The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Deindustrial Warfare: A First Reconaissance January 31, 2024 John Michael Greer Leave a comment This January has five Wednesdays, and in the usual way of this blog, the fifth Wednesday gets an essay on whatever topic the readers select by vote. As usual, it was a lively contest, but this time one of the perennial underdogs—warfare in the deindustrial age—came out on top. That didn’t surprise me greatly.  The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have been on many minds recently, not least because neither of them has been working out the way that our politicians and pundits insisted they would. A genuine revolution in military affairs is taking place right now, and no, it’s not the one that was so loudly ballyhooed in intellectual circles a couple of decades back. The claim in the 1990s was that computer technology had opened the way to a new kind of war, in which information would flow from the battlefield to headquarters and back, giving commanders total control over hypercomplex, hug

CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOG December 30, 2022 Forecast 2023 — Get Out of the Way if You Can’t Lend a Hand James Howard Kunstler “The powerful are panicking, and so they should. Their secrets are leaking.” —Miranda Devine “It’s all just snake oil. We want to save the planet, and the life upon it, but we’re not willing to pay the price and bear the consequences. So we make up a narrative that feels good and run with it.” — Raul Ilargi Meier “2023 could be a pivotal year for USA if the pervasive lies can be exposed, digested, and believed. All that exposure has to happen amidst continuing boondoggles toward the Great Reset agenda.” – Truman Verdun “More borrowing only ever makes sense if you are expecting a larger economy in the future.  All economic expansion is based on energy.  Countries with energy can expand, those without cannot.” —    Chris Martenson “To be an enemy to America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” —   Henry Kissinger “The incorrect narrative provided by mai

A FB Post That Will No Doubt Be Buried & Get Zero Visibility Russell Blake My response to a political PM I received today: "I find it precious that you still view things in the conditioned manner of red or blue. This is all theater, as anyone paying attention grasps. The entities who own the U.S. are neither dem or republican, just as they are neither white nor black, gay or straight, theist or atheist. They operate the plantation for their profit, power, and control. That's it. All the issues you've been propagandized into caring about quite deeply are as contrived as the cliffhangers in a dime novel. They exist as distractions, to keep you feeling strongly about things that don't matter. Your outrage is a luxury used against you over and over, just as is your patriotism. You exist as chattel for a debt being created by your governors, from international financial syndicates that now are owed everything in your country as collateral for the debt. Exactly as was do