The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Thanks to BrahmaFear for recommending this article... Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life” BY   JAMES BOVARD Facebook mail President Nixon shaking hands with country western singer Merle Haggard, and sharing a laugh onstage with the Osborne Brothers singers and The Strangers band after their Evening at White House East Room performance on St. Patrick’s Day. March 17, 1973. Photo: White House. “Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song. Nine years earlier, Haggard had scoffed at potheads and draft dodgers in a White House performance of his song “Okie from Muskogee” for President Richard Nixon. But reflecting widespread loss of faith in the American dream in the 1970s, his “free life” song lamented Nixon’s lies, the Vietnam debacle, and the ravages of inflation. The issue of lost freedoms helped spur me 30 years ago to write a book titled  Lost Rights  chronicling how “Americans’ liberty is perishing beneath the constan

  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 previous

  Klaus to the World: We're Taking Everything You Have But here's a lovely narrative to rock you to sleep. ELIZABETH NICKSON Klaus Schwab, he of the weird costumes, Nazi Overlord accent, who squats astride Davos, the man from which emits the stench of world government, has graced his former serfs – us - with yet another of his tortuous screeds, this one called  The Great Narrative For A Better Future. In which he argues for Empathy. Let’s all pause to fall about laughing. Because Schwab’s ‘better” plan, which he outlines in massive numbers of pillowy paragraphs, already means most of us are spending several hundred dollars a month more to keep food on the table, because Biden, Boris, Macron, Trudeau have already bettered us right into a permanent recession. 141 million have been forced into extreme poverty by energy prices. Klaus and his 50 thought-leader friends are, in the phrase the incandescent Barbara Amiel Black once used, “men who think they can think”. He definitely thi