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Aug 11, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

As someone who lives in the netherlands, i would like to correct few things. We did not have vaccine mandates, not even in healthcare. It was very close, but somehow we managed. Protests were in place already in autumn 2020 and slowly became more and more popular and less and less bloody. The lasi picture is from the fire of picnic distribution center. Its not fake meat factory, just websupermarket. And looks like our farmers won. Looks like the idea of mandatory selling of your farm because of nitrogen norms (based on strange models) is abandoned.

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Aug 11, 2022·edited Aug 11, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

On Regenerative Farming, New Zealand has passed three similar 'green' farming laws under Ardern. Yet none of it regenerative agriculture based. (Farming is the backbone of NZ's economy) Every positive regenerative agriculture story in our news, is followed by the farming papers + mainstream full of hit pieces, anti regenerative, how 4p1000 is anti-science etc. Over C19, regenerative farmers have been shadow banned, most of us able to see through the Monsanto Marketing style of NZ Govt propaganda on vaccines .... we are on a pastural cow farm, no fertiliser for thirty years - cows (ruminant animals) are natures composters, they build soil, and healthy soil stores carbon, diverse meadowlands are important areas of biodiversity.

It will take time to eliminate fertiliser as both soil and plants are addicted to it, starving the life in the soil. It is recommended to reduce fertiliser on 1/4 of your farm over four years so you get used to what changes are going to happen, letting the life in the soil rebuild and learning new techniques /adapting without risking the fertility of the whole farm - so in ideal situation its around 8-10 years to phase fertilisers out. That is why Sri Lanka's policy failed.

Thank you for your wonderful article

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Aug 11, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Well-informed piece! Corrections by the previous commenter below, but we did have vaccine passports, also for children, required to enter restaurants, gyms, concert halls, etc. With fall and winter approaching, the beast starts to rear its ugly head again. Further, it make me feel ashamed to live in a land where the police and military intimidate and bully the people who stand up for their fundamental rights. By the way: it is interesting what you make of our national flag. Three colours is 6 possible permutations. Officially, it is red above, then white, then blue. The reverse flag (blue, white, red) has become a strong symbol of the Farmers resistance.

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Aug 11, 2022·edited Aug 13, 2022

This cabinet is treating its own citizens as a conquered and subjugated people who are there solely to serve their deluded policies and shut up about it or be called xenophobic, racist misogynists failing which they will be beaten down by riot police military style. This very likely won't end well for the cabinet, which is why it is quickly installing a Chinese style social credit system with digital passes, traceable digital currencies and 5G masts for crowd control (as publicly disclosed by resigned Home Undersecretary Mona Keijzer).

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beautiful exposé. layers within layers food for thought. keep it real sir

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Noted that in virtually every clip of Dutch police using violence, there is at least one female cop.

Also, it appears that violence against property (arson etc) is much more effective than directly confronting police. We saw early on its use by one side in attacking meat processing plants etc. Now, the opposition is starting to follow suit with attacks on fake meat plants. Not advocating either. Just making an observation. Please remain non-violent and safe. Go to the polls and vote 3rd party if necessary.

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Excellent report.

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Some of those videos are absolutely shocking - of all countries prior to the pandemic, I would never have expected Holland to act in this manner

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I do believe a number of them, Gates, Trudeau etc believe people

Love them. Or, if they don’t they will. I believe Gates has some sort of a Messiah Complex in which he believes some day his name will be known everywhere as a Holy figure. He probably fantasizes about this. The reality, of him becoming hated will slowly dawn on him. Fauci Gates Trudeau Ahearn, so many will eventually have to face up to the fact their names will go down in history, true enough, but as Hitler like figures. Mass murderers. Not as heroes.

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This is just awful.

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Hmmm. The one showing the people united against the oppression is age restricted. While the ones showing the unchecked violent suppression isn’t. Wonder why.

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I guess it will take the millions in the Netherlands to stop participating and cooperating in their demise.

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Scary times in so many countries.

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Climate Change is the motivating factor behind all of this. I’m not 100% certain of that, but close to it. Cull the population, end capitalism. To save the planet.

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Could you do Singapore? On their recent National Day speech, the prime minister touted 1600 deaths as opposed to 10,000 if they'd been similar to the rest of the world. They're much smaller with a very cohesive society overall so I'm curious what your analysis would show.

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The Dutch feed Europe. Destroy Dutch farmers, and you destroy Europe. Simple as.

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