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Very Interesting. We in south Africa are experiencing exactly what you describe. The scoping phase is much earlier where the Private player convinces the Government that they will get a never-ending revenue stream of tax in the process. A so called initiation phase. A draft strategy to test the water and see what objections arise for the regulator to overcome.

In the current proposal is to exploit natural resources. The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has released a 48-page plan (the Draft National Biodiversity Economy Strategy) to create integrated “mega landscapes” on land and sea encompassing extensive areas where hunting, bioprospecting and tourism would monetise wild animals and plants for “consumptive use”.

The proposal is to grow areas under conservation — called mega living conservation landscapes — from 20 million hectares to 34 million hectares by 2040, an area equal to seven Kruger National Parks.

What happens within the new areas, however, would be nothing like Kruger’s wilderness but would involve “biodiversity business”.

In the process privately owned Nature Reserves and Game Farm's would be expropriated and nationalised and the New Privately Joint owned Biodiversity Businesses would run the business with the State as a stakeholder.

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very interesting, thank you, and read up on the Ecosystem Approach. because that's essentially the new stakeholder top-down land ownership rights strategy

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-ecosystem-approach

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Thanks I will look at it.

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In fact what it is about is what "agenda 2030" requires.

More and more land will be declared conservation areas while pushing people into cities and out of the country.

It has absolutely nothing to do with conservation or any of those things they claim. The colluding corporations are the partners.

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oh it absolutely has nothing to do with conservation - have a look for the 'sustainably managed rainforest' in my article on Iwokrama

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/iwokrama

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Well done! I have spent some time on the “indigenous” side of the carbon tax credit scheme. It is a well-orchestrated racket of Monopoly money. It’s a solution looking for a problem. In the end it’s the people whose lives depend on those carbon sinks who will lose.

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i looked carefully into Iwokrama a while back - GEF's first forest 'deal' - and it's an absolute clusterf- of epic proportions.

yet, in their own words, it serves as a 'model' for everyone else to follow.

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/iwokrama

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Excellently and well written article, comprehensive, and the custom diagrams really help to cement what is a complex framework obviously designed to obfuscate the malicious intentions.

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much appreciated, am i being graded? :)

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You're doing fine. I hope to be able to rejoin publishing soon, once I get MIMS working. So close!

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you might enjoy this. Not as in depth as your research but simple.

https://youtu.be/8ZgEZqMju2M

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Important information! Thank You!

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You have my attention. Why was the dissolution of BIS stopped? Who has written the best history of that particular period in BIS history? Thanks.

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that is a very good question, and one i haven't dived into i fear. i went through the founding documents (to find, quite obviously, rockefeller and jpm), and found the voting distribution -- but the bretton woods founding documents i never did actually go through.

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Thanks. Adam LeBor, Tower of Basel?

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i bought it, but haven't yet read it. currently back on 'climate change', which when you look at the objective stats, appears - at best - a ridiculously early jumping to conclusion, as cumulative knowledge on ocean function relating to the carbon cycle is... entirely missing.

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WORTH REPEATING

“Instead of saying ‘I trust science and experts,’ it would be more honest to say ‘I don’t have the cognitive capacity to think critically for myself, and so I default to believing whatever most people believe, so that I never have to feel as gullible as I actually am.”

– A cartoon sent by a viewer [of John Robson's Climate Discussion Nexus]

https://mailchi.mp/climatedn/cdn_newsletter_240320

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Too complex. I teach my kids “science is asking the question why - if you’re not allowed to ask that question, it isn’t science”. I make damn sure to have them repeat it at least once per week because it is absolutely impossible to disagree with.

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