future of farming?

 I can't find a link, but in season five episode 3 of Clarkson's farm is about the supermechines and high tech farming of the future.

When I fist visited the Philippines, the planting was with waterbuffalo and our staff took off to harvest their fields by hand. We supplied a small thresher to separate the seed from the stem, so that was a help.

But slowly the farmers who now own what was once Lolo's farthers farm, were gifted it by land reform, are now getting older and their kids don't want to work. So they are selling the land to returning overseas workers who rent it out to tenant farmer, often from poorer areas of the Philippines. And now many have sold or rented their fields to the company putting up a huge solar farm in our area.

Over the years, the water buffalo were replaced by handthreshers ((a small roto tiller) and in more recent years, we rent a huge harvester thresher to bring in the crop. We still plant by hand but give it some time and there are machines that do that.

We are organic, and with fertilizer prices going up (first the Ukraine war stopped potash exports and now the increased price of diesel and petroleum based fertilizer) the price of organic fertilizer, mainly from the local chicken and pig farms, is also going up.

So how do we make a profit? We barely make one: and it was made worse when one of the rice buyers absconded after buying it with a check that bounceed.

Sigh.

So yes we are still growing rice in our area, but what is also going on is looking for gold in the subsoil. Not much gold there, but hey when farmers earn less than ten dollars a day, every little bit helps.

I am not sure how many rice paddies are now no longer growing rice, but you have to remember that the Philippines imports food. Of course, the rich businessmen make oodles of money importing cheap rice so they benefit. This keeps the price of rice low which is good for the poor and working class in the cities, but is discouraging for local farmers.

So although I doubt we will ever go as mechanical as the European farm machines shown to Mr Clarkson, what worries me is that their prices will be another blow to local farmers. This happened a few years ago, when cheap imported onions from Europe undercut local farmers prices.

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update;

article about the farm they visited:

In episode three, Jeremy Clarkson and his team cross the border into the Netherlands and Belgium. There, they visit Rotterdam, among other places, where they take a look at the futuristic Floating Farm. A floating farm, in other words. We see Clarkson look skeptical at first, and then become amazed by technology he doesn't actually believe in.

normies in the news

 Mike Rowe's TV show showed the Hollywood types how normal folks worked.

And now he has a podcast on Youtube.

The latest discussion is with the VP:

there are also links to normal people podcast.

why are the Karens so unhappy and fat

Instapundit has a link to the danger of brain tumors to birth control hormones. the discus discussion is quite interesting. 

 You know, what no one wants to notice: How the hormones in Birth Control pills cause behavior changes. 

The older high estrogen pills not so much but the newer high progesterone ones and the BCShot does. 

And don't get me started on the hormones they use for infertility and endometriosis, which we see in older ladies who haven't had babies in their twenties.

(Yes the same medicines they use to transition kids.(and treat certain cancers). 

So we pollute out water supply with waste water estrogen and progesterone, not to mention hormones given to animals, and of course phytoestrogens in plastics and Glyphosate in herbicides. So down goes the sperm count. Up goes the metabolic syndrome and obesity.

and no one wants to mention that having and nursing ten kids and running around taking care of them will keep you thin.

the alternative is having ten kids and getting rid of plastics which make life easier and safer (No broken glass bottles). And mass starvation because weeds are destroying the crops.

 
Sigh. 

Happy happy Americans

 

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and I didn't realize the big ships were coming for the celebration.

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then we have the concert in Washington DC

Happy Birthday USA

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But Independence day remind me of the the Boston Pops, who would play this as an encore to their concerts:

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Then you have this story about the fans who came to the US to watch the World Cup and discovered that what they thought they knew  about the USA was wrong. Duh.    

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Ironically, almost no one on the discussion groups has noticed that. \the later episodes of this series is about the US revolution, including the Battle of Saratoga, and now has ended with the Battle of Kings Mountain. 

Modern Martyrs

 

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this was in 2023....

of course these are not the only martyrs killed by the enemies of those who   hate Catholicism or Christianity and of course these same evil types attack the pious of other religions including Judism, Hinduism, Islam. 

Will the movie encourage right wing violence?

 the new controversial movie that is banned in some places (So Elon let it be put on X) is a modern day imitation of Charles Bronson's Death Wish movie.

No, I didn't watch it nor will I watch it in the future because it is violence porn.

So will it encourage right wing nutcases to do the same thing in Europe and in the USA?

Probably: copycat crimes are a known public health problem:  

Yet the recent rape gang report in the UK suggests it was covered up, and there are anecdotes that similar crimes are not punished in Europe. So this film will encourage vigilante justice and suggests the use of weapons for self defense might become more common

But no one wants to admit this is already happening: But by the left,  and its shocktroops of Antifa.

We read about left wing folk on line spouting non stop hatred of working class folk who are called MAGA, or who are justifying murder and making heroes out of those who murder for political reasons. 

one does hope that payback murders against criminals and crooked politicians in the USA and Europe doesn't reach the point of what happens here in the Philippines.  

sigh.

I remember the African Proverb that warns: Even a small snake has a fang.

There is a need to spread peace, but alas pacifism always suggests normies need to be peaceful but rarely points out the crimes that they are angry about because the pacifists always underestimate the depth of evil.

refugees unwelcome: Some things never change

Thousands of migrants are fleeing South Africa amid xenophobic violence and ahead of planned anti-immigrant protests on June 30. Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, and Mozambique are repatriating citizens following the events, with many camping outside consular offices. pic.twitter.com/ktO5T7gMGt

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 26, 2026

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So it's not just some in the USA trying to get rid of migrants who flood their country, don't assimilate, steal the jobs of locals, and often resort to crime to live. It is also happening in parts of Europe. 

Myself, I oppose sending people back to places like Haiti which is still in chaos, and now Venezuela has had an earthquake, so would you send people there? Regan had the right idea: Those with jobs and assimilated should get an amnesty. 

However, the Somalis who defrauded the government via NGO type stuff, and drug gangs, no problem. Throw them out or put them in jail.

Assimilation is a big problem, and in the USA it has been a problem, and local xenophobia against those from a different culture is not a new thing: The Knownothing riots of the 1844 for example was against the Irish Catholics, who were poor and uneducated fleeing the Irish Famine, but their presence exacerbated the anti Catholic prejudices inherited from England. This prejudice was still around when JFK ran for president and he had to point out that he would not push Catholic law into US law, because he would take the oath to defend the constitution: something that ordinary Muslims might want to tell the loudmouths pushing Sharia law into the USA to learn this lesson because their statements about making this into US law is making those of that religion unpopular in some areas.

Most Yanks reading about this (in AlJ, since I doubt the US MSM even knows that it isn't just white Boer farmers fleeing that country) don't realize that South Africa has a problem with African refugees too.

this film was made years ago in 2009, based on a 2005 short film at a time when the huge influx of refugees from starvation and deliberate eviction of the middle class who opposed Mugabe in Zimbabwe filled the slums of South AFrica.

The original inspiration was the treatment of black South Africans under apartheid, but the short film was made to satirize the negative attitudes of South Africans to the refugees.

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so remember this film the next time Steven Spielberg and others tell you that the people from outer space just want to help you and are superior.

The refugees in District 9 are slaves who revolted against their masters, and fled to earth. But hey, it could have been worse (/s)

Earthquake in Venezuela

 

Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.1 and 7.5 shook Venezuela and were felt in Colombia

that is a powerful earthquake and hit near Caracas... reports from later suggest thousands may have been killed.

Finding the covid cover up

the fact that Lancet quickly published an article denying covid came from the lab that was written by Ecohealth's leader withoug telling those reading it that Ecohealth had money links to the covid virus being experimented on in Wuhan lab

Not to mention the coverup of possible treatments, which if given early (not when you went into ICU) could have lessened the problem.

Summary of press propaganda in the UK

Lotus Eaters podcast discuss how the UK press distorted the story of a school girl who carried an ax to protect herself and her sister.

a good reporter would have gone into the neighborhood and maybe to the school to see if similar sexual harassment or worse happened to their preteen girls. But no, instead the press backed the government propaganda.

two reasons I posted this:

One: it shows how press bias happened, and it suggests why the press ignored the grooming gangs for the last 40 years

Two: It shows the importance of Twitter in exposing grass roots news stories at a time when the mainstream press is failing their job in exploring the truth.

And suggests the UK aim to stop the internet access is more about controlling the news than about protecting the children