Pleased to Meet You, Rypke Zeilmaker
Rypke Zeilmaker is an independent Dutch science journalist, ecologist, photographer, and published author based in the historic region of Friesland in the Netherlands.
With a background in ecology and nature conservation from Wageningen University, he spent decades working as a mainstream science writer and wildlife photographer before recognizing that the corporate press was shifting into a unified mouthpiece for an internationalist oligarchy. Following the 2009 “Climategate” scandal, Rypke co-founded the influential platform climategate.nl to critically examine official climate policies and the industrial impact on local livelihoods.
Throughout his career, he has extensively researched topics such as the UN Agenda 2030, the implications of the “Net Zero” narrative, and the costs of challenging establishment orthodoxy. His work also explores media developments in the Netherlands, personal reflections during the COVID years, and the establishment of self-sustaining parallel structures rooted in natural law.
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QUESTIONNAIRE: Getting to Know
Rypke Zeilmaker
🎬 Intro & Background
What is your name, where are you from, and where in the world are you currently based?
Friesland is one of the last regions in the current Netherlands, where you still have green living space. The Frisians also still have their own language and identity, and our villages and cities have not been affected that much by ‘replacement migration’ as large cities have, and we live more together based on ‘natural law’ and historical habit than based on conditioned systemloyalty. You can still recognise something of the country that you were born in, although globalists try to enforce the UN Agenda on the regional level.
What is your professional background, and what occupies most of your time today?
I failed as an academic, but discovered that i can use the research skills and writing skills as sciencejournalist, and use my knowlegde of the scientific method and biology tot dig deeper than the average journalist. After completing a basic year at the Photo Acadamy in Amsterdam, i also became professional photographer, publishing many international reports on natural history for ‘mainstream media’ before moving more into the alternative media. I believe the media in The Netherlands were not that bad when i started, but became more and more a voice of an internationalist olicharchy after they were taken over by two Belgian billionaires and the State, most journalists I worked with in the MSM were true professionals but quality, also in an intellectual sense, has deterred dramatically in the last 15 years.
🤐 Taboo of the Week
What is a mainstream media topic, or an overlooked story, that you believe we are not allowed to discuss honestly—and why does it deserve our focus today?
The whole idea the ‘the government’ is there for our own good, and therefore a trustworthy entity that can improve society, to be quoted in headlines unquestioningly, instead of an evil necessity needed to prevent crime etc. When i started as journalist, healthy distrust was still the common denominator, this also used to be the position of the old left in the ‘80s. Now it is ‘the new right’ active in the alternative media that holds a position that used to be those of anarchists, call it libertarian ideas about self organisation. The Left used to be anti-globalist and against the European Union and the Euro, now this position is held by liberatarian conservatives (to which i reckon myself).
🧭 Becoming a Dissident
When and how did you transition into becoming an outspoken voice within the alternative media landscape?
I never bothered about the UN Climate Agenda, and considered it one of the many stories, where spreading fear is used to generate a massive wealth transfer from taxpayers to a limited set of special interests. My first impression seemed to be the right one, yet it is fascinating to see how ‘the masses’ can be manipulated to believe an obvious lie based on model projections, and spend trillions on it. After Al Gore visited our country a national opinion-magazin HP De Tijd asked me to write a skeptical article on the subject, where I interviewed Bjorn Lomborg and ‘contrarian’ scientists in The Netherlands. After publication a representive of the British Government called, because they were not amused and wanted me to debate Lord Stern for the British Embassy. I did not know the chap, so I declined, but found out how much political weight was being pushed behind this agenda. Then I discovered what my long term collegue and friend Marcel Crok found out, after his publication on the manipulation of climate data (the Hockeystick Fraud), that became an international ‘scandal’: there’s more to the story than ‘science’, it is a way to impose a world view and new political system based on utopian ideas that have prevailed since the French Revolution.
Was there a specific catalyst or an exact moment you realized you could no longer subscribe to the mainstream narrative?
I had visited THC-using hippies in England for a falconry congress, as a trainee in falconry in 2003. They lived in London Chiswick, and one of them had an owl living in his toilet. They told me 911 was an ‘inside job’. The context of their lifestyle provided (“and then I got High”), i was fascinated by the idea, but also thought it as being a little paranoid. So i just did not bother. My entry happend through the climate hoax, and starting off as a blogger for climategate.nl in 2009. Our focus was first on debunking ‘the science’ but i soon found out that this is unproductive and delved more in the the historical and philosophical background. One of my fellowbloggers was a Climatologist who was already at home in the blogosphere and showed me the work of James Corbett. That opened the door to more alternative sources who were just so much more better informed than the average newspaper-journalist, also into ‘deep history’. Once you find out how ‘global warming’ is a means to replace defense spending of the cold war with public investment in peacetime, you just don’t buy the intentions, and look at ‘consequences’ as testimony of true intentions. This is also how I came into contact with Jacob Nordangard, who had published his Phd research, and other researchers. Before you know it, there is simply no way of going back to ‘the old world’.
How did stepping outside the consensus impact your professional career and daily life?
I lost writing positions in various national magazines, with various excuses. The magazine of the national biology organisation NIBI ditched me in 2010 after 10 years, accusing me of being too opiniated, while I just could not work on in the old way: citing an ‘authority’ in a field as entry to your story. Maybe I already became too much of a blogger. Others that I published for in many years said I was a bad writer. Though some of it might be true, because I often put too much information in too little text. But then a day later several leading book publishers coincidentally called and said ‘write a book for us because you are a good writer’. So there is bad writers and bad writers. I was ditched by a rightwing magazine in 2018 after years of publishing, when reporting about the 2030 Agenda. The editors just simply did not understand the scope of the agenda, because ‘quality’ magazines are used to focus only on national politics, maybe a little on Brussels but they ignore the whole circle around that of the UN, WEF, and the whole globalist-internationalist cabal.
How has your work affected your personal relationships with family, friends, and former colleagues?
COVID19 destroyed the relation i had with my oldest brother from early childhood onwards. Since 2020 he does not want any contact with me. Ofcourse by then, i did not believe a word of the whole narrative, and unsuccesfully tried to warn others about that.
Did other independent thinkers or dissidents guide you on your journey? If so, who stood out to you?
There’s just too many mentors in my life, that have strengthened my vision. For example my scientific mentor, the chemist and theologian dr Jaap Hanekamp, my good friend Marcel Crok, Jacob Nordangard i mentioned, my African Kung Fu teacher, but also the fishermen I worked with in my quest to expose the lies of the ‘green’ movement that wants to destroy their livelihood. They taught me how to be a ‘classical’ normal person, caring for your community, land and family, instead of being someone who only works in theory, and who cares more about abstract strawmen like ‘the environment’ than your backyard and loved ones. Really, there are so many good people out there that God places on your way- once you take the step out of the dark side into the Light- to make you grow personally and spiritually so that you can be an example for others. I even met my wife Afke through this journey. Her father already in the seventies did comparable research on globalism, and the apocalyptic utopianism involved.
What is something about your journey into dissent that none of us know?
I discovered that it was a spritual journey, especially the COVID years, when the Apocalypse of Saint John (13 16-18) was played out in front of us, Not being able to buy or sell, without the mark. It made me take The Bible more seriously, if only in the knowledge that globalists and their societies know their Bible just as well. You do not need to ‘believe’ it in the sense of ‘accepting nonsens that cannot be proven’, but you experience that the metaphores used in Scripture play out before you. I came out a better and happier person.
🛠️ Dissident Activities & Behind the Scenes
Could you describe what a typical workday looks like for you?
I combine writing and research with physical exercise in Nature, then go out in the afternoon, drink my craft beers before diner and relax with my wife. We have our own online shop with products, our own beer Strijdt, that our subscribers buy to support work. This makes it less dependent on donations, and in the mean time we build up an army around our Frisian philosophy ‘Liever dood dan Slaaf’.
What is your methodology when it comes to research? How do you separate signal from noise?
I use an evolutionary methodology, combined with Aaron Wildavsky’s ‘But is it true’. At first you do not know anything but read works of people who know more, check footnotes, build up own knowledge, discover what consensus and dissent are until you see the repeating pattern.
Do you invest significantly in subscriptions or support for other independent creators?
I was brought up with the idea of the internet being a free intermediary of exchange. My blog Interessante Tijden that I started in 2017 is open access for everyone. I rarely pay for subscriptions, and although i ask for donations in support and have received a considerable amount of support for research work from great donors, I believe personally that charity should not be the main source of income of a writer. My books sold well, my beer is doing well, and building your brand in a commercial sense is in my opinion a better way to survive than relying solely on subscriptions. We are also not allergic to adverts, and think that what is now ‘alternative’ will turn mainstream, because more and more people just do not believe the MSM and switch to alternative sources.
What are the hidden costs of running an independent media platform that the audience might not see?
The hidden costs of an independent media platform is that it is your personal baby, that you invest more time in it than is commercially good for you. You get a ‘pro deo’ attitude too easily, expecting sometimes to your own financial detriment that working for ‘the good cause’ wil pay itself out some day, which need not be the case.
To what extent do you utilize AI in your workflow, and do you rely on premium AI tools?
AI has made both research and writing in English tremendously more easy, which you can see in my upcoming book on the interconnected worlds of the financial system and the UNFCCC climate policy system. You can so much more easily find primary sources, so I never use google again. It also helps you summarise own writing for the reader’s clarity and in correcting grammar.
Who are your own favorite dissidents or alternative media channels right now?
It depends on the topic that i am researching. For crash courses into the financial world I found this guy of lockstock Finance, and a week ago I found a great interview with economist Richard Werner on the Peter Mc Cormack Show. There’s simply too much out there that is informative, to single out one person, although we should honour our classics that drew us in, like James Corbett.
What is the best-kept secret about your day-to-day dissident activities?
If i’d tell you that, it would not be a secret anymore.
What exciting projects or content do you currently have in the pipeline for your audience?
My upcoming book on the interconnection between ‘climate’ and the financial system, which will be published in English and will be my international debute. Our new Frisian craft beer that we bring out at Halloween, and much more.
🔮 Looking to the Future
What is the ultimate impact or goal you are trying to achieve through your work?
My goal has always been satisfying my own curiousity. I do not believe in societal improvement, but I do believe I can improve myself, become a better person created in the image of God that can inspire others to do likewise in the pursuit of the True Good and Beautiful.
Based on both your physical location and ideological perspective, what are the most likely local or global scenarios you see playing out in the near future?
The Globalist cabal will implode, like all utopian ideals have since the French Revolution, simply because what they want to achieve is a world that they as human beings and their families do not want to live in either. Nevertheless, just as in the past, they will do a lot of damage and the worst has yet to come before it corrects itself.
What is one conviction you hold to be profoundly true that the vast majority of society would strongly disagree with?
Current secular society is a product of the French Revolution and gnostic ideas, based on the false notion that ‘liberty’ is a natural state you acquire (just like the Net Zero CO2 agenda wants to put us back in the stone age) by destroying all obstacles to it, from authorities to institutions. True liberty is achieved through discipline, practice, the help of mentors, and can only be valued when there are borders, limits. There is only liberty within limits, not because I ‘believe’ it but because i found this by experience, and others have before me. I therefore believe in healthy pessimism, and think ‘optimists’ are a plague to society.
💡 Closing Recommendations
If you had a direct line to those currently holding the levers of power, what would your message to them be?
Noblesse Oblige. Our elite has turned into vulgarity, adopting the revolutionary ‘optimist’ spirit, instead of trying to act in the ‘Image of God’ that spiritual man is called to be. Just look at Trump, but in essence all ‘leaders’, they are no moral examples or strong persons that could serve as mentors that you entrust the important task of leading a nation into a state of ‘doing less harm’. Elite should lead by moral example.
What is your final piece of advice or recommendation for the audience watching/reading this interview?
Stop improving ‘the world’ and improve yourself, your capacities and especially your capacity to love the persons given by God in your care, be it your wife, daughter, parents if you still have them, care about the real world in the here and now and defend them as custodian.
How can the audience follow and support your work, and which platforms or links should they visit?
How to find, follow and support
Rypke Zeilmaker
You can find Rypke’s weekly column on ‘Café Weltschmerz’ (137 thousand subcribers’), Interessante Tijden TV, and read his weekly column in the largest alternative newspaper De Andere Krant (10s of thousands of weekly readers)
Café Weltschmerz:
https://cafeweltschmerz.nl/
Interessante Tijden TV:
https://www.interessantetijden.nl/category/interessante-tijden-tv/
De Andere Krant:
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