Crisis Update - Dutch Farmers Need Us: If They Fall, We're Next

The Hague is infiltrated; shadowy networks drive 'nitrogen' farago

Nov 12, 2022

As supply chains fail, the EU is forcing the Netherlands to give up its self-sufficiency.
Europe’s agricultural miracle, run by its most grounded people, is under assault.
Nitrogen reduction, posed by government-funded institutes, would cull the herd.

See Oct 29, 2022 — Eurasia note #63: Europe Reels From Germany’s Impending Decline

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Greenhouses, viewed when flying into Schiphol airport

Nov 12, 2022

When he launched The Great Reset in June 2020, then Prince Charles laid great stress on the sheer trillions of money behind the project.

At the time it seemed a show of support, an indicator that the world’s wealthy were on board with his plan. However it seems now that Charles was flexing his muscles.

That money is poised to buy out Dutch farmers, to fire a broadside at the flagship of the Netherlands, holing below the waterline its social, economic and cultural structure.

The pretext it to reduce nitrogen emissions and this supposedly requires that up to half of livestock farmers go out of business.

The argument is fallacious — and King Charles, who has been an organic farmer for decades, must know it’s a lie.

First of all there are plenty of ways in which Nature itself can absorb nitrogen. Secondly, the speed and extent of the reduction seems designed for disruptive Maxima. Farmers are effectively pressured to give up farming or sell off their land.

The government aims to seize up to 600 farms within the next year. Since farmers are resisting, the government announced in October that it plans to expropriate their land by force.

The tools include a the creation of nature reserves:

about 15 per cent of the Netherlands is now designated a nature reserve
any farmer bordering a researve must close or move
a 25 billion euro fund will buy out farmers
nitrogen use must fall by up to 70 per cent
livestock and dairy producers are the primary target.

Across Europe as a whole, 18 per cent of land is declared a Nature 2000 area, off limits to people. [1]

Hidden narrative

The Netherlands is the second biggest food producer in the world.

The casual reader might wonder whence all this money comes to shut down farming, to boost Covid policy, to make schools comply with masks, to build back better. The ominous reality is that central banks are pushing ahead with plans for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

The money that farmers accept could disappear, or be converted at whatever rate the central banks decide once they introduce their CBDC.

Effectively, it’s funny money, that is losing its value in the face of inflation that central banks have stoked through the lockdown policy that was designed by asset managers BlackRock and presented to the central banks at their meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in August 2019.

Those of a suspicious frame of mind believe these policies to be coordinated but there are still many in the alt media who fail to acknowledge any element of planning — the talking points, the coordinated rolling out of projects in government, communications industries, health, security, now biosecurity, the complicit NGOs, the media, the big asset managers that influence if not control the top 2,000 corporations — all inter-owned and increasingly inter-operated.

Why has the Netherlands been singled out first? The country is flat and fertile, with a moderate climate and a detail-oriented, cooperative people who have developed highly mechanized agriculture. The Netherlands faces a much lower threshold for nitrogen use — 100 times lower than Germany. Why the urgency, especially during a food and fuel crisis?

Next, Canada is beginning to regulate nitrogen, Brazil is to constrain farmers in the name of methane, and one can surely see which way the wind is blowing.

Destroying the haven

For many years I lived in Den Haag, on a wonderful street named Frankenstraat. When I flew in to Schiphol airport in the early morning the countryside would be lit by rows of greenhouses, where tomatoes and flowers grew year round under artificial light, fed by carbon dioxide.

The Dutch invented potato peelers, robotic fruit pickers, automated meat separators. This technology does not appear by magic: the Dutch lead the world in agricultural education, with Wageningen University at the forefront. The world’s biggest food and drink companies, including Danone and Heinz, have research and development facilities in the Netherlands.

Agricultural skills are only part of the Dutch success story — another is logistics. Helped by its seafaring history and its geographical location in the centre of Europe, the Dutch are leaders in transport and warehousing. Last year, for the first time ever, Dutch agricultural exports surpassed the figure of 100 billion euro (actually, €104.7 billion).

Flowers first, then meat, along with processed products such as cheese from milk and also the refining of imported ingredients. A quarter of Dutch produce goes to just four countries: Germany, Belgium, France and the UK. [2]

The Dutch government offers four options with no compromise:

In “environmentally suitable” locations, subsidies will make farmers sustainable.
Farms must sell locally, limit supply chains; be less intensive, rather “extensify.”
Those who don’t want to change their methods may have to move location.
The final option is the complete “buyout” of the farmer by the government.

When the government announced the scheme it proposed buyouts to farmers who did not have a successor to inherit the business, and the objective would be to return the farm to nature. If, however, not enough farmers volunteer, they will be exprorpriated.

Fifth column

An astute reader might observe that dry air contains 78 per cent nitrogen, 20 of oxygen, 0.93 of argon and 0.04 per cent carbon dioxide. Carbon is declared a pollutant, as are country pancakes or cow patties, of nitrogen.

In another form, bonded with hydrogen, nitrogen becomes ammonia; with oxygen it is nitrate, which together form the primary ingredient in fertilizer.

Retired microbiologist professor Han Lindenboom says the government massively exaggerates the pollution effects. Nitrogen indeed acidifies the soil, and it influences the plant species but “it is not killing, it is changing” and it is localized.

Lindenboom, who is a member of the D66 party, says only a couple of people are in control and driving the nitrogen policy.

Texel remembrances

More than a decade ago I took the ferry to the island of Texel, accompanied by my basset hound and golden retriever. It is little known outside the Netherlands, though it was used as a landmark by the Dambusters on their WW2 raid on Germany.

Today Texel, pronounced “tessel” is famous for its lamb, yet it has been told to halve its flock. “It’s stupid. It’s ridiculous,” Lindeboom tells Clear Voices in an interview. [3]

There is no problem on Texel — the plants they aim to protect are there already. “These people see a problem everywhere. There is this holy belief that if you release nitrogen in a certain spot it will go across the whole country: that’s not true.”

Measures could be taken to remove nitrogen in a manner similar to the removal of sulphur from diesel fuel. For example fermenting grass before feeding it to cattle will reduce ammonia; urine collection systems can contain it.

Parts of the Netherlands suffer from too much nitrogen, yet much less so than Germany which has not declared a problem. This points to an agenda. See the Tristate, below.

A second problem is that while most countries have assigned a handful of large nature reserves, the Netherlands declared 160 separate, smaller nature reserves, touching on many more farms.

Research and money

The research driving the nitrogen saga comes from the Dutch National Institute of Health, which also ran project Covid. Some of its work is of quality, says Lindenboom, but the problem arises when policymakers and government selectively pick that part of the research which supports its objectives.

Modeling is big business and money gets in the way of self-criticism, yet the bigger problem is that the European Union has set the nitrogen rules and if the Netherlands does not comply, the EU will fine it. This is the Rockefeller technique of ratchet, aka Lockstep.

The Convention on Biodiversity is the basis of the law to protect species and habitats. Where a virtuous impulse drives off the track is when it blames specific mechanisms for the loss of biodiversity, and further more assumes a one-to-one relationship, Lindenboom says.

Government increasingly out-sources policy making to institutions that are privately-funded and much better resourced than the departments of bureaucrats.

The revolving door between banks, consultants and corporations provides a transmission mechanism for the profit motive and other agendas.

Media coverage fails to reflect these complexities, resulting in one-sided reporting, without questioning assumptions about the environment that are, at root, political.

As an example, Time magazines, Jul 2022 article: Farmer Protests in the Netherlands Show Just How Messy the Climate Transition Will Be. [4]

It has taken on the nature of a religion — some argue that it has quite literally occupied the space vacated by the retreat of organized religion.

Eat not

What is the real objective? The vegan politicians may be earnest, though the gas problem is minimal compared with other forms of pollution, GMO and the Monsanto-Bayer-Roundup poisoning of the habitat.

There need be no mystery; the result can be measured. The people who advise the governments, who are paid by governments, are not the scientists who do the research. These policymakers have many influences, including veganism. Changing the human diet is another route to controlling emissions.

A cursory search on vegan politicians yields the headlines: More Inspiring Vegan Celebrities; a site called Dutch Review which publishes numerous articles like, Veganism in the Netherlands: here’s why it’s achievable and Surviving as a vegan in the Netherlands; on Mashable, The politicians who made veganism a little bit cool.

The unexplored issues with veganism include its First World nature. The coming winter and fuel crisis may see some Europeans struggling to keep both the body warm and the brain functioning on a diet of turnips.

The primary site on global , USDA GAIN (Global Agricultural Information Network), recently examined the Dutch nitrogen controversy. This reveals a secondary motive to the reduction in livestock farming. Jan Dijkstra, Associate Professor at Wageningen University, says the primary threat to nature and biodiversity is the water table.

“One of the things I learned from the ecologists was that nature restoration is not just about nitrogen, but that a high-water table in some nature areas can be even more important for achieving nature-related objectives.”

Water, remember, is a crucial resource. In the U.S. states are already competing for accesss to aquifers. Commercial interests, likewise.

The initiative to curb nitrogen use first surfaced in May 2019 when the top administrative body, the Dutch Administrative Court of the Council of State, ruled the government was not doing enough to curb emissions.

This already points to the judiciary, and specifically the courts making policy rather than the executive. See the upcoming Moneycircus article on Carl Schmitt’s precise objection to judicial rule.

The agriculture ministry initially tried to reduce nitrogen emissions by cutting the protein in livestock feed in September 2020, and three months later set the current regulations for slashing nitrogen levels in Natura 2000 reserves.

The objectives are further revealed by the original law which aimed to ban any farmer who sold up to the government from starting another farm in a different location. That prohibition was later rescinded.

The law does not just legalize but empowers a syndicate of cultural and food companies, banks, NGOs, and provincial and municipal functionaries.

Land not of our fathers

Orchids are favoured over nettles, small plants over big; there is no reforestation, rather a commitment to preserve the countryside as we remember it in our lifetimes — regardless how recent that is.

My late father was an expert in European orchids, accredited by the British military to survey their territories; and it is odd that they grew most abundantly on military reserves, among the cordite and detonations of our soldier boys.

Farmers own about 70 per cent of the Netherlands. If the government expropriates half of them, that will be 35 per cent of all land.

This kind of influence and ambition suggests that those behind it have immense wealth and power; desiring for whatever reason to direct and gaslight our minds.

Six NGOs push the policy of expropriation, says the documentary maker James Patrick. The agricultural bank Rabobank may recall loans, driving down the value of farmland, when government will buy the land, handing it to NGOs as the custodians. They get control of the land at public expense. Banking family, Chevron, Google and big tech. [5]

One clue is that the transition to less intensive farming is being done through crisis. Compare the promotion of sustainable farming with the move to sustainable energy — it’s the same approach. There is no gradual transition. Although there has been some investment in solar and wind, it falls far short of what is needed to replace hydrocarbons.

Talk of energy security was a hot topic in the media and think tanks for decades, yet European governments did little or nothing to reduce their reliance on oil and gas, and increased their reliance on Russia.

Likewise, politicians talk about food security while undermining it — why?

How is industry supposed to operate without oil, gas or sufficient nuclear power stations? Ask German industry. BASF is relocating part of its operation to China — permanently. Steel plants are closing down.

Dutch farmers going out of business as someone else lines up to buy their land. The globalists already plan a Tristate city built between the ports of Rotterdam and Hamburg, with China playing a key role.

See Oct 29, 2022 — Eurasia note #63: Europe Reels From Germany’s Impending Decline

Another way

In a marathon interview, Virginia farmer Joel Salatin of PolyFace Farm tells Del Bigree that bacteria living in the soil in nature draws gas out of the air, to help fertilize the soil. One, methanatropic bacteria, is a free standing microbe that pulls methane from the atmosphere equivalent to 1,000 cows per acre.

Another is azotobacte which consumes nitrogen. Both live under perennial, prarie polycultures.

The carbon is supposed to be in the soil if you think about it. That's how it gets recycled; how things grow. But you need healthy pasture.

The soil are the lungs of the planet. From the post-WW2 era we started depleating farmland. Earthworms don’t eat chemical fertilizer, however, and they don’t like constant tillage or monoculture. It’s estimated that 97 per cent of soils are now inadequate.

The praries had 1,000 species of flora. How were these fertile soils created other than through roaming and by pooping of zebras, wildebeest and bison.

Herbivores “move, mob and mow” in the words of Salatin. So he mimics that by using electric fences to move animals between different areas, restoring his soils in the process.

He does the same thing with chickens, moving them around outdoors, with a low-slung electric fence to keep them in one patch. The birds also break up the country pancakes and the cow patties so that the grass grows through. And the chickens eat the ticks: no tick problem!

As one thinks about it, the more pasture, the more sheep and beef we eat, the better the soil, the more nitrogen and methane it absorbs.

Charles Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is an organic farmer. He knows this perfectly well. So why does he comply?

It returns us to the agenda — what are Rockefeller and Gates really aiming for?

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