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Holly at Altitude

@Cholly

2x founder - building #3 now, occasional writer, blockchain curious, golf fanatic, into food freedom. Accurate & free elections maxi

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The Epoch Times
The Epoch Times@EpochTimes·
🚨China Owns 277,336 Acres of US Farmland—What to Know Their investments in U.S. agricultural land are dispersed nationwide. Read more
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Felix Prehn 🐶
Felix Prehn 🐶@felixprehn·
It is now illegal for most American farmers to do what farmers have done for 10,000 years. Save seeds from their harvest to plant next season. Four corporations control over 60% of global seed sales. Bayer-Monsanto. Corteva. Syngenta-ChemChina. BASF. Over 80% of all corn and more than 90% of all soybeans planted in the United States use patented biotech seeds. Farmers sign licensing agreements that prohibit saving, replanting, or sharing seeds. Every season requires a new purchase. Seed prices have increased over 300% since 1995. In the 1990s, most farmers saved a portion of their harvest to plant the following year. Seed companies genetically engineered crops to be resistant to specific herbicides, most notably Monsanto's Roundup Ready system. The seeds worked. Yields improved. Farmers adopted them rapidly. Then the patents locked in. Monsanto deployed a team of private investigators to audit farms suspected of replanting patented seeds. They filed over 150 lawsuits against American farmers. Settlements and judgments totaled over $23 million. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Bowman v. Monsanto (2013) that patent protections extend to self-replicating technologies including seeds. Farmers who had planted one crop with patented seeds could not legally replant the offspring of those seeds. The biology of reproduction itself was patented. Today, the four largest seed companies spend more on intellectual property enforcement and patent filings than many of them spend on R&D for new crop varieties. The consolidation of the seed industry is one of the least discussed monopoly structures in the global economy. Corteva (CTVA) was spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 as a pure-play agricultural sciences company. They control roughly 20% of the global corn seed market and are the largest seed company in the Western hemisphere. Revenue exceeded $17 billion. Operating margins are expanding as they shift toward higher-value biotech seeds and crop protection products. The pricing power comes from the fact that once a farmer is in the Corteva seed ecosystem, switching costs are significant because crop protection products are designed to work with specific seed genetics. Deere & Company (DE) sits at the intersection of the seed monopoly and the equipment monopoly. Modern precision agriculture requires Deere's GPS-guided tractors and automated planters to work in concert with biotech seed prescriptions. The software layer that connects equipment to seed to data is becoming the most valuable part of the farm. Revenue exceeded $51 billion. The precision agriculture division is growing faster than the equipment division. For broader agricultural exposure, the Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) tracks a basket of agricultural commodity futures. When seed costs rise, crop production costs rise, which supports higher commodity prices. The farmers absorb the input cost increase. The commodity market passes it to consumers. The companies selling the seeds and the equipment capture margins on both sides. The seed monopoly is a toll booth on the global food supply. 8 billion people eat every day. Four companies control the genetics. I'm hosting a once in a lifetime webinar where I go over the exact things I know as a former banker and world class investor. 100% free to join. Sign up with the link in my comments.
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Ian Speir
Ian Speir@IanSpeir·
Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law. Please understand: - I do not practice immigration law. - I do not practice criminal law. - Nothing about my civil practice has anything to do with this. And yet because I cannot log into the State's official e-filing system without saluting The Resistance, I now cannot represent my clients, file lawsuits, access cases, file documents in existing cases, etc. If I click "Decline," it kicks me out of the system. I must click "Accept" to access the system and continue representing my civil clients -- again, in cases that have absolutely nothing to do with immigration law or policy. I've read SB 25-276 (the law referred to below). It does not regulate me as a private attorney or any of the clients I represent in civil matters. This is outrageous draconian overreach. I have ethical obligations to my clients to represent them competently. My existing cases have running deadlines that I must attend to. Judges issue orders in my cases that I must follow. If I don't click "Accept" in order to access the State's e-filing system, I will harm my clients, torpedo my practice, and probably commit malpractice. So, I have no choice. I'm clicking "Accept" under protest.
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Ashe in America
Ashe in America@AsheinAmerica·
SCHLEIKER: "...the Executive Director independently contacted several of El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s vendors and spoke negatively about me and the situation. That approach is not professional and does not reflect appropriate boundaries."
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SaveLBI
SaveLBI@saveLBIorg·
Another whale has washed ashore on the NJ coast—a humpback, approximately 30 feet long, found in Sandy Hook today. At the same time, construction on the Empire Wind 1 offshore project has resumed, now underway just 19 miles offshore. Grateful to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center for their tireless efforts responding to these heartbreaking events.
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Ashe in America
Ashe in America@AsheinAmerica·
There are before and after images in Elbert, too. Jena seized them and tried to punish Dallas Schroeder (Clerk), but taking the images wasn’t a crime. So “she” (Beall, et al) just slandered him (and Rhonda Braun who is literally the best of humanity) and wasted other people’s money to keep their story going and prevent anyone from analyzing the Elbert images. They made taking the images a crime in 2022. Tina isn’t charged with or convicted of any election related crime. We never got to see those Elbert images. I have a bet with a few folks here about whether or not they still exist. Maybe we should recap that whole Elbert saga next…🫣✌🏼 What do you think @Cholly @ShawnSmith1776 @ElJefe53209440?
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Momo🥵🇨🇦
Momo🥵🇨🇦@Momoreoluwaa·
there are wicked people and there’s this old man😂
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Katie Hopkins
Katie Hopkins@KTHopkins·
Fair play to the dude who was nearly swallowed headfirst by her mighty clunge Sucked into the vagina vortex, whole. Like a riverside Burmese found inside a python.
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Insider Wire
Insider Wire@InsiderWire·
#BREAKING: ‘Shelter in Place’ warning issued for Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.
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E X X ➠A L E R T S
E X X ➠A L E R T S@ExxAlerts·
ALERT: 300-pound hammerhead shark lifted by a crane off of a Naples beach in Florida.
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Holly at Altitude@Cholly·
Look into Amber McReynolds. She’s a Biden appointee to the position United States Postal Service Board of Governors and is still in the role AFAIK. She’s one of the masterminds behind universal mail in voting and has deep leftist ties. My point is- McReynolds has big backers and is likely advocating for all types of USPS shenanigans
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Congressman Brandon Gill
Congressman Brandon Gill@RepBrandonGill·
USPS is allowing non-domiciled CDL holders to haul US mail. This is a major problem that needs to be fixed immediately.
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Mrs. S.
Mrs. S.@hshLauraJ·
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Cary Kelly
Cary Kelly@CaryKelly11·
Remember the Florida woman who filed a lawsuit against a raw milk supplier in Florida after blaming a miscarriage on their products? The lawsuit was dismissed. The Dept of Health never even visited the farm. Independent tests came back negative. Dept of Agriculture inspected and passed the farm. No products from Keely Farms Dairy were ever physically linked to the outbreak. The press was all over the first half of this story but you have to do a deep dive to find anything about the conclusion.
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Holly at Altitude@Cholly·
@TheShawnHendrix You’re going to need 100 pairs bc they break and you gotta stash em everywhere. Quantity over quality my fren 😄
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Shawn Hendrix
Shawn Hendrix@TheShawnHendrix·
Today I became old. Just bought my first set of readers. Just some cheap ones. What’s the best ones to get ?
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Shadow of Ezra
Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra·
Brigitte Macron, while at the White House, says the First Amendment needs to be restricted and limited because too many young children are suffering. She says she can read signals from these young children. “I think that liberty does have some rules. We have to be free, but adapt to certain codes.”
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Rifat
Rifat@rifatfarhan28·
How did they convince the model for doing this? 😭😭😭
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