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Pay Attention To The Dutch Farmer Protests Because America Is Next
The Federalist ^ | JULY 29, 2022 | JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON

Posted on 07/29/2022 6:09:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Americans should start paying closer attention to the ongoing farmer protests in the Netherlands, which this week transformed long swaths of Dutch highways into what looked like a post-apocalyptic warzone: roadside fires raging out of control, manure and farming detritus heaped across highways, traffic stalled for miles, and massive protests across the country in support of the farmers.

Why is the Netherlands, of all places, experiencing such unrest? Americans need to understand what’s happening over there because the ruinous climate policies that triggered these protests are precisely what President Joe Biden and the Democrats have in mind for the United States.

Specifically, Dutch farmers are protesting a government plan to cut fertilizer use and reduce livestock numbers so drastically that it will force many farms out of business. Earlier this month, farmers used tractors and trucks to block highways and entrances to food distribution centers across the country, saying their livelihood and way of life are being targeted by the government.


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TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iylm; rutte; trudeau
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1 posted on 07/29/2022 6:09:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s good to see the farmers fighting, but what about the rest of their society? It seems OBVIOUS to me that if fertilizer is cut back, the real target is CONSUMPTION OF MEAT.

Are they simply clueless about what the Globalists are now doing to them, as I cannot believe that they would willingly give up eating meat, and I guess, replacing it with insect-based ‘food’.


2 posted on 07/29/2022 6:12:47 AM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Actually, it’s Canada that is next (especially after what Castro’s son decreed yesterday - 30% fertilizer reduction), then, maybe, the US.


3 posted on 07/29/2022 6:12:47 AM PDT by cranked
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We are next, and I believe that starving people is the objective.


4 posted on 07/29/2022 6:13:15 AM PDT by Spok (The Great Reset has promised to destroy our way of life. Believe it!)
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To: BobL

“Because America Is Next“

American farmers and the communities that support them are armed. That is an important difference.


5 posted on 07/29/2022 6:14:51 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: iamgalt

A big difference. Any fed bureaucrat trying to impose climate fascism by going to local farms might end up in a mulch pit to cover the fertilizer shortfall


6 posted on 07/29/2022 6:19:21 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: cranked

Bingeaux

Castreaux


7 posted on 07/29/2022 6:20:38 AM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: Spok

Except unlike the Dutch farmers, American farmers are ARMED against tyrants.


8 posted on 07/29/2022 6:24:21 AM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: quikstrike98

Being armed is one thing, taking action is another. You may be correct, but I remain skeptical.


9 posted on 07/29/2022 6:27:56 AM PDT by Spok (The Great Reset has promised to destroy our way of life. Believe it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We have a lot of corporate farms in America. It’s going to be much different when the SHTF than what is happening in the Netherlands. Ireland just announced that they too are all in on this stupid train.

This will not end well for the WEF and their worldwide stooge network of robots. We are seeing the collapse of the leftist policy one after another. It’s an exciting time to be alive.

Here’s one that’s going to make every megalomaniac German citizen proud, (every German I have ever met are full of themselves), the mayor, his actual title is Lord Mayor of Hanford, Germany, just announced that the government is going to ban HOT WATER and told his SUBJECTS to be prepared for “alarmingly high electric bills and widespread gas rationing measures.”

It’s not a good day to be a dimocRAT, your days in the Sun are coming to an end and not one minute too soon either.


10 posted on 07/29/2022 6:29:57 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: Spok

If you can’t get the fertilizer, I don’t know what good your arms are going to do you. These governments are going to make it impossible for farmers to keep their land. When the government comes after them, it will be for taxes.


11 posted on 07/29/2022 6:33:31 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When do they start freezing the farmer’s funds?


12 posted on 07/29/2022 6:36:46 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: BigEdLB

Bureaucrats don’t need to go to farms to shut them down. They can simply freeze credit and banking accounts. Trudeau did it.


13 posted on 07/29/2022 6:43:57 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The genesis of the scheme was a court ruling from 2019 that said the Dutch government’s plan for reducing nitrogen emissions violated EU laws protecting its Natura 2000 network of supposedly vulnerable and endangered plant and animal habitats — basically a bunch of EU-governed wildlife preserves. These sites span the EU, covering 18 percent of the bloc’s land area and 8 percent of its marine territory.

Biden's got a similar plan. The 30x30 plan would turn 30% of the US into conservation land by, you guessed it, 2030. Currently 12% of the US is such. Luckily it's just an EO.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+30x30+plan

14 posted on 07/29/2022 6:48:09 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Pollard

Canada

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMG4kuEN_kM


15 posted on 07/29/2022 6:53:59 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have a nephew who had to drop out of A-10 training. He was obviously disappointed, it is probably just as well he did. I cannot see him strafing a column of farm tractors headed to The Capitol.


16 posted on 07/29/2022 7:01:00 AM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: cranked

Biden says the new bill devised by the lunatics, and passed because of Manchin, cuts thirty percent of carbon emissions and is a “godsend for families.” It will send families to God all right.


17 posted on 07/29/2022 7:09:38 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The 2 most difficult fires to put out are hay fires & tire stack fires.


18 posted on 07/29/2022 7:09:41 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dutch city dwellers support the far left green party in power. Cities, which contribute a high percentage of NO2 emissions, have refused to take any actions that would reduce NO2 placing the burden on farmers. It is part of the Big Reset to crowd people in cities. Easier to control.

ps

There is no climate change crisis. Both NO2 and CO2 are naturally occurring gases. All the ruinous climate policies are a pretext to imposing world government, also known as pagan communism.


19 posted on 07/29/2022 7:15:52 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: Pollard
Any Dutch style program to reduce nitrogen pollution would be nearly impossible to enforce in the United States because of the limited tools of the Federal government. With the exception of California, Minnesota, and Illinois, the major agricultural states are controlled by Republicans. The COVID lockdowns were first abandoned by Republican states like Florida and South Dakota. After the COVID overreach, any state government that cooperated with the Feds in sabotaging agriculture would be in serious trouble with their rural constituents.

Any executive order would be fought in the courts and ignored by farmers and ranchers. I never underestimate the stupidity of Biden and his handlers, however.

20 posted on 07/29/2022 7:16:46 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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