WEBVTT 00:00:12.696 --> 00:00:15.716 Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:15.916 --> 00:00:20.116 And I'm James Evan Palato of MediaMonarchy.com, a readjustment of our global 00:00:20.116 --> 00:00:23.876 military presence to address urgent threats in our hemisphere. 00:00:24.236 --> 00:00:28.916 We have got that story, plus streaming wars killed the theater star. 00:00:29.116 --> 00:00:32.056 But first, big story out of Australia. 00:00:32.276 --> 00:00:36.116 Millions of children and teens lose access to what I'm calling their digital 00:00:36.116 --> 00:00:40.536 whoopee, but it's the under-16 social media ban, grabbing this from The Guardian. 00:00:40.836 --> 00:00:46.236 Australia has enacted a world-first ban on social media for users aged under 00:00:46.236 --> 00:00:50.596 16, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts. 00:00:50.716 --> 00:00:54.096 Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kik, 00:00:54.396 --> 00:00:59.536 Twitch, and TikTok, not Kik, are expected to have taken steps Wednesday to remove 00:00:59.536 --> 00:01:05.296 accounts held by users under 16 in Australia and prevent those teens from registering new accounts. 00:01:05.296 --> 00:01:09.356 There have been some teething problems with the ban's implementation. 00:01:09.876 --> 00:01:14.296 Guardian Australia received several reports of those under 16 passing the facial 00:01:14.296 --> 00:01:19.136 age assurance tests, but the government has flagged it as not expecting the 00:01:19.136 --> 00:01:20.776 ban would be perfect from day one. 00:01:20.996 --> 00:01:25.776 All listed platforms apart from the greatest one, the artist formerly known 00:01:25.776 --> 00:01:28.356 as Twitter, confirmed they would comply with the ban. 00:01:28.576 --> 00:01:31.536 E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said it 00:01:31.536 --> 00:01:34.596 had recently had a conversation with X about how it would comply but 00:01:34.596 --> 00:01:37.496 the company had not communicated that policy to you 00:01:37.496 --> 00:01:40.756 know the users blue sky the big democrat 00:01:40.756 --> 00:01:45.016 x alternative announced it would also ban under 16s despite e-safety assessing 00:01:45.016 --> 00:01:50.676 the platform as low risk due to not many people are on that thing children had 00:01:50.676 --> 00:01:55.756 spent the past few weeks undertaking age assurance checks swapping phone numbers 00:01:55.756 --> 00:02:00.076 and preparing for their accounts to be activated don't forget me over summer, 00:02:01.299 --> 00:02:05.339 Parents of the children affected by the ban shared a spectrum of views on the 00:02:05.339 --> 00:02:08.579 policy. That's not the only spectrum these kids and parents are on. 00:02:09.859 --> 00:02:14.839 I'm, this is jerk ass Jim. I don't have kids. One parent told the Guardian that 00:02:14.839 --> 00:02:18.839 their 15 year old daughter was very distressed because all her 14 and 15 year 00:02:18.839 --> 00:02:22.519 old friends have been age verified as 18 by Snapchat. 00:02:22.959 --> 00:02:26.599 Since she has been identified as under 16, they feared her friends will keep 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:29.299 using Snapchat to talk and organize social events. 00:02:29.459 --> 00:02:34.239 And she, well, of course, that longtime teenage fear of being left out. 00:02:34.499 --> 00:02:38.559 Another parent said the band had forced him to teach his kid how to break the law. 00:02:38.699 --> 00:02:43.099 I've shown her how VPNs work and how other methods on bypassing age restrictions. 00:02:43.259 --> 00:02:47.959 I've had to set her up with her own adult YouTube account. That's going to go well. 00:02:48.179 --> 00:02:54.939 And have assisted her in bypassing TikTok's age estimation and will keep doing so each time it asks. 00:02:55.699 --> 00:02:59.279 Other parents said the band couldn't come quickly enough. One parent said their 00:02:59.279 --> 00:03:03.039 daughter was completely addicted to social media and the ban provides us with 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.899 a support framework to let daddy government do stuff for us. 00:03:07.079 --> 00:03:11.399 The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albany, said in an opinion piece on Sunday 00:03:11.399 --> 00:03:15.019 from the beginning, we acknowledge this process won't be 100% perfect, 00:03:15.019 --> 00:03:18.239 but the message this law sends will be 100% clear. 00:03:18.839 --> 00:03:24.099 Australia sets the legal drinking age at 18 because our society recognizes the 00:03:24.099 --> 00:03:26.919 benefit to the individual in the community of such an approach. 00:03:27.079 --> 00:03:30.939 The fact that teenagers occasionally find a way to have a drink doesn't diminish 00:03:30.939 --> 00:03:33.679 the value of having a clear national standard. 00:03:33.839 --> 00:03:38.399 It is still 21 here in the States and they recently raised ciggies to the age 00:03:38.399 --> 00:03:41.059 of 21 pretty much de facto across America. 00:03:41.839 --> 00:03:46.059 But yeah, they basically, they've had to use their voting power since they're 00:03:46.059 --> 00:03:49.139 just powerless to raise children themselves. 00:03:49.299 --> 00:03:54.099 Again, this is always for the other, this, the other, the bad those other bad 00:03:54.099 --> 00:03:57.039 parents these aren't with me and my i'm i'm really good. 00:03:58.257 --> 00:04:00.797 What, are parents too dumb to save their kids from lawn darts, 00:04:01.017 --> 00:04:02.977 James? I made it. I survived. 00:04:03.677 --> 00:04:08.037 Gen X often jokes about the things we survived through in the 70s and 80s. 00:04:08.117 --> 00:04:13.477 But yeah, more laws to do what parents just couldn't possibly do for themselves. 00:04:13.737 --> 00:04:19.397 In related news, Ireland plants flag for child online safety as it prepares 00:04:19.397 --> 00:04:21.217 to assume EU presidency. 00:04:21.877 --> 00:04:27.497 Age assurance for porn, social media on the table. but big tech ties factor in. 00:04:27.917 --> 00:04:31.877 Basically, they're going to get their good deals out of it. And interesting 00:04:31.877 --> 00:04:35.477 stuff always going on with the criminals in the UK's Ofcom office. 00:04:35.617 --> 00:04:38.757 They would like to double down on file monitoring in 2026. 00:04:38.957 --> 00:04:42.857 You've heard the, there's no such thing as a cloud. There's only someone else's computer. 00:04:43.457 --> 00:04:49.197 James, earlier this year, we had the Nepal kids elect new government via Discord. 00:04:49.197 --> 00:04:53.997 And here we have all of those social medias being banned in Australia. What do you think? 00:04:55.277 --> 00:04:58.577 Uh, there's a few things to say about this. First of all, not for the first 00:04:58.577 --> 00:05:01.597 time and not for the last time, we're going to note how the won't somebody think 00:05:01.597 --> 00:05:03.897 of the children is weaponized against everyone. 00:05:03.897 --> 00:05:08.077 Because all this does, of course, is put everyone in the age verification net, 00:05:08.217 --> 00:05:10.457 which is the first step towards the digital identification. 00:05:10.637 --> 00:05:13.917 So that's an important part of this story. Another important part of the story 00:05:13.917 --> 00:05:16.937 would be to note the latest from futurism.com. 00:05:17.057 --> 00:05:21.437 Social media is absolutely nuking children's brain, new research finds. 00:05:21.737 --> 00:05:24.977 Again, nothing that I think people in our audience won't already know, 00:05:25.097 --> 00:05:30.417 but But more data along those lines talking about how social media is affecting 00:05:30.417 --> 00:05:32.757 people's attention span. 00:05:33.137 --> 00:05:37.977 Surprise, surprise. But I think there's at least one good thing to come out of this story. 00:05:38.237 --> 00:05:41.257 One tiny bit of a silver lining that we can take out. 00:05:41.657 --> 00:05:45.297 And that is that part that you highlight there. The parent said that the band 00:05:45.297 --> 00:05:47.817 had forced him to teach his child how to break the law. 00:05:47.977 --> 00:05:52.617 I've shown her how VPNs work and other methods on bypassing age restrictions. Great. 00:05:52.997 --> 00:05:57.557 Wonderful. Welcome to the counter economy, fellow agorists. This is what it is about. 00:05:57.737 --> 00:06:04.837 It is about the nonviolent resistance and absolute defiance and breaking of immoral laws. 00:06:04.997 --> 00:06:08.797 And that's we're all doing it 18 times a day or whatever. 00:06:08.937 --> 00:06:11.757 You know, however many felonies people commit a day without even realizing it 00:06:11.757 --> 00:06:13.297 because of all the stupid laws on the book. 00:06:13.457 --> 00:06:17.137 Here are more stupid laws that should not exist and people should learn how 00:06:17.137 --> 00:06:21.717 to break them. So Australians who can still hear our voice should be teaching 00:06:21.717 --> 00:06:26.477 others being VPN apple seeds, you know, spreading the wonders of 00:06:26.821 --> 00:06:29.881 these workarounds to other people. So I think that that is good because, 00:06:30.021 --> 00:06:33.161 again, it's one more sign for people who need it. 00:06:33.281 --> 00:06:37.521 Yes, the government doesn't mean always a good thing and that you should just 00:06:37.521 --> 00:06:40.901 follow whatever they say. So hopefully that those children are learning a very 00:06:40.901 --> 00:06:41.981 important lesson right now. 00:06:42.561 --> 00:06:46.381 And the other thing I'd like to say about this is that sometimes there is that 00:06:46.381 --> 00:06:50.741 we have the tendency to fall into victim blaming in all of this, 00:06:50.761 --> 00:06:55.661 as in all these stupid people with their stupid social media and they care about 00:06:55.661 --> 00:06:57.801 these things and they shouldn't. Yes. 00:06:58.121 --> 00:07:01.281 Okay. Certainly it is nuking your brain. You should be getting off of it, 00:07:01.441 --> 00:07:04.021 et cetera, et cetera. But it isn't always that straightforward. 00:07:04.281 --> 00:07:07.401 And I'd like to point people to an incredibly interesting, detailed, 00:07:07.601 --> 00:07:10.441 nuanced article by Gabriel of Libra Solutions. 00:07:11.041 --> 00:07:15.781 Teachable moment. Will the digital control grid inevitably fail or is it already here? 00:07:15.901 --> 00:07:20.921 And he points out not only the ways that the technological side of this has 00:07:20.921 --> 00:07:25.181 been constructed around us to essentially snarf up all of our data and put us 00:07:25.181 --> 00:07:26.321 in the digital control grid, 00:07:26.321 --> 00:07:32.461 but how the socioeconomic fabric of our entire society is woven around us in 00:07:32.461 --> 00:07:35.941 these technological structures that are all dependent on us jumping through 00:07:35.941 --> 00:07:37.381 these digital hurdles and hoops. 00:07:37.561 --> 00:07:41.521 And then we victim blame and go, oh, these stupid people who are jumping through 00:07:41.521 --> 00:07:43.301 these hoops that have been set up before them. 00:07:43.541 --> 00:07:47.241 Well, you know, it's an incredibly difficult process of extracting yourself 00:07:47.241 --> 00:07:51.721 from this. So it's a really good, interesting article. I really suggest people take a look at it. 00:07:52.577 --> 00:07:55.417 So let me flip it around back at you. 00:07:55.657 --> 00:08:02.197 There is a Florida cell phone ban in schools that has been instituted, 00:08:02.357 --> 00:08:05.997 and it's now basically been in effect for about a year, and they're already 00:08:05.997 --> 00:08:08.077 showing that test scores have gone up. 00:08:08.257 --> 00:08:12.597 You might be running into something like this in the not-too-distant future, 00:08:12.597 --> 00:08:16.777 where you have kids or devices in school. I mean, what do you think? 00:08:17.117 --> 00:08:21.437 Oh, well, here, the kids are more increasingly encouraged to use devices, 00:08:21.437 --> 00:08:25.277 because it's now part of your education, you have to have technological literacy. 00:08:25.277 --> 00:08:28.077 So they'll be given tablets and things for use in class. 00:08:28.397 --> 00:08:30.877 So yeah, it is genuinely a question 00:08:30.877 --> 00:08:33.537 that I think everyone on the planet is going through at this time. 00:08:33.817 --> 00:08:40.297 And I think, again, I am a functional, sovereign adult human being who can make choices for my family. 00:08:40.717 --> 00:08:43.777 And the government does not need to be a part of that decision. 00:08:45.437 --> 00:08:50.797 There's also the entire other concern of all our parents having these smartphones, too. 00:08:51.077 --> 00:08:55.457 James, that's how we get going on New World Next Week episode 612. 00:08:55.457 --> 00:09:00.777 We often remind ourselves on the monarchy and just here at home having arguments, discussions. 00:09:01.397 --> 00:09:05.517 It's not all one thing. And I think that's what you were getting at right there. 00:09:06.377 --> 00:09:09.857 Whenever article recently and covering a lot of this on my morning monarchy 00:09:09.857 --> 00:09:14.117 this week, James, as this story, this was kicking in in Australia this week. 00:09:14.997 --> 00:09:20.117 Children under five addicted to brain rot content online. 00:09:20.397 --> 00:09:23.077 Again, a lot of frightening, scary things that. 00:09:24.166 --> 00:09:29.286 Pretty much unprecedented. It's possible the planners of the Grand Chess Board 00:09:29.286 --> 00:09:31.486 have already planned all this out and knew what would happen, 00:09:31.526 --> 00:09:35.526 but the things we're seeing the last 20 years of what suddenly happens when 00:09:35.526 --> 00:09:38.246 people have godlike power in their hands, 00:09:38.366 --> 00:09:40.846 playing God has a lot of dangers. 00:09:41.766 --> 00:09:45.146 So let's go to the movies. Cinemas on Edge. 00:09:45.606 --> 00:09:50.246 Netflix's Warner Brothers deal sparks concern for theatrical industry. 00:09:50.446 --> 00:09:54.946 Grabbing this from ScreenRealm.com and everything we say, all our outrageous 00:09:54.946 --> 00:09:58.006 accusations are all sourced and cited down in the show notes. 00:09:58.426 --> 00:09:59.846 People still go to the cinema? 00:10:00.706 --> 00:10:06.606 Netflix owning Warner Brothers and HBO Max isn't just a streaming story, it's a cinema story. 00:10:06.766 --> 00:10:10.926 With Netflix positioned to acquire one of Hollywood's last major studios in 00:10:10.926 --> 00:10:15.326 an $82 billion deal, the future of theatrical releases is suddenly in question. 00:10:15.326 --> 00:10:18.926 People going out into a movie theater in sitting down and watching the film. 00:10:19.106 --> 00:10:23.446 Depending on who you ask, this is neither a new era of opportunity or the beginning 00:10:23.446 --> 00:10:26.886 of a very long one, a very worrying decline for movie theaters. 00:10:27.226 --> 00:10:29.566 One of the biggest questions after the announcement was simple. 00:10:29.746 --> 00:10:34.146 Will Netflix actually keep Warner Brothers films in cinemas? 00:10:34.646 --> 00:10:37.766 Ted Sarando says yes, at least in the short term. 00:10:38.106 --> 00:10:43.446 The Netflix co-CEO has insisted that the company has no opposition to movies 00:10:43.446 --> 00:10:47.886 in theaters, and the official announcement from Netflix says expects to maintain 00:10:47.886 --> 00:10:49.306 Warner Brothers' current operations 00:10:49.306 --> 00:10:52.506 and build on the strengths including theatrical releases for films. 00:10:52.706 --> 00:10:57.446 On a conference call with investors and the press, Sarandos pointed to Netflix's 00:10:57.446 --> 00:10:59.166 existing theatrical footprint, 00:10:59.406 --> 00:11:03.486 noting that the company had released 30 films into movie theaters in 2025, 00:11:03.486 --> 00:11:07.906 but he was also clear about where Netflix's real focus lies. 00:11:08.106 --> 00:11:11.266 Again, they didn't call it DVD mail for nothing. 00:11:11.995 --> 00:11:15.655 It's not like we have this opposition to movies into theaters, 00:11:16.055 --> 00:11:17.895 Sarando said, as quoted by Variety. 00:11:18.095 --> 00:11:23.235 My pushback has mostly been in the face, in the fact, of long exclusive windows, 00:11:23.235 --> 00:11:25.495 which we really don't think are consumer friendly. 00:11:25.655 --> 00:11:29.155 But when we talk about keeping HBO operating largely as it is, 00:11:29.395 --> 00:11:32.315 that also includes their output movie deal with Warner Brothers, 00:11:32.515 --> 00:11:35.555 which includes a life cycle that starts in the movie theater, 00:11:35.715 --> 00:11:37.775 which we're going to continue to support. 00:11:38.055 --> 00:11:43.375 Cinema owners have not exactly been reassured. because Netflix's stated business 00:11:43.375 --> 00:11:47.535 model does not support theatrical exhibition. In fact, it is the opposite. 00:11:47.855 --> 00:11:52.575 Regulators must look closely at the specifics of this proposed transaction and 00:11:52.575 --> 00:11:56.035 understand the negative impact it will have on consumers, exhibition, 00:11:56.095 --> 00:11:59.235 and the entertainment industry. The fear is straightforward. 00:11:59.835 --> 00:12:03.915 Warner Brothers is still one of the few studios still deeply committed to theatrical 00:12:03.915 --> 00:12:07.615 windows with a track record of delivering global event films. 00:12:07.615 --> 00:12:11.975 If that pipeline is shortened or eventually rerouted towards streaming-first 00:12:11.975 --> 00:12:14.955 strategy, cinemas feel the impact immediately. 00:12:15.275 --> 00:12:20.355 For years, Netflix has pushed back against the traditional 45- to 90-day exclusive 00:12:20.355 --> 00:12:24.475 theatrical window, arguing the long gaps between cinema and home release are 00:12:24.475 --> 00:12:25.635 not consumer-friendly. 00:12:25.855 --> 00:12:29.055 It's not how people consume media in 2025. 00:12:29.515 --> 00:12:34.195 The acquisition of a major theatrical studio turns that long-running philosophical 00:12:34.195 --> 00:12:38.675 debate into a very practical one. And James, I know you and I a little bit off 00:12:38.675 --> 00:12:41.675 camera have discussed the work of Christopher Nolan. 00:12:41.895 --> 00:12:47.455 He is obviously a film buff and lover and supporter. 00:12:47.655 --> 00:12:51.715 And much like Martin Scorsese does a lot of work to fund the preservation of 00:12:51.715 --> 00:12:54.635 films, so films don't literally explode or fall apart. 00:12:55.195 --> 00:12:58.955 He's actually the president of the DGA, the Directors Guild of America. 00:12:59.335 --> 00:13:03.355 Christopher Nolan plans to meet with Netflix to address major concerns regarding 00:13:03.355 --> 00:13:08.155 the streamer's acquisition of Warner Brothers again, as he always wants his movies in theaters. 00:13:09.168 --> 00:13:13.848 In film, right, James? He wants his stuff in at least a 35 millimeter film. 00:13:13.928 --> 00:13:16.768 And of course, as the IMAX theaters have blown up a lot more, 00:13:16.868 --> 00:13:19.808 you can go see a lot of his movies in 70 millimeter. 00:13:20.548 --> 00:13:25.208 Netflix and Paramount lock horns in Warner Brothers Discovery acquisition saga. 00:13:25.428 --> 00:13:28.628 Paramount has now launched a counter hostile takeover. 00:13:28.868 --> 00:13:32.288 It's kind of exciting in the world of nerd media business. 00:13:32.528 --> 00:13:36.308 Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers following the separation of Discovery Global 00:13:36.308 --> 00:13:38.608 for a total enterprise value of 82. 00:13:39.148 --> 00:13:43.128 Paramount is offering over a hundred billion and they don't have to spin off 00:13:43.128 --> 00:13:45.708 any of their little ancillary parts. 00:13:46.268 --> 00:13:50.768 Of course, I've talked about this a lot on Media Monarchy. I don't call it Media Monarchy for nothing. 00:13:50.908 --> 00:13:54.688 There's already a consumer class action lawsuit against it. 00:13:54.808 --> 00:14:00.488 And James, it's important to remind that Mark Bernays Randolph was the co-founder 00:14:00.488 --> 00:14:05.128 and first CEO of Netflix, great grandnephew of Edward Bernays, 00:14:05.288 --> 00:14:09.728 widely regarded as the father of propaganda and great-grandnephew of Sigmund Freud, 00:14:10.168 --> 00:14:14.308 the founder of psychoanalysis, and the guy that apparently unleashed the cocaine 00:14:14.308 --> 00:14:15.548 destruction of America. 00:14:15.648 --> 00:14:18.848 James, sidebar, watched a documentary on cocaine recently. 00:14:19.028 --> 00:14:21.008 It's mostly Sigmund Freud's fault. 00:14:21.568 --> 00:14:25.108 This familial connection has led to speculation and discussion online about 00:14:25.108 --> 00:14:29.328 potential influences on Netflix's content and user engagement strategies, 00:14:29.548 --> 00:14:33.748 with some suggesting that the platform may leverage psychological principles 00:14:33.748 --> 00:14:37.568 derived from Bernays' work on public opinion manipulation. 00:14:37.848 --> 00:14:41.848 James, I just don't want Netflix owning DC Comics. 00:14:43.899 --> 00:14:47.519 Amongst other things. Yeah. You know what? You took the words out of my mouth. 00:14:47.619 --> 00:14:50.939 I don't have a lot to add on this in terms of the conspiracy realist angle on 00:14:50.939 --> 00:14:55.279 this story, except I was going to say I am just flabbergasted that Paramount 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:57.759 didn't immediately win the bid because, 00:14:58.259 --> 00:15:03.059 of course, we know it's Zionist supremacist David Ellison obviously buddies 00:15:03.059 --> 00:15:06.199 through his father, Larry Ellison, with Trump himself. 00:15:06.199 --> 00:15:09.299 So you would have expected that Paramount would have just, you know, 00:15:09.659 --> 00:15:12.039 would have won easily, but not yet at any rate. 00:15:12.539 --> 00:15:17.379 Interesting. Although, as you say, I mean, what's the other side of this? Oh, good. Oh, good. 00:15:17.599 --> 00:15:20.879 Netflix is one. Oh, wait. Right. Bernays, all that stuff. No, 00:15:21.019 --> 00:15:24.019 it's not, you know, cutie flicks, as we have taken to calling it. Right. 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:28.459 This is this is not a win for anyone, really. 00:15:28.699 --> 00:15:32.419 But perhaps it's just a good time to take stock and to give ourselves another 00:15:32.419 --> 00:15:37.159 reminder that all of this Hollywood programming is psychological manipulation 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.299 and warfare that has been wedged on the public for at least a century at this point. 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.879 And maybe, maybe it will cause a few more people to go, you know what, 00:15:44.999 --> 00:15:48.119 maybe we don't need the Hollywood studio system and we don't need to rely on 00:15:48.119 --> 00:15:52.539 they, them, those to give us our entertainment slash indoctrination. 00:15:52.739 --> 00:15:57.119 And hey, you know what, we can make movies for ourselves these days relatively easily. 00:15:57.699 --> 00:15:59.219 Maybe more people should be doing it. 00:16:00.499 --> 00:16:05.679 I have speculated, as a lot of this, again, is ongoing story these last few 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:07.359 weeks, I speculated that, ah, 00:16:07.999 --> 00:16:14.099 Trump might intervene in this going to Netflix in order to help out his Zionist 00:16:14.099 --> 00:16:16.059 Ellison buddies over at Paramount. 00:16:16.179 --> 00:16:19.919 And again, the broken clock, right, two times a day. I'm like, yeah, I do that. 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.579 But again, we were talking about this at home the other day. 00:16:23.739 --> 00:16:28.759 It does get down to just kind of nitty gritty, real nerdy consumer choice. 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:35.639 So when Microsoft buys Skype and decides to let it die and end, 00:16:35.859 --> 00:16:38.079 that's less consumer choice. 00:16:38.439 --> 00:16:44.699 So the fear is on this standpoint, why would Netflix continue to do anything for Warner Brothers? 00:16:45.119 --> 00:16:50.779 Hey, Netflix already has their own Sandman DC Comics TV show. We'll just run that one. 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.699 They've already removed. Disney does not want you to see Song of the South. 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.539 That's why it's not on their streaming platform. There's example after example 00:16:59.539 --> 00:17:02.539 after example again why this might not be a good idea. 00:17:02.719 --> 00:17:05.419 Again, just for the whole consumer choice thing. 00:17:06.699 --> 00:17:11.479 Our third and final story, where we usually hide the media-related story, James. 00:17:11.579 --> 00:17:15.039 It's just stuff about World War III. New national security strategy. 00:17:15.399 --> 00:17:20.339 A stunning departure, yet full of contradictions. Grabbing this from the Ron Paul Institute. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:24.099 You know that I like? How Ron Paul's never lost the plot and never sold out 00:17:24.099 --> 00:17:27.599 and still does his thing and still does his show all the time. 00:17:29.280 --> 00:17:35.660 The final U.S. national security strategy was just published and the refocus 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:37.500 on the Western Hemisphere, i.e. 00:17:37.520 --> 00:17:39.900 The Americas, North and South, is confirmed. 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:45.240 The document clearly establishes this as the U.S.'s number one priority, saying that the U.S. 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:49.760 Will now assert and enforce a Trump corollary to Monroe doctrine. 00:17:50.080 --> 00:17:52.340 James, do you say corollary or corollary? 00:17:53.220 --> 00:17:57.940 Only because I'm pretentious, I'll say corollary. But North Americans generally 00:17:57.940 --> 00:18:00.060 say corollary, yeah. Corollary. Okay. 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.080 Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. More on that in a moment. 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:09.380 In terms of military presence, they write that this means a readjustment of 00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:13.760 our global military presence to address urgent threats in our hemisphere and 00:18:13.760 --> 00:18:17.980 away from theaters whose relative import to American national security has declined 00:18:17.980 --> 00:18:19.720 in recent decades or years. 00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:25.540 The most striking aspect is that China is not anymore defined as the primary 00:18:25.540 --> 00:18:30.320 threat, most consequential challenge, pacing threat, or similar formulations 00:18:30.320 --> 00:18:34.200 used in previous such documents, it's clearly downgraded as a priority. 00:18:34.460 --> 00:18:37.780 Based on the document structure and emphasis, the top U.S. 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:42.140 Priorities could be characterized as, here's the top four, homeland security 00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:47.740 and borders, migration, cartels, etc., Western Hemisphere, Monroe Doctrine Restoration, 00:18:48.340 --> 00:18:53.160 economic security, re-industrialization and supply chains, and number four, 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:54.980 China and Indo-Pacific. 00:18:54.980 --> 00:18:59.900 To be clear, they do not define China as an ally or a partner in any shape or 00:18:59.900 --> 00:19:05.220 form, but primarily as an economic competitor, a source of supply chain vulnerabilities, 00:19:05.600 --> 00:19:10.600 but also a trading partner and a player whose regional dominance should be ideally 00:19:10.600 --> 00:19:14.300 denied because it has major implications for the U.S. economy. 00:19:15.011 --> 00:19:20.591 For the first time ever, they mentioned the possibility of maybe being overmatched militarily by China. 00:19:20.771 --> 00:19:25.471 And we do have the PDF link for you from WhiteHouse.gov, National Security Strategy 00:19:25.471 --> 00:19:28.111 of the United States of America, November 2025. 00:19:28.691 --> 00:19:33.431 And we will include the link to the Monroe Doctrine. I didn't grab the link. 00:19:33.591 --> 00:19:38.671 This goes back to President James Monroe, December 1823, during his seventh 00:19:38.671 --> 00:19:43.331 annual State of the Union Address. He's basically talking about the new world 00:19:43.331 --> 00:19:46.931 and the old world and spheres of influence. James, I'll just leave that there. 00:19:47.651 --> 00:19:53.451 In other spheres of influence or lack thereof, world risks disintegration of 00:19:53.451 --> 00:20:01.031 the international order as noted boy toy Macron fails to woo Xi into pressuring Putin. 00:20:01.491 --> 00:20:03.191 James, grand chessboard. 00:20:03.957 --> 00:20:07.577 Absolutely. And, you know, there's so much going on on this chessboard, 00:20:07.677 --> 00:20:09.897 but it all is it all makes perfect sense. 00:20:10.077 --> 00:20:13.417 Once you understand what is happening, we are seeing the breakdown of the post-World 00:20:13.417 --> 00:20:14.917 War II international order. 00:20:15.077 --> 00:20:18.357 That is what Macron is talking about. That's what all the globalists are lamenting, 00:20:18.397 --> 00:20:21.997 because, of course, the post-World War II order was all based on the American 00:20:21.997 --> 00:20:27.037 empire hegemony and essentially the the order that comes from that. 00:20:27.037 --> 00:20:30.297 And that is breaking down and in a number of different ways. 00:20:30.297 --> 00:20:33.217 And this national security strategy about face 00:20:33.217 --> 00:20:35.937 that's happening right now is one example of that and we're seeing it 00:20:35.937 --> 00:20:38.937 play out already um obviously all the drug boat strikes 00:20:38.937 --> 00:20:41.757 and as we are recording this the latest is that the u.s 00:20:41.757 --> 00:20:44.797 has apparently seized an oil tanker off the coast of venezuela so 00:20:44.797 --> 00:20:51.177 things obviously heating up in uh south america and this is that uh trump corollary 00:20:51.177 --> 00:20:56.697 or corollary of the monroe doctrine in in action in play and what this means 00:20:56.697 --> 00:21:01.797 if this really is a u.s retrenchment back to its own sphere of influence in the new world. 00:21:02.097 --> 00:21:07.657 Then what does that mean for, for example, Japan and Taiwan and the whole spat 00:21:07.657 --> 00:21:09.257 that's happening with China right now? 00:21:09.537 --> 00:21:14.697 And Japan, apparently the new prime minister is getting a little bit upset with 00:21:14.697 --> 00:21:19.977 Trump because, hey, guys, shouldn't you be backing us up on this whole Taiwan-China spat thing? 00:21:20.137 --> 00:21:23.957 And you're not doing enough to help us here. And you guys are on your own. 00:21:24.137 --> 00:21:27.237 And all of this craziness that would have been unthinkable even a few years 00:21:27.237 --> 00:21:28.437 ago is happening right now. 00:21:28.557 --> 00:21:32.837 And of course, we see what's going on in Ukraine and all of this. There's a lot of 00:21:33.106 --> 00:21:36.546 a lot of crises around the world right now that show that the international 00:21:36.546 --> 00:21:41.806 order is in crisis, and boy are they going to try to rend a new order out of 00:21:41.806 --> 00:21:43.406 the chaos that is going on right now. 00:21:43.526 --> 00:21:48.426 But perhaps all of this, this whole story is in a way a corollary to reportage. 00:21:48.846 --> 00:21:54.606 Or as I would say, a corollary to reportage, specifically my essay on escaping the grand chessboard. 00:21:54.766 --> 00:21:59.646 So if people haven't read reportage yet, I hope they go to reportagebook.com 00:21:59.646 --> 00:22:03.366 to get their copy and read that essay, because I think what we're living through 00:22:03.366 --> 00:22:06.666 is a very, very, very grand change on the chessboard. 00:22:06.666 --> 00:22:13.346 But we have a part to play in this, at the very least, by withdrawing our participation in this game. 00:22:13.526 --> 00:22:18.506 The world is not a chessboard. It is not. We are not pieces of pawns on a board to be moved around. 00:22:19.326 --> 00:22:22.866 And at the very least, we shouldn't be sending our sons and daughters off to 00:22:22.866 --> 00:22:25.866 die in wars of aggression for the oligarchs. 00:22:27.777 --> 00:22:31.517 Now, we've talked in the past about those, I don't know how many, 00:22:31.637 --> 00:22:38.517 I just just want those bases in Okinawa have been the source of massive protests, 00:22:38.917 --> 00:22:42.637 rightfully so, on a lot of disgusting kind of crime stories. 00:22:43.177 --> 00:22:46.857 So has that has that died down in some way? 00:22:47.097 --> 00:22:51.517 Is that more of like, hey, now we're glad we've got Johnny America in our backyard a little? 00:22:52.197 --> 00:22:56.517 Well, no, I'm sure that most of the Okinawans probably still feel what they 00:22:56.517 --> 00:23:00.417 felt a few years ago, but they've never had a large degree of political influence 00:23:00.417 --> 00:23:04.797 in actually affecting what's going to happen on Okinawa, and now even less so, 00:23:04.917 --> 00:23:06.157 leaving less chance, because yes, 00:23:06.357 --> 00:23:10.297 I think a larger proportion of the Japanese public are now whipped up into at 00:23:10.297 --> 00:23:14.177 least China frenzy, if not outright hatred yet. 00:23:16.517 --> 00:23:22.537 And my mother asked is james okay he's not where the earthquake hit is he, 00:23:23.157 --> 00:23:26.317 i am very very very far away and 00:23:26.317 --> 00:23:29.037 didn't feel a thing so thank you to all the people who did write 00:23:29.037 --> 00:23:32.417 in but yeah i mean okay james that 00:23:32.417 --> 00:23:36.397 is new world next week episode 612 the penultimate 00:23:36.397 --> 00:23:39.637 for 2025 i play the exclusive 00:23:39.637 --> 00:23:42.597 audio of these new world next week episodes before they're published on 00:23:42.597 --> 00:23:45.457 my website or james's website i do that after 00:23:45.457 --> 00:23:48.937 my thursday morning monarchy at mediamonarchy.com slash 00:23:48.937 --> 00:23:52.157 listen and throw out a quick reminder from 00:23:52.157 --> 00:23:57.257 here on the u.s home front don't forget about the post office box i know we 00:23:57.257 --> 00:24:02.697 go through these issues sometimes of not wanting to do more online banking and 00:24:02.697 --> 00:24:08.317 create new accounts we do have the post office box where you can send well concealed 00:24:08.317 --> 00:24:11.617 cash money order or checks in USD. 00:24:12.037 --> 00:24:15.977 Again, I've run into, we can't yet do Canadian checks. 00:24:16.948 --> 00:24:21.108 Your endorsement is perpendicular. 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So I was just double checking the 00:26:22.307 --> 00:26:24.467 start video myself recently. 00:26:24.807 --> 00:26:28.247 And someone in the chat just this past week in my media monarchy, 00:26:28.267 --> 00:26:31.787 I was like, oh man, they're already up to 2018. I got to catch up. 00:26:32.027 --> 00:26:36.227 And we would love for you to catch up because that's what keeps us advertising 00:26:36.227 --> 00:26:40.667 free. Again, we're not saying, if you don't buy the USB, we'll be forced to 00:26:40.667 --> 00:26:42.687 have VPN ads. You know that's not going to happen. 00:26:43.007 --> 00:26:48.787 It just makes all of this possible and a lot easier with your support out there. 00:26:48.987 --> 00:26:51.367 I run MediaMonarchy.com slash support. 00:26:51.647 --> 00:26:56.447 James, you've got CorboreReport.com slash members. That is the way to help keep supporting our work. 00:26:56.907 --> 00:27:01.507 And you know what happens next week. We don't know what the other is going to talk about. 00:27:01.507 --> 00:27:08.387 We are one week away from the feared, anticipated New World Next Year 2026. 00:27:08.387 --> 00:27:13.307 We talk about our stories of the past year, and we give our sort of predictions 00:27:13.307 --> 00:27:16.087 about what we think might be the trend of the next year. 00:27:16.247 --> 00:27:19.707 It is the only episode where we do not know what the other are going to talk 00:27:19.707 --> 00:27:21.787 about. We each bring our stories to the table. 00:27:21.967 --> 00:27:25.487 And James, you said you did the double check, and you're going first this year? 00:27:25.927 --> 00:27:29.787 That seems to be the order, and I think I have my story of the year, 00:27:29.847 --> 00:27:34.507 and I think I have of a trend for next year, but I am going to hold off in case 00:27:34.507 --> 00:27:37.927 the aliens land on the front of the White House lawn next week or something. 00:27:39.721 --> 00:27:45.101 Full disclosure that is new world next week episode 612 james i so much appreciate 00:27:45.101 --> 00:27:48.601 getting to work with you buddy thank you i i appreciate it very much but just 00:27:48.601 --> 00:27:51.961 uh one more thing uh for the people who want to do the p.o box money order check 00:27:51.961 --> 00:27:53.941 thing who should they make that out to, 00:27:55.201 --> 00:28:01.681 media monarchy just make the money or check out to media monarchy and include 00:28:01.681 --> 00:28:05.641 a note saying how you want to divvy it up so much to james so much to piloto 00:28:05.641 --> 00:28:08.721 whatever it is so anyway just to clear that confusion. 00:28:09.241 --> 00:28:15.181 And that is the way we write the P.O. Box address down in the show notes for 00:28:15.181 --> 00:28:16.441 these New World Next Week episodes. 00:28:16.641 --> 00:28:20.301 So that is, again, what you can just make the checks right out to Media Monarchy. 00:28:20.501 --> 00:28:23.101 You know, like George Bush said, just send your cash. 00:28:25.341 --> 00:28:29.361 All right. On that note, see you next week. Thanks, man. Take care.