Three Crises Loom

Can We Handle Them? [The Daily Reckoning] April 06, 2024 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( Three Crises Loom Saratoga Springs, New York Editor’s note: The U.S. and the world beyond are facing three simultaneous crises, James Howard Kunstler argues in today’s reckoning — war, financial train wreck and another global health crisis. Are they realistic? You decide. [James Howard Kunstler] JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Dear Reader, If your situational awareness is well-tuned, you can put together a political weather report from the swirl of events that otherwise seem to confound the degenerate simps who pretend to report the news. Events are tending in the direction of self-reinforcing, ramifying chaos, and the people running the show are obviously insane as they do everything possible to hurry chaos along. Case in point: Antony Blinken, our secretary of state, who announced the other day that Ukraine will get rushed into NATO ASAP. Do you understand that would mean a direct, automatic, peremptory declaration of war against Russia, requiring all of NATO — that is, their combined militaries — to go kinetic inside Ukraine and theoretically inside Russia, too, (a move that has not worked out well for anyone in all of history), because Article 5 of the NATO Charter states that an armed attack against one is an attack against all, and must be answered with counter-attack? Thus, you see, Mr. Blinken just announced World War III. Is the West Capable of Waging War? You might also consider that NATO does not have the capacity to fight that war. The European members don’t have sufficient troops and equipment, or financial reserves for that matter. And there is, of course, America’s under-recruited DEI army of transsexuals and video gamers, with equipment that has already proven inadequate on the ground in Ukraine, and a logistical route for delivery of all that, which runs 5,000 miles across an ocean and then another continent… Whereas our opponent (Russia) is right next door to the battlefield and churning out munitions like there’s no tomorrow (which there might well not be for all concerned). Even Adolf Hitler, the last fool to attempt a conquest of Russia, wouldn’t like those odds. And why would Russia desist from firing hypersonic missiles at Berlin, Paris, London, New York and…? You get the idea. In which case the USA, backstopping NATO, would lob swarms of our nuclear missiles into Russia… And the whole shootin’ match ends up 20 minutes later a smoldering, civilization-ending mess. Smooth move, Tony Blinken. In political weather terms, this is like an arctic shear cutting across the Northern Hemisphere. Financial La Nina At the same time, you might notice a financial La Nina forming out over the salty sea. Gold chugged up above $2,300 an ounce the past 10 days or so, a record. That’s a coded message from Reality Central. [Add Your Name Here Before Monday Morning]( Our records indicate that you are currently missing out on the most profitable trade ideas in our company. On Monday morning, our most successful trader is set to deliver a real-time time update - LIVE - to a select group of Paradigm Press readers. [Click Here To Add Your Name To This List]( My decoder ring says it means the bond market is about to fall on its rear end, taking the dollar down with it, which would swiftly domino into the way-overpriced equity markets, and Gawd knows what kind of maelstrom all the derivatives flotsam would get sucked into. Notice too that Bitcoin goes up $3,000 one day and down $2,000 the next. Kind of sketchy. But that’s just my take. If you have one, I’d like to hear it. In any case, it looks like stormy financial weather, which, if nothing else, is not exactly an advantageous accompaniment to a world war. In fact, it could beat a path quickly to something like empty supermarket shelves — and you know what they say about a population being a few missed meals away from anarchy. Another Health Crisis? Then there’s the immense cluster of twisters moving ominously across the planet in the form of the COVID vaccination dysregulated immunity fiasco, as predicted by virologist Dr. Vanden Bossche. Here’s what it means: a lot of people getting sick and dying because their mRNA shots and boosters have so screwed up their immune systems that they’re sitting ducks for an emergent variant of COVID gestating in the vaxxed population. By the way, there is apparently a gross breakdown in medical services worldwide now, especially a shortage of doctors and nurses. [image 1] Now you’re starting to see some serious stormy weather: a war, a financial train wreck and a global public health disaster all at once. They say bad things happen in threes, right? Lawfare While all that is churning things up, the next round of Trump trials are set to kick off in Alvin Bragg’s New York and Fani Willis’ Fulton County (Atlanta), GA. Both cases have publicly wrecked themselves. [Nearing Retirement? Claim This Exclusive $1 Book Offer Right Away!]( [Click here for more...]( “The Banker” is a hedge fund titan who spent years helping America’s richest families grow even richer. And today, for the first time ever, he wants to send you his new book – where you’ll find 36 of his never-before-revealed income and wealth generating secrets. If the potential at steady, predictable income (as well the chance at a few nice, quick windfalls) interests you, then I urge you to act right away. [Click Here To Claim This Exclusive $1 Book Offer]( In the New York case, you have the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, Loren Merchan, 37, a Democratic Party consultant who has multimillion-dollar contracts with Rep. Adam Schiff, the nation’s leading RussiaGate hoaxer, and working partner of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, a chief witness in the matter of a hush-money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels (hush money, you might note, not being illegal). Any political motivation to see in that cast of characters? You can like Trump or you can hate him, but you’d have to be an idiot to deny that this is politically driven. Or just willfully blind. And that’s apart from the sheer BS nature of the case, as packaged for Mr. Bragg by U.S. Attorney Matthew Colangelo, who was swapped out of the Main DOJ HQ in Blobville to the office of Soros-connected DA Bragg in Manhattan specifically to engineer a political prosecution. The Fani Willis case down south, another political prosecution by a loudmouth “Get Trump” DA, now goes forward with a compromised government attorney who has demonstrably committed enough offenses against the law to merit disbarment. Her lover and, until recently, “special prosecutor,” Nathan Wade, on top of probably perjuring himself about his financial entanglements with DA Willis, was just cited for contempt in his own divorce case (failure to pay child support). Note, too, that the idiotic substance of the case — a racketeering charge for conspiring to voice opinions about the veracity of the 2020 election — was likewise constructed by Lawfare ninjas in Washington, D.C. (my guess, by Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco and Norm Eisen), and mentored to Willis & Wade in a series of meetings held in the White House office of Veep Kamala Harris (with Lawfare ninjas improperly not logged in — also my guess). If the blob’s desired outcome, a conviction, comes to pass, and Mr. Trump is hauled off to Rikers Island, say, to mingle with X-hundred homicidal mutts, and, say, for some reason he does not come out of there alive… well, say hello to an extra-especially bad setup for civil disorder in the home of the brave — while we do World War III, financial pandemonium and vaccine death. It’s a lot to take in, I know. But it’s all really right out there, and it’s all vectoring right at us. Just so you know. Regards, James Howard Kunstler for The Daily Reckoning [feedback@dailyreckoning.com.](mailto:feedback@dailyreckoning.com) Editor’s note: On Monday morning, [our most successful trader]( is set to deliver a real-time update — LIVE — to a select group of Paradigm Press readers. And he could deliver a trade idea that could potentially [double your money in one day.]( That’s right — it could potentially double your money in one day! You still have time to add your name to this list before Monday. 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