Dutch Government Plans To Seize Up To 600 Farms Within The Next Year

Niamh Harris – Despite the protests of tens of thousand of farmers, the Dutch government is now talking about state-forced buyouts of around 600 farms within the next year. The Dutch government is, in other words, is forcing hundreds of farmers to sell their land to state.

In a tweet, political commentator, host, and former member for the party Forum for Democracy, Eva Vlaardingerbroek said: “Our criminal government has announced (on Wednesday, 5 October) that they’ll be speeding up the theft of our farmers’ land. 500-600 farmers will be forced to sell their land to the state in the next year. The farmers have announced new protests, so stay tuned.” Continue reading

Now It’s The Netherlands Trying To Get A Handle On Its Gold …

goldJoseph P Farrell – So many people saw the following article on Zero Hedge and sent it along that I have to blog about it. In fact, I talked about this story in last Thursday’s News and Views from the Nefarium (July 27, 2017), and indicated that I regarded this story as so significant that I would probably write my thoughts out in a written blog as well. Here’s the story(and brace yourself, it’s very long):

Did The Dutch Central Bank Lie About Its Gold Bar List?

Now, what caught my eye were these paragraphs toward the end:

Again, all the Dutch gold is allocated, and yet DNB declared in a newspaper the bar list can’t be published because it would cost “hundreds of thousands of euros” – this has appeared to be an embarrassing statement and truly blows DNB’s credibility. If DNB doesn’t wish to disclose its bar list, for whatever reason, it would have done wise not to comment at all on this issue.

But why all the nonsense? Time to speculate. We’ll run through a few scenarios:  

Scenario 1) Publishing a bar list might limit DNB’s future flexibility to intervene in financial markets. Currently, DNB hasn’t got any gold leased out. But if the bar list would be published, my central bank would be obstructed in future covert leasing activities. Continue reading