As a farmer in Canada, I am not aware of anything similar (farmer protests or general/rolling strikes) even being discussed, and that is very disheartening. Considering the "hate speech" bill currently being considered, it's well past time to re-organize and shut this thing down.
First I heard of it (and I try to stay informed daily) - but it isn't in relation to federal policies, rather the upcoming provincial budget.
Quebec cares about Quebec, and nothing else - so in reality I, and most of the similar minded folk I know couldn't care less about anything from a province that can't decide if it wants to be a part of Canada...they are a huge part of the problem here.
If anything meaningful is going to happen, it will come from out west like the Trucker Convoy did (I'm in Ontario, so I'm not being biased to the west) - and that is of course where the overwhelming majority of ag takes place in Canada anyway.
They don't need to travel thousands of KM to shut down Ottawa either - just leave their tractors parked in the shed this spring and watch what happens.
Hi James. Any protest is a good protest at this point, whether local, regional or national. The worst thing we can do is allow we the people in any country to be divided in terms of fighting one another or not supporting one another in our local protests. Offer support to those farmers in some way you can manage, even supporting on social media, and see what happens. They may not want to be independent and may want the help but don't know how to ask for it.
And isn't it sane for them to question being part of Canada? We have that here in the US with Texas always threatening to secede, and they are leading the fight against our fascist government at the border. Gotta love those persnickety Texans and Quebecois.
I understand what you mean, assuming by "any protest" you are simply referring to farmer protests and not woke nonsense like BLM, antifa etc.
Every country in the west is dealing with a similar problem, and in Canada it is primarily our federal government, so any further support I intend to provide has to take that into account. Quebec farmers aren't interested in dismantling the current "federation" that is Canada as it would mean bankruptcy for Quebec. Again, they care about Quebec and Quebec only.
As it were, I spent considerable time supporting whoever was protesting, especially our truckers, throughout all of social media and in person during the pandemic. The end results are legendary of course - but for me it resulted in lost friends, lost family, (neither of which bothered me) but the lost business connections/opportunities and endless frustration isn't something I intend to repeat...and that is why I wait for those that are on the same page only.
Appreciate the final sentiment/question but comparing Texans to Quebecois is way off the mark - and my paternal heritage is Quebecois. They do not represent what it is to be Canadian in any way, shape or form and have always wanted their own "nation", and the rest of the country has had to cow-tow to this for decades.
To me, Texas has always personified what it is to be an American patriot, but that is simply an outsiders view of course!
I hear you and understand the losses you have sustained in relationships and business, as I have experienced such losses myself. I agree that we need to take care to choose your battles and seek out opportunities for bringing about change that are more likely to be effective and not have a huge personal cost. I think we're all trying to figure out the best way to navigate this startling and threatening political and economic terrain.
Texas is a funny place. I lived in Houston for a year and found that many Texans talked about seceding from the union. The southern states in the US have never gotten over the Civil War either, when Lincoln forced them to stay in the union when they wanted to break away. It was shocking to travel down south and be called a 'northerner.' I would not be surprised to see the US break apart at some point, although the divisions now involve old hurts like these as well as differences between red and blue states.
One thing I will say, to leave this on an upbeat note, is how much admiration so many of us have for the truckers and farmers and their courage and creativity. It's downright thrilling and inspiring to watch them in action.
My city was burned in the last week of the war despite it being over by anyone's reckoning. Businesses, homes, and churches were consigned to the flames, and that happened throughout the south. That savagery on top of a quarter of our men dying for the same cause of independence that their forefathers died for a half-century before, and now history is steadily rewritten to make poor white farmers into yee-haw Nazis because the plantation elite seceded for the purposes of protecting slavery. The politicians' motives and the soldiers' motives are never the same. No, we're not over the war.
it wasn't chilling - Canada just has no balls at all. 3 weeks total of defiance, and as soon as there were any issues, they bitched out. It wasn't chilling at all - if you use words like that to describe the government you will always be afraid of your own shadow.
The legal system is not always Lawful, I strongly urge you to learn about Law then this legal BS can be dealt with once and for all. It’s a fiction that we are all brainwashed and intimidated to go along with. We are every man and women sovereign we just need to rediscover that and educate ourselves.
It isn't hard to find out how thoroughly things are going to hell in a handbasket from the perspective of those of us here in Canada and the US - all you have to do is look past the tall tales that the MSM keep telling on the CIA's orders. We're going to destroy Russia, right? And something or other is going to happen in the Holy Land - we won't say exactly what so that we don't anger one side or the other.
Here is where I come for hope. Not that I don't find out details about the terrible things that the Greenies are doing or the Pharma Assault on our basic being, but that there is push-back. There are real people who are saying "Enough!" and doing something about it en masse, even if they are on the other side of the Pond right now. The first impetus was from Canada's Own Truckers and there's reasonable hope that Canada and the US will pick up the torch again, and hopefully before the Election down south turns into a shooting war.
Thank you, Elizabeth, for all you are doing for us.
Yes this is hopeful but the EU will double down on the protests . They are implementing a draconian NaZi era dictatorship and intend to severely penalize “disinformation “ about the government’s agenda just as the UN and WEF have suggested should be considered as intolerable . These censorship laws led by the EU fuelled by the UN and WEF are being copied in Canada under the Trudeau Liberal curated Bill 63 hate speech proposed law . The U.S. led by
a Biden administration created in 2022 a new “Disinformation Governing Board” working group within the Department of Homeland Security. Hate speech et al are the new tools of governments to fight the public’s opposition to government policies from everything such as gender equality , equity, biodiversity, climate change, the Ukraine war, mass immigration, you name it and they want to punish you CCP style.
All true, of course. Still, I'm moved by Elizabeth's reference to Revelation 2:5, and will just stick to Monty Python's classic "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". I start each day with Morning Prayer, try to accurately scan the horizon, watch my 6 and do what I can to help God's cause. More than that is beyond my ken.
This is becoming a Red vs. Blue thing, the main game in divide and conquer. If you are playing in that arena, you are being played whether you know it or not.
Scholarly terminology, ya right. 😂 You mean the wokesters who change the meaning of words like equity and make up new meaningless words like transgender?
The Canadian Truckers were a great inspiration! They will be remembered as heros in the hearts of all men of goodwill regardless of what the bastards of Satan who write "history" put down in the textbooks of the indoctrination centers.
Why farmers? What is it about people who work the land for a living taking all the risks nature can throw at them, figuring out solutions daily independently to be successful? The term "Populism" according to Thomas Frank in "The People, NO" originated in 1891 when US farmers banded together to counter the elite actions of the time which left farmers poor as elites became wealthy from food production. Today, the elites claim farmers are the cause of every imagined climate and geopolitical crisis when in fact it is the elites' policies.
My experience living in rural America is that farmers have one thing in common, they live by the truths they give to others. They honor their commitments but demand fairness in return. Very basic stuff but they do the everyday without written contracts to counterparties. They are the basis of Common Law to which they are attuned. They form the base character of any nation with that character diminishing with the increasing height someone in society operates up the social ladder.
Farmers are deemed crude because they work with their hands batting the elements. They are deemed unsophisticated in their thinking but they have the most connected but unarticulated basic understanding of human interaction and fairness on which they daily rely. They act on truth and fairness every day with actions speaking louder, having greater influence, than words. That is why farmers are the base of any country's character and rarely recognized by the rest of us not so connected by our daily lives.
Understanding the value of each service on which society depends is increasingly lost in direct proportion to how large government becomes with its multitude of hangers-on. Schaller and Waldman just released "White Rural Rage". Their description of rural America reeks of the self-important bias elites hold for average people. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/msnbc-segment-calling-white-rural-voters-most-racist-in-the-country-raises-eyebrows/ar-BB1jaQNl Paul Krugman has stated that all of society's value is created in cities. An interesting perspective for a world famous economist (in his own rarified circle) when everything on which cities rely are grown and manufactured in rural America. The ingenuity to produce does not come from cities but from individuals who have hands-on experience with production who continuously find better means towards faster, better and cheaper. Without producers, cities would collapse within hours.
Populism is being described as "White Rural Rage" when in fact what the elites are hearing is the long unarticulated set of basic values in the US Constitution which was created by farmers in 1789.
Very eloquent description of farmers, thank you for that. As a first generation farmer who came into it from upper middle class white-collar work, I was astonished at how demeaning my former colleagues were to me and my family when we decided to take the plunge.
I have an MBA and 20+ years in business/banking etc and farming is unquestionably the most difficult physical, intellectual and emotional challenge I have yet to encounter.
As someone from a similar background (with a law degree) I have struggled to succeed in farming for over 40 years. First, with a commercial grain operation in the 1980s and then after going broke in the early 90s, trying again on a much smaller scale as a chemical-free veggie grower since 2007.
There is no doubt your description of the physical and intellectual challenges of farming is correct. I always said that farming has many advantages, although making a good financial return on the time invested is probably not one of them for most of us. But I do it for:
1. The Intellectual challenge of trying to outsmart Mother Nature's many foes: weather, weeds, bugs etc.
2. The physical benefits of hard work and being outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine.
3. The social benefits of providing good food to people who appreciate it and interacting with customers and other farmers at local farmers markets.
4. Being prepared for WTSHTF. Because if all else fails, I will have something to eat and barter.
I must say the physical part doesn't get easier with age, and it is getting harder and harder to find younger people who are willing to do hard work–a problem that spreads beyond just farming, but I stay with it because I never know if this is the year I will need to truly live off the land!
Interesting - we started out in the direct space with livestock/local meat sales, and got out of it over the last few years (far too much labour, customer service, dealing with incompetent abattoirs etc) - like you said, while there was a financial return, it was small and would be "negative" if our time was included.
We have many friends doing the local veggie/market garden operation - and all of them, without exception, are scaling back because they are burnt out - all of them the same reasons (can't find reliable help, regulations and endless marketing work to constantly find new customers to replace those that go back to the grocery stores...).
Same goes for the small scale meat producers. Saturation is an issue as well, at least in our area (there literally seems to be, on an absolute and not relative basis, more new "farmers" popping up each year than new people who want to support local farms - the first few months of the pandemic being an exception - demand skyrocketed for us and then subsequently tanked in 2021).
We keep at it for all the same reasons you do (aside from number 3) - but we brought draft horses on a few years ago, and focus on a few botanical/forestry based products that we wholesale through supplement companies instead, with the rest of our efforts going to support ourselves.
I will never return to direct markets (including touristy things like horse drawn sleigh rides etc) again...this is a bit of black-pill thinking, and I empathize with those who did stick with us from the beginning, but the rest of the "people" can take a hike for all I care - your reason #4 being our prime motivator as I think we are already in it!
I can understand your feelings about #3. It seems that many of our customers have gone back to the supermarket also. We are in a college town and the students have also disappeared from the market since the pandemic. In general, I find the customers not as adventurous and willing to try new things over the past few years. Side effect of the vax?
If it weren't for #4, I would probably pack it in this year, but with my luck, this will be the year when everything crashes. It certainly looks like it has that potential!
I don't think people realize how serious it is that small farmers everywhere are considering "packing it in" as you say....not sure consumers understand what that means from a food sourcing standpoint!
I am growing food year-round in rural Montana. Develop a niche before you get into farming. Assume it’s a waste of time otherwise, other than that you can survive on your own. That’s assuming you still have private property rights after your local ICLEI committee has culturally changed your town.
We did something similar: a 7-year experiment in farming. It’s a bloody tough gig! Farmers have to have an incredibly vast skill set to make a go of it. Came away from it with a huge appreciation and respect for them. Always reminded of Michael Bloomberg’s stupid dismissal along the lines of: ‘what could be easier? You plant a seed and a few months later, food comes out.’ I know that’s not verbatim, but what a dickhead!
Over twenty years ago, I was driving from the West Coast to the Midwest and turned on a local station for company. I was astonished at the complicated financial and weather reports aimed at the farmers. If farmers and bankers switched positions for two months, I assume the weeds would be pulled from the banking institutions while the crops would be overrun with them.
Your comment is revealing. Having straddled both worlds, you provide unique insight. Although, we live in suburbia nearby a city, we long for the rural countryside. We are currently considering an exit to join brave folks like you.
Please, if you move to a rural area, realize that there may be things you aren't going to like or understand, like your neighbor spreading cow manure on the fields that you smell for a week. So many people move to rural areas but never learn to adapt and consider the culture and norms of the area.
We both had the gift of being raised in rural America and fled to the cities for work opportunities after college. We long to be back and settle back in manure and all. 🙂
It's not just the people who move to rural areas and don't adapt, what's worse are the ones who decide they don't like the way things are and set themselves the goal of changing local rural life completely.
A large number of farmers are now communists. The ones who push sustainability and UN Agenda 21 culture. We have a farm outside Missoula that gives donations to local tribes for land reparations. Idiots.
Agreed - or even worse....lost count how many made their living railing against GMO etc (which I agree with), only to line up gleefully for experimenting with their own genes, and then happily spreading such all over social media. Their ignorance and hypocrisy didn't even register....
Well said. I live in rural America and the hate being stirred up toward rural Americans by our own government is appalling. Farmers are the salt of the earth, without which none of us could survive. They don't need us. We need them.
I think Waldman is a coward. He has a substack. He introduced his book there. I happened upon it. There are very few comments, therefore you'd think he'd address comments that object to his conclusion. He has not. https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/white-rural-rage-is-here
People who say such stuff I can't bring myself to read their writings unless I can come at it from a different direction. I did that with Charles Murray's "Bell Curve". The critics were all wrong. They could not have read the whole. In this Murray explicitly states IQ is not the measure of human worth and that we should use something else. He said high IQ did not make you a good human being. The sense of morality we all carry to one degree or another defines us and how we treat others. "The Bell Curve" is written with some scientific language so a bit of a slog but his point about high IQs in positions of authority being a poor measure of humanity scared the elites and they trashed him.
I know from the start that "Rural Withe Rage" is about as racist as one gets. Not likely a tiltle I will get to.
Jon Stossel (?) has a very informative interview with Charles Murray about that book. Murray does and excellent job explaining his method for those who are not inclined to read the whole book.
I contacted Murray directly. Asked him if our sense of morality came from our DNA i.e, inherent, innate.
"Yes" was his reply.
Each of us has a moral center placed there by millions of years of cooperative survival outcomes. DNA drives the human sense of right and wrong and our specialized talents shared by cooperative exchange of goods/services. This is marred by some who cheat. Those who cheat, skim off the value created by others. These individuals when you look deeper are sociopaths. Not many but enough, say 5%. Enough to demand control of others and be solely responsible for all the ills people do to each other. These few have aberrant DNA behavior. Robert Hare wrote the Psychopathic Test to identify who these people are so we can avoid giving them authority. https://psychology-tools.com/test/pcl-22
Wow. Because, just this evening I have been listening to a youtube reading of an early 19teen's lecture (translated and read anew) of Rudolf Steiner entitled "Blood Is a Very Special Fluid". I just learned of Steiner recently and have been giving him an opportunity to explain his theory and thoughts to me from afar off. He has an fascinating explanation of the difference inter-mixing racial blood lines - and here I think it is okay to see that Irish and German could be considered different races. Nonetheless he goes on to conclude a similar "inherent" code passed down through the blood, long before they were doing DNA modeling.
I could go on and on about the other ideas that come to mind when reviewing his work on that subject but I would hate to drive you nuts.
Please can we all stop calling them ‘elites’, they are not. What they are is the predator class, much more accurate I think. Remember words have power, we are all equal under The Law, speak to truth and God Bless us all.
Agreed. I use it in the pejorative term it has acquired in these discussions. I get tired of using sociopath and I do like the word evil. But, predator is accurate.
"Capitalist" is another term that has taken on the pejorative cast when what we mean is "entrepreneur" who are the individuals on which wealth creation begins and not the Marxist's defined evil doers of society. Again it is sociopaths with money who are the "Capitalists" decried when speaking of predatory business people like Gates.
I know this prob seems picky but can we all stop calling them ‘elites’, they are not. What they are is the predator class, much more accurate I think. Remember words have power, we are all equal under The Law, speak to truth and God Bless us all.
Beautiful take on a global phenomenon. Thank you. Gonna be messy, but it has to happen and at bottom, humans are claiming themselves and their innate rights as sovereign beings. Wonderful.
I’ve recently come to see this whole globalist control agenda in a very different light.
Let me explain. As a long-time grass roots environmentalist (biologist/ecologist) I’ve watched the entire environmental movement get co-opted and corrupted over the last 2 decades in despair. How could so many already suspicious of corporate motivation simply not see what was happening?! Or see through the blatantly ridiculous CO2 nonsense?!
But touching base with what has always informed all I do - the Earth herself - I realised that these massive shifts so many of us feel in our bones were ALWAYS coming. They have little to do with the globalists who merely use the same tools to discern the future as the rest of us. The globalists fear the changes because they know it will spell the end of their privileged position so they’re attempting to spin the narrative in such a way that we believe THEY are instigating the changes and THEY are in control of them. So effectively we, by abrogating ALL our power to them through believing this to be ‘true’, enable them to maintain that illusion.
But they’re not in control at all! They can’t do the half of what they want us to think they can! So I believe we must change our focus to embracing the changes but rejecting the globalist manipulation of them. These times won’t be a picnic but they’re necessary and they’re our road to healing not just ourselves but the Earth as well.
Absolutely right. I'm always careful to call them Would-Be tyrants, or tyrant Wannabes.. because granting them the title of "tyrant" grants them far too much power, and ourselves too little.
The Earth will forget humanity and its harms in the blink of the Cosmic eye. The stuff of the universe that God created does not care about the human spiritual realm.
I can only hope to see recovery in my lifetime. But, if needed, I will grab my torch and pitchfork and join the party. At 70 what the heck does a life sentence mean? I want my children free!
If you read the book The Fourth Turning, as it turns out our generation is the one that can right the ship. But, only if the younger one gives us the opportunity. This has been true with each 4th turning over the last 400 years. Be well.
Tomorrow March 11 is exactly four years since WWIII started. It means we are entering year 5. It is about bloody time we took the initiative and moved from defence (or outright helplessness) to OFFENCE.
Sometimes your posts make me feel so overwhelmed at the evil in the world that I want to scream, but sometimes they give me so much hope that it bubbles over into the rest of my day. Thank you.
Even looking at photos of the 1960s and 70s. So many naturally thin people. I remember people who would now be considered a bit overweight being called fat.
Dear Elizabeth, you may find fertile ground to till if you start digging into the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Jointly funded by WHO/FAO they are the global standard setters for what may or may not be added to food and food products. I used to attend their meetings 20 years ago and what went on then was appalling. I’m confident it has only gotten worse.
Hello Elizabeth. I texted an old colleague who’s still at it on the codex file. He’s a lawyer and has been working it on behalf of the good guys for 25 years. If you like I can provide his contact info in a less public forum. Probably the most knowledgeable guy on the planet on codex
yes, I believe this is the source of the anti-raw milk legislations in the US states, and the persecution of Amish farmers. Also the basis for how our access to natural substances to maintain our health will be restricted, if I am not wrong...
I'm not sure America has enough mid-sized farmers. Our industrial consolidation was on full speed while those 1980s regulations protected European farmers. (I lived in the UK for several years, and knew many local farmers in North Devon.) Americans must return to the land in droves, and those who don't must become farmer advocates. Beef prices just hit an all-time high and will continue to climb. Food inflation is deliberate, as is the border and currency destruction. The electric grid is also under tremendous strain, and it is increasing rapidly: https://www.libertynation.com/renewables-threaten-the-us-power-grid/ (My article this morning).
I think people want to, and young women are leading it to some extent wanting healthy food and families. There must be a way to make it easier, land use regs are preposterous. For instance ALL the really great land out here has been taken by foundations and NGOs to “preserve” it. But preserve land goes to brush and bog or desert and invasives.
Also John Lukacs addressed this folly, from a different angle: "Indeed, in environmentalism, or “Green” politics, we see how an epistemological premise—the knower stands strictly apart from the known—becomes a moral-ideological imperative. Thus the “Greens” would ban the human presence from large wilderness tracts, thereby making sure that no knower ever comes into contact with the potentially knowable. But the whole meaning of landscape, Lukacs reminds us, springs from the notion of a balance between man and nature: the poets and painters show us humanity innature. Of what value might an antiseptic nature, held in inviolable preserve, be to those who remained locked out from it? Its value would be theoretic in the most desiccated sense, for one most values that in which one somehow participates."
John Klar: All the farmers I saw in Nebraska in the 1960s were super-sized in their big overalls. But they were very strong, fair, and wise. I miss that generation of farmers.
Another great article Elizabeth. Your command of International news and trends is amazing. I must say though that you have a way of sending me down Rabbit Holes. I spend half an hour reading about Viscount Bolingbroke and his amazing life. Looks like we need to start a "Country Party" here in America and get away from the Court Republicans!
I only know about him because I am descended from his brother who pioneered to Mass. in 1699. His son became a Colonel in the Revolutionary Army. I literally learned history through my family. The Country Party was very important to the Revolutionary generation.
No matter how left you are, how progressive, sooner or later you come face to face with the enemy - The Bureaucracy. And everyone hates it. Everyone finds an arbitrary rule, written by a know nothing, will stop them dead in their tracks. They are shocked when it happens to them. And they inch closer to us.
Thank you, Elizabeth, for calling to our attention these bright rays of hope as the farmers and truckers awaken and move into action to take back their countries! They aren't fooled by the Left's clever verbiage and false narratives. They live in reality.
And the reality is the Green New Deal/Net Zero Marxist Left is out to starve We the People into submission. The farmers and truckers are heroes!
As a farmer in Canada, I am not aware of anything similar (farmer protests or general/rolling strikes) even being discussed, and that is very disheartening. Considering the "hate speech" bill currently being considered, it's well past time to re-organize and shut this thing down.
The farmers in Quebec started this week. They took to the streets.
First I heard of it (and I try to stay informed daily) - but it isn't in relation to federal policies, rather the upcoming provincial budget.
Quebec cares about Quebec, and nothing else - so in reality I, and most of the similar minded folk I know couldn't care less about anything from a province that can't decide if it wants to be a part of Canada...they are a huge part of the problem here.
If anything meaningful is going to happen, it will come from out west like the Trucker Convoy did (I'm in Ontario, so I'm not being biased to the west) - and that is of course where the overwhelming majority of ag takes place in Canada anyway.
They don't need to travel thousands of KM to shut down Ottawa either - just leave their tractors parked in the shed this spring and watch what happens.
Hi James. Any protest is a good protest at this point, whether local, regional or national. The worst thing we can do is allow we the people in any country to be divided in terms of fighting one another or not supporting one another in our local protests. Offer support to those farmers in some way you can manage, even supporting on social media, and see what happens. They may not want to be independent and may want the help but don't know how to ask for it.
And isn't it sane for them to question being part of Canada? We have that here in the US with Texas always threatening to secede, and they are leading the fight against our fascist government at the border. Gotta love those persnickety Texans and Quebecois.
I understand what you mean, assuming by "any protest" you are simply referring to farmer protests and not woke nonsense like BLM, antifa etc.
Every country in the west is dealing with a similar problem, and in Canada it is primarily our federal government, so any further support I intend to provide has to take that into account. Quebec farmers aren't interested in dismantling the current "federation" that is Canada as it would mean bankruptcy for Quebec. Again, they care about Quebec and Quebec only.
As it were, I spent considerable time supporting whoever was protesting, especially our truckers, throughout all of social media and in person during the pandemic. The end results are legendary of course - but for me it resulted in lost friends, lost family, (neither of which bothered me) but the lost business connections/opportunities and endless frustration isn't something I intend to repeat...and that is why I wait for those that are on the same page only.
Appreciate the final sentiment/question but comparing Texans to Quebecois is way off the mark - and my paternal heritage is Quebecois. They do not represent what it is to be Canadian in any way, shape or form and have always wanted their own "nation", and the rest of the country has had to cow-tow to this for decades.
To me, Texas has always personified what it is to be an American patriot, but that is simply an outsiders view of course!
I hear you and understand the losses you have sustained in relationships and business, as I have experienced such losses myself. I agree that we need to take care to choose your battles and seek out opportunities for bringing about change that are more likely to be effective and not have a huge personal cost. I think we're all trying to figure out the best way to navigate this startling and threatening political and economic terrain.
Texas is a funny place. I lived in Houston for a year and found that many Texans talked about seceding from the union. The southern states in the US have never gotten over the Civil War either, when Lincoln forced them to stay in the union when they wanted to break away. It was shocking to travel down south and be called a 'northerner.' I would not be surprised to see the US break apart at some point, although the divisions now involve old hurts like these as well as differences between red and blue states.
One thing I will say, to leave this on an upbeat note, is how much admiration so many of us have for the truckers and farmers and their courage and creativity. It's downright thrilling and inspiring to watch them in action.
My city was burned in the last week of the war despite it being over by anyone's reckoning. Businesses, homes, and churches were consigned to the flames, and that happened throughout the south. That savagery on top of a quarter of our men dying for the same cause of independence that their forefathers died for a half-century before, and now history is steadily rewritten to make poor white farmers into yee-haw Nazis because the plantation elite seceded for the purposes of protecting slavery. The politicians' motives and the soldiers' motives are never the same. No, we're not over the war.
https://twitter.com/sebrioux/status/1766136102149079144
Very spot on.
Just park the tractors on the train tracks and main highways into the cities. They’ll be starving in less than a week.
And so will the truckers because they won’t have a truck left if parked on a train track but I totally get your sentiment
The trains never busted the Indian barricades....and they were a lot less substantial than a 10 tonne piece of cast iron.
https://rumble.com/v4io3fo-canadian-farmers-are-finally-rising-up-against-the-government.html
Really good video on why everyone should support the Quebec farmer protest.
https://tnc.news/2024/03/09/quebec-farmers-protest/
You better do something to get rid of the Communist Castro Trudeau. He doesn't care about
killing people in Canada.
Trudeau cares only for instant gratification and of course what the mirror reflects.
That's for sure!
Probably because of two things:
1) Canada is a vast country, its population spread very thin.
2) The chilling effect of the government's criminal slap down of the Trucker Convoy and its supporters.
it wasn't chilling - Canada just has no balls at all. 3 weeks total of defiance, and as soon as there were any issues, they bitched out. It wasn't chilling at all - if you use words like that to describe the government you will always be afraid of your own shadow.
Huh?
Likewise, in Australia.😐🤔🤦♀️
Probably because of the brutal attack by Trudeau on the truckers who protested
We have been soundly chilled here in Canada.
We have no legal rights here. Any ‘right’ is conditional upon the government agreeing at that moment it can be exercised (Section 1 of the Charter).
The legal system is not always Lawful, I strongly urge you to learn about Law then this legal BS can be dealt with once and for all. It’s a fiction that we are all brainwashed and intimidated to go along with. We are every man and women sovereign we just need to rediscover that and educate ourselves.
It isn't hard to find out how thoroughly things are going to hell in a handbasket from the perspective of those of us here in Canada and the US - all you have to do is look past the tall tales that the MSM keep telling on the CIA's orders. We're going to destroy Russia, right? And something or other is going to happen in the Holy Land - we won't say exactly what so that we don't anger one side or the other.
Here is where I come for hope. Not that I don't find out details about the terrible things that the Greenies are doing or the Pharma Assault on our basic being, but that there is push-back. There are real people who are saying "Enough!" and doing something about it en masse, even if they are on the other side of the Pond right now. The first impetus was from Canada's Own Truckers and there's reasonable hope that Canada and the US will pick up the torch again, and hopefully before the Election down south turns into a shooting war.
Thank you, Elizabeth, for all you are doing for us.
Yes this is hopeful but the EU will double down on the protests . They are implementing a draconian NaZi era dictatorship and intend to severely penalize “disinformation “ about the government’s agenda just as the UN and WEF have suggested should be considered as intolerable . These censorship laws led by the EU fuelled by the UN and WEF are being copied in Canada under the Trudeau Liberal curated Bill 63 hate speech proposed law . The U.S. led by
a Biden administration created in 2022 a new “Disinformation Governing Board” working group within the Department of Homeland Security. Hate speech et al are the new tools of governments to fight the public’s opposition to government policies from everything such as gender equality , equity, biodiversity, climate change, the Ukraine war, mass immigration, you name it and they want to punish you CCP style.
All true, of course. Still, I'm moved by Elizabeth's reference to Revelation 2:5, and will just stick to Monty Python's classic "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". I start each day with Morning Prayer, try to accurately scan the horizon, watch my 6 and do what I can to help God's cause. More than that is beyond my ken.
Every Python reference deserves a “like”!
Give me an anarcho-syndicalist commune!
Help, help, I’m being oppressed!
Not sure what moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at the WEF, but I didn’t vote for them.
Hope for the best but plan for the worst
A wonderful philosophy, Monty Python and God. I will try it!
They tried something similar in 1775. We shot them. We’re getting ready to again.
This is becoming a Red vs. Blue thing, the main game in divide and conquer. If you are playing in that arena, you are being played whether you know it or not.
Far right you must be kidding?
Nazi’s far right sure.
Argue if you will about scholarly terminology if it makes you feel better …
Scholarly terminology, ya right. 😂 You mean the wokesters who change the meaning of words like equity and make up new meaningless words like transgender?
Read Hitler. He was far left. Not Right.
The Canadian Truckers were a great inspiration! They will be remembered as heros in the hearts of all men of goodwill regardless of what the bastards of Satan who write "history" put down in the textbooks of the indoctrination centers.
Why farmers? What is it about people who work the land for a living taking all the risks nature can throw at them, figuring out solutions daily independently to be successful? The term "Populism" according to Thomas Frank in "The People, NO" originated in 1891 when US farmers banded together to counter the elite actions of the time which left farmers poor as elites became wealthy from food production. Today, the elites claim farmers are the cause of every imagined climate and geopolitical crisis when in fact it is the elites' policies.
My experience living in rural America is that farmers have one thing in common, they live by the truths they give to others. They honor their commitments but demand fairness in return. Very basic stuff but they do the everyday without written contracts to counterparties. They are the basis of Common Law to which they are attuned. They form the base character of any nation with that character diminishing with the increasing height someone in society operates up the social ladder.
Farmers are deemed crude because they work with their hands batting the elements. They are deemed unsophisticated in their thinking but they have the most connected but unarticulated basic understanding of human interaction and fairness on which they daily rely. They act on truth and fairness every day with actions speaking louder, having greater influence, than words. That is why farmers are the base of any country's character and rarely recognized by the rest of us not so connected by our daily lives.
Understanding the value of each service on which society depends is increasingly lost in direct proportion to how large government becomes with its multitude of hangers-on. Schaller and Waldman just released "White Rural Rage". Their description of rural America reeks of the self-important bias elites hold for average people. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/msnbc-segment-calling-white-rural-voters-most-racist-in-the-country-raises-eyebrows/ar-BB1jaQNl Paul Krugman has stated that all of society's value is created in cities. An interesting perspective for a world famous economist (in his own rarified circle) when everything on which cities rely are grown and manufactured in rural America. The ingenuity to produce does not come from cities but from individuals who have hands-on experience with production who continuously find better means towards faster, better and cheaper. Without producers, cities would collapse within hours.
Populism is being described as "White Rural Rage" when in fact what the elites are hearing is the long unarticulated set of basic values in the US Constitution which was created by farmers in 1789.
Very eloquent description of farmers, thank you for that. As a first generation farmer who came into it from upper middle class white-collar work, I was astonished at how demeaning my former colleagues were to me and my family when we decided to take the plunge.
I have an MBA and 20+ years in business/banking etc and farming is unquestionably the most difficult physical, intellectual and emotional challenge I have yet to encounter.
As someone from a similar background (with a law degree) I have struggled to succeed in farming for over 40 years. First, with a commercial grain operation in the 1980s and then after going broke in the early 90s, trying again on a much smaller scale as a chemical-free veggie grower since 2007.
There is no doubt your description of the physical and intellectual challenges of farming is correct. I always said that farming has many advantages, although making a good financial return on the time invested is probably not one of them for most of us. But I do it for:
1. The Intellectual challenge of trying to outsmart Mother Nature's many foes: weather, weeds, bugs etc.
2. The physical benefits of hard work and being outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine.
3. The social benefits of providing good food to people who appreciate it and interacting with customers and other farmers at local farmers markets.
4. Being prepared for WTSHTF. Because if all else fails, I will have something to eat and barter.
I must say the physical part doesn't get easier with age, and it is getting harder and harder to find younger people who are willing to do hard work–a problem that spreads beyond just farming, but I stay with it because I never know if this is the year I will need to truly live off the land!
Interesting - we started out in the direct space with livestock/local meat sales, and got out of it over the last few years (far too much labour, customer service, dealing with incompetent abattoirs etc) - like you said, while there was a financial return, it was small and would be "negative" if our time was included.
We have many friends doing the local veggie/market garden operation - and all of them, without exception, are scaling back because they are burnt out - all of them the same reasons (can't find reliable help, regulations and endless marketing work to constantly find new customers to replace those that go back to the grocery stores...).
Same goes for the small scale meat producers. Saturation is an issue as well, at least in our area (there literally seems to be, on an absolute and not relative basis, more new "farmers" popping up each year than new people who want to support local farms - the first few months of the pandemic being an exception - demand skyrocketed for us and then subsequently tanked in 2021).
We keep at it for all the same reasons you do (aside from number 3) - but we brought draft horses on a few years ago, and focus on a few botanical/forestry based products that we wholesale through supplement companies instead, with the rest of our efforts going to support ourselves.
I will never return to direct markets (including touristy things like horse drawn sleigh rides etc) again...this is a bit of black-pill thinking, and I empathize with those who did stick with us from the beginning, but the rest of the "people" can take a hike for all I care - your reason #4 being our prime motivator as I think we are already in it!
I can understand your feelings about #3. It seems that many of our customers have gone back to the supermarket also. We are in a college town and the students have also disappeared from the market since the pandemic. In general, I find the customers not as adventurous and willing to try new things over the past few years. Side effect of the vax?
If it weren't for #4, I would probably pack it in this year, but with my luck, this will be the year when everything crashes. It certainly looks like it has that potential!
I don't think people realize how serious it is that small farmers everywhere are considering "packing it in" as you say....not sure consumers understand what that means from a food sourcing standpoint!
As long as there is food in the supermarkets they probably won't notice until it's too late!
I am growing food year-round in rural Montana. Develop a niche before you get into farming. Assume it’s a waste of time otherwise, other than that you can survive on your own. That’s assuming you still have private property rights after your local ICLEI committee has culturally changed your town.
Totally fits with our experience. Farming is all about your point #1.
Here in Montana ranching and farming are about heritage. You pass it on to your kids so they, too, can be free.
We did something similar: a 7-year experiment in farming. It’s a bloody tough gig! Farmers have to have an incredibly vast skill set to make a go of it. Came away from it with a huge appreciation and respect for them. Always reminded of Michael Bloomberg’s stupid dismissal along the lines of: ‘what could be easier? You plant a seed and a few months later, food comes out.’ I know that’s not verbatim, but what a dickhead!
Over twenty years ago, I was driving from the West Coast to the Midwest and turned on a local station for company. I was astonished at the complicated financial and weather reports aimed at the farmers. If farmers and bankers switched positions for two months, I assume the weeds would be pulled from the banking institutions while the crops would be overrun with them.
Your comment is revealing. Having straddled both worlds, you provide unique insight. Although, we live in suburbia nearby a city, we long for the rural countryside. We are currently considering an exit to join brave folks like you.
Please, if you move to a rural area, realize that there may be things you aren't going to like or understand, like your neighbor spreading cow manure on the fields that you smell for a week. So many people move to rural areas but never learn to adapt and consider the culture and norms of the area.
We both had the gift of being raised in rural America and fled to the cities for work opportunities after college. We long to be back and settle back in manure and all. 🙂
Or more likely your neighbor spraying roundup on his fields to dry them out faster, for harvest.
It's not just the people who move to rural areas and don't adapt, what's worse are the ones who decide they don't like the way things are and set themselves the goal of changing local rural life completely.
A large number of farmers are now communists. The ones who push sustainability and UN Agenda 21 culture. We have a farm outside Missoula that gives donations to local tribes for land reparations. Idiots.
Agreed - or even worse....lost count how many made their living railing against GMO etc (which I agree with), only to line up gleefully for experimenting with their own genes, and then happily spreading such all over social media. Their ignorance and hypocrisy didn't even register....
Thank you and best wishes on your own journey - it certainly isn't easy, but of course it is worthwhile.
I would rank day trading as more mentally difficult while farming as more physically demanding and requiring greater project management skills.
Well said. I live in rural America and the hate being stirred up toward rural Americans by our own government is appalling. Farmers are the salt of the earth, without which none of us could survive. They don't need us. We need them.
I think Waldman is a coward. He has a substack. He introduced his book there. I happened upon it. There are very few comments, therefore you'd think he'd address comments that object to his conclusion. He has not. https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/white-rural-rage-is-here
People who say such stuff I can't bring myself to read their writings unless I can come at it from a different direction. I did that with Charles Murray's "Bell Curve". The critics were all wrong. They could not have read the whole. In this Murray explicitly states IQ is not the measure of human worth and that we should use something else. He said high IQ did not make you a good human being. The sense of morality we all carry to one degree or another defines us and how we treat others. "The Bell Curve" is written with some scientific language so a bit of a slog but his point about high IQs in positions of authority being a poor measure of humanity scared the elites and they trashed him.
I know from the start that "Rural Withe Rage" is about as racist as one gets. Not likely a tiltle I will get to.
All elites are cowards and bullies!
Jon Stossel (?) has a very informative interview with Charles Murray about that book. Murray does and excellent job explaining his method for those who are not inclined to read the whole book.
I contacted Murray directly. Asked him if our sense of morality came from our DNA i.e, inherent, innate.
"Yes" was his reply.
Each of us has a moral center placed there by millions of years of cooperative survival outcomes. DNA drives the human sense of right and wrong and our specialized talents shared by cooperative exchange of goods/services. This is marred by some who cheat. Those who cheat, skim off the value created by others. These individuals when you look deeper are sociopaths. Not many but enough, say 5%. Enough to demand control of others and be solely responsible for all the ills people do to each other. These few have aberrant DNA behavior. Robert Hare wrote the Psychopathic Test to identify who these people are so we can avoid giving them authority. https://psychology-tools.com/test/pcl-22
Wow. Because, just this evening I have been listening to a youtube reading of an early 19teen's lecture (translated and read anew) of Rudolf Steiner entitled "Blood Is a Very Special Fluid". I just learned of Steiner recently and have been giving him an opportunity to explain his theory and thoughts to me from afar off. He has an fascinating explanation of the difference inter-mixing racial blood lines - and here I think it is okay to see that Irish and German could be considered different races. Nonetheless he goes on to conclude a similar "inherent" code passed down through the blood, long before they were doing DNA modeling.
I could go on and on about the other ideas that come to mind when reviewing his work on that subject but I would hate to drive you nuts.
Please can we all stop calling them ‘elites’, they are not. What they are is the predator class, much more accurate I think. Remember words have power, we are all equal under The Law, speak to truth and God Bless us all.
Agreed. I use it in the pejorative term it has acquired in these discussions. I get tired of using sociopath and I do like the word evil. But, predator is accurate.
"Capitalist" is another term that has taken on the pejorative cast when what we mean is "entrepreneur" who are the individuals on which wealth creation begins and not the Marxist's defined evil doers of society. Again it is sociopaths with money who are the "Capitalists" decried when speaking of predatory business people like Gates.
Thanks just went there. I agree with you and had to leave a few comments myself.
Paul Krugman is an abomination
I know this prob seems picky but can we all stop calling them ‘elites’, they are not. What they are is the predator class, much more accurate I think. Remember words have power, we are all equal under The Law, speak to truth and God Bless us all.
Beautiful take on a global phenomenon. Thank you. Gonna be messy, but it has to happen and at bottom, humans are claiming themselves and their innate rights as sovereign beings. Wonderful.
I’ve recently come to see this whole globalist control agenda in a very different light.
Let me explain. As a long-time grass roots environmentalist (biologist/ecologist) I’ve watched the entire environmental movement get co-opted and corrupted over the last 2 decades in despair. How could so many already suspicious of corporate motivation simply not see what was happening?! Or see through the blatantly ridiculous CO2 nonsense?!
But touching base with what has always informed all I do - the Earth herself - I realised that these massive shifts so many of us feel in our bones were ALWAYS coming. They have little to do with the globalists who merely use the same tools to discern the future as the rest of us. The globalists fear the changes because they know it will spell the end of their privileged position so they’re attempting to spin the narrative in such a way that we believe THEY are instigating the changes and THEY are in control of them. So effectively we, by abrogating ALL our power to them through believing this to be ‘true’, enable them to maintain that illusion.
But they’re not in control at all! They can’t do the half of what they want us to think they can! So I believe we must change our focus to embracing the changes but rejecting the globalist manipulation of them. These times won’t be a picnic but they’re necessary and they’re our road to healing not just ourselves but the Earth as well.
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I agree
Absolutely right. I'm always careful to call them Would-Be tyrants, or tyrant Wannabes.. because granting them the title of "tyrant" grants them far too much power, and ourselves too little.
The Earth will forget humanity and its harms in the blink of the Cosmic eye. The stuff of the universe that God created does not care about the human spiritual realm.
I can only hope to see recovery in my lifetime. But, if needed, I will grab my torch and pitchfork and join the party. At 70 what the heck does a life sentence mean? I want my children free!
Bingo. Solzhenitsyn said it best.
Yes I agree. I’m 65 and willing to rebel and pay the price. I’m old and tired of all this bs and I can tell you I’m not the only one.
If you read the book The Fourth Turning, as it turns out our generation is the one that can right the ship. But, only if the younger one gives us the opportunity. This has been true with each 4th turning over the last 400 years. Be well.
Yes.
It’s not “replacement theory”. It’s replacement fact.
Tomorrow March 11 is exactly four years since WWIII started. It means we are entering year 5. It is about bloody time we took the initiative and moved from defence (or outright helplessness) to OFFENCE.
ATTACK!!
Sometimes your posts make me feel so overwhelmed at the evil in the world that I want to scream, but sometimes they give me so much hope that it bubbles over into the rest of my day. Thank you.
Every time I get a small glimpse of these goings on, I am filled with joy and hope.
That's why the leftist media doesn't like to report on them.
Healthy? Look at group photos taken before the 1980s. Before the explosion in number of "safe and effective" vaccines, and pharma products.
Random photos. People on the beach, on the street, grad photos. Barely an obese person to be seen.
Go further back. Civil war photos. Regimental photos from WW1. Very few major malocclusions.
We're definitely in decline
Big Ag’s Food is killing us.
Even looking at photos of the 1960s and 70s. So many naturally thin people. I remember people who would now be considered a bit overweight being called fat.
Dear Elizabeth, you may find fertile ground to till if you start digging into the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Jointly funded by WHO/FAO they are the global standard setters for what may or may not be added to food and food products. I used to attend their meetings 20 years ago and what went on then was appalling. I’m confident it has only gotten worse.
Yes, I have been meaning to look deeper into it - clearly the source of the food nonsense.
Hello Elizabeth. I texted an old colleague who’s still at it on the codex file. He’s a lawyer and has been working it on behalf of the good guys for 25 years. If you like I can provide his contact info in a less public forum. Probably the most knowledgeable guy on the planet on codex
yes, I believe this is the source of the anti-raw milk legislations in the US states, and the persecution of Amish farmers. Also the basis for how our access to natural substances to maintain our health will be restricted, if I am not wrong...
I'm not sure America has enough mid-sized farmers. Our industrial consolidation was on full speed while those 1980s regulations protected European farmers. (I lived in the UK for several years, and knew many local farmers in North Devon.) Americans must return to the land in droves, and those who don't must become farmer advocates. Beef prices just hit an all-time high and will continue to climb. Food inflation is deliberate, as is the border and currency destruction. The electric grid is also under tremendous strain, and it is increasing rapidly: https://www.libertynation.com/renewables-threaten-the-us-power-grid/ (My article this morning).
I think people want to, and young women are leading it to some extent wanting healthy food and families. There must be a way to make it easier, land use regs are preposterous. For instance ALL the really great land out here has been taken by foundations and NGOs to “preserve” it. But preserve land goes to brush and bog or desert and invasives.
Also John Lukacs addressed this folly, from a different angle: "Indeed, in environmentalism, or “Green” politics, we see how an epistemological premise—the knower stands strictly apart from the known—becomes a moral-ideological imperative. Thus the “Greens” would ban the human presence from large wilderness tracts, thereby making sure that no knower ever comes into contact with the potentially knowable. But the whole meaning of landscape, Lukacs reminds us, springs from the notion of a balance between man and nature: the poets and painters show us humanity innature. Of what value might an antiseptic nature, held in inviolable preserve, be to those who remained locked out from it? Its value would be theoretic in the most desiccated sense, for one most values that in which one somehow participates."
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/01/lukacs-end-of-an-age.html
love this very much. thank you
I thought you might.... :) I love your work and hope you don't mind if I restack you periodically.
Wendell Berry has written about the folly of rewilding versus farm stewardship. I will post a link.
http://www.truenorthreports.com/john-klar-the-multicultural-destruction-of-vermont
I will find the Wendell essay in due course..... :)
John Klar: All the farmers I saw in Nebraska in the 1960s were super-sized in their big overalls. But they were very strong, fair, and wise. I miss that generation of farmers.
Same here in Vermont....
Another great article Elizabeth. Your command of International news and trends is amazing. I must say though that you have a way of sending me down Rabbit Holes. I spend half an hour reading about Viscount Bolingbroke and his amazing life. Looks like we need to start a "Country Party" here in America and get away from the Court Republicans!
I only know about him because I am descended from his brother who pioneered to Mass. in 1699. His son became a Colonel in the Revolutionary Army. I literally learned history through my family. The Country Party was very important to the Revolutionary generation.
No matter how left you are, how progressive, sooner or later you come face to face with the enemy - The Bureaucracy. And everyone hates it. Everyone finds an arbitrary rule, written by a know nothing, will stop them dead in their tracks. They are shocked when it happens to them. And they inch closer to us.
This is a spiritual war, not political. The enemy is Lucifer and the fallen angels. Blavatsky’s Luciferian UN Earth Charter. Look into it.
Thank you, Elizabeth, for calling to our attention these bright rays of hope as the farmers and truckers awaken and move into action to take back their countries! They aren't fooled by the Left's clever verbiage and false narratives. They live in reality.
And the reality is the Green New Deal/Net Zero Marxist Left is out to starve We the People into submission. The farmers and truckers are heroes!
Without control of central banks the only win is in creating a parallel society, if the military industrial complex doesn’t prevent that.
But aren't central banks part of the problem? Even causative? Not what the Founders envisioned. Jefferson bitterly opposed a central bank.
And regarding creating a parallel society: that may be the only hope left us, short of Divine Intervention.