The Post-Partisan Emporium

THE QUESTION IS NOT WHAT "THEY WILL DO"—IT'S WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE It's "Mission Accomplished" for the ruling class DR. MAXIMILIAN C. FORTE Forums like Telegram are packed with speculative assertions about what the ruling elites want to do, will do, plan to do, in leveraging "the pandemic". Projections are cast into the future. Crash the economy, demolish the banking system, institute Central Bank Digital Currencies, implement Digital ID systems and social credit scores, force people to eat bugs, contain people (and their bug food) within a 15 minute urban radius, render them totally dependent, a Great Reset, and so on. Yet few of these goals, if any, have been realized since 3/11/20. Some do not require any sort of “pandemic” to be realized. For example, the prospect of costly identity theft can get people to choose digital IDs loaded with personal biometric and other data. Turning digitization into a game, with bargains, special discounts,

  Is It Beer Thirty Yet? From sacrament to sacrilege RADIO FAR SIDE Few people stop to think just how vital beer is to the human race. The Babylonians built temples to  Ninkasi, the goddess  of beer and brewing, and the Hammurabic Code had strict laws concerning the ingredients and process of brewing beer. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all took brewing very seriously and ancient breweries are discovered on a regular basis. Of course, most serious beer drinkers know about the German  Reinheitsgebot .\ In my own Celtic and Anglic cultures, every home brewed their own. The best brews drew visitors, and eventually those homes became inns and public houses (pubs), and even town breweries. One town brewery that became famous for its top-fermented lager was a sleepy Czech town called  České Budějovice . Their top brew is called Budwar, or in Germany Budweiss. Very long story short, this beer recipe and technique made its way to America, were it spawned a mega-corporation called Anh