WEBVTT 00:00:12.974 --> 00:00:16.394 Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:18.014 --> 00:00:21.774 And I am James Evan Palato of MediaMonarchy.com. You can talk about anything 00:00:21.774 --> 00:00:23.774 other than a couple of things. 00:00:24.094 --> 00:00:29.394 We have got that story, plus whether or not to halt genetic interventions in conservation. 00:00:29.814 --> 00:00:35.854 But our first of three cozy gatherings this week, we begin with this billionaire 00:00:35.854 --> 00:00:40.734 Trump ally and his son are building an unprecedented media empire. 00:00:40.734 --> 00:00:46.174 Journalists at CBS News reeled as they digested news reports that opinion journalist 00:00:46.174 --> 00:00:50.834 Barry Weiss, a fierce critic of the mainstream media, would become the editor-in-chief 00:00:50.834 --> 00:00:53.314 of the straight-laced legacy brand. 00:00:53.574 --> 00:00:57.594 Two months earlier, there had been cautious optimism in Midtown Manhattan newsroom, 00:00:57.754 --> 00:01:02.394 according to two CBS News staffers who spoke that you don't tell that we told you all this stuff. 00:01:02.974 --> 00:01:09.654 Movie producer David Ellison, son of billionaire software Zionist Larry Ellison, 00:01:09.654 --> 00:01:14.554 dropped by to introduce himself as the new chief executive of Paramount Skydance, 00:01:14.654 --> 00:01:20.894 the company that now owns CBS after an $8 billion merger that promised new investment. 00:01:21.114 --> 00:01:27.414 And again, James, this is very similar to The Insider, where the story of 60 00:01:27.414 --> 00:01:30.754 Minutes and the cigarette company and the tobacco executives. 00:01:31.862 --> 00:01:35.362 Trying to get the merger. It's going to scuttle all that. It's really similar 00:01:35.362 --> 00:01:38.762 to that. As, of course, art imitates life, imitates politics. 00:01:38.962 --> 00:01:42.602 But the newsroom hasn't heard directly from Ellison since that day, 00:01:42.842 --> 00:01:47.042 leaving many apprehensive about plans for the network, the two leakers said. 00:01:47.282 --> 00:01:51.802 The anxiety's been reinforced in recent weeks as details of Weiss's likely hire 00:01:51.802 --> 00:01:57.862 and Paramount Skydance's $150 million acquisition of her online publication, 00:01:58.042 --> 00:02:00.202 The Free Press, nice work if you can get it, 00:02:00.822 --> 00:02:03.662 leaked in media outlets ahead of internal confirmation. 00:02:03.662 --> 00:02:09.882 The deal and new role for Rice Weiss are the latest moves by David Ellison as 00:02:09.882 --> 00:02:14.762 he builds a media empire alongside his Silicon Valley tycoon father through 00:02:14.762 --> 00:02:19.622 pivotal deals negotiated and or approved by President Donald Trump and his appointees. 00:02:19.702 --> 00:02:24.902 In recent months, the Ellisons have assembled an unprecedented array of old media and new. 00:02:25.082 --> 00:02:28.682 James, maybe for folks that don't watch it or see it here. 00:02:28.922 --> 00:02:33.982 CBS is the old boomer network. That's 60 Minutes. That's the old shows. 00:02:34.122 --> 00:02:38.402 That's the old sitcoms. I really, this is them trying to get to the head of the pack. 00:02:39.037 --> 00:02:43.717 Larry Ellison, 81, the second richest person in the world and co-founder and 00:02:43.717 --> 00:02:47.477 chairman of tech company Oracle, which is set to own a piece of the U.S. 00:02:47.617 --> 00:02:51.537 Spinoff of TikTok, according to people familiar with the negotiations. 00:02:51.757 --> 00:02:54.857 And it's almost like we wouldn't know anything if people inside didn't speak 00:02:54.857 --> 00:02:56.657 out of a condition of anonymity. 00:02:57.137 --> 00:03:03.117 David Ellison, 42, made blockbusters, including the Top Gun sequel at his Hollywood 00:03:03.117 --> 00:03:06.717 company Skydance before merging it with Paramount this summer, 00:03:06.857 --> 00:03:10.677 taking control of CBS and its other TV and movie franchises. 00:03:10.837 --> 00:03:13.757 His father provided financial backing for the deal. 00:03:13.917 --> 00:03:16.277 Again, nice work if you can nepo, baby. 00:03:16.597 --> 00:03:21.497 The disruption at CBS News heralds the arrival of a vast father-son empire spanning 00:03:21.497 --> 00:03:25.697 Hollywood television and soon a chunk of a massively popular social app. 00:03:25.817 --> 00:03:27.377 What they choose to do with this 00:03:27.377 --> 00:03:30.697 staggering wealth and expanding holdings could shape the future of U.S. 00:03:30.857 --> 00:03:35.157 Business and culture. If you continue to give them money, if you starve of them, 00:03:35.417 --> 00:03:37.177 they might have less to do. 00:03:37.437 --> 00:03:41.897 David Ellison's appointment of an opinion journalist helm the network of legacy 00:03:41.897 --> 00:03:44.937 broadcasters where CIA cutout Edward R. 00:03:45.057 --> 00:03:48.417 Murrow and Walter, proud to sit on the right hand of Satan Cronkite, 00:03:48.857 --> 00:03:51.037 set the stage for a culture clash. 00:03:51.257 --> 00:03:54.737 It's not clear how Weiss will exercise her oversight of CBS News. 00:03:54.897 --> 00:03:58.917 The free press has campaigned against what it calls wokeism in mainstream media 00:03:58.917 --> 00:04:03.157 and whites, like the Ellisons, strong supporters of Israel. 00:04:03.337 --> 00:04:05.797 But her sight has also been critical of Trump. 00:04:06.836 --> 00:04:11.936 So what we're hoping from the opposition is a bunch of weak-willed junk. 00:04:12.176 --> 00:04:17.616 Oh, like our old real trustworthy guys like Murrow and Cronkite. 00:04:17.756 --> 00:04:22.436 Again, those were the great ones who never lied. And these ones are all bad and it's all fake news. 00:04:22.576 --> 00:04:26.056 And they keep saying opinion journo like that's not what they are. 00:04:26.156 --> 00:04:27.616 This is coming from the Washington Post. 00:04:27.796 --> 00:04:30.336 This is corporate gangster warfare. 00:04:30.676 --> 00:04:34.076 Oh man, this is really going to hurt our Amazon Prime. time. 00:04:34.956 --> 00:04:38.516 Israel's biggest U.S. donor now owns CBS. 00:04:38.976 --> 00:04:42.616 That from justinternational.org. And of course, the Jewish Chronicle asked in 00:04:42.616 --> 00:04:47.016 the musical question, how Jewish is Larry Ellison? Because that's an important question. 00:04:47.516 --> 00:04:53.216 And it's the joke. But finally, Zionists can get their message across using media. 00:04:53.396 --> 00:04:56.576 They've really been stymied on that here the last hundred years. 00:04:56.916 --> 00:05:00.976 Barry Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shake-up, 00:05:01.376 --> 00:05:06.116 noted redcoat John Oliver read something Sunday about her that someone else 00:05:06.116 --> 00:05:08.476 wrote for him on his show that's named after our show. 00:05:08.616 --> 00:05:14.316 It's on his underground rebel broadcast owned by AOL Time Warner Discovery 7 Arts. 00:05:15.523 --> 00:05:21.903 In related news, Warner Brothers is said to rebuff paramount takeover approach at a low price. 00:05:22.263 --> 00:05:26.363 John Oliver, owned by Warner Brothers, is griping that he might be about to 00:05:26.363 --> 00:05:29.923 get gobbled up again, as though he's some sort of indie rebel. 00:05:30.523 --> 00:05:35.623 New CBS owner David Ellison met with top Israeli general in scheme to spy on Americans. 00:05:35.883 --> 00:05:42.423 And Bill Clinton says Trump and others deserve great credit for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. 00:05:42.563 --> 00:05:45.103 James, a lot happens when we're not on the air for one week. 00:05:45.923 --> 00:05:49.843 It certainly does. And thank you for that roundup. I think you've covered the 00:05:49.843 --> 00:05:51.383 story in a number of different ways. 00:05:51.563 --> 00:05:54.523 So I don't have a lot to add other than to back you up on that point that, 00:05:54.623 --> 00:05:59.403 yes, isn't it funny that these opinion journos are fretting about the opinion 00:05:59.403 --> 00:06:02.623 journos that are being put in to take their spots? Oh, no. 00:06:02.943 --> 00:06:06.923 There is some schadenfreude to be had from this corporate gangster internal 00:06:06.923 --> 00:06:09.803 media politics warfare that's going on right now. 00:06:09.883 --> 00:06:16.423 But unfortunately, we all lose, as in the general public loses when these megacorporations 00:06:16.423 --> 00:06:18.903 control so much of the media airwaves. 00:06:19.323 --> 00:06:24.803 And yes, who's behind it? The Ellisons. And it seems to me that perhaps the 00:06:24.803 --> 00:06:27.843 Ellisons have slipped under the radar of the independent media for long enough. 00:06:27.843 --> 00:06:32.403 So perhaps we should start spending a little more time and attention on Larry 00:06:32.403 --> 00:06:38.263 and his son and their Zionist proclivities and secret meetings with Israeli agents, etc. 00:06:38.363 --> 00:06:42.943 I think there's probably a lot that deserves to be said about all of that. 00:06:43.003 --> 00:06:46.583 And no doubt we will as we continue to cover this story going forward. 00:06:48.003 --> 00:06:51.683 And that is how we get going on this New World Next Week, episode 606. 00:06:51.903 --> 00:06:56.763 A related story and a nice transition piece to get us to our second segment. 00:06:57.383 --> 00:07:02.303 Recall, a few years ago, there was a new, I know this is out of our league in 00:07:02.303 --> 00:07:07.623 a lot of ways, a new golf league, as though I'm an expert on all the old golf leagues. 00:07:07.843 --> 00:07:13.503 A couple years ago, the Saudis created a new golf league, and there was a lot 00:07:13.503 --> 00:07:17.263 of internal hemming and hawing and clutching of pearls about whether Americans 00:07:17.263 --> 00:07:20.463 wanted to sell out and go to this new Saudi golf thing, 00:07:20.643 --> 00:07:23.663 given some of their misgivings about the world stage. 00:07:23.923 --> 00:07:28.183 Trump told those golfers, you better take the money and join Saudis Live Golf, 00:07:28.343 --> 00:07:31.243 because you're going to ultimately have to still go to them, 00:07:31.383 --> 00:07:34.403 but your price is going to go down the longer and longer you wait. 00:07:34.503 --> 00:07:38.403 He was telling them, you better go sell out now because the price is going to go down. 00:07:39.083 --> 00:07:44.043 But really, James, if Schadenfreude and cringe were food, we would be eating 00:07:44.043 --> 00:07:47.403 Well, tonight, our second story, the sad, 00:07:47.883 --> 00:07:53.703 unfunny spectacle of American comedians selling out in Saudi Arabia again when 00:07:53.703 --> 00:07:58.363 mainline liberal rags like the nation can score points off of you. 00:07:58.503 --> 00:08:00.343 You know you're in the wrong. 00:08:00.743 --> 00:08:04.523 Turns out edgy free speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check 00:08:04.523 --> 00:08:06.763 from a brutal autocratic regime. 00:08:07.023 --> 00:08:11.423 James, I was actually just playing one of our episodes previously on this date, 00:08:11.643 --> 00:08:17.983 probably back in 2021 when all kinds of rock stars who all used to really speak 00:08:17.983 --> 00:08:22.043 truth to power all told me to go vote for power and make sure I wear a muzzle 00:08:22.043 --> 00:08:24.163 while I get these weird unsupported, 00:08:24.814 --> 00:08:28.574 untested drugs, because you always want to take health advice from rock stars. 00:08:28.774 --> 00:08:33.754 I'm hoping this destroys these stand-up comedians just as much as the fake punks 00:08:33.754 --> 00:08:36.794 destroy themselves over mandates and MAGA jabs. 00:08:36.974 --> 00:08:42.674 The royals loved the show, said Bill Burr, recently hired court jester to crown 00:08:42.674 --> 00:08:48.214 Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MBS if you nasty, on his podcast. Everyone was happy. 00:08:48.814 --> 00:08:52.694 That's a relief, because the last people in Saudi Arabia you want unhappy with 00:08:52.694 --> 00:08:54.494 you is the Saudi royal family. 00:08:54.814 --> 00:08:59.274 Bill Burr, noted stand-up comedian, had just returned from the Riyadh Comedy 00:08:59.274 --> 00:09:02.854 Festival, which claims to be the biggest in the world. First annual! 00:09:03.614 --> 00:09:08.554 It ran from September 26th to October 9th and boasted Louis C.K., 00:09:08.554 --> 00:09:12.454 Pete Davidson, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, and many others who received significant 00:09:12.454 --> 00:09:15.834 pay bumps to play birthday party clowns to a despot. 00:09:15.974 --> 00:09:18.574 They're just like us, Burr reassured his listeners. 00:09:18.774 --> 00:09:22.754 You can't get mad at Burr for saying that about the hereditary monarchs of the 00:09:22.754 --> 00:09:25.714 House of Sod because that's what they paid him to say. 00:09:25.974 --> 00:09:30.474 A normalization of Saudi Arabia's abysmal image worldwide, an image especially 00:09:30.474 --> 00:09:33.034 well-earned in the realm of human rights. 00:09:33.294 --> 00:09:38.234 The Saudi regime allows modern-day slavery, executions for non-violent crimes 00:09:38.234 --> 00:09:42.414 like adultery and blasphemy, as well as non-crimes like homosexuality. 00:09:42.514 --> 00:09:47.354 Again, I don't see gays being thrown off the roofs, just the places where Beyonce 00:09:47.354 --> 00:09:51.254 and J-Lo and these comedians all run off to to take a big giant check. 00:09:52.064 --> 00:09:57.724 Organizers of the Riyadh Comedy Festival, its very words hilarious on their 00:09:57.724 --> 00:10:02.144 own and unintentionally, took pains to ensure none of the performers would allude 00:10:02.144 --> 00:10:04.264 to the daily horrors beneath the glitz. 00:10:04.504 --> 00:10:09.764 Each contract signed came with a list of prohibited topics, not to mention on stage. 00:10:10.144 --> 00:10:13.464 Burr assured his listeners that the festival brass was accommodating when he 00:10:13.464 --> 00:10:15.384 totally pushed back on some of the restrictions. 00:10:15.644 --> 00:10:19.124 They just negotiated it all the way down to like, you can talk about anything 00:10:19.124 --> 00:10:21.584 other than a couple of things, which was basically, you know, 00:10:21.824 --> 00:10:23.664 religion. Don't make fun of the royals. 00:10:24.564 --> 00:10:28.124 Burr has ridiculed the idea of comedians speaking truth to power before, 00:10:28.304 --> 00:10:34.004 but he's also made frequent use of that American pastime as such when he pilloried 00:10:34.004 --> 00:10:38.364 Joe Rogan for his Maha-style distrust of masks and vaccines, 00:10:38.544 --> 00:10:41.364 derided America's epidemic of billionaires. 00:10:41.444 --> 00:10:43.584 This is the biggest sticky wicket for him. 00:10:43.744 --> 00:10:48.124 Or gleefully ridiculed the insurance industry's terrified reaction to Luigi 00:10:48.124 --> 00:10:50.984 Mangione's assassination of a healthcare CEO. 00:10:51.224 --> 00:10:55.544 He's genuinely outraged that people die because of a billionaire elite class's 00:10:55.544 --> 00:10:58.804 decisions, which is why it's hard to watch him toss it away. 00:10:59.184 --> 00:11:02.144 I was never a fan, so it's not hard for me at all. It's again, 00:11:02.344 --> 00:11:06.004 did you have faith? I was like, no, I didn't lose faith because I never had any in them. 00:11:06.918 --> 00:11:11.198 Comics don't have a responsibility to speak truth to power. 00:11:11.578 --> 00:11:14.638 Rodney Dangerfield wouldn't have been funnier talking about school shootings 00:11:14.638 --> 00:11:16.578 or 9-11, even though I now would 00:11:16.578 --> 00:11:20.498 like to see that since they've brought it up. AI, do that one for me. 00:11:20.878 --> 00:11:27.198 Rodney Dangerfield didn't build a career talking truth to power like Jella Biafra 00:11:27.198 --> 00:11:29.678 or all the other punk bands that we've talked about. 00:11:29.938 --> 00:11:36.198 But when you do and then go to Riyadh, the audience isn't wrong to ask you WTF. 00:11:36.918 --> 00:11:40.958 How can Burr even get mad about billionaires after missing that the Saudi royal 00:11:40.958 --> 00:11:44.238 family over there is just like us? Yeah, they're not like us. 00:11:44.898 --> 00:11:49.638 Dave Chappelle, who I believe Bill Burr owes his entire sanctimonious career 00:11:49.638 --> 00:11:52.518 to, if you go back and watch the show, he's in all the sketches, 00:11:53.118 --> 00:11:56.238 railed against cancel culture and defended freedom in the U.S. 00:11:56.418 --> 00:12:00.578 Because the public, and especially social media, criticized Chappelle for his 00:12:00.578 --> 00:12:03.198 views on the Jews, the trans, and the homosexuals. 00:12:03.278 --> 00:12:05.378 He's claimed it's made his job very hard. 00:12:06.038 --> 00:12:09.438 In Saudi Arabia, whose citizens have no freedom of speech and whose government 00:12:09.438 --> 00:12:13.438 proves his point every day, he happily signed his free speech away to the regime 00:12:13.438 --> 00:12:16.038 that sends you to jail for insulting Islam. 00:12:16.658 --> 00:12:20.678 Perhaps he talked them down to the same free speech deal maybe that Burr got. 00:12:20.998 --> 00:12:25.258 If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, 00:12:25.398 --> 00:12:28.038 they could have saved a bunch of time protesting at Netflix. 00:12:28.358 --> 00:12:30.598 That is a brutal cut as well from the nation. 00:12:31.398 --> 00:12:36.238 Ricky Gervais once told an awards show after he also said, you all know Epstein 00:12:36.238 --> 00:12:37.518 and you all worked with him. 00:12:37.638 --> 00:12:41.418 I don't care anymore. I'm quitting and not working for any of you anymore. 00:12:41.638 --> 00:12:45.518 If ISIS started a streaming service, most of you would call your agent. 00:12:45.678 --> 00:12:48.238 He was right then and he's even a writer now. 00:12:49.038 --> 00:12:53.398 Also, I think Gervais knows how to make intellectual property that people want, 00:12:53.578 --> 00:12:57.098 unlike the rest of these tragically unfunny court jesters. 00:12:57.658 --> 00:13:01.538 Soulless Chappelle takes a jab at Charlie Kirk during Comedy Festival. 00:13:01.718 --> 00:13:05.018 That's kind of clickbait BS. He says, if you mention Charlie Kirk, 00:13:05.038 --> 00:13:06.318 you'll get canceled. Will that happen? 00:13:07.359 --> 00:13:12.399 Grim visions emerge from the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Bill Burr fires back at his critics. 00:13:12.599 --> 00:13:18.079 He had some nice names to call all the people who kind of called him on his hypocrisy. 00:13:18.619 --> 00:13:23.659 And it gets even kind of funnier, James. Human Rights Watch won't take donations 00:13:23.659 --> 00:13:28.019 from the comedians who sold their soul to go do this and then took a bunch of 00:13:28.019 --> 00:13:30.599 crap when they got back home from all their former fans. 00:13:30.739 --> 00:13:34.299 They're like, okay, well, I'll turn over half of this money to Human Rights Watch. 00:13:34.479 --> 00:13:36.599 Human Rights Watch doesn't want your blood money. 00:13:37.359 --> 00:13:41.619 Human Rights Watch cannot accept donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians 00:13:41.619 --> 00:13:45.559 who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, and from one end to the other, 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.099 The Nation, but then to the New York Times, 00:13:48.499 --> 00:13:53.459 why arguments about free speech don't apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival. 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:58.439 Again, they think they're all Bill Hicks and Fugazi when they're really Bill 00:13:58.439 --> 00:14:01.159 Cosby and the Foo-Fizers. James. 00:14:02.741 --> 00:14:06.481 Well put. Yes, exactly right. So it is, I mean, speaking of schadenfreude, 00:14:06.681 --> 00:14:10.921 it is good to see that these comics who have spent the past couple of decades 00:14:10.921 --> 00:14:14.361 trying to build up this big thing about how they're the real philosophers and 00:14:14.361 --> 00:14:18.761 they're the real truth tellers in our society are exposed for what they really are. 00:14:19.241 --> 00:14:24.581 Literal court jesters. That's what they are. And if that's all they are, 00:14:25.061 --> 00:14:26.141 you know, fine, whatever. 00:14:26.261 --> 00:14:30.321 They're out there to take a paycheck and who cares? But that's the point. Who cares? 00:14:30.761 --> 00:14:33.861 And I think one of the interesting points made in one of the articles that we're 00:14:33.861 --> 00:14:37.641 linking up here about free speech doesn't apply here. 00:14:39.261 --> 00:14:41.841 There's an interesting point at the end where they talk about, 00:14:41.981 --> 00:14:45.901 oh, by the way, did you know this past summer there was literally a Saudi journalist 00:14:45.901 --> 00:14:50.901 who was murdered, executed, tweeted against the government and was executed 00:14:50.901 --> 00:14:52.721 for high treason, Turkey, Al Jasser. 00:14:52.921 --> 00:14:57.581 So he was apparently, at least supposedly, the government thinks he was the 00:14:57.581 --> 00:15:02.901 person behind this anonymous Twitter account that was posting things about royal corruption, etc. 00:15:03.141 --> 00:15:05.581 So he literally had his head chopped off earlier this summer. 00:15:06.261 --> 00:15:07.961 Not a peep. Who cares? Whatever. 00:15:08.921 --> 00:15:13.161 Whatever. Who cares? It doesn't matter. But some comedians go over there and 00:15:13.161 --> 00:15:15.201 everybody turns their attention to Saudi Arabia. 00:15:15.301 --> 00:15:18.881 The only thing that people care about is the entertainment and the gloss and 00:15:18.881 --> 00:15:20.761 the hype and the celebrity and whatever. 00:15:20.981 --> 00:15:24.281 And no one actually cares about the real issues, including the people who pretend 00:15:24.281 --> 00:15:26.161 to be offended when comedians go over there. 00:15:26.421 --> 00:15:29.661 No, you weren't offended when, you know, journalists are being executed. 00:15:29.881 --> 00:15:33.561 Perhaps you could reserve some of your outrage for things that are actually 00:15:33.561 --> 00:15:35.561 happening rather than comedians going over there. 00:15:35.661 --> 00:15:39.541 But anyway, as long as it takes those comedians down several pegs so that people 00:15:39.541 --> 00:15:43.321 don't take them seriously anymore and we don't have to listen to however many 00:15:43.321 --> 00:15:47.501 more thousands and thousands of hours of comedians pontificating about the craft 00:15:47.501 --> 00:15:53.661 on their little narcissistic navel-gazing podcasts, I'll take it. 00:15:54.900 --> 00:15:59.060 On their podcasts that all have advertising on them. I don't know if you've 00:15:59.060 --> 00:16:00.860 ever tried to listen to any of their crap. 00:16:01.380 --> 00:16:08.580 But again, they stole the reel, i.e. from us, Independent, took that and just ran it to the hilt. 00:16:08.860 --> 00:16:11.800 Whitney Cummings, one of the other stand-up comedians that went there, 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.940 who also, I have it on good authority from my recording studio buddy where we 00:16:15.940 --> 00:16:20.240 made the Octopus radio play, that she ripped him off and didn't pay for her 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:21.500 podcast recording time. 00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:24.740 That Whitney Cummings, she said it's all because you're racist. 00:16:24.900 --> 00:16:27.420 That's the whole outcry is because you're racist. 00:16:28.100 --> 00:16:34.280 But really, I think it is. It's sadly when something as good as Carlin or Hicks 00:16:34.280 --> 00:16:37.620 comes along, I think they all think they can do it. 00:16:38.220 --> 00:16:43.280 30 years too late. Our third and final story on this New World Next Week 606. 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:49.880 IUC in 2025 to vote on whether or not to halt genetic interventions in conservation. 00:16:50.280 --> 00:16:52.860 Now, that's a rather boring headline, but they're basically, 00:16:53.060 --> 00:16:56.560 again, clutching their pearls, wondering, should we continue with all these 00:16:56.560 --> 00:17:02.460 transgenic monstrosities and solar radiation and all of our playing God for atheists? 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:10.480 The 2025 IUCN World Conservation Congress is underway in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 00:17:10.660 --> 00:17:13.940 Hopefully they've got some good comedy entertainment as well for the evenings. 00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:18.000 Promises deliver one of its most consequential debates in recent years that 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.960 the global conservation community has been preparing for. 00:17:21.320 --> 00:17:25.300 At the heart of the debate are two critical motions. Motion 87, 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:29.680 outlining IUCN's policy on synthetic biology and conservation. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:36.060 And Motion 133, which advocates caution by seeking a halt or moratorium on genetic 00:17:36.060 --> 00:17:38.640 interventions in natural ecosystems. 00:17:38.820 --> 00:17:43.560 The Congress, which opened on Thursday, October 9th, has brought together leaders, 00:17:43.780 --> 00:17:45.460 not opinion journalists, 00:17:45.760 --> 00:17:50.280 from government, business, science, and civil society to determine whether synthetic 00:17:50.280 --> 00:17:55.240 biology is embraced as a tool to address biodiversity loss, which you're also 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.300 behind or restricted through a moratorium. 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:03.760 Synthetic biology, which uses advanced genetic techniques to solve ecologically 00:18:03.760 --> 00:18:06.980 related challenges, presents both opportunities and dilemmas. 00:18:07.380 --> 00:18:11.540 Chrysotunity, the dialogue around synthetic biology, likely to shape approaches 00:18:11.540 --> 00:18:15.560 to biodiversity protection or lack thereof for years to come. 00:18:15.740 --> 00:18:20.020 By Wednesday, October 15th, as I speak to you here in the States, 00:18:20.140 --> 00:18:23.380 the last day of the Congress, the world would know the outcome of a crucial 00:18:23.380 --> 00:18:28.180 vote on the motions determining whether or not synthetic biology can be responsibly 00:18:28.180 --> 00:18:29.800 deployed in nature conservation. 00:18:30.140 --> 00:18:34.900 The outcome will influence global conservation strategies and shape humanity's 00:18:34.900 --> 00:18:36.660 relationship with nature for decades. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:41.580 Abu Dhabi, 9-15 October, IUCN World Conservation Congress. 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:46.460 And yeah, there's, last time I checked, you can't control Z any of this stuff 00:18:46.460 --> 00:18:48.940 they've been doing. No undo button for nature. 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:53.100 IUCN must say no to genetically engineered wild species. 00:18:53.280 --> 00:18:58.400 That coming from the folks at gmwatch.org. And you can find more about the IUCN 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:05.300 and its British Eugenic Society backstory by picking up Why and How Big Oil 00:19:05.300 --> 00:19:07.600 Conquered the World, the two DVD sets. 00:19:08.692 --> 00:19:11.572 And of course, you got to note what Dr. Billy's up to. Dr. 00:19:11.692 --> 00:19:17.012 Gates targets low-income nations to expand access to weight loss drugs. 00:19:17.252 --> 00:19:21.172 That's the most important thing you need now, James. All the people who said, 00:19:21.412 --> 00:19:26.072 accept me and body positivity, they've all, apparently, like lots of folks do 00:19:26.072 --> 00:19:31.112 anymore, immediately run to big pharma as soon as things start to get out of hand. James. 00:19:31.852 --> 00:19:37.272 All right, well, update. Reactions as IUCN Congress votes to adopt policy on 00:19:37.272 --> 00:19:43.392 synthetic biology. rejects genetic engineering moratorium. This is coming from Enviro News. 00:19:43.712 --> 00:19:46.292 Is that what it's called? Anyway, Enviro News Nigeria. 00:19:46.972 --> 00:19:51.732 Following the vote at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, members have rejected 00:19:51.732 --> 00:19:55.752 a moratorium on genetic engineering of wild species, motion 133, 00:19:55.912 --> 00:20:00.152 and adopted the IUCN policy on synthetic biology, motion 87, 00:20:00.552 --> 00:20:05.872 a move observers see as a signal of support for a science-based case-by-case 00:20:05.872 --> 00:20:08.712 approach to innovation in conservation. 00:20:08.972 --> 00:20:10.752 So translation into English. 00:20:11.272 --> 00:20:17.312 Moratorium on genetic engineering and releasing these genetic monstrosities into the wild? 00:20:17.472 --> 00:20:20.092 No, no, we're not going to stop you from doing that. 00:20:20.272 --> 00:20:23.892 How about synthetic biology and tinkering with the genomes of various species 00:20:23.892 --> 00:20:26.252 to make these novel things that don't exist in nature? 00:20:26.632 --> 00:20:30.992 Yay, okay. I mean, don't worry, guys. We'll use science-based, 00:20:31.232 --> 00:20:37.052 evidence-based, case-by-case approach to this. But anyway, thumbs up, green light, go ahead. 00:20:37.192 --> 00:20:44.612 So that's where we are at. And I guess the big part of this whole charade is that the IUCN... 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.859 It's not a regulatory body. It doesn't have any actual authority. 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:52.299 This is just a policy position by a group. 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:57.099 So who cares? Well, of course, all of the major academic institutions, 00:20:57.339 --> 00:21:00.459 all of the grant makers, etc., will point to this and say, see, 00:21:00.659 --> 00:21:02.659 you know, everybody wants it. 00:21:02.739 --> 00:21:05.699 Let's go ahead. So I guess here we go. 00:21:06.499 --> 00:21:10.559 The tinkering with the genome of the planet that's been going on for decades 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:15.279 now is about to probably hit warp speed as it's all part of saving Mother Earth. 00:21:15.379 --> 00:21:18.639 You see, we're doing this because there's this big crisis and the only way out 00:21:18.639 --> 00:21:21.379 of the crisis is to exacerbate the crisis. 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:23.799 Oh, don't think about that. Don't worry. It's science based, guys. 00:21:24.059 --> 00:21:29.859 It's science based. So anyway, unfortunately, the IUCN has done what the IUCN will do. 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:34.019 And yes, you will learn at least a little bit about the founding of the IUCN 00:21:34.019 --> 00:21:39.299 and who was behind it and the types of people behind it in how and why big oil conquered the world. 00:21:41.139 --> 00:21:46.919 Roundtable's going to roundtable. There's been an interesting speculation here 00:21:46.919 --> 00:21:50.379 in the States, James, as we are into day 15 of the U.S. 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:53.139 Government shutdown. I haven't noticed at all. 00:21:54.829 --> 00:21:58.689 Lots of people going outside and wondering, hey, and I wonder, 00:21:58.849 --> 00:22:02.429 I wonder again, if this is just social media, vertical video, bull plot. 00:22:02.549 --> 00:22:05.189 Oh, people are making videos like this. I'm going to hop on the bandwagon to 00:22:05.189 --> 00:22:10.969 people speculating whether or not they've seen any more chemtrails since the U.S. 00:22:11.109 --> 00:22:15.629 Government went on the shutdown. And as I had joked before, you can check your 00:22:15.629 --> 00:22:19.809 paycheck. And if they're not taking money out, then the government shut down. 00:22:20.029 --> 00:22:22.269 Last time I checked, they're still taking everybody's money. 00:22:22.469 --> 00:22:25.649 So government probably hasn't shut down, but an interesting idea. 00:22:25.809 --> 00:22:28.749 And again, an interesting thing that gets people out there talking about it 00:22:28.749 --> 00:22:30.289 and looking at their skies. 00:22:30.669 --> 00:22:35.349 But yeah, no, no moratoriums on chimeras, James, because really comedians and 00:22:35.349 --> 00:22:37.469 punk rockers told me to trust the science. 00:22:39.469 --> 00:22:43.969 Newworldnextweek.com is the source for your How and Why Big Oil Conquered the 00:22:43.969 --> 00:22:50.049 World DVD and for other monarchy and corbett gear that, I guess keeps us fear-free and ad-free. 00:22:50.269 --> 00:22:56.049 And again, James, you listen to these crappy podcasts, but it's mostly bullplop 00:22:56.049 --> 00:22:57.909 and talking about their sponsors. 00:22:58.929 --> 00:23:05.969 And even you did have people like Mark Maron, who recently shut down his long-running podcast, WTF. 00:23:06.269 --> 00:23:10.369 You know, he almost did it as long as I've been doing it, but also not even close. 00:23:10.689 --> 00:23:15.869 For his last episode, he went to D.C. and interviewed Obama again, 00:23:15.869 --> 00:23:19.229 which is good that's the perfect circle 00:23:19.229 --> 00:23:22.109 because that was his big guest back in the day that 00:23:22.109 --> 00:23:26.389 gave them both lots of cover and attention we don't 00:23:26.389 --> 00:23:30.069 do any of that stuff i get the exclusive audio of these new world next week 00:23:30.069 --> 00:23:36.109 episodes that i play on my advertising free no commercial radio and news stream 00:23:36.109 --> 00:23:40.569 at mediamonarchy.com slash listen i do that on thursday mornings james there 00:23:40.569 --> 00:23:42.589 is episode 606 Thanks, buddy. 00:23:43.369 --> 00:23:47.669 It is in the can, and I'm looking forward to 607 already. Thank you for this, 00:23:47.749 --> 00:23:50.009 and we'll be talking to you again in the near future. 00:23:50.769 --> 00:23:52.669 Thanks so much, buddy. Take care. Take care.