May Open Thread and Subscriber Exclusive Video (2026)

by | May 4, 2026 | Articles | 44 comments

Happy May, everyone!

We’re busy celebrating Golden Week over here in the Land of the Rising Sun, so why don’t you all chat amongst yourselves? As usual, there’s no shortage of news and current events to discuss. And, if you get sick of examining the news, you can always exchange tips, tricks and ideas for solutions-based approaches to dealing with the New World Disorder!

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44 Comments

  1. Historic !
    Payment Token, asset token and the death of OPEC. HISTORICAL NEWS FROM U.A.E.. OPEC is dead May 1st 2026.

    Patrick Wood explains how, what and why it is worse than could have been imagined. A new ruling class and there’s no democracy attached.
    TECHNOCRACY.
    https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/boom-united-arab-emirates-exits-opec

    James the lay people I have talked to don’t have a clue to what and how this will impact them. Maybe on your return from the Golden Week.

    It was a Golden Week in Kentucky.
    Golden Tempo wins the Kentucky Derby with a great , classic sprint to the finish from last place.

  2. Super excited for the book club!
    Thank you, Corbett and Broc!
    Eager to see the documentary as well.

  3. Tried to join in but too hard with captcha stuff kept changing pages & am an hour behind time here in Colombia.Too difficult your captcha not sure what to press to continue. Cheers hope it went well.

  4. Posiwid is great …
    For some systems, like most bureaucracies.

    But it does not trump intent, which is what most people will assume when they think about a system’s purpose,anyway.

    For instance, I gather that the intent of the Corbett Report is to create a better, more informed and intelligent world. It also affords a venue for Corbett to exercise his exceptional talent at organizing chaotic news and events. To me, and most people, that is the purpose of it. If it fails that,(to any degree) through sabotage, egocentric members, or mistakes by the producers, that doesn’t change its purpose.

    Borrowing that phrase from the realm of physical gadgetry was very clever, and a good reminder for us to think about things before swallowing the narrative. The examples you gave made sense. Still, I fear that it is too didactic and inflexible as a heuristic for many applications. One day the POSIWID of a family, or a marriage can be one thing; next year it can be something very different. The blessing of a beautiful wife or child can change to the curse of shrew and a surly teenager. (And vice-versa). The purpose of the marriage didn’t change. I don’t like to see this clever heuristic stretched beyond its practical value.

    • I thought the purpose was to study the modus operandi of the current ruling class, then infiltrate its ranks and eventually replace it. Did I miss something?

      • I was going off of Corbett’s POSIWID theory.
        What you wrote is more like intent (which I agree with).

        POSIWID indicates that the results can vary, sometimes markedly, from original intent, as well as the intentions of those who implement a program at different stages in time. For example, the intent of the expensive healthcare system becomes irrelevant in the view of POSIWID, in light of the fact that so many people are sicker than before.

        This highlights the limitations of trying to use POSIWID, too generally.

        I think it is great for reminding people of the flaws in propaganda in the following areas… This is just a partial list.

        COVID story
        Vaccines
        Healthcare System, in general
        Trump Worship
        Communism (of course)
        DEI
        Public Education
        Justice System
        Congress, etc., etc.

  5. I’ve been spreading good word about Corbett Report online and I’ve received a feedback that James is too intellectual and boring. I personally never felt that way, I think James Corbett balances the intellectualism and fun pretty neatly, also what do you expect if you really want to know what’s going on? It can’t be just tik tok brainrot content.

    • @YuriTopia Enjoyer
      >>I’ve received a feedback that James is too intellectual and boring.>>
      The consequence of the controllers clever but sociopathic control on the natural evolutionary progress of humans IMO. There is that 9th grade school test online from 75 years ago or so that I doubt very few kids or adults could pass these days. It has basic history, math, etc. questions.

      We are in a fast everything expectation world now…horrible food choices to computers with so few able to do cursive writing and mail a “letter” to someone, reading a map, etc.

      Social media brevity is the script expected in most folks lives under 40 or so. Why read a book or engage in discussions with strangers when one’s phone or computer will tell you what you need? But in reality it is telling one what the controllers want one to focus on, especially with AI.

      That insult of “being too intellectual” was first seen by many of us decades ago in tragic stories of young Ghetto folks being killed for being “Too Upity” The frogs in the water thing about being pulled back to die with others, no escaping.

      GET OFF THE PHONE (song)
      https://old.bitchute.com/video/2QbsxZOkIYjA/

    • Corbett is the most interesting.

    • I know multiple people IRL who don’t watch James for essentially the same reason.

      Does that mean James should change his presentation style?
      Of course not.
      It means these people are less interested in what’s really going on and more interested in being distracted from their personal problems by watching the latest entertaining, titillating or enraging (yes, a lot of people are literally addicted to being enraged) episode of the Globalist Takeover soap opera.

      They do usually genuinely want to know what’s going on but not at the cost of not being entertained, enraged, etc.

      The same way they want to defend privacy but not at the cost of spending 5 extra seconds to login to an encrypted E-mail service, or put a piece of tape over the camera on their surveillance bug (“smartphone”).

  6. For your conspira-tainment:

    New Evidence Epstein ESCAPED…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baCqjJR16mw

    Reading the Comments while listening at 1.5X playback. One astute viewer noted that the jail cell lacked a sink and toilet, so the Discovery episode likely is misleading.

    • @jo-ann

      Evidence leads to proof which is then a fact. There’s NO EVIDENCE of god, Jesus, Satan, Heaven, Hell, etc. beyond heartfelt personal testimony, all based on man made myths to steal sovereign spiritual expression to control humans out of fear.

      Therefore can’t have an “anti-Christ” without one. Just because psychotic, sociopaths choose to obfuscate their evil ways in religious mythology does not validate the myth. They are simply cowards playing malevolent games of hate and harm.

      Organized Religion’s domination/control created a psychological conditioning of expectation of heroes rescue syndrome (Jesus, Angels, etc.) negating sovereign thinking and autonomous self liberation behavior.

      Eventually whomever the controllers really are, used psychological conditioning on the masses from Pavlov, Skinner, Freud, Bernays, etc. and who knows what D.A.R.P.A has come up with, married to modern TV, Movies, Social Media, weapons of mass distraction.
      IMO of course…
      😎

      BLUES IN THE PULPIT (song)
      https://old.bitchute.com/video/q8ZG6femxLgj/

  7. Dam I was out of town Sunday and missed it.

  8. The front end of the FL&NWO is near completion with the book having arrived at my town Library this lovely spring Monday morning . The rear end of this project is still a little vague as to how it gets connected to the participants. How to? no clue yet but not going to fold untill it becomes apparent that POSIWID says no ludites allowed. Nothing good comes quick so the overburdened is not a problem, I’m use too the wetness of sweat. If The Professor ( thank you James Corbett) makes an effort ,he deserves an equal response. A leap of faith. Is there any others using a Pixel Android i phone to connect?

  9. Hope you had a fruitful meeting!
    On a different note – interested to see what the reverberations of that latest Senate hearing with Ron Johnson on the Coivd safety monitoring might bring… not that I have any faith in any political persecutions, but it might shake some people over to a more critical side nonetheless…

  10. So many inventions are thought up in the bathroom – as my good French friend says the shower is the ‘inspiration chamber’.

    I love the idea indeed, being live, rather like James does at Media Monarchy with his live chat whilst broadcasting.

  11. First of all, “Long Live The Electric Toothbrush” (as they say) and of course, I will add “where would we be without her?” – some claim this the greatest philosophical question of our times. Then let’s not forget 1984 was a great year for the electric toothbrush, as this was when Madonna had the foresight to understand it could also be used as a device to facilitate genital gratification (song: “2in1”; album: “My Oh My”). Besides all this, if suggestions are indeed welcome, well then why should I deny myself that little fun, right? Mine would be to give more notice… Because that would simply be, in just one word, wonderful!

  12. Moving to May a side topic recently raised by HRS in April: «But here’s the important question: “Is Andrew Bustamante still on the CIA payroll?”» (https://corbettreport.com/april-open-thread-2026/#comment-186648).

    “Your Favourite Podcasts Are CIA Propaganda” (https://youtu.be/gPl2D7ObDEU) – YT channels like this one can act as a pretty decent means to take the temperature of the collective perception.

    So there seems to be a big online public relations communication campaign aiming at diverting the general focus of attention as well as carrying out some damage control by using the “former spook spills the beans” scheme, in the same spirit as the Snowden affair, following James’ analysis of that particular case.

    To be fair, although I did see the above mentioned video, I didn’t watch any of those guys’ detailed testimonies as I don’t have much interest in them, so I don’t really know what bs they’re peddling. But it could be quite instructive to do a synthesis of their overall message…

    • RE: CIA
      Dalesco says:
      “So there seems to be a big online public relations communication campaign….”

      I agree. Since Trump’s election, I’ve noticed a general trend which shapes the CIA in a better light.

      On your linked video, I skipped quickly to different points. I happened to land at the 22:15 mark.
      Basically the ‘past CIA agent’ admits, repeatedly, that the CIA recruits mentally broken people with active sociopath/psychopathic tendencies.

      By virtue of that logic, one cannot ever cleanly trust anyone who is or has been in the CIA.

      • “Basically the ‘past CIA agent’ admits, repeatedly, that the CIA recruits mentally broken people with active sociopath/psychopathic tendencies.

        By virtue of that logic, one cannot ever cleanly trust anyone who is or has been in the CIA.”

        On top of that, I believe they also have to sign some sort of lifetime agreement when they’re hired that states they’ll never reveal anything confidential…

        I guess the image they’d want to portray would be something like “We’re bastards so YOU don’t have to be”.

        • That’s funny!

          Upon entry to the foyer of the Langley, Virginia CIA building reads a giant wall plaque:
          “We’re bastards so YOU don’t have to be.”

          • Homie,
            For many years I’d come to Texas…
            Around the Time of the Texas State Fair every year ,there always was a billboard sign on I-35 heading south just before Gainesville. The sign said
            ” You bastards behave yourselves” .
            The northbound lane had a similar sign. The sentiment was much the same as the sign in the CIA headquarters. I always thought they had put those signs in backwards.
            Why would you ever worry over a headlight out in Texas? The light on the tag was always more important to the sheriff’s around the border.

            • Billboards saying ”You bastards behave yourselves” on the north and south lanes of I-35 in far north Texas near the Red River Oklahoma border every Fall.

              GBW, I have noticed those billboards also.

              It’s too bad that college kids can’t read until after they graduate.

              ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
              For those not-in-the-know…

              The University of Texas Longhorns and the University of Oklahoma Sooners are intense, historic rivals.
              Their football rivalry, known as the Red River Rivalry (formerly the “Red River Shootout” or “Showdown”), is among the most prestigious and long-standing in college football, played annually in Dallas since 1900.
              During the State Fair of Texas, inside the Fair Park grounds lies the Cottonbowl which fills up with fans.
              Decades ago, the Cottonbowl once hosted the Dallas Cowboy football games.

              SEE the crowd – “Red River Rivalry”
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1tu6zScWvc

              • Homie,

                That ” see the crowd- Red River Rivalry” captures the event perfectly.

                There is so much human potential there. No wonder we are feared throughout the world if the world sees that as Americans relaxing..

                I would like to hear what the foreigners ( wink) think about this . Their world cup and all the divisions are a cave of its own. Please , come into our cave and tell us what it is like on the outside…and what a wonderful world this could be.

        • “We’re bastards so YOU don’t have to be.”

          Reminds me of the veterans who assert there is value in their psychopathic a-hole nature with statements like “you’ll be glad we’re here when TSHTF”.

          But the reality of the matter is that we only need psychopathic a-holes to defend against… other psychopathic a-holes.

          So the real solution isn’t the creation & lauding of psychopathic a-hole squads & agencies but rather the complete eradication of all psychopathic a-holes.

          • If we had a device that would allow us to easily identify individuals with ASPD, needing neither the subjects’ consent nor their active participation to the test, what would we use it for?

            Would that not make for a moral dilemma?

            • Dalesco,
              That’s a good question. What would we use it for that didn’t cause a moral dilemma? The dilemma will be over pre crime if the device or test can’t measure quantity as well as quality.

              Almost a paradox. We live in a vacuum and we all share characteristic parts of ASPD probably to some degree. If , and a big if here, do we fall on a spectrum? Some obviously are highly concentrated and others highly devoid of those qualities. Seemingly in parts, it would be essential for survival of the meek where these traits lay dormant untill needed. The device and test wouldn’t be needed for them . If it where it would be a instrument of pre crime only . It would tell you only if it where present or not without a quantitative measure. The person having ASPD in large quantities that threaten survival to those in close proximity at all times , probably have a performance record established and verify the information the device or test would indicate. Unfortunately it wouldn’t be accurate for pre crime anymore than the meek who have ASPD but use it only in the most severe of circumstances. Comparatively, a device or test would be as useless as a 19th century set of calipers measuring the circumference of a skull to determine guilt.

              We must judge our uniqueness in terms of actions not potentials.

              • It would indeed present the same ethical flaws as the concept of pre-crime.

  13. A study by Dr. Piers Robinson of the ‘flyability’ of the 9/11 flight paths which ended in building collisions has been published:

    Manual or Automated? A Flight Simulation Study and Analysis of Reported Aircraft Maneuvers on September 11, 2001; Dr. Piers Robinson; International Center for 9/11 Justice; 2026-05
    https://ic911.org/reports/manual-or-automated/

    PDF: https://ic911.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/manual-or-automated_may-2026.pdf

    The ‘Relevant Literature’ review notes comments made by experienced pilots and trials of reflights in simulators by documentary or television productions. Robinson’s contribution is to add experimental rigor to evaluating the flight paths in full motion flight simulators using both pilots of equivalent, limited experience of the alleged hijackers and experienced pilots.

    From this the study “support[s] the hypothesis of automated control involving both precision control inputs in the final seconds and the execution of specific maneuvers that achieved particular impact angles and points of impact.”

    i.e the planes which impacted the north and south tower, and the Pentagon were remotely expertly piloted or followed programmed pre-planned routes.

    • Yea, thanks 2-D Chess Dweller for posting this.
      I also appreciate your synopsis.

  14. Thursday May 2026 – Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news at ZeroHedge
    Age Verification PsyOp? Kids Bypass UK Government Tech With Fake Moustaches
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/age-verification-psyop-kids-bypass-uk-government-tech-fake-moustaches

    EXCERPTS
    The UK government’s much-hyped age verification system for social media has been reduced to a joke overnight – and the punchline is being delivered by schoolkids armed with makeup pencils and fake facial hair.

    A damning new report from Internet Matters reveals that more than a third of UK children have already figured out how to dodge the latest “safeguards” imposed under the draconian Online Safety Act.

    Methods include entering fake birthdays, borrowing logins, and – most hilariously – drawing on fake moustaches to fool facial age estimation tech. One parent admitted catching her son using an eyebrow pencil; the system promptly verified him.

    This comes as ministers double down on plans to restrict or outright ban social media access for under-16s. Just days ago, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and junior minister Olivia Bailey confirmed the government will impose “some form of age or functionality restrictions” regardless of whether a full ban is enacted.

    A national consultation on the policy closes later this month, with pilots already running in hundreds of homes testing bans, time limits, and digital curfews.

    But the farce unfolding in real time shows exactly why these measures were always doomed to fail – or, more cynically, why they were designed to fail.

    [X commentor says: “I suspect it’s fake news so they can push for ID verifications.”]

    Either the architects of this scheme are completely incompetent, or this is a deliberate ploy to make the whole thing look ridiculous.

    Why? To curtail resistance and downplay the inevitable next step: mandatory digital ID…

    …We’ve seen this playbook before. When Apple began forcing iPhone users to prove their age with government ID or lose unrestricted internet access, we warned it was the thin end of the wedge….
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Corbett’s Cutter:
    “Never attribute to stupidity what can best be explained by deliberate sabotage.”

    …taken from…
    CorbettReport’s April 26, 2026
    EU Age Verification App Hacked In Under Two Minutes…And It Gets WORSE!
    https://corbettreport.com/eu-age-verification-app-hacked-in-under-two-minutes-and-it-gets-worse/

  15. I appear to be a transgressor destined for The Corbett Report Hell. Yes, I did not watch the subscriber only video on the day of its release. It’s probably going to be hot, and for a long time. Damn, that is what I get for being a busy man. However, I have purchased the book, and am actually reading it. I have felt like leaving comments about it as I have progressed through it, but thought that it would not be a good idea, and should just wait until I hear the FLNWO podcast. I just know that it will occur in the last week of May. I don’t know the exact day, date, or time… yet. Hopefully, I will find out so that I can participate. I may not chat much, which, would probably get me kicked off the chat stream at Media Monarchy. So, I hope you don’t have that same policy. I definitely have thoughts about the book thus far, and want to see if the discussion between James and the guest (sorry, I forgot his name) addresses those thoughts.

    • Won Fat Duck,

      I will trade your transgressions for my luditeness. Having read the book twice I’m curious to see what others, especially the Professor has to say. My lens is so full of what must be all my propaganda predigeses , and wild creative interpretations of fiction are or are not telling me.
      Beyond the comfortable type size, paper and general high quality of the book the fiction was a good fiction. But is it more than just a book, a science fiction book?

      • I haven’t got to a place where it has turned into “science fiction” yet. I didn’t/haven’t read any liner notes on the front or back covers, but I did go back and listen to James’ video announcing the book. He noted that it was “alternate history”, which did explain a few things to me. I figured there would be a preface or a forward that would explain that, but there isn’t.

    • Warning – Projectile Crap in the video.

  16. James, we can no longer access your site via IP address in browser URL bar.

    You’re now pretty vulnerable to being silenced via DNS censorship during the next scamdemic (or similar event).

    Grok seems to think you can fix this via the nginx conf file but I have no experience with that.

    Corbetteers should be able to edit their OS hosts file to access your site (during DNS censorship) but very few will know about that option.
    Example:
    In Windows 7, open windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in Notepad then add the following line: 77.235.50.148 corbettreport.com

  17. Some unmitigated GOOD NEWS. From Jessica Corbett at
    Commondreams.org

    I’ve followed this as part of the food news and Monsanto/ Bayer battles. All of Oklahomas’ congress critters are sell-outs to Big Chem. Big Oil and MIC. Zionist APAC. However this Farm Bill got a black eye. Now its up to Supreme Court.

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/pesticide-liability-shield

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