The Post-Partisan Emporium

The nudge matrix How they're playing you like an accordion laughlyn (johan eddebo) Imagine that it’s 1947, and you’re an operative of a newly formed US intelligence agency superseding the OSS. Your current assignment is to subvert the government of a small yet regionally powerful nation state to favor US business interests. Add that this state largely exists outside of the sphere of Western cultural or economic influence. To begin with, what tools do you have? In reality, they’re not that many. You don’t have a US-aligned opposition party to funnel money into, and nothing akin to an established cultural hegemony here. No strong Disney presence to utilize. And both the opposition and the nationalist elite and its political institutions are suspicious of all sorts of outside influence, jealously guarding their indepencence, so all sorts of direct institutional support and funding above the board are precarious. Neither do you own the media, which is a mix of private and public establ...

Herds of american and european debt slaves enjoy the privilege of issuing DEBT to buy stuff made by their fellow work slaves across the Planet! (work slaves in China escaping the  closed-loop production ) The FUN highlighted! " Quanta is Apple's top Macbook factory and has conducted closed-loop production at the factory for the last month to keep workers from getting infected. Bloomberg noted that the discontent was resolved Friday morning, and the factory returned to normal operations. In its latest earnings report, Apple  warned  that supply constraints would cost the company $4 billion to $8 billion in the current quarter.  Shanghai has enforced a zero-COVID strategy ( supported by China's Politburo ) across Shanghai, locking down nearly 25 million people for more than a month.  Reuters  reports the city's epidemic prevention and control situation is "improving.". Some companies opted for closed-loop production to keep factories open. This helped resta...