Greetings, Mr. President. Thank you for taking a few minutes to see me today. I understand your time is valuable, so let me get to the point: You thought that whole selection charade made you "the leader of the free world," didn't you? Like you were now in charge of...
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The Coming Bitcoin Clampdown
by Corbett | Feb 19, 2017 | Newsletter
We all know the old dictum: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" Well, governments have their own version: "If you can't beat 'em, use your jackbooted thugs to go out and steal their idea and outlaw all competition." Case in point: bitcoin. As I pointed out in my Tech...
Pentagon Caught Peddling Fake News About Airstrikes
by Corbett | Feb 12, 2017 | Newsletter
Newsflash: The Pentagon has been lying to you for years. OK, OK, so this is hardly a "Stop the presses!"-type revelation. After all, this is the same Pentagon that still can't account for trillions of dollars in "year end adjustments" on its books. This is the same...
The New CIA Records Archive: An Open Source Investigation
by Corbett | Feb 8, 2017 | Articles
by James Corbett corbettreport.com February 8, 2017 As Corbett Reporteers will know by now, the Central Intelligence Agency is one of the organs through which the deep state manipulates the overt government in Washington. It is not without good cause that the initials...
Maybe Government Death Squads Are A Bad Idea
by Corbett | Feb 5, 2017 | Newsletter
Remember when I warned about the worrying signs that Filipino President Rodrigo "Dirty Harry" Duterte was setting up a police state, including deputizing the public to kill suspected criminals, threatening martial law if the judiciary tried to stop him and endorsing...
Dow 20,000! What Could Go Wrong?!!
by Corbett | Jan 29, 2017 | Newsletter
Congratulations, America! The Dow Jones Industrial Average has just rolled past 20,000 for the first time ever! Let the fireworks fly, because the ticker tape parade is about to begin! The Trump administration, wasting no time in chalking this up to "the Trump...
Chaos Out of Order
by Corbett | Jan 22, 2017 | Newsletter
Well, we've all survived inauguration weekend...so far. That's a start, right? It's certainly a sign of something when we take some measure of comfort in the fact that the world hasn't quite ended yet, but you don't need me to tell you that. Everyone can feel it deep...
Decentralize Everything: How To Avoid the Technocratic Nightmare
by Corbett | Jan 15, 2017 | Newsletter
The metaphorical ink was hardly dry on last week's "2017: Year of Technocracy" editorial when a flood of stories twittered their way across the newswire to confirm my predictions in spades: CES 2017 is all about cars, drones, smart devices, TVs, and drones Staying Off...