Under the American Midwest sits an ocean of fossil water that took the last Ice Age to fill. We are draining it to grow corn, much of it for fuel, and it does not come back.
- The Ogallala aquifer is fossil water, banked over thousands of years as the glaciers melted
- It is now drained each year by a volume some estimate at eighteen Colorado Rivers, far faster than rain could ever replace it
- In parts of Kansas the wells have already run dry, and Texas could lose most of its panhandle within twenty years. Once gone, the refill runs to thousands of years
- Nearly all of it is poured onto thirsty row crops a semi-desert has no business growing. Corn, soy, cotton, alfalfa
- And the federal government pays the farmers to do it. Subsidies actively reward the draining, year after year
Grass-fed cattle on permanent pasture drink the rain and move along. The irrigated grain sold as the efficient, modern, sensible way to feed people is mining water banked before the pyramids, spending it on fuel-grade corn, and billing the taxpayer for the privilege.
The man who groomed Hector and rode him through years of his service still comes to see him. Not as a one-off, not as a tidy bow on the end of the story, but regularly, whenever leave and the long drive allow, which is more often than you would expect of a busy man visiting a horse he no longer owns.
He never announces himself. He does not need to. Hector knows the note of that engine in the lane before the car is in sight, and by the time the man is out of it the old horse is at the rail, head up, ears forward, nickering across the field in the low private rumble he keeps for the few he has decided are his own. The man heard it on a hundred cold London mornings before the parades. It still goes through him every time.
For years this man mucked him out, fed him, polished his coat to black glass, and rode him down the Mall through the bands and the crowds and the saluting guns, the two of them holding the line while half a tonne of flight animal trusted a soldier to tell it the world was not ending. You do not unmake a partnership like that by handing in your kit. It goes quiet for a while, and then a car turns into a lane in Denbighshire and picks up where it left off.
They stand at the rail a long time. The man talks. Hector leans his great head into the familiar hands, content in a way he is for nobody else. There is nothing to do and nowhere to be, which is the whole point of the visit, and both of them know it.
In the background, Nelson is being Nelson.
He has assessed the reunion, judged it no concern of his, and noted that the visitor's arrival has usefully coincided with the good hay being left unguarded. He is already at it. At some point the man comes over and scratches him at the base of the ears, because Nelson has established over several visits that this is the toll, and he means to be paid. He accepts it as his due and does not look up from the hay.
Then the man goes back to Hector, and the two old soldiers stand a while longer in the quiet.
He always stays longer than he meant to, and always has to leave in the end. Hector watches the car to the turn in the lane, and then, because he is a horse who has finally learned that the people who matter come back, he puts his head down and grazes, beside a donkey who never doubted it for a second and did not look up from the hay to confirm it.
@GuntherEagleman@LordOfGordons She also didn't do mass deportations and she hasn't protected Italy's borders! She's allowed more invaders and turned into a globalist EU puppet! @GiorgiaMeloni
🚨 TRUMP TELLS IT LIKE IT IS, NO MORE BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE!
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni begged for photo ops with President Trump at the G7… but she wouldn’t let us use Italy’s runways to stop Iran from going nuclear.
Now that we handled business, she suddenly wants to be “friends” again to boost her polls?
Trump’s response: NO THANKS!!!
America First means we don’t carry dead weight. Allies need to step up or step aside.
Spot on, President Trump! 🇺🇸
Never Forget…
Deborah Birx lied to President Trump and manipulated data about guidelines, lockdowns and vaccines.
Anthony Fauci made Remdesivir and ventilators hospital protocol even though he knew it was killing patients.
They must pay for their crimes.
Pure Evil. No Mercy!
Ukraine sits on some of the most fertile soil on earth, the deep black earth that made it the breadbasket of Europe. In 1932 and 1933, on that very soil, close to four million of its people were starved to death. The soil was as rich as ever. The famine was a decision.
The decision was collectivisation. Stalin set out to abolish the independent farmer altogether, to end private land and private animals and drive every peasant onto a state-run collective farm. The man who owned a little, a few cattle, a horse, a plot worked by his own family, was branded a kulak, an enemy of the people, and marked for destruction. Stalin's instruction was to liquidate them as a class.
The peasants saw what was coming, and many made a terrible choice. Rather than surrender their animals to the state, they killed them. Across the Soviet Union the herds simply collapsed. Around half the cattle, gone. Nearly half the horses that pulled the ploughs. Two-thirds of the sheep and goats. Tens of millions of animals slaughtered in a few seasons, a loss so total that the country did not rebuild its livestock to the old levels until the 1980s. A people who had fed themselves for a thousand years destroyed their own herds rather than hand them over, and the state called it sabotage.
Then came the grain. The quotas were set impossibly high, and when the villages could not meet them, brigades went from house to house and took everything. The harvest. The seed saved for next spring. The last food in the pantry. And when the countryside had been stripped bare, the people were forbidden to leave in search of bread, sealed inside their own dying villages.
So it was that in one of the richest farming regions on the planet, the men and women who actually grew the food lay down in the lanes and died of hunger, in their millions. Some, at the very end, ate things no human being should ever have to eat.
Here is the lesson, and it is worth carving somewhere it cannot be forgotten. A man who owns his land and his animals can feed his family whoever sits in the palace. A man who depends on the state for his bread can be starved the day he steps out of line. That is why the independent farmer is always the first enemy of absolute power. Take his herds, take his fields, and you have taken the one thing that let him stand on his own.
A population that cannot feed itself will, in the end, do as it is told.
Destroy the farmer, and you hold the whole nation by the throat.
ELON NAILED IT
“The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me.”
This isn’t debate.
This is the Left’s assassination playbook.
Smear → Dehumanize → Justify violence.
They did it to Trump.
They did it to Charlie Kirk.
Now they’re running the same script on Elon.
In 1884, Ulysses S. Grant was dying of throat cancer and was dead broke.
His money was wiped out by a swindler who stole his fortune.
Desperate to leave something for his wife, he agreed to write his Civil War memoirs and was close to signing a contract for a meager 10% royalty.
Mark Twain stepped in, called the deal robbery and offered Grant 70% of the profits through his own publishing company.
Grant raced death to finish the book, completing it just days before he died in July 1885.
It became one of the greatest memoirs ever written.
The royalties left his widow nearly half a million dollars, about $16 million today, and the book has never gone out of print.
Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning.
To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it.
Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know.
They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth.
The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted.
I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.