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Hundreds of tractors driven by angry farmers block traffic during protest over plan to cut nitrate levels (Brussels)
Fox News ^ | 3/03/23

Posted on 03/04/2023 12:10:46 PM PST by Libloather

Hundreds of tractors driven by angry farmers protesting a plan to cut nitrate levels converged on Brussels on Friday, creating major traffic disruption in Belgium's capital city.

The BB farmers union and several others combined efforts to gather more than 2,700 farm vehicles, according to Brussels police.

Several major roads in Brussels were closed and police warned that disruptions could last until the end of the day, recommending that people use public transportation instead of personal cars.

The Flemish regional government is struggling to find a deal to cut nitrate pollution over farmers’ objections that it would put many out of business.

Farmers also claim that their trade has to make much deeper cuts than industry and want to see a more equitable spread. Negotiations have lingered for weeks and weakened the regional government of northern Belgium to breaking point.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: belgium; brussels; farmers; nitrate; tractors
Kinda sounds like the chicoms are calling the shots.
1 posted on 03/04/2023 12:10:46 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The west is committing population reduction (suicide).


2 posted on 03/04/2023 12:18:08 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
The west is committing population reduction (suicide).

Unfortunately, I have to agree.

3 posted on 03/04/2023 12:21:36 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: MtnClimber

“The west is committing population reduction (suicide).”

Following pressure from green groups the government in Shri Lanka stopped using fertilizer. Between the sudden inability of the local farms to produce sufficient food and the war in Ukraine, Covid, the entire country is starving. Had the government not sabotaged the local farms they undoubtedly would be in better shape than they are.

One of the reasons Hitler started WWII was to achieve autarchy. That is self-sufficiency. The population structure created by the industrial revolution made self-sufficiency almost impossible. Today after the huge increase in population in countries that do not have good farmland and the other inputs; energy, fertilizer, good soil and appropriate climate will starve if they suddenly “go green.” Most of Europe is rich enough to buy farm products from others, but they will raise the prices of those products and help starve those countries like Pakistan, Shri Lanka and other that have population but not the other ingredients to grow crops. Hardly anything we grow today would be productive enough to export without the use of fertilizer.


4 posted on 03/04/2023 12:31:27 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Gen.Blather

Sri Lanka.


5 posted on 03/04/2023 12:35:09 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Gen.Blather

FWIW - the “government” in Sri Lanka listened to the WEF Ivy-league know-nothing do-gooders. They even offered to use our money (through the UN and other groups) to pay the politicians there to do this in the name of “climate equity” which in realspeak means “we will rape and pillage your country with child slave labor and toxic poison on your lands so that we can feel smug about how “green” we are.”

These people are fools and they will cause even more problems in the future as now they are proposing to block the very sun.


6 posted on 03/04/2023 12:40:47 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: Libloather

WEF and Politicians destroying the food supply

Should help bring on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

First rider, Satan’s anti-messiah


7 posted on 03/04/2023 12:53:46 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Gen.Blather

Sri Lanka is definitely a sign of what’s to come


8 posted on 03/04/2023 12:55:17 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Libloather

Meanwhile, two countries demonstrate how to, and how not to, keep the lights, air conditioning, and heat on.

India announced they are ramping up and mining more and more coal. At least 70% of their electricity comes from coal, and their goal is more and more electricity. (Foxconn just announced their intention to build one of their huuuge iPhone factories in India. Companies do not build factories in places with unreliable electricity)

The other example, in this case, what NOT to do, is South Africa. The Marxist ANC took over in the 1990s, and have been driving their country into the ditch ever since. They nationalized the power industry, which is never a way to improve anything. Now they are attempting to adopt the green insanity. They are ceasing the mining of plentiful coal. They already have 12-Hour blackouts, and their power grid is close to collapsing altogether. The resulting looting and civil unrest could lead to civil war. At least South Africa’s carbon footprint will be substantially decreased. The UN will probably vote them an award.


9 posted on 03/04/2023 1:04:04 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: MtnClimber
The west is committing population reduction (suicide).

No.

The globalist billionaire psychopaths behind the Great Reset are committing democide.

10 posted on 03/04/2023 1:24:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Libloather

Ban fertilizer because you don’t need it to dine on bugs and seaweed.


11 posted on 03/04/2023 1:24:53 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber

You will eat nothing and die, thereby achieving Zer0 CO2 emissions.


12 posted on 03/04/2023 1:38:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Zer0 C02 to save Gaia-Erf.


13 posted on 03/04/2023 1:40:58 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Paladin2

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘡𝘦𝘳0 𝘊𝘖2 𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.

Perhaps we should start calling what political elite and WEF types are doing either “Passive-Aggressive Genocide”, “Regulatory Genocide”, “Bureaucratic Genocide”?


14 posted on 03/04/2023 2:27:33 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Libloather

It’s really time to beat the stuffing out of politicians a d activists who purport to tell farmers how to farm

The time to curb stomp these arrogant grifters is before the famine.


15 posted on 03/04/2023 2:48:03 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Libloather

Bkmk


16 posted on 03/04/2023 3:15:14 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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