The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this essay... Who’s Winning? By FABIO VIGHI ‘The West has become a totalitarian space – the space of a self-defensive hegemony defending itself against its own weakness.’ (Jean Baudrillard) One of the most frequently referenced scenes in Arthur Penn’s  Night Moves  (1973) features a despondent Gene Hackman slumped in front of a small black-and-white television, half-heartedly watching a game of American football. When his wife walks in and asks, “Who’s winning?”, he mutters: “Nobody. One side’s just losing slower than the other.” As consciously depressing Hollywood films like  Night Moves  foresaw, the crisis of the 1970s was already signalling the end of capitalist socialisation: a structural and soon-to-be global socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological debacle that is now entering its phase of rapid escalation (though Hollywood this time is in full denial). As it’s becoming increasingly clear, the system today survives onl

  DC Declares War on America? Giving themselves the right to kill Americans on American soil? William Hunter Duncan Evidently, the feds are expecting trouble in the aftermath of the election. I’ve waited to post this until I was clear about it. Ron Paul says it is true. A friend of this blog, Army Major  Grant Smith  says it is true. The DoD says it right in their official paper work. But then It has been a week and I have not heard many people talking about it, anywhere. But no one is denying it either. The DoD changed some language in their DoD Directive 5240.01. Specifically, Very quietly, the federal government, the deep state, the military/intelligence community, the technocracy, gave itself the right to kill Americans on American soil. The federal government in any capacity is strictly forbidden by the Posse Comitatus Act, by common sense, and really by any notion of a Republic, using the military on American soil in a fighting capacity. The federal government is not allowed to k