Happy New Year, everybody!... ...Right? It is going to be a happy new year, right? Regime change operations in Iran and nuclear button talk in North Korea and biometric banking and a million other concerns beside, it is going to be a happy new year, isn't it? You see,...
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2017: The Year of Technocracy (Confirmed!)
As you no doubt remember, dear reader, I kicked off 2017 with my customary look at the year ahead. This year's prediction? "2017: The Year of Technocracy." As I observed lo those many months ago: "I find it more and more difficult to shake the conviction that...
Interview 1336 – New World Next Year 2018 with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This year: Corbett Report’s 2017 Story: The Robots Keep Rising The Robot That Knows When...
Interview 1334 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: World Bank To Stop Financing Oil, Gas Projects From 2019...
The Sugar Conspiracy
An explosive new study in the PLOS Biology journal confirms three things that independent health researchers have been saying for years: Sugar-heavy diets are worse for your health than fat-heavy diets. Researchers have known this fact for decades. The sugar industry...
When Robots Rule the Markets…
The Corbett Report community held a vigorous discussion on the future of Artificial Intelligence this past summer, and the results are in: No one understands the question (myself included). Now, to be fair, I didn't do a very good job of framing the debate so, as is...
The 5 Most Amazing Documents From The JFK Files
OK, the dust has settled on the "release" of the JFK files last week, and here's what we know so far: As expected, the release is not a full release by any stretch of the imagination, despite Trump's tweets to the contrary. As I pointed out in the most recent edition...
The Banksters Win Again: Senate Makes It Harder For Americans to Sue Banks
OK, brace yourself: The US Senate just made it harder for Americans to sue banks. I know, I know. I can hardly believe it either. But it's true. This all goes back to a ruling by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that was posted to the Federal Register in...