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    #321 — Charles Hugh Smith writes the popular Of Two Minds blog (at https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html) and is the author of many books, most recently Will You Be Richer or Poorer; Profit, Power, and A.I. in a Traumatized World.) He lives in the world capital of Wokesterdom: Berkeley, California.

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    KunstlerCast 396 -- Jasun Horsley Explores the Uncanny Valley with "Big Mother"

    KunstlerCast 396 -- Jasun Horsley Explores the Uncanny Valley with "Big Mother"

    Jason Horsley produces the Children of Job Blog and Podcast. He is the author most recently of Big Mother: the Technological Body of Evil, and many other books. He was born in Britain and has lived in Morocco, British Columbia, and now Spain. Jasun’s work is an excursion into the uncanny valley of philosophy where good and evil battle on a landscape of linguistics, technology, demonology, crime, transgenderism, liquid modernity, identity politics, the surveillance state, virtual reality, transhumanism, Satanism, medical totalitarianism, and a new world religion of scientism.

    The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

    KunstlerCast_395 -- Art Berman on the US Oil Scene

    KunstlerCast_395 -- Art Berman on the US Oil Scene

    With 45 years in petroleum geology, Art Berman describes himself as an energy realist who integrates energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior into his view of the industry and society. He routinely gives keynote addresses for energy conferences, boards of directors and professional societies. Berman has published more than 100 articles on energy and the effect on earth systems including climate. He has more than 40,000 followers on Twitter (@aeberman12) and dozens of free posts on his website artberman.com.

         This chat was more contentious than I figured on going into it, but that’s okay. I don’t like to filibuster my podcast guests. Let’s just say there were a few times when we disagreed about some things. Listeners can take what they will from that.

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    KunstlerCast 394 -- Tom Luongo on the Federal Reserve versus the World and other Current Events

    KunstlerCast 394 -- Tom Luongo on the Federal Reserve versus the World and other Current Events

         Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns. His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.com, Bitcoin Magazine and Newsmax Media. His work focuses on the attempt to connect the false narratives of geopolitics to viable long-term investment theses. He built the house that he lives in and loves hockey, his family, the art of drumming, board games of all kinds, a logically consistent argument, and the beauty of spontaneous order…. not necessarily in that order.

    The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

    KunstlerCast_393 -- Chatting with Jacob Dreizen about the Ukraine Situation

    KunstlerCast_393 -- Chatting with Jacob Dreizen about the Ukraine Situation

    Jacob Dreizin runs the dreizin report.com, a recently-paywalled, "boutique blog for discriminating shoppers of highly objective alt-news and forecasting."  An immigrant and army veteran, Jacob has worked in the DC political sphere in high-level BS/spin production; has several graduate degrees, speaks fluent Russian; and likes to say he’s the USA's leading (or only) independent expert on the "history and culture of the Ukraine conflict."  Jacob also specializes in explaining the influence of economic and ideological interest groups on U.S. politics and policy, and the processes and practices of the U.S. state propaganda apparatus as it relates to foreign policy and military adventures.   

    KunstlerCast 392 — The Blogger Euygyppius on Trouble in Germany

    KunstlerCast 392 — The Blogger Euygyppius on Trouble in Germany

    "Eugyppius” is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He recently returned from observing the farmer protest in Berlin.

    Eugyppius spent much of his life abroad and over a decade in American universities as a grad student and a teacher. He writes in English on Substack. He is very careful about revealing more of his identity given the extreme censorship and cancellation action in his country these days. You can find him at Eugyppius.com.      

    KunstlerCast 391 -- David Martin, Up Against the Covid-19 Genocide Machine

    KunstlerCast 391 -- David Martin, Up Against the Covid-19 Genocide Machine

        Dr. David E, Martin returns after delivering tough love about the Covid crime to governments in the UK and continental Europe. David is the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. He’s been among a select band of international thought-leaders investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular the relationships between US public health officials, the pharmaceutical companies, and a number of shadowy organizations behind the development of hugely profitable vaccines with a poor record of safety and viability.

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    KunstlerCast 390 — David Rogers Webb and The Great Taking

    KunstlerCast 390 — David Rogers Webb and The Great Taking

    David Rogers Webb is the author of The Great Taking, which is about the insidious plan by central banks and international financial regulatory institutions to crash the unsustainable system and seize whatever assets the crash doesn’t vaporize — meaning, your savings, your wealth, and your supposedly freely-owned chattels. Much of this mischief was accomplished by surreptitious changes to the Uniform Commercial code and other rules for the transference of property. It’s a spooky story.

    David is a former investment banker and hedge fund manager. He’s produced his book as a free giveaway in pdf form which you can get here.

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    KunstlerCast 389 —Yakking with John Michael Greer about the Spiritual Condition of our Floundering Country

    KunstlerCast 389 —Yakking with John Michael Greer about the Spiritual Condition of our Floundering Country

    John Michael Greer blogs at Ecosophia, subtitle, Toward an Ecological Spirituality. JMG has been an astute observer of Western Civ’s arduous economic and cultural descent, and is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, including Green Wizardry, After Oil, The Wealth of Nature, and Not the Future We Ordered. Star’s Reach, is a novel set 400 years ahead in America’s neo-medieval future. The King in Orange, a meditation on the relationship between archetype psychology and the occult as acted out in politics and culture. Things are getting weird in America, wouldn’t you agree? Even a bit supernatural. We assess our country's spiritual condition as we turn the corner on a fateful year 2024.

    The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

    KunstlerCast 388 — Naomi Wolf on Medical Freedom and Facing the Beast

    KunstlerCast 388 — Naomi Wolf on Medical Freedom and  Facing the Beast

    Naomi Wolf’s new book is the just published Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age. Naomi has become a field marshal in the battle for medical freedom, assembling a staff of over three-thousand researchers to analyze the Pfizer drug trial documents that the company wanted to keep secret for the next seventy-five years — but were forced to release under a court order. Naomi’s website, The Daily Clout is an excellent source of info on the battle for medical freedom and women’s health. Her other recent books include the New York Times bestsellers Vagina, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty, in addition to the landmark bestseller The Beauty Myth. A former Rhodes Scholar, she completed a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Oxford in 2015, was a research fellow at Barnard College and the University of Oxford, and taught rhetoric at the George Washington University and Victorian studies at Stony Brook University. Wolf lives in the Hudson River Valley.

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    KunstlerCast 387 — Godfree Roberts on China Rising

    KunstlerCast 387 — Godfree Roberts on China Rising

        Godfree Roberts is the author of Why China Leads The World: Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom.
        Godfree Roberts contacted me and suggested I interview him about his book. I thought, ‘okay, why not.’

         Well, I’ve never offered up an evaluation of a guest at the outset of the podcast, but I must tell you, I came to the conclusion as the conversation went on, that Mr. Roberts might be a troll, since he sounded increasingly like a paid publicist for the CCP.  I may be wrong about that. But, for instance, his insistence that Mao’s cultural revolution of the 1960s was a mere education campaign and didn’t hurt anybody seemed like utter nonsense to me.

    You decide for yourselves.

    The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger