History Repeating: The War on the Kulaks

History Repeating: The War on the Kulaks

If you’ve read We’re All Dutch Farmers Now and We’re All Sri Lankan Farmers Now, then you’ll know all about the concerted war on farming that is taking place right now, not just in Holland or Sri Lanka but in Ireland and Argentina and Canada and Spain and seemingly every other country around the globe. And, if you have read those editorials, then you’ll also know all about…

CBDCs: Ultimate Tool of Oppression

CBDCs: Ultimate Tool of Oppression

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever,’ said O’Brien, the grand inquisitor of the totalitarian regime in Orwell’s futuristic novel 1984.
Alternatively, you could imagine a sandal. Last month I visited Sutton Hoo, the famous Anglo-Saxon burial site of a king and his ship in Suffolk…

The climate scaremongers: Heatwave hysteria

The climate scaremongers: Heatwave hysteria

THE New York Intelligencer magazine called it the ‘Worldwide Heatwave’, which according to the UN has ‘engulfed the Northern Hemisphere’. It was of course nothing of the sort, simply the usual mix of hot and cold weather we see every year. Spot the difference, for instance, between this month and July 1998…

Climate Revival Meeting in Davos

Climate Revival Meeting in Davos

The theme of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos 2023 was “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”. In many ways, this year appears as an in-between-year, even though certain central components of the continuing agenda were introduced…

The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands

The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has been chosen as a pilot area in the EU to be climate neutral with a transition in protein food and a transformation of healthcare into a telemedicine, data, and AI-driven connected system approach led by Public Private Partnerships. A closure of 55-70 percent of traditional farming is foreseen to be replaced by tech-driven vertical farming,…

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