Life in Crazyland

Incompetence or Malevolence? [The Daily Reckoning] August 27, 2022 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( Life in Crazyland - Is today’s chaos the result of elites’ incompetence or malevolence?… - “Institutions are turned against us like flamethrowers”… - Reason for hope… [***AUTHORIZATION STATUS: APPROVED***]( View this urgent market briefing. It contains sensitive materials previously classified by the C.I.A. And now it’s now available to help YOU prepare your money for the next big surprise. You won’t find this information on Google, Bing, Youtube, or DuckDuckGo. You can only see this urgent briefing by [Going Here Now]( Saratoga Springs, New York August 27, 2022 Editor’s note: It seems at times that the world is falling apart before our eyes. Is it simply random events beyond human control — or is it what James Howard Kunstler calls “controlled demolition” by elites? Today, James shares his thoughts with you. [James Howard Kunstler] JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Dear Reader , In a confab of friends on a warm evening last weekend, someone asked: Do you think what’s going on is due to incompetence or malevolence? The USA is certainly skidding into a great and traumatic reset featuring a much lower standard of living for most citizens amidst a junkyard of broken institutions. But so are all the other nations of Western Civ. If it’s not being managed by malign forces, such as Klaus Schwab and his Davos myrmidons, then it sure looks like some sort of controlled demolition. Something ominously foul rides the late-summer breeze as our country, and Western Civ with it, tilts into the season of growing darkness. Can you sense it? Death is in the air, and not in the usual Halloween vaudeville mode, either, with the cackling lawn zombies and top-hatted, tap-dancing skeletons. This ain’t no foolin’ around. Sleepwalking Into Calamity We have never been so unprepared for a calamity in plain sight and that is because the people who run things have made it happen in combined acts of wickedness and stupidity. After decades of mere racketeering, arranging things so as to bankrupt anyone who gets seriously ill, corporatized health care now presides over a harvest of medically induced death, pretending dumbly that there is nothing to see. Get this: The people are seeing it now, and talking about it, and there will be no stopping their discovery of exactly what has gone on, or their wrath in the afterwash. The chief architect of this epic debacle, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Captain Queeg of American public health, has announced his exit from the scene “to pursue the next chapter of my career.” He was coy about what that might be. I think the job title is: defendant. It will be a milestone in human history to witness The Science itself go on trial, should it live long enough. What awaits to take its place? Viziers with wands and pointed hats? Crones riding broomsticks against a cold, lifeless moon? A principality of dark magic? Descent into the underworld? The medically induced termination of life at large scale accompanies the current effort to provoke the suicide of culture and nationhood — more orchestrated depravity and folly. [Military Experts preparing for a “Pearl Harbor Style Attack” on Guam?]( [Click here for more...]( Putin invades Ukraine… China launches rockets over the straits of Taiwan… And as we speak, military experts are warning the US to “Prepare for a Pearl Harbor Style Attack” on Guam. Is the beginning of World War III? But more importantly, there is an exact playbook on what is playing out in the world and what you need to do to prepare. [Click Here To Claim Your Copy]( Institutions Turned Against Us Institutions are turned against us like flamethrowers. The FBI might break down your door next in its quest to suppress dissent. The composers of official deception never sleep, assuring that you will not know which end of anything is up. Our legislators just set 87,000 new IRS agents on us, as if that was any sort of a good idea. The courts exist to protect The Party, but which party? Take your complaints about those alleged constitutional rights someplace else, like Twitter and Facebook, where they can be expunged as soon as you hit the “post” button. We’ve heard ad nauseam that the Washington, D.C., insiders, the denizens of that demi-mythic Deep State in the wealthiest metro area of all the land, look down on the rest of America. Why is that? I’ll tell you. Because the D.C. confederacy of grifters has gotten fat off your suffering as they have systematically wrecked and looted that rest of America, the sinking middle class. They are living in fabulous comfort off your bamboozlement and ruin. Their contempt for you grows on your tragic breakdown like fungus on a once-mighty fallen tree. They prevailed in this world and you didn’t. You chumps are in Palookaville on your way to the bone orchard, and therefore they are better than you, ha ha ha. [Urgent: Currency Wars Alert]( [Click here for more...]( “Worst case scenario is almost inevitable” -Former Pentagon Insider Jim Rickards In my 2011 book, I warned that the U.S. was engaged in a currency war. And that these wars: “Degenerate into sequential bouts of inflation, recession, retaliation and actual violence as the scramble for resources leads to invasion and war.” Now with Putin invading Ukraine…Rising tensions with China… Inflation, recession, and supply chain issues all hitting the U.S. economy at the same time. It seems as if some of my worst fears have finally come true. That’s why I’ve recorded an urgent video message. To update you on exactly what you need to be doing to protect yourself. Because if history is any indicator, this will not end well. [Watch My Urgent Video Message Here]( Global Insanity It’s not limited to the U.S. How did the polite and rational society called Canada fall under the punishing sway of Justin Trudeau? Ditto the apparently insane Australia and New Zealand? Ditto the Europeans, who followed America’s absurd campaign to make Ukraine a war zone, and who now face a winter with no fuel for industry or home heating — and possibly a descent into new medievalism. Perhaps the COVID bamboozle did that, just drove them over the edge. (And they will soon learn what a deadly con that was, especially the “vaccine” feature.) Personally, I think we’re exiting the techno-industrial fiesta of the past 200-odd years and entering the uncharted territory of what comes next, and that is driving the immense anxiety of the age. Our business model for everything is broken, mostly because the fossil fuel situation has become so uncertain, and it is driving us nuts. Economic growth depends on cheap energy. And oh, by the way, wind and solar can’t compensate for fossil fuels. Just this week, French President Emmanuel Macron warned, “We are living through the end of abundance.” Hmmm. Reason for Hope Cultural and national suicide is hardly the only option. Resist those who want to drag you into it. We are going to carry on one way or another. We’re going to make it through this bottleneck. Let the insane bury the insane. Keep your eyes peeled, keep your hearts open and keep your powder dry. The regime that has turned our world inside out in its satanic pursuit of comfort and power will be stripped naked and judged, if not by official judges, then by an unstoppable consensus. The sore-beset public will take an inventory of what has been lost and begin reconstructing a scaffold of shared life that rewards fidelity to the way things actually work. It will be a rough passage out of what amounts to a hostage crisis. There will be friction and heat. You will not be comfortable, but you will be dauntless. You will certainly not have nothing or be happy about that. You will have, at least, a restored memory of what it was like to strive honorably for a life worth living. We’re in the crucible of all that just now, where everything is white hot. Do not bend or melt. Soldier through. Be men and be women (there is truly nothing in between, and do not fall for faithless inducements to doubt that). You are brothers and sisters in an enterprise worth saving and you have a history worth defending. Believe it. Regards, James Howard Kunstler for The Daily Reckoning Editor’s note: Between inflation… war… sanctions… and rate hikes… It seems today’s market is simply bouncing from one big surprise to the next. But according to Jim Rickards (former adviser to the White House, Congress and the U.S. intelligence community)… [What’s right around the corner could be much bigger.]( As a result, he says if you aren’t prepared for what’s coming, then your portfolio could get blindsided (again). Jim has developed an all-new trading system that can turn financial and political surprises — which the world is full of these days — [into massive moneymaking opportunities.]( He developed these models based on his work with the CIA. Now you have the chance to benefit from Jim’s extensive experience. Please take one minute to watch this brand-new urgent briefing before the next big surprise hits your portfolio. [Go here now.]( Thank you for reading The Daily Reckoning! We greatly value your questions and comments. Please send all feedback to [feedback@dailyreckoning.com.](mailto:dr@dailyreckoning.com) [James Howard Kunstler] [James Howard Kunstler]( is perhaps best known for his 2005 book [The Long Emergency]( which predicted the financial meltdown and the implications of the peak oil problem. His 1993 book, [The Geography of Nowhere]( about the fiasco of suburbia, is a campus cult classic among the architecture and urban planning students. [Paradigm]( ☰ ⊗ [ARCHIVE]( [ABOUT]( [Contact Us]( The Daily Reckoning is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We do not rent or share your email address. By submitting your email address, you consent to Paradigm Press, LLC. delivering daily email issues and advertisements. To end your The Daily Reckoning e-mail subscription and associated external offers sent from The Daily Reckoning, feel free to [click here.]( Please read our [Privacy Statement](. 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