You might have heard about an online grocery distribution center called Picnic in the Netherlands burning to the ground {LINK}. The backstory of how the Picnic operation connects to the Dutch government is fascinating, and with context it looks like Picnic was targeted as part of the Dutch farmer protest.
In the Netherlands the government official who organized the regulations to take farmland from farmers and reduce their livestock is a politician named Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink {wiki link}. Mrs van der Wal-Zeggelink is the current Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy in the Dutch cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Minister Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink and Prime Minister Mark Rutte are climate activists, so it makes sense that the “Minister of Nitrogen Policy” would be the person who would attempt to reduce nitrogen by targeting the farmers. It is Mrs. van der Wal-Zeggelink who created the regulations that the farmers are protesting.
Now, stay with me… Christianne van der Wall-Zeggelink is married to Piet van der Wal, an heir to the wealth of the family who owns a supermarket chain called Boni. {citation} So, when Dutch farmers sell product to Boni they are directly funding the wealth of the government minister who seeks to destroy their livelihoods.
Additionally, when Dutch shoppers spend their money at the Boni supermarket they are funding the family of the government minister who is seeking to destroy the farmers who provide the food to the supermarkets. Do the Dutch farmer blockades of the supermarkets and distribution centers make more sense now?
Here is where it gets interesting…. The supermarket chain Boni is one of a small group of four big investors in the online supermarket chain Picnic. {citation} The van der Wal family was part of a group of investors in 2015 and 2019 who generated €450 million for the Picnic grocery operation.
Additionally, as part of the financial relationship, the Picnic distribution center buys their groceries at wholesale prices from Boni: “Picnic directly buys from an existing supermarket chain (Boni), which saves them the operational costs on that side” {2015, citation}.
Buying from Boni Supermarket or ordering online from Picnic home grocery delivery is essentially the same thing. Boni is a retail supermarket chain, and Picnic is a free home delivery service that sources their grocery distribution center inventory from Boni.
Additionally, Bill and Melinda Gates are big investors into Picnic {citation}: “As reported by the respected Dutch financial magazine Quote in September last year, [Picnic] raised €600 million (approximately $604 million) in an investment round, with the lion’s share coming from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust.” {link}
Summary so far: Nitrogen Policy Minister Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink is married to the ultra-wealthy family who own the Supermarket chain Boni. Together with other ‘climate change’ investors including Bill and Melinda Gates, Boni funds online supermarket Picnic. Sales from Picnic or Boni directly increase the wealth of the Dutch Nitrogen Policy Minister. Picnic also sells the engineered food that Bill Gates promotes.
The current owner and CEO of Picnic is a man named Michiel Muller. Mr. Muller is a Dutch entrepreneur, climate change activist and self-described visionary, who intends to “change the entire food system, eliminate waste” and be in line with sustainable energy goals and the climate change agenda [Video citation @14:21].
Additionally, a great deal of the money from the investment rounds is going toward building a robotic warehouse and automated Picnic distribution center which aligns with the free online grocery ordering system. {another citation}
With all of these associations, business interests and financial aspects in mind, Dutch Nitrogen Minister Christianne van der Wall-Zeggelink has a direct financial conflict-of-interest in the advancement of sustainable supermarket and online grocery operations. Specifically, those operators who are the beneficiaries of not only her nitrogen elimination regulation, but also the direct investment from her family.
It is also not surprising that Dutch farmers would seek to block the retail supermarkets and distribution centers of the companies that are directly connected to the business interests of Dutch politicians.
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Do ANY of these pretend experts understand how much of our earth’s atmosphere is comprised of Nitrogen?
Or how important it is to global plant growth???
They want to “manage” the two most important gasses responsible for photosynthesis. They also want to grow ALL the food, so if folks step out of line “NO SOUP FOR YOU!!”..
Yeah, but nitrogen isn’t making the world warmer
Curtailing it won’t halt sea-level rise
Curtailing CO2 won’t do either as well.
No, the world is getting cooler, because of the Grand Solar Minimum! There is more ice on Greenland and the southpole than years before, there is an overpopulation of polarbears, and it’s all a money scam, just like Al Gore tried 20 years ago, and he became millionaire because of his scam. But all gletchers and ice caps are still not melted, like he predicted, and the sea level is last 67 years the same. And I know that for shure because I live near the North sea.
It’s a money scam and a power grab.
BTW, go study the Melankovitsj cycles. And no it’s not because our use of coal or gas; from 900-1100 it was so warm that the Viking grow Barley and Vinegrapes on Greenland,and there were no factory’s, cars etc. around as far as we know…
Last I checked, it’s about 78 percent.
Ibid, they don’t care. The goal is control NOT the environment. Never has been anything else.
I read that gates was involved in picnic, but I wasnt sure who else was complicit. Thank you SD for filling in the rest of the blanks. Im sure the Dutch stazi will turn over every stone to find out who the culprits are, and then the MSM will go into high gear saying that right wing terrorists are responsible for people starving in Europe.
Either right wing terrorists, or that devilish Vladimir Putin.
Anywhere Bill Gates (WEF+U.N.) are involved you know there will be death and destruction of peoples health and way of life.
Economist Michael Hudson in a recent speech describes the emerging oligarchical economy very well. (Treepers will recognize the theme from the excellent analyses that Sundance has provided.
Hudson is a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.
“As I have sought to emphasize, oligarchic control of government has been the distinguishing feature of Western civilization ever since classical antiquity. And the key to this control has been opposition to strong government – that is, civil government strong enough to prevent a creditor oligarchy from emerging and monopolizing control of land and wealth, making itself into a hereditary aristocracy, a rentier class living off land rents, interest and monopoly privileges that reduce the population at large to austerity.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/michael-hudson-the-end-of-western-civilization-why-it-lacks-resilience-and-what-will-take-its-place.html
Another quotation from Hudson’s book:
“There are essentially two types of society: mixed economies with public checks and balances, and oligarchies that dismantle and privatize the state, taking over its monetary and credit system, the land and basic infrastructure to enrich themselves but choking the economy, not helping it grow.”
Hudson’s description of oligarchy under capitalism describes communism equally well.
It appears that once the government controls the means of production – including, but not restricted to, food – it doesn’t make any real difference what it is called it is still a dictatorship. Communism, fascism, capitalism, NWO, etc. just different names for the same rose.
You mean the same name for a pile of bs, i hope.
Good stuff.
Hudson’s top-tier writings are regularly published on thesaker.is website.
Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
https://thesaker.is/michael-hudson-the-end-of-western-civilization-why-it-lacks-resilience-and-what-will-take-its-place/
better of to read this to understand the real issue “the fall of western man” mark collett
“..oligarchies that dismantle and privatize the state, taking over its monetary and credit system, the land and basic infrastructure to enrich themselves but choking the economy, not helping it grow”
In other words, parasites unable to exist on their own, but those who devour the very source of their existence. Parasites.
If gates had not put in a 600+ million “bribe”, this might not be happening. Hope he gets what’s he deserves.
I’m fascinated by how these luciferians think they will be excluded from the meatgrinder. I mean, do they actually trust that their dark lord and master, lucifer, is going to keep them from the pain? On the contrary, at the end, he will laugh while lighting the pyre on which they will burn.
This reminds me of US Policy allowing open borders and then flying these same illegals to various States at taxpayer expense.
Makes no sense.
Somebody is profiting while legal US citizens are harmed in many ways.
“Somebody is profiting …”
Would that be Congress? I don’t see how we could expect them to get by on just $175k a year …
How can important government decisions be taken by people who have a huge conflict of interest?
The problem is that this is regularly happening in the US. Politicians are relatively poor when they first enter politics but retire considerably richer than your average citizen. This problem could be easily resolved by having strict term limits and having a much smaller central government with smaller and less government contracts.
Sorry, you are about 50 years too late.
Not at all. On the other side of collapse we’ll have the opportunity to fumigate Washington DC and limit the building back to unarmed ushers at the various monuments.
No, we won’t set up the same agencies elsewhere. Most of them are unnecessary … We need Defense (but smaller Pentagon), the Post Office … after that it gets harder.
That is, unless Vladimir preempts the clearing of Washington. God, I hope he doesn’t do that terrible thing to us.
“On the other side of collapse we’ll have the opportunity to fumigate Washington”
Sounds promising, Zorch, but what leads you to believe the reigns of power will be handed to you and your “we” to accomplish that fumigation?
The modern progressive globalists have a playbook with only one play in it. They have moved on from both direct action and evolutionary socialism, where change is brought about by either overthrowing the curent system or gradually changing it. Their only play now is destructon. Destroy the current system and replace it with theirs. Synthesis is out. Destruction and replacement is in.
Destroy the fossil fuel based economy and replace it with a solar and wind based economy that doesn’t exist yet and even if it did could not supply current needs.
Destroy plant and animal based food produciton until critical mass of plant and animal production capacity has been destroyed so that we WILL eat bugs because there will be no alternative.
Bill Gates is buying up American farmland as fast as he can, and is now the largest private farmland owner in America. What happens when he and other large owners of a like mind decide one yaar to just not plant? Food supply crashes and prices go through the roof (gee, just like gasoline). You will eat bugs or starve.
All eyes on Africa this year because Africa is the beta test site. Will they eat bugs, or will they starve?
Gates really, REALLY wants to ram his bugs and franken food down our throats.
I heard an interview with the head of a company called Ynsect (https://ynsect-food.com/) recently. Basically, it’s a mealworm producer that uses a new, efficient, vertical technology to grow mealworms. They’ve started a new company, AdalbaPro, to cater to the food and beverage industry. They have two plants in France, one in The Netherlands and a new one in Nebraska.
Here’s something to ponder. If “they” are successful in shutting down the majority of food production, what do you suppose the food inputs for their mega mealworm factories will be?
Notice that they very cleverly left out the last arrow between consumer and foodstuffs, but if it’s a circular model…
No fear, because Psalm 2!
Soylent Green isn’t people. Soylent Green is the dead bugs that ate people.
https://www.wired.com/story/could-a-tree-signal-if-a-corpse-is-decaying/
It’s almost as though they’re looking for ways to get rid of an excess of bodies. And stuff.
Uh, wow!
anyone else developing an appetite for globalists?
Soylent Squeam.
{{{shudder}}}
Did you see a video of actrice Nicole Kidman eating live worms.
She probably eats filets mignons and drink champagne when the camera is turn off.
Those pretenders hypocrite who travel on private jet, live in mansion and have armed bodyguard deserve the same treatment than MariAntoinette.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s authentic. The mind of a liberal is warped and steeped in the brine of decay and death, it would only make sense that they would feast on bugs. In a true free-market, if people wanted to eat bugs, fine. Other cultures do eat insects, and even John the Baptist ate locusts. But to force an entire world system to adopt it is a measure that wreaks of playing God. It’s got to stop — or be stopped.
Scank, hopefully the bugs infest her.
In South Africa the indigenous people eat dried Mopani worms.
I kid you not.
This is United States.
WE eat burgers, steaks, chickens and roasted pigs.
Some veggies for color.
Holland, a small country, is a good place to for elitocrats to debug as yet untested methodology they intend to unleash upon larger victims, like the USA, UK, Germany, etc.
Already unleashing in upstate NY, USA with their industrial scale wind and solar on active farm land.
As the world’s second largest food exporter it’s a good place to start starving out humanity.
Just remember this, in the United States we have a thing called a Constitution and Bill of Rights. This document precludes the government from taking private property. We are the only western country on this earth with such a document. I recently heard the great DR. Yeadon lament that the UK has no such document or the guarantees it gives each citizen.
Recent US Supreme Curt rulings asserting basic human rights were predicated on these Constitutional guarantees.
If the Netherlands had such a Constitutional based government the taking of their real property would not be possible. We must NEVER forget how important our delineated basic rights are. Without our Constitution we are just another country at the mercy of an unjust government.
We also have something called eminent domain that allows the government to take land for public benefit. Court rulings now extend the use of eminent domain to private projects.
https://littlefallshistoricalsociety.org/museum-exhibit/urban-renewal-exhibit/
I remember this. Its one of my earliest memories. My father drove the family by the homeowner’s signs saying “Save Our Homes”. I was horrified that people’s homes could be taken away, and I asked my father if they were going to take our home too.
He was very alarmed by the question. My father was a right-of-way agent for the NYS DoT.
What terrifies me today is that the same institutions that planned and designed cities across the US and the globe under urban renewal, with the full power of eminent domain, often with student labor, are at it again; and they haven’t learned anything:
Still a top down process with an agenda more about political control and disruption than about improving people’s lives.
(See the writings of Cornell Architecture Dean Burnham Kelly located in the Rare Archives of Cornell. Kelly was a colleague of Killian, Rostow, Millikan, and Burchard at MIT before becoming dean at Cornell.)
The children of the CIA crafted global elite are now the professors in the architecture and planning schools.
Listen to this professors personal journey in this embedded video:
https://archleague.org/article/farzin-farzin-my-domestic-routines/
Also related:
Dutch starchitect, Cornell alumni, Cornell visiting lecturer, architect of the recent Cornell Architecture building addition, Harvard professor, architect of the CCP TV building, and designer of “Countryside:the Future”, Rem Koolhaas, was in Indonesia in the late ’50’s, prior to the coup with his father, Anton Koolhaas.
Anton Koolhaas was a filmaker, etc. for STICUSA on behalf of the Dutch government.
Obama and his mama were in Indonesia after the coup. His mother was a social scientist, specifically an anthropologist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Camelot
Eminent Domain is something these Dutch farmers wish was the case! It’s not. It’s straight up confiscation. I have seen Imminent domain cases challenged successfully in the courts in the US on numerous ocassions. There’s huge difference here!!!
Americans sometimes just don’t get it!
My father wrote appraisals of the land for the DoT and acted as an expert witness in court, on behalf of NYS, to defend the state’s offer.
I too was privy to the same kind of cases in court. In fact, the last one we did involved the city wanting to take a strip of land that was needed for expansion. There were a number plaintiffs that sued the city and won their case. The city did not take their land.
These Dutch farmers have no such remedy. Of course, much of the time private owners do not prevail in these cases, but many of these imminent domain cases are successfully challenged. The option to challenge does exist. That’s the difference….
Because any law that goes against the Constitution is actually an illegal law, even if Congress passed it.
The taking of private land is no longer restricted to “public benefit”. It’s all open to bid, or bribe, now. The Supreme Court literally and figuratively gave away the farm with their decision in Kelo vs City of New London.
Netherlands Constitution of 1814 as amended in 2008:
Article 14:
full compensation, in accordance with regulations laid down by or pursuant to Act
of Parliament.
Full compensation of government regulation induced massive deflation of value.
Forbidding use of land is a legal taking not addressed by that article.
Switzerland has a constitution and a bill of rights.
Switzerland has a population of 8 millon people. Smaller than Los Angeles. This is a country with a homogeneous population of 8 million like people. They don’t really allow immigration except to rare wealthy people.
Comparing oranges and apples doesn’t work. They have very strict controls on most everything. They use Turkish people, for instance, to do certain dirty jobs the Swiss didn’t want to do. They are on a work visa and immediately kicked out when that expires. My wife lived there for a number of years. She wanted to stay longer but they kicked her out also. The country is aesthetically beautiful, but you better be of Swiss birth to enjoy it or be on vacation.
Gee it’s almost like having aristocracy back in control, you know because the peasants aren’t smart enough to think for themselves.
Now you are getting the idea.
I would suggest changing the name of Gates’ Foundation as his ex-wife, Melinda has removed her money from it and her name has been removed. I doubt her investments, like Steve Jobs’ widow, will be any wiser but she had enough of him after Epstein’s Island.
It’s like post marriage phrase is about spending even more$$$ on the leftist crap than even before
That says a lot about Melinda, that she was all down with Billy’s philosophy and plans until sex raised its ugly little head. If Billy had been a tad more discrete in his high-dollar whoring, would Melinda still be on board with the various Gates Global Control enterprises?
Her facial expressions when Billy boy spoke of the next disease being much worse than covid 19, indicate that she is full on board with the depopulation agenda. I doubt she was quite as upset with his whoring as to divorce him over it, even the despicable Epstein island practices. I suspect she too indulges albeit discretely. No, I think it was a joint agreement to protect assets should the full impact of the crime against humanity that are the clot shots come to light. They still “work” together at the foundation.
The ultra-rich of the 19th century, like Rockefeller or Carnegie, were laissez faire capitalists.
They mostly wanted to be left alone by the government, most of all by paying very little tax.
Late in life, they would create great institutions, like colleges and libraries, trying to buy back a good name for themselves and their descendants. Implicit in such last-moment contrition is a belief in heaven – it was a more religious time.
The modern rich are corporatists: they are willing to pay more tax, but they want the government to be their partner and benefactor. And the creation of the welfare state is what justifies it all – Bloomberg has said almost exactly this. The ultra-rich finance the poor through the welfare state, so the ultra-rich get to run the State. Like choosing the President?
The two early capitalists you name grew wealthy by getting government contracts and by influencing government anti-trust legislation. This aging Pittsburgh native and graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology a/k/a Carnegie-Mellon University can assure you that Andrew would not likely have grown his wealth with the speed and scale he did, without the cooperation of politicians and regulators. Forming USSteel violated most of the anti-trust rules on America’s books in 1901, until Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan forced the game to change.
Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations became fronts for CIA $$$.
will soy boy rutte next or julian castro/trudeau……?????
Thank you, Sundance, for superb clarification of the nepotism that rules in the Netherlands, just as it does in the USA.
So Mister Muller is a “visionary”. That term sets off my alarms, alarms as loud as those I hear when I encounter a corporate board dedicated to DEI, a school principal who supports “help for gender-dysphoric students”, or an employer who mandates the safe and effective jabs in exchange for the right to work.
From the site below:
“Insect value chain stakeholders in and beyond the SUSINCHAIN consortium, have identified the necessary strategies and related activities to overcome the current hurdles for scaling up the value chain,”
And
“This will pave the way for further upscaling and commercialisation of the European insect sector, resulting in a replacement of animal protein by insect protein of 10% in animal feed and of 20% in human diets, and a thousand fold increase in both production volumes and jobs in 2025.”
Hmmmmm. Let’s see here. “Necessary strategies … for scaling up the value chain … resulting in a replacement of animal protein by insect protein … of 20% in human diets … in 2025.”
Right. Like deliberately crashing plant and animal based food production.
The farm fiasco in The Netherlands is all about one thing, and one thing only: FORCING us to eat bugs.
https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/insects-as-replacement-of-animal-protein-gets-a-boost.htm#:~:text=20%25%20insect%20protein%20in%202025&text=This%20will%20pave%20the%20way,volumes%20and%20jobs%20in%202025.
I’ll wager that the reality of unintended consequences will strike the Bug People. Anyone ever read about plagues of locusts? or gypsy moths? How, exactly, do these jagoffs plan to fully and securely contain their billions of voracious insects? Will they be as successful as the biolabs that “accidentally” released the many SARS variants now making their way around the world?
Their insects of choice for us to eat, seem to be, worms.
The idea that they will feed us bugs is a cover story. They plan to include bugs in our feed, but, it will also include all kinds of other ingredients just like the deadly vaccines. Will we be aware? I don’t know what bugs taste like, do you?
It’s a land grap and they left the farmers with nothing to lose.
The Left always over reach. Time to bury their party into farming fertilizer.
A couple of extra details I came across, me being Dutch: Picnic’s CEO Michiel Muller got rich with the introduction of the first unmanned gas stations (Tango) before turning “green”. His brother Frans works for a much bigger retail company, Ahold Delhaize. The Boni supermarkets only do business in rural areas.
Fun fact: I was actually born in the town where the Picnic distribution center went up in flames…
The latest news is too funny:
According to Picnic, it weren’t the farmers who burned down the distribution center, they think that the fire started because one of their silly electric vehicles caught fire!
Another thing…. the Earth’s atmosphere is 78% nitrogen.
As you well pointed out, this whole climate change is just a sham… just follow the money. It’s all about some people just getting richer at the expense of others. And control, of course.
The biggest problem with our government is that people fear government and government does not fear the people.
An honest question. Considering ALL the pandering to North American Native tribes … esp. that tool of a PM in Canada … how long before the government starts seizing farmland and “retuning” it to the Natives? I mean … that’s where this all ends, doesn’t it? Yeah, yeah … just another wild conspiracy theory … that will come true in 20 years
Not if Brandon sells abortion clinics to native American tribes, as for-profit operations to be situated on tribal lands. Those lands are not subject to federal / state/ SCOTUS rulings on abortion. If Brandon’s team has the business savvy, they could set up PP clinics next to the casinos and discount smoke shops in towns like Cherokee, NC, splitting the profits with the chiefs. That may sound far-fetched, but with the Biden cabal, no evil is impossible.
I dont see it.
Cherokee has a very strong Baptist component.
Maybe I’m wrong but my first guess is, NO
Shame on the Netherlands and their complete insanity. How many of them are vaccinated? It started with the covid shutdowns.
I appreciate this SD article and the video but when I wrote a reply draft I couldn’t keep it short enough.
It involved a complex dynamic of deceptive Trudeaupian Climate Change/Nitrogen reduction target legislation, alleged voluntary only fertilizer reduction programs and payouts to farmers to implement changes and the apparent timidity of “Fertilizer Canada” which is the Rep of the Canadian Fertilizer manufacturers. They are on board with all of the reductions according to their website.
I could not find an article on the Fertilizer website that they supposedly wrote estimating the many thousands of dollars that individual farmers will lose and the hundreds of millions and billions the farming industry overall will lose if the reductions are implemented. No mention of the obvious food shortages that will result from these reductions.
https://fertilizercanada.ca/
https://www.canada.ca/en/agriculture-agri-food/news/2022/03/government-seeks-guidance-on-path-towards-reducing-emissions-associated-with-fertilizer.html
This is going to happen in the USA also eventually. It’s just going to take longer. If they can’t pass federal legislation to confiscate farmland to be in compliance with climate regulations they will have the puppet president do it by emergency executive order. They also need to confiscate firearms to enable this.
holland corrupt, nooooooooo, one word ok ok two words, MH 17
Bill Gates buys mucchisimo farmland in the US and has big investments in a food distribution organization in the Netherlands. Probably he has more investments in food and/or its production ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Is there anybody out there who can make a list of all his worldwide investments re: our food!?
Dutch Minister Mark Rutte want a proto Nazi imposition of eminent domain of ALL farmers of their land. He wants them to stop producing food for the people in order to remove Nitrogen from the soil by 2030. Mark Rutte and Minister Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink believe mass genocide of their nation is the way to save the planet from climate change. They also will profit from the downfall and destruction of mainland Europe and the whole EU when their countries collapse from food shortages and energy shutdown along with mass civil wars.