Alex Krainer on the Economic Outlook

I can't believe I spent so long listening to a hedge-fund manager! See https://alexkrainer.substack.com/.

My comment: 

30:08 I am not so pessimistic. I think there are ways out of a severe economic depression, but they require a level of education among the general populace which is far beyond that permitted by the kakistocracy.

43:51 HSBC in 2012 found to have laundered close to US$1 billion on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel. See HSBC is the New BCCI and Bill Browder is Still Obsessed With The Idea That Vladimir Putin is Obsessed with Him. That state visit by Obama in 2012 was something wasn't it? Then a few months later Britain and the US bombed Tripoli. That was about banking too. 

Michael Hudson on Nuclear Economics

16:35 Why hasn't the stock market dropped? Because there's too much liquidity in the financial stratosphere. This is the result of 18 years of quantitative easing. See Clara Mattei on Capitalism, Austerity and Academia. 

36:34 On the "pay to play" system in American politics which means that only foreign countries can control the United States, it cannot be controlled from within. 

45:30 The only way that other countries can counter this Western alliance is by creating their own alternative set of institutions to the United Nations and the international monetary system. 

54:21 On the problem of finding a guarantor immune from United States' diplomatic threats. 

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Alex Krainer talking to Glenn Diesen the following day. The wars are fought to get collateral for the banks.

34:00 On the European dependence on Federal Reserve swap lines for dollar liquidity. He mentions economic conditions being a set up for civil unrest, and the response in Europe is to use an external conflict (with Russia) to absorb it. See Clara Mattei talking with Costas Lapavitsas. 

David Betz on the conditions for civil war, such as "polar factionalism" which is rife in Britain and the USA. Is it just a result of social media algorithms? See also GB News on Betz's warning from nine days ago. 

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Brian Berletic on how the US military is being used as a tool

23:32 The BBC reporting on terrorist attacks in Xinjiang. See the 2014 article Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs?

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Catherine Austin Fitts interview. See https://solari.com/.

18:56 How the Bank of International Settlements works. It goes back to World War II. 

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Kim Iversen talking to London-based Iranian-British political analyst, journalist, and broadcaster Ali Alizadeh. See the whole interview on Rumble. 

See Ali Alizadeh's YouTube channels Jedaal Farsi and Jedaal English. 

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John Maersheimer talking to Glenn Diesen this morning. 

1:17:06 On the Pentagon's (he claims rational) belief that they could bring the Russian economy to its knees with crushing sanctions. 

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Ben Norton explaining how the sanctions work

7:37 The US dollar is the de facto global reserve currency. See The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret. 

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The full interview with Michael Hudson:

14:04 "hot money" starts at the top, with the oil and mining industries, then the banking industry itself. 

25:39 On "errors and omissions" and how and why they fluctuate in the IMF's monthly international financial statistics. 

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire: 

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The deeper you go, the murkier it gets:

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Alfred McCoy has written a book Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage. 

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Afshin Rattansi interviewing Mishal Kanoo, one of the "Men on the Spot" in Dubai:

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And so Americans have to lobby to prevent corporations like Bayer Monsanto from being immune to prosecution when their products kill people who are forced to use them.

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Ted Postol on Israel's future

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