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Roy Dodd

@EverywhereRoyIs

Opinionated Patriot

Florida, USA Katılım Mayıs 2019
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Attorney General Ken Paxton
Thank you, @DonaldTrump! Polls are now open. Bring five friends with you. Post your photos to remind Texans that today is election day! Let's work together to make Texas great.
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
The Ica Valley sits on the Peruvian coast, north-west of Lima, at the foot of the Andes. It is one of the driest inhabited places on Earth. Annual rainfall is measured in single millimetres. Without external water, almost nothing grows there. In the early 2000s, the Peruvian government, supported by the US and the World Bank, designated the Ica Valley as a hub for high-value export agriculture. The land was cheap. The labour was cheap. The climate, paradoxically, was perfect for crops that respond well to sunshine and controlled irrigation. The water would come from the aquifer beneath the valley, drawn up through wells at minimal cost to the agribusinesses that bought up the land. The crop that drove the expansion was asparagus. Between 1990 and 2013, the area under asparagus in Ica went from around 410 hectares to over 10,000. Asparagus is a thirsty crop. It requires 15,000 to 17,000 cubic metres of water per hectare per year. By 2004, annual groundwater extraction in the valley had already exceeded the aquifer's natural recharge rate. By 2013 the overdraft was extracting 60% more water than the aquifer could replace. In some areas the water table is now dropping by eight metres per year, one of the fastest rates of aquifer depletion recorded anywhere in the world. Small farmers, who relied on shallow wells, found their wells dry. The local water utility is now struggling to supply the city of Ica. Some of the export companies themselves, including Athos, one of the largest, have begun retiring asparagus fields because the water is no longer there. 99% of Peruvian asparagus is exported. A large proportion of it goes to British supermarkets, where it appears year-round, frequently labelled in a way that emphasises freshness and a green, vegetal wholesomeness. The asparagus on the British plate in February is a unit of water that has been pumped out of a desert aquifer in a country 6,300 miles away. The water is non-renewable on any human timescale. The aquifer is not being refilled. The valley is being mined. The British grass on the Welsh hillside is being watered by rain. The rain is free, and arrives whether or not anyone is paying attention. We have built a system in which the difficult thing is easy and the easy thing is being made impossible.
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Scott Adams
Scott Adams@ScottAdamsSays·
2005 Dilbert Classics Week
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Dagen McDowell
Dagen McDowell@dagenmcdowell·
My great-great-grandfather McDowell with some of his children traveling to bury son Guy McDowell at Arlington. 6th Cavalry World War I We are the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.
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Skscartoon@skscartoon·
So, no more talks about eh Save ACT?
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Braxton McCoy
Braxton McCoy@braxton_mccoy·
If you're tempted to think the internet needs to be turned off remember that without it we wouldn't be able to see people in India writing in their own words. Constant scams, then they talk about our country like they're just waiting for their chance to visit the America ATM.
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Tactical Wisdom
Tactical Wisdom@DolioJ·
Since we just sunk Iranian boats emplacing mines during a "cease fire", with them allegedly planning to "open the Strait", can we just acknowledge that there is NO AGREEMENT that Iran will honor, even in part? Even if Daddy T got the agreement. They LIE.
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AJAC
AJAC@AJA_Cortes·
Cardio and resistance training is the difference between 65 and 85. GO TRAIN
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Konstantin Kisin
Konstantin Kisin@KonstantinKisin·
The world is not a safe space. The liberal world order didn’t survive because everyone agreed with it. It survived because the West was strong enough to defend it. Meanwhile, the Europeans are busy debating whether free speech is too offensive while China, Russia and the rest of the world are playing for power. Weakness is not a virtue. It’s an invitation.
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Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter
This is in Cincinnati, Ohio. Me and who are coming to see it?
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Jeremy Ryan Slate@JeremyRyanSlate

@JoshuaLisec Cincinnati was name after the mythical Roman Cincinnatus. He held the office of dictator twice in his life solved the crisis both times and went back to farming, the Roman ideal. It’s why George Washington was called the American Cincinnatus.

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ThePersistence
ThePersistence@ScottPresler·
Texas polls are now open! 👉Get out & vote for Ken Paxton👈 You have from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. to vote.
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