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KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century

James Howard Kunstler & Duncan Crarykunstler.com
James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere" and "The Long Emergency," takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.
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KunstlerCast 398 — Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche and the Coming Acute Crisis of Covid among the Vaccinated

Geert Vanden Bossche is a globally renowned virologist working in Belgium. He predicts a “hyper-acute crisis” of Covid-19 illness among highly-vaccinated populations emerging shortly across the world. He argues that scientists and politicians have turned a natural viral pandemic into a crisis of disastrous immune escape. The author's arguments are compelling and indicate that Nature will correct this mistake, but at a substantial cost to human lives in highly-vaccinated countries. He is the auth...

Mar 31, 20241 hr 6 min

KunstlerCast 397 -- Matt Bracken, Navy SEAL, Views the Field of Operations

Matt Bracken graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class 105 in Coronado California. He served on east coast UDT and SEAL teams, taking a Naval Special Warfare detachment to Beirut in 1983. Mr. Bracken left active duty after Lebanon, upon completion of his obligated military service, but he remained in an active reserve status through the remainder of the 1980s. Since then he has lived in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina, Guam and California. Matt is a self-described freedomi...

Mar 17, 20241 hr 12 min

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, trans...

Mar 09, 20241 hr 22 min

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...

Feb 15, 20241 hr 11 min

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 a...

Feb 04, 20241 hr 3 min

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 econo...

Jan 31, 202451 min

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 Eugyppi...

Jan 19, 20241 hr

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 or...

Dec 23, 20231 hr 3 min

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 ...

Dec 16, 20231 hr 2 min

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 ...

Nov 30, 20231 hr 9 min

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...

Nov 10, 202340 min

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 ...

Oct 27, 202353 min

KunstlerCast 386 -- Chatting with the Substack Blogger "Eugyppius"

"Eugyppius" is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He 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 The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz writ...

Oct 08, 20231 hr 4 min

KunstlerCast 385 — America's Thought Disorders with Clinical Psychologist Lucas Klein

Lucas A. Klein, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for 14 years. He has been a criminal and civil forensic psychologist, and now runs Real Clear Podcast He grew up in upstate NY not far from Jim, moved to the west coast, and now spends an inordinate amount of time trying to understand why humanity is so irrational. You can find his show here: https://www.realclearpodcast.com The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and perform...

Sep 01, 202353 min

KunstlerCast 384 — Left-potism, the Vicious Tail of Left Politics, with Daniel Klein

Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program on Adam Smith. He is the author of Smithian Morals and Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism. I admired his widely-read 2023 essay “Misinformation Is a Word We Use to Shut You Up,” which has been posted by Brownstone Institute, Independent Institute, Zero Hedge, and other websites. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by...

Aug 19, 20231 hr 7 min

KunstlerCast 383 --Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism, with Graham Majin

Graham Majin was a broadcast journalist for 20 years, 14 at BBC News. His inside knowledge gives him a unique insight into how journalists think and how news is produced. He teaches journalism at Bournemouth University on the sunny south coast of England. He has written about the concept of Journalistic Truth, about Donald Trump, Russiagate, fake news, misinformation and the history of journalism. Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism is his first, full-length book. Find out more at Tru...

Aug 12, 20231 hr 7 min

KunstlerCast 382 -- Lt. Col (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski on American Interventionism

Karen Kwiatkowski grew up in western North Carolina. She was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force in in 1983 and served tours in Alaska, Massachusetts, Spain, Italy and Fort Meade as a communications-electronics officer. She later served in political military analysis at the Pentagon, retiring after 20 years as a Lt Colonel. Since her retirement in 2003, she has spoken out against an interventionist foreign policy and written numerous essays and articles, most of which are available at lewrockwell...

Jul 22, 20231 hr 9 min

KunstlerCast 381 — Farmsteading in the Heartland with Becca and Jarrod

Becca Dickens and Jarrod Yantis are owners of Regenerative Life Farm, located near Lake Shelbyville in rural, central Illinois. Their outfit is on 19 acres including a half-acre no-till, deep compost market garden and the rest is used for rotational grazing of 300 chickens and cattle. Their motto is "Regenerating ourselves, our soil and our community." They sell eggs and vegetables at farmer's markets and provide education on gardening and Food as Medicine. They believe farmsteading in this way ...

Jul 14, 202357 min

KunstlerCast 380 - Post doom with Eco-theologian Michael Dowd

The Reverend Michael Dowd is a bestselling eco-theologian, TEDx speaker, and pro-science, pro-future advocate whose work has been featured in The New York Times , LA Times , Wall Street Journa l, Washington Post , Newsweek , Discover , and on television throughout the United States and Canada. His book, Thank God for Evolution , was endorsed by 6 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, noted skeptics, and religious leaders across the spectrum. Michael and his science writer, and evolutionary educator wi...

Jul 02, 20231 hr 3 min

KunstlerCast 379 --A Conversion with John Klar, author of Small Farm Republic

John Klar is the author of Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival, just published by Chelsea Green. John is seventh-generation Vermonter who lives in Brookfield, where he raises grass-fed lamb and beef. Before that, he worked as an attorney. He’s also staged campaigns for governor and state senate. Supporting Vermont’s local farms and local food production was the cornerstone of his political career. These...

Jun 17, 20231 hr 3 min

KunstlerCast 378 — Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas on How His State of Vermont Got So Woked Up

James H Douglas served Vermont for more than 35 years as a legislator, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Governor. He advanced groundbreaking health reforms that have made Vermont a national model. Douglas chaired the National Governors Association and President Obama appointed him co-chair of the Council of Governors. He now teaches at Middlebury College, his alma mater. I called him to talk about the extraordinary contagion of Wokery in his state, and on the college scene in particular. ...

Jun 09, 202357 min

KunstlerCast 377 -- John Michael Greer on Magic and the Reenchantment of Daily Life

#377 — 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 a...

May 14, 20231 hr 4 min

KunstlerCast 376 — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Running For President

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is a candidate for president running for the Democratic Party nomination. He’s a long-time environmental lawyer, author of the book The Real Anthony Fauci, which has sold over a million copies — and still hasn’t made it to the New York Times bestseller list for some mysterious reason. He’s the Founder and chairman of the Children’s Health Defense organization. His father, Robert F. Kennedy, Sr,.was Attorney General of the United States and US Senator from New York, and his ...

May 02, 202329 min

KunstlerCast 375 -- Neil Howe on How's the Fourth Turning Going So Far

Neil Howe is a renowned author and speaker on economic, demographic, and social change in America. He is the nation’s leading authority on social generations — who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America’s future. Howe is the originator of the term “Millennial Generation” and has written over a dozen books on generations and generational research, a field of research he single-handedly invented. His landmark 1997 book The Fourth Turning (co-authored with the late William St...

Apr 24, 20231 hr 7 min

KunstlerCast 374 -- Michael Rectenwald on Woke Totalitarianism

Dr. Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books, including The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda (Jan. 2023), Thought Criminal (Dec. 2020); Beyond Woke (May 2020); Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (Sept. 2019); Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage (an academic’s memoir, 2018) A former Marxist, Professor Rectenwald is a champion of liberty and opposes all forms of totalitarianism and p...

Apr 11, 20231 hr 5 min

KunstlerCast 373 — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on the Covid Bamboozlement of Donald Trump, and Other Developing Matters

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown . He is also a columnist at Forbes, founder of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria. He is the editor of The Best of Mises [economist Ludwig von Mises]. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, soc...

Mar 23, 20231 hr 6 min

KunstlerCast 372 — — A Conversation with Dr. David E. Martin — Prosecuting Covid Crimes

I’m doing another lap with Dr. David E Martin 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 saf...

Mar 12, 20231 hr 10 min

KunstlerCast 371 -- Dmitry Orlov on Russia, Ukraine, and the Swirl of Events

#371 — Dmitry Orlov, the author of “Reinventing Collapse”, moved to the USA as a boy when his dissident parents managed to get out of the Soviet Union. He spent most of his life here, went through school and college, but ventured back to Russia for a while in the 1990s out of curiosity after the fall of the USSR. He returned to the USA where he worked in IT and eventually moved onto a boat in Boston Harbor. He’s published many other books, including “The Five Stages of Collapse,” “Shrinking the ...

Feb 16, 20231 hr 5 min

KunstlerCast 370 -- Stephan Sander-Faes on Europe's Nervous Winter

Stephan Sanders-Faes is an historian of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Bergen, Norway. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Graz in 2011 and obtained the Habilitation in Early Modern and Modern History from the University of Zurich in 2018. Before joining the Bergen faculty in 2020, he taught for ten years at the history departments at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg, as well as held the István Deák Visiting Professorship in East Central European Studies at Colum...

Feb 01, 20231 hr 13 minEp. 370

KunstlerCast 369 -- A Chat with CJ Hopkins of The Consent Factory Blog

C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist, and author at The Consent Factory blog. His plays have been produced and have toured at theaters and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7 Stages (Atlanta), the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Brighton Festival, and the Noorderzon Fest...

Jan 21, 20231 hr 7 min
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