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Do you like to wear hats?What is there not to like?They protect you from the suns attempts to frazzle, and the rains efforts in dilute your mind.Are a wonderful impromptu receptacle for holding screws, bolts and bits of of machinery when fixing dead appliances.They disguise that most unwanted male trait, hair loss.An ideal companion when out collecting pebbles, twigs various natural foodstuffs. Please be warned though, blackberries are not an ideal guest in your hat or cap and can leave one looking like you are suffering a severe head wound if they are not ‘completely’ removed prior to putting it back on your head.A suitable makeshift fan to cool both self, better half and over excited children.Equally a reasonable device to help generate a decent flame for an bonfire.Act as a replacement for a small shopping bag when a dozen eggs are picked up from a local farm.Source of amusement for both you and various onlookers when trying to swat annoying flying insects.Ideal place to host parking tickets, entrance tickets, passes and the like.Means of carrying water to a rather thirsty and dehydrated Austin A40 (my Dad this time).A not so suitable means of head protection when riding a motorbike. My Dad and uncle this time, Dad towing, yes I did say towing, my uncle and his Ariel Square Four with a braided washing line with his BSA 650. Flat caps worn back-to-front, goggles on…goggles blown off in hedgerow, flat-caps shortly to follow.An unexpected though ruthlessly efficient means of delivering instant death to unwanted vermin (my Grandad this time, in one single movement removing a flat cap from his head and swiping it at speed across the back of a rat).Removes the need to carry and therefore lose, expensive sunglassesCan there be any finer male adornment than a dark grey Borsalino fedora, charcoal Lock & Co trilby or indeed a Kangol Herringbone flat cap?

A lot of us naively believe that we can build our new cities without taking any bit of agricultural or forest land. The fact is that there is hardly any good land left in India that somebody is not already using for something.40,000 acres is about 161 sq km. That is barely enough for a major city. London and Delhi are about 10 times bigger than that. If things go by plan, up to a quarter of Andhra's 5 crore people will live in this major metropolis extending from Guntur to Vijayawada. How do you accommodate that big a population with all their apartments, schools, roads and hospitals?Maybe AP could build its capital in western Rayalseema districts without a lot of fields. If you build the capital in say Anantapur district, where would you get the water to support crores of future residents to this new capital city? The district is bone dry as it is. You need a massive water source to support a crore people.Historically, great cities have always been built next to rivers or other great water sources. In case of AP, this would have to be Krishna or Godavari. The problem is that every bit of land next to these rivers is fertile & used for agriculture. There is no way to build a great city without taking agricultural lands and that was true of most of the great cities in the world - whether it is Delhi or London or New York.Andhra Pradesh has an area of 3,95,87,200 acres of which farm lands are nearly nearly two-thirds. It is not running out of farm lands any time soon. Far less than 1% of this farmland is taken away for the capital and all other infrastructure projects. If there is an agricultural crisis it is not due to a shortage of land, but due to mismanagement of water, poor access to technology and lower productivity of the fields. India could potentially double the farm productivity enabling it to cut the arable land by as much as a half in the future.

What former U.S. President do you despise most?Nixon without question. Oh and BTW I am a lifelong Republican. I believe my party has had both the worst president in history and arguably 2 of the best presidents in history, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Partly why it hurts so much to be betrayed by one supposed to be on my team.Why is he the worst? Watergate? No. That was embarrassing, but hardly world ending. No. What he did that literally still to this day has the potential to utterly destroy this great nation was this:His appointment of this evil man:Earl Butz - WikipediaHis mantra to farmers was "get big or get out,"[6][7] and he urged farmers to plant commodity crops like corn "from fencerow to fencerow." These policy shifts coincided with the rise of major agribusiness corporations, and the declining financial stability of the small family farm.[8]The infamous quote that revealed Earl was a bigoted Butz-hole…A reflection on the lasting legacy of 1970s USDA Secretary Earl ButzTop 10 Worst Cabinet Members - TIMENever in the history of US politics has anyone ever so thoroughly devastated the constituency they were supposed to protect. Exactly why the guy can be removed from office in disgrace, thrown in jail and completely universally despised; yet his Ag policies remain, though slightly modified, is beyond comprehension to me.In 1945 27% of farmers in US were forced to work off farm to earn a decent living. By 2002 93% of farmers had off-farm income to make ends meet.Source: Compiled by EconomicResearch Service, USDA, usingdata from Census of Agricultureand Census of the United StatesIn 2012 the average age of farmers was 58.3 with over 20 times more farmers over age 75 as under 25. This has been growing steadily every year, as income:cost of living ratio has dropped. When new young farmers can’t afford to get in, old farmers can’t retire. 52.2% of those farmers principle income off farm and only 46.1% of farmers with net positive income from farming.Source: USDA-NASS, Census of AgricultureIn 1950 farmers received 41% of the food dollar spent by consumers. Now it is 17.4% on average. Certain things like commodity grains even as low as 3%.Source: USDA-ERSThe entire economic foundation of the heartland of this great country completely gutted by one evil man’s policies.But that’s not all. It gets worse.What Causes Ocean "Dead Zones"?The Effects: Economy | Nutrient Pollution | US EPAOur productive coastal waters also decimated every year by agricultural runoff, causing major economic hardship for our commercial fishermen too.But that’s not all. It gets worse.Why are Americans Growing Obese? Blame Richard Nixon and Earl ButzMillions of Food Desert Dwellers Struggle to Get Fresh GroceriesDiabetes clinics popping up like StarBucks on every corner. Our National health is at stake.But that’s not all. It gets worse.Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation ContinuesLand Degradation: An overview | NRCS Soils - USDAThe evil beast Nixon’s appointment created now has a life of it’s own and threatens world wide civilization.But that’s not all. It gets worse.How American Food Aid Keeps the Third World HungryFood Dumping [Aid] Maintains PovertyBehind India’s ‘Epidemic’ Of Farmer SuicidesAmerican Food Aid: Disruption and Development in HaitiDrought, Corruption, and War: Syria's Agricultural CrisisNot content to ruin our own country, the evil beast is driving other countries’ agriculture and society to utter destruction as well, either directly or by foolish mimicry.But that’s not all. It gets worse.How the Food we Feed Farm Animals is Destroying the EnvironmentSoy, you & deforestationIndustrial Agriculture, Livestock Farming!and Climate Change Global Social, Cultural, Ecological, and Ethical Impacts of an Unsustainable IndustryBiofuels boom could fuel rainforest destructionWhat happens when you force farmers to plant commodity crops like corn and soy "from fencerow to fencerow", driving into bankruptcy any that refuse to comply? Besides the obvious of there being no room for animals on farms anymore and them being removed and locked up in CAFOs. You end up with gluts mentioned above that destabilize world wide agriculture. But what happens when even that is far more than every man woman and child on the whole planet can possibly eat? Biofuels and livestock feed for those animals driven off the land too. So not content to destroy human civilization, the evil beast is now destroying the wildlife and quality of life for domestic farm animals too!But that’s not all. It gets worse."In our culture we view the pigs as just so much inanimate protoplasmic structure to be manipulated however cleverly hubris can imagine to manipulate it. And I would suggest that a culture that views its plants and animals in that type of disrespectful, arrogant, manipulative standpoint will view its citizens the same way...and other cultures" Joel SalatinAn entire generation that quite frankly just doesn’t give a damn. And those that do? Turn the farmers trying to fight the evil beast into the bad guys and send in the swat teams…literally:Texas Police Hit Organic Farm With Massive SWAT RaidSWAT Team Raids Rawesome Raw MilkJudge: Tea leaves warrant SWAT-team raidPublic Outraged over Armed Raid of Food Co-opAmish Farmer Faces 68 Years in Prison for Making Natural ProductFeds sting Amish farmer selling raw milk locallyEverything I want to do is IllegalWoman's Survival Garden Seized and Destroyed by AuthoritiesPitchfork-wielding Virginia farmers rally against birthday party fineI could go on and on, but I think I made my case. The problem is that now farmers are so few in numbers and most so old the numbers keep dropping, we just don’t have the voting block to effect change any longer. It will require support from the cities our farms support, or it will get even worse. At least some city folks are trying to understand:The Plutocrat doesn’t quite get it, but at least he is close. It’s not the minimum wage so much as the erosion of small businessmen working hard for their money. That whole economic system of the small farmer and all the other rural small businesses that supported (and grew out of) the small family farm which have been economically destroyed, as the farmers were driven from the land. Whole rural communities are just gone! It’s like a cancer. There is still hope though.Can we reverse global warming?2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.