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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.

This is huge. - Publishers running your submitted books through AI systems adds your books to the AI training data without your consent. - Your book of 300-500 pages is being reduced to an AI summary and not "read" by editors. - An AI summary will be what your book is accepted or rejected on. - If the publisher tests your book to see if it was written with AI, it will get a false positive as the AI will recognise the book from it's training data, due to this process. This has to stop and publishers must be forced by agents and writers unions to sign agreements for every book, prior to 'reading' stating that they will not put submitted books through AI systems without written consent.

Israel ARRESTED this 13 year old Palestinian girl. According to the law just passed, she could now be executed “legally” in the prison. Please don’t let them kill her. Repost this.

So let me get this straight @TeamYouTube I recorded and posted my video on 03/16/2026 LA7 used my content on 04/04/2026 and then filed a copyright on my channel? How can the YouTube system not just look at the dates and see this makes no sense.

THERE IS ONLY 2 MONTHS ONLY UNTIL MY DEADLINE IS OVER AND I ONLY GATHERED 32% OF THE FUCKING GOAL. MY LIFE IS ON THE LINE AND IDENTITY MAY BE LEAKED IRL BY HORRIBLE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO BLACKMAIL ME. THIS IS MY ONLY WAY OUT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT TRANS LIVES PLEASE DONT SCROLL.

@yasai_datta What trouble did you cause? Was it true trouble or selflish expectations on their part? People will so often say, “You caused me this grief.” when they really mean, “I want reality to be my way. Since it is not, I will blame someone else instead of changing my expectations.”

この人生、家族に申し訳なくて涙出てきた。迷惑かけて申し訳ない

Rest In Power MLK

“He took a gun to a protest” Kyle Rittenhouse did the same thing only he DID have the intention of killing people which is exactly what happened. Yet republicans made him a symbol of freedom and have continued to praise him for his actions. These people are nothing but hypocrites and it is hilarious that she has the audacity to say this is a “common sense” thing when they’re not an ounce of common sense if her pea-sized brain. If she had common sense she wouldn’t be supporting a RAPIST AND PEDOPHILE.

Trump’s kids buy into drone companies Trump cancels existing drone contracts Trump’s kids’ companies get military contracts Trump starts wars Trump’s kids’ try to sell their drones to the countries being attacked because of Trump’s wars 👉🏻 This is what corruption looks like.

Israel killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon. They were wearing blue helmets. They were in UN uniforms. They were peacekeepers. Israel bombed them anyway. Not a peep in Western media. Not a word from the international community. Kick Israel out of the UN.

When I was 12 years old I learned diabetics in the United States were being slowly-but-surely murdered by CEOs price gouging a medicine invented by men who explicitly gave it to the commons. Suffering horrific deaths by no fault of their own. On that day I became a socialist.

why is there actually, legitimately, discourse around reading speed right now “8 hours to read a book is slow” “you should be able to read a book in 3-5 hours” bro we are in a literacy CRISIS, i do not care how fast or slow you read a book, just pick one up and read it

For fifty years, she trusted him. Then the police found the videos. Gisèle Pelicot believed she knew her life. A long marriage, three children, grandchildren, and a quiet home in Provence. To anyone looking from the outside, they were a perfect couple. Solid. Enviable. Then the signs began. Unexplained exhaustion. Memory gaps. Clumps of hair falling out. Physical problems no doctor could explain. Test after test—no answers. One day, she looked him in the eyes. — “Are you drugging me?” He was offended. Denied everything. And she… believed him. After fifty years together, how do you doubt? In November 2020, everything collapsed. Her husband, Dominique Pelicot, was arrested for filming women under their skirts in a supermarket. A disturbing crime, but one that seemed far removed from their private life. Then the police analyzed his devices. And they found something unimaginable. Thousands of videos. Gisèle. In their bed. Unconscious. Violated. By him. And by dozens of men he had invited himself. For nearly ten years, Dominique had been dissolving drugs into her food and drinks. He made her lose consciousness. Then he assaulted her. And he didn’t stop there. He entered online forums, contacted men willing to take part. Around fifty responded. Ordinary men. Fathers. Professionals. “Normal” people. They entered that home. Abused an unconscious woman. Were filmed. And then returned to their lives. As if nothing had happened. She remembered nothing. She would wake up exhausted, confused. And he would talk about stress. Menopause. Fatigue. The man she trusted the most… was the one destroying her. When she discovered the truth, her life split in two. It wasn’t just betrayal. It was an entire existence built on a lie. Fifty-one men were charged. French law offered her protection and anonymity. A closed trial. She could disappear. No one would judge her. But Gisèle did something no one expected. She said no. At seventy-two, she chose to show herself. To say her name. To make everything public. — “The shame must change sides.” For months, she attended every hearing. She watched the footage. Listened to the justifications. Some claimed they thought she was pretending. Others argued that the husband’s consent was enough. No one wanted to face the simplest truth. An unconscious person cannot give consent. On December 19, 2024, the verdict came. All were convicted. Dominique received twenty years. He will likely die in prison. Outside the courthouse, Gisèle spoke calmly. — “I wanted society to see.” And then she turned to other women: — “You are not alone. This is my fight too.” Her voice spread across France—and beyond. People began to speak about chemical submission, about consent, about responsibility, about a culture that for too long has asked victims to stay silent. She did the opposite. She took silence… and destroyed it. She could have hidden. Disappeared. Protected herself. Instead, she stayed. In front of everyone. And she said: look. Look at what happens when no one is looking. She didn’t seek justice only for herself. She changed something for millions. She gave shame back to where it truly belongs. Not to those who survive. But to those who harm. At seventy-two, Gisèle Pelicot showed a simple and powerful truth: it is never too late to reclaim your voice. And to remind the world… where the blame truly lies.

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BREAKING: The U.S. government will now insure losses up to $40 billion for oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. But they can’t insure you if you get cancer or have a heart attack. Big oil is more important than your life in Trump’s America. Did you vote for that?

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HR: We lost the new hire today. CEO: What happened? HR: He resigned after his first week. CEO: That makes no sense. We doubled his previous salary. HR: Yes, but salary was not the issue. CEO: Then what was? HR: You asked him why he left at exactly 5:00 p.m. And why he left the office before you did. CEO: I was just trying to understand his mindset. HR: He understood it clearly. He felt the company was not paying for his work, but for control over his time. CEO: But commitment matters. HR: So do boundaries. He finished his work, met expectations, and left on time. But instead of that being seen as professionalism, it was treated like a lack of loyalty. CEO: People should not rush out of the office. HR: He was not rushing out. He was simply leaving when the workday ended. CEO: Still, it did not look right. HR: That is exactly why he left. He realized very quickly that even with better pay, the culture expected presenteeism over performance. CEO: That is unfortunate. HR: Yes. We offered him double the salary, but also gave him a preview of a workplace where leaving on time becomes a character issue. CEO: So what are you saying? HR: If employees are judged for having boundaries, then no amount of money will make them stay. A higher salary can attract people. But if respect for time is missing, it will not keep them.