2023 in Review and Forecast 2024
David Collum has written a lengthy and witty, albeit cynical two-part 2023 "Year in Review" series:
Dave Collum's 2023 Year In Review: Down Some Dark Rabbit Holes, Part 1, and Part 2, ZeroHedge, 23/24 December 2023
Here are a few excerpts from Part 1:
"... We have opened the borders to unimaginable numbers of undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens]. These are not the old-school Hispanics from South of the Border looking for work to send money home but rather military-aged men from around the world. Credible eyewitness accounts estimate 98% are non-Hispanic...
Our profound immigration crisis is squarely on the Biden administration and the psychiatric wing of the democratic party. See Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of the American Immigration System by J. J. Carroll... My best guess is that globalists are trying to destroy the US, the primary bulwark against a New World Order...
San Francisco authorities are a particularly brain-damaged crew. They decided that minor crimes like shoplifting should go unpunished as long as the tab stays below a $1000 threshold...
Kennedy’s [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] views on vaccines are the stuff of legend. I will reiterate a couple but urge you to read The Real Anthony Fauci to understand his multi-decade battles with pharma that have left him bruised and battered with a deep-seated disdain for Fauci. I doubt any reasonable person can read 100 pages without getting irate...
As of 2016, I was largely on board the climate change narrative owing to my faith in the scientific community. After I was challenged to question that stance by my brother and a digital acquaintance, Dr. David Walker, I have done a U-turn and am sanguine with my current stance that climate change is the largest hoax in the history of science to paraphrase Richard Lindzen, geophysicist at MIT. The hoax is fueled by a combination geopolitical forces and tens of trillions of dollars of government largesse... to buy adherents of many and complicit silence from others...
We are in the Age of Grift, and climate change is running neck-and-neck with the War Machine...
Collum continues, presenting substantial analysis of the climate change narrative, along with quite a few charts and graphs.
James Howard Kunstler offers some thoughts and prognostications on 2024 in his 29 December 2023 article, Do You Dare Even Look? - Forecast 2024. Here are a few excerpts:
Historians of the future... will wonder at how the archetypal Shining City on a Hill of America’s storied yesteryear got transformed into the roach motel that our country has become on the threshold of 2024...
...the nauseating state-of-the-nation is being driven by a cohort of our own fellow citizens lost in an evil crypto-religious salvation rapture that veils their own self-disgust, moral failure... and all-around want of boundaries. They are wrecking the country on-purpose...
The USA under "Joe Biden" has lost its military credibility, its economic power, and its moral authority... "Joe Biden's" Homeland Security Chief Mayorkas is allowing more than 10,000 illegal aliens across the Mexican border each and every day. Most of these characters are military-age men, 90-percent of them lately from places other than Latin America, quite a few from China and hostile Muslim lands. We don't bother vetting them anymore. We just give them cell phones, debit cards loaded with $5,000 of walking-around money, and plane tickets... They’re not here to make Moo Goo Gai Pan or trim privet hedge...
Prediction: in 2024, things are going to blow up around the USA. Infrastructure. Power plants, transport hubs, public places, bridges, monuments, you name it. If you can sneak people and fentanyl across the border, you can sneak Semtex and C-4...
Oil still matters a lot. 90-percent of the new oil in America after 2008 came from fracking. It was a mighty operation and we are at a new all-time production peak in the USA of just over 13-million barrels a day. That's a lot of oil... but it's sending a false signal...
We are going to fall away from peak production much more rapidly than the fifteen years it took to get there... America has entered a debt crisis...
Doesn't it look like the Democratic Party wants to start Civil War Two?... It appears that they will stop at nothing to keep voters from re-electing their nemesis, Donald Trump...
WashPo op-ed scribbler Robert Kagan... has suggested that some extra-legal removal method may be needed to solve the Trump problem if the idiotic indictment barrage falls short. Everybody who read his piece thought: Oh, they're actually proposing to whack him...
But, if the election actually happens and Mr. Trump wins, I'd expect the Dems to unleash holy hell on the country post election day just for the sheer sadistic pleasure of watching whatever is left of America burn down...
An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.
Here is a disconcerting article from The Burning Platform: Corruption, Chaos, Conflict - Fourth Turning Erupts in 2024, 1 January 2024. The article discusses contemporary events in context of the Fourth Turning, which suggests that nations go through phases of expansion, awakening, unraveling, and crisis - the Fourth Turning - which we are now experiencing.
2023 Greatest Hits: The Most Popular Articles Of The Past Year And A Look Ahead, ZeroHedge, 2 January 2024.
And here are some more 2024 Predictions, by Zman, 1 January 2024.