James Akrigg

Farmer, free thinker, anti-authoritarian, anti-war, peace loving hippy

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Diesel hit $6 a gallon this week. Oil is over $105 a barrel.

But tonight, I want you to forget about barrels of oil for a minute.

Look at this mama cow.

To most people, she’s just a cow standing in a field.

To the rancher who owns her, she’s so much more.

She represents thousands of dollars invested with absolutely no guarantee of a return.

She represents hay put up on the hottest days of summer so she’ll have something to eat on the coldest nights of winter.

She represents frozen fingers breaking ice, muddy boots at 2:00 in the morning, sleepless nights during calving season, vet bills, feed bills, fuel bills, busted equipment and miles of fence that never seem to stay fixed.

She represents birthdays missed, dinners interrupted and plans changed because the cattle don’t know it’s Sunday, Christmas morning, or your kid’s ballgame.

And after all of that, she gets one chance each year to raise one calf.

One.

The rancher feeds her for 365 days.

Checks her when she’s sick.

Watches over her when she’s calving.

Prays for rain when the grass turns brown.

Prays for sunshine when it’s time to make hay.

And when that calf finally goes to market, the rancher doesn’t get to name his price.

He takes what the market gives him.

Sometimes there’s a profit.

Sometimes there’s barely enough to keep going.

And sometimes, after an entire year of work, there’s nothing left at all.

Yet the next morning, before daylight, that rancher gets up and does it again.

Why?

Because agriculture has never just been about money.

It’s about watching a newborn calf take its first breath.

It’s about seeing your children (or grandson David) riding beside you checking cows.

It’s about looking across a pasture your father or grandfather once worked and knowing you’re carrying something forward that money can’t buy.

It’s about leaving your children more than land.

It’s leaving them a way of life.

Every steak on a grill and every pound of hamburger in a grocery store started somewhere like this—with a mama cow and a farmer or rancher willing to take the risk.

Behind that package of beef is somebody’s land.

Somebody’s savings.

Somebody’s sweat.

Somebody’s sleepless night.

Somebody’s family.

Somebody’s dream.

And a whole lot of faith.

So when you look at that mama cow, don’t just see cattle.

See the family behind her.

See the sacrifice.

See the generations.

See the prayers.

See the people who keep doing it—not because it’s easy, and certainly not because they’re guaranteed to get rich.

They do it because feeding people is more than their business.

It’s their life. 🇺🇸🐂

*Cow and calf in picture are from Ingle Herefords in Murfreesboro, Tn.

This post was originally from Mountain Top Cattle Co. in Warm Springs, Wv. Thank you for sharing! 

[bu/ac @buperac]

Ladies and Gentlemen here is a fantastic analysis on Ursula Von der Leyen that proudly admitted Mark Carney & Canada into the EU.

A look into a horrible future awaits us all.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

"It's you who attacked Russia!"

Slovak MEP Blaha sets the record straight:

"The biggest hybrid threat to Europe isn't Russia. It's Ms Kallas, who wants to drag us into nuclear war.

Your anti-Russian rhetoric is on par with the Nazis."

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Someone's not happy with the president of the EU.

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇨🇦🇺🇦 The Canadian government has applied for a $841mil loan from the World Bank to Ukraine.

In events Kiev can't pay back this loan, Canada will be forced to pay as the guarantor.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

The fake nationalists of all these places have to the dumbest motherfuckers on these islands.

They harp on about independence and wanting to break free from Englands control, just to instantly hand that control over to the EU, which isn't independence.

They are fine with wearing the collar, they just want to change who is holding the leash.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

The West is so indoctrinated to claim they are fighting for democracy when the entire Minsk Agreement was to allow the Donbas to vote.

When Crimea voted to join Russia, they claimed the vote was rigged. Yet the people in the Crimea are Russian.

The West refuses to tell the truth about anything.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Yemeni fighter whit heart of lion.
This is Yemen 💕

[Disputing Sunnah @DisputingSunnah]

In Yemen, they have so many AK47’s, they use them to jump start cars 😂😂😂

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

Ukrainian oligarch and close friend with Zelensky, Viktor Pinchuk has just bought a €200,000,000 yacht.

Meanwhile, the average European taxpayer is expected to slave away for Ukraine and illegal migration. And the average Ukrainian man is drafted in handcuffs to the trenches.

– Information exposed by Ukrainian Journalist, @anatoliisharii

[روني الدنماركي @aldnmarki]

The American taxpayer has truly been generous this time!

[Q @Qshizzle97]

I’m combining in the dark, someone please thank me for farming and working so hard moving the reel up and down sometimes

[Canada Roast @CanadaRoast]

🔴 Where I live
🔵 Where my tax dollars go

[James Akrigg @james_akrigg]

@JeromyYYC Слава России!

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

At Babi Yar, during the Ukrainian Holocaust of WWII, the Ukrainian Nazis murdered 33,000 Jews in the ravine over just two days.

July 11th is the day of remembrance where the Ukrainian Nazis slaughtered 100,000 Polish and to this day, Ukraine has refused to issue a formal apology.

The documentation is extensive. The sheer hatred of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis is unprecedented in history. They make the German Nazis look like boy scouts.

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

Zelensky’s prosecutors arrested for corruption.

MILLIONS dollars in cash.

The scale of the theft is staggering.

Got fresh money ready?

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

Zelensky's mafia collapsing.

Since yesterday nobody can find the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

After millions of dollars been found in his office, he is hiding.

He is accused of covering scam call-centers that were stealing money from elders in the USA and Europe.

I already told you they steal about $1 BILLION PER MONTH

$12,000,000,000 a year.

Scammers of Ukraine have profit bigger than Space X and Tesla.

In Ukraine thousands of scam call-centers and all of them are controlled by law enforcement and intelligence agencies: Prosecutor’s Office, SBU, GUR, Police...

Power structures collect the money, but the whole cashflow goes up - to the President’s office. To Zelensky.

Zelensky is the head of mafia.