The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Powerlessness Patrick Lawrence Damage in Gaza Strip during the October 2023. Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Let us begin with some facts of the cold, hard kind concerning conditions in Gaza and the West Bank after nearly a year of terrorist Israel’s daily assaults on the Palestinian populations in both places. These statistics derive from a World Bank report issued this month,  Impacts of the Conflict in the Middle East on the Palestinian Economy . They cover conditions through March; we can confidently conclude things have since worsened. “Eleven months into the conflict in the Middle East, the Palestinian territories are nearing economic freefall, amidst a historic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip,” the report begins. “Official data reveals a 35 percent decline in real GDP in the first quarter of 2024 for the Palestinian territories overall, marking its largest economic contraction on record. The

DARK Pill: How Satan-Worshipping Pedophiles Have Taken Over Conspiracyland Laurent Guyénot According to a March 2021 survey by the  Public Religion Research Institute , 15 percent of Americans and 23 percent of Republicans believe that, “ The government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.” I know that polls must not be trusted, but I can easily believe that tens of millions of people agree with that statement. It’s not just an American phenomenon; it is widespread in France too, as I have painfully observed in recent months (more later). Part of those believers might also agree with the statement that, “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by Jews,” but, if asked to choose, they would probably say that the Satan-worshipping pedophiles are above the Jews in the occult hierarchy of Illuminatis. Attempts at syncretism sometimes emerge, as when