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2022-07-07 Europe

Holland On The Brink Of Civil War – The Dutch Have Had Enough

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Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Funny thing - I have not seen squat on this in almost any MSM. I don't consume that much, but one would think this is newsworthy considering how much the Dutch actually export in terms of agricultural goods.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-07-07 00:58|| 2022-07-07 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 ^
I don’t have cable. All I see on network news is J6 and global warming. Nothing about the Dutch.

Posted by Xyz 2022-07-07 01:21|| 2022-07-07 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 That’s why you come here, dear Xyz. And the rest of the internet, of course.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-07 02:06|| 2022-07-07 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 The Dutch police fired “warning shots” at tractors the protesters were driving according to DerWelte https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-farmers-protests-over-emission-cuts-resume-after-police-fire-shots/a-62381532

Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2022-07-07 05:28|| 2022-07-07 05:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The concepts of domestic and reliable energy and food sources elude those who demonstratively live in a bubble.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-07 06:59|| 2022-07-07 06:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Last night protesters gathered outside the home of the minister for nitrogen policy, Christianne van der Wal, for the third time in a week. The group dumped a lorryload of manure on the minister’s doorstep and attacked a police car that was parked in the road.

Read more at DutchNews.nl:

Posted by Omiting Theting7288 2022-07-07 07:18|| 2022-07-07 07:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Steps:

1) Eliminate "minister for nitrogen policy."
2) Eliminate gummint that has "ministry for nitrogen policy."

Rinse

Repeat

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-07 07:20|| 2022-07-07 07:20|| Front Page Top

#8 The group dumped a lorryload of manure on the minister’s doorstep

That's a lot of shite. Up to the second storey, maybe the roof

Posted by Glineng White2712 2022-07-07 08:37|| 2022-07-07 08:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Was on a bus tour in Holland a few weeks ago, and the tour guide said the Dutch were the most efficient farmers in earth, with some figures to back it up.

For a little country, with big cities, there was a LOT of farmland!

Posted by Bobby 2022-07-07 08:51|| 2022-07-07 08:51|| Front Page Top

#10 "How much effluent can you safely dump into the North Sea?" By 'effluent' we mean nitrates, phosphates and the like from fertilizers and animal / human excreta. Before you get Red Tides and the like...

The farmers want to farm and the Greens want all human effects to disappear returning the world to a utopian 'pre-human paradise. The Nomenklatura seem to feel they can always 'just import it' -- exporting the problems and Dutch jobs to the Third World. Sound familiar?

Posted by magpie 2022-07-07 08:51|| 2022-07-07 08:51|| Front Page Top

#11 I have meetings most mornings with coworkers over there in the Netherlands and not a single one of them has mentioned anything. I assume a massive divide between the bike riding city-based technocrats and the farmers.

I also wonder with all the bad news that has happened in the last few years if most have just tuned out, deciding to be blissfully unaware rather than go nuts with what is happening.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-07-07 08:52|| 2022-07-07 08:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Dutch online grocer Picnic raises $706 mln from investors, Gates Foundation
https://www.reuters.com/article/netherlands-picnic-idUSL8N2QI22T

Posted by jefe101 2022-07-07 09:02|| 2022-07-07 09:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Remember when tractors were a symbol of freedom and resistance?

June was awesome.

*I saw something that those were no mere warning shots, but real bullets. I still have my hand on the salt, but its starting to look a bit spicy.

Yes, they are mad as a hatter.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-07 11:08|| 2022-07-07 11:08|| Front Page Top

#14

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-07 11:10|| 2022-07-07 11:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Gouda cheese from Holland is good. Aged of course. Hope they get this figured out before I can't find it on the store shelves anymore. Last time I looked I couldn't find it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-07 12:23|| 2022-07-07 12:23|| Front Page Top

#16 "Are they mad?? "

No, they are green. Though that may be the same thing these days.

Posted by Tom 2022-07-07 12:43|| 2022-07-07 12:43|| Front Page Top

#17 More from Slenter Panda4300’s Deutsche Welle link:

The government has appointed an intermediary to lead talks between farmers' organizations and officials drawing up pollution reduction measures.

However, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has ruled out negotiating with farmers responsible for radical protests.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-07 15:48|| 2022-07-07 15:48|| Front Page Top

#18 Rumors of Italian farmers also rallying.

Of course, absolutely nobody wants to talk about Sri Lanka which is where this path will lead.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-07 16:14|| 2022-07-07 16:14|| Front Page Top

#19 Where are the gilets jaunes these days?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-07 16:15|| 2022-07-07 16:15|| Front Page Top

#20 Perhaps someone has a more profitable use for vacant farmland?

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2017/10/dutch-investors-launch-new-marketing-programme-for-nl-tristate-city/

Posted by Classer 2022-07-07 18:11|| 2022-07-07 18:11|| Front Page Top

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