The Post-Partisan Emporium

Anatomy of a Philanthropath: Dreams of Democide & Dictatorship Part 1: A Mostly Peaceful Depopulation Margaret Anna Alice “Tyranny is a habit which may be developed until at last it becomes a disease. I declare that the noblest nature can become so hardened and bestial that nothing distinguishes it from that of a wild animal. Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible.” ―Fyodor Dostoyevsky,  The House of the Dead  ( Kindle ,  paperback ,  hardcover ,  audiobook ) If you’re the type of person who’s brimming with lovingkindness and thinks everyone is sunshine and daisies like you, you’re due for a crash course on  tyrants  and their  enablers . Maybe you think the idea that philanth...

They’re coming for your backyard chickens… Kit Knightly Since the “bird flu outbreak” first hit the headlines  OffG has been predicting  how the inevitable agenda would unfold. The first impact was as obvious as it was predictable – the price of chicken and eggs went up, this was just another front in the  war on food . The second planned impact was less immediate, but just as predictable if you know how to read the media, and potentially far more harmful in the longterm – clamping down on alternative chicken farming. This includes both organic farms and individuals keeping their own chickens in their garden. It didn’t take long for the media to prove us right. In fact the Guardian has done it twice in the last ten days. Firstly, last Thursday, the Guardian ran  this article :  “Spread of ‘free-range’ farming may raise risk of animal-borne pandemics – study” Sponsored by the NGO  Open Philanthropy , this piece reports that organic and free-range farming cou...