The Dutch government mandated a 50% reduction in nitrogen emissions by 2030, tasking individual municipalities to figure out how best to meet that goal, Deutsche Welle reported. Livestock farming accounts for 40% of emissions in the country. The policy could see up to a third of livestock farmers out of business. Farming, in general, will collapse. They want to end pig farms.
In July, over 40,000 farmers took to the streets protesting the policy, blocking roads with tractors and defacing government officials’ homes. Sympathizers elsewhere in Europe staged protests in solidarity with the Dutch farmers, arguing that such a policy was counterproductive amid highly elevated inflation levels and food shortages.
The Netherlands’ agricultural minister Henk Staghouwer resigned following widespread protests from Dutch farmers over his radical climate agenda to destroy their livelihoods. Whoever follows him won’t favor farmers.
An underlying cause is ESG.
RESORTING TO TACTICS OF DICTATORSHIPS, THE SNATCH AND GRAB
The Dutch farmer protesters are growing increasingly dangerous. Like an authoritarian dictatorship, undercover police officers run ‘snatch-and-grab’ arrests.
In Amsterdam, public footage has surfaced showing undercover police officers violently arresting a civilian. The undercover operation reveals a disturbing escalation in state action against the Dutch farmer protesters.
Undercover police agitators known locally as “Romeo’s” chased out of the people’s protest against permanent Covid laws and in support of farmers in Amsterdam.👀👀 pic.twitter.com/DaK0hXjLIF
— k-lo2 (@k_klo224743370) September 4, 2022
Dam Square in Amsterdam, Here’s the sequel to the earlier video. Protesters are furious with police after the arrest of a protester.#DamSquare #Amsterdam #Protest #news pic.twitter.com/vnFOBNowWC
— We Are Protestors (@WeAreProtestors) September 4, 2022
⚡️ In the Netherlands, the police violently dispersed the protesting farmers
The Dutch authorities intend to oblige farmers to significantly reduce nitrogen emissions. This threatens many agricultural producers with ruin, so they have been protesting for several weeks. pic.twitter.com/IGdS4IsovC
— FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) August 2, 2022
[ CLIP ] – Undercover Dutch police recorded carrying out snatch-and-grab policies in Amsterdam in latest escalation against Dutch farmer protestors…
The Dutch gov has so far denied any concessions in official talks with farmer reps pic.twitter.com/SYjJm4b5QG
— The Stark Naked Brief. (@StarkNakedBrief) September 6, 2022
BRUSSELS WANTS NO DISPENSATIONS
Staghouwer told reporters he wasn’t the right person for the job. He held the position for only nine months and announced his decision Monday night. He had just returned from Brussels. Staghouwer negotiated an agreement with the European Commission to scrap a Dutch exemption to manure spreading limits.
He was then forced to resign.
The Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, and the Flanders region of Belgium, had been allowed to exceed caps on how much manure farmers could return to their fields because of the country’s comparatively small land area. But Brussels wants to phase out this dispensation because the Dutch fail to meet EU’s radical water quality standards.
The EU was supposed to be a cooperative trade union, but now Brussels technocrats rule over every EU country in most matters.
The country’s lucrative agriculture sector has been in crisis since a 2019 court ruling. It forced the government to slash emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce. AP reports say that thousands of farmers have staged protests, blockading cities with tractors and burning hay bales along highways.
According to the APNews, Staghouwer could not meet the September deadline for rolling out the government’s radical green policy.
The climate agenda involves cutting nitrogen emissions from the nation’s farming sector to the point where farms can’t continue operating. The idea allegedly came from Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum.
There is no other way to produce bountiful agricultural output.
NO PIG FARMS TOO
Mark Rutte said he respects his brave decision. Parliament member Carolin van der Plas of The Farmer–Citizen Movement party (BBB) said “he was totally unsuitable” for the job.
Bart Kemp of farmers’ organization Agractie told NOS that Staghouwer was “a friendly man, but not a decisive person.” NOS is a Dutch public broadcaster.
Staghouwer’s role will temporarily be taken on by the former agricultural minister Carola Schouten.
Schouten is very radical and wants to close all pig farms. Whoever replaces Staghouwer will be worse as long as Rutte, a puppet of the WEF, is in charge.
Staghouwer faced criticism from the parliament for failing to develop a concrete plan to help the sector transition to farming practices that lower nitrogen emissions, according to DutchNews.nl. Officials within his department also resisted plans to revamp the farming industry.
IT’S ESG
The deliberate move away from efficient and low-cost farming aligns with a broader global initiative to minimize and reorganize most industrial activity. And that initiative is known as ESG, FEE reports.
As Dan Sanchez has delineated, “environmental, social and corporate governance” (ESG) policies have been around in their codified form since 2004, when top financial institutions were tasked by the United Nations with developing guidelines for reforming the financial sector through “environmental, social and corporate governance.” The evident goal was to skew the global economy’s capital investment toward firms willing to fall in line with the environmental and social values of the powers that be.
In the past few years, ESG has gone mainstream with little resistance from people in power.
In December 2021, Reuters named 2021 “the year of ESG investing.” By April 2022, Bloomberg reported, “Few corners of the financial universe have been surrounded by as much marketing froth as ESG, which by some estimates represents more than $40 trillion in assets.”
ESG Has the Power to Force the Values of Controllers on Everyone
ESG funds prioritize their controllers’ moral values rather than focusing purely on profitability. Those values concentrate on leftist values of race and sex quotas, collapsing the fossil fuel industry, and reducing food production. In the end, their policies are racist and sexist.
ESG funds are underperforming badly, but that doesn’t stop them. They have excuses for that.
This is the fate of the Dutch farming industry. The demands are impossible, and the Politicians, the UN, and the World Economic Forum will destroy them.
“For my son, where can he find a living and know what will be allowed in 10 years?” asked Erik Stegink, a protesting pig farmer in the Dutch village of Bathmen.
The drastic hampering of Holland’s farming industry, directly and indirectly, will put thousands of farmers out of work, reduce food availability, and increase food prices internationally when food insecurity is rising, FEE reports.
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Police are the means for ALL political corruption. Police are public enemy number one!
Keep worshiping your cops that enforce and protect this evil and protect the parasite political class from justice.
They get Burn Loot Murder and Klantifa to feign hatred for their henchmen and you moron ‘conservatives’ all fall in line to Back The Blue. Bunch of morons.
Joe Biden’s recent warped screech of “WE BEAT THE FARMERS”.
You may have noticed that the enemy always seems to be livestock. They never caution the world about pet ownership and pet food. They know that denying people their pets would generate immediate and overwhelming outrage across a wide array of commonwealths, not just among farmers. In the matter or pets. they are far more subtle in their strategy; just destroy the food supply for the pets and people will no longer be able to afford them. They don’t have to order it. Make no mistake that just as the WEF wants to curtail livestock, they most certainly disapprove of feeding pets as well.
If the WEF isn’t stopped in November, people will be eating their pets before November 2024.
Remember, they said that all they wanted was for gay marriage to be legal, nothing more. And stop they did not; now they want your kiddie’s penis or breasts chopped off without your permission. Yes, abso-LUTELY they will come for your, and my, pets! Just not THEIR pets. Bank.
Millions of you have to be activated with pitchforks and have to remove your eco-worriers, your politicians, your stewpid cops or face the consequences of mass starvation, freezing, or FORCED blood-clotting vaccination.
The World Economic Forum Cult has publicly proclaimed that the World has too many people and the WEF needs to reduce the World’s Population by at Least 7 Billion by 2030. I for one am taking them at their Word. If you go after the Farmers, you will soon be eating your pets, then rodents, then bugs, then each other, and then you die! It’s just that simple folks. The only Nation with a chance is America, we have plenty of guns and ammunition. The Cities will kill each other, mostly Liberals, off. The Rural Folks will just plow their bodies under for fertilizer.
If you’re not in the position to Farm or Ranch then you’re screwed. People in Cities are going to eventually starve. Quicker than most people realize. This Winter a lot of you will be in the Cold, and Hungry. The Riots and Unrest will be 10 times worse than anything we have seen in America before. People go crazy when they are cold and hungry and soon a lot of people are going to be cold and hungry. Liberals are about to find out that Government can’t provide for you! Government produces nothing. Conservatives already understand that!
Stupid policies = corrupt politicians
We have a similar problem in the USA in which rural and small business people believe in freedom and rights, but the city folk tend to not.
Dutch have voted for leftists a long time, this is a consequence. Any real conservative/nationalist in Holland is anathema. In Europe, the well trained and equipped police are going to crush any revolts with increasing brutality. It would take a huge nationwide protest to change anything there. There are not enough Dutch willing to stand up for survival.
The way to beat liberals is to do nothing that helps them, like produce food or transport it to them. Produce enough for yourself and your small town and let Big Blue Cities Starve. You can survive by selling to the Rich, say $100 or even $1000 a pound for beef. But then at that point their Fiat Currency will be worthless. That is why the Rich are investing in Farm Land. The thing is that farming and ranching takes hard work and skills that City Folks don’t have. So what are the 87,000 IRS agents going to do, confiscate a chicken or a hen when there is no money? I think they will be trading the 5 Million bullets for food, but keeping one for themselves. This is where we are heading with Democrats in Charge. Democrats don’t have a workable plan and never have had one past destroying America. Any Moron can break things. Why are we letting morons run the Government?
What concerns me about your mini ranch and solar farm (which I like very much) is that 87,000 armed IRS agents can find an infraction to seize the land from productive, successful holdouts. Add EPA restrictions on water use, new utility regulations on Solar/batteries and rising costs of everything, and a self-reliant, independent farmer is still standing right on the ‘X’ when big government comes to enforce draconian rules to confiscate land and capital.
I think when the peanut butter hits the fan, IRS agents are gong to have very little power in Red States. They will be targets like the Revenuers. States will just consider IRS leans null and void until litigated in a State Court. The IRS will be looking for the low hanging fruit in the Big Blue Cities as Liberals are easily intimidated. What are they going to do with a couple of cows, a dozen hens, and a vegetable garden other than piss the Neighbors off? Liquidating the assets will cost more than the investigation and acquisition. In my neck of the woods all the IRS and the Federal Government in general can do is make enemies. That will became a real liability should they push people to fight back; especially if I’m giving neighbors excess power when the lights go out. Bureaucrats grossly underestimate a well armed civilian population. We armed people in Ukraine and it made Putin’s take over a whole lot harder. The Federal Government really isn’t as big and as powerful as they try to make people believe they are. Without the People, they are nothing, as many governments around the world have found in the last few hundred years. Besides little by little I’m becoming a smaller target as I become more self sufficient.
Traitor Joe stepped over a line. People and whole State Governments are going to start pushing back, and push back hard. The level of pissed off here tripled after Traitor Joe’s Declaration of War. Thankfully, most people are willing to wait until November. If War breaks out it will be Guerrilla War and very nasty. I expect the IRS to to screw up worse than the FBI has. Government hires a lot of educated people, but very few smart people. People like me saw this coming a year after 0bama was elected. I was an original TEA Party supporter. It’s taken not being able to put food on the table for the over 60% of Americans to wake up. Even Liberals are awake now, but they are scared to lose the crumbs government gives them.
So what do you think is a better path; move to New York City and hold a sit in at the UN Building? You put yourself on the “X” when you directly challenge the Government. Wars are won by destroying the foundations of Government support. Revolutions are won by destroying the foundations of Government support quietly. Communist Governments collapse due to a Lack of Productivity and enlightening the masses to the immorality of the leaders. Going after Farmers is the dumbest thing a regime can do; unless the goal is Mass Murder of the Population!
Good luck with your plan. What makes you think that the socialists/commies will let you keep what you produce and determine your own price? You will be forced to “share” your products/produces. The socialism is here to stay and they have the firm grip on power now. They made sure the final nails are hammered into the coffin when they stole the last election. Again, good luck to you.
Your forgetting that the population of the USA is armed and that’s a big difference between America and Europe. No one has a “firm grip” on anything here, the fuse is lit and it’s only a matter of time before the explosion.
If you think Socialism is here to stay in America, you are a fool. There are over 100 Million Armed Americans who believe in Free markets and the Constitutional Republic as created by the Nation’s Founders. The Red States will have a Divorce before America goes Communist.