WEBVTT 00:12.940 --> 00:16.220 Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com 00:16.820 --> 00:23.540 And I'm James Evan Pallado of MediaMonkey.com. Surely part of the pleasure is that sense of connection with the content creator. 00:24.000 --> 00:35.880 We have got that fascinating story, plus Fukushima and COVID anniversaries, but first, nation's worldwide move to conserve fuel as straight-up Hormuz closure threatens global economy. 00:35.880 --> 00:50.600 Pakistani Prime Minister Shabez Sharif announced on 9 March sweeping austerity measures to curb domestic fuel consumption after oil prices briefly reached $120 a barrel due to the disruptions caused by the U.S. real war on Iran. 00:51.100 --> 00:59.980 The entire region is currently in a state of war. Keeping this reality in mind, the government took difficult decisions for the country's economy, Sharif said in his address. 00:59.980 --> 01:10.460 He said oil prices already above $100 a barrel and could rise further, forcing Islamabad to conserve reserves and take quick measures to reduce the need for fuel consumption across the country. 01:10.900 --> 01:20.720 Measures in the public sector include a four-day work week for government employees and rotating work from home arrangements for half of the public staff. 01:20.720 --> 01:33.060 The measures also involve two weeks of school closures, online classes for higher education, cuts to official fuel use, salary reductions for ministers and lawmakers, and restrictions on foreign travel and in-person government meetings. 01:33.280 --> 01:34.840 This sounds really familiar. 01:34.840 --> 01:42.180 Pakistani authorities said the plan was meant to utilize the available reserves of oil in a judicious manner. 01:42.740 --> 01:51.240 Workers in Pakistan who depend on driving for their livelihoods report that rising petrol prices are eroding incomes and driving up the costs of everyday goods. 01:51.600 --> 01:59.500 Elsewhere in Asia, Bangladesh imposed daily fuel sale limits after what Reuters described as panic buying and stockpiling. 01:59.500 --> 02:08.480 With state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation saying the curbs were meant to restrain excessive demand, calm the public and keep nationwide stocks stable. 02:08.940 --> 02:23.080 Other Asian states activated contingency plans rather than immediate rationing, including fuel price caps, efforts to stabilize petrol prices, shifts in crude purchases away from Gulf routes, and reliance on reserves or alternative supply arrangements. 02:23.080 --> 02:30.720 Asia is the epicenter of the war-induced energy shock since it relies on the Persian Gulf for over 80% of its oil. 02:31.240 --> 02:38.060 Unlike the U.S., which is a net exporter, Asia faces a literal energy panic, and I did have to look that up, James. 02:38.400 --> 02:40.320 America exports most of its oil. 02:40.580 --> 02:46.020 The United States is a net exporter of petroleum products, meaning it exports more refined oil than it imports. 02:46.020 --> 03:04.120 In 2023, the U.S. exported about 10.15 million barrels per day of petroleum, including gas, diesel, jet fuel, making it the world's largest exporter of refined petroleum products, while the U.S. is also the largest producer of crude oil, 12.1 million barrels a day. 03:04.120 --> 03:17.280 It exports a significant portion of its crude, particularly light, sweet crude from shale fields, of course, in Texas, North Dakota, and New Mexico, which feels like it should be a lot richer with all that oil that we provide. 03:18.020 --> 03:20.520 It's odd how New Hexico is still very, very poor. 03:21.560 --> 03:25.180 Is this the chart pressuring Trump toward an Iran off-ramp? 03:25.340 --> 03:29.940 That's the question Zero Hedge asked, because it did go pretty quickly to him saying, of course, we're not at war. 03:29.940 --> 03:34.200 Don't forget that, like Mike Johnson said, we're not at war. This is not a war. 03:34.660 --> 03:37.220 Also, Trump suddenly wants to end it really quickly. 03:37.820 --> 03:44.720 Iran vows to block oil shipments until U.S. real attacks end, and war with Iran becomes the world's latest economic hazard. 03:44.900 --> 03:50.660 Trump insists the conflict will be brief, but world leaders are prepping for severe economic blowback. 03:51.020 --> 03:51.300 James. 03:52.440 --> 03:56.000 Yes, James, there is a lot of moving parts on the table. 03:56.160 --> 04:03.880 There are a lot of moving parts on the table right now, so I'm sure people can appreciate all of the latest breaking news that is happening as we're recording this. 04:04.040 --> 04:09.960 Dozens of oil tankers divert to Red Sea as Saudis reroute crude flows from Hormuz Choke Point. 04:10.560 --> 04:18.420 We have the IEA, the International Energy Agency, to release a record 400 million barrels of oil from its stockpiles. 04:18.420 --> 04:40.140 We have the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, striking vessels who are attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, including a Thai-flagged dry bulk vessel, a Japan-flagged container ship, and a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier, all hit by unidentified projectiles as they were attempting to, well, not heed the warnings not to enter the strait. 04:40.140 --> 04:47.260 And then we also, of course, have this land mine, or sea mine, Bruha, that's taking place right now. 04:47.360 --> 05:01.880 Apparently Iran maybe was trying to put mines in the strait maybe, and Trump threatens consequences never seen before if Iran mines the strait of Hormuz, which wasn't that that old internet meme consequences like never before. 05:02.040 --> 05:03.120 Anyway, something like that. 05:03.200 --> 05:03.460 Anyway. 05:04.000 --> 05:11.040 So a lot of breaking news, but I guess, Brock, please put the temporal disclaimer, the New World Next Week temporal disclaimer on screen. 05:12.240 --> 05:20.660 Whatever happens in the 24 hours between the time we're recording this and the time that you actually see this, we don't know about, so we can't give you the latest up to the second breaking news. 05:20.960 --> 05:28.800 But I can attest to that Asian panic right now because, of course, in Japan we're starting to begin to feel the beginning of this. 05:28.800 --> 05:30.980 Gas gas prices already rising. 05:31.120 --> 05:36.540 And of course, it was a top story on the news last night, what how high will they go essentially. 05:37.320 --> 05:48.960 And, of course, I've I've read about Thailand and Malaysia and Pakistan and other places taking emergency measures and cutting office hours and all sorts of things to try to conserve oil at this point. 05:48.980 --> 05:51.200 And we'll see what eventuates from here. 05:51.200 --> 06:05.900 And I realize, look, I am fully, fully cognizant that, oh my God, won't someone think of the price of gas is not necessarily the most important moral calculation we could be making as, you know, bombs are dropping on schools full of school girls and that sort of thing. 06:06.460 --> 06:12.840 But it is the one that might that might impact those people who are still cheering this on. 06:13.120 --> 06:19.140 Yay, we got to get those damn terrorists and bring freedom to the Middle East or something that when has that ever gone wrong. 06:19.620 --> 06:32.560 But at the very least, once it starts affecting people in the pocketbook, it will start getting people to rethink their blind support for the US real war that's going on right now for absolutely no reason whatsoever. 06:33.320 --> 06:44.940 And as you say, you could be there even in the heart of oil country in New Mexico, but it's not like it's not like you're reaping any of the benefits and I bet you gas prices are starting to creep up there as well. 06:45.060 --> 06:47.540 It's funny how this knocks on and goes around. 06:48.720 --> 06:52.380 So excuse me, I'm so excited I'm choking on my own spit. 06:52.600 --> 06:57.980 So there are many things to say about this war and what's taking place right now. 06:58.660 --> 07:08.280 I would just say that the 2D summary of what's going on the these nation states against nation states, perhaps the best one I saw. 07:08.680 --> 07:11.960 I saw a Twitter post that was embedded in some article I was reading. 07:11.960 --> 07:20.140 It took the US 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, but only nine days to replace common A with common A. 07:21.720 --> 07:23.860 So that's progress, isn't it? 07:23.960 --> 07:28.800 So that's a funny way of putting what essentially what has taken place on the 2D geopolitical chessboard. 07:28.860 --> 07:33.420 But as as we all know, it's a 3D chessboard and there are people puppeteering both sides of this. 07:33.540 --> 07:39.980 And we should not forget that Iran was complicit in the covid scandemic nonsense like every other nation on the globe. 07:39.980 --> 07:48.060 And they played at their part in all of this phony nonsense of the axes of resistance against NATO slash Israel. 07:48.400 --> 07:54.080 It is a stage play and we should be careful not to investor identities in any of these fake teams. 07:55.360 --> 08:00.860 James, I saw a really interesting compare and contrast of two different New York Times headlines. 08:01.580 --> 08:08.120 Where the first one says Iran claims a missile hit one of their schools and kids or whatever. 08:08.120 --> 08:14.220 And then the next article is strike in Israel kills from Iranian missile. 08:14.400 --> 08:17.440 It's like everything Israel says is taken at face value. 08:17.640 --> 08:23.380 Anything Iran says is like, ah, these liars made a claim that we're all blowing up schools and killing little kids. 08:23.500 --> 08:27.860 So again, fantastic job from the liars in the press. 08:27.860 --> 08:31.320 And James, it's I mean, it's the same thing in West Virginia. 08:31.780 --> 08:39.720 Out of state exploiters using the state's resources to dig all that coal and well there pump all that oil. 08:39.940 --> 08:41.680 And it goes of course to out of state. 08:42.620 --> 08:47.700 The insurance companies embargo thing is kind of huge on this as well. 08:47.860 --> 08:52.880 James, I got a few people send me the article and in some ways it does go over again my economic head. 08:52.880 --> 08:57.820 What role did Marine insurers play in halting Hormuz traffic? 08:58.360 --> 09:07.860 Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz declined by 80% within 24 hours of strikes being launched on Iran as ship owners and charters weighed whether to proceed with voyages. 09:08.060 --> 09:13.180 The insurance companies are saying we ain't insured that because we'd have to pay out. 09:13.560 --> 09:16.420 They don't get where they are paying out a bunch of payments to folks. 09:17.040 --> 09:20.960 James you're coughing. I'm banging into my microphone this past week. 09:21.120 --> 09:24.500 I guess this is what passes for a slow news week. 09:24.580 --> 09:30.860 We're actually able to take a moment and kind of assess what has been going on at a pretty quick rate. 09:31.640 --> 09:34.660 Pretty fascinating story for our second story. 09:34.860 --> 09:41.580 UK Society of Authors launched logo to identify books written by humans not AI. 09:41.580 --> 09:50.660 The Society of Authors has launched a scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI generated books. 09:51.100 --> 10:01.940 The scheme is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association and allows authors to register their books and download a human authored logo to display on their back cover. 10:02.360 --> 10:05.780 No way anybody will steal that logo and put it on their AI slot. 10:05.780 --> 10:18.520 The SOA said the absence of any government measure please government save us to compel tech companies to label AI generated output meant readers were struggling to distinguish between books written by a human 10:18.520 --> 10:24.200 and machine generated works based on AI models trained on copy written works without permission or payments. 10:24.200 --> 10:29.960 It mirrors a similar scheme launched by the author's guild in the US at the beginning of 2025. 10:30.500 --> 10:41.920 Mary Beard the classicist that is Brit speak for ancient literature expert one of several high profile authors who have backed the scheme and plan to register their works on the human authored website. 10:42.120 --> 10:45.320 It's only going to be human authored books on my desert island. 10:46.160 --> 10:55.660 Mallory Blackman children's author said the scheme seeks to highlight the imagination, commitment, craft and care taken to produce stories and books which can be enjoyed by everyone. 10:56.040 --> 11:11.100 Any creative endeavor requires time, effort, a willingness to learn from mistakes and a determination to persevere lifelong essential skills which cannot be learned and honed by allowing AI to do all of our creative thinking and production for us. 11:11.100 --> 11:21.860 Surely part of the pleasure of reading, listening to songs, watching films and dramas, looking at an artwork and in fact sharing any creative endeavor is that sense of connection with the content creator. 11:22.200 --> 11:29.200 That feeling that they are speaking to you on some deep emotional level that is entirely absent when the work has been produced by AI. 11:29.540 --> 11:35.320 James the smartest, pithiest thing I could think of. This is basically the non GMO project for books. 11:36.380 --> 11:43.560 Yes, and I share your skepticism on this. Yeah, as if they won't just slap this on their AI slop and call it a date. 11:43.740 --> 11:47.820 I mean, I don't know how you enforce this or what kind of standards there are, how they check. 11:48.040 --> 11:55.680 Maybe I'll find out because maybe I should get reportage listed as a human authored book because it was no AI used in the creation of that book. 11:57.040 --> 12:00.920 Yeah, maybe I'll do that and make a little video about it. What is the process and how does it work? 12:01.600 --> 12:02.080 That's great. 12:02.840 --> 12:09.640 Again, what is the standard? Who is creating this standard? What does it mean? What if somebody does AI research? 12:09.780 --> 12:15.120 I asked rock and it told me this and then I wrote a story about it. I don't know. Again, where do you draw the lines with this? 12:16.300 --> 12:24.080 But having said that, I'm not against the idea. I think it's a good idea to at least be able to identify human created content over AI generated slop. 12:25.020 --> 12:32.060 And my concern of it, once you drill into this article and the associated articles that they're linking to about this subject, 12:32.140 --> 12:36.400 you'll find a lot of the authors are protesting because intellectual property. 12:36.840 --> 12:44.480 And they're concerned, oh, you know, AI is fed and trained on our copyrighted material and thus it's taking our work and stealing it. 12:44.600 --> 12:48.520 Well, as people know, I'm not a big fan of the concept of intellectual property itself. 12:48.520 --> 12:53.920 So my inclination against the AI generated work is not so much on that regard. 12:54.200 --> 12:59.540 It is more to do with what I think is one of the greater fears of all of this. 12:59.580 --> 13:04.740 It's not that AI is going to kill us or replace us or something like that. 13:04.820 --> 13:12.220 It's that we are going to essentially become like the AI because we will give over our thinking and our creative processes to it. 13:12.480 --> 13:16.560 And yeah, I really don't know what the point of consuming an AI generated novel would be. 13:16.560 --> 13:18.260 What what is the point of that? 13:18.340 --> 13:25.460 Even just theoretically conceptually, even if it tickles your funny bone or it makes you interested or whatever it is, 13:25.580 --> 13:29.120 it still just doesn't seem real and seems pointless. 13:29.220 --> 13:32.080 And it was just something that was generated from a machine. 13:32.320 --> 13:34.700 I don't know. Personally, I'm against that. 13:34.860 --> 13:40.940 And thus I'm going to find out what's involved with this label and whether or not someone like myself can get it slapped on my work. 13:42.380 --> 13:43.640 It's really fascinating. 13:44.100 --> 13:50.520 And again, as we've talked about for decades, it's the idea that's the powerful thing. 13:50.920 --> 13:52.940 It's not Airbnb or what. 13:53.080 --> 13:59.880 It's the idea that, hey, you're a free human being and you can share your car out to somebody or rent out a room in your place 13:59.880 --> 14:03.520 or say that your books are written by humans. 14:03.820 --> 14:07.680 James, I mean, it's a little bit like the AI pop songs. 14:07.680 --> 14:11.040 I like knowing what I'm in for. 14:11.580 --> 14:16.260 And I know that it's an outlet that says we do comedic satirical AI songs. 14:16.500 --> 14:19.840 It's when it's the tricks when people have tried to pass off things. 14:20.000 --> 14:24.840 I believe you and I talked maybe off mic about that new country song that was breaking up the charts. 14:24.900 --> 14:28.720 That was that was all completely AI doing it surreptitiously. 14:28.720 --> 14:33.880 Again, as I talked about on New World next year, 2026, I think it's some of those channels like 14:33.880 --> 14:40.460 almost vinyl that are very open and very sort of open about what they do. 14:40.580 --> 14:43.900 I guess I don't have the misgivings about that that I would in other areas, 14:43.900 --> 14:48.300 whether that's GMO foods or AI media, I suppose. 14:48.300 --> 14:53.300 And it is 641 PM, March 11th, 2026. 14:53.440 --> 14:58.140 As I talked to you right now, six years ago today on March 11th, 2020, 14:58.420 --> 15:01.840 the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. 15:01.840 --> 15:06.600 And two days later on Friday, the 13th, Orange Man dutifully bent the knee 15:06.600 --> 15:09.460 and instituted all the mandates and lockdowns. 15:09.480 --> 15:12.520 Illusive COVID justice after six years. 15:13.160 --> 15:14.740 Where are the prosecutions? 15:14.740 --> 15:21.080 A year in change into the golden age, a deep and thus far unquench thirst for justice 15:21.080 --> 15:25.100 among a huge portion of the massive MAGA base notwithstanding 15:25.100 --> 15:30.960 the administration has prosecuted precise zero COVID criminals. 15:31.460 --> 15:34.660 What's more, the Department of Justice, of course, with Pam Bondy Beach, 15:34.800 --> 15:38.120 isn't promising to prosecute Americans for hate speech 15:38.120 --> 15:41.140 or rolling out new schemes to cover up all their involvement in Epstein. 15:41.140 --> 15:44.580 Hasn't scrounged up any time to bother investigating any of them. 15:44.860 --> 15:50.380 No prosecutions, no investigations, no press releases, nothing but radio silence. 15:50.980 --> 15:55.420 The guy running HHS, RFK Jr. wrote a big, beautiful book, 15:55.720 --> 15:59.440 elaborately detailing the rampant criminality of Fauci and many more 15:59.440 --> 16:02.620 of his co-conspirators, and yet crickets, nothing. 16:03.380 --> 16:07.220 Criminal conspiracy, which these people provably engaged in, 16:07.300 --> 16:09.720 typically has a five-year statute of limitations. 16:09.720 --> 16:13.260 Now, this is interesting. The key provision, though, is that the clock 16:13.260 --> 16:16.580 on the five-year statute of limitations window for criminal conspiracy 16:16.580 --> 16:19.900 only commences once the conspiracy has concluded. 16:20.780 --> 16:24.840 As the conspiracy, the shot mandates, the forced masking, the business closures, 16:25.640 --> 16:28.540 continued deep into 2023 and arguably beyond, 16:28.740 --> 16:32.440 we are still well within the five-year window for conspiracy prosecution. 16:32.900 --> 16:36.940 A short but wildly incomplete list, Anthony Fauci, Peter Daschek, 16:36.940 --> 16:40.360 Deborah Birx, Peter Moran, Francis Collins, Rachel Walensky, 16:40.860 --> 16:43.980 and I forgot about Mandy Cohen. Walensky's replacement, 16:44.600 --> 16:48.180 shown on camera, gleefully explaining how she arbitrarily enforced 16:48.180 --> 16:51.120 COVID lockdowns on the public with no scientific basis. 16:51.760 --> 16:55.180 None of these people, for the record, benefitted from the flurry 16:55.180 --> 17:00.020 of pardons issued by whoever Biden was in the auto pen on his way 17:00.020 --> 17:02.920 out the door, of course, with the exception of Anthony Fauci. 17:02.920 --> 17:07.700 And if Fauci's pardon, indeed, if it was signed by an auto pen, 17:07.840 --> 17:10.460 as it probably was, also highly suspect. 17:11.360 --> 17:15.300 Other anniversaries on this date, James, as Fukushima memories fade, 17:15.800 --> 17:18.840 Japan embraces nuclear-powered future, 17:19.360 --> 17:23.120 and to, I suppose, come full circle, like the snake eating its tail 17:23.120 --> 17:26.380 on this new world next week, Vietnam urges people to work from home 17:26.380 --> 17:30.020 to save fuel as Iran war disrupts supplies. 17:30.020 --> 17:32.080 It's just all right there. 17:32.440 --> 17:34.120 Yeah, it is all right there. 17:34.160 --> 17:38.840 And yes, on the COVID note, yeah, I mean, I want to say no surprise 17:38.840 --> 17:42.100 that, of course, no prosecutions have happened. 17:42.260 --> 17:45.360 But remember, remember, guys, Trump is coming back in 17:45.360 --> 17:47.800 and Bobby's there and Mahas in the ascendant, 17:47.880 --> 17:49.460 the prosecutions are about to start. 17:49.580 --> 17:51.660 No, they are not. There is no justice. 17:51.980 --> 17:55.020 There is only just us, as has been observed. 17:55.680 --> 17:58.220 And on the Fukushima note, just to put the capper, 17:58.220 --> 18:01.360 or is it the shoes on the robberous snake episode? 18:02.060 --> 18:04.260 Yeah, it has been a remarkable thing to watch. 18:04.540 --> 18:08.000 I remember 15 years ago when obviously the events of Fukushima 18:08.800 --> 18:11.700 ignited a huge anti-nuclear movement here, 18:11.880 --> 18:14.160 and people were out literally out on the streets protesting. 18:14.440 --> 18:15.580 I covered some of that. 18:16.620 --> 18:19.620 And what has resulted, well, now 15 years later, 18:19.780 --> 18:21.940 it's like, no, we definitely need energy, 18:21.940 --> 18:23.420 and we're importing too much of it, 18:23.620 --> 18:25.560 start throwing the new plants back on. 18:25.560 --> 18:27.320 And that is exactly what's happening. 18:27.420 --> 18:29.780 So it's been a remarkable thing to witness, 18:30.160 --> 18:32.480 and we'll see where it goes from here. 18:32.860 --> 18:35.460 Hard to believe that was 15 years ago, but here we are. 18:36.200 --> 18:37.000 Here we are. 18:37.660 --> 18:40.480 And 311 is no shortage of other interesting, 18:40.620 --> 18:42.000 giant anniversaries. 18:42.680 --> 18:45.860 Is it the Madrid bombings and others? 18:46.960 --> 18:48.420 The only people, James, 18:48.560 --> 18:51.280 the only people we've seen prosecuted because of COVID 18:51.280 --> 18:53.000 were the people busted, 18:53.000 --> 18:56.580 scamming the scam money that they were doling out to everybody. 18:56.820 --> 18:59.100 You hear these little regional conspiracies. 18:59.460 --> 19:01.680 Someone misspent all the COVID money they got. 19:01.820 --> 19:03.060 Which, again, it's a scam, 19:03.260 --> 19:05.580 so everything downhill from it was a scam as well. 19:06.160 --> 19:08.340 But let's not forget the other people prosecuted, 19:08.400 --> 19:10.700 of course, those handful of heroes we heard about 19:10.700 --> 19:15.380 giving out saline shots instead of the deadly MAGAJABs. 19:15.880 --> 19:18.240 We run New World Next Week dot com 19:18.240 --> 19:21.020 for monarchy gear, for Corbett gear, 19:21.020 --> 19:23.020 for DVDs, James. 19:24.440 --> 19:26.400 I've been watching a lot of World War documentaries, 19:26.840 --> 19:28.640 and so even what you say there about Japan 19:28.640 --> 19:31.420 to look now in 2026 is like, 19:31.600 --> 19:34.780 holy moly, it's as sad as it is to say, 19:35.660 --> 19:38.080 World War history is kind of 19:38.080 --> 19:40.500 the history of the world, 19:40.580 --> 19:41.980 or at least for the last 100, 19:42.060 --> 19:45.060 maybe 200 or so years, really fascinating things 19:45.060 --> 19:48.520 may live in interesting times they threatened us with. 19:48.520 --> 19:50.820 And I also get the exclusive audio 19:50.820 --> 19:52.280 of these New World Next Week episodes. 19:52.460 --> 19:54.420 I play them on my monarchy radio 19:54.420 --> 19:55.900 before they are published anywhere, 19:55.900 --> 19:58.520 and you can access that at mediamonarchy.com 19:58.520 --> 20:00.820 slash listen, James, that is New World Next Week 20:00.820 --> 20:03.180 episode 622, buddy. 20:04.160 --> 20:05.200 Awesome. Thank you for that, 20:05.220 --> 20:06.880 and thank you for reminding people about the story. 20:06.980 --> 20:08.740 I hope they will go to newworldnextweek.com 20:08.740 --> 20:09.640 buy some of the swag. 20:09.780 --> 20:11.780 It supports both of our work and keeps it going. 20:11.960 --> 20:14.240 We've been here for over 15 years, 20:14.460 --> 20:16.140 and so we were here covering Fukushima 20:16.140 --> 20:19.200 as it happened as the long timers in the crowd will remember. 20:19.860 --> 20:21.840 And we're going to be here hopefully another 15 years, 20:22.040 --> 20:23.760 covering whatever craziness is happening there. 20:23.980 --> 20:25.640 So please support the work. 20:25.800 --> 20:26.620 It's what makes it possible. 20:26.980 --> 20:28.400 On that note, let's wrap it up here. 20:28.640 --> 20:29.800 James, thank you for the three stories. 20:30.860 --> 20:31.900 Thanks so much, buddy. Take care.