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How Dutch farmers became the center of a global right-wing culture war
NBC News / Comcast ^ | December 12, 2022 | By Patrick Smith

Posted on 12/12/2022 5:12:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Radicalized by conspiracy theories, some activists see the farmers in the Netherlands as the latest victims of an assault on Western civilization itself.

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.

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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; farmers; globalism; globalwarming; hoax; netherlands; propaganda; socialism
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To: marktwain

The Dutch govt is entirely coopted and run by the WEF, pronounced “wef” in Europe.

They want the farmland for the “Tri State Super City” that will house the millions of third-world immigrants that the Dutch people never voted to absorb in the first place.

>>> “Dutch investors launch new marketing programme for NL: Tristate City”<<<

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2017/10/dutch-investors-launch-new-marketing-programme-for-nl-tristate-city/
October 30, 2017

A group of institutional investors [>>>The WEF<<<]in the Netherlands have joined forces to present the Netherlands plus parts of Belgium and Germany as a single city network named Tristate City. The project, backed by Dutch employers organisation VNO-NCW, says the region’s population of 30 million people creates a ‘sustainable urban power house’.

The project’s supporters include property developers and pension funds as well as Utrecht’s economic board. Dutch cities, the organisation says, are too small to compete in what it calls the ‘battle of the cities’, in which mega cities compete for investment and talent. By treating the Netherlands as an urbanised delta with 17 million inhabitants, the project’s supporters say that are creating a very strong player in this ‘battle of the titans.’ Fragmented ‘Our city marketing is too fragmented and inefficient,’ the project website says. ‘In practice, the Dutch cities compete with each other abroad.’

Amsterdam Metropool, Brainport Eindhoven, Twentestad, Ede Food Valley, Regio Groningen Assen and Dairy Delta are just some of the names Dutch regions use when marketing themselves abroad.

The Netherlands must present itself as one of the ‘most powerful and sustainable city networks in the world,’ the project’s backers say. ‘It is about how Dutch companies present themselves to companies such as Apple or big Chinese firms,’ Prologis Benelux director Bram Verhoeven told the Financieele Dagblad.

Read more at DutchNews.nl:


21 posted on 12/12/2022 5:40:38 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: newfreep; marktwain
"TriState City" from the above article.

THIS is why the Dutch farmers are being forced out.


22 posted on 12/12/2022 5:42:08 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The solution to Climate Change is to exterminate those who are destroying society in the name of Climate Change.

If they are all gone, the problem disappears


23 posted on 12/12/2022 5:43:51 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: brookwood; MtnClimber; Lurker; Oldeconomybuyer; Joe Brower
The first-in-history global famine is on the way. Like the earthquake in the ocean that sets the tsunami in motion, this global famine is on its way, and is unstoppable, even if the horizon appears calm at the moment.

And this global famine was planned and is being brought to fruition by the same "depopulationist" global elites who brought us Covid 19 and the mRNA death jab, open borders and mass 3rd world invasion, etc.


24 posted on 12/12/2022 5:47:43 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: CodeToad; Lazamataz

Link to video at 24:

https://rumble.com/v1zjslr-war-famine-and-disease-w-michael-yon-and-matt-bracken.html


25 posted on 12/12/2022 5:49:06 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: .30Carbine; grcuster; brookwood

It’s part of the same depopulation move that the WEF actually talks about openly.

“WEF Adviser Yuval Harari: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ in Today’s World”

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/

“Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” he concluded, “because because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering, Most people don’t contribute anything to that, except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing which is useful, these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people.”


26 posted on 12/12/2022 5:50:32 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whenever the Leftwing/FBI/CIA media shout conspiracy theory, you know that it is actually true.


27 posted on 12/12/2022 5:53:30 AM PST by Baldwin
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To: SharpRightTurn

To fight fire with fire why isn’t there a study of the pollution potential of bringing in countless immigrants who will poop everywhere. A study of all the diseases the immigrants have or will bring in?


28 posted on 12/12/2022 5:53:54 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: SaveFerris

“global right-wing culture war”

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Right wingers are globalists now.
These people are upping their propaganda. Why so desperate?

Then again, you have the old “vast right wing conspiracy” comment from many decades ago. So I guess the people in power always like to portray themselves as victims of the powerful


29 posted on 12/12/2022 6:00:34 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Travis McGee
Jesus said, “Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.”

Yuval Noah Harari has the heart of the serpent.

30 posted on 12/12/2022 6:03:26 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: brookwood

New tagline


31 posted on 12/12/2022 6:03:52 AM PST by null and void (It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
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To: .30Carbine

Amen.


32 posted on 12/12/2022 6:07:17 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People are going to notice that they’re eating crickets instead of sirloins. I don’t see how the globalists survive the revolution.


33 posted on 12/12/2022 6:08:05 AM PST by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Dutch farms are being shut down to make space for asylum-seekers”

What? Never heard that before. They’re being shut to comply with an environmental whacko agenda.


34 posted on 12/12/2022 6:20:43 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In the view of this writer, the undeniable fact that they will drive 3000 farms into bankruptcy is not the problem, the problem is the fact that “the right” is against it.

And he complains about “conspiracy theories” when the actual fake theory is the global warming claim the government is using to justify destroying their farmers.


35 posted on 12/12/2022 6:28:15 AM PST by marron
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“....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....”

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At least the political Left isn’t radicalized...I’m just relieved about that. /s


36 posted on 12/12/2022 6:30:13 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Notice how the scum FAKE news propagandizes the reader in the first few sentences. Low info voters have no change of reading this with a fair mind:

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

Radicalized by conspiracy theories, some activists see the farmers in the Netherlands as the latest victims of an assault on Western civilization itself.”

So the Dutch farmers are being controlled (became denotes some sort of control) by RIGHT WING, RADICALIZED, CONSPIRACY, ACTIVISTS, ASSAULT” crazies. All terms with strong negative connotations. It doesn’t even really matter what the rest of the message says as the mood has been set.

Pure propaganda.


37 posted on 12/12/2022 6:36:31 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Erik Luiten and guys like him are Dutch salt of the earth. The same kind that settled South Africa.

God I hate/despise the WEF and WEF type laws that the EU passed laws that come down on nitrogen and methane emissions from farmers cattle/livestock. And nitrogen fertilizers.


38 posted on 12/12/2022 6:46:02 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: Demiurge2

FROM: NBC Assistant Editor
TO: Reporter
CC: NBC Editor

> A good start, but needs the phrase “far right” more.

Couldn’t we work in a MAGA or two? Maybe mention the Jan 6 attempted coup?


39 posted on 12/12/2022 6:50:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: D_Idaho

Haha...that made me chuckle...


40 posted on 12/12/2022 6:52:10 AM PST by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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