The Peasants are Revolting by BGE

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

The Peasants are Revolting by BGE

Those of us that get our news from the mainstream media may not know that working class people, mostly farmers and truckers, throughout Europe have been protesting the removal of fuel and other subsidies.  It started with protests in Germany where trucks and tractors blocked the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and has spread to (at least) France, Portugal, and Belgium.  It’s hard for me to have too much sympathy for subsidy hogs, but the reasoning, such as it is, among European governments for removing the subsidies is idiotic.  They didn’t determine (e.g.,) that the subsidies hurt poor farmers in Africa – they do, it’s a scandal – no, it’s the Green New Deal, you see.  Cow farts hurt Gaia and normal people just have too much to eat.  This must be, how do you say, stopped.

Les agriculteurs en colère. The protests spread to France, where farmer’s protests are a regular occurrence, and quickly escalated as the farmers closed the roads around many of the largest cities with tractor blockades and the occasional fire.  The farmer’s weapon of choice has been straw.  Usually alone, but sometimes used straw in the form of what the Irish call muck.  They’ve been piling it in front of government buildings and shooting it out of harvesters through the cities and towns.  In one case, enterprising abattoir workers dumped the waste from their day job in front of the local mairie. 

They seem to have been rather more thorough than their Canadian counterparts. The roads into several cities were blocked.  Ports were closed and life thoroughly disrupted all over the country.  There are pictures of empty supermarkets, but it’s not clear how representative they are.  Still, in what the French press is calling a political masterstroke, while the President of France was photographed enjoying a white-tie dinner with the king of Sweden complete with liveried servants, his new Prime Minister, who’s all of 35, looks 12, has been in office for less than a month, but he’s gay so it’s OK, completely capitulated to the farmer’s demands.  They do that in France, every year of two.  The German government has capitulated too.  No government can be trusted, but they’ve given way so far.

The situation escalated in Belgium where farmers surrounded the headquarters of the EU chanting Ursula, we’re coming for you.  They piled up straw and muck while the jeunes threw firecrackers – the press said explosives and incendiaries, but they were just firecrackers.  EU bureaucrats were trapped inside, and the police responded with water cannon.  There were reports of rubber bullets being fired, but I’ve been unable to confirm if this is true – we’ll come back to that.  The Brussels protestors seem to have been mostly Belgians, but significant numbers of Italians and French are reported too.

There are reports and pictures of roads blocked throughout Portugal and a delicious clip of tractors seeing off a police armored car in the Netherlands (it might be Belgium; the caption was Pays-Bas.)  Expect to see all the local governments capitulate sooner than later, the farmers know where they live.  The EU is different, and this is where it gets interesting.  The EU “has the organizing ability of the Italians, the flexibility of the Germans, and the modesty of the French. And that’s topped up by the imagination of the Belgians.”  They are not accountable to anyone, and they are the true believers in this gnostic death cult that seems to have taken hold of the world’s managerial class.  They can be counted on to do something really, really stupid.  

The English language press is more useless than usual.  One expects that from the American press who couldn’t find Canada on a map never mind Belgium, but GB is just over the water and the entrance to France was blocked.  Not peak holiday time so they didn’t notice, if guess.  The Daily Mail, which is the best source for middle class wine-mom opinion and loves to bash the working class, has nothing on it.  The broadsheets mention it with the most detailed coverage being in the Grauniad.  They get it entirely wrong as you might expect, but at least there’s something.  The French language press is covering it, but they are party political organs, and the media isn’t trustworthy.  The German’s have more, but my German is dire, and I’m limited to the English versions, which often don’t align with the German language version. 

Our hostess asked me for links, which I cannot provide.  The press Is useless, and I’ve had to go into X to find out what’s going on.  It’s worth scrolling through and, for those with better language skills than mine, to find out what’s going on.  Sure, it’s unfiltered and not curated (snicker,) but that’s where the pictures are and pictures or it didn’t happen.  Find the tractors and the armored car, it’ll make your day. The 24-hour rule should prevail, see the rubber bullets above, but this is, so far, a popular uprising rather than a bunch of spoiled children.  The managerial class has had it all their own way for too long and maybe, just maybe, this is a step toward balance and eliminating this gnostic death cult.   Keep in mind that the German and French governments capitulated and as an earlier peasant revolt had it “when Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman.”

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  3. Sarah was right; not a word about any of this on Fox. They covered the Davros ‘F*k The Middle Class’ convention for two weeks, but nothing to say about widespread international uprisings.

    I do hope somebody got video of that truckload of cow and pig guts dumped in front of City Hall, though. :-P

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          1. The most hilarious part of all this, I was trying to find it again, but couldn’t: The twitter showing northern farmers isn’t even flying the Portuguese flag, but the flag of the Celtic North: blue cross on white flag. This means they’re all out of patience, and out for blood.

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              1. Yep. And exactly the sort of trouble we need today. “Here once the embattled farmers stood…” And this “shot” might really be “heard ’round the world”.

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            2. They are out of patience as they should be. All of tens of millions who will suffer from the insanity of the Green Leap Forward and have been systematically stripped of their rights as the Fourth Reich known as the EU seeks to turn them into serfs should be out of patience.

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    2. Fox News is remarkably weak on the “news” part. They pick three stories per day, then beat them to death with relays of talking heads. The SAME talking heads, so the beating is predictable.

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      1. back in the days Carson/Eric was still running the Elf Life and Winger forum, I was accused of being a “Faux News” watcher (because Huffpo and MSNBC were so much more ‘reliable’?) and I replied then “Fox News is like the Weekly Reader of News stations. I can’t watch more than a few minutes of it before getting disgusted at being talked down to.” though that was better than having to watch CNN/MSDNC/MSM Network news, where I got disgusted immediately.
        At work we have these big screens running company B.S. and info. When I started up here, it was the Fox headlines feed scrolling across the bottom, and almost all of it was clickbait that gave nearly no info, especially if you couldn’t click to get the actual story (crap like “Trump went to [State/city] and said this:” or “After the latest Jobs Report, Obama did this:” Gee, thanks for the ‘news’). Sucked big-time, until after a merger, and they switched to CNN’s feed. Well it was slightly more informative, but even more annoying because it was all TDS crap. After some internal surveys the news feed scroll fell off the screens.

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  8. I used to be in the habit of reading Aussie news and occasionally Bolt’s blog as well as regularly
    reading and commenting on Tim Blair’s until they got put behind a paywall. I still keep the emails of headlines, though both are now Sports heavy. I really should find something on the EU and UK, but they seem thin on the ground.

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    1. They are, partly because they don’t have a first amendment. I suspect in an alternate time line, I’m running a highly illegal European aggregate blog, and posting through various baffles.
      (Not even a world where I didn’t marry Dan. He got offered a very good job there when we’d been married 8 years and he was unemployed for six months. Major pressure was brought to bear from my family. Metaphorically speaking, they took us to the pinnacle, and showed us the kingdoms of the Earth. If we hadn’t had a son I wanted to grow up AMERICAN we might have succumbed. Instead we moved to Colorado and found home. Ah well, I’ve lost that now. But at least we had it for a while.))

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        1. The weird thing is it doesn’t seem to be the oxygen. Yes, it drops a little, but not to worrisome/someone will prescribe oxygen levels. if it were that, we’d have realized it much earlier.
          It’s just instant auto-immune and brain fog. The brain fog might be from auto-immune for all I know.
          It’s instantly noticeable for me AND the boys, but why we don’t know.
          And I can probably visit for two or three days at a time, with the understanding it will be a little uncomfortable. Heck, five worked out. Just not too often.

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  9. One of the complaints I’ve seen (no idea which site covered it) was that the European farmers are forbidden to use certain pesticides “to protect the children”. This increased the farmer’s costs, so domestic sourced food went up in price. In turn, TPTB allowed imports from other countries that don’t ban those pesticides, so the farmers are getting the double whammy of regulation and competition.

    And, so much for “it’s for the children”.

    There was a related ruckus over Ukrainian grain being sold at a discount in the EU. IIRC, that started some protests (in Poland, I think) over the competition.

    Other complaints are that the taxes (apparently offroad diesel had been taxed, but those taxes were waived until recently) were reimposed to fund the Ukrainian efforts. With the tales of massive theft and corruption, I can imagine the response to having to pay those taxes.

    FWIW, off-road diesel is not taxed in the USA (neither state nor federal excise taxes are mandated) and is dyed red to distinguish it from the green on-road fuel. I suspect any effort to tax off-road diesel here would get a heated response. Slaughterhouse waste? Makes note to avoid government office buildings in that case.

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    1. There was a related ruckus over Ukrainian grain being sold at a discount in the EU. IIRC, that started some protests (in Poland, I think) over the competition.

      Basically, it’s not safe to store the grain in the Ukraine, and with the actual SHIPS out of the equation they can’t ship it off; the grain got priority on the trains.

      Remember, Ukraine is a major grain supplier for the entire world.

      The EU originally didn’t let it all get sold at fire-sale prices in the border countries, and instead it spread through the whole EU…then they stopped doing that, because basically “spread the pain” caused more folks to be upset than “absolutely destroy the area near Ukraine.”

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    2. Yes, like often here, so many “subsidies” there are “We won’t tax you (as much) on this” Money still flows into the Gov’t, not the other way, in most of these cases.

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    3. “I suspect any effort to tax off-road diesel here would get a heated response.”

      As it should.

      The point of fuel taxes is to fund road repairs and maintenance. “Off road” or “agricultural” or “dyed diesel” is for vehicles that do not use roads, therefore do not cause road wear, therefore do not have to fund repair and maintenance for the roads they don’t use.

      And (according to my stepdad who used to do roadside truck service as a diesel mechanic) you get such huge fine if anyone catches you with red diesel on the highway that truckers won’t take fuel from any container that has even the lightest hint of ever having held the dyed stuff.

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      1. Some is so heavily dyed it gums up things, We had a request for road diesel from SWA after their bean counters forced a switch from Jet-A in their equipment to diesel, and maintenance was quite put out. Never happened as we didn’t have a truck to put it in. (Truth be told we cut their diesel with Jet a few times and added the gallons to a flight. SWA only cared that the plane had the fuel to get there and reserve) but shortly after the contract changed and the new non-road diesel was cleaner from the supplier. Still did a number on their torpedo heaters and stunk worse than even road diesel. The Contract Maintenance guys had special fuel cans for holding non-road diesel and even a “dry” can would stain road diesel or Jet-A enough to fail a sight test if inspected. Both used Sump fuel for their personal/business trucks. They did UPS, Ryan freight, and sumped SWA every morning, and the “waste” went into their Dodge and GM Duramax p/u trucks after letting any water fall out. The one said one fuel can with a couple of ounces of Non-road would stain a 600 gallon tank enough to fail so they’d toss a quart of Transmission fluid in or a gallon Marvel Mystery Oil and that masked the non-road dye enough for their use.

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    4. Of course they’re getting the double whammy. Same way our shitheads ran industry out of the US and are trying to make the working classes into Welfare cases.
      The fact the working classes balk them and want jobs is responsible for their insane hunger to import peasants to make welfare cases.

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      1. Starting to see some mainstream acknowledgement, which means that the protests must be so huge they can’t be smothered any longer.

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        1. They’re spreading on social media so fast that can’t stop the news from traveling. They delete one and ten others pop up, they’d have to shut down all social media, and then the rest of the population would revolt.

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  11. No wonder that “reporters” are being laid off at big media outlets … it seems that they can’t find a story until it up and bites them on the *ss.
    Or some governmental body or corporate PR office hands them a neatly typed release.

    Thanks for the post, anyway – I had a notion that there were farmer protests going on, all over France and the rest of Europe, but didn’t see that it was so widespread, or beginning to bite hard.

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  12. The subsidies do hurt poor farmers in Africa (and elsewhere), and that shouldn’t be minimized, but there are other things that hurt poor farmers in Africa (and elsewhere), such as monopsony.

    One example from my days in industry was cotton in oh, let’s say Burkina Faso. At that time (and perhaps now) a cotton planter in Burkino Fasa had exactly one buyer — the government-run cooperative — which was in the habit of paying about half the market price per pound. The Jeffrey Sachses of the world don’t seem to want to talk about that, though, because those involved are all members in good standing or at least aspirants to the Davoisie.

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    1. Monopsony and levels of kakistocracy not seen since the Neolithic, and keep in mind I speak from a currently highly kakistocratic America. (Or perhaps Coulocratic….)

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  13. Okay, so that was an off-topic TED talk. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

    Getting back on topic, the Dutch farmers have been on the front lines for a while now. It’s telling that recourse to X is needed to get a clearer picture. Eva Vlaardingerbroek has been a pretty good source.

    And subsidy hogs or no, I like to eat regular and I’ve known quite a few farmers in my day, so I’ll side with them every time (while chiding them when called for). Managerial class delenda est.

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    2. There have been protests in Portugal since the lockdowns. They’re highly religious and often involve carrying statues of the Virgin, and asking G-d for help. But that’s Portugal. Also, the EU has tried to sanitize Portuguese religion, which is– Okay, I could do MY Ted talk. I won’t.
      Anyway, even my family — my generation is educated and mostly in bureaucratic or skilled positions — doesn’t seem to have any idea of it, or the extent of it. I only knew of them because of Twittex.
      Which tells you how scared so called journalists are.

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  14. One of the rumors was that the folks who owned the wreckers that could tow a semi were not interested in helping the police move those trucks.

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    1. I would be very careful about taking those jobs, as well. Those are the customers that the cops are asking the wreckers to work against. The cops will give you a one-off gig to move the trucks. But you’ll likely have a hard time getting paying work afterwards.

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      1. This would be why the wreckers that eventually broke up the trucker protest in Canada covered their company logos and wore ski masks. I was initially very angry at them, but then I thought about the pressure that would’ve been brought to bear, and while I’m still disappointed, I’m not angry. At them, at least.

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  15. The subsidies supposedly “offset” the costs of regulations.
    They don’t, of course. But they let politicians pretend that they do.
    Add in the sudden imposition of a “new” tax (It already existed, but was deferred indefinitely because it was clearly economic suicide).
    Add the governments waiving tariffs to glut the market…

    Yeah, the farmers are pissed.
    And rightfully so.
    The technocrats who inspired this rebellion should be pissing down their legs in terror. But I don’t think they have the wisdom to understand the danger they’re courting.

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  16. The protests continue, Zeebrugge harbor is closed, this a major port. There’s a fair bit going on in the Netherlands, but I have no Dutch so can’t expand. there’s a transportation strike in Germany so no planes, trains, or busses. There are reports that all trains into Brussels are blocked. France had been quiet, but there is a tractor convoy “returning” to Paris. it’s at Limoges right now. The farmers have cleared a path on the A7 motorway to avoid conflict with the police, a woman had been killed in a car crash hear last week and the organs — in a Russian sense — had been using it for propaganda.

    There’s buckets more, and I’m sure I missed lots.

    it’s been fun trying to figure out the Dutch, it’s tantalizingly on the edge of understanding. I could use translate software, but every day and every way I’m getting better and better.

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    1. D*mn it. I should go back to my old self, and shake me until I kept practicing Dutch. Even my German is rusty AF. I’m still good on French and Italian (reading, not speaking) I figure because close to Portuguese.

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  17. le Figaro has pictures of farmers shooting streams of liquid manure onto various government buildings. Good for the souls that is.

    Do keep in mind that these are not leave us alone protestors. They’re mostly out and out socialists. it’s not the Canadian truckers by any means. This goes on all the time in France just at a lower level. that’s not true of the Netherlands though. That’s a big change.

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      1. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, but the friend of my enemy is my enemy. The enemy is the managerial class, I refuse to call them elites because they’re not. Les clercs as the French would say. La Trahison of which we would all do well to remember.

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        2. IIRC, “Bureaucracy” was coined in post-Napoleonic France (or maybe a bit before) as a mockery of those who “rule from the desk.” Unfortunately the only thing that’s changed is the loss of its stigma. As I have been fond of putting it, it’s “governance by a chest of empty drawers.”

          Yeah, THAT kind of drawers.

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    2. I hope it’s pig. Pig shit stinks like you wouldn’t believe, and it lingers. Those buildings will stink for years if it’s pig.

      When I was in school, we always knew the weather. “Wind’s from the southeast today, we can smell Craig’s hog farm.” Craig’s family’s farm was 4 miles away.

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      1. Given the area, it’s probably cow. You’re down in Guyenne, Rugby Country. Nice people, I still have aches and pains from rugby tours through there 40 years ago.

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      2. Can confirm. A couple of drives through southeastern North Carolina along US 74 was all it took. Those are industrial hog farms, not family, and the stank is horrendous.

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      4. Turkey shit is fowl. Job’s Daughters fund raiser one year was picking live turkeys and delivering them to be crated. Most us girls had to work in pairs because the turkeys had to be delivered in pairs and most of us could only carry one each. Dad (who got volunteered by mom) carried 4 each trip. Hey working got used to the smell. Got home. Mom made us wait outside while dad stripped to his skives and went to shower. Then my friend & I stripped down to our skives in the garage, then we got to go get in the shower to soap off (dad was faster than two 11 year olds). Cloths were dropped immediately in the washer. Pretty sure mom washed them two or 3 times. The fund raiser was organized by someone whose family was in log trucking. Her other fund raiser was washing the family log trucks. That was a lot more clean fun. Both were a lot better than the standard candy or perfume sale.

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      5. You ain’t kidding about the pig shit. Back in the day, our LDS ward’s service obligation was the pig farms, way out by Utah lake. The farrowing pens were so rank you could FEEL it in your nostrils the next day. Pants and shoes had to be thrown away afterwards.

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  19. Whatifalthist had an interesting argument a few days back that the major founders of modernism were gnostics, and that the modernist bureaucratic culture is actually gnosticism.

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    2. You’ll notice the King and others tried to run away and escape being held accountable for their treatment of the people. Our current bunch of Elites are the modern version of the aristocracy, they too are deathly afraid of being held accountable for their treatment of the people. it’s not just here in America, it is all over the world, and soon those elites will become desperate, that’s when the feces is going to impact the oscillating air movement unit. Their fear and desperation will make them do the exact wrong thing at the exact wrong time. So far mostly in America it is being contained in the Bluest of Blue cities, I dare say even they know they have gone to far. Instead of having a war, I say we just build walls around their cities and change their names to insane asylums.

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    1. For those who haven’t followed the link, it explicitly adds Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, and Poland, to the list of countries with protest tractors.

      One thing that I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned in the comments here is that one of the things that the Dutch are protesting is being forced to stop farming on large chunks of farmland in order to meet emmissions-related targets (due to nitrogen-based fertilizers) set by the EU.

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      1. UTTERLY ARBITRARY EMISSIONS TARGETS which do nothing for the world at large, thanks to China and India and any other country not stupid enough to jump off the ledge. And the reason to limit it is at any rate, nebulous and part of a computer model. Which we all know is another term for bullshit, for any complex system, say virus infection or pollution, much less climate.
        Not spoken, except here and there is that the elite thinks population must be reduced at all costs.
        Yeah, look, I hate the French revolution and all its works, but when I read this stuff, I want to set up guillotines and I’d gladly man them.

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        1. Reduce population? Sounds good to me. Let’s start with the elitists, and their cronies and sycophants. When they’re gone, I think we’ll find that the population is just fine.

          And guillotines are much cheaper than helicopters, in both up-front and maintenance costs. Hell, they’re even ‘Sustainable!’ That should make the elitists feel better as they’re unloaded from the tumbrils.
          ———————————
          They’re the Experts! They only sound stupid to you because you’re not as Educated as they are.

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          1. You’ll remember someone blew up the Georgia Guide Stones a few years back or so. It had called for population reduction, I do believe someone disagreed with that notion. Just like others are disagreeing with their notions.

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            1. I remember reading about that, and how it was written up to sound like some great horrible thing. And then I read about what the “guidestones” were (when I first heard the name, I thought it was probably an ancient monument built by one of the local tribes a couple thousand years ago), and my thought was, “Yeah, so? Who cares?” I mean sure, vandalism is bad and all of that. But they were acting like someone had blown up something that mattered, when instead they were talking about something less significant than the world’s biggest ball of string. Some random guy built a Stonehenge mock-up in Georgia, and wrote his philosophy on it.

              And…?

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              1. I’d miss the big ball of twine. The Guidestones? Nah. Don’t approve of damaging other people’s stuff, but it wasn’t a great loss to civilization.

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            2. Probably more because “it’s weird.” The idea was to make sure that after the crash there was information to rebuild– that’s the “guide stones” thing.

              But I’ve got a nice podcast on the subject, for those who are interested!

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        2. And the biggest tell is, if the EU really wanted to be taken seriously as the “united Europe” that it claims to want to be, EVERYONE ELSE in Europe would be taking slightly bigger hits to their farming. But the Dutch farmers would be left alone. Brussels including the Dutch in the farming cutbacks is kind of like Nike saving money by getting rid of the Air Jordan line.

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        1. God’s blessed wounds yes. And seeing the green party and the rest of government telling farmers they shouldn’t exist (in essence) – jayzus, it was bad enough when the English were in charge of the food supply and the blight came. What well happen when it’s the theoretical home Irish who make another Hunger?

          And add to the fact that Sinn Féin is avocating for A: massive immigration, and B: the arrest of protestors who aren’t to bloody sure about said immigration – so much for the republican spirit, as it were. Bad cess to all of them, Sinn Féin, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil – the whole miserable feckless lot who are whipped curs slavering at the feet of the new Saxon overlords the EU.

          Spits

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      2. Yes. I’ve been following the demonization of the AfD since the start of PEGAiDA back in 2016. AfD is the political offshoot of that movement. The original got started as a group that said “Hey, you know? Western Civ is worth preserving, and German culture isn’t as horrible as all that. Nothing against immigrants, but we love our religion and culture too.”

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      3. Anyone associated with AfD is being hit with that label. I’ve seen some stuff within the last week or two that suggests Berlin is going to ban it pretty soon. And when that happens…

        Well, I certainly don’t know how the Germans are going to react.

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      1. They do that and the German people will be a tad upset, I wonder what the talk in the beer halls is. That’s generally where rebellion starts in Germany, the beer halls.

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      2. That’s pretty much the game plan by leftist parties worldwide, including that of the Democratic Party here; ban the political opposition so that The Party can claim it was elected even though the elections are a complete sham.

        Oregon just banned 10 incumbent Republican state legislators from running again because they used the Democratic Party;’s longtime tactic of walking out of legislative sessions to prevent a quorum from existing so that business could be conducted.

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        1. There’s a recent law banning exactly that, and the legislators broke it. The only question in front of the court when the case went before them was over whether some possibly careless wording in the bill meant that they would be banned in the coming election, or in the election afterwards.

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  23. The video of the armored car being vs tractor might be from a few years ago. I did a quick search for it online, and found a few “fact-check” articles claiming that it’s from 2017. I also found a YouTube video from 2022 that had a quick shot (a couple of seconds long) of what the video claimed was a Dutch tractor pushing a white armored car, before the video cut away to manure being sprayed by protestors.

    I don’t know if it’s the same thing you saw. But if it is, it appears that the armored car isn’t from the current round of protests.

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  24. I found some articles about Germany (in German, which I can read). From German Broadcasting: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bauernproteste-102.html which mentions 10,000 protesters in Berlin.
    I also looked briefly at a Dutch newspaper (Telegraaf) which mentions some protests but they don’t seem to amount to much of anything. The only ones that might are border crossing blockades that appear to be mostly the work of people on the other side of the border (Germany and Belgium).
    No sign of the armored car thing. And yes, “Pays-Bas” is French for “Low Countries”, in other words The Netherlands. Definitely not Belgium (“Belgique” in French).
    Searching for Belgian farmers protests turns up a bunch of stuff, including an announcement from a Dutch government agency suggesting people may want to delay trips to Belgium due to blocked border crossings. Another article from one day ago says that the protests in Belgium are largely over at this point but “may flare back up at any time” and “if necessary we will shut down the country again”.

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