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Thanks to James for contributing this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Who’s Afraid of Fort Detrick Probe By Finian Cunningham August 06, 2021" Information Clearing House " - " Sputnik "  An international online petition calling for an investigation into a US military laboratory and the possible origin of Covid-19 was hacked at the weekend. The hackers were reportedly based in the US. Fort Detrick in Maryland is the center of American biowarfare research. It is just one of the hundreds of such infectious disease laboratories located across the United States. During the Cold War, Fort Detrick was the main site for experimenting with lethal pathogens, including viruses causing deadly influenza. In 2001, when a disgruntled researcher is believed to have killed five people by mailing deadl...

The Very Fine People of a Civilized Society James Howard Kunstler The very fine people of the Progressive Left believe many things: that men can be women (and mostly should be); that two plus two should equal how you feel, not the same darn thing every time; that “Joe Biden” is not just president but the greatest one since Barack Obama (and the 2020 election proved it). The very fine people on the Left don’t believe in a couple of things: reality and the law. This is getting to be a problem in what’s left of the USA. Reality, you might think, works in strange ways, such as the idea of rent. It grows out of another idea that happens to underlie law: property. Property is owning something. Granted, it has a certain suspicious artificiality, since you must surrender it to others (usually relatives) when you depart this world. And granted, it is not exactly fair, since some people will own more property than other people. But it has many functional benefits in the greater artificial constr...

                 Become Ungovernable And if you can't do that just play some good music.  Memes, jokes and friendly conversations are welcomed too.   The Post-Partisan Emporium's Purpose and Standards   This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise.   Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators know. Likewise if you would like to become an official contributor so you can put up articles yourself, but for that we need to exchange email addresses and we need a Google email address from you. Contributions can be anything, including fiction, poems, cartoons, or songs. They can be your own writing or someone else’s writing which ...

Us and Them Source: Paul Joseph Watson The Post-Partisan Emporium's Purpose and Standards   This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise.   Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators know. Likewise if you would like to become an official contributor so you can put up articles yourself, but for that we need to exchange email addresses and we need a Google email address from you. Contributions can be anything, including fiction, poems, cartoons, or songs. They can be your own writing or someone else’s writing which has yet to be published.   We understand that tempers flare during heated conversations, and we're willing to overlook the occasional name-calling in that situat...

Published on August 29, 2018 Unpacking Peggy McIntosh’s Knapsack written by William Ray [White Privilege is] the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits, and choices bestowed upon people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it. —Peggy McIntosh, quoted in the  Racial Equity Resource Guide The concept of ‘white privilege’ was popularized by Peggy McIntosh in a 1989 paper written at Harvard University and titled, “White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack.” It was written as a personal, experiential essay, and it details 26 ways in which McIntosh’s skin color has been decisive in determining her life outcomes. This hugely influential paper has been responsible for the subsequent proliferation of a rigidly enforced theory of privilege throughout social movements and university classrooms. So c...

Published on August 3, 2021 When You’re Diagnosed with Autism—by TikTok written by Lucy Kross Wallace Do you ever seek reassurance, overspend, get angry over small things, fear abandonment, or pretend to be happy? If so, you might be suffering from  anxiety ,  self-harm ,  ADHD , a  wounded inner child , and something called “ smiling depression ”—at least according to the gurus of the video-sharing site TikTok, where the hashtag #selfdiagnosis has accrued over 13.5 million views. In many of the most widely surfed parts of the online world, it turns out, having a psychiatric condition isn’t just acceptable; it’s quirky, trendy, even desirable. It offers a victim-based identity, an excuse for one’s shortcomings, and a source of moral authority. I’m not talking about reputable social-media accounts, including those run by doctors and therapists, which shed light on stigmatized conditions and aim to educat...