The Agrarian Imagination: The Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky ‘s Moral Underground
“A great deal depends upon a right relationship with the soil; the right relationship with the soil is the basis for the right relationship with one another.”Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America (1977) In today’s world, food and land are increasingly dominated by huge corporations and global supply chains. These […]
Economy
How Food Industry Lobbyists Keep the Food-Stamp Gravy Train Going
Unless members of Congress intervene to prevent it, the food stamp program—also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—will be suspended beginning November 1. If the federal partial “shutdown” ends before then, the program will likely send out the usual billions of dollars to the nation’s 41 million recipients on […]
Empire
Operation Arctic Frost — BIDEN’S WATERGATE
Paranoia surrounding the security of Joe Biden’s presidency reverberated throughout the US intelligence agencies. Questioning the results of the 2020 Presidential Election was seen as a direct threat to Biden’s power, resulting in Operation Arctic Frost—a secret spying campaign carried out against the “Biden administration enemies list.” Former Special Counsel […]
Activism
Are Democrats Trying To Start A Civil War?
Whenever you delve into the modern history of internal national conflict you’re bound to come across post-crisis accounts from people who said “We never saw it coming…” or “The violence hit us from nowhere…” Generally speaking, these were the people who weren’t paying attention and they just happened to survive […]
Health
Calling Dr. Grok. Can AI Do Better than Your Primary Physician?
My experience with Grok has been excellent. Here’s another opinion from the WSJ. Wall Street Journal author Daniel Akst says I Finally Have a Physician Who’s Available and Who Gets Me. Meet Dr. Grok. That’s a free link. Here are a few snips. My Experience with Grok I frequently tag Grok […]
Tech
Laptop Class on Notice
The AI-Powered Restructuring Amazon was busy this week, sending out pink slips. When it’s all said and done, this massive round of layoffs could hit up to 30,000 employees. This amounts to about 10 percent of the entire corporate workforce. The reduction in force (RIF) is expected to spread across several […]
Crypto
Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Lengthy ‘FTX Was Never Insolvent’ Document
The disgraced FTX founder resurfaced on social media with a sprawling self-defense arguing that customers could have been made whole in 2022. What to know: Sam-Bankman Fried is once again arguing that he’s innocent. The former FTX chief posted a lengthy document on X this week claiming that the exchange “was never […]
Podcasts
Debunking the fraud of Global Warming and other Popular Delusions
Debunking the fraud of Global Warming and other Popular Delusions by Matthew Ehret Read on Substack In this podcast with Tom Nelson, I discuss my works and perspectives on global warming, suggesting it’s based on faulty science and used for political manipulation by oligarchs desiring a neo-feudal society. I critique figures […]
Solutions
The Agrarian Imagination: The Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky ‘s Moral Underground
“A great deal depends upon a right relationship with the soil; the right relationship with the soil is the basis for the right relationship with one another.”Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America (1977) In today’s world, food and land are increasingly dominated by huge corporations and global supply chains. These […]