Netherlands

nation state

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Location	Europe
Leader	Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Type	nation state
Subgroups	Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service, General Intelligence and Security Service
Politicly fragmented and very densely populated country. Had very lenient drug and (underage) sex laws. Named a "narco-state" by neighbouring countries. Home of the first Bilderberg meeting.

The Netherlands is a country located mainly in Northwestern Europe. It has been a constitutional monarchy since 1815 and a parliamentary democracy since 1848. Its policies indicate that the Dutch Deep State, firmly undergirded by Operation Gladio like most Western Europe nation states, has remained fairly solidly aligned with the Supranational Deep State.

Dutch deep state

Full article: Netherlands/Deep state

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The Dutch deep state is relatively well documented here. The Dutch were the leading drug traffickers in the EU from the 1980s and were named during the 2010s as one of the "world leaders" of hosting child pornography by global prevention hotline,

Bilderberg

Full article: Bilderberg

The Bilderberg is a deep state milieu founded in 1954, which has been held annually almost ever since. The Netherlands has been very well represented there ( Dutch Bilderbergers). The last Prime Minister of the Netherlands not to have attended the group was Dries van Agt whom the Dutch Deep state removed in 1982. At least Dutch Foreign Ministers have attended. Max Kohnstamm was a Dutch deep politician and Secretary-General of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe. As well as attending the 1961 Bilderberg he attended 27 subsequent meetings and became a member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee.

History

Dutch Empire

The Netherlands is a former colonial power and at one time, in the seventeenth century, dominated world trade with ruthless methods. It still is a significant trading hub. Because of their small size and preference for sea-travel the Dutch mostly utilized strategic positions at harbours or straits unlike others empires. A survey published in 2020 showed that the Dutch were more positive about the Dutch empire than any other former colonial power.

Operation Gladio

In June 2005, the Netherlands became the 4^th country to publish an official report on Operation Gladio in the country. Entitled "De Nederlandse stay behind - Organisatie in de koude oorlog (1945 - 1992) The PIVOT-Report No. 166", it was a joint publication of the Dutch Ministry of General Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Defence & the Dutch National Archives.

Laws

In August 2019, a Dutch law took effect which banning face-covering clothing, including the burqa and niqab, used with Moslem women.

Constitution

The Dutch constitution gives the government extensive powers over war and peace. Formally, parliament has no say in the decision about military participation or the right to be informed in advance. Article 100 of the Constitution states:

1. The Government shall inform the States General in advance if the armed forces are to be deployed or made available to maintain or promote the international legal order. This shall include the provision of humanitarian aid in the event of armed conflict.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply if compelling reasons exist to prevent the provision of information in advance. In this event, information shall be supplied as soon as possible.

COVID-19

In July 2020, the Netherlands refused to mandate mask wearing in public, noting that "There Is No Proven Effectiveness", although it was mandatory on public transport.

Nieuwsuur supported the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (or RIVM in Dutch) claims that face masks weren't proven to be effective and therefore should not be mandatory in public apart from public transport, even when many schools and offices were showed to be accelerating the risks of local outbreaks due to poor ventilation. Nieuwsuur actually defended the Dutch "intelligent lockdown" that included "not one clear line of strategy", with the RIVM explaining immunity can't be achieved if everyone just sits at home making the Dutch quite similar to Dominic Cummings alleged statements to "let old people die". Multiple professors called the policy of only making masks mandatory in 5 main streets in the main cities "bullocks" and "against the Dutch constitution", Dutch professors had already called for people to "never pay the fines for socializing or not wearing masks" giving similar reasons. Mark Rutte called the policy "a form of maximum control".

2021 closing bank accounts of COVID dissidents

In 2021, banks and payment services started blocking accounts of organizations they consider to be spreaders of "fake news" about COVID-19 and the COVID jabs. In April 2021, Café Weltschmerz was banned by the payment provider Mollie. The medical collective 'Doctors for Truth' was closed by the Bunq bank after the group distributed a letter among GPs in March 2021.

The financial ban also affects the group Viruswaarheid, the publisher De Blauwe Tijger and the evangelist Jaap Dieleman. The banks framed their banning as part of the ongoing fight against "extremism".

Café Weltschmerz has in earlier years also criticized the Dutch involvement in the Ukraine and the Official Narrative on MH17 by interviewing Max van der Werff, while De Blauwe Tijger has done similar about NATO's covert war on Syria, among other things by publishing speeches by the catholic monk Father Daniel Maes.

The ban happens not because they are breaking any law, but because the banks see their actions as "harmful". Money flows to and from these types of organizations are additionally screened by banks based on the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prevention Act, even when the law is not intended to be used this way.

NATO

The Netherlands is an important part of the NATO alliance, and actively participates in all parts of joint military operations, including the propaganda part of them. The government exploits its image as impartial and the country's role as host for several international organizations to maximum effect for propaganda purposes.

• The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, infamous for its biased investigations of alleged chemical weapons incidents (such as the Douma attack, has its HQ in the Hague.
• The Netherlands has its own cell of the Integrity Initiative.
• The country has its own military info-war system.
• The government is responsible for the deeply flawed 'investigation' of the MH17 incident in the Ukraine.
• The propaganda outlet Bellingcat has its own office in the Hague and receives significant funding from Dutch sources (ie government funds through formally 'private' organizations, like the Adessium_Foundation.
• The country is seat of NATO's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and The International Criminal Court, both used to full effect to prosecute exclusively NATO's enemies with a sheen of impartial justice.
• The Netherlands and in particular the port of Rotterdam is a central node in illegal drug trafficking to Western Europe.
• The port of Rotterdam and Schiphol Airport are major world transit hubs for all kind of cargo.
• The Netherlands is home to several large multinational companies including Philips‎, Royal Dutch Shell, Heineken, Unilever, ABN AMRO, ING Group and Rabobank.

Fracking

Full article: Fracking

In Groningen, fracking for natural gas fields was started with the help of Shell, ExxonMobil and their subsidiaries, which remains a controversial topic for deep politics until this day as halting the fracking would've resulted in an economic collapse for that coalition-cabinet, as the Dutch did not want Russian gas, and the Middle East has had its "fluctuations".