The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Pfizer way: produce the sickness, sell the cure Pfizer's shots may cause myocarditis and blood clots, and Pfizer has drugs for that! Jordan Schachtel Prior to Covid Mania, it was somewhat common wisdom to receive claims advanced by major drug companies with necessary skepticism, especially drug companies with a track record of a  multi billion dollar fraud settlement . On Tuesday, Pfizer released its latest revenue numbers, with the drugmaker posting another quarter of massive revenues and profits granted through the taxpayer funnel. Clayton Morris @ClaytonMorris Breaking records. dailycaller.com Pfizer Reports More Than $22 Billion In Revenue For Quarter Three, Driven By Government COVID Purchases Pfizer reported revenue of more than $22 billion during quarter three of 2023 on its earnings call Tuesday. 8:33 PM ∙ Nov 1, 2022 53 Likes 23 Retweets The drugmaker is set to end the year with an  estimated  $100 billion in revenue, with around one-third of its government ...

They Rule Over Dysfunctional Ruin, but They Rule Alastair Crooke Since 2008, we have lived in a western world shaped by the ‘permanent state’ or by our managerial technocrats – label to choice. Since 2008, we have lived in a western world shaped by the ‘permanent state’ or by our managerial technocrats – label to choice. This ‘creative class’ (as they like to see themselves) is particularly defined by its intermediary position in relation to the wealth-controlling oligarchic cabal as ultimate big money overlords on one hand, and the dullard ‘Middle Class’ below them – at whom they sneer and deride. This intermediary class didn’t set out to dominate politics (they say); It just happened. Initially, the aim was to foster progressive values. But instead, these professional technocrats, who both had accreted considerable wealth and were tightly congregated into cliques in America’s large metro areas, came to dominate left-wing parties  around the world  that formerly were vehicles...

Thanks to  Left(Flank)…not behind for recommending this article. Self-Destructive Social Habits, Loneliness, and Propaganda by Edward Curtin  We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! —  T.S. Eliot ,  “The Hollow Men”,  1925 When many people share thoughts, speech, or conduct that is frequently repeated and becomes automatic, it is fair to call it a social habit.  Such habits tend to become invisible and unspeakable. They become part of our taken-for-granted-world. When I recently wrote an essay about hoarding – “ The Last Temptation of Things ,” many people got angry with me.  A friend wrote to me to say: “I congratulate and curse you for writing this.”  He meant it as a complement.  I took it as meaning I had touched a raw nerve and it touched off a series of further thoughts about social habits and people’s angry reactions when they are challenged. Some people who criticized me absurd...