NICK POPE
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German farmers began a week of protest against the government on Monday to push back against subsidy cuts that they say could put them out of business, according to The Associated Press.
Large convoys of trucks and tractors lined streets all over the country on Monday morning, including in the street leading to Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, as farmers are standing up to the liberal-green coalition government for its moves to phase out tax breaks for agricultural vehicles and diesel fuel, according to the AP. Farmers are enraged that the government is looking to eliminate the subsidies, a decision which they say would threaten their ability to remain in business.
The German government opted to eliminate the subsidies to help plug a 17 billion euro gap in the 2024 budget, according to the AP. Officials have since offered to amend their proposal to gradually phase the subsidies out by 2026, but the farmers are still strongly opposed to the decision. (RELATED: Country On Green Transition’s Leading Edge Will Fire Up Coal Plants To Meet Demand This Winter)
The Alternative for Germany (AfD), a conservative populist opposition party that has seen a surge in popularity as Germany’s economy has struggled, is supporting the protests, according to the AP. Meanwhile, the government is warning that the farmers’ protest movement may be co-opted and infiltrated by far-right wing elements.
The liberal-green governing coalition, led by Prime Minister Olaf Scholz, has seen its support fall precipitously since 2021, with a majority of polled Germans stating in December 2023 that they want a change in leadership and early elections, according to Bloomberg News.
Germany has spent vast sums of money to facilitate a green energy transition, but the country is still on track to miss its climate targets. Officials also moved to shut down the country’s remaining nuclear plants in April 2023 amid concerns about the long-term adequacy of energy supply, while its gross domestic product is thought to have shrunk in 2023 and expected to show weak growth in 2024, according to International Politics and Society.
Environment and Energy Minister Robert Habeck warned in June that Germany may have no choice but to deliberately diminish its industrial capacity if its current natural gas deal with Russia expires in 2024 without a replacement in place.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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Of course it’s always the ‘far right’ who will be conjured up to taint the protests. Never mind the real fascists, those who push their own ideology down our throat, are in fact in the government.
Looks like green Germany is finally reaching the breaking point. Countrywide protests imply serious organization and widespread discontent.
The peasants have too much! Take away more, or we will miss our climate targets!
The deaths that are happening due to green energy and the price of keeping warm will explode in Europe as these ignorant liberals sabatoge the food source as well. Those that pushed hardest toward ending fossil fuel use will suffer first and more than more cautious countries. I can’t say I’m unhappy that America has Germany as a bad example . Hopefully a house cleaning is coming in the elections in November .
We need to increase our hydro electric power sources along with the new technology driving the nuclear industry. When the alarmists refused to accept hydro electricity as a “green energy” we should have all seen it was never about saving the planet .
Let’s see if I’ve got this right? The German government imposes a massive tax on transportation fuels. Then they rebate a portion of that tax to farmers who are using the fuel not for transport over roads and bridges but merely to operate agricultural equipment on their own land. And that is called a ‘fossil fuel subsidy’.
Likely if all the climate activists came out to the farms, planted the crops, weeded them, collected and spread manure, harvested, flailed, and winnowed the grain…..all for the same cost as the farmer’s equipment payments, and diesel fuel, then the only thing the farmer would have to complain about is the weather….
Without more information it is difficult for me to assess what it is about.
(There are many links given. I can’t read them all without direction.)
Are the “subsidies” just “non-taxation”?
Is the fuel usage by farmers treated as a legitimate business cost. Or has the government simply defined it as evil fossil-fuel consumption and therefore extra taxable in order to save the planet at any cost?
Message to rampant far left Greens, never mess with a convoy of farmers on big tractors towing muck spreaders behind their tractors.
If you do, the old saying when the shit hits the fan will become very meaningful to you, and your shouty anarchist followers.
Remember that ‘Far Right’ means anyone who does not subscribe to leftie fascist agenda – you know, normal people.
It’s actually not as straight-forward a situation as the article indicates. The federal budget and constitutional courts are involved.
Wow, looks like an insurrection to me. Has the Bundesministerium started to round up the usual suspects yet?
> phase out tax breaks for agricultural vehicles and diesel fuel
Understand these “subsidies” are actually partial relief from crushing taxes.
Germany certainly has the populace trained for dependency on the EU government. Of course, when you start take away self-sufficiency, and then you start taking away the benefits of socialism, the populace gets a little angsty.
Today the farmers. Tomorrow the factory workers. Pretty soon you’ll have the Lenin/Stalin ideal (and likely Russian and Chinese leadership in place over the EU).
Someone help me understand how taking less taxes than you want is a subsidy? The money taken from the farmer is his. Taking less from him is not subsidizing him, it is robbing him less.
These stinking politicians need to get out of town.
Story tip – Poets Play the Carbon Game – PJ Media
“With regard to the farmers’ protest week that started on Monday, the Chancellor said: “Criticism is part of democracy. It is necessary and part of it. Nobody should complain about it. I certainly don’t.” Scholz added: “Of course, the end does not justify all means. In view of the concessions made by the German government, which has already reversed some of the cuts to agricultural diesel following protests, it is therefore important “that moderation and moderation are now maintained”. This should also be a concern of democrats, “especially in times like these” (dpa).
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Chancellor Scholz forgot (he is best qualified for) to mention, that “times like these” we have only thanks to his and his colleagues policy…
To all intents, this The End for the EU
Going way way back to (end of) WW2 and the powers that be in Europe realised what a near scrape it had all been, esp with regard to food supply.
i.e. How Europe was so at the mercy of U-Boats and Atlantic convoys.
That was the realisation and hence, the EEC came into being as a primary means to ‘help’ the farmers grow lots and lots of stuff so that Europe would never again be beholden to anyone else for the supply of munchies.
Helped by immense amounts of cheap nitrate coming from then redundant munitions factories at end of ’45 (odd innit that that’s when the CO₂ curve really starts ramping up) and mega new farm machinery, they got what they wanted.
And a whole load more, hence wine-lakes, butter and beef mountains, oceans of olive oil etc etc thro the early 70’s
It wasn’t as if The Farmers saw very much of the bureaucracy’s generosity, it was much more of a stick than a carrot and anyway, the cronies in the machinery, seeds, feeds and chemicals got all the money. And land agents from the skyrocket values of farmland.
Now see what we have, they have completely turned against the farmers.
The very origin, the whole Raison d’Etre of the entire EU is now being scrapped.
Why: Because it has become such a huge and voracious self-serving monster – the parasite is killing the host.
All this is about are the legions and legions of fat-cat bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg trying to save their own necks – just like Terminator in the molten metal.
Plus ten times more professional lobbyists and 100 times more bloated cronies
Nothing Else Matters, apart from protecting/continuing insanely cushy ‘jobs’ and fine wines in cosy restaurants all around Brussels – despite all the fine words and utter BS
“Far right wing” haha, even kindergarten students could do better than that.
Wait till Macron tries similar in France – German/Dutch peasants are soft & cuddly teddy bears compared French farmers….
Putin and Xi will be laughing their plonkers off.
Brandon would be as well if he knew what day-of-the-week it is and where his defence minister was – even just random guess would be nice.
These farmers don’t fool around, I saw a clip on FB where a protestor sat down in front of one of the farm tractors and raised his hand in a stop gesture, the farmer simply lowered his front end loader bucket and scooped the protestor up and kept on going. Score one for the farmer.
When the food shortages start they’ll blame it on excess population, that’s the plan.
Subsidies? Gasoline tax is to fund roads. The drivers on those roads pay taxes on fuel to support the roads they drive on. Farmers do not drive their vehicles on the roads but on fields to produce food. This tax was never meant to be paid by farmers. This is the same here in US. Green idiots need money to pay their outlandish schemes.
Germans go to the polls in a federal election 2025. The election could be held as early as August 2025, but more likely in the late Autumn.
The current Social Democratic/Green coalition should be thrown out then. Like other European countries, people have had a gutful of the green / renewable / climate nonsense.
The German election may coincide or be very close to the Australian federal election that is due September 2025, unless called earlier.
Both current German & Australian nutty green/ideological governments should lose office then.
Since Germany is forced to pay through the nose for US Molecules of Freedom, after NATO bombed the NordStream pipelines, the Budged could not work.
So the Constitutional Court ruled the so-called Debt-Brake applied.Meaning money had to be looted from somewhere, the farmer because COVID money could not be.
Chancellor Scholz still claims Russia stopped the delivery.
Add to that Ukraine – that was supposed to be solved by May 2022, as EU’s Ursula van der Leyen said Russia’s economy would be in TATTERS by then with sanctions. US Ukraine funding likely going to Israel, means Germany gets the Ukraine bill.
Germany’s economy is in TATTERS. Now France’s Prime Minister just resigned. Russia’s economy is doing fine. Ukraine is in TATTERS.
Farmers blocked all kinds of roads, even autobahn exits. And Rail strikes are planned this week.
Something very suspicious – US Defense Sec. Austin went AWOL for weeks.
Tractor banner here :
“Without blood one would be white”
“Without air would one be blue”
“Without a brain would one be Green”
From the article: “Meanwhile, the government is warning that the farmers’ protest movement may be co-opted and infiltrated by far-right wing elements.”
This is standard leftwing propaganda. They always try to demonize their opponents by making them out to be extremists.
In this instance, the lefties want you to equate “far-right wing elements” with Adolf Hitler.
They don’t ever limit it to “right-wing, it’s always “far-right wing”, as they are intentionally promoting the idea that the Right is extreme.
It’s ironic: The extreme Left trying to characterize the Right as extreme. They always do it whether it is appropriate or not. It’s part of the leftwing rhetoric (SOP).
DEEP OCEAN VOLCANOS CAUSE CONTINUOUS, PERIODIC GLOBAL WARMING BY EL NINOs
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-periodic-global-warming
EXCERPT
Self-Destruction of the West?
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This study shows, the existence of the UAH satellite measurements started in 1979, world temperature increases have been increasing, step-by-step, and are dominantly due to El Niños, and their after effects.
The sun and moon and tectonic plate movement are driving forces of El Niños.
We must adhere to the golden rule of causality of real science: observe, measure and repeat.
In reality, CO2 does not play the slightest role here.
The IPCC climate models are based on political pseudo-science and are therefore worthless.
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A Simplified Calculation to Put Matters in Perspective
From Image 7, it can be concluded, a very strong El Niño produces a lower atmosphere temperature jump across the entire Earth of approximately 0.3 C.
E = K x T^4, where K = 5.670367 x 10^-8 is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant
Taking the derivative delivers:
dE= 4 x K x T^3 x dT = 4 x 5.670367^-8 x 288^3 x 0.3 = 1.625 W/m2
If the Earth were to absorb this energy flux as radiation, the Stefan-Boltzmann equation indicates, this corresponds to a radiation effect of 1.625 W/m².
Watt = Joule/second
That is 829 TW for the total earth surface of 510,100,000 km², or an annual energy production of 26,143 EJ (Exajoules).
Annual human primary energy production for all uses was estimated at about 557 EJ
A single, very strong El Niño produces a warming effect on the lower atmosphere 26143/557 = 47 times stronger than the annual CO2 emissions of the human annual primary energy.
For perspective,
1) The annual human CO2 emissions, plus some other IPCC factors, increased the temperature of the lower atmosphere by 0.5 C , in 45 years. See Image 7
2) An El Niño (weak to very strong) can occur, on average, every 3.6 years, each contributing to lower atmospheric warming to a far greater extent than the annual human CO2 emissions. See Images 1 and 9
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Conclusion
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The impact of human CO2 emissions from annual primary energy on Earth’s temperature is extremely small.
It compares to just one of the many active volcanic, submarine hot spots (weak to very strong), estimated at 5,000 in the world, of which the El Niño heat source often is a strong one. See Image 1
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It is completely self-destructive for the Western world to impose restrictions on CO2 emissions that have only a small, not even marginal impact, on world atmospheric temperatures, as accurately measured by satellites
The human primary energy CO2 emissions are completely insignificant compared to the external thermal influences to which the earth is subjected.
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All politicians and activists have been warned: the earth, moon, sun and celestial bodies will never listen to capricious rules and legislation imposed by them on the earth’s inhabitants.
AP tells us the fight is over a ‘subsidy’ on diesel fuel farmers have enjoyed. AP must have a strange definition of subsidy.
If the goverment levies a road tax on fuel but exempts fuel used in tractors and other farm vehicles used primarily off-road, it is not a subsidy except in the minds of globalist propagandists like AP.