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Reaping the whirlwind Italy and the "Super Green Pass" MyBodyThisPaperThisFire “For they hath sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind .”  (Hosea 8:7) As of 6 December,  reports  Italian newspaper  Il Giornale , Italy is rolling out its so-called “Super Green Pass,” barring the unvaccinated from a variety of events and amenities, even in the presence of a negative COVID test. The untermensch – as the documentation just about manages to refrain from describing those whom it excludes – will thus no longer be able to eat indoors at restaurants, attend sporting events, concerts, theatres, and many other public events, regardless of whether or not they’ve tested negative for COVID-19. It goes without saying that this won’t end well for the people of Italy. I do wonder, though, how the Italian authorities could ever have convinced themselves that it was likely to end well for them either. It wasn’t so long ago that their celebrated countryman, the Marxist political philosop

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The World Gone Mad: The Covid Vaccine Derangement Syndrome Vasko Kohlmayer Last Friday the government of the United Kingdom began administering  a fourth Covid shot  to its citizens. That makes it four Covid injections in barely 11 months. As a result, now you can encounter the quadruply jabbed walking around England. The fourth shot, however, is not the last one. Apparently, there are many more to come. The UK government now recommends that those 18 and over take a shot every three months. This is not a joke. Watch the British Health Secretary solemnly  conveying  this news to the Parliament. You would think that the UK government is doing this because these shots work, but the opposite is, in fact, the case. A highly vaccinated country with an inoculation rate of 70 percent, Britain has been suffering from  Covid surges . Worse yet, the vaccinated fall seriously ill and die at higher rates than the unvaccinated.  Eighty percent  of hospitalizations and deaths in the UK have recently

The Post-Partisan Emporium's  Purpose and Standards  This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise. Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators know. Likewise if you would like to become an official contributor so you can put up articles yourself, but for that we need to exchange email addresses and we need a Google email address from you. Contributions can be anything, including fiction, poems, cartoons, or songs. They can be your own writing or someone else’s writing which has yet to be published. We understand that tempers flare during heated conversations, and we're willing to overlook the occasional name-calling in that situation, although we do not encourage it. We also understand tha

Ghosts, Not Quite Ghosts LINH DINH  •  In Hanoi in 1998, poet Phan Huyen Thu gave me an anthology of the earliest Vietnamese prose, a book that’s now in a box in Moorestown, NJ, at my friend Ian Keenan’s house. Along with all my other books, which constitute my mental terrain, roughly, I won’t see it again. Life is loss, in installments. Though I read every page with much interest, all its characters have disappeared, except a certain ghost that used to bother people at a Hanoi wet market. Meaning no harm, he was just frustrated, it’s clear, at not being seen and heard properly, like the rest of us, especially now. In a 15th century account of just over 100 words, this ghost lives, then, an individual with sane, normal needs. Though fleshless, he’s social and keeps no distance, unlike too many of us, entombed, as we are, in a chimeric fear. Snap out of it, fools! Granted, we had faded into nearly nothing even before this. By consensus, we had agreed to become mostly virtual. Still, han

control the language, control the discourse the dark sorcery of monopoly on meaning el gato malo defining the words and symbols in which we image the world is a powerful kind of magic. watch as the malleability of language distorts it from facilitating clear thought and expression and transforms it into a misframed bog of quicksand so subtle that you fail to notice that you are drowning. unless you are paying close attention, you will not even see it happen. you’ll just presume it was always this way. so will anyone new to the issue. oceania has never been at war with eastasia. oceania has always been at war with eastasia. Ami Horowitz @AmiHorowitz The Left has always looked to redefine words. Sadly @MerriamWebster has joined their ranks. December 7th 2021 16 Retweets 44 Likes examples of this from “vaccine” to “herd immunity” to “woman” abound. the point is to erect a semantic smokescreen and weaponize language into politics. it becomes a tool to obscure rather than reveal and to s