Music.
Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorporateReport.com.
And I'm James Evan Pallotto of MediaMonarchy.com. Who controls open source?
We have that question and that story, plus a Roman storm of tornado cash,
which kind of sounds like a weird film, but first, World War V.
Russia tries to make sudden advance in Ukraine before Trump-Putin summit.
Grabbing this originally from Reuters, but we will include the archive.is link.
Russian forces have made the sudden thrust in eastern Ukraine near the coal
mining town of Dobropylia, a move that may be an attempt to increase pressure
on Kiev to give up land as the U.S.
And Russian presidents prepare to meet.
Ukraine's authoritative deep state war map showed that Russian forces had advanced
by at least six miles north in two prongs in recent days, part of their drive
to take full control of Ukraine's Donsk region.
The advance is one of the most dramatic in the last year, although military
analysts said the Russians using small groups of soldiers to try and establish
footholds and that it was uncertain if they could maintain their positions in
the face of Ukrainian pushback.
Deep State said the Russians had surged forward near three villages on a section
of the front line, which Moscow was trying to encircle by exploiting Kiev's lack of manpower.
The situation, quite chaotic, as the enemy, having found gaps in the defense
is infiltrating deeper, trying to quickly consolidate and accumulate forces
for further advancement, Deep State said on its Telegram channel. U.S.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to
discuss a possible deal to end the war in Ukraine when they meet in Alaska on Friday.
And as we come to you, that's about 48 hours, but by the time you are hearing
this, it'll be a lot closer. Thank you.
Unconfirmed media reports say Putin has told Trump he wants Ukraine to hand
over part of the Dantsk region that Russia does not control.
The Russian Defense Ministry said units of its army grouping center had improved
their positions on the edge of the front line.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that groups of Russian soldiers
had advanced about 10 kilometers in several places.
They're without equipment, only weapons in their hands.
Some have already been found, partly destroyed, partly captured.
We will find and destroy the rest in the near future, he said,
sounding like the lame Christian Bale Batman that he thinks he is.
Remember, this dude was a sketch comedian.
Please see footage of him playing the piano with his member.
Like all good heads of state do.
We will include Links James. Of course, anything important and real has a Wikipedia
entry, 2025 Russia-United States Summit, a.k.a.
The Alaska Summit. As Zero Hedge reports, cracks appear in NATO unity ahead
of Alaska's summit on Ukraine territorial concessions.
Hey, meanwhile in Gaza, Germany's leading newspaper calls murdered Al Jazeera
reporter terrorist, posing as a journalist.
And Israel in talks to expel Palestinians from Gaza to South Sudan.
As essentially the same thing happening in the District of Columbia,
maybe the District of America back here in the States. Trump says homeless should leave D.C.
Immediately puts the police and the city under federal control and deploys the National Guard.
As below, so below, James. Yeah, that's an apt summary for you.
And I guess if we were going to talk about the Alaska summit and what may or
may not come of it, I am not exactly holding my breath that everything's going
to be done and dusted by the end of the weekend.
And the war over, guys. Come on home.
Maybe, but, well, believe it when I see it, but I think it might at least be
a preparatory opening step towards something that might eventuate into some
sort of disarmament process that might take place.
Long time. And meanwhile, the military industrial defense contractor royalty
that we were talking about, like last week, like Palantir and others,
are still going ka-ching ka-ching all the way to the bank,
making their billions of dollars in contracts off of this never-ending conflict that,
wasn't it going to end on day one of Trump 2.0? Wasn't that what we were promised?
Dozens and dozens of times on the campaign trail. Oh, wait, now he jokes.
Oh, that was just a joke, guys. You didn't take that seriously,
did you? You silly rubes.
Yeah, it turns out this kind of negotiation is more complicated than that,
especially when it involves 3D chess moves on obviously a rigged and controlled
battlefield that is playing out for the benefit of certain military-industrial
contractors and banksters and others, the usual players,
and we get to watch the heads of state performing their kabuki puppeteer dance.
But anyway, the idea of Russia trying to rush in and rush in and try to steal
some land before the peace negotiations start is pretty par for the course.
I think most militaries tend to do operations like that. This seems like no exception.
We'll see what eventuates from it and from this summit entirely.
But in the interest of being the new world next week, we are reporting to the
news to you as before it happens.
There will be something that I'm sure that will come out of this Alaska summit
at the very least a statement, or who knows,
maybe Trump will embarrass Putin and talk about how he's not grateful enough
for American help or whatever, whatever he's going to say, just like he did with Zelensky, right?
Well, anyway, I'm sure there will be something interesting to see here.
I'm sure there will be future memes in the making, and I'm sure the Democrats
will look for any flimsy excuse to say that Putin controls Russia.
Again, one of the big gaslighting lies. Oh, it's Putin, Putin, Putin.
It's not who I see him pulling out the chair for at the table.
Kind of seems like Netanyahu is the one controlling Putin, if any of these,
again, external figures.
Definitely going to make for more memes for sure.
Russian attack. There was a konami video game
back in the good old cold war days but it
was spelled r-u-s-h in attack you know like rock and roll russian attack but
yeah i mean campaign promises maybe you that was just pillow talk you don't
you don't really believe that our second story on this new world next week episode
six hundred and the first,
Kind of worried about this one, James. I'm hoping maybe you can say,
ah, this is no big deal. They all do this.
Open source organizations pledge fealty to the United Nations.
Linux, LibreOffice, Matrix, promote DEI discrimination, and RISE.
We're going to learn a new acronym.
This is a good one by Brian Lunduk on his sub stack.
And again, everything we say is always linked up down in the show notes.
Who controls open source is a fascinating question.
Some of the largest open-source foundations primarily funded by corporations,
which by most estimations have not historically been fans of open-source or free software.
Case in point, the Linux Foundation, which brings in roughly a third of a billion
dollars a year, heavily funded by corporate sponsors like Microsoft,
Hitachi, Meta, and Tencent, all of which derive most of their revenue from proprietary systems.
Likewise, Mozilla, bringing in 600 million annually, almost entirely funded by Google.
As the saying goes, he who controls the purse strings controls how the money is spent.
And of course, we must consider the political control and influence over open source.
Many large open source foundations and organizations have deep,
often financial ties to political activism organizations, both Mozilla and Wikimedia
being some of the more well-known examples.
Well, as he writes, buckle up, buttercup, because it's going to get worse.
Back in March, the United Nations announced that 16 organizations had signed
on to the United Nations Open Source Principles, a set of eight core principles,
which open source organizations are vowing to adhere to.
Five of the eight fairly obvious considering the topic not at all surprising.
Expected things like make open source the standard approach,
encourage active participation in open source, make security a priority.
Awesome okay great all those things are good but three
of the un open source principles raise significant red
flags and let's check out those flags number
four on the list and again this is they've all signed on to this foster inclusive
participation and community building enabling and facilitating diverse and inclusive
contributions inclusive diverse over the last several years These are basically
code words for discriminate against people we don't like.
Number seven on the list. This is the RISE. This is the RISE acronym.
Recognize the contributions.
Incentivize underrepresented groups with internships, promotions,
scholarships, bonuses to encourage diversity. Read discrimination.
Support underrepresented or
marginalized groups with tailored resources to ensure equitable outcomes.
Read, no meritocracy.
Meaning, you know, we're told work hard and you'll get ahead and then you see
other people who didn't get further.
And the E, empower diverse individuals with leadership roles in order to promote DEI.
It is, in essence, corporate speak checklist for encouraging discrimination.
Remember, Blackwater, Clear Channel, those are out. Z and iHeart are in.
Which brings us to the last UN open source principle, the one which quite possibly
raises the biggest flag of all, number eight on the list, sustain and scale,
supporting the development of solutions that meet the evolving needs of the UN system and beyond.
Open source organizations which sign on to this compact are pledging to support
the development of solutions that meet the needs of the United Nations.
Or put another way, these orgs are pledging to do the bidding of the UN,
whatever that might be, whatever next new catalyzing catastrophic event they
have all got to get behind to knock you off of your banks or knock you off of
your internet accounts.
Which open source organizations are we talking about?
The Linux Foundation, the GNOME Foundation, Eclipse Foundation,
the Document Foundation, which is essentially LibreOffice and so many others.
Heck, even NextCloud and Matrix have signed on, Matrix being one of the open-source
alternatives to places like Discord. James?
Yes. Well, James, I am not going to tell you that this is no big deal and that everybody's doing it.
You know, just the very last part is just concerning because,
hey, I was using OpenOffice until the open community told me, oh, don't do that.
You've got to use LibreOffice these days. Well, now, now what do I use?
Anyway, yeah, no, this is a concerning thing for a number of reasons.
And maybe we can contextualize this and use this as a learning opportunity because
it's a good idea to remind ourselves what these things actually mean.
Because there is a real answer to that question, who controls open source.
I understand why Lunduk would open with that as the sort of framing question of this.
But the question is answered quite simply.
Nobody. Nobody owns or controls open source. Because open source is simply a
bare-bones concept. So let's lay it out for people.
In the same way that a lot of terms get thrown around, for example,
the non-aggression principle that underlines voluntarism is not an entire ethical moral philosophy.
It's a good thing, but it's just one tiny necessary but not sufficient part
of an entire ethical philosophy.
In the same way, open source, yeah, is a good thing, but it's just one tiny
part of a much bigger web of things that need to be considered when we're looking
at, for example, software or journalism.
Because as you know, open source intelligence news was the tagline of CorbettReport.com
going back to its very inception.
What does that mean? It means that I publish the links to my references.
When I make a reference, I'll give you the links.
That's the open source nature of the journalism that I do. That's all it means.
So I can still be terrible and very bad at what I do, but I could be open source.
Or I could be really good at what I do and be open source.
The quality of it is not determined by the open sourceness of it.
Open source is a good thing, but it isn't the be-all and end-all.
So all of these big foundations that are running these big open source projects are signing up to the UN.
And cynically, and perhaps most hopefully, you could say they're doing it because
they want, you know, the UN participation, you know, laurel on their crown.
What does any of this wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed language actually mean?
Empowering individuals and communities or enabling and facilitating diverse
and inclusive? I mean, that can mean absolutely anything.
So cynically, one could imagine one would be like, okay, whatever,
sure. Yeah, what does it actually mean?
But more realistically, I mean, obviously, this is part of the UN gobbledygook
globally's speak that is meant to spin the webs around the public.
Oh, it sounds so wonderful and feel good, but what does it actually mean in reality?
I guess we will find out because this open source principles document is apparently quite new.
But here's a little research assignment for the would-be budding researchers out there.
Can someone find me the actual UN post or PDF or whatever they have of the open
source principles as adopted by this DTF, whatever it is, body that's some subcommittee of some UN.
Committee or whatever it is.
I can find their press releases about all the organizations signing up to this,
but I cannot find the actual original here is the document that they're talking about.
Anyway, I just thought that would be interesting to contextualize this whole story.
But anyway, in the meantime, update, since this Lunduk story was published, it's now even worse.
Milestone, UN open source principles
endorsements reach 60, including the government of the French Republic.
The government of France has signed up to this UN open source principles.
So it just keeps getting worse.
Surprise, surprise. Globalists love globalese.
But again, let's just separate what's going on here.
Open source is a good thing, but what does it actually mean and what's it embedded in?
And that's when you get into the politics of Linux and Mozilla and organizations like that.
I covered this story on my Tuesday technology-focused morning monarchy.
I might have the links, James. I know I was reading from, maybe that is just
the press release, but it did have the points that we, the red flags that we
highlighted in yellow highlighter.
So, ooh, I might have that one for you before anybody else actually hears this episode, James.
It is open source is always capitalized in this article, I noticed.
And even just then thinking, it's like, I don't think that's a thing.
You know, I'm a word nerd. I don't think that's a thing you capitalize.
And yeah, Pepsi, Chevron, they sponsor the arts because they care.
They care about theater.
They just want to get some tax write-offs. And you don't want to,
again, the wind is blowing in a slightly different direction now.
So you don't want to get left behind by the new corporate changes.
That's why Bezos and others are smart to kind of readjust themselves for Trump 2.0.
But an interesting one. For our third and final story, Tornado Cash co-founder
found guilty on one of three charges after jury deadlock.
James, I don't really know anything about this story. A Manhattan jury found
Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm,
if that is his real name, guilty of charges related to conspiracy to run an
unlicensed money business. That's our scam, buddy.
Yeah, the poors won't get a chance to print their own money.
Get out of here. In a Wednesday decision in the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York, which always generally
relates to the biggest financial stories, which also relate to some of the biggest
9-11 stories for some reason,
Storm was found guilty of one felony charge related to his role at Tornado Cash,
according to court reports from Inner City Press.
The jury convicted Roman on conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmittal
business, which carries a maximum sentence of, eh, five years in a cage.
No unanimity was reached on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering,
nor on conspiracy to violate North Korea's sanctions.
Because that'll get you in big trouble.
They didn't get ditty on the RICO charges either. After four days of deliberations,
jurors in the trial informed the court they were deadlocked on certain charges,
prompting the judge to go, get back in there and work it out.
You gotta reach a unanimous verdict. The prosecutor's case focused on presenting
witnesses, mainly from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and hackers.
Who of course probably had been busted and were forced into black hatting for
the feds, testify that Storm had the ability to modify Tornado Cash's code to
prevent illicit use by criminals, but chose not to.
Storm's legal team put forth its own experts, including Ethereum core developer
Preston Van Loon and Naxo co-founder Matthew Edmond.
The Tornado Cash co-founder indicted August 2023 for money laundering,
conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter, and conspiracy to violate U.S.
Sanctions. So wait, who's sanctioning who here? Storm pleaded not guilty and
had been free on bail since his arraignment. that would have been his chance
to run away to Italy like he's Jimmy Kimmel.
But Judge Catherine Fahia reportedly said during Storm's trial that she was
being mindful of other crypto-related cases, of course, including FDX's scam bankman fraud,
former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain, and OneCoin co-founder Carl Greenwood.
All three, whose cases were litigated by the Southern District of New York,
sentenced to serve time in prison.
Storm's sentencing hearing has yet to be scheduled, and prior to and throughout
the trial, he claimed to be innocent. That's what they all do.
Supporters of the Tornado Cash
co-founder contributed more than $3 million to his legal defense fund.
Among those who donated the most were Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin,
Paradigm founder Matt Huang, and the Ethereum Foundation.
In related crypto news from news.bitcoin.com, nothing left to use.
Monero Reorganization and Samurai Takedown Spark Privacy Doomsday Talk.
And know your customer, KYC, the quiet kill switch.
James, a lot of moves really quickly here in the crypto sphere as crypto is
pretty much booming. What is it? Oh, damn.
As I speak to this might be the new high. Oh, definitely.
$124,224. So that might be why the big interest right now.
Oh, absolutely. And really, this is just the culmination of what I have been
talking about I'm warning about for, I don't know, a decade now,
at least in the crypto space, because of course we have all the crypto bros
that have moved into the space that only care about one thing, number go up.
That's it. Who cares? Whatever. Let me sign my tax compliance.
Here is my blood sample and my next of kin and my government ID and whatever you want.
Comply, comply, comply. And yay, look, number go up.
But what can you do with that number once it goes up? Not as much as you could
have if people had actually cared about what crypto was supposed to be about,
or at least the way it was sold in the freedom-loving spaces 15 years ago,
which is not compliance.
And here we are at the culmination of this.
The Trump 2.0 revitalized it. This is the crypto presidency.
Yay, all this wonderful stuff. They just had Crypto Week, guys,
passing these wonderful acts like the anti-CBDC.
Yay, I'm against CBDC.
And this stable genius act, right, with the stable coin regime that they are
putting in to license and to monitor
and to regulate and to control stablecoins and how they are issued.
And I still have people in my own comment section even saying,
stablecoins are a great thing. Yeah, right.
But did you even read the Genius Act? Do you understand what's happening?
And here we are at Tornado Cash founder getting dragged in for,
what, money transmitting charges.
For those who don't know, Tornado Cash was a coin mixer. It did not handle or
control anybody's coins at any point.
So essentially what is happening here is that an open source developer of software
that truly was not custodial in any way, it didn't control anyone's money,
but he is being taken to court for this, which sets an awfully bad precedent
for the future of the entire space.
And of course, what is going to happen?
People who would, the tornado cash developers of the future will see that and
know, okay, well, if I don't want to go to jail in the US, I won't do this.
So this is the state that we're in.
Number go up, even as freedom go down.
That's not the, that wasn't the deal that I was interested in back when I first
started covering and talking about crypto years and years and years ago.
And I'm sure many people will say, well it was just the inevitable way that
it will go well it is the inevitable way it will go if people still only care
about number go up and so um i don't know stick a coin in it stick a fork in
it bitcoin is done stick a fork in it crypto is over i don't know about that
yet but we are certainly getting there with these types of regulatory and judicial moves,
When you stick a coin in it, that makes it go. That gives you a ride.
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That is episode 601, buddy. You doing okay?
I am doing okay. And yeah, let me just acknowledge what you said there because,
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James, there it is, buddy.
There it is. And I think we'll leave it there till next week.
James, thank you, as always, for the stories. Looking forward to doing it again.
Thanks so much, man. Take care. Take care.