Populist Win: New Anti-Globalist Farmers Wins Even More Dutch Senators Than Expected, Are Largest Party

Jack Montgomery 20 Mar 2023 

The anti-Great Reset, pro-farmer BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) movement appears to have won even more seats in the Dutch senate than expected, with the globalist coalition government losing heavily.  The BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement) was founded to represent the interests of Dutch farmers facing severe difficulties or being closed down altogether as a result of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s efforts to implement European Union-mandated curbs on the use of nitrogen fertilisers, in order to serve the bloc’s climate change green agenda.

The precarious four-party coalition government of the supposedly “centre-right” Prime Minister Mark Rutte, meanwhile, appears to have suffered somewhat worse losses than expected, with Vlaardingerbroek suggesting they will be unable to achieve a majority even with the support of the Labour Party and the Greens...........To Read More....

Dutch Farmers will probably be the majority party in the Netherlands’ Parliament

March 18, 2023 By Andrea Widburg

Last year, the Dutch government announced that it would seize 30% of Dutch farms to save the climate. This year, polling shows that the newly formed Boer-Burger Beweging (BBB), the farmers’ party, will be the largest single party in Parliament. However, the nature of the parliamentary system is that they still won’t have power, as it’s likely that two leftist parties will join for a voting majority.

For a long time, I’ve said that the left is returning us to a medieval world, one in which the world is dominated by a small group of rich, all-powerful aristocrats. The remainder of the people consists of a slightly larger group of “tradespeople” (i.e., the middle class), and a huge cohort of powerless, impoverished people who live in a world of darkness and hunger.

I’ve since rethought my theory. We’re not medieval, we’re Roman. The medieval world was a Biblical world, while we have reverted to a pagan world, complete with Earth worship and an intense focus on child sexuality. Ironically, though, it’s the powerful people’s Earth worship, though, that may change Holland’s political system for the better................ To Read More..

My Take - I can't believe the Dutch are going to stand for this.   At some point I expect to see a revolution all over Europe over their insane green initiatives and immigration.  Europe's doomed, get over it. 

Dutch Farmer’s Crisis: The Makings of a Famine to Come, by Aaron Warner  19 March 2023 - The Daily Wire’s Jordan Peterson interviewed international migration expert Michael Yon and Dutch independent journalist Eva Vlaardingerbroek recently to discuss the farmer’s crisis in Holland.  If you weren’t aware the Dutch farmers have been under the yoke of their purportedly conservative government’s “climate crisis” policy changes for nearly ten years........Citing environmental concerns the farmers are now being told some fifty percent of them will have to “voluntarily” sell their land, which in reality is a coercive means of grabbing the land by the government says Vlaardingerbroek.  Current Dutch policy forbids them from selling in the open market essentially leaving them one choice – to sell to the government.  This has led to massive protests by the Dutch farmers, similar to the truckers who protested Trudeau’s COVID anti-freedom vaccine demands last year that saw Trudeau freezing the bank accounts of those who protested..............As Vlaardingerbroek explains the government has repeatedly issued demands of the farmers in regard to what are and are not acceptable practices.  Long one of the most efficient farming people in the world, responsible for the largest relative agricultural output on the planet, the Dutch farmers are facing catastrophic consequences thanks to the ever shifting sands of their leader’s policy changes.  After years of bending over backwards to appease their government’s demands the farmers have reached their breaking point.............

 

Huge numbers of Americans say climate change is a religion - Huge numbers of Americans say that "climate change" is not science at all, but a religion.According to Rasmussen Reports, 60% of respondents, all Likely U.S. voters, agree with the statement, "Climate change has become a religion that 'actually has nothing to do with the climate' and is really about power and control." The polling found that 43% strongly agree and 17% somewhat agree. It was announced GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy who recently said climate change is a matter of faith for people, and "actually has nothing to do with the climate."

 

Greta Thunberg quietly deletes tweet from 5 years ago predicting only 5 years left to save us from climate apocalypse … and Tucker pounces, By Thomas Lifson - One of the more delightful aspects of being a dissident from the absurd apocalyptic climate doom cult is the ability to laugh at the decades' worth of failed, yet quite specific predictions of disaster from purported "experts" that the media have gleefully trumpeted.  The track record of the failure of previous predictions matters not in the least, as if mass amnesia had infected not just the media, but government, academia, and the corporate world..........

 

Global Warming? Ice Sheet on Lake Tahoe Bay Joel B. Pollak - A rare ice sheet has formed on Emerald Bay, California, on Lake Tahoe, the first time it has been seen in over 30 years — and a sign of the cold weather in the Sierra Nevada in a season normally linked to the spring thaw.........

 

Tucker Destroys Climate Commies: ‘They Hate the Earth; They Hate Nature; It’s About Controlling Us’ [VIDEO]

Dutch farmers protest climate regulations on livestock amid looming global food crisis

The farmers threatened to slaughter the cows if the climate regulations passed 

By Madeleine Hubbard June 29, 2022 

Furious Dutch farmers brought cows to The Hague and threatened to slaughter the animals on Tuesday in protest of the Netherlands' $26 billion climate plan that could reduce the livestock population by 30%. The Netherlands, one of Europe's top greenhouse gas emitters, is planning on halving its nitrogen output by 2030, Bloomberg reported. The government plan would shutter some farms, as much of the nitrogen is blamed on manure and fertilizer from cattle.........To Read More...

by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris | Nov 30, 2021 @ America Out Loud

Under former President Barack Obama⏤a regulation was passed called Waters of the United States or WOTUS, also called the Clean Water Rule. Under the misleading guise of protecting water for the people, it stipulated that any land containing water that could eventually run off to a creek, stream, or river that might one day end up in a navigable waterway would fall under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers. It literally placed every puddle on a farmer’s land in jeopardy of having the farmer required to gain permission from those two government entities to make any changes to their land. It was a completely egregious rule that drove the farmers crazy.

Former President Donald Trump ended the Obama WOTUS regulation on September 12, 2019, and published a more sensible replacement rule on April 21, 2020.

As would be expected from the incompetent Biden Administration, they are placing regulations back in force “to restore federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands, and other waterways,” according to the Des Moines Register. This simply creates yet one more obstacle for our great American farmers to feed us healthily and economically. As if our farmers did not have enough problems already with the regular attacks from the left today.

Senior author Dr. Jay Lehr has worked with farmers for the past 40 years, crisscrossing the nation lecturing about advances in agriculture. He explains how modern technology has changed the face of cultivation so that it’s no longer your grandfather’s farm or even your dad’s. Yet, in today’s world, environmental leftists try to vilify farmers and the land they work on. As young people take over the family farm, we have a new population of the most hardworking folks in the nation. Jay used to joke that farm kids rarely have green hair, which might be changing today, but they certainly have the hardest work ethic to continue to feed our nation.

The U.S. has just over 2 million farms, 97% of which are family-owned, while each of the remaining 3% generates three times the annual sales of the average farm, which is $350,000 before expenses.

Agriculture generated $374 billion in revenue in 2018. Animal feed is 25% of that from corn, soybeans, barley, oats, and sorghum. 40% of all the corn grown in the U.S., primarily in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, goes into producing ethanol which serves only to increase the cost of gasoline while reducing our vehicles’ mileages. The powerful farm lobby, coupled with widespread mistaken ideas of the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, keep requirements of ethanol in our gas in place.

America exported $143 billion in agriculture products in 2018. Worldwide we use 3.83 million acres to feed 7.3 billion people and, in complete contradiction to the doom and gloom forecasts of anti-farm activists, the ratio of food acres to people fed continues to decline.

Agriculture broadcaster, journalist, and rancher Trent Loos travels the country teaching people the wonderful truths about agriculture to combat the lies of the left. He recently completed a 100-day journey across the U.S. lecturing city folks about agriculture. He was met by large crowds happy to learn that farmers continue to be the best environmentalists and stewards of our land.

Loos explains how very sustainable modern American agriculture really is. Yet, its biggest challenges will always be the weather, which can help produce a bumper crop or literally destroy one. It is for that reason the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), established on May 15, 1862, by President Abraham Lincoln, stands ready to help in bad times to keep food prices at reasonable levels. The USDA assists with loans, technical support, and some subsidies. Lincoln was right when, in his final message to Congress, he called USDA “The People’s Department.” Through their work on food, agriculture, economic development, science, natural resource conservation, and other issues, USDA has impacted the lives of generations of Americans.

But things are changing, and not for the better. As usual, bureaucrats in Washington D.C. persist in writing unnecessary and restrictive regulations like the one that says if there is a puddle on a farm that could overflow into a navigable waterway, the Environmental Protection Agency has jurisdiction over that land.

Trent Loos will be a guest on our show, The Other Side of the Story airing Saturday and Sunday, December 4 and 5, at both 11 am and 8 pm EST. He believes that the greatest challenge to agriculture today is that individuals who never get their hands dirty define sustainability from a cubicle in D.C. with a pen and paper.

These agriculture bureaucrats have no clue that a farmer must not only grow his crops regardless of weather, but they have to market it in a floating arena of prices, futures, puts, and calls, understanding at all times when, as the song The Gambler goes, they should “hold them, fold them or walk away.” It is remarkable that, with all the variables the American farmer must juggle to stay in business, they have been able to maintain our cost of food in the range of 10% of the average American family’s budget. Biden’s new WOTUS rule just makes life harder for these wonderful people and so must be rejected.

Note: The EPA writes on its website: “The agencies are taking comment on this proposed rule for 60 days beginning on the date it is published in the Federal Register. For more information on submitting a written comment on the proposal or to register for the virtual public hearings on the proposed rule, see www.epa.gov/wotus.”

Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris

Dr. Jay Lehr is a Senior Policy Analyst with the International Climate Science Coalition and former Science Director of The Heartland Institute. He is an internationally renowned scientist, author, and speaker who has testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on environmental issues and consulted with nearly every agency of the national government and many foreign countries. After graduating from Princeton University at the age of 20 with a degree in Geological Engineering, he received the nation’s first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona. He later became executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers.

Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition, and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. He has 40 years experience as a mechanical engineer/project manager, science and technology communications professional, technical trainer, and S&T advisor to a former Opposition Senior Environment Critic in Canada’s Parliament.

Road to a Million Pounds of Potatoes

May 5, 2020 Alexandra Rios, Bilingual MMJ/Reporter

The potato growers of Washington are continuing their mission to get 1 million pounds of the 1 billion pounds of unprocessed potatoes to those in need. Ninety percent of all the potatoes grown in Washington State are sold to restaurants and other food service establishments. With so many restaurants closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, our potato farmers have lost most of their customers.  These closures and restrictions on restaurants have created a huge surplus of 1 billion pounds of unprocessed potatoes that no longer have a home.

This has created a huge financial loss to many of our growers as they were counting on someone to buy their crop.This will cause total devastation to our farmers. Some of the smaller growers will not make it out of this crisis.Our farmers and their families also recognize that they are not the only ones suffering financially. So many people have lost their jobs and are struggling to make ends meet. Our farmers would like to donate the potatoes that were originally set to be processed to food banks and those in need, these are potatoes that are not sorted, so each bag will have multiple sizes. These are not like the potatoes you see in the stores that are all the same size in a bag. The potatoes that we have a surplus of, were all scheduled to be turned into french fries, tater tots, wedges, etc. The farmers do not want to see these potatoes in storage shed go to waste..........To Read More....

South African radical: White farmers should 'leave the keys' when they go

March 22, 2018 By Rick Moran
 

We've been covering the ongoing tragedy for white farmers in South Africa for more than a year, culminating in a law passed by the radical South African parliament that expropriates white farmland that's been in the same family for hundreds of years without compensation...........They may be "white nationalists," but that doesn't mean they should be slaughtered.  But the radical black government claims it's a lie and that white farmers who are now fleeing to Australia should "leave the keys" to their houses and their tractors when they go.............Read more

The Cock Crows for Rural America

By Jim Beers

Only hours ago, Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States. Whatever your opinions about Mr. Trump and no matter how you voted: Rural Americans should consider a Psalm that has never left my memory since I first read it; it is the analogy of the sentry as the man yearning for God. While Mr. Trump and politics are not subjects of spiritual purpose, it is fair to say that Rural America, like that sentry, has been in an increasingly dark night of government abuse for decades and relief is coming.

Whether it is:

- GI (Government Issue) wolves killing domestic and wild animals of value or threatening the safety of children and the elderly.

• GI grizzly bears killing campers, hunters, bicyclists and others.
• Fishy claims destroying agriculture or specious claims about birds destroying timber management and entire Counties from government services to families.
• Government land closures destroying communities and economies while causing immense and spectacularly expensive fires that destroy homes and communities.
• Alliances between bureaucrats and radical organizations to pass, modify and then invoke laws to destroy dams, claim absolute federal hegemony over every aspect of Rural Life from “ALL WATERS OF THE US” to closing the last lead mine and smelter as a clandestine tool of gun control.
• Debilitating Executive Order after Executive Order issued with disdain that exceeds the “Orders” of Czars, Emperors, Kings and modern day dictators.

The list could go on almost forever but I leave it to you to note the federal oppressions affecting your family, your community and your state.

It is an undeniable fact that no American President or “his” bureaucrats of the last 25 years has done any more than increase the presence of wolves and grizzly bears, or “Declare” Wildernesses and “Sanctuaries”, and grow the federal workforce as they tighten the covert relationships between bureaucrats and radical groups that trade money, jobs and influence at the expense of Rural America.

If I had a nickel for every time I wrote or spoke about the necessary reforms as things got worse and was told (4 days ago was the most recent) “Oh you’ll never be able to do anything about ‘it’”, I could move to one of those gated communities with all the “successful” bureaucrats that have been destroying Rural America. Well the cock has just crowed and slivers of light are just visible on the horizon.

Donald Trump is an outsider that overcame the “establishment” in his own Party and the opposition. He overcame a very hostile media and a punditry of arrogant mavens. The foregoing are and have been the furtive soldiers of the environmentalist/animal rights’ organizations destroying Rural America as well as Constitutional governance and the Rights of all Americans while disguised as saviors of “the ecosystem”. He owes none of them anything.

Donald Trump is faced with two things of importance to Rural Americans. While he faces many other challenges, he wants and needs to: 1.) Reduce government spending and 2.) Grow the economy.

Reducing the Executive Orders; the size of the federal workforce, the overreach of environmental jurisprudence (i.e. laws, regulations, etc.) and restoring renewable natural resource management to government lands as they are REDUCED will do those TWO THINGS President Trump desires and Rural America sorely needs:

1.) Reduce Government Spending.
2.) Grow the Rural (and American) Economy.

Think of it as a WIN/WIN.

Now is the time to identify THE LAWS that are the basis of the regulations that are causing all of the rural mayhem affecting you and your communities. Those laws must be either:

A. Amended.
B. Repealed (like Prohibition).
C. Replaced, or
D. Limited in scope, jurisdiction and authority. (See my 29 October 2016 article titled Without Consent in an email with the subject line A Proposal for President Trump.) All of these unjust and un-Constitutional laws and bureaucratic rules, i.e. ESA, EPA, Land Acquisitions, etc.: are based on laws passed by Congress and signed by the President. Therefore, the Congress and the President can create restrictive requirements for State Government Approvals Required for any federal action under color of named laws.

Now identify re-elected and new politicians that supported President Trump from the get-go and potential appointees as they are revealed, and share your ideas (under A, B, C, or D above) and ask them to sponsor such actions both because of the harms they are creating AND BECAUSE THEY WILL REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDING & GROW THE US (especially the rural) ECONOMY.

Tell your state government from the Governor on down to your bureaucrats to get behind (in a direct and forceful way) your proposals BECAUSE THEY WILL RESTORE STATE AUTHORITY AND JURISDICTION. Remind them that this a serious matter and any demurring on their part will lead to hard ball politics to replace them at the earliest opportunity. We may have only four years to set right 25 years of federal actions that are increasingly transforming rural America into an unused, uninhabited and unmanaged fantasy land for urban votes to create Senators and Representatives that “run things” for 30, 40 and even 50 years. Is it any wonder that Washington treats rural Americans like 2nd class “quasi-legal” citizens?

As I wrote about a month ago: “If not Trump; who? If not now, when?” Trump will be President in January and we must take every advantage of this opportunity.

I mentioned a Psalm at the beginning of this piece that has long come to my mind. As an old shipboard watch officer, game warden, policeman, special agent and security officer I have stood many watches at all hours. Some were hidden in trees to observe hunters from their arrival, some were in woods to guard high profile persons and many were simply in silent control rooms or lonely wings of a ship’s bridge but they all shared one thing; the aching tiredness you feel late in the night as you fight sleep and try to stay alert. That Psalm goes, “My heart yearns for you like a sentry yearns for the dawn.”

For those that have not fallen asleep, the cock is crowing and the light of dawn is appearing. It is time for rural Americans to buck up and take advantage of the day after an insufferably long night.

If you found this worthwhile, please share it with others. Thanks.

Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.

Jim Beers is available to speak or for consulting. You can receive future articles by sending a request with your e-mail address to: jimbeers7@comcast.net

Do Big Ag companies sue or harass innocent farmers for unknowingly planting patented seeds?

Layla Katirae Genetic Literacy Project

A common criticism of genetically modified foods is that their seeds are patented. There are different aspects to this concern: some argue that there should be no patenting of any kind on seeds, while others argue that farmers should not be forced to repurchase seeds. It’s clear that many misconceptions surround the topic of GMOs and patents abound.

Seeds for genetically modified crops are not the only ones that are patented. As documented by the US Patent and Trademark Office, there are many conventionally bred crops that are patented, as well as decorative plants and flowers. Considering the amount of time, money  and effort that it takes to create a plant through traditional methods that has the traits and qualities that the breeder desires, it makes sense to protect the investment through a patent......To Read More...

Farmer suicides rising in non-GMO France, mirroring India’s crisis

Jackie Roembke | October 19, 2016 | WATTAgNet

[Anti-GMO activists, led by Indian philosopher Vandana Shiva [read GLP profile here], have endlessly repeated the claim that the introduction of GMOs in India has led to a sharp and enduring rise in farmer suicides. It’s the central argument in her emotional appeal to Indian workers to lobby the government to block support for crop biotechnology. It is not just misleading–it is factually wrong.

Farmer suicides have not increased since the introduction of insect resistant Bt cotton, which has been a huge success, as more than 90% of farmers now grow it. [read GLP GMO FAQ on the issue here] And as this report from France underscores, farmer suicides is a worldwide epidemic–spurred not by biotechnology but by falling food prices. France’s suicide rate, like that of many countries, mirrors or exceeds the rate in India.].....To Read More....

Why farmers buy GMO seeds from ‘evil’ corporations

Amanda Zaluckyj | April 20, 2015 | Geneticteracy Project

Around our home, spring is also known as planting season. Starting in a few weeks, and lasting a couple months, we will be planting full time. From early in the morning until late in the evening, our farmers will be in the field planting our corn and soybean crops. You can bet that those seeds are going to be genetically engineered varieties. Some of the seeds may even been varieties developed by Monsanto. Or Monsatan, according to its harshest critics.

But what you may not realize is that’s exactly how we as farmers want it.

Surprised? You shouldn’t be! Before farmers can plant their crop, they have to pick out their seeds. I’ve heard this criticism many times: farmers are either forced to choose genetically engineered seed by the big bad biotech companies, or we’re too stupid to make better choices. In other words, we aren’t making an informed and knowledgeable decision to cultivate genetically engineered crops; we’re being told we have to plant them.………To Read More…..

My Take – I grew up on a small farm owned and run by my grandparents.  They made some money off the farm, but they primarily raised everything for home use.

My grandmother made all the fruit preserves, canned all the vegetables, made her own mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and I can’t even begin to tell all she was capable of doing.

And she never started school until the third grade, didn’t speak a word of English, didn’t go past grade school, and yet she learned to read and write English and became an American citizen – when you had to take a test to do so, and it was the same for my grandfather.

The problem with the old ones in our families is they die before we grow old enough to fully realize just how great they were. We raised chickens, pigs and a cow or two. My grandmother made our own butter, cheeses, we had fresh milk and the best eggs you ever ate. 

My grandfather worked the farm while working in the coal mines full time. He was amazing, and he could do almost anything! So it irritates me when I see these activists - who can’t do anything but shoot their mouths off about thing they know nothing about – telling the world  farmers aren’t very smart. 

A farmer has to be a mechanic, a plumber, a carpenter, an electrician, an agronomist, an amateur veterinarian and a bit of a biologist. All of which is usually self taught. Sounds smart enough to me to believe they know how to make good decisions about GMOs,  yet they keep touting the idea farmers are "too stupid to make better choices".