Bert Westhoff

t.co/yyTUS2tYyZ FLASHBACK: Pure evil in Gaza. Hamas-UNRWA officials caught starving, torturing, and publicly executing their own civilians — for the “crime” of accepting free UN humanitarian aid without paying Hamas extra taxes to fund their jihad war. In the footage: Gazans who took food are thrown into cages, brutally beaten, starved for days, then dragged before a bloodthirsty mob. Before slaughtering them, Hamas carves the word “THIEF” into their backs — giving the crowd permission to rip them apart like animals. This is not “resistance.” This is not “freedom fighting.” This is savagery. This is a death cult. THIS is the true face of Hamas — the same Hamas the United Nations continues to protect and fund. Don’t tell me all cultures are equal. Share this. The world needs to see the barbarism they’re defending.

Onzichtbaar voor het oog, maar cruciaal voor de teelt: #nematoden. Kwekers investeren er jaarlijks duizenden euro’s in, zonder 100% zekerheid. Timing, toepassing en samenwerking tussen leverancier, distributeur en teler maken het verschil. Lees meer: bit.ly/47mgye9

"British cattle are destroying the climate." Let's have a look at the numbers, shall we. In 1974, there were 15.1 million cattle in the United Kingdom. In 2023, there were 9.5 million. That is a reduction of approximately 37% over fifty years. At the same time, beef yield per animal has increased substantially. The British cattle farmer in 2023 produces significantly more beef per cow than his counterpart in 1974, using less land, less water, and less feed per kilogram of output. This is called efficiency. It is not celebrated. It does not appear in the reports. If methane output from cattle is primarily a function of herd size, and it is, then British cattle methane has been falling for half a century. The sheep population has followed a similar trajectory. 33.5 million sheep in 1998. 20.7 million by 2023. Another 38% reduction. The British farmer has been doing the thing that the committee wants done. He did it quietly, without a press conference, and largely without subsidy for this particular achievement. And the conversation: every year, reliably, is about how cattle are getting worse. I have looked at the data. I cannot find the worse. I can only find the better. Perhaps someone would like to explain where the worse is. I'll wait.

These land use figures are correct. Population has doubled but yields have increased (innovation!) & more land has been put under production. Also, in some areas new land has been created. See the Dutch polders that represent some of the most fertile land known: 10t/ha of wheat.

Was Ghana zelf niet een van de belangrijkste leveranciers (dus slavenhandelaar) van de “blanke” slavenhandelaren? VN bestempelt slavenhandel als ergste misdaad tegen de menselijkheid ooit /via ⁦@NOS⁩ nos.nl/l/2607842

Ja, @RechtspraakNL , hier komt u niet omheen. Dit is waarom zoveel mensen het vertrouwen in de rechter verliezen. Anders dan Vrouwe Justitia zijn de mensen in het land niet blind voor onrechtvaardigheid.

If you genuinely believe a skinless chicken breast is healthier than a Wagyu steak, your ancestors are watching you from wherever they are and they are not proud. These are people who spent three days cracking open a mammoth femur to get the marrow out. Who rendered every scrap of fat from a kill because fat was survival. Who ate brain, liver, heart and kidney not because they were adventurous but because those were the good parts and you did not waste the good parts. They hunted for the fattiest animal on the plain. When they got it, they fought over the organ meats before the muscle was even divided. The lean cuts went last. And you, with all of recorded history, all of nutritional biochemistry, all of the accumulated wisdom of thirty thousand years of humans eating animals, have decided that the watery white muscle of a bird that never moved is the pinnacle of human nutrition. You are standing on the shoulders of giants. The giants are begging you to eat the fat.

@CoachCaroline En wat zegt dat?

Nieuw Duits onderzoek: 72% van de meisjes tussen de 15 en 19 jaar met genderdysforie heeft die diagnose na een aantal jaren niet meer.

Glyfosaat is niet kankerverwekkend.

@PieterSlootdorp Ja; maar niet hard genoeg voor de flitspalen daar🤣

@westhoffbert Wat gaan ze hard hè die Fendts.

Autoweg…🤔

Dat dus!

Nu het uienzaaiseizoen weer is begonnen, is het een goed moment om stil te staan bij de spuittechniek voor de eerste toepassing bodemherbiciden. Bekijk de video: bit.ly/4lSnNAw #DAW #LTO #Stomp

Vooruitgang

Dit.

@Soetman @AlicevanDrie Krijgen ze i.i.g. hogere standaard dan ze gewend zijn🤣

@AlicevanDrie @westhoffbert Alice, ga je dan ook de varkenssector in Nederland uitleggen dat ze niet mogen exporteren naar China? Geen delen van de kip meer naar Afrika?

Gewoon te koop in uw Nederlandse supermarkt. Herkomst: China 🤯🤷‍♀️ Ik vind dit stom en oneerlijk.

@RitaZon @P0eMPieDinges Dat...

@P0eMPieDinges Ik ben niet echt fan van Yesilgoz maar hier was ze ijzersterk.

En af droop hij.. 👋

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…