Connecting the dots:

Dutch minister Christianne van der Wal is in charge of slashing a large part of Dutch agriculture to reduce nitrogen emissions.

The policy is 100% model based (no measurements) and has been contested by highly reputable scientists.

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This is the reason for this week's protests of farmers who stand to lose their livelihoods, often built up over generations.

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Minister Christianne van der Wal, is the sister-in-law of Bouke van der Wal, owner of Finci, which is the family holding of Dutch supermarket chain Boni, (one of the supermarkets whose distribution centers were barricaded by the farmers this week).

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Bouke van der Wal has a significant stake in the Dutch scale-up Picnic, which is an online supermarket that was founded in 2015 and has expanded rapidly in The Netherlands.

Picnic is now expanding to France, Germany, the UK and other European countries.

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The last few years of covid lockdowns and remote working have provided an extra impetus for the company's growth.

During the Covid curfew (yes, we had one), their small electric vans were among the only vehicles allowed on the city roads after 9pm.

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In 2021, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust invested €600M in Picnic International B.V.

crunchbase.com/organization/p…

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Bill Gates also happens to be the largest farmland owner in the United states, having bought up an unbelievable amount of acreage over the last few years.

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In this short video from 2021, you can see the Dutch Prime Minister, @markrutte announcing the secretariate of the WEF Food Innovation Hubs initiative will be located in the Netherlands.

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Food innovation you say? WEF isn't trying to hide in what direction they want this to go:

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It would be surprising if Bill and Melinda didn't have an interest there too.

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Are you connecting the dots?

It's all too easy to make fun of the "You will sit in your pod and eat the bugs" meme, but the creation of the infrastructure is in full swing.

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The last thing that is needed to tie it all together and control what you can and can't buy is Central Bank Digital Currency #CBDC, which the ECB says will be launched within a few years.

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The only thing that gives us a fighting chance to escape this total control grid, is a #bitcoin-based parallel economy, because nobody can stop it and nobody controls it.

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It might therefore make sense to start learning about #bitcoin now.

This 21-page free eBook is a great start:

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BONUS: Christianne van der Wal in 2017, before she became Minister of Nature and Nitrogen (🙄), lobbying for the expansion of Lelystad Airport to accommodate large commercial aircraft, basically making it the 7th runway of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

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