The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Incremental Starvation of the People Gathers Apace Manufactured food and water shortages ELIZABETH NICKSON For generations since WW2, most people ignored politics. It was beneath them, they were of a higher sort, let the  troglodytes  battle it out, the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice. Sure it does, honey. But only if someone is bending it. We have almost lost everything generations before us fought for. Right now, in every so-called liberal democracy, government is locking down 30% of land. By 2050 they will have taken 50%, and by 2075, 95% of both American continents will be off-limits to people. Not possible? You haven’t been paying attention. Who can stop it? Only your waking up and getting involved will stop your children and grandchildren living as Russian serfs, limited in every action, purchase and decision. Only difference is that it will look like Disneyland, but you will have as much agency as Mickie, Minnie and Goofy. Every right will be gone. A...

  Dancing on the Brink John Michael Greer Back when I was sketching out posts for the first half of this year, I planned to go on this week to talk further about enchantment, exploring the way that the ebb and flow of enchantment seems to track the rise and fall of civilizations and sketching out a tentative hypothesis about why that is. The core project of this blog, like its predecessor  The Archdruid Report,  is the quest for ways to lead a meaningful human life in harmony with nature during the decline and fall of a vast and profoundly unnatural civilization. Our discussion of enchantment in recent months has a great deal to offer that project.  Just at the moment, though, it’s necessary to set that aside and glance at current events, because the decline and fall looks as though it’s nearing an inflection point of considerable importance. “All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.” – Erin Morgenstern I covered the background to the impending mess back...

  What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential JEFFREY A. TUCKER      In all my thinking about the lockdown years, I’ve only had time now to think carefully about this strange distinction between essential and nonessential. What did it mean in practice and where did it come from?  The edict to divide the workforce came from a previously unknown agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or  CISA . The edict came down March 18, 2020, two days following the initial lockdown orders from Washington.  Management and workers all over the country had to dig through regulations that came out of the blue to find out if they could go to work. The terms essential and nonessential were not used in the way one might initially intuit. It sharply demarcated the whole of the commercial world in ways that are inorganic to all of human experience.  In the background was a very long history and cultural habit of using terms to identify profe...

  Craig Murray: Snowden & Teixeira The behavior of  The New York Times  and  Washington Post  in the current case involving secret documents is truly shocking. In contrast to 10 years ago, they now see their mission as to serve the security state, not public knowledge. Some members of European Parliament stage a show of support for Edward Snowden, March 12, 2014, Strasbourg, France.  (greensefa, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) By  Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk T en years ago, WikiLeaks helped Edward Snowden to escape and publish his revelations by  The Intercept ,  Guardian ,  New York Times  and others.  In 2023 Jack Teixeira is  tracked down  by U.K. secret service front Bellingcat in conjunction with  The New York Times  and, in parallel with  The Washington Post , not to help him escape or help him publish or tell people his motives, but to help the state arrest him.  Those outlets have accessed a cac...