And I'm James Evan Pilato of MediaMonkey.com. Kids can't tie their shoes anymore, not even
the fifth graders. We have that horrifying story. Plus, depopulation architect joins
the calls. But first, what way do we talk about World War III this week? Iran appears
to have conducted significant cyber attack against a U.S. company, a first, possibly
since the war started. Grabbing this from NBC News, everything we say is always linked
up and proved down in the show notes. An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed responsibility for a
cyber attack on a medical tech company in what appears to be the first significant
instance of Iran's hacking an American company since the start of the latest war
between the two countries. The company Striker with a Y. Headquartered in
Michigan produces a range of medical equipment and technology. Won't someone
please think of the medical-industrial complex? Historically, Iran has conducted
some of the most infamous wiper cyber attacks on national enemies, aiming to
simply erase all the data on computer networks. Victims include Saudi Aramco,
Saudi Arabia's national oil company back in 2012, and the Sands Casino in 2014.
But I recall Obama and Israel feeding Stuxnet into nuclear plants, which
strikes me as a tad more dangerous than some rigged casino. I don't know. Since
the war started, some established hacker groups sympathetic to Iranian
leadership have claimed minor attacks, but most have been relegated to briefly
altering the appearance of a website which sounds quaint and classic now in
2026, and none appear to have had major impact. Some tech and cybersecurity
companies, including Google, and the email cybersecurity company Proof Point
have told NBC Comcast News they've largely seen Iran's hackers conducting
espionage related to the war. But that appears to have changed with what
appears to have been a different type of attack that also deleted
information from devices. A striker employee who requested, don't say who I am,
I'm not supposed to be running my mouth, said that employees work issued phones
stopped working, grinding work and communications with colleagues to a
standstill. I guess it stopped short of locking their doors and they couldn't
scan to get back into their offices or out of the elevators. Striker says
it's restoring systems after a pro-Iran hackers wiped thousands of
employee devices as the U.S. cyber assault on Iran before the bombing hasn't
stopped the hackers, James. And these are the ones that we know about.
Yeah, exactly right. And so I don't have anything to really add color
commentary-wise to this story, other than to say exactly what we've been
saying for close to 20 years on this very subject is, yep, some things
happen in the digital domain. They say it's Iran-linked hackers and we
just have to believe them or not, I suppose. Those are our choices because
how the hell do we know? Yeah, okay, I guess there was some kind of thing that
happened with Striker's Networks, but who was it? It was an Iran-linked group.
How did you link that exactly? And how do we know? And whose server logs
are we getting to peruse to get into their bones of this? Again, all of
this is just like everything else in the digital space. It's just whatever.
Who knows? So yes, but you're exactly right. Yeah, every week, I think at
this point, it's just what aspect of World War Three do we want to cover in
this non-live, non-breaking news up to the minute news show? Well, we have
to cover some aspect of this crazy unfolding event. So I think the
cyber attack is relatively underreported at the moment, but that's
probably because they're setting all of the pieces in place for the
gigantic spectacular punch in the Facebook that we know is coming.
Coming, right? And of course, we'll know it's those Iranians, I tell you, who did
it? Not to say that I think the government of Iran is some wonderful
utopia that should be defended in the general sense of, oh, my God, I'm
glad they're ruling over their people. An example of that is coming
from the register. Iran's chosen users get privileged access
despite internet blackout for masses, noting that Iran's internet
uptime went from 100% uptime in the days preceding the strikes to just
above 0% thereafter. And so now basically the only way the average
Iranian can get access to the internet at all is through some
either sketchy VPN relay of a legal Starlink signal or if
somebody's on the border who happens to be able to pass the
network through the border, which obviously the Iranian
government is cracking down on. So yes, of course, what is
the first casualty of any war? It's truth. And so governments
around the world will all act the same. They will all try to
plunge their masses into darkness, literal and metaphorical
in the event of war. And Iran is doing that to its chosen users
as well. So there's that. But then the narrative continues to
unfold. I have this from the past couple of days, EU
sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling. Charlie
Hebdo breach. So the Council of the European Union is
sanctioning something called Eminet Pasargad, which is a front
for a series of Iranian cyber attacks. Again, trust us,
bros. And apparently they attempted interference with US
elections and attacked the subscribers of French satirical
magazine, Charlie Hebdo, by hacking their subscriber logs
and releasing them to the dark web. So anyway, make of that
false flag question mark what you will. But even over here
in East Asia, Japan's now getting into the act Japan to
allow proactive cyber defense from October 1. And of course, the
wisecrackers at the register had the sub subhead on that one in
less polite spaces places. This is called hacking back or
offensive psy ops. So yes, they have Japan is now
basically approving offensive cyber operations, which I'm
sure they've been doing. But now it's officially they're
doing it. So there you go. So the cyber war is unfolding.
There is a cyber war aspect to what is happening right now,
even if it is just the implanting of the narrative of cyber
warfare, it is becoming a more important part of this fifth
generation war on everyone that is World War three that is
already happening, regardless of what's happening on the
geopolitical table. And let's always keep in mind, it's
always governments against their own citizens.
And they want us to identify with my country to those people
over there again, we're all pretty much usually pawns under
the rule of and I heard you say it, you everybody out there,
you heard him, only the chosen ones get the internet.
But yeah, I mean, the guy that signed an executive order to
increase production of glyphosate said that Iran is evil.
So you know, I gotta go with that right. Hey, at least
it wasn't exploding pagers. 16 years ago this week on New
World Next Week, James, I sent you this yesterday and it was
like, bam, what about a synchronicity? New World Next
Week flashback, virtual flag terrorism, black cyber
operations on the rise, March 18, 2010, 16 years ago this
week on New World Next Week. And we're going to have to
go back through some of those early ones because I don't
even have numbers on the earliest New World Next
Week episodes. And James, maybe maybe we just do this show
live, moving into the future at some point. It's just a
thought. That's how we get going on New World Next Week
episode 623. Our second story, not really a story so much as
it's just sad notes from teachers on the front lines.
James, and we were talking about we were talking about
public schools a little bit before we started rolling
tape on this episode. Back in the Smith's days, I
didn't mention Morrissey at all last week, there was a
song called The Headmaster Ritual about how abusive all
the teachers and coaches were at school beating you up and
all the horrible things that happened there. 15 years
later he's solo and of course times had changed and he
has a song solo record called The Teachers Are
Afraid of the Pupils. A noticeable decline. Teachers
sharing the everyday things students can't do for
themselves anymore. They can't read, write, or
spell and don't care. This is coming from Buzzfeed who
apparently posted up an article 25 teachers sharing the
basic things students apparently can't do themselves
anymore and once that story hits even more people
started to pile on. In response to that, I teach
3K. These are three and four year olds and most of
our kids cannot put a jacket on at all. They won't
even try. They start throwing tantrums before
even attempting saying they can't do it. It's
a struggle to read a clock unless it's digital. Kids
know they will pass no matter how unqualified, ill-equipped,
and unprepared they are. They come to school with the
attitude, I won't do the work and you can't make me.
So I'm sad to say we can't. That's why I quit
teaching. Call me a coward. I blame it on no child
left behind. It's always those Republicans. I've
been shocked by the number of second and third
graders who can't tie their shoes. I also have
fourth graders who can't write their first and
last names. It's really scary to think a kid
can get to fourth grade without anyone raising an
alarm about their inability to write their full
name. I've been teaching high school English for
only seven years now and the post-COVID lockdown
emotional landscape is rough. Students are
using AI to think for them, write for them, and
summarize any readings for them that are longer
than a paragraph. We've put technology in every
classroom, but kids don't understand how to
use it. Now isn't that interesting? Doesn't
that seem to fly in the face of all the
kids love the tech? They love a device that has
no literal inputs and they can thwack on it like
a vending machine, but they don't understand the
technology of it. It's the same thing I've
worried about with with the parents. I was the
one setting in programming the VCR and doing
all the tech stuff back in the house. They
jumped over 25 years of tech to now have
21st century Star Trek devices in their hands.
So I would argue again a lot of this is
a bit of an equal blame to share on both sides,
the adults and the kids. I just retired after
spending decades teaching an intro course at the
university. The reason cheating is the norm and
accepted. Critical thinking is out the door
and the use of chat GPT is the only way students
answer questions or write something. Kids can't
tie their shoes anymore, not even the fifth
graders. More and more we're seeing kids
lacking basic skills and teachers having to
teach a class of 25 plus kids all at
different levels. There's no way to do that
well and the kids just move on to the next
grade even though they're far from ready.
It's EFT. I retired last year because the
battle was bigger than me. Kids refused to
think for themselves and parents
expected me to give grades for AI work. I
guess what bothered me most was that
they had no desire to learn and they
had no shame for being unlearned. So
there were only 25 comments at first. Now
there's 35 more which is how much James?
Oh oh god don't put me on the spot um
uh wait let me get my digital calculator uh
yeah just ask the browser. I know I know
low battery um yeah yeah okay so you're
saying that there's blame to go around
and I agree on that point but I don't
put the blame on the kids. Human beings
are not fundamentally stupider or
lazier than they have ever been
throughout all of human history and
maybe they've always been stupid and
lazy to some extent but anyway um it's
not that human beings are fundamentally
genetically changing at the genomic
level at least not quite yet but um
yes there is blame for what is happening
with the degradation of basic life
skills and let's approach it from this
way. People have heard I hope people
have heard of the Flynn effect which
is this long documented phenomenon of
standardized IQ scores tending to
go up generation decade after decade
after decade after decade in an unbroken
chain it's it's people are getting
smarter well I guess that's one possible
explanation for that but then we have
the reverse Flynn effect which has
kicked in arguably in the developed
world since the 1990s as the standardized
IQ scores start leveling off and even
declining so what is going on people
were getting smarter and smarter
every decade and now suddenly they're
getting dumber and dumber every decade
no um we could take this if you
want it from the the hoity-toity science
types Flynn effect and its reversal are
both environmentally caused which was an
article that was posted up a few years
ago which talks about this reverse
Flynn effect and it goes on to say this
establishes that the large changes in
average cohort intelligence reflect
environmental factors and not changing
composition of parents which in turn
rolls out several prominent hypothesis
for retrograde Flynn effects so in
other words please do go read through
the article but yes no it's not that
people are getting fundamentally smarter
or stupider it's that environmental
causes and inputs are the determinative
factors in how we express ourselves as
human beings which should be obvious
so when we place children in situations
where for example the helicopter
prepare a phenomenon and the parents
going to be in charge of everything
and do everything for the kids the
kids are going to learn that they can
be completely helpless and oh no I'm
just gonna cry and scream until someone
helps me put on my jacket and if that
is what we are teaching the kids they
will learn that now you could argue and
some people might that some of these
things well of course I know it's
difficult for people of our vintage to
comprehend this but maybe there isn't
something written in the stars about
the value of being able to read a
clock that has 12 digits but we know
that the shorthand has to be
multiplied by five so like maybe that
isn't the most important skill for a
human being to have unless we are in the
analog world where everybody has analog
clocks so I'm not I'm not gonna cry
myself to sleep over the a child that
can't necessarily tell time on the
clock I mean yeah I get it but it's
not that important a skill but it does
point to something which is that we
are technologically determined yes
that is an important skill to have
when there are analog clocks and
everything is set up that way but when
we have digital clocks maybe that is
an important skill to have but what
else does that say about what skills are
or are not important if we are not
teaching children to read
physical actual books that are written
and printed and have you know all of
the the conventions of that format then
of course who cares whatever I'm just
typing emojis and and shorthand and I
use you the letter you for why are you
and all of that and who cares what
does it matter that's that's how
everyone communicates our media is
determinative of the things that we the
way that we interact with others the
things that we learn or don't learn
etc so there's a lot there's a lot to
think about with regards to this if
people are interested in thinking
about it boy have I got an online mass
media history course for you that
talks about the development from the
printing press all the way up to
21st century metaverse technology and
how that is shaping who we are as
human beings I think there's
something very important going on
here that's much beyond kids these days
are dumb so
I hope people will take a look at that
course
and start to think about the ways the
technology and the media are shaping
who we are
and whether maybe we don't want to go
head first into this dumbing down of
our children
that is available at newworldnextweek.com
James and I get a lot of these stories
doing morning monarchy doing a live
morning news show every day and seeing
these things about
Gen Z getting fired months after
getting hired because they don't show
up and blah blah blah
they bring their parents with them on
job interviews
now I was I was class clown
this was well established on this
show
there was a certain point in high
school man
where I noticed they were putting me
in the dummy class I was like oh
no
I'm not dumb I just don't care
and I really had to I had to
straighten up and I joined a
couple of clubs it was like
the panic of like I hate all this and
don't believe in it
but I sure as heck don't want to get
left behind and not graduate and be a
sad loser
human authored I believe is the term
you were looking for James when you
were pointing to all your books
behind you there
and now these kids today
and we can't even eat them
they're also full of GMOs and
Adderall I'm just kidding that's
what a creepy eugenicist would say
depopulation agenda architect
Paul Ehrlich dead at 93
he had a long long run
grabbing this from climate depot
he said western governments should
end all food aid
and argued for the forced
sterilization of Indian men
with three or more children
Paul Ehrlich
who was died at 93
was an entomologist specializing
in butterflies though he became
better known as a campaigner
for population control
in the population bomb 1968
Ehrlich predicted imminent
catastrophe as the result
of human population growing
faster than its ability to feed
itself in the 1970s
he proclaimed millions would
starve to death
as the weight of humanity bore
down on the earth's resources
six years later in the end of
affluence in 74 written
with his wife and Ehrlich
increased his death toll
estimates suggesting that a
billion or more people
could die from starvation
by the mid 80s
and that by 1985
the world would be
in an era of scarcity
when Thomas Malthus writing
an essay on the principle of
population in 1798 predicted war
pestilence and starvation
as a result of overcrowding
the world's population stood
at less than one billion
by the time Ehrlich joined the
fray it was 3.6 billion
now it's a little over eight
they say
and as it has turned out
Ehrlich's population time bomb
has failed to explode
indeed the death toll
from payments has declined
even as the world's population
has rocketed
and change this was
this was part of the talk
in the 60s and 70s
there's that clip of
and I might be
Mr. Reference
it's it's John Lennon
on I think the Dick Cavett show
and they're talking about
overpopulation
and I and the hostess
I think the world's
overpunched I was like
well I don't care you know
I think you're wrong
he has a very flippant
you're wrong
but it's also a nice way
for the guy who of course
gets tagged with being
the commie and imagine
and all that stuff
that he at least
wasn't buying the
overpopulation theory
as many of the left do again
any stand-up comedian
they all hate humanity
and believe in population control
Paul Ehrlich's bad ideas
won't go away from the spectator
China scrambles
to reverse population collapse
with effort to boost
birth rates
the demographic winter
as we discussed here
many many times
and a couple of flashbacks
episode 339
meet Paul Ehrlich
pseudo science
charlatan
and recall
that Paul wrote
the four word
to make room make room
the book that had nothing
to do with cannibalism
until the movie
Malthusians got ahold of it
and turned it into
Soylent Green
that is one of our
film literature
in New World Order episodes
James
and there it is
I mean we have seen
as things got
crazy accelerated
in the last decade
since Trump and COVID
and Trump 2.0
we've had a lot
of the biggest
boogie men
of alt media
9 11 truth
all of that
but things have been so crazy
we don't even really
have much time
to stop and go
oh that's right
David Rockefeller
oh Henry Kissinger
oh Brzezinski
oh man
and Poppy Bush
all these dudes are gone
so there goes
Paul Ehrlich
at 93
James
yeah
and the irony is
that they all get to live
to their ripe old 80s
90s 100
because they
they live wonderful
pampered lives
of abundance
that they argued against
in the case of Ehrlich
you know like
how dare you peasants
and peon
you don't deserve
all this abundance
but anyway
I'll live to the ripe old age
of 93
being completely
and totally
utterly
provably
demonstrably wrong
about
everything that he predicted
and yet still
venerated
and lauded
to his dying day
I am at
at least can take the
Shadenfreude
that he lived long enough
to see the collapse
of the Malthusian
climate narrative
garbage
that is falling apart
in front of our eyes
after all these decades
and decades of
incessant propaganda
and the concerted efforts
of people like Ehrlich
but
it's small comfort
and I will just throw
a couple of
related that I think are
important
there's a good
what's up with that post
ever wrong
Ehrlich's greatest hits
bracket
or misses
which
notes that the New York Times
post on this
I haven't read it myself
I'm going to
but I don't want to
subject myself to it
but apparently
they write that quote
his predictions proved
premature
he's right
just you know
just a little too
he was a little too ahead
of the curve right
everything he said
demonstrably
terribly wrong
anyway
as one example in this article
they have a
graph of famine deaths
over the decades
and this huge spike
in the 1870s
presumably is that
the potato famine etc
and all these you know
famine deaths
and then of course
1970s 1980s
1990s 2000
basically
basically going down to
his near zero
as you're ever going to see
but yeah
of course
he was the one that was telling us
we're all going to be
completely out of food
and all
we're all going to die
in the 1970s
I think he was saying
they also have an
excellent
post I haven't seen before
in 1920
Scientific American
called anthropogenic
co2 emissions
quote
the precious
air
fertilizer
and there's this great graphic here
of the
carbonic acid gas
to fertilize the air
aka co2
to fertilize the air
and they show
potatoes grown with
fertilized air
co2 rich air
versus
unfertilized air
and then you've got these gigantic
massive potatoes
versus these tiny little
I mean
again
it was common knowledge a century ago
but they flipped it all on
Ted and co2 is the poisonous gas
that we must eliminate
because they know
that it is good for the environment
anyway
it's just part of the craziness
and another good thing
that people should read
at masterresource.org
there's a post
the special case of Paul Erlich
which is Julian Simon
who was writing
I think in the 1990s
about Erlich
and
how Erlich
completely and totally
and utterly dismissed Simon
and called him a kook
and wouldn't debate him etc etc
but
people might remember
the bed of the century
that Simon made with Erlich
and Simon won
Erlich lost
but of course
nobody cares
nobody
didn't change anything
in the New York Times
still lauds him
as being premature
he was premature
on his predictions
anyway
read that post
if you want some more
of the details
but I think this is an important
as you say
a good signpost
a good part
marking point
along our path
that
of course
we're not going to see
any sort of justice
to these people
who have inflicted
so much damage
on the world
through their
horrible
evil
life-denying
humanity-hating narratives
but at the very least
some of them
are living long enough
to see that narrative
collapsing before their eyes
so I'll take that
as a small win
there'll be Gatorade
in the water fountains
before you know it
you think
Paul Ehrlich was
doom-scrolling on his device
there until the end
looking at
how wrong he was
and how
I don't know
good grief
and remember
it was a different Paul
Krugman
making predictions
you know
that this whole
life-changing
world-changing thing
we call the internet
has turned out to be
a little more important
than the fax machine
indeed
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