WEBVTT 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:16.199 Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:16.659 --> 00:00:18.959 And I'm James Evan Pallotto of MediaMonarchy.com. 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:22.459 Kids can't tie their shoes anymore, not even the fifth graders. 00:00:22.819 --> 00:00:27.999 We have that horrifying story, plus depopulation architect joins the calls. But, 00:00:29.179 --> 00:00:34.199 What way do we talk about World War III this week? Iran appears to have conducted 00:00:34.199 --> 00:00:37.019 significant cyber attack against a U.S. 00:00:37.179 --> 00:00:41.439 Company, a first, possibly, since the war started. Grabbing this from NBC News, 00:00:41.539 --> 00:00:44.399 everything we say is always linked up and proved down in your show notes. 00:00:44.519 --> 00:00:48.859 An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on 00:00:48.859 --> 00:00:52.559 a medical tech company in what appears to be the first significant instance 00:00:52.559 --> 00:00:58.139 of Iran's hacking an American company since the start of the latest war between the two countries. 00:00:58.139 --> 00:01:03.379 The company Stryker, with a Y, headquartered in Michigan, produces a range of 00:01:03.379 --> 00:01:05.219 medical equipment and technology. 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.279 Won't someone please think of the medical industrial complex? 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:13.539 Historically, Iran has conducted some of the most infamous wiper cyber attacks 00:01:13.539 --> 00:01:17.879 on national enemies, aiming to simply erase all the data on computer networks. 00:01:18.099 --> 00:01:23.179 Victims include Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national oil company back in 2012, 00:01:23.399 --> 00:01:25.619 and the Sands Casino in 2014. 00:01:25.619 --> 00:01:30.559 But I recall Obama and Israel feeding Stuxnet into nuclear plants, 00:01:30.699 --> 00:01:34.699 which strikes me as a tad more dangerous than some rigged casino. I don't know. 00:01:34.919 --> 00:01:39.239 Since the war started, some established hacker groups sympathetic to Iranian 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:43.099 leadership have claimed minor attacks, but most have been relegated to briefly 00:01:43.099 --> 00:01:47.979 altering the appearance of a website, which sounds quaint and classic now in 2026. 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:52.419 And none appear to have had major impact. Some tech and cybersecurity companies, 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:56.539 including Google and the email cybersecurity company Proofpoint, 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.059 have told NBC Comcast News they've 00:01:59.059 --> 00:02:02.959 largely seen Iran's hackers conducting espionage related to the war. 00:02:03.119 --> 00:02:06.399 But that appears to have changed with what appears to have been a different 00:02:06.399 --> 00:02:09.779 type of attack that also deleted information from devices. 00:02:10.399 --> 00:02:13.779 A Stryker employee who requested, don't say who I am, I'm not supposed to be 00:02:13.779 --> 00:02:17.939 running my mouth, said that employees' work-issued phones stopped working, 00:02:18.359 --> 00:02:21.459 grinding work and communications with colleagues to a standstill. 00:02:22.229 --> 00:02:25.849 I guess it stopped short of locking their doors and they couldn't scan to get 00:02:25.849 --> 00:02:28.049 back into their offices or out of the elevators. 00:02:28.289 --> 00:02:32.989 Stryker says it's restoring systems after pro-Iran hackers wiped thousands of 00:02:32.989 --> 00:02:35.389 employee devices as the U.S. 00:02:35.609 --> 00:02:40.189 Cyber assault on Iran before the bombing hasn't stopped the hackers, 00:02:40.329 --> 00:02:42.789 James. And these are the ones that we know about. 00:02:43.389 --> 00:02:48.409 Yeah, exactly right. And so I don't have anything to really add color commentary 00:02:48.409 --> 00:02:52.469 wise to this story other than to say exactly what we've been saying for close 00:02:52.469 --> 00:02:57.069 to 20 years on this very subject is, yep, some things happen in the digital domain. 00:02:57.249 --> 00:03:02.429 They say it's a Randlinked Hackers, and we just have to believe them or not, I suppose. 00:03:02.669 --> 00:03:05.709 Those are our choices, because how the hell do we know? Yeah, 00:03:05.849 --> 00:03:09.749 OK, I guess there was some kind of thing that happened with Strikers Network, but 00:03:10.031 --> 00:03:14.091 Who was it? It was an Iran linked group. How did, how did you link that exactly? 00:03:14.271 --> 00:03:19.851 And how do we know and where, who's, whose server logs are we getting to peruse 00:03:19.851 --> 00:03:21.871 to get in the bare bones of this? 00:03:22.211 --> 00:03:25.631 Again, all of this is just digit, like everything else in the digital space. 00:03:25.791 --> 00:03:27.291 It's just whatever, who knows? 00:03:28.091 --> 00:03:32.331 So yes, but you're exactly right. Yeah. Every week, I think at this point, 00:03:32.451 --> 00:03:37.551 it's just what aspect of World War III do we want to cover in this non-live, 00:03:37.731 --> 00:03:40.171 non-breaking news up to the minute news show. 00:03:40.391 --> 00:03:44.551 Well, we have to cover some aspect of this crazy unfolding event. 00:03:44.691 --> 00:03:49.791 So I think the cyber attack is relatively underreported at the moment, 00:03:49.791 --> 00:03:53.271 but that's probably because they're setting all of the pieces in place for the 00:03:53.271 --> 00:03:57.131 gigantic, spectacular punch in the Facebook that we know is coming, right? 00:03:57.251 --> 00:04:00.311 And of course, we'll know it's those Iranians, I tell you, who did it. 00:04:00.771 --> 00:04:06.271 Not to say that I think the government of Iran is some wonderful utopia that 00:04:06.271 --> 00:04:10.271 should be, you know, defended in the general sense of, oh, my God, 00:04:10.411 --> 00:04:12.251 I'm glad they're ruling over their people. 00:04:12.731 --> 00:04:16.471 An example of that is coming from the register. 00:04:16.651 --> 00:04:21.211 Iran's chosen users get privileged access despite internet blackout for masses. 00:04:21.791 --> 00:04:28.031 Noting that Iran's internet uptime went from 100% uptime in the days preceding 00:04:28.031 --> 00:04:30.691 the strikes to just above 0% thereafter. 00:04:31.051 --> 00:04:35.411 And so now basically the only way the average Iranian can get access to the 00:04:35.411 --> 00:04:42.171 internet at all is through some either sketchy VPN relay of a legal Starlink signal, 00:04:42.171 --> 00:04:46.631 or if somebody's on the border who happens to be able to pass the network through the border, 00:04:46.811 --> 00:04:49.871 which obviously the Iranian government is cracking down on. 00:04:49.971 --> 00:04:53.391 So yes, of course, what is the first casualty of any war? It's truth. 00:04:53.691 --> 00:04:56.871 And so governments around the world will all act the same. They will all try 00:04:56.871 --> 00:05:00.931 to plunge their masses into darkness, literal and metaphorical, 00:05:01.111 --> 00:05:03.231 in the event of war. And Iran is doing that to its... 00:05:04.108 --> 00:05:09.368 Chosen users as well. So there's that. But then the narrative continues to unfold. 00:05:09.568 --> 00:05:13.668 I have this from the past couple of days. EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over 00:05:13.668 --> 00:05:16.968 election meddling Charlie Hebdo breach. 00:05:17.188 --> 00:05:21.448 So the Council of the European Union is sanctioning something called Eminet 00:05:21.448 --> 00:05:26.548 Passargad, which is a front for a series of Iranian cyber attacks. 00:05:26.868 --> 00:05:31.208 Again, trust us, bros. And apparently they attempted interference with U.S. 00:05:31.568 --> 00:05:36.448 Elections and attacked the subscribers of French satirical magazine Charlie 00:05:36.448 --> 00:05:42.148 Hebdo by hacking their subscriber logs and releasing them to the dark web. 00:05:42.368 --> 00:05:47.288 So anyway, make of that false flag question mark what you will. 00:05:47.568 --> 00:05:51.188 But even over here in East Asia, Japan's now getting into the act. 00:05:51.488 --> 00:05:56.088 Japan to allow proactive cyber defense from October 1st. And of course, 00:05:56.268 --> 00:06:01.348 the wisecrackers at the register had the sub subhead on that one in less polite spaces, places. 00:06:01.568 --> 00:06:04.408 This is called hacking back or offensive psyops. 00:06:04.888 --> 00:06:11.628 So, yes, they have Japan is now basically approving offensive cyber operations, 00:06:11.628 --> 00:06:13.968 which I'm sure they've been doing. 00:06:14.188 --> 00:06:19.368 But now it's officially they're doing it. So there you go. So the cyber war is unfolding. 00:06:19.548 --> 00:06:24.228 There is a cyber war aspect to what is happening right now, even if it is just 00:06:24.228 --> 00:06:25.408 the implanting of the narrative. 00:06:25.528 --> 00:06:29.548 Of cyber warfare. It is becoming a more important part of this fifth generation 00:06:29.548 --> 00:06:34.148 war on everyone that is World War III, that is already happening, 00:06:34.348 --> 00:06:36.668 regardless of what's happening on the geopolitical table. 00:06:36.868 --> 00:06:40.468 And let's always keep in mind, it's always governments against their own citizens. 00:06:42.494 --> 00:06:48.094 And they want us to identify with my country, those people over there. 00:06:48.214 --> 00:06:51.774 Again, we're all pretty much usually pawns under the rule of. 00:06:51.894 --> 00:06:56.134 And I heard you say it. Everybody out there, you heard him. Only the chosen ones get the Internet. 00:06:59.094 --> 00:07:03.994 But, yeah, I mean, the guy that signed an executive order to increase production 00:07:03.994 --> 00:07:06.094 of glyphosate said that Iran is evil. 00:07:06.254 --> 00:07:10.254 So, you know, I got to go with that, right? Hey, at least it wasn't exploding pagers. 00:07:12.254 --> 00:07:14.994 16 years ago this week on new 00:07:14.994 --> 00:07:17.874 world next week james i sent you this yesterday and 00:07:17.874 --> 00:07:22.674 it was like what about a synchronicity new world next week flashback virtual 00:07:22.674 --> 00:07:29.534 flag terrorism black cyber operations on the rise march 18th 2010 16 years ago 00:07:29.534 --> 00:07:32.714 this week on new world next week and we're gonna have to go back through some 00:07:32.714 --> 00:07:36.714 of those early ones because i don't even have numbers on the earliest New World Next Week episodes. 00:07:37.334 --> 00:07:44.074 And James, maybe we just do this show live moving into the future at some point. Just a thought. 00:07:44.634 --> 00:07:49.574 That's how we get going on New World Next Week, episode 623, our second story. 00:07:49.774 --> 00:07:55.994 Not really a story so much as it's just sad notes from teachers on the front lines. 00:07:56.114 --> 00:07:58.794 James, we were talking about public 00:07:58.794 --> 00:08:01.494 schools a little bit before we started rolling tape on this episode. 00:08:02.414 --> 00:08:06.134 Back in the Smiths days, I didn't mention Morrissey at all last week. 00:08:06.989 --> 00:08:12.449 There was a song called The Headmaster Ritual about how abusive all the teachers 00:08:12.449 --> 00:08:16.489 and coaches were at school, beating you up and all the horrible things that happened there. 00:08:17.029 --> 00:08:20.109 Fifteen years later, he's solo. And of course, times had changed. 00:08:20.189 --> 00:08:24.909 And he has a song solo record called The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils. 00:08:25.689 --> 00:08:30.309 A noticeable decline. Teachers sharing the everyday things students can't do 00:08:30.309 --> 00:08:31.229 for themselves anymore. 00:08:31.409 --> 00:08:33.869 They can't read, write or spell and don't care. 00:08:34.429 --> 00:08:37.449 This is coming from BuzzFeed, who apparently posted up an article, 00:08:37.749 --> 00:08:42.069 25 teachers sharing the basic things students apparently can't do themselves anymore. 00:08:42.309 --> 00:08:46.369 And once that story hit, even more people started to pile on. 00:08:46.509 --> 00:08:49.889 In response to that, I teach 3K. 00:08:50.229 --> 00:08:54.869 These are three and four year olds, and most of our kids cannot put a jacket on at all. 00:08:55.049 --> 00:08:58.449 They won't even try. They start throwing tantrums before even attempting, 00:08:58.669 --> 00:09:00.189 saying they can't do it. It's too hard. 00:09:00.889 --> 00:09:04.529 The majority of students struggle to read a clock unless it's digital. 00:09:05.269 --> 00:09:08.449 Kids know they will pass no matter how unqualified, ill-equipped, 00:09:08.509 --> 00:09:10.729 and unprepared they are. They come to school with the attitude, 00:09:10.929 --> 00:09:13.129 I won't do the work, and you can't make me. 00:09:13.749 --> 00:09:16.869 Sad to say, we can't. That's why I quit teaching. 00:09:17.089 --> 00:09:22.469 Call me a coward. I blame it on no child left behind. It's always those Republicans. 00:09:23.169 --> 00:09:26.889 I've been shocked by the number of second and third graders who can't tie their shoes. 00:09:27.209 --> 00:09:29.749 I also have fourth graders who can't write their first and last names. 00:09:29.749 --> 00:09:33.369 It's really scary to think a kid can get to fourth grade without anyone raising 00:09:33.369 --> 00:09:36.189 an alarm about their inability to write their full name. 00:09:36.589 --> 00:09:39.489 I've been teaching high school English for only seven years now, 00:09:39.629 --> 00:09:43.269 and the post-COVID lockdown emotional landscape is rough. 00:09:43.809 --> 00:09:47.849 Students are using AI to think for them, write for them, and summarize any readings 00:09:47.849 --> 00:09:49.449 for them that are longer than a paragraph. 00:09:49.749 --> 00:09:54.509 We've put technology in every classroom, but kids don't understand how to use it. 00:09:54.989 --> 00:09:57.709 Now, isn't that interesting? Doesn't that seem to fly in the face of, 00:09:57.829 --> 00:10:03.009 oh, the kids love the tech. They love a device that has no literal inputs and 00:10:03.009 --> 00:10:06.889 they can thwack on it like a vending machine, but they don't understand the 00:10:06.889 --> 00:10:09.389 technology of it. It's the same thing I've worried about with. 00:10:10.212 --> 00:10:14.912 With the parents. I was the one setting and programming the VCR and doing all 00:10:14.912 --> 00:10:16.112 the tech stuff back in the house. 00:10:16.252 --> 00:10:22.392 They jumped over 25 years of tech to now have 21st century Star Trek devices in their hands. 00:10:22.492 --> 00:10:26.932 So I would argue, again, a lot of this is a bit of equal blame to share on both 00:10:26.932 --> 00:10:29.012 sides, the adults and the kids. 00:10:29.432 --> 00:10:33.352 I just retired after spending decades teaching an intro course at the university. 00:10:33.492 --> 00:10:35.892 The reason? Cheating is the norm and accepted. 00:10:36.072 --> 00:10:40.512 Critical thinking is out the door and the use of chat GPT is the only way students 00:10:40.512 --> 00:10:41.952 answer questions or write something. 00:10:42.352 --> 00:10:45.132 Kids can't tie their shoes anymore, not even the fifth graders. 00:10:45.532 --> 00:10:49.172 More and more we're seeing kids lacking basic skills and teachers having to 00:10:49.172 --> 00:10:52.632 teach a class of 25 plus kids all at different levels. 00:10:52.872 --> 00:10:56.512 There's no way to do that well and the kids just move on to the next grade even 00:10:56.512 --> 00:10:58.752 though they're far from ready. It's effed. 00:10:59.132 --> 00:11:02.992 I retired last year because the battle was bigger than me kids refused to think 00:11:02.992 --> 00:11:07.472 for themselves and parents expected me to give grades for ai work i guess what 00:11:07.472 --> 00:11:13.432 bothered me most was that they had no desire to learn and they had no shame for being, 00:11:14.632 --> 00:11:22.752 unlearned so there were only 25 comments at first now there's 35 more which is how much james, 00:11:24.092 --> 00:11:29.712 oh oh god don't put me on the spot um uh wait let me get my digital calculator 00:11:29.712 --> 00:11:33.552 uh 20 yeah or Just ask the browser. I know, I know. Low battery. 00:11:35.952 --> 00:11:41.312 Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you say that there's blame to go around, 00:11:41.352 --> 00:11:44.192 and I agree on that point, but I don't put the blame on the kids. 00:11:44.432 --> 00:11:49.012 Human beings are not fundamentally stupider or lazier than they have ever been 00:11:49.012 --> 00:11:50.072 throughout all of human history. 00:11:50.212 --> 00:11:52.432 And maybe they've always been stupid and lazy to some extent, 00:11:52.552 --> 00:11:57.092 but anyway, it's not that human beings are fundamentally genetically changing 00:11:57.092 --> 00:12:00.712 at the genomic level, at least not quite yet. But, 00:12:01.192 --> 00:12:06.652 Um, yes, there is blame for what is happening with the degradation of basic life skills. 00:12:07.632 --> 00:12:11.212 And let's approach it from this way. People have heard, I hope people have heard 00:12:11.212 --> 00:12:15.272 of the Flynn effect, which is this long documented phenomenon of standardized 00:12:15.272 --> 00:12:17.652 IQ scores tending to go up generate 00:12:17.652 --> 00:12:20.952 decade after decade after decade after decade in an unbroken chain. 00:12:21.132 --> 00:12:23.332 It's, it's people are getting smarter. 00:12:23.632 --> 00:12:26.772 Well, I guess that's one possible explanation for that. 00:12:26.872 --> 00:12:30.432 But then we have the reverse Flynn effect, which has kicked in arguably in the 00:12:30.432 --> 00:12:35.752 developed world since the 1990s as the standardized IQ scores start leveling off and even declining. 00:12:36.112 --> 00:12:39.692 So what is going on? People were getting smarter and smarter every decade, 00:12:39.692 --> 00:12:42.192 and now suddenly they're getting dumber and dumber every decade. 00:12:42.412 --> 00:12:47.352 No, we can take this if you want it from the hoity-toity science types. 00:12:47.832 --> 00:12:51.292 Flynn effect and its reversal are both environmentally caused, 00:12:51.492 --> 00:12:52.692 which was an article that was 00:12:52.692 --> 00:12:57.472 posted up a few years ago, which talks about this reverse Flynn effect. 00:12:57.672 --> 00:13:02.672 And it goes on to say, this establishes that the large changes in average cohort 00:13:02.672 --> 00:13:08.592 intelligence reflect environmental factors and not changing composition of parents, 00:13:08.612 --> 00:13:12.632 which in turn rolls out several prominent hypotheses for retrograde Flynn effects. 00:13:12.892 --> 00:13:16.332 So in other words, please do go read through the article. But yes, 00:13:16.452 --> 00:13:20.072 no, it's not that people are getting fundamentally smarter or stupider. 00:13:20.272 --> 00:13:24.912 It's that environmental causes and inputs are the determinative factors in how 00:13:24.912 --> 00:13:28.752 we express ourselves as human beings, which should be obvious. 00:13:29.132 --> 00:13:34.792 So when we place children in situations where, for example, the helicopter parent 00:13:34.792 --> 00:13:37.512 phenomenon and the parent's going to be in charge of everything and do everything 00:13:37.512 --> 00:13:41.672 for the kids, the kids are going to learn that they can be completely helpless. 00:13:41.672 --> 00:13:45.932 And, oh, no, I'm just going to cry and scream until someone helps me put on my jacket. 00:13:46.312 --> 00:13:49.272 And if that is what we are teaching the kids, they will learn that. 00:13:49.632 --> 00:13:53.752 Um, now you could argue, and some people might, that some of these things, well, of course. 00:13:54.972 --> 00:13:59.412 I know it's difficult for people of our vintage to comprehend this, 00:13:59.492 --> 00:14:03.712 but maybe there isn't something written in the stars about the value of being 00:14:03.712 --> 00:14:08.392 able to read a clock that has 12 digits, but we know that the shorthand has 00:14:08.392 --> 00:14:09.792 to be multiplied by five. 00:14:10.052 --> 00:14:14.532 So, like, maybe that isn't the most important skill for a human being to have, 00:14:14.652 --> 00:14:18.132 unless we are in the analog world where everybody has analog clocks. 00:14:18.332 --> 00:14:23.232 So I'm not going to cry myself to sleep over a child that can't necessarily 00:14:23.232 --> 00:14:27.492 tell time on the clock. I mean, yeah, I get it, but it's not that important a skill. 00:14:27.632 --> 00:14:31.732 But it does point to something, which is that we are technologically determined. 00:14:32.012 --> 00:14:36.032 Yes, that is an important skill to have when there are analog clocks and everything 00:14:36.032 --> 00:14:39.752 is set up that way. But when we have digital clocks, maybe that is an important skill to have. 00:14:39.932 --> 00:14:43.192 But what else does that say about what skills are or are not important? 00:14:43.392 --> 00:14:48.312 If we are not teaching children to read physical, actual books that are written 00:14:48.312 --> 00:14:53.172 and printed and have, you know, all of the conventions of that format, 00:14:53.172 --> 00:14:55.372 then of course, who cares? 00:14:55.592 --> 00:15:02.132 Whatever. I'm just typing emojis and shorthand and I use the letter U for Y-O-U and all of that. 00:15:02.352 --> 00:15:05.632 Who cares? What does it matter? That's how everyone communicates. 00:15:05.792 --> 00:15:11.552 Our media is determinative of the things that we, the way that we interact with 00:15:11.552 --> 00:15:14.532 others, the things that we learn or don't learn, etc. 00:15:15.112 --> 00:15:19.412 So there's a lot. There's a lot to think about with regards to this. 00:15:19.552 --> 00:15:23.292 If people are interested in thinking about it, boy, have I got an online mass 00:15:23.292 --> 00:15:27.132 media history course for you that talks about the development from the printing 00:15:27.132 --> 00:15:32.892 press all the way up to 21st century metaverse technology and how that is shaping 00:15:32.892 --> 00:15:34.232 who we are as human beings. 00:15:34.392 --> 00:15:39.072 I think there's something very important going on here that's much beyond kids these days are dumb. 00:15:39.272 --> 00:15:43.112 So I hope people will take look at that course and start to think about the 00:15:43.112 --> 00:15:48.712 ways the technology and the media are shaping who we are and whether maybe we 00:15:48.712 --> 00:15:52.852 don't want to go head first into this dumbing down of our children. 00:15:54.297 --> 00:15:59.137 That is available at newworldnextweek.com. James and I get a lot of these stories 00:15:59.137 --> 00:16:03.417 doing Morning Monarchy, doing a live morning news show every day. 00:16:03.597 --> 00:16:07.877 And seeing these things about Gen Z getting fired months after getting hired 00:16:07.877 --> 00:16:09.537 because they don't show up and blah, blah, blah. 00:16:09.757 --> 00:16:12.317 They bring their parents with them on job interviews. 00:16:12.737 --> 00:16:17.197 Now, I was class clown. This is well established on this show. 00:16:17.197 --> 00:16:20.017 There was a certain point in high school man 00:16:20.017 --> 00:16:23.297 where i noticed they were 00:16:23.297 --> 00:16:27.197 putting me in the dummy class i was like oh no i'm not 00:16:27.197 --> 00:16:32.437 dumb i just don't care and i really had to i had to straighten up and i joined 00:16:32.437 --> 00:16:36.537 a couple of clubs it was like the panic of like i hate all this and don't believe 00:16:36.537 --> 00:16:43.437 in it but i sure as heck don't want to get left behind and not graduate and be a sad loser, 00:16:44.197 --> 00:16:47.737 human authored i believe is the term you were looking for james when you were 00:16:47.737 --> 00:16:51.797 pointing to all your books behind you there and that these kids today and we 00:16:51.797 --> 00:16:55.877 can't even eat them they're also full of gmos and adderall i'm just kidding 00:16:55.877 --> 00:16:58.117 that's what a creepy eugenicist would say. 00:16:59.221 --> 00:17:06.621 Depopulation agenda architect Paul Ehrlich dead at 93. He had a long, long run. 00:17:06.781 --> 00:17:10.281 Grabbing this from Climate Depot, he said Western governments should end all 00:17:10.281 --> 00:17:15.041 food aid and argued for the forced sterilization of Indian men with three or more children. 00:17:15.501 --> 00:17:21.221 Paul Ehrlich, who has died at 93, was an entomologist specializing in butterflies, 00:17:21.221 --> 00:17:24.881 though he became better known as a campaigner for population control. 00:17:24.881 --> 00:17:30.841 In The Population Bomb, 1968, Ehrlich predicted imminent catastrophe as the 00:17:30.841 --> 00:17:34.241 result of human population growing faster than its ability to feed itself. 00:17:34.481 --> 00:17:38.941 In the 1970s, he proclaimed millions would starve to death as the weight of 00:17:38.941 --> 00:17:41.261 humanity bore down on the Earth's resources. 00:17:41.421 --> 00:17:45.841 Six years later, in The End of Affluence in 74, written with his wife Anne, 00:17:46.301 --> 00:17:50.201 Ehrlich increased his death toll estimate suggesting that a billion or more 00:17:50.201 --> 00:17:54.621 people could die from starvation by the mid-80s and that by 1985, 00:17:54.621 --> 00:17:57.701 the world would be in an era of scarcity. 00:17:58.281 --> 00:18:03.541 When Thomas Malthus, writing an essay on the principle of population in 1798, 00:18:03.721 --> 00:18:07.121 predicted war, pestilence, and starvation as a result of overcrowding, 00:18:07.221 --> 00:18:09.921 the world's population stood at less than 1 billion. 00:18:10.121 --> 00:18:13.161 By the time Ehrlich joined the fray, it was 3.6 billion. 00:18:13.341 --> 00:18:16.641 Now it's a little over 8, they say. And as it has turned out, 00:18:16.821 --> 00:18:20.101 Ehrlich's population time bomb has failed to explode. 00:18:20.261 --> 00:18:22.441 Indeed, the death toll from famines has declined. 00:18:22.981 --> 00:18:25.901 Even as the world's population has rocketed. 00:18:26.601 --> 00:18:30.601 And James, this was part of the talk in the 60s and 70s. 00:18:30.961 --> 00:18:36.901 There's that clip of, and I might be misreferencing, it's John Lennon on, 00:18:36.981 --> 00:18:39.921 I think, the Dick Cavett show, and they're talking about overpopulation, 00:18:40.041 --> 00:18:43.501 and the host says, I think the world's overpopulation. And John's like, well, I don't care. 00:18:43.581 --> 00:18:46.281 You know, I think you're wrong. He has a very flippant. 00:18:47.320 --> 00:18:50.620 You're wrong, but it's also a nice way for the guy who, of course, 00:18:50.700 --> 00:18:54.060 gets tagged with being the commie and imagine and all that stuff that he at 00:18:54.060 --> 00:18:58.840 least wasn't buying the overpopulation theory, as many of the left do. 00:18:58.940 --> 00:19:03.780 Again, any stand up comedian, they all hate humanity and believe in population control. 00:19:04.260 --> 00:19:07.840 Paul Ehrlich's bad ideas won't go away from the spectator. 00:19:08.040 --> 00:19:12.360 China scrambles to reverse population collapse with effort to boost birth rates. 00:19:12.520 --> 00:19:17.100 The demographic winter, as we discussed here many, many times and a couple of flashbacks. 00:19:17.100 --> 00:19:24.280 Episode 339, Meet Paul Ehrlich, Pseudoscience Charlatan, and recall that Paul 00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:26.620 wrote the foreword to Make Room, 00:19:26.800 --> 00:19:31.100 Make Room, the book that had nothing to do with cannibalism until the movie 00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:34.580 Malthusians got a hold of it and turned it into Soylent Green. 00:19:34.580 --> 00:19:38.040 That is one of our film literature in New World Order episodes, James. 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.220 And there it is. I mean, we have seen... 00:19:42.216 --> 00:19:47.596 As things got crazy accelerated in the last decade since Trump and COVID and 00:19:47.596 --> 00:19:55.076 Trump 2.0, we've had a lot of the biggest boogeymen of alt media, 9-11 truth, all of that. 00:19:55.236 --> 00:20:00.276 But things have been so crazy, we don't even really have much time to stop and go, oh, that's right. 00:20:00.456 --> 00:20:03.856 David Rockefeller. Oh, Henry Kissinger. Oh, Brzezinski. Oh, man. 00:20:03.976 --> 00:20:05.496 Poppy Bush. All these dudes are gone. 00:20:05.636 --> 00:20:08.696 So there goes Paul Ehrlich at 93, James. 00:20:09.076 --> 00:20:12.496 Yeah. And the irony is that they all get to live to their ripe old 80s, 00:20:12.576 --> 00:20:19.096 90s, 100, because they live wonderful, pampered lives of abundance that they 00:20:19.096 --> 00:20:20.956 argued against in the case of Ehrlich. 00:20:20.956 --> 00:20:25.376 Like, how dare you peasants and peons? You don't deserve all this abundance. 00:20:25.656 --> 00:20:30.116 But anyway, I'll live to the ripe old age of 93, being completely and totally. 00:20:30.596 --> 00:20:35.676 Utterly, provably, demonstrably wrong about everything that he predicted, 00:20:35.876 --> 00:20:39.596 and yet still venerated and lauded to his dying day. 00:20:39.796 --> 00:20:44.096 I am at least can take the schadenfreude that he lived long enough to see the 00:20:44.096 --> 00:20:49.796 collapse of the Malthusian climate narrative garbage that is falling apart in 00:20:49.796 --> 00:20:53.616 front of our eyes after all these decades and decades of incessant propaganda 00:20:53.616 --> 00:20:56.036 and the concerted efforts of people like Ehrlich. 00:20:56.216 --> 00:21:00.936 But it's small comfort. And I will just throw a couple of relateds that I think 00:21:00.936 --> 00:21:03.256 are important. There's a good what's up with that post. 00:21:03.516 --> 00:21:10.096 Ever wrong Ehrlich's greatest hits, bracket or misses, which notes that the 00:21:10.096 --> 00:21:14.556 New York Times post on this. I haven't read it myself. 00:21:15.016 --> 00:21:18.476 I'm going to, but I don't want to subject myself to it. But apparently they 00:21:18.476 --> 00:21:21.596 write that, quote, his predictions proved premature. 00:21:24.036 --> 00:21:27.876 He's right. Just, you know, just a little too, he was a little too ahead of 00:21:27.876 --> 00:21:30.196 the curve, right? Everything he said, 00:21:31.377 --> 00:21:35.117 demonstrably, terribly wrong. Anyway, as one example in this article, 00:21:35.237 --> 00:21:39.697 they have a graph of famine deaths over the decades and this huge spike in the 00:21:39.697 --> 00:21:43.617 1870s, presumably is that the potato famine, et cetera, and all these, 00:21:43.617 --> 00:21:44.597 you know, famine deaths. 00:21:44.777 --> 00:21:49.757 And then of course, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000, basically, basically going down 00:21:49.757 --> 00:21:51.457 to as near zero as you're ever going to see. 00:21:52.177 --> 00:21:55.257 But yeah, of course, he was the one that was telling us we were all going to 00:21:55.257 --> 00:22:00.237 be completely out of food and all, we're all going to die in the 1970s, I think he was saying. 00:22:00.917 --> 00:22:04.097 They also have an excellent post I haven't seen before. 00:22:04.257 --> 00:22:08.457 In 1920, Scientific American called anthropogenic CO2 emissions, 00:22:08.657 --> 00:22:11.617 quote, the precious air fertilizer. 00:22:11.857 --> 00:22:16.977 And there's this great graphic here of the carbonic acid gas to fertilize the 00:22:16.977 --> 00:22:19.577 air, aka CO2 to fertilize the air. 00:22:19.717 --> 00:22:26.077 And they show potatoes grown with fertilized air, CO2 rich air versus unfertilized air. 00:22:26.217 --> 00:22:29.577 And then you've got these gigantic, massive potatoes versus these tiny little, 00:22:29.737 --> 00:22:34.077 I mean, again, it was common knowledge a century ago, but they flipped it all on its head. 00:22:34.157 --> 00:22:38.897 And CO2 is the poisonous gas that we must eliminate because they know that it 00:22:38.897 --> 00:22:39.937 is good for the environment. 00:22:40.137 --> 00:22:42.777 Anyway, it's just part of the craziness. 00:22:42.977 --> 00:22:47.177 And another good thing that people should read at masterresource.org, 00:22:47.317 --> 00:22:49.977 there's a post, The Special Case of Paul Ehrlich, 00:22:50.497 --> 00:22:55.817 which is Julian Simon, who was writing, I think, in the 1990s about Ehrlich 00:22:55.817 --> 00:23:00.937 and how Ehrlich completely and totally and utterly dismissed Simon and called 00:23:00.937 --> 00:23:03.097 him a kook and wouldn't debate him, et cetera, et cetera. 00:23:03.417 --> 00:23:07.697 But people might remember the bet of the century that Simon made with Ehrlich 00:23:07.697 --> 00:23:09.817 and Simon won, Ehrlich lost. 00:23:10.117 --> 00:23:13.977 But of course, nobody cares. Nobody didn't change anything. The New York Times 00:23:13.977 --> 00:23:15.897 still lauds him as being premature. 00:23:16.217 --> 00:23:18.157 He was premature on his predictions. 00:23:18.557 --> 00:23:21.177 Anyway, read that post if you want some more of the details. 00:23:21.377 --> 00:23:24.177 But I think this is an important, as you say, a good signpost, 00:23:24.277 --> 00:23:28.297 a good part, marking point along our path that. 00:23:28.929 --> 00:23:32.429 Of course, we're not going to see any sort of justice to these people who have 00:23:32.429 --> 00:23:35.589 inflicted so much damage on the world through their horrible, 00:23:35.949 --> 00:23:39.229 evil, life-denying, humanity-hating narratives. 00:23:39.629 --> 00:23:43.329 But at the very least, some of them are living long enough to see that narrative 00:23:43.329 --> 00:23:46.149 collapsing before their eyes. So I'll take that as a small win. 00:23:47.249 --> 00:23:50.109 There'll be Gatorade in the water fountains before you know it. 00:23:50.109 --> 00:23:53.669 You think paul earlick was doom scrolling 00:23:53.669 --> 00:23:57.429 on his device there until the end looking at how wrong 00:23:57.429 --> 00:24:00.689 he was and how i don't know good grief you 00:24:00.689 --> 00:24:03.869 know and remember who it was a different paul krugman 00:24:03.869 --> 00:24:07.049 making predictions you know that this whole 00:24:07.049 --> 00:24:09.749 life-changing world-changing thing we 00:24:09.749 --> 00:24:13.669 call the internet has turned out to be a little more important than the fax 00:24:13.669 --> 00:24:19.889 machine indeed hey i mentioned it earlier go to newworldnextweek.com media monarchy 00:24:19.889 --> 00:24:26.589 corbett gear hats shirts hoodies dvds radio plays educational downloads and 00:24:26.589 --> 00:24:28.589 again the downloads are great james because, 00:24:29.569 --> 00:24:32.249 we don't have to ship anything out it doesn't require a 00:24:32.249 --> 00:24:35.129 bunch of other middlemen you get by it you get it you download 00:24:35.129 --> 00:24:37.929 it and you're learning there in a few moments and don't 00:24:37.929 --> 00:24:41.209 forget about the post office box that i have here in new mexico if 00:24:41.209 --> 00:24:44.029 you want to support it myself or james corbett you can send 00:24:44.029 --> 00:24:46.909 of course to the p.o box we'll have all these that in the 00:24:46.909 --> 00:24:50.629 show notes and we also have a combined nearly 00:24:50.629 --> 00:24:56.729 40 years of our work james good grief and i get the exclusive audio of these 00:24:56.729 --> 00:25:00.069 new world next week episodes before we publish them i get to play the audio 00:25:00.069 --> 00:25:05.729 on my radio stream and that is now i'm coughing this week and that is of course 00:25:05.729 --> 00:25:08.029 at media monarchy.com slash listen. 00:25:08.029 --> 00:25:10.689 You get to hear my real sort of radio style. 00:25:11.735 --> 00:25:16.475 Yeah, where I don't where I don't cough. 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