The Post-Partisan Emporium

The New Newspeak And Other Noxious Nuttery Heather Heying Happy almost solstice everyone! It will soon be the darkest day in the northern hemisphere. It is also, for many of us, a festive season, marked by family and food, reminiscences of the past, and hopes for the future. My hopes for the future include that ever more people become capable and confident of assessing for themselves what they are being told, and decide their own course of action even when it runs counter to the dominant narrative. This, of course, is one of the roles of education. In contrast, getting everyone to go along with the mainstream because everyone else is doing it has, historically, been one of the roles of organized religion. And yet it’s mostly the religion-debasing, #FollowTheScience crowd who are in lockstep now, following orders, and calling for the debasement and exclusion of those who don’t comply. Mostly, these are people who understand neither science nor religion, although they have chosen as thei...

Star Of Body-Positivity Show Dead From Heart Failure At Age 37 The body positivity movement, at least in the case of women, has  been highly promoted  by every area of the entertainment media and among social justice activists based on a singular claim:   You can be healthy at any size  (HAES).   The claim has  inspired numerous efforts to normalize obesity in American society  as not only socially acceptable but also medically acceptable.  While political activism in science is nothing new and has been present in everything from climate change rhetoric to pandemic response, fat positivity disinformation in scientific observation is perhaps the most egregious and widespread.   It attempts to ignore or dismiss decades of studies on the negative effects of obesity  and asserts that being grossly overweight has minimal or no health consequences.   This argument is often debunked by the very people that tend to promote it and ...

The Real Overpopulation Problem A question unasked by T.P. Wilkinson  Another bureaucratic war criminal, Robert MacNamara, said in Fog of War that he made it a rule “not to answer the question asked but to answer the question I wished they had asked”. He added that it was a good rule. It is a good rule of psychological warfare never to acknowledge the obvious messages and questions and to confine one’s own responses to euphemism and circumlocution while always exaggerating — even with expletives — the positions of one’s targets/victims. MacNamara was not only a master of deception but to judge by Errol Morris’ film also a master of self-deception. 1 Naively many readers and viewers — in part due to their own exercises in self-deception — expect that an interview or testimonial will prove the character of the person interviewed and somehow reveal “truth”. Yet the serial presentation of statements presumes that the listener/reader will thus attach objectivity to the interpretation tr...

Click to see full-size image Written by  Tribunus Bruxellae German elites have moved aggressively to destroy anti-war opposition across Europe, and to seize tighter, more corrupt control of EU government. Two recent major news events, December 7 and 9 – the alleged German ‘coup attempt’ and then ‘arrests for EU Parliament bribery’ – are not what they seem. As in the 1940s, German elites are ruining their own people … war against Russia again too … tho the current ‘Reich’ is neo-liberal corporations and money control led by Germans … corporations who seek new frontier ‘lebensraum’ in the East and Ukraine, and a hoped-for demolition of Russia itself. With thanks to Thomas Roper of Germany’s ‘Anti-Spiegel’ and  John Helmer “Race hatred against Russians … is motivating and propagandising war in Europe, as race hatred for Jews was” – John Helmer December 7 there was a much-ballyhooed ‘German coup plot thwarted’ involving an eccentric aristocrat, Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss. The ‘...