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Dutch gov't angers farmers with 'emission' mandates that will put many out of business


Strait Times
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:09 UTC
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© AP Photo/Peter DejongFILE - Some thousand of farmers converge on The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 19, 2020, in the latest protest against the government's plans to rein in emissions
The Dutch government unveiled goals Friday to drastically reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides to protect the environment, a plan that would lead to major upheavals in the Netherlands' multibillion dollar agriculture industry and has already angered some farmers.

Calling it an "unavoidable transition," the government mandated reductions in emissions of up to 70% in many places close to protected nature areas and as high as 95% in other places.

The ruling coalition earmarked an extra 24.3 billion euros ($25.6 billion) to finance changes that will likely make many farmers drastically reduce their number of livestock or to get rid of them altogether.

Comment: It seems those in power in the Netherlands haven't learnt (or don't care to) from the grave errors made by those in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka economic crisis: Shoot on sight order issued against protesters as troops deployed in Colombo





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UK government dismisses anti-Islamophobia adviser after condemning film as 'derogatory'


Middle East Eye
Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:23 UTC
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© AFP/fileFormer British prime minister David Cameron talks with Imam Qari Asim as he visits Makkah Masjid Mosque in Leeds, northern England (
The UK government on Saturday dismissed a Muslim imam who served as an official adviser after he supported protests against a film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad that has caused a backlash.

A major UK cinema chain cancelled all screenings of the film Lady of Heaven on Tuesday after British Muslims led a number of peaceful protests against it being shown.

The protests, attended by Sunni and Shia Muslims, centred on the claim that the film inaccurately depicts early Muslim history, negatively portrays three of Islam's most important figures and stokes sectarian hatred.

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Fatal macro financial warnings: We're gonna need a bigger boat

Matthew Piepenburg
Gold Switzerland
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Jaws screenshot
As one who loves metaphor, I can't help but notice the recent and varying range of metaphorical macro warnings.

JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, for example, is now predicting a "market hurricane" ahead, which Peter Schiff has recently upgraded to a "Category 5."

Meanwhile, the always blunt Michael Burry has compared the trajectory of our market economy and macro warnings to "watching a plane crash."

In short, the bull vs. bear debate is behind us; even the TBTF banks are now openly alarmed.

The Shark Fins Approach

In fact, current macro warnings are more suggestive of a market shark rather than bear, and borrowing a line from Speilberg's Jaws, we are all "gonna need a bigger boat" as these dorsal-finned macro warnings begin circling in plain sight.

Specifically, we are seeing three separate macro warnings rising simultaneously, each of which are eerily familiar to the pre-2008 conditions which preceded the last global implosion.

In short: Cue the John Williams music.

Comment: The above is not financial advice of course.

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Ukraine hails British monarch with bizarre image


RT.com
Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:29 UTC
Ukraine's Defense Ministry posted an image of Queen Elizabeth armed with an anti-tank missile launcher.
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© RT.comAn image posted by Ukraine's Defense Ministry on June 11, 2022.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry made a social media post on Saturday depicting Britain's reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, aiming a shoulder-fired NLAW anti-tank missile launcher. The image is the latest in a line of controversial social media posts by the government in Kiev.

In the drawing, the Queen is depicted aiming one of the British-made missile launchers over one shoulder, with the Ukrainian coat of arms emblazoned on her other arm. "God bless the Queen, Ukraine and the whole world," reads a caption above the image.

Britain has donated thousands of single-use NLAW missile launchers to Ukraine, and the weapons have been immortalized in British and Ukrainian propaganda. Mock-religious icons depict 'Saint NLAW' holding the missile launchers, and British politicians have claimed that Ukrainian soldiers shout "God save the Queen" as they fire the weapons.
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In the cross-hairs: Paul Mason's covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed

Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal·
The Grayzone
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:03 UTC
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© The GrayzonePaul Mason, UK deep-state mouthpiece
Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through "relentless deplatforming" and a "full nuclear legal" attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.

A former Trotskyist and BBC journeyman, journalist Paul Mason has made a career as the establishment's favorite gatekeeper of the UK left. Since the Russian military incursion into Ukraine, he has cemented his position as one of Britain's most vocal "left" cheerleaders for Western military intervention.

While leading a "U.K. left" delegation to Kiev and a demonstration through the streets of London in support of NATO military escalation against Russia, Mason has accordingly used his platform to assail journalists, academics, Labour party members and private citizens who oppose shipping piles of advanced weaponry to Ukraine.
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Will there soon be pitchforks in Europe?

Jorge Vilches
The Saker
Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:30 UTC
Pitchforks

Dear Europeans

For your own children´s sake — on my knees and with my saddened eyes humbly looking downwards — I beg of you to please stop the current self-destructive nonsense dead in its tracks by immediately demanding from your political class to import the bloody Russian oil normally once again as Europe had been doing for dozens of years. The impact that the ban on Russian oil has upon your daily lives now and for years yonder is such that at the very least a Referendum should have been held. But it was not, and without consultation, the EU leadership acted on their own.

Please be advised that the EU un-elected brass simply does not represent you or your needs. They were all voted amongst themselves into their positions like members of a committee in a private country club. If left unchecked, EU politicians will now continue misrepresenting you and, on your behalf — with your hard-earned assets and livelihoods - will keep on picking a most unnecessary and prolonged armed conflict with Russia, eventually forcing upon you a total war scenario where chances play out all very strongly against you, with Russia probably resulting unscathed.

Comment: With the pathocracy firmly in power in Europe, there is little chance that they will change course and suddenly wise up of their own accord. There is though an increasing chance for splits in the power structure as the leaders are not so united as it appears on the surface. The prospect of pitchforks in the streets or worse as the suffering increases in the population may well help these splits to worsen.

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The Five Stages of Totalitarianism

Walker Larson
Mises Institute
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Totalitarianism
Fears of a growing totalitarian tendency in the US have swelled during 2020-22. But how close are we really to a totalitarian state? How have such regimes come about historically and what are the warning signs? This article will answer these questions by examining totalitarian regimes in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and the pattern by which they came to power.

Stage 1: Discontent and Rumblings

Every new order rises on the ruins of the old.

Those who would establish a new regime must tap into or generate dissatisfaction with the status quo. However much those desiring a reset may despise the old order, they can't accomplish much without harnessing or fabricating a similar attitude in the public. Then the revolutionary totalitarian appears as the solution to these problems.

The Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France, for example, didn't begin with blood but with bread. Between 1715 and 1800, the population of Europe doubled, creating food shortages among the French people. Many of the French people resented the King's growing centralized authority. In addition, the ideas of the "Enlightenment" thinkers were stirring up revolutionary feeling. Finally, the French government was massively in debt due to the many wars of the eighteenth century, and it increased taxation even on nobles.
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Corruption is major obstacle to Ukraine's EU bid, say Norwegian researchers


RT
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 14:22 UTC
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© XinhuaNorwegian experts claim that corruption, instability, poverty and issues with democracy would prevent Kiev from swift accession
Norwegian researchers have identified five factors that are likely to prevent Ukraine from quickly joining the European Union, as was stated in an interview they gave with the TV channel NRK.

Ukraine submitted its official application for EU membership on February 28, four days after Russia attacked the country. EU leaders are expected to issue a decision during the bloc's summit on June 23-24 about whether to give Kiev candidate status. The unanimous support of all 27 member nations is needed for the status to be granted.


Comment: Unless the EU decide to change the rules, because Hungary is threatening to veto the bid.


To enter the EU, a country must have "full democracy, the rule of law and a free market," said Jarle Trondal, an EU expert and professor of political science at the universities of Oslo and Agder.


Comment: If that were applied objectively, the EU wouldn't exist.


However, Ukraine even prior to the Russian offensive was "an extremely shaky country," he noted.
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Reuters' photo of 'local Ukrainian' shows swastika tattoo on arm


RT
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:24 UTC
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© Twitter/Russian Arms Control Delegation in ViennaDetail of a photograph published by Reuters on June 8, 2022
Russian diplomats called out the news agency Reuters on Friday for not noticing that a Ukrainian man they identified only as a "local resident" in the city of Kharkov had an elaborate Nazi tattoo on his arm.

"We've fixed your oopsie, Reuters," the Russian arms control mission in Vienna tweeted on Friday, putting a red circle around the man's tattoo and posting an enlarged image alongside, showing it more clearly.

"In case you forgot, a Nazi is a Nazi is a Nazi," the mission added.

The diplomats called the photo "another propaganda stunt to slander Russia." Reuters had captioned the photo as the aftermath of an alleged Russian strike on a residential area of Kharkov. Moscow has consistently denied attacking civilian infrastructure, insisting it only targets military objects.
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Thousands of Italian mafia members operating in Australia, police say


Sky News
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:33 UTC
Police Australia
© Australian Federal PolicePolice have been gathering information on mafia links through an encrypted app.
A secret messaging app used by police to infiltrate criminal gangs has revealed thousands of Italian mafia members are operating in Australia.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is investigating 51 Italian organised crime clans across the country, including 14 from the infamous 'Ndrangheta, taking their orders from bosses in Calabria in southern Italy.
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