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WATCH: Meet James Corbett – Political Extremist!!!

James Corbett uses recent coverage of his documentary Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve, to highlight one of the dangers of relying on YouTube (and other internet giants) – covert censorship.

Imagine you’re a high school student doing a homework assignment on the Federal Reserve. You go to YouTube and type in “Federal Reserve” in the search bar and find “Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve.” The horror! Luckily, you don’t have to worry about that, because now that MSNBC and Mother Jones have ganged up, it’s being scrubbed from the search results! Welcome to the world of soft censorship, folks!

Links sources and show notes available here.

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nomad
nomad
Nov 14, 2018 5:08 PM

well, the science is settled, so we are told
https://youtu.be/k8ko-lV5yYo

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 8, 2018 7:49 AM

Denial takes many forms. It is a double-edged sword. The word denier is regularly used here to attack another’s point of view. It slams the door on them. It denies another’s view from its perceived to be unassailable platform of righteousness. In these cases, its use is clearly that of a denier. Denial can become the literal definition of ignore…ance. There are several subjects mentioned on this site as being absurd conspiracy theories. It has been said that their mention will be dismissed and ignored with disgust, as they are ignorant. Voluminous ‘proof’ has not diminished but rather increased polarization in the discussion of climate change. Is this not indicative of a deeper problem? Something systemic? 17 years of ‘proof’ for the cause of a total of 267 floors of steel reinforced concrete structure turning to dust in the middle of New York city has changed little. We are currently… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 9, 2018 10:24 AM
Reply to  frank

Frank, Cutting and pasting from the first page of google? Do you know about algorithms? If you do know, then you realize what the first page is for. How it is used. This is the same ploy used by Mobil Oil in the Gulf oil spill. This was also all discussed on this site a couple weeks ago. Your providing me this is enlightening. One site says, there are millions of hits on a ‘Conspiracy theory video about chemtrails’………then why is it not at the top of the Google page? Algorithms and google policy maybe. Their site had 10,000 views, yet is #1. What’s happening here? Any ideas? Chemtrails DEBUNKED: “They didn’t look like that when I was a kid” This first video addresses contrails only. It is also MSM. I didn’t hear the word Chemtrails once. This now informs me about the changes in contrails. I have noticed this… Read more »

frank
frank
Nov 10, 2018 2:57 AM
Reply to  axisofoil

“This first video addresses contrails only. It is also MSM. I didn’t hear the word Chemtrails once. This now informs me about the changes in contrails.”

That’s because chemtrails do not exist.

If you want to worry about something, worry about something that’s real, like this: takebackyourpower.net for example.

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 10, 2018 7:00 AM
Reply to  frank

That is just a non-reply. BTW… I am not worried about anything. I simply state what I see. I have made no final judgement on this at all. You, on the other hand have. Is it safe therefore to say that I am open minded, and you are closed minded? Hard to deny that isn’t it? I merely see the obvious. Things don’t go away because you deny them. I will watch your new video tonight. It looks good. It is also an issue in which I have been involved. My town blocked the streets and wouldn’t let PG&E pass. It was a major battle. Quit possibly what led to the opt out provision. There is no smart meter on my house or any in this neighborhood. Few in this town. Do you know the can of worms you opened with this new subject? This is more contentious than chemtrails… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 9, 2018 11:47 AM
Reply to  frank

Frank,
You might want to debunk this. It addresses every link you posted with evidence rather than self righteous denialism. I do not know, I will. My mind is open. You have gotten me thinking.

nomad
nomad
Nov 14, 2018 5:23 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

Didnt realize the chemtrail discussion went on.. some things to consider. the flight patterns that form a lattice work of trails one day and none the next. where are all these planes going? how does the rare atmospheric conditions that cause contrails to linger happen so often? why do trails stop and start as if a spray is being turned on and off? why does one plane at the same altitude leave a trail but another plane at the same altitude at the same time leave none at all? why does one plane leave a trail of a different color than another at the same altitude at the same time? all of this i have observed, how does frank explain this i wonder.

DavidEire
DavidEire
Nov 6, 2018 7:05 PM

I cannot listen to Corbett. His whole perspective is based on a radical anarchism according to which government is evil per se therefore anything said or done by any government or any ancillary body or person associated with a government is wrong and evil and probably a plot to deprive everyone of liberty and their money and then kill them.
As far as I am concerned anarchism is a non-solution to the challenge of human governance (by governance I mean how human beings manage their societies). It’s an adolescent reaction. James is too intelligent and educated to be a sovereign citizen, but he is on the same scale imo.
My first time posting here so go easy on me.

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 10:00 PM
Reply to  DavidEire

Hi there first time poster. I’m somewhat new also. Prepare yourself. This is an extremely friendly place. I see it as 99% education and 1% letting off some steam. Corbett is not my favorite sounding voice or favorite looking face, but I think his message is clear, intelligent and essential. Also, I personally believe that most of our governments are extremely evil beyond any degree you can imagine. In fact, when I think about governments, I smell burning flesh. I feel this so strongly that I would imagine if the founding fathers, should return, they would ask me first to build the gallows onto which I would help them march every politician we have. Any below the caliper of a Ron Paul would be yanked off golf courses, pulled from their limo’s , dragged out of bed…all of them. I would gladly put the noose over their heads and pull… Read more »

BigB
BigB
Nov 6, 2018 5:26 PM

@Antonym I did reference the mitigation for policy makers section. And I referenced Kevin Anderson’s response. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-10-09/response-to-the-ipcc-1-5c-special-report/ Given the mythical ‘pause’: can you be so sure it does not underestimate the rate of warming? No, no one can. It’s just another strawman and SCAM. You must be aware that the IPCC has been criticised for either adding too much, or too little, overestimating or underestimating the effects of AGW since its first report? Very few credible scientists are arguing against AGW. What part of carbon redistribution is so hard to understand? Will Antonym respond to the broader issues of mitigation raised by the report? Or is it a case of find a minor detail in a footnote which makes little difference to the broader humanist implications? Isn’t it just another case of trying to get people to discuss things that possibly neither of them understand, while the wider implications go… Read more »

BigB
BigB
Nov 6, 2018 5:29 PM
Reply to  BigB

That was a response to Admin and Antonym from way down the page. I don’t know why they keep going to the top?

BigB
BigB
Nov 6, 2018 7:46 PM
Reply to  Editor

Many thanks. So it’s not a senior moment, or fatfinger? I’m glad to hear it!

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 7, 2018 8:36 AM
Reply to  BigB

The IPCC Reports have consistently understated the extent and rapidity of anthropogenic climate destabilisation, because of the need to achieve ‘consensus’ with rogue genocidal regimes like Sordid Barbaria and Austfailia. We have decades of rapid climate destabilisation baked in because of the delayed and continuing effects of greenhouse emissions over the last few decades, and the impacts of positive feedbacks like dying tropical forests and warming soils becoming carbon sources, not sinks. And we have millennia of destabilisation guaranteed by the vast quantities of heat sequestered in the oceans. We are, ALREADY, dead and gone.

Litter Picker
Litter Picker
Nov 6, 2018 2:16 PM

Corbett click-bait videos reveal that he has no political education whatsoever. There is no ‘news’ or ‘reporting’. There are tired memes about building seven on 9/11 and nonsense about climate change. Sometimes he might stumble across a fact that is not widely known and put such a true fact in one of his click-bait-videos but that does not mean that he has anything meaningful to say. His mindset is far from enlightened, he is stuck barking from the sidelines, stuck like a stuck record. People have heard it all before and there are some who actually like this, they want to hear someone else talk nonsense about ‘building seven’ (or whatever) to validate their own world view. I have seen the word ‘gatekeeper’ in this thread. There is no doubt in my mind that Corbett has flawed thinking and slots into the little sceptic role that he has all by… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 3:47 PM
Reply to  Litter Picker

Do you know the definition of troll? Wow….that’s you.
I’m sure you already knew that. how could you not?

Litter Picker
Litter Picker
Nov 6, 2018 4:23 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

Dear boy, Your written English isn’t up to scratch. Most schools have teachers that put red marks next to punctuation, spelling and other mistakes. They teach us that sentences start with capital letters and correct ellipsis to have just the three dots. Why do these teachers make the effort to do so? Because language is a gift and it is important to get it right. If you can’t then people think you are stupid. If you do not have time to use the language your teachers gave you then you showing a lack of respect for your audience. There are exceptions, we have dyslexia and others who have special needs. What is your excuse? Did you not go to a good school? Did teachers not love you enough to encourage you to try harder? Is this the root of why you are so angry? There is a difference between being… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 5:22 PM
Reply to  Litter Picker

Wow , I loved reading that. I am not even sure that i totally agree with you, but It doesn’t matter I still love what you wrote. I am going to pay special attention to my own writing now. Thank you.

Litter Picker
Litter Picker
Nov 6, 2018 6:28 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

Thank you too!

And apologies for my condescending tone!

I learned the hard way about writing properly, I had a colleague who didn’t write that well and I did a little bit of reading about why it is that we use language the way we do. Essentially it is all about respecting others and courtesy, putting the time of others before one’s own time, treating others as we wish to be treated.

The internet does give everyone an opportunity to up one’s game and to learn from how our words are received. Nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes. Even when we think we are right it can be how we write rather than what we say that lets us down.

Anyway, next time you encounter a troll, be polite!

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 12:51 PM

While were at it, speaking of freedom of speech….it may well be time to address chemtrails. I certainly have an observation and corresponding opinion.. Anyone else?

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 3:53 PM
Reply to  Editor

Thanks,
I already know it is a contentious subject. I have inside info that I can’t reveal due to those who value their pensions. I think that it is an important topic.It is a reality. What it is I am not sure. That it is, I am certain.

nomad
nomad
Nov 6, 2018 5:32 PM
Reply to  Editor

hi. i dont know how this happened. i wrote a comment just now that vanished. i was prompted to slow down i was posting too fast. please check into this. has my address been confused w someone elses?

nomad
nomad
Nov 6, 2018 5:39 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

Absolutely. It’s amazing how whatever powers may be can corral peoples thoughts and prevent them from investigating anything outside of the invisible fence that encloses them. The invisible fence of mind control, called conspiracy theory.

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 10:47 AM

Derogatory use of various forms of the word ‘denial’ on this post as of 11/6
So far……………

Mulga 7

All others 0

Arrby
Arrby
Nov 5, 2018 11:49 PM

I just now searched (Pale Moon, Carrytel8) for James’s video. It came up. But I absolutely know what James is talking about. I seem to have all but disappeared on YouTube. Google is not your friend (if you’re human). I’m reading Yasha Levine’s “Surveillance State” right now. Where do these Silicon Valley orgs come from? Answer: darkness

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Nov 5, 2018 3:46 PM

I have been called out as both a far-right Tory and an extreme left winger on various MSM blogs and no I am not a stark raving bonkers schizophrenic. I am merely somehow who tries to ask where entrepreneurial innovation has its place and where societal interests trump narrow selfish behaviour. It is possible to not believe in equality of outcomes, rather equality of intrinsic human value (i.e. an ecosystem not a monoculture). It is possible to deride global warming whilst being called a traitor for holding extreme skeptics to account also. It happens if you challenge the difference between weather events and climatic shifts. It is possible to consider some ‘on the left’ to be some of the nastiest scumbags going, without being a disciple of the Koch Brothers. It is possible to be vigorously opposed to the EU and opposed to the UK becoming a US lapdog. This… Read more »

John2o2o
John2o2o
Nov 5, 2018 9:26 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Well, Rhys you are entitled to your opinion. You make some good points.

I don’t agree with you about RT – I love RT – and I’ve never read Breitbart. (I’m suspicious of Bannon.) Some of what Corbett says I like, but not all of it. Much the same with all media persons and outlets.

John2o2o
John2o2o
Nov 5, 2018 9:34 PM
Reply to  John2o2o

lol, for anyone who read that, I was not including the MSM, which I avoid as far as possible! (IS RT, MSM? Well, whatever – I don’t think it is anyway.)

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 4:37 PM
Reply to  John2o2o

I like your point of view. You must listen to Bannon, He is a relevant part of the current dialog. I believe it beneficial to look at all media.All ideas and perspectives. It is fascinating. You will define yourself as a result.You can discover who you are in a world of the gullible, narrow minded and uninformed. This alone makes life worth living. I get excellent physics lessons from flat earth sites, great geology lessons from fundamentalist Christian sites. These people are dedicated researchers. You just need to be discriminating in what you believe. This is a way to refine your perspective. Hone your person. It is fun,educational and a celebration of free speech,free thought and free will. I love this planet. I
hope you do too. Explore.

Jim Scott
Jim Scott
Nov 6, 2018 3:21 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

There is some truth in saying there are faults on the left and the right and that no one side has all the right solutions and like you I read both left and right publications but mostly my right wing reading is to see what they are up to in order to counter their rhetoric. What is obvious though is that what is called the left in the USA is not what I would call left. The Democrats are about as left as my right testicle. So too the Guardian these days. Unlike you I hear right wing propaganda much of the time being sprouted by the BBC. It has some today about Iran that is clearly not true or at least very unbalanced in its assessment of what Iranian people think about US sanctions. There are constantly unproven and unlikely claims about Syrian use of chemical weapons and above… Read more »

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 7, 2018 8:50 AM
Reply to  Jim Scott

The BBC lies about EVERYTHING, and arrogantly, too.

WJ
WJ
Nov 6, 2018 1:57 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

In what possible sense can the BBC be described as “leftie” or leftist?!?!

tutisicecream
tutisicecream
Nov 5, 2018 10:21 AM

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Remember when facts were sacred and then they came for you? The soft censorship James Corbett talks about is well under way. However as he points out in his video the final solution 19:24 in where the author of the report – Alternative Influence, Rebecca Lewis – states quite clearly as a response to the question from Mother Jones “what can be done about all this?” … “If they [the extremists (not the White Helmeted ones I hazard a guess)] were consistently de-platformed they wouldn’t be able to make content about it. In other words with total censorship there will be nothing to comment about. As we know the Guardian got there several years ago as a purge on over zealous reporting and allowing pretty open comment blogs on revelations by… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 5, 2018 3:09 AM

The Magnitsky Act Behind The Scenes…..available free here.

https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/07/the-magnitsky-act-behind-the-scenes-video-in-english/

Gwyn
Gwyn
Nov 5, 2018 8:45 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

Thanks very much for that link, axisofoil. Very useful.

Chris
Chris
Nov 4, 2018 10:29 PM

Anyone who might think this is just another good example of James exposing the lies of the MSM and so something they already know and understand should not be tempted to miss what he has to say from about 19:00 onwards where he addresses the truly frightening Orwellian depths of the Mother Jones article.

frank
frank
Nov 5, 2018 11:39 AM
Reply to  Chris

Yes, that Mother Jones article was really way out there. Hard to believe some people can’t see through the glaring propaganda, but I guess so.

They say that TPTB play both sides. Seeing this altercation between Mother Jones and Corbettreport makes me wonder if they’re not playing some kind of propaganda tennis match: Mother Jones lobs one in Corbetts direction, Corbett lobs one back. Nicely done. Everybody happy.

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 8:38 PM

jag37777
jag37777
Nov 4, 2018 7:53 PM

Anyone as intelligent as Corbett peddling the hysterical private Fed stuff has to be viewed with utmost skepticism

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 8:34 PM
Reply to  jag37777

Quotes On the Federal Reserve Bank The Rothschilds “The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it’s profits or so dependant on it’s favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.” — Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863 “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws” — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild Senators and Congressmen “Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States” — Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR) “This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this… Read more »

Antonym
Antonym
Nov 5, 2018 1:54 AM
Reply to  axisofoil

*In May 1971, West Germany left the Bretton Woods system, unwilling to revalue the Deutsche Mark.[8] In the following three months, this move strengthened its economy. Simultaneously, the dollar dropped 7.5% against the Deutsche Mark.[8] Other nations began to demand redemption of their dollars for gold. Switzerland redeemed $50 million in July.[8] France acquired $191 million in gold.[8] On August 5, 1971, the United States Congress released a report recommending devaluation of the dollar, in an effort to protect the dollar against “foreign price-gougers”.[8] *On August 9, 1971, as the dollar dropped in value against European currencies, Switzerland left the Bretton Woods system.[8] The pressure began to intensify on the United States to leave Bretton Woods. *On the afternoon of Friday, August 13, 1971: The Nixon shock[1] was a series of economic measures undertaken by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971, the most significant of which was the unilateral… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 8:43 PM
Reply to  jag37777

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 8:56 PM
Reply to  jag37777

rilme
rilme
Nov 5, 2018 3:57 AM
Reply to  jag37777

Hey jag, it sounds like you have a persuasive argument up your sleeve. Let’s see it.

John G
John G
Nov 5, 2018 8:38 AM
Reply to  rilme

The Fed is a government agency subservient to Congress and the Treasury. Congress has the power of money creation (spending) and destruction (taxation).

The very notion that the Fed creates dollars to lend to the government to make a profit (in dollars) is absurd on its face.

Feel free to run me through the logic on that one.

jag37777
jag37777
Nov 7, 2018 3:13 AM
Reply to  rilme

Yeah, I thought not.

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 7:27 PM

algorithms?

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 6:13 PM

Corbett in a nutshell…..my opinion

frank
frank
Nov 4, 2018 9:22 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

That’s a good video, but why would that be Corbett in a nutshell? Or did you mean to say 9/11 in a nutshell?

So he does not buy the 9/11 official story: good.
He also does not buy global warming… good?

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 9:41 PM
Reply to  frank

‘Nut shell’ was what I see as Corbett’s trademark ability to pack a lot of information into a coherent fast moving package – with humor.
On the global warming issue, I think it is the poster child of how deep deceptions in our cultures has rendered a potential crisis virtually unintelligible. There are many babies in this tsunami of bathwater.

frank
frank
Nov 4, 2018 9:53 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

“Ability to pack a lot of information into a coherent fast moving package” is not what I saw in that video posted in the article above. What I saw was a lot of interminably and boring complaining.

And how is the global warming issue unintelligible? Isn’t there a scientific consensus that global warming is real. Aren’t the ice caps melting?

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 11:20 PM
Reply to  frank

First you said it was good……then you say it was a lot of interminably and boring complaining.

This is not about Global Warming. It is about censorship.
There are a hundred issues in life that are contestable. Let them remain so.
Truth is not a value which gets much traction in this world.This is our core problem, not it’s effect.
If we all burn up it is because we didn’t re first access our collective and individual values, without which all is rendered ‘UNINTELIGABLE’. No matter how intelligent and well informed we think we are, we’re not. look……….there goes another baby.

frank
frank
Nov 5, 2018 11:13 AM
Reply to  axisofoil

“First you said it was good……then you say it was a lot of interminably and boring complaining.” I was referring to the video in the off-guardian article above that we are commenting to, which you can see if you read my comment more carefully. The “good” video was the one about 9/11, a comment directly under that video. “This is not about Global Warming. It is about censorship.” I brought up the fact that Corbett does not believe in global warming, you responded to that, to which I responded in turn. That’s how discussions on forums work. Seems like you’re suddenly trying to change the subject when it’s not going how you like. “There are a hundred issues in life that are contestable. Let them remain so.” Some issues are contestable yes, but as I said: “Isn’t there a scientific consensus that global warming is real. Aren’t the ice caps… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 6:30 AM
Reply to  frank

You have jumped entirely out of the framework of a dialog which you started in response to a video I posted. To your comment………“That’s a good video, but why would that be Corbett in a nutshell? “ I then responded to my ‘nutshell’ reference by qualifying it. Are you still with me? Do your question and my response not both specifically identify the object of discussion? The 9/11 truth in 5 min. James Corbett. This is the video about 9/11. Is it not? You then made your ‘complaining’ comment………………still in reference to the video of which we were then in agreement was at issue. Did you forget what your conversation was about? Are we still on the same page about this? I am going to give you a pass because this is just too obviously a lack of awareness and attention. A mistake perhaps? I am not going to break… Read more »

frank
frank
Nov 6, 2018 7:01 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

You posted a 9/11 video under an article about the Federal Reserve Bank and internet censorship. I responded to that posting.

I have no idea what all the ranting and raving is about. You expect nobody ever to disagree with you on an internet forum?

Although I suspect that you are not acting in good faith I do apologize for calling a portion of your comment “unintelligible”, that was bad manners on my part.

Other than that the comments are up there for all to see, I don’t think it’s necessary for me to continue this dialogue any further.

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 5, 2018 7:57 AM
Reply to  frank

Frank-you know how the denialists operate. They do not see whatever they do not want to see. Ice-caps? What dat?

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 6:35 AM

Look who’s talking.

Jo Mo
Jo Mo
Nov 4, 2018 5:02 PM

Note by admin – we don’t know who this person is, and we certainly haven’t banned them Amazing that you Assange fanboy cretins complain about censorship of Corbett and the smelly boy himself yet effectively ban me for being a non Assange fanboy. Even hysterical dimwit Caitlin Johnson didn’t ban me. ‘Paranoid, vain and jealous’ – the secret life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange An excoriating profile by Julian Assange’s ghostwriter, Andrew O’Hagan, has lifted the lid on the strange world of the founder of WikiLeaks He is vain, secretive, paranoid and jealous, prone to leering at young women and making frequent sexist jokes – and that’s not the view of one of his many enemies, but of a friend who regards him sympathetically. A damning picture of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is currently sheltering in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in a bid to avoid extradition… Read more »

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 6:02 PM
Reply to  Jo Mo

Character assassination is a premise for discerning facts? Maybe all those people didn’t really get shot in Iraq. It could have been an attention seeking ploy. We will have to rely more on the news which is approved by the blue pedophiles and the red necrophiliacs.

Kavy
Kavy
Nov 4, 2018 6:05 PM
Reply to  Jo Mo

“He is vain, secretive, paranoid and jealous, prone to leering at young women and making frequent sexist jokes – and that’s not the view of one of his many enemies, but of a friend who regards him sympathetically.

Well, apart from the ‘secretive ‘ and ‘jealous’, which is just one person’s opinion, it all sounds quite normal to me.

reenmac
reenmac
Nov 4, 2018 6:31 PM
Reply to  Jo Mo

None of that matters a damn, even if it was true. We are not depending on Assange’s moral authority here, there’s no doubt that the leaked cables he publishes in Wikileaks the book for eg are absolutely real
Can’t understand why someone would go to so much trouble to trash Assange’s character when its totally beside the point .And given that Assange can not counter these smears as he’s been denied freedom of speech, casts the smearer in a particularly bad light, not someone to take seriously
Shame on you

harry stotle
harry stotle
Nov 4, 2018 6:46 PM
Reply to  Jo Mo

Are you reproducing long, and tedious tracts of O’Hagen because you have no ideas of your own?

The central issue here pertains to asymmetrical power allied to the manipulation of information in order to keep the public in the dark not a cod personality analysis that reads like a half-arsed psychiatric report.

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Nov 4, 2018 7:10 PM
Reply to  harry stotle

“Amazing that you Assange fanboy cretins…”

So the guy’s a total asshole. In that case, my question is: why have you got your head so firmly lodged up him? Did you mistake him for your own?

Thomas Peterson
Thomas Peterson
Nov 4, 2018 11:19 PM
Reply to  Jo Mo

could you not spam the comments section with copy and pastes of work not your own, thanks.

George Venemore
George Venemore
Nov 5, 2018 12:53 AM
Reply to  Jo Mo

A great hatchet job on Assange’s personality, the equal of any Hollywood muckraker. Now talk to me about WikiLeaks.

SavemesaveME
SavemesaveME
Nov 5, 2018 10:07 AM
Reply to  Jo Mo

JOmo sonds a lot like a bell end kitty / puke hardon clone

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 4:34 PM

I wish that this post would bring with it the storm of controversy brought by “Unprecedented Crime,” as the very platform upon which that debate stands is being removed. Right in front of our eyes. There is little more traumatic and debilitating than the solitary confinement of the human mind. Why would we so casually allow it? Let’s at least fight while we still have some tools to fight with. Rather than later, with our blood. “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,” Benjamin Franklin in The Pennsylvania Gazette. “If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken… Read more »

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 4, 2018 8:38 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

‘Freedom of Speech’ is a value only when it is shared equally. In a capitalist pathocracy, where that ‘freedom’ is distributed highly unequally, benefiting Evil swine like Murdoch and his ilk, and the common man, in contrast, has virtually no power, it becomes simply a ‘freedom’ for the very worst in society, and that society commences to rot, intellectually, morally and spiritually.

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 6, 2018 8:46 AM

‘Freedom of Speech’ is a value only when it is shared equally”. This statement would be valid in a commune or a prison yard. This reminds me of 2nd grade school yard antics “It’s not fair, whaaa”. If you haven’t learned by now….fair is a concept for children. Do you know why freedom of speech exists? Here, in my country, freedom of speech was established with full knowledge of it’s eventual and inevitable necessity. It was a known fact that freedom is always taken for granted and safeguards must be put in place for the future when first establishing order from tyranny. It was known that corruption would reign until confronted. It was also known that tyranny would return as there is little that can be done about the corrupt nature of man. This is why we planned ahead. The first amendment is ‘freedom of speech’ and the second grants… Read more »

Kavy
Kavy
Nov 4, 2018 4:30 PM

James Corbett does some good stuff and bad stuff, but on the whole I don’t watch him. This is better.

Ray McGovern – Russia-gate: Can You Handle the Truth?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngIKjpucQh8

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 5:13 PM
Reply to  Kavy

Rays position I appreciate and always have. In reference to ‘Russia-gate’, what to me is more relevant in so far as ”handling the truth’ is, as an example ‘The Magnitsky act, behind the scenes’ has been banned.This is a volatile, potentially viral film which has been ‘handled’. Ray is given a pass. Anything genuinely damaging to the status quo, is not. Orwell knew.

frank
frank
Nov 4, 2018 9:07 PM
Reply to  axisofoil

The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes is a Norwegian, internationally supported investigative documentary feature. Its scheduled premiere at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 27 2016 was cancelled at the last moment due to the legal threats from the protagonists at the centre of the investigation. A few days later ARTE (a French-German TV network that co-financed the film) annulled the May 3 broadcast at a short notice. The legal and political pressure on the film and its makers has continued ever since. In September 2018 the film was taken down by Vimeo for alleged defamation.

http://www.magnitskyact.com/

You can watch it on that site for €4.39.
It’s definitely worth the watch.

frank
frank
Nov 4, 2018 3:56 PM

I’ve always felt something’s off with that Corbettreport channel, though it’s hard putting a finger on what exactly it is. Controlled opposition? Some kind of Illuminati agenda? Corbettreport not monetizing their videos is just a front to give themselves more legitimacy in the eyes of their public. Corbettreport does make money from their output on YouTube, they just use Patreon. So then why all this hullabaloo about not monetizing their videos? That being said I don’t believe they need even that. Controlled opposition outlets get their funding from behind the scenes. Corbett also likes to stress how much he’s being censored, but the reality is that his channel is still on YouTube, unlike the massive amount of channels that have in fact been removed. Some of the dodgy stuff on there: Chemtrails Exposed – The Past, Present and Future of the New Manhattan Project Climate Change is Unfalsifiable Woo-Woo Pseudoscience… Read more »

Jo Mo
Jo Mo
Nov 4, 2018 4:16 PM
Reply to  frank

Yes, Corbett is intelligent.

nomad
nomad
Nov 4, 2018 5:16 PM
Reply to  frank

not so. he just talks about aspects of the climate debate outside the official narrative. thats probably what you find disturbing. chemtrails is a real phenomenon. the reason you dont recognize it as such is due to your programming. you know, to dismiss those dam conspiracy theorists. as george bush commanded.
https://youtu.be/1-Hj-Y6o6ec

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 4, 2018 8:41 PM
Reply to  nomad

The ‘aspects’ of climate science outside the ‘official narrative’ are almost always lies, distortions and misrepresentations peddled by the fossil fuel industry and the paranoid, omnicidal, Right.

nomad
nomad
Nov 5, 2018 12:26 AM

sounds like youve been indoctrinated

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 5, 2018 8:05 AM
Reply to  nomad

Do stop talking to yourself-it’s unhealthy.

nomad
nomad
Nov 5, 2018 12:44 PM

yeah, youd like that wouldnt you? alas i dont believe in censorship. not even self censorship.

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 5, 2018 7:42 PM
Reply to  nomad

But you clearly are a devotee of stupidity and ignorance.

nomad
nomad
Nov 5, 2018 9:32 PM

now now. flattery will get you nowhere. lol.

nomad
nomad
Nov 4, 2018 6:44 PM
Reply to  frank

a scientific hypothesis, in this case climate change, can not be taken seriously if you dont take into account all relevant factors. if the scientists want me to take them seriously theyve got to do better science. they are not doing anyone any favors by ignoring chemtrails and the US military both of which seem to be enormous contributory factors in global warming.
until they take chemtrails into consideration, theyre hypocrites. until they confront the US military, theyre enablers of global warming. deliver me from such scientists.

edited by Admin for typo

frank
frank
Nov 4, 2018 9:40 PM
Reply to  nomad

Anybody who peddles this chemtrail nonsense goes into the “ignore” category as far as I’m concerned. Which is why I find it disturbing that Corbett is pushing this stuff too.

Not a single shred of evidence. It does not even make sense from a logical point of view. And I’m not going to debate this with you, just like I’m not going to debate the flat earth or the mandela effect or other similar nonsense. Waste of time. There’s a new one I noticed recently: dinosaurs are fake! (It’s ever so slightly more plausible than the other stuff, but still.)

nomad
nomad
Nov 5, 2018 12:25 AM
Reply to  frank

‘And I’m not going to debate this with you, ‘
i appreciate that, considering the level of argumentation you signal. who said anything about flat earth? or fake dinosaurs? thats diversion and disruption of serious discussion. nomad dont need that crap.

Non Lennon.
Non Lennon.
Nov 4, 2018 3:52 PM

Yes, the really dangerous ones get targeted. Corbett and Scott Creighton (closed down by WordPress) both of whom think Wikileaks is a fraud. Yes also a climate skeptic and 9/11 denier.

rtj1211
rtj1211
Nov 4, 2018 2:26 PM

Never, ever trust a Canadian in exile who has a beard, a bald head and wears glasses.

Must be a far left commie fruitcake.

Republicans would go buy a wig….Nikki Haley does not go for bald men and all red blooded Republicans want to jump her bones!!

Tom
Tom
Nov 4, 2018 6:25 PM
Reply to  rtj1211

Corbett is hardly left-wing.

jammy codger
jammy codger
Nov 4, 2018 1:29 PM

He’ll go down well here, I’m a big fan but……and being a denier is a big but.

Eric Blair
Eric Blair
Nov 4, 2018 1:55 PM
Reply to  jammy codger

What’s he denying? I’m guessing either climate change or something about 9/11…

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 4, 2018 8:45 PM
Reply to  Editor

Anthropogenic climate destabilisation deniers are NOT ‘sceptics’. Sceptics hold their opinions tentatively, and are open to rational argument and changing their opinions. Anthropogenic climate destabilisation deniers are fanatics, ideological to the core, immune to evidence and argument and depend on fabrication, misrepresentation and distortion in their service to the fossil fuel industry, Rightwing ideology and the destruction of Life on Earth.

BigB
BigB
Nov 5, 2018 10:56 AM
Reply to  Editor

Deniers are immune to being convinced, just as they are immune to debate. All they want to do is shout loudly about Maunder Minimums, LIAs, and non-existent Pauses (that are over anyway). Give them a link, and they’ll criticise the source, the author, the Method, the proxy measurements (you can’t quantify the sea, the climate, etc) etc. They abuse your open comment policy, because in a more scientific environment, they would be shut down (by science, not censorship) in a few minutes. Back in the day, even the hated Guardian was an excellent source, in BTL comments, of anti-AGW bluff …because actual scientists would come back and comment with all the relevant data. But this is ‘propaganda’ and ‘conspiracy’. The very conservative ‘The Conversation’ was much the same. They’ve got nothing to say, no positive vision, only a Mephistopheles obsession with barbecued biomes. And protecting their own self-interest. If anyone… Read more »

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 5, 2018 7:48 PM
Reply to  Editor

No they HAVE NOT. Your denialist credentials, which you have often mendaciously denied, are here starkly displayed. Your denialist friends produce NO ‘scientific arguments and facts’, unless you count shouted denial, lies and distortions as ‘facts’.

Antonym
Antonym
Nov 6, 2018 1:44 AM
Reply to  Editor

As he proves again and again, Mulga only provides ad hominem, never links with arguments. Though he is certainly not uneducated, most have seen this and consider him insane,
Still, with his bad language he is defacing this site. Mods, he is fouling your nest, he is putting off new readers. He was caught before rating himself up and others down many multiples.
Is there a way to xxxx out every insulting word written, or give him a time out?

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 6, 2018 8:48 AM
Reply to  Editor

I don’t have to produce any ‘evidence’ when the scientific record is filled with tens of thousands of papers that confirm the theory, when ALL the Academies of Science and scientific societies on Earth confirm the theory and 99% of active climate scientists confirm the theory. Yet YOU and the denialist cabal you succour, produce no credibly published scientific papers refuting the science, no Academy of Science or scientific society that refutes the theory and no eminent climate scientist who refutes the theory, save the same tiny cabal who have not changed in personnel for years, if not decades. So the pathopsychological projection is ENTIRELY yours, not mine.

BigB
BigB
Nov 6, 2018 9:40 AM
Reply to  Editor

Let’s take a concrete example, Admin and Antonym, to see why reason is not applicable. While I was away, the claim was made the there had been NO warming for 18 years (emblazoned in bold as irrefutable.) This is a lie, in denial of all data, a cherry picked anti-scientific denial of real science…all of which has been copiously dealt with elsewhere and debunked. The scientific ‘debate’ here was carried out in a bubble of ignorance, by he who shouts loudest, in denial of science, by he who carries the biggest pseudo-science stick to beat science. Some of the issues wilfully ignored to make such a claim include: Had there been an 18 year hiatus in ALL data; ALL constituent hypotheses that form the AGW theory (not a colloquial theory, a highly verified (but not proven) scientific theory) would be automatically falsified – no more AGW. Except, this did not… Read more »

Antonym
Antonym
Nov 6, 2018 12:14 PM
Reply to  Editor

The scientific ‘debate’ here was carried out in a bubble of ignorance, by he who shouts loudest: that would be Mumblebrain then 😉

Less loud is the IPCC; in their Special Report 15 they now take climate to be 15 years before 2017 plus model predicted data for the next 15 years. How’s that for Science according to you? Redefining climate?

http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf
Page 5 footnote 5: Present level of global warming is defined as the average of a 30-year period centered on 2017 assuming the recent rate of warming continues.

Antonym
Antonym
Nov 6, 2018 3:55 PM
Reply to  Editor

The definition for climate was till now the arithmetic average of a climate element (e.g. temperature) over a 30-year period – measured! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate#Definition
Now the IPCC cut that in half and glues 15 years of future speculationonto it.

Indeed they do this to bend a small temperature increase upwards to reach for a hockey stick blade to make it alarming.

BigB
BigB
Nov 6, 2018 1:08 PM
Reply to  Editor

I was merely replying to the contention that they have consistently posted ‘scientific’ arguments and facts …which is not true and empowers extremism and denialism over rationalism and empiricism. The scientific debate has parsed such outlying opinions years ago. MM may be presenting themselves in an unbecoming manner, but what they are saying is nevertheless rational and empirical …if poorly worded. There is no need to ‘prove’ the case, unless you accept the case is not proven. Then, even going as far as defining the word ‘proof’, as I did, we go round and round in circles in the anti-debate. How about removing the contention, and moving on to the mitigation and policy debate? The broader debate boils (or burns) down to carbonism (my new neologism for… you can see) …carbonism v humanism. As soon as you move on, the praxis of inaction and induced contention disappears. Which is what… Read more »

Antonym
Antonym
Nov 6, 2018 1:45 PM
Reply to  BigB

A lot of words, but you didn’t answer my simple question about the latest(October 2018) IPCC report. Why did they have to redefine “climate”? 15 years of data for empiricism & 15 for rationalism instead of the normal 30 years of data?

Kill of > half of Life through a small actual temperature increase? If alarmism is not based on facts it becomes spin – fake news – a false flag – a religion.

BigB
BigB
Nov 6, 2018 3:01 PM
Reply to  Antonym

The IPCC is hugely biased towards carbonism, and not to be trusted, For instance, I think they have 250+ pages of mitigation policies, many of which rely on unproven sequestration and ‘negative emissions’ technologies. In other words, they passed the inter-generational can (and the cost) down the road. The whole IPCC/UN strategy is corporate carbonism …to be seen to be doing something, so long as it does not impede ‘sustainable growth’ (SDGs etc) …which is an oxymoron. Those two words are rightfully mutually exclusive. Compound exponential growth is the main vector toward civilisational crisis. The main point of validity is that if we do not mitigate for 1.5 C: the ‘small actual temperature increase’ of 0.5 C will cost substantially more – in financial, human and biotic capitals. So much for small differences? I did address all this on Sunday, with the proposal that the More Developed Carbonist economies consume… Read more »

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 7, 2018 9:08 AM
Reply to  Antonym

Antonym, your vicious, typically denialist, assertion that the IPCC was ‘bending’ the data ‘upwards’ to ‘reach for a hockey-stick..’ is simply a lie. As usual. Mann’s famous ‘hockey-stick’ has been replicated over and over again by other scientists, in regard to climate parameters like global average temperatures, and other measures of the horrendous ecological Holocaust engulfing Life on Earth. Yet denialist disinformers like you, pretend mendaciously, that Mann’s hockey-stick is unique, and even more untruthfully, that it has been disproved. That is a Big Lie worthy of Hitler or Goebbels, although it will cause far more deaths that any of the Nazis’ lies.

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 5, 2018 7:46 PM
Reply to  BigB

‘Heretic and traitor’ are certainly good, as in traitor to science, rationality and evidence. But basically they are ‘enemies of Life on Earth’, for some perverted pathopsychological reasons. The purest Evil possible.

Antonym
Antonym
Nov 7, 2018 2:00 AM
Reply to  BigB

Just about all climate (computer) models run too hot, so they will produce the badly desired hockey blade spike towards the future. Real Science is neutral and has no desired outcome; ambitious people (and clubs like the IPCC) have.

Climate mitigation: lets not spend a fortune on it but strengthen a few sea barriers and first off all stop building more on flood planes: make any new construction there un-insurable. Also clear river beds of blocking constructions. Empty storage dams before heavy rainfall, not during it.

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 7, 2018 9:14 AM
Reply to  Antonym

Lies-as usual. All models are wrong, as the saying goes, but some are useful. The climate models have greatly improved over time, and are getting better at predictions, and retro-predictions that concur with previous weather and climate and paleo-climate evidence. In fact, the models that the IPCC Reports have preferred have consistently UNDER-ESTIMATED the size and rapidity of climate destabilisation, and the latest estimates of climate sensitivity to a rise in global atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have produced results that are truly frightening. But you denialists simply do not care whether Life on Earth is devastated, just so long as you can feeding your prodigious egomania, and your insatiable ideological hatred of environmentalism and those concerned about humanity’s future.

frank
frank
Nov 4, 2018 9:45 PM
Reply to  Editor

Orwellian/Stalinist? How about Zionist.

Jen
Jen
Nov 4, 2018 10:06 PM
Reply to  frank

Just say it, Frank … James Corbett is a gatekeeper equivalent to (let’s say) Robert Fisk and George Monbiot but on the opposite extreme of the political spectrum. He can rail against certain aspects of the FUKUS imperialist monster project as long as he toes the line on other aspects that help keep the hoi polloi distracted (such as quibbling over certain details of the climate change argument that lifts the responsibility away from governments, the military and all their corporate backers).

This would explain why his channel continues to stay on Youtube while others are being censored.

Jen
Jen
Nov 5, 2018 3:23 AM
Reply to  Editor

My comment wasn’t intended to denounce James Corbett by comparing him down to Fisk or Monbiot – I probably could have chosen Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept as well but they’re probably just as bad – but just to suggest to that Corbett and his site may be acting in a gatekeeper role to dissipate and relieve tension that their target audience may be feeling about a lot of issues. This gatekeeper role might not be one handed to them or which they have adopted in the way Guardian writers like Monbiot have adopted; it is one that Corbett and his sources may have taken on at some point in the past and particular audiences have been attracted to it to the extent that the CR has to carry on with it to avoid confusing people. Corbett may well be justified in saying that chemtrails are partly to blame where… Read more »

DreaminOfFlyin
DreaminOfFlyin
Nov 7, 2018 4:17 AM
Reply to  Editor

There are good reasons to be climate skeptics. CIA Whistleblower Speaks Out About Climate Engineering, Vaccination Dangers, and 911
https://youtu.be/Nl5NW9KcMt0
CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN ADMITS TO CHEMTRAILS (STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL INJECTION)
https://youtu.be/WBG81dXgM0Q

nickweechblog
nickweechblog
Nov 4, 2018 2:02 PM
Reply to  Eric Blair

James has the facts on his website- go see and make your own decision please. For both 9/11 and Climate change and do much more … Go and look for yourselves

nickweechblog
nickweechblog
Nov 4, 2018 5:24 PM
Reply to  nickweechblog

I can only say he has helped me revisit what I thought/believed to be true before

Savorywill
Savorywill
Nov 4, 2018 9:23 PM
Reply to  nickweechblog

I think James Corbett always supports his assertions logically and provides links for those industrious enough to follow his tracks to see how he came to his conclusions. But, with regard to the Fed, Ron Paul, a decent person, has always railed against it, one of his major pet peeves, actually, aside from interventionist wars, which he always, without exception, voted against during his many years in Congress.

nickweechblog
nickweechblog
Nov 4, 2018 10:25 PM
Reply to  Savorywill

The Fed was set up as a monopoly from the beginning. Ron Paul was/is right to rail against it, wasn’t/isn’t he? It’s was conceived as being out of any govt control from 1914. Century of Slavery, I agree with James, from what I understand…

nickweechblog
nickweechblog
Nov 5, 2018 6:29 AM
Reply to  Savorywill

The Fed was set up as a monopoly from the beginning. Ron Paul was/is right to rail against it, wasn’t/isn’t he? It’s was conceived as being out of any govt control from 1914. “Century of Slavery”, I agree, from what I understand so far…

John G
John G
Nov 5, 2018 8:47 AM
Reply to  nickweechblog

Ron Paul is a gatekeeper. Libertarians are useful idiots kept active by the oligarchy to make neoliberalism look sensible to the masses.

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Nov 5, 2018 7:53 PM
Reply to  John G

‘Libertarians’ are just open about their hatred of others. ‘Neo-liberals’ just deny it, but practise it remorselessly.

axisofoil
axisofoil
Nov 4, 2018 5:31 PM
Reply to  jammy codger

‘BUT’…..is the world we don’t want to loose.