The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Double Helix of Entwined Pandemic and Economic Strategy Alastair Crooke The corollary to the collapse of the technocratic initiative to liquify the over-leveraged economy might well be recession, Alastair Crooke writes. Three years ago, I said to an American Professor from the US Army War College in Washington, in respect to the campaign to return American lost Blue Collar jobs to Asia, that these jobs would never return.  They were gone for good. He retorted that that was precisely so, but I was missing the point, he said. America did not expect, or want, the majority of those humdrum manufacturing jobs back. They should stay in Asia. The Élites, he said, wanted only the commanding heights of Tech. They wanted the intellectual property, the protocols, the metrics, the regulatory framework that would allow America to define and expand across the next two decades of global technological evolution. The real dilemma however, he said was, “What is to be done with the 20% of the Ame...

Who Do You Trust If You Can't Trust the Science? — Mythbusting Whether Flu Was Rebranded as Covid Julius Ruechel Ordinary claims require ordinary evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence . — adapted from Carl Sagan "How do we know that the flu hasn't just been rebranded as Covid?" Quite a few people have suggested this controversial explanation for the pandemic, highlighting that the flu disappeared just as Covid arrived. They also pointed to massive problems with PCR tests and raised concerns about the trustworthiness of the SARS-CoV-2 gene sequence. Since our health officials have been playing fast and loose with the truth on just about everything else, and with so many other conspiracy theories turning out to be partially or even entirely true (remember when vaccine passports were called a conspiracy theory?), why not that too?  The problem with trying to answer this question is that PCR testing is so technically complicated that most of us are...

Thanks to Saint  Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this interview... Economist Michael Hudson explains inflation crisis and Fed's secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout Economist Michael Hudson discusses the global inflation crisis and how the US Federal Reserve quietly (and apparently illegally) bailed out big banks in 2019 with $4.5 trillion of emergency repo loans Benjamin Norton I interviewed economist Michael Hudson to discuss what is causing the global inflation crisis, and also how the US Federal Reserve quietly bailed out big banks in September 2019 with $4.5 trillion of emergency repo loans that appear to have blatantly violated the law. TRANSCRIPT BENJAMIN NORTON : Hey, everyone. This is Ben Norton, and I'm joined by a friend of the show, one of our favorite guests, Michael Hudson, the economist. His reputation precedes him; many of you probably know him. You can go to  michael-hudson.com  and check out his excellent articles and his books. We had him on a...