The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Lizard King? Philanthropath? Genocidal Maniac? Follow him into the Gates of Hell ELIZABETH NICKSON The month before 9/11, I was in Seattle interviewing the new digital titans for the  Sunday  Telegraph . My editor, to namedrop, was Emma Soames, Churchill’s granddaughter, who was curious about those unwashed, youthful colonials with “all that lovely money”.  Question: once the flash but cool house and flash but arty dames were enjoyed, what were they going to do?  Answer: good of course, lots and lots of it. Every one of them had a passion, whether art, fair trade coffee companies or the environment – all of which would be on the grand scale. And then of course, I’d ended up at the Gates Foundation, and met their new gal, an achingly polite, somewhat scared but also beautiful brainiac who had been with the Clinton administration. I shook hands with Gates Sr., who seemed a benign older gentleman looking for something worthy to do in retirement, much like my grea...

   

  Israel vs Palestine - What They Don't Want You to Know Source: Awaken with JP

  As 'Net-Zero' Comes a Cropper, a New Threat Arises Elizabeth Nickson   If not stopped, on November 17th, the U.S. government will pass a rule that allows for America’s protected lands, including parks and wildlife refuges, to be listed on the N.Y. Stock Exchange.  Natural Asset Companies (NACs)  will be owned, managed, and traded by companies like BlackRock, Vanguard, and even China. Since the early 2000’s, outfits like Goldman Sachs have been trying to trade air, or specifically carbon without much success. Their  2005  carbon exchange staggered along until it was quietly discontinued, and their Climate Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) is now facing  delisting . "ESG" was the next attempt to monetize the un-monetizable, with the "E" part of that acronym standing for Environment, ill-defined as that was. Now ESG is  failing . Market leaders say it is facing "a perfect storm of negative sentiment" and its U.S. investments fell by $163 billion in the fi...

WHO IS BETTER DRUG FIGHTER: US OR TALIBAN “TERRORISTS”?   Afghan poppy After returning to power in 2021, the Taliban vowed to end illicit drug production in Afghanistan and in April 2022 banned poppy cultivation, which is used to produce opium and heroin. A report by the   UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)   said poppy cultivation has fallen by about   95 percent , from   233,000 hectares (575,755 acres)   at the end of 2022 to   10,800 hectares   in 2023. Opium production also fell from   6,200 tons   to   333 tons   in 2023. This year’s crop is estimated to produce   24-38 tons   of heroin suitable for export, down from   350-580 tons   last year. UNODC warned of possible “humanitarian consequences for many vulnerable rural communities” due to the sudden contraction of Afghanistan’s opium economy, as farmers have had to switch to much less lucrative alternative crops. Farmers’ incomes, estimated at ...