Month: July 2022
Dutch farmers barricade the border between Germany and Holland
No more room for farmers with ‘WEF Food Hubs’
Food Innovation Hubs (FUBs) are being set up all over the world for the “transformation of food systems”. In November 2020, the World Economic Forum announced that the European Food Innovation Hub will be located in Wageningen, in the Netherlands.
Prime Minister Rutte announced last year that his country would invest in the Global Coordinating Secretariat of the Food Innovation Hubs. This secretariat will also operate from Wageningen.
“Fishermen gone, farmers gone, the next planned ‘crisis’ will be famine. Fortunately, there is The Solution: the WEF ‘food hubs’! stated FVD leader Thierry Baudet.
“I find this quite disturbing. What do we need a food coordination centre for? Of the WEF, no less. Under the guise of ‘fair prices for farmers’, (good) citizens are made dependent on the WEF for their food supply. Isn’t that scary?” asked health scientist Yvonne Simons.
Independent researcher Frank Hoogerbeets noted: “Food hubs must take total control of the food supply through WEF policy. So there is no place for farmers anymore. Not reported by the NOS [National Public broadcaster. ed.].”
Prime Minister Rutte spoke earlier at the WEF about these ‘food hubs’. His government meanwhile blames farmers for producing too much “nitrogen”.
The nitrogen hoax
Last week there were several farmers’ actions against the announced nitrogen policy. The government wants to drastically reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture to protect nature. For some farmers this means that they cannot continue their business in the same way in the future. Angry farmers’ activists blocked roads, visited the Mediapark in Hilversum and went to the house of nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal. The police arrested several activists for assault and vandalism.
During the debate about the manufactured “nitrogen crisis” in the country and in particular about the farmers’ protests against the tyrannical plans of the Rutte administration, Wybren van Haga (BVNL) lashed out at the cabinet. “The nitrogen hoax is inexplicable,” said Van Haga. He said that farmland was being confiscated for a problem that does not even exist.
Van Haga (BVNL) did not mince words. “Dutch farmers,” he said, “are being ruined by this cabinet on the basis of a non-existent nitrogen problem. Thousands of lives are being destroyed, families are being torn apart and the work of generations is being destroyed.”
The situation is so bad that “several farmers have hanged themselves.” And, indeed, “the right to property is no longer worth anything – farming culture is demonized, the government no longer appears to be a protector of the rule of law.”
Gideon van Meijeren, member of parliament for Forum for Democracy (FVD) was quoted in De Dagelijkse Standaard: “The expropriation plans of the cabinet are a downright declaration of war on the agricultural sector. Under false pretenses, farmers are being robbed of their land, centuries-old farms are being demolished and farmers’ families are being totally destroyed.
“It is terrible to see that several farmers have now been driven to such desperation that they feel compelled to take firmer action to make their cries heard.” He urged the government to stop “the unlawful expropriation plans” based on the nitrogen hoax.
Police filmed attacking farmers
The mainstream Dutch media have painted the farmers’ protests as “violent”. But what really happened during the Dutch farmers’ protests?
Dutch farmers say that the police acted particularly aggressive and violent during the protests near Stroe and Kootwijkerbroek on Tuesday and that media reports about these protests being “violent” are incorrect.
The media showed images of young people who attacked police vans near Kootwijkerbroek with, among other things, demolition hammers. The police arrested 10 people in connection with public assault and attempted manslaughter.
According to the farmers, the information from the police is incorrect. A young farmer told the Barneveldse Krant that they were surprised at the A1 near Stroe by an unknown group that set fire to car tires close to the highway.
“That went very fast and broke down within a minute, but they were not part of us. We don’t know them either. During the invitation to the protest, it was emphatically stated that we would not set fire to tires,” said the farmer’s wife.
In addition, a 19-year-old boy drove a tractor with a tipper that was being chased by police vans. A riot police van tried to overtake the tractor at the cattle grid on Heetweg. Because there was no room on the cattle grid for two large vehicles, the tipper swerved slightly, causing the bus to hit it, his father explained. “That’s why he was arrested for attempted manslaughter, but they just wanted to overtake him where there was no room. Such a charge is really unbelievable,” he said in an extensive interview with the newspaper.
The father, who followed the vehicles in his van, was shot at with an electroshock weapon and beaten in the stomach by riot police and members of an arrest team.
An officer fired his electroshock weapon at his youngest son. “He received a few violent shocks and then also blows from a baton,” he told the Barneveldse Krant.
As a result of the interview, Caroline van der Plas of the BoerBurgerBeweginghas once again asked for a statement of facts from the Minister of Justice about the farmers’ protests, now that the stories of the media and farmers do not match. “What really happened? The House must get the facts. On Thursday, the report of the facts was still refused by [PM Mark] Rutte,” complained Van der Plas.
On Wednesday evening, Tim Hoogeveen was arrested during a protest on the A37 near Holsloot. He was suspected of attempted manslaughter because he allegedly ran into a police car with his tractor. Media and politicians once again accused farmers of being “violent”. Justice was unable to determine on the basis of images and statements that it was attempted manslaughter and Tim was released again, reported RTV Drenthe.
Transforming food
A 2020 document from the Rockefeller Foundation outlined an ambitious plan to transform the food system under the guise of Corona. The document was published just after the World Economic Forum announced its Great Reset agenda and titled Reset the Table.
The document argued that the US food system needed to be overhauled with a focus on “social justice” and “protecting the environment”.
The Rockefeller Foundation advocated “sustainable agriculture” and “healthy food”. The WEF focuses mainly on insects as a “sustainable” protein source.
In addition, the Rockefellers advocated digital surveillance and the collection of data on the eating habits of Americans. This is already happening in Europe. Statistics Norway (SSB) has ordered large Norwegian supermarket chains to share all their receipt data with the agency.
Majority of citizens support their farmers
Most Dutch people said they would simply work from home now that farmers were planning to shut down the entire country. This has emerged from a representative survey conducted by Hart van Nederland polling more than 4 100 people. The research also showed that a majority support the large protest action by the farmers.
Farmers are planning to shut down the whole of the Netherlands at the start of the week with actions expected at airports (Schiphol, Eindhoven, Rotterdam and Lelystad), the port of Rotterdam and distribution centres of supermarkets.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/04/no-more-room-for-farmers-with-wef-food-hubs/
Murdoch family wedding photos show how ugly Western culture has become
By Andrea Widburg
Because Independence Day always makes for a slow news weekend, that leaves room for looking at and thinking about other news stories that wouldn’t normally make the grade at American Thinker. The one that caught my eye was the Daily Mail’s huge photo essay showing the wedding of Charlotte Freud, one of Rupert Murdoch’s granddaughters, to Luke Storey, a rapper. It was held in the exquisitely picturesque English Cotswold district but the photos are a testament to the death of beauty in the modern era.
If you like things that are quintessentially English, the Cotswold district is the place for you:
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There’s also the charming traditional English wedding, held in an old church, with the bride in virginal white, the blushing bridesmaids, the tuxedoed groomsmen, and the charmingly attired guests, including women in big hats. Although it’s played for comedy, think of this wedding from 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral:
The contrast between that charming beauty and the pictures from the Freund-Storey wedding is striking. The Daily Mail story, complete with photos, is here. This video has some of those same photos:
The bride is certainly glowing with happiness (and I wish her well), while her and her groom’s matching Cruella de Vil black-and-white hair is…um…cute. Still, the tattoos crawling across her exposed skin and the sheer amount of exposed skin above the waist make her look like a stripper in a parody wedding.
The female guests showed up in ugly, mannish pantsuits or dresses that, again, show enough skin to be vulgar, not seductive. None of the women are wearing the hats that are part of an English wedding’s charms. Many guests showed up at a daytime wedding in funereal black.
James Murdoch, the leftist Murdoch son who left Fox News behind, was the picture of cultural appropriation, in a calf-length purple Pakistani-style tunic over white trousers, an outfit completed with a black vest. His wife wore black and no smile.
The bride’s father, Matthew Freud, wore an ill-fitting eggplant-colored suit, complete with blue sneakers. Many women wore cringe-worthy platform shoes so ugly they made the 1970s versions look kind of elegant. The bride’s shoes were the ugliest of them all—white Mary-Janes perched on top of a four-inch-high platform.
But the worst were the bridesmaids, wearing low-cut, slate gray, slinky, spaghetti-strapped dresses that looked like cheap lingerie. Again, that stripper vibe was strong. The ugliest “bridesmaid” was a skinny, unshaven young man with a hairy chest, a bulging crotch (depending on the photographic angle), hairy legs, and white tennis shoes. He was like the exclamation point on a singularly ugly affair.
This ugly wedding struck me as hard as it did because I had listened to discuss the ugliness that is inherent in leftism. It is a political ideology that eschews beauty, something one sees in the blocky architecture, drag queen worship, vicious attacks on Jordan Peterson for saying that some things and people are objectively beautiful, and endless efforts to convince us that morbidly obese women or people who have mutilated themselves are beautiful.
The reality is that, across all times and cultures, no matter the specifics of beauty, the Golden Mean (or Golden Ratio) has always ruled. This is a mathematical relationship between sizes or distances that basically boils down to the fact that, if a is greater than b and b is greater than zero, than a+b has the same relationship to a as a standing alone has to b.
The Golden Mean shows up everywhere in nature: in seashells, roses, artichokes, etc. Architecture based upon it is pleasing to the eye and, in all cultures that do not have forced, Marxist standards of beauty, those faces that are deemed most beautiful, whether wide or long or oval or square, show the Golden Mean in the relationship between mouth, nose, and eyes. We are hard-wired for this beauty.
I can’t find which Michael Knowles podcast I was listening to, but he reminded his audience of something the late Roger Scruton said, which is that a society has to be worth saving, and that beauty is part of that worth. As Scruton explained, beauty matters. A society that “uglifies” itself is one that alienates people, cutting off their practical or spiritual connection to it.
And that, I guess, is why I thought it was worth drawing attention to the extraordinary ugliness of a wedding put on by people who have all the money in the world and could have opted for beauty…but didn’t.
Same-sex couples can now get married in Switzerland
A law allowing same-sex couples to marry came into force in Switzerland on Friday; it also provides these couples with new rights in relation to adoption and artificial insemination.
The law was approved by an almost two-thirds majority of voters in a referendum last September, although participation in the vote was not very high, according to Swiss media.
Since 2007, same-sex couples have been able to enter into a registered partnership in Switzerland, however, marriage will bring them new rights. For example, they will be able to adopt a child, and if one spouse is a foreign national, they will be able to acquire Swiss citizenship more quickly; same-sex female couples will also have greater access to artificial insemination.
That is why Lucille and Pauline Bidaux-Meyer decided to get married on Friday, telling Swissinfo.ch, “Marriage represents more security for our family.”
The law additionally means they do not have to go abroad to undergo artificial insemination. “The procedure may be more expensive in Switzerland, but on the other hand, we will not have to travel abroad often and sometimes for a long time,” the pair told the Swiss news outlet.
Interest in gay marriage has been low so far
One of the first homosexual couples were married on Friday by the mayor of Geneva, Marie Barbey-Chappuis, who supports the new law.
“It’s very moving. It’s a very powerful moment that sends an equally powerful message to society — to have the freedom to love and be loved,” the mayor said.
Ilan and Adrien, who have been living in a registered partnership since 2019, also got married on Friday.
“We wanted to get married today, when the law comes into force, to express our appreciation to all those who have tried to enforce this right,” one of the newlyweds told Swissinfo.ch. Adrien also welcomed the new law because he claims registered partnerships are stigmatizing.
“When I stated somewhere that I was living in a registered partnership, I automatically said that I was living with a man, and I didn’t always want this,” he said.
According to the RTS broadcaster, however, the interest in getting married is not very high. In the canton of Geneva, where about half a million people live, 40 gay couples have expressed their desire to get married by the end of the year, and about another 40 couples want to convert their registered partnership into a marriage.
https://rmx.news/article/same-sex-couples-can-now-get-married-in-switzerland/
World Economic Forum plans to freeze bank accounts of ‘polluters’
Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum is pushing a credit card that will track your carbon usage and cut you off when you’ve “used up all your carbon credits”.
Doconomy is a credit card backed by the World Economic Forum’s leftist authoritarians that tracks the “environmental impact” of everything you buy (including food) and refuses to let you buy items when you’re deemed to be a net polluter.
It doesn’t matter if you have a family at home and you need to put food on the table. The World Economic Forum will track you down and take away your hard-earned money if you’ve been a “bad person” and used too many carbon credits this week.
That’s right, it’s the first credit card in history that prevents you from overspending based on the level of CO2 emissions generated by your consumption. It is presented as an “educational effort”, according to one of its founders.
Mastercard will “partner” with Swedish fintech company Doconomy, as announced on Twitter.
If you and your family eat meat, you probably should not consider this credit card.
Germany: Iraqi “refugee” murders Christian Democratic Union (CDU) functionary and her husband out of greed
A judge in Lower Saxony has issued a warrant for the arrest of an Iraqi man who arrived as a “minor refugee” in 2015. Suspicion: double murder. The 23-year-old Ayas Illias A. allegedly killed master mechanic Karsten U. and his wife, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) functionary Sabine U.. The crime against the 59 and 60 year old couple took place in their home in Wennigsen near Hanover.
The prosecution assumes that the Iraqi stabbed the couple out of greed. Sabine U. was a secretary in the local CDU association. Her husband had sold his car repair shop to the immigrant ten months ago. According to the newspaper Bild, A. was supposed to pay “more than 300,000 euros” for it. The police suspect that he was unable to do so and wanted to get rid of his debts by committing the murder.
Apparently to distract himself, A. had called the police himself shortly after the crime. He claimed to be worried about the couple because the man had not turned up at the workshop as arranged – allegedly to assist the police. The Iraqi is said to have bought another workshop and even a detached house. Where A. got all that money is now being investigated.
In 2015, the authorities investigated Ayas Illias A. for illegal entry. However, the case was dropped.
https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2022/mord-an-cdu-funktionaerin-fluechtling-in-u-haft/
Leftists PROMOTE Child Drag Show?!
France: An Islamist suspected of terrorism enters police station shouting “Allahu Akbar”
For a few seconds, all eyes in the entrance hall of the Avignon police station were on the man who shouted “Allahu akbar” in front of the police officers at the reception. This incident took place in the early afternoon of July 1st.
This behaviour was considered all the more worrying by the forces of order because the almost 35-year-old resident of the papal city is under special surveillance. He has an entry in the S-card index and is considered a radical Islamist. However, the person is also known for his psychiatric problems and does not take his medication very conscientiously.Le Dauphiné
Mass shooting reported in Copenhagen mall – Danish authorities say suspect in custody after multiple people wounded in mass shooting in central Copenhagen
Several people at a Copenhagen shopping mall were shot and one person was arrested in connection with the shooting, the Danish police said on Sunday.
The conditions of those struck were not immediately available. The police confirmed on Twitter that shots had been fired.
The shooting happened at Field’s, the largest shopping center in Denmark. Video and images posted on social media showed people sprinting out of the mall and ambulances lining its exterior. Armed police officers were running near the mall and a helicopter hovered overhead.
A mall employee told a local news outlet that “masses of people” had run to seek shelter in the Kentucky Fried Chicken at Field’s. Staff members barricaded the doors and remained there for about 45 minutes, the employee said.
Details about the person placed under arrest were not immediately available. It was also unclear what had led up to the shooting.
The police urged people inside the mall to stay and wait for help.
Davy Antebi, the deputy ambassador of Israel in Denmark, said on Twitter that Israel “stands firmly” with Denmark.
Sophie Andersen, the mayor of Copenhagen, said on Twitter that the shooting was serious and that the city was in close contact with the police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/world/europe/copenhagen-shooting-fields-mall.html