The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Something's rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark Greenland, often dismissed as an administrative nuisance for Denmark, is now coveted by the American empire, Silicon Valley utopians, and MAGA diehards. Nearly three-quarters of Greenland is covered by inland ice. Denmark rarely makes the headlines in the United States. But in late August, its foreign minister  summoned  the top US diplomat for a very undiplomatic conversation. Denmark’s national broadcaster, DR,  had just reported  that at least three American citizens linked to Donald Trump were covertly operating in Greenland, quietly trying to recruit locals into a separatist movement to drive a wedge between Copenhagen and Greenland, which operates as an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. For a NATO ally to accuse Washington of subversion is no small thing.  The White House’s response  — “we think the Danes need to calm down” — only served to underscore how far the relationship has sh...

  The Quiet Rebranding of CBDCs as “Digital-ID” Let’s call them for what they are: Social Credit systems. We know that “CBDC” stands for  Central Bank Digital Currencies  – and we have long held our hypothesis on what those entail (the TL;DR is that they will either launch as, or morph into, China-style social credit systems). We’ve seen an Executive Order expressly ruling out CBDCs in the US, but as I keep warning readers: we’re seeing components we’d expect to see under a CBDC system appearing – only they  aren’t  originating at The Fed (who has never really expressed an interest in them, anyway). Now the US Treasury Department  is seeking comments on Digital ID  as it relates to DeFi: “The Department of the Treasury has filed a request for public comments to provide input on the use of “innovative or novel methods to detect and mitigate illicit finance risks involving digital assets” in accordance with the GENIUS Act, as well as in accordance with D...

  Are We Hungry Yet? Karen Kwiatkowski Bulldozing hundreds of established olive trees  last week, and  thousands since 1967 , and  unleashing feral pigs  to destroy Palestinian fields and gardens are parts of Israel’s war on agriculture and the environment. These tactics are important to Israel’s national security project. A country has a right to defend itself, after all. Targeting food and the ability to grow and produce food to defeat an enemy, as well as for domestic population control, is historically typical state methodology. North American bison were all but eliminated in order to drive native Americans off their lands and hunting grounds. We watch historical dramas like Downton Abbey and marvel at how food defines and separates class, liberty and power. Americans, as tenants of empires on the cusp of collapse will do, obsess over food, and their health. Simultaneously the people who will build the new republics that will inherit this continent are study...