Dutch Farmers Topple Agriculture Minister Leading Radical Climate Agenda
The Netherlands’ agricultural minister Henk Staghouwer has been forced to resign following widespread protests from Dutch farmers over his radical climate agenda that seeks to destroy their livelihoods.
Staghouwer was leading the Dutch agriculture ministry’s climate policy that involved confiscating farms in a forced government buy-out scheme.
In the wake of the huge protests from farmers, Staghouwer has now been forced to step down.
He told the Dutch cabinet that pushback from farmers had meant he would not be able to meet a September deadline for rolling out the government’s radical green policy, the AP reported.
The climate agenda involves cutting nitrogen emissions from the nation’s farming sector to the point where it made it impossible for farms to continue operating.
The initiative includes a $24.2 billion scheme to buy out local farmers and facilitate the transition away from intensive farming practices.
The push provoked mass demonstrations by farmers across the continent.
“Farmers and fishermen need certainty,” Staghouwer said in a statement to his ministry Monday evening, NL Times reported.
The farming sector faced a massive upheaval due to emissions reduction goals, he added.
In July, over 40,000 farmers took to the streets in protest of the policy, blocking roads with tractors and defacing government officials’ homes.
Sympathizers elsewhere in Europe staged protests in solidarity with the Dutch farmers, arguing that such a policy is counterproductive amid highly elevated inflation levels and food shortages.
“I asked myself the question, ‘Am I the right person as Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality to lead the tasks that lie ahead?’,” Staghouwer said after nine months in office, according to NL Times.
“Last weekend, I came to the conclusion that I am not that person.”
Staghouwer said he required more time to develop proposals for a future sustainable agriculture industry ahead of the government’s budget formation earlier on Monday.
He added that he wanted to wait until ongoing talks between his office and industry representatives had come to a conclusion, NL Times reported.
Staghouwer faced criticism from the parliament for failing to develop a concrete plan to help the sector transition to farming practices that lower nitrogen emissions, according to DutchNews.nl.
Officials within his department also resisted plans to revamp the farming industry.
The Dutch government mandated a 50 percent reduction in nitrogen emissions by 2030, tasking individual municipalities to figure out how best to meet that goal, Deutsche Welle reported.
Livestock farming accounts for 40 percent of emissions in the country.
The policy could see up to a third of livestock farmers put out of business.
The Netherlands is the world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural products and the European Union’s largest meat exporter, according to CBS News.
Protests continued through July.
Bart Kemp, the foreman of the farmers’ interest group Agractie Nederland, told NL Times that farmers said Staghower had “little concrete vision in him” and “faced an impossible task.”
Staghouwer’s predecessor, Carola Schouten, temporarily took over his position while a replacement is determined from Staghouwer’s party.
“Schouten has never attached any value to a good relationship with the farmers,” Kemp told NL Times.
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Editor’s note: you have to wonder why it is being made this difficult for farmers to continue in business, unless the intention is to deliberately create food shortages.
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paula
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this is a real win win. hoorah!!!!!
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Ken Hughes
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But the EU directive persists and will need to be defeated/withdrawn.
I do not understand the significance of N2 emissions regarding environmental considerations. The Atmosphere is 77% N2 so emissions have no effect at all. Do they mean nitrogen compounds? In which case, they should identify them to be clear what the alleged problem is. But then, maybe they don’t want their alleged problem to be put under the microscope of debate?
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Ken Hughes
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I just researched the UN document, “Why nitrogen management is key for climate change mitigation”.
The following is an excerpt; –
“While relatively little research has been done specifically on how improved management of the nitrogen cycle can have beneficial effects in terms of mitigating global heating, experts believe practical steps are possible.”
Well fuck my holy boots!
It seems we are to be starved to death on the basis of a completely unproven scare. Mind you, that’s just the same as the CO2 fiasco.
These buggers have to be stopped and soon.
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Whokoo
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Well, I don’t really want to, but, where do you keep your holy boots?
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Heretic Jones
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Does no one see and understand his hand gesture?
Do you not understand that the jesuits are in total control and will replace this shill with another of their selecting?
This is not a win. There is no political solution. Just as instructed in the talmud, amalek is being systematically destroyed. Wake up Western man.
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JoeBlog
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Notice the Illuminati raute triangle hand sign done by this globalist toady, which Angela Merkel was also well known for doing on a regular basis.
These politicians are nothing more than sock puppets for the international banksters.
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Pierre-D Bernier
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Not only is the atmosphere 78% N2, N2 is an absolutely symetrical molecule. N=N. This means that it does not even absorbe IR radiation, even less retain it ! It’s all puppet sock bull shit !
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Joseph Olson
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The Nitrogen boogie bear is NO2, Nitrous Oxide which us 0.33 PPM in the atmosphere, absorbes IR in the 173 to 240 nanometer range, per Wien’s Law -110°F to 83.9°F with ZERO warming potential. Urine and manure produce NH3 and NO2 making grass fed livestock a symbiotic food source for protein, necessary for advanced lifeforms, which are dangerous for plutocrats
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Pierre-D Bernier
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Nitrogen oxides dont accumulate in the atmosphere anyway. They are precipitated to the surface of the earth as nitric acid which is neutralized arriving in the alcaline ocean. It’s all fear mongering politics.
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sunsettommy
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From the article is this insanity that only socialist authoritarians would love to shove down our throats.
“The Dutch government mandated a 50 percent reduction in nitrogen emissions by 2030, tasking individual municipalities to figure out how best to meet that goal, Deutsche Welle reported.”
This is pure politics in their effort to control people since the atmosphere already at 78% naturally doesn’t imperil anyone but is a source of nitrogen for the plant which helps feed the people which politicians wants to control to reduce population.
More and more governments of the world have become enemy for your life.
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Wisenox
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Its all part of the Resurrection Script.
The announcement of the queen’s passing coincides with the 3rd seal of Revelations:
https://i.postimg.cc/MTPLtZs5/3rd-seal-revelations.png
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VOWG
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I doubt that the idiots will back off because of that. It will take real violence in the street by people who are hungry. You don’t want to go there. History is a nasty master.
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Kevin Doyle
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As pointed out by others, both Nitrogen and CO2 are necessary for plants and seafood to grow.
Some folks are born with mental disabilities, over which they have no control.
This, on the other hand is willful dementia, and willful causing harm to others.
We really are in a war against these zombies of Satan…
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Máire Úna Ní Bheaglaoich
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This page is an eye-opener and proves that people working together to keep food on the table,away from the demented,controlling ,dystopian billionaires with their million-dollar suits,can prevail and we can live a Normal life after the pandemic.
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Brian James
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monkey*poops
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i agree. this is not a win situation. they will put another poppet that will execute the agenda. it got nothing to do with environment and all to do with sick philosophy oh ruling elite: too much people, lower the living standard and make people dependent from the government. then you can force them to do everything they otherwise wouldn’t
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