KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy
410 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 380 ratingsJames 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
March 31, 2024 16:50 - 1 hour - 47 MBGeert 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 ...
KunstlerCast 397 -- Matt Bracken, Navy SEAL, Views the Field of Operations
March 17, 2024 17:15 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBMatt 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 free...
KunstlerCast 396 -- Jasun Horsley Explores the Uncanny Valley with "Big Mother"
March 09, 2024 21:01 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBJason 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, tr...
KunstlerCast_395 -- Art Berman on the US Oil Scene
February 15, 2024 21:45 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBWith 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 pos...
KunstlerCast 394 -- Tom Luongo on the Federal Reserve versus the World and other Current Events
February 04, 2024 20:17 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBTom 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 ga...
KunstlerCast_393 -- Chatting with Jacob Dreizen about the Ukraine Situation
January 31, 2024 17:36 - 51 minutes - 45.5 MBJacob 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 ...
KunstlerCast 392 — The Blogger Euygyppius on Trouble in Germany
January 19, 2024 21:10 - 59 minutes - 57.8 MB"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 E...
KunstlerCast 391 -- David Martin, Up Against the Covid-19 Genocide Machine
December 23, 2023 21:09 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBDr. 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 sh...
KunstlerCast 390 — David Rogers Webb and The Great Taking
December 16, 2023 21:16 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBDavid 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. Davi...
KunstlerCast 389 —Yakking with John Michael Greer about the Spiritual Condition of our Floundering Country
November 30, 2023 18:29 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBJohn 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 occ...
KunstlerCast 388 — Naomi Wolf on Medical Freedom and Facing the Beast
November 10, 2023 00:10 - 39 minutes - 46.7 MBNaomi 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 ...
KunstlerCast 387 — Godfree Roberts on China Rising
October 27, 2023 14:31 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBGodfree 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 ...
KunstlerCast 386 -- Chatting with the Substack Blogger "Eugyppius"
October 08, 2023 16:03 - 1 hour - 44.3 MB"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 Walt...
KunstlerCast 385 — America's Thought Disorders with Clinical Psychologist Lucas Klein
September 01, 2023 17:54 - 53 minutes - 40.2 MBLucas 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...
KunstlerCast 384 — Left-potism, the Vicious Tail of Left Politics, with Daniel Klein
August 19, 2023 12:46 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBDaniel 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 perfor...
KunstlerCast 383 --Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism, with Graham Majin
August 12, 2023 00:46 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBGraham 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 a...
KunstlerCast 382 -- Lt. Col (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski on American Interventionism
July 22, 2023 13:40 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBKaren 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 lewrock...
KunstlerCast 381 — Farmsteading in the Heartland with Becca and Jarrod
July 14, 2023 20:08 - 57 minutes - 41.4 MBBecca 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 ...
KunstlerCast 380 - Post doom with Eco-theologian Michael Dowd
July 02, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBThe 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 Journal, 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 wife,...
KunstlerCast 379 --A Conversion with John Klar, author of Small Farm Republic
June 17, 2023 19:30 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBJohn 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. T...
KunstlerCast 378 — Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas on How His State of Vermont Got So Woked Up
June 09, 2023 20:19 - 57 minutes - 41.9 MBJames 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 particul...
KunstlerCast 377 -- John Michael Greer on Magic and the Reenchantment of Daily Life
May 14, 2023 14:46 - 1 hour - 48.5 MB#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 and ...
KunstlerCast 376 — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Running For President
May 02, 2023 12:33 - 28 minutes - 20.3 MBRobert 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, an...
KunstlerCast 375 -- Neil Howe on How's the Fourth Turning Going So Far
April 24, 2023 21:28 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBNeil 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 Willia...
KunstlerCast 374 -- Michael Rectenwald on Woke Totalitarianism
April 11, 2023 22:04 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBDr. 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 totalitarian...
KunstlerCast 373 — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on the Covid Bamboozlement of Donald Trump, and Other Developing Matters
March 23, 2023 21:24 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBJeffrey 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,...
KunstlerCast 372 — — A Conversation with Dr. David E. Martin — Prosecuting Covid Crimes
March 12, 2023 19:17 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBI’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...
KunstlerCast 371 -- Dmitry Orlov on Russia, Ukraine, and the Swirl of Events
February 16, 2023 19:09 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB#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 ...
KunstlerCast 370 -- Stephan Sander-Faes on Europe's Nervous Winter
February 01, 2023 13:04 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBStephan 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 C...
KunstlerCast 369 -- A Chat with CJ Hopkins of The Consent Factory Blog
January 21, 2023 18:44 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBC. 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...
KunstlerCast 368 -- Chatting with David Collum about his Year in Review
January 02, 2023 22:31 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBDavid Collum is the Betty R. Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He moonlights as an Internet gadfly offering commentary on culture, politics, finance, and technology, He publishes a massive Year in Review essay every Christmas season and it’s available at Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity Website. It’s a humdinger. In this chat, we reference the Christmas battlefield hiatus over in Ukraine — but we recorded this before the Jan 2 missile attack on a Russian b...
KunstlerCast 367 -- Chatting with Stephanie Seneff of MIT about Covid-19 and Other Modern Health Issues
December 09, 2022 22:58 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBStephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology, especially the relationship between vaccines and autism; the harmful effects of the agricultural herbicide glyphosate (...
KunstlerCast 366 -- Conversation with Chris M and Chris S of the New Revenant Society.
November 26, 2022 21:51 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBThe New Revenant Society is the website and blog of the two Christophers —Christopher M and Christopher S, two off-the-grid homesteaders who are founding a tea plantation in rural Virginia. They invite correspondence by US Mail at 44 Kingston Dr. #159 Daleville VA 24083. Christopher M is an author and former counterintelligence analyst living in the Appalachian mountains. After high school, he joined the Army Intelligence Corps and deployed to Afghanistan in 2013. His time in the mili...
KunstlerCast 365 -- A Conversation with David McAlvany
November 06, 2022 16:17 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBDavid McAlvany is a thought leader on the global economy and author of The Intentional Legacy, his thoughtful memoir on the power of legacy and what it means to create a meaningful family culture. McAlvany graduated from Biola, served as a wealth manager at Morgan Stanley, and is the second-generation CEO of the McAlvany Financial Group. He has been a featured guest on national television programs, including CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg, and at financial seminars around the world. David is also...
KunstlerCast 364 -- The Wild Western Civ Shoot-out with Tom Luongo
October 07, 2022 18:21 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBTom Luongo is the voice behind the Gold, Goat’s and Guns blog and podcast, often featured on Zero Hedge and other sites. We venture into the dark backwaters and sidetracks of global intrigue as Western Civ goes off the rails and the US midterm election looms ominously weeks ahead. Tom describes himself as a former research scientist, amateur diary-goat farmer, anarchy-libertarian, and obstreperous Austrian economist. He built the house he lives in and he’s a lot of fun. The KunstlerCast ...
KunstlerCast 363 -- Jacob Dreizin of the Dreizin Report
September 22, 2022 12:48 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBJacob Dreizen, a new face on the blogging scene, went to Washington as a young man, worked at a prestigious lobbying organization and briefly on Capitol Hill as well as volunteering for a successful Senate campaign. A U.S. Army veteran, Jacob is fluent in Russian and has emerged as a leading independent commentator on the origins of the Russia-Ukraine conflict -- and the U.S. role in the conflict. He has made a number of successful calls on global events, such as predicting fertilizer shor...
KunstlerCast_362 — Chatting with Rays Jason, The Sea Gypsy Philosopher
August 23, 2022 21:15 - 1 hour - 57 MBRay Jason blogs as the Sea Gypsy Philosopher. He has lived on his sailboat, the Aventura, for nearly thirty years, lately off the coast of Central America. Before that, Ray worked as a street performer, juggling in San Francisco. He’s crossed the Pacific solo from California to Hawaii many times, and is the author of Tales of a Sea Gypsy and, of course The Sea Gypsy Philosopher. I enjoyed discussing the technicalities of life on a boat with him. I hope you find this a charming relief from t...
KunstlerCast 361 -- Yakking with David Collum as the World Turns and Burns
August 01, 2022 20:45 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBDavid Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt to make sense of the fast-moving corona virus story and the increasingly weird and troubling second-order events spinning off of it into the global economy and fractious American politics du jour. His...
KunstlerCast 359 — Mattias Desmet and Mass Formation Madness
June 19, 2022 14:55 - 59 minutes - 50.1 MBMattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology and Educational Sciences at the Ghent University, Belgium and a practicing psychotherapist. He is the author ofThe Psychology of Totalitarianism (Chelsea Green Publishing). Since he introduced the concept of “mass formation psychosis” into the arena of public discourse some months ago, his ideas have been discussed widely, especially in relation to the bizarre politics of Covid-19. He is also the author of over one hundred peer-reviewed ac...
KunstlerCast 358 -- A Conversation About Ukraine with Larry C. Johnson
May 18, 2022 22:09 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBLarry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. He blogs at www.Sonar21.com. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Ung...
KunstlerCast 357: Joni McGary on Campus Covid Vaccine Mandates
April 26, 2022 18:18 - 56 minutes - 50.3 MBJoni McGary is the mother of a college junior and the co-founder of NoCollegeMandates.com, a coalition of more than 2500 college stakeholders working to end college Covid-19 vaccine mandates. She’s worked in business development in the food, pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and previously owned LuckyGuy Bakery. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Her articles on the subject of college mandates have been published at the Daily Clout and the Brownstone Institute. She can be found on Twitt...
KunstlerCast 356 -- Tom Luongo Lays It Out
March 23, 2022 19:01 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBTom Luongo is the voice behind the Gold, Goat’s ’n’ Guns blog and podcast, often featured on Zero Hedge and other sites. Tom describes himself as a former research scientist, amateur diary-goat farmer, anarchy-libertarian, and obstreperous Austrian economist. He built the house he lives in and he’s a lot of fun. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger.
KunstlerCast 355 -- Nick Corbishley, author of "Scanned."
March 10, 2022 21:09 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB#355 —Nick Corbishley is the author of Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports, Mandates, Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom. He’s been an editor at Wolf Richter’s Wolf Street website and currently writes for Naked Capitalism on finance, economics, and politics. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger.
KunstlerCast 354 — Mark Hurst asks: Is Digital Tech Doing Evil
February 08, 2022 20:58 - 1 hour - 54 MBMark Hurst is an early Web pioneer who has become one of Big Tech's sharpest critics. Hurst's Creative Good newsletter and Techtonic radio show chart the spread of Big Tech into all areas of life and work. His GoodReports.com site lists alternatives to Big Tech platforms. Earlier in his career, Hurst founded the Gel ("Good Experience Live") conference, which debuted projects like Wikipedia and Khan Academy. He is the author of two books about technology: "Bit Literacy" (2007) on information o...
KunstlerCast 353
January 11, 2022 22:17 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBJeffrey 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,...
KunstlerCast 352
December 11, 2021 13:37 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBI’m doing another lap with Dr. David E Martin who is among a select group of international thought-leaders investigating the origins of the Covid-19 Pandemic and in particular the relationships between US public health officials, the pharmaceutical companies, and a number of shadfdowy organizations behind the development of the hugely profitable vaccines, which have a poor record of safety and viability. David is the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in inno...
KunstlerCast 351
November 13, 2021 14:49 - 54 minutes - 48 MBSteve Kirsch is a Silicon Valley philanthropist and founder of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) – the only organization in the world focused on finding the most promising drugs and treatments that, when given sufficiently early, can reduce hospitalization and death rates. As a tech entrepreneur, he is the inventor of the optical mouse and one of the first Internet search engines, Infoseek. He started 7 high tech companies, two with billion dollar market caps. He has a BS/MS in Elec...
KunstlerCast 350
October 13, 2021 13:51 - 57 minutes - 48.7 MBDoug Casey is an American writer, financier, and the founder and chairman of Casey Research. He describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist influenced by the works of novelist Ayn Rand. Casey is an advisor on how to profit from market distortions and periods of economic turmoil. He’s lately turned his talents to fiction and his recent novel, Assassins, is the third installment in the Charles Knight series of International thrillers. Doug has lived abroad for many years — visiting over 100 oth...
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September 14, 2021 15:36 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB#349 David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt to make sense of the fast-moving corona virus story and the increasingly weird and troubling second-order events spinning off of it into the global economy and fractious American politics du jour...
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August 18, 2021 20:10 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBDmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR, into an academic family, and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. He holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Linguistics, and has worked in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics, Internet commerce, network security and advertising. Starting in 2005, Dmitry has published hundreds of articles, three books and 10 collections of essays focusing on the forthcoming collapse of the United States specifically and Western civilization genera...