"A core reflex in these decades of postmodern insanity was constant rejection of things we thought we knew in favor of New, Improved Beliefs packaged from above.” — Matt Taibbi, Racket News
Damn, you weren’t kidding that this is a long post! It’s a bit depressing, while at the same time energizing as there are potential solutions for many problems. First order of business is to have Elon and Vivek borrow Milei’s chainsaw and do to the bureaucracy what Elon did to Twitter (fire 80% of the employees). These two will give new meaning to the song “Who let the DOGEs out”!
Sorting out the political miscreants will take time and be fraught with many dangers, but Trump has surrounded himself with people dedicated to the elimination of those miscreants. He has assured their focus by bringing in those who have been previously violated by the blob.
Trump’s success is far from assured, but he is the only chance we have. We will know he’s been successful when housing prices in the DC area collapse as the bureaucrats and the private sector companies sucking the teat of government are terminated. January 20th can’t come soon enough!
Musk must not be given any power. He is building a massive satellite system for spying (starlink), he fully supports green energy and global warming by selling EVs, and he desperately wants to replace humanity with his bio-human robots. Giving this bum a foot in the door will be disastrous for this country and humanity. Do not be fooled by the glitz.
No - not the NSA. That would be in their area of responsibility and why would they ever want to do their job. Not how our government currently operates. Now - the CIA, Feds, DoD, IRS, Wal-Mart, and others - yes, they definitely want to know everything you do.
What do you make of his recent undermining of MAHA with his pushing of dietary (meant for diabetics) injectables? And then his silencing of any opposition? Censorship much Musk? Sounds like a turncoat to me
He and his sidekick Vivek seem to be preoccupied with flooding the USA with Indian Sub-continental cyber serfs. Of all the problems confronting this country at the moment that cry out for Musk's brilliance to tackle, he has decided the hill he wants to die on is relocating a much larger swath of India's downtrodden petite bourgeoisie to our shores, to the severe detriment of our native-born white collar workers.
I have spent the last couple of days studying competing opinions on the need for top tier engineers in Big Tech. This became clear: the need is immediate; India’s STEM programs are currently producing high quality graduates and parental support for such education is strong; U.S. needs only the very best and hardest working - about 1% of a fairly low number. This is not a flood. Also, DEI stupidity has ruined the career potential of white men for circa 40 years but is now seen as the poisonous mistake it is. Importing Indian tech engineers is a short term answer to an immediate problem while Americans gain the necessary skills to replace them, the work ethic to compete and the determination to do whatever it takes to succeed.
From the article: "When you are speaking with an Indian, you are not communicating. You are engaging in a choreographed dance where they are exclusively tasked with mirroring your moves, and leaving you to walk away thinking that your needs will be satisfied. And that is all that has happened."
And: "Regardless of context, every American needs to understand that they will lie under any circumstances for any reason or no apparent reason whatsoever. It is “cultural,” so get over your Christendom-centric notions of morality; those exist nowhere else on Earth."
I worked in Silicon Valley for decades, and this article also sums up my personal experiences. Is it "raaaaacist"? Who gives a damn, it's the truth. That word 'racism' itself means nothing, it's simply a dumb expletive used in place of real thought and analysis. It employs a trick as old as the ancient Greeks: attack the messenger, so as to ignore the real issues contained in the message.
Have you worked with them genius? They say yes when they mean no because they are trained never to say no and bullshit their way through every question. They would never reach the caliber of techs from America, Ireland, England, Russia or Scotland. I've worked with them all and I'm amazed our systems work at all these days - they only do because we're tasked with cleaning up the mess
Hmmm 🤔. Seems like the paranoids are afflicting you. There’s no evidence that Musk will have any unilateral power, nor is there any evidence that he’s trying to take over the world, as your post suggests. You taking some drugs??
We have a Tesla showroom in town here and going by it on my bike last week, I saw that Cybertruck in real life for the very first time. It reminds me a lot of those sci-fi movies where they outfit a normal car in a tacky metal outer skin to make it look like a totally-different, 'futuristic' car.
Naw, I don't agree with your proposed motivation. I don't like everything Elon does, and he is more technocratic than I like, but I think on the whole he's having a positive effect.
Yes, he grossly offended all real MAGA Republicans the other day by going all in on bringing millions of Indians in on the H1b visa scam. They'll never leave, obviously. It just more replacement of White Americans. Elon rages against our lack of engineers and IT specialists. Who kept White American men out of this field? Why not go after them? Why double down on the DEI insanity?
He replied, We need them yesterday. There's no time for schools. So in other words, India wins and we lose. This is his version of "Saving America" - letting us be colonized. He has powerful allies in Vivek and Vance, who has gone native.
As ever, Capitalism shows its destructive face. Short term gains at the expense of the nation. India is a real nation that invests in its people - well some of the them anyway. The rest can rot in poverty while the winners prey on the West.
I had a massive heart attack when I was 43 that required a quadruple bypass. The 3 white ER "doctors" could find anything wrong and were about to discharge me when the doctor from India took a look at the same test results and told them to admit me for a catherization which revealed all the blockage and resulted in my being alive 27 years later. YMMV
No. It's the Faux Hindu Tulsi Gabbard that must not be given any power.
The cult she grew up in, the "Science of Identity Foundation" worships a human being that began the cult named Chris Butler.
Creepy really doesn't begin to describe this man or the cult but it doesn't stop Gabbard from having cult members as staff.
She's a creation and has been groomed. It's why she has so many flip flops on her policy stances because she isn't authentic. Her shift to Trump is just a calculation.
OK, Janos - I give up, tired of trying to learn it on my own - in 2025, I need to retain you as my Humor Coach. Funny AF - especially tongue-in-cheek, coming from you. Keep it up. BTW, the Secret Cervix may never be topped.
I'm loosely wound so I can throw. Here's a tip: Nothing is completely true. There is always another side. And to the extent something is true, it requires a context or matrix which allows it to be "true". The Devil is the dark side of God. Can you deal?
The Old Man of the Mountain's "Nothing is true, all is permitted", are the words of a man who lost his way on this high path.
Just saw in the news lately that the Chinese have plans to develop their own "Starlink" infrastructure...only they call it "Starrink". They plan to put another 38 satellites into orbit to...Sorry, that was a typo, they want to put 38,000 satellites into orbit.
Musk is a G.D. HERO! I guess you liked the US being dependent on Russian rocket engines and online censorship and suppression. The man reversed the threat to Free Speech and made X the No.1 news app.
For chrissakes one of the rare bright spots of the American economy is the space industry, propelled years ahead by SpaceX. He made it possible to beat China to the moon before they establish a base and call the shots.
He was hugely responsible in getting President Trump back in office. Too bad Musk wasn't born here in the US.
"Russian rocket engines"? What the fuck are you on about? When I came out of the Saturn V theatre in Canaveral, and saw the actual rocket, my first thought was, "thank the Nazis".
A VERY big misunderstanding is evident when people keep talking about the "US debt". Let me attempt to break up this misnomer (no matter how futile this may be, since it always seems to fall upon deaf ears). If we have a debt, may I ask... WHO is it we owe money to?
(Some uneducated people will say we owe China. Really? If so, WHERE is the yuan that the US supposedly borrowed? Answer: There isn't any yuan in the USA because the USA doesn't borrow money from any country, or person!)
All the money in the US Treasury's bond market belongs to the people, funds and countries that have purchased "the debt". It is THEIR money, respectively. They get interest on it (coupons). They can withdraw it whenever they want. It is a large portion of the cash wealth (a portion of the money supply) that exists in the non-government or private sector. You can look at it as an interest bearing savings account. It IS NOT a debt. US Treasuries are ASSETS. The US Treasury could drastically lower or cancel interest payments on treasuries, yet, people will still keep their money there because it is the most optimal safe haven for storing money.
We need to understand both the fiscal and monetary policies of the USA. Most do not. In a nutshell... The US Treasury (fiscal) controls the money supply by spending to increase it, and taxing to reduce it. It's the banks that create credit, which is fronted, repaid, and then zeroed out in a ledger. Hello?! We are no longer on a gold standard. Finance does not follow such archaic principles.
Right, so the answer is to get rid of government, right?
"A core reflex in these decades of postmodern insanity was constant rejection of things we thought we knew in favor of New, Improved Beliefs packaged from above.” — Matt Taibbi, Racket News
Now the Elite have savaged us with Communism, it's time to go back to naked Capitalism. Why not get rid of nation, you know, just like the Communists wanted also?
Nah, just get rid of those who have retired without leaving, as well as those who serve no productive purpose. I’m guessing that would be +/- 75% of the federal workforce. State and local governments have similar issues.
There are 400+ federal & federal-attached agencies, which is just obscene. Their primary task is to brainstorm new ways to steal more, so most should be cancelled, denied funding outright, or allow two to combine but with a joint 75% reduction in staff, etc.
Here's a workaround metric, that circumvents any claims of eugenics, political motives or ageism. It will resonate with Musk, Ramaswamy, and RFK, Jr., especially.
Men, if you cannot bench press your body weight, regardless of age, you are exiled. Ladies, it's half your body weight. Every six months, you can take a shot at redemption.
OK, how many will be leaving the USA and Clusterfuck Nation in 2025? Be honest.
Tom - don't be silly, it's meant to encourage, not discourage. You can do it. Start January 1st. You have 6 months to train for the June 30th initial assessment.
Close the gap. Start eating clean - fresh fruits, fresh veggies - meat is fine, but all processed as little as possible. Nothing in boxes or bags. Then, with your newfound energy, start working out. A Big Mac is fine now and then.
Close the gap - getting lighter as you eat better - and get stronger as you work out. You can do it! You're a valued member of CFN, even if you're a little off, stay with us.
Great recap of the world situation; and generally free of political bias......
Read it fully in 12 minutes; will be fwddg it to my many friends who do not take the time to learn what the hell is going on in our klusterfkd world ....thank you JHK!
"Generally free of political bias? Yes, generally....but ...." (BB McFarland)
"I am not on the bus with the mob shouting about Israel as a perpetrator of “genocide." (our gracious Host)
Jimbo outed himself a while back and there's no turning back once you've said who & what you really are; where your heart & soul is. He's on another bus and if it has GENOCIDE & GREATER ISRAEL as the destination. Deny the facts all you like. Count the bodies & destruction.; massive unrestrained force against virtually no resistance. A massacre, no less. Biblical, horrible.
Like some others, I have little time or sympathy for Palestinians or indeed the entire Arab world. But my stomach turns & churns at wanton murder, murder most foul of mostly children & women. 'Mowing the grass" doesn't cut it with me.
So Jim, you stay on your bus & I'll stay on mine. As a firm believer in: 'there are no accidents in the Universe' and that: 'every thought, word & deed has its consequence', I think your bus is headed for disaster. We'll see.
As a racist with deep converso roots, I applaud and agree with JHK's stout defense of Israel. It's allowed, it is an example that should be followed by whites, and was, until his people "taught" us not to.
Would you rather live next to Moishe or Mohammed?
Both are death to the soul of the world, being in thrall to the same God as are all the nonwhites. They are vulnerable to it, try though as they might. That the whites are more deaf to Its bestial background roar is not our fault, nor theirs. That /we/ can hear something else is also not a fault, but a glory. We are the cure, we are the penicillin.
Still, I choose Moishe, despite the avalanche of calamities he has brought to us.
I love the sound of Jewish voices, their way of talking, their focus and recklessness, and wouldst save them from their origins, their bris, and their hideous Holocaust religion that has damaged them even more than it has damaged us.
On Friday, October 13th, 2023 the Palestinians called for a Day of Jihad. It never came because every thinking and decent person knew what occurred days before.
And no one wants to take them in. As the author said, "They have been cast out for atrocious behavior". Being an antisemite won't change things, including the facts.
Are you so damned stupid as to not know that the Palestinians (yes, an odoriferous bunch) are far more closely genetically related to the Hebrews of the "bible" days than are the current murderous Zionists of Israel?
And according to your ilk they act just like them so why do you care what happens to this group of malcontents always trying to shit all over where they live?
Palestinkians are the worst guests one could ever have.
I thought it was Kunstler's best article in a while--until I got to the world situation. Given the half-truths about Israel and distortions about the Palestinians, it makes me question the validity of the rest of the piece. For example, I'm certainly no expert on China. I'd like to think Mr. Kunstler's comments were valid, but who knows? Truth is truth. The comments on Israel do sound logical and make sense--if one is not aware of the facts that there were Palestinians Arabs living in Palestine for a long time who were (and are being) violently expelled and abused.
Regarding Syria, completely overlooked is the role of the US-led sanctions since 2011, and how the consistently undermined the regime, like an acid.
It's rich, and unfortunate, that Mr. Kunstler choses to undermine his reputation, earned over a lifetime of good essays and books by promoting the Zionist lies of "mass murders, beheadings and rapes" by Palestinians (the beheaded babies have been debunked by several people, including Max Blumenthal--who ironically is good enough to be quoted on a previous CFN; you can't mass murder with AK-47s and hand grenades), when in fact the record clearly shows that it is Israel engaged in industrial mass murder, and it is the Israelis who have been raping Palestinian prisoners. And most Israelis supported sodomizing Palestinians, according to polls, didn't they?
Well, this is an "Israel uber alles" space.
Even worse, Mr. Kunstler pointedly leaves out what likely is in store: now that Israel is emboldened by its success or good luck in removing Assad (which may boomerang), it will be seen as an opportunity to attack Iran's nuclear and energy program, since Iran, the apparent big loser in the fall of Assad, appears to be weaker now. A lot of US Neocons will see it that way. Perhaps that will include Trump's new SecState and SecDef.
So I predict there will be a US/Israeli attack on Iran. And I predict the Israeli/US attack on Iran will precipitate a lot of other actions, military, economic, cyberwar, globally. The Iran attack will unleash a tidal wave that will wash over many other issues in the essay initially--and then make them even MORE intractable. When the Mid-East oil stops, probably fracking output starts to (finally) decline, we will see how we fare here in the big PX. Or when our plastic money is knocked out of commission after the Chinese or Russians knock out some satellites, or a few of the "harmless" illegals are "activated" to wreak havoc inside the US. It's not very hard to do....
I'm sure China will take a big hit also, of course. The whole world will.
Regarding Ukraine, just an opinion, but I disagree with Mr. Kunstler's prediction that Ukraine will keep Odessa. It is a vital Russian interest to control as much of the Black Sea coast as possible. Odessa is actually a RUSSIAN city, founded by Russians (it is really "New Odessa", founded near the ancient Hellenic (Greek) city of the same name, after Catherine the Great captured it from the Ottoman Turks, who captured it from the Byzantine Greeks). The Russians can permit the Ukrainians to sell grain, if Ukraine behaves, and pays a modest toll.
Biden is still the Prez, he can still spark an escalation with Russia that Trump can't manage down; President-elect Trump will always be in mortal danger. In the time we have before the SHTF in Iran (that rhymes), we will see if President Trump (and RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard) actually makes any inroads as Mr. Kunstler supports (and I agree) with corruption and abuse of power by the government, or if Mr. Trump simply is going take care of his rich and powerful friends. Already, his latest distraction is to talk Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Take the time to read the entire article. But Mr. Kunstler missed a BIG one. He starts with all the intentional failings of the Biden administration. He needed to start eight years earlier with Barack Obama. Obama was an illegal candidate with intentions to divide the country by race, which it is now just recovering from as people realize it isn’t race at all but cultural differences. That did not become apparent until millions of unwanted invaders entered across our open borders and each set up their enclaves, with no intention of assimilating. Barack Obama, as I have proven since 2009, has been using a stolen Connecticut Social Security Number, violating federal law. Every taxpayer dollar he sent to support our enemy’s military, every EO he signed that allowed cities to be torn apart by leftist lunatics, and every law he signed into effect was illegal. Crooked, deceitful Obama stuck the match that has, perhaps, permanently damaged our country. He, and everyone who helped him gain access to the White House, needs to be arrested and every asset of the Obamas and those who helped needs to be criminally forfeited. Use their billions in illegal gains to help our country regain its footing.
Race isn't real? That would have been news to the Founders. They never considered Blacks and Indians are potential American citizens. Jefferson saw Blacks as a great threat and wanted them moved across the seas, beyond all danger of mixture. The current situation was his worst fear. He predicted both a Civil War and a Race War if things were allowed to just drift. One down, one on the way.
Why? Because the real conflict in any society is the one between the Haves and the Have-Nots trying to steal what the Haves have. Socialists believe that the government is the tool to be used to settle that conflict, that will never happen, Every revolution in history is started when the government does not pay enough attention to the Have-Nots, who always outnumber the Haves.
All ethnic groups are progressing in the USA and as the Have-Nots cross all ethnic lines, Race becomes less important.
The Dems screwed up putting their brand on the minority ethnic groups to put them over the top. Son of a gun, something happened, a significant portion of those group became Haves protecting their capital. The Dems are in deep shit trying to figure out who to appeal to now.
No, Black enrollment is plummeting to the extent admissions are based on merit. Just as short Central Americans aren't ever going to dominate or even enter the NBA. The races are radically different. Until you get that, you are Liberal and a out of touch with reality.
Blacks will be at the bottom in any society based on merit. They will resent that and use their group culture to even the score. Politicians notice such things in "Democracies"......
Now do you begin to see the wisdom of Jefferson wanting them gone?
The highest performing elementary school in New York is a charter school serving almost entirely blacks and hispanics from impoverished high-crime backgrounds. They thoroughly outperform the whites from prep schools, etc. because their teachers make learning delightful and demand performance out of their pupils. Similar charter schools exist elsewhere. It is not race, it is culture. The book "Please Stop Helping Us" by an American Black, describes the importation of poor white trash from Ireland and Wales over a century ago. Their children attended public schools, learned proper American English and other subjects and entered the mainstream. The blacks still have those immigrants' trashy language and attitudes. How do we persuade millions of trashy blacks and others to drop the trashiness, study hard in school and build a culture of which all Americans can be proud? A few of them have done it--how do we persuade the rest?
Oh it's our fault that Blacks are the way they are. Wow. Well we benefitted from public schools in a way they never did or will. That's an argument against what you believe. As for your ONE perfect minority school, I'd guess much of it is hype since White liberals like you need to believe it to be true. The usual scenario is for a charter or test school to open. Black parents notice the utter dearth of Black students. They raise a ruckus and the school caves. Black students enter and standards ar dropped. White students leave since there is no point. Wise parents withdraw their students before they can be assaulted.
What the name of that Black intellectual who champions this vicious idea? That White slave owners made Blacks into savages? So why are they this way in Europe too?
Shelby Steele, in his book White Guilt, would argue that we have built a dependency class that continues from generation to generation. Black mothers are subsidized for having children out of wedlock and punished (subsidy removed) when they marry, in effect destroying the family. Kids without fathers in the home creates problems. It wasn't always like this.
Worse that class now believes they are better than everyone else.
For example, had two black land whales walking basically right into my wife and I. This event occurred in a huge courtyard and as we passed them, they commented on us cutting them off.
So, I turned and asked them why they thought they had right of way, and we had to get out of their way.
I then smugly said I was stronger than them and would have simply walked over them and they should learn their real place in society to be seen and not heard.
Neither of them expected me to react to them or comment back and one up them.
I suspect the younger of the two beasties is still raging.
I have had more than enough of these types of fools.
Well, those same farm subsidies have the same effect in whites. The majority of the younger and middle-aged white personnel with whom I work are single mothers, often with multiple baby daddies. There is little to incentive marriage, now. Not among the lower socioeconomic class.
So this explains why all the great Cities and advanced cultures of Blacks exist every where else other than America. Europe, Asia and Africa...all garden spots.
Euro mutt, here. Norwegian and German, mostly, and my grandparents gave my dad shit for not marrying a full-blooded Norwegian girl. Were they taking their ethnocentricity too far? Heck, my "purebred" dad had olive skin and people think my sister is Ojibwa. Where the heck did the dark skin come from? I have chestnut hair, pale skin and blue eyes. Most Norwegian-heritage "blondes" (I live in America's Norwegian Central) seem to have rat-colored hair, dishwater at best. There is something impermanent about blond hair . . . hormones quickly darken it. My blondness disappeared before kindergarten. Blondes ain't all that. Mourn the gingers.
So tell me me, Alzaebo, what is the dividing line between Black and White. White is not white, the crayon color was flesh. Is Vijay Singh Black? What are half breeds of all types? There are more of them in this country now than “purebreds”. Race is coming less and less important each generation.
Yeah, I laugh at our supposed “purebred” Whites on the blog. What happens when they find on DNA test that they have Black roots way back and maybe even Neanderthal? A question, if they take a DNA test and find out they have any Dark roots, does that lower their IQ?
Great article. As he says, Elon has managed to split the MAGA movement. And Vivek and Vance are right there with him. Good info about the dark side of this admittedly brilliant man. X isn't really for free speech. Many are still banned. It discourages links. And is against Substack.
And read about the dark side of Indians and Indian culture. They will be a disaster for what's left of America.
I was talking about dot not feather. In any case, don't conflate/confuse matrilineal with matriarchy. The dog don't hunt. A few small societies here and there.
On paper, the Iroquois looked like that too. One guy who lived and worked with them said it just wasn't true. The Council of Women could depose the Chief - in favor of another man. But they revered their men and would hardly ever use this power. Compare that to our irreverent, greedy, power mad women. If they had the power, they would use if constantly and foolishly.
Was it the Cherokee who had the saying, A people aren't finished until their women's hearts are on the ground. In other words, we're finished.
Lakota Sioux - "We'll never be defeated until the hearts of our women are broken."
In their wisdom, the Sioux warriors understood that their strength in battle, came from the support of their women - the strength needed to protect their women and children - thus completing the circle.
In short - strong women make strong men stronger. You already know this from our past studies.
"Compare that to our irreverent, greedy, power mad women." ~ Lugh
The women you describe are self-absorbed, attention-seeking harlots, in other words, weak women. The differences are obvious.
There're a good many good strong women out there. Don't throw out the babies with the bath water.
Even the evil Lincoln had roughly the same view as Jefferson. Up until the last week of his life, Lincoln was working on plans to repatriate blacks. White Southerners, in the chaos of Reconstruction, came up with the only decent, workable plan, which was separate, parallel societies that didn't interact. Segregation was an incredibly benevolent gift from white Southerners to black Americans. They should kneel and pray every day that they weren't smote from this land at the end of Reconstruction. It could easily have happened.
Wow! I hope you don’t share this view inside your family. I can imagine pushback from wives, children neighbors etc. I however think you are on to something.
My wife and her parents agree with me. My mother is a hopeless leftist. She has been appalled with my views since I was 10. My father is a golfing Republican. He only cares about his brokerage account.
You are absolutely correct about Obama. No less than Thomas Sowell agree. However I don't think Mr. Kunstler missed Obama. Mr. Kunstler couldn't bring Obama into the picture without growing this post to ponderous length. Mr. Kunstler how about a follow up "And Another Thing..." post that shines the light and details the connections Ms. Daniels harkens here. After all its easier to believe this was Obama's third term as president than it is to believe he was content just to wallow in depraved luxury the past four years.
Wouldn't that be juicy, an in depth investigation into how he ended up with a Social Security number issued for those born in a state so far from his supposed birth place Hawaii? Lets hope president poopy pants doesn't extend his blank pardons to include Obama, or whoever he is.
Obama was executed by firing squad December 1, 2024 for treason,
misprision of treason, money laundering and child trafficking among other charges. Now, we need to get all the players who aided and abetted Obama’s One World Government gambit. And there are lots of them
Good call, Janos. I've often - well, not too often - wondered, what are the chances of two "world leaders", being married to transexuals? Not transphobic, but it's not natural, and the odds have to be pretty slim.
"In early 2000, scientists at 3M, the chemicals giant, made a startling discovery: High levels of PFAS, the virtually indestructible “forever chemicals” used in nonstick pans, stain-resistant carpets and many other products were turning up in the nation’s sewage.
"The researchers were concerned. The data suggested that the toxic chemicals, made by 3M, were fast becoming ubiquitous in the environment. The company’s research had already linked exposure to birth defects, cancer and more.
"That sewage was being used as fertilizer on farmland nationwide, a practice encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency. The presence of PFAS in the sewage meant those chemicals were being unwittingly spread on fields across the country.
"3M didn’t publish the research, but the company did share its findings with the E.P.A. at a 2003 meeting, according to 3M documents reviewed by the The New York Times. The research and the E.P.A.’s knowledge of it has not been previously reported."
Follow-on comment: this is absolutely typical behavior of FDA, EPA, et al, back to their origins. When in doubt, keep the toxins flowing and the marketing campaigns running.
I was quoiting the New York Times verbatim and gave the link. That is obvious from my presentation. I will not ascribe foreknowledge until I have the document. However, in a follow-on, I say that this is typical behavior, and that much I can prove, so I can say it.
MSM? I hear they’ve changed their acronym to TSM - Toilet Stream Media . . . and they’re about to be flushed! BTW, I read every beautiful word. Thank you Kunstler CN.
Great stuff - while agreeing with most of your analysis, you miss the mark on Israel.
They are the reason for our perpetual war-like attitude towards everyone and everything - the Israel lobby runs our defense department - check out Tucker’s recent interview with Jeffrey Sachs for the down and dirty - Jeffrey may die mysteriously for his candor.
Then there’s 9-11 - we know from the “dancing Israeli’s” that Israel knew about this attack in advance and did nothing to stop it - which means they were involved, apparently with the complicity of our own government. Quite the “ally” - they are allied with our deep state, which is itself the most direct threat to its own citizenry.
Another take Israel was excited by Americas actual entrance into the war on terror and the knowledge they are no longer fighting alone against the global jihad or lessor war.
As far as knowledge of an attack there was a jihadi manual captured from a Filipino jihad manual roughly a decade earlier that clearly outlined attacks ranging from flare guns along Southern California fires to taking down buildings with aircraft and bombs.
The alleged dancing Israeli pictures and videos could just as easily be Palestinians or anyone else dancing at any time since we have clearly seen the media lies and the Jordanians now calling themselves Palestinians lie non-stop about everything.
News services at the time clearly identified all the dancing as Muslim on the Jersey side. As did interviewed neighbors who declined to be identified of course. That is archived. Then became the change of narrative…lie.
The Israeli were dancing too. Especially the ones who were behind it. One group of them said upon being confronted, "We're on your side". Like hell. We're on their side and have no choice in the matter.
The most convincing 'how was it accomplished' group of related scenarios has Mossad involved with numerous elements here. Is it any surprise the plot(s) are laced with intel services and neocons?
I call you stupid because the idea that any government or agency in the world directly was involved is ludicrous the absolute horrible consequences involved with being found out would be insane.
It’s common knowledge in Israel among those in the know that Israel has been heavily under the influence and control of the US State Department and blob until this past year when Netanyahu bucked the dangerous and evil machinations of the Biden-fronted administration with good results for Israel and the world.
I digested all of it, JHK. Thank you. Well received. Several key phrases in your narrative..... consequences is back on the table for those who abuse power / debt death spiral / where will the customers for US debt come from? NOWHERE! / PERIOD OF DISORDER, DISCONTINUITY AND DISTRESS / Walmart decline and shift to more local commercial networks....Thank you for the reference to David Webb and The Great Taking.
It is all coming apart and an out of control federal government is to be blame and a Congress that has allowed itself to be subservient to the UniParty blob and unaccountable federal bureaucracy.
As for abroad, Europe is dead. Muslim Jihad is winning. NATO and the EU are failed initiatives. Argentina will be a shining light in South America. Perhaps El Salvador as well.
China should not own any land in the USA. Kick them the hell out. And round up the CCP illegal alien dudes here in the US and send them to the Deportation Center Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham gifted to Border Czar Tom Holman for processing and a one way ticket home.
I spend part of each year at my equatorial living hangout in northeast Brasil on the South Atlantic. Chain saw Javier is getting a lot of attention here. He makes Lula nervous. We like that . My wife and I are Bolsonaro supporters. We would like to see 47 reclaim the Panama Canal and cut a deal with Denmark for Greenland. Canada and a 51st State.....love the pith and the Governor Trudeau reference but Trudeau has self destructed.
Nothing on the Panama Canal. Counter China all the way. Trump’s real agenda? Block the Darien Gap, stop the globalists access to Central America.
Anyone who has played Risk knows the importance of Canada and Greenland. The original idea for NAFTA and USMCA was to present an economic offset to what has developed into BRICS+ ( strangely not mentioned) centered on North America and in an advantageous position with Europe. Canada may soon be home to a northern edition of the Panama Canal as the Northwest Territories thaw and a real Northwest Passage opens up. Remember that on an orb, the closer you get to the pole, the less distance there is between lines of longitude. Go from Alaska to mid-Siberia in a few hundred miles., As oil shows up in the Arctic, distances will make a big difference. BTW, a new fairly large oil field has been found in the North Sea.
Lula should be nervous. He and de Moraes stole the last Brazilian election, and they too had a J6 event and similarly locked up hundreds of patriots. Thugs that were supported by the CIA and "Joe Biden".
Yes. We are watching less and less Netflix and started watching ChaiFlicks - Israeli TV shows and films. Since we only know a few Hebrew words, we read captions. The #1 comedy is Checkout and one can see the most integrated society that can poke fun at all. One episode, “The Wedding”, should be required viewing by the anti Israel protesting Ivy League students.
Google "Greater Israel". The IDF are wearing a patch of the proposed map on their shoulders. It will include all of Lebanon, Jordan, almost all of Syria, and large swaths of Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
Who brought the Muslims into Europe? Google the Kalergi Plan. Baron Kalergi was the son of an Austrian Nobleman and a Japanese woman. Like many such people, he hated his father and identified with his mother and East Asians. But he was willing to take his inheritance and he used it to help create the European Union and the plan to blend Whites out of existence.
The Jews backed these ideas to the hilt. One of his Jewish girlfriends or wives may have given him the idea to begin with.
Now that is probably true as well. I honestly think the entire planet would be better without Israel or Islam. I’m just saying from an average Joe’s perspective Jews can at least pretend to assimilate. And just like me being an American military retired guy doesn’t make me complicit in all the fucked up things america does, same goes for everyday Jews and probably some Muslims, in fact many of the Muslims I’ve encountered I would say wanted the basic things we all want. But there’s also not many if any other religions that currently share the Islam idea of world dominance in the name of their god. Christianity certainly once was, but they adapted. Constantly being all the way pro Israel or pro Palestine doesn’t get anyone anywhere. Neither does spouting off nonsense.
So you admit the reality of Greater Israel? And that they played people who supported them for fools all these years? People that really believed they weren't expansionists and were just defending themselves?
You don't care because you're not just a fanboy but an idolater.
They bitter Liberals always focus on how much change will cost - a pittance compared to how much not changing will cost and how much it has already cost us.
Are those the same liberals that thought creating a welfare state for immigrants was cheaper than building a wall? Ask Mayor Adams, the soon to be GOP mayor of NYC.
A very interesting, and sobering 30k' view. My ONLY critical comment goes to JHK's synopsis of the Israel/Palestine portion of the forecast, which IMO is far too simplistic and which fails to impose the same standards of morality, natural law, and obvious common sense that infuse the rest of his treatise. It's like for JHK Israel should get 'a pass' and be allowed to continue to operate in the US taxpayer dollar paradise it's been living in for the last 70 years, with no changes (because obviously 'it's perfect as it is'). However, as the single most aggressive, destabilizing and destructive country in the ME, that just isn't a status Israel deserves by any metric other than per Zionist absolutism, and as a result Israel should be forced to stop relying on legalized US technology theft, outright American monetary, military AND armaments handouts, as well as almost total control of the US Congress and the sympathies of (apparently) the entire incoming executive branch. I'm just saying that while we're dreaming, and imposing accountability on ourselves, lets not forget about the 'elephants in the room' just because we're aligned with them at a personal level. It's hypocrisies (double-standards) like that which can undermine the moral authority of any enterprise or massive change that is being projected to occur under Trump 2.0 and the unhappy realities created by our collective can-kicking down the road for the last forty years at least. Let's do this differently, and not allow favored pets like Israel to remain exempt from the rules of civilization, and free of accountability for it's actions when everybody else is being held to account for the west's collective sins resulting from many generations of moral bankruptcy, and greed just because it's convenient to what has been America's project of empire building since the end of WWII.
"which IMO is far too simplistic and which fails to impose the same standards of morality, natural law, and obvious common sense that infuse the rest of his treatise. It's like for JHK Israel should get a pass"
Thanks! Most members of ‘the Tribe’ have never been rational on the one issue of ‘the Palestinians’. But, JHK’s treatise was so good, and that small portion so completely out of line with the theme underlying the rest of his work, that I couldn’t let something like the pass for Israel to just slip through, unremarked upon.
Dershowitz once asked that Israel be exempted from the rules everyone else has to play by. As they made Ramses say in the Ten Commandments, Their God IS God. In other words, their particularity (and only theirs) is the Universal, thus turning reality on its head.
The US gets nothing in return for the economic and military support that it provides to the ethno-supremacist apartheid nation of Israel. In fact, the U.S. suffers internationally on account of its close relationship with Israel because of its constant vetoing of UN Resolutions intended to punish Israel for its human rights violations.
There is no alliance, and Israel is not our ally. Its government does not behave as an ally does, it has never fought alongside US forces in any of our foreign wars. Its interests are not aligned with ours as an ally’s should be. There is no formal treaty and no binding obligations that require our governments to do anything for the other.
Pundits always grossly exaggerates the extent of the ties between our governments. Israel is routinely called our “most important ally” in the region, or even our “most cherished ally” in all the world. These are ideological assertions that are not grounded in reality. Dozens of other states all over the world are better allies to the United States than the “most cherished ally” is. And they don’t preside over an illegal occupation and decades of abuses and crimes against the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation. Now being ethnically cleansed in a genocide with US supplied bombs dropped on refugee camps and hospitals.
The effect of this constant repetition is to make the US/Israel relationship to be extremely important to U.S. interests when it is not. It promotes an illusion of a common interest where no real common interest exists ~ and has now suckered the US into being complicit in a genocide.
The US taxpayers are having billions of their taxes stolen and given to apartheid Israel. Americans do not have Universal healthcare. But pay for Israel to have Universal healthcare. And the US is $35-trillion in Debt. The US and Israel have made themselves pariahs in the eyes of the World. This is not going to end well for the US or Israel. The US will survive. The same cannot be said for Israel.
This is not going to end well for the US or Israel. I totally agree.
The world will see the "Emperor has no clothes"
When that happens, Israel will have to choose the Samson Option (taking everyone down, including themselves) or some kind of arrangement with the (surviving, angry) Palestinians.
Today's Israelis will not be willing to die without Uncle Sugar.
Post-apartheid South Africa comes to mind.
I'd say that's a bad end for the US (the end of unfettered consumerism) and Israel (the end of the Jewish State).
Life will be difficult... for everyone. The "winners" will be defined as nations or people who don't face an existential threat from other nations or people. That is not the same as a high standard of living, or human rights or prosperity.
Yikes, all you folks desiring the destruction of Israel, a question?
Who exactly is the miracle Arab nation or group that is going to “eliminate” Israel?
They have tried for 75 years with absolutely no success.
Today we have the up-coming Abraham accords that will mollify the vast majority of Arab nations. Then there is Iran, who keeps losing credibility of being able to do much of anything about Israel. So who?
Trump will support Israel. He will support the side that is advantageous to America. I believe he will not spend as much on their behalf, but they will just shift to other options, including other countries.
"However [speaking of Israel], as the single most aggressive, destabilizing and destructive country in the ME...." Wow, if that isn't the nadir of upside-down perverse thinking that puts the truth in a grave the speaker has dug for himself and all who choose to join him in the darkness of destruction. Watch an expose of what was going on in the Assad regime that just collapsed, or what's been happening in Lebanon or Iraq or Egypt or Iran or any of the Arab countries not swimming in oil revenues that has won them "friends" and influence.
Thanks for your opinion. I believe that Israel’s military actions against it’s neighbors, and grossly disproportionate response in Gaza, over the last 14 months, particularly as it comes to it’s massive and indiscriminate bombing campaign against civilian targets (including sniper attacks on children and first responders), speaks for itself. For the record. I consider Israel a racist, cruel and amoral nation.
Tim, Israel created the Gaza Strip, trying to buy peace with land as they have done other times. They have tried to mollify the Gaza Strip”two country” solution, working with Hamas to try to stabilize the Strip into a legitimate Palestinian state. They hoped for “peace”, and have gotten nothing but rockets, tunnels, military build-up, and invasion across the Gaza border. Bibi is going to just eliminate the Gaza Strip and remove the burr under his saddle blanket.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at all the negotiations going on in Syria, and Iraq as decisions are being made about what to do with these two countries. Think about one influence, Sunni or Shia, or Christian? Or Turkish? Or Kurdish? Who will lead the formation of this region?
Personally, I don’t believe the Israeli government has ‘believed’ in actually trying for a ‘two state solution’ since Begin. The flooding of what’s left of Palestine with settlers for the last thirty years, at least, says all I need to know about the governments intentions in that regard.
It is too bad that the same folks that believe in the Maccabee’s miracle of the lamps could not believe in the message of their Messiah when He was on earth, showing them the way into Yahweh’s Kingdom. The biggest downer for the Jews is that they are no longer the Chosen of God. Their allegiance to the “Law” instead of the Grace of God through Jesus leaves them with little, spiritually.
Greater Israel includes all of the West Bank, Lebanon, and Jordan - and a large swath of Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Now that the IDF is wearing the map as a patch on their uniforms, it's a de facto declaration of war against the Sunni Arabs as well as the Shiites. If these two had any brains, they would unite while there is still time.
Hmmm, your identification of the goals of Israel sorta makes them the New Ottoman Empire. The same empire that the Ottoman Turks created with much bloodshed many centuries ago. Can you imagine the Jews of Israel in control of the oil in the Middle East? Are they a counter to the Iranian dream of having control of the oil?
"That is all I have for you in this end of year forecast for the year to come. I will be amazed to hear if any of you read this document to its bitter end.
For each of you personally: do your best to lead purposeful, ethical lives in 2025. Refrain from trying to push other people around. Take care of your own bidness. . . and keep abreast of the goings-on in the year ahead at good old Clusterfuck Nation! And, above all, stay calm and cheerful!"
Oh I love CCR. I think my fave song of theirs is have you ever seen the rain. I think maybe its the one I remember hearing first. It's raining and the sun's out today lol. I am not sure about the seeing part. I feel like the year will be a net positive year. But the story still hasn't been told. <3
Hamas no more “started a war” on October 7 than Russia ‘started a war” in February of 2022. These affairs have deep roots, and ignoring them is just more gaslighting of the ignorant, the ideology-bound, and the inattentive. And then there are the conflicts of interest. Even such an amazingly astute person such as our host here can have blind spots. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, the play is fine…
You guys crack me up. Just like fans that root for a perennial loser football team or the Chicago Cubs. Just keep showing up waiting for something to change, isn’t that insanity?
Syria is gone, Iraq is gone, Gaza is gone, Iran is teetering, the Sunnis are trying to get with the Abraham accords as their oil reserves start exhausting.
I have my problems with the ethnocentrism and arrogance of the Jewish people, but reality says that Israel will be with us for a long time.
I listened to the first youtube video and the speaker is delusional. If the country was full of like-minded pacifists, Israel would have been wiped off the planet decades ago. Nice try though.
No, I'm not ok with the genocide aimed at Israel by Iran and its Muslim jihadists associates and lackeys. That's why I fully support Israel's war against all of them, which, not only serves Israel, but all of humanity including and particularly the Muslims. That you can't see this is a sure sign your soul dwells in hell. I would see you delivered from this, as well.
"That you can't see this is a sure sign your soul dwells in hell."
It's pathetic that one must deal with these insults, but unfortunately the anonymity of the web emboldens the detritus of the world to make statements anonymously that they would not have the testicular fortitude to say to your face.
They cannot embrace opinions that are different to their own as they have an immature and fragile mental mind.
Not having anything to contribute of their own, they resort to calling you stupid.
Would you consider the war against Iraq a genocide? It was. And not even against Israel.
Your one sided defense of the Arabs is humorous at times as you cherry pick all the history of the Israel Arab conflict. It must take lots of research to come up with all the anti-Israel propaganda.
Even more amusing is the absolute and utter ignorance you show for history.
Common knowledge that Iran has indeed disappeared tens of thousands of people their families and friends in fact anyone that spoke out about the Islamic theocracy from start to now.
Years to research 1981-1982 and 1988.
They still however beat, jail and rape anyone not willing to live by their backwards religion.
Some might call this a Genocide of people who refuse to live by their rules.
They have also repeatedly called for the wiping of Israel off the map but are to cowardly to actually commit to it themselves.
I thought Jim did a good job explaining in simple terms how the Palestinians misused the funds they were given to help them to settle into the Gaza territory. Choices have consequences.
Much agreed, ezinmn; the Eritreans did the very thing JHK suggested, and vacationing Russians sun themselves on Red Sea beaches at luxury resorts.
When Ethiopian dictator Haile Sallasie died, his sons went to war; one of them won himself a new country, Eritrea, and the rights to build those coastal resorts.
Although I detest Jared Kushner, his idea was the correct one- he appealed to greed, not to bloodlust, and would replace the misspent funds of corrupt UNRWA on fine dining rather than death tunnels and rocket attacks.
The Palestinians could've earned themselves a country, and did not; although Jews push the hardest of bargains as a test of one's intelligence, if you outwit them, they will back down and honor the deal. (They even do this with each other.)
Not sure about anything you said as truth, facetious commentary, and ancient history don't mix well.
That said, at least Palestinians would have good paying jobs along their 25-mile seashore had they chosen differently. Maybe we'd have a Palestinian Donald J. Trump real estate mogul by now as well!
Capitalism doesn't have to be a bad thing. One could say that Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.
Think about the Arab nations ready to accept Israel into economic comradeship with the Abraham Accords. Are they willing to accept the zealots in Gaza, Lebanon, or Yemen into their countries to continue to raise hell?
I doubt it. No one wants these folks who seem unable to get along with anyone.
You opine as if you've lived among either group -- and that you yourself have ultimate power to condemn as God. Have you such direct, intimate experience of these peoples? Or are you just a snooty little honkey with something of an edjukation and a relatively stable cash position who naively believes himself 2b a modern NOSTRADAMUS?
Amen. Between the Zionist chanting in unison and the millions of Indians soon to arrive on our shores, one realizes that our Renaissance is to built on the sands of lies and betrayal.
Damn, you weren’t kidding that this is a long post! It’s a bit depressing, while at the same time energizing as there are potential solutions for many problems. First order of business is to have Elon and Vivek borrow Milei’s chainsaw and do to the bureaucracy what Elon did to Twitter (fire 80% of the employees). These two will give new meaning to the song “Who let the DOGEs out”!
Sorting out the political miscreants will take time and be fraught with many dangers, but Trump has surrounded himself with people dedicated to the elimination of those miscreants. He has assured their focus by bringing in those who have been previously violated by the blob.
Trump’s success is far from assured, but he is the only chance we have. We will know he’s been successful when housing prices in the DC area collapse as the bureaucrats and the private sector companies sucking the teat of government are terminated. January 20th can’t come soon enough!
Musk must not be given any power. He is building a massive satellite system for spying (starlink), he fully supports green energy and global warming by selling EVs, and he desperately wants to replace humanity with his bio-human robots. Giving this bum a foot in the door will be disastrous for this country and humanity. Do not be fooled by the glitz.
I don’t see a bum, but a genius. You think my Starlink is spying on me and my phone and the NSA aren’t?
No - not the NSA. That would be in their area of responsibility and why would they ever want to do their job. Not how our government currently operates. Now - the CIA, Feds, DoD, IRS, Wal-Mart, and others - yes, they definitely want to know everything you do.
What do you make of his recent undermining of MAHA with his pushing of dietary (meant for diabetics) injectables? And then his silencing of any opposition? Censorship much Musk? Sounds like a turncoat to me
He and his sidekick Vivek seem to be preoccupied with flooding the USA with Indian Sub-continental cyber serfs. Of all the problems confronting this country at the moment that cry out for Musk's brilliance to tackle, he has decided the hill he wants to die on is relocating a much larger swath of India's downtrodden petite bourgeoisie to our shores, to the severe detriment of our native-born white collar workers.
I have spent the last couple of days studying competing opinions on the need for top tier engineers in Big Tech. This became clear: the need is immediate; India’s STEM programs are currently producing high quality graduates and parental support for such education is strong; U.S. needs only the very best and hardest working - about 1% of a fairly low number. This is not a flood. Also, DEI stupidity has ruined the career potential of white men for circa 40 years but is now seen as the poisonous mistake it is. Importing Indian tech engineers is a short term answer to an immediate problem while Americans gain the necessary skills to replace them, the work ethic to compete and the determination to do whatever it takes to succeed.
"..high quality graduates..."
I suggest you rethink your conclusions by reading the following:
An Apple Manager's Experience (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1872633172636352958.html )
From the article: "When you are speaking with an Indian, you are not communicating. You are engaging in a choreographed dance where they are exclusively tasked with mirroring your moves, and leaving you to walk away thinking that your needs will be satisfied. And that is all that has happened."
And: "Regardless of context, every American needs to understand that they will lie under any circumstances for any reason or no apparent reason whatsoever. It is “cultural,” so get over your Christendom-centric notions of morality; those exist nowhere else on Earth."
I worked in Silicon Valley for decades, and this article also sums up my personal experiences. Is it "raaaaacist"? Who gives a damn, it's the truth. That word 'racism' itself means nothing, it's simply a dumb expletive used in place of real thought and analysis. It employs a trick as old as the ancient Greeks: attack the messenger, so as to ignore the real issues contained in the message.
Have you worked with them genius? They say yes when they mean no because they are trained never to say no and bullshit their way through every question. They would never reach the caliber of techs from America, Ireland, England, Russia or Scotland. I've worked with them all and I'm amazed our systems work at all these days - they only do because we're tasked with cleaning up the mess
not a bum -- a butterfly!
Hmmm 🤔. Seems like the paranoids are afflicting you. There’s no evidence that Musk will have any unilateral power, nor is there any evidence that he’s trying to take over the world, as your post suggests. You taking some drugs??
Seems to have a terminal case of Muskitus!! 😂🤣 It’s hard to argue intelligently against someone with a long list of successes !!
He may have a long list of successes, but the Cybertruck is not one of them!
We have a Tesla showroom in town here and going by it on my bike last week, I saw that Cybertruck in real life for the very first time. It reminds me a lot of those sci-fi movies where they outfit a normal car in a tacky metal outer skin to make it look like a totally-different, 'futuristic' car.
I agree 100%. There is one close to where I live. A weak attempt at being futuristic
I would be that successful with the kinds of government contracts he gets.
No you wouldn't.
Roll out of AI & robotics to replace humans imminent https://www.youtube.com/live/xgHNEI-vB4U?si=JcAZekRawQCTEHaD
Naw, I don't agree with your proposed motivation. I don't like everything Elon does, and he is more technocratic than I like, but I think on the whole he's having a positive effect.
Well, Elon got a snout-full of 💩 for his comments on the usefulness of H1-B visas. Welcome to politics, tech bro.
Yes, he grossly offended all real MAGA Republicans the other day by going all in on bringing millions of Indians in on the H1b visa scam. They'll never leave, obviously. It just more replacement of White Americans. Elon rages against our lack of engineers and IT specialists. Who kept White American men out of this field? Why not go after them? Why double down on the DEI insanity?
He replied, We need them yesterday. There's no time for schools. So in other words, India wins and we lose. This is his version of "Saving America" - letting us be colonized. He has powerful allies in Vivek and Vance, who has gone native.
As ever, Capitalism shows its destructive face. Short term gains at the expense of the nation. India is a real nation that invests in its people - well some of the them anyway. The rest can rot in poverty while the winners prey on the West.
I had a massive heart attack when I was 43 that required a quadruple bypass. The 3 white ER "doctors" could find anything wrong and were about to discharge me when the doctor from India took a look at the same test results and told them to admit me for a catherization which revealed all the blockage and resulted in my being alive 27 years later. YMMV
Therefore we should replace all Whites with Indians asap. And that includes Jews.
No. It's the Faux Hindu Tulsi Gabbard that must not be given any power.
The cult she grew up in, the "Science of Identity Foundation" worships a human being that began the cult named Chris Butler.
Creepy really doesn't begin to describe this man or the cult but it doesn't stop Gabbard from having cult members as staff.
She's a creation and has been groomed. It's why she has so many flip flops on her policy stances because she isn't authentic. Her shift to Trump is just a calculation.
She should have no part of the administration.
If you want to know more:
https://medium.com/@lalitamann/an-insiders-perspective-on-tulsi-gabbard-and-her-guru-e2650f0d09
Only give power to real Hindus.
OK, Janos - I give up, tired of trying to learn it on my own - in 2025, I need to retain you as my Humor Coach. Funny AF - especially tongue-in-cheek, coming from you. Keep it up. BTW, the Secret Cervix may never be topped.
I too have laughed out loud at some of his comments. The “ovarians” really made me laugh out loud but I would never admit it to him though.
A sharp intellect, and he busts out some good ones now and then. By the way, nice tootsies, Toots.
I'm loosely wound so I can throw. Here's a tip: Nothing is completely true. There is always another side. And to the extent something is true, it requires a context or matrix which allows it to be "true". The Devil is the dark side of God. Can you deal?
The Old Man of the Mountain's "Nothing is true, all is permitted", are the words of a man who lost his way on this high path.
This!
Crix,
Just saw in the news lately that the Chinese have plans to develop their own "Starlink" infrastructure...only they call it "Starrink". They plan to put another 38 satellites into orbit to...Sorry, that was a typo, they want to put 38,000 satellites into orbit.
What to do? Trust Musk or the Godless Commies?
And...the link;
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/15/chinas-satellite-megaprojects-are-challenging-elon-musks-starlink.html
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/15/pentagon-silent-elon-musk-and-starlink-risks-military-use-expands.html
https://babel.ua/en/news/113380-spacex-received-a-contract-from-the-pentagon-to-expand-ukraine-s-access-to-starshield
(Updates slowly). Elons Starlink is supporting the FIRST DIGITAL STATE passports…
https://expo.diia.gov.ua/
Me thinks Dolon Trusk will have all the power he needs.
2024 Davos - 'Rebuilding Trust'
2024 US Election - 'Trust Rebuild complete'
2025 Dolon Trusk says we needs to take the beautiful protective injection to save us from the Iranian Bio-weapon attack.......
Musk is a G.D. HERO! I guess you liked the US being dependent on Russian rocket engines and online censorship and suppression. The man reversed the threat to Free Speech and made X the No.1 news app.
For chrissakes one of the rare bright spots of the American economy is the space industry, propelled years ahead by SpaceX. He made it possible to beat China to the moon before they establish a base and call the shots.
He was hugely responsible in getting President Trump back in office. Too bad Musk wasn't born here in the US.
"Russian rocket engines"? What the fuck are you on about? When I came out of the Saturn V theatre in Canaveral, and saw the actual rocket, my first thought was, "thank the Nazis".
Yeah, thank the Nazis...80 freakin' years ago.
But by the mid 90's or early 2000's, America was completely dependent on Russian rocket engines. FACT.
Prove it. Sourced.
Correct your own ignorance
Elon is not the original Elon Musk. He’s been replaced by an actor who is fully on board with MAGA and Trump’s goals.
Proof?
Totally agree!! Praying that no harm comes to our new administration! Lord, protect each on of them!
A VERY big misunderstanding is evident when people keep talking about the "US debt". Let me attempt to break up this misnomer (no matter how futile this may be, since it always seems to fall upon deaf ears). If we have a debt, may I ask... WHO is it we owe money to?
(Some uneducated people will say we owe China. Really? If so, WHERE is the yuan that the US supposedly borrowed? Answer: There isn't any yuan in the USA because the USA doesn't borrow money from any country, or person!)
All the money in the US Treasury's bond market belongs to the people, funds and countries that have purchased "the debt". It is THEIR money, respectively. They get interest on it (coupons). They can withdraw it whenever they want. It is a large portion of the cash wealth (a portion of the money supply) that exists in the non-government or private sector. You can look at it as an interest bearing savings account. It IS NOT a debt. US Treasuries are ASSETS. The US Treasury could drastically lower or cancel interest payments on treasuries, yet, people will still keep their money there because it is the most optimal safe haven for storing money.
We need to understand both the fiscal and monetary policies of the USA. Most do not. In a nutshell... The US Treasury (fiscal) controls the money supply by spending to increase it, and taxing to reduce it. It's the banks that create credit, which is fronted, repaid, and then zeroed out in a ledger. Hello?! We are no longer on a gold standard. Finance does not follow such archaic principles.
Right, so the answer is to get rid of government, right?
"A core reflex in these decades of postmodern insanity was constant rejection of things we thought we knew in favor of New, Improved Beliefs packaged from above.” — Matt Taibbi, Racket News
Now the Elite have savaged us with Communism, it's time to go back to naked Capitalism. Why not get rid of nation, you know, just like the Communists wanted also?
Nah, just get rid of those who have retired without leaving, as well as those who serve no productive purpose. I’m guessing that would be +/- 75% of the federal workforce. State and local governments have similar issues.
There are 400+ federal & federal-attached agencies, which is just obscene. Their primary task is to brainstorm new ways to steal more, so most should be cancelled, denied funding outright, or allow two to combine but with a joint 75% reduction in staff, etc.
Yeah, let us be governed directly by Black Rock (WEF) without any pesky government middle men.
May the New Year bring you enhanced intellectual acuity…..
Fuck you, It's private! It's what you want.
As if that were not already the case
Here's a workaround metric, that circumvents any claims of eugenics, political motives or ageism. It will resonate with Musk, Ramaswamy, and RFK, Jr., especially.
Men, if you cannot bench press your body weight, regardless of age, you are exiled. Ladies, it's half your body weight. Every six months, you can take a shot at redemption.
OK, how many will be leaving the USA and Clusterfuck Nation in 2025? Be honest.
I'm outta here Ron, but where am I being exiled to?
Tom - don't be silly, it's meant to encourage, not discourage. You can do it. Start January 1st. You have 6 months to train for the June 30th initial assessment.
Close the gap. Start eating clean - fresh fruits, fresh veggies - meat is fine, but all processed as little as possible. Nothing in boxes or bags. Then, with your newfound energy, start working out. A Big Mac is fine now and then.
Close the gap - getting lighter as you eat better - and get stronger as you work out. You can do it! You're a valued member of CFN, even if you're a little off, stay with us.
yep +200
Go fuck yourself whore
Wow! It’s a freaking Payton Place around here. I didn’t even know people contacted each other on a personal level. Learn something every day.
Right!!!! At least the bureaucratic part of it.
Great recap of the world situation; and generally free of political bias......
Read it fully in 12 minutes; will be fwddg it to my many friends who do not take the time to learn what the hell is going on in our klusterfkd world ....thank you JHK!
Generally free of political bias? Yes, generally... but there is one very OBVIOUS exception to that...
Oy veh!
very obvious.
"Generally free of political bias? Yes, generally....but ...." (BB McFarland)
"I am not on the bus with the mob shouting about Israel as a perpetrator of “genocide." (our gracious Host)
Jimbo outed himself a while back and there's no turning back once you've said who & what you really are; where your heart & soul is. He's on another bus and if it has GENOCIDE & GREATER ISRAEL as the destination. Deny the facts all you like. Count the bodies & destruction.; massive unrestrained force against virtually no resistance. A massacre, no less. Biblical, horrible.
Like some others, I have little time or sympathy for Palestinians or indeed the entire Arab world. But my stomach turns & churns at wanton murder, murder most foul of mostly children & women. 'Mowing the grass" doesn't cut it with me.
So Jim, you stay on your bus & I'll stay on mine. As a firm believer in: 'there are no accidents in the Universe' and that: 'every thought, word & deed has its consequence', I think your bus is headed for disaster. We'll see.
Well said... but be aware that you might soon be banned by JHK for speaking that truth.
Several others have already been ejected for speaking out against the mass-murder, land theft and worldwide corruption and lies of the Zionists.
But the mass murderes, attempted land theft, corruption and terrorism by the Palestinians everywhere they've gone (Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza) is ok.....
Post your links to the mass murders by the Palestinians, Moishe.
Like those of the Zionists, keep it above 100,000 murdered, 100,000 wounded/maimed.
Perfectly asserted. And dead on. Thanks.
I couldn't have said it better!
As a racist with deep converso roots, I applaud and agree with JHK's stout defense of Israel. It's allowed, it is an example that should be followed by whites, and was, until his people "taught" us not to.
Would you rather live next to Moishe or Mohammed?
Both are death to the soul of the world, being in thrall to the same God as are all the nonwhites. They are vulnerable to it, try though as they might. That the whites are more deaf to Its bestial background roar is not our fault, nor theirs. That /we/ can hear something else is also not a fault, but a glory. We are the cure, we are the penicillin.
Still, I choose Moishe, despite the avalanche of calamities he has brought to us.
I love the sound of Jewish voices, their way of talking, their focus and recklessness, and wouldst save them from their origins, their bris, and their hideous Holocaust religion that has damaged them even more than it has damaged us.
Some kind of fantastical delusion going on.
On Friday, October 13th, 2023 the Palestinians called for a Day of Jihad. It never came because every thinking and decent person knew what occurred days before.
And no one wants to take them in. As the author said, "They have been cast out for atrocious behavior". Being an antisemite won't change things, including the facts.
Are you so damned stupid as to not know that the Palestinians (yes, an odoriferous bunch) are far more closely genetically related to the Hebrews of the "bible" days than are the current murderous Zionists of Israel?
So who is "antisemitic"?
And according to your ilk they act just like them so why do you care what happens to this group of malcontents always trying to shit all over where they live?
Palestinkians are the worst guests one could ever have.
GFYBB
Because (((kunstler)))
I thought it was Kunstler's best article in a while--until I got to the world situation. Given the half-truths about Israel and distortions about the Palestinians, it makes me question the validity of the rest of the piece. For example, I'm certainly no expert on China. I'd like to think Mr. Kunstler's comments were valid, but who knows? Truth is truth. The comments on Israel do sound logical and make sense--if one is not aware of the facts that there were Palestinians Arabs living in Palestine for a long time who were (and are being) violently expelled and abused.
Regarding Syria, completely overlooked is the role of the US-led sanctions since 2011, and how the consistently undermined the regime, like an acid.
It's rich, and unfortunate, that Mr. Kunstler choses to undermine his reputation, earned over a lifetime of good essays and books by promoting the Zionist lies of "mass murders, beheadings and rapes" by Palestinians (the beheaded babies have been debunked by several people, including Max Blumenthal--who ironically is good enough to be quoted on a previous CFN; you can't mass murder with AK-47s and hand grenades), when in fact the record clearly shows that it is Israel engaged in industrial mass murder, and it is the Israelis who have been raping Palestinian prisoners. And most Israelis supported sodomizing Palestinians, according to polls, didn't they?
Well, this is an "Israel uber alles" space.
Even worse, Mr. Kunstler pointedly leaves out what likely is in store: now that Israel is emboldened by its success or good luck in removing Assad (which may boomerang), it will be seen as an opportunity to attack Iran's nuclear and energy program, since Iran, the apparent big loser in the fall of Assad, appears to be weaker now. A lot of US Neocons will see it that way. Perhaps that will include Trump's new SecState and SecDef.
So I predict there will be a US/Israeli attack on Iran. And I predict the Israeli/US attack on Iran will precipitate a lot of other actions, military, economic, cyberwar, globally. The Iran attack will unleash a tidal wave that will wash over many other issues in the essay initially--and then make them even MORE intractable. When the Mid-East oil stops, probably fracking output starts to (finally) decline, we will see how we fare here in the big PX. Or when our plastic money is knocked out of commission after the Chinese or Russians knock out some satellites, or a few of the "harmless" illegals are "activated" to wreak havoc inside the US. It's not very hard to do....
I'm sure China will take a big hit also, of course. The whole world will.
Regarding Ukraine, just an opinion, but I disagree with Mr. Kunstler's prediction that Ukraine will keep Odessa. It is a vital Russian interest to control as much of the Black Sea coast as possible. Odessa is actually a RUSSIAN city, founded by Russians (it is really "New Odessa", founded near the ancient Hellenic (Greek) city of the same name, after Catherine the Great captured it from the Ottoman Turks, who captured it from the Byzantine Greeks). The Russians can permit the Ukrainians to sell grain, if Ukraine behaves, and pays a modest toll.
Biden is still the Prez, he can still spark an escalation with Russia that Trump can't manage down; President-elect Trump will always be in mortal danger. In the time we have before the SHTF in Iran (that rhymes), we will see if President Trump (and RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard) actually makes any inroads as Mr. Kunstler supports (and I agree) with corruption and abuse of power by the government, or if Mr. Trump simply is going take care of his rich and powerful friends. Already, his latest distraction is to talk Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Zionism ROXX!!!
You, my friend , are a speed reader!
And a speed typer - saved five keystrokes by abbreviating "forwarding".
lol
Well, I DID read the whole thing, and I'm just a little old 81 yr-old lady.
Am forwarding to a few in hopes that they'll read at least a hefty part.
VERY, VERY good, JHK. Thank you!
My kind of gal! Am only a few years behind you.
From Pasadena?
Take the time to read the entire article. But Mr. Kunstler missed a BIG one. He starts with all the intentional failings of the Biden administration. He needed to start eight years earlier with Barack Obama. Obama was an illegal candidate with intentions to divide the country by race, which it is now just recovering from as people realize it isn’t race at all but cultural differences. That did not become apparent until millions of unwanted invaders entered across our open borders and each set up their enclaves, with no intention of assimilating. Barack Obama, as I have proven since 2009, has been using a stolen Connecticut Social Security Number, violating federal law. Every taxpayer dollar he sent to support our enemy’s military, every EO he signed that allowed cities to be torn apart by leftist lunatics, and every law he signed into effect was illegal. Crooked, deceitful Obama stuck the match that has, perhaps, permanently damaged our country. He, and everyone who helped him gain access to the White House, needs to be arrested and every asset of the Obamas and those who helped needs to be criminally forfeited. Use their billions in illegal gains to help our country regain its footing.
Race isn't real? That would have been news to the Founders. They never considered Blacks and Indians are potential American citizens. Jefferson saw Blacks as a great threat and wanted them moved across the seas, beyond all danger of mixture. The current situation was his worst fear. He predicted both a Civil War and a Race War if things were allowed to just drift. One down, one on the way.
Race is not the impediment it was in the past.
Why? Because the real conflict in any society is the one between the Haves and the Have-Nots trying to steal what the Haves have. Socialists believe that the government is the tool to be used to settle that conflict, that will never happen, Every revolution in history is started when the government does not pay enough attention to the Have-Nots, who always outnumber the Haves.
All ethnic groups are progressing in the USA and as the Have-Nots cross all ethnic lines, Race becomes less important.
The Dems screwed up putting their brand on the minority ethnic groups to put them over the top. Son of a gun, something happened, a significant portion of those group became Haves protecting their capital. The Dems are in deep shit trying to figure out who to appeal to now.
No, Black enrollment is plummeting to the extent admissions are based on merit. Just as short Central Americans aren't ever going to dominate or even enter the NBA. The races are radically different. Until you get that, you are Liberal and a out of touch with reality.
Blacks will be at the bottom in any society based on merit. They will resent that and use their group culture to even the score. Politicians notice such things in "Democracies"......
Now do you begin to see the wisdom of Jefferson wanting them gone?
The highest performing elementary school in New York is a charter school serving almost entirely blacks and hispanics from impoverished high-crime backgrounds. They thoroughly outperform the whites from prep schools, etc. because their teachers make learning delightful and demand performance out of their pupils. Similar charter schools exist elsewhere. It is not race, it is culture. The book "Please Stop Helping Us" by an American Black, describes the importation of poor white trash from Ireland and Wales over a century ago. Their children attended public schools, learned proper American English and other subjects and entered the mainstream. The blacks still have those immigrants' trashy language and attitudes. How do we persuade millions of trashy blacks and others to drop the trashiness, study hard in school and build a culture of which all Americans can be proud? A few of them have done it--how do we persuade the rest?
Oh it's our fault that Blacks are the way they are. Wow. Well we benefitted from public schools in a way they never did or will. That's an argument against what you believe. As for your ONE perfect minority school, I'd guess much of it is hype since White liberals like you need to believe it to be true. The usual scenario is for a charter or test school to open. Black parents notice the utter dearth of Black students. They raise a ruckus and the school caves. Black students enter and standards ar dropped. White students leave since there is no point. Wise parents withdraw their students before they can be assaulted.
What the name of that Black intellectual who champions this vicious idea? That White slave owners made Blacks into savages? So why are they this way in Europe too?
As someone else finally said its culture.
Build a culture where learning and hard work is not only rewarded but actually considered cool.
Shelby Steele, in his book White Guilt, would argue that we have built a dependency class that continues from generation to generation. Black mothers are subsidized for having children out of wedlock and punished (subsidy removed) when they marry, in effect destroying the family. Kids without fathers in the home creates problems. It wasn't always like this.
Worse that class now believes they are better than everyone else.
For example, had two black land whales walking basically right into my wife and I. This event occurred in a huge courtyard and as we passed them, they commented on us cutting them off.
So, I turned and asked them why they thought they had right of way, and we had to get out of their way.
I then smugly said I was stronger than them and would have simply walked over them and they should learn their real place in society to be seen and not heard.
Neither of them expected me to react to them or comment back and one up them.
I suspect the younger of the two beasties is still raging.
I have had more than enough of these types of fools.
Well, those same farm subsidies have the same effect in whites. The majority of the younger and middle-aged white personnel with whom I work are single mothers, often with multiple baby daddies. There is little to incentive marriage, now. Not among the lower socioeconomic class.
I wrote a great college essay on Shelby Steele. Still in the archives, somewhere.
EZ,
So this explains why all the great Cities and advanced cultures of Blacks exist every where else other than America. Europe, Asia and Africa...all garden spots.
It is race. And it's a huge problem.
I do not believe it.
JAZ and Jerek goin' at it...just like old times.
Ain’t it a gas?
Don't give jarek Ideas about gas.
I'm crying here!
JohnAZ, good man, race is everything. Everything. It is without hesitation the most important. My race is my religion.
Each face is a map of twenty thousand years of history, and more. The skin you wear reflects the climate that formed you eons ago.
Would you dishonor that grand record, a record that outlasts all others?
To say it is of no consequence is to dishonor not only your ancestors, but everyone's ancestors, and their gods. Alas, but I am going to miss blondes.
Euro mutt, here. Norwegian and German, mostly, and my grandparents gave my dad shit for not marrying a full-blooded Norwegian girl. Were they taking their ethnocentricity too far? Heck, my "purebred" dad had olive skin and people think my sister is Ojibwa. Where the heck did the dark skin come from? I have chestnut hair, pale skin and blue eyes. Most Norwegian-heritage "blondes" (I live in America's Norwegian Central) seem to have rat-colored hair, dishwater at best. There is something impermanent about blond hair . . . hormones quickly darken it. My blondness disappeared before kindergarten. Blondes ain't all that. Mourn the gingers.
So tell me me, Alzaebo, what is the dividing line between Black and White. White is not white, the crayon color was flesh. Is Vijay Singh Black? What are half breeds of all types? There are more of them in this country now than “purebreds”. Race is coming less and less important each generation.
Pretending there is no problem race is naive.
Remember when Indians were classified as Caucasian? The vilification of "whiteness" has rendered the concept of "Caucasoid" very friable.
Yeah, I laugh at our supposed “purebred” Whites on the blog. What happens when they find on DNA test that they have Black roots way back and maybe even Neanderthal? A question, if they take a DNA test and find out they have any Dark roots, does that lower their IQ?
https://morgthorak.substack.com/p/screw-elon-musk-and-x?utm_source=post-email-title&publication
Great article. As he says, Elon has managed to split the MAGA movement. And Vivek and Vance are right there with him. Good info about the dark side of this admittedly brilliant man. X isn't really for free speech. Many are still banned. It discourages links. And is against Substack.
And read about the dark side of Indians and Indian culture. They will be a disaster for what's left of America.
Land ownership: Women were landowners. The Cherokee Nation practiced matrilineal inheritance of property and clan membership.
Family authority: Cherokee women were superior to their husbands within the family unit.
I was talking about dot not feather. In any case, don't conflate/confuse matrilineal with matriarchy. The dog don't hunt. A few small societies here and there.
On paper, the Iroquois looked like that too. One guy who lived and worked with them said it just wasn't true. The Council of Women could depose the Chief - in favor of another man. But they revered their men and would hardly ever use this power. Compare that to our irreverent, greedy, power mad women. If they had the power, they would use if constantly and foolishly.
Was it the Cherokee who had the saying, A people aren't finished until their women's hearts are on the ground. In other words, we're finished.
"Compare that to our irreverent, greedy, power mad women. "
Relationship, female variety, ever, Lugh? (tell us how it went, do..)
Lakota Sioux - "We'll never be defeated until the hearts of our women are broken."
In their wisdom, the Sioux warriors understood that their strength in battle, came from the support of their women - the strength needed to protect their women and children - thus completing the circle.
In short - strong women make strong men stronger. You already know this from our past studies.
"Compare that to our irreverent, greedy, power mad women." ~ Lugh
The women you describe are self-absorbed, attention-seeking harlots, in other words, weak women. The differences are obvious.
There're a good many good strong women out there. Don't throw out the babies with the bath water.
No, we have a problem race.
Even the evil Lincoln had roughly the same view as Jefferson. Up until the last week of his life, Lincoln was working on plans to repatriate blacks. White Southerners, in the chaos of Reconstruction, came up with the only decent, workable plan, which was separate, parallel societies that didn't interact. Segregation was an incredibly benevolent gift from white Southerners to black Americans. They should kneel and pray every day that they weren't smote from this land at the end of Reconstruction. It could easily have happened.
Wow! I hope you don’t share this view inside your family. I can imagine pushback from wives, children neighbors etc. I however think you are on to something.
My wife and her parents agree with me. My mother is a hopeless leftist. She has been appalled with my views since I was 10. My father is a golfing Republican. He only cares about his brokerage account.
You are absolutely correct about Obama. No less than Thomas Sowell agree. However I don't think Mr. Kunstler missed Obama. Mr. Kunstler couldn't bring Obama into the picture without growing this post to ponderous length. Mr. Kunstler how about a follow up "And Another Thing..." post that shines the light and details the connections Ms. Daniels harkens here. After all its easier to believe this was Obama's third term as president than it is to believe he was content just to wallow in depraved luxury the past four years.
I have at least a dozen articles on Obama with supporting documents that he was using a stolen SSN when he was in office.
Wouldn't that be juicy, an in depth investigation into how he ended up with a Social Security number issued for those born in a state so far from his supposed birth place Hawaii? Lets hope president poopy pants doesn't extend his blank pardons to include Obama, or whoever he is.
I don’t think Biden could pardon Obama back to when he was in his 20s.
"...it isn’t race at all but cultural differences." No, we have a problem race!
Call it whatever you want. But it's still cultures trying to force their nastiness on everyone else.
Obama was executed by firing squad December 1, 2024 for treason,
misprision of treason, money laundering and child trafficking among other charges. Now, we need to get all the players who aided and abetted Obama’s One World Government gambit. And there are lots of them
They must be using body doubles and triples. What about Michelle? Is she a man like Madam Macron?
Good call, Janos. I've often - well, not too often - wondered, what are the chances of two "world leaders", being married to transexuals? Not transphobic, but it's not natural, and the odds have to be pretty slim.
Don't forget Barbra Bush.
Hmmm, now that you mention it...
Care to elaborate and show receipts?
This just in
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/climate/epa-pfas-fertilizer-3m-forever-chemicals.html
"In early 2000, scientists at 3M, the chemicals giant, made a startling discovery: High levels of PFAS, the virtually indestructible “forever chemicals” used in nonstick pans, stain-resistant carpets and many other products were turning up in the nation’s sewage.
"The researchers were concerned. The data suggested that the toxic chemicals, made by 3M, were fast becoming ubiquitous in the environment. The company’s research had already linked exposure to birth defects, cancer and more.
"That sewage was being used as fertilizer on farmland nationwide, a practice encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency. The presence of PFAS in the sewage meant those chemicals were being unwittingly spread on fields across the country.
"3M didn’t publish the research, but the company did share its findings with the E.P.A. at a 2003 meeting, according to 3M documents reviewed by the The New York Times. The research and the E.P.A.’s knowledge of it has not been previously reported."
Follow-on comment: this is absolutely typical behavior of FDA, EPA, et al, back to their origins. When in doubt, keep the toxins flowing and the marketing campaigns running.
Business is as business does. When all you worship is money, all the world's a cash cow to be bilked.
"...unwittingly spread on fields across the country." ~ Eric F Coppolino
...*knowingly* spread on fields across the country.
FIFY, pasean.
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I was quoiting the New York Times verbatim and gave the link. That is obvious from my presentation. I will not ascribe foreknowledge until I have the document. However, in a follow-on, I say that this is typical behavior, and that much I can prove, so I can say it.
There was a time in Minnesota when pumping waste into the ground and into the Mississippi River was just a normal practice done without much concern.
bloody excellent essay - one of the best this year - easily beats anything the MSM have on offer. Congrats!
MSM? I hear they’ve changed their acronym to TSM - Toilet Stream Media . . . and they’re about to be flushed! BTW, I read every beautiful word. Thank you Kunstler CN.
Hear hear, one and all. JHK's depth, detail, eloquence, and quiet outrage are a beauty to behold. He is amongst America's finest.
Many thanks; this is the first summary of a mad year, and no doubt its best.
"Toilet Splatter Media."
I read every word you write. I appreciate your insights and writing. Happy New Year.
Hi Jim,
Great stuff - while agreeing with most of your analysis, you miss the mark on Israel.
They are the reason for our perpetual war-like attitude towards everyone and everything - the Israel lobby runs our defense department - check out Tucker’s recent interview with Jeffrey Sachs for the down and dirty - Jeffrey may die mysteriously for his candor.
Then there’s 9-11 - we know from the “dancing Israeli’s” that Israel knew about this attack in advance and did nothing to stop it - which means they were involved, apparently with the complicity of our own government. Quite the “ally” - they are allied with our deep state, which is itself the most direct threat to its own citizenry.
Logical fallacy at its finest.
Another take Israel was excited by Americas actual entrance into the war on terror and the knowledge they are no longer fighting alone against the global jihad or lessor war.
As far as knowledge of an attack there was a jihadi manual captured from a Filipino jihad manual roughly a decade earlier that clearly outlined attacks ranging from flare guns along Southern California fires to taking down buildings with aircraft and bombs.
The alleged dancing Israeli pictures and videos could just as easily be Palestinians or anyone else dancing at any time since we have clearly seen the media lies and the Jordanians now calling themselves Palestinians lie non-stop about everything.
News services at the time clearly identified all the dancing as Muslim on the Jersey side. As did interviewed neighbors who declined to be identified of course. That is archived. Then became the change of narrative…lie.
The Israeli were dancing too. Especially the ones who were behind it. One group of them said upon being confronted, "We're on your side". Like hell. We're on their side and have no choice in the matter.
The most convincing 'how was it accomplished' group of related scenarios has Mossad involved with numerous elements here. Is it any surprise the plot(s) are laced with intel services and neocons?
I don't claim to know who was dancing.
Convincing to whom?
Take a step back from stupid and think about reward verses risk.
Mossad gets caught and all hell breaks loose.
A decent argument can be made that some in the intel world knew something was coming and possibly even what but not when and decide to ignore it.
Plan it execute it...nope and doubly so for Israel.
I wouldn't know where to begin. It was an inside job.
I've never called anyone on CFN stupid.
Just say you don't know and leave it at that.
I call you stupid because the idea that any government or agency in the world directly was involved is ludicrous the absolute horrible consequences involved with being found out would be insane.
Better than the illogical fallacy of your reply - as least be coherent.
Sorry you have reading comprehension deficit I will try and use more simple terms and concepts for you next time.
Good - that would help.
Israel does not need the USA’s help as the last couple of years shows. Arms, yes.
It’s common knowledge in Israel among those in the know that Israel has been heavily under the influence and control of the US State Department and blob until this past year when Netanyahu bucked the dangerous and evil machinations of the Biden-fronted administration with good results for Israel and the world.
I digested all of it, JHK. Thank you. Well received. Several key phrases in your narrative..... consequences is back on the table for those who abuse power / debt death spiral / where will the customers for US debt come from? NOWHERE! / PERIOD OF DISORDER, DISCONTINUITY AND DISTRESS / Walmart decline and shift to more local commercial networks....Thank you for the reference to David Webb and The Great Taking.
It is all coming apart and an out of control federal government is to be blame and a Congress that has allowed itself to be subservient to the UniParty blob and unaccountable federal bureaucracy.
As for abroad, Europe is dead. Muslim Jihad is winning. NATO and the EU are failed initiatives. Argentina will be a shining light in South America. Perhaps El Salvador as well.
China should not own any land in the USA. Kick them the hell out. And round up the CCP illegal alien dudes here in the US and send them to the Deportation Center Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham gifted to Border Czar Tom Holman for processing and a one way ticket home.
I spend part of each year at my equatorial living hangout in northeast Brasil on the South Atlantic. Chain saw Javier is getting a lot of attention here. He makes Lula nervous. We like that . My wife and I are Bolsonaro supporters. We would like to see 47 reclaim the Panama Canal and cut a deal with Denmark for Greenland. Canada and a 51st State.....love the pith and the Governor Trudeau reference but Trudeau has self destructed.
Remain well and of good spirit, JHK.
Nothing on the Panama Canal. Counter China all the way. Trump’s real agenda? Block the Darien Gap, stop the globalists access to Central America.
Anyone who has played Risk knows the importance of Canada and Greenland. The original idea for NAFTA and USMCA was to present an economic offset to what has developed into BRICS+ ( strangely not mentioned) centered on North America and in an advantageous position with Europe. Canada may soon be home to a northern edition of the Panama Canal as the Northwest Territories thaw and a real Northwest Passage opens up. Remember that on an orb, the closer you get to the pole, the less distance there is between lines of longitude. Go from Alaska to mid-Siberia in a few hundred miles., As oil shows up in the Arctic, distances will make a big difference. BTW, a new fairly large oil field has been found in the North Sea.
JAZ - we're not on an orb - China is going to FAFO, and sail right over the edge.
yep
Lula should be nervous. He and de Moraes stole the last Brazilian election, and they too had a J6 event and similarly locked up hundreds of patriots. Thugs that were supported by the CIA and "Joe Biden".
It’s very difficult to not read your articles to the bitter end.
And thank you for a genuine assessment of why Israel is not genocidal warring. Omein.
Yes. We are watching less and less Netflix and started watching ChaiFlicks - Israeli TV shows and films. Since we only know a few Hebrew words, we read captions. The #1 comedy is Checkout and one can see the most integrated society that can poke fun at all. One episode, “The Wedding”, should be required viewing by the anti Israel protesting Ivy League students.
Never heard of ChaiFlicks. I'll have to check it out!
Google "Greater Israel". The IDF are wearing a patch of the proposed map on their shoulders. It will include all of Lebanon, Jordan, almost all of Syria, and large swaths of Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
Tricked again!
Let’s see, who is better for the USA, Israel or a bunch of nutty Arabs?
So who do you think that American First DJT is going to favor?
Exactly! I’ll take a greater Israel than a bunch of backward an idealists. How many Jews are raping European women and ruining western civilization?
Who brought the Muslims into Europe? Google the Kalergi Plan. Baron Kalergi was the son of an Austrian Nobleman and a Japanese woman. Like many such people, he hated his father and identified with his mother and East Asians. But he was willing to take his inheritance and he used it to help create the European Union and the plan to blend Whites out of existence.
The Jews backed these ideas to the hilt. One of his Jewish girlfriends or wives may have given him the idea to begin with.
You can’t go ‘there’ on this or most other threads—The zio-bot mindset is too closed for such FACTS.
Yer FACTS machine is broken.
Or we know this is but a redo of the protocols of elder zion for the twenty time.
Mostly lies and bullshit.
Wasting your breath, Janos.
You mean who is better for DC.
I agree, the large majority of Americans do not give a damn about Israel. The politicos are waist deep in them.
Now that is probably true as well. I honestly think the entire planet would be better without Israel or Islam. I’m just saying from an average Joe’s perspective Jews can at least pretend to assimilate. And just like me being an American military retired guy doesn’t make me complicit in all the fucked up things america does, same goes for everyday Jews and probably some Muslims, in fact many of the Muslims I’ve encountered I would say wanted the basic things we all want. But there’s also not many if any other religions that currently share the Islam idea of world dominance in the name of their god. Christianity certainly once was, but they adapted. Constantly being all the way pro Israel or pro Palestine doesn’t get anyone anywhere. Neither does spouting off nonsense.
So you admit the reality of Greater Israel? And that they played people who supported them for fools all these years? People that really believed they weren't expansionists and were just defending themselves?
You don't care because you're not just a fanboy but an idolater.
Careful getting Lugh going. He has well developed synapses that fire off erratically even if another merely thinks about Israel in a favorable light.
That would be ideal for all involved
Nothing is certain, other than change. Change is coming. It has to. It won't be easy, but it will be... interesting.
Whatever lies in store for us, thank GOD the hellscape of the last four years is nearing its end.
They bitter Liberals always focus on how much change will cost - a pittance compared to how much not changing will cost and how much it has already cost us.
Are those the same liberals that thought creating a welfare state for immigrants was cheaper than building a wall? Ask Mayor Adams, the soon to be GOP mayor of NYC.
If Werner Von Braun had only known what direction Western Civilization would take, maybe he would have stayed loyal to Germany.
A very interesting, and sobering 30k' view. My ONLY critical comment goes to JHK's synopsis of the Israel/Palestine portion of the forecast, which IMO is far too simplistic and which fails to impose the same standards of morality, natural law, and obvious common sense that infuse the rest of his treatise. It's like for JHK Israel should get 'a pass' and be allowed to continue to operate in the US taxpayer dollar paradise it's been living in for the last 70 years, with no changes (because obviously 'it's perfect as it is'). However, as the single most aggressive, destabilizing and destructive country in the ME, that just isn't a status Israel deserves by any metric other than per Zionist absolutism, and as a result Israel should be forced to stop relying on legalized US technology theft, outright American monetary, military AND armaments handouts, as well as almost total control of the US Congress and the sympathies of (apparently) the entire incoming executive branch. I'm just saying that while we're dreaming, and imposing accountability on ourselves, lets not forget about the 'elephants in the room' just because we're aligned with them at a personal level. It's hypocrisies (double-standards) like that which can undermine the moral authority of any enterprise or massive change that is being projected to occur under Trump 2.0 and the unhappy realities created by our collective can-kicking down the road for the last forty years at least. Let's do this differently, and not allow favored pets like Israel to remain exempt from the rules of civilization, and free of accountability for it's actions when everybody else is being held to account for the west's collective sins resulting from many generations of moral bankruptcy, and greed just because it's convenient to what has been America's project of empire building since the end of WWII.
Brilliant Tim! I could not have said it better.
"which IMO is far too simplistic and which fails to impose the same standards of morality, natural law, and obvious common sense that infuse the rest of his treatise. It's like for JHK Israel should get a pass"
That's were I stopped reading.
Thanks! Most members of ‘the Tribe’ have never been rational on the one issue of ‘the Palestinians’. But, JHK’s treatise was so good, and that small portion so completely out of line with the theme underlying the rest of his work, that I couldn’t let something like the pass for Israel to just slip through, unremarked upon.
Dershowitz once asked that Israel be exempted from the rules everyone else has to play by. As they made Ramses say in the Ten Commandments, Their God IS God. In other words, their particularity (and only theirs) is the Universal, thus turning reality on its head.
The US gets nothing in return for the economic and military support that it provides to the ethno-supremacist apartheid nation of Israel. In fact, the U.S. suffers internationally on account of its close relationship with Israel because of its constant vetoing of UN Resolutions intended to punish Israel for its human rights violations.
There is no alliance, and Israel is not our ally. Its government does not behave as an ally does, it has never fought alongside US forces in any of our foreign wars. Its interests are not aligned with ours as an ally’s should be. There is no formal treaty and no binding obligations that require our governments to do anything for the other.
Pundits always grossly exaggerates the extent of the ties between our governments. Israel is routinely called our “most important ally” in the region, or even our “most cherished ally” in all the world. These are ideological assertions that are not grounded in reality. Dozens of other states all over the world are better allies to the United States than the “most cherished ally” is. And they don’t preside over an illegal occupation and decades of abuses and crimes against the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation. Now being ethnically cleansed in a genocide with US supplied bombs dropped on refugee camps and hospitals.
The effect of this constant repetition is to make the US/Israel relationship to be extremely important to U.S. interests when it is not. It promotes an illusion of a common interest where no real common interest exists ~ and has now suckered the US into being complicit in a genocide.
The US taxpayers are having billions of their taxes stolen and given to apartheid Israel. Americans do not have Universal healthcare. But pay for Israel to have Universal healthcare. And the US is $35-trillion in Debt. The US and Israel have made themselves pariahs in the eyes of the World. This is not going to end well for the US or Israel. The US will survive. The same cannot be said for Israel.
They do help us. They help us help them.
As Bibi says, The United States can dry up and blow away once we get what we need from it.
Bibi is a delusional psychopath and a war criminal.
On trial in Isreal for corruption.
The sooner he meets the same fate as Mussolini the better for the World.
Your hubris will be the nails in our coffin my friend.
This is not going to end well for the US or Israel. I totally agree.
The world will see the "Emperor has no clothes"
When that happens, Israel will have to choose the Samson Option (taking everyone down, including themselves) or some kind of arrangement with the (surviving, angry) Palestinians.
Today's Israelis will not be willing to die without Uncle Sugar.
Post-apartheid South Africa comes to mind.
I'd say that's a bad end for the US (the end of unfettered consumerism) and Israel (the end of the Jewish State).
Life will be difficult... for everyone. The "winners" will be defined as nations or people who don't face an existential threat from other nations or people. That is not the same as a high standard of living, or human rights or prosperity.
Yikes, all you folks desiring the destruction of Israel, a question?
Who exactly is the miracle Arab nation or group that is going to “eliminate” Israel?
They have tried for 75 years with absolutely no success.
Today we have the up-coming Abraham accords that will mollify the vast majority of Arab nations. Then there is Iran, who keeps losing credibility of being able to do much of anything about Israel. So who?
Trump will support Israel. He will support the side that is advantageous to America. I believe he will not spend as much on their behalf, but they will just shift to other options, including other countries.
"However [speaking of Israel], as the single most aggressive, destabilizing and destructive country in the ME...." Wow, if that isn't the nadir of upside-down perverse thinking that puts the truth in a grave the speaker has dug for himself and all who choose to join him in the darkness of destruction. Watch an expose of what was going on in the Assad regime that just collapsed, or what's been happening in Lebanon or Iraq or Egypt or Iran or any of the Arab countries not swimming in oil revenues that has won them "friends" and influence.
Thanks for your opinion. I believe that Israel’s military actions against it’s neighbors, and grossly disproportionate response in Gaza, over the last 14 months, particularly as it comes to it’s massive and indiscriminate bombing campaign against civilian targets (including sniper attacks on children and first responders), speaks for itself. For the record. I consider Israel a racist, cruel and amoral nation.
Tim, Israel created the Gaza Strip, trying to buy peace with land as they have done other times. They have tried to mollify the Gaza Strip”two country” solution, working with Hamas to try to stabilize the Strip into a legitimate Palestinian state. They hoped for “peace”, and have gotten nothing but rockets, tunnels, military build-up, and invasion across the Gaza border. Bibi is going to just eliminate the Gaza Strip and remove the burr under his saddle blanket.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at all the negotiations going on in Syria, and Iraq as decisions are being made about what to do with these two countries. Think about one influence, Sunni or Shia, or Christian? Or Turkish? Or Kurdish? Who will lead the formation of this region?
Personally, I don’t believe the Israeli government has ‘believed’ in actually trying for a ‘two state solution’ since Begin. The flooding of what’s left of Palestine with settlers for the last thirty years, at least, says all I need to know about the governments intentions in that regard.
Lies, calumny, and more lies.
Happy Hanukkah.
It is too bad that the same folks that believe in the Maccabee’s miracle of the lamps could not believe in the message of their Messiah when He was on earth, showing them the way into Yahweh’s Kingdom. The biggest downer for the Jews is that they are no longer the Chosen of God. Their allegiance to the “Law” instead of the Grace of God through Jesus leaves them with little, spiritually.
So if you know, act like you know. Let it inform your politics.
Greater Israel includes all of the West Bank, Lebanon, and Jordan - and a large swath of Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Now that the IDF is wearing the map as a patch on their uniforms, it's a de facto declaration of war against the Sunni Arabs as well as the Shiites. If these two had any brains, they would unite while there is still time.
Hmmm, your identification of the goals of Israel sorta makes them the New Ottoman Empire. The same empire that the Ottoman Turks created with much bloodshed many centuries ago. Can you imagine the Jews of Israel in control of the oil in the Middle East? Are they a counter to the Iranian dream of having control of the oil?
But...Turkey (or however its spelt now)
I red it! Thank you! You're a national treasure!
"That is all I have for you in this end of year forecast for the year to come. I will be amazed to hear if any of you read this document to its bitter end.
For each of you personally: do your best to lead purposeful, ethical lives in 2025. Refrain from trying to push other people around. Take care of your own bidness. . . and keep abreast of the goings-on in the year ahead at good old Clusterfuck Nation! And, above all, stay calm and cheerful!"
Happy New Year, everyone!
Happy New Year to you as well!!
Alright Dreamy, we've read Jim's - prescient as always - take on 2025. What do you "see" in 2025? No rush, it may not be clear just yet.
Happy New Year down on the bayou! Or up on the bayou, as it may be - I was channeling John Fogerty and a little CCR - written before you were born. <3
Oh I love CCR. I think my fave song of theirs is have you ever seen the rain. I think maybe its the one I remember hearing first. It's raining and the sun's out today lol. I am not sure about the seeing part. I feel like the year will be a net positive year. But the story still hasn't been told. <3
Hamas no more “started a war” on October 7 than Russia ‘started a war” in February of 2022. These affairs have deep roots, and ignoring them is just more gaslighting of the ignorant, the ideology-bound, and the inattentive. And then there are the conflicts of interest. Even such an amazingly astute person such as our host here can have blind spots. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, the play is fine…
JHK thinks this ME clusterfuck started on Oct 7th
And that the apartheid state of Israel's genocides are justified.
His pro-Zionist position is pretty disgusting.
But as another commenter noted - I would be inclined to respond to his pro-Zionist position, if that were permitted here.
It won't be.
I could not continue reading past that. Sorry JHK.
You guys crack me up. Just like fans that root for a perennial loser football team or the Chicago Cubs. Just keep showing up waiting for something to change, isn’t that insanity?
Syria is gone, Iraq is gone, Gaza is gone, Iran is teetering, the Sunnis are trying to get with the Abraham accords as their oil reserves start exhausting.
I have my problems with the ethnocentrism and arrogance of the Jewish people, but reality says that Israel will be with us for a long time.
Whose reality would that be John?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gfXI4_xOE
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XU1VQ8nN-Hw
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ftSsXSbbBTk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eSDA_r2-Ie0
I listened to the first youtube video and the speaker is delusional. If the country was full of like-minded pacifists, Israel would have been wiped off the planet decades ago. Nice try though.
Since the end of World War II, the US has cumulatively provided Israel with over US$318 billion in aid.
Including military, economic and humanitarian.
The US has spent a record of $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel so far since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the ME.
Without that, Israel would have been wiped off the planet decades ago.
The US is a Nation in decline, with a US$35 trillion debt.
The gravy train is coming to and an end for the apartheid state of Isreal.
And every day the mass-murderer Netanyahu bombs another country.
Creating another enemy in the ME.
To think Isreal will survive when the US goes bankrupt is delusional.
Good. Go away, Dennis. Al Jazeera might be an appropriate home for your delusional hatred.
So you are OK with genocide then eh Paul?
Talk about delusional hatred.
Bombing defenseless women and children, hospitals and refugee camps in Gaza, The West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and today I see, Yemen.
And Iran is next, eh?
Has the madman mass-murderer Netanyahu ever studied history as to why Hitler was defeated. It's called overreach.
And as soon as the Yanky money and bombs dries up - Israel is in shit street without a shovel.
The Yanks are US$35 trillion in debt and its citizens tired of supporting ethnosupremacist apartheid Isreal.
No, I'm not ok with the genocide aimed at Israel by Iran and its Muslim jihadists associates and lackeys. That's why I fully support Israel's war against all of them, which, not only serves Israel, but all of humanity including and particularly the Muslims. That you can't see this is a sure sign your soul dwells in hell. I would see you delivered from this, as well.
"That you can't see this is a sure sign your soul dwells in hell."
It's pathetic that one must deal with these insults, but unfortunately the anonymity of the web emboldens the detritus of the world to make statements anonymously that they would not have the testicular fortitude to say to your face.
They cannot embrace opinions that are different to their own as they have an immature and fragile mental mind.
Not having anything to contribute of their own, they resort to calling you stupid.
You do not believe in any of that God vs. evil stuff anyway? Why would you consider Paul’s comment an insult?
Well, what else could anyone call you?
Dennis stupidity seems to suit you well.
The cavemen of yemen continue to shoot rockets at anything that moves near them and thus are a global threat to trade.
I watched hundreds of sorties to drop 2k bombs on caves in Yemens and these idiots just doubled down.
They are armed and funded by piracy, extorsion and every other nasty thing civilized society abhors.
Tied at the hip to a global pariah in the Theocracy pretending at a republic called Iran.
You know the country now trying to take over the middle east.
Gaza is a pile of concrete rubble its time for Egypt and Jordan to take in the much-hated rabble calling themselves Palestinians.
Why would I respond to a comment that begins.."Dennis stupidity seems to suit you well."
The only global pariah is Isreal my Israeli friend.
A Zionist, ethno-supremacist, apartheid Nation posing as a Democracy.
Iran has never committed genocide.
If you would pull your head out of your backside you would know that!
Would you consider the war against Iraq a genocide? It was. And not even against Israel.
Your one sided defense of the Arabs is humorous at times as you cherry pick all the history of the Israel Arab conflict. It must take lots of research to come up with all the anti-Israel propaganda.
Zionism ROXX and u stink.
And yet you did respond.
Which shows you are a liar as well.
Even more amusing is the absolute and utter ignorance you show for history.
Common knowledge that Iran has indeed disappeared tens of thousands of people their families and friends in fact anyone that spoke out about the Islamic theocracy from start to now.
Years to research 1981-1982 and 1988.
They still however beat, jail and rape anyone not willing to live by their backwards religion.
Some might call this a Genocide of people who refuse to live by their rules.
They have also repeatedly called for the wiping of Israel off the map but are to cowardly to actually commit to it themselves.
Weren't you pro-Israel though?
I thought Jim did a good job explaining in simple terms how the Palestinians misused the funds they were given to help them to settle into the Gaza territory. Choices have consequences.
Much agreed, ezinmn; the Eritreans did the very thing JHK suggested, and vacationing Russians sun themselves on Red Sea beaches at luxury resorts.
When Ethiopian dictator Haile Sallasie died, his sons went to war; one of them won himself a new country, Eritrea, and the rights to build those coastal resorts.
Although I detest Jared Kushner, his idea was the correct one- he appealed to greed, not to bloodlust, and would replace the misspent funds of corrupt UNRWA on fine dining rather than death tunnels and rocket attacks.
The Palestinians could've earned themselves a country, and did not; although Jews push the hardest of bargains as a test of one's intelligence, if you outwit them, they will back down and honor the deal. (They even do this with each other.)
Not sure about anything you said as truth, facetious commentary, and ancient history don't mix well.
That said, at least Palestinians would have good paying jobs along their 25-mile seashore had they chosen differently. Maybe we'd have a Palestinian Donald J. Trump real estate mogul by now as well!
Capitalism doesn't have to be a bad thing. One could say that Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.
Right, the unprovoked attacks from Hamas started soon after they got elected, murdered the PA reps in Gaza, and started stockpiling weapons.
Lest we forget billions spent on tunneling to hide weapons and conduct operations of war and not taking care of the people.
Hamas is the second worst thing to happen to the people without a country.
Time to send the arabs of gaza back to Jordan.
Think about the Arab nations ready to accept Israel into economic comradeship with the Abraham Accords. Are they willing to accept the zealots in Gaza, Lebanon, or Yemen into their countries to continue to raise hell?
I doubt it. No one wants these folks who seem unable to get along with anyone.
You opine as if you've lived among either group -- and that you yourself have ultimate power to condemn as God. Have you such direct, intimate experience of these peoples? Or are you just a snooty little honkey with something of an edjukation and a relatively stable cash position who naively believes himself 2b a modern NOSTRADAMUS?
Amen. Between the Zionist chanting in unison and the millions of Indians soon to arrive on our shores, one realizes that our Renaissance is to built on the sands of lies and betrayal.
Fuckin' Indians. If it isn't intestinal worms, its lice and bed bugs. Why is India so miserable? It's full of Indians.