The Post-Partisan Emporium

  On Being a "Threat to Democracy" Power to The People? Donald Jeffries Merriam-Webster defines “democracy” as: “a: Government by the people  especially   :  rule of the majority,  b:  a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” Well, that sounds good. Do we have a rule of the majority? The majority of Americans, after all, about eighty percent of them, are losing in this rigged economy, and living paycheck to paycheck at best. I don’t think they’re “ruling” anything. We all (well, some of us) know that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Again, sounds good. But when’s the last time you heard about one of our tyrannical judges ...

  Pole Shift by Karl Richter Arktos Journal Karl Richter argues that Iran’s response to Western blasphemy at the Olympics symbolizes the dying West and the rise of new global powers like Russia, China, and parts of the Islamic world. The picture shows the response of Shiite Iran to Western blasphemy at the opening of the Olympic Games: in Tehran, Leonardo’s famous  Last Supper , which was mocked in Paris with LGBT, pedophile, and Satanic symbolism, was adorned with a Quran verse: “The Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, is the Messenger of God.” (Surah 4, 171) It is strangely touching, but it also confirms an experience I had years ago in Lebanon. In the Shiite communities around Tyre and Kana — the biblical Cana — Christians and Shiites live in good harmony. There is no need for the hostility that Israel and most Western lying media invoke. The fronts have shifted. The old enemy images no longer hold true. Not just since yesterday. The great shift in values has been taking place over...

  EVERYBODY KNOWS THE CAPTAIN LIED Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows Having heard this Leonard Cohen classic on the radio a few days ago, the lyrics have been rattling around in my head as a perfect description of the dystopian horror show we are experiencing in the world today. The song has a dark, foreboding, cynical tone, capturing the sense of a coming catastrophe which everybody can see coming, but we are helpless to stop. Cohen wrote the song in 1987 and it perfectly captures the mood of a Third Turning Unraveling, where greed; narcissism; the breakdown of societal trust; confidence in governmental and financial institutions; and the deterioration of society into the “haves” and “have nots”; sets the stage for the  Fourth Turning Crisis  of financial collapse, war, and a violent bloody resolution by 2032. Third Turnings...

  Engineering Stupidity What if the nub of our calamity is that the powerful believe themselves to be divinely chosen to rule over people they have decided are weak and stupid, and so conspire to render them even more so? JOHN WATERS Between Good, Evil & Idiocy What if, in all the public crimes of the past 51 months,  we were missing the most heinous of them all? It seems implausible. What if this crime was, in a sense, the only crime among the lot that might be said to have incorporated all the others? What if it was, as the final objective of the demented orchestrators of the, yes,  conspiracy , the ultimate purpose of an operation that had been in train for many years before its machinations were observed above ground? What if this was the crime that explained everything, solved all the mysteries and, in its exposure, rendered pointless all the hours and days we had spent in seeking to explain things that seemed to have no cause or meaning other than the purest, ar...