thing?

00:40:49.089 --> 00:40:51.049
And you don't talk about my pet conspiracy.

00:40:52.089 --> 00:40:54.709
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00:44:14.595 --> 00:44:18.275
Thank you. There we go. Man, I usually have this down to a science here,

00:44:18.335 --> 00:44:21.555
but I'm all fumbling around. We're the professionals. It makes you nervous.

00:44:22.095 --> 00:44:27.035
Yeah, that's right. We got James on the show. Okay, so let's hit some of these questions.

00:44:27.215 --> 00:44:31.675
And I'm grateful that they're solutions-oriented. This is a solutions-oriented audience here.

00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:38.799
Network Metatron says, James, do you make time for friends on a local level?

00:44:38.999 --> 00:44:40.139
Are there voluntarists?

00:44:40.379 --> 00:44:42.599
Are they voluntarists? You got a crew there in Japan?

00:44:43.139 --> 00:44:47.159
I do know people around. And over the years, I've met some through the sort

00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:51.619
of, yeah, people who know my work and have met me from online and we've met

00:44:51.619 --> 00:44:52.999
and connected in the real world.

00:44:53.459 --> 00:44:56.819
Other people that I just know as friends. And I certainly, yeah,

00:44:57.019 --> 00:45:00.919
some of them are voluntarists. Some people are very much committed to that.

00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:06.259
And for example, I have a friend in Osaka who I had on Solutions Watch once

00:45:06.259 --> 00:45:12.159
to talk about his little local farm garden plot that he's he's doing and that kind of stuff.

00:45:12.319 --> 00:45:15.259
But other people who are not this way inclined at all.

00:45:15.459 --> 00:45:20.179
And it's not like in my personal life, I have some sort of you must have this

00:45:20.179 --> 00:45:21.639
ideology in order to talk to me.

00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:25.339
And I think that goes back to what you were saying earlier, the people who just

00:45:25.339 --> 00:45:29.339
unload all their conspiracy lore or whatever on all their friends and family

00:45:29.339 --> 00:45:32.419
and end up having no friends and family anymore because they don't want to talk to them.

00:45:32.839 --> 00:45:35.879
I think, yeah, whatever.

00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:39.159
People should live their life however they want. But I think it's probably not

00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:43.419
going to be productive to happy relations with others, to be that person who's

00:45:43.419 --> 00:45:46.359
always proselytizing and will only talk to other voluntarists.

00:45:46.479 --> 00:45:50.639
It's good to have a Freedom Cell network and voluntarist people that you know

00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:52.239
and people that you can rely on and stuff.

00:45:52.339 --> 00:45:55.299
But it's good to have human relations with other human beings too and to get

00:45:55.299 --> 00:45:57.359
other perspectives because, hey, guess what?

00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.179
Just because they don't believe everything you believe does not mean they're

00:46:00.179 --> 00:46:01.659
stupid and it does not mean they're evil.

00:46:02.099 --> 00:46:04.699
It just means they might have a different perspective and maybe they can even

00:46:04.699 --> 00:46:07.879
teach you a thing or two. So that's kind of my social rant.

00:46:08.425 --> 00:46:12.345
I love that. And I'm always like my sister and brother-in-law,

00:46:12.345 --> 00:46:15.565
I've been, you know, I've been in the game for a long time too.

00:46:15.765 --> 00:46:18.925
And I annoyed the piss out of my parents. Then my dad came around.

00:46:19.065 --> 00:46:21.805
He actually worked at the underground bookstore. I used to operate for a couple

00:46:21.805 --> 00:46:24.165
of years, brave new books at behind the register.

00:46:24.425 --> 00:46:29.925
So the folks that would come down there back 2015 to 2017, they gave him an

00:46:29.925 --> 00:46:35.145
earful and, and now he's on, he's on board, but you know, my sister and brother-in-law, They're smart.

00:46:35.365 --> 00:46:37.185
They're bright. They know they

00:46:37.185 --> 00:46:40.345
know what's going on, but they don't care because they're enjoying life.

00:46:40.765 --> 00:46:44.545
And sometimes I am envious of them. I enjoy life, too, actually.

00:46:44.705 --> 00:46:47.485
But I want to just encourage people not to take this too seriously,

00:46:47.505 --> 00:46:52.885
not to just get so obsessed with this conspiracy stuff that you lose sight of

00:46:52.885 --> 00:46:56.945
how much beauty, wonder and frankly, how much freedom we have in this world.

00:46:57.365 --> 00:47:01.925
We have a whole lot of freedom. A significant majority of our lives are lived

00:47:01.925 --> 00:47:07.645
in pure anarchy and freedom where we and we alone have control over what we

00:47:07.645 --> 00:47:11.525
do, who we spend time with, who we talk to, what we spend our money on.

00:47:11.765 --> 00:47:15.105
And then the more that you enter the counter economy, the more that becomes

00:47:15.105 --> 00:47:16.405
the case, especially when it comes to money.

00:47:16.545 --> 00:47:20.285
So don't lose sight of just good friendships where you can talk about the weather.

00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.400
And I know this might be controversial for this movement.

00:47:24.740 --> 00:47:29.980
Maybe every once in a while you take in a sports ball game. I don't know. Whoa.

00:47:31.080 --> 00:47:34.460
Maybe soccer is probably bigger there in Japan than football. Oh, no.

00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:39.440
Dodgers. It's a Dodgers nation. Yeah. Cool. That's cool. Okay.

00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:43.780
Great question. Thank you so much, Network Metatron. Here's another good one.

00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:48.140
I believe there are a lot of freedom lovers out there, but no real way to identify and meet up locally.

00:47:48.700 --> 00:47:51.260
What if there was a website you could go to and find people?

00:47:51.620 --> 00:47:54.620
What solutions are there for this organization's meetups, festivals?

00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:56.680
John, I think you got this one covered.

00:47:57.340 --> 00:48:02.280
Yeah. So freedomcells.org. Derek Brose and I co-founded this network of folks.

00:48:02.520 --> 00:48:07.000
It's probably when Derek was interviewed by James, it probably went from like

00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.320
two or 300 to a thousand or more.

00:48:09.680 --> 00:48:14.260
And then it slowly growed up to 3,000, 5,000. I think it was around 4,000 or

00:48:14.260 --> 00:48:15.620
so before COVID happened.

00:48:15.900 --> 00:48:18.680
Then it went up to 28,000. And it's since grown to 40,000 plus.

00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:20.760
Now, mind you, these are just people that registered on a website.

00:48:20.900 --> 00:48:23.180
Many of them fell off and went back to sleep after COVID.

00:48:24.140 --> 00:48:27.920
Sometimes the website's a little wonky just to warn you, but freedomcells.org

00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:30.500
sells like a cell in the body, freedomcells.org.

00:48:30.820 --> 00:48:34.300
You can sign up. You can go look at a map. You can put yourself on a map.

00:48:34.500 --> 00:48:37.900
Don't put your home address, put a coffee shop down the street or maybe a restaurant

00:48:37.900 --> 00:48:40.000
that you can meet up with or grab a beer or something.

00:48:40.260 --> 00:48:43.400
And then people can find you. You can find people. Now, mind you,

00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:45.980
some of these groups and some of the people might be dormant.

00:48:45.980 --> 00:48:50.240
So we need you to be a leader to put put a map for the cell for a group there

00:48:50.240 --> 00:48:51.700
We're also very active on telegram.

00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:56.420
Alex Zek has a group with the way forward the way forward commie kind of spells it funny.

00:48:56.983 --> 00:49:02.203
Um, what else? There's conferences, festivals, the people's reset is coming up in January.

00:49:02.543 --> 00:49:07.503
Uh, every year there's like 300 people, 300 to 400 people, great people,

00:49:07.823 --> 00:49:09.163
uh, solutions oriented.

00:49:09.663 --> 00:49:14.883
So there's constantly different freedom events show up on things like this and

00:49:14.883 --> 00:49:16.863
say, Hey, I'm here in Cincinnati.

00:49:16.983 --> 00:49:22.723
Anybody in that, that Midwest area, I'd love to meet up or let's get together on a zoom chat.

00:49:22.883 --> 00:49:24.903
You just got to put yourself out there. You want to add anything there?

00:49:25.443 --> 00:49:29.203
No, I think those are all great ideas. I'm here in Japan, so I'm probably not

00:49:29.203 --> 00:49:30.483
going to be much use to people in America.

00:49:30.643 --> 00:49:33.463
But I think all those things, there are ways of finding people.

00:49:33.743 --> 00:49:37.283
And I hear this all the time from my audience. There's nobody in my,

00:49:37.443 --> 00:49:40.683
I don't know anybody who knows anything about any of this stuff.

00:49:41.183 --> 00:49:45.203
And, you know, if that's true, my sincere condolences to you.

00:49:45.303 --> 00:49:46.743
But I think it's probably not true.

00:49:46.923 --> 00:49:49.543
I think there are more people out there than you know about.

00:49:49.683 --> 00:49:53.403
And again, it doesn't mean that they agree on every single conspiracy point

00:49:53.403 --> 00:49:56.303
you believe or what have you. but people who would, at the very least,

00:49:56.723 --> 00:49:58.703
be useful people to know in an emergency.

00:49:59.043 --> 00:50:01.863
And I think if there was anything good that happened out of this pandemic,

00:50:02.203 --> 00:50:06.903
it is that you at least got to see what businesses and what people are going

00:50:06.903 --> 00:50:10.783
to interact with you as a free human being. Hey, you want to wear a mask?

00:50:10.843 --> 00:50:11.583
You don't want to wear a mask?

00:50:11.683 --> 00:50:14.023
You got vaccinated? You didn't get vaccinated? Whatever.

00:50:14.763 --> 00:50:17.843
You're all welcome here. Those are the types of people that you might want to

00:50:17.843 --> 00:50:21.183
be encouraging and fostering community with, because they've at least proven

00:50:21.183 --> 00:50:24.683
that in an emergency, they're not going to lose their heads. Yeah, for sure.

00:50:25.183 --> 00:50:27.563
And oftentimes the people that are saying there's nobody in my area,

00:50:27.663 --> 00:50:30.583
there's nobody in my area, they're spending all their time behind a computer.

00:50:31.143 --> 00:50:35.163
And so I put out courses and we do workshops as part of our membership where

00:50:35.163 --> 00:50:38.483
like I'll teach you, here's where you could go meet people.

00:50:39.294 --> 00:50:42.734
Talk to people at the grocery store. And then you go to a local,

00:50:42.954 --> 00:50:45.394
you try to find people that have a great, where there's a greater,

00:50:45.614 --> 00:50:48.974
you go places where there's a greater likelihood for there to be freedom people,

00:50:49.254 --> 00:50:51.154
gun shows, prepper meetups,

00:50:51.694 --> 00:50:55.714
homeschool groups, libertarian party, protests.

00:50:56.054 --> 00:50:58.894
You could go to protests. I'm not a big protest reactionary guy,

00:50:59.034 --> 00:51:00.614
but it's people that at least are awake.

00:51:00.734 --> 00:51:05.534
Digital IDs, they just had big, huge protests in UK, the lockdown protests.

00:51:05.874 --> 00:51:09.594
Those are great places to strike up conversations and find people cultivate

00:51:09.594 --> 00:51:13.774
a relationship from there but chances are if you don't know folks in your area

00:51:13.774 --> 00:51:18.054
that think like you do you're just not talking to enough people when i was back

00:51:18.054 --> 00:51:22.194
in my younger days as a single guy back in college and stuff.

00:51:22.954 --> 00:51:26.514
I always bring this up and i feel like embarrassed by saying it but we would

00:51:26.514 --> 00:51:30.654
always say it's a numbers game bro the more women you talk to the more chances

00:51:30.654 --> 00:51:33.754
you'll have to find the lady We'll leave it at that.

00:51:33.994 --> 00:51:36.774
That's not my game anymore, of course, but it's a numbers game.

00:51:36.934 --> 00:51:40.754
Strike up more conversations. Hey, did you see what happened in the press?

00:51:40.994 --> 00:51:43.934
Just like whatever. There's a newspaper there. You're in the checkout aisle.

00:51:44.174 --> 00:51:47.874
Reference the cover of the newspaper and then try to tie it to something to

00:51:47.874 --> 00:51:51.194
just try to see like, oh, can you believe what they're doing with the inflation

00:51:51.194 --> 00:51:52.974
or boy, that Trump or whatever?

00:51:53.114 --> 00:51:55.314
I don't know. Just strike up conversations is what it's all about.

00:51:55.514 --> 00:51:58.574
And like James was saying, they don't have to believe like we do all the time

00:51:58.574 --> 00:52:01.014
to find a good friend. And maybe if you're confident enough,

00:52:01.134 --> 00:52:04.714
you can find somebody that's apolitical or conservative or something,

00:52:04.714 --> 00:52:07.814
and you can rub off on them with these voluntarist principles.

00:52:08.114 --> 00:52:10.534
It is the most consistent philosophy after all.

00:52:11.854 --> 00:52:14.654
Yep. Okay. Here's another one. And we're coming up on time here.

00:52:14.854 --> 00:52:19.854
Question. What do you think of the big push from truthers and others to become expats?

00:52:20.054 --> 00:52:24.214
It's a great question for an expat. I'm in Kanakistan, which is what they call

00:52:24.214 --> 00:52:25.894
Canada these days, and now thank,

00:52:26.484 --> 00:52:30.424
better the devil you know, I can better navigate my way here in Canada.

00:52:30.424 --> 00:52:33.684
So what led you to become an expatriate?

00:52:33.764 --> 00:52:36.664
And what's that movement like? What do you think? Yeah.

00:52:36.844 --> 00:52:39.984
Yeah, I can actually speak to this from experience because I am an expat.

00:52:40.104 --> 00:52:41.144
I am Canadian living in Japan.

00:52:41.624 --> 00:52:46.504
And I did not come here for any sort of political reason whatsoever.

00:52:46.504 --> 00:52:48.824
I came here completely by happenstance.

00:52:49.064 --> 00:52:55.224
I was finishing my master's degree in Dublin, and I ran into another classmate of mine.

00:52:55.504 --> 00:52:59.104
And I just asked him what he was doing. He said, I'm thinking of teaching English in Asia.

00:52:59.224 --> 00:53:02.084
I was just looking at some jobs. And I thought, hey, that's a way to make some

00:53:02.084 --> 00:53:06.024
money and see another part of the world, kill a year before I have to decide what to do with my life.

00:53:06.224 --> 00:53:10.304
So I get online, I start searching, and literally the first company I find I

00:53:10.304 --> 00:53:13.144
apply to, I get the job and I'm out in Japan. Wow, okay.

00:53:13.584 --> 00:53:16.644
And I came here for a year, ended up staying 20 because it, well,

00:53:16.704 --> 00:53:19.804
21 now, because it turned out to be, hey, this is a good place for me.

00:53:20.024 --> 00:53:23.604
I'm comfortable here. It has nothing to do with the politics or political side

00:53:23.604 --> 00:53:26.604
of it. I was not thinking in those ways when I first came out here at all.

00:53:26.684 --> 00:53:29.364
And I was not switched on to conspiracy reality or what have you.

00:53:29.644 --> 00:53:32.204
So that has nothing to do with why I'm here.

00:53:32.544 --> 00:53:35.384
I'm here because it is a comfortable place. Now it is my home.

00:53:35.724 --> 00:53:40.584
Literally, I have my family and I've established myself here. So I am here in Japan.

00:53:41.504 --> 00:53:45.984
I was having said that I would not recommend people run away from

00:53:46.253 --> 00:53:49.673
If they if they are not inclined to, if you want to go and see other parts of

00:53:49.673 --> 00:53:50.693
the world, great, awesome.

00:53:50.833 --> 00:53:53.793
But if you are not inclined to, if you are not already prepared for it,

00:53:53.933 --> 00:53:56.393
it is not a light and trivial thing to move to another country,

00:53:56.533 --> 00:54:00.473
especially another country in a different language, with a different culture,

00:54:00.633 --> 00:54:05.053
where, like myself, I had studied like three months of Japanese before coming

00:54:05.053 --> 00:54:07.553
here. So, I mean, it's a huge undertaking.

00:54:07.773 --> 00:54:11.653
Right. And people should not take that lightly. So I'm not one of these passport bros.

00:54:11.873 --> 00:54:16.613
You know, you got to get 15 passports and live in seven different countries. if you want to.

00:54:16.733 --> 00:54:20.453
And if that's your lifestyle, great, go for it. But I also think that,

00:54:20.553 --> 00:54:23.553
yeah, to a certain extent, if people are thinking that, oh, there's some kind

00:54:23.553 --> 00:54:27.673
of Shangri law, and if I just move there, then everything will be OK and I'll

00:54:27.673 --> 00:54:30.353
be protected from this big agenda. No, it's a global agenda.

00:54:30.593 --> 00:54:37.273
And it's ultimately about the human drama of the quest for power and control that some people have.

00:54:37.513 --> 00:54:42.013
And they're enacting that vision in every country, in every place of the globe,

00:54:42.133 --> 00:54:45.293
in different ways, of course, it takes different forms in different countries.

00:54:45.613 --> 00:54:50.453
But it is happening everywhere. So wherever your home is and wherever you feel

00:54:50.453 --> 00:54:53.033
your home is, if you haven't found it yet, sure, go looking.

00:54:53.213 --> 00:54:57.013
But if you feel you're at home, then no, I don't think you have to leave in

00:54:57.013 --> 00:54:58.733
order to try to find freedom somewhere else.

00:54:58.893 --> 00:55:03.113
No, you should try to carve out the space for freedom that you can in the place that you are.

00:55:03.253 --> 00:55:06.953
And that is the struggle that all humanity will face forever, presumably.

00:55:08.174 --> 00:55:11.614
I'm glad you added that part at the end. That was something that I wanted to add.

00:55:12.794 --> 00:55:18.954
Life gets easier and less stressful for folks that know what we know about the

00:55:18.954 --> 00:55:24.314
nature of the conspiracy when you just kind of accept that the price of liberty

00:55:24.314 --> 00:55:31.274
is eternal vigilance and our children and their children will inherit this same struggle.

00:55:31.814 --> 00:55:34.714
And the more that we do the easier it'll be for them of course

00:55:34.714 --> 00:55:37.934
but uh this is just the way life is unfortunately it's

00:55:37.934 --> 00:55:40.794
been like this since the beginning of civilization they just have better

00:55:40.794 --> 00:55:43.634
technology now there's always been one small group of

00:55:43.634 --> 00:55:49.794
people uh ruling and controlling a larger group of people uh it may always be

00:55:49.794 --> 00:55:53.974
that way but we can hope to just carve out our little agoras pockets here and

00:55:53.974 --> 00:55:57.334
there i would say too what's more important than the jurisdiction that you find

00:55:57.334 --> 00:55:58.594
yourself in is the people that

00:55:58.594 --> 00:56:02.874
you know and how prepared you and they are getting each other's backs.

00:56:03.114 --> 00:56:06.794
It's better. Like if you're in Texas and you know, nobody, you're not interested

00:56:06.794 --> 00:56:10.894
in meeting anybody, it'd be, it'd be better to be in Massachusetts with a crew

00:56:10.894 --> 00:56:14.234
of 30 people that meet up regularly and are growing food together and stuff like that.

00:56:14.514 --> 00:56:18.494
Uh, so yeah, it's the hunker down thing. And Oh, I will say too,

00:56:18.794 --> 00:56:21.614
regardless of where you happen to live, you'll definitely going to find greater

00:56:21.614 --> 00:56:26.134
freedom in the country than in the city. That's part of our whole exit and build thing, of course.

00:56:26.714 --> 00:56:30.254
But yeah, just enjoy life more than anything. All right. I know that you got

00:56:30.254 --> 00:56:33.954
to go here at the top of the hour. So we got three minutes left.

00:56:34.074 --> 00:56:38.234
Let me just let you rip on this one because you're a very optimistic guy,

00:56:38.434 --> 00:56:42.754
which is ironic because you're also uncover the belly of the beast and the conspiracy

00:56:42.754 --> 00:56:46.174
and you've seen it grown for decades and not, it's relentless,

00:56:46.174 --> 00:56:48.874
but you still remain hopeful and optimistic.

00:56:49.254 --> 00:56:54.534
So OLIP57 says, As we're entering a type of panopticon society governed and

00:56:54.534 --> 00:57:00.974
controlled by AI and robotics, what genuine hope is there for the human race to survive this?

00:57:01.791 --> 00:57:04.751
Yeah. You know what? That is a genuinely good question.

00:57:04.751 --> 00:57:08.931
And let me, I guess, kind of contradict your point of view there, because,

00:57:09.051 --> 00:57:14.911
yes, I think I am insofar as there is a human spirit and there is that that

00:57:14.911 --> 00:57:20.591
torch of liberty in every individual sovereign human soul that I believe exists

00:57:20.591 --> 00:57:24.111
and will not be extinguished as long as humans still walk the earth.

00:57:24.111 --> 00:57:27.191
The question is, well, how much longer will humans walk the earth?

00:57:27.311 --> 00:57:32.811
And I don't just mean that in some sort of Terminator versus Cyberdyne AI war

00:57:32.811 --> 00:57:35.331
that may or may not take place.

00:57:35.411 --> 00:57:39.931
I mean that just at the level of the genetic manipulations and other things

00:57:39.931 --> 00:57:44.271
that are changing what it means to be human at a more fundamental level.

00:57:44.271 --> 00:57:49.191
The brain chips, Elon Musk, I'm sure will implant you with a wonderful brain chip.

00:57:49.371 --> 00:57:52.091
But at any rate, it will change what it means to be human.

00:57:52.311 --> 00:57:56.831
And at a certain point, how much of a change can we have before that that light

00:57:56.831 --> 00:57:59.511
of sovereign human freedom is extinguished?

00:57:59.671 --> 00:58:04.511
And that is where, you know, I think we are actually in a genuine arms race of sorts.

00:58:04.711 --> 00:58:10.811
And it's not just AI and robotics. It's AI tied into nanobots that can self-program

00:58:10.811 --> 00:58:14.251
synthetic organisms that can then manipulate us in various ways.

00:58:14.391 --> 00:58:18.631
I mean, there are crazy, crazy things that are not science fiction that are

00:58:18.631 --> 00:58:21.751
actively being worked on by DARPA and others right now.

00:58:22.668 --> 00:58:27.768
Would blow people's minds, um, or should blow people's minds because it is on our doorstep.

00:58:27.928 --> 00:58:33.548
So yeah, I, I trust me, I understand this is not a trivial thing and it is certainly

00:58:33.548 --> 00:58:37.388
not a set in stone certain certainty that freedom will prevail.

00:58:37.728 --> 00:58:41.488
Um, but I know what will happen if we just sort of give up and shrug our shoulders

00:58:41.488 --> 00:58:45.928
and walk away from this, you know, they, them, those, the powers that shouldn't be will win.

00:58:46.188 --> 00:58:50.908
So I know I, at any rate, I know that our struggle is pretty much the same as

00:58:50.908 --> 00:58:53.228
all of our forefathers struggle throughout all of history.

00:58:53.428 --> 00:58:57.188
We still have to stand up for what we know is right and try to build the better

00:58:57.188 --> 00:58:59.888
world for our children and their children and their children's children.

00:59:00.788 --> 00:59:05.208
But we don't have forever on this. So if there's anyone on the fence,

00:59:05.668 --> 00:59:07.568
if there's anyone thinking about it, if there's anyone who's discouraged,

00:59:07.568 --> 00:59:10.668
oh, you know, it's all so bleak, how could we ever possibly fight back?

00:59:10.988 --> 00:59:15.148
Well, this is the time to stand up and fight back because there will be no better

00:59:15.148 --> 00:59:17.208
opportunity than there is right now.

00:59:17.708 --> 00:59:20.888
And, you know, It's an exciting time if you want to look at it that way.

00:59:21.008 --> 00:59:22.208
Glass half empty, glass half full.

00:59:22.528 --> 00:59:27.548
At the very least, you cannot say that this is a boring time to be born into into the human race.

00:59:27.688 --> 00:59:31.108
And here we are and we are racing. So let's let's all join together.

00:59:32.088 --> 00:59:35.228
Because if we don't hang together, we will certainly hang separately. Right.

00:59:36.008 --> 00:59:40.548
All right. Well said there, Mr. James. I appreciate you. This has been great.

00:59:40.868 --> 00:59:47.328
It's always fun to pick that that noggin of yours. You've got a well-researched

00:59:47.328 --> 00:59:51.328
guy, and I'm always really appreciative of the solutions focus.

00:59:51.768 --> 00:59:56.188
And again, CorbettReport.com, huge body of knowledge, wealth of information.

00:59:56.388 --> 01:00:02.568
And then the Solutions Watch is super hard-hitting for folks that are looking for what can I do?

01:00:02.688 --> 01:00:06.368
What can I do? It covers a wide variety of topics and things that you can do,

01:00:06.508 --> 01:00:10.848
practical stuff that anyone can embark upon in their local area and their lives.

01:00:11.228 --> 01:00:14.108
So really appreciate you. Thanks for spending some time with us.

01:00:14.428 --> 01:00:16.468
Thanks for having me on. All right. Take care.

01:00:17.726 --> 01:00:20.026
Excellent. Excellent. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:20.126 --> 01:00:24.086
the one, the only James Corbett of CorbettReport.com.

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I just want to add one last point there as what James was saying.

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I choose to be grateful and blessed for the opportunity to be alive right now

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and to have the honor of participating in the Animating Contest of Freedom.

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I think that this conspiracy and what's taking place in the world is not happening to us.

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It's happening for us so that we

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may step into our power

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and embrace our role as creators that were made in the image of God for the

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purpose of doing good and bringing about light and love.

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To a world that is seemingly dark.

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I take immense gratitude and

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joy that I've been blessed with the opportunity to be alive right now and that

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I get to play a role in this transition where free people finally remember who it is that they are.

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We have the power. We just forgot that.

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And the sooner that more of us remember it and start demonstrating that power

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that we have through action.

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The sooner we will get to really experience the joy of a genuinely free society,

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the free society that you, me, our children, our children's children,

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the society we all deserve.

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But it's going to take work and let's learn to find joy in that work.

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All right, friends, This is John Bush of the Live Free Now show,

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