Deep State Descending | James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

March 10, 2014

And so it’s back to the Kardashians for the US of ADD.

As of Sunday The New York Times kicked Ukraine off its front page, a sure sign that the establishment (let’s revive that useful word) is sensitive to the growing ridicule over its claims of national interest in that floundering, bedraggled crypto-nation. The Kardashians sound enough like one of the central Asian ethnic groups battling over the Crimea lo these many centuries -- Circassians, Meskhetian Turkmen, Tatars, Karachay-Cherkessians -- so the sore-beset American public must be content that they’re getting the news-of-the-world. Perhaps one of those groups was once led by a Great Kanye.

Secretary of State John Kerry has shut his pie-hole, too, for the moment, as it becomes more obvious that Ukraine happens to be Russia’s headache (and neighbor). The playbook of great nations is going obsolete in this new era of great nations having, by necessity, to become smaller broken-up nations. It could easily happen in the USA too as our grandiose Deep State descends further into incompetence, irrelevance, buffoonery, and practical bankruptcy.

Theories abound about what drives this crisis and all the credible stories revolve around the question of natural gas. I go a little further, actually, and say that the specter of declining energy sources worldwide is behind this particular eruption of disorder in one sad corner of the globe and that we’re sure to see more symptoms of that same basic problem in one country after another from here on, moving from the political margins to the centers. The world is out of cheap oil and gas and, at the same time, out of capital to produce the non-cheap oil and gas. So what’s going on is a scramble between desperate producers and populations worried about shivering in the dark. The Ukraine is just a threadbare carpet-runner between them.

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[yurbud]

1. the replacement of oil and gas with other energy source will be bottom up

the elite have no interest in wind, solar, or ocean hydro because there's no fuel input needed that they can monopolize.

Once built, the "fuel" is provided free by nature.

They could try to monopolize large scale power plants, but since small scale can be done as easily, if their prices get too high, people will simply be more motivated to slap up their own panels.

What good is that to an aspiring oligarch?

[2banon]

3. good points...

there's more to the back story on this particular event, the way I see it, but oil distribution certainly is an important component, and I completely agree with your general point.

[Moostache]

2. The next time this guy is right will be newsworthy...and a first.

Its kind of pathetic to keep predicting the imminent end of the world every single time he opines about anything in the hopes that eventually he will be right and then can switch from insufferable "the-end-is-nigh" to even more insufferable "I-told-ya-so".

Here is a brief summary of every JHK article in the last decade+:
"The sky is falling"
"Its worse than you can imagine"
"Everything is shifting local" (at a rate that makes glaciers seem like Ferraris)
"Its too late anyway - death, starvation, privation are all that remains"
"Woe is humanity"

Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.

Someone nudge me when Kunstler goes off script for a change of pace...