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Post by sabre on Jan 30, 2024 20:21:43 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on Jan 31, 2024 20:17:25 GMT 12
and it just keeps growing  |
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 2, 2024 9:04:41 GMT 12
now converging on the EU Parliament in Brussels
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Post by sabre on Feb 2, 2024 9:48:47 GMT 12
now converging on the EU Parliament in Brussels So cheap imports from countries such as the "Ukraine" are undermining their agricultural markets. What a suprise.. |
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Post by Cantab on Feb 2, 2024 13:45:35 GMT 12
How big a war do you need to get it in the "news" here?
Maybe it just depends on who is fighting who.
Obviously not an "approved" cause.
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Post by sloopjohnb on Feb 6, 2024 10:35:17 GMT 12
Not what I can remember how Paris looked when I was there?   must be AI? |
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Post by GO30 on Feb 6, 2024 10:57:45 GMT 12
must be AI? They did make some piles of hay but I think you are right with the suggestion that photos been fiddled with.
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 7, 2024 20:03:05 GMT 12
someones comment from The BFD
Something really strange happened in Spain with the Revolting Farmers.
(You know the country wide protests that are now occurring right across Europe for weeks and our media haven’t mentioned it once)
Spanish Authorities set up big road blocks to stop the 1000’s of tractors driving to the cities.
So the farmers drove….into paddocks …and went around the road blocks, then back onto the road.
Hmmm, who would of thought, massive big Tractors could drive through paddocks. (Probably green voters ) Farmers are not silly.
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 8, 2024 7:20:51 GMT 12
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Post by fish on Feb 8, 2024 9:06:59 GMT 12
I'm not sure Luxon is a climate catastrophist per se. But he does seem to have a peculiar position on the topic. I think as a business man he is just really excited about how much money they can make out of it. And the great paradox is by making money out of it he will keep the raving loony left happy - or at least be able to show he is doing something for the environment ;-) I believe this is called a win-win? The first indication is putting the carbon tax revenue into the consolidated fund. i.e. they will be using the Emissions Trading Scheme tax revenue to fund income tax cuts. It appears to be the whole 'free market' thinking on climate change. Apply a high enough cost to carbon and industry will sort itself out. No need for the Central Committee to come up with dictats and initiatives (like the Onslow water storage, at what? $16billion) if you simply apply the right 'motiviation' to industry. The contrast being Labour's Central Committee trying to solve all of the countries carbon emissions in isolation - other than that is the massive corporate welfare they were dolling out to our biggest and most profitable companies (NZ Steel, Fontera etc). The only aspect I'm worried about is what happens to the price of petrol and the inflation rate when carbon gets expensive enough to make a difference. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 12, 2024 17:38:47 GMT 12
another analysis here brownstone.org/articles/eu-farmers-rise-against-the-climate-cult/concludes Independently from the merits of EU climate policy, two things are clear: first, EU leaders and environmental activists appear to have vastly underestimated the backlash their policies would spark in the farming community; and second, the apparent success of this dramatic EU-wide protest sets a spectacular precedent that will not go unnoticed among farmers and transport companies, whose operating costs are heavily impacted by environmental regulations like carbon taxes.
The Commission’s embarrassing concessions are proof that high-visibility, disruptive tactics can be effective. As such, we can expect more of this after June’s EU elections if the Commission doubles down again on its climate policy goals.Of course politicians being politicians they will make all sorts of promise to quell the rebellion, but you can be sure if the same crowd are re-elected they will try to find ways to push thru their intended policies one way or another. Just look what is going on across the Tasman, in spite of the Voice referendum being resoundingly voted down, Albo and all the associated woke/PC/ hangers on are trying to find ways to set in place what was voted down. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Feb 13, 2024 14:23:23 GMT 12
Sounds like a battle has been one by the farmers for now but the war against the EU continues
of note is the report near the end that Spanish rice farmers may not be able to continue production because the EU rules have banned the use of a certain pesticide, but on the other hand rice imports are permitted from countries that continue to use this pesticide.
I understand NZ pork farmers have been down this road, with many put out of business due to increasingly stringent regulations, yet imports are allowed from other countries eg Canada, where farmers do not have to meet the same level of regulation.
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Post by Fogg on Feb 14, 2024 5:15:23 GMT 12
I’m in Brussels and the farmers are protesting here too.
Nothing like in India though - where it looks like the farmers will again shut down road access to the capital for months.
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Post by em on Feb 14, 2024 7:20:59 GMT 12
Sounds like a battle has been one by the farmers for now but the war against the EU continues of note is the report near the end that Spanish rice farmers may not be able to continue production because the EU rules have banned the use of a certain pesticide, but on the other hand rice imports are permitted from countries that continue to use this pesticide. I understand NZ pork farmers have been down this road, with many put out of business due to increasingly stringent regulations, yet imports are allowed from other countries eg Canada, where farmers do not have to meet the same level of regulation. Yep hendos bacon use Spanish pork and a relative of mine in hospo used to use pork from Czech Republic because it’s “cheap” . |
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Post by sloopjohnb on Feb 14, 2024 8:45:22 GMT 12
About 10 years ago I installed a food production line that was set up to use pork ribs from Spain.
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