more of a rhetorical question: once upon a time ppl were black listed for allegiance or alleged allegiance to a foreign country, deplored as communists. yet now this ppl with allegiance to a foreign country run our govt & those who aren’t down with it are called communists! thoughts?
Why did Britain, with a threadbare military and next to no air defenses, proactively announce that they are supplying the drones for Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia?
You ask an interesting question. I'd say that it's because the UK deep state scumbags are so desperate to come across as relevant and powerful that they're prepared to gamble on the safety of British people.
My thought (as a UK resident) is that as Robert Atkins says here, its a pathetic attempt to remain relevant, and because they still think in terms of business.
Announcing that some UK factory is making drones (doesn't really matter who for) is good news story from an economic point of view, perhaps to encourage other businesses to set up doing the same.
And of course disaster capitalism.
When the Russian ALCM and hypersonic IRBM take out said factories, ports and other ailing infrastructure, that is not a disaster but a business opportunity for some close friends of government ministers to make a large amount of money getting paid for the attempt at rebuilding that lost infrastructure. The fact that declining EROEI and resource depletion will prevent that actually happening doesn't prevent the government from issuing the contracts.
Or worse, they are provoking a Russian response in the hopes that it would trigger Article 5 and they would finally have their wish of direct US involvement in the war.
You don't pretend to be an authority on every issue, but I'm curious to know what your thoughts are on climate change. I know a lot about the topic, having written about it for years and, to my mind, pretty much every challenge the United States and the rest of the world faces pales in significance compared to it. The United States is having its worst year yet of climate-related disasters--heat waves, wildfires, tornadoes, floods--yet there seems to be no sense of urgency about the problem among the country's leadership or its citizenry. Other countries are far more concerned and proactive. For example, the NY Times just ran a story that said that almost all cars sold today in Norway and Denmark are EV's. Yet sales of EVS are stagnating in the States.
America, once such a forward-looking nation, is now a reactionary power.
In a recent Q&A you said at one point: 'Certain lies get consecrated, and they are like zombie lies'. I imagine you think that these kinds of lies are especially important to be exposed and called out, if they're ever going to be dismantled. In accord with this therapeutic endeavour, I'd like to ask you about something you said in the Q&A before. You said: '[Putin] is an authoritarian for sure, no one doubts that, there's no liberal democracy in Russia'. Well I for one doubt that, Glenn, and I'd bet that millions of Russians would doubt it also. So in the interests of tackling another possible 'zombie lie', could you explain why you think Putin is an 'authoritarian', and what is it in your view that distinguishes Russia from 'liberal democracies'. For example, what was non-authoritarian about the succession of measures imposed by 'liberal democratic' governments during covid?
Hi Glenn. Following up on the "Woke 1" debate, while important to acknowledge and try to remedy the career- and free speech destroying- excesses, I also think its important to acknowledge another deeply disappointing aspect: that it transformed genuine and serious concerns about our two-tiered justice system and police violence into ineffectual and simplistic slogans, forgoing real reform. As a civil libertarian, what are your thoughts on police and justice reform? How can poorer communities - who clearly don't want police fully "defunded" - but are the most likely to be victimized by a powerful system, be better served, while those at the top always elude accountability? It seems to me law enforcement entities use poorer communities - and their need for some type of law enforcement - as justification for opaque budgets, increasingly violent tactics, and violation of civil liberties. I would also be interested in how this compares to your thoughts on Brazil, where I also lived for many years, and I think has many of the same dynamics.
Why haven't you nor any other so-called independent media that I listen to posted a single story about the massive ritual sexual abuse scandal involving children currently playing out in israel?
Glenn, Britain's Online Safety Act requiring ID to access various social platforms among other websites has been in effect for about a year now. Its obviously designed to create a governmental data base of of the country's citizens. The US isn't there yet, but we have seen ICE collect photos of protesters, Flock surveillances, among other technologies to collect facial recognition data. There seems to be a growing resistance to the attack on privacy and free speech in this country, but even Snowden's revelations seemed to only slow down the government's obsession with monitoring its citizens every move. Do we have options that we haven't used or used effectively against this onslaught by the government on our privacy and first amendment rights?
After 9/11, Bush told everyone to keep shopping because the corps were losing money. Since Congress listens to corps more than their constituents, do you agree that a strategic or even a general boycott of goods and services would put enough pressure on the legislation to stop a war?
i am curious what you think about the uneven, if interesting success of several DSA candidates. what do you think is the main reason for this and do you think it is a serious trend?
I have many of the same critiques of AOC as you do, and I'm frustrated the left seems to view her as our "only shot" at a progressive candidate for president. Truthfully, I think she's a weak candidate and would hurt our chances. The left is actually split on her, and I don't believe she appeals to moderate liberals/independents in the way the left seems to think she does.
Is there anyone you think would be a stronger candidate, or do you think she could come back? What would it take?
I have tried to get you to speak on economics for years now, and you seem to be annoyed by my eternal prodding. I have a question that might clarify why I come back to it over and over again....
You put forward poverty and economic inequality as driving forces of your worldview for as long as I've paid attention to you. I want to engage you on this subject specifically because it also drives mine.
With a 7 trillion dollar federal budget that doesn't include SALT, what number or percentage of GDP would need to be centralized in order to combat this problem?
The inequality has risen in direct inverse to the programs that claim to address it (new deal, social security, unemployment, welfare, etc) and I just don't understand why you refuse to educate yourself to the point where we can engage this Beatles vs Stones clap trap that I want desperately to be wrong about.
Love you, respect you, just want a real interaction about this,
Hi Kurl - I'm sure you've heard before that I just don't think my knowledge of economic and financial policy is sufficiently specialized for me to opine extensively on it. I try to avoid speaking about topics where I'm not confident I can provide something of real value. I do have a lot of views on wealth inequallty and the like -- but mostly from a political or social perspective. Analyzing what the implications are of the national debt or the best ways to solve it are beyond my kind. I obviously think that both war spending and tax cuts for the rich and large corporations who fund both parties are 2 of the 3 major drivers (along with the social safety net, which I don't think should be touched), but I'm not really competent, I don't think, so say much more about the financial/economic policy aspects beyond that.
Glenn, I sounded like you for years when economics came up.
I am not an economics expert.
I will say that the vocabulary you use to describe our collective economic quandry is not exactly das kapital, but is very revealing to me.
Corporate capture
Oligarchs
Economic inequality
Crony Capitalism
The way you use these terms reminds me of myself before I read a handful of recommendations from an old friend I used to work with at food not bombs who called themselves "anarchist". I could never understand his worldview because "who's going to make the roads, or the fire department?"
I don't identify as anything beyond an individual human being, so not libertarian, not anarchist.
I will say that understanding how these people view the world has opened my eyes in ways I would never have expected.
For me it started with a book by Frederic Bastiat called "The Law".
In this work I found the non aggression principle that has become a first principle for my life and every socio political view I hold.
I believe that there are concepts beyond Scott Horton and Bob Murphy that anyone can benefit from knowing, regardless of weather you believe them.
I would love to drag you into this, but I'll leave it here and keep asking questions about politics 👍😀,
more of a rhetorical question: once upon a time ppl were black listed for allegiance or alleged allegiance to a foreign country, deplored as communists. yet now this ppl with allegiance to a foreign country run our govt & those who aren’t down with it are called communists! thoughts?
Why did Britain, with a threadbare military and next to no air defenses, proactively announce that they are supplying the drones for Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia?
You ask an interesting question. I'd say that it's because the UK deep state scumbags are so desperate to come across as relevant and powerful that they're prepared to gamble on the safety of British people.
My thought (as a UK resident) is that as Robert Atkins says here, its a pathetic attempt to remain relevant, and because they still think in terms of business.
Announcing that some UK factory is making drones (doesn't really matter who for) is good news story from an economic point of view, perhaps to encourage other businesses to set up doing the same.
And of course disaster capitalism.
When the Russian ALCM and hypersonic IRBM take out said factories, ports and other ailing infrastructure, that is not a disaster but a business opportunity for some close friends of government ministers to make a large amount of money getting paid for the attempt at rebuilding that lost infrastructure. The fact that declining EROEI and resource depletion will prevent that actually happening doesn't prevent the government from issuing the contracts.
Or worse, they are provoking a Russian response in the hopes that it would trigger Article 5 and they would finally have their wish of direct US involvement in the war.
We can't afford it. Down to diplomacy or nukes.
Is Israel really doing anything that America doesn't approve of or is it just a shell game to cast doubt, spread doubt and disperse accountability?
You don't pretend to be an authority on every issue, but I'm curious to know what your thoughts are on climate change. I know a lot about the topic, having written about it for years and, to my mind, pretty much every challenge the United States and the rest of the world faces pales in significance compared to it. The United States is having its worst year yet of climate-related disasters--heat waves, wildfires, tornadoes, floods--yet there seems to be no sense of urgency about the problem among the country's leadership or its citizenry. Other countries are far more concerned and proactive. For example, the NY Times just ran a story that said that almost all cars sold today in Norway and Denmark are EV's. Yet sales of EVS are stagnating in the States.
America, once such a forward-looking nation, is now a reactionary power.
Dear Glenn,
In a recent Q&A you said at one point: 'Certain lies get consecrated, and they are like zombie lies'. I imagine you think that these kinds of lies are especially important to be exposed and called out, if they're ever going to be dismantled. In accord with this therapeutic endeavour, I'd like to ask you about something you said in the Q&A before. You said: '[Putin] is an authoritarian for sure, no one doubts that, there's no liberal democracy in Russia'. Well I for one doubt that, Glenn, and I'd bet that millions of Russians would doubt it also. So in the interests of tackling another possible 'zombie lie', could you explain why you think Putin is an 'authoritarian', and what is it in your view that distinguishes Russia from 'liberal democracies'. For example, what was non-authoritarian about the succession of measures imposed by 'liberal democratic' governments during covid?
Glenn,
Jimmy Dore has been bringing up the citizens united ruling as the cause of "money in politics", can you revisit your argument for my benefit?
I understand why he thinks public campaign financing is a root cause of corruption, but I disagree on principal.
The ruling says that money = speech, right?😉
Hi Glenn. Following up on the "Woke 1" debate, while important to acknowledge and try to remedy the career- and free speech destroying- excesses, I also think its important to acknowledge another deeply disappointing aspect: that it transformed genuine and serious concerns about our two-tiered justice system and police violence into ineffectual and simplistic slogans, forgoing real reform. As a civil libertarian, what are your thoughts on police and justice reform? How can poorer communities - who clearly don't want police fully "defunded" - but are the most likely to be victimized by a powerful system, be better served, while those at the top always elude accountability? It seems to me law enforcement entities use poorer communities - and their need for some type of law enforcement - as justification for opaque budgets, increasingly violent tactics, and violation of civil liberties. I would also be interested in how this compares to your thoughts on Brazil, where I also lived for many years, and I think has many of the same dynamics.
Will rabbi schmuley face consequences, calling for Tucker's assassination, legal or otherwise
What has happened with Lee Fang? I’ve seen nothing new on his Substack or YouTube since April.
Glenn,
If you were to verbally characterize the economic system currently in use by the United States, what term would you use?
I miss your rumble show, and hope you have found a better life balance without it.
Kurl
Why haven't you nor any other so-called independent media that I listen to posted a single story about the massive ritual sexual abuse scandal involving children currently playing out in israel?
Hi Robert, can you please elaborate (maybe with a link)? Is there credible evidence for this, and if so, of what does it consist? Thanks!
Glenn, Britain's Online Safety Act requiring ID to access various social platforms among other websites has been in effect for about a year now. Its obviously designed to create a governmental data base of of the country's citizens. The US isn't there yet, but we have seen ICE collect photos of protesters, Flock surveillances, among other technologies to collect facial recognition data. There seems to be a growing resistance to the attack on privacy and free speech in this country, but even Snowden's revelations seemed to only slow down the government's obsession with monitoring its citizens every move. Do we have options that we haven't used or used effectively against this onslaught by the government on our privacy and first amendment rights?
After 9/11, Bush told everyone to keep shopping because the corps were losing money. Since Congress listens to corps more than their constituents, do you agree that a strategic or even a general boycott of goods and services would put enough pressure on the legislation to stop a war?
i am curious what you think about the uneven, if interesting success of several DSA candidates. what do you think is the main reason for this and do you think it is a serious trend?
Hey Glenn,
I have many of the same critiques of AOC as you do, and I'm frustrated the left seems to view her as our "only shot" at a progressive candidate for president. Truthfully, I think she's a weak candidate and would hurt our chances. The left is actually split on her, and I don't believe she appeals to moderate liberals/independents in the way the left seems to think she does.
Is there anyone you think would be a stronger candidate, or do you think she could come back? What would it take?
Glenn,
I have tried to get you to speak on economics for years now, and you seem to be annoyed by my eternal prodding. I have a question that might clarify why I come back to it over and over again....
You put forward poverty and economic inequality as driving forces of your worldview for as long as I've paid attention to you. I want to engage you on this subject specifically because it also drives mine.
With a 7 trillion dollar federal budget that doesn't include SALT, what number or percentage of GDP would need to be centralized in order to combat this problem?
The inequality has risen in direct inverse to the programs that claim to address it (new deal, social security, unemployment, welfare, etc) and I just don't understand why you refuse to educate yourself to the point where we can engage this Beatles vs Stones clap trap that I want desperately to be wrong about.
Love you, respect you, just want a real interaction about this,
Kurl
Hi Kurl - I'm sure you've heard before that I just don't think my knowledge of economic and financial policy is sufficiently specialized for me to opine extensively on it. I try to avoid speaking about topics where I'm not confident I can provide something of real value. I do have a lot of views on wealth inequallty and the like -- but mostly from a political or social perspective. Analyzing what the implications are of the national debt or the best ways to solve it are beyond my kind. I obviously think that both war spending and tax cuts for the rich and large corporations who fund both parties are 2 of the 3 major drivers (along with the social safety net, which I don't think should be touched), but I'm not really competent, I don't think, so say much more about the financial/economic policy aspects beyond that.
Glenn, I sounded like you for years when economics came up.
I am not an economics expert.
I will say that the vocabulary you use to describe our collective economic quandry is not exactly das kapital, but is very revealing to me.
Corporate capture
Oligarchs
Economic inequality
Crony Capitalism
The way you use these terms reminds me of myself before I read a handful of recommendations from an old friend I used to work with at food not bombs who called themselves "anarchist". I could never understand his worldview because "who's going to make the roads, or the fire department?"
I don't identify as anything beyond an individual human being, so not libertarian, not anarchist.
I will say that understanding how these people view the world has opened my eyes in ways I would never have expected.
For me it started with a book by Frederic Bastiat called "The Law".
In this work I found the non aggression principle that has become a first principle for my life and every socio political view I hold.
I believe that there are concepts beyond Scott Horton and Bob Murphy that anyone can benefit from knowing, regardless of weather you believe them.
I would love to drag you into this, but I'll leave it here and keep asking questions about politics 👍😀,
Kurl