Podcast appearances and mentions of jim kunstler

Join us at CrisisInvesting.com  Jim Kunstler's latest on the sane vs. insane https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/wake-up-call Doug & Matt start by analyzing the potential implications of a Russian versus NATO war in Europe, pondering the possibility of it remaining conventional without escalating to nuclear warfare. The conversation shifts to critique the provocative actions of Western governments, particularly French President Macron, and discusses the presence of foreign soldiers in Ukraine and the strategic movements of military assets across Europe.  The discussion also touches upon censorship concerns stemming from new legislative actions, such as the TikTok bill in the U.S., and the potential for broader online content suppression. They also delve into personal health and fitness advice, drawing from Doug's long-standing practices. Additionally, they explore the concept of converting third-world countries into publicly owned corporations and the challenges of implementing such a radical change in governance. The conversation concludes with a critical reflection on the inherent lies of institutions like the church and the state, emphasizing the importance of questioning widely accepted beliefs. Chapters 00:00 Intro Exploring the Tensions: Ukraine, NATO, and Nuclear War 02:05 The Escalation: European Involvement and the Role of Mercenaries 04:24 The Future of Warfare: Drone Technology and Its Implications 05:57 The Unpredictable Outcomes of the Ukraine Conflict 10:13 Censorship and the TikTok Bill: A Threat to Free Speech? 18:31 Staying Fit: Doug's Approach to Health and Exercise 23:11 The Mighty Dogo Argentino: A Discussion on Dog Breeds 26:07 Capital Growth: Reflecting on Doug's Career Milestones 30:18 Exploring the Potential Bull Market in Mining Stocks 30:44 The Controversial World of Mining Stocks 31:27 The Influence of Warren Buffett on Mining Investments 31:54 Navigating the Complexities of Big Mining Companies 32:11 The Future of Mining Stocks and Prudent Investments 32:26 The Turning Tide in the Metals Market 33:01 The Importance of Surrounding Yourself with Successful People 33:13 The Virtues of Associating with Morally Righteous People 35:50 An Adventurous Encounter: The National Bank of Haiti Heist Plan 40:08 The Concept of Transforming Countries into Publicly Owned Corporations 41:05 Addressing the Challenges of Implementing the Public Corporation Model 47:54 The Potential of Distributing State Assets to the People 53:47 The Misconceptions and Lies People Believe

Eric is joined by Jim Kunstler to discuss his recent article "The Magic Moment"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author and raconteur James Howard Kunstler joins me again for the first time in a while. I wanted to go 'off grid' after a bunch of technical, finance-focused episodes and pull back to the bigger picture. No one better than Jim for this as we both note just how silly the whole "EV Revolution" looks from a perspective that isn't high on the fumes coming from globalist backsides.Show Notes:Kunstler's SiteKunstler's Blog - Clusterfsck NationKunslter on Twitter

Join our private member group https://phyle.co to get your questions answered and get prepared for the turmoil ahead.  Join our email list to get Special reports and updates:  https://dougcasey.substack.com/about Connect with us on Telegram:  https://t.me/dougcasey CHAPTERS:  00:00 The Evolution of Doug Casey's Political Views [00:00:02] Doug Casey discusses his political journey from being a liberal to a conservative, libertarian, and ultimately an anarcho-capitalist (ancap). Personal Philosophy: The Whole of the Law [00:03:49] Doug Casey shares his personal philosophy, which centers around the idea of doing as you wish but being prepared to accept the consequences. Gold Backed Currency and its Function [00:08:24] Doug Casey questions the need for a currency and discusses the advantages of using gold as money, as well as the potential viability of Bitcoin. He also explains how gold-backed currency worked in the past and the importance of trust in the issuer. The gold-backed currency [00:12:31] Discussion on the concept of a gold-backed currency and its advantages compared to a fiat currency. The future of artificial intelligence [00:16:10] Exploration of the potential impact of artificial intelligence and the speaker's perspective on its benevolence. Rare earth metals and China's control [00:21:16] Explanation of rare earth metals, their importance in high-tech industries, and China's dominance in their production and distribution. The Rare Earth Metals and China's Control [00:23:18] Doug Casey discusses the environmental impact of mining and refining rare earth metals, and China's dominance in this industry. Investing in Rare Earth Metals [00:24:34] Doug Casey explains the challenges of investing in rare earth metals and the limited options available for investors. Canadian Citizenship and US Passport [00:27:18] Doug Casey advises an American citizen on the benefits of obtaining Canadian citizenship and the advantages of having multiple passports. The Waltons' Financial Decisions [00:35:10] Discussion on the wealthy Waltons' decision to sell their stake in Walmart and speculate on what they might do with the money. The Weaponization of the Banking System through ESG [00:40:18] Doug Casey's opinion on the weaponization of the banking system through Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Cooperation between Banks and the State [00:45:21] The collaboration between banks and the state, as seen in the FBI's request for transaction data from Bank of America without a warrant. The importance of owning gold and silver coins [00:46:36] Doug Casey emphasizes the need to have fungible assets like gold and silver coins for bartering purposes. Disagreement with the concept of peak everything [00:47:20] Doug Casey disagrees with the idea that we have reached peak everything and believes that technology can solve resource scarcity issues. Recommendation to read Jim Kunstler's blog [00:48:56] Doug Casey suggests reading Jim Kunstler's blog and novels, praising his writing style and sense of humor.   Alternative channel https://vigilante.tv/c/doug_caseys_take/

If you’re like us, there are a few trusted guides you’ve looked to for help making sense of a world turned suddenly upside down. One of our guides has been James Howard Kunstler. The author of essential books like The Long Emergency, The Geography of Nowhere, and the World Made By Hand novels, Kunstler has for years been eerily prescient in his ability to imagine and interpret the future. Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn described The Long Emergency as “the most coherent narrative explanation I’ve read of the converging crises our society is living through, particularly when it comes to the triple threats of energy, economy and environment.” It's one of 15 books on the Strong Towns Essential Reading List, and somehow feels even more relevant today than when it was first published in 2005. Kunstler’s new book — Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward — is once again spookily timed. We received requests from listeners that we interview him about the new book and the COVID-19 crisis...the very thing we were eager to do. So we’re especially happy to welcome Jim Kunstler back in this week’s episode of the Strong Towns podcast. In this fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Chuck and Jim look at the impact of the crisis on the automotive and airline industries, our food systems, and more. They discuss the social upheaval being caused by COVID-19, including the understandable anger from people who see the federal government bailing out Wall Street while their own jobs disappear. They talk too about the problems not only with the argument that COVID-19 will launch a suburban renaissance — “All the signs are that suburbia is not only going to fail, but it’s going to fail pretty quickly and pretty harshly” — but also with some urbanists’ reflexive defense of cities. But this conversation is not just doom-and-gloom, Chuck and Jim also discuss how Living in the Long Emergency provides a ray of hope in dark days. Just in time, the book helps us understand what’s going on....and also how to create a healthy, vibrant, and enjoyable future. Additional Show Notes Kunstler.com Kunstler's Monday & Friday Blog KunstlerCast Living in the Long Emergency Support Jim Kunstler’s work on Patreon  Strong Towns Essential Reading List (free ebook) Strong Towns Academy Previous podcast interviews with Jim Kunstler “It’s All Going to Have to Get Smaller” (September 2019) The Harrows of Spring (January 2017)

KMO talks with Jim Kunstler about his new book, Living in the Long Emergency, and about the current moment in which the economy is somewhere between frozen and in free-fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.

James Howard Kunstler is the author of at least 20 books. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues. Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges.

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan discuss the circumstances behind the "obstruction of justice" charge recently filed against Natalia Veselnitskaya in US Federal Court. What are the details surrounding this charge, and is this a politically motivated indictment related to the "Russiagate" probe?Guests:Susan Pai - Immigration Attorney | What did Trump ACTUALLY Say in his Oval Office Address?Jim Kunstler - Author, Public Speaker, and Social Critic | The Evolving US Economy & The Circus on Capitol HillKani Xulam - Commentator on the History and Politics of Kurdistan | What do the Kurds REALLY Think About a US Pullout from Syria?Last night, President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office about the ongoing government shutdown and his hopes for the construction of a wall on America's southern border. Immigration attorney Susan Pai joins Garland and Lee on today's show to break down Trump's remarks and how it will impact the shutdown battle in Washington DC moving forward.The US economy is constantly evolving, and this has brought financial hardship to several industries and communities across the country. Author and social critic Jim Kunstler joins Fault Lines to discuss how this process will continue to reshape the American economy in the coming years and to talk about why he refers to the current situation in DC as a circus where things are regularly done just for show and political purposes.For the final segment, Garland and Lee are joined by Kani Xulam, a commentator about Kurdish politics, for a conversation about the US withdrawal of forces from Syria and the impact it will have on the Middle East. What are the Kurdish people looking for from the US government, and how will this complicated situation play out as American influence lessens in the region?

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan discuss the danger of censorship in the modern political age. US Air Force Veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage recently had his pages removed by Facebook, and he will detail his story and fight for free speech with social media companies on today's show.Guests:John Hoge - Blogger at Hogewash.com | Looking Back at the Brett Kimberlin Bombings Daniel Lazare - Journalist and Author | Why the Khashoggi Affair Maybe the Biggest US Foreign Policy Crises Since Iran's RevolutionJim Kunstler - Author, Public Speaker, and Social Critic | The Monster Mash: Analyzing Our Sliced-And-Diced PoliticsBrian Kolfage - US Air Force Vet and Triple Amputee | Taking Facebook and Zuckerberg to Task Over Censorship and Freedom of SpeechRick Sterling - Investigative Journalist | Western Media Launch Attack on Critics of Controversial White Helmets GroupThe murder of Jamal Khashoggi has muddied the waters regarding relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Journalist and author Daniel Lazare joins the show to discuss how the US has contributed to the current situation in Saudi Arabia and if the Trump administration needs to re-evaluate its relationship with the Saudi Royal Family and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.The highly charged political atmosphere appears to be in overdrive as partisan divides are on full display heading into the midterm elections. Jim Kunstler, an Author, Public Speaker, and Social Critic, returns to the show to discuss the current political situation and why both the media and public always seem to be on to the next story regardless of its importance.For the final segment, investigative journalist Rick Sterling joins the show to discuss how many members of the Western Media have uncritically promoted the group known as the 'White Helmets'. What is the purpose of the 'White Helmets', and how have they served to promote propaganda coming out of Syria?

Last week, Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn spoke at the International Conference of City Managers in Baltimore. He described the reaction in the room as a mixture of “Yes, that describes my situation,” and “That might describe other places, but under my leadership, things here are under control.” In other words: a very standard reaction from a group of professionals. The Strong Towns message can be really difficult for professionals, people whose job it is to manage the day-to-day operations of cities and make recommendations to public officials. The Upton Sinclair quote comes to mind: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. This is human nature. One gentleman stood up during the ICMA Q&A and explained how his city directly charges road maintenance costs to impacted property owners, so they don’t have the problem Chuck described. Is that all roads? No, just new ones. Does that include collector and arterial roads? No, just local ones. Well, okay then…. Problem solved, I guess???? In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck describes a point of “peak delusion” where professionals all kind of see how the status-quo development approach isn’t working, and increasingly see that it isn’t viable over even the short term—yet persist in the faith that continuing on the current path will somehow resolve things. Their mantra: we just have to do more (of what hasn’t been working). Strong Towns' tone on municipal insolvency runs counter to actual data from ratings agencies, and present trends.Cities rarely go bankrupt or default (1 in 1,600 during recession). And when they do, it's not b/c of overstretched infrastructure, but unfunded pension liabilities. https://t.co/lzqpRQnWv3 — Market Urbanism Report (@sbcrosscountry) September 25, 2018 And it’s not hard for those who want to avoid difficult thoughts to find affirmation. Our friends at the Market Urbanism Report like to point out that municipal bankruptcies are quite rare (since the Great Depression, when we entered the Suburban Experiment) and all the data, agencies and trends suggest they will remain rare. Yet, there are signs that change may be coming. Companies are buying back their own stocks at a record pace, yet senior executives are dumping their stock at even greater rates. Companies like McDonald’s, with seriously declining revenues, rising levels of debt and narrowing profit margins, are able to experience large share value increases, mostly due to buybacks. Interest rates are rising, as are budget deficits (in a booming economy, no less) to the point where the United States will soon spend more on interest than on the military. A company like Tesla, which loses billions of dollars annually while making only 80,000 cars per year, is now worth more than BMW, a leader in high-end automobile production that not only manufactured 2 million cars last year, but made 8.7 billion euros in profit doing so. BMW is full of smart people who continually do innovative things, yet somehow they are going to be out-innovated by a company led by a serial Tweeter building cars out of tents, yet still losing money. It’s kind of a crazy world. Yet, this is what Jim Kunstler predicted in his book The Long Emergency: a period of gimmicks and swindles designed to give the illusion that everything is fine, that it will all keep functioning like normal–or better–as far into the future as any of us can imagine. That’s a narrative Strong Towns advocates know to be false. That’s why we need to stay calm amid the craziness, keep working at making our places stronger, and be there when things go bad and we’re most needed. Get more of this conversation on this week’s podcast.

Our guest is James Howard Kunstler Described as a cheerful pessimist, he is the Author of The Geography of Nowhere, Home from nowhere, Too Much Magic, blog Cluster Fuck Nation and podcast, KunstlerCast. Check out his blog, many books, podcast and other goodies here: Kunstler.com James has diverse and widespread knowledge on cities, from the history of Urban America to how our cities act as a complete economy. He has some great things to say, and provides a different, sometimes provocative, lens of our communities. We talk about the most optimal way for rebuilding, how to design for authenticity, the future of cities and some sobering opinions and possible directions. Enjoy! Feedback? We would absolutely love to talk. Please email humancitypodcast@gmail.com, Tweet at HumanCityPod, or message on Instagram Hosted By Stig Terrebonne

    Informal Q and A session with questions from listeners with Jim Kunstler, host of The Kunstlercast. I've enjoyed other people's AMA shows around the web so here we go. This is an experiment, of course,  and I understand now why I haven’t done it before. It’s not easy spouting off into a microphone by yourself and remaining coherent. I hope it works for all y’all. I’ll be back in the usual format with a guest interview in a couple of weeks. Hope you’re having a great summer.

Author, speaker, social critique and friend of the Strong Towns movement Jim Kunstler joins the podcast to provide an update on The Long Emergency, America's ongoing struggle with economic turmoil, energy depletion and climate craziness. 

Our friend Jim Kunstler joins the podcast this week to talk about his latest book, A History of the Future, the latest in his World Made by Handseries.  You can get a copy of the book at bookstores near you or online at: Battenkill Books (autographed) Northshire Bookstore Amazon