Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbett of Corbett Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Palado of Mediamonickey.com.

Pigsfly as the Pentagon gets audited.

We've got that story plus artificially intelligent, suicidal tendencies, detecting algorithms.

But first, via the AFP and tweeted by our good friend and video editor at Brock West,

the World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction from 2019.

It announced Tuesday, December 12th at a climate summit seeking to boost the global

economy shift to clean energy. Quote, the World Bank Group will no longer finance upstream oil and gas

after 2019. It said in a statement in Paris where world leaders sought to unlock more money

for the shift away from earth-warming fossil fuels. The move, it said, was meant to help

countries meet the greenhouse gas curbing pledges they had made in support of the 2015 Paris

agreements. The bank also announced it was on track to meet its targets of 28% of its lending going

to climate action by 2020. It is all about the lending, isn't it? Plus maybe some carbon indulgences to kind of cash in at the

Church of Climate Control, right, James? Yes, exactly. In fact, you hit on the exact same part of this

story that I think is important. I mean, obviously there's a lot to talk about with the specifics of the

oil and gas industry and moving away from that in terms of the infrastructure and development,

financing and all of that. But perhaps more importantly, what this story speaks to is the underlying proposition that fundamentally it is the banks, the World Bank,

and others, that really direct entire industries. They direct the development of future

infrastructure that becomes the way our economies are future infrastructure that becomes the way our economies

are structured, that becomes the way our lives are structured. So when they want to pump the oil and

gas industry, they finance that, they make sure the money's flowing, they make sure the infrastructure

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