3 Crises - Farmers Protest; Dissent & War

A big 'no thank you' to government taxers, Tasers and censors

Nov 19, 2024

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Inheritance tax on farms favours Big Ag over family growers and self-sufficiency
Some prioritise climate, rewilding, migration or energy
Others miss the fact that the end result is the same: vacating and repurposing land
Police door-step more journalists, authors and social media posters
Australia’s trio of censorship laws are the blueprint from France to South Africa
Yet U.S. Feds march as preening black shirts - ‘they’re thugs but they’re our thugs’
Those missiles for Ukraine: provocation, saving face or trumping Trump?
Will it be over soon, or are NATO’s backers plotting war over decades?
In life as in (assisted) death, British MPs ask the wrong questions

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Thousands of farmers headed for London overnight

Nov 19, 2024

Crisis one, farms and food

Inheritance tax is sadly one of the most politicised taxes because it is presented by demagogues as a just revenge upon the rich. For Europeans raised under a landed aristocracy, it indeed is poetic.

Those demagogues miss, however, the injustice inherent in all taxes, just as sales tax weighs more heavily upon the poor.

British inheritance taxes were introduced in 1796 to pay for the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. Like all war taxes they never went away.

It became one more method for banks to print money out of thin air, lend it to governments, who milked the taxpayer for the interest. Collusion, in other words, by governments and bankers to impoverish the public for wealth and power.

In today's era of "modern monetary theory" governments claim they can print and spend much money as they want which raises the question, why tax at all?

It is when taxes become an enemy of production that the rubber hits the road in the form of thousands of farmers in their tractors.

The British finance minister (chancellor of the exchequer) Rachel Reeves plans to end the exemption for farms valued over £1 million pounds ($1.26 million).

As noted above, all taxes are unfair on someone. Sales tax is regressive because people pay a higher proportion as their income decreases.

Small farms may be have a relatively high asset value but that does not mean high revenue or cash flow, let alone profit.

At £10,000 an acre, a 1,000 acre farm faces inheritance tax of £1.8 million or, spreading the cost over a decade at 7.5 per cent interest, £2.5 million.

Farm income cannot pay that. Farmers are asset rich, cash poor. So they'd be forced to sell more land with each passing generation.

Two young farmers explain:

The price of land has little to do with the farmer's ability to produce value. Globalist investors pursue shareholder value, driving farmers' margins to the bone and with their speculative profits, invest in land — driving up its price.

Land purchases by independent British farmers fell 8 per cent in 2023; purchases by institutional investors went up 13 per cent. Who does Labour work for?

Some citizens argue that inheritance tax should apply to all; others that climate, rewilding, migration or energy take priority.

Time and depth

It is comforting to absorb one issue at a time, and not conflate them. Yet that is a luxury that we do not have, from the perspective of time or depth.

Time is short, the depth of attacks that we face are sometimes difficult to fathom. That is why it seems that time has sped up.

The intent is to overwhelm us: why do you think Joe Biden spoke at his inauguration of "cascading crises" before promising us "a winter of severe illness and death" or Klaus Schwab enthused about "polycrisis" and the UN secretary general with a straight face spoke of "global boiling" — does he think we are frogs?

However much you consider this threat or that, such inflammatory language does not reflect the mind of a sober realist.

See UN Terrifies Youth To Push 'Polycrisis' (Sep 24, 2023)

‘You'll own nothing and you'll be happy’

Taking property out of individual hands is part of the centralised digital ledger, proposed in the more extreme versions of CBDC.

The people defending inheritance tax or dismissing the farmers' protests are missing the fact that the end result is the same.

Whether you rewild the land, pay people to set aside land, curtail food production on the pretext of nitrogen or CO2, cancel deeds or reassign land to "first nations," evacuate land because of extreme weather or climate change as proposed by the UN's "managed retreat," fail to clear the bush so that wildfires are more frequent as in Maui, or ration energy and fertilizer so reducing food production, or impose organic experiments as in Sri Lanka, driving yields down more than 50 per cent…. it all leads to an attack on food production and the viability or ownership of farms.

Subsidies for agriculture go disproportionately to large, industrial farmers. In 2022/23, spending on farm support in England was around £2.33 billion. Perhaps those could be ended if Britain’s chancellor needs to pad the black hole in her budget.

Why are “the powers that be” so eager to get their hands on farmers' land?

The assault on farmers ramped up in the Netherlands two years ago. It is worth recalling their plight.

See Dutch Farmers Need Us: If They Fall, We're Next - The Hague is infiltrated; shadowy networks drive 'nitrogen' farago (Nov 12, 2022)

Solar blight

Since coming to office, Britain's Labour government has approved four solar farms by ministerial diktat. Solar projects above 50MW are deemed "nationally significant"and are waved though by ministerial approval as opposed to local authority consent. [1]

The new Labour government pledged to treble UK solar power capacity to 40GW by 2030, and to 75 GW by 2035.

A solar plant to power 100,000 homes was built in Graveney, near Faversham, Kent. Yet once online, the entire capacity was bought by Tesco and Shell. [2]

Greenfield housing

With net immigration running at about 700,000 people (after accounting for the 500,000 Britons who leave) the National Housing Federation reckons at least 340,000 new homes must be built each year. Other estimates reach 550,000 homes. [3]

See Great Reset Exposed As Replacement - Globalists have nowhere to hide (Oct 22, 2024)

Where will many of those homes be built but on farmland. Successive governments have dispensed with the "green belt" which was supposed to protect agricultural land and stop urban sprawl. One recent plan in Daventry, Northamptonshire shows how this works.

Media propagandists are in full swing: "New housebuilding held back by rapid rise of factory farms that pollute rivers," writes the Independent — just in time for the farmers' protest. [4]

Food supply should be considered "nationally significant" just like solar panels, but sadly that's not the case, even though Britons produce less than 60 per cent of the food they eat.

Crisis two, dissent

Meanwhile the state is increasingly intolerant of dissent.

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