Farmer’s Bill: what, who and how

A lot has been heard about the farm bills that were recently passed by the Rajya Sabha.
Here’s an attempt to understand WHY it is a matter of concern to the farmers, and WHY are they protesting.

Let’s first understand the bills:

(i) The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020
Acc. to this, the farmers can now sell their produce to non-regulated markets. This means, instead of the farmer having to go to a govt controlled Mandi, they can go directly to say a the buyer.

(ii) The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020:
A buyer & a farmer can have a contract in place much before the production even commences.

(iii) The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020
deregulates the production, storage, movement and sale of several major food items, including cereals, onions oils etc; unless in case of extraordinary circumstance

Sure, these changes to the bill look positive!
Don’t we all love privatisation? This does give an opportunity to the farmers to be their own king in a way; doesn’t it?

Let’s look at it this way:

So can a deal be reached between the EU and UK by Sunday, despite the pervading mood of gloom plus a sense – in public at least – that both sides are digging in their heels? It’s difficult but possible #Brexit /1

Today the European Commission chief hit back at the EU-is-in-denial-about-UK-sovereignty claim.Yes, she said, EU was insisting on what it views as ‘fair competition’ rules in exchange for giving the UK preferential access to the single market (tariff +quota free) but she added/2

that UK would remain free – “sovereign, if you wish” were the words she used – to decide what it wanted to do. If UK diverged the EU "would simply adapt conditions for access to our market. It would be the decision of the UK and would apply vice versa,” she said /3

Is this a change in the EU position? I'd argue no. The EU has gradually shifted focus as it has become increasingly aware that post-Brexit UK will want to make up its own rules and regulations for business; deciding for itself which industries it wants to invest in and promote /4

Despite this, EU would rather have a trade + security deal with UK than not. So Brussels has been pondering how it can live with UK’s sovereign right to diverge, protect single market and still have a deal. Answer: focus more on governance, not just level playing field /5

Online history of the term "Ricebag Convert"

A Thread

hey @Alex1Powell! another thread for you.

Non-fish people look away. Huge amounts of conflicting info is dished out on UK/EU fish catches in “UK waters”. It’s late in the game but I decided to look again at the “real” figures, as established by Dr Ian Napier for the Uni of the Highlands and Islands. 1/13

Dr Napier has crunched the figures not for EU national quota shares (which often overlap the UK/EU zones) but for actual catches, by nationality and precise maritime location. To read the whole of this painstaking July 2020 report go here.

The report is factual and draws no political conclusions. On the surface (as it were), Dr Napier’s findings justify the complaints of UKG and parts of the UK fishing industry that Britain has an unfairly low share of catches in the UK EEZ up to 200 miles. BUT…. 3/13

Although some UK complaints are justified for some species and some sea areas, the report shows that the overall figures often bandied around in UK media (ie 70% for EU boats, 30% for UK) are misleading or grossly exaggerated. 4/13

For instance….I’ve failed to notice this before myself (slap in face with wet cod) but the stats often quoted conveniently ignore non-EU Norway’s share of catches in the UK EEZ. (The UKG has already agreed to maintain this N. access in return for UK access to N. waters.) 5/13

It's tonight.

The last edition for the year. (The 30nins of Prayer & Intercession, live on Facebook)

Do you know that there are people you'd meet in life and your life will not remain the same again? .

Saul met one of such men.

He went in search of his father's lost donkeys, and divinity crossed his path. d Bible in;

1 Samuel 9:6b MSG
He replied, "Not so fast.There's a holy man in this town.He carries a lot of weight around here.

Take note of d 2nd sentence.
Saul met a man that carried a lot of weight

There are lightweights
Bantam weights
Middle weights.
Heavy wrights

The one Saul met, carried a lot of weight.

He went in search of lost "items" but grace redirected him and divinity crossed his path. This provoked envy. God broke the seal of obscurity on his family and his

name and family name were noised abroad.

Find out more tonight

Join the online Prayer team tonight, 8pm-8.45pm (an extra 15mins, because, it's loaded).

God bless you as you do in Jesus name.

#You will encounter HEAVYWEIGHTS this week

1 Samuel 9:6 MSG
He replied, "Not so fast. There's a holy man in this town. He carries a lot of weight around here. What he says is always right on the mark. Maybe he can tell us where to go."

(Grace will take you somewhere. somewhere,

you will meet men and women that carry a lot of weight)

There are categories of weight.
Light weight
Bantam weight
Feather weight
Middle weight
Heavyweight

Saul met Samuel, and his life changed forever...

1 Samuel 9:14
They continued their climb and entered the city. And then

there he was - Samuel! - coming straight toward them on his way to the shrine!

(These heavyweights are coming towards you this week)

They are burden bearers.
They are influential people.

You will not miss them. They will not miss you.
Divinity will cross your path this week

I wrote a thing.

Cheating politicians cheat us all.

NEW: Notes of careful optimism in EU off-record briefings .. Not just the public ‘maybe, possibly, but let’s see’ of the European Commission President in front of the European Parliament this morning /1

EU sources saying U.K. has accepted the idea of ‘managed divergence’ in exchange for preferential access to single market. Ie if U.K. divergences from EU standards (which U.K. gov demands as its post #Brexit ‘sovereign right’) then EU has right to retaliate eg with tariffs /2

Obvs right to retaliate would go both ways eg if U.K. views EU businesses as having unfair advantage after Brussels changed standards. Still to be agreed: what mechanism to judge whether unfair advantage exists or not.. EU has accepted it can’t take unilateral action /3

The above +more bilateral shifting means EU feels its priority in the deal is on way to being sorted ie protecting single market and European businesses in it even if UK gets tariff and quota-free access. U.K. principle of sovereignty - right to make own rules - protected too /4

Leading EU diplomat to declare “We’re getting there.” BUT not when it comes to fish .. Here it’s not just about ongoing U.K.-EU differences but also tensions between EU coastal nations /5

Thread: what's the air cargo capacity of the UK air force?

Multiple data points now show that road imports into the UK are significantly disrupted. Others say many EU hauliers will refuse to come to the UK come Jan. But what about the RAF? They can save us right?

No. /1

First you need to understand the carrying capacity of a HGV. The maximum permitted weight of a normal HGV is 44 tonnes (ignoring the exceptions when they move huge mining or electrical loads around with escorts). /2

Unladen HGV weights vary by several tonnes. Variables include the fuel tank size (some carry as much as 1000 litres), the fittings in the cab, the model of the truck and most importantly the type of trailer (refrigerated, curtain sider, box, etc). Let's assume 15.5 tonnes. /3

44 minus 15.5 leaves 28.5.

That means our HGV can haul 28.5 tonnes. So far so good. /4

Onto the RAF. What cargo planes does it own? /5

REVEALED: Indian Chronicles – how a massive 15-year influence operation successfully targeted the EU & UN with 750+ fake local media and 10+ zombie-NGOs.

Executive Summary & full report: https://t.co/W3IAxQTOqZ
Here are the facts 👇 (1/n)

Indian Chronicles’ key objective is to undermine Pakistan internationally.

To do so, they resurrected dead NGOs at the UN.

They impersonated the EU.

They laundered content produced by fake media to real media - and reached millions in South-Asia & across the world. (2/n)

Our new investigation began with a shocking discovery: @martinschulz, former President of the European Parliament, was said to have left politics.

But instead, it seemed he was now heading Canners International, a NGO dedicated to the promotion of… food in cans 🥫! (3/n)

We soon found the NGO he was supposedly leading officially ceased to exist in 2007 and was now regularly speaking at the UN Human Rights Council (@UN_HRC) to slam Pakistan. (4/n)

The truth is that Martin Schulz’s name has been hijacked by the malicious actors depicted in our investigation.
Canners International is, in fact, only one of the many UN Human Rights Council NGOs resurrected by Indian Chronicles. (5/n)

As promised, a little story. Of how the EU ask of the UK on the level playing field is indeed new, how that came about, and why we should have been able to deal with this a lot better. And how, indirectly, David Frost is one of the reasons. Beware, contains analysis... 1/

Let us go back 5 years to the height of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) discussions. As you may recall, by 2015 TTIP was about as popular in the EU as allegedly the EU is these days in the red wall. What, thought the EU and Member States, could be done? 2/

TTIP will be more popular, declared more than one insider, if we show there are tough labour and environment protections against undercutting by the nefarious and probably untrustworthy US. That, optimistically they said, will get NGOs on side. 3/

But there was a problem with EU level playing field provisions in 2015. The unit of DG Trade responsible absolutely did not believe anything should be enforceable. Pages of loose commitments, fine. Add more! But apparently enforcement was best done through a good chat. 4/

Now such soft-touch EU enforcement of level playing fields was probably designed particularly for developing countries, where sanctions were seen as unfairly penalising struggling business and individuals for the actions of a terrible government. Not the US. 5/

How the UK government can assert that fishing rights are one of the two main priorities is totally incredulous given that decades of mismanagement by successive British governments have hastened the decline of an already threatened industry before the UK even joined the EU.

The quota hoppers ( ie. Spanish Trawlers registered under a British flag) that joined the biggest English fleet in a cooperative pre 1970's was the beginning of decline. Then followed a UN convention which allowed a coastal state to extend its fishing zone to 200 miles.

By the mid 1970's Iceland seized upon the opportunity given by the 1970 UN convention and launched the cod wars to seize more fish in British and Irish territorial waters. The British government did nothing and compensated whole fleets to stay in port doing nothing.

Next came the Belgian & Dutch fleets who poached sole in the Irish Sea but again the British government didn't advise the UK fleets that this would affect their future quotas as it was later based on the size of catches historically made during this much earlier period.

As the number of fishing trawlers that were actually British owned shrank rather than just foreign owned but UK registered, the fishermen were abandoned and left out of work and forced to work in the gas and oil industry.

NEW: Michel Barnier has told EU member states there has been some movement on the level playing field, and on dispute resolution, but that fisheries talks remain "very difficult" @rtenews understands. Sources say this could go through this week and beyond...

2/ Acc to one senior source, Barnier said there was acceptance that the EU could take retaliatory measures against the UK if it diverged from EU standards but that it would not be "autonomous", in other words, before taking action there wd need to be some dialogue with the UK

3/ "It's the operationalisation of that principle that is now under discussion," acc to source. The EU see this is progress as for a long time the UK refused to accept that if they diverged the EU had a right to do something, says the source

4/ "That principle has now been accepted, but how it is implemented is the nub of the dicussion."

5/ From the EU perspective the concern is the UK might change its rules to make it more competitive, says the source. "Barnier seemed positive that the principle of couter-measures had been agreed."

@ManojKu64985990 @ravinwashere

1/

1970 Election, when election results created a storm and the postponement of inaugural NA session -- Begining of the end of United Pakistan.

Thread:

2/
The total votes cast in the 1970 election were 34.9 million, out of which 17.1 million were from East Pakistan and 17.7 million were from West Pakistan. 55% and 61% of people cast their votes in the eastern and western halves of the country.

3/

Awami League won 160/162 contested seats and won 75.1% of the votes from East Pak. PPP won 81/120 contested from West Pak, PPP obtained 41.6% Punjab, 44.9% Sindh, 14.2 NWFP%, and only 2.3% of votes in Balochistan. AL obtained 0.7% of votes from West Pak.

4/

PPP fell short of 50% votes, gaining only 2% of votes from Balochistan. Bhutto could, therefore, not justifiably claim to be speaking for West Pakistan.
After the election the initial reaction of Yahya was:
"As far as I am concerned my job is finished."

5/
Three days later at Dacca Yahya met Mujib, in the meeting Mujib explained AL's six points and added that while spelling them out in detail during the NA session, he would tone them down sufficiently to ensure that the idea of the unity of the country remains intact.

1. Some highlights of the Juan O’Savin interview:

We were cyber attacked by SolarWinds.

The software system was developed by our own Intelligence Agencies to protect the American people but it’s being used against the very people that created it.

2. The people involved are globalists / de*ep state that want to control the world. It’s the continuation of the coup going back to President Kennedy and before.

President Kennedy was trying to dismantle this machine.

3. The sinking of the Soviet Golf II Class Ballistic Missile Submarine K-129 in 1968 has an important bearing on where we are in the world right now.

The globalists herd Humanity like sheep with their false flags and perpetual wars.

4. The Rockefeller globalist crowd: George H. W. B/ush, Henry Kis/singer, Bill Cl/in/ton.

China has a de*ep state running it, like America has a de*ep state that’s been controlling it.

We won WWIII because the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore.

5. We are in the lead-in moments to WW4 with this cyber war, which is a continuation of the globalists using Nation States to attack us with SolarWinds and Dominion voting machines.

#15 Q drop: Pod/esta and Hu/ma arrested and indicted.