The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use “Skimpflation” To Control Our Eating Habits   By Brandon Smith People who have been reading my analysis for a long time are well aware of my expectations on the eventual outcome of the US economic debacle: A stagflationary crisis followed by a massive crash similar to the Great Depression (or worse). I based this prediction on a number of circumstances, but primarily I went back to the history of currency devaluations and central bank policy. These kinds of things have happened before and they tend to follow a pattern that is visible today. Specifically, I studies the 1971-1981 stagflation crisis for reference and I found some startling similarities. It was one of the worst economic declines in American history next to the depression, and it’s an event that almost no one talks about. A lot of people (specifically Gen Z) believe that our current era is the worst financial era of all time and that their generation has been shafted by...

Ultra-Processed People On bratwurst, baby-buying, and the lie of puberty blockers MARY HARRINGTON In news that should surprise no one, the  Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine  (SEGM)  reports  that the supposedly robust evidence base for puberty blockers is not just weak: it fails to replicate. The original Dutch studies on using off-label cancer drugs to halt puberty in gender-confused children claimed doing so afforded modest improvements in mental-wellbeing for some patients. But  a newer study , just published, re-analysed existing data to show that for the majority this drug made no improvements to mental health, and around a third actually deteriorated. This underlines what ought to be obvious. Dosing physically healthy kids with an off-label cancer drug with  side effects  that can include osteoporosis, seizures, cognitive impairment, and sterility is not, as supporters  claim , a safe and temporary intervention but a powerful iatro...

  Lizard King? Philanthropath? Genocidal Maniac? Follow him into the Gates of Hell ELIZABETH NICKSON The month before 9/11, I was in Seattle interviewing the new digital titans for the  Sunday  Telegraph . My editor, to namedrop, was Emma Soames, Churchill’s granddaughter, who was curious about those unwashed, youthful colonials with “all that lovely money”.  Question: once the flash but cool house and flash but arty dames were enjoyed, what were they going to do?  Answer: good of course, lots and lots of it. Every one of them had a passion, whether art, fair trade coffee companies or the environment – all of which would be on the grand scale. And then of course, I’d ended up at the Gates Foundation, and met their new gal, an achingly polite, somewhat scared but also beautiful brainiac who had been with the Clinton administration. I shook hands with Gates Sr., who seemed a benign older gentleman looking for something worthy to do in retirement, much like my grea...