{"id":262250,"date":"2022-12-11T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T08:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262250"},"modified":"2022-12-12T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:27:10","slug":"dutch-farmers-battle-technocratic-forces-driving-them-into-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262250","title":{"rendered":"Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nash Landsman \u2013 The Gray Zone Dec 8, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO\u2019s seeking control over the global food supply. \u201cThey are sweeping the culture from the land,\u201d a farmer laments.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS<\/strong> \u2013\u2013 The Netherlands is a patchwork of quaint towns and cities interwoven with flat expanses of immaculately-kept green agricultural pasture. The road and rail infrastructure are near-flawless. You could search for weeks without finding a pothole. It is one of the most expensive countries in the world, and makes some of the best steak, cheese, yogurt and milk on the planet. The land is fertile, valuable, and strategically located with easy access to the north Atlantic coast. So, for these reasons and more, legions of committees composed of unelected, largely unknown figures serving on the boards of an interwoven network of even lesser known private and multilateral bodies, insists on seizing it all, on account of saving the planet from its deadliest enemy: man himself. Their target: the Dutch farmer. \u201cThey are slowly killing us with regulation,\u201d one farmer told The Grayzone.\u00a0<\/em>It is death by a thousand paper-cuts, or The Art of War<\/em> by the modern technocrat.<\/p>\n

First, some background: Holland exports the most food on earth, behind only America, on a landmass roughly the size of Indiana. Farmers the world over come to study Dutch techniques. The country embraces what\u2019s known as the Mansholt theory\u2014a philosophy of ensuring food security and self-sufficiency that emerged from the second world war as a response to Nazi-imposed famine. To stave-off a similar tragedy, Dutch agriculture embraces the Haber-Bosch process<\/a>, a method of infusing fertilizer with nitrogen to increase yield efficiency. Invented in the early 1900s by a pair of Nobel Prize-winning chemists, Haber-Bosch is responsible<\/a> for the existence of half the world\u2019s population today (and is known in Malthusian<\/a> circles as \u201cthe detonator of the population explosion<\/a>\u201d), thanks to its ability to grow more food on less land.<\/p>\n

But now global bodies like the World Bank\u2019s \u201cClimate Smart Agriculture<\/a>\u201d program, the UN\u2019s \u201cprotected area initiatives<\/a>,\u201d the European Commission and armies of well-funded NGO\u2019s are executing a wholly-comprehensive platform targeting Dutch farmers \u2014 restricting both organic and artificial fertilizer use \u2014 while asserting \u201cbiodiversity protection\u201d as the pretext for snatching land from the productive.<\/p>\n

Dutch farmers, in protest,<\/a> have driven tractors to the Hague, tossed flaming trash onto the roads and sprayed manure across government buildings.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth reemphasizing that the Dutch government is carrying out the same radical experiment<\/a> conducted in Sri Lanka earlier this year \u2014 eliminating<\/a> nitrogen-based fertilizer, the basis of modern survival. In the southeast Asian country, it led to a famine<\/a> that toppled the government. The Sri Lankan \u201cdisaster<\/a>\u201d fronted a simple premise: replace something with nothing. And to eliminate Russian gas from the geopolitical scene. The Colombo declaration<\/a>, signed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2019, celebrated the end of food security and sovereignty, offering in its place a model for import-dependency and agricultural destruction now being imposed on the Dutch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are sweeping the culture from the land,\u201d says Sieta Van Keimpema, a sturdy 6-foot Dutchwoman in her 50s with short, wavy black hair. She is head of the European Milk Board, and leader of the Dutch farmers\u2019 de-facto political arm, Farmer\u2019s Defense Force (FDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur government has made laws and laws that put us in a corner that you cannot come back from,\u201d she says. \u201cIf people cannot put food on the table you get riots. You get an unstable society. I don\u2019t see the benefits to this.\u201d Her group, Farmer\u2019s Defense Force, is characterized as vigilante populist heroes by some; and as troublemakers responsible for sparking the protests<\/a> by others. FDF originated after environmental activists, Meat the Victims<\/a>, forcefully occupied a pig farm in a small Dutch town in 2019. Instead of taking action, police sent in negotiators, prolonging the ordeal. FDF subsequently created a \u201cBat Signal\u201d whereby farmers can call on a special WhatsApp group to rally others to come to the rescue.<\/p>\n

When they aren\u2019t producing food, members can be found battling Brussels or butting heads in the Hague. \u201cWe have a government spending 25 billion euros to reduce agricultural production,\u201d Sieta says, confirming official policy. According to heavily-redacted European Commission documents<\/a>, the goal is \u201cterminating farms\u201d through overregulation, deploying mandatory buyouts if necessary.<\/p>\n

Official justifications are not up for debate. Take some of the most insulting regulations, made in the name of \u201cflood prevention<\/a>,\u201d a puzzle the Dutch have solved<\/a> since the country\u2019s inception, erecting dykes, walls, levies and canals to build a civilization out of the oceans (as half of Holland lies below sea-level). In its green manifesto, the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency preaches that \u201cmore radical policies are needed, particularly for flood protection\u2026The main emphasis is on the planet dimension\u2026a Netherlands that is more sustainable and Future-Proof.\u201d Accordingly, some computer models predict \u201cwith 80% certainty\u201d a sea-level rise of 20 meters within the next century, after having risen 2 cm across the last one.<\/p>\n

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Dutch farmers block a major highway with their tractors during a national protest.\u00a0Farmers say their livestock and operations are being unfairly blamed for greenhouse gas emissions. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A related justification is that nitrogen leakage caused by agriculture makes Dutch tap water undrinkable, and so farming must be eliminated. The reality is that Holland\u2019s tap water was awarded second best on the continent by the European Water Awards<\/a>; behind Austria, in a debatable placement. Dutch drinking water is so crisp and clean, it almost makes Evian<\/em> taste like toilet sludge. The real problem: Holland is 50% composed of mostly independently-owned agricultural operations, and they occupy prime real-estate.<\/p>\n

The Dutch environmental report further seems to justify what many have been speculating: \u201cThe inflow of foreign migrants [caused in no small part by U.S. wars] feeds the need for expansion,\u201d calling for the elimination of 300,000 hectares of farmland between now and 2040. This will be initiated by \u201cthe conversion of agricultural land into nature conservation areas,\u201d without irony. Additionally, rich people need second homes, since \u201cit is assumed that families with a high income will opt to live in green areas. Dutch households display a marked preference for single-family homes with a garden. The Dutch concept of the ideal home will shift, possibly in the direction of \u2018gated communities\u2019, [and] more second home ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n

To nobody\u2019s surprise, housing developers subsidized by the government and working with the Society for Preservation of Nature Monuments in the Netherlands, have already begun to erect houses<\/a> in \u201cprotected areas,\u201d on lands wrested from farmers.<\/p>\n

In the Netherlands around 800,000 people work in agriculture. \u201cIf you reduce half the sector there\u2019s not critical mass anymore to continue,\u201d Sieta explains. \u201cThe big dairies need a certain amount of milk to have a viable cost price\u2026I think we are the only country in the world that has a minister of nitrogen\u2014who really doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about. She admitted \u2018I really don\u2019t know what I\u2019m saying.\u201d I say, go home, because what she\u2019s doing is destroying a whole sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, many farmers have reached consensus about the forces they believe to be behind the attack on their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeft-wing parties like Democrats 66<\/a>,\u201d which promises, \u201cwe\u2019ll be working towards reducing the cattle population by half,\u201d \u201care very close to Klaus Schwab<\/a>,\u201d Sieta says. \u201cThey go to Davos and don\u2019t deny it. It\u2019s a fact that the WEF [World Economic Forum\/Davos Group] is pushing legislation that isn\u2019t decided in a democratic way. If you comment on that, as I did in the meeting, the civil servants get really aggressive. The Netherlands is pushing legislation that has never been discussed in the parliament.\u201d Mention that the air is comprised of 85% nitrogen, and you\u2019re slammed as a \u201cclimate denier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe D for democracy has become dictation. They have no shame,\u201d Sieta says. \u201cThe government has given an enormous subsidy to artificial meat; lab meat, and they\u2019re calling it \u2018future food.\u2019 But I\u2019m not going to eat insects. I\u2019m going to eat beef and chicken.\u201d The bottom line, according to Sieta: \u201cThey produce hot air, we produce food on the table\u2026They don\u2019t want innovation, they want buyouts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Holland\u2019s world-famous agricultural innovation hub, Wageningen University<\/a>, the Stanford \/Silicon Valley of farming, has ceased developing techniques that help farmers. Instead they\u2019re now focused on producing bugs for human consumption.<\/a>\u00a0The World Economic Forum promote this agenda with ads featuring Hollywood stars like Nicole Kidman chomping down<\/a> on a bowl of crickets, putting an Aussie-accented celebrity glow on a grim and deeply disturbing future<\/p>\n

Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n