Former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad joins James to discuss his decades-long quest to criminalize war, why world leaders are so reluctant to renounce the war machine, and the secret to his 100-year longevity.
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Tun Dr. Mahathir: The 2005 Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize War
Humans = war, no humans = no war
Please never tell an AI that……:)
An intelligent and sincere politician. I did not know such a thing existed! Great interview. Great wisdom.
Kind of odd, is it not? To hear a former Prime Minister utter such phrase as “What’s the good of getting medals if you are a dead man anyway?”
I agree that it’s very annoying when primitive, unenlightened, people have weapons and can resist my attempts to bring them civilization and teach them right behavior.
This was a big problem back in the days of the British Empire, wogs having guns, and during the liberation of the North American continent people giving weapons to the Indians was a real barrier to civilizing the place. There would have been no need to destroy the Buffalo if the Indians hadn’t had guns!
As for the Japanese- they would have done so much better just accepting the gift of being allowed to trade with the West rather then trying to make themselves a rival power- they could have totally avoided being atom bombed if they’d just done as well told them. That went so much better for China, didnt it ?
It’s good that this old chap is keeping the dream of Rhodes alive- a world Empire run by the wisest people (who have the only arms) will be peaceful and prosperous……the happy subjects of the World State safe under the protection of the UN just like HG Wells and other, totally not evil, people envisioned.
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“WAR, what is it good for?”
Because most Americans don’t read they have ignored or missed the wisdom of the past…
“We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.”
– George W. Bush
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“War is a racket…It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
General Smedley Butler
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“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
– Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
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EDWARD BERNAYS
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…
In almost every act of our daily lives, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
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And from an acquaintance of mine back in the day…
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.
And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all”
—Mario Savio
WHO WANTS US TO DIE (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/8CKubpwla5Lr/
Just found out Charlie Kirk was murdered. It won’t stop until we stop it. Less worry about new material goods, some vacation, etc. and REAL activism is needed. Ironic choice of songs I attached above :-/
This is how the controllers work. Create fear every way they can. This is a message to those who want to take down the madness…we will be watching for you :-/
“One death is a tragedy, a million is merely a statistic”
– Stalin.
Trump and the other “world leaders” don’t give a crap and won’t be coming to save anyone. They are allowing/participating in a Gazan Holocaust, a Ukrainian madness to kill by the thousands. He is murdering strangers in boats and calling them the made up word of “narco-terrorists” that works on a great many of the population.
WWIII isn’t coming, it is here, just not wearing the same clothes as before, but the results are the same.
SOMETHING’S WRONG (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/mDNcoVpZXWgW/
Could the strategies of negotiation used by the Malaysian people to avoid colonisation make a Solutions Watch episode? Or does a Solutions Watch episode about negotiation strategies already exist? We are indeed completely conditioned to think of violence as a primary answer to solve our conflicts.
Dalesco
“…conditioned to think of violence as a primary answer to solve our conflicts…”
Not violence ITSELF, but all negotiations are based on how much each side can gain , or hurt, the other.
why would you negotiate with someone who can’t hurt you and serves no useful purpose??
A slave on a farm can “negotiate” with his master, because if you just whip him to death he can’t work. If you rape the slaves wife he might get angry enough to fight back…..if you replace the slave with a harvester then the slave serves no purpose any more and has zero power to negotiate.
Without violence/costs there IS no negotiation
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Duck. Regarding violence, it is undeniable that it is pushed through propaganda and I have my own idea around what the rationale behind it is, but it isn’t the issue I want to address right now.
Anyway, I understood one of the reasons Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad believes in his project is because of his own experience, when he said at 12’15”:
“We were living under Thai rule for some time. We wanted to be responsible for our own country, not be colonised by anyone. So to do that, to gain independence, we have a choice: whether we fight against the colonisers or we negotiate with them. Malaysia preferred to negotiate because it doesn’t involve killing people. And fortunately for us, we were successful.”
So, I know what you mean: in order to negotiate, you have to be able to do leverage somehow and must find a way to harm your rivals, or at least damage what they own or produce. Then what means did they find and use? As he said, they didn’t want to resort to the typical method which is fighting (doing so is also how we so often find sick-minded leaders btw), so how were they able to have this leverage effect on the Thai authorities? Or did they find a different approach? At least we can listen to what those strategies of negotiation were and then form an opinion.
I had a look around at the links provided but couldn’t find anything about this subject.
Great interview. Thanks, James.
whomsoever has the biggest gun gets the last word. in our times would that be nukes? my guess is that its the same dew that has left fingerprints at 285 fulton st, and in many of the recent big fires. Or maybe Hal is reincarnating? In which case, we better be ready to pull the plug.
War is Crime? Suffering is unavoidable?
Most of who’ve eloquently championed the higher spiritual ground on these subjects have been shot (or crucified).
There is no negotiating with a hungry ghost, unless one has the ability to see it eye to eye and name it with diamond like clarity. That is the realms of wizards and Kams, of which there seem to be precious few getting around these days. these days the lesser realms are kicking ass.
Consider Hamlet. how many people die in that story? That was a really hungry ghost. The author knew well the struggle thats been happening, and still, in our reality every day. (reference: Olga Kharatidi, “Master of Lucid dreaming”)
Demonic exorcisms aside, From the everyman perspective, I think the continued red pilling of the masses is everyone’s best bet. and so Chapeau to James for being on the job.
Gil Scott-Heron said it so well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
What a way to spend 100th birthday. Congratulations. The man covered three big industries during one brief conversation: war, weapons, and trash food.
A minor disagreement on my end is that obese people are usually such because they are addicted to trash food and because their bodies are desperate for nutrition. A signal they misinterpret as the need for more trash food.
Another quibble on my end is that war is not about conflict resolution, as the venerable gentleman insists. It’s not even about keeping the war machine running.
It’s about wholesale mass murder, depopulation, and about keeping people poor, docile and enfeebled. It’s also about introducing new order. Order exists only in the minds of men and it can therefore only be destroyed in the minds of men.
The war and war like states (the plandemics for example) are used to wipe the slate and usher in changes that would otherwise be unacceptable.
I have great respect for this brave and outspoken man, saying what really needs to be said, and actually meaning it. However, two things:
Firstly, as he said himself – in a civilized society, there would be no question about this. But we do not live in a civilized society – we live in a depraved, sick world run by governments of weasels and roaches where the opposite is the norm. No amount of philosophising about the potential of the human race will help unless we sort out the root cause of the rot.
And secondly, is he not actually missing the point? Surely the goal of the powers that should not be is exactly what they are achieving through war and other means – the mass killing of the population – to further their satanic, eugenicist agenda. They laugh in the face of truly civilized ideologies.
And that recalls my first comment; there is the root cause of the rot. We must fight to eliminate the evil string-pullers by whatever means offer themselves. We must eliminate the governments and interrogate each and every pawn in this charade, until they divulge who they are answerable to. Once we find the head of the beast, we can decapitate it.
Sitting back complacently discussing the legality or civilty of war when we are faced by this tyrannical plague doesn’t achieve anything at all.
“….Once we find the head of the beast, we can decapitate it…”
That would be wonderful if we could do it, but it’s an example of how Hollywood has trained us to think about these things. There is no human head, and most of the hands are normal people.
You can’t cut satans head off, and the ideological infection lives in all its hosts, most of which are regular people, independently driving them towards the same goals. You have to kill the ideology of rebellion against Gods plan, because people infected with it dont need a visible master to tell them what to.
James Corbett!!
Take that Malaysian shirt off, right now!! I’ve never seen a more egregious display of cultural appropriation in my life!! What’s next? A dashiki and a sombrero?
…. just joking. Suits you well. Fantastic colors. And congratulations on your interviews with Sen. Johnson and Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
You on a roll, Corb.
Dr. Noh