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Respecting the Other
Respecting the Other One of my old friends’ father was at one time something of a Cold Warrior: he did something or other for the US defense establishment—nuclear submarine-related, if I recall correctly. This work activity apparently led him to develop a particularly virulent form of Russophobia; not so much a phobia as a pronounced […]
The Nuclear Solution
The Nuclear Solution When, in the middle of a card game, you realize that you are about to lose your farm, your shirt and your first-born son, you may decide to go for the “nuclear option”: kicking over the card table while reaching for your revolver. Outcomes will vary, but they are by and large […]
The Real Nuclear Threat
The Real Nuclear Threat On January 26, 2017 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved up its Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to metaphorical midnight, and it now stands at just 2.5 minutes to midnight. Why did the Board decide to make this change? Essentially, “because Donald Trump.” In other news, […]
Shrinking the Technosphere—Video Trailer
Shrinking the Technosphere—Video Trailer My next book has cleared galley proof stage and is scheduled for release in November. Please add your email to the list in the right-hand column to be notified as soon as it comes out. Meanwhile, here is the video trailer.
KunstlerCast with Dimitry Orlov
KunstlerCast with Dimitry Orlov Kunstler: Hello and welcome to the KunstlerCast. Thanks for listening in. If you’d like to support this podcast, you can become a patron of the show by making a small monthly contribution through my Patreon page. To do that, you can either search for me on Patreon.com or use the link in […]
Negative interest rates are coming to America
Negative interest rates are coming to America Well, that didn’t take long! Negative Interest Rate Policy appears to be a gift that keeps on giving. Just a little while ago I wrote that, in essence, if the Federal Reserve wants to keep the financial party going a little bit longer, it will have to continue […]
Bureaucratic Insanity: Free to be Slaves
Bureaucratic Insanity: Free to be Slaves Schools in America today are less concerned about the overall welfare of students than they are with making sure that they obey all the rules, no matter how pointless, and produce good test scores. The emphasis on mindless obedience and rote learning prepares them for dehumanizing office work, where […]
150-Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future – Serialisation Part 3
150-Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future – Serialisation Part 3 “The more laws and commands there are, the more thieves and robbers there will be.” Lao Tzu Information leaked in the Panama Papers about the use of tax havens certainly supports this statement! Under the cover of the law thieves and robbers have been […]
Always Attack the Wrong Country
Always Attack the Wrong Country Chor Boogie There are numerous tactics available to those who aim to make problems worse while pretending to solve them, but misdirection is always a favorite. The reason to want to make problems worse is that problems are profitable—for someone. And the reason to pretend to be solving them is […]
The Color Counterrevolution Cometh
The Color Counterrevolution Cometh Alex Podesta Had Sun Tsu co-authored a treatise on the art of sports with Capt. Obvious, a quote from that seminal work would probably read as follows: If your team keeps playing an offensive game and keeps losing, eventually it will end up playing a defensive game, and will lose that […]
The wrong kind of victory
The wrong kind of victory John Hayes One often hears of the fact that the US spends more on its military than most other nations combined. This is usually presented as evidence that the US is more powerful militarily—perhaps so powerful that it could take on the rest of the planet, and prevail. I find […]
Harm/Benefit Analysis
Harm/Benefit Analysis According to Kaczynski, we need to reject organization-dependent technologies that tie us into the technosphere, and cultivate organization-independent ones: Small-scale technology is technology that can be used by small-scale communities without outside assistance. Organization-dependent technology is technology that depends on large-scale social organization. We are aware of no significant cases of regression in […]
The Whiplash Plateau
The Whiplash Plateau My interview on the final weekly C-Realm Podcast. KMO is moving on, so am I (in various ways) and so we took some time to recap and draw some conclusions. It’s the end of an era. Please have a listen.
The Future is Blivets
The Future is Blivets If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed that the global financial markets are currently in meltdown mode. Apparently, the world has hit diminishing returns on making stuff. There is simply too much of everything, be it oil wells, container ships, skyscrapers, cars or houses. Because of this, the […]
Financial collapse leads to war
Financial collapse leads to war [This is a rerun from March of last year, whose time has finally come. With the new year, a sea change seems to have occurred in the financial markets: instead of “melting up,” the way they used to, they have started “melting down.” My original prediction is that this will […]
