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Great Reset phase two: The war on medical freedom is joined by a war on food security


Nitrogen is to food what oxygen is to people. Reduced fertilizer means less food and reduced nitrogen-based fertilizer means lower crop yields. One would think that at a time of food shortages, record high corn, wheat, and chicken prices, and limited fertilizer supply, we would be finding innovative ways to grow our food supply. Yet, the maniacal global elites are now trying to do to food what they have done to medical care: create a food crisis and then aggravate it even more to make us feel the pain.

In case you haven’t gotten the message, the creation of COVID and the response to it was the opening act of the Great Reset. Just like they don’t want you to have access to effective medical care, they don’t want you to have access to cars, fuel, and now food. The needless rallying behind a corrupt regime in Ukraine to hold on to land they were never capable of holding – despite the U.S. pumping in unlimited funds to their war effort – has created the worst food crisis ever, built on top of the already strained supply chains from the COVID lockdowns. Anyone who thinks this happened by accident should take a look at what governments are doing now to aggravate the situation.

If COVID was an innocent mistake or a natural phenomenon, we would have expected global governments to embrace rather than censor early treatment. Likewise, if the food crisis was natural, one would expect governments not to do what the Dutch are attempting to do to their farmers. In May 2019, the highest court in the Netherlands ruled that the country was in violation of EU nitrogen emissions standards and that to continue construction of important public projects, nitrogen emissions would have to be reduced. In June, the government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a rising star in the World Economic Forum, responded to the growing crisis by threatening to confiscate the land from farmers if they don’t reduce nitrogen use in some areas by up to 95%. In order to achieve this dystopian goal, the Finance and Agriculture Ministry are calling on farmers to reduce their livestock by 30%. At present, the Netherlands is the largest exporter of meat in the European Union.

This has led to a full-scale farmer’s rebellion in which they have been blockading food distribution centers, highways, and other public areas under the rallying cry of “No Farmers, No Food.” This is not just some vacuous slogan; it is literally about feeding humanity, not just about the livelihood of farmers. Nitrogen use with the synthesis of ammonia in farming is quite literally how the global population has doubled since the 1970s without a massive starvation crisis erupting alongside. As we are keenly aware, the powers that be behind these policies among the Davos crowd are not very excited about that population growth, so causing a mass famine would be a feature of, not a fault in, their plan.

Now, if this was just simply about concerns regarding the “climate,” why would they choose to declare war on nitrogen and ammonia at a time when food prices are at record highs, the supply chains are strained, and fertilizer is scarce? Why would they maximize rather than minimize the pain? The answer is self-evident. It’s the same reason they are declaring war on cars precisely at a time of record prices for fuel and car purchases. It’s also not a coincidence that BASF, the world’s largest chemical producer, plans to cut ammonia production at this time, which will further exacerbate the fertilizer crisis.

This is truly a global fight as Canada’s Justin Trudeau is now calling for agriculture to cut nitrous oxide emissions by 30% by 2030, over the protest of the provincial governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Irish government is seeking a 30% cut in carbon emissions on all farms. New Zealand plans to tax cattle farmers for the burps and methane emitted by cows. Their goal is to turn every Western country into Sri Lanka, which was a test-run for bans on nitrogen in farming.

Last year, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was recently forced to flee the country due to a full-scale rebellion stemming from severe shortages and poverty, imposed a 100% ban on chemicals in farming. The World Economic Forum even touted Sri Lanka’s “ESG” plan as a way of making the country rich. It has since deleted that post, which can be found here. Now, the country is facing the threat of a full-blown famine.

Even here in the U.S., Republican leader Mitch McConnell voted to send tens of billions to some of the worst federal agencies for “environmental research.” SEC. 10103 of the bill has this gem tucked into it, which will clearly be a forerunner to Agenda 2030 and what the Dutch government is now pursuing with farmers and nitrogen use.

In other words, if you like what they’ve done to coal-fired power plants over the past decade, you will love their plans for food production. If not …

Farmers understand what is at stake, which is why farmers from GermanyItalyPoland, and Canada have joined in with their Dutch counterparts. They understand this is about more than one country or one issue. This is about a global “Great Reset” to use the destruction from COVID fascism – both economic and psychological – to forge on with taking everything away from people.

\u201cJacinda Ardern – Build back better, reset, Agenda 2030, Sustainable Developement Goals…\u201d

— Wittgenstein (@Wittgenstein) 1659047099

As the World Economic Forum tweeted out in 2016 – speaking of Agenda 2030 and “Build Back Better” – “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.”

\u201cWelcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better @IdaAuken https://t.co/6BKymvbKB5\u201d

— World Economic Forum (@World Economic Forum) 1481555459

At some point, Republican politicians need to take their heads out of the sand and realize that this is about a lot more than a “recession” and inflation. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is correct in asserting that this is not a recession but a transition. They want to transition us into being ownerless QR-code-carrying metaverse bots conditioned to subsist on bug-eating, obeying the global government, and actually being happy with it.

Pathologies of affection


    “I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it. It’s impossible to see what could be dangerous or unacceptable about that. A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden, and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent. Can it be trusted any more about anything else? Won’t it proscribe tomorrow what it prescribes today?” —Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (before he became Pope Benedict XVI), in his book-length interview Salt of the Earth (1997), published by Ignatius Press, pp. 176-177 (link)    

Three parishes [out of 21] were granted permission to continue celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in their parish churches for a term of two years.” —Bishop Michael Burbidge, in his decree restricting the celebration of the old Latin Mass in his diocese of Arlington, Virginia, issued on July 29, 2022, three days ago. Even in those places where the old Mass will still be celebrated, the plan seems to be to continue for only two years, then to end the old Mass entirely (link)

    Letter #94, 2022, Monday, Aug 1: Pathologies of affection    

“Imagine a world,” I wrote last week (link) “where the ‘work of God’ [that is, the divine liturgy, which offers praise and thanksgiving to God as the first and most fitting of all human actions] is forbidden by the authorities.”    

This week, there is no longer any need to imagine: we live in such a world.    

It is a world in which Church leaders impose restrictions on the forms of prayer and liturgy that Catholics may use, saying they are doing this for the spiritual good of the people, to “help them” spiritually, and to “preserve the unity of the whole Church”… even as those who attend the old liturgy feel perplexed, powerless, abandoned, lost…    

It is also a world where a peculiar pathology of the spiritual leaders, a pathology that is cognitively dissonant, leads the leaders to act with great spiritual and psychological cruelty, causing great psychological and spiritual pain, yet all the while declaring their intentions to be great charity, broad benevolence, and paternal love. “We know this decision will be painful for you, but, though you do not understand it now, putting you through this suffering now if for your own good, and for the common good of the Church,” these modern Church leaders are saying with almost one voice.    
Thus has the leadership of the Catholic Church in recent months fallen into a crisis of “affectional pathology” in its efforts to weed out all elements of alleged opposition to a revolutionary event from the 1960s that they refer to as “the Council” — and to prepare the Church to make other changes in her governing structures and moral teachings at the Synod of Bishops on Synodality which will be held in just over a year, in October 2023, in Rome. This is the reason all this is happening now.    

For the current crop of Church leaders, the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) — which threw open the doors of the Church to the world in the 1960s — must be finally and fully “implemented”… even if doing so frightens and leaves in spiritual desolation and darkness many who are in the Church’s care.    

It is, seemingly, a seamless ideology of modernization, the cruel implementation of which willingly tramples under the souls of many simple faithful.    

Again, it is the cruelty of these ideologues which surprises me.    

An old person who wishes to continue to attend the liturgy he or she has been used to during a lifetime suffers when that liturgy ceases, when the church doors are locked, when there is no access to those channels of grace that had existed for centuries.    

For this reason, Pope Benedict in 2007 arrived at a compromise solution, and said the old liturgy would still be respected, venerated, and celebrated, even as it was set aside in the majority of cases, and the new liturgy, introduced after 1970, was celebrated.    

That compromise is what has now been abandoned.    

It is not a time for compromise, in the Church today, on this issue, only a time for ideological purity and blind obedience from the cadres, whatever the cost to individuals, even as they approach the end of their lives…    

One by one, these churches are being closed to the use of the old Mass, despite the suffering it causes to many souls.    

Imagine a leadership of the Church that could be so cold, cruel, pitiless, ideological, as to tell an old couple, or a group of young children, that the Mass they love has been forbidden.    

You do not have to imagine it: it has happened.    

And the resulting scene is reminiscent of Bolshevik ideologues decrying the corruption of the Russian bourgeoisie and heartlessly destroying things precious to individuals who wished to cling to the beloved past, but whose “clinging” was seen as an “impediment to the revolution.”    

So it is the cruelty of these “very good, very kind” Churchmen which astonishes me, and puzzles me. Do they not sense the strangeness and cruelty of what they are doing?    

In recent weeks, many bishops — in Chicago (link), in Savannah, Georgia (link), in Washington D.C. (link) — at the request of Pope Francis, have restricted or forbidden the celebration of the old Catholic Mass — celebrated throughout the Church for 400 years , from 1570 to 1970 — in their dioceses.    

The bishops’ announcements have come about one year after Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis custodes (July 16, 2021),a motu proprio which placed sweeping restrictions on the celebration of Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal, also known as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, the Tridentine Mass, and the Traditional Latin Mass. (You can read a further explanation of the document here.)    

The latest example comes in Arlington, in Virginia, a diocese which stretches west from Washington D.C. to the border of West Virginia, where Bishop Michael Burbidge just published his decree on Friday, July 29 (three days ago, link).    

A traditional Mass celebrated in one local church in a small town in the sprawling diocese will be moved to a gymnasium some six miles away, and only for two more years — then it is (evidently) scheduled to cease altogether.    

And the hearts of those who are carrying out this purge are not moved by the simple request of these people, old and young, to be allowed to continue to pray as they have prayed for generations.    

Let us imagine something else. Suppose someone were to command the people could no longer pray the Our Father (perhaps because it has a patriarchal word, “father,” at its outset). Would that be acceptable? Or would it prompt outrage and protest?    

Or let us imagine that someone were to command people to no longer pray the Rosary at all (perhaps because, it might be argued, it is too “rote,” too “repetitive”). Would that be acceptable? Would such a command be obeyed?        

Here is a letter sent to the offices of Bishop Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, by a Catholic father of four children, who has given me permission to publish his letter here:        
“July 30, 2022    
“To whom it may concern:    

“I am the father of four young children, whom we are raising in the Traditional Rite, and thus significantly affected by Bishop Burbidge’s recent implementation of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. We live in the Front Royal area, and will now be going to the Canons of New Jerusalem in West Virginia, or the SSPX chapel in Front Royal when that is not possible. I respect that Bishop Burbidge, who has been most generous with the TLM [Note: TLM stands for “Traditional Latin Mass”] in the past, felt that he had to do this, but the effect of his implementation is only to destroy or hurt several thriving Catholic communities, and thus endanger the souls of those faithful affected, which includes my family, whose salvation is my highest duty.     

“I appreciate that Bishop Burbidge has reportedly permitted a TLM to be offered in a gym at Chelsea Academy (notwithstanding the presence of several fully adequate and dignified chapels nearby) for a period of two years, where we will presumably be catechized to appreciate more fully the blessings of the Council and its Mass, but from its inception, it will be a community created to die, and does not offer the stability that my young family deserves and needs. I add that the optics of relegating the community to a gym, when there are so many fine chapels available are extremely ugly.    

“We have no intention of going to the Novus Ordo ever, at least on a regular basis. While we recognize it’s validity, as a father who grew up in it, I am also acutely aware that it is an insufficient bulwark against the world, and that Catholics formed in it and its “Catholic Lite” spirituality are much more prone to falling to the call of the world — drugs, homosexuality, birth control mentality, etc. As a father, I have a duty to avoid it at all costs.     

“We can no longer trust the hierarchy to get us to Heaven. Sadly, the Church is like a dysfunctional family with dysfunctional parents. It is still a family, and we can’t change that, but as faithful, we have to manage up, and ‘cover the nakedness of our father.’     

“We were never militant TLM Catholics, but we are increasingly becoming so, and largely because of the persecution of the Catholic life of faith and morals, and now the TLM by Pope Francis. I do not accuse Bishop Burbidge of this, but I have to note that his implantation of TC is nevertheless not helpful.     

“While we will avoid the Masses in Virginia in communities that are engineered to be destroyed in a few years, to the extent possible, we will nevertheless maintain our visible communion with the Holy Father, for whom we pray daily, by going to the Mass with the Canons in West Virginia. When that is not possible, frankly, at this point, we will simply go to the SSPX [Note: SSPX stands for the priestly “Society of St. Pius X,” the traditional Catholic group founded by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre] chapel in Linden. The SSPX is canonically irregular (for which reason we will prefer the Canons) but nevertheless preserves visible and unbroken unity with the Holy Father and the Roman Catholic Church. This has been attested several times by the most senior Roman officials, including Pope Francis himself.     

“Please assure Bishop Burbidge of my continuing respect and prayers for him. I acknowledge that he made this decision under protest, but under protest or not, I still have to deal with its detritus, and limit its damage on the souls of my children.”    

[End of letter]    

“The maniacal crusade” (link)    “The maniacal crusade Francis has against the traditional Latin mass is simply bizarre,” writes American journalist Rod Dreher, who some years ago converted from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, at this link.    

The article is worth reading.