The exchange of goods and services has existed since the earliest forms of civilization, from simple barter arrangements at the local town square to Phoenician traders navigating the Mediterranean with goods from Europe and North Africa. Today, however, the scope of exchange is truly massive, with online commerce coming to dominate nearly all segments of retail, and the scale encompassing transoceanic trade routes totaling 11 billion tons in maritime cargoes in 2021. Underpinning all this lies an extremely complex web of producers, shippers, pipelines, warehouses, and commodities traders that include the massive concerns such as Koch Industries in energy and Glencore in metals, with over 100,000 employees each. Billions of dollars have been made and lost in commodities futures, and as volatility continues to disrupt prices of everyday items from gasoline to grain, the trend of ever tighter global trade integration seen since the end of the Cold War may start to unravel as regional blocks choose to have closer and more reliable supply chains. -- Brought to you by -- Adam Smith, Hans Lander and Adam Smith New: Hard Copies of Exit Strategy now Available! http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-smith/exit-strategy/paperback/product-24191334.html - http://myth20c.com ~~-- Donations --~~ Ethereum: 0x4d3617C1C5b466E2BE1aD1F7D85C03DBBa6F6bb7 BTC: 16UQ6ukmTjz4Z7Ce4n23bN6tKGnU7XkPeQ - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/books/ - http://theamericansun.com - http://twitter.com/myth20c - myth20c@tutanota.com - http://gab.ai/myth20c -- References -- - I, Pencil, Friedman (1980) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws - Commodity Market Integration, 1500-2000, Findlay and O’Rourke (2001) - https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w8579/w8579.pdf - The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, McLean and Elkind (2003) - Quantum of Solace, Forster (2008) - On speculators and hedgers in currency futures markets: who leads whom?, Röthig (2010) - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijfe.410 - The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets, Lambert (2012) - Swiss commodity traders under scrutiny at UNCTAD forum, UCTAD (2015) - https://unctad.org/news/swiss-commodity-traders-under-scrutiny-unctad-forum - Hugo Chavez Ruined Venezuela, Papadopoulos (2019) - https://www.realclearhistory.com/2019/02/04/hugo_chavez_ruined_venezuela_10107.html - What is a Commodity Super Cycle?, LePan (2019) - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/what-is-a-commodity-super-cycle/ - The most underrated Bond movie on Netflix reveals a real-world crisis, Yarlagadda (2021) - https://www.inverse.com/science/james-bond-water-war - The World for Sale, Blas and Farchy (2021) - Soviet Cybernetics - Red Plenty, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/soviet-cybernetics-red-plenty/ - Cadillac Desert - The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/cadillac-desert-the-american-west-and-its-disappearing-water/ - Zeihan - After Dark - the Collapse of Globalization, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/zeihan-after-dark-the-collapse-of-globalization/ - Price War$, Russell (2022) - April 2022 Commodity Market Outlook: The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Commodity Markets, World Bank (2022) - https://reliefweb.int/report/world/april-2022-commodity-market-outlook-impact-war-ukraine-commodity-markets - Interactive Map: Crude Oil Pipelines and Refineries of the U.S. and Canada, Kostandi (2022) - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-map-crude-oil-pipelines-and-refineries-of-the-u-s-and-canada/ - World Top Commodities Trading Companies List by Market Cap as on Jan 7th, 2022 - https://www.value.today/world-top-companies/commodities-trading - Trends and geography of world seaborne trade in 2021 - https://hbs.unctad.org/world-seaborne-trade/ - Understanding the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index, CME Group - https://www.cmegroup.com/education/courses/introduction-to-the-nasdaq-veles-water-index-futures/understanding-the-nasdaq-veles-california-water-index.html - Visualizing Copper’s Global Supply Chain - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/coppers-supply-chain/ - Futures and Options on Futures - https://thismatter.com/money/futures/futures.htm

Carl von Clausewitz described war as politics by other means. In many ways the reverse could be said, with the modern state in the West seemingly arrayed against its own citizens in a constant battle of misdirection and interference in their lives. Tom Kawczynski, author of ‘Surviving the Fall of America’ and former town manager of Jackman, Maine, has actually run for political office in an attempt to address some of these problems. Tonight, he gives us an insider glimpse into how the system actually works, what we can expect going forward, and some potential solutions to what he sees an an almost inevitable decline of a once great society. -- Brought to you by -- Very special guest Tom Kawczynski Substack: The Disconnect - Tom Kawczynski - https://tomkawczynski.substack.com/ BOOKS on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0078GF02W Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomKawczynski Telegram: https://t.me/tomkawczynski with Adam Smith and Hans Lander New: Hard Copies of Exit Strategy now Available! http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-smith/exit-strategy/paperback/product-24191334.html - http://myth20c.com ~~-- Donations --~~ Ethereum: 0x4d3617C1C5b466E2BE1aD1F7D85C03DBBa6F6bb7 BTC: 16UQ6ukmTjz4Z7Ce4n23bN6tKGnU7XkPeQ - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/books/ - http://theamericansun.com - http://twitter.com/myth20c - myth20c@tutanota.com - http://gab.ai/myth20c -- References -- Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, Gilens, Page (2014) - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B The Coming Civil War, Kawczynski (2018) Strategic Relocation, North American Guide to Safe Places, Fourth Edition, Skousen (2020) In God We Must, Kawczynski (2020) Behold the Beast System, Kawczynski (2022) The Network State: How To Start a New Country, Srinivasan (2022) Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI, Reuters (2023) - https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-ai-firm-xai-launches-website-2023-07-12/

Soon after the end of the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as ‘superpowers’, leaders of the two primary ideological power blocks across the world’s major continents. After nearly 50 years of competition, the United States emerged victorious, and led an unprecedented era of ‘globalization’ for the next 20 years promoting free trade and relatively open labor and capital markets along with democratically elected governments. With the rise of emerging economies such as India, and the success of China’s state-led capitalism and a resurgent Russia opposing NATO expansion, other countries around the world have taken note, however, as to the potential for new global leadership and development models that differ from America’s. Tonight we are joined by Lance, a veteran and host of Lance’s Legion, a military history and philosophy podcast, to discuss the ramifications for major geopolitical power realignment into the 21st century. -- Brought to you by -- Very special guest General Lance Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAioE7UWN_tV6gVFcqQZqPw DVX Publishing - https://www.dvxpublishingcompany.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LancesLegion with Adam Smith and Hans Lander New: Hard Copies of Exit Strategy now Available! http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-smith/exit-strategy/paperback/product-24191334.html - http://myth20c.com ~~-- Donations --~~ Ethereum: 0x4d3617C1C5b466E2BE1aD1F7D85C03DBBa6F6bb7 BTC: 16UQ6ukmTjz4Z7Ce4n23bN6tKGnU7XkPeQ - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/books/ - http://theamericansun.com - http://twitter.com/myth20c - myth20c@tutanota.com - http://gab.ai/myth20c -- References -- - About Face, Hackworth (1990) - Unrestricted Warfare, Liang and Xiangsui (1999) - Bowling Alone, Putnam (2000) - Empire of Dust, Van Paesschen (2011) - William Lind’s Way of War, Bloom (2016) - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/william-linds-way-of-war/ - Stealth War, Spalding (2019) - Stalin’s War, McMeekin (2021) - T-DAY: The Battle for Taiwan, Lee, Shirouzu, Lague (2021) - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-chips/ - U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022: Navy, Cancian (2021) - https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-military-forces-fy-2022-navy - WAR ROOM - THE MODERN PELOPONNESIAN WARS feat. Myth of the 20th Cent., Lances Legion (2023) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmKInRXiak - WAR ROOM - STEEL HEARTS feat. Uberboyo, Lances Legion (2023) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poj8PO9kZLw - Prisoner's dilemma - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

Estimates place the amount of the earth’s land area dedicated to buildings and other fixed structures to be no more than 3%. But of that land, nearly half is exclusive to roads and parking structures in some urban areas. This fact, obviously a consequence of the prevalence of the automobile, illustrates the importance of transportation, a key pillar to modern civilization. Connecting people, goods and services has always been important, but as the cost of movement has dropped and the speed has increased, the value of the network has only grown, which Metcalfe defined as proportional to the square of the nodes, or in this case, destinations. As technology pushes us farther and more safely, the era of globalization may very well extend beyond the globe and into the stars. -- Brought to you by -- Adam Smith and Hans Lander New: Hard Copies of Exit Strategy now Available! http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-smith/exit-strategy/paperback/product-24191334.html - http://myth20c.com ~~-- Donations --~~ Ethereum: 0x4d3617C1C5b466E2BE1aD1F7D85C03DBBa6F6bb7 BTC: 16UQ6ukmTjz4Z7Ce4n23bN6tKGnU7XkPeQ - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/books/ - http://theamericansun.com - http://twitter.com/myth20c - myth20c@tutanota.com - http://gab.ai/myth20c -- References -- - The Box, Levinson (2006) - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) - Cadillac Desert - The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/cadillac-desert-the-american-west-and-its-disappearing-water/ - Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology, Kemp (2014) - Geography of Transport Systems, 5th Edition, Rodrigue (2020)