Things Fall Apart II
Food is getting expensive in the European Union. Decades of printing money, raising taxes, and controlling the economy have made everything more expensive. The more money people spend on food, the less they can spend on consumption and investment. European farmers themselves are facing higher prices, and have spontaneously united across Europe to protest their impoverishment by the government. They have even potentially inspired more trucker protests in Canada. They’d be happening in China too, but they have less freedom. Revolutions find fertile ground in hungry bellies and empty pockets.
Influenced by Dutch farmers protesting similar Climate Cult policies in 2019, the current movement was also started by the Dutch in March 2023, resulting in their Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigning in July 2023.[1][2]
Per Saul Zimet, writing for the Foundation for Economic Education on August 31, 2022, in an article title, Why the Dutch Farmer Protest Is Your Cause, Too,[3]
“The Dutch farmer protests started with an initial bout of demonstrations in the Netherlands on October 1, 2019 in response to new carbon emissions reduction legislation that disproportionately impacted farmers.
Then, on June 10 of this year, the Dutch government unveiled more extreme measures targeted directly at the agricultural industry. ‘Farms next to nature reserves must cut nitrogen output by 70%,’ the Economistreported. ‘About 30% of the country’s cows and pigs will have to go, along with a big share of cattle and dairy farms.’”
Per Laura Gozzi, writing for the BBC, on January 26, 2024, in an article entitled, Why Europe's farmers are taking their anger to the streets,[4]
“But, across Europe, discontent is often fuelled by anger with EU policies.
[…]
The revamp includes an obligation to devote at least 4% of arable land to non-productive features, as well as a requirement to carry out crop rotations and reduce fertiliser use by at least 20%.
Many farmers have long argued these measures will make the European agricultural sector less competitive against imports.
They are also worried that inflation has dramatically reduced the value of their direct payments.
‘Farmers are having to do much more... with less support,’ Luc Vernet of Brussels-based think tank Farm Europe told the BBC. ‘They don't see how they can cope any longer.’"
Indeed, these EU wide regulations have now inspired protests in Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Scotland, and as of January 25, France.[5][6][7]
“When France sneezes, Europe catches a cold.”
-Prince Klemens von Metternich, Austrian foreign minister (1809-1848) and Chancellor (1821-1848). Ousted from power by the Spring Revolutions of 1848.
The Spanish have actually already been protesting against their socialist government for months. The farmers of France have blockaded Paris by parking their tractors in the streets. Food is getting into the city, but at a higher price. The people who make the food are making a point that the Parisian proletariat must not exploit the farmer, lest the proletariat lose their bourgeiouse privileges.[8][9]
As the author wrote in Things Fall Apart (April 2022), 1848 (September 2022), and Blowback “Europe” (July 2023), hungry bellies and empty pockets are fertile grounds for revolutions.[10][11][12]
Indeed, The Federal Court of Canada, which rules on the legality of Canadian politics, ruled on January 23 that the restrictions that Justin Trudeau put on people during the lockdowns were illegal, such as shutting down peoples’ bank account if they participated in the Canadian trucker convoy. Inspired by this and the farmers in Europe, Canada looks to be rejoining the revolution.[13][14]
Finally, Chinese farmers and truckers would be joining the protests, but they live in the kind of socialist society that the European oligarchy desires, and they aren’t allowed to protest. As the author wrote in The Opium Wars (January 2022), Blowback “Chinese Tofu Dreg” (August 2023), and Chinese Shadow Banks (August 2023), the Chinese economy is crashing even harder than the European Union’s economy. For example, the Chinese property market is crashing, as evidenced by the historic floods in the Summer of 2023 and Evergrande finally going bankrupt (again).[15][16][17][18]
Food is getting expensive in the European Union. Decades of printing money, raising taxes, and controlling the economy have made everything more expensive. The more money people spend on food, the less they can spend on consumption and investment. European farmers themselves are facing higher prices, and have spontaneously united across Europe to protest their impoverishment by the government. They have even potentially inspired more trucker protests in Canada. They’d be happening in China too, but they have less freedom. Revolutions find fertile ground in hungry bellies and empty pockets.
[1]https://petersweden.substack.com/p/truth-about-dutch-farmers-protest
[3]https://fee.org/articles/why-the-dutch-farmer-protest-is-your-cause-too/
[4]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68095097
[6]https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1750250876109738035
[7]https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1751627729709985937
[9]https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1750586198236569912
[10]https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/things-fall-apart
[11]https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/1848
[12]https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/blowback-europe
[13]https://theccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/EA-challenge-fed-court-reasons-FINAL.pdf
[14]https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1751517604106191327
[15]https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/the-opium-wars
[16]https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/blowback-china
[17]https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/chinese-shadow-banks