The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism’s Brave New World?  Colin Todhunter D is aster capitalism  and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support. These policies are being promoted by wealthy interests that stand to make billions of dollars from what is being proposed. They seek to gain full control of food and how it is produced. Their vision is tied to a wider agenda aimed at shaping how humanity lives, thinks and acts. Throughout much of 2022, protests by Dutch farmers have grabbed the headlines. Plans to reduce the Netherlands’ nitrogen output by half come 2030 have led to mass protests. The government talks of the need to move away from animal-based agriculture and its climate-impacting emissions. This ‘food transition’ often goes hand-in-hand with the promotion of ‘precision’ agriculture, genetic engineering, fewer farmers and farms and...

US ‘suggests’ EU impose a chip export ban on China ASML is not about to voluntarily leave China, where it has sold a thousand chip-making tools over the decades By   JEFF PAO OCTOBER 31, 2022 Dutch firm ASML thinks it gave up enough when it halted exports to China of the world's first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines for mass production (pictured). It wants to keep exporting its older DUV technology despite American entreaties. Photo: ASML The United States reportedly is calling on the European Union to impose a semiconductor export ban on China – but Chinese officials and media doubt the Americans, simply by asking, can persuade the Europeans to give up a highly lucrative export market. Bloomberg  reports  that the Biden administration is urging the EU to share information and coordinate enforcement to reinforce the United States’s bilateral restrictions on exports to China, similar to what the US and EU did to Moscow earlier this year. That report comes af...