Alex Krainer (@NakedHedgie) joins me for another wide-ranging discussion about the global-macro situation in commodity markets and the effects of the War in Ukraine is having on the geopolitical game board.
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Alex Krainer:
http://www.thenakedhedgie.com
Previous Episodes:
Podcast Episode #102 — Dexter White and Does Stage 2 in Ukraine Lead to WWIII???
Podcast Episode #101 — Joaquin Flores and Whose State System Reigns Supreme?
Podcast Episode #100 — Alistair Crooke and Russia’s Real War for Independence
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I find this amuzing: the weight changes from one side of the scale to the other BUT the thumb on the scale remains the same. The super rich, the family has always made money whichever side wins.
They are like realitors who make money no matter who sells a house. They sit in the middle buying and selling. War or peace they make money.
So the BIS Head of Technology said that the BIS was behind private crypto and playing catch up? And you believed him?
Do you notice how readily you trust the Davosians when they say something that allows you to discount them?
They love it when you discount them.
Everything is evidence of your thesis. Left brain chatter
Seriously ID. This was a great discussion, and this is your take-away?
Imran Khan is operating in the shadow of Benazir Bhutto. I am lead to believe he leads a very unostenatious life. You operate on the foundationaal principle that all humans are grossly venal. Simply not good enough. I’m not surprised Tom scotched your flow.
I stopped listening once I heard that. I’ll listen to the rest later.
I believe the Davosians are evil, and that everything they say is probably a lie. Even when it seems like good news for humanity.
The more loudly they talk of their honour, the faster I count my spoons.
If LePen beats Macron, I think this would cause a significant blow to Davos.
Actually I think that now the Davosians are close to a controlled demolition of the existing order, they want an array of imbeciles in charge.
Because the people of the world won’t beg for global governance until they have lost faith in national governance.
Ivor, as much as you believe them to be some type of Bond super villains, the reality is they have all of the inherent flaws of humanity. They are also not working unopposed. There are other Players moving pieces around in the shadows. They wouldn’t be the first to start chaos, expecting to be the last ones standing. Only to discover they had miscalculated. Only time will tell the tale of what actually happens. Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best.
@BJ
Agreed, they have all the flaws of humanity.
As do all the other players moving pieces around in the shadows.
And as do we.
The key is the scale of those flaws, and the resources under command.
Humanity is quite vulnerable to focused, wealthy and determined psychopaths in positions of power, which is why despite them not “working unopposed”, we still endured Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin and Barack Obama just in living memory. And we barely avoided Hillary Clinton.
And the Davosians are much worse than any of those amateurs – they are evil with truly global totalitarian ambitions. And they won’t light a fire in the global theatre in the vague hope they can scramble to the exit first – that’s a naive assumption. They have instead constructed a technogulag behind a door marked “Fire Exit”, have bought a torch, and are calmly standing next to the door. Once their accomplices set the fire, they will switch on their torch and shine it on the door while shouting “This way to safety!”
I suggest we prepare for THAT.
Christianity is not the solution to the spiritual problem of the west. It IS the spiritual problem of the west.
Does the Bible not include in it’s eschatology a millennium on Earth whereing all nations are subjected as slaves to a spiritually and ethnically singular immortal priest class? It does. The great reset is in many ways indistinguishable from the prophecies of revelation.
Let it be pointed out that the first culture destroyed by “the west” was the indigenous European culture. Europeans are not monotheist historically. We did not evolve naturally to relate to the world as monotheists. Europeans, whether Romans, Greeks, Germans, or Slavs were, for the overwhelming majority of our existence as a genetically distinct subset of humans, Polytheistic Heathens.
Polytheists see no need to destroy other cultures because polytheists do not see the world in terms of black and white with or against “the one true god”. As such while Rome and Greece did subject many cultures to themselves imperially, they did not usurp their spiritual basis until Rome adopted Christianity and began the world’s first cancel culture against the ancestral spirituality of everyone under Rome and later on the Germanic peoples who threatened the power of Rome. The Romans couldn’t militarily defeat the Germans so they made deals with Germanic tribes willing to enforce ideological conformity with Rome (the Franks) to defeat and enslave tribes of competing religions in Northern Europe starting with the Arianis Goths (arianism isn’t aryanism it is a specific type of Christianity very heathenistic in nature) and the Heathen Saxons.
Confucianism, Buddhism and pretty much all of the Eastern philosophies embraced as religions in the east were built upon the Eastern heathen ways of relating to the world and can co-exists with them. Christianity is built on violent genocide of the prior Heathenism of Europe.
“Does the Bible not include in it’s eschatology a millennium on Earth wherein all nations are subjected as slaves to a spiritually and ethnically singular immortal priest class?”
From where are you getting “ethnically singular”?
Not Christianity, but monotheism is the original sin and cancel culture. It was the first totalitarian culture that cannot exist without genociding others.
I am unaware of Zoroastrians having such issues but I am not an expert on Iranian history. I believe you are correct though in regards to the monotheistic sun cult the Egyptians tried for a very short time.
Genetically determined religion? that’s funny. I wrote a great response and this site deleted it saying ‘nonce test failed’ whatever that is. At any rate, genes don’t determine anything, we are not fleshy machines, we are spirit made flesh, and the codes don’t control us, unless we feel like being controlled. Epigenetics aka terrain, including our spirit, is what determines our spirituality.
Great discussion, listened to it on my way home. Like Alex didn’t really get where he’s from? He mentioned Europe several times. Tom you seem more concerned about the neocons getting us into a MAD situation with Russia. You obviously know them better than I do. The thing about an all out nuclear brawl doesn’t scare me like the piece I sent you Friday. Here it is again for your readers. Essentially in this writer’s opinion the dollar is going to break and shit will spiral out of control very fast.
This weekend was spent drinking pretty heavily. I pondered why nuclear war doesn’t scare me as much this scenario I mentioned. I came to the conclusion that it’s because I lack any control over nukes being detonated. I feel completely helpless so I take the fuck it attitude. The scenario where our money collapses is not something I can control either but I feel like I can at least prepare. I certainly have done my best since Covid but it’s a nagging hobby. Always thinking you are forgetting something or there’s just that one other item that will give you an edge if we indeed devolve into Thunderdome.
The writer Eric is pretty sure it will go down before the end of summer. A lot of economic ideas seem to mesh with your own. If you get time please read. Would love to hear some opinions from you and commenters here…TY
https://capitalisteric.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/crash-positions/#comment-8615
thanks so much. like finding an oasis in the dessert.
Interesting comments about Sputnik V. But it looks like the situation in Russia with regard to that vaccine may not be so simple. The former Russian Healthcare minister has connections to Bill Gates. She’s now the head of the Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-bill-gates-groupie-who-gutted?s=r
I do agree, though, that things are falling apart for the globalists.
Thanks for this highly sophisticated interview with Alex Krainer. He is someone that I will definitely follow from now on (unlike the two other characters that were at the Off- Guardian panel the other day besides you and the great researcher/analyst Matthew Ehret). Alex is another common sense brain and treasure trove in that regard for sure.
(BTW I have posted my take on complicity/resistance of Russia and China visa vie Davos the other day which did not appear under https://tomluongo.me/2022/04/02/media-russia-the-great-reset-resistance-or-complicity/)
Awesome discussion as always. The cultural aspect discussion was very relevant. It will INDEED be interesting to see this all play out. Tough Times make Tough Men. Thanks Tom and Alex
20 years ago America’s intercontinental missile systems depended on telemetry systems that were completely controlled by the Russians. The crazed obsession with getting close to Russia’s border and installing short range nukes, (and developing biological weapons), makes me wonder if all America’s longer range warheads are still to this day completely redundant. It’s not a theory I’d like to put to the test mind you.
The more I think about it, the more America’s foreign policy looks like Custer’s last stand.
Nothing will change the current trajectory. Elections, gold, ETFs, who cares. I don’t see any speed bumps. If Hungary was really in the way of the current agenda they would be whacked tomorrow without a seconds thought. There will be no more pretense. It will be raw state power. People will see things they never thought possible. The number of people who will die in the coming years will be staggering. Did you take the inoculation? Put your affairs in order. Live like George Constanza when he found out he just had a few years left with hair….live damn it! The horror….the horror.
I cannot believe what I am witnessing. The ultimate obscenity: The plucky little completely deranged, degenerate, coke-snorting, bunkered homunculus dictating the rules to the UN.
Welcome to the Davos phantasmagoria……Get it done Vlad.
Russians had serfs (instead of slaves). Some difference, but not much.
Great podcast -very thought provoking. Thank you!
Tom really appreciate your work! I’m hoping you will check out Jeff Snider’s article from 4/4/22 on alhambra. I know you bring up his work from time to time and I’ve followed him for some time myself. I’m interested in how this might inform your emerging models. No problem if it’s not relevant to you just thought it might be.
Thank Alan, just read it. I like where Jeff is going, but i think he’s missing the very real fight going on between the banks for control of the dying Eurodollar system
That said, I’ve been making these arguments about bitcoin and algorithmic stablecoins for a long time. They will outcompete government money
The thought that kept coming to mind when listening to this podcast is — central planning doesn’t work. Which is what anyone even vaguely familiar with the Austrian School of economics knows as a starting point. Therefore, their plans cannot work. This is no different than the DMV trying to rule the world. No matter how competent (smart/clever/whatever) any individuals in on the planning may be, the plans themselves are impossible and can’t be implemented.
Excellent podcast. I wonder if you could explain a bit better though how the paper gold market is the source of the power of the banking cartel, and how putting a floor under the gold price destroys the gold derivatives market (if I got that right). Thanks!
I am trying for about the fifth time to comment on here, and although I am logged in, my comments simply disappear. Are they being moderated? Or just disappearing? At any rate, I find that being able to comment makes for a much larger learning curve for everyone.Sometimes commenters aren’t DAs.
no, just that I was alseep.
That’s a lousy excuse 😁😁
You know I’m fucking with you Tom. Love your work and advice. Makes me money. LAND kicked ass the other day. Damn REIT is gonna be a hyper growth stock….Clown World
Of course I do. No worries.