By Jo Nova
For weeks a huge uprising has been building in Germany against NetZero, green tape and rampant taxes. The Germany government gave a partial concession last week, but the protests only grew stronger. Not only are the autobahns and streets grid-locked with thousands of tractors and trucks, but the freight and passenger trains have also stopped in a three day strike. Cargo boats are blocking inland waterways and canals. There is a looming strike of doctors as well, and the cluster of discontent has been labelled “Mistgabelmop ” — the pitchfork mob. Convoys are up to 20 kilometers long, and are widespread. The protests appear to be spreading. There are rumors of protests gathering in support in France. Romania, Poland, and the UK
Pierre Gosselin, at NoTricksZone in Germany, writes “Never in postwar history has a ruling government been so unpopular“.
The things the BBC/ABC/CBC/NPR/etc didn’t tell you on the news tonight can be found in five minutes on Twitter. Vive Free Speech. Thank you Elon. Those who control most of the Western media don’t want the unwashed masses to know about these protests because they fear the protests will spread like wildfire.
“They feel like they are being ruled by people that hate them”
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek
The Wall Street Journal comments that “Radical environmentalists pioneered aggressive protest techniques, but they didn’t have tractors.” Despite the inconvenience, nearly 70% of the German people support the farmers.
One irony, which Britain’s Just Stop Oil or Germany’s Fridays for Future lefties will be too dim to note, is that if everyone who is negatively affected by the costs of net zero starts taking to the streets, the net-zero fantasy will end in a flash. — Joseph C Sternberg, WSJ
Things are so dire the German “traffic light coalition” government is thinking of using more coal. News has leaked that the German Economics Minister has shelved the old “power plant plan” which depended on gas, and is secretly planning on increasing old coal fired “reserve” power. Only in October the plan was to phase out the coal back up for next winter, but already it is clear this won’t work. –– Berliner Zeitung.
The biggest protests in modern German history. What’s happening? Eva Vlaardingerbroek is there. pic.twitter.com/uAtmkUme5Q
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 10, 2024
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Fourth straight day of the German farmers bringing commerce to a standstill. This is in Dessau. pic.twitter.com/GucYvgCi8i
— 🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) January 12, 2024
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BREAKING: German railways have joined the Farmers and Truckers protest
When will the media report on this? pic.twitter.com/3wy4ovII1g
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) January 11, 2024
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🇩🇪 On top of the farmers’ protests, the train drivers have now gone on strike for the next three days paralyzing almost all rail traffic in Germany.
The people are rising up against the globalists and their destructive policies. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/vhOGVyilw9
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) January 11, 2024
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It’s real face #media whole world ,
Mainstream media work only for corporate ,
#India and #Germany_Farmer_Protest#FarmerProtest pic.twitter.com/N3joLmr9II— Tejveer Singh, ਤੇਜਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ (@Tveer_13) January 9, 2024
Breaking News: Rising Together: A Unified Stand for Freedom and Sovereignty Against Globalism is underway.
In an awe-inspiring display of unity and determination, millions of patriots and freedom fighters are converging in Germany, joining the rapidly growing farmer protest.… pic.twitter.com/nmrpkdRmpY
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 12, 2024
The protests are widespread (click to enlarge)
Maps of the widespread protests in Germany Source
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A massive protest mobilisation of German farmers, truckers and train drivers continues against the German government. The economic engine room (producers and transporters) have more power in maintaining a functioning society than politicians.
🇩🇪🚜 🚚 🚊 pic.twitter.com/4VfDKJRnxE— James Melville (@JamesMelville) January 11, 2024
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h/t Tegenwind, Another Ian. Krishna Gans, David E, Jim Simpson, NetZeroWatch and Connor.
Photos adapted from images by PayPal.me/FelixMittermeier from Pixabay and Presentsquare Presentsquare from Pixabay
Leute ohne ahnung willen uns ruinieren.
Clueless people want to ruin us.
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Great to see the people of Germany are not going to accept it!
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Rumours no more Jo.
Polish Government could be Toppled. Hundreds of Thousands take to the streets
Hundreds of thousands of people are now taking to the streets. Within days this could be millions strong with the potential to topple the Polish Government.
They are protesting against the Government of Donald Tusk who they accuse of pursuing Globalist policies pertaining to that of the World Economic Forum and not the people.
Tusk has arrested members of the press who disagree with him and recently stormed the Presidential Palace arresting two opposition Conservative members of parliament.
Poland in crisis as Conservative MPs are arrested after Police storm the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/breaking-polish-government-could-be-toppled-hundreds-of-thousands-take-to-the-streets/
Countries lime Germany and Poland FINALLY learning from their own histories. Even the police have woken up.
More than 10% woken up in Poland then. 😁
“Vot do ve do now zen!?”
– Schvab
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi oi oi! 😎
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An acquaintance with family in an.adjacent country said that people from that country had gone across to add their presence to the protests.
A few days ago here there was discussion about “critical mass”. Are we getting close; will Klaus retreat to WEF HQ and bunker down.
Push back?
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Yes, it was Poland.
Difficult times.
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Perhaps the people should march on Davos and end this once an for all?
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Wir sind die Leute heute!
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Yes, the real people who keep a country running, unlike the so-called elites.
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Vielleicht:
Sie wollen, dass wir tot sind?
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Passenger train strikes are different, they strike for more income, not against gouvernement or Net Zero etc.
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Are we in Australia going to wait until the lights go out, we can see the writing on the wall.
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A particular problem with Australia is that population centres are mostly very far apart and many of those population centres contain greens who won’t sympathise.
Whether the country could therefore achieve a critical mass in order to cause the Australian Government to think again, is debatable.
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Another particular problem with Australia is that truckies and farmers operate on small margins. They can’t afford to engage their very expensive machinery in costly activities that do not give a return.
Also the distances involved are big. Canberra is a long way from everywhere.
If you must stop the traffic, do it with busloads of pedestrians.
Better though, to get noticed without stopping the traffic.
I attended the biggest “demonstration” that Canberra ever saw, organised by the National Farmers’ Federation. The organisers said 50,000 people were there. The “media” said 20,000. I personally counted from memory 37,500 in the “march”, and a lot of people did not engage in the march. So 50,000 was not unrealistic.
It was a well organised one day wonder. It achieved nothing, except that it showed that if you hire a bus long distance travelling doesn’t cost as much as we had imagined.
Had the organisers instead of bringing 50.000 that day brought 5,000 for 10 consecutive days they could not have been ignored.
500 would have been enough.
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I was also there. If I remember correctly Albanese called our demonstration the ” convoy of incontinence’, alluding to the fact that the vast majority of demonstrators were oldish. He was ignorant then and ignorant now.
One of the greatest problems facing a farmer revolt is the fact that much of their produce is time sensitive. Milk doesn’t keep and most fruits and vegetables need to be picked when ready. The best we can do at the moment is to deny access rights to the wind, solar and transmission parasites. Non payment of rates would also enthuse local councils to use their influence with state governments. I’m sure there are other actions that could be taken if we put our mind to it. As was pointed out the elite have to learn that while they may give orders it is the farmers and tradies that make life livable.
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Airbus Albo wasn’t just ignorant, he was malicious. Then and now.
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Lawrie,
I only remember Albanese mocking it as the convoy of no consequence. I don’t think I heard anyone mentioning incontinence, but it turns out that it was said by Labor MP Kelvin Thomson:
Pretty crass, but never mind; things may balance out in the end. Albanese is already a prime minister of no consequence, and Kelvin Thomson could well find himself dealing with incontinence in due course (maybe he is already).
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Why do farmers and truckies feel they have to go to Canberra? Block the Hume Hwy and the New England Hwy outside Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and watch the brown stuff hit the fan.
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Most likely.
The “we” is still well short of a majority. It could be flashing red lights on the some walls and they would not notice. When the fridge goes hot and the food spoils they may get the message.
We now have their ABC complaining about the high humidity in Victoria and monsoon trough over northern Australia adding to Jasper’s tally. This is in a country where the rain was never going to make it to the ground.
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“This is in a country where the rain was never going to make it to the ground.”
And particularly this season, which according to our illustrious BOM, was going to be ‘catastrophically hot & dry, with bushfires and drought’.
So farmers, not doubting the word from on high, began to sell off stock for whatever they could get for it, which in some cases was less than nothing.
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The predictions get the headline, the reality is buried.
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Today in Allantown, capital city of Vicdanistan, we were supposed to have a cool day with no rain. We got plenty of rain, another BOM report that bombed. I remember reading a thread on this blog some time ago that highlighted how the BOM only launches one weather balloon a week whereas most countries launch two. I wonder if that goes some way to explaining why some of their predictions are fairly accurate and others are way off the mark
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Perhaps a bit, but their religion is the BOM’s biggest problem.
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The lights have already gone out (in South Australia 2016 and numerous ‘load shedding’ incidents since then). The question is when are the people going to wake up?
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In regards to farmers, in Australia also, the Government is at war against the farmers and the food supply in general.
Look at how government regulation has dramatically increased the cost of basic foodstuffs like meat, milk, eggs, honey, grains etc.. Not to mention the cost of energy for production, transport and factory processing and even for operating a supermarket. (Many smaller supermarkets have closed because of the huge costs of “green” electricity.)
It’s all part of the plan to transition non-Elites to poverty food like insects. They are already indoctrinating children by feeding them insects in 1000 Australian “schools”. https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/
As tonyb points out, due to the low population density and vast distances in Australia, intense farmer protests are much more difficult to organise.
The typical politician, public serpent, “green” and just about anyone below 50 or so has no clue about where their food comes from or the process, apart from collecting it at the supermarket, or increasingly by home delivery.
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The biggest enemy of Australia’s farmers and regional Australia generally is the National Farmers’ Federation. They are leaders in the Woke Brigade, imagining that farmers can make a living out of trading in the zero sum business of “carbon sequestration”.
There will be some who make a fortune out of it, but others will lose that same fortune when some later event beyond human control takes the cycle back to its beginning.
It would be interesting if someone could calculate the value at the current price of the “carbon” that was returned to our atmosphere in our recent “summer of bushfires”.
“Price”, did somebody say? An awful lot of money has already been invested. There must be a price there somewhere.
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The Lamescream Establishment Misledia are following the same news blackout playbook as they did during the global protests against toxic jab mandates and digital passports. The good news here is that their shameful blackout has itself become news.
This is very encouraging. As Sundance says: “Once you see the strings on the marionettes, you can never go back to the part of the pantomime when you did not”. This means the efforts of the parasite class to shut down free speech on the Internet are doomed, because “official” fake news will never be trusted again. Censoring free speech cannot erase the fake news strings. People awakened by the climate lies and the covid lies will never trust the Establishment Misledia again.
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The Elites who are preparing for what they call “The Event” and Google is going to suppress discussion of that (see videos below).
Privacy and security are fine for the Elites, just not the proles.
Paul Joseph Watson discusses:
Videos:
They know something’s coming.
How The Elites are building bunkers and buying remote islands.
https://youtu.be/vEk79bjYnv0
Google prepares for “the event”.
https://youtu.be/3_q6NOiR5w4
(Not a “conspiracy theory”, evidence provided.)
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I don’t agree. Although the bunkermen would survive an ‘event’ that took down (Western) Civ abruptly, they are well aware that they could not continue to live the enjoyable super-rich lifestyle they currently have once infrastructure fails.
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Nevil Shute – on the beach !
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Steve,
What really had me on the floor, laughing, was the scene from “On the Beach” where people are lined up for their government issue suicide pills. A public service woman is there with a clip board, ticking off names so that nobody can take a suicide pill to which they are not entitled.
I first saw the movie in the 1960s. Since then, my already flavoured image of the dedicated regulator has been tickled pink, so I can not take them seriously. Geoff S
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If you read “Slide Rule” you’ll find that Neville Schute (Norway) had plenty of pithy comments about “things government”
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Very few of the “bunkermen” would survive. The “useful idiots” would perish with the rest.
And that could be by genocide.
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They might even die of “natural Causes” just like the rest of us have to, when our time is up.
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If you take out 90% of the world’s population then society’s infrastructure falls apart and the perpetrators, no matter how wealthy or prepared have no quality of life. But if a series of viruses every few years, against which the perpetrators are vaccinated, each takes out 10%…
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“Once you see the strings on the marionettes, you can never go back to the part of the pantomime when you did not”.
Granted, from the western viewpoint. What about from the eastern Art of War viewpoint? What if we have all been drawn ito a bunraku performance? Wiki gives the run down on this ancient art form and includes the following comment:
“All but the most minor characters require three puppeteers, who perform in full view of the audience, generally wearing black robes.”
Three puppeteers performing in full view of the audience…. UN/WHO, WEF and Big Pharma….. no strings attached.
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Similar protests in the Netherlands produced regime change – this has not gone unnoticed.
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Oh the irony
German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.
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And look at all that Brown Coal in Sicktoria and SA. Let alone all the undiscovered Hydrocarbon wealth that Australia has as well as the Gas that has already been locked up by ‘Stoopid Corrupt Pollies’.
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I think the Dutch farmer’s huge protest and political shift has made the rest of the EU sit up and take notice, but the Greens layabouts will still be hoping to outlast them.
I just hope the German farmers have the strength and organisation to fight and can sustain this for many weeks and months if they have to and force the govt to wake up.
Let’s hope it spreads to other countries and they can shift the voters. A big task I know but the Dutch farmers have proven that a political shift is possible.
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I also hope the German farmers can stay the distance in their fight.
Rheinhard Jung (Free Farmers spokesman – Germany), stated this on 9th January 2024:
“The fact that the German government is unilaterally selling a tax increase against the only industry that is largely climate neutral, namely agriculture, which mainly uses solar energy…(and selling the tax increase) as a reduction in climate-damaging subsidies – That’s abysmally dishonest.”
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If these were BLM protests we’d be getting 24/7 blanket coverage.
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I wonder what Putin thinks of this development. He has put so much effort into reducing Germany’s industrial might. Is he concerned that the de-industrialisation of Germany may reverse? Or is the process now well established and cannot be reversed?
Some of German manufacturing has already moved from Germany but Germany has restored its trade surplus since the gas shock in 2022.
How hard are Germans being hit by cost of living? Household savings in Germany are way higher than in Australia now. Australia’s high immigration could be a factor there but savings have collapsed in the past two years. Almost negative again now.
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I recently watched an episode of “The Grand Tour” that was filmed in Germany. The audience was asked what they would do if the road rules were changed in a strange way. The audience were unanimous in declaring they would follow whatever stupid law was enacted. So to see German farmers fight back is much bigger than the event itself for it means they have changed their attitude to authority, a real shift.
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No one knows what Putin is thinking. No one knows what Xi is thinking.
That’s one of the powers they use for their own advantage.
Personally, I think that Putin would have been perfectly happy to keep selling his Gaz to Germany and Europe by whatever pipeline. However, now there’s such deep distrust that I believe Germany should not expect to ever do regular trade with Russia again.
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The German companies that have partnered with Chinese manufacturers in China are no doubt buying inputs from Russia.
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For a long time, many have had suspicions that their governments are moving toward tyranny.
Governments that push folk to this point, may decide to provide confirmation.
Trucker trials in Canada, J6 trials below.
I see nothing.
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Iirc, the Canadian truckers took good care to provide ways through their trucks in the cities, to ensure access for emergency vehicles and people going about their legitimate business. They also provided food for the homeless. They were treated disgracefully by the PTB.
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Correct, Annie, despite media and police propaganda, the Canadian truckers did not block any street nor prevent businesses from remaining open. They provided a lot of food too, not just to the homeless but to everyone downtown. It was an entirely peaceful protest apart from one or two obviously paid infiltrators and agitators. The positive vibration of the whole area was just incredible. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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Forgive me for saying it but, although I support their position, these farmers and truckers have no more right to block public thoroughfares than the idiots.
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There is a difference. The truckers are actually protesting things that impact them personally. Climate alarmists have never personally been impacted by anyone expelling CO2.
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Farmer and truckies are protesting to save their livelihoods, Climate Botherers are protesting to support their ideology, there is a big difference.
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The left disrupt everyone as much as they can, as often as they can. It’s one of their standard techniques for getting their way and for bringing down non-left governments. And they know that the non-left is always very reluctant to disrupt other people. The left see this as a weakness, I see it as a strength. Nevertheless, when a tin-eared left government goes altogether too far and starts destroying people’s lives, and it’s a while till the next election, what are the non-left to do? It’s a difficult issue, caused by government pushing people to breaking point.
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It zuks, and forgive me for saying, but we are all idiots.
Sometimes folk are forced to choose a tribe.
The problem exposed here, is that the governments are the tribe of the idiots you reference.
🙂
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They have the right to strike in the way thy do, it’s absolutely legal, and 70% of citizens are behind the strike.
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Lots of downthumbs here, but it’s actually a really important philosophical and strategic point. I am contemptuous of the inconveniences and mayhem the Climatsturm Abteilung nincompoops cause, because I consider their strategy impossible, illogical and unnecessary, and their knowledge of climate science and trends negligible. Farmers, on the other hand, perform a vital sine qua non societal function, which is to feed us all, and many in other poorer countries as well. They are therefore justified in causing mayhem and inconvenience, as I see it. However, the other side would see things in completely the opposite way. How do we arbitrate fairly beforehand who shall be justified in causing massive inconvenience to the public, and therefore get a green light, and who shall not, and are therefore to be swept off the roads or arrested?
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IainC of The Ponds,
You might be over-thinking it. The ratbag protests start with a few, and stay that way. The legitimacy of the German, Canadian, Dutch, French … protests comes from the fact that the few become many spontaneously. There are a *lot* of discontented people and the media and governments don’t want to see it.
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One group is trying to drag society down, the other lift society up.
We are all going to have to make sacrifices soon, it’s not just the farmers fight, it’s the peoples fight, this is our food supply.
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Quick, Albo! Send Chris Bowen, Adam Bandt and Tim Flannery, each armed with “strongly-worded statements”, to Germany, to sort out these protesters!
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This is being completely ignored by the MSM in the USA. Not a peep.
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Here in Oz also – “they” are a formidable force; politicians, the bureaucracy, big business, NGO’s, academia, teachers, media, arts/entertainment, unions etc all in lockstep, all obeying the New World Order agenda. All “we’ have is the numbers. Perhaps France 1789-94 is instructive, more likely Rome in the 5th Century AD alas. We have more Neros than Robespierres.
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Adellad,
But what motivates them?
Kids around me joined the Argonauts because, mainly, other kids exerted peer pressure, probably without knowing it. Like reflex actions that led boys to do what boys did, girls did what girls did. (There were but 2 flavours back then).
Are all those people going green because of subliminal mutual peer preßure? Fear of not being invited to dinner if to do not talk the current trendy talk, be it tulips or tea leaves in caddies or South Sea Island investments?
For the life of me, I cannot discern the motivation. Any ideas? Hard to fight it when you do not know what it is.
Geoff S
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Geoff. We had two stations, the ABC with the Argonauts and a commercial with the Phantom, Sea Hunt, Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. Being adventurous the latter got my vote. After the serials it was off to help dad feed the calves and wash out the dairy.
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The revolution will not be televised.
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But it will be recorded, by many..
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No doubt the Canadian truckers ( truckies in Australia) set the precedence for this protest. Plus , of course the French farmers who have for decades performed similar protests. Sometimes accompanied by big manure dumps/ sprays at government or politicians offices. The French farmers protests were usually against any reductions in farm subsidies, but now in Germany it’s expanded to higher taxes and further impositions on farm businesses. Australia – yep, WA farmers years ago virtually shut down Perth one morning with bridge blockages. I’ve mentioned this before , so apologies for the repeat. As the saying goes , never criticize a farmer with your mouth full!!
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Jo, you need to get with it darls. It’s X not Twitter.
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You can still use twitter.com for the domain.
Why should Jo change if they haven’t?
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That is an X parrot!!!
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German protests have wheels on the street,
Truck and tractors in a massive long fleet,
A great ‘pitchfork’ convoy,
The despised hoi polloi,
By the media and the global elite.
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‘A unified stand for freedom and sovereignty against globalism is underway.’ (Ferguson)
A revolution has begun in China and the workers are leading the charge, all they ask for is freedom and democracy. The MSM is totally ignoring the collapse of the CCP, the blackshirt security is being overwhelmed my a massive uprising.
“Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl.
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Total BS
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You do defend the CCP regularly don’t you Steve? Be nice if you had a reason here.
How do you know this is wrong? Have you got a hotline to the CCP secret police files or just reading different twitter accounts to El G?
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Whoever makes big claims has responsibility to provide evidence. China doesn’t care about what some guy on a blog believes is true … but for our own sake might be qorth trying not to believe every sensational idea that gets rolled out.
https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/interactive/protest-tracker
Nothing showing up in that list, other that some Chinese Muslims grumbling about renovations … hardly about to change the world.
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People are finally uprising against the Net-zee party!
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The three trolls seem to be on holidays. How much leave are they likely to get in their contract?
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A Fritz Protest Blitz! Meanwhile, Aussie Sheep Don’t Give A Peep
By that I don’t so much mean farmers as the general populace. Other commenters have remarked on how protests such as those in Germany are harder to coordinate in Australia due to distances between major cities. The main point of concern is that farmers here are undermined by governmental policies before the rest of the population realises what is going on
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Don’t listen to the ABC but inadvertently, at someone else’s home,
heard it, carpet to carpet, minute by minute messaging, it nevah-let-up –
Climate Change, Covid, blah blah blah, think this, do that’… Not livin’
in the Age of Aquarius, instead we’re livin’in the Age of Propaganda.
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Good stuff. I hope it spreads to Belgium. Our politicians need a good lesson.
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Current temperatures from Alberta, Canada suggest that the greenhouse effect from years of CO2 emissions is negligible.
https://weather.gc.ca/provincialsummary_table/index_e.html?prov=ab&page=hourly
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https://twitter.com/therealkeean/status/1746349920188002442?s=51&t=JQmXS6FtM8RkgF0lWwt4_A
Threat of rolling blackouts in Alberta tonight.
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I was just told that it has spilled over into France now. Dump truck loads of manure are being dumped on Paris’s streets I was just told.
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https://rmx.news/germany/the-vast-majority-of-germans-back-farmer-protests-despite-far-right-label-from-media-and-the-left-2/
Put rmx.news on your daily reading list so that you get the news from Europe told in a way that the MSM will never tell it.
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Globalists: “We’re gonna take away your food!”
Everyone Else: “Eff Off!”
Hubristic over-reach in action.
The archilles heel of those drunk on power inviting chaos …
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It’s been noted that most of the “Green” voters are in a few areas of the larger conurbations/cities. Such places are especially vulnerable to e.g. blockades of supermarket distribution centres. Several farmers’ unions have indicated that such blockades are the next stage unless the government reverses the imposts on farmers.
Germans in the smaller cities and towns are more engaged with rural life and will be more flexible in getting food onto their plates.
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This is big, but not even The Australian seems to be talking about it.
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And SILENCE from the msm, they can see their woke net zero fall apart.
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I just hope that
farmers’ protest in Germany succeeds.
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