U.S. readership to my late Friday post was off by at least 10 percent, due to the long weekend.
(People tend to “check out” mentally over long weekends.)
Please read that one, if you haven’t already.
A few other topics, but first…..
Below…..
My newest “podcast” with my friend, mentor, and webmaster / audio-video editor… Manny.
This one is really hot.
The “bottom line” is in the subject line, above.
Yes, we’re going back to the ’90s. You heard it here first.
I also detour into the vakkseenz and kids.
I hope you get something out of it.
Please note, this is the LAST-EVER original audio/video content from me…..
…..that’s not paywalled.
Next time, I’ll share a Locals link…..
…..and I hope you’ll follow me there, for a nominal fee!
On Locals…..
I will post a Dreizin video, or Dreizin-Manny chat, about 4 times per month.
No, I’m NOT quitting this blog.
But there’s almost no commentators…..
…..who produce BOTH deep, original written material…..
…..AND “podcasts” or videos.
It’s a LOT of work…..
And I MUST get compensated for the audio/video stuff… separately.
(Not to mention, I need to pay Manny something for his editing work.)
Thanks for your understanding!
Spooky Spooky
In recent days…..
Something vague about “February 21st“…..
…..has been playing on electronic signs such as this one…..
…..(also, carried on bus stop posters and through other channels)…..
…..throughout Russia.
In this video, from about two days ago…..
…..the sign reads, “History always repeats“…..
…..then, “Strength is in truth, and the truth is with us!“…..
…..and then that date, February 21st.
They all point to February 21st.
(I’m writing on Monday night, February 20th, but for most of you reading this, that would be, for you, “today.”)
The day of Putin’s “big speech.”
Also…..
The day he hosts (if I’m not mistaken) China’s foreign minister…..
…..and the President of Belarus.
At this point…..
I’m just throwing Jello at the wall, but……
Perhaps Putin will declare an отечественная воина (Fatherland War)?
I mean, you know… if “history repeats.”
Russia’s only had two Fatherland Wars…..
…..(the second, with the prefix “Great”, added after the war ended)…..
…..both against a large Western coalition…..
…..and won hugely, both times.
But, it could all be just a bunch of crap.
We’ll know, very soon.
LOL, we’ll probably know before half of you read this.
For the rest of February…..
You might wish to check this site…..
…..a few times each day.
Because, unless it’s all BS…..
…..it seems things MIGHT get “hectic.”
And if you wait to get an email…..
…..(which can take up to 10 hours for my system to send)….
You MIGHT miss a lot.
(Of course, it’s always nice to motivate me. If you’re able to, and you haven’t already, please give me a financial pat on the back. If you can’t do that, at least follow me on Twitter, and like all my stuff there. As always, “exempt categories” are exempt.)
Anatomy Of A Bullshitter
A Case Study In… (You Guessed It)… Bullshit
The Internet is full of disgraced washouts…..
…..who lost their careers…..
…..and rebranded as pundits.
Some of them were kicked out of the finance industry…..
…..after being fined and losing their license, or settling with the SEC…..
…..or something like that.
Just think David Stockman…..
Or Daniel Ivandjiiski (ZeroHedge founder/owner.)
YouTube’s Clayton Morris (also formerly of Fox News)…..
…..ran a major real estate scam in Indiana.
But the sleaziest, most shameless…..
…..is a piece of shit named Martin Armstrong.
Armstrong helped siphon investor money…..
….in a HUGE fraud in the late 1990s.
He was not the only culprit in the scheme…..
But he was the only one to go to jail.
He initially went to jail…..
Because he refused to tell the court…..
…..where he had stashed his stolen loot.
He spent SEVEN years in jail…..
…..literally setting an American record…..
…..for jail time for contempt-of-court…..
…..trying to outlast the judge, LOL.
He finally pled guilty to something or other…..
…..and served some more years.
As a free man, what else could he do…..
…..but get online…..
…..and become a commentator…..
…..ranting about the Corrupt System?
LOL.
He also concocted a story…..
…..that he had been jailed for refusing to share…..
…..his nonexistent miracle financial forecasting software, “Socrates“…..
…..with the Government.
Funny thing is…..
I recall, around 2014-2015, he claimed many times…..
…..to be working on “Socrates”, trying to finish it.
And yet, he went to prison, many, many years before that.
Doesn’t add up!
Armstrong’s “predictions” are also fucked up.
Among other BS…..
He declared the interest rate cycle would swing up hard in 2015.
He was off by seven years!
(And even now, it’s not clear. The Fed will most likely “pivot.”)
I put money on that prediction, and lost it ALL.
I’ve since done MUCH better…..
…..when I take MY OWN advice only.
I’ll be my own “prophet“, thank you.
Back to “Socrates”…..
I stopped reading Armstrong years ago…..
…..but, as far as I recall…..
…..notwithstanding some primitive, “circa 1990“-looking screenshots…..
…..he NEVER demonstrated…..
…..that such a software (with the stated capabilities) ACTUALLY EXISTS.
He goes on like, “Socrates says this“…..
…..and “Socrates says that.”
LOL.
He makes it up.
Lastly, Armstrong’s commentary often involves…..
…..”big picture“, historical mumbo-jumbo…..
…..that’s just plain false.
One time…..
He conflated the Minoan eruption…..
…..with the Bronze Age Collapse in the ancient Near East…..
…..saying the former caused (or contributed to) the latter…..
…..when in fact, the two events were 400 years apart.
He does this all the time…..
….as he figures, no one knows any better.
And when people don’t know better…..
You can bullshit them…..
…..to your heart’s content.
Well, now you know about Martin Armstrong.
Who should I anatomize, next?
Any suggestion(s), please leave a comment.
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don’t completely write Armstrong off. There was actually a lot more to his case, he got involved with people who were in deep with events in Russia. He was effectively setup, he never stole clients money, his bank custodian refused to hand it over, and he was made a patsy for this. By the way, his bank was Edmond Safra’s bank, which was subsequently sold to HSBC. This bank was used by CIA to launder money in Russia in the 90s and provided seed capital for bullshitter-in-chief Bill Browder.
Armstrong’s software is BS however, and I think he lost his marbles during his time for contempt.
The Austin near miss between Southwest Airlines and FedEx was caused by an improper clearance from the Air Traffic Controller, and the Southwest pilot’s delay in departing. Austin was conducting Category III landing procedures, which requires increased spacing between aircraft. Austin Tower issued a takeoff clearance to Southwest while FedEx was on final approach, inside the Final Approach Fix. The FedEx pilot-monitoring (the guy on the radio) immediately queried the tower after Southwest was cleared for takeoff – “Are we cleared to land?” The FedEx pilots knew this was not right. Southwest then did not start their takeoff roll – for several minutes. When FedEx was “over the number” (over the landing zone of the runway) they spotted the Southwest aircraft on the runway, and the FedEx pilot said over the radio, “Southwest, abort!” That is an ATC function, but the FedEx pilots did a knee-jerk action to salvage the approaching catastrophe. ATC heard FedEx call this out to Southwest, and then instructed FedEx to go around.
FYI – The JFK near-miss with American and Delta was a result of the AA crew NOT following the taxi clearance issued by JFK Ground Control. This was no doubt the result of the AA pilots NOT following mandatory Sterile Cockpit procedures during taxi – I have seen plenty of this in my 40 as an airline pilot. They could have been talking about where to go eat on their London layover. They could have been arguing about some AA internal politics. NONE of that is okay. The only way to know WHY they did not follow the taxi clearance (which is PLAINLY audible on the ATC audio, along with their guilty-sounding and stupefied query about their last clearance after the incident) would be to listen to the cockpit voice recorder. Unfortunately, ALSO against standard procedure, the AA flight CONTINUED to London! Only the last 30 minutes is available. HUGE liability for AA! What if these incompetents got into more trouble on this flight? These pilots are now refusing to appear for the NTSB inquiry. They are also OFF flying status. The Delta flight went back to the gate, deplaned the passengers, and provided hotel rooms for anyone that did not want to continue on their journey that day.
I also appreciated the podcast, thanks, and share your instincts that the airlines are overdue for some major crashes. It‘s just as bad in Europe. Even the once perfect Lufthansa is imploding with their pilots striking and I know one of them who is selling Amway to keep his head above water.
Lots of the war porn addicts were disappointed with Putin‘s speech but I thought it was quite interesting. His list of social programmes (especially for families with kids), infrastructure plans, financial reports, cheeky amnesty to the Oligarchs and any other Russians who have left the country, suggesting that they return and make their money in the Fatherland, tax breaks, and focus on education and strengthening the Russian IT and science R&D, it was impressive. If I was 30 years younger, I would consider moving to Russia. He just seemed to be saying, „Everything is going great — we can wage this SMO, make our own weapons and build the economy across the board. Our future is looking good.“ I bet there are going to be a lot of Russian babies born 9 months from now. What a contrast to all the fires and destruction in the US and the unemployment and recession in Germany and the UK.
If you haven‘t already done so and you think that you have the intel, I‘d be interested in your take on Scott Ritter. I‘m on the fence with him. He sounds like he knows what he‘s talking about but „I‘m no military expert“ LOL. I‘m also not sure if he wasn‘t honey trapped by the CIA because he wouldn‘t shut up about Iraq and all the lies the US spun in the 90‘s.
Looking forward to hearing about the Locals account and hope it won‘t be over my budget.
Over last Christmas dinner, I was in conversation with a commercial airline pilot. She flies domestically and internationally with a big company. She basically said to forget about flying in 2023 – too risky – and that, maybe, just maybe, 2024 will be okay. I’m taking her advice.
I like to take a look at channels that are critical of Russia in Ukraine by Russians, to check against the propaganda themed Western sources for a more analytical examination of motives and politics rather than just relying on the slicing and dicing by say the Greek Guys which delves into US and European political aims. Where they are coming from is reasonably apparent but what is the underlying framework by Vlad Vexler and, as requested above, Konstantin Kishin?
Look forward to seeing you over on Locals. Good choice!
Hi,
You said that Martin Armstrong is a piece of shit and a charlatan and knows nothing.
I cannot judge his economics, nor his software.
But I find his comments on various subjects to be valuable.
I am curious as to what you think of this item he has posted on the Constitution.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/supreme-court-refused-to-hear-the-brunson-case-as-expected/
Not many have M. Armstrong’s understanding of history & Law…and yes, his commentary is in fact valuable. Marty was locked up by the NY Fiat Banking Cartel which controls the S. District of NY courts… I have personally been wiped out financially several times, but I never blamed it on one person or forecast (because forecasts by their very nature are speculative, and a probability and often completely wrong!). Did Martin Armstrong specifically tell Dreizen to bet everything he had on one interest rate forecast? He judges Armstrong harshly because he made a big bet on advice when no reasonable person would bet everything on one persons prediction – you take in all info and then make your own decisions, that is what good money mangers do… Anyone that spends 7 years in prison without being convicted of a crime has my respect – especially when you look at why he was locked up…and Martin Armstrong does understand history and has some excellent commentary on Ukraine, whether you personally like him or not. Don’t shoot the messenger – you are responsible for you actions and how you interpret the message.
Hey genius. I did not remotely “bet everything.” The hell gave you that idea? I bet what I could afford to lose. Just because YOU fucked up royally, that’s sad to hear, but DON’T project onto others.
As to Armstrong’s jail time, he was locked up for (the first) seven years, for refusing to give up millions of dollars in assets that he had stolen from the fund he managed. He had converted the money into art and jewelry and whatever other valuable goods, and squirreled it away somewhere. He played chicken with the judge for seven years. He finally broke and gave it up. Only then, did he plea bargain for another four or five years. If he had given it all back at the beginning, quite possibly he would not have gone to jail at all. (None of his co-conspirators did; he was the only true hardheaded idiot in the bunch.)
If you believe the story from the film he got made about him…. that he was locked up for not handing over the code to his nonexistent financial prophet software… If you believe that, you’re a goddamn idiot.
Armstrong is a classic con man.
You sound like a classic “mark.”
You’re obviously some kind of mental hostage.
Do Andrei Martyanov next. He needs slicing and dicing.
Aviation buffs : check out Juan Browne’s Blancolirio YouTube channel. This is where both aviation pros and enthusiasts go. Juan is a Boeing 777 pilot, flying internationally including over water flights US to Australia. He’s meticulous in his reporting, adeptly builds a picture of the accident / event using flight tracking software, pilot – air traffic control communications, airport layouts, aircraft specs, flight operations, FAA policies and procedures. He covers aviation worldwide. Emphasis on commercial but also addresses private (plenty of safety issues). He’s very careful but calls them as he sees them. 350,000+ subscribers. You also learn a ton from the pros in the comments.
C’mon man. You’ve been around the block enough times to know when data is bullshit. 20x perinatal deaths is obviously a data entry error. Postnatal deaths (related to perinatal mortality) are monitored very closely so doctors and epidemiologists would be screaming if that was rising significantly.
I didn’t bring that up, I have no idea. As for your wonderful epidemiologists, how many of them have said anything about all the healthy kids dying of heart attacks? No “screaming”, huh? Do you even think about the words coming out of your mouth?
We should be considering though…is it the vy-rus, it’s vary-ants, the vakk-seen, a combination, or all of the aforementioned combined that is causing delayed mortality? What combinations were people exposed to? By now most people have been exposed to the vy-rus and it’s vary-ants whether they got sick, severely sick or not at all. If the vy-rus and it’s vary-ants caused many severe cases of hospitalisation and deaths due to internal organ damage, we should consider the possibility that the vy-rus, or vary-ants may be the cause of unseen internal damage to those who it did not immediately cause sickness or death? It could of course be the vakk-seenz alone, but greater detailed research on this topic is required imo. As the saying goes ‘Correlation is not causation’. I would like to see unbiased studies on unbiased and transparent results of au-topsie reports.
No need for these personal speculations, and calls for “need more data”. Find some interviews of Ed Dowd, go to his website, and download the data yourself. The FUK U SCENE is factors worse than the natural infection, tens of peer reviewed studies show that. Your request for unbiased studies and data makes me think that you are biased (my personal opinion, not fact). At this time HUNDREDS of peer reviewed papers have been published, but kept out of the news. But, you can find them!
Data is available so even you can go through it. Last but not least, follow the information about the “freedom of information act” released VICHAR documents —yes the documents VICHAR wanted to keep secret for 75 years.
Finally, authopsies are performed in Germany! The FUK U SCENE SPAIKS —different from the “natural spikes” are found in the heart and brains of 80% of SAD persons.
Do your own due diligence!
None of the podcast was shocking or new to me. People should have been listening to Brett and Heather Weinstein’s Darkhorse podcast throughout the pandemic. They had Steve Kirsch on with Dr. Robert Malone early on in the “pandemic” to discuss early treatments then the issues with the vaccine.
Perhaps more important that dissecting people who are wrong (everyone is wrong sometimes), people should explore those who are worth listening to. During the pandemic and regarding covid, Brett and Heather were on the forefront of Lab Leak, early treatment, and vaccine dangers. They hosted many of the dissidents.
On the conflict in Ukraine, I try to recommend Jacques Baud. He only writes articles about it. He was very good on the run up to the conflict. He is not a “military analyst” trying to work out the daily strategies. He is a Swiss Colonel who worked with NATO in Ukraine between 2014 and 2018 tracking small arms distribution.
I watch “The Duran”. I think they generally do an honest job. They may be right or wrong, but I understand their biases and share some of them. Christoforou is easy listening for political events around the war.
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2 yr. ago
Weinstein and Malone both tried to reign in Kirsch during the podcast. I think it may have been more of a mistake than anything nefarious to let him bring up some of his questionable assertions. Steve was even called out by Weinstein as having been gaslit and becoming paranoid (I forget precisely how he worded it). Steve had some good facts, but it was difficult to parse his vomit of info to see what was credible and what wasn’t.”
This quote is the poor result of my attempt to search for something like echoes from 2 years ago when this discussion took place. I listened to the Dark Horse every week. So, this opinion reflects my own recollection of events from that time. And I even think Bret had a step back in the following weeks regarding some statements made by Steve Kirsch at that time…. but it is difficult to be found without a complete transcript of all the podcasts.
London Paul please – Sirius Report – thanks for the scoop – it helps from not getting bogged down in all of the BS!
Your podcast with Manny was very enjoyable. I am not at all surprised at the present airline/aircraft/oops problems. Considering people of all ages dropping dead left and right nowadays, why would pilots be excluded. The repercussions of the VAKK-SEEN were well known to anyone who was curious enough to listen to the other side.
One can only imagine the frightening aspects of airlines now hiring pilots based not on merit, but on “other things”….. United Airlines already tweeted that “Our flight should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color. Learn more and apply now …..”
Yup. We’re in for a double whammy.
Manny also mentioned the TV series “Air Disasters”. What made these shows so fascinating was the painstaking detective work to determine the causes of these crashes. Loved it.
People call the guys who don’t like the “jab” anti-vax. My question is always: Can you call a drug, that (purportedly) reduces your chances of getting infected and lessens the severity of your symptoms, a vaccine?
Because IMHO, if you start calling a sack of shit a vaccine, then I have no option but to become anti-vax.
Max Keiser – that might be a name you are familiar with. He sold all his gold two years ago to be all in on krypto.
Apropos Putin’s speech today, the big reveal is that the Russians have suspended the START treaty limiting nuke deployment by both countries. Given that Reagan helped bankrupt the Soviet Union with the Star Wars gambit, Putin is now returning the favor. The Russians have working hypersonic missiles that they can manufacture at low cost, distribute across 11 time zones (plus the oceans), and top them all with nukes if they so choose. For the US to match this feat, it would cost tens of trillions of dollars (which we don’t have) and take at least a decade (assuming you can still find enough homegrown real engineers anymore). But never fear, Brandon and the RINOs will authorize those extra trillions (because how can we not?) and its hyperinflation all over again. Ain’t America Great!
One of my mentors, a MSG-3 facilitator for B-767, B-777 took retirement rather than work on the MSG program for the B-787, said he didn’t want to be involved in corporate manslaughter. We both now say, if it’s a Boeing, then I’m “not” going.
Both United and Boeing suffered the same issue of reverse takeovers, where United bought Continental and Boeing bought McDonald Douglas, but the later party in both cases had their management take over the combined firms after handing out large golden parachutes. Now both are run by financiers, not engineers, and both are now run out of Chicago after ditching their original home cities to make sure they shook out the staff for a clean start at a dirty slate.
Man, you are picky. You want the truth or a good story?
Who? What?
You sort of already did Peter Zeihan. But here is one for ya. “Peter Schiff”. Please, please, please do Peter Schiff. lol
Great podcast and thanks for the steer to Steve Kirsch – boy, is that guy prolific or what! He seems to write a piece everyday.
I’ve been going nuts sharing the podcast as well as the referenced Kirsch substacks. My nephew is a young commercial pilot [early 20s] and he was lucky to avoid the jab – he resisted and then they removed the mandate, so he got under the wire.
As for anatomizing, I see that somone wants you to review the Duran boys. I watch the Alexes everyday and enjoy their content.
I know about Alexander and his previous troubles, having read various attacks against him. I acknowledge these attacks but I still like him and how he has landed on his feet with the Duran.
I know Alex is from a diplomatic family in Cyprus and has grown up mostly in the US. I don’t know too much more about him. I like his peripatetic [after all, he’s Greek, right?] daily news reviews and commentary on what’s going on with regard to Ukraine-related issues.
I look forward to your material and have to see if I can manage the Local subscription – times are pretty rough these days.
Hey, Dreizen, the reason I didn’t read your last post (feb16) til today is I didn’t get an email. I got the email for this one tho. Maybe yahoo didn’t like yr last one or yr email service urped or it got trapped in the ether…
I paused you audio, and after that found it impossible to restart it at any point other than the beginning. Any other starting point produced only a constant series of clicks. Maybe it’s my PC? But I’ve never seen anything like that before. I reloaded the tab, but it made no difference, Just thought you should know.
Thank you for the heads up on the issue. I don’t think others are having problem however I think you can click on the three dots and download the podcast to play locally if that helps. When we’re on locals we shouldn’t have this problem.
I enjoy reading your site.
Since you’re talking about those who seem to be doing scams, how about an organization called Far Reaching Ministries. The fellow who heads it talks about working with ex-CIA agents and those still in the CIA’s employee in Afghanistan and other middle eastern countries. My husband and I think that he’s a possible phony and soldier wanna be.
Anyway, unfortunately many of the churches have this man, Wes Bentley, speak at their churches and tell them of his exploits. I’ve been unable to find much past real history about hi, just what he he’s willing to provides.
He does state he joined the Marine Corps right after Vietnam ended as a 17 year old and to his disappointment unable to serve over there.
Armstrong is a pretty heinous AzzClown. He calls “goldbugs” stupid, then sells ancient roman coins and sheckles, whatever, out of his “online store”. Oh and you forgot to mention “FULL ACCESS” to Socrates costs $250,000 a year.
I subbed to whatever costs $15 a month, gives you access to a spattering of the markets it covers. You need a degree to follow wtf its saying. Oh and he has that part covered too, symposiums that cost a few hundred bucks per ticket to decipher his own system.
You can just switch out “Stocks” and “Socrates” with any other scam, “Scientology”, “Jordan Belfort MLM”, etc.
As usual, Putin just went rambling about the west being bad and too gay, while Russia will achieve its goals. It was really necessary to hear that again, for the 1000th time (but The Duran will thoroughly analyze this speech, as if it’s some one-time-in-a-century announcement). Besides that, was there anything substantial? He roasted the oligarchs and suspended participation in START, but no other escalation. Maybe Brandon will say something more interesting in Poland, about Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and the necessity for democracies to stay united against autocracy. I don’t know, maybe I’m a geopolitics addict and the dose is too small to calm me down, but man, it’s really boring these days.
Yes it was a boring speech, the same old talking points, this war is becoming a huge telenovela, boring as hell.
If you are looking for something less boring, why don’t you join? Russia has certain requirements for volunteers, at this moment, Ukraine has not. I heard that minesweeping, or gathering body parts is really exiting, way better than a telenova! Think “Band of Brothers”, plus, I heard that you can get tattoos for free! Kick ass burnlike patterns.
What do think about Bill Crews (aka “Streiff”) who is (or maybe was) the managing editor of RedState?
Or how about Bongino or any of Ben Shapiro’s crew?
Or, if you wanna take apart another grifter dumbass, how about Stew Peters?! 😁
Other mostly decent people that come to mind include Glenn Greenwald, Ben Taibbi, Allison Morrow, Jimmy Dore, Tim Pool, Allan Stevo, Celia Farber, or Steve Kirsch?
I’ll hit you up with some “coffee” when I get home.
Oh yeah! I forgot a major name that is making waves lately! James O’Keefe! And along those lines what do you think about Project Veritas in general w/wo O’Keefe? I’ve never been that interested TBH.
Jacob already covered O’Keefe in his February 12 blog.
I’m curious too what Mr. Dreizin tinks of deez folks. I’ve been attached to Kunstler since his “Long Emergency” flipped my lid. Then 2008 and Zerohedge came online and I found theautomaticearth.org. Then I found Taibbi, then Greenwald. Then, for about 6 months or so, I had the hope, that hope we were all sold on and then Obama fired his campaign staff and started sucking like he was paid to. Then I knew it all sucked and no one was coming to save any of us from anything.
That’s a bit out of order chronologically but it was all a whirl anyway. At least it got me out into the country now with acres under cultivation, orchards and nurseries under wing and budding flocks/herds of beautiful domesticated fowl and ruminants (and bunnies! and soon pigeons! Yay, life is grand if you want it.)
Also, I found Adam Curtis around the same time. I love everything he’s done (documentaries on BBC – cool shit). Mr. Dreizen? And don’t forget Chris Hedges (telling the truth but not quite able to dig out of his “progressive” worldview) and John Pilger. I would love to sit and talk to any of these folks for an afternoon. I’d learn some and school some too. Peace.
Great podcast. Listened while cycling cross country. Looking forward to more of these casts.
Wrt the end if the golden age, and it’s potential causes, this discussion was spot on. There are not too many venues that loose themselves in hysterics. But the observations of Manny —no dissection of near accidents by FAA, the change in EKG requirements by the FAA, the 6+ sigma change in deaths under pilots— all do point towards the unspoken suggestion that the involvement of a certain required substance should be treated as one of the potential causes. Not to become too technical, but there is a very strong timeshifted correlation between certain required substances, and the onset of increased in deaths/disabilities, also in aviation. Actually, one of my analysis/responses on the substack of Steve Kirsch was pinned for a long time, and confirmed by others…
Wrt Ukraine, I honestly belief that that whole horror show is the result of the similar causes and dynamics seen in the last couple of years related to the sneeze. I would suggest to just call it “End of a Golden Age”, history may not repeat, but is surely rhymes.
Oops, mistake, “there are nnot too many venues that NOT loose themselves…”
Konstantin Kishin
anatomize Peter Zeihan. Is he a spook or spook adjacent ? I think he worked for Stratfor, didn’t YOU also work for Stratfor ?
“I put money on that prediction, and lost it ALL.”
Good to see you talking a bit about the investments that don’t pan out. And when you say, lost it all, you lost what you were prepared to lose.
As for Putin’s speech. It was a bit underwhelming. It looks like he’s preparing the population and his allies for a long slug.
FWIW he did spent a lot more time talking about Ukraine than Brandon did
Sorry to hear that your video/audio content is to be paywalled, but see why you have to do this.
As an impoverished Brit existing on a tiny pension, I wont be visiting. have to be careful. I’m luckier than many, in that I can still afford the internet and keep my tiny, 21yr old Honda on the road, though with heating bills trebling, plus general inflation way above what the govt tell us it is, the future is rather gloomy – and that’s me being optimistic. LOL
Whatever… for as long as it’s possible, I’ll still be popping in here for updates. I enjoy your unique, outspoken style. Long may it continue.
Just up the road from me in Scotland they have a lovely old expression of good wishes: “Lang may your lum reek” (often associated with New Year).
I love that expression.
Lang may your lum reek, Jacob.
Now I’m off to catch up on Putin’s speech on Telegram.
Pete
Anecdotally, there are so many experienced pilots with health undermined by the jab, it fully explains what we’re seeing in the airline industry.
Antagonize Jeff Snider from his very own Eurodollar University,
Have a look at Peter Zeihan please.
Jacob- your getting close to X22 territory, hmmm
What
X22 is retarded Q-Anon (etc) conspiracy theory! No Dreizin is not anything like that B.S! WTH??
Hey Jacob I really enjoyed you and Manny discussing Airline problems. I am a disability support worker in Sydney Australia. The only reason I haven’t donated to yet is because I earn $34 an hour have a mortgage, 11 year old twins and increasing interest rates. But on my next pay I will buy you a coffee. I want to share my own experience of the Vakkse. In the early roll out of V two former clients died of heart attacks. They were quads. One early 60’s the other early 40s. Just recently another died after getting second boosta. Another was hospitalised and recovered but his kidney was full of puss. He now has an appointment with Cardiologist because he has chest problems. I went and listened to Drs Piere Kory and Peter McCullough last week and they were so informative. A couple of days later Australian TV scientist Dr Karl dismissed people’s concerns about athletes having heart problems. I would follow you on Twitter but I am in read only mode for some reason. Possibly suggesting Americans surround Bill Gates home. But if you want to look at the most ridiculous Science Educator in Australia type #DrKarl Thanks for your efforts.
Yes, it was on take off and the captain died on take off, the co pilot took over control, and returned to land the himself. The captain was declared dead upon medical response.
Just taking the title into account, I wonder how safe is it to fly in an aluminum tube with poorly recycled air and 200+ vaksed passengers shedding who knows what? And what about that guy steering this tube who has been compelled to adhere to some medical policy and potentially croaks while my life is in his hands? Seriously, I think 2, 3, 4 times before getting into that tube, and thus far, have stayed home. Conversely, is this all part of the idea to KEEP us from traveling?? Geesh.
I’ll join you on Locals.
But as you are asking whom to dissect next: how about Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris.
I like the two (with all their shortcomings – but, hey!, I’m not perfect, either) but I sometimes wish to know a little more about the two. I am not expecting you to rant, or to suck up, come to that. Please tell us just what you consider fit to be said about the two.
IMO, enough has been said about the activities of A&A. Just read other Dreizin Reports.
I’m here for actionable information, and views and opinions heard (nearly) nowhere else. So, to counter this request, here is mine: please don’t Jacob, I beg thee.
I agree. I have had enough of A&A bashing.
But since you mention them, yesterday on The Duran Mercouris pointed out that all trips by heads of state to Kiev are undertaken with the knowledge and permission of Putin.
Are they wrong about that?
I think not. I cannot imagine it any other way.
But what do I know?
If he said that, it’s an idiotic thing to say. There are many Russian pressure points that the U.S. bloc (for its own, non-altruistic reasons) has not touched. For example, interdicting and seizing Russian ships or Russian cargoes on the high seas, e.g., oil shipments to India. If Russia started threatening foreign diplomatic traffic to Kiev, there’s no telling WHAT would happen. If Mercouris really said what you clam he said, you have to consider if he’s selling “geopolitical analysis” or just vaguely pro-Russian, rah-rah propaganda BS.
I appreciate your blog and humor, and I completely understand why you have to start charging for some items.
However, like others, I cannot afford subscriptions to substacks or Locals or whatever.
I also don’t have time to listen to podcasts. I did start to listen to the last one, but it was too slow-moving and I got bored.
However, I would consider contributing to a fundraiser for a specific purpose.
Hi Jacob: The video url Jane wrote of, with appropriate start time is: https://youtu.be/2XGajY232sY?t=98
Prior this point Alex made the same point, and so Alexander did his usually sort of you’re 100% right by mimic and addition. (One thing YouTube helps is they provide (somewhat crappy) transcripts which are a lot faster to scan than even using 2x playback speed.
I used the last reply button I could see in this particular conversation, sorry if the wrong people get notified.
Thanks. Just watched a few minutes. The headline is really dumb, but he doesn’t actually say anything crazy. But, oh does he ramble!
I listened to Christoforou’s take and I think he just mentioned a statement made by Sullivan regarding the old fools trip to Kiev, “We did notify the Russians that President Biden will be travelling to Kyiv, we did so some hours before his departure for deconfliction purposes”. He said it was a bit of a PR fail because of the way it comes across in the media the public might interpret it as though the US needs Russia’s approval to visit The Ukraine. Seems like a fair and rather innocuous opinion to me.
I don’t understand what is the problem with air traffic, you seemed to think that it is about pilot errors, but it could be also about maintenance, system malfunction etc. Probably, that all-together may cause railway traffic to spike, specially considering the fact that some recent accidents will probably signal to the gov’t that it needs to increase funds (and they have a history of increasing funds) for all the rail-adjacent things, and there will probably be a considerable political pressure to proceed in that direction (it is always this way when these type of events happen).
Re: Putin, he will somehow escalate for sure, but I don’t think he will call up more people, the September mobilization should be enough do the job (ofc, if he calls us, the Serbs, we will probably answer, he has more support here than in Russia haha). There is a chance he will try to manage the economy in a more precise way to meet war demands. The interesting part tho is that he will be delivering his speech almost the same time as Biden is in Poland doing whatever he does. We shall see how those two correlate, should be interesting.
Ahhh…..I never checkout mentally or otherwise, I’m like a zombie when comes to information. Clayton Morris lost me when he had a guy on Redacted who is a member of a cult started by some one armed dude who claims he has been in contact with aliens for 40 years. Martin Armstrong and Bob Moriarty are cut from the same cloth. They sell themselves as weary life veterans who understand how the world works and predict the future. Honestly, I engage in confirmation bias as everyone else does. But I do remember what everyone says and go on from there. Like Raoul Pal with Metcalfes law and Michael Saylor comparing Bitcoin to an adiobatic system. They are convincing but always wrong. I’ll listen to your last free talk with Manny but won’t subscribe as I listen/read to way too many people and would go broke if I subscribed to all of them. At the end of the day I feel I understand the world as good as anyone else. I will keep up with your blog however. I enjoy your style.