Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Time, they say, is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once. If that’s so, then maybe time has stopped because all of a sudden everything seems to be happening at once. Three things, actually: 1) a Russian military operation in Ukraine that a lot of people in America want to turn into World War Three; 2) an epic crack-up of the world financial system; and 3) the breakdown of the fishy Covid-19 affair and especially the story behind its holy avatar: the mRNA vaccine.
In a sane society, that might be enough to trip the institutional reality-test apparatus, but we are not a sane society these days, so we plunge ever-deeper into a hurly-burly of wrongful endeavor vectoring toward self-destruction. The immediate problem is a nation (us) that is powerfully bamboozled, led by a figurehead nobody believes in, backed by a hidden coterie of actors who appear to hate our country enough to try to sink it.
Forgive me for re-stating the premise of the Ukraine situation but one must counter the propaganda emitted like poison gas by a perfidious news media: Russia objected to the expansion of NATO to its very border, based on long-standing prior agreements about it. “Joe Biden” had every chance to formally recognize that reality and stupidly demurred. The Ukrainian government, ditto. Our side (the USA) had already created enough mischief there in mounting the 2014 coup against a government friendly with Russia, and then arming its replacement to harass Ukraine’s own citizens in its easternmost provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Two weeks ago, Russia moved in to forcefully correct all that. After all, Ukraine had been a part of Russia since they wrested it from the Ottoman (Turkish) empire in the 1700s, and in any other sense Ukraine is within Russia’s sphere-of-influence, as such things are defined in geopolitical history.
The US-led response to the Russian op was an attempt to dismantle the complex interbank payment systems of the global economy in order to punish one region (Russia) of the global economy — that is, cutting off your leg to punish yourself for walking into harm’s way. The result of that now is mayhem in the financial markets and in currencies, with global commodities like grain, oil, and ores acting as hostages. This hostage-taking has far-reaching effects because the nations of the world can’t operate without food, energy, and stuff to make products out of. Interfere with the rational distribution of them and you’ll get chaos and death.
Financial markets are averse to threats of chaos and death. These conditions tend to interfere with formal promises between parties to service loans, which is the basis of finance. If finance destabilizes badly, standards of living plummet, and pretty soon people are stuck being hungry in the cold and dark — which is the opposite of being happy and civilized. So, maybe sticking an I-beam in the machinery of global finance isn’t the splendid idea it seemed to be a few days ago when the geniuses behind “Joe Biden” swung into action pretending to be super-heroes fighting an imagined nemesis. Standing by to see how all that works out….
Then there is the resolving picture of all the mysterious puzzle-pieces in the Covid-19 story. Sunday night, America’s premier propaganda vessel, CBS’s 60-Minutes, ran a puff-piece on the CDC starring the warm-and-fuzzy Mom figure, Rachel Walensky. It is hard to overstate just how dishonest the segment was, starting with its subtle effort to keep America in a state of alarm (“new variants” coming!), proceeding to a deceptive cartoon of how the mRNA “vaccines” work wonders (“white memory cells patrol the body,” no mention of spike proteins), and concluding with exhortations for Americans to continue vaxxing and boosting up — despite an avalanche of news coming from elsewhere than 60-Minutes about the CDC withholding critical information from the public it’s supposed to serve throughout the two-year-plus crisis, not to mention new data from alt-media on extensive injury and death rates among the vaccinated, including shocking info from the court-ordered recent release of Pfizer’s own records.
Was this 60-Minutes segment corporate media’s attempt to cover-up the emerging crimes of America’s public health agencies in concert with Pharma and media itself? That is, to get ahead of the story, as has lately been the strategy for all the cable channels and legacy newspapers with more and more citizens asking themselves if they have been played? Meanwhile, the Big Kahuna of Covid-19, one Dr. Anthony Fauci, has gone-to-ground, made himself scarce, skipped the scene, vamoosed… amid all the new controversy. Word has apparently come down from on-high in the Party of Chaos that his ubiquitous puss on the nation’s flat-screens is no longer helping to sell the mass vaxx directive. Too many people, perhaps, suspect that he caused the whole thing to happen in the first place and then botched his attempt to play savior over it.
It would be a pity for the Party of Chaos (starts with a “D”) and its accomplices in the Covid frauds if the events playing out in Ukraine actually concluded with a reduction of danger and chaos in that corner of the world. It is surely the last thing they want. Yet the possibility exists that Russia will pacify the country, disarm it, neutralize its most corrupt and obdurately degenerate factions, and set it up as properly governed backwater that will not threaten to upset the peace of the world again for some time ahead. Then, the spotlight will be back on the Covid crime against humanity and the folks who perpetrated it. And there will be nowhere for them to hide….especially with financial markets crashing down on their ears.
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Old Jim has this nailed pretty well. I saw video of some small unit skirmishing in Ukraine this morning. A half dozen guys in civvies with AK’s. The shit hit the fan as a guy speaking to them in the local lingo gets nailed by a grenade. The guys he was talking to then all start yelling orders etc. in American accented English. Hmmmm?
Do you have a link for that video? Would like to see it.
The brighest minds acknowledge they don’t/ can’t fully comprehend the complexity of global economies and the intricacies involved in billions of interactions.
Don’t worry though. Our brain dead leaders have control of it all. Just ask them……..God help us.
This is practice for cutting off credit cards and freezing assets of MAGA people.
Darn it Jim!
“It’s the same, only different”… I have heard it hundreds if not thousands of times by now. From my father. Subject matter was irrelevant.
I use to laugh like a kamal…sorry!… hyena, always viewing myself as the ‘new and improved’ version. It’s an ongoing conversation. Sooner or later, I will get the last words in, hopefully.
‘I love you, thank you so much for everything, and I’m sorry”. He is 85 years old. Consider myself fortunate to have been afforded the opportunity to tell my mother 15 min before she passed in January. ‘good bye’ the only addition.
Not quite the ‘Rocky Road’ that Brandon likes to lap up.
Somewhere adjacent to Fort Riley in Kansas is where the ‘Spanish flu’ started. We exported it through the troops around the world, along with ‘freedom and democracy’. The cure was worse than the disease. I’m not sure what financial chicanery came before, during, or after. But there always is. It’s the same, only different.
“a hidden coterie of actors”… It is the same, only different.
The Ottoman Empire? While there is stated divine intervention, Ishmael’s side of the family has received the short shrift historically since Abraham’s wife drove the baby mama off. I expect them to rear their heads in a spectacular way soon.
Where has little Tony, The Faucist gone? Plastic surgery is probably fairly risky at his age, and he will have to borrow a pair of stilettos from someone, somewhere. It’s almost a given.
Not worth counting again, but I seem to recall there are 12 letters in the alphabet not featured in Democrat or Republican. Republicans were in control a few times and did absolutely nothing. Both reach across the aisle…to rename post offices. We don’t even get a reach-around.
They are the same, only different.
Yes, this is true. But, it does not go far enough.
The US-led response intends to; 1) destroy Russian industry … steel, agriculture, and every other critical industry necessary for a functioning country … MSM whores actually say this openly now, and 2) regime change …… all for the purpose of making Russia a puppet state of Amerika.
We HAVE declared war on Russia …. Congressional approval is irrelevant.
Putin and the rest of Russia’s ruling class — and even the people — realize this and will take appropriate action to keep any of that from happening. God bless Russia.
The fools don’t realize the slimy Eurotrash will keep doing business with them and any who don’t will be made up by China and India, Africa, South America etc. It’s a speed bump, not a brick wall.
Like Qaddaffi before him, Putin is proposing making Gold Russia’s money. THAT is what the fiat paper pushers of the party of Davos fear. China, Russia and those others have the firepower to establish a viable alternative using Yuan, Gold Rubles and commodities for balance of payments instead of the Petro Dollar. Our so-called elites will wind up like a fool covered in jelly and salmon poking a bear.
The slimy Eurotrash isn’t that smart: https://news.euro-24.com/news/48839.html
Yes. But, not yet.
The chaos that will result from American sanctions have not taken hold yet. There are still gas reserves in Europe (but dwindling fast). There is still food in the supermarkets and warehouses. For now. It is NEXT winter, I believe, when the shit really hits the fan. Then we shall see the so-called Resolve & Unity the Euroweenies have with Ukies.
All that could speed up drastically if Russia imposes their own sanctions on the Euro weenies. They’ll be sucking Russia cock begging for a potato.
Now that “woke capital” is buying farmland hand over fist, “farmers” are miraculously being paid NOT to grow things. I am beginning to think lamp posts are not nearly medieval enough for what these people appear to be doing.
Getting paid to not grow things has been going on for years.
we may be in line right behind them
What’s next?
FF cyberattack shutting down the grid.
Gee, 60 minutes promoted the vaccines on one of their “news” segments. With 100% of the program’s advertising from drug companies, why not just complete the circle and make the entire 1 hour a drug commercial.
No, Russia will …
—- carpet bomb all the major cites
—- turn the entire country into a prison camp
—- annex the entire country as a first step in reconstituting the old Soviet Union
—- nuke Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
—-fuck up Eastern Europe just for the hell of it
—- retake Berlin and rebuild the wall
All but one of the above is being preached by MSM whores.
Sounds like Hannity.
–and eat the livers of your children
You have probably seen those commercials begging for money for Jewish …. Holocaust survivors!! Usually they show some old granny, lying in her bed, in a house with no heat, and she’s all grateful for getting a few oranges and a stick of salami. This commercial annoys the ever living shit out of me. I wonder to myself … what the fuck have you done with your life in the last 75 fucken years???
Sooooo, now there’s a brand new FOR JOOS ONLY organization begging for money. Jooooooos …. always the special ones. Please, oh please, wontchya please send a few shekels for suffering UKRAINIAN JOOS??? (Ummm, no, so fuckoff.)
Joos don’t make it easy to like them. Fact.
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https://www.jns.org/jewish-federations-of-north-america-allocates-first-8-million-to-help-jews-in-ukraine/
If they were in a death camp, it was when they were infants.
Who remembers anything from infancy?
That commercial rubs me the wrong way too.
This great article by JK just points out the incredible moronic mind-fuckery of humanity. We need a new work for that.
I propose, “Ukrainian”! Def;— a state of mind where reality is no longer comprehended, and the person turns into a retard zombie, which eventually leads to death.
Example; “Fadeyushka wanted to prove what a tough guy he was. So he put six bullets in his six-shooter and played Russian Roulette. What a Ukrainian!!”
Gives new meaning to the slogan “We are all Ukrainians now”, virtue-signalled all over the social dweebs
You have to seriously wonder just how stupid Zelensky is. I mean the US has pulled this same trick on other governments so many times that it makes you wonder how anyone could believe this time would be any different.
When the US tells you to go to war, and we will back you, it is the same as Lucy telling Charlie Brown she will not pull the football away when he tries to kick it.
The US has abandoned every single ally it has backed for the past 70 years. Why the hell would anyone in their right mind think they would not get screwed the same way every other so called ally got screwed.
Be stupid and believe the lying US Government, and get your country ruined.. Works 100% of the time.
“White memory cells patrol the body…”
I get a litle nauseous at all of this reducing the human bodily processes to elements of computer processing. At a university biolab in my state, a prof compared their work to “working with Legos (i.e., genes)” and the reproducing (!) cell they had created as acting like “pac-man” eating up other cells. A student said they were “surprised” that the cells could reproduce, and were going to keep going until they “knew enough” not to get “surprised”.
Star Trek warned us in the 60s about ending up a brain in a jar, and later about the Borg. This was a warning, not a good idea.