The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article... Our fossil fuel energy predicament, including why the correct story is rarely told by   Gail Tverberg There is more to the fossil fuel energy predicament than we usually hear about. Strangely enough, a big part of the confusion regarding the nature of our energy problem comes from the fact that virtually everyone wants to hear good news, even when the news isn’t very good. We end up seeing information in the Mainstream Media mostly from the perspective of what people  want to hear , rather than from the perspective of  what the story really is . In this post, I explain why this situation tends to occur. I also explain why our current energy situation is starting to look more and more like an energy shortage situation that could lead to economic collapse. This post is a write up of a presentation I gave recently. A PDF of my talk can be found at  this link . An mp4 video of my talk can be found ...

Stupid and Evil in Equal Measure: I Mass containment as conspiracy and as emergent phenomenon. eugyppius Very soon, millions of children will be vaccinated against a virus that is less dangerous to them than influenza. These useless vaccinations will kill some of them, and they will not save any lives. As outrages go, this one is very far up there. It is also the latest in a long line: Many countries have for months observed a sustained trend of elevated mortality in younger demographics, almost surely the result of vaccine-induced myocarditis. It is now plain that the press will downplay indefinitely widespread economic and supply chain chaos, following months of unprecedented and totally pointless closures. Suddenly millions of people cannot leave their supposedly open, democratic countries, or engage in economic activity, without submitting to medical treatments they don’t want. On top of all this comes months of media hysteria and repeated population-wide house arrests—all to box i...

Righteousness + Force in America: The Trap of Righteous Activism Coupled with State Power Sam Jacobs There are two ways of getting things done:  persuasion or coercion . You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of  what we value about the contemporary West  is a shift toward the former occurring over the last 250 years or so. However, there’s an important difference between the despotisms of old and coercive governments in the modern era: modern-day tyrants frame themselves as the righteous side in any conflict. Think about it: Ancient Persian Emperors and the German Kaiser didn’t paint themselves as the moral superiors of their enemies. They simply wanted their stuff and, if they could, they took it. In contrast, during the American Civil War or the Allied cause during World War II, force didn’t justify itself. Instead, force was justified ...