Posted on 07/06/2022 8:27:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
One of the many assurances we are given by our corporate overlords and their minions in the liberal press is that we should be more like Europe. By that they mean we should accept a social welfare nanny state and surrender our rights to our betters in the elite. The Dutch don’t seem to have gotten that memo.
About a week ago the government of the Netherlands announced it was declaring war on the nation’s farmers. In order to reduce what it considers nitrogen pollution the government has adopted a policy of drastically reducing herds, forcing many farmers out of business and cutting back on meat, pork, poultry, and dairy products for human consumption. The government wants to eliminate one-third of Holland’s 50,000 farms by 2030.
In response, all hell has broken loose.
Dutch farmers have blocked supermarkets, food distribution centers, and roads in protests this week. Supermarket shelves are bare throughout the Netherlands as food distribution has been brought to a standstill. Wednesday morning, farmers are expected to demonstrate at the Groningen Airport Elde, according to Dutch media. The farmers have been joined now by Dutch fishermen who are blockading ports in solidarity.
On Monday farmers appeared at the home of the Nature and Nitrogen Minister Van der Wal-Zeggelink. Hay was burned, fireworks were set off and a police car was pushed out of the way so tractors could enter the street. Farmers also emptied a tanker containing slurried manure into the roadway. Police were apparently unable to disperse the assembled farmers due to the size of the protest.
Farmers also protested in the Netherlands’ political capital, The Hague, where two cows were brought to participate in the protests as well. Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the actions “unacceptable and out of proportion” and condemned the farmers’ actions. He has characterized the massive protests as the actions of a small minority and demanded they stop. His comments have been echoed by other members of his administration.
A nitrogen minister. Probably making $400k. When govt becomes morbidly obese.
YES!!! Finally, we have some serious push-back. It took the “elites” going after the food supply to finally push people over the brink. Fighting “climate change” by switching to windmills and solar panels was too nebulous, too far away and simply not real enough. But now they have overreached and gone right to the food supply.
“Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the actions “unacceptable and out of proportion””
“Out of proportion”??? The globalists are trying to starve us like Stalin did in Ukraine in the Holomodor in 1932-1933 that killed millions.
People aren’t going to put up with this sh!t any longer.
Good for the Dutch!!
They are doing pretty good with huge crowds, cows, and manure tankers. They are overwhelming the police.
The Dutch leaders who want to eliminate farms don’t seem to realize that the epigenetic changes wrought by the hunger winter of 1944-45 still live on in their population.
“Nature and Nitrogen Minister.”
I saw that! Can you BELIEVE that crap? Whoever created that position ought to be tarred and feathered, then the person IN that position should be tarred and feathered as well.
This aint gonna be solved until there is a general killing.
Civil war will be the only way out for many nations. I hope the Dutch farmers can gather enough support to be successful.
Nitrate Ammonia
They say nitrate is getting into groundwater and aquifers.
They say cow burbs put out ammonia, a greenhouse gas.
The lab grown meat people agree as do the indoor, high tech, vertical farmers.
Coming soon to the US; https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nitrate+restrictions
Mostly being restricted in Northern/Northeast states so far, ‘magin that.
Attack of The Science(techies). Revenge of the nerds.(techies)
Techies taking over energy with Alt-E and electric vehicles
Techies taking over vaccine production with mRNA
Techies taking over AG with lab grown meat and gene-edited, patented plants that are grown indoors with robotic systems
Techies already control the internet
They got rich with tech like computers and internet and now want to run everything by converting to tech solutions, most of which are crap.
Central Bank Digital Currency - more frickin tech which will lead to tracking and surveillance to make sure you’re using all their tech.
Sorry but you’ve reached your 2 lb weekly limit on mammalian meat. Here’s a sale on lab grown meat.
Due to current drought, only veggies grown indoors with our tech, which uses 95% less water, will be available.
This guy lives there and pretty well nails the reasoning behind the government action.
I guess the Dutch farmers learned a thing or 2 from the Canadian Truckers and the restraint that they used in their protests — and how it got them exactly nowhere.
NEEDS TO HAPPEN HERE.
I HAVE A TRACTOR. I HAVE SEVERAL. MAY NEED DRIVERS.
That sounds great. I hope they manage to break the entire government!
” Klaus Schwab will not and probably is not happy.”
He’s a modern Nazi and would have fit seamlessly into the Reich like his father did. I hope bad things happen to him. Just something to make me smile, plane crash, car jacking gone wrong while pumping gas, bone cancer, a hit team of ISIS frogmen... whatever.
Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas emitted by livestock among other sources. The idiots use “nitrogen” in the same inaccurate way they use “carbon” when they should be saying carbon dioxide. They are politicians just like ours, so maybe they don’t know the difference.
“Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas emitted by livestock among other sources. The idiots use “nitrogen” in the same inaccurate way they use “carbon” when they should be saying carbon dioxide. They are politicians just like ours, so maybe they don’t know the difference.”
The green zealots of Europe come predominantly out of the education sector, just like our green lunatics in North America do.
The environmental “money machine” marches on, unhindered.
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