Perverse Incentives (aka Howk Blocked‪)‬ Jen Howk and Doug Lisle

We’re baaaa-aaack! Apologies for the (unanticipated) hiatus…Doug was on the road and then he and the rest of his household all got Covid (dun dun dunnn.) Everyone’s fine now and we’re back at it.

I’ve also renamed the show “Perverse Incentives,” which seems to be what we discuss on one level or another most of the time. As always, if you have suggestions for interviews/conversations/topics to discuss, let me know here or via email.

Peter Hotez's "malnutrition vaccine" paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016561472200178X

We discuss The Red Sermon and its implications.

We're back from Doug's travel-induced hiatus to talk about the latest developments including the "totalitarian rat" we both smell in the European energy crisis, the tactical advantages of civil unrest ahead of elections, and more. Note that our conversation about Biden's Authoritarian Turn precedes last night's "Red Sermon" speech, which we will certainly discuss in the next show.

This episode is a deep dive into macroeconomics. We discuss the 100-year history of the global elite's theft and redistribution of vast amounts of money—protected by an elaborate international petrodollar scheme—and why its inevitable collapse explains much of what's happening right now.

We discuss the intellectual unraveling of Sam Harris, Tulsi Gabbard vs. the Democratic National Committee, the misnomer of “limited” nuclear war and concerns about nuclear power in general, and a few thoughts about how the “Inflation Reduction Act” steals vast amounts of money.

We discuss a variety of topics, including whether we are actually already living in enemy occupied territory, how the rise of the transgender medical-industrial-ideological complex is representative of a broader attack on western rationality, the required ingredients of "high modernist" totalitarian disasters, and why we’re less than optimistic about the CDC’s so-called “overhaul.”