Posted on 03/31/2024 10:28:07 PM PDT by RandFan
... The challenges farmers cite include E.U. requirements to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers, now partly dropped in light of the protests. Europe’s decision to open its doors to cheaper Ukrainian grain and poultry in a show of solidarity added to competitive problems in a bloc where labor costs already varied widely. At the same time, the E.U. has in many cases reduced subsidies to farmers, especially if they do not shift to more environmentally friendly methods.
German farmers have attacked Green party events. This month, they spread a manure slick on a highway near Berlin that caused several cars to crash, seriously injuring five people. Spanish farmers have destroyed Moroccan produce grown with cheaper labor. Polish farmers are enraged by what they see as unfair competition from Ukraine.
French farmers, who vented their fury against President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair — where politicians regularly pat the backsides of bulls to prove their bona fides — say they can scarcely dig a ditch, trim a hedge, or birth a calf without confronting a maze of regulatory requirements.
Fabrice Monnery, 50, who owns a 430-acre cereal farm, is among them. The cost for his electrified irrigation more than doubled in 2023, and his fertilizer costs tripled, he said, as the war in Ukraine increased energy prices.
“At the start of the war, in 2022, our economy minister said we were going to destroy Russia economically,” he said. “Well, it’s Russia’s war in Ukraine that’s destroying us.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dnyuz.com ...
The idiot Globalists and the idiot Greenies will bring on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Along with the Just Stop Oil people. Complete idiots; immature children that don’t understand what it takes to feed a world.
All according to Satan’s plan:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1 - White Horse): World “political leader/messiah” - The Antichrist
2 - Red Horse): Global War
3 - Black Horse): Famine through high prices
4 - Pale Horse): Pestilence (disease through hunger, fighting and the beasts of the Earth)
Revelation 6:1-8
King James Version
1) And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6%3A1-8&version=KJV
The farmers are doing blockades and protesting very loudly across Europe.
I wonder if it will make a difference?
There is definite pushback
Bfl
[There is definite pushback]
Very good. There needs to be.
Bookmarking for later.
Sounds about right!
No, it's not.
It's your corrupt, immoral government that is destroying you.
Question: in your opinion, why does the voice instruct the rider of the black horse “see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”?🍷
I have some thoughts on that, but I’d like others’ insights.
Oil and Wine (as I’ve been instructed) were noted to be items generally relegated to the more affluent; not generally the poor.
So the rich will get to have their food, their wine, etc. because high costs will not be prohibitive for them.
The poor, of course, will suffer due to the high prices. Some perhaps even to the point of starvation.
We see this today: the wealthy really don’t care that we poor slobs are paying more for gas under Joe Biden, more for food, more for EVERYTHING.
Hence the deceitfulness of riches; I am reminded of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
Hence the “a loaf of bread for a day’s wage and a day’s wage for a loaf of bread” (or “a measure of wheat”)
A Day’s Wages for a working-class slob - not the rich
The Rich Man and Lazarus
The Rich Man ate very well and slept in a nice bed
The Rich Man was dressed in fine clothes; purple was expensive which is why it was like royalty.
Luke 16:19-31
King James Version
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2016%3A19-31&version=KJV
RWC, ping to post 5.
Thanks for posting that, Maudeen
Have you considered that oil and wine both represent the Holy Spirit? Perhaps this rider on the black horse has restrictions on who he can impact.
Oil definitely is the Holy Spirit in the parable of the Ten Virgins.
IMHO
Given Who He is I don’t personally believe that He needs any protection (IMHO once again.)
God bless
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