Un père a dit à son fils : « Tu as obtenu ton diplôme avec mention. Voici une Coccinelle Volkswagen que j’ai achetée il y a de nombreuses années... Il a plus de 50 ans, mais avant de te le donner, emmène-le dans une concession en centre-ville et demande combien ils te proposent. »
Le fils est allé chez la concession, est revenu voir son père et a dit : « Ils m’ont proposé 10 000 $ parce que ça a l’air très usé. » Le père a dit : « Emmène-le dans un prêteur sur gages. »
Le fils est allé au prêteur sur gages, est revenu et a dit : « Ils ne m’ont offert que 1 000 $ parce qu’ils disent que c’est trop vieux. »
Finalement, le père a demandé à son fils d’emmener la voiture dans un club de voitures classiques pour la montrer là-bas. Le fils a pris la voiture jusqu’au club, est revenu et a dit : « Des gens au club m’ont proposé 100 000 $ ! car c’est une voiture très rare et recherchée parmi les membres. »
Le père dit à son fils : « Je voulais que tu comprennes que le bon endroit t’apprécie de la bonne manière. S’ils ne te valorisent pas, ne sois pas en colère ; ça veut juste dire que tu n’es pas au bon endroit. Ceux qui connaissent votre valeur sont ceux qui vous apprécient vraiment. Ne reste jamais dans un endroit où ils ne reconnaissent pas ta valeur ! »
Ukraine sits on some of the most fertile soil on earth, the deep black earth that made it the breadbasket of Europe. In 1932 and 1933, on that very soil, close to four million of its people were starved to death. The soil was as rich as ever. The famine was a decision.
The decision was collectivisation. Stalin set out to abolish the independent farmer altogether, to end private land and private animals and drive every peasant onto a state-run collective farm. The man who owned a little, a few cattle, a horse, a plot worked by his own family, was branded a kulak, an enemy of the people, and marked for destruction. Stalin's instruction was to liquidate them as a class.
The peasants saw what was coming, and many made a terrible choice. Rather than surrender their animals to the state, they killed them. Across the Soviet Union the herds simply collapsed. Around half the cattle, gone. Nearly half the horses that pulled the ploughs. Two-thirds of the sheep and goats. Tens of millions of animals slaughtered in a few seasons, a loss so total that the country did not rebuild its livestock to the old levels until the 1980s. A people who had fed themselves for a thousand years destroyed their own herds rather than hand them over, and the state called it sabotage.
Then came the grain. The quotas were set impossibly high, and when the villages could not meet them, brigades went from house to house and took everything. The harvest. The seed saved for next spring. The last food in the pantry. And when the countryside had been stripped bare, the people were forbidden to leave in search of bread, sealed inside their own dying villages.
So it was that in one of the richest farming regions on the planet, the men and women who actually grew the food lay down in the lanes and died of hunger, in their millions. Some, at the very end, ate things no human being should ever have to eat.
Here is the lesson, and it is worth carving somewhere it cannot be forgotten. A man who owns his land and his animals can feed his family whoever sits in the palace. A man who depends on the state for his bread can be starved the day he steps out of line. That is why the independent farmer is always the first enemy of absolute power. Take his herds, take his fields, and you have taken the one thing that let him stand on his own.
A population that cannot feed itself will, in the end, do as it is told.
Destroy the farmer, and you hold the whole nation by the throat.
@ByrdsEye66@DschlopesIsBack Many good solid ozzies but the vocal idiots get noticed all too much. Covid should have been a wake up call for the slient majority but like NZ its wasn't most were captured one way or another.... deeply sadened me.
@nzpoliticsgroup They all get it wrong (monetary operations) and I wonder if its innocent fraud or stupidity. But all parties do not address taxation correctly as I assume at best they are all "schooled" in the same narrative.
@kaiviti_cam They all get it wrong, not one of them is either honest or brave enough to be honest about how the monetary operations work. Perhaps as a small country we are extremely limited but lets be honest about the options.
@TheZeitgeistNZ Some seem to like Singapore, never did myself weird place that feels very controlling with a clear separation of the wealthy and the high density housing for most.
The dark profits from war, massive money printing that enables the shadows to clip the ticket all the way to the front lines.
You gotta ask why not just use the money printing for hospitals, schools, parks, power stations, ports....
🚨 THEFT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! 🚨
President Trump just dropped a BOMBSHELL:
$350 BILLION to $400 BILLION in American taxpayer cash and weapons shipped to Ukraine… and NOBODY knows where it went.
No tracking. No accountability. Just mountains of YOUR money vanishing into thin air while Biden stood by and did NOTHING.
Trump thundered:
“SOMEBODY HAS TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE CASH!”
This isn’t foreign aid.
This is grand larceny on a historic scale — THEFT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
How much more are we going to let them steal before we demand answers?!
🔥 RETWEET if you want a FULL audit and every last dollar accounted for!
#UkraineAidScandal #Trump2024 #StopTheTheft
Nigel Antony Gray, a New Zealand researcher known for detailed Official Information Act (OIA) requests, discusses a recent police response that accused him of being “vexatious". The police say they are now actively monitoring his social media posts, and they have refused to give further information on the new compulsory roadside oral drug testing regime, which Gray was seeking further information about, including asking specifically about safety data.
The conversation covers Gray’s concerns about the clear lack of safety data on the roadside drug swabs and chemical fluids, and the potential long-term health risks these could entail. High false positive rates, and concerns about infringing upon the Bill Of Rights are other major concerns. As well as broader issues of police transparency, freedom of speech, and government accountability (or the lack thereof...).
Gray also shares insights into his analytical research methods and work on topics such as shipping emissions containing cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), and the negative impacts that this toxic pollution has on New Zealand's atmospheric conditions. @_FreeNZ
Links:
Police now refusing OIA requests — and monitoring my Facebook posts?: https://t.co/fLkdQygGup
The Police are now reading my posts: https://t.co/TwZClj314i
ROAD SIDE Drug Testing Explained in Simple Terms: https://t.co/b0Xk4tRBjy
Bill Of Rights - Section 9: Right not to be subjected to torture or cruel treatment: https://t.co/kMpOSGuQv5
New Zealand Police - Drug screening test Info: https://t.co/JVyesVIAaM
Securtec Saliva drug test DrugWipe: https://t.co/4E5ANC5Wkh
Where do cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) come from?: https://t.co/DCBG4UwA9Q
91% of Kiwis over the age of 65 are on some form of medication: https://t.co/aZLpExdgtG
NEW ZEALAND PRO-SURVIVAL CHARTER: https://t.co/eDD2DmNLX4
Nigel Antony Gray on Facebook: https://t.co/27jb09pU7f
Nigel on Substack: https://t.co/UEMxZX1nWI
To send a tip to Nigel for the important work he is doing:
Name: Nigel Antony Gray
Account: 03-1771-0572896-00
The "News Channel" that gets 70% of its money from Big Pharma doesn't tell you that the guy they're bringing on to criticize RFK's policies is on the Board of Pfizer.
Imagine watching CNBC and think you're getting the "news".
You're getting brainwashed by news whores.