The Post-Partisan Emporium

Gilded Cage for a Gilded Age A review of The Line housing facility by NEOM Visceral Adventure 1.0× 0:00 -6:22 Listen on [Transcript] In the hunt for utopia, we set our minds on easy times while pushing our desires to the brink of excess. We convince ourselves we want what’s being sold but no matter how many [blank] we buy, they end up as a precious link we forge on our own chains. Soon, even the privilege of owning will be gone and daily life will be a monthly subscription; a sliding scale based on your carbon footprint and intellectual curiosity and for what? What is the promise here? Shiny futuristic cities housing millions of us, like ants in an ant colony, predestined in a social order organized around an acceptable lifestyle, with no space vast enough and private enough to be able to ponder your own (in)significance? Thanks, but no, thanks. Take your elegant dystopia and your idiotic explanations and shove ‘em up your EVs. I wonder what it would smell like when countless birds...

(It's ALL about DEMOCRACY !) The House speaker's trip came after Congress passed a bill that includes $52 billion to subsidize domestic chip manufacturing by Dave DeCamp   Posted on August 3, 2022  Categories News Tags  Taiwan While in Taiwan House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)  met with the island’s top semiconductor industry leaders  as the US is looking to gain an edge on China when it comes to chip manufacturing. Pelosi’s trip came after Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act,  a massive $280 billion piece of legislation  that includes $52 billion in subsidies for companies to build and expand chip manufacturing facilities. Pelosi met with the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest chip manufacturer,  to discuss the CHIPS and Science Act . The meeting signals that the US is looking to entice TSMC to open more facilities in the US with the subsidies included in the legislation. TSMC is currently building...

The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression  BY  JEFFREY A. TUCKER      AUGUST 1, 2022     ECONOMICS     6 MINUTE READ (made by voza0db in June 2020) I f you were on vacation last week, good for you. You missed one of Congress’s greatest-ever scams. They just approved some $750 billion (do these numbers even mean anything anymore?) to “transition” us from fossil fuels and coal over to reliance on the wind and sun, and also to subsidize a bunch of chip manufacturers because American companies screwed up their inventory control two years ago.  The worst of the two bills is called the Inflation Reduction Act. Shameless!  The details of this don’t matter as much as the big picture. What you have in Congress and the presidency right now is exactly what one might expect from an empire in decline. Special interests are tapping the petty racketeers in political power to pillage as much of American prosperity as possible before they a...