Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Netherlands’ Climate Nazi Government Plans to Seize Up To 600 Farms Within a Year, by Force if Necessary


Dutch farmers tractor protests have gridlocked the nation's major cities

 


Over the past few months tens of thousands of farmers in the Netherlands have regularly taken their farm vehicles onto the main routes and city streets to show their opposition to new government climate goals that will force thousands of farmers out of business. Despite all of these protests, the neo Nazxi Dutch government is now planning state mandated compulsory buyouts of 500-600 farms within thetwelve months as the undemocratic, EU appointed government races to earn kudos from flat faced, civilisation hating swedish troll Greta Thunberg by achieving a 'net zero' (Carbon Dioxide and GDP,) economy before 2030. In other words, the state could be forcing farmers to sell their land to the state.

This blog has reported on the success and economic importance to the nation of Nertherland's highly efficient agricultural sector.
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“Our criminal government has announced [on Wednesday, 5 October] that they’ll be speeding up the theft of our farmers’ land. 500-600 farmers will be forced to sell their land to the state in the next year. The farmers have announced new protests, so stay tuned, tweeted Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

Government-appointed mediator Johan Remkes’ most striking proposal was aimed at so-called “peak loaders.” On Wednesday, he called for 500 to 600 companies that are close to Natura 2000 conservation areas and have relatively high nitrogen emissions, especially livestock farms, to close within a year or move – as much as possible through a voluntary buyout but if there is no other option, under duress, NOS reported.

“There are no longer any good routes available for the short-term approach,” Remkes said. “The least bad route is a targeted closure of 500 to 600 peak polluters within a year.”

However, the European Commission states that “Natura 2000 is not a system of strict nature reserves from which all human activities would be excluded.”

“The expropriation of farmers must be taken off the table,” Mark van den Oever of Farmers’ Defence Force said after the government-appointed negotiator, Johan Remkes, published his recommendations on Wednesday. “We will not allow enforced buyouts to happen.”

A few days later, Vlaardingerbroek tweeted: “The Dutch government is ramping up the expropriation of our farmers, driving some of them to commit suicide. They’re a bunch of inhumane greedy liars and thieves who created a fake crisis to rob people of their rights and property.”

In an interview on GB News, Vlaardingerbroek explained what she believes are the reasons for the Dutch government’s land grab: “There is no space left in the Netherlands. So, what will they need to do? They will need to seize some of the land of these farmers in order to house new Dutch people, the newcomers to our country.   So, that is what this is really about. And of course, there’s also the element of our elites not wanting us to have independence or control over our food supply and they obviously also don’t want us to eat meat.  So, the farmers are standing in the way of their plans and that’s why they’re being targeted right now.

Since imposing nitrogen standards, the Dutch government has made it virtually impossible for farming to continue.  Over 17,000 farmers in the Netherlands are at risk of being shut down, run out of business, having to sell their land or destroy their livestock.

Ralph Schoellhammer, an assistant professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University, has been following the developments of the Dutch farmer story closely.  On Saturday he spoke with Clayton Morris, host of Redacted, about the latest developments and his perspective on why the Dutch government is following this destructive path.

“The bureaucracy grinds on.  It is, in one sense, almost remarkable that regardless of what the people say or regardless of what the public sentiment is, they just move forward,” Schoellhammer said.

“There is a combination of factors that are making the Dutch government target certain farms, in particular, Schoellhammer explained.  “For some, it is about the expansion of urban planning … There is this vision … to create [a] cross-border state with the Netherlands with Belgium with parts of Germany. [To] have this huge urban centre that would include up to between 50 and 150 million people … but it combines itself with another element … which is a kind of environmental fanatism.  So, the Dutch farmers, in a sense, are being squeezed from two sides.”

“It is very absurd that people who have never had you know a shovel in their hand or never had a pitchfork in their hand is telling those who [have been farmers] for generations how they are supposed to treat the environment. The [farmers] know how to do it and they know what the limits are.”

The story doesn’t end there because fanatical and destructive government policies are crushing farmers from Germany to New Zealand. Morris and Schoelhammer go on to discuss how destroying food production in the West will ultimately cause poverty and starvation in Asia and Africa because Western nations will have to buy food on the world market to feed their populations, which will drive food prices out of the reach of populations in the world’s poorest nations.

 

 

 

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Dutch Farmers Protest Against Lockdowns And Globalism

Since the rise to prominence of The World Economic Forum which now claims to have penetrated the governments of all major nation and global corporations with its cultural Marxist ideology, governments in the liberal democracies have been openly revealing their subservience to the billionaire psychopaths of Big Finance, Big Pharma the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, BlackRock and the military-financial-industrial complex behind the ‘Great Reset’, ‘New Normal’ or whichever other benign-sounding term is used to dress up the crisis and current restructuring of capitalism and the brutal impacts on the lives and incomes of ordinary people.

In late 2019 and early 2020 (due to collapsing financial markets immediately prior to COVID) and during the COVID era of lockdowns, mask mandates, forces closures of buinesses trillions of dollars were handed over, (via COVID-relief packages,) to elite interests while lockdowns and restrictions involving loss of income and jobs were imposed on ordinary people and small businesses. The winners were the global corporations like Amazon, Big Pharma and the tech giants. The losers were small enterprises, communities (Main Street is not just a place we go to buy stuff, it is a social hub too,) and the bulk of the population, deprived of their right to work and the entire panoply of civil rights their ancestors struggled for.

In August 2020, a report by the International Labour Organization stated that COVID policies had severely disrupted economies across the world with estimated losses of productivity equivalent to nearly 400 million full-time jobs in the second quarter of 2020.

The restrictions and closure of the global economy predictably hit the poor hardest – the 1.6 billion informal (low-income) economy workers, representing half the global workforce while the elites were unscathed.

In India, the effects of lockdown drove about 230 million people into poverty. A May 2021 report by Azim Premji University highlights how – to survive lockdown – the poorest 25% of households borrowed 3.8 times their median income, as against 1.4 times for the top 25%.

Meanwhile, the rich were well taken care of.

According to Left Voice:

“The Modi government handled the pandemic by protecting the profits of big business and prioritising the fortunes of billionaires over safeguarding the lives and livelihoods of workers.”

But this approach was not limited to India. Between April and July 2020, the total wealth held by billionaires around the world grew by 25% to $10+ trillion.

Due to financial COVID ‘relief packages’, governments are now under the thumb of global banking interests more than ever before and the post-COVID era is ushering in crushing austerity measures due to the complex terms on which loans were made, especially in Africa and the Global South where the poorest nations are found. This was the inevitable consequence of closing down the world economy as many of us inhabitants of Planet Reality warned, but our posts in internet forums are increasingly censored by big Tech because THE TRUTH is now calssed as misinformation and legal but harmful. The disastrous consequences of lockdowns wereomething that was known beforehand and devised to benefit the hegemonic interests of the World Economic Forum and their undemocratic geopolitical goals.

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What we are witnessing is an economic reset – which policies carried out under the guise of preventing  COVID helped set in motion. This reset includes energy and food ‘transitions’ and is tied to a ‘green’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda and emerging green bond financial markets that will be highly profitable for banks and investors. Moreover, current sanctions placed on Russia are helping to disrupt food and energy markets thereby accelerating the planned changes.

As part of the ‘food transition’, we hear much talk of ‘precision’ agriculture driven by AI and cloud technology. Farmerless farms and driverless machines are to become the norm. This transition involves commodity crops – patented, genetically engineered seeds doused with chemicals –  cultivated for ‘biomatter’, manipulated by biotech companies and constituted in giant vats into something resembling food.

This is part of the brave new world being promoted by the self-labelled ‘visionaries’ associated with the World Economic Forum – an Orwellian future where capitalist ‘liberal democracy’ has run its course.

To sell this to people, ‘smart’ is key to the sales pitch – smart cities, smart interconnectivity, smart agriculture and so on. A ‘smart’ digital world encompassing almost everything, not least ‘precision’ surveillance of the population – its behaviour, its dissent or conformity, its digital money and its purchasing.

Integral to this is the financialisation of nature and an ESG agenda linked to the ‘green profiling’ of nations, companies and individuals and their carbon footprint. A green imperialism (no doubt forced through on the back of debt-related conditionalities) to ensure countries (and people) comply with sustainability/net-zero goals that are used to facilitate highly profitable technologies and fresh business models.

For instance, how could countries demonstrate their ESG ‘green’ credentials while maintaining their international credit ratings? Perhaps by allowing herbicide-resistant GMO commodity crop monocultures that the strategically influential GM industry and its lobbyists misleadingly portray as ‘climate friendly’.

Or maybe by displacing indigenous peoples and using their lands and forests under the guise of ‘carbon sinks’ for global corporations to ‘offset’ their pollution and claim ‘net-zero’ status.

With this in mind, let us turn to the current farmer protest in the Netherlands, where there is a plan to remove farmers from the land, using concerns over the environment as justification.

On one hand, there is the official government narrative that this ‘transition’ is needed to reduce animal-based agriculture and the meat industry’s dangerous emissions. This is where the ‘food transition’ comes in: ‘precision’ agriculture, fewer farmers and fake-meat made in a lab – sold as climate-friendly which is anything but, given that it will rely on intensive commodity cropping and long-line supply chains for biomatter.

On the other hand, however, the Dutch government’s official narrative of reducing nitrogen and ammonia emissions by transforming farming can easily be used as cover for a standard ‘land grab’ to line the pockets of property developers and investors as part of the vision for a mega ‘tristate’ city – mentioned in the 2017 article Dutch investors launch new marketing programme for NL: Tristate City.

Dutch campaigner Willem Engel is reported on the Rio Times website as saying that, under the guise of climate protection, the way to get there seems to be through forced expropriation. He claims that the Dutch government is not seeking to eliminate about a third of its farms for environmental reasons. Instead, it is about the construction of Tristate City, a megalopolis with a population of around 45 million extending to areas of Germany and Belgium.

Engel says that the so-called ‘nitrogen crisis’ is fictional, a purely political issue to reshape the country’s landscape. He argues that the largest nitrogen emissions are not caused by agriculture but by industry.

This is not to imply that the Netherlands is to become a country totally buried under concrete. But much farmland is strategically important to industry and housing. The tristate concept is based on a giant unified ‘green’ urban region ‘smart’ enough to compete with the massive metropolises we see in Asia, not least in China.

Of course, the food transition and the tristate concept are not mutually exclusive and can both be regarded as integral to the overall ‘sustainability’ agenda. Either way, the type of corporate environmentalism, economic reset and corporate-led ‘food transition’ currently being promoted globally has little to do with protecting the environment. It is a financially lucrative agenda that has co-opted the terms and concerns of genuine environmentalists.

That much has been made clear by investigative journalist Corey Morningstar who has described the nature of and links between the  corporate-billionaire interests driving this process in her revealing multi-part article ‘The Manufacture of Greta Thunberg’.

In finishing, let’s turn to the official tristate city website where it states:

Dit model heeft geen enkele relatie met het stikstofbeleid van de Nederlandse overheid!”  

Translation:

“This model has no relation to the nitrogen policy of the Dutch government!”

And lab-made pigs might one day fly.

 

‘Netherlands Cannot Do Without Farmers’ Dutch King Declares in Meeting with Farmers

DEURNE, NETHERLANDS - SEPTEMBER 15: King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Queen Maxima visit the National Park De Peel during their region visit to the Peel on September 15, 2022 in Deurne, Netherlands. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** King Willem-Alexander ; Queen Maxima
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King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands visited with disgruntled farmers on Thursday to hear their pleas for help as the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte attempts to institute EU-driven green agenda goals that could see up to a third of livestock farms in the country shut down.

The royal couple of the Netherlands toured the Deurne region on Thursday, where they met with representatives of the De Peel national park, which is one of the EU designated areas that the government of Mark Rutte wishes to impose nitrogen emission limits on.

The King and Queen were reportedly greeted by dozens of inverted Dutch flags hanging on the fences surrounding the park, a symbol of the farmer protest movement against the green agenda.

Voicing apparent support for the protest movement, King Willem-Alexander said: “The Netherlands cannot do without farmers. It’s not like, we have a problem and you have to solve it. It’s not us against them. The appreciation has to come again and it’s nice to be able to talk with you here.”

DEURNE, NETHERLANDS - SEPTEMBER 15: King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Queen Maxima visit the Farmers Museum during the King and Queen's visit to the Peel region on September 15, 2022 in Deurne, Netherlands. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

DEURNE, NETHERLANDS – SEPTEMBER 15: King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Queen Maxima visit the Farmers Museum during the King and Queen’s visit to the Peel region on September 15, 2022 in Deurne, Netherlands. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

According to a report from the Omroep Brabant public broadcaster, the constitutional monarch’s words pleased many of the farmers present, with one farmer, Frank Rooijakkers saying: “I think he will really talk to Rutte in The Hague” on their behalf.

Explaining his situation to the King, Rooijakkers said: “I have a great interest in clarity. In June we will be told that the nitrogen must be halved. It is now September and there is still no clarity about how it should be tackled and that is not expected. We always have to think two steps ahead of political decisions.”

Pig farmer Henriette Driessen also voiced her concerns to the King, questioning if farmers like her are “still wanted in the Netherlands?”

“We have been working on reducing nitrogen in Brabant for a while, but I get the feeling that we are only being pushed back,” she said.

Another pig farmer from the area, John van Paassen, told the King that he was forced to shut down his business, saying: “You sign a piece of paper that you can never be a pig farmer again. That is very difficult.”

 

 

Dutch agriculture minister resigns after farmers kick up a stink over pollution regulations

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Dutch farmers protest against nitrogen and ammonia emissions cuts near the town of Drachten.
Dutch farmers protest against nitrogen and ammonia emissions cuts near the town of Drachten.   -   Copyright  AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File

The Dutch agriculture minister has resigned amid a tumultuous summer of protests by farmers over pollution regulations.

Henk Staghouwer, who held the position for only nine months, announced his departure on Twitter.

He later told reporters that he wasn’t the right person for the job and would be resigning.

The country’s lucrative agriculture sector has been in crisis since a 2019 court ruling forced the government to slash emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce.

Thousands of agricultural workers have staged protests, blockading cities with tractors and burning hay bales along major roads.

“Farmers and fishermen need certainty about where the sector is headed so that they can invest and do business,” he said.

Staghouwer had just returned from Brussels, where he negotiated an agreement with the European Commission to scrap a Dutch exemption to manure spreading limits.

The Netherlands -- along with Denmark, Ireland and the Flanders region of Belgium -- are allowed by the EU to exceed caps on how much manure farmers could return to their fields.

This is due in part to the country’s comparatively small land area.

Brussels wants to phase this exception out because the Netherlands has failed to meet EU water quality standards.

Staghouwer had been tasked with transitioning the sector away from intensive farming practices and buying out farmers to reduce total emissions.

“I respect his brave decision,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte wrote on Twitter.

Staghouwer’s role will temporarily be taken on by former Dutch agricultural minister Carola Schouten.

 

Dutch farmers protest after being 'hurt very hard' by nitrogen emission targets

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Dutch farmers are continuing to protest government plans to halve nitrogen emissions by 2030, a move which they claim will put many out of business.

The Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural goods, but intensive farming methods and a high population density mean that nitrogen levels have started to reach illegal levels – prompting the Hague to take action.

The Dutch government says the targets are essential to protect the country's air, water, soil and biodiversity – specifically insects, which it says are vital to agriculture.

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Farmers, though, say they have invested a lot in being environmentally friendly and that the new measures will "hurt very hard."

Meat and dairy farms are responsible for 41 percent of the country's nitrogen emissions through animal waste.

And the plans to halve nitrogen emissions by 2030 could mean that over 11,000 farms would have to close, with another 17,000 farmers having to reduce production, and so meaning a dramatic restructuring of Dutch agriculture.

Farmers in the Netherlands say they will be hit 'hurt very hard' by nitrogen emission targets. /CGTN

There has been a summer of protests in the Netherlands by farmers.

"For the first time in my life I went to a demonstration," said dairy farmer Henk Schoonvelde. "I went with my tractor over the main roads, it was really crazy to do, we were with thousands of tractors.

"The reason is, in my opinion, this government uses the nitrogen problem for other things. The Netherlands is very crowded and full and they need space – the farmers, we have land and they want to use our land."

Farmers have been striking his summer claiming that many will be put out of business by the emission targets. /CGTN

The Farmers Defense Force has said that the Dutch agriculture industry is already one of the greenest in the world.

Jos Ubels, vice-president of the Farmers Defense Force, said: "The targets that our government is putting up now, they are hurting the farms really hard because we invested a lot in the environment, in animal friendly production.

"We can see that we are in the top five of the most environmentally-friendly ways of production in the world, so we did a lot already. But we're all family farms and we spent millions on this, so we need to make that money back."

 

Dutch Farmers Protest As Government Tries To Slaughter 30% Of Their Livestock To Meet Climate Goals.

https://winepressnews.com/2022/08/12/dutch-farmers-protest-in-streets-as-government-tries-to-slaughter-30-of-their-livestock-to-meet-climate-goals/ 

Farmers in The Netherlands have taken to the streets and have been duking it out with police, as the Dutch governments is forcibly trying to sequester farms and kill-off livestock in order to meet their climate initiatives.

This article was originally posted on June 30th. New information and commentary has since been added.

In September of last year The WinePress reported that the Dutch government released their proposals kill 30% of the nation’s livestock supply, in a bid to reduce their nitrogen runoffs and emissions.

Agriculture minister Carola Schouten confirmed that forced sales of emissions rights or land would be a last resort, but said some emitters “cannot carry on [as they are] so we must ensure that we have the rules that are necessary.”

A snippet from that report

The Dutch nation is home to over 100 million cattle, swine, and chickens.

Two months ago The WP also reported that the Dutch government is investing lab-grown faux meats for sale and consumption.

Farmers Not Backing Down

But many of the farmers and ranchers in The Netherlands are not willing to comply with the government’s move to ruin their operations.

Dutch media, along with the government, have condemned and frowned upon these farmers for resisting the government’s agendas.

‘The government has admitted that some farms will have to shut down in areas which are particularly vulnerable to the impact of nitrogen-based pollution, much to the fury of radical farmers, known as the Farmers Defence Force,’ Dutch News reported on June 19th.

Over a week ago the farmer’s protest began to grow in strength and number, as leaders of these coalitions and others involved began to start visiting the homes of the politicians involved in this scheme, to the point where the politician’s children were reportedly scared by their actions, to which one of the group’s leaders, Mark van den Oever, called nature minister Christianne van der Wal’s children “p******” for being scared.

Our country is run according to the rule of law, not the rule of the tractor.

Said D66 parliamentary party leader Jan Paternotte

Demonstrations began on the 22nd, with anywhere from 20-30,000 protestors hitting the streets to rebel against the government’s compulsory climate edicts, leading to schools closing and road traffic being redirected.

We have always said we want to be part of constructive talks, but if you see the plan two years later, and nothing has been done with our contribution, then we have just been wasting time.

Protest organizer and dairy farmer Jeroen van Maanen told local news

Netherlands News Live has reported that continued blockades around the nation have led to logistical backlogs and delays, as deliveries are missing their flights and destinations on time, along with street traffic backed-up as well.

Farmers have been blockading roads with their tractors and haybales on different roads and highways. The groups have alerted the public that there will be delays due to their protests. 

 

 

How Dutch protests ignited a global backlash to the ‘green’ war on farmers

 

Farmers drive tractors on the southern motorway towards Auckland city during a protest against government regulations on November 21, 2021, in Auckland, New Zealand

ALMERE, The Netherlands (RealClearInvestigations) – Farmers in the Netherlands reduced nitrogen pollution by nearly 70 percent through a voluntary system. But the government says that is not enough and is demanding that they cut pollution by another 50 percent by 2030.

By the Dutch government’s own estimates, 11,200 farms out of the roughly 35,000 dedicated to dairy and livestock would have to close under its policies; 17,600 farmers would have to reduce livestock; and total livestock would need to be reduced by one-half to one-third.

The Dutch government has demanded that animal farming stop entirely in many places. Of the over $25.7 billion the government has set aside to reduce pollution, just $1 billion is for technological innovation, with most of the rest for buying out farmers.

This effort has sparked a fierce backlash among Dutch farmers, who argue that the government seems more interested in reducing animal agriculture than in finding solutions that protect the food supply and their livelihoods.

“Why would you buy out farmers or reduce livestock when you have the possibility to invest in innovation?” asked Caroline van der Plas, the founder and sole Member of Parliament for the Farmer-Citizen Movement party, or BBB in Dutch. “The car industry innovated for the past 40 years. There aren’t fewer cars and the cars we have are cleaner. We even have electrical cars. That’s what I think is so crazy. Why don’t we treat the farmers just like the car industry? Give them time to develop solutions or innovate? We can produce food in a much more efficient and cleaner way if we do that. And it’s much cheaper also then by buying out farmers.”

Farmer protests in the Netherlands come at a time of heightened global food insecurity created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a major wheat exporter.

The Netherlands is the largest exporter of meat in Europe and the second largest exporter of food overall by economic value in the world, after the United States, a remarkable feat for a nation half the size of Indiana. Farm exports generate nearly $100 billion a year in revenue. Experts attribute the nation’s success to its farmers’ embrace of technological innovation.

The Netherlands is just one of the countries where governments are pushing for sharp limits on farming. Canada, for example, is seeking a 30 percent reduction in nitrogen pollution by 2030. While the Canadian government says it is not mandating fertilizer use reductions, only pollution reductions, experts agree that such a radical pollution decline in such a short period will only be possible through reducing fertilizer use, and thus food production. The cost to farmers would be between $10 billion and $48 billion.

“If you push farmers against the wall with no wiggle room, I don’t know where this will end up,” said Gunter Jochum, president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association. “Just look at what’s happening in Europe, in the Netherlands. They’ve had enough of it.”

Where the proposed Dutch restrictions are driven by land and air pollution concerns, the Canadian restrictions are driven by the desire for strong action on climate change. But greenhouse gas emissions from farming pale compared to those from energy. Where carbon emissions from farming in Canada rose 87 percent to under 8 metric tons between 1990 and 2020, emissions from oil and gas production tripled, adding 69 metric tons of carbon dioxide, during the same period. With the pollution, however, came more food. Canada’s spring wheat yields increased over 40 percent during the period.

The most dramatic consequences of government intervention occurred in Sri Lanka, where a 2021 fertilizer ban led to a massive reduction in yields, sparking starvation and an economic crisis that brought down the government in July. Because agriculture is a source of greenhouse gases, the efforts by the governments and the backlash they are fomenting may be a harbinger of a global crisis.

 

 

 

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Protest breaks out in Belgium over skyrocketing energy costs

People in Belgium take to the streets in 'a national day of action over increased cost of living.

Thousands of people from all over the country descended on the Belgian capital Brussels on Wednesday for "a national day of action" to protest against skyrocketing electricity, natural gas and food prices and the government's inaction in the face of this perfect storm of crises. The protestors also wanted to draw attention to the sharp hike in the cost of living.

City offficials and senior police Officers said that around 10,000 took part but in line with custom and practice in EU states when commenting on anti EU protests this is probavly a vast underestimate. People from across the country joined the protest, carrying banners reading "Life is much too expensive, we want solutions now," and "Everything is going up except our wages," or chanting "Freeze prices, not people." City traffic and public transportation was disrupted.

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A Belgian opinion poll this week suggested that 64% of respondents are concerned that they will not be able to pay their electricity and gas bills, which have more than doubled over the last year, while 80% of said they are already trying to make energy and water savings.

People are seen protesting skyrocketing energy costs in the middle of the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Sept. 21, 2022. 

People are seen protesting skyrocketing energy costs in the middle of the Belgian capital, Brussels.  (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

"When we go grocery shopping, the weekly shop now costs 20, 30 dollars more at least,  depending on the shop you go to, than this time last year. We are reaching a point where our wallets can’t keep up," said Pascal Kraeso, a citizen of Brussels.

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The Great Genocide: Dutch Govt Plans to Shut Down Up To 3,000 Farms To Comply With Euronazi Union Green Law

posted by Egbert Nohbakkon, 30 November 2022 

Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer have been involved in the fight against globalism ( rebranded  naziism,) since 2005. In that time we have seen news replaced by propaganda, free speech come under attack and censorship become the norm and the ruling elites openly waging war on the rights and liberties, the prosperity and the personal sovereignty of ordinary citizens.

As last we are seeing people waking up, grassrooots resistance movements growing into mass protests and both academics and members of the professions ready to risk their reputations and careers to challenge the lies and the authoritarianism of official narratives. But the attacks go on relentlessly, the latest is on the food we eat, the stuff that sustains life , and the people who produce it ...

AMSTERDAM, the NETHERLANDS - JULY 23: Demonstrators attend a rally of the Netherland In Resistance group sympathizers to support farmers, fishermen and truckers, on Dam Square in Amsterdam on July 23, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Farouk Batiche/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Dutch farmers protest EU anti - farming law. Picture:Mohamed Farouk Batiche/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

As we reported earlier in the year, in order to comply with new, economically suicidal European Union environmental laws the Dutch government’s plans to force the closure of thousands of dairy and livestock farms in order to comply with the latest and most insane to date batch of EU environment laws which aim to limit notrogen as well as Carbon Dioxide emissions. The European Union green agenda directive has been branded as the “Great Reset turned up to eleven”.

Last week the globalist government of  Netherlands National Socialist Prime Minister Mark Rutte finally spelt out its plans to cut nitrogen emissions to in line with the EU’s Natura 2000 programme, which seeks to effectively outlaw agriculture activity near supposedly at-risk wildlife regions across the European Union. In the plans presented by WEF rentboy Rutte, the government will buy out (at a non negotiable price,)  or simply confiscate in the case of farmers who will not sell, between two and three thhousand farms in The Netherlands, starting by as soon as April of 2023.

Even adolf Hitler and his brutal henchmen did not go that far.

The price farmers can expect to be paid for their land has not been set, however, leaks have suggested that it will likely be around 120 per cent of the estimated worth. This is a particularly slimy move because the farmers are being offered a 25% premium on the value of their land in return for compliance against nothing should they stand up to the authoritarian Bullies of Brussels

The government has said that while it hopes the scheme will be voluntarily adopted, if enough farmers refuse the offer, they will embark on forcibly seizing the land from the farmers, who staged mass protests over the summer against the plans.

Saying that there is “no better offer coming, nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal told MPs on Friday that the government would “with pain in the heart” seize the land if necessary.

Commenting on the scheme, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart London: “What this shows you is that the will of the people means nothing to our government. Despite all of the protest and (inter)national backlash, they’re pushing through with what I think are criminal policies.

“Our government doesn’t cater to the wishes of it’s own citizens, it caters to globalist institutions whose interest it is to control the food supply, so they can control us.”

She concluded: “It’s the great reset in full force.”

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced his intentions to cut nitrogen emissions from livestock farms in half by the year 2030 in order to satisfy goals laid out in the European Union’s insane Natura 2000 scheme, which requires that all EU member-states remove industry or farming from areas deemed to be of ecological importance.

It is nothing but an attack on the food security of EU citizens of course, nitogen makes up around 75% of the air we breathe and just as essential to life as Oxygen or Carbon Dioxide. The Dutch government has claimed that in order to meet EU goals, some farms may have to reduce their emissions by as much as 95 per cent which would mean culling their herds by over 50% and that up to 30 per cent of all livestock farms may need to be shut down for good. The threat of shutting down livestock farms is potentially disastrous for the Netherlands economically as the efficiency of the small nation's agricultural sector has made it the largest exporter of meat in Europe and the fifth-largest exporter of dairy produce in the world.

In response to the EU's authoritarian and ill advised scheme, thousands of farmers have regularly staged protests throughout the country, using tractors to shut down motorways and other critical infrastructure. These protests have spilled over into other EU nations with economically significant farming industries.

The attempts to shut down great swaths of the Dutch agricultural sector come amid increasing concerns over food security due to the war in Ukraine, which has traditionally been one of the bread baskets of Europe, growing millions of tons of grain on its vast, almost empty, plains. The Netherlands national farming lobbying group estimates agriculture accounts for 54,000 businesses throughout the country and produced 94.5 billion euros in exports in 2019. It is also the largest employer.

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Minister's Claim That 40% UK Energy Comes From Renewables Is Technically Illiterate

by Xavier Connolly, 29 November 2022

Britain's newly installed Secretary of State for Energy, Grant Shapps, is still learning the job so perhaps we should cut him some slack, but even so a statement he made on our energy supply today shows astounding ignorance of technical details relating to his portfolio.

Answering a question in Parliament this morning about Britain's ability to reach its target of getting 40% of our energy needs from sustainable sources, Shapps sneered that it was not possible for us to reach 40% now as we already get 43% from wind. Unfortunately the sneering sarcasm was misplaced but served to reveal the man in charge of energy policy does not know the difference between energy and electricity.

In fairness to Grant Shapps, he is not alone when it comes to misunderstanding what role renewables play in our national energy supply. Ministers or seldom experts in their own righ on the topic their ministry looks after, instead  receiving briefings from civil servants on matters they are required to pontificate on. And for thirty years Department of Energy civil servants have been promoting wind power above all else as it provides the easiest opportunities for corporate investors and the rich to steal taxpayers money.

We understand that in fact, somewhat inconventiently for Mr Shapps renewables create around a notional 43% of our electricity, not our energy. Even then the figures are dodgy because biomass (i.e. burning wood pellets,) is counted as a renewable even though it takes trees years to grow, takes fertile land away from food production and emits more Carbon Dioxide per ton of fuel than either coal or gas. The true figures on how our electricity is sources are: Gas - 47%, Nuclear - 16%, Wind - 15%, Solar - 7%, Biomass - 7%, and the rest from hydro, coal and other fringe sources.

But that is just electricity and it is easy to understand that confusion in terms between energy and electricity when mainstream media talking heads use them interchangably. However the idea that Britain is almost halfway to being powered completely by renewables adds to the great, green delusion of energy independence. is dangerous in that it fuels the scientific delusion that we are halway to 'net zero' already.

Electricity only accounts for 20% of our total energy supply. The rest comes from filthy fossil fuels, and will for the foreseeable future. So, renewables provide 40% of 20% which is a mere 8% of our energy needs.

As a further necessary point, quite a decent proportion of that 8% comes from burning dirty, CO2 producingt wood pellets and even more comes from nuclear, which though a zero carbon dioxide source is and even bigger bogeyman for the Exstinktion Rebellion crusties than burning old car tyres.

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If you are one of the people who still relies on mainstream media for information, the 'on - message' news reports coming from the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow this week, and during the build up to the conference, might have convinced you that the entire world (barring a few crazy conspiacy theorists,) is signed up to the 'net zero' agenda and believes that destroying the economies of the developed nations while exporting our jobs, business and prosperity to places like India and China is the only way to save the planet. Continue reading >>>

Green dreams of Heat Pumps Continue reading >>>
When Boris Johnson revealed the UK Government plans for achieving 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050 it emerged the much teased clean, green replacement for gas boilers as our main source of domestic heating is to be heat pumps. The Daily Stirrer counters the pseudo-scientific bollocks and reveals this 'new technology has been around for a hundred years.

Extinction Rebellion Wants To Destroy Civilization, Not Just Fossil Fuels
Readers may find it hard to believe but while our attention has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic, other things have been happening. Recently the eco - crusties of EkSTIMKtion Rebellion have elbowed their way back into out consciousness and now, with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, form an unholy trinity of Marxist seditionist groups intent not only on destroying capitalism but destroying civilisation ...

Worst polluting coal and wood fires banned in fight to cut emissions
Domestic coal and certain types of wood are to be banned from sale from next year in a bid to cut air pollution, ministers will announce on Friday.

Is Hatred Of Greta Thunberg Justified?
As the backlash against the Greta Thunberg cult gathers momentum a lot of lefties are asking why the little Climate Warriorette is so hated by so many people. As usual with the left, they are asking the wrong question. Just as they asked, “Why can’t you believe the scientists, when in fact not only is it always legitimate (and scientific,) to question and challenge scientific theory, so it is perfectly rational and logical to challenge the Cult of Saint Greta ....

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