The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Time to unplug... Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home - ENOUGH CLOUD JUNK! Source: Louis Rossman

  WATCH: The Palestine Laboratory & Surveillance Capitalism Israel uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology they then export around the world to despots and democracies, says journalist Antony Lowenstein. A  new book by journalist  Antony Loewenstein ,  The Palestine Laboratory , (Scribe Publications) explores how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world. Presented in this video by journalist  Peter Cronau , Loewenstein’s co-editor at  Declassified Australia  and co-author of  A Secret Australia . Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected th

  The beginning of the backlash against gender ideology CARLOS RAMALHETE The water first recedes, then comes back a lot stronger. So does the societal recognition of human nature It’s very hard to know when to stop. And right now we are witnessing in real time the consequences of pushing an act too far. I’m talking about the literally-revolutionary ideology that tries to pretend the essential differences between males and females are just accidents of upbringing. As with many errors of the last half-millennium, it is a function of  Ockham’s error . Trying to keep things simple — usually a good idea — he denied the objective existence of those things that are shared by many related individual beings. For him, the fact that there are horses would not imply that there would be a  horseness  independent of each horse, something beyond and behind each individual horse, something that would exist even if there were no more horses. That essential horseness of each horse, in his view, would be