The Post-Partisan Emporium

COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE SHOWN DEEP DEFICITS OF KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL THINKING REGARDING CORONAVIRUS Mark Oshinskie College students, what has been wrong with you for the past 18 months? Historically, students have protested about a wide range of issues: segregation, wars, environmental damage, university investment practices, et al. Basic conditions facilitated this activism: students were concentrated on campuses, they had spare time that lunch-pail workers lacked, and they were inquisitive and idealistic. Protesting was also a good way to meet women. Students often conducted large rallies and teach-ins, organized strikes and boycotts and broke into university presidents’ offices. Once in, these erstwhile “insurrectionists” sometimes stayed for days. While I was in college, students protested from the first week, about a faculty tenure decision, until graduation day, because the gowns weren’t made by union labor. The years between encompassed an overlapping series of causes. Throughout...

COVID Propaganda Roundup: The ‘Safe and Effective’ Narrative Implodes By Ben Bartee - September 15, 2021 The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class. Gaslighting 101: CDC, Merriam-Webster Quietly Changed Definition of ‘Vaccine’ Overnight in 2021 “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” -1984 Just as the Animal Farm pigs repainted the 7 Animal Commandments on the barn wall in the dead of night to suit their interests, so the social engineers did in January 2021 with the official definition of “vaccine.” CDC’s old “vaccine” definition: “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” CDC’s new “vaccine” defiinition: “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases” Likewise, Merriam-Webster’s old “vaccine” definition: “a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent o...

The Negative-Sum Economy John Michael Greer There are tides and seasons in the comments I field for posts here on my blog, certain questions that get asked at regular intervals, certain saliva-flecked tirades I can count on getting whenever  certain things appear in my writings or happen in the world.  One of the more frequent of the questions is how to preserve wealth in the face of a difficult future.  This question pops up reliably when an economic crisis is on its way, as it happens, and I’ve started fielding it again in recent weeks; my readers may want to brace themselves. Like so many of the common questions here, it’s an important question, and it has no simple answer. The combination of those features isn’t accidental. It’s an important question because it can’t be answered in any meaningful way without grappling with what wealth actually is, and it’s because wealth is not what most people think it is that the question has no simple answer. We can start our explo...

Thanks to sabelmouse for bringing this article to our attention... Matt Hancock and the Midazolam Touch I Can't Breathe - a Very British Way of Death Stopping the lungs of people who are struggling to breathe may seem counter-intuitive but it is one of the protocols used in the UK to end the lives of Covid patients. As happened to George Floyd, drugs can reduce lung function when the individual is already under stress. Instead of self-administration, in the UK nurses do the job. They even use the same drug, fentanyl, but the central role is played by midazolam. The practice accelerated under the tenure of former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock who stockpiled the drugs for their use in the Covid pandemic. Twitter Sep 13, 2021 Former UK health minister Matt Hancock is running the London Marathon on Oct 4 to raise funds for a hospice. He’s posted updates of his training, as he works on expanding his lung capacity. Runners say it’s important not to breathe too hard; to pace yourself f...