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Follow the Money !

As I am sure you have heard multiple times, if you want to get to the bottom of an apparent mysterious problem or dilemma … “follow the money!” 

Perhaps some of you are cognizant of the present brouhaha in the Netherlands. To summarize, Dutch farmers are protesting new climate policies they say will force them to kill off livestock and drive them out of business — policies which some argue also will drive up consumer food prices and contribute to the global hunger crisis.

The new Dutch policy stems from a 2019 court order that nitrogen-compound pollution in the Netherlands “will have to be cut by 70% to 80%.” [NB – not 10-15%, but 70-80%!]

According to a recent report by journalist Kim Iversen, “the farmers in the most regulated areas would essentially be put out of business.”

Iversen said farmers who do not “voluntarily” accept the government’s proposal may have their land seized outright. [Sounds suspiciously like “in the name of climate change, do as we say or else” …where have I heard that before?]

Iversen quoted Henk Staghouwer, the Dutch minister of agriculture, nature and food quality, who said, “There is not a future for all farmers within this approach.”

According to a New Zealand report on this crisis: “Dairy farmers that want to be bought out need to reduce their cattle stocks by 95 percent and permanently relinquish their right to increase stocks in future.

“For pig, chicken, and turkey farms, this percentage is 80 percent.”

What does this have to do with the “follow the money” mantra?

In a recent episode of the “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” agricultural researcher, permaculturalist and author Christian Westbrook — also known as the “Ice Age Farmer” — said the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have long pushed the idea of a so-called Green Revolution, based on the idea that animals and plants are “dirty and dangerous.” … Hmmm!

Dutch political commentator and legal philosopher Eva Vlaardingerbroek also recently raised questions about the Dutch nitrogen-reduction policy and a possible link to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

She tweeted:

“The Dutch minister who pushed the nitrogen law that grants the government the power to expropriate our farmers’ land has a brother who owns online supermarket @picnic. Guess who invested $600 million in that company? Bill ‘fake meat’ Gates. This is what corruption looks like.”

“Fake meat” Gates refers to this statement by Gates:

“I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.

“Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.”

[In other words, if you don’t agree with their green policies, they will figure out how to change your minds … or they will force you to accept their regulations … like mandating a nitrogen decrease of 70-80%!] … Hmmm!

For those of us who think that the classic mantras have substance … 

Perhaps “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” would lead credence to this “follow the money!” query. … Hmmm!

7/12/22

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