Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“To all scholars who teach jihad… to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application of theories.” —Khaled Meshaal, former Hamas leader
It’s less than a week since the skies over the Negev Desert filled with something eerily like the flying monkeys of Oz upgraded to Hamas Road Warriors in motorized paragliders, kicking off that third world war we’ve been hearing about all our lives, and not at all the way we expected either, which was more Dr. Strangelove style, with the mushroom clouds billowing everywhere — though, who knows, it might come to that, too, before long.
This new catastrophe, quickly globalizing, makes the War in Ukraine seem as comfortable as an old sweater. For now, the question of intel failures must be put aside. There will be no official inquiries while US carrier fleets sail into position, and Hezbollah does a war dance on the northern frontier with Syria, and the Israelis struggle to strategize an extremely sticky hostage predicament, even as their air force blows up whole blocks of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has called for a worldwide jihad this very day, Friday the 13th, as it happens, by which he means disruption within the entity known as Western Civ, where Jihad’s most dogged enemies dwell. For years, footloose emigres have been flooding into Europe and across America’s border with Mexico, mostly young men, hardly vetted, the sort of humans most likely to act-out warrior scripts in a zeitgeist gone sour, and I guess we’ll find out pretty soon whether some of them were sent to be activated against us.
The world is periodically subject to a mighty release of tensions. That’s why there are great wars. We’ve been well aware of these tensions building into the new millennium and now here it is. The elaborate systems we’ve allowed to evolve — our gigantic manufacturing and resource supply lines, the financial scaffold that has turned capital formation into a freak show of scams and wishes, the grotesque behemoth governments of a zillion regulatory impulses turning more tyrannically against their own citizens every day — all add up to a general condition of fantastic fragility. So, you see, a global release of tensions is liable to bust up a lot of those arrangements.
Western Civ has been expecting this for a while. All the years of clever work-arounds and kicking cans down the road tells you that. The big question is: can we carry on as before? And anyone with half a brain can see the answer is: probably not. That is, not enjoying the many comforts, conveniences, and luxuries we’ve grown used to, all of which hinge on our energy supplies, enough of which is centered in the Ummah of Islam so that when it is interrupted or cut-off, there goes the cushy life for us. (And let’s note that for many in Western Civ life has already and stealthily turned into a serious struggle lately).
So, whichever way these new events may go, things have changed. There will be more intense conflict over the remaining oil in the Middle East. Europe may finally discover that it does not relish being turned into one big mosque. And the USA is so lost in self mind-fuckery that we can’t even get our House of Representatives in order. The American students (and faculty!) cheerleading for Gaza’s Road Warrior executioners might represent the last stand of Woke derangement. This degenerate nonsense has run its course. It may dawn in our centers-of-learning — and every other collaborating institution — that we have more important things to think about than the etiquette around men who dress-up as women.
One naturally wonders what role the shadowy Globalists have played in the build-up to all this, and how things will go with them. I can imagine Europe plunged into political chaos that would lead to scenes like a mob riding Klaus Schwab out of his Swiss redoubt on a rail, and the German government falling, and Paris on fire, and street-fighting in Stockholm. Chaos is as chaos want to do. One thing seems certain: it’ll be a cold winter there for most everybody.
It’s probably safe to say that Mr. Zelensky will not be getting additional bowls of gruel out of Uncle Sam. No one is paying attention to Ukraine now, and that sudden neglect by the once-solicitous NATO alliance could go on indefinitely with wider conflict breaking out elsewhere — meaning that Russia will be left to methodically restore the status quo ante that allowed Ukraine to be a quiet backwater in Russia’s sphere of influence since the end of the previous world war, until our wicked and reckless neocons moved to wreck the joint.
China is the joker in the deck now. There’s plenty of chatter that China’s banking system is toast, with its new and large middle class left holding a giant bag of worthless securities and unsellable real estate, and that when they are sufficiently pissed-off that will be the last round-up for Uncle Xi and his CCP. But then, you can also easily imagine that gang thinking now is the optimum moment to try and grab Taiwan and its riches, with Western Civ all tied up elsewhere. I remind you of China’s “Four Wars” doctrine for bringing us down. There’s Ukraine, now Israel, there’s the internal war of Left versus Right throughout the West, and there’s the massive invasion of Europe and the USA of uninvited mutts. Four wars. The breaking point.
Yet to play out is America’s crisis of leadership. As supply lines break, and the flash mobs loot the luxury shops, and the illegal aliens stream in, and the price of everything goes up-up-up, and the truth about the Covid vaccines is finally grokked, even the dazed-and-confused American public might notice that the White House has become a zombie palace. Politics hates a vacuum and “Joe Biden” begins to look like a black hole that will suck the execrable deep state blob that surrounds him across the event horizon that opens to oblivion. I’d go so far to predict that well before the 2024 election, America will have a new chief executive and that it won’t be Kamala Harris. It could be someone in a uniform, though. Just sayin’. Everything is in flux.
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” I can imagine Europe plunged into political chaos that would lead to scenes like a mob riding Klaus Schwab out of his Swiss redoubt on a rail, and the German government falling, and Paris on fire, and street-fighting in Stockholm.”
– JHK
Well, let’s certainly hope so: the politicians who set up the smorgasbord of shit for the citizens richly deserve their just desserts.
However USA! USA! is a different kettle of rotten fish: nothing happens until the EBT cards don’t work; there is an EMP that just happens to hit over the Heartland or the ultimate party favors are used to celebrate those biblical tensions in the Levant, Country 404 or any other garden spot in the world where Unkle Shmuel has set up shop.
Excellent Flash
-GvL
“Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily…”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
US Adds Half Trillion To National Debt In 20 Days
According to data released by the US Treasury Department last week, in only 20 days, the US national debt surged by over $500 billion, reaching $33.5 trillion.
As of September 18th, the US Treasury reported the national debt stood at $33.04 trillion. Three months prior, it had stood at $32 trillion. The US debt ceiling, which had been set legally at $31.4 trillion, was surpassed in January of 2023.
They are past due to release the annual numbers which were to be posted a couple of days ago. Little Proggie shithead PhD’s furiously trying to make numbers from hell look like anything else. Probably spent more than claimed and revenue less than projected. But Weimar Joe has Billions for everybody!
Soft landing! Yah, sure.
Kunstler: ” I’d go so far to predict that well before the 2024 election, America will have a new chief executive and that it won’t be Kamala Harris. It could be someone in a uniform, though.”…
I’ve been saying this for two years here and mercilessly down voted for it, not that I care, I found it amusing.
Who? Smiley Miley retired. Any more self avowed traitors in the top brass?
Who the rank and file and lower officers in armed forces support will determines who grabs power.
The Kronsadt sailors saved the Bolsivick revolution, the Russian soldiers that shot their commanding officer standing on tanks ordering them to attack the protesters instead of the civilians brought Russia back.
Someone in uniform? Unless it’s a good old field grade officer coup it would unleash hell. Normie will not accept any of these low IQ 4 star Rainbow flag minorities destroying our military further every day trying to tell us what to do.
The Darien Gap is being upgraded with new “camps” tripling capacity and the roads are being improved and widened and new bridges added. Michael Yon says he estimates it will be able to funnel one million mutts a month into the US by 2025, all loaded with every tropical third world disease you ever heard of plus TB. If pharmaceuticals are cut off by Xi, tens of millions of Americans will die.
Over a million Palestinians are on the move and I bet Dollars to donuts they will be moving across our border for the shitholes of Michiganistan and Minneapistan by Christmas.
Some time back Lara Logan reported there is a UN scheme to pump 100 MILLION third worlders into the US.
The evil will be happy to rule over the ashes.
Same with Europe. Look at France. Their problems started in the French Foreign Legion/Algeria days. How is diversity working for France?
Should the taxpayers pick up the tab to evacuate the American in Israel? Anytime you travel to an area that is a possible warzone or is definitely a warzone, isn’t it your problem you got stuck there? I ask because I’m undecided on this matter but it’s not making Biden any more popular to the Americans stuck there. Is the promissory note unlimited? If so, that’s scary.
Any American citizen (excluding military) that gets “stuck” in/or lives part time in any country besides this one, in this day and age, is on their fucking own.
I don’t care if you’re on a vacation or visiting family or on business or whatever.
Israel…of all places……
Tough.
Fucking.
Shit.
And that goes for the current hostages. Too bad , so sad.
Funny, I’m thinking the same for you guys “stuck in” the US…
Nobody is asking you to come rescue us.
So what paradise do you live in?
The one ruled by a dictator with an outstanding arrest warrant
Venezuela?
There’s an outstanding arrest warrant on Maduro?
The blood is about to spill freely on N American soil my friend.
The gates were left open, the “barbarians” are already inside.
The ‘coup’ was scripted.
They will soon pull back all citizen protections and let you tough gun grabbers defend yourselves against the boards still being let in and dispersed.
Bring it !
I have many hammers and thousands of nails to defend me from the board invasion.
Funny how people ran towards Ukraine to fight, but people with names like Friedman are running away from the fight over Palestine. The precedent has been set, so how many people are willing to now do the same for Israel that have been so vocally outraged?
Biden better not send any of our troops over there. Israel never stepped in to help with wars over there we never should have been involved in, in the first place. But I can see the Zionists here, and there are a lot of them, rooting to send our troops there.
Exactly. Why don’t they take the intuitive like many did for Ukraine?
Why is anyone stuck in Israel ? US military cargo planes have no problem ferrying pallets of US cash ….errr I mean munitions into the country, everyday. Sounds like pure propaganda schtick to me.
What does it cost to fly from Israel one way? Let’s say it’s $6,600, a number I’m just pulling out of my arse as I have no idea what it costs to fly anywhere. THAT WOULD BE ONE LESS DISEASE RIDDEN AFRICAN MUSLIM WEIMAR JOE CAN BRING IN AND GIVE A PHONE, $2,200 A MONTH, HOTEL ROOM, FREE EVERYTHING ETC. A whole plane load of taxpayers would mean a couple of hundred fewer disease ridden African Muslim 85 IQ affirmative action airline pilots, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, neurosurgeons and so forth. Bringing US taxpayers back over disease ridden African Muslim illegals is just racist as hell. /s
I personally do not think it is reasonable to expect the government to rescue citizens voluntarily living overseas when the excrement hits the twirling blades. If you are overseas as a government employee then the expectation would be different I guess.
I have lived overseas for several years now. Before I left I analyzed the situation and made the conscious decision that if things went sideways I would be prepared to assume the responsibility for my choice and do what needed to be done without expectations that the embassy was going to send the special forces and Apache helicopters to come and get me.
When the covid lockdowns arrived we were on our own, the embassy had no information, nothing to offer. In the very first days most of the embassy staff had been evacuated actually. Compared to war breaking out the covid lockdown was pretty minor so no reason to think differently in regards to possible future events.
We made the choice, we assume 100% of the risk. We have made the necessary preparations, we have back up plans, and we trust the Lord with the rest.
That’s how grown-ups roll.
Hamas just threw a big bucket of water on Israel and it is melting. A week ago, what was the answer to ‘who has the best intelligence in the Middle East and the best military?’ Israel. But Israel just got bitch slapped in a stunning operation that will be studied for years to come at military colleges. Not looking so invincible now, are we? Sure, Israel will win the upcoming fight with Hamas in Gaza, but at what cost? Winning the battle is not the point, it’s winning the war. The West has lost its sheen of invincibility. We have spent our power recklessly on foolish ventures, all the while inviting the barbarians to come inside the gate. That has never worked too well. Buckle up, we’re in for a rough ride.
It was a false flag, run by Israel:
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Israeli Peace Activist Shai Danon Tells Icke “The Border Was Crossed at 16 points by Trucks, Tractors, 10 Settlements Ambushed—Israelis Feel “Stench Of Betrayal” Calls It “Part Of Population Control”
Calls Those Running The Operation a “Sabbatean Cult” That Takes Orders from Club of Rome, with de-population, and the destruction of nations, communities, and faith as the goal
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/israeli-peace-activist-shai-danon
“The Zionists are Nimrodists and are the arch enemy of the Jews.”:
THE MOTHER OF ALL FALSE FLAG EVENTS
Holding the world to ransom
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-mother-of-all-false-flag-events
The timing of this operation favors Hamas a lot more than it does Israel. The U.S. is Israel’s strongest ally, and we have been sending billions of dollars and massive amounts of military equipment to Ukraine, in what is a losing effort. We’re tapped out, there is no end in sight, and we are running out of arms to send. While we’re distracted, this is the perfect time for Hamas to make their move. Unless they are stupid, the Israelis would have picked another time. And if China makes their move on Taiwan, that won’t be a false flag operation either.
If its timing benefits Hamas, then it benefits Israel:
Ron Paul (2009): Israel Encouraged and Started Hamas
LOL – Kunstler talking in riddles, to not make it too obvious he “stands with Israel” no matter what.
Yeah, I kind of got that idea too.
Israel is an entire country of war criminals. Israel needs to be abolished.
The serpentine Narrative eventually swallows its own tail. When asked, “Why Mr. Serpent, do you consume your own tail when there are still so many women in the garden to pervert?” the serpent laughs, his forked tongue darting out both sides of its full mouth, “it is my nature.”
“Besides, that’s why we invented the hyphen.”
My favorite moment so far, which please Allah will be replaced shortly, was the Great Judeo-African awkwardness on Elon’s spacebank myspace.
Even the Judeo-christians were confused. How can an African-American anti-White terror group funded, organized, and deployed by Jewish-Americans and cheered on by the likes of Marcie Dalghren-Frost (I’m divorced but kept the frost because I get compliments on the hyphen) and the anti-racist legions of urban goodwhites, paperwork-americans, and dirt evangelical football enthusiasts be against the world’s favorite Ethnostate?
Well this is all very confusing. Luckily here in the FUSA we have multiple federal departments to lift up the razor wire and dispense the swag bags brought to you by Amazon so there is no confusion about flags, false or otherwise, when it comes to Who/Whom.
The distant tragedy of petroleum princes and their Exxon-Alphabet handlers sending their chattel to martyr themselves on chosen grounds while peaceful rave farmers get converted by sword to the religion of peace is sadly but a blip on my third reichter-scale at this point.
Even though I recently watched Band of Brothers and got all misty. Perhaps if the writers wouldn’t have waited until episode 9 of 10 to tell me “Why We Fight” I would be more tasked to the Cause. Well that and the fact that at my great uncle Harold’s funeral years ago I learned he was a decorated SeaBee, having been awarded some metal for a dozer-and-rifle culling of “japs” on some island in the pacific and so even though he never said a word of it I have since been rather biased to the other WW2 Narrative.
Luckily, like Zero Hedge likes to say, on a long enough timeline there are badwhites on both sides.
In the meantime, I need to replace a window in my wood-wrapped mortgage and the Officially Essential Home-Depot-Lowes needs $1500 today and 30 day* window of their own to procure it from the factory full of Real Americans doing jobs Americans won’t do.
Im no weatherman, but it’s getting cold.
(estimate* final casualties TBD)
I served in World War #5,763…..and all I got was this prosthetic leg and a poop bag…oh, and a t shirt.
Elite SOB – Just because you got a t shirt doesn’t make you better than the rest of us who didn’t
Apparently … the numbers vary widely depending on source … at least two thousand Palestinians have already been killed by Joo bombs this week, and that includes at least 100 infants and several hundred teenagers.
Let’s not quibble about numbers. Because, those numbers will only grow massively.
That’s because Israel continues to bomb the fuck out of Gaza, and 300K Joos have been mobilized, and them and their tanks will soon be going house-to-house to that they can “completely eliminate” Hamas. And don’t forget, Gaza is now under Total Siege; no food, no water, no power.
So, lemme aks you to take a guess…. when it’s all said and done, how many dead Palestinians will there be? 100,000? 200,000? Maybe all 2 million? Hey, don’t tell me I’m full of shit. There are calls in Israel for exactly that to happen. And several of those calling for genocide are in the Israeli government! There was a full page editorial in yesterday’s NY Post, written by a Joo lawyer in Israel, saying that a total siege of Gaza is legally justifiable, and that the number of civilian deaths is irrelevant. How about that??!!
Of course, this pisses me off. It’s Russia’s fault. You see, Russia is going to extraordinary lengths to minimize civilian causalities. But, they will occur nonetheless. Because it’s a fucking war. Anyway, you yourself have read the reports — for example, the bombing and destruction of that “maternity hospital”. In case you don’t recall the casualties here it is; ONE wounded and ZERO dead!!! The reaction by American MSM is always the same ===> Putin is an evil cocksucking murderous dictator and WAR CRIMINAL!!! over and over and over and over …
But, Israel? ISRAEL IS NEVER EVER GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. EVERYTHING ISRAEL DOES IS GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS.
Got it?
Generally speaking, this is why I hate the fucking state of Israel, and even a lot of Joos … especially those who believe the We Are God’s Chosen People bullshit. Fukemall.
One thing nice about this Joo-Pal war.
For almost 2 years the NY Post had a Ukrainian flag on the front page. And now it’s gone.
Praise Allah!
Thank you Hamas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Stucky would sleep with a Scofield Reference Bible under his pillow every night, I think it might magically convert him into a Christo-Zionist.
Answer
6,000,000
Inflated number.
More like 2,000,000
Your sarcasm detector is broken.
‘Things’ are EXACTLY the same.
“Lifting of the veil”
‘Perceptions’ are in flux.
china? 🤣 Already ‘stock market crashed’ @ least once.
Tricky dick & the ‘jewish’ H.A.K. announced the new World HQ of the East India Co. as being “Hecho en Chine”. 1972, ’73?
SSDC…entury.
THIS ‘World’?
But a question of time.
You cant stop the coming collapse, all you can do is try to survive it. In the movie unforgiven when clint eastwood is about to kill the sheriff he cries he ” i don’t deserve this ”. In the sheriff mind all the evil he did was justified. Clint replies ” deserve’s got nothing to do with it”. The only side i am on now is my side. For better or worse.
This is All planned. Nobody follows the “Rules” of “Immigration” (Invasion). None of these “People” (Scum) are claiming political asylum at the 1st border crossing. I didn’t know that Africans, Chinese & Camel Jockeys came from Mexico – huh. The vast Majority of these Invaders are Single, Military aged Men, All of the children are being Sex Slaved & any women amongst them have been repeatedly Raped &/or Killed – the Survivors being Sex Slaved. Not to mention the Fentanyl. The US Will Suffer Mass Terror Attacks, Infrastructure Damage & the Single Military Age Men Will Rape & Pillage. Thank All of our “Politicians” (Whores for Money).
good writing. thanks.