This would be like the exploitation the Clinton’s did after the Haiti Earthquake. Nothing but a money maker for them and the people suffered. WW2 and Granddaddy Bush. The corrupt rich get richer.
Very much enjoyed this insightful article. So happy to see you call out the 'rat' in the stew - disaster capitalism is a distraction term ... it implies 'capitalism' is again the problem, when in fact there's no capitalism to be found. The only way 'disaster capitalism' can be sustained is with the backing of government. Who paid the defense contractors during the Iraq War? The free capitalist market would have shut down that war in twenty minutes. There's no way Americans would have lined up to hand out their hard earned cash - voluntarily - to fund that war. No sir, it was all bought and paid for by government using taxpayer dollars - and borrowings - to the bloated contractors. The same is true for all nonsense that went on during covid - without government force, there's no way the 'free market' would have supported such stupidity. Same goes for the government disaster responses; when you put government in charge of disaster relief all you get is more disaster. It's a pattern; put government in charge of 'poverty' you get ... more poverty. Nothing to do with free market capitalism.
Thank you for this interesting (a tad challenging for those just grasping on the edges of economics) discussion.
To start with letting the UN, WEF, WHO, CFR, Intelligence communities and maybe even the O'Harris lot have their fantasies and considering that just ignoring them may not send them off to an Elba....
Being good old people going back to our basics, going off and creating our personal Edens may fall short.
Do we want better tomorrows for our Countries, our children and indeed ourselves?
Without principled, experienced, moral insights do we have more youthful conditioned leaders to extricate us from the elites ongoing damages caused and those they have clearly formulated per their "Agendas"? For example - Are the Vances, the DeSantises, the Rameswamys, et al prepared to crush the advances of the Elite core directing the coups? Or would successes and ultimate directions be better served with the steel spine, dedicated resolve and assembled coup of a Trump?
Would our fellows benefit from seniors commitments, funds of knowledge, insights and encouragements? Sometimes leading the way.
Keep in mind all the various devastations visited on our children during the Covid plunder, with DEI, CRT and the various sexual perversions. The harms of the next generations have been legion.
For me, my focus is on restoring our country. Perhaps, what ever I can help accomplish is my garden, my Eden. (In my actual potted garden 3 small tomato plants maybe 4" survive. Likely no crop this year. So it goes)
So to contemplate, is it responsible to myself and others to retire from the fray?
Dr. Malone, I was surprised to see your wife in a Kennedy-Shanahan baseball cap. My understanding is that that duo is pretty far left, and I was curious to know if your political leanings match your wife’s? The issues you write about make me believe you’re leaning conservative, but it’s not really clear. Do you consider yourself progressive?
That was Alix Meyer. Vaccine damaged. Medical freedom leader. Lives in Redwood City. Jill and i went on a hike with her. She hosted us when we traveled to speak. Did you actually bother to read the essay?
I agree 1000% ! It is Cronyism. Thank you, thank you for showing the definition of these words. I am very suspect that in some cases "capitalism" is being used in this fashion by some to associate capitalism with malfeasance with the obvious ultimate intent to sell to the naive public socialism and communism. Thank you for all that you and Jill do! And, your foals are beautiful!
I go round and round in thought circles on this topic and I end up asking - how much power and money is enough? Apparently there is no definitive answer. I also ask, what is the power of a word, like, capitalism? Some see one definition, others see another but each interpretation is founded on perceived circumstances all piled up and labeled by one word. I recommend reading I, Pencil, by Leonard E. Read. https://fee.org/ebooks/i-pencil/
I once read an essay written by a college economics professor who had a surly argumentative student, one who had a serious anti capitalist mindset. One day she asked him a question - do you think everyone should be given the exact same wage regardless the work done? He said yes! Then she asked him if he were to be given an unexpected windfall of a million dollars, would he be willing to divide it up and share it with his friends. Stalled silence. Then he caught himself and said he would do some good things with the wealth. So, she concluded, it's easy to postalize and play with good sounding concepts but then when actuality hits, the reality of human nature emerges.
and when asked "if you had 2 suits would you give one away?" No. "why not?" Because I have 2 suits.
Back in the unwashed hippie daze I knew a guy who soapboxed that no one should be allowed to inherit. he was adamant for decades until his parents died and he inherited quite a pile. Never a word about it again.
I'm quite sure one could fill a very large book with stories like this. The reason is about human nature being unable to change. Humans who think they know best for everyone else are driven by a god complex and these truly believe they must be obeyed because they are superior in every way. They also believe that if others would just bow and conform, we could achieve Utopia here on earth. Love, love, love, unicorns and rainbows. So, what I conclude is, using logic and reason, the little gods who hate us and wish to eliminate as many of us as possible think their plan will promote a universal condition of love. Right.
That's the hidden definition. The result is what I like to call Carney World - where everything that looks soooo good is really just fake and therefore must be broken down in the middle of the night to move on to another set of suckers.
In some of the stories of the Faeries, they create a 'Glamour' which is, for example a beautiful house, but when the spell wears off, you see it is just a cardboard box.
ANYTIME anyone self identifies as a "progressive" - as is the case with Naomi Klein - invariably Karl Marx enters the equation - especially if "capitalism" is under scrutiny. Were I able to question Naomi - who appears to be in her 30s - I would ask her - Explicitly, WHAT "free market capitalism" is she referring to? In the USA, there has NOT been "free-market" capitalism for OVER a century and half.
The federal government has seen to THAT via confounding, restrictive, mandated, regulated and distorting the VOLUNTARY exchange between people; and caused HAVOC in the so-called "free market"- in the name of the "common good", "leveling the playing field", "fairness", and the ubiquitous Marxist notion of "Redistribution of wealth"; and has also managed ON PURPOSE to give capitalism a permanent bad name while literally CHAMPIONING SOCIALISM.
One can posit that perhaps 90% of federal government UN-ELECTED "employees" have NEVER themselves owned a business (and)TRIED to sell goods and/or (legitimate) services to the general public; nor have had to deal with the THOUSANDS of pages of EVER CHANGING and ADDITIONAL government regulations, mandatory reports, etc., let alone self-righteous bureaucrats who can literally make life HELL for anyone who chooses not to COMPLY with their idiotic diktats.
Voltaire summed up his view of the Bible in this way: “The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart” (Philosophical Dictionary, 1764).
"The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. All have turned away, they have together become corrupt;
there is no one who does good, not even one. Will the workers of iniquity never learn?” -Psalm 14:1-4
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
Isaiah 6:9
And He replied: "Go and tell this people, 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'
Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."
Thus we see some rather unhinged humans striving to be "famous forever" without realizing that they will exist forever and have already existed for countless years.
And we have rational people telling us to "face reality" and realize that everyone dies. Well, that's only half true, you see? So people get easily confused.
The problem with the Commie-Lib's 2007 thesis is that it is an inversion of reality, analogous of the One Percent theme of the Occupy Wall Streeters. One can see an element of truth in both---crony capitalism and its discontents, but something is out of kilter. The very solution from their point of view is more---not less, government. What we, and our free and democratic market, is a moral authority over both---government AND a free economy. That power, during the so-called middle ages, a time of great flourishing of human endeavor, was the Church.
Hmmm…Seems you’re describing Schwab’s “ Stakeholder Capitalism”. A euphemism for “How to expedite the Post-1984 Brave New World By Creating Or Exacerbating A Disasters To Instill Constant Chaos, Fear And Distraction”… wildfires, pandemics, wars, weather events, mob violence, border insurgency, factory explosions, supply chain shortages, massive tech glitches and “ hacking”, energy crises, business closures, paid for protests, banking crises, toxic spills, false flags, political divide….To gut the middle class by thievery and exacerbate a two tiered economy while we’re looking elsewhere. The filthy rich and the dirt poor. A one world government feudal ist technocracy ruled by psychopaths seeking life eternal. Their lives. We’re disposable.Already being disposed of, soon replaced with a transhuman androgynous servants.
Life ( if you could call it that) imitating art. Huxley was right in fearing his epic work of satirical fiction was being used as a playbook. “ You will own nothing, have no privacy and love your servitude”. Yup, he said it first - sardonically. And Schwab tweaked it switching “ love your servitude” to “ be happy” and “ Brave New World” with “ Great Reset”. We’ve already ushered it in and if we don’t thwart the beast, we’ll be all in as UN Agenda 2030 comes to fruition.
"Disaster Capitalism" vs "Disaster Cronyism" - just a semantic choice for the same thing depending on whether one is progressive or conservative, no? - A rose is a rose is a rose - "you say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe, let's call the whole thing off". What is the compulsion to differentiate other than to distance oneself from "the other"?
The ideals put forth by the Austrian school sound as noble as Adam Smith's principles articulated in the 18th c. Nevertheless, haven't virtually all cultural forays into capitalism descended into crony capitalism eventually - even early American colonial life? And always for the same reason. Also let's not ignore the reality that 'successful' capitalism is and has always been founded on the oppression and exploitation of others.
“There is one human story. Dressed in new clothing and using new tools, we endlessly relive it. If we read philosophy, literature, history, poetry, and theology – we see greed, hedonism, and hubris easily defeat empathy and reason.” – The Last Act of the Human Comedy – Chris Hedges
Excellent work, Dr. M. Based on my research, I believe that many more of the crises than not, that our country has endured, were artifically induced "man-caused disasters," effectuated specifically to usher in differing phases of replacing our once-free society with a totalitarian technocracy. In my lifetime, the most prominent such crises have been 9/11, which began the surveillance state, in which the American people were the ones being surveilled, and the plannedemic & jab bioweapons, which have devastated the middle class, heightened social division, depopulated the planet by millions and counting, and publicly prompted the attempt to transfer domain of national (and bodily) sovereignty to one of world governence by highly corrupt, unelected, international organizations in the guise of public health. Those two events were the absolute cornerstones of artificial crises exploitation in the last quarter century, with smaller such crises puntuating the years inbetween. Their implmentation has crossed party lines over the years, which is indicative of our true battle being, not one party vs another party, but the globalist elite ruling class against the people.
I highly recommend the outstanding book “COVID -19” - PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS AND THE WAR FOR TECHNOCRACY written by Prof. David A. Hughes. It is Open Access and as such can be downloaded for free. In light of your comment, I believe you will agree with its contents. Frightening.
I just finished reading your Substack article. Every line speaks the truth. Your analysis is outstanding. Thank you for your painstaking work at attempting to open the eyes of the majority who, sadly, are still oblivious to the horrors we are currently living through. I understand from your article that your current psychological stance is not one of fear and being coward by events but rather of resistance and empowerment to fight. It mirrors my position.
Thank you so much for these kind words! And thank you for reading the article. I am heartened to know that you have adopted the same stance of empowerment to fight. The number of those of us willing to step out on a limb with the unawakened is growing every day. A day will come when our voices that discern and provide the truth will outnumber those of the unaware. We must persist for that to happen.
Thank you again for your emcouragement. It means a lot to me!
This would be like the exploitation the Clinton’s did after the Haiti Earthquake. Nothing but a money maker for them and the people suffered. WW2 and Granddaddy Bush. The corrupt rich get richer.
Also the perfect business plan of war, then reconstruction.
Like the plan for BlackRock to rebuild Ukraine after the war.
Yes you are right
I immediately thought the same thing as I read this article.
Very much enjoyed this insightful article. So happy to see you call out the 'rat' in the stew - disaster capitalism is a distraction term ... it implies 'capitalism' is again the problem, when in fact there's no capitalism to be found. The only way 'disaster capitalism' can be sustained is with the backing of government. Who paid the defense contractors during the Iraq War? The free capitalist market would have shut down that war in twenty minutes. There's no way Americans would have lined up to hand out their hard earned cash - voluntarily - to fund that war. No sir, it was all bought and paid for by government using taxpayer dollars - and borrowings - to the bloated contractors. The same is true for all nonsense that went on during covid - without government force, there's no way the 'free market' would have supported such stupidity. Same goes for the government disaster responses; when you put government in charge of disaster relief all you get is more disaster. It's a pattern; put government in charge of 'poverty' you get ... more poverty. Nothing to do with free market capitalism.
Thank you for this interesting (a tad challenging for those just grasping on the edges of economics) discussion.
To start with letting the UN, WEF, WHO, CFR, Intelligence communities and maybe even the O'Harris lot have their fantasies and considering that just ignoring them may not send them off to an Elba....
Being good old people going back to our basics, going off and creating our personal Edens may fall short.
Do we want better tomorrows for our Countries, our children and indeed ourselves?
Without principled, experienced, moral insights do we have more youthful conditioned leaders to extricate us from the elites ongoing damages caused and those they have clearly formulated per their "Agendas"? For example - Are the Vances, the DeSantises, the Rameswamys, et al prepared to crush the advances of the Elite core directing the coups? Or would successes and ultimate directions be better served with the steel spine, dedicated resolve and assembled coup of a Trump?
Would our fellows benefit from seniors commitments, funds of knowledge, insights and encouragements? Sometimes leading the way.
Keep in mind all the various devastations visited on our children during the Covid plunder, with DEI, CRT and the various sexual perversions. The harms of the next generations have been legion.
For me, my focus is on restoring our country. Perhaps, what ever I can help accomplish is my garden, my Eden. (In my actual potted garden 3 small tomato plants maybe 4" survive. Likely no crop this year. So it goes)
So to contemplate, is it responsible to myself and others to retire from the fray?
On to Friday funnies. Time flys.
♡♡♡
I am not retiring
I'm glad :)
Dr. Malone, I was surprised to see your wife in a Kennedy-Shanahan baseball cap. My understanding is that that duo is pretty far left, and I was curious to know if your political leanings match your wife’s? The issues you write about make me believe you’re leaning conservative, but it’s not really clear. Do you consider yourself progressive?
That was not my wife. Please pay attention
That was Alix Meyer. Vaccine damaged. Medical freedom leader. Lives in Redwood City. Jill and i went on a hike with her. She hosted us when we traveled to speak. Did you actually bother to read the essay?
I agree 1000% ! It is Cronyism. Thank you, thank you for showing the definition of these words. I am very suspect that in some cases "capitalism" is being used in this fashion by some to associate capitalism with malfeasance with the obvious ultimate intent to sell to the naive public socialism and communism. Thank you for all that you and Jill do! And, your foals are beautiful!
Everything gets weaponized and distorted when PsyWar becomes normalized.
I go round and round in thought circles on this topic and I end up asking - how much power and money is enough? Apparently there is no definitive answer. I also ask, what is the power of a word, like, capitalism? Some see one definition, others see another but each interpretation is founded on perceived circumstances all piled up and labeled by one word. I recommend reading I, Pencil, by Leonard E. Read. https://fee.org/ebooks/i-pencil/
I once read an essay written by a college economics professor who had a surly argumentative student, one who had a serious anti capitalist mindset. One day she asked him a question - do you think everyone should be given the exact same wage regardless the work done? He said yes! Then she asked him if he were to be given an unexpected windfall of a million dollars, would he be willing to divide it up and share it with his friends. Stalled silence. Then he caught himself and said he would do some good things with the wealth. So, she concluded, it's easy to postalize and play with good sounding concepts but then when actuality hits, the reality of human nature emerges.
and when asked "if you had 2 suits would you give one away?" No. "why not?" Because I have 2 suits.
Back in the unwashed hippie daze I knew a guy who soapboxed that no one should be allowed to inherit. he was adamant for decades until his parents died and he inherited quite a pile. Never a word about it again.
I'm quite sure one could fill a very large book with stories like this. The reason is about human nature being unable to change. Humans who think they know best for everyone else are driven by a god complex and these truly believe they must be obeyed because they are superior in every way. They also believe that if others would just bow and conform, we could achieve Utopia here on earth. Love, love, love, unicorns and rainbows. So, what I conclude is, using logic and reason, the little gods who hate us and wish to eliminate as many of us as possible think their plan will promote a universal condition of love. Right.
The defining word for utopia is coercion.
That's the hidden definition. The result is what I like to call Carney World - where everything that looks soooo good is really just fake and therefore must be broken down in the middle of the night to move on to another set of suckers.
In some of the stories of the Faeries, they create a 'Glamour' which is, for example a beautiful house, but when the spell wears off, you see it is just a cardboard box.
with holes in it...😂
The no liability for the “vaccine” was amongst other things a license to kill and maim. IMHO
The Austrian School STANDS for free exchange of values beneficial to BOTH parties.
The ***evil controllers of mammon***, - presently still in full domination of men's destiny, will / must
be unlodged, smashed and send to hell=lucifer, for eternity !!!!, otherwise we will not attain PEACE.
And remember what DJT has said, quite often: whatever **they touch** turns to ????....
ANYTIME anyone self identifies as a "progressive" - as is the case with Naomi Klein - invariably Karl Marx enters the equation - especially if "capitalism" is under scrutiny. Were I able to question Naomi - who appears to be in her 30s - I would ask her - Explicitly, WHAT "free market capitalism" is she referring to? In the USA, there has NOT been "free-market" capitalism for OVER a century and half.
The federal government has seen to THAT via confounding, restrictive, mandated, regulated and distorting the VOLUNTARY exchange between people; and caused HAVOC in the so-called "free market"- in the name of the "common good", "leveling the playing field", "fairness", and the ubiquitous Marxist notion of "Redistribution of wealth"; and has also managed ON PURPOSE to give capitalism a permanent bad name while literally CHAMPIONING SOCIALISM.
One can posit that perhaps 90% of federal government UN-ELECTED "employees" have NEVER themselves owned a business (and)TRIED to sell goods and/or (legitimate) services to the general public; nor have had to deal with the THOUSANDS of pages of EVER CHANGING and ADDITIONAL government regulations, mandatory reports, etc., let alone self-righteous bureaucrats who can literally make life HELL for anyone who chooses not to COMPLY with their idiotic diktats.
"Free" market INDEED!
That is an old video of Klein
I think your point is supporting the concept that pure capitalism doesn't exist.
Also, please see Beau's comment below.
My point is that "free market" capitalism has not existed f( in the USA)or over a century and a half.
Voltaire summed up his view of the Bible in this way: “The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart” (Philosophical Dictionary, 1764).
"The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. All have turned away, they have together become corrupt;
there is no one who does good, not even one. Will the workers of iniquity never learn?” -Psalm 14:1-4
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
Isaiah 6:9
And He replied: "Go and tell this people, 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'
Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."
For the record- I disagree with Voltaire on this point.
Glad to hear it.
Seem to recall he wisely said to define your terms which I would say you did very well here.
The core of humanity’s problems always revolves around the desire to be GOD rather than yield to our creator in humble obedience.
And the desire for immortality
But there's the rub: We ARE immortal.
Thus we see some rather unhinged humans striving to be "famous forever" without realizing that they will exist forever and have already existed for countless years.
And we have rational people telling us to "face reality" and realize that everyone dies. Well, that's only half true, you see? So people get easily confused.
The problem with the Commie-Lib's 2007 thesis is that it is an inversion of reality, analogous of the One Percent theme of the Occupy Wall Streeters. One can see an element of truth in both---crony capitalism and its discontents, but something is out of kilter. The very solution from their point of view is more---not less, government. What we, and our free and democratic market, is a moral authority over both---government AND a free economy. That power, during the so-called middle ages, a time of great flourishing of human endeavor, was the Church.
Very sick and demented way to run over the masses when they're down? Sounds like a sociopath's marketing plan?
Hmmm…Seems you’re describing Schwab’s “ Stakeholder Capitalism”. A euphemism for “How to expedite the Post-1984 Brave New World By Creating Or Exacerbating A Disasters To Instill Constant Chaos, Fear And Distraction”… wildfires, pandemics, wars, weather events, mob violence, border insurgency, factory explosions, supply chain shortages, massive tech glitches and “ hacking”, energy crises, business closures, paid for protests, banking crises, toxic spills, false flags, political divide….To gut the middle class by thievery and exacerbate a two tiered economy while we’re looking elsewhere. The filthy rich and the dirt poor. A one world government feudal ist technocracy ruled by psychopaths seeking life eternal. Their lives. We’re disposable.Already being disposed of, soon replaced with a transhuman androgynous servants.
Life ( if you could call it that) imitating art. Huxley was right in fearing his epic work of satirical fiction was being used as a playbook. “ You will own nothing, have no privacy and love your servitude”. Yup, he said it first - sardonically. And Schwab tweaked it switching “ love your servitude” to “ be happy” and “ Brave New World” with “ Great Reset”. We’ve already ushered it in and if we don’t thwart the beast, we’ll be all in as UN Agenda 2030 comes to fruition.
"Disaster Capitalism" vs "Disaster Cronyism" - just a semantic choice for the same thing depending on whether one is progressive or conservative, no? - A rose is a rose is a rose - "you say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe, let's call the whole thing off". What is the compulsion to differentiate other than to distance oneself from "the other"?
The ideals put forth by the Austrian school sound as noble as Adam Smith's principles articulated in the 18th c. Nevertheless, haven't virtually all cultural forays into capitalism descended into crony capitalism eventually - even early American colonial life? And always for the same reason. Also let's not ignore the reality that 'successful' capitalism is and has always been founded on the oppression and exploitation of others.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/recovered-economic-history-everyone-but-an-idiot-knows-that-the-lower-classes-must-be-kept-poor-or-they-will-never-be-industrious/
Why does it always descend into Crony Capitalism?
“There is one human story. Dressed in new clothing and using new tools, we endlessly relive it. If we read philosophy, literature, history, poetry, and theology – we see greed, hedonism, and hubris easily defeat empathy and reason.” – The Last Act of the Human Comedy – Chris Hedges
Beau, it's refreshing to find at least one other brave kindred spirit on this commentary!
Your point is my point exactly!
Brilliant essay! Thank you!
Excellent work, Dr. M. Based on my research, I believe that many more of the crises than not, that our country has endured, were artifically induced "man-caused disasters," effectuated specifically to usher in differing phases of replacing our once-free society with a totalitarian technocracy. In my lifetime, the most prominent such crises have been 9/11, which began the surveillance state, in which the American people were the ones being surveilled, and the plannedemic & jab bioweapons, which have devastated the middle class, heightened social division, depopulated the planet by millions and counting, and publicly prompted the attempt to transfer domain of national (and bodily) sovereignty to one of world governence by highly corrupt, unelected, international organizations in the guise of public health. Those two events were the absolute cornerstones of artificial crises exploitation in the last quarter century, with smaller such crises puntuating the years inbetween. Their implmentation has crossed party lines over the years, which is indicative of our true battle being, not one party vs another party, but the globalist elite ruling class against the people.
I highly recommend the outstanding book “COVID -19” - PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS AND THE WAR FOR TECHNOCRACY written by Prof. David A. Hughes. It is Open Access and as such can be downloaded for free. In light of your comment, I believe you will agree with its contents. Frightening.
Great minds. I gave it as a resource on my last Substack atricle: https://outoftheordinaryworld.substack.com/p/all-roads-lead-to-depopulation-part-354
Thank you for this excellent reply!
I just finished reading your Substack article. Every line speaks the truth. Your analysis is outstanding. Thank you for your painstaking work at attempting to open the eyes of the majority who, sadly, are still oblivious to the horrors we are currently living through. I understand from your article that your current psychological stance is not one of fear and being coward by events but rather of resistance and empowerment to fight. It mirrors my position.
Thank you so much for these kind words! And thank you for reading the article. I am heartened to know that you have adopted the same stance of empowerment to fight. The number of those of us willing to step out on a limb with the unawakened is growing every day. A day will come when our voices that discern and provide the truth will outnumber those of the unaware. We must persist for that to happen.
Thank you again for your emcouragement. It means a lot to me!