Attack of the Propaganda Industrial Complex

Are Americans Finally Waking Up? [The Daily Reckoning] December 10, 2022 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( Attack of the Propaganda Industrial Complex - The attack of the Propaganda Industrial Complex… - COVID: A cover for global bankruptcy?… - “Lies will be contested now on the grand scale in ways that were formerly subverted”… [Response Requested 1/1000th of an ounce of gold available for you]( As a The Daily Reckoning reader, Jim Rickards is offering you 1/1000th of an ounce of gold when you upgrade your account. It will come in the form of a “Gold Back” - a new type of gold currency that’s starting to spread across America ([click here to view](. If you have not responded to Jim’s offer yet, and want to know how to claim yours… Please click the link below for details. Thanks! Amber Anderson Customer Service [Click Here To Claim Your New Gold Back Currency]( Saratoga Springs, New York December 10, 2022 Editor’s note: James Howard Kunstler is a bit of a bad boy. His writings are generally more partisan than we prefer here at the ruthlessly anti-partisan Daily Reckoning. But he’s always a highly engaging read, so we indulge him. Today, James trains his sights on the “Propaganda Industrial Complex” he believes has been waging a PSYOPS campaign against the American people. [James Howard Kunstler] JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Dear Reader , Are Americans finally realizing that virtually all of the mis-and-dis-information bombarding them for so many years actually comes from the government and the news media channels that serve it? Maybe. Because what we’ve got now in this country is a Propaganda Industrial Complex waging a PSYOPS war on the people of this land. Why is that? Essentially, to cover up past crimes against the country by public officials. Twitter, pre-Musk, was a major accomplice and enabler of all that, and suddenly it’s not — to the horror of everyone in charge at our nation’s seat of government. The main crimes revolve around selling out America’s future one way or another — “Joe Biden” and company being only the most blatant perps in the big picture. J’Accuse! Before them was Hillary Clinton, with her purchase of the Democratic National Committee and previous lucrative ops during her turn as secretary of state, like the Uranium One deal, the Skolkovo military tech transfer op and then the Russia Collusion op to ensure none of that would ever come to light. The whole Intel Community behemoth was neck deep in it, too, amping up the Russia prank into a four-year coup d’état. Remember, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting that Hillary’s little hoax was for real. It’s all just gotten more grotesque since Mr. Trump was ejected in the souped-up 2020 election, with sideshows such as the ongoing race-and-gender hustles, the climate con and the Green New Deal nonsense. [Attention! Before You Read Any Further…]( Before you read any further in today’s issue, an urgent situation needs your immediate attention. If you don’t plan on claiming this new upgrade to your Strategic Intelligence subscription, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity. Right now is your chance to grab one of the biggest (and most valuable) upgrades our company has ever made to a newsletter. I’m taking Strategic Intelligence to an entirely new level and I’d hate to see you left behind… [Click Here Now]( Enter COVID COVID-19, surely released on purpose, was, as Ed Dowd avers, a cover for global bankruptcy. Nothing else explains the astounding coordination of so many governments acting the same way against their own citizens: lockdowns, vax mandates, vax passports and all. The icing on that poison cake, of course, is that everything the public health officialdom told you about COVID-19 was patently untrue, and dishonestly so, not via omission or plain incompetence. In fact, the virus was made in a Chinese lab with the help of Dr. Fauci and colleagues. Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine did work effectively against it. The “vaccines” were not tested properly and turned out to be harmful. And now the COVID-19 melodrama is ending in a discernable death-of-the-vaxxed and the reveal of all those aforesaid lies, while, anyway, despite their gaslight and smoke screens, the global bankruptcy approaches its nauseating climax. Watching the post-election political vaudeville during the lame-duck Christmas intermezzo, one can’t escape perceiving that just about everything in the USA is now heading south toward breakdown and ruin. The Great Disintegration The on-the-ground economy craters, inflation rages at the supermarket, supply lines break, the oil and gas industries get strangled, health care goes down smoking and burning, public education folds in disgrace and failure, Wall Street ends with a bang and a whimper and John Fetterman prepares for his place in history. Our government’s Ukraine op is ending in disaster for that sad-sack former Russian province and, surprise, surprise, for the European Union, NATO and us, too. We finally played the Russia card like we’re the proverbial patsy at the poker table. Our hand turns out to be a pair of deuces with the five of diamonds high. Russia rakes in the chips with its massive natural resources and the world’s most stable currency, soon to be backed by gold. How’d that turn out, Victoria Nuland? The EU was already functionally bankrupt. Now it has lost its entire industrial base for a lack of fuel to run it — self-Epsteined, shall we say, on the national scale — and faces not just a return to the medieval standard of living but also to the competitive savagery of many small nations soon to be fighting among themselves, making bad conditions worse. So sad. Euroland was a nice place to visit at the turn of the millennium and now the lights will blink out, like seeing a fond relative expire, eyes going vacant, on her deathbed. Western Civ is, after all, a kind of family. And now the family is disintegrating — as old families will — in a malodorous fog of receivership, vice and imbecility. [Over 62 And Collect Social Security? Take Action Immediately!]( [Click here for more...]( If you’re over the age of 62 and currently collect Social Security, you need to prepare now. Because Biden has given our country the worst inflation in decades – and many warn things will only get worse from here. Worse yet, the Social Security check you receive now may not keep pace with inflation… Which is why, if you don’t act now, you could fall behind in the months ahead. Is your retirement at immediate risk? [Click Here To Find Out]( Political “Opposition” Here in the USA, it’s hard to have faith in the supposed political opposition, the Republican Party. Not with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy still riding herd. They preside over their own coterie of extravagant grift and disgusting privilege. Don’t be shocked… shocked… if they just stand by while America crumples into history at the hands of “Joe Biden.” If there is any saving of this nation, these two must be defenestrated — though saving the nation from penury, depravity and senility looks increasingly improbable, at least in the form of the old federal republic we knew and loved. The macro trend is quite clear, as laid out in my book, The Long Emergency: What’s coming is the opposite of global government; rather, national governments become increasingly impotent and illegitimate, and smaller regions by necessity must retreat into autarky to keep anything going. The Bright Side For us this all means that Washington, D.C., sinks into irrelevance while the states, or perhaps mere parts of the states, have to take charge of their own affairs. That recovery process might have been jump-started by the Elon Musk revolution at Twitter. It will be a lot harder for the Propaganda Industrial Complex to operate with this key player in revolt. Lies will be contested now on the grand scale in ways that were formerly subverted. Things blurry will come into focus. Fresh air will blow in on chill winter winds. New ops against the people, such as the threatened central bank digital dollar, will be laughed off the stage. Some lights go out, but others get turned on. Regards, James Howard Kunstler for The Daily Reckoning [feedback@dailyreckoning.com.](mailto:feedback@dailyreckoning.com) Editor’s note: In Jim Rickards’ 2011 book Currency Wars, he warned that the U.S. was engaged in a special type of economic war. Jim said that these wars would: Degenerate into sequential bouts of inflation, recession, retaliation and actual violence as the scramble for resources leads to invasion and war. The historical precedents are sobering… Some version of the worst-case scenario is almost inevitable. Now with Putin invading Ukraine, rising tensions with China, inflation, recession, supply chain issues and the potential for greater violence breaking out all over the world… It seems Jim’s worst fears are coming true. [That’s why he recorded this short video message.]( Jim wants to help you prepare for what he fears is coming next. Because if history is any indicator, there could be real trouble ahead. [Click here to view Jim’s urgent video message.]( Thank you for reading The Daily Reckoning! We greatly value your questions and comments. Please send all feedback to [feedback@dailyreckoning.com.](mailto:feedback@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]( © 2022 Paradigm Press, LLC. 808 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore MD 21202. 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 note: the mailbox associated with this email address is not monitored, so do not reply to this message. We welcome comments or suggestions at feedback@dailyreckoning.com. This address is for feedback only. For questions about your account or to speak with customer service, [contact us here]( or call (844)-731-0984. Although our employees may answer your general customer service questions, they are not licensed under securities laws to address your particular investment situation. No communication by our employees to you should be deemed as personalized financial advice. We allow the editors of our publications to recommend securities that they own themselves. However, our policy prohibits editors from exiting a personal trade while the recommendation to subscribers is open. In no circumstance may an editor sell a security before subscribers have a fair opportunity to exit. The length of time an editor must wait after subscribers have been advised to exit a play depends on the type of publication. All other employees and agents must wait 24 hours after on-line publication or 72 hours after the mailing of a printed-only publication prior to following an initial recommendation. Any investments recommended in this letter should be made only after consulting with your investment advisor and only after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company. The Daily Reckoning is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We do not rent or share your email address. Please read our [Privacy Statement.]( If you are having trouble receiving your The Daily Reckoning subscription, you can ensure its arrival in your mailbox by [whitelisting The Daily Reckoning.](