The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Earliest Days of the Italian Pandemic, or: Why Nobody Wants To Talk About February 2020 Anymore eugyppius Some of you, after thirty months of nuclear-grade media propaganda, are inclined to doubt everything that appears in the press. While journalists certainly circulate their share of falsehoods, lies are not their preferred strategy and almost always originate outside major press organs, with the self-serving statements of regime officials. The problem with lying, is that it’s expensive and requires more coordination than widely distributed media operations command. Their preferred approach is rather one of emphasis. Regime-friendly reporters will scour the earth for every last story supporting government policies, and amplify these meagre items to the point of absurdity; at the same time, they’ll do everything possible to ignore or downplay information injurious to their preferred narratives, however significant it might be. Now, it is generally all too apparent what the media h...

Dictatorship Chic  BY  JEFFREY A. TUCKER   In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book,  The Road to Serfdom , dictatorship is the end game of a period of immense government failure. The ruling class begins by tinkering with the normal function of markets and society with some high goal in mind (think: virus eradication) and the results are the opposite of what is intended. The crisis gets worse but the public becomes more incredulous. At this point, there is a choice to make: continue with the supposed inefficiencies of democracy or move to full-on dictatorship.  It’s not hard to know where Hayek got the idea. After the onset of the Great Depression, the notion of democracy fell into widespread disrepute in elite circles. Reading high-end material from the period you gain a quick realization that everyone agreed that freedom and democracy really have seen their day. They are ill-suited to the planning needs of the day, which require power from the...

All Government and All Rule Are Always and Inherently Immoral and Evil By: Gary D. Barnett “You are not Christians. You are not Jews. You are not Muslims. And you certainly aren’t atheists. You all have the same god, and its name is ‘government.’ You’re all members of the most evil, insane, destructive cult in history. If there ever was a devil, the state is it. And you worship it with all your heart and soul.” ~ Larken Rose,  The Iron Web The Truth About Government Accept and understand that all government is evil. Accept and understand that all who allow and support government are supporting evil. There is no such thing as a good government. There is no such thing as a necessary government. There is no such thing as a limited government. There is no such thing as a benevolent government. There is only government, and government in all its false ‘glory,’ is nothing more than pure, corrupted violence. It is the creator and protector of theft, slavery, murder, genocide, and dem...

Buffalo Worm/Soy Burgers, Anyone? Celebrities have been nudging us to eat insects. Europe's markets now carry insect burgers. But are these going to "fly" right off the shelves? James Lyons-Weiler Ingredients translated  from German : (WTF is “Free Range Parsley”??) 45% Rehydrated Buffalo Worm Soy Protein (60% Buffalo Worm Alphitobius Diaperinus, 40% Soy Protein Concentrate) Water. Rapeseed oil, onions, egg whites (dried), tomato paste (tomatoes, salt), soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt), mustard (water, mustard seeds, vinegar, salt, sugar, spices), potato starch, spices, salt, Lemon Juice, Free Range Parsley Source: Popular Rationalism