The Post-Partisan Emporium

Another article from Saint Jimmy.  Thank you! Britain’s Versailles moment The  image  of Marie Antoinette dressing up and playing shepherdess in the grounds of her Hameau de la Reine folly at Versailles while Paris burned in the distance may owe more to the mythology of the subsequent revolution, but it speaks to  an aristocratic elite  which had severed all ties to the realities of life for the people they ruled over.  It  wasn’t the first time  that a schism had opened up between the rulers and the ruled, and it  wouldn’t be the last .  As often happens, while history did not repeat, it very definitely rhymed.  There was the same frivolous, partying among a cavalier elite even as the people’s bellies rumbled with hunger.  There was also the same outwardly bombastic but privately weak male ruler, hen pecked by the stronger and more intellectually gifted foreign wife.  And at the end, there was the same inability to do mor...

Thanks to Saint Jimmy for recommending this article... 2022: Energy limits are likely to push the world economy into recession   by   Gail Tverberg In my view, there are three ways a growing economy can be sustained: With a growing supply of cheap-to-produce energy products, matched to the economy’s energy needs. With growing debt and other indirect promises of future goods and services, such as rising asset prices. With growing complexity, such as greater mechanization of processes and supply lines that extend around the world. All three of these approaches are reaching limits. The empty shelves some of us have been seeing recently are testimony to the fact that complexity is reaching a limit. And the growth in debt looks increasingly like a bubble that can easily be popped, perhaps by rising interest rates. In my view, the first item listed is critical at this time: Is the supply of cheap-to-produce energy products growing fast enough to keep the world economy operating and ...

Behavioral control and the end of the American dream. Robert W Malone MD, MS Remember those Johns Hopkins Pandemic war games that occurred over the span of decades? Where the outcome usually ended in a need to control the populace, by which behavioral modification techniques are used to enforce cooperation from the populace. Right now, one can wander over to Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and see their current projects include an analysis of “anti-misinformation actions'“, which they call the  Environment of Misinformation . World leaders, governments, big media, big pharma and tech giants are busy planning out the next pandemic response. So, maybe it is time for those of us who believe there is a better way to live than to be controlled, to plan out responses to all these draconian measures. As well as to begin to develop counter measures to a bio-threat that do not use censorship, propaganda, mandates and behavioral modification techniques. You know, the old fashioned w...