by James Corbett corbettreport.com July 17, 2022 For weeks now, farmers in the Netherlands have been engaging in heated protests over their government's plan to halve the country's nitrogen and ammonia pollution by 2030. It is estimated that this plan—which will
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I think I made virtually every important point James raises here on twitter last year. The most important being this is WWIII and it is US (the people of Earth) against the oligarchs and their technocrat stooges.
"Specifically, France's Ministry for the Ecological Transition (which is apparently a thing that exists) decided in its infinite wisdom that the "ecology tax" on gas and diesel (which, it must also be noted, is a thing that exists) was too low, so they raised it. This sparked anger among the general public, who were already suffering from rising gas prices"
That's not it at all. People were told *explicitly* that diesel was the best option and the most ecological (it happens to be true because diesel is the most efficient fuel and if you have have good catalytic converters then the pollution is minimal).
Therefore they went out and bought diesel engine cars and vans. They were then told that the amortization they had engaged in was wrong and that they could pound sand. Diesel costs would be raised to "protect the environment".
That's what made people in France so angry. They were told by investing in diesel they were doing the right thing, then were knifed in the front.
Jul 17, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World
I admit I may be naive, but this war on cows and nitrogen bothers me. Our gatekeepers consider Nitrogen a pollutant, so much so that the wizards of EU require nitrogen “output” to be cut in half by 2030, somewhat mindless of effect on food production. Cattle and fertilizers are considered the main culprits for putting this stuff (nitrogen) into our air. OK. Ahhh, the natural stuff we call air, and kinda important to us, is 78% nitrogen. That a lot of “pollutant”. Is all this a result of those wondrous one hundred climate models and their assumptions or some similar ‘let’s fix nature’ thinking’? That’s too similar to let’s reduce O2 in our atmosphere, after all, who needs it. Dhhhhhhhhh.
SPOT ON! CORBETT SCORES A HOME RUN! It's the 99% against the 0.01% of predator globalist technocrat megalomaniacs and their diabolical agenda of TOTAL SLAVERY!
Well written and documented, as usual — thank you, but this time with a hedged heart. To keep it short and sweet, the following passage is where I see a limit to optimism, and something I've been wrestling with for a few years.
''Yes, it is time to throw away the stupid, artificial left/right split and other wedges that have kept us divided and ruled for so long. The idea that groups who don't see eye-to-eye can unite on the existential threat they are facing isn't pie-in-the-sky, wishful thinking.''
I suspect that we can no more throw away those wedges than expect people to immediately see the metaphors underlying a Hollywood blockbuster, traditional religion, or the appeal of STEM as the new, 'one true' faith. Another way to frame it is through taking another look at the end of Jill Bolte Taylor's great TED talk from a few years ago. (I actually exchanged a few e-mails with the great woman). When she made a plea for 'choosing' to step into a neural right-hemisphere mindset, the very act of choosing comes from a largely left-hemisphere process.
Like James Corbett, I have spent a long time in Japan ... now 40 consecutive years. Several years ago, I was backed into a choice between mental (or physical) suicide and resigning from a tenured college teaching position ... a not so unusual pattern in Japan Inc. I resigned, and am now winding down my career as an educator — working as the sole native-speaking Assistant Language Teacher for 3 Jr. Highs, 8 elementary schools, and a special needs school in a small township in West Tokyo.
I mention the above, because I am in a position to observe the farce that public education is revealing itself to be, probably always has been, but now more ludicrous because of our agreed upon perception that we are in the midst of WWIII.
From my last couple of weeks at the schools alone, one example is the conflation of English Communication skills with technical dexterity (laptops, tv monitors, software) while wearing masks which effectively prevent only the spread of micro-expressions. The masks, while a bad mistake at best regarding public health, IS effective at one thing — dehumanizing communication between those at the bottom of the hierarchy. And habituating even elementary school students to divide their concentration between commitment to the topic, appealing to an audience, and rubber stamping a power point slide show ... plays right into the hands of redefining communication as one-way, top to bottom, while that laptop is busy collecting behavioral data points for the algorithms that will attempt to control the students' emerging reality and behavior. Public education is an exercise in herding behavior. Thinking about Japan's public education system's roots coming from Victorian Robber-Baron era roots, maybe always has been
Another example is how officially credentialed teachers young enough to be my son or grand-daughter, expect me to evaluate student speaking skills in a stressful testing situation ... but without having the faintest idea that the validity of their slipshod tests depend on accounting for a myriad of variables such as inter-rater reliability, intra-rater reliability, item-reliability, construct validity, face validity, and so on. It is all too easy to see how some teachers with fragile egos can attempt to bond with their students by outsourcing the scary foreigner as the executioner and judge of students ... students for whom I had no hand in teaching what is being tested, had no say in constructing the tests, and no input on how to re-frame those tests into motivational, teachable moments rather than a dog-eat-dog competition with each other along a bell curve. Hell, without a pretest to show the students' starting baseline, a year of Jr. High education could just as likely decrease English skills. There's no way of knowing whether the teacher has been effective or not. Ha.. Not unlike a popular medical treatment. Like the teachers I take my orders from, I am expected to be no less, no more, than an efficient cog in a machine — not the morally autonomous adult in the room.
But, as opposed to 'private' or 'charter' schools ... isn't this what compulsory public education has been mostly about? Producing efficient cogs and widgets for the Mammon-machine?
And a third example ... on the 25th of July, I will be going to only the first of what I hope will be many informal chats over beer between myself and a handful of teachers (all Japanese) who see through this plandemic for what it is, and are worried about what the ruling class has in store for their own children. Those few colleagues have known each other for years, more or less known about each other's stance regarding the official narrative for at least a year, and are just now having their first meeting. Why now? Because people are not only divided by ideologies ... they are purposely divided by time and place.
MEXT, the central Ministry of Education (I used to work for them as a cultural advisor and textbook editor) has long since imposed so many top-down requirements for choice of teaching materials and testing schedule, number of years a teacher can spend at any one school, to stipulating even the techniques which are allowed in the classroom ... so many, that the quality and drop out rate for Jr. High teachers in particular, is infamous. Despite a few who are aware that all is not right with this picture ... their wage-slave position is micro-managed so that they don't have the time and place to even begin organizing.
The current plandemic NIPs of masking, social distancing, limiting numbers who can gather and restricting times ... are there for a reason, and it is not public health. Those NIPs are eerily similar to the same techniques of 'quantify-commodify / divide and conquer' employed by bureaucratic ministries everywhere and every era. The only difference now, is one of scale.
Teachers, students, and myself included, are not rational beasts, capable of full responsibility of our choices. We are rationalizing beasts, and mostly post-hoc at that. Although I am reluctant to frame my stance as somewhat biological-reductionist, I have no problem in believing there are limits and constraints, and yes possibilities, as to what it means to a member of the species 'homo sapiens'. Yes, at one level of abstraction, I buy into the Taoist 'we are all one' mindset of god as a metaphor for nature in its entirety. But at another level, social primates are different from crocodiles or mosquitos.
One of those constraints includes a genetic predisposition for altruism (common to a few social species which must protect very vulnerable young), but also for dark-triad behavior traits ... the persistent percentage of pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us.
I don't want to think so, but that last group I mentioned may be the great filter that answers the Fermi Paradox. Any species of sufficient intelligence to expand beyond limited resources, has the same capacity for self destruction. I would like to believe that ours is the first and only species on earth to be the exception to that rule, but the dispassionate critical thinker in me believes not.
Meh. Crows are kind of cool. I can imagine a scenario where the next 'apex' species are the descendants of corvids. Not covids.
Thanks again 2nd Smartest, for forwarding a thought provoking essay.
FYI, no commercial fertilizers are all that great but industrial farming now depends on them like a drug addict. it takes time and soil development to get to the point where you don't need them and then, as a farmer you can declare your independence from chemical inputs. that said, you can't go cold turkey and governments should be positively aiding the move to regenerative modes of farming rather than setting arbitrary edicts like "cut the use of XXX by YYY% by ZZZZ year" or else.
but in the meantime, one of the best sources of nitrogen is 1 part urine mixed with 9 - 10 parts water. ideally you want urine that isn't polluted with hormones, anti-depressants, chemotherapies and other drugs.
also, if you use too much, you get lots of full leafy green growth but no fruit. so far the technocrats haven't figured out a way to own your pee.
Thank you for this excellent report. It’s critical to realize that as important as protesting is, the elites’ evil plans and murder and mayhem will not end until there is a mass return to G-d and morality. Please see what I wrote towards the end this article and spread this message to others. https://truth613.substack.com/p/unprecedented-orders-of-child-sized
Nobody "fires a live round by accident." The tractor was already on its way off the road, when fired upon. Not that it matters; water cannons against demonstrators contained some mighty unhealthy stuff already nearly two years ago in Germany. Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) have already been used against crowds in Canberra, Australia, and in Israel. In Canada, foreign mercenaries were used against the truckers:
The process of destroying and taking over food production in the US didn't start yesterday, either.
Geoengineering (via chemtrails) in the past 30 years made sure that LOTS of farmers went bankrupt due to artificial draughts or precipitation in the last few decades, while the politicians and insiders bought up farmland for pennies on the dollar and collected subsidies from the taxpayer for NOT growing anything (that started at least 30 years ago). When the big crooks or taxpayer-subsidized farmers grow something, it is usually GMO doused with pesticides. Farmers couldn't even have survived otherwise, courtesy of the insider-operated middlemen who bought up the produce.
Food riots are planned, which is why weapons in Americans' hands are still left intact; let them reduce the number of the "useless eaters" themselves and martial law will be a lot easier to introduce in a startving populace that is even demanding it. Turn in your weapons for a bowl of pesticide-laden GMO slop!
Genocide has many facets in the US, but for deliberately-planned food shortages, let it suffice to think of the fertilizer and animal feed shortage and price increases, the enforced limitation on railway capacity, the railway workers' strike from 7/18/22, and the more than 100 food processing plants that seem to have been burnt down with DEWs in a similar manner most "wildfires" wrecked property value in several parts of the country.
Seems that eugenics and malthusianism goes with the territory if you're filthy rich. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Love Corbett! He knows that resisting means nothing without people coming together and that fascism isn’t synonymous without communism. Brilliant work.
I'm a bit torn on this one, as I've been watching the threads of our life support systems fray and snap, especially in the last 5 years. There are simply too many people for our biosphere to support long term. Our swollen population (rising from 2 to 8 billion in just a century) is a direct result of fossil fuel utilization -- a support pillar which is also crumbling. From that perspective alone, we're screwed. It's this knowledge that's driving the Davos driven genocide -- they want to be the few that make it through our biological bottleneck.
Yet, I still feel the need to fight against the elites and their campaign to fix the population problem. I suppose I hold two opposing viewpoints at the same time.
Great article, one thing I'd add though is that protesting is bullshit. It's basically asking the master to make our working conditions a bit better so we'll go back to work, with them still in charge. Anything other than organizing to replace them is a waste of time.
You ain’t seen nothing yet! When the web of lies finally unfolds and it can no longer be covered up for the poison mRNA well hell will be literally unleashed. It’s hard to imagine a world without electricity and morals . I believe this day is coming and life as we know it will be changed forever.
Remember only 80 million out of 360 million said no way to the vax. Think about that number !
I think I made virtually every important point James raises here on twitter last year. The most important being this is WWIII and it is US (the people of Earth) against the oligarchs and their technocrat stooges.
"Specifically, France's Ministry for the Ecological Transition (which is apparently a thing that exists) decided in its infinite wisdom that the "ecology tax" on gas and diesel (which, it must also be noted, is a thing that exists) was too low, so they raised it. This sparked anger among the general public, who were already suffering from rising gas prices"
That's not it at all. People were told *explicitly* that diesel was the best option and the most ecological (it happens to be true because diesel is the most efficient fuel and if you have have good catalytic converters then the pollution is minimal).
Therefore they went out and bought diesel engine cars and vans. They were then told that the amortization they had engaged in was wrong and that they could pound sand. Diesel costs would be raised to "protect the environment".
That's what made people in France so angry. They were told by investing in diesel they were doing the right thing, then were knifed in the front.
I love James Corbett's stuff. More important, I respect James Corbett.
I admit I may be naive, but this war on cows and nitrogen bothers me. Our gatekeepers consider Nitrogen a pollutant, so much so that the wizards of EU require nitrogen “output” to be cut in half by 2030, somewhat mindless of effect on food production. Cattle and fertilizers are considered the main culprits for putting this stuff (nitrogen) into our air. OK. Ahhh, the natural stuff we call air, and kinda important to us, is 78% nitrogen. That a lot of “pollutant”. Is all this a result of those wondrous one hundred climate models and their assumptions or some similar ‘let’s fix nature’ thinking’? That’s too similar to let’s reduce O2 in our atmosphere, after all, who needs it. Dhhhhhhhhh.
SPOT ON! CORBETT SCORES A HOME RUN! It's the 99% against the 0.01% of predator globalist technocrat megalomaniacs and their diabolical agenda of TOTAL SLAVERY!
Well written and documented, as usual — thank you, but this time with a hedged heart. To keep it short and sweet, the following passage is where I see a limit to optimism, and something I've been wrestling with for a few years.
''Yes, it is time to throw away the stupid, artificial left/right split and other wedges that have kept us divided and ruled for so long. The idea that groups who don't see eye-to-eye can unite on the existential threat they are facing isn't pie-in-the-sky, wishful thinking.''
I suspect that we can no more throw away those wedges than expect people to immediately see the metaphors underlying a Hollywood blockbuster, traditional religion, or the appeal of STEM as the new, 'one true' faith. Another way to frame it is through taking another look at the end of Jill Bolte Taylor's great TED talk from a few years ago. (I actually exchanged a few e-mails with the great woman). When she made a plea for 'choosing' to step into a neural right-hemisphere mindset, the very act of choosing comes from a largely left-hemisphere process.
Like James Corbett, I have spent a long time in Japan ... now 40 consecutive years. Several years ago, I was backed into a choice between mental (or physical) suicide and resigning from a tenured college teaching position ... a not so unusual pattern in Japan Inc. I resigned, and am now winding down my career as an educator — working as the sole native-speaking Assistant Language Teacher for 3 Jr. Highs, 8 elementary schools, and a special needs school in a small township in West Tokyo.
I mention the above, because I am in a position to observe the farce that public education is revealing itself to be, probably always has been, but now more ludicrous because of our agreed upon perception that we are in the midst of WWIII.
From my last couple of weeks at the schools alone, one example is the conflation of English Communication skills with technical dexterity (laptops, tv monitors, software) while wearing masks which effectively prevent only the spread of micro-expressions. The masks, while a bad mistake at best regarding public health, IS effective at one thing — dehumanizing communication between those at the bottom of the hierarchy. And habituating even elementary school students to divide their concentration between commitment to the topic, appealing to an audience, and rubber stamping a power point slide show ... plays right into the hands of redefining communication as one-way, top to bottom, while that laptop is busy collecting behavioral data points for the algorithms that will attempt to control the students' emerging reality and behavior. Public education is an exercise in herding behavior. Thinking about Japan's public education system's roots coming from Victorian Robber-Baron era roots, maybe always has been
Another example is how officially credentialed teachers young enough to be my son or grand-daughter, expect me to evaluate student speaking skills in a stressful testing situation ... but without having the faintest idea that the validity of their slipshod tests depend on accounting for a myriad of variables such as inter-rater reliability, intra-rater reliability, item-reliability, construct validity, face validity, and so on. It is all too easy to see how some teachers with fragile egos can attempt to bond with their students by outsourcing the scary foreigner as the executioner and judge of students ... students for whom I had no hand in teaching what is being tested, had no say in constructing the tests, and no input on how to re-frame those tests into motivational, teachable moments rather than a dog-eat-dog competition with each other along a bell curve. Hell, without a pretest to show the students' starting baseline, a year of Jr. High education could just as likely decrease English skills. There's no way of knowing whether the teacher has been effective or not. Ha.. Not unlike a popular medical treatment. Like the teachers I take my orders from, I am expected to be no less, no more, than an efficient cog in a machine — not the morally autonomous adult in the room.
But, as opposed to 'private' or 'charter' schools ... isn't this what compulsory public education has been mostly about? Producing efficient cogs and widgets for the Mammon-machine?
And a third example ... on the 25th of July, I will be going to only the first of what I hope will be many informal chats over beer between myself and a handful of teachers (all Japanese) who see through this plandemic for what it is, and are worried about what the ruling class has in store for their own children. Those few colleagues have known each other for years, more or less known about each other's stance regarding the official narrative for at least a year, and are just now having their first meeting. Why now? Because people are not only divided by ideologies ... they are purposely divided by time and place.
MEXT, the central Ministry of Education (I used to work for them as a cultural advisor and textbook editor) has long since imposed so many top-down requirements for choice of teaching materials and testing schedule, number of years a teacher can spend at any one school, to stipulating even the techniques which are allowed in the classroom ... so many, that the quality and drop out rate for Jr. High teachers in particular, is infamous. Despite a few who are aware that all is not right with this picture ... their wage-slave position is micro-managed so that they don't have the time and place to even begin organizing.
The current plandemic NIPs of masking, social distancing, limiting numbers who can gather and restricting times ... are there for a reason, and it is not public health. Those NIPs are eerily similar to the same techniques of 'quantify-commodify / divide and conquer' employed by bureaucratic ministries everywhere and every era. The only difference now, is one of scale.
Teachers, students, and myself included, are not rational beasts, capable of full responsibility of our choices. We are rationalizing beasts, and mostly post-hoc at that. Although I am reluctant to frame my stance as somewhat biological-reductionist, I have no problem in believing there are limits and constraints, and yes possibilities, as to what it means to a member of the species 'homo sapiens'. Yes, at one level of abstraction, I buy into the Taoist 'we are all one' mindset of god as a metaphor for nature in its entirety. But at another level, social primates are different from crocodiles or mosquitos.
One of those constraints includes a genetic predisposition for altruism (common to a few social species which must protect very vulnerable young), but also for dark-triad behavior traits ... the persistent percentage of pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us.
I don't want to think so, but that last group I mentioned may be the great filter that answers the Fermi Paradox. Any species of sufficient intelligence to expand beyond limited resources, has the same capacity for self destruction. I would like to believe that ours is the first and only species on earth to be the exception to that rule, but the dispassionate critical thinker in me believes not.
Meh. Crows are kind of cool. I can imagine a scenario where the next 'apex' species are the descendants of corvids. Not covids.
Thanks again 2nd Smartest, for forwarding a thought provoking essay.
FYI, no commercial fertilizers are all that great but industrial farming now depends on them like a drug addict. it takes time and soil development to get to the point where you don't need them and then, as a farmer you can declare your independence from chemical inputs. that said, you can't go cold turkey and governments should be positively aiding the move to regenerative modes of farming rather than setting arbitrary edicts like "cut the use of XXX by YYY% by ZZZZ year" or else.
but in the meantime, one of the best sources of nitrogen is 1 part urine mixed with 9 - 10 parts water. ideally you want urine that isn't polluted with hormones, anti-depressants, chemotherapies and other drugs.
also, if you use too much, you get lots of full leafy green growth but no fruit. so far the technocrats haven't figured out a way to own your pee.
see you at the barricades!
Thank you for this excellent report. It’s critical to realize that as important as protesting is, the elites’ evil plans and murder and mayhem will not end until there is a mass return to G-d and morality. Please see what I wrote towards the end this article and spread this message to others. https://truth613.substack.com/p/unprecedented-orders-of-child-sized
Nobody "fires a live round by accident." The tractor was already on its way off the road, when fired upon. Not that it matters; water cannons against demonstrators contained some mighty unhealthy stuff already nearly two years ago in Germany. Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) have already been used against crowds in Canberra, Australia, and in Israel. In Canada, foreign mercenaries were used against the truckers:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/international-mercenaries-occupying
The process of destroying and taking over food production in the US didn't start yesterday, either.
Geoengineering (via chemtrails) in the past 30 years made sure that LOTS of farmers went bankrupt due to artificial draughts or precipitation in the last few decades, while the politicians and insiders bought up farmland for pennies on the dollar and collected subsidies from the taxpayer for NOT growing anything (that started at least 30 years ago). When the big crooks or taxpayer-subsidized farmers grow something, it is usually GMO doused with pesticides. Farmers couldn't even have survived otherwise, courtesy of the insider-operated middlemen who bought up the produce.
Food riots are planned, which is why weapons in Americans' hands are still left intact; let them reduce the number of the "useless eaters" themselves and martial law will be a lot easier to introduce in a startving populace that is even demanding it. Turn in your weapons for a bowl of pesticide-laden GMO slop!
Genocide has many facets in the US, but for deliberately-planned food shortages, let it suffice to think of the fertilizer and animal feed shortage and price increases, the enforced limitation on railway capacity, the railway workers' strike from 7/18/22, and the more than 100 food processing plants that seem to have been burnt down with DEWs in a similar manner most "wildfires" wrecked property value in several parts of the country.
Seems that eugenics and malthusianism goes with the territory if you're filthy rich. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Love Corbett! He knows that resisting means nothing without people coming together and that fascism isn’t synonymous without communism. Brilliant work.
I'm a bit torn on this one, as I've been watching the threads of our life support systems fray and snap, especially in the last 5 years. There are simply too many people for our biosphere to support long term. Our swollen population (rising from 2 to 8 billion in just a century) is a direct result of fossil fuel utilization -- a support pillar which is also crumbling. From that perspective alone, we're screwed. It's this knowledge that's driving the Davos driven genocide -- they want to be the few that make it through our biological bottleneck.
Yet, I still feel the need to fight against the elites and their campaign to fix the population problem. I suppose I hold two opposing viewpoints at the same time.
Great article, one thing I'd add though is that protesting is bullshit. It's basically asking the master to make our working conditions a bit better so we'll go back to work, with them still in charge. Anything other than organizing to replace them is a waste of time.
You ain’t seen nothing yet! When the web of lies finally unfolds and it can no longer be covered up for the poison mRNA well hell will be literally unleashed. It’s hard to imagine a world without electricity and morals . I believe this day is coming and life as we know it will be changed forever.
Remember only 80 million out of 360 million said no way to the vax. Think about that number !
Thankyou..So much Positivity ,We know the Problem, Its IMPERATIVE WE LIVE IN AND OUT OF THE SOLUTION
https://jasonpowers.substack.com/p/episode-165-the-price-of-liberty
May we all seek to preserve that which is rightfully ours: liberty.
Love your work, James.
It's Mother of God against Satan.
But God won't let Her engage fully until She is respected
Gen 315, Our Lady of Fatima, Great Age of Mary....