WEBVTT 00:00:13.029 --> 00:00:16.149 Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:16.689 --> 00:00:19.349 And I'm James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com. 00:00:19.469 --> 00:00:23.489 Surely part of the pleasure is that sense of connection with the content creator. 00:00:23.729 --> 00:00:28.669 We have got that fascinating story, plus Fukushima and COVID anniversaries. 00:00:28.829 --> 00:00:33.849 But first, nations worldwide move to conserve fuel as Strait of Hormuz closure 00:00:33.849 --> 00:00:35.789 threatens global economy. 00:00:36.229 --> 00:00:41.109 Pakistani Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif announced on 9 March sweeping austerity 00:00:41.109 --> 00:00:45.349 measures to curb domestic fuel consumption after oil prices briefly reached 00:00:45.349 --> 00:00:50.529 $120 a barrel due to the disruptions caused by the U.S. real war on Iran. 00:00:50.769 --> 00:00:55.349 The entire region is currently in a state of war. Keeping this reality in mind, 00:00:55.509 --> 00:00:58.549 the government took difficult decisions for the country's economy, 00:00:58.709 --> 00:00:59.909 Sharif said in his address. 00:01:00.129 --> 00:01:03.509 He said oil prices are already above $100 a barrel and could rise further, 00:01:03.709 --> 00:01:08.309 forcing Islamabad to conserve reserves and take quick measures to reduce the 00:01:08.309 --> 00:01:10.389 need for fuel consumption across the country. 00:01:10.929 --> 00:01:16.169 Measures in the public sector include a four-day work week for government employees 00:01:16.169 --> 00:01:20.629 and rotating work-from-home arrangements for half of the public staff. 00:01:20.889 --> 00:01:24.929 The measures also involve two weeks of school closures, online classes for higher 00:01:24.929 --> 00:01:29.909 education, cuts to official fuel use, salary reductions for ministers and lawmakers, 00:01:30.089 --> 00:01:33.029 and restrictions on foreign travel and in-person government meetings. 00:01:33.049 --> 00:01:34.529 This sounds really familiar. 00:01:35.499 --> 00:01:40.039 Pakistani authorities said the plan was meant to utilize the available reserves 00:01:40.039 --> 00:01:42.099 of oil in a judicious manner. 00:01:42.459 --> 00:01:46.379 Workers in Pakistan who depend on driving for their livelihoods report that 00:01:46.379 --> 00:01:51.159 rising petrol prices are eroding incomes and driving up the cost of everyday goods. 00:01:51.499 --> 00:01:56.799 Elsewhere in Asia, Bangladesh imposed daily fuel sale limits after what Reuters 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.619 described as panic buying and stockpiling, with state-run Bangladesh Petroleum 00:02:01.619 --> 00:02:05.059 Corporation saying the curbs were meant to restrain excessive demand, 00:02:05.259 --> 00:02:08.399 calm the public, and keep nationwide stocks stable. 00:02:08.579 --> 00:02:12.719 Other Asian states activated contingency plans rather than immediate rationing, 00:02:12.839 --> 00:02:16.259 including fuel price caps, efforts to stabilize petrol prices, 00:02:16.559 --> 00:02:21.219 shifts in crude purchases away from Gulf routes, and reliance on reserves or 00:02:21.219 --> 00:02:23.019 alternative supply arrangements. 00:02:23.359 --> 00:02:28.419 Asia is the epicenter of the war-induced energy shock since it relies on the 00:02:28.419 --> 00:02:30.659 Persian Gulf for over 80% of its oil. 00:02:31.079 --> 00:02:36.539 Unlike the U.S., which is a net exporter, Asia faces a literal energy panic. 00:02:36.659 --> 00:02:38.019 And I did have to look that up, James. 00:02:38.339 --> 00:02:42.939 America exports most of its oil. The United States is a net exporter of petroleum 00:02:42.939 --> 00:02:46.019 products, meaning it exports more refined oil than it imports. 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:52.959 In 2023, the U.S. exported about 10.15 million barrels per day of petroleum, 00:02:52.959 --> 00:02:54.659 including gas, diesel, jet fuel, 00:02:55.079 --> 00:02:58.419 making it the world's largest exporter of refined petroleum products. 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:03.719 While the U.S. is also the largest producer of crude oil, 12.1 million barrels 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:07.759 a day, it exports a significant portion of its crude, particularly light, 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:10.119 sweet crude from shale fields, of course, in Texas. 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:15.559 North Dakota, and New Mexico, which feels like it should be a lot richer with 00:03:15.559 --> 00:03:17.259 all that oil that we provide. 00:03:17.519 --> 00:03:20.439 It's odd how New Hexico is still very, very poor. 00:03:21.329 --> 00:03:25.129 Is this the chart pressuring Trump toward an Iran off-ramp? 00:03:25.209 --> 00:03:28.189 That's the question Zero Hedge asked, because it did go pretty quickly to him 00:03:28.189 --> 00:03:29.889 saying, of course, we're not at war. 00:03:30.129 --> 00:03:34.149 Don't forget that. Like Mike Johnson said, we're not at war. This is not a war. 00:03:34.569 --> 00:03:37.189 Also, Trump suddenly wants to end it really quickly. 00:03:37.749 --> 00:03:42.769 Iran vows to block oil shipments until U.S. real attacks end and war with Iran 00:03:42.769 --> 00:03:44.709 becomes the world's latest economic hazard. 00:03:44.829 --> 00:03:48.649 Trump insists the conflict will be brief, but world leaders are prepping for 00:03:48.649 --> 00:03:51.189 severe economic blowback. James. 00:03:52.469 --> 00:03:55.909 Yes, James, there is a lot of moving parts on the table. 00:03:56.109 --> 00:03:59.549 There are a lot of moving parts on the table right now. So I'm sure people can 00:03:59.549 --> 00:04:03.789 appreciate all of the latest breaking news that is happening as we're recording this. 00:04:03.909 --> 00:04:09.709 Dozens of oil tankers divert to Red Sea as Saudis reroute crude flows from Hormuz Chokepoint. 00:04:10.374 --> 00:04:15.354 We have the IEA, the International Energy Agency, to release a record 400 million 00:04:15.354 --> 00:04:18.414 barrels of oil from its stockpiles. 00:04:18.574 --> 00:04:21.834 We have the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, 00:04:22.214 --> 00:04:25.494 striking vessels who are attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, 00:04:25.654 --> 00:04:29.794 including a Thai-flagged dry bulk vessel, a Japan-flagged container ship, 00:04:29.934 --> 00:04:34.894 and a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier, all hit by unidentified projectiles 00:04:34.894 --> 00:04:37.174 as they were attempting to, well, 00:04:37.574 --> 00:04:40.034 not heed the warnings not to enter the strait. 00:04:40.374 --> 00:04:44.194 And then we also, of course, have this landmine or sea mine. 00:04:45.314 --> 00:04:47.174 Brouhaha, that's taking place right now. 00:04:47.354 --> 00:04:51.874 Apparently, Iran maybe was trying to put mines in the strait, maybe. 00:04:52.134 --> 00:04:56.394 And Trump threatens consequences never seen before if Iran mines the Strait 00:04:56.394 --> 00:04:59.274 of Hormuz, which wasn't that that old internet meme? 00:05:00.354 --> 00:05:03.034 Consequences like never before. Anyway, something like that. 00:05:03.174 --> 00:05:08.234 Anyway, so a lot of breaking news, but I guess, Brock, please put the temporal 00:05:08.234 --> 00:05:11.014 disclaimer, the New World Next Week temporal disclaimer, on screen. 00:05:11.994 --> 00:05:15.714 Whatever happens in the 24 hours between the time we're recording this and the 00:05:15.714 --> 00:05:17.894 time that you actually see this, we don't know about. 00:05:18.034 --> 00:05:20.574 So we can't give you the latest up to the second breaking news. 00:05:20.694 --> 00:05:24.334 But I can attest to that Asian panic right now because, of course, 00:05:24.434 --> 00:05:28.754 in Japan, we're starting to begin to feel the beginning of this. 00:05:29.154 --> 00:05:34.314 Gas prices already rising. And of course, it was a top story on the news last 00:05:34.314 --> 00:05:36.514 night. How high will they go, essentially? 00:05:37.294 --> 00:05:42.334 And of course, I've read about Thailand and Malaysia and Pakistan and other 00:05:42.334 --> 00:05:46.374 places taking emergency measures and cutting office hours and all sorts of things 00:05:46.374 --> 00:05:48.914 to try to conserve oil at this point. 00:05:48.934 --> 00:05:51.114 And we'll see what eventuates from here. 00:05:51.254 --> 00:05:56.034 And I realize, look, I am fully, fully cognizant that, oh my God, 00:05:56.194 --> 00:05:59.514 won't someone think of the price of gas is not necessarily the most important 00:05:59.514 --> 00:06:03.074 moral calculation we could be making as, you know, bombs are dropping on, 00:06:03.604 --> 00:06:08.264 schools full of school girls and that sort of thing. But it is the one that 00:06:08.264 --> 00:06:13.044 might that might impact those people who are still cheering this on. Yay. 00:06:13.244 --> 00:06:16.744 We got to get those damn terrorists and bring freedom to the Middle East or something. 00:06:16.984 --> 00:06:19.064 When has that ever gone wrong? 00:06:19.584 --> 00:06:23.544 But at the very least, once it starts affecting people in the pocketbook, 00:06:23.604 --> 00:06:28.444 it will start getting people to rethink their blind support for the U.S. 00:06:28.504 --> 00:06:32.464 Real war that's going on right now for absolutely no reason whatsoever. 00:06:32.924 --> 00:06:38.644 And as you say, you could be there even in the heart of oil country in New Mexico, 00:06:38.644 --> 00:06:41.764 but it's not like it's not like you're reaping any of the benefits. 00:06:41.884 --> 00:06:44.844 And I bet you gas prices are starting to creep up there as well. 00:06:45.004 --> 00:06:47.464 It's funny how this knocks on and goes around. 00:06:48.844 --> 00:06:52.324 So excuse me, I'm so excited. I'm choking on my own spit. 00:06:52.464 --> 00:06:57.864 So there are many things to say about this war and what's taking place right now. 00:06:58.584 --> 00:07:05.084 I would just say that the 2D summary of what's going on, the nation states against 00:07:05.084 --> 00:07:10.644 nation states, perhaps the best one I saw, I saw a Twitter post that was embedded 00:07:10.644 --> 00:07:11.884 in some article I was reading. 00:07:12.244 --> 00:07:16.724 It took the U.S. 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, 00:07:16.724 --> 00:07:20.084 but only nine days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei. 00:07:21.264 --> 00:07:24.264 Yay so that's progress isn't it um so 00:07:24.264 --> 00:07:27.004 that's a funny way of putting what essentially what has taken place on 00:07:27.004 --> 00:07:29.704 the 2d geopolitical chess board but as as we 00:07:29.704 --> 00:07:32.684 all know it's a 3d chess board and there are people puppeteering both 00:07:32.684 --> 00:07:35.384 sides of this and we should not forget that Iran was 00:07:35.384 --> 00:07:39.864 complicit in the covid scandemic nonsense like every other nation on the globe 00:07:39.864 --> 00:07:46.164 and they played their part in all of this phony nonsense of the axes of resistance 00:07:46.164 --> 00:07:51.564 against nato is slash Israel it is a stage play and we should be careful not 00:07:51.564 --> 00:07:53.904 to invest our identities in any of these fake teams. 00:07:55.484 --> 00:07:59.844 James, I saw a really interesting compare and contrast of two different New 00:07:59.844 --> 00:08:06.384 York Times headlines where the first one says Iran claims a missile hit one 00:08:06.384 --> 00:08:08.024 of their schools and kids or whatever. 00:08:08.464 --> 00:08:14.124 And then the next article is strike in Israel kills from Iranian missile. 00:08:14.364 --> 00:08:17.364 It's like everything Israel says is taken at face value. 00:08:17.604 --> 00:08:21.884 Anything Iran says is like these liars made a claim that we're all blowing up 00:08:21.884 --> 00:08:27.784 schools and killing little kids. So, again, fantastic job from the liars in the press. 00:08:28.044 --> 00:08:31.284 And, James, it's the same thing in West Virginia. 00:08:31.664 --> 00:08:37.964 Out-of-state exploiters using the state's resources to dig all that coal and 00:08:37.964 --> 00:08:41.584 pump all that oil. And it goes, of course, to out-of-state. 00:08:42.524 --> 00:08:47.864 The insurance company's embargo thing is kind of huge on this as well, James. 00:08:47.964 --> 00:08:51.344 I got a few people sending me the article, and in some ways it does go over 00:08:51.344 --> 00:08:52.784 again, my economic head. 00:08:53.264 --> 00:08:57.764 What role did marine insurers play in halting Hormuz traffic? 00:08:58.004 --> 00:09:02.444 Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz declined by 80% within 24 hours of strikes 00:09:02.444 --> 00:09:07.784 being launched on Iran as ship owners and charters weighed whether to proceed with voyages. 00:09:07.984 --> 00:09:13.104 The insurance companies are saying, we ain't insuring that because we'd have to pay out. 00:09:13.244 --> 00:09:16.364 They don't get where they are paying out a bunch of payments to folks. 00:09:17.044 --> 00:09:20.904 James, you're coughing. I'm banging into my microphone. this past week, 00:09:20.984 --> 00:09:25.764 I guess this is what passes for a slow news week. We're actually able to take 00:09:25.764 --> 00:09:30.764 a moment and kind of assess what has been going on at a pretty quick rate. 00:09:31.682 --> 00:09:34.622 Pretty fascinating story for our second story. 00:09:34.802 --> 00:09:41.522 UK Society of Authors launched Logo to identify books written by humans, not AI. 00:09:42.002 --> 00:09:46.622 The Society of Authors has launched a scheme to help identify works written 00:09:46.622 --> 00:09:50.622 by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books. 00:09:50.622 --> 00:09:55.362 The scheme is the first of its kind, launched by a UK trade association and 00:09:55.362 --> 00:10:00.382 allows authors to register their books and download a human-authored logo to 00:10:00.382 --> 00:10:01.842 display on their back cover. 00:10:02.002 --> 00:10:05.782 No way anybody will steal that logo and put it on their AI slop. 00:10:06.402 --> 00:10:09.422 The SOA said the absence of any government measure, 00:10:09.542 --> 00:10:14.282 please government save us, to compel tech companies to label AI-generated output, 00:10:14.282 --> 00:10:18.462 meant readers were struggling to distinguish between books written by a human 00:10:18.462 --> 00:10:22.942 and machine-generated works based on AI models trained on copywritten works 00:10:22.942 --> 00:10:24.122 without permission or payment. 00:10:24.362 --> 00:10:28.162 It mirrors a similar scheme launched by the Authors Guild in the U.S. 00:10:28.322 --> 00:10:29.842 At the beginning of 2025. 00:10:30.302 --> 00:10:35.742 Mary Beard, the classicist, that is, Brit-speak for ancient literature expert, 00:10:36.002 --> 00:10:39.762 one of several high-profile authors who have backed the scheme and plan to register 00:10:39.762 --> 00:10:41.922 their works on the human-authored website. night. 00:10:42.022 --> 00:10:45.782 It's only going to be human authored books on my desert island, she said. 00:10:46.282 --> 00:10:50.182 Mallory Blackman, children's author, said the scheme seeks to highlight the 00:10:50.182 --> 00:10:54.242 imagination, commitment, craft and care taken to produce stories and books which 00:10:54.242 --> 00:10:55.562 can be enjoyed by everyone. 00:10:56.042 --> 00:10:59.682 Any creative endeavor requires time, effort, 00:10:59.902 --> 00:11:02.822 a willingness to learn from mistakes and a determination to 00:11:02.822 --> 00:11:06.082 persevere lifelong essential skills which cannot be 00:11:06.082 --> 00:11:08.922 learned and honed by allowing AI to do all of 00:11:08.922 --> 00:11:12.442 our creative thinking and production for us surely part 00:11:12.442 --> 00:11:15.322 of the pleasure of reading listening to songs watching films 00:11:15.322 --> 00:11:19.682 and dramas looking at an artwork and in fact sharing any creative endeavor is 00:11:19.682 --> 00:11:23.062 that sense of connection with the content creator that feeling that they are 00:11:23.062 --> 00:11:27.462 speaking to you on some deep emotional level that is entirely absent when the 00:11:27.462 --> 00:11:31.482 work has been produced by AI. James, the smartest pithiest thing I could think 00:11:31.482 --> 00:11:35.282 of this is basically the non-GMO project for books. 00:11:36.400 --> 00:11:39.920 Yes. And I share your skepticism on this. Yeah. As if they won't just, 00:11:39.940 --> 00:11:43.480 you know, slap this on their AI slop and, you know, call it a date. 00:11:43.640 --> 00:11:47.760 I mean, I don't know how you enforce this or what kind of standards there are, how they check. 00:11:47.880 --> 00:11:52.320 Maybe I'll find out because maybe I should get reportage listed as a human authored 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.660 book because it was no way I used in the creation of that book. 00:11:55.800 --> 00:11:59.240 So let's see what, yeah, maybe I'll do that and make a little video about it. 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:00.920 Like what is the process and how does it work? 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.780 But yeah, you know, again, what is the standard? 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:09.600 Who is creating this standard? What does it mean? Like, oh, what if somebody does AI research? 00:12:09.740 --> 00:12:12.560 I asked Rock and it told me this. And then I wrote a story about it. 00:12:12.700 --> 00:12:15.040 Like, I don't know. Again, where do you draw the lines with this? 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.560 But having said that, I'm not against the idea. I think it's a good idea to 00:12:19.560 --> 00:12:24.060 at least be able to identify human created content over AI generated slop. 00:12:25.280 --> 00:12:30.340 And my concern of it, once you drill into this article and the associated articles 00:12:30.340 --> 00:12:34.380 that they're linking to about this subject, you'll find a lot of the authors are protesting because, 00:12:35.460 --> 00:12:39.880 intellectual property and they're concerned, oh, you know, AI is fed and trained 00:12:39.880 --> 00:12:44.380 on our copyrighted material and thus it's taking our work and stealing it. 00:12:44.660 --> 00:12:48.440 Well, as people know, I'm not a big fan of the concept of intellectual property itself. 00:12:48.660 --> 00:12:53.900 So my inclination against the AI generated work is not so much on that regard. 00:12:54.100 --> 00:12:59.420 It is more to do with the, what I think is one of the greater fears of all of this. 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:04.640 It's not that AI is going to, you know, kill us or replace us or something like that. 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:09.440 It's that we are going to essentially become like the AI because we will give 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.120 over our thinking and our creative processes to it. 00:13:12.220 --> 00:13:16.480 And yeah, I really don't know what the point of consuming an AI generated novel would be. 00:13:16.740 --> 00:13:20.080 What is the point of that? Even just theoretically, conceptually, 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:25.040 even if it tickles your funny bone or it makes you interested or whatever it 00:13:25.040 --> 00:13:29.020 is, It's still just doesn't seem real and it seems pointless. 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.020 And it was just something that was generated from a machine. 00:13:32.180 --> 00:13:34.620 I don't know. Personally, I'm against that. 00:13:34.800 --> 00:13:38.360 And thus, I'm going to find out what's involved with this label and whether 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:40.820 or not someone like myself can get it slapped on my work. 00:13:42.504 --> 00:13:48.424 It's really fascinating. And again, as we've talked about for decades, it's the idea. 00:13:48.984 --> 00:13:52.844 That's the powerful thing. It's not Airbnb or what. 00:13:52.944 --> 00:13:57.524 It's the idea that, hey, you're a free human being and you can share your car 00:13:57.524 --> 00:14:03.604 out to somebody or rent out a room in your place or say that your books are written by humans. 00:14:03.804 --> 00:14:09.904 James, I mean, it's a little bit like the AI pop songs. I like knowing what 00:14:09.904 --> 00:14:16.184 I'm in for, and I know that it's an outlet that says we do comedic, satirical AI songs. 00:14:16.344 --> 00:14:19.784 It's when it's the tricks, when people have tried to pass off things. 00:14:19.904 --> 00:14:24.764 I believe you and I talked maybe off mic about that new country song that was breaking up the charts. 00:14:24.764 --> 00:14:28.644 That was all completely AI, doing it surreptitiously. 00:14:28.644 --> 00:14:33.224 Again, as I talked about on New World Next Year 2026, I think it's some of those 00:14:33.224 --> 00:14:40.364 channels like Almost Vinyl that are very open and very sort of open about what they do. 00:14:40.504 --> 00:14:43.864 I guess I don't have the misgivings about that that I would in other areas, 00:14:44.024 --> 00:14:48.324 whether that's GMO foods or AI media, I suppose. 00:14:48.324 --> 00:14:51.384 And it is 6 41 p.m 00:14:51.384 --> 00:14:54.104 march 11th 2026 as i talk to you 00:14:54.104 --> 00:14:59.664 right now six years ago today on march 11th 2020 the world health organization 00:14:59.664 --> 00:15:05.024 declared a global pandemic and two days later on Friday the 13th orange man 00:15:05.024 --> 00:15:10.084 dutifully bent the knee and instituted all the mandates and lockdowns elusive 00:15:10.084 --> 00:15:12.424 covid justice after six years. 00:15:13.436 --> 00:15:17.636 Where are the prosecutions? A year and change into the golden age, 00:15:17.816 --> 00:15:22.816 a deep and thus far unquenched thirst for justice among a huge portion of the 00:15:22.816 --> 00:15:25.036 massive MAGA base notwithstanding. 00:15:25.336 --> 00:15:30.916 The administration has prosecuted zero COVID criminals. 00:15:31.136 --> 00:15:34.576 What's more, the Department of Justice, of course, with Pam Bondi Beach, 00:15:34.736 --> 00:15:39.216 isn't promising to prosecute Americans for hate speech or rolling out new schemes 00:15:39.216 --> 00:15:43.036 to cover up all their involvement in Epstein, hasn't scrounged up any time to 00:15:43.036 --> 00:15:44.456 bother investigating any of them. 00:15:44.576 --> 00:15:47.836 No prosecutions, no investigations, no press releases. 00:15:48.096 --> 00:15:54.496 Nothing but radio silence. The guy running HHS, RFK Jr., wrote a big, 00:15:54.676 --> 00:15:59.136 beautiful book elaborately detailing the rampant criminality of Fauci and many 00:15:59.136 --> 00:16:02.556 more of his co-conspirators, and yet, crickets. Nothing. 00:16:03.216 --> 00:16:07.116 Criminal conspiracy, which these people provably engaged in, 00:16:07.236 --> 00:16:09.656 typically has a five-year statute of limitations. 00:16:09.816 --> 00:16:13.496 Now, this is interesting. The key provision, though, is that the clock on the 00:16:13.496 --> 00:16:17.276 five-year statute of limitations window for criminal conspiracy only commences 00:16:17.276 --> 00:16:19.856 once the conspiracy has concluded. 00:16:20.376 --> 00:16:24.756 As the conspiracy, the shot mandates, the forced masking, the business closures, 00:16:25.236 --> 00:16:30.416 continued deep into 2023 and arguably beyond, we are still well within the five-year 00:16:30.416 --> 00:16:32.396 window for conspiracy prosecution. 00:16:32.396 --> 00:16:36.856 A short but wildly incomplete list, Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszczyk, 00:16:36.976 --> 00:16:40.236 Deborah Birx, Peter Moritz, Francis Collins, Rachel Walensky, 00:16:40.396 --> 00:16:42.476 and I forgot about Mandy Cohen. 00:16:42.736 --> 00:16:47.816 Walensky's replacement shone on camera gleefully explaining how she arbitrarily 00:16:47.816 --> 00:16:51.076 enforced COVID lockdowns on the public with no scientific basis. 00:16:51.316 --> 00:16:56.056 None of these people, for the record, benefited from the flurry of pardons issued 00:16:56.056 --> 00:17:00.376 by whoever Biden was in the auto pen on his way out the door. 00:17:00.376 --> 00:17:02.876 Of course, with the exception of Anthony Fauci. 00:17:03.056 --> 00:17:07.596 And if Fauci's pardon, indeed, if it was signed by an auto pen, 00:17:07.596 --> 00:17:10.356 as it probably was also highly suspect. 00:17:11.221 --> 00:17:15.261 Other anniversaries on this date, James, as Fukushima memories fade, 00:17:15.721 --> 00:17:18.781 Japan embraces nuclear-powered future. 00:17:19.001 --> 00:17:23.501 And to, I suppose, come full circle like the snake eating its tail on this new 00:17:23.501 --> 00:17:30.061 world next week, Vietnam urges people to work from home to save fuel as Iran war disrupts supplies. 00:17:30.281 --> 00:17:31.981 It's just all right there. 00:17:32.381 --> 00:17:35.741 Yeah, it is all right there. And yes, on the COVID note, yeah, 00:17:35.901 --> 00:17:42.021 I mean, I want to say no surprise. that, of course, no prosecutions have happened. 00:17:42.201 --> 00:17:46.421 But remember, remember, guys, Trump is coming back in and Bobby's there and 00:17:46.421 --> 00:17:47.681 Maha's in the ascendant. 00:17:47.821 --> 00:17:51.641 The prosecutions are about to start. No, no, they are not. There is no justice. 00:17:51.961 --> 00:17:54.941 There is only just us, as has been observed. 00:17:55.561 --> 00:17:59.681 And on the Fukushima note, just to put the capper, or is it the shoes on this 00:17:59.681 --> 00:18:01.261 Robber Us snake episode? 00:18:01.781 --> 00:18:06.281 Yeah, it has been a remarkable thing to watch. I remember 15 years ago when 00:18:06.281 --> 00:18:11.621 obviously the events of Fukushima ignited a huge anti-nuclear movement here. 00:18:11.821 --> 00:18:15.541 And people were out literally out on the streets protesting. I covered some of that. 00:18:16.141 --> 00:18:19.961 And what has resulted? Well, now, 15 years later, it's like, 00:18:20.041 --> 00:18:23.341 no, we definitely need energy and we're importing too much of it. 00:18:23.721 --> 00:18:27.241 Start throwing the new plants back on. And that is exactly what's happening. 00:18:27.461 --> 00:18:29.741 So it's been a remarkable thing to witness. 00:18:30.621 --> 00:18:35.381 And we'll see where it goes from here. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago, but here we are. 00:18:35.381 --> 00:18:42.021 Here we are and 311 is no shortage of other interesting giant anniversaries 00:18:42.021 --> 00:18:45.841 is that the, uh, Madrid bombings and others. 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:51.200 The only people, James, the only people we've seen prosecuted because of COVID 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:56.080 were the people busted scamming the scam money that they were doling out to 00:18:56.080 --> 00:18:59.060 everybody. You hear these little, little regional conspiracies. 00:18:59.220 --> 00:19:03.000 Someone misspent all the COVID money they got, which, again, it's a scam. 00:19:03.180 --> 00:19:05.520 So everything downhill from it was a scam as well. 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:08.600 But let's not forget the other people prosecuted, of course, 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:15.220 those handful of heroes we heard about giving out saline shots instead of the deadly MAGA jabs. 00:19:15.220 --> 00:19:18.560 We run newworldnextweek.com for 00:19:18.560 --> 00:19:22.540 Monarchy gear for corbett gear for DVDs. 00:19:22.540 --> 00:19:25.280 James, I've been watching a lot of 00:19:25.280 --> 00:19:29.880 world war documentaries and so even what you say there about Japan to look now 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:37.540 in 2026 is like holy moly it's as sad as it is to say world war history is kind 00:19:37.540 --> 00:19:43.280 of the history of the world or at least for the last 100, maybe 200 or so years. 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:48.460 Really fascinating things. 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