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We’re told that this is about the mad scramble for resources in the Arctic, and there may be some truth to that, but it’s not the whole truth. So, what is this brouhaha over Greenland really about?
In January 2020, Larken and Amanda Rose appeared on The Corbett Report to discuss their plan to turn Larken’s short fable, “The Jones Plantation,” into a feature-length film. Well, guess what? It’s 2023 and that film is now here. Appropriately enough, it’s called Jones Plantation and it’s available online now. Joining us today to talk about the film is Larken and Amanda Rose.
Tjeerd Andringa joins James on #SolutionsWatch to discuss his cancellation from his former position at the University of Groningen and, more importantly, how that prompted him to create the School of Understanding. Designed as a small-scale, decentralized, effective, and cheap solution to the problems of our current schooling, the School of Understanding that Andringa is creating promises to serve as a model for an alternative post-secondary education system.
Hey guys, I’m taking a week off.
Hey everyone! I hope you’re out and about enjoying the lovely summer of global boiling, but just in case you do find yourself looking at a screen I present for your edification and enjoyment the August Open Thread.
via Efrat Fenigson: ?️My guest today is James Corbett: an award-winning investigative journalist, and a lecturer on geopolitics and open source journalism. James started The Corbett Report website (https://www.corbettreport.com/) in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. I truly think James is some sort of human encyclopedia, and a genius investigative journalist. I had a blast talking to him.
This week on the New World Next Week: the UN Secretary General announces the age of global boiling; the CDC rings the alarm on tick-borne meat allergy; and the wacky mid-summer news includes indictments, aliens and dead stars.
An incredible event took place this week: A Russian tanker docked at the Port of Jiangsu on China's east-central coast, offloading its cargo of liquefied natural gas from the Yamal LNG plant in Russia's north. Now, I know what you're thinking: "James, that's not so...
Flying completely under the radar of the various crises that have come to define 2020, an interesting story is playing out in India. This story shines a light on the increasingly globalized nature of medical research and on the dark practice of using poor people in...
OK, I get it. You're sick of hearing about it. "There must be something else happening in the world," I hear you saying. Well, you're in luck! I did some digging and it turns out there are other things happening in the world, after all! Things that have nothing to do...
TANSTAAFL. As you may or may not know, depending on how much anarchist sci-fi literature you consume, "TANSTAAFL" is an acronym meaning "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." But while TANSTAAFL may have been popularized by Robert Heinlein in his 1966 classic,...
Long-time listeners/readers/viewers of mine will be very familiar with the old "conspiracy theorist" smear and how it is used to stop any would-be truth seekers from questioning the official explanation of contentious events. They will also know how the term can be...
Well, it's official: "Japan Inc." is now "Bank of Japan Inc." Oh, OK, not officially official, but just about. As the Nikkei Asian Review reports, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is now a top-10 shareholder in a whopping 40% of the listed companies in the country. That's...
America is in a funk. With their country slipping into an economic and cultural morass and at risk of losing its footing on the global chessboard, Americans find themselves working harder than ever and still falling further and further behind. How can this be?...
