/qnotables22/ - ===Q Notables 2022===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17947968 (151728ZDEC22) Notable: Thai King's eldest daughter, Princess Bajrakitiyabha (44), collapsed from a heart condition

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>>112951

I hope someone will read Steve Kirsch's substack on this subject.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/vaccinated-thailand-princess-bajrakitiyabha

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948004 (151732ZDEC22) Notable: "I Cannot Speak To This": White House Won't Say Whether Biden Will Return Donations From FTX's Bankman-Fried

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"I Cannot Speak To This": White House Won't Say Whether Biden Will Return Donations From FTX's Bankman-Fried

With Sam Bankman-Fried now officially in custody for allegedly swindling his investors out of "at least $1.8 billion", questions have begun to swirl about whether or not campaign donations made by the former FTX CEO would be returned to the company, which is now trying to manage a bankruptcy.

In focus over the last few days has been campaign contributions that SBF made for President Biden's 2020 campaign.

When asked about whether or not the Biden campaign would return 2020 contributions from Bankman-Fried, "White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn’t say Tuesday whether President Biden" would ask aides to return the cash, the NY Post reported.

Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller asked her: “The president received campaign donations [from Bankman-Fried]. Will the president return that donation? Does he call on all politicians … to return those funds?”

“So look, I’m covered here by the Hatch Act — [I’m] limited on what I can say and anything that’s connected to political contributions from here, I would have to refer you to the DNC,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answered.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-cannot-speak-white-house-wont-say-whether-biden-will-return-donations-ftxs-bankman-fried

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948020 (151734ZDEC22) Notable: Kari Lake Discusses Her Arizona Election Lawsuit with Tucker Carlson

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Kari Lake Discusses Her Arizona Election Lawsuit with Tucker Carlson– Video

December 14, 2022 | sundance | 151 Comments

Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson to explain some of the details surrounding her election day lawsuit {Direct Rumble Link Here}.

As Mrs. Lake notes there were widespread issues throughout the state and multiple irregularities in Maricopa, County specifically. Approximately 60% of the voting equipment was not working on election day and Mrs. Lake believes an intentional effort to create crisis was behind the lack of preparation. WATCH:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/14/kari-lake-discusses-her-arizona-election-lawsuit-with-tucker-carlson-video/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948052 (151737ZDEC22) Notable: #22000

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>>112920, >>112923, >>112943 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! My official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection is here!

>>112921 A capable U.S. attorney is a far better choice than a second special counsel

>>112926 is wesley transitioning

>>112919 Origins of the cabal - did the Khazars infiltrate the Jewish religion

>>112922, >>112924, >>112935, >>112945, >>112948, >>112949 The Snake by Oscar Brown Jr.

>>112928, >>112931, >>112929, >>112936 “Stochastic Terrorism

>>112933 Lawmakers Announce Bipartisan Breakthrough on Full-Year Omnibus Spending Bill

>>112934 DWAC down 5%

>>112921 A capable U.S. attorney is a far better choice than a second special counsel

>>112925 house-passes-short-term-funding-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown

>>112940 Undercover police operation unveils sex trafficking ring, 10 arrested

>>112939 Congress is days away from bankrupting America

>>112938 Israeli nurse employed at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa was indicted

>>112937 Elections going to court

>>112927 Security forces have killed 144 Palestinians, 34 of them children and teenagers

>>112930 8 leading GOP senators slam FBI & Justice Department

>>112932 Senior Mossad agent was driving a Lamborghini in occupied territories

>>112944 This is what the rule of law looks like in #Brussels

>>112941 DePape's son Nebosvod 'Sky' Gonzalez

>>112942 Former CIA Director Brennan Testifies

>>112946 @CobraTate I’m just going to come out and say the truth because everyone else is afraid

>>112947 DNA is an antenna for electromagnetic impulses

>>112951, >>112952, >>112958 Thai King's eldest daughter, Princess Bajrakitiyabha (44), collapsed from a heart condition

>>112950, >>112953 I wonder how the republicans voted on Charter Schools?

>>112954 Rep Katie Porter (D) says pedophilia isn’t a crime- it’s an identity

>>112955 "I Cannot Speak To This": White House Won't Say Whether Biden Will Return Donations From FTX's Bankman-Fried

>>112956 President Jair Bolsonaro when he was a young officer in the Brazilian Army

>>112957 Kari Lake Discusses Her Arizona Election Lawsuit with Tucker Carlson

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948151 (151747ZDEC22) Notable: House Democrats Create Another ‘Deem as Passed’ Stopgap Spending Ominbus Construct – Chip Roy Calls It Out loudly

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Chip Roy is saying congress is flipping a big Fuck You to the people! He’s on fire!

House Democrats Create Another ‘Deem as Passed’ Stopgap Spending Ominbus Construct – Chip Roy Calls It Out loudly

December 14, 2022 | sundance | 168 Comments

House Democrats have returned to their old ‘deem as passed’ playbook to provide a vehicle for the Senate to construct another stopgap omnibus spending bill despite the legally required non-origination from the House.

WASHINGTON DC – The House is expected to pass a stopgap spending bill Wednesday night that would give negotiators an extra week to finish a $1.7 trillion year-end spending package, setting up an all-out legislative sprint before lawmakers leave for the holidays. (more)

Texas Representative Chip Roy explains exactly what the House is doing

Yup, it’s Deja vu all over again.

Did you know the last regular order congressional budget was passed in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008. That’s it. Every single year from 2008 to now has been a series of baseline budgeting, continuous resolutions and omnibus spending

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/14/house-democrats-create-another-deem-as-passed-stopgap-spending-ominbus-construct-chip-roy-calls-it-out-loudly/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948175 (151751ZDEC22) Notable: Pope Francis: Spend Less on Christmas, Send Excess to Ukraine

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Pope Francis: Spend Less on Christmas, Send Excess to Ukraine

ROME — Pope Francis is urging Christians to spend less on Christmas this year and to send the savings to the people of Ukraine.

“There is so much suffering in Ukraine, so much, so much!” the pontiff told the crowds gathered in the Vatican for his weekly General Audience Wednesday.

“I would like to draw some attention to the coming Christmas, even the parties,” he said. “It’s nice to celebrate Christmas, to have parties… but let’s lower the level of Christmas spending a bit.”

The pope went on to suggest that the money saved on the more commercial side to Christmas could be redirected to the suffering people of Ukraine.

“Let’s have a humbler Christmas, with more humble gifts,” he proposed. “We send what we save to the Ukrainian people, who are in need, who suffer so much.”

“They are hungry, they feel the cold and many die because there are no doctors or nurses at hand,” he said.

“Let us not forget: a Christmas, yes; at peace with the Lord, yes, but with Ukrainians in our hearts. And let’s make that concrete gesture for them,” he concluded.

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/12/15/pope-francis-spend-less-on-christmas-send-excess-to-ukraine/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948181 (151751ZDEC22) Notable: China Reports New Omicron Variant Spreading in 9 Provinces - ya sure, u betcha

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China Reports New Omicron Variant Spreading in 9 Provinces, Populace Fearful, Mortuaries Overwhelmed

COVID-19 cases have been increasing in China, since the ruling communist regime eased its “zero-COVID” restrictions on Dec. 7. Netizens have been reporting that hospitals and mortuaries are being overwhelmed by demand, particularly in nine provinces where the relatively new Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have been reported to be spreading quickly.

On Dec. 14, China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced for the first time that 49 cases of BQ.1 had been found in nine Chinese provinces, as well as cases of BQ.1.1. However, the authorities didn’t identify which provinces were the ones affected.

BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are descendants of the Omicron variant BA.5, which was first detected by scientists in South Africa in April. They started taking over BA.5 as the dominant COVID-19 strains in the United States in October and have been detected in more than 50 countries.

Just days earlier on Dec. 12, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) official media “People’s Daily” reported, citing Chinese experts, that the strains spreading in China were still Omicron BA.5.2 and BF.7. According to the report, most cases in Guangzhou were BA.5.2, with a high proportion of asymptomatic patients due to milder clinical condition than BF.7, which was said to be the cause of most of the infections in Beijing, which has been experiencing more severe cases.

But the Dec. 14 announcement has stirred distrust and fear in Beijing, made worse by the many claims on social media of residents experiencing allegedly more severe symptoms unlike the typical cold-like symptoms associated with previous Omicron variants.

Uncertainty in Beijing

https://www.ntd.com/china-reports-new-omicron-variant-spreading-in-9-provinces-populace-fearful-mortuaries-overwhelmed_888785.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948223 (151756ZDEC22) Notable: RNC Spent Tens Of Million On Limos, Private Jets And Alcohol since 2017

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Holy Fucking Shit

BOMBSHELL: Jennifer Van Laar Reports RNC Spent Tens Of Million On Limos, Private Jets And Alcohol

Bannons War Room

Steve: what do you mean misclassified expenses?

She says, “$5,000 was spent at lulu lemon (yoga paints) andmisclassified as office supplies

$1,000s on Drizzle (Door Dash) for Alcohol to the office

You will not believe this Fucking Believe this Shit

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948250 (151758ZDEC22) Notable: Donald J. Trump's FREE SPEECH POLICY

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>>112969

No we should label the next bread

Trumps freedom of speech policy.

Watch the video that just dropped.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948268 (151800ZDEC22) Notable: Donald J. Trump's FREE SPEECH POLICY

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>>112969

ARE YOU WATCHING THIS?!

IF NOT, WHY NOT??

THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IS THIS VIDEO.

TRUMP LAYS OUT HISFREE SPEECHPOLICY.

HELLLLOOOOOO

WATCH AND LISTEN.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948335 (151809ZDEC22) Notable: True The Vote: Maricopa County Experimented with Unproven and Proprietary AI on the Voter Signature Verification of Over 1.3 Million Ballots

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True The Vote

Maricopa County Experimented with Unproven and Proprietary Artificial Intelligence on the Voter Signature Verification of Over 1.3 Million Ballots

Q: Was this legal?

Voters in Mohave County, Arizona reported concern that their votes were being diluted by events in Maricopa County. This litigation seeks to uncover the source of their concerns. We look forward to seeing the case tried in court to ensure that these citizens, and all Americans, can be confident that their votes count. True the Vote stands with these voters and is proud to provide research and legal resources to support them in their fight for fair elections.

https://www.truethevote.org/statement-mohave-county-voters-lawsuit/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948355 (151811ZDEC22) Notable: TIME Person of the Year – Ukrainian President Zelensky Just Shut Down Court that Investigates Corruption

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TIME Person of the Year – Ukrainian President Zelensky Just Shut Down Court that Investigates Corruption

TIME’s Person of the Year, President Volodymyr Zelensky, is praised for liquidating a Kyiv anti-corruption court.

Newsmax reports:

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed his dissolution on Tuesday of a Kyiv court as evidence Ukraine can fight to end a history of corruption and Russia’s invasion at the same time.

“This story has drawn to a close,” he said as he announced he had signed a law liquidating the Kyiv District Administrative Court, which Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities had compared to a criminal organization and whose chairman was hit with U.S. sanctions Dec. 9.

“But the story of reforms continues – it continues, even in the time of such a war,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.

He signed the law the same day it was passed by Ukraine’s parliament, in a nod to extensive judiciary and other reforms needed for Ukraine to join the European Union.

Pavlo Vovk, the court’s chairman, said in a Facebook post that the decision to eliminate the court was purely political, made in haste and one that “those who applaud it today will soon regret.”

The U.S. State Department said Washington was imposing sanctions on Vovk “for soliciting bribes in return for interfering in judicial and other public processes,” and designated two of his immediate family members at the same time.

To date, Zelensky has outlawed a Ukrainian church and the opposition party. No doubt that the party that voted in the article above did not include any opposition.

This is what China did in Hong Kong. The head of the country (the CEO) is picked by China and then the people vote on the CEO. The upper body in Hong Kong is all China cronies. The lower body is voted in by the people but it no longer has power.

Zelensky also has banned numerous media outlets.

TIME apparently likes a leader who shuts down corruption courts, shuts down religion, shuts down the opposition party, and shuts down media outlets that do not back a despotic regime. Who would have guessed?

http://www.tathasta.com/2022/12/time-person-of-year-ukrainian-president.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948379 (151816ZDEC22) Notable: STOP. THE. OMNI. border crossings in El Paso are up 255% from same time last year.

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Rick Scott, Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Ron Johnson slam Democrats for America bankrupting Omnibus Bill that Dems are trying to pass with a lame duck Congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeK_ivqLzAE

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948435 (151822ZDEC22) Notable: No one will deny Israeli LGBTQ or Arab citizens their rights - Netanyahu

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No one will deny Israeli LGBTQ or Arab citizens their rights, Netanyahu pledged

Netanyahu has spoken out amid domestic and international fears about whether the new government would protect the rights of minority Israelis.

Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that his new government would not deny rights to Israeli LGBTQ or Arab citizens in an interview he gave to the US-based National Public Radio, as he explains that as the country's leader he would be the one in charge.

"I will not let anyone do anything to LGBTQ or to deny our Arab citizens their rights or anything like that. It just won't happen, and the test of time will prove that," he said in an interview published Thursday.

"I will not let anyone do anything to LGBTQ or to deny our Arab citizens their rights or anything like that. It just won't happen, and the test of time will prove that,"

Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu spoke out amid domestic and International fears about whether the new government would and could protect the rights of Israeli citizens who are members of minority groups.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-725006

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948439 (151822ZDEC22) Notable: RNC Spent Tens Of Million On Limos, Private Jets And Alcohol since 2017

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>>112990

EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of RNC Spending Since 2017 Shows Millions…==2 of 3

Nearly $400,000 has been spent on event tickets and other entertainment activities, including $30,000 for a private box at a Las Vegas Raiders game, $13,000 for Broadway shows, $9,400 at Madison Square Garden, and $43,000 at Top Golf locations in Texas, Nevada, Virginia, and Maryland.

According to a senior staffer, the private box Raiders game was part of a retreat for senior staff members. RNC funds were also used to fly the senior staffers and their plus-ones first-class to Las Vegas, and for their hotel rooms, food, and alcohol, the staffer says.

Senior staff retreats were also held at the Salamander Resort & Spa in Virginia in 2021 and 2022, according to another staffer. A national committee member says that at the 2021 retreat, held from March 19-21, 30 senior staffers and their families attended, and the RNC paid for Katie Walsh and Mike Shields to speak to the group. FEC reporting shows that the RNC paid $260,000 to the resort in 2021 and 2022, classified as travel expenses and venue rental and catering.

The dates of the various entertainment expenditures were provided to former staffers and national committee members, who confirmed that there were no donor events or other official RNC events occurring at those times.

Under the current leadership, the RNC has spent more than $150,000 on what could be considered non-essential office expenses, including $25,000 on Commonwealth Joe coffee, $7,000 on cupcakes, nearly $7,000 on candles and diffusers, and $75,000 total at Pottery Barn, West Elm, Restoration Hardware, and Crate & Barrel. In addition, the committee’s FEC reports show expenditures totaling $381,000 classified as “Furniture Expense” during the same time frame.

More than $100,000 was spent at high-end clothing stores such as Rhoback, REI, Nordstrom, Vineyard Vines, Footjoy, Ralph Lauren, Carhartt, and Smathers & Branson.

An RNC vendor tells RedState that the Vineyard Vines expense ($12,000) was likely for embroidered jackets RNC staffers recently received.

Smathers & Branson loafers, $425. CREDIT: SmathersandBranson.com

According to the financials, the RNC is quite generous to its donors, spending $17 million on donor mementos – and possibly more – during McDaniel’s tenure. Custom pins by legendary DC jeweler Ann Hand and Christmas ornaments from Chemart (the company that makes the White House Christmas ornaments) are listed as donor memento expenses, but the financials also include $65,000 in office supplies from Ann Hand and $28,000 from Chemart.

White House Christmas ornament 2017 by Chemart/Beacon Designs, left; pin by Ann Hand, right.

The records also include more than $100,000 in hair/makeup services and dry cleaning expenses, which presumably are for McDaniel’s media appearances and wardrobe.

Dry cleaning expenses are categorized mainly as office supplies or travel expenses, while the hair/makeup services are categorized as media preparation.

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/12/14/exclusive-analysis-of-rnc-spending-since-2017-shows-millions-were-spent-on-private-jets-limousines-luxury-retreats-broadway-shows-and-more-n673852

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948451 (151824ZDEC22) Notable: Highly questionable study shows that getting vaxxed improves your driving ability!

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TYB!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/people-skipped-covid-vaccine-higher-183148392.html

People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study

Reworded:

Vaccination improves your driving ability!

Yes, it's that retarded.

TRUMP CARD? kek

well anyway, it was a nice song... URL starts with "be Q" :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQu-PhyJajg

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948461 (151826ZDEC22) Notable: RNC Spent Tens Of Million On Limos, Private Jets And Alcohol since 2017

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For perspective, the Democratic National Committee has spent $1.5 million on donor gifts, $35,000 on private jets, and only $1,000 for floral arrangements during the 2021-22 election cycle. Longtime RNC committee members who spoke with RedState said that other than during Michael Steele’s time as chair, it has not been standard practice for the chair to use private jet or chauffeur services.

A committee member who spoke to RedState on condition of anonymity said, “We are only provided with top line financial numbers during our meetings, with no specificity, and when I’ve asked the budget chair for more information, he has been unable to provide it.”

The member added that there is general frustration about the lack of financial transparency among committee members, but that members who demand more information are labeled as troublemakers.

Major donors who are learning of the expenditures are understandably upset about how their contributions are being spent. Country music star and RNC donor John Rich, who has been openly critical of the RNC’s expenditures and of McDaniel herself, tells RedState:

“The leadership of the RNC has taken advantage of millions of regular, everyday Conservatives by pretending to support what Patriots support, but in reality, are blowing untold troves of cash on extravagant nonsense, and supporting RINO candidates while ignoring America First contenders. They are nothing more than controlled opposition. The RNC ran ads in 2021 raising money under the phrase ‘Fight for Trump!’ while simultaneously telling Trump and his team to ‘stand down’ from questioning the election results, stating he was ‘ruining the party.’

“The RNC has betrayed its supporters, and I for one will never help them raise another red cent until the Judas elements of the organization have been purged.”

McDaniel did not reply to RedState’s request for comment prior to publication.

UPDATE December 15, 2022, 2:00 AM Eastern

Emma Vaughn, an RNC employee and spokesperson for McDaniel’s re-election campaign, provided the following statement to RedState, which has been published in full:

A client of Harmeet Dhillon decided to publish a hit piece in the middle of the night without making a serious attempt to engage with the RNC or Chairwoman McDaniel’s team. This blog post is as blatantly false as the lies she has been spreading that RNC members are being bribed for their votes. If critics want to misrepresent and push false narratives about the RNC’s spending this past cycle,they should do the math before realizing it only adds up to 0.8% of the total amount the Chairwoman raised.” – Emma Vaughn, spokesperson for Ronna McDaniel’s re-election.

(That’s some excuse from RNC, yes money was wasted on personal things and illegally misclassified in accounting, but it’s only .8% of what Ronna raised!!!)

(NOTE: McDaniel’s opponent in the upcoming election for RNC chair, Harmeet Dhillon, represents RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar in litigation related to former Rep. Katie Hill, and Van Laar has endorsed Dhillon in the RNC chair race.)

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/12/14/exclusive-analysis-of-rnc-spending-since-2017-shows-millions-were-spent-on-private-jets-limousines-luxury-retreats-broadway-shows-and-more-n673852

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948473 (151828ZDEC22) Notable: NBC: How Dutch farmers became the center of a "global right-wing culture war"

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How Dutch farmers became the center of a global right-wing culture war

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/dutch-farmers-emissions-global-right-wing-culture-war-rcna60269

AALTEN, The Netherlands — Erik Luiten seems an unlikely person to be fighting a conspiracy to destroy Western society.

The tall, affable and soft-spoken man is more likely found tending to 150 dairy cows at his farm in the windswept green flatness of the eastern Netherlands. A sixth-generation farmer on this land, he knows the name of each cow and that of its parents. The vast barn echoes to pop classics, including “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.

“There has been research on what music cows like best,” he said with a knowing grin, “and it’s not classical.”

Luiten, 52, is a national organizer in a campaign to stop Dutch government plans to potentially shut thousands of farms in order to reduce harmful nitrogen emissions by half by 2030 — a plan that critics say will change the country’s huge agriculture industry forever.

Tractors have blocked highways and surrounded government buildings as part of a campaign that has huge public support. The three-year-old Farmer-Citizen Movement, known by its Dutch abbreviation BBB, is now one of the most popular in the country, according to opinion polls.

This grassroots protest movement has been driven largely by ordinary farmers like Luiten and their supporters, but it has another element: the far-right. Radicalized by the opposition to strict Covid measures and spurred on by conspiracy theories about “globalists” dismantling national democracies and importing nonwhite immigrants to majority-white countries, these activists see the farmers as the latest victims of an assault on Western civilization itself.

As conspiracy-driven Telegram groups, right-wing commentators and some lawmakers would baselessly put it, Dutch farms are being shut down to make space for asylum-seekers. Right-wing populists around the world have offered their support for the farmers’ stand, including former President Donald Trump, France’s Marine Le Pen and Poland’s far-right populist government.

But, in reality, many Dutch farmers are just trying to make a living.

The A1 motorway stretching east from the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, to the remote rural heart of the country is littered with upside-down flags. Supporters stand on highway bridges every night waving the inverted tricolor as a symbol of defiance against an unpopular government and to call for an end to the nitrogen plan. Passing drivers honk in agreement.

In June, Luiten drove a tractor in a slow-motion convoy across almost the entire Netherlands to join a protest organizers claim was attended by up to 60,000. He set off at midnight, arriving 11 hours later.

But there is little sign of militancy or opposition to a new world order near the German border at Luiten’s farm, where an automated milking machine shows the name, weight and projected daily milk yield of each animal — a Dutch invention now standard across dairy farming. This oddly quiet, high-tech operation can be managed by just him and his wife.

Farms like his across the country could soon shut down.

p1

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/17948475 (151829ZDEC22) Notable: NBC: How Dutch farmers became the center of a "global right-wing culture war"

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>>112998

Livestock manure reacts with urine to generate large amounts of ammonia — which can cause acidification of soil and water, a big threat to biodiversity, and emit pungent smell — as well as nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas.

In 2019, the European Union’s top court and the Dutch Council of State, the country’s top administrative court and legislative advisory body, ruled that the Netherlands had breached E.U. environmental standards by failing to ensure they were met in 162 protected nature areas.

The real fury began earlier this year when the Dutch Department for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality released a map showing which areas had to reduce their emissions and by how much — in some areas, this meant 95% of farming activity must be stopped within a year. The Dutch farming lobby group LTO estimates there are nearly 54,000 agricultural businesses across the country with exports totaling 94.5 billion euros ($99.75 billion) in 2019.

The radical Farmers Defense Force, which experts described as a far-right group, has said it would not accept any buyouts and promised further protests.

“Farmers aren’t against nature, we live in nature, we depend on nature and we want to preserve it,” Luiten said, sitting in his kitchen dotted with calendars, photos and coffee cups featuring cows. “But we need to be realistic. In a country this small, with this much activity, it’s not realistic to have that much nature — you have to choose,” he said, alluding to the problem of land use in a country that is only a little larger than Maryland.

Luiten has to cut 12% off his farm’s activity, which would mean a reduction in livestock and a very slim profit margin in the future, but he thinks he can survive.

Talks between the government and farmers groups have continued, but with no breakthrough. On Nov. 25, the Dutch government said it would adopt measures set out in a report from former deputy prime minister Johan Remkes — who has been mediating between the government and the farmers — in which high-emission farms would have to radically reduce emissions, move or shut within a year or face compulsory purchase. The government said it would have this “conversation” with 2,000 to 3,000 businesses.

“We are doing this to restore our nature, which is in really bad shape, and to get stalled permits moving. We want to do this approach with an eye for the human dimension and carefully,” Lisanne de Roos, a press officer for the minister for nature and nitrogen policy, said via email.

“The retiring entrepreneurs will receive a very attractive scheme that is above competitive prices,” she added.

Dutch Facebook and Telegram groups, often with “Freedom” in their names, post memes and videos almost daily arguing that the farmers movement is opposing the “great reset” — a supposed attempt to remake the world into a single economic-political bloc to the detriment of national identities.

Klokkenluiders voor Vrijheid (meaning whistleblowers for freedom, which has 87,000 subscribers) shared a video in November featuring David Icke, a British conspiracy theorist, arguing that Dutch farms are being shut down so the government can restrict food supply and more easily coerce and control the population.

Icke said Nov. 4 that the Dutch government banned him from entering the Netherlands to appear at a rally, posting a letter from the Department of Justice on his website.

The theory has definite international resonance. It has featured on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and was given oxygen by the actor Russell Brand on his YouTube channel, which has 6 million subscribers. The theory has echoes of the racist great replacement theory, which has been cited by right-wing mass shooters in their manifestos from New Zealand to El Paso, Texas.

Conspiracy theories tend to begin reacting to a specific, complex problem, but then begin to encompass all of society’s problems, especially if there is no other explanation being offered.

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