The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Green Pipe Dream Meets the Real World Where climate change hysteria collides with wartime and existential realities Dr. Mathew Maavak When I first sketched the following observations in the spring of 2026, during the opening salvos of the US-Israeli war on Iran, I wondered if the climate hysteria would survive contact with the real world. Five months later, the answer is a resounding no. The lofty, policy-driven push for a global “green transition” has not just collided with wartime realities; it has been utterly pulverized by them. For years, I have watched the growing chasm between the green transition and the brutal, mundane impracticalities of the real world. I have often wondered what exactly the rabid climate change activists were smoking. It was not just the blatant hypocrisy of the Davos set, flying their private jets to conferences to lecture the hoi polloi on the virtues of substituting meat with insect protein. It was their profound, almost comical detachment from ...

  Surprising Yemen Who knew that the “Houthi” parts were so green and lush? Matt Bracken Zoom in on Google Earth, or search Google images, and you will be amazed by the extensive terrace farming across Western Yemen. All these hand-made rock walls, built to trap the rainfall on level terrace fields, took many generations to build. The people who live here feel a connection to the land and to the ancestors who constructed them is immeasurable. Not only are the "Houthis" (aka Ansar Allah) mountain people, they are farmers with a deep commitment to their land and their way of life. Don’t get me wrong, terrace farming is driven by geology and rainfall patterns, and was developed from China to Peru over millennia. My point is that these terraces form a visible and vital connection between the living farmers who maintain and work them today, and the ancients who first built them. This makes their connection to these lands uniquely powerful. Please see the photos and links that foll...