The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Sorrows of War LINH DINH [Vung Tau, Vietnam on 8/27/22] On 7/27/23, there’s a wrenching tale in the Vietnamese newspaper,  Tiền Phong  [ Vanguard ]. The author was Thu Hiền. Certainly a pen name, it means benign or gentle autumn. Of course, that season of falling leaves connotes death. Though dreaded, it’s only a curse if comes too early. Nothing is worse than eternal decrepitude. Death, then, is a thousand autumns. Lying still, one reflects on all that has been wasted, thwarted or snuffed out, and not just by fate, but one’s confusion or cowardice. Shifting maggots rearrange one’s bones. If only one could sigh. Thu Hiền tells us about a 2022 wedding between Nguyễn Thị Diện, born in 1947, and Đặng Văn Cự, a year older. It’s odd enough when septuagenerians tie knots, and not as divorcees or widows, but for the first time. They had long been each other’s first love. Odder still, they had been dead for 51 years, since 1972. During war, a vast army of civilians must ser...

Another study about FOOD! Not to be too boring, just the tasty parts: We examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies. Population-specific data were obtained from 175 countries/territories. Scatter plots, bivariate, partial correlation and linear regression models were used with SPSS 25 to explore and compare the correlations between newborn life expectancy (e (0) ), life expectancy at 5 years of life (e (5) ) and intakes of meat, and carbohydrate crops, respectively. The established risk factors to life expectancy - caloric intake, urbanization, obesity and education levels - were included as the potential confounders. Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistical...

By Colonel (ret.) Douglas Macgregor, US Army COLONEL (RET.) DOUGLAS MACGREGOR JUL 20, 2023   From the moment the war in Ukraine started, Western reporting on the war was a radical repudiation of the truth. Washington and its NATO allies always knew that   NATO expansion to Russia’s borders   would precipitate an armed conflict with Moscow, but NATO’s ruling globalist class did not care. For them, Russia in 2022 was unchanged from the weak and incapable Russia of the late 1990s. The risk of failure seemed low. Ergo, Russia could be bullied into submission. Americans and most Europeans did not bother to question or analyze. Widespread strategic ignorance about Russia and Eastern Europe ensured that most Americans and even West Europeans would react quickly and viscerally to the Western media’s distorted images and lies about Russia. At the same time, tolerance for criticism of Washington’s role in fashioning the corrupt and deceitful conduct of the Volodymyr Zelenskyy Regim...

  Former FBI Agent Prepared to Testify that JPMorgan Had Jeffrey Epstein Account for 28 Years – Not 15 Years – and “Impeded” Criminal Investigation of Epstein By  Pam Martens and Russ Martens : August 2, 2023 ~ On July 24th and 25 th , the Attorney General’s Office for the U.S. Virgin Islands filed dozens of documents in the court case it has launched against the largest federally-insured bank in the United States – JPMorgan Chase – in a U.S. district court in Manhattan. A quick glance at the giant blur of filings indicated that the vast majority had been filed under seal. (See a partial  screen shot here .) The U.S. Virgin Islands is credibly alleging in its lawsuit that JPMorgan Chase “ actively participated in Epstein’s sex trafficking venture ” where dozens of underage girls were sexually assaulted by Epstein or his rich pals. Wall Street On Parade  has learned over the years to deeply scrutinize anything that is happening in the federal district court in the Sou...