I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with James Howard Kunstler last week for a one-hour chat. Jim did his level best to keep me on point and I do think I was a bit more manic than I’ve been in other contexts. Probably too much actual caffeine that day.
But what we discuss in this podcast is important and it highlights how all of the motivations of the players are affected by the underlying architecture of global finance. These basic principles of what money is, what its function is, how it circulates, where certain players’ advantages lie, etc. are the key to unlocking why the War for Ukraine is unfolding the way it is.
That ‘Hot Mess’ is what I believe Jim wanted to pull out of me and I think, at times, he succeeded well.
The big issue is that of ‘inside money’ versus ‘outside money’ that I talked about, at length, in the article here a couple of weeks ago.
As I look at the headlines of the past couple of days you can see the underpinnings of that war between the deflation of ‘inside money’ versus the inflation of ‘outside money’ is what is really ‘hotting up’ now.
Yesterday Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that all “Unfriendly Countries” will have to pay for Russian exports with Russian rubles. They won’t have the luxury of paying in their local currencies. So, they will have to go find rubles on the open market to pay for gas, oil, wheat etc.
Then there’s this morning’s announcement that tells you Russia is playing for keeps, just like I told you they would right after the war started.
So, without further ado, here’s the podcast with Jim, a real gentleman that I can learn a thing or two about manners and decorum from. I mean seriously, who else can use the phrase Clusterfuck Nation with such aplomb? It’s a gift
Listen to the KunstlerCast Episode here.
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Kunstler needs to apologize for being a rapidly insane peak oil nut and being 100% wrong about it. He was a snarky little asshole about it- a superior piece of totally wrong garbage. I guess he’s moved on. He’s an idiot who got played. If he was a man he’d cop to it. Just sayin
Eh. We all make mistakes
Sure, but you gotta own it. You that well btw Tom.
I was hip to thr fraud of peak oil as a real problem in 1979 at the age of 12 …. and I’m no genius. That is how easy that was 2 see through
My gosh your good. There is one big ‘ol iceberg a large portion of which continues to lurk beneath the line of vision of our comprehension but with the help of brilliant observers like yourself and those you interview and are interviewed buy I’m running very optimistic we’re going to get this figured out. Then, like the dog and the mail truck, we can figure out what to do with it. That might be the most interesting part of this journey of all!
To paraphrase Mencken, the whole aim of Davosian stooges is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The conflict in Ukraine is working well in this regard – a few more weeks of media chatter about NATO involvement and chemical and nuclear conflict, and the neuralyzed populace will be begging to sign over their essential liberties in exchange for a little security.
Which they will be offered – the Great Reset.
That is all fine and dandy to believe if it helps you get on with your life without being paralyzed by fear (I certainly need to) but keep in mind the people responsible for COVID just had the carpet pulled out from underneath them globally.
I don’t believe so.
A pandemic was the only thing that could justify digital identification systems being set up and legalized across the planet.
So the WEF planned it at Event 201, executed it with the help of all their dupes and Manchurian candidates, and once it was all in place, COVID could vanish like a fart in the wind, it’s purpose served.
The Great Reset rests upon a technogulag, and COVID has built it.
You guys are fully correct.
Yes, it was a 100% WEF plandemic…Event 201 + The Great Reset… with terrible objectives in mind etc. etc. etc…. including human DNA modification etc etc etc. and yes, yes and yes… just think like a lunatic criminal and you´d be correct…
Incredibly enough though, the additional problem now for everybody ( the Davos crowd included…) is that these fools did not allow for the possibility that Big Pharma — with clear CDC & FDA collusion — would knowingly LIE to everybody including the WEF leadership.
Accordingly, the worse about “Covid” is yet to come via the post-vaxx Serious Adverse Effects (short term & long term) of experimental mRNA genetic modifiers, not “vaccines” in any way, shape or form.
Nobel Laureate and HIV virus-discoverer Dr. LUC MONTAIGNER made clear and public that the WHOLE world population ( Davos leaders included…) will soon find out that “running proper AIDS lab tests will surprise you”. It´s called ´VAIDS´, i.e. “Vaccine-induced AIDS”. Get the picture ?
Now if we add the barrage of the many ADDITIONAL serious diseases that these experimental genetic “vaccines” are already triggering, Nobel Laureate Luc Montaigner´s conclusion was ” We´ll end up with 30% of the UN-vaccinated world population taking care of the really sick and dying remaining 70%”. This includes WEF Davos fools who designed and implemented this plandemic.
Fewer and fewer are buying what they are selling any longer.
Tom,
I think you are correct about the Russian people’s attitude about the conflict. They have a sense of history and time that American’s don’t.
If you look at the conflicts in that region and over those borders, there have been armies marching through about every thirty years on average:
1790 – Russo-Swedish War – Russia wins
1812 – Napoleon / France – Russia wins
1863 – Crimean War / UK. + France + Ottoman Empire – Russia Loses
1914 – World War I / Germany – Russia loses
*The Russian Civil War was in this period – UK/France/USA supporting the Whites.
1920 – Soviet – Polish War – Russia loses
1941 – World War II / Germany – Russia wins
2022 – ??? United States / NATO invades ???
It just amazes me, given all of the soaring rhetoric of Obama, about mankind moving on to an enlightened 21st Century, that that border will once again be decided by armed conflict.
And all of those past conflicts have been ingrained in the psyches of the Russian people. Remember these two scenes from the Chernobyl Miniseries?
Old Woman and the Cow
https://youtu.be/Oo-_bm28GTU?t=30
Last Conversation Between Boris and Valery
https://youtu.be/BsWzoQw7vUE
And here is all of that, expressed in the Russian language opinion piece, from a few weeks ago (machine translated):
Versailles World of Illusions
And this trend is disturbing in its recognizability: once again, Europe, intoxicated with its own civilizational exclusivity, is uniting on a single ideological platform that is intolerant of dissent and of specific nations. As it turns out, it doesn’t matter what exactly underlies this ideology: the “holy inquisition”, Bonapartism, fascism or liberalism — the result is almost always the same. And again Drang nach Osten and Lebensraum in the East. Again, the armament is far beyond the necessary defense. More threats and reprisals.
Once every 100 years, this invariably happens. We hoped that our generations would not experience this.
Our faith in the collective intelligence of Europe seems to have failed us again.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en.85f2f6df-622fcc95-50985429-74722d776562/https/iz.ru/1303610/konstantin-kosachev/versalskii-mir-illiuzii
The Russians don’t look East and see a logical, scientific, enlightened peace- loving European civilization… but a civilization that has brought them endless wars and conflicts.
Yes. I’m too busy to respond intelligently but this is very good. Thanks
Great comment.
That’s funny I saw Kunstler’s email this morning. Listened while I worked out and drove to work. Love both you guys. Been reading Jim longer than you Tom. As always great info. You guys are like my Netflix. Talk radio has lost me aside from Beck. It’s good to find sanity in these schizo times.
The one thing that seems kind of interesting, that is playing out at the moment, was the lawsuit that trump just filed against hillary, this could be another blow to the davos crowd if he wins. Then you even had Jamie Dimon himself mentioning that their needs to be a marshall plan for energy. My thinking here stems from Tom’s mention of the federal reserve hypothetically standing against davos.
A really excellent podcast, I thought. I got the feeling that Trump’s muscular chest-beating was a poisoned arrow designed to goad the Trotskyites into competitively over-committing themselves. If it was, it worked a treat, and he went up in my lowly estimation.
It’s a strange conflict, being waged at many different frequencies. On the kinetic front, this business of parking a massive phalanx of armoured vehicles outside Kiev and then doing nothing, for weeks, has something of the Kurosawa about it.
It appears that the P&O saga in the UK is actually about loading the ferries with tanks for Ukraine. It seems like a provocation, and could escalate quite badly. I feel very sorry for the British servicemen being thrown to the wolves by this reckless, foolish British Trotskyite, clearly enthralled by Churchill’s catastrophic spell in the admiralty.
I agree about the mimetic collapse. The Butterfly Collector comes to mind, especially regarding the economic narrative in the West, which although not as fanciful as the war narrative, is perhaps where people will experience an unequivocal cognitive shock…. in the service stations, on the supermarket shelves, and so on.
K:”Back to the middle ages”
T: “Yes”
One of several memorable exchanges.
Wry good podcast and comments. Thanks
Concerning Schwab and your comment in the podcast — “I’m waiting for someone to take him out.” Most of us say things like this thinking that it really does take a James Bond type to accomplish it. We all need to remember that Bill Gates, at the time the wealthiest man in the world, got 3 pies in the face…in succession. That’s really how easy it is. Schwab and all his cronies have to have people that — prepare their food, maintain their jets, limos, etc. There are people that do their makeup for all their public appearances. It’s like Michael Corleone said in GF 2 — “If anything is this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it’s that you can kill anyone.” And the reality is, that it’s remarkably easy to do.
Tom, I’m of two minds on Kunstler. On one hand there is no doubt he has a brilliant mind. On the other, I get the impression that he has given up. By that I mean he doesn’t think there are solutions to the problems that face us. One of the most serious is energy. Solar and Wind are not capable of providing effective base load power, in the same sense that nuclear/gas/coal can.
What we need is a massive build out of modern generation nuclear power. Molten Salt Thorium, or pebble bed, with small modular reactors added into the mix. This is a legitimate matter of national security, so any attempts to block it should be over turned. No doubt lawfare will come into play. But the Congress can remove the courts oversight of this if they wish. As for the waste, stick it under a mountain out in the middle of nowhere. It will be secure there for at least a few centuries. Long before that, its likely that fusion will stop being only 20 years away.
As for peak oil, how many times have we heard that now? I’d be much more concerned about peak lithium. The village idiots behind the Carbon hysteria, obviously have not thought this through. Or perhaps those behind them have.
Remember; “You will own nothing and be happy”? That includes serious limits on the mass populations transport.
Technology is the main tool that can solve these problems. Giving up isn’t an option, unless we want a dark and dismal future for our children, and grand children.
Just out of interest BJ, what do you do (or did) for a living?
Hi Tom,
As to your politically incorrect comment “that you wish Putin would speed this up so that the American public would see that the US media is lying to them”.
Is it possible that they are lying to us in order to convince the Russian people that Putin is lying to them?
I wrote the US media off a long time ago and began following this, from day one, on the Russian language media and the accounts of the operation are 180 degrees out of sync. Only if you follow websites like “The Saker” do you get anything close to the Russian version.
The only thing you see on the Russian language media are subtitled versions of stuff from Col. Doug Macgregor, Lara Logan, Tulsi Gabbard, Pepe Escobar, Glen Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, etc. Which would explain the accusations of treason from Mitt Romney & Lyndsey Graham. The people above are speaking to the Russian people, undermining the Ukrainian & US media’s message that the Russian’s are losing. It also could explain why no US politician has taken a reasonable stand on this war, as they don’t want to be rebroadcast in Russian.
It also would explain, Dep. NSA Daleep Singh’s odd statement at the beginning of the conflict: “Strategic success in the 21st century is not about a physical land grab of territory; that’s what Putin has done. In this century, strategic power is increasingly measured and exercised by economic strength, by technological sophistication and your story…” HUH ??? And why US Big Tech has taken a Zero Tolerance approach to anything but the Ukrainian version.
Furthermore, the Russian Duma just passed a law that makes it a felony, publishable by 15 years in prison, for passing “fakes” about the war. I have no doubt this was to stem the Western version of the war from circulating as rumor in Russian society.
Thus, the brutal economic sanctions approach and the US media propaganda blitz may indicate that they are expecting to get Putin deposed by his own side?
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The above hypothesis necessarily implies that “the American people are just chumps in all of this, a manipulatable mass, that isn’t worthy of being told the truth”. That is something I decided independently, long ago and is why I became a listener of GG&G.
Anyway, just a thought…
The regime change operation is absolutely the only real strategy in this war from the West Anon-X.
And that’s why I wanted Joaquin to explain why it wouldn’t work. So, our official line is to rebroadcast our intentions to the oligarchs and then have them take Putin out.
That’s dexter’s fear. I don’t share it, because I don’t think Russia is susceptible to this. Hell, they couldn’t kill Putin in 2002 or 2004 after Yukos. What makes you think they can take him out now?
The oligarchs are subordinate to the state in Russia. That’s the key. Davos’ plans are irrelevant. Ivor refuses to see this.
Perfectly happy to concede that oligarchs are subordinate to the state in Russia.
Just concerned that the state in Russia is in turn subordinate to Davosians.
Of course if that’s the case, there will be no attempts on Putin’s life – you don’t eliminate the heel halfway through the bout.
They are not, Ivor. Neither is China.
I deeply hate to contradict you Tom, but Davos will soon necessarily have NEW plans we haven´t heard of which will be HIGHLY relevant everywhere & anywhere humans are involved, most particularly in the current Ukraine messy mess.
The reason is Big Pharma´s HUGE and un-mitigated technical failure I briefly explained to Ivor et al a few minutes ago, cheating everyone including Davos + establishment elites + MSM media + public health authorities etc etc etc which VERY seriously affects vaxxed people´s health everywhere. BTW, don´t even think about it: it´s way too late to change anything or detox anyone and vaxxed people can now only pray hard and suffer the unavoidable consequences.
And most specially the military on any side — think Ukraine — simply because of the 20-45 y.o. age cohort they belong to. Tom, trust me on this, from now on we´ll ever more witness the “War of the Sick” including politicians, boots on the ground, jet pilots and nuclear missile dispatchers.
Ivor is 100% correct but still misses the coming and unavoidable CONSEQUENCES of Big Pharma´s failed “solution” to the WEF plandemic which has now gloriously back-fired on them with poetic justice although simultaneously causing a world of hurt everywhere… yet to be fully felt but growing hard and fast as we speak. Only the UN-vaccinated will survive with “normal” health Tom.
Please do link to https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/uncovering-the-corona-narrative?s=r
I agree Brexit, And that plays fully into The Global South’s hands who rejected the mRNA treatments for the adenovirus vector vaccines where the long term health effects are far milder and better understood.
Davos will only unleash chaos but they will not win and will wind up broken and bankrupt by the financial war to be waged next as outside money deflates inside money to the point to destroying the old system
They will respond with CBDCs where they can to stave off the inevitable but they too will fail as globalization contracts and marginal resource production control remains in Russian hands
I don’t forecast good times just not total and perpetual technocracy
That is a subtle point, the Western media version would give the oligarchs cover: as they were only taking out a “losing leader” pointing to the Western media’s version of events while dismissing the Russian media as Putin’s propaganda.
However, here is a more sober assessment:
Broke Oligarch Says Sanctioned Billionaires Have No Sway Over Putin
“What’s clear to him now, he says, is that the EU doesn’t get how power actually works in Russia. If the point of sanctions is to motivate people like him to apply pressure on Vladimir Putin, he says, that’s worse than unrealistic.”
“That means those who are making this decision understand nothing about how Russia works. And that’s dangerous for the future.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-03-17/broke-russian-oligarch-fridman-says-sanctioned-billionaires-can-t-sway-putin
That was why I brought up “Chekism” the other day in your podcast with Joaquin Flores. There is no Putin secret society or group or mystery to be solved if you understand Chekism. It is the system Russia has been living under since the Czar: Okhrana > Cheka > OGPU > NKVD (Smersh) > KGB > FSB.
Like any form of government, it has its downsides, as when the NKVD went out of control under Yagoda, Yezhov & Beria during the Stalinist years, however, it redeemed itself in the 1990s, in the eyes of many of Russian’s, when it broke the power of the oligarchs like Khodorkovsky and Bill Browder.
Yet so few Americans seem to have even heard of the word.
Go back further in Russia history.. The Khazers 700 a.d., the Varangians, The Kingdom of Novgorod expanding, Vladimir the Great, c. 985-1015. He was the grand Prince of Kiev, when it was Russia. Because of Vlad, Russia adopted the beliefs of the Greek Orthodox Church, in 985, INSTEAD of the Roman Catholic Church, which the majority of Europe had adopted.
Russia then looked to the East, instead of Europe, for their ideas and culture. And of course, was NOT accepted by Europe because of the splitting away from the Catholic church. NO SURPRIZE then that Russia was/is shunned by the West.
This also explains some reasons WHY they have close ties with China, (the East), due to geography obviously, and OLD history, not just from the 1700’s history onward. Russia will not comply, will never conform. And that is why the West hates that country so.
Present day Russia cannot be, nor will be controlled. And guess what? There is nothing that ANYONE can do about it, nor will be able do about it. Russia is soverign.
CHECKMATE.
To chime in on what Brexit & Tom were talking about, “The Global South steering clear of the mRNA concoctions for the adenovirus delivery vector.”
I believe it goes a bit further than that. It was Moderna/DARPA involved in Wuhan not so much Big Pharma unless you count Moderna. For the last year I have spent a chunk of my life in a funk. It wasn’t over Covid or even the vaccines. Instead it was the extremely mad push to inject a new technology into everyone including children. The sheer number of those willing to go along with it was staggering and depressing to me. If you believe the story we have all been sold (new miracle drug developed warp speed) that constitutes the ABSOLUTE height of irresponsibility. This is where it makes sense to blame big pharma.
But here’s the catch; I don’t think Big Pharma has the balls to do it. Yeah I understand they are greedy but they’re not stupid. Pharma/FDA/CDC have got to know if these so called mRNA vaccines start dropping so many people even their media can’t protect them. They are all fucked. There won’t be a yacht big enough or bunker deep enough to live out the coming shitstorm. And while it could be a slow kill off over a period of years there is also a very real chance a covd strain comes along in the future that is very transmissible and extremely virulent. If this occurs we will need 24/7 front end loaders roaming the streets to pick up bodies. It will mostly be of those who took the mRNA concoctions.
What I suspect happened; I think the vaccines had been ready for at least several years. I believe they had been studied in secret, most likely on an undesirable group from China such as the Uighurs. China sent their very own mRNA vax to trials before we began mass injections in Dec 2020. It mysteriously fell off the radar screen. Early 2021 China struck a deal with Pfizer to buy 100mil doses of their mRNA brew by July 2021. This deal would later fall apart for whatever reason. It seems to me China very well may have deliberately played the West and purposely avoided the mRNA jabs. If this is actually the case I would bet they doctored the shit out of those secret trials.
This is my schizo take on what may have happened. Rather there were secret studies performed as I suggested or the story sold to us is true the end result will most likely be the same outcome. It is still hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that our CDC/FDA/Pharma/etc. could be this fucking carless. The citizens sure as shit fell for it though so maybe it is indeed what happened. We will likely never know the answer but as stated the outcome will be same.
Have you seen the evidence coming from VAERS in the USA, that there are indeed “toxic” batches identified by lot number, of all mRNA vaxes from all 3 manufacturers? These batches were used in coordination between each big pharma company, ie, they took turns administering their toxic batches so there was no overlap between companies. If you look at the data, the lethality and adverse reactions are significantly higher in those batches as compared to all other shots administered, uniformly, all across the USA regardless of demographics. This leads me to believe that the majority of all vaccines administered are mostly harmless saline. The ones with the “real” ingredients are those toxic batches. The purpose of the vaccine was to get as many on board with digital IDs, not necessarily to clean out the pensioners and make everyone sick.
luke,
As you seem to be very cognizant of some nitty gritty details I also fully agree with, please check out this extraordinary finding regarding Moderna´s unbelievably “fishy” (1 in 3 trillion) patent for the 19 base letter (nucleotide) sequence which codes for the Furin Cleavage site. This confirms part of the shenanigans you´ve been pointing out.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/14/documents-published-confirming-moderna-created-covid/
Moderna (DARPA) patented this 19 character nucleotide in 2016. The Indians isolated the virus I believe. The same patented 19 character nucleotide sequence just happened to be found in the virus. But not just any ol place, the furin cleavage site of the spike protein. I believe that furin cleavage site adaptation is what makes it bond to our receptors much easier. Yes, 1 in 3 trillion odds of happening in nature. As Jim Carey said in the movie Dumb and Dumber…..”So you’re telling me there’s a chance.”
Yes, the inside-outside lens makes more clear the nature of “money,” but I think a better definition of “outside” money is anything, whether with or without “intrinsic value,” which is acceptable in an economic exchange occurring outside the legal jurisdiction that produced or issued it. This naturally includes commodities, but may also include foreign fiat currency. Indeed, for at least the last fifty years in most of the world’s countries, the US dollar has been acceptable as money.
Of course, one could argue that if the US dollar quacks like a commodity…
Just a few posts above…
Tom Luongo said: … “I agree [with you] Brexitologist, and that plays fully into The Global South’s hands who rejected the mRNA treatments for the adenovirus vector vaccines where the long term health effects are far milder and better understood”…
Sorry Tom, but yet again no no no.
Tom I urge you to please allow me to chip a couple of golden .02 cents
(1) the problem with these new “vaccines” (NOT) is not just their mRNA lipid nanoparticle delivery system and its subsequent undesirable effects… but ALSO the long-term negative impact of the highly TOXIC S-Protein everywhere distributed in the human body just about FOREVER manufacturing HUMONGOUS amounts of S-Proteins (many many billions) instead of just a few dozens as the real McCoy SARS-CoV-2 virus does, at least initially until killed or cured.
(2) The Adenovirus delivery vector technology which you mention as “good” (NOT) still delivers the very same TOXIC and highly harmfull S-Protein everywhere manufactured massively in the same damn way as mRNA lipid nanoparticles are, NO difference there. Keep reading please…
(3) Global South is very large but still establishment elites and upper middle classes had to necessarily inject themselves with either of the above ( both highy harmfull ) in order to pass immigration requirements from Europe, US, Australia, New Zealand, etc. etc. in the Western world…otherwise they would have stayed home.
(4) The ONLY sorta “safe” vaccine developed and manufactured — also way too rapidly, agreed — on Vero cells as traditionally done and proven to be “mucha safer” and which does NOT repeat NOT include the highly TOXIC S-Protein without any of its harmfull impact… (drumroll please)… is China´s SINOPHARM vaccine that was NOT and still is NOT accepted in the Western world meaning whoever vaxxed “far more safely” with China´s SINOPHARM could NOT travel anywhere of Western world importance.
I have heard that China’s vax is indeed more of a traditional vax as it is closer to a complete attenuated virus. All of the other versions rather it be mRNA or Adenovirus delivery focus on a single antigen. In this case the original spike protein of the original strain. What you sad about Sinopharm kind of fits into my paranoid post above that insulates the Chinese very well could have played everyone. Again, it is probably a moot point at this juncture.
Back to focusing on a single antigen (SP) it is very troubling. They have known about the consequences of Original Antigenic Sin (OAS) for well over half a century particularly in a high mutable coronavirus. Either they did this on purpose to kill a shitload of people or they were under the impression this new technology would not fall prey to OAS. Look at the data from Scotland, Israel, UK, etc with regards to Omicron and see how it is really going full throttle on the vax’d crowd. I think it is safe to say that if they believed they were safe from the effects of OAS they failed. That much is clear.
Regardless if another more virulent strain evolves or not, Brexit is correct these spike proteins are going to do everlasting damage be it clots, strokes, cancers, auto-immune disorders over time.
Matthew Ehret has made the same erroneous statement about the viral vector vaccines in an article where he argues that Putin is not Davos. J&J, Sputnik V, AstraZeneca—all bad. They are killing people too, just like the mRNA vaxes.
Tom, luke, mimi, lewfalo, gals & guys, commentariat at large…thanks for your attention.
I could drown y´all with thousands of papers and references + randomized, double-blind, prospective, multi-center, peer-reviewed RCTs absolutely PROVING without absolutely ANY doubt everything I´ve said herein and much MUCH more bad stuff, trust me…
But you do not deserve that torture, so I´ll just refer you to US Senate Hearings held on this EXACT ASPECT of the harmfull “vaccines” on January 24 chaired by US Senator Ronald Johnson link at https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html.
So help us God Allmighty…