The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Dancing on the Brink John Michael Greer Back when I was sketching out posts for the first half of this year, I planned to go on this week to talk further about enchantment, exploring the way that the ebb and flow of enchantment seems to track the rise and fall of civilizations and sketching out a tentative hypothesis about why that is. The core project of this blog, like its predecessor  The Archdruid Report,  is the quest for ways to lead a meaningful human life in harmony with nature during the decline and fall of a vast and profoundly unnatural civilization. Our discussion of enchantment in recent months has a great deal to offer that project.  Just at the moment, though, it’s necessary to set that aside and glance at current events, because the decline and fall looks as though it’s nearing an inflection point of considerable importance. “All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.” – Erin Morgenstern I covered the background to the impending mess back in the days of  Th

The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran dump the dollar and bust US sanctions News of Russian banks connecting to Iran’s financial messaging system strengthens the resistance against US-imposed sanctions on both countries and accelerates global de-dollarization. By Pepe Escobar February 09 2023 The agreement between the Central Banks of Russia and Iran formally signed on 29 January connecting their interbank transfer systems is a game-changer in more ways than one. Technically, from now on 52 Iranian banks already using  SEPAM , Iran’s interbank telecom system, are connecting with 106 banks using  SPFS , Russia’s equivalent to the western banking messaging system SWIFT. Less than a week before the deal, State Duma Chairman Vyachslav Volodin was in Tehran overseeing the last-minute details, part of a meeting of the Russia-Iran Inter-Parliamentary Commission on Cooperation: he was adamant both nations should quickly increase trade in their own currencies. Ruble-rial trade Confirming that the share of

Demon Spawn – Artificial Wombs in Ancient India The Mahabharata foretold synthetic wombs, leftoid lunacy, and nuclear bombs. Hindus revere their ancient “seers” for a reason Joe Allen EctoLife in the Kali Yuga Last week, the German bio-propagandist Hashem Al-Ghaili  shocked the world with his concept video  EctoLife: The World’s First Artificial Womb Facility . The shot opens on a designer baby factory, then pans across rows of steel womb-pods. The little miracles inside are tended by AI modulators and faceless nurses in hazmat suits. Seeing these “30,000 lab-grown babies” packed together in tiered grids, it was like I could smell the fresh bleach on top of stale piss. “With EctoLife, miscarriage and low sperm count are a thing of the past,” the chatbot narrator promises. “Prior to placing the fertilized embryo of your baby inside the growth pod,  in vitro  fertilization is used to create and select the most viable and genetically superior embryo, giving your baby a chance to develop w