The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Mechanism: How the “order” Based on Made-Up Rules Is Descending Into Savagery PEPE ESCOBAR   The Europeans will never be able to replicate the time-tested Hegemon money laundering machine The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats tho’ unseen amongst us, -visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower.- Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening,- Like clouds in starlight widely spread,- Like memory of music fled,- Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. Shelley,  Hymn to Intellectual Beauty As the de facto North Atlantic Terror Organization  celebrates its 75th birthday , taking Lord Ismay’s motto to ever soaring heights (“keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down”), that thick slab of Norwegian wood posing as Secretary-General came up with...

 Thanks to Saint Jimmy for bringing this essay to our attention... Cthulhu Gazes Right The Regime Dons a Skin Suit ISAAC SIMPSON “But, given our present political conditions under which every office seeker must cater to the vote of the masses, the only means by which the born leader can lead is the expert use of propaganda….Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses.” -  Edward Bernays , Propaganda (1928) — Super Bowl 58. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I put a lot of stake in the images that uncontrollably flash into my mind, and when I woke up the next morning I kept seeing the same thing: Post Malone’s bolo tie.  The Ozempicked pop star eschewed his wiggerish priors for a clean cut cowboy rendition of “America the Beautiful.” Why was I thinking about this? Where had I seen it before? At the Grammys, Beyonce had appeared in cowboy gear wearing a bolo tie with a similar turquoise clasp ...