WEBVTT 00:00:12.705 --> 00:00:15.545 Welcome to 2026 and welcome back to New World Next Week. 00:00:15.745 --> 00:00:20.365 I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. And I am James Evan Palato of MediaMonarchy.com. 00:00:20.525 --> 00:00:24.765 Even at this moment, I am convinced that public media will survive. 00:00:24.925 --> 00:00:29.525 We have got that story, plus Governor Walz's Somali food stamp fraud. 00:00:29.725 --> 00:00:36.365 You be illin'. But first, another reason why you don't vote for evil as a hedge 00:00:36.365 --> 00:00:41.705 against other evil. Trump says we are in Venezuela now, and we're going to stay. 00:00:42.045 --> 00:00:47.105 Grabbing this from the always important antiwar.com, following a military operation 00:00:47.105 --> 00:00:50.965 that captured President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump said the U.S. 00:00:51.085 --> 00:00:54.065 Would run Venezuela until an acceptable government is set up. 00:00:54.205 --> 00:00:57.265 We're going to run Venezuela until such a time as we can do a safe, 00:00:57.385 --> 00:00:59.205 proper, and judicious transition. 00:00:59.365 --> 00:01:02.185 We don't want to be involved in having somebody else get in, 00:01:02.265 --> 00:01:05.565 and we have the same situation that we had, the president said on Saturday. 00:01:05.565 --> 00:01:10.205 We are there now and we are going to stay until the proper transition takes place. 00:01:10.385 --> 00:01:14.005 Trump went on to say that the U.S. is prepared to attack Venezuela again. 00:01:14.225 --> 00:01:18.765 We are ready to stage a second, much larger attack if we need to do so. 00:01:18.905 --> 00:01:22.605 He continued, all political and military figures in Venezuela should understand 00:01:22.605 --> 00:01:27.005 what happened to Maduro can happen to them, and it will happen to them if they aren't fair. 00:01:27.285 --> 00:01:30.905 The president did not name a new leader of Venezuela. However. 00:01:31.245 --> 00:01:36.325 Maria Corina Machado said today we are prepared to enforce our mandate and take power. 00:01:36.545 --> 00:01:40.965 Machado is a Venezuelan opposition figure who won the Nobel Peace Prize last 00:01:40.965 --> 00:01:42.685 year. She has endorsed U.S. 00:01:43.085 --> 00:01:48.285 Sanctions and military action against Venezuela. Trump did say he had did say 00:01:48.285 --> 00:01:52.785 he had not spoken with Machado, adding that she doesn't have the respect needed 00:01:52.785 --> 00:01:55.305 to lead the country. Probably because she's a woman. 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:00.580 Vice President Delce Rodriguez said following the attack that she had activated 00:02:00.580 --> 00:02:02.220 Maduro's military plans. 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.320 And of course, this has a million exciting bits of espionage to get into in 00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:12.420 the panic room and how they got him out into the USS Iwo Jima and all that stuff. 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:16.320 The first thing President Maduro told the people of Venezuela was people to 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:21.660 the streets activated as militia, activating all the nation's comprehensive defense plans. 00:02:21.660 --> 00:02:23.480 The vice president said, no one 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:27.680 will undermine the historic legacy of our liberator father, Simon Bolivar. 00:02:27.980 --> 00:02:32.400 The people of Venezuela, in perfect national unity, must mobilize to defend 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:38.020 their natural resources and what is most sacred, their right to independence and to the future. 00:02:38.420 --> 00:02:42.140 Trump claimed his administration spoke with Rodriguez, who agreed to work with 00:02:42.140 --> 00:02:45.540 the U.S., which sounds a little different from what we just heard a couple seconds ago. 00:02:45.720 --> 00:02:49.580 When asked by the press, Trump refused to give a timeline on how long American 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:51.540 control over Venezuela would last. 00:02:51.660 --> 00:02:57.060 The president said Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete 00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:01.160 Hegseth would act as the viceroys of Venezuela. 00:03:01.640 --> 00:03:06.840 What a time. Trump added that he was willing to deploy American troops to occupy 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.600 the South American nation. We're not afraid of boots on the ground. 00:03:09.820 --> 00:03:14.120 He claimed Washington would pay for the occupation, admitted the occupation. 00:03:14.860 --> 00:03:17.300 With profits from Venezuela's oil. 00:03:17.980 --> 00:03:20.740 Trump said no Americans were killed and no American equipment, 00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:24.680 no precious, precious equipment was lost in the operation that captured Maduro. 00:03:24.920 --> 00:03:29.820 Still less than a week ago, Caracas has not reported on the Venezuelan casualties 00:03:29.820 --> 00:03:31.540 from the American raid and strikes. 00:03:31.820 --> 00:03:35.620 Trump said he ordered the attack on Venezuela because Maduro was trafficking 00:03:35.620 --> 00:03:40.200 narcotics to the U.S., hosting Washington's adversaries. Sweet. 00:03:40.500 --> 00:03:43.140 Fauci and Netanyahu are totally next, man. 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.680 Oh, and stealing American oil under them. 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.440 CIA played instrumental role in Maduro kidnapping and the big question from 00:03:52.440 --> 00:03:58.420 global research, why Venezuela's military, why didn't Venezuela's military fight back? 00:03:58.540 --> 00:04:03.540 James, before I throw it to you, I did cover this pretty extensively on my return 00:04:03.540 --> 00:04:05.100 Monday morning monarchy show. 00:04:05.260 --> 00:04:10.680 And the interesting thing, when you hear from people in South Florida or even 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.520 Portland, Oregon from Venezuela, they said, we wanted this. We already voted 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.720 harder for regime change back in July of 2024. 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:22.680 And I'll include links to my morning shows, James, but I guess just leave it 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.120 on that question. Why didn't Venezuela's military fight back? 00:04:26.434 --> 00:04:30.434 Right. Well, on the note of those Venezuelans who are happy to be love bombed 00:04:30.434 --> 00:04:35.834 by the U.S., you might want to check out some of the AI generated videos that 00:04:35.834 --> 00:04:38.794 are going around right now. People crying with happiness and whatever. 00:04:39.034 --> 00:04:41.754 Total garbage, nonsense, imperialist propaganda. 00:04:42.114 --> 00:04:45.574 This is not our first rodeo, and I'm sure it's not the first rodeo for a lot 00:04:45.574 --> 00:04:50.134 of people in our audience. So we know what the war of terror that's been going 00:04:50.134 --> 00:04:55.134 on for at least 25 years now, if not much longer than that, is all about and 00:04:55.134 --> 00:04:56.354 the way the propaganda rolls. 00:04:56.614 --> 00:05:01.734 So we know, you know, whatever, illegal invasion of a country's sovereign territory 00:05:01.734 --> 00:05:05.794 for fictitious reasons, completely ginned up out of wholesale cloth, all of that. 00:05:06.254 --> 00:05:11.294 Yeah, I guess the general Joe Sixpack and Jane Sockermann need to be informed 00:05:11.294 --> 00:05:15.774 about that, but not our audience. So the real question is that global research question. 00:05:16.094 --> 00:05:20.154 Why did Venezuela's military not fight? 00:05:20.354 --> 00:05:25.034 Because exactly against what we've been hearing from all of these bought and 00:05:25.034 --> 00:05:28.574 paid for Kremlin propaganda shows in the U.S. 00:05:29.094 --> 00:05:32.894 Alternative media who talk about how Russia is going to back up Venezuela. 00:05:32.894 --> 00:05:37.994 Trump won't go near Venezuela because they got these fancy Russian S-300 anti-aircraft 00:05:37.994 --> 00:05:42.854 defenses and all of this that did precisely, absolutely nothing. 00:05:43.134 --> 00:05:46.914 Now, realistically, of course, if the U.S. military went full on invasion of 00:05:46.914 --> 00:05:51.494 Venezuela, Venezuela would fold like a deck of pancakes. 00:05:51.814 --> 00:05:54.994 No, I'm just making up mixed metaphors right now. But anyway, you get what I'm saying. 00:05:55.134 --> 00:06:00.794 They would not last. But you'd think they'd at least try to put up some sort 00:06:00.794 --> 00:06:03.934 of resistance. but absolutely nothing. 00:06:04.194 --> 00:06:10.414 So why did the dog not bark? There was a deal cut here somewhere at some level. 00:06:10.634 --> 00:06:14.874 And unfortunately, I do not have the receipts on that deal for you today. 00:06:15.034 --> 00:06:18.394 I don't have the signatures on the bottom line. If anyone out there does, 00:06:18.574 --> 00:06:21.014 has the names, the dates, the signatures on the bottom line, 00:06:21.034 --> 00:06:22.894 I'd be very interested to see it. 00:06:22.994 --> 00:06:27.034 But there was a deal cut here somewhere at some level between some people. 00:06:27.114 --> 00:06:30.494 And just as an indicator of what such a deal might look like, 00:06:30.818 --> 00:06:36.858 We can point back to 2019 when it was revealed that Russia had floated a Venezuela 00:06:36.858 --> 00:06:39.678 for Ukraine deal with the Trump 1.0 administration. 00:06:39.998 --> 00:06:44.118 Hey, you guys want to do your Monroe Doctrine, your sphere of influence, take over Venezuela? 00:06:44.398 --> 00:06:46.878 Sure, whatever. We're not going to stop you on that. But hey, 00:06:47.018 --> 00:06:49.698 maybe we want to take over Ukraine and you shouldn't stop us on that. 00:06:50.018 --> 00:06:52.578 That deal was floated back in 2019. 00:06:53.178 --> 00:06:57.198 Was there a deal cut in 2026? I guess that remains to be seen. 00:06:57.198 --> 00:07:02.118 Or even, even did Maduro, was this some sort of Maduro? 00:07:02.298 --> 00:07:07.498 Was he involved in this in terms of, hey, okay, guys, you're going to indict me and take me away. 00:07:07.538 --> 00:07:11.658 And then we're going to have the show trial and then I'm going to disappear to wherever. 00:07:12.038 --> 00:07:14.778 I don't know. I don't know what level this deal is taking place, 00:07:14.858 --> 00:07:18.898 but all those weird AI looking generated photos of Maduro giving the weird thumbs 00:07:18.898 --> 00:07:21.458 up as he's being arrested and all of this. 00:07:21.758 --> 00:07:25.538 I don't know. There's nonsense going on here somewhere. So why did Venezuela's 00:07:25.538 --> 00:07:28.178 military not fight, It seems to me the real question here. 00:07:28.838 --> 00:07:32.198 But even beyond that, of course, this is precedent. 00:07:32.458 --> 00:07:36.398 Suddenly now, OK, guys, it's on the table. You can just if you don't like somebody 00:07:36.398 --> 00:07:40.338 in another country, you go in our guns blazing and abduct them out of there. 00:07:40.478 --> 00:07:46.498 That's the new international precedent. And what is that going to mean for this year of the storm? 00:07:46.898 --> 00:07:50.878 Let's find out. And I will be writing about that very specifically in my newsletter 00:07:50.878 --> 00:07:54.198 this weekend. So people can stay tuned to CorbettReport.com for that. 00:07:55.637 --> 00:08:01.617 So anyway, I started blasting. I think they would buckle like pilgrim shoes. 00:08:01.897 --> 00:08:04.117 You might like that one better. 00:08:04.517 --> 00:08:08.997 I did see, I believe, this morning, speaking of mouthpieces, 00:08:09.217 --> 00:08:13.617 the Epoch Times reported on some Russian tanker seized around the air. 00:08:14.057 --> 00:08:18.377 A lot of bizarre stuff going on. Hey, don't mention AI. 00:08:18.797 --> 00:08:22.897 There were like two people that were really mad about my AI music is awesome 00:08:22.897 --> 00:08:24.377 segment at the end last year. 00:08:24.377 --> 00:08:33.877 But I do have a real non-AI human running a Portland restaurant who fled Venezuela in 2005. 00:08:33.957 --> 00:08:36.377 I actually played clips of that this morning. 00:08:36.517 --> 00:08:42.037 Again, it's to watch the liberal Portland, Oregon news have to have to. 00:08:42.217 --> 00:08:43.617 But again, I don't know if they have to. 00:08:44.217 --> 00:08:48.097 Interesting, interesting thing. I was still essentially on break and trying 00:08:48.097 --> 00:08:52.697 to not look at the news and then suddenly see, oh, crap. And this happened on 00:08:52.697 --> 00:08:56.397 a Saturday, at least it was a Saturday to us here in the States. 00:08:57.277 --> 00:09:02.737 But hey, you know, it's not all bad news. Danish prime minister says U.S. 00:09:02.857 --> 00:09:05.557 Takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO. 00:09:06.697 --> 00:09:11.577 That's another one of the chats going on that the U.S. might seize neutral NATO. 00:09:11.777 --> 00:09:15.797 Or, of course, Marco Rubio would be super excited to go into Cuba. 00:09:15.797 --> 00:09:21.617 Again, the ist is endless, but it certainly won't include Fauci or Netanyahu 00:09:21.617 --> 00:09:24.517 for spreading all those awful drugs and terrorism. 00:09:25.642 --> 00:09:29.862 Whew, that's how we return for 2026 with New World Next Week, 00:09:29.902 --> 00:09:35.282 episode 614. The second story, another pretty big, massive story going on here in the states. 00:09:35.582 --> 00:09:40.142 Everything we know about Minnesota's massive fraud schemes. 00:09:40.462 --> 00:09:44.462 As national attention focuses on the growing fraud scandal in Minnesota, 00:09:44.682 --> 00:09:47.802 which federal prosecutors estimate could top $9 billion. 00:09:48.302 --> 00:09:53.002 The state's Democratic Governor Tim Walz, seen previously running for vice president 00:09:53.002 --> 00:09:57.762 with Kamala Harris, announced he is dropping his re-election campaign for governor 00:09:57.762 --> 00:09:59.342 right before New Year's. 00:09:59.462 --> 00:10:03.762 A viral social media video by YouTuber Nick Shirley, which was amplified by 00:10:03.762 --> 00:10:06.082 Elon and JD and Pam Bondi Beach, 00:10:06.302 --> 00:10:09.602 pushed the fraud story into the center of the national conversation, 00:10:09.762 --> 00:10:12.902 stoking a scandal that has been brewing in state politics for years. 00:10:13.022 --> 00:10:14.982 Again, most things don't happen overnight. 00:10:15.142 --> 00:10:19.522 They brew for a decade and then maybe explode over a couple of nights. 00:10:19.762 --> 00:10:22.702 In the wake of the video, the Trump administration announced it 00:10:22.702 --> 00:10:25.902 is pausing federal funding to child care in minnesota because 00:10:25.902 --> 00:10:29.242 it doesn't look like there's really kids in some of those daycare 00:10:29.242 --> 00:10:32.382 centers with trump calling minnesota a hub 00:10:32.382 --> 00:10:37.962 of fraudulent money laundering activity don't mention dc the u.s department 00:10:37.962 --> 00:10:41.582 of health and human services also announced sweeping changes to how all states 00:10:41.582 --> 00:10:46.582 must submit claims for medicaid supported daycares including requiring a justification 00:10:46.582 --> 00:10:50.702 and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state. 00:10:51.022 --> 00:10:55.582 Even before the video spread across the internet, however, scandal plagued Minnesota. 00:10:55.842 --> 00:11:00.742 In 2021, federal law enforcement first probed a series of multi-million dollar 00:11:00.742 --> 00:11:02.622 fraud schemes. Damn you, Biden. 00:11:03.362 --> 00:11:09.022 Those fraud schemes have led to federal charges against 92 people with 62 convicted and counting. 00:11:09.242 --> 00:11:13.382 Trump and other Republican lawmakers have focused attention on the state's Somali 00:11:13.382 --> 00:11:16.482 community, as most of the fraud defendants are of Somali descent. 00:11:17.675 --> 00:11:20.795 Drawing stiff criticism from local officials, including, of course, 00:11:20.875 --> 00:11:25.215 Walls, who denounced Trump's criticism as vile, racist lies and slander towards 00:11:25.215 --> 00:11:26.355 our fellow Minnesotans. 00:11:26.555 --> 00:11:31.175 Walls, meanwhile, has faced intense scrutiny from both inside and outside Minnesota 00:11:31.175 --> 00:11:33.915 over his administration's handling of the crisis. 00:11:34.215 --> 00:11:39.515 National Guard for snow, but not for the fentanyl Floyd riots raging in 2020. 00:11:39.755 --> 00:11:43.155 Remember, Minnesota was pretty much ground zero for that crap. 00:11:43.155 --> 00:11:47.595 The governor has acknowledged in recent weeks that the fraud problem could stretch 00:11:47.595 --> 00:11:52.375 into the billions, but disputed the 9 billion figures cited by prosecutors. 00:11:52.615 --> 00:11:57.835 While Nick Shirley's video focused on allegations of fraud in daycares in Minneapolis, 00:11:58.475 --> 00:12:02.695 federal investigators told CBS News, Paramount Sinai. 00:12:03.452 --> 00:12:08.272 Child care is only vaguely a priority for prosecutors and attention and resources 00:12:08.272 --> 00:12:12.432 are instead focused on more than a dozen other social services programs in Minnesota, 00:12:12.652 --> 00:12:15.732 including nutrition, housing and behavioral health. 00:12:15.912 --> 00:12:23.672 The COVID era, $250 million scheme, ah, COVID, the grift that keeps on giving, 00:12:23.912 --> 00:12:30.032 now includes upwards of 75 defendants revolved around a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. 00:12:30.032 --> 00:12:34.572 The group claimed to work with restaurants and caterers to distribute meals 00:12:34.572 --> 00:12:39.932 to schools and extracurricular programs, but instead submitted fake meal count sheets and invoices, 00:12:40.252 --> 00:12:43.772 raking in millions in administrative fees and getting kickbacks from people 00:12:43.772 --> 00:12:45.892 who ran their meal distro sites. 00:12:46.112 --> 00:12:51.252 And this involves Ilhan Omar shuffling money to her husband's venture capital 00:12:51.252 --> 00:12:55.112 firm and the website getting scrubbed as people were finding out about all of this. 00:12:55.112 --> 00:12:59.192 Again, there are seven different angles to this story, much like COVID, 00:12:59.392 --> 00:13:03.912 much like 9-11, much like any of the big stories. They don't do it for one reason. 00:13:04.192 --> 00:13:08.612 And again, I have been covering that extensively this morning on my Food World 00:13:08.612 --> 00:13:09.752 Order Morning Monarchy. 00:13:09.892 --> 00:13:14.892 But, James, isn't this going to roll out like in the U.K., where the government, 00:13:15.112 --> 00:13:20.412 whoops, sorry, we let all this fraud run rampant, but we have got just the solution. 00:13:20.752 --> 00:13:24.992 And what have we seen even this past week? Trump sells us out to the big AI 00:13:24.992 --> 00:13:31.872 boys passing a law that makes it illegal for states to pass their own AI regulation laws. 00:13:32.808 --> 00:13:36.588 So, of course, that'll be the solution, James. They'll have a new digital ID. 00:13:36.588 --> 00:13:40.708 And so all of this fraud and all those Somalis won't stab your daughter at the 00:13:40.708 --> 00:13:43.068 mall and everything will be OK, James. Right. 00:13:43.748 --> 00:13:48.108 Great minds think alike, James, because I myself am looking at this story as 00:13:48.108 --> 00:13:50.448 to what is the real story here? 00:13:50.668 --> 00:13:53.748 Why is this being shoved in front of our face right now? 00:13:53.928 --> 00:13:57.908 And it is demonstrably not because Americans are suddenly angry about billions 00:13:57.908 --> 00:13:59.588 of dollars of wasted taxpayer money. 00:14:00.348 --> 00:14:04.708 Demonstrably not that. We have many, many, many, many examples of that that 00:14:04.708 --> 00:14:08.168 we could point to that people are not outraged about because their favorite 00:14:08.168 --> 00:14:11.088 news sources aren't telling them to be outraged about those stories. 00:14:11.288 --> 00:14:15.708 Just as one example that broke in the past couple of weeks, the pay for play 00:14:15.708 --> 00:14:19.288 pardon game that is being played with the Trump 2.0 administration. 00:14:19.668 --> 00:14:23.928 And apparently the lobbying rate to get a presidential pardon is going for about 00:14:23.928 --> 00:14:28.228 a million dollars. And with that million dollar investment, you can get convictions 00:14:28.228 --> 00:14:34.328 for billions of dollars of scams completely disappeared down the presidential pardon memory hole. 00:14:34.528 --> 00:14:37.588 And so, for example, why are we not outraged? 00:14:37.688 --> 00:14:42.568 Why is Philip S. Formas not a household name there in the United States, 00:14:42.688 --> 00:14:46.468 despite the fact that he stole one point three billion dollars from Medicaid 00:14:46.468 --> 00:14:50.808 and Medicare single handedly was convicted of that and has had his sentence 00:14:50.808 --> 00:14:53.228 commuted by the Trumper in chief? 00:14:53.228 --> 00:14:56.988 Why are people not, why are the exact same people who are telling you to be 00:14:56.988 --> 00:15:00.348 outraged about Minnesota are not telling you about that? 00:15:00.448 --> 00:15:02.748 It's because they don't care about the money. It's not about the money. 00:15:02.808 --> 00:15:05.828 It's about a political football game that's going on for various reasons. 00:15:06.248 --> 00:15:11.468 And I think you're right. Probably we're drifting towards some sort of digital ID solution. 00:15:11.708 --> 00:15:15.568 Yeah, but we don't have to stop there. How about the 1.5%? 00:15:15.515 --> 00:15:20.515 $1.5 trillion that apparently Trump is going to ask for for the military budget in 2027. 00:15:20.735 --> 00:15:24.855 Why are people not getting outraged about the $1.5 trillion? 00:15:25.335 --> 00:15:28.875 Oh, who cares about that? No, I'm concerned about what's going on in Minnesota. 00:15:29.135 --> 00:15:31.975 Great. Be concerned about what's going on in Minnesota, but maybe you should 00:15:31.975 --> 00:15:35.815 be a thousand times more concerned by what's going on in the U.S. 00:15:36.275 --> 00:15:41.395 Military coffers. How about more than that? What about the missing 20 plus question 00:15:41.395 --> 00:15:45.995 mark trillion dollars that has been missing from the Pentagon's coffers over the past 25 years? 00:15:46.435 --> 00:15:49.815 Again, go search missing trillions on CorpReport.com. 00:15:49.935 --> 00:15:52.775 I've talked about it in 9-11 trillions. I talked about it with Catherine Austin 00:15:52.775 --> 00:15:54.575 Fitz. I talked about it with Dr. Mark Skidmore. 00:15:54.715 --> 00:15:59.115 But the very same outlets that are telling you to be outraged about Minnesota. 00:15:59.875 --> 00:16:06.015 Have never uttered a single word about the missing trillions from the Pentagon's coffers. 00:16:06.195 --> 00:16:09.695 Again, this isn't about the money. It's about leading you along a narrative. 00:16:10.015 --> 00:16:15.415 One possible reason for that. I'm sure that they are going to push the digital ID solution to this. 00:16:15.695 --> 00:16:19.995 Another interesting tidbit that some have proposed, it just so happens that 00:16:19.995 --> 00:16:22.275 in the past couple of weeks, maybe you didn't hear about it, 00:16:22.375 --> 00:16:25.695 but Israel has become the first country to recognize the breakaway, 00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:31.595 Somaliland as an independent state from Somalia, breaking up Somalia right at 00:16:31.595 --> 00:16:35.795 this time as Somalia is suddenly back in the news and we're all very outraged 00:16:35.795 --> 00:16:38.015 about Somalians, right? And oh, by the. 00:16:40.775 --> 00:16:46.255 Past week, the first week of 2026, the U.S. has bombed Somalia no less than four times. 00:16:46.475 --> 00:16:50.535 No, again, you don't know about it because your favorite news sources don't tell you about that. 00:16:50.675 --> 00:16:53.795 They tell you to be outraged about this Minnesota scandal thing, 00:16:53.915 --> 00:16:58.775 but they don't tell you about the other pieces of this story and the greater geopolitical context. 00:16:59.015 --> 00:17:01.695 They don't tell you about the digital ID solution that they're going to push. 00:17:02.035 --> 00:17:06.135 And unfortunately, as I'm sure most people in our audience know, 00:17:06.415 --> 00:17:11.095 the mindless plebs around them are going to get a bray and get angry and do 00:17:11.095 --> 00:17:15.355 the two minutes hate thing in order to be led along by the nose through this narrative. 00:17:15.635 --> 00:17:18.475 So let's keep our eyes on the real prize here and where this is really going. 00:17:18.615 --> 00:17:21.355 And if people really cared about missing money, I don't know, 00:17:21.475 --> 00:17:24.015 maybe they could start by talking about the missing trillions. 00:17:25.035 --> 00:17:29.475 This is lock her up. 3.0 is a lot of it. 00:17:29.595 --> 00:17:33.235 There's just a lot of that culture war crap to kind of put into it. 00:17:33.275 --> 00:17:38.995 And again, people that should be mad about this are the people of Minnesota and, 00:17:39.722 --> 00:17:44.922 New Mexico, West Virginia, all of a sudden you've got problems of your own to deal with. 00:17:45.082 --> 00:17:48.882 Maybe, maybe look for the billion dollar fraud going on in your own backyard 00:17:48.882 --> 00:17:53.422 that would actually affect you and the thefts taken from you that they call taxes. 00:17:54.042 --> 00:17:59.282 James, I do have to throw a shout out to my man, Hybrid, who does cover art for my morning shows. 00:17:59.442 --> 00:18:03.422 We joke that there are albums for bands that don't exist. And I think he really 00:18:03.422 --> 00:18:07.882 did a good one with UBL and I'll include the links to that, but man, 00:18:08.222 --> 00:18:12.222 a million, you really, you really cannot beat that kind of deal. 00:18:12.402 --> 00:18:14.522 I mean, what a salesman Trump is. 00:18:15.082 --> 00:18:19.062 Our third and final story again, so much going on in the world. 00:18:19.162 --> 00:18:22.582 We call this new world next week, but when we're all for a couple of weeks, 00:18:22.602 --> 00:18:26.842 we got to maybe, maybe play catch up a little bit, James. It is called the Donald J. 00:18:27.062 --> 00:18:32.682 Trump, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts now. So put a pin in that one as well. 00:18:32.922 --> 00:18:38.442 As the Corporation for public broadcasting votes itself out of existence. 00:18:39.442 --> 00:18:44.362 CPB. You've seen the logo if you've ever watched public broadcasting here in the States. 00:18:44.542 --> 00:18:48.202 Brought to you by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and viewers like you. 00:18:48.824 --> 00:18:53.304 Leaders for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has 00:18:53.304 --> 00:18:55.424 steered federal funding to PBS, 00:18:55.744 --> 00:18:59.544 NPR, and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, 00:18:59.804 --> 00:19:04.044 voted to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967. 00:19:04.244 --> 00:19:07.444 People love to do things on big round anniversary dates. 00:19:08.004 --> 00:19:12.964 CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations 00:19:12.964 --> 00:19:15.504 at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. 00:19:16.184 --> 00:19:20.924 And I see the tweets that do claim to say whether they're bots or not. I voted for this. 00:19:21.564 --> 00:19:25.844 Its board of directors chose to shutter CPB completely. Not to be confused with 00:19:25.844 --> 00:19:28.924 CBP, the, you know, the borders and customs patrol. 00:19:29.144 --> 00:19:32.824 That one's booming. That one's doing really well. They shuffled that funding over. 00:19:33.404 --> 00:19:40.304 Its board of directors chose to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell. 00:19:40.944 --> 00:19:44.624 CPB's final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system 00:19:44.624 --> 00:19:48.744 and the democratic values by dissolving rather than allowing the organization 00:19:48.744 --> 00:19:52.504 to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks, 00:19:52.744 --> 00:19:56.004 said Patricia Harrison, the organization's president and CEO. 00:19:56.384 --> 00:20:01.164 Many Republicans have long accused public broadcasting, particularly its news 00:20:01.164 --> 00:20:06.384 programming, of being biased towards liberals. But it wasn't until Trump 2.0 00:20:06.384 --> 00:20:11.184 with full GOP control of Congress that those criticisms were turned into actions. 00:20:11.684 --> 00:20:15.684 Ruby Calvert, head of CBP's board of directors, said the federal defunding of 00:20:15.684 --> 00:20:18.124 public media has been devastating. 00:20:18.464 --> 00:20:22.324 James, we've even noticed on some of the public radio that we enjoy, 00:20:22.524 --> 00:20:26.504 that we still stream since we've moved out of Oregon here to New Mexico. 00:20:26.744 --> 00:20:30.624 There's a jazz station there that we love. It's non-commercial. It's fantastic. 00:20:31.184 --> 00:20:34.244 Casabot noticed the other day when she put it on the stream, she was like... 00:20:35.150 --> 00:20:38.490 It didn't play the thing at the beginning that says, this is brought to you 00:20:38.490 --> 00:20:42.030 by Oregon Public Broadcasting, da-da-da, we need your support and money. 00:20:42.050 --> 00:20:46.030 So they're not even saying anymore that we can take your money that way. 00:20:46.570 --> 00:20:51.070 Even at this moment, I am convinced that public media will survive and that 00:20:51.070 --> 00:20:54.890 a new Congress will address public media's role in our country because it is 00:20:54.890 --> 00:20:56.890 critical to my children's education, 00:20:57.070 --> 00:21:01.770 our history, culture, and of course, say it again, democracy to do so. 00:21:01.770 --> 00:21:06.610 No, CBP said it was financially supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting 00:21:06.610 --> 00:21:09.030 in its effort to preserve historic content, 00:21:09.230 --> 00:21:13.770 which, of course, I'm always a fan and in favor of, and is also working at the 00:21:13.770 --> 00:21:16.770 University of Maryland to maintain its own records. 00:21:16.970 --> 00:21:21.590 I saw the White Stripes back in the day before they were huge at the University of Maryland. 00:21:22.090 --> 00:21:26.950 But really, James, I mean, think about this. compared to these what are huge 00:21:26.950 --> 00:21:34.110 outlets, NPR, PBS, their national huge media outlets that act like their little 00:21:34.110 --> 00:21:36.950 Davies versus their good buddy Goliath. 00:21:37.270 --> 00:21:42.910 While I would argue we are the quiet exemplars of the proof that if people like 00:21:42.910 --> 00:21:44.810 something, they'll support it. 00:21:45.390 --> 00:21:48.510 You've never heard an ad. You've never heard a sales pitch. 00:21:48.710 --> 00:21:51.570 I don't even think you've heard pre-roll ads saying, you 00:21:51.570 --> 00:21:55.170 know you could support us because we are we could we 00:21:55.170 --> 00:21:58.190 should maybe but james this is really interesting 00:21:58.190 --> 00:22:02.410 so corporation for public broadcasting again the power 00:22:02.410 --> 00:22:06.930 of i'm not as i'm not as good at tabletop gaming and dnd as i would like to 00:22:06.930 --> 00:22:12.370 be so i could roll out the funny references but anything trump does he's just 00:22:12.370 --> 00:22:19.190 got to like boom spell reflect and it goes back double time onto you it's it's fascinating james. 00:22:20.116 --> 00:22:24.876 Yeah, but but James, won't somebody think of Elmo and Big Bird? 00:22:25.136 --> 00:22:30.396 And oh, wait, wait, no, they horde themselves out to HBO a decade ago. You remember that? 00:22:30.516 --> 00:22:33.536 And and now that that deal's over, I guess now they're with Netflix. 00:22:33.636 --> 00:22:35.296 So don't worry about Sesame Street. 00:22:35.436 --> 00:22:38.976 They're going to continue their covid pushing propaganda and all the rest of 00:22:38.976 --> 00:22:40.816 it, trying to indoctrinate your children. 00:22:41.076 --> 00:22:44.016 It's just they won't get as much taxpayer money to do so. 00:22:44.476 --> 00:22:47.956 I'm sure they will just be through a different funding mechanism for some other 00:22:47.956 --> 00:22:52.476 backdoor. or the next Congress, as has been promised. 00:22:52.876 --> 00:22:56.236 But of course, it's not just about Sesame Street. It's about all the propaganda 00:22:56.236 --> 00:23:00.716 that comes out of the goodness of the public broadcasting system and NPR and 00:23:00.716 --> 00:23:05.016 the National Petroleum Radio and all the other propaganda crap that they're pushing. 00:23:05.216 --> 00:23:08.636 But of course, the biggest lie of all is exactly that, that, 00:23:09.016 --> 00:23:13.056 oh, but it's for democracy and it's for teaching and it's for helping. 00:23:13.236 --> 00:23:18.316 No, it is not. as always, we'll reference Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to 00:23:18.316 --> 00:23:23.736 Death, where on page 142 of the edition, 144 of the edition I'm reading, 00:23:23.916 --> 00:23:26.976 he makes the very, very important observation, 00:23:27.216 --> 00:23:32.456 Sesame Street does not encourage children to love school or anything about school. 00:23:32.616 --> 00:23:34.236 It encourages them to love. 00:23:34.727 --> 00:23:38.147 Television. Exactly right. This is, that's what this is about. 00:23:38.267 --> 00:23:42.707 It's not about teaching your children. And that's at best. It teaches them to love television. 00:23:43.047 --> 00:23:46.727 Actually, these days it teaches them to love mummy government and don't, 00:23:46.847 --> 00:23:49.427 and take your COVID boosters, children. 00:23:49.767 --> 00:23:52.767 Don't worry. Elmo does it because his daddy told him to do it. 00:23:52.947 --> 00:23:55.387 Remember all that crap they were pushing back during the pandemic. 00:23:55.667 --> 00:23:59.927 Remember the great reset and, uh, and Sesame street being part of that. 00:24:00.067 --> 00:24:03.207 You probably don't, but I did a propaganda watch on that. So I'll throw that 00:24:03.207 --> 00:24:05.587 in the links for people who want to go down that rabbit hole. 00:24:05.707 --> 00:24:09.547 But anyway, yeah, propaganda being funded by taxpayer money. Oh, boohoo. 00:24:09.787 --> 00:24:14.727 Let's cry ourselves to sleep. Now, if there is genuine educational content that 00:24:14.727 --> 00:24:18.307 people really care about, then put your money where your mouth is. 00:24:18.707 --> 00:24:23.207 That's what this paradigm is all about. Don't say, no, you have to rob everyone 00:24:23.207 --> 00:24:28.047 else to pay them to pay that station that I don't even listen to, 00:24:28.127 --> 00:24:32.807 but I feel good and get my nice, you know, feel good virtues by pretending to support. No, no, no, no. 00:24:32.987 --> 00:24:37.107 If you like it, you support it. And if you do, that it will continue. 00:24:37.187 --> 00:24:38.407 And if you don't, it will die. 00:24:38.627 --> 00:24:44.687 That is the way that real media and everything else works in the real world, 00:24:44.827 --> 00:24:46.407 deprived of government funding. 00:24:46.667 --> 00:24:49.907 So anyway, you know, I'm not crying myself to sleep over this development. 00:24:50.994 --> 00:24:56.894 James, this episode is a hat trick of trillion-dollar boondoggles, 00:24:57.494 --> 00:25:00.494 tax theft to go bomb countries, 00:25:01.254 --> 00:25:08.074 to lie about actually helping kids, and of course, to lie about propaganda and media. 00:25:08.314 --> 00:25:12.754 All three of them. They really all come together really well. 00:25:12.854 --> 00:25:18.154 James, Reason argued years back, and mostly I'm just into Reason for Remy and 00:25:18.154 --> 00:25:20.014 his satire parody songs. 00:25:20.014 --> 00:25:28.434 Reason argued years back that being feds like like npr and pbs actually held 00:25:28.434 --> 00:25:32.474 them back because of all the stipulations and rules for how things like that 00:25:32.474 --> 00:25:36.234 get funding and tax support and blah blah blah as opposed to hey you like my 00:25:36.234 --> 00:25:39.894 show hit me up buymeacoffee.com slash medium monarchy. 00:25:40.914 --> 00:25:46.574 Now watch though this this will be interesting if outlets like the aforementioned 00:25:46.574 --> 00:25:53.294 oregon public Broadcasting, OPB, what if they become more powerful regionally? 00:25:53.414 --> 00:25:58.434 I could see them being the dominant public media outlet in the Pacific Northwest, 00:25:58.694 --> 00:26:03.074 which I would say includes Northern California, Southern Washington as well. 00:26:03.274 --> 00:26:09.214 Maybe even then they'll start hyping, you know, decentralization when they realize it helps them. 00:26:10.214 --> 00:26:13.294 Other quietly huge stories I 00:26:13.294 --> 00:26:16.754 am hitting on your media monarchy kingdom oh paypal's 00:26:16.754 --> 00:26:20.254 gonna be a bank good night everybody good 00:26:20.254 --> 00:26:24.094 grief james that is new world next week episode 614 00:26:24.094 --> 00:26:27.494 and i always get to play the exclusive audio 00:26:27.494 --> 00:26:31.694 of these shows before they've been published anywhere only me brock sean and 00:26:31.694 --> 00:26:36.094 james have heard them and you can too before they are published after my morning 00:26:36.094 --> 00:26:39.994 monarchy thursday that's around 10 a.m mountain and time media monarchy.com 00:26:39.994 --> 00:26:45.814 slash listen james uh the store you know about the store that we run. 00:26:46.970 --> 00:26:53.610 I've heard of it. 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