The Post-Partisan Emporium

Back to the Land On Generating Self-Worth Heather Heying In the Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia, Polyface Farm is a beacon. Joel Salatin, the proprietor, has created a farm so vital, the land itself seems to breathe. Unlike much modern agriculture, which relies heavily on capital, electricity, and infrastructure, Polyface Farm relies primarily on people. Polyface Farm  has beckoned me since 2006, when Michael Pollan’s  The Omnivore’s Dilemma  came out, and I, like so many others, fell in awe with Joel Salatin and his farm. I was a professor at one of the country’s most liberal colleges then, and when I assigned Pollan’s book to my students, they too fell for the promises therein: that we can and we must remember what we have been, what the Earth is, what we are all capable of, and grow our food and communities with attention to ancient and actually sustainable ways. Back then, Salatin reports, about 80% of the visitors to Polyface Farm were on the left, politically—...

  "This Is War": Catherine Austin Fitts On Land Grabs, The Evils Of CBDC, And Fighting 'The Most Invasive Form Of Tyranny That's Ever Existed' by Tyler Durden Investment banker  Catherine Austin Fitts  sat down for a wide-ranging interview, in which she warned about the future of food security, digital financial surveillance via Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), and fighting back against  "the most invasive form of tyranny that's ever existed." Sitting down with  Breeauna Sagdal - Senior Policy Fellow at The Beef Initiative , Fitts paints a picture of  modern society teetering between high-tech control and a rebirth of grounded living . For starters, people need to  take control  of what they put into their bodies... The Cost of Health in an Age of Wealth Fitts recounted what we all know;  just because you're rich doesn't mean you have two brain cells to rub together  - noting that when she was an investment advisor, clie...