A Minor Traffic Jam

Ask anyone around and they'll tell you: "How can there be any JUICE, if there ain't any ACTION???"

Stank Business

As the age of oil winds down, a variety of interlinked forces are in play. Dave outlines a framework spanning roughly the last 100 years that helps put oil, gold, cryptocurrency, disinformation, radicalization, and the pandemic in perspective, and offers ideas about how we might overcome the looming climate emergency. He also addresses questions posed by listeners. Recorded live, November 2021.

End Times for Oil: Crypto, Gold, Radicalization, and January 6th

The 1930's was a time of incredible upheaval in world politics, and the United States was no exception. Financial uncertainty, the New Deal, and anxiety about FDR's departure from the Gold Standard accompanied the flourishing of cult practices that aimed to address fundamental questions around the direction the country (and the world) might take. These groups, informed by previous traditions such as New Thought and Theosophy, offered a hierarchical, eugenicist view of society linked to prosperity and gold. Today's conflicts around cryptocurrency serve as a proxy for these same questions about our future direction. Joe Szimhart offers a sweeping overview of America's cultish turn, along with some ideas about how we might move forward at this very challenging time.

Two books referenced (with permission):

400 Years of Imaginary Friends by Kenneth and Talita Paolini
http://lightofchristtruth.com/References/Imaginary.pdf

Psychic Dictatorship in America by Gerald Bryan (1940)
http://tyob.info/public/pdf/psydict.pdf

The Cult Roots of American Fascism with Joe Szimhart

Anyone studying online disinformation will eventually come to the realization that much of it can be traced back to the oil and gas industry — specifically to groups like the Council for National Policy, created by and for oil and industrial interests. These networks have a deep history of fascist activity in the United States, where they were born primarily as a reactionary response to the New Deal and fears of "creeping socialism."

Brent Allpress is an architectural academic based in Melbourne, Australia, and has been studying these networks in detail for the last several years. He has collaborated with authors such as Anne Nelson (Shadow Network) and filmmakers Dr. Charles Kriel and Kat Gellein (People You May Know).

He has come to believe that most all of the political conflict we are experiencing is rooted in the carbon crisis, of which the January 6th insurrection was one expression. Today, the conflict rages on as oil industry influence (going so far as to vacuum up psychological profiling data) determines whether, how quickly, and how well we may respond to the looming carbon disaster.

And cryptocurrency, by creating demand for even more energy and forestalling our response, is only making things worse. This is a must-listen session for a planet out of time.

The Death of the Carbon Coalition
Existing models of U.S. politics are wrong. Here’s how the system really works.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/12/carbon-coalition-median-voter-us-politics/

Shadow Network (Book, Anne Nelson)
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Network-Media-Secret-Radical/dp/163557319X/

People You May Know (Film, Kriel & Gellein)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12606876/

The Aftermath of Cambridge Analytica (TEDxMidAtlantic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5pxDEXBWA

Oil, Data, and Psychological Warfare with Brent Allpress

The Council for National Policy was created in 1981 with funds from the oil and gas industry to operationalize goals of the libertarian and Christian Right movements which had joined forces to elect Ronald Reagan as president. The CNP went on to play significant roles with the Iran Contra affair as well as to significantly shape the strategy of the right for the following four decades. The CNP played a significant role in the planning and execution of the January 6th attacks.

Anne Nelson's book "Shadow Network" documents the CNP from inception to the present moment. She discusses the CNP, as well as multiple aspects of its history, goals, obsessions with eliminating taxation and regulation and with so-called "sound money" such as gold and now, cryptocurrency.

The Hidden Agendas Behind January 6th with Anne Nelson

Written & Produced/Performed by TACTlacker & Hot Ribs (https://soundcloud.com/hot-ribs)

Tangled Web (feat. Hot Ribs)

late night writing session my brother Tinimane and I just vibing , then out of the blue  ALR drops a bomb on us like here and the rest is history #already 

THE COME UP FT. TINIMANE

RETro

what do you say when you find closure in knowing that your demise is near...let's ask frankie

Frankie

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