Posted on 02/02/2024 5:35:57 AM PST by Red Badger
In early 2020 in the midst of the covid lockdowns, blue states run by leftist governors pursued mandates with extreme prejudice. In red states like Montana, after the first month or two most of us simply ignored the restrictions and went on with life as usual. It was clear that covid was not the threat federal authorities made it out to be. However, in states like Michigan the vice was squeezed tighter and tighter under the direction of shady leaders like Gretchen Whitmer.
Whitmer used covid as an opportunity to institute some bizarre limitations on the public, including a mandate barring larger stores from selling seeds and garden supplies to customers. “If you’re not buying food or medicine or other essential items, you should not be going to the store,” Whitmer said when announcing her order. The leftist governor was fine with purchases of lottery tickets and liquor, but not gardening tools and seeds.
She never gave a logical reason why she targeted garden supplies, but most people in the preparedness community understood very well what this was all about: This was a beta-test for wider restrictions on food independence. There was widespread rhetoric in the media throughout 2020 attacking anyone stockpiling necessities as “hoarders,” and now they were going after people planning ahead and trying to grow their own food. The establishment did NOT want people to store or produce a personal food supply.
Another prospect that was being openly discussed among globalists was the idea that lockdowns were “helpful” in ways beyond stopping the spread of covid (the lockdowns were actually useless in stopping the spread of covid). They suggested that the these measures could be effective in preventing global carbon emissions and saving the world from “climate change.” The idea of climate lockdowns began to spread.
The corporate media has since lied about the existence of the climate lockdown agenda, but articles and white papers extolling the virtues of shutting down the planet in the name of climate change are easy to find and read. The globalists and their academic defenders wanted PERMANENT lockdowns, or rolling lockdowns every couple of months, shutting down most human activity and travel outside of basic production.
I have argued in the past that what Whitmer was doing in Michigan was a part of this agenda – That her garden supply ban was part of a wider goal that had nothing to do with public health safety and everything to do with stopping people from prepping. The covid controls were only meant to be a precursor to carbon controls.
This past week we have seen more confirmation of this, as a study out of the University of Michigan claims that homegrown foods produce five times more carbon emissions than industrial farming methods. In other words, private gardens could be considered a threat to the environment. The Telegraph and other corporate platforms have jumped on the story, and I believe this is cause for concern.
The study includes analysis of various gardens from individual family plots to urban and community plots and claims that “garden infrastructure” for individual plots (such as raised beds) contribute far greater carbon pollution than large scale farming. The study seems to ignore the fact that raised beds are more efficient and grow more food in a smaller space, but I doubt they really care to take these kinds of things into consideration.
The average person might be confused by this and assume the opposite is true – Wouldn’t growing foods at home be BETTER for the environment? Not if your funding relies on portraying independent food supplies as bad for the planet. The study is bankrolled by a host of international groups, including the European Union’s Horizon Program which lists “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” as one of its project goals. These 100 cities are then supposed to act as flagship models for the eventual carbon agenda takeover of all cities by 2050.
Such groups have billions of dollars at their disposal and focus most of that monetary firepower on climate change research (propaganda). Do I think that the Michigan study is rigged in favor of a predetermined outcome? Probably. When these studies are funded by globalist interests, their outcomes always seem to favor globalist goals. The study itself does not necessarily argue that people should stop gardening, but it does push the narrative that carbon controls are necessary, even at an individual level.
The Michigan report might seem like a meaningless footnote. However, as we witnessed last year with a study from the Consumer Product Safety Commission on natural gad appliances, these little and obscure studies are often used to justify large scale government interventions into people’s daily lives. The CPSC study inspired months of debates from Democrats in the US demanding that gas appliances including stoves be banned because they MIGHT cause health side effects, specifically in children (it turns out the study had no concrete basis for this claim).
Leftists and globalists do not care about protecting your health; they care about how these studies can be used to fear monger, thus increasing their power. In other words, if you can rig the science, then you can rig the laws.
We saw something similar to this in a UN study in 2006 which claimed that meat production contributed to nearly 20% of all carbon emissions and was worse for the environment than transportation. The study was exposed in 2010 as “flawed” (fraudulent), but for years the media and globalist organizations used its false conclusions as a springboard to demand limitations and bans on meat production in the name of saving the climate.
If you think the war on farming which is raging right now in Europe is only intended to affect industrial farms, think again. The establishment is going to try to use the man-made climate change lie to dictate ALL food production, right down to your unassuming backyard garden. And they won’t limit their efforts to the EU; they will come after American farms with the same restrictions.
This is really what the globalist “net zero” programs and 15 minute cities are all about – They are based on the idea that all human activity needs to be monitored and managed. They say it’s for the good of the planet, but the systems they want to put in place from 2030 to 2050 sound like a new digital feudalism, a society where bureaucracies track and trace and micromanage every aspect of your life. The elites benefit greatly while never proving that carbon emissions are a danger to anyone.
Why the obsessive focus on food? Because if people have their own food, then they might be more willing to rebel against further mandates. It’s really that simple. The end game is obvious – Control the food, and you control the world. Do it in the name of saving the planet and a lot of people will even thank you as you starve them.
The globalists know this all to well, which is why they have unleashed their 3rd world shock troops on the West in an attempt to buy enough time to make their agenda irreversable.
“The study is bankrolled by a host of international groups, including the European Union’s Horizon Program which lists “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” as one of its project goals. These 100 cities are then supposed to act as flagship models for the eventual carbon agenda takeover of all cities by 2050.
Such groups have billions of dollars at their disposal and focus most of that monetary firepower on climate change research (propaganda). Do I think that the Michigan study is rigged in favor of a predetermined outcome? Probably. When these studies are funded by globalist interests, their outcomes always seem to favor globalist goals. The study itself does not necessarily argue that people should stop gardening, but it does push the narrative that carbon controls are necessary, even at an individual level.”
First, good article. This stuff pushes all my buttons.
I don’t think they’ll have much trouble persuading The Sheeple. During covid-BS-19, SO many people ‘tried’ to garden, or bought chickens, or got a pet...and now all we hear about is that within 2 years’ time they abandoned their gardening efforts (there IS a ‘learning curve,’ and it’s pretty steep to be successful at growing your own food) their chickens and their pets!
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Shovel. Plant. And, Shut Up. ;)
They conveniently forget that green trees and plants take in CO2 and release Oxygen. Maybe the Greeniacs’ brains need much less Oxygen than normal peoples’ brains.
“There are strict limits of chemicals that can be used on crops in the US. Not so on imported food crops.”
Yep. Yet another venue the globalist jerks can exploit to spread American Taxpayer Dollars to Third World hellholes.
Of course, THEY have access to clean, fresh fruits and veggies in their OWN GATED gardens. *SPIT*
I fear Texas is politically closer to 1990's California than the pre-Revolution Colonies.
My State's GOP Congressional leadership is just as bad as what us Conservatives have suffered under McCarthy and McConnell.
IMHO, our Senior Senator is representative of the typical State GOP office holder, with Lt. Governor Patrick being a notable exception (I think Patrick is in part responsible for Abbot's rightward lurch of late).
For example, Harris County (Houston + suburbs) was solid Republican until the County leadership decided it would be a good idea to encourage the displaced from Hurricane Katrina while dismissing the very vocal concerns about flipping the county to Democrats.
And now we have County Judge Hidalgo (D-Bogota/Cinco Ranch) printing up fake ballots for Joe Biden.
That is a great list. Thank you! :)
Globalists Will Go Extinct Trying to Stop You From Growing Your Own Food
Many people today do not even COOK! Let alone GROW anything.
You can DEFINITELY kiss livestock goodbye if they get the power they crave, as eating meat will be all but outlawed.
Yet another way to deal with those pesky kulaks.
We’re going to enjoy life at The Top of the Food Chain in the future! ;)
Will Biden or his handlers want to deal with a real rebellion when Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan may well need American military on the ground, air, and seas?
Will Biden or his handlers want to deal with a real rebellion when Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan may well need American military on the ground, air, and seas?
Will Biden or his handlers want to deal with a real rebellion when Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan may well need American military on the ground, air, and seas?
Those Flapper Girls grew-up to be a force to be reckoned with.
:)
A number of stores put up signs pointing out that the Department of Homeland Security had previously declared that gardening items and seeds were essential items necessary to the security of the country.
Whitless had to suck it.
Insanity. The amount of pollution produced by commercial food distribution, packaging, freezing and/or cold transportation, storeroom and stock handling, consumer trips to and from the store, and supermarket waste of outdated or customer-spoiled items—these must be enormous in comparison.
Our local walmart didn't have the gardening section or seeds roped off during covid. They simply pulled the seed displays off the floor. They had zero seeds even though they always had them 365 days a year prior to that. It wasn't Missouri making them do it. Other stores still had them out. It was just walmart, being run by people like Whitmer.
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