The Post-Partisan Emporium

  By   Kenneth Richard   on   28. March 2024 Modern relative sea levels are near the lowest in the last 7,000 years. Two studies, independently published, identify Mid-Holocene sea levels in northern Norway (north of the Arctic circle) as 7 to 9 meters higher than today before declining to the present ( Balascio et al., 2024 ,   Nielsen et al., 2024 ). This region of the Arctic was warm enough to support human settlements and boat harbors during the Medieval Warm Period. As the climate deteriorated into the Little Ice Age cooling centuries after the Medieval warmth, the accompanying sea level fall led to abandoned residences, ships, and harbors. The seas had become to shallow to sail in. Image Source:  Balascio et al., 2024 Image Source:  Nielsen et al., 2024 It is sometimes assumed that these much higher Holocene relative sea levels are merely a function of tectonics, or post-glacial uplift. But sea levels in the tropics (for example the Malaysia-Thai...

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  We Were Lied Into the Gaza Genocide. al Jazeera Has Shown Us How JONATHAN COOK Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October For weeks, as Gaza was  battered with bombs  and the body count in the tiny enclave rose inexorably, western publics had little choice but to rely on Israel’s word for what happened on 7 October. Some 1,150 Israelis were killed during an unprecedented attack on Israeli communities and military posts next to Gaza. Beheaded babies, a pregnant woman with her womb cut open and the foetus stabbed, children put in ovens, hundreds of people burned alive, mutilation of corpses, a systematic campaign of indescribably savage rapes and acts of necrophilia. Western politicians and media  lapped it up , repeating the allegations uncritically while ignoring Israel’s genocidal rhetoric and increasingly genocidal military operations these claims supported. Then, ...

 Thanks to BrahmaFear for recommending this article... America's Next Motorcycle Philosopher? He's a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but "Archedelia" author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&A MATT TAIBBI  AND  EMILY BIVENS In 1974 a fictionalized account of writer Robert Pirsig’s 17-day motorcycle trip with his son in 1968 hit bookstores after surviving 121 rejections, and quickly became one of the all-time surprise publishing hits. Connecting with audiences all around the world, Pirsig could soon claim to have authored the top-selling  philosophy-themed book in American history , selling over 5 million copies. This was despite the fact that even its fans rarely knew how to describe the book, with  New York Times  reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt concluding that whatever its philosophical worth, it was “ intellectual entertainment of the highest order .” Author Matthew Crawford has a bestselling book with a moto...