I appreciate some of his observations, but found myself disagreeing with most of what he said. My view of the U.S. with respect to China and Russia is the opposite of his, and I think he and I would disagree in nearly every respect about what is going on in Ukraine. I don't think the lateral/linear thinking paradigm is useful at this stage in the game, and I don't think it is the underlying source of human conflict. I'm not inclined to use cycles in any sort of analysis - I prefer examining underlying events, which speak clearly enough. Tragically, I believe we will find ourselves in a kinetic war of unprecedented destruction because war, itself, is often a primary objective of those in power, and because if I had to construct a geopolitical scenario where everyone is positioning themselves for war on multiple fronts, I could not do much better than to point to the geopolitical situation we now have. Thank you for the podcast. It was full of food for thought, which is more interesting than nodding one's head in agreement with everything.
I tend to agree with you, especially about Russia, China and Ukraine. I think the SCO is trying to avoid war by destroying the dollar and thereby depriving the US/NATO of the means to wage war and bully the rest of the planet. Perhaps the nuclear option for the SCO is not a bomb but a re-valuation of gold to realistic levels?
Exactly. That's what Alasdair has said for ages. Their "nuclear moment" was always of the financial type. Their ways are the exact opposite of the western world, unless of course one swallows their media horsesh1t
Yes, well, let's hope that, if the SCO does unleash its "nuclear" gold re-valuation, the US/NATO does not try to pull a "Hail Mary" by using it as an excuse to unleash its own nuclear arsenal in retaliation. Hopefully, the SCO will achieve a re-valuation by stealth instead of by drama à la Gold Reserve Act of 1934. In fact, could that be what we have been witnessing since the start of this year?
On this one a I took a pass, or rather a shortcut. I went straight to his site, spent 5 minutes on his seriously narcissic self laudatory life description and thought I could save myself over an hour of a popinjay being interviewed by another. The curse of the internet, it is the best and the worst like Aesop's tongue, or like a soapbox used to be at Hyde Park corner...quaint, when it did not rain.
First imperative surfing rule, avoid traders who have seen the light and understood the meaning of History and Life and talk "Globish". Last piece of evidence, if we needed any, that we are indeed in a mega-bubble. I have spent 6 months with the Bonobos and discovered the true roots of human nature...Reminds one of Margaret Mead in Samoa, being fed the very dope she craved for by her Melanesian lover on the structure of sex and gender to the great merriment of the tribe. And the whole business of Anthropology, and all the ensuing societal catastrophe it took us to, was built on a tribal joke! Or Soros and his grand theory of "reflexivity" now replacing Einstein's?
So our dyslexic guru is attempting to do a Cecil Rhodes bis. Too little, too late. Tiny Rowland, the unacceptable face of capitalism, had already tried flying on a wing and a prayer carpet before crashing down to earth like I-carus. And that before Robert Maxwell plunged to new depths.It took one crook to recognize another one The City always had its share of fruit cakes, or "eccentrics" to use an euphemism. And Wall Street, credit where it is due to the Temple of Mammon, its snake oil salesmen and carpetbaggers...in fact, they have been running the show for over a century, say 1914-1918.
So , while he might come to the same conclusion about Gold as AM, I think his geo-strategic view, if you can call it that , is shallow, superficial and informed by a false narrative. The Americans have rewritten and falsified History since 1945, privilege of the victor, to such an extent that it becomes incomprehensible for most of us. Even Mearsheimer, though more lucid, still subscribes to American exceptionalism. If you believe that, you are doomed to make the same mistakes again.
If you also think that 9/11 was perpetrated by Osama and a bunch of winged islamist loonies and that Covid was a God sent plague on humanity for its sins, you probably have never heard of the CIA benevolent charitable organisation, a subdivision of the Salvation Army.
So yes, Imperialism and colonialism, its senile stage, have now entered its final nihilistic "exterminist" stage as we can observe daily, before checking the price of gold, no correlation, in a small piece of land called Palestine, the Parthian shot of the collapsing British Empire. So it goes...
Fantastic, Mr. Duque. I had to laugh because I saved time too. I just looked very briefly at the comments and realised that Murrin is either deceived or on NWO payroll. No need to spend an hour looking at that shite.
We can have all the democracy we want. We can have a big democracy cake and eat it too and it won't make any difference without true free market capitalism, property rights, individual rights and sound free market money. Our current western democracy just enables us to choose who is holding the gun at our head.
Yes, agreed. The problem is that our current western democracy is, in my opinion, only really a pretence - and scarcely even that any more. I don't think we really get to choose who is really holding the gun at our head; and I think the people we allegedly elect have guns held at their heads, too.
I spent 3 - 4 x hours yesterday listening & re-listening to Murrin's oh so flawed analysis of where we are at this point in time , how we've arrived here & why . Yes he get's to the same conclusion as you , but via a circuitous fact free route that's devoid of the background to current ' Events ' , and any recognition or understanding of the history that lays behind all of this . As far as your note per
" Well worth Listening to " - I rather demur from this on the basis that I've lost a period of my life that I'll never reclaim , listening to this individual's claptrap which simply serve's to prove that he's got nothing remotely like the grasp on all of this carry on that you most assuredly do . I certainly can't imagine that the Panjandrum's up at ' Goldmoney Towers ' will be making the airwave's red hot in their rabid attempt's to hire this chap in as one of your underling's .
Mr Murrin's take on military strategy ( God help those War College's who did hire him in ) - little wonder the Russian's are destroying their opposition in the " Shooting Fish in a Barrel " manner they've so expertly deployed - Murrin pouring out his pearl's of wisdom , and ' muddly talk ' has no doubt been a major contributory factor to the NATO Cabal 's clear inability to fight their way out of a very wet paper-bag . A very long period of silence from Mr Murrin on military matters / warfare &
most everything else he touched upon would be most welcome . Total & ongoing ' Radio Silence ' ,
on his part being ever better still ..etc - can't come soon enough .
So - having spent many hours taking Mr Murrin's patent drivel apart , come 1.00 am yesterday I'd finished & was pretty happy - so pushed the ' Post ' button only to have my contribution
disappear into the Ether ... probably never to be seen again - much gnashing of teeth ...!!
All was not lost though as in reading Reginald's superlative dissection of Murrin's cretinous theorising - he essetially said everything and covered every point that I had in my now lost & gone treatise .
I very much think that Mr Murrin would benefit greatly from an extended period of introspection as
it look's like he's consumed a surfeit of his own sell-publicity ( patent self loving Narcissicism ) to the point that he needs to get down to his allotment without delay & concentrate on the nurture of his veggies . The real kicker here though , is if only I'd had Reginald''s gumption / foresight to take the same shortcut to the Murrin web-site , then I'd have spared myself the torture of having to sit through
his self-absorbed & wayward prognostication's ..etc ... " Macleod is the clear Victor - 3 x Sets to Zero "
The Biden regime is a pro WEF anti America techno fascist state intent on derailing and killing of the America of the founding fathers. Putin did not fall into the Nuland neocon traps set for him thus far fortunately for the world.
Isreal is the problem. They're a loose cannon with the backing of the US and UK supplying weapons by the container load,just itching to get Iran to retaliate. When they do the UK & US will attempt to wipe Iran off the map. Will Russia and China come to the aid of Iran? Will they need to? Iran are modern day ready, the west are still far behind and are about to find out the hard way. It's all becoming a bit too close for comfort and if the oil price spikes above $130 a barrel the markets will go bananas.
Yes, but Israel is a subsidiary of The Corporation of The City of London. The real problem is the people hiding behind the Zionists/NAZIs, who in turn hide behind Jews/Jewishness/antisemitism.
"Will Russia and China come to the aid of Iran?" is not really a question that needs to be asked. All three are leading members of both BRICS and The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
The scary aspect of the current situation is that Netanyahu needs to escalate. It's his only chance of survival. He must be stopped.
I appreciate some of his observations, but found myself disagreeing with most of what he said. My view of the U.S. with respect to China and Russia is the opposite of his, and I think he and I would disagree in nearly every respect about what is going on in Ukraine. I don't think the lateral/linear thinking paradigm is useful at this stage in the game, and I don't think it is the underlying source of human conflict. I'm not inclined to use cycles in any sort of analysis - I prefer examining underlying events, which speak clearly enough. Tragically, I believe we will find ourselves in a kinetic war of unprecedented destruction because war, itself, is often a primary objective of those in power, and because if I had to construct a geopolitical scenario where everyone is positioning themselves for war on multiple fronts, I could not do much better than to point to the geopolitical situation we now have. Thank you for the podcast. It was full of food for thought, which is more interesting than nodding one's head in agreement with everything.
I tend to agree with you, especially about Russia, China and Ukraine. I think the SCO is trying to avoid war by destroying the dollar and thereby depriving the US/NATO of the means to wage war and bully the rest of the planet. Perhaps the nuclear option for the SCO is not a bomb but a re-valuation of gold to realistic levels?
Exactly. That's what Alasdair has said for ages. Their "nuclear moment" was always of the financial type. Their ways are the exact opposite of the western world, unless of course one swallows their media horsesh1t
Yes, well, let's hope that, if the SCO does unleash its "nuclear" gold re-valuation, the US/NATO does not try to pull a "Hail Mary" by using it as an excuse to unleash its own nuclear arsenal in retaliation. Hopefully, the SCO will achieve a re-valuation by stealth instead of by drama à la Gold Reserve Act of 1934. In fact, could that be what we have been witnessing since the start of this year?
That I can't answer, I'm not smart enough. I will wait for Alasdair to comment. He's the expert, the teacher in my world. I'm just one of his pupils👍🏻
On this one a I took a pass, or rather a shortcut. I went straight to his site, spent 5 minutes on his seriously narcissic self laudatory life description and thought I could save myself over an hour of a popinjay being interviewed by another. The curse of the internet, it is the best and the worst like Aesop's tongue, or like a soapbox used to be at Hyde Park corner...quaint, when it did not rain.
First imperative surfing rule, avoid traders who have seen the light and understood the meaning of History and Life and talk "Globish". Last piece of evidence, if we needed any, that we are indeed in a mega-bubble. I have spent 6 months with the Bonobos and discovered the true roots of human nature...Reminds one of Margaret Mead in Samoa, being fed the very dope she craved for by her Melanesian lover on the structure of sex and gender to the great merriment of the tribe. And the whole business of Anthropology, and all the ensuing societal catastrophe it took us to, was built on a tribal joke! Or Soros and his grand theory of "reflexivity" now replacing Einstein's?
So our dyslexic guru is attempting to do a Cecil Rhodes bis. Too little, too late. Tiny Rowland, the unacceptable face of capitalism, had already tried flying on a wing and a prayer carpet before crashing down to earth like I-carus. And that before Robert Maxwell plunged to new depths.It took one crook to recognize another one The City always had its share of fruit cakes, or "eccentrics" to use an euphemism. And Wall Street, credit where it is due to the Temple of Mammon, its snake oil salesmen and carpetbaggers...in fact, they have been running the show for over a century, say 1914-1918.
So , while he might come to the same conclusion about Gold as AM, I think his geo-strategic view, if you can call it that , is shallow, superficial and informed by a false narrative. The Americans have rewritten and falsified History since 1945, privilege of the victor, to such an extent that it becomes incomprehensible for most of us. Even Mearsheimer, though more lucid, still subscribes to American exceptionalism. If you believe that, you are doomed to make the same mistakes again.
If you also think that 9/11 was perpetrated by Osama and a bunch of winged islamist loonies and that Covid was a God sent plague on humanity for its sins, you probably have never heard of the CIA benevolent charitable organisation, a subdivision of the Salvation Army.
So yes, Imperialism and colonialism, its senile stage, have now entered its final nihilistic "exterminist" stage as we can observe daily, before checking the price of gold, no correlation, in a small piece of land called Palestine, the Parthian shot of the collapsing British Empire. So it goes...
Simon Gedye - 16th April
Reginald - Agree entirely
One could have used it to fall asleep as I did. A world view informed by binary categories has very little chance of hitting the mark.
Fantastic, Mr. Duque. I had to laugh because I saved time too. I just looked very briefly at the comments and realised that Murrin is either deceived or on NWO payroll. No need to spend an hour looking at that shite.
We can have all the democracy we want. We can have a big democracy cake and eat it too and it won't make any difference without true free market capitalism, property rights, individual rights and sound free market money. Our current western democracy just enables us to choose who is holding the gun at our head.
Yes, agreed. The problem is that our current western democracy is, in my opinion, only really a pretence - and scarcely even that any more. I don't think we really get to choose who is really holding the gun at our head; and I think the people we allegedly elect have guns held at their heads, too.
Simon Gedye - 16th April
I spent 3 - 4 x hours yesterday listening & re-listening to Murrin's oh so flawed analysis of where we are at this point in time , how we've arrived here & why . Yes he get's to the same conclusion as you , but via a circuitous fact free route that's devoid of the background to current ' Events ' , and any recognition or understanding of the history that lays behind all of this . As far as your note per
" Well worth Listening to " - I rather demur from this on the basis that I've lost a period of my life that I'll never reclaim , listening to this individual's claptrap which simply serve's to prove that he's got nothing remotely like the grasp on all of this carry on that you most assuredly do . I certainly can't imagine that the Panjandrum's up at ' Goldmoney Towers ' will be making the airwave's red hot in their rabid attempt's to hire this chap in as one of your underling's .
Mr Murrin's take on military strategy ( God help those War College's who did hire him in ) - little wonder the Russian's are destroying their opposition in the " Shooting Fish in a Barrel " manner they've so expertly deployed - Murrin pouring out his pearl's of wisdom , and ' muddly talk ' has no doubt been a major contributory factor to the NATO Cabal 's clear inability to fight their way out of a very wet paper-bag . A very long period of silence from Mr Murrin on military matters / warfare &
most everything else he touched upon would be most welcome . Total & ongoing ' Radio Silence ' ,
on his part being ever better still ..etc - can't come soon enough .
So - having spent many hours taking Mr Murrin's patent drivel apart , come 1.00 am yesterday I'd finished & was pretty happy - so pushed the ' Post ' button only to have my contribution
disappear into the Ether ... probably never to be seen again - much gnashing of teeth ...!!
All was not lost though as in reading Reginald's superlative dissection of Murrin's cretinous theorising - he essetially said everything and covered every point that I had in my now lost & gone treatise .
I very much think that Mr Murrin would benefit greatly from an extended period of introspection as
it look's like he's consumed a surfeit of his own sell-publicity ( patent self loving Narcissicism ) to the point that he needs to get down to his allotment without delay & concentrate on the nurture of his veggies . The real kicker here though , is if only I'd had Reginald''s gumption / foresight to take the same shortcut to the Murrin web-site , then I'd have spared myself the torture of having to sit through
his self-absorbed & wayward prognostication's ..etc ... " Macleod is the clear Victor - 3 x Sets to Zero "
The Biden regime is a pro WEF anti America techno fascist state intent on derailing and killing of the America of the founding fathers. Putin did not fall into the Nuland neocon traps set for him thus far fortunately for the world.
Isreal is the problem. They're a loose cannon with the backing of the US and UK supplying weapons by the container load,just itching to get Iran to retaliate. When they do the UK & US will attempt to wipe Iran off the map. Will Russia and China come to the aid of Iran? Will they need to? Iran are modern day ready, the west are still far behind and are about to find out the hard way. It's all becoming a bit too close for comfort and if the oil price spikes above $130 a barrel the markets will go bananas.
Yes, but Israel is a subsidiary of The Corporation of The City of London. The real problem is the people hiding behind the Zionists/NAZIs, who in turn hide behind Jews/Jewishness/antisemitism.
"Will Russia and China come to the aid of Iran?" is not really a question that needs to be asked. All three are leading members of both BRICS and The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
The scary aspect of the current situation is that Netanyahu needs to escalate. It's his only chance of survival. He must be stopped.
No real discussion of our current economic situation or it’s causes.
David, Have you read Iaian McGilchrist's work. I see a parallel with your lateral/linear model.