The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Coach Bibi Leaves A Mark Karen Kwiatkowski Average Americans are concerned about the command relationship between the US and Israel. There is a growing awareness of the US funded and armed slaughter in Gaza. In 1967, over 50 years ago, Israelis created an open air concentration camp on the Strip. It held 2.3 million people by 2023, that number today reduced to around 1.5 million, with the population of Gaza City now killed or removed. Palestinian survivors are crowded into a tiny militarized area in the south without food, water or shelter. Most of Israel hopes that a third winter and outbreaks of disease will kill them all. Bibi Netanyahu and his murderous government are also at war with seven or eight other enemies, pot-shotting and assassinating around the region, and perhaps the world – while claiming full US government support. The Trump campaign was funded by a number of Jewish Zionists who gambled that a Trump in the hand is worth two neoconservatives in the bush. We find ...

  The Marfa mirage A “trust fund science experiment” in the desert looks glamorous on Instagram — but what happens when collapse comes? How will the artists, actors, and hipsters manage when hard times come? Marfa, Texas has always been a little surreal, but after the Collapse Life team spent the summer here watching the rhythms of this town, surreal feels like only half the story. Once a dusty ranching and railroad town, it was transformed in the 1970s when a minimalist artist named Donald Judd decamped here, turning empty warehouses into art installations and drawing a global creative class to the middle of nowhere. Now, the town is dotted with the kinds of businesses you’d expect to see in a New England college town and not a desert outpost: a pet store, a gourmet grocer, a candy shop, art galleries, a couple of restaurants, and some obligatory souvenir stores. Most of these businesses are open no more than three days a week. One gallery even proudly declares its schedule as: “H...

 Thanks to manfred127 for recommending this article... Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms/ Ag Web The monopolies must be reined in, or we will just be fixing things around the edges without getting to the heart of farm bankruptcies. Meryl Nass Thanks to reading Ice Age Farmer’s new  substack  “Unshadowed” on a plane today, I found this article from  September 9  that lays out the farming crisis beautifully, in the words of the farmers experiencing it. https://www.agweb.com/markets/outraged-farmers-blame-ag-monopolies-catastrophic-collapse-looms Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms The inescapable crop math of sustained crippling commodity prices and high input costs has many growers screaming for immediate relief. However, bailouts are Band-Aids over bullet holes, contend farmers desperate for fundamental change. By  Chris Bennett “This is what farmers know and experience,” says producer Adam C...