The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to Starfire for recommending this article... Is it possible that the world is approaching end times?   Gail Tverberg I frequently write that the world economy is, in physics terms, a dissipative structure that is powered by energy. It can grow for a time, but eventually it reaches limits of many kinds. Ultimately, it can be expected to stop growing and collapse. It seems to me that the world economy is showing signs that it has reached a turning point. Economic growth stopped in 2020 and is having trouble restarting in 2021. Fossil fuel energy of all types (oil, coal and natural gas) is  in short supply , relative to the world’s huge population. Ultimately, this inadequate energy supply can be expected to pull the world economy toward collapse. The world economy doesn’t behave the way most people would expect. Standard modeling approaches miss the point that economies require adequate supplies of energy products of the right kinds, provided at the right times of day and...

i see we have now reached the "cover up" stage of the vaccination campaign did someone leave the gaslight on? el gato malo there is a point where even loquacious internet cats start running out of snark. THIS  is just staggering in its predatory mendacity. there is not a shred of evidence to support it nor any remotely plausible reason to even put forward such a hypothesis. frankly, it’s patently absurd and has no precedent in other stressful events. being bombed nightly during the blitz did not cause this. this is a desperate lie from a desperate class of state run doctors desperate to shift the blame for that which they have wrought. nothing more. is there literally anyone who wants to take the other side of the “this trend of “PTSD” is going to be nearly totally limited to those who received one or more dose of covid vaccine” bet? because i’m making book. you can tell a lot about what people are afraid of when they start answering questions that were not really asked. it g...

Wait... did we just win one? Biden balks at more restrictions. Justin Hart Yesterday we noted the disastrous appearance of Dr. Fauci in the White House press room. Justin Hart @justin_hart Oh my gosh. The Fauci mixed messaging here is wild! Fauci: no vaccine mandates for travel but that might change. Fauci: no masks if everyone is vaccinated (differing from the CDC) Fauci: no need to change the definition of fully vaxxed - "but it could change" Look at this mess: December 1st 2021 457 Retweets 1,480 Likes From masks to vaccinations to flight travel, Dr. Fauci hemmed and hawed his way through questions from the press. In the end — it seemed like we knew NOTHING more. Fauci walked back definition changes, he couldn’t answer basics about international travel restrictions, he toned down any notion of domestic travel restrictions — in short, it sent Team Apocalypse reeling. So today, when President Biden was supposed to hand down a panoply of new and revised restrictions the o...

A Sincere Plea to the Pro-Vax Mandaters Chris Waldburger We need to talk. We need to reach across the vociferously divided opinions regarding covid vaccinations before families and communities tear themselves apart, and before those in power permanently divide us. Readers will know that I have written, with urgency, against lockdowns and vaccine mandates. But I hope that somehow with this essay I can reach out to those who disagree with me, to give them a sense of why people like me disagree, and why we are so very disturbed by looming vaccine mandates in order to live a normal life. To begin with, I do not believe that in this current moment it is right to divide people into two camps - those who are pro-covid vaccines and those who are anti-covid vaccines. I know many people who strongly believe in the covid vaccines. I know some who strongly believe in the covid vaccines which are not Pfizer or Moderna - because of the novelty of the mRNA platform.  I know people ...