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James Corbett appears on Keith Knight’s podcast at The Libertarian Institute to discuss news, conspiracy realism, James’ new book, REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order, and a life-changing documentary called “Children Full of Life.”
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SHOW NOTES:
Keith Knight at The Libertarian Institute
Buy James Corbett’s New Book at REPORTAGEbook.com
The News is a Social Construct (2017)
How Use That RSS Thing – #SolutionsWatch
Episode 373 – Medical Martial Law 2020
Episode 086 – Medical Martial Law (2009)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1806283
Accepting Al Qaeda by Barak Mendelsohn
Operations Northwoods – Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (pdf)
The Money Masters – Full Documentary
The creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
The Century of the Self – Part 1: “Happiness Machines”
Episode 033 – Meet Edward Bernays, Master of Propaganda
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
Episode 426 – Who Controls the News Controls the World
A Must See Documentary – James goes unexpectedly viral by recommending people watch “Children Full of Life”
Children Full of Life documentary
Tried to get the book through ebooks,they took the money but I didn’t get the book.
@Muzza man
If the file download link is sent via email try checking your spam folder.
I know that has happened when people buy my ebook.
I have been observing an increasing trend where some authors get put on a sort of shadow banning (big tech censorship) list by certain email services and all of our stuff gets chucked in the junk folder by default.
No ….nothing in spam.
@Muzza man
Well that is the most common issue people have when they tell me they did not receive my ebook after paying, but James likely has his ebook being sold through multiple online digital book venues so could be a number of things I suppose.
I know that book publishing companies like to use “epub” digital book file formats (instead of just sending you a normal PDF file) to try and mitigate the chance of people copying and distributing the thing for their own personal gain. The “epub” (and other similar files types) require specific software to be able to open and view the file.
I went ahead and bought a copy of the digital book from here ( https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/345931101/reportage/james-corbett/ ) as I am both too impatient to wait for my hard copy to arrive in the mail, and, I also wanted to supplement the ways I am supporting James` important work.
They provided an epub file of the ebook and requested that I use “Adobe Digital Editions” software to view it. It works fine on my end.
I only had to read three essays before deciding to give it a 5 star review! 🙂
If they want you to use specific software that’s the DRM copyright protection not the epub format that’s the issue… I have lots of non protected EPUB files, and honestly like epub better then pdf, depending on how the book is set up. I once bought a pdf book that required a password to access, back around 2005 or so I think. It was called Caveman Chemistry and i got the real book after reading it.
A lot of pdf books are done as basically images which means you can’t cut and paste text or do word searches…. But that of course depends on the person making the file.
You need special software to read pdf files too (I like okular best) but since I like to read on an e-ink reader (an old nook or kindle) it’s not a problem…. Except that I need to use Calibre to convert epub to kindles proprietary Mobi if I want to use the one with a backlight (kindle)
Caliber can convert epub into docx and text or even pdf on your machine- I like to keep several formats incase one gets borked.
There is, or was until recently, a calibre plug in to strip off DRM protection from ebooks so you could do what you like with the file.
@Duck
Thanks for the low down on all the intricacies of ebooks, copyright protection software, file formats etc.
I am basically a caveman hitting a computer with a gnarled closed fist hoping it will do what I want it to do, so the more I can learn about these things the better.
I am honestly not sure if the PDF file for my ebook is just images or is editable/copy-able.
I will investigate and fix it if it is just images (as I want people that purchase my book to be able to do what ever they want with it, short of feeding it into a Grok-bot, having it regurgitated out in some adulterated version, putting their name on it, and selling it on amazon of course). 🙂
Good thing I saw this comment! I’d like to know more about your problem so please just email me and I’ll help you get it sorted out. (And if anyone else has this problem, please contact me about it!)
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.”
– Dresden James
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“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
– Goebbels
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It is becoming quite obvious that the controller’s ability to manipulate reality and people’s ability to discern just what is “truth” has gone quite full blown.
As I have offered for a long time, most people under 50 have spent the majority of their lives in the morass of partial truths and out right lies and misdirection by the controller’s propaganda arms the media, “entertainment,” and educational institutions.
One needs to ask just why is this or that important and other things of significance are laid aside. It is because as it has been said…”Someone wants it that way.”
So being up on the “news” isn’t as meaningful as one may think.
STAY CLOSE TO HOME (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/baPmb9PhVaEh/
The song is very Dylanesque.
It might make big money, from the folks who like to promote 15 minute cities and lockdowns.(insert emoji) Sometimes, words have two meanings (from Stairway to Heaven).
Thanks. Old adage…”If Dylan had a good singing voice just think how far he could have gone” 🙂
After my time in Hollywood in the biz 1989-1992 I made some decent $$ but the “game” was too far beyond my comfort zone.
I consider myself a wordsmith, or a musical philosopher/activist. The battle as it has been for many decades is the Jewish run biz wants no authentic social activism. It is ALL about the money. So you are always told…”Can you make it more like…(flavor of the year)?
The company I worked for, The National Academy of Songwriting, put on a once a week song critiques with a guest publisher, producer, etc. I ran it for a few years and one evening a C&W producer was there and after listening to a very average song I pointed out to keep on trying because “the cream always rises to the top” and some woman with a heavy Southern accent said:
“Yeah, but sh*t floats.” :-))
Lots of stuff that “top scientists” missed:
http://thescienceanalyst.substack.com
It takes a lot of in-depth research to see what exactly they missed and why.
Why do “top scientists” miss stuff.
Generally, it is due to group-think that keeps scientists circling around the same idea,
without ever leaving their bias.
Usually this first idea started with certain evidence, but the idea is never revised or refined.
The bias is also hyped within the group-think by insulting opponents.
The insulting of opponents can often be seen as an indication of group-think.
Logical fallacies are used instead of evidence nor good reasoning.
People with such a community also train themselves to apply logical fallacies
towards opponents.
Why are “top scientists” never convinced of their failures
Often it takes PhD level research to discover what went wrong exactly.
But certain mistakes can even be picked up by people without any education at all.
Without education a lot more things appear incorrect, but without clear evidence why.
Things like “black holes” or “dark matter” are simply stated just “invisible magic things”.
Which most people would consider bullshit to begin with.
And to defend themselves these “top scientists” have build a wall
against opposing viewpoints. Hiding behind their status of “top scientist”.
While the public is shown purely educational simulations of the subjects.
The public is left oblivious of the real thing.
Which is only known to the people who do check the research.
So many in the public are making up their own theories of what is going on.
Which increases the bullshit that is going around even more.
Like: Are there pyramids on mars?
The science community is keeping this barrier intact, because most
scientists do not even know what the others are researching.
So they are often just shielding each other to hide certain lack of evidence,
or even hide the counter-evidence.
For example: Halton Arp discovered high-redshift objects that were in front of low-redshift galaxies.
And this falsified the big bang theory.
Instead of researching these objects, the “top scientists” banned him from the astronomy community.
In my experience:
When scientists have been working very hard on certain theories,
they will start to be hostile towards people that do not agree with these theories.
This video is about how the brain creates bias in “top scientists”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6cu5HpHDg
“The left hemisphere simply blocks out everything that doesn’t fit with its take” (11:35).
@zyxzevn
Another excellent breakdown from you.
“And to defend themselves these “top scientists” have build a wall against opposing viewpoints. Hiding behind their status of “top scientist”.
That, IMO, nails it. Just like Graham Hancock talks about in the archeology field…those who have written books and invested themselves into some theory or another with tenured positions with Universities, etc., get very hostile and defensive about any “up and comer’s” trying to offer theories that challenge theirs.
I am a big fan of Electric Universe Cosmology too!
I even communicated directly with Wal Thornhill until he died.
James’ work on The Crisis in Science is something I always recommend and forward.
I wonder if it is in his book?
https://corbettreport.com/sciencesays/
https://corbettreport.com/?s=crisis+in+science&et_pb_searchform_submit=et_search_proccess&et_pb_include_posts=yes&et_pb_include_pages=yes
I agree with the points in your post, about modern scientists, or should I say scientismists.
I have a theory that the ‘scientists’ of today are very different in their basic character than those giants who brought in the modern world, starting 100’s of years ago. Those people, who brought us electricity, chemistry, telecommunications, nuclear submarines, aircraft, etc., etc., are rightfully venerated. Today’s scientific establishment uses that name and well-deserved reputation of ‘Science’ to push unwholesome political and financial agendas. It attracts a different level of person. I would even say that the hardy, imaginative type of person, such as Galileo, Kepler, Tesla, Maxwell, Newton, Thomas Young, etc. is in relatively short supply today. People with that character and genius, if they do exist, are sidelined by the current funding systems anyway.
Thank you, James, for your always Clear Thinking & pointing people in a more thoughtful direction!! 😉
This discussion brought back memories of a fine voice for truth. Alan Watt passed away March 4, 2021. He hosted
cuttingthroughthematrix .net.
His drive to expose the Bernays depiction of life was unending. His first realization something was queer in the world came as a child seeing his parents fighting over money or the lack there of. What is this thing Money ? He could talk very much like these two fine gentlemen in his soothing Scottish voice for hours and did up untill his sudden death March 4, 2021. A very crazy time in Canada and across the world. He went from an hour to two then to five hours shows alerting people to the deceptions I miss him greatly.
What an excellent interview. Great questions and great answers. What more could one want? Thank you both.
**But you’ve got to have a limited and airy-fairy understanding of INDEPENDENT and sovereign to believe you were BORN a sovereign, independent human being. No?
**And you agree that news is a social construct? Or maybe it’s just “the” news that’s a construct? Or maybe just some news? Or maybe it’s just the contextualization that is a social construct?
On Saturday, a fire broke out in the Myrtle Beach area that has engulfed more than 2,000 acres. The weather has been dry and windy. By Sunday afternoon, firefighters had contained ~30% and by Tuesday AM, according the SC Forestry Commission, they had still only contained ~30%.
Ok. That’s both news and part of “the” news. How is that a social construct? A social construct does not exist in objective reality.
News and propaganda are 2 different things.
**If someone said to you, “Conspiracy Theories are more appealing than the truth,” would you also say you don’t address blanket term “CT”? Why? You could point out the evidence that CTs and truth are not mutually exclusive, so the claim is a misrepresentation. You could also address the idea that CTs, in general, are appealing. ARE CTs appealing? I think yes. I read comments on a site that reported the Horry County wildfire. If the comments were actual people, there was a great attachment to connect the fire to LA, Maui, and “Them,” “The Globalists.” “The Deep State,” “Mr. Global.” No matter the facts of the case being pointed out, people WANTED it to be connected to “Them.” Why? I think it’s a valid question, not a question to refuse to answer.
These are just some thoughts to your response “what more could one want?”
I might say ‘a beer and a pizza, what more could one want?’ No one would think that there was nothing else I might want. It’s a rhetorical question. I would still enjoy the beer and pizza if those other things were missing.
I can enjoy content without having to agree with everything. And if I enjoy it I will thank the creator. You are of course free to pick holes in content, but making assumptions about what others think then correcting them is poor form.
pardon, chadders,
I was looking for some discussion, ie, do you think a person is born independent; do you believe news is a social construct; do you think CTs are appealing, and if yes, why?
Thank you transcendit – maybe I misconstrued your post.
I’m going to give very short answers as firstly I don’t have a lot of time and secondly a full answer would fill the screen.
Do I think a person is born independent? I think this depends on what independent means in context. But dictionary def I’d say absolutely not. We all depend on others, certainly to begin with. We would die without help. Later in life we can maybe rely less on others but we’re never truly independent. Are we ‘sovereign’ though? Yes we are.
Do I believe ‘news’ is a social construct? Yes, absolutely.
Do I believe CTs are appealing? Yes they are. It offers us the chance to consider an alternative view. It doesn’t matter what the theory is and whether if it were true it might shatter my own belief, it can still be appealing to consider.
There are lots of other things to say but I’ve got to cook my dinner. Fajitas and beer. What more could one want? 😉
Excellent interview.
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James, if you could touch on this at some future point I would appreciate it.
In the last few interviews/episodes where you mention your book (which I am very excited to receive, hopefully soon!) you used the term “Real Deal Book” to refer to your book (in the context of you signing on with a publishing company and the book’s availability in various online venues).
I was hoping you could elaborate on that designation you give to your book.
In other words, what makes it a “Real Deal Book” exactly? Also, what characteristics would a non “Real Deal” book have (and/or lack)?
Thanks.
G
I had to interview the editor of Reportage to determine what extent their influence had on the final product. In the English language their knowledge is of the idea constructed by the author. You can say something 10 ways from Sunday that means the same thing. Editors don’t write the book they make the book . Kinda woowoo but they do bring it into an existence that the author most often doesn’t reach alone. However J Corbett is a journalist he depended on his editor to make his book great while good enough would have been good enough. And had I not asked I wouldn’t have known how much that editor cared for a great outcome without any recognition. Take a minute and consider the art , it can make all the difference in the world.
Takes two to make art, one to do it and one to hit the other in the head when it is done.
Cecil Fields, Fields Gallery, OKC – Tulsa
@GBW
I appreciate you offering your two cents on this.
I do not have my physical copy of JC’s book yet and I have not had a chance to explore the digital version of book in detail yet, looking forward to noticing the features and collaborative excellence you describe here.
If I could have afforded a professional editor and book designer for my book I would have gladly paid them to do the job better than I ever could. Alas, weather warfare ops flooded and destroyed my basement, renos were not cheap and those guys with an army of heavily armed goons that tell me they exist to serve me and demand money for protection godda get their cut of my thin slice of pie first. Thus, I was grateful for my wife’s help in editing my book (to the degree which she was willing and able).
2nd edition is gonna be different though. I been saving up to pay all those specialist types that make a book shiny and pretty so the next printing run should have a lot more real deal book features.
Thanks for the comment.
G
You got this. You can get put options on publishing that can get any book flying if it fails to launch. There’s too much information in that pile not to be put where it belongs. It seems to valuable to not find an interested house or a good contract.
I got faith in ya.
@GBW
Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
I actually turned down two contracts with publishers that wanted to mass produce and distribute my book as they wanted to water down and compartmentalize the material (in multiple books) so that they could fit me into their preconceived “market niche” boxes. Publishers also get certain rights over your words when you sign with them, which means they could wage some petty lawsuit war on someone for sharing pages from the book at their gardening club or on some youtube video over so called “intellectual property” that they “own”, and I am not down with all that nonsense either. Then I also did not like the idea that they were gonna push my book on amazon (though I am now reconsidering being such a purist in that regard as shipping books myself is a lot of work).
The end product(s) (if I would have signed with Chelsea Green or the other one that contacted me) would have been more visually appealing and would contain less (or no typos), they would have been aggressively marketed and reached more people, but I just did not like the idea of watering down the content so I can make money easy. Also, with regards to money, publishers give you pennies on the dollar for each copy sold, where as when you self-publish (if you find a good printing company and pay for enough books in one shot) you can make many magnitudes more on each sale (if you do it right and/or do it with profits in mind). That was not really my priority, but it is a realistic thing to think of for people tryna make money from authoring.
Maybe a publisher would sell the book so hard and so globally that pennies on the dollar would add up to big checks, maybe not.
I am happy with what I have accomplished so far. It has helped pay the bills. The 2nd edition will be my third printing run self-published, so a few thousand physical copies sold in a couple years to over 40 countries world wide (with no publicity / advertising team) and thousands more ebook sales is not too bad.
I will feel a lot better when I get the rough edges smoothed out for the 2nd edition and add in a nice index and stuff, but aside from that, I feel good about what I have accomplished for my first book (considering I have no professional training).
I think i`ll stick with self-publishing unless those publishers change their tune about watering down/compartmentalizing content or I connect with a new one I like, more creative control that way.
Thanks for the words of encouragement.
If your self publishing and formatting a book you might want to look at THIS guy
https://m.youtube.com/@WritingDoneRight/videos
Writing done right channel on YT, he is the same guy as “switched to Linux” and has published a few books on his own. He talks about software he uses and other related stuff like getting a number. Not sure if it would be helpful in your next work but posting link.
@Duck
Thanks for the link.
I have been getting better through trial and error using my existing software and pretty happy with the response to my book so far.
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/reviews-for-recipes-for-reciprocity
As I was saying above to GBW, I have heard back from people in over 40 countries that have a physical copy now (and man were those shipping costs deadly a times!) so I feel good about that. People seem to be more appreciative of the practical content for growing food, building soil and saving seeds than they are critical of any typos or what ever that made it through to the presses on my first printing run.
The book is in 5 local book shops now and I have to go back and replenish their stock weekly sometimes. I think people get a real kick out of the fact that I leave a little set of heirloom seeds for the book store to give out to each person that buys a copy.
Given I do the next iteration of the book learning from my mistakes on the first one, I am pretty confident i`ll be able to get the less than ideal formatting etc all smoothed out and looking good.
I`ll take a look at the guys ideas anyways as I am always open to learn something new.
Cheers.
Thank you to Keith for mentioning ‘Children Full of Life’ and you for re-posting the link. I have just watched it and it is the most impactful video I have seen in many years!
I feel the same. James, thank you for all that you do.
As others have said, James, what a great, informative interview! And perfect timing as my copy of Reportage just arrived. Thanks as always for all your fine work.
In the Medias toolbox there are a few tricks to present “their truth”:
– Orientation: the fact that newspapers or other medias have an “editorial line” is something central of their strategy so each one can manipulate with a high efficiency his readers,
– Heading: the titles put on information are very often misleading in regard to the information the article brings in order to let “news surfers” who don’t have tile to read the article to get a false / oriented feeling,
– Ranking: as a lot of medias have a editorial line, they don’t want to show contradictions and downgrade or burry the informations that bring unpleasant sight on the narrative that they want to build or consolidate.
English and other languages haven’t been organic. Colonialism murdered languages into submission. English wasn’t standard until the printing press and standardised schooling in the 18-1900″s in Europe and the “west”. With the advent of Language models this “standardisation” is only going to get worse. The assumption of all languages is SOV, not always in that order but non the less.
French too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_Française
Though to be honest I can see the benefits as well as the downside of standardized language…. I suggest reading thenBBC in pidgin English for a mind blowing time as you sound it out and understand it. lol .
Yes! Ye! Yes! How we Indoctrinate/Brainwash/Educate/Teach (call it what you will) our children, even from the moment of conception… Yes! The sounds they hear whilst in the womb, the chemicals that flow through them resulting from the mothers diet, moods or experiences, all have their impact on the foetus. How much genuine caring the child receives once born, how much attention or ignoring of their states of being as they grow up, and then the conventional, or home education they receive, ALL has its impact on the child. How that child reacts to all the input will also be governed to some extent by the genetics they’ve inherited, but the bulk of damage or nurture experienced has, I believe, a much stronger effect than the genetic reaction.
I’ve been going on about that topic for years; most recently tried writing about it, and it’s wonderful to hear it coming from your mouth James Corbett, because you have a wonderfully wide audience, which I don’t, so hurrah!
What each of us experiences as we grow up always leaves its mark, almost permanently, unless we do some kind of therapy to either understand bad impulses driving us, or use methods to actually undo some of the harm done.
How much better and easier life on earth would be for all of us, if we have been given examples of good parenting, love, co-operation and an education that encourages critical thinking and taking responsibility for oneself, whilst doing no harm to life around us. All possible once a sufficient number of people take such concepts as very definite possibilities.
“…How much better and easier life on earth would be for all of us, if we have been given examples of good parenting, love, co-operation and an education…”
I have cats and dogs and chickens brought up by their parents and their behavior is VERY different from regular versions of the same species.
We have got two or three generations of people who have been cut off from normal child rearing, day care replaces siblings and mothers and school replaces learning from family….. it’s rather sad to think that before pet dumped their babies in daycare there was an actual lineage of skills and behaviors passed on from who knows how far back.
If we had a societal will to fix things and started right now it would still take a Hundred years to set right the damage done by the modern world.
Yes Duck, true what you say about animals and our past times, and true, it may well take a long time to rectify our ailments, but those facts should never stop us from making efforts to bring about the changes we desire to see happen, as I say over and again, every ‘little’ helps, all the ‘littles’ bunched together become enormous, so onwards and upwards!😊