Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“They have tried to solve a wide range of insoluble problems, from the weather to poverty to viruses, and now they will attempt to solve us.” —Eugyppius
This is that part of the movie where the hero — you — tumbles off the cliff on Kong Island in a lightning storm with a canyon full of tarantulas down below where you’ll soon be landing. I know, not a pretty picture. The cliff is our country’s financial quandary; the lightning is us getting sucked directly into war; and the tarantula pit below is the emerging peril of Covid vaccine injury and death coming on hard, like your landing.
Gold and silver are vaulting up suddenly like nobody’s business (literally). This may be fun to see if you are sitting on a pile, even a small pile of the stuff. But to everybody else it’s a signal that something is messed up in the complex engine of the economy. You know, of course, that our money is debt. So, debt is the fuel that drives that engine. Debt is a promise to pay back money with interest to take advantage of the time-value of money. The time-value of money means it’s better to have the money now (to keep the engine running) than to wait until your work produces money (if it even can).
The trouble is, debt loses its credibility if there is no plausible way of paying it back, or even just to keep paying the interest. That’s exactly what is happening now. Everybody can see that the US government can’t pay the interest on its debt, which is Treasury bonds, notes, and bills (from long duration to short). That debt is running at well over $1-trillion a year. That’s a thousand billion, which is a thousand million. See, it’s impossible to grok how more than a trillion dollars gets produced in an economy based on selling fried chicken nuggets and streamed movies to people with no jobs.
When the Treasury holds an auction on a new issue of bonds (needed to pay off the interest on old bonds) and nobody shows up to buy because they doubt its ability to pay interest on the new paper, our country’s debt becomes worthless. As a last resort, the Federal Reserve swoops in and buys that worthless paper by creating “money” on its computer. That “money” goes out into the economy. The Fed pretends to get paid interest. It’s all fakery, a swindle. It’s like putting water in the gas tank of your engine. You know that the engine is going to throw a rod. When it does, it’ll be such a shock that the vehicle it’s running in is liable to hit a bridge abutment or something else hard. That’s what tumbling off the cliff is like.
The dopes running US foreign policy are so foolishly obsessed with taunting Russia (“poking the bear”), that they can’t give up their sponsorship of the war in Ukraine, which Ukraine is losing because they never had the mojo for the fight. That should have been obvious, but for some reason our “best-and-brightest” overlooked that. No amount of free weaponry and ammo can make up for the fact that Ukraine has run out of young men to pointlessly get shredded by Russian artillery. Russia is unwilling to get rolled by NATO and the US in a part of the world Russia has controlled for centuries. Yet, “Joe Biden” keeps hinting about sending America’s tranny army there, and even gearing up the military draft for the nose-ring and blue hair generation. Good luck with that.
Nor does “JB” exercise any control over what Israel does over in the Bible Lands. Bibi gonna do what Bibi gonna do. Israel can’t be persuaded that the current war is not a struggle for its existence. As Scott Adams points out, Israel has decided to pawn off its Holocaust cred in order to treat its enemies as harshly as possible, so as not to get wiped off the map. Israel has treated the Palestinians very harshly. (The October 7 Hamas raid was pretty darn harsh, too.) In any case, world opinion went all rancid on Israel. That hasn’t stopped them. Now Israel faces its ultimate foe, Persia, a.k.a. Iran, these days. Persia has a big army and a lot of weapons, and all sorts of wing-men in the neighborhood. . . as a practical matter, most of Islam right now. This week, Persia made noises about an imminent attack on Israel. Didn’t happen so far.
Let’s get real on Islam. Its core principle is to exterminate the humans on this planet who are not of Islam. Islam has been pissed-off at Western Civ since the Crusades, its animus renewed in 1683, when Islam’s advance into Europe was halted at the gates of Vienna, and then again in modern times when Islam got pushed around because Western Civ wanted its oil. Islam is overrunning Europe again and penetrating the USA through our southern border. Islam means business. It wants to wreck us, kill us, and take our stuff. And it dearly, sorely, wants to deep-six Israel, which Islam contemptuously refer to as “the Zionist entity,” as if it were some crypto-insectile space alien.
America (and Europe, too) wants to play this both ways: to grudgingly help Israel survive while at the same time pretending not to notice Islam’s true aims. Looks like Israel has decided to go for broke on this one whether we ride to rescue or not. Israel may have to go “Mad Dog” in its neighborhood. They may lose this thing anyway. The rest of the world will affect to hate them for it no matter how it ends. Meanwhile, all over Europe the Islamic birth-rate way outpaces the Euro peoples’ birth rate. And how many angry, determined “sleepers” has Islam snuck into the USA the past several years across “Joe Biden’s” open border. It’s a bit disturbing to contemplate. Also, never under-estimate the damage that can be wreaked with small arms against “a pitiful, helpless, giant,” as Dick Nixon once described our country in an earlier time of distress. There’s your lightning storm.
At the bottom of the cliff is the vaxxed-up population of the world waiting for their spike protein infested bodies and dysregulated immune systems to enter fatal break down. Many already have injured organs, hearts, brains, blood, ovaries, etc. Many others will get in trouble when a more efficient Covid-19 mutation goes lethal on them. The public health authorities are desperately trying to conceal the damage. Some organized groups of people are clamoring for the data on vaccine injury and death from places like the CDC, only to discover that the public health agencies not only won’t disclose it but probably avoided even collecting it over fear of what it would show. Horror creeps on little tarantula feet.
This is how the movie is going as of April. Spring is hardly fledged. Portent looms at every compass point. You’re in a tight spot. (We all are.) In modern times — and I mean going back to the first twinges of the Enlightenment — faith in the people running things has never been lower. It’s still an election year, har har! It makes you wonder if this movie is actually a comedy.
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Let’s get real on Islam. Its core principle is to exterminate the humans on this planet who are not of Islam.
Who believes this statement?
The problem with this kind of mindset is that it leaves you with only one option. Which of course explains the current course of action in the Levant.
Let’s get something right, most people have no ill will towards others no matter their differences. They must be goaded and prodded and propagandized and cajoled into wanting to fight and hate other people with whom they have no quarrel. Like most Boomers- myself included- there is a lifelong process involved in our our domestic pacification while being stirred up to go out and kill strangers abroad, none of it based on what is best for the greatest number, but what benefits a very small group of perversely wealthy and unstable psychopaths.
As it has been throughout history.
It is the nature of man.
And most people are contemplatively challenged.
Which necessitates wide brush solutions whenever they get out of hand.
Whatever…
Hey Farmer no offense but I think the Koran believes that statement , I still agree with you about “most people ” but I sure as heck don’t see too many TBP’ers applying that kind of charitable assessment when it comes to “da Joooos”. Fundamentally Islam is a religion of subjugation .
May I ask you a serious question?
Have you ever read the Koran?
Do you know any Muslims personally and have you had any friendships or business interactions with Muslims?
And in terms of comparing one group to another, do you truly believe that there is a parity between Muslim influence on American life and policy and Jewish influence?
I respect your comments not only because we share the carpentry connection and you strike me as an honest man, so I look forward to your response.
No , honestly I have not read the Koran , I’ve just been presented with quoted verses from it and kind of a basic summary of the life and times of their prophet Muhamed . As for knowing any personally I don’t believe so . I did get the evil eye from some Muslim woman at the University Of Washington Medical Center once, lol , I repayed her resentment with a kind smile and just kept walking .
submission, its not the same thing
The essence I take from this post is you have not educated yourself by reading the q’ran or into the Hadiths, and perhaps you don’t take the statements of the mullahs seriously.
There are only two words in Islam, dar Al Islam or dar Al Harb. Review the Hadiths discussing reversion and the infinite history of Islam as well. You will find the mission of the creed is to bring the universe to Islam by whatever means necessary. Understand the definitions, then review the precepts of jihad, and your understanding will be clearer.
These people are sincere and committed in a way we barely comprehend. Read Churchill on Islam, he spent some formative years among the minimally contaminated expression of the belief system and had some commentary on that product.
Yes, I have read the Koran. I bought one about a week after 9/11 because at that time I was the quintessential Boomer who believed the official story and I wanted to know what had prompted the “hijackers” to do something like that- I suspected it was blowback for our policies right off the bat, but knew very little about Islam and thought it was irresponsible to jump on the bandwagon without knowing what I was talking about.
I could ask you, have you ever read Talmud?
I have friends who are Muslim and do business with them as well and my experience with them has been nothing but positive. I find them to be honest, family centered, extremely handy and hardworking, genial and good natured if not of a dour disposition towards the world in general and about as connected to food as anyone other than our own family. I cannot say the same thing about Jews or a lot of Christians I know. I also realize that this is anecdotal and due in part to my online posting over the past 25 years, but that’s how I come by my perspectives, since you asked.
Once more I will say this; the majority of people in this world, regardless of their race, religion or political affiliation or beliefs tend to be harmless. Most people are neither good nor bad, they just want to get through their lives with as little friction as possible. Are there people who capitalize on the good nature and ignorance of the masses to do extraordinarily bad things? We know that they do. Does it help to promote division if you aren’t one of them? I think not, but everyone is entitled to their opinion and based on their experience. What has been done in our name- the USA and its people- by those who control the levers of power is evil and it has been going on for a long time. I long ago gave up believing the lies about spreading freedom and democracy when all we do is bomb and starve and steal all across the Earth and one of the few regrets I have is that I ever served such a system of violent oppression, which helps to explain why I bend so far back the other way in an effort to make right what I have done wrong in the past by not being part of the constant agitation and anger.
This has served me well over the years-
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
-Marcus Aurelius
If you want to read a good book about about the modern radicalization of Islam you should check this out…..
This book pretty much explains The Muslim Brotherhood that started in Egypt and became AL-Qaeda and a basic history of Islam.
A fascinating read.
And they did it without a single dollar of Intelligence Black Ops funding.
Amirite?
Seriously, you aren’t still believing the 9/11 fairytale are you?
Since you obviously have not read this book ( it goes into CIA black ops funding) and I absolutely guarantee the author has exponentially more knowledge, research and background on the subject matter than you, I respectfully ask you to shove it.
Perhaps you can recommend a Pulitzer Prize wining book proving the earth is flat? Maybe you can provide a list of books you have written about the fallacy of 9/11.
You are right I haven’t read it nor do I intend to.
The narrative is a fiction and one must be either complicit or a sucker to believe otherwise.
The reviews I did read were all from CIA controlled sites like the NYT and were glowing, helping to cement my position.
And while he may indeed have far more knowledge, research and background, he appears to have put it into the service of perpetuating a clear fiction.
Pulitzer Prizes are handed out to people who help craft narratives or who fit the DEI qualifications of the day, not because of their literary merit. In advertising they call that kind of thing snob appeal.
If you believe OBL and a bunch of box cutters pulled off 9/11 you are no different than people who claim that transsexuals are actually women or that abortions are just the removal of clumps of cells. There is no common ground between us and our world view and no meeting of the minds.
Can I spell it out any clearer?
The very fact that you mentioned the “radicalization” of Islam discounts the previous claim that Islam was a priori a genocidal movement. If it weee, to what end would one require radicalization?
You are one arrogant, ignorant ass.
Confidence and arrogance are often mistaken for one another, particularly when there is an absence of face to face so you can pick up the cues that show intent and demeanor. I don’t know a single person who knows me personally who has ever used that word to describe me, but I certainly understand your inability to discern the difference in a comment thread.
As far as ignorant, I’ll give you that. I know that I know nothing, but I work at that assiduously, daily and with serious intent. It is, unfortunately, something that cannot ever be resolved in a human lifetime regardless of how hard one may work at it. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
What I can assure you of is that I am both sincere and principled. You won’t catch me telling a lie and I never mail in a comment. I try my very best to be as accurate and clear as possible whenever I engage in a back and forth, especially if the person is at odds with my position, not because I want them to accept my point of view, but because I don’t want there to be any misunderstanding about what I think and why I have come to that opinion.
That is, after all, the entire point of these comment sections, isn’t it?
Like George Carlin, I have certain rules I always follow, chief among these being that while I understand that liars may tell the truth, I choose not to believe liars no matter what they say. The reason should be obvious. I also trust my intuition/instincts/gut whatever you prefer to call it when it comes to any kind of narrative about something I do not personally know to be a fact. I am unlikely to ever change my mind about this strategy, but I am always open to future possibilities.
Those principles are imperfect, but they are mine and I have far more success using them than the converse. That’s why they’ve become principles.
YMMV
And you are an anonymous kikesucker. Have a little bite of your own shit sandwich, anonyhole.
Can’t we all be friends
WTC7
Building #Seven is definitely the fly in the ointment that objective honest people cant just discount ,at least I cant , and then where there is smoke there is likely a fire . Exactly how or what went down i make no claim to know , I just know the official explanation isn’t the truth .
Well that and the fact that they destroyed the crime scene before they investigated the crime. That never bodes well for an accurate outcome.
We could go on and on and on but that ship has sailed.
The only choice we’re left with is to A) accept the official narrative or B) reject the narrative.
And if, after all we know about those who run the governments of the world and how they behave choose to accept the narrative they offer, what possible evidence would suffice to dissuade them?
Hi Marc,
As someone with the same regrets, I suspect that this will bring you solace.
NEVER STOP RUNNING, NAPALM GIRL!
Probably the best thing I have ever written. And at my blog alone there are 176 essays.
Onward>
Ray
You have sailed your boat into the wrong sea, nice navigation skills !
Do you know the English translation of the word Islam? Or Harb?
“I have friends who are Muslim and do business with them”
eww.
I’m with you on the kikes, and wannabe kike cuckstians (in my own view, not yours), but muslims are still abrahamic shitskin invaders.
And yet they are here.
I live in the world of what is, not what I wish it was, and have made my accommodation with it.
One of them knew I was working on a project on the farm and drove a hundred miles to bring me an entire load of materials he had salvaged from a commercial construction project he was working on and dropped them off without any expectation of compensation. He saved me thousands of dollars and the only thing he asked for was to come up and hunt turkeys this Spring.
I am able to generalize about groups of people because I am able to discuss abstract concepts without sacrificing my humanity when it comes to the individual. It may not be a perfect solution, but it works for me.
YMMV
HSF..
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius,
Sure, Walt, by all means, read Winnie Churchill’s retarded bullshit. Never forget that there were three absolute monsters the MSM made into heroes in support of the most recent World War: Stalin, FDR, and fatassed ol’ Winnie C. As usual, you expose your ignorance by the heroes you love.
I would also like to point out….Then What?
So let’s say there are all these so-called ‘sleeper cells’ in USA. They do what, exactly?
Set off a ‘dirty nuke’? To what end? Islam is about CONVERSION first THEN extermination if the infidel doesn’t convert.
So killing millions, many of them already Muslims, makes zero sense. Because if you also do that, the land you supposedly want is now useless.
Along with all the shit that makes the world run.
We are not getting top-flight cars, electronics, medical devices, medicine, or anything else out of Iran. They come from somewhere, and it ain’t Iran. And if not manufactured here certainly developed here first.
Not to mention Iran’s economy mostly runs on oil. If you take away your number one customer base, and piss off a lot of other customer bases by doing something that dumb, well the consequences would be dire.
Iran is a sabre rattler at this point. They have been the go-to boogey man for centuries, why stop now.
The Chinese on the other hand…well they understand infiltrate from within (labs, corporations, universities) and then just steal the shit you want and take it home and make it there.
The rest are third world Latin American poor people who are being let in to ‘rock the vote’ for every blue dumbass out there in exchange for free everything and the chance to bring every Abuela and Tio over here too.
They already come from shitty places, you think living in Philadelphia’s slums for free will be less appealing? Gimme a break.
Modern day Muslim leadership is not known for it’s intelligence or it’s ability to navigate the modern world. It’s basically a dick swinging contest to impress or to frighten the neighbors.
3 years in Iraq, outside the wire. Your thoughts echo my experience.
Apparently you are the only one that thinks that…..oh well.
HSF,
The entire teaching of mohammed is the teaching of killing or subjugating ALL “the unbelievers” I believe what the mohammedans themselves profess they will do to unbelievers of their satanic “religion”. Let’s get that right, OK?
Humans by nature ABSOLUTELY have ill will to any outside their tribe.
It’s why we have survived for so long.
I have no desire to kill anyone at all until they make that choice impossible.
Unlike the Unipary scum that will never enter a battlefield or allow thiers too either.
Ammo up. A storm is coming and it cannot be avoided.
Seriously.
A deadly war is not avoidable. Be prepared or die early on.
GFY Kuntslur
The AI scam bubble is about to pop. Even Yahoo Finance is admitting it’s a scam now. That’s the only thing holding up the market right now so…well you all know what happens when the tech bubble 2.o pops, right?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ais-mad-cow-disease-problem-tramples-into-earnings-season-100005953.html
If this-
https://www.agproud.com/articles/19565-feather-meal-a-quality-source-of-protein-for-dairy-cattle
Then this-
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/avian-flu-found-seventh-state-cattle-restrictions-grow
The Black Swan is going to be epic, whatever it will be. The Shiite Heads and the Jew Boys are supposedly going to light each other up any minute now. Russia is on the move in Ukraine and is unstoppable. What unexpected bolt from the blue tops all of that steaming pile?
Black Swans are flying around every where, here’s one for you ….. not that anybody cares …. So. Cal. ( the southern section of the San Andreas fault) is overdue by about 50 years and has gone over 300 years without a 8.0 or greater earthquake and that alone could trigger an economic, environmental and human catastrophe. Imagine So. Cal with no electricity or water for week or more … fun times!
I won’t even get into the Juan De Fuca subduction zone which is capable of a 9, which is ten times greater than an 8 AND cause a massive tsunami.
And Yellowstone caldera and Cascadia subduction and HAARP, oh my . . .
Yellowstone caldera eruption is doom porn hype, bullshit.
Cascadia is the subduction zone, Juan De Fuca is the plate (my bad) and is not bullshit.
It produces a severe uplift type quake I am told ( the subduction zone ) , been thru a few minor ones around here with the first back in 65 as a toddler, I remember , we lived in the burbs outside of Seattle( Mountlake Terrace ) and those hoaky rectangular clown pictures(they came in pairs , and might have been paint by the numbers ) that were in my room swinging back and forth and then Ma putting me in front of the sliding glass door and that’s about all I remember , I was two . Lol .
All true, yet a Black Swan is something we have not considered or thought of, and we’ve been waiting to get that seashore property in Arizona for decades. I’m here in the New Madrid area or a bit north to be more precise. We had a 4.1 a few weeks ago. Every few years we get a rumble. Always praying it’s no 1816 event. How about a combo deal with an 1816, a 500 year flood and a Carrington event?
Not being considered is almost the same as a long forgotten or thought about risk.
Back in the 1880s we had a bad-a**ed earthquake in Charleston. The older brick buildings have earthquake bars the length of the building with 12″ disks on the exterior secured by a large bolt.
Bolt from the blue? That´s close to the term (“Bolt out of the blue) used by the military to describe a “massive, unwarned nuclear weapons attack intended to surprise, overwhelm and ultimately destroy an enemy.”
Let’s hope it’s something else! Annie Jacobsen paints a grim portrait Nuclear War: A Scenario.
Tie-w0n?
Movie = Pick any Monty Python Movie
Yellow Dog getting some SERIOUS attention.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GC%3DF
It’s the parents:
Highway 61. Best. Album. Ever.
“Blood On The Tracks “for me but yeah “Highway 61” is damned good too
A tragicomedy.
Wake up…your government wants you dead…smell the dead roses for god’s sakes.
Israel has treated the Palestinians very harshly. (The October 7 Hamas raid was pretty darn harsh, too.)
Jim can’t even admit that Israel is behaving monstrously without digging up the basic MSM lie that “Hamas did 10/7”. He reminds me of assholes like Kirsch and Berenson who write observations about the vaxx being a poison while sticking to the basic lie that there is a killer plague virus stalking humanity.
iNSPITE OF THE TOTALLY MORONIC US GOV’T AND IT’S POLICIES MOST AMRICANS ARE COMPLETELY ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL – WHAT’S COMING IS ALL SO WELL DESERVED – SORRY EVERYONE BUT THAT IS WHAT i THINK!
Well gosh durn it anyway… which personality is this one
A new one comes out of the closet