A group of Dutch farmers blocked the entrance to a paper factory in the Eastern Netherlands on Wednesday with their tractors to protest the double standards of the government’s green agenda.
Tractors descended on the town of Renkum in the Gelderland province on Wednesday, surrounding and blockading the Parenco paper mill, which has not been subjected to the same nitrogen emissions requirements that the globalist administration of PM Mark Rutte is demanding of farmers throughout the country.
Millions more households could face hosepipe bans after the driest July in decades as forecasters warn of another heatwave.
Temperatures are predicted to rise above 30C next week, with little respite this month for communities on the verge of drought.
More UK … Ofgem accused of ‘inhumane’ changes to energy price cap
Ofgem, the energy regulator, has warned of a very challenging winter for consumers as it was criticised for making “inhumane” changes to the price cap that will increase bills even further.
Household energy prices are set to change every three months rather than six, which will mean increases in October and again in January as suppliers are allowed to pass on wholesale cost rises more quickly.
On one side, my mother was the daughter of the Ford dealer and, on the other, the granddaughter of the GM dealer in the same small Saskatchewan town (which made for some interesting family dynamics).
No farmer, she.
Still, she used to warn that when the majority of Canadians no longer had any connection to farming, the result would be very bad for food policy.
Politicians cannot shirk responsibility now for the extreme hardship millions of people are about to face
This is the summer before the storm. Make no mistake, with energy prices set to rise to unprecedented highs, we are approaching one of the biggest geopolitical earthquake in decades. The ensuing convulsions are likely to be of a far greater order of magnitude than those that followed the 2008 financial crash, which sparked protests culminating in the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring.
The gathering crisis could prove even more catastrophic than the oil shock of the 1970s, which wrecked the administrations of three British prime ministers, presaged 40 years of American entanglement in the Middle East, and (due to the oil glut that followed) ultimately triggered the Soviet Union’s collapse.
With all of the protests taking place around the world these days, some people may have overlooked what’s been going on in the Netherlands. Dutch farmers there have been in open revolt since the government ordered them to slash their use of nitrogen and other fertilizers and reduce their herds of livestock, all in the name of climate change. This has led to parades of tractors tying up the highway for miles, dumping loads of fertilizer on the roads, and setting fire to bails of hay. This must have looked like a dandy idea to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because he’s preparing to do the same thing to farmers in his country.
The Dutch aren’t taking it anymore..
One stood up and the rest followed
Stand with each other
pic.twitter.com/RZABux3R6T— Ruthann (@TeaBoots) August 1, 2022
You don’t mess with the people who grow your food
Something is happening across the world right now, something that deserves more attention than it’s getting.
First, to the Netherlands, where farmers have been protesting, blockading roads with their tractors and staging enormous rallies. The demonstrations have been going on and off since 2019, when the Dutch legislature proposed a crackdown on nitrogen emissions. Nitrogen is heavily emitted by livestock and fertilizer, which means the regulations are hitting Dutch agriculture especially hard.
With gas prices soaring above $2 a litre for the first time in May and Atlantic Canada’s record temperatures serving as yet another reminder that the world is rapidly warming, it’s clear that we desperately need to rethink our transport system. But is the government placing too much focus on electric vehicles instead of encouraging more people to ditch their cars altogether?
This was the plan all along, the EVs were a red herring and obviously would not be viable with the ongoing destruction of the energy sector.
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, a highly-influential organization known as the World Economic Forum has been under scrutiny for using the global crisis as a means of advancing their own agenda.
Chaired by its founder Klaus Schwab, the WEF aims to influence governments across the world to implement its vision and shape policies to comply with the organization’s agenda.
In this docuseries, we will be exploring the book The Great Reset, co-authored by Schwab and published in June 2020, just a few months after COVID-19 began shaping our world, along with those collaborating with the WEF to push its globalist agenda. (Episode 1)
James Conway is a Sligoman, father, farmer, sometime builder, occasional election candidate and general activist for the good of his community and nation. He is an example of the kind of person our broken nations might look to now in seeking youthful voices capable of articulating our common situation in its depths, and plotting a new way forward after the horrors of the past few years.
In this conversation, conducted in Sligo, Ireland, on July 14th, 2022, James and I talk about many things of vital concern to our respective communities and our nations at this critical moment in history — with Ireland functioning as the particularity that speaks for the universal — including:
—the coming worldwide catastrophe;
—the incipient land-grab conducted under the cover of environmentalism;
—the ‘new Kulaks’: the farmers and other ‘Able Men’ of the contemporary West;
—the threat to private property from the WEFfer elites:
—the murder of the public conversation that paved the way for the obliteration of democracy necessary to achieve these larcenies;
—the growing psychosis of leftism;
—the state and governmental fear of citizen self-sufficiency — the true locus of the Republic;
—the fragmentation of humanity — young pitted against old, old against young;
—the leveraging of victimologies to undermine democracy —the Wretched of the Earth as battering rams against Western civilisation;
—Covid as nuclear bomb;
—the performative virtue-signalling and neo-colonial intolerance of liberalism: progressivism as reverse gear
—the death of adulthood;
—the enforced lockjaw of modern societies;
—the massacre of the great passions;
—the Woke crusades and their escalating inquisitions;
—Ireland’s mission to abolish itself;
— the calumniation of Ireland Past;
—the infantilisation of Irish humanity;
—the castration of Irish manhood;
—the recurring contagion of genetic memory;
—the potential for hope, in spite of its destruction;
—the potential, too, for amnesia:
‘What if there is no history? What if history is written by others, who have no care for what happened to the Irish people, or what happened in Ireland before a certain time, maybe 2020, or 2015, or 2011 . . . What then? You can scrub Ireland from the blackboard of history, and nobody will know.’ — John Waters
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.
The European Union and ‘green’ governments are playing with fire
Canada wants to cut fertilizer emissions, but farmers say it could result in less food
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s push to accelerate the fight against climate change is sparking a showdown with the nation’s farmers, who say it’s threatening food supplies — and their profits.
The government is proposing to cut emissions from fertilizer 30% by 2030 as part of a plan to get to net zero in the next three decades. But growers are saying that to achieve that, they may have to shrink grain output significantly at a time when the world is scrambling for more supplies. Also at stake is the estimated C$10.4 billion ($8.08 billion) that farmers could lose this decade from the reduced output.
They say ‘Agenda 2030’ development goals at root of sustainability policies that could lead to food shortages
The escalating regulatory attack on agricultural producers from Holland and the United States to Sri Lanka and beyond is closely tied to the United Nations’ “Agenda 2030” Sustainable Development Goals and the U.N.’s partners at the World Economic Forum (WEF), numerous experts told The Epoch Times.
Indeed, several of the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are directly implicated in policies that are squeezing farmers, ranchers, and food supplies around the world.
Canada is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, providing 11.9% of the global supply. In 2021 the top five grain exporters were Russia, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Ukraine. Two of those nations are at war with each other, and that conflict is threatening production. Drought conditions also threaten the winter wheat crop in the United States, increasing reliance on Canada for production. However, it appears that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has decided everyone can go gluten-free.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch farmers resumed protests at government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions Wednesday by dumping manure and garbage on highways and setting fires alongside roads.
Traffic authorities said several roads in the central and eastern Netherlands were completely or partially blocked by the early morning blockades and fire services rushed to clear roads as traffic built up. Cleanup operations were expected to take hours on some roads.
