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The Dutch government continues its war on the country's farmers and has proposed new regulations that would roughly limit two cows per acre in order to reach the European Union's climate change targets by 2030... The proposal, which has not yet been approved by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, would limit "0.35 hectares of grassland per livestock unit" in an attempt to tackle nitrogen emissions by reducing methane gas, which will place an even greater strain between the country's farmers and Dutch government. ... The Netherlands, which is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products in the entire world, has seen...

In this digital media world, despotic lies and authoritarian propaganda spread at light speed, with the goals of manipulating emotions and weakening a targeted audience's will to resist the tyrant. The antidotes to a 21st-century dictatorship's destructive falsehoods -- justice and its ally, truth -- often react slowly. In the Age of the Internet, slow has a price. Slow doesn't generate hot headlines and wag the tongues of talking heads, so the dictators make the first impression and set the agenda. But to paraphrase former President John Adams, facts and evidence are stubborn things, and when ethical human beings pursue...

Burma's Karen people are seen as being particularly at risk A report on Burma alleging mass murder and rape by soldiers is to form the basis of an appeal for legal action against the military government there.UK members of parliament and human rights groups are meeting to publicise the dossier compiled over five years by human rights researcher Guy Horton. He made secret trips into the jungle to collect video and other evidence of attacks on ethnic minorities. Burma's embassy in London has so far declined to comment on his findings. The 600-page report, which was partly funded by...

Dutch Shocked by Public Death Wish from Muslim Wed Nov 24, 2004 07:40 AM ET AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch leaders on Wednesday condemned comments by a Muslim teacher who said he hoped for the death of a popular politician, further stoking religious tension prompted by the murder of a filmmaker critical of Islam. Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven, a Dutch convert to Islam, told a Dutch television chat show on Tuesday he hoped anti-immigration populist Geert Wilders would soon die, although he did not want him to be killed by a Muslim. Interior Minister Johan Remkes said he was horrified by...

Dutch government collapses amid squabbling 10/16/2002 Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch government collapsed Wednesday, undermined by frictions among the three coalition partners and a power struggle within one of the parties. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende told Parliament the 12-week-old coalition was unworkable, and he had decided to submit his resignation to Queen Beatrix. Balkenende, who spoke to the queen earlier Wednesday, was likely to go through the formality of giving her his resignation letter later in the day. "I came to the conclusion that no further fruitful, long-lasting partnership is possible within the coalition," Balkenende...

12-LUG 02:22 OLANDA: GOVERNO, A PARTITO FORTUYN DICASTERO IMMIGRAZIONE [JUL. 12 02:22GMT NETHERLANDS: GOVERNMENT, IMMIGRATION MINISTRY TO FORTUYN PARTY] (ANSA) - AMESTERDAM, 12 LUG - Nel nuovo governo olandese di centro-destra il dicastero dell'immigrazione andra' alla Lista Pim Fortuyn' (Lpf), il partito anti-immigrati che ha preso il nome del leader populista assassinato lo scorso maggio. [In the new center-right Dutch government, the ministry of immigration will go to the List Pim Fortuyn (LPF), the anti-immigration party that has taken the name of the populist leader who was assassinated last May.] Lo hanno deciso to ieri sera a Amsterdam i partiti...

The media is using the upcoming release of the Dutch government's report on Srebrenica and the resignation of the Dutch government to "atone" for the Dutch role in "letting Srebrenica happen," to broadcast massive amounts of sheer misinformation about what did in fact happen in the town of Srebrenica 7 years ago this July. EMPEROR'S CLOTHES editor Nico Varkevisser in Amsterdam reports that Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok had stated his intention to move out of national politics and into the International arena before the report was issued, that the resignation comes shortly before previously-scheduled national elections and that Kok...