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 ...

 Although this essay discusses politics in France, the observations and analyses can be applied to most Western nations. Useful Shadows. Maybe creating the “Extreme Right”was a bad idea. Aurelien I don’t know what ideas Festival of Humanity would conjure up in the mind of the average Anglo-Saxon. Happy-clappy guitars, perhaps, peace and love? Desmond Tutu and Ursula von der Leyen? In fact, it’s all to do with a newspaper. L’Humanité was founded by the great French Socialist Jean Jaurès, and was the Party’s official newspaper until 1920, when after the Congress of Tours, the departing Communist faction took it with them. From then until reality dictated otherwise in 1994, it was the official newspaper of the PCF, and since then, it’s clung on as an all-purpose leftist publication. A tradition for almost a hundred years, is the annual Festival, largely based around music, taking advantage of the fact that popular French musicians have often had leftist sympathies. I haven’t been the...

 Thanks to manfred127 for recommending this article... Interview with Nick Hudson Scam-spotting, the failure of central control, and why the local will outlast the global Unbekoming Nick Hudson’s rule for spotting a scam runs as follows. If a problem is presented as a global crisis, if the only permitted solutions are global ones requiring global authority, and if dissent is censored, you are looking at a scam. Global problem, global solution, censorship. You don’t need the who, the how, or the why. The fact-pattern is the proof. I built a short piece around a clip of him explaining it in May 2023. Until then he had sat in my peripheral vision, a name attached to PANDA, a South African voice that kept saying the unsayable about COVID. That clip changed things. Scam Spotting Unbekoming · May 14, 2023 Watch now In the years since, I have watched a great many people try to teach scam recognition, and nobody has produced anything cleaner. Most frameworks demand that you first untangle ...