Today we are hearing voices demanding justice. From all corners of the world and in many iterations. Recognition of the problems is usually the first step toward effective solutions. Even unjoyful noise can be productive.
💥 Lithuanian workers took up the protest baton
In Lithuania, protesting farmers on tractors blocked the streets of Vilnius.
The Lithuanian Agricultural Union, which organized the protest, stated its demands: it opposes the restoration of perennial meadows, increasing the excise tax on fuel and the expansion of protected areas unfavorable for farmers. Farmers are also demanding a solution to the lingering crisis in the dairy industry.
So far, unfortunately, the Lithuanians are not throwing manure at the administrative buildings, as the French do. (but, as they say, it’s not evening yet)
Farmers protesting in over 170 towns in Poland today starting at noon. Pole Connection 🔸
💣 Poles also express their protest by throwing manure at Warsaw
👱♀️ Today, farmers across Poland are taking part in a nationwide protest against the duty-free import of Ukrainian food products, RMF 24 reports.
They promise to get tractors and other farm equipment on the roads. BelVestnik 🔸
🔸Polish farmers protest against the army
In Poland, farmers began to go on strike again, challenging the country's government to negotiate. One of the main conditions is the same as before - limiting the import of agricultural products from Ukraine, as well as the inclusion of state programs to support local farmers.
However, new demands suddenly appeared from Polish farmers, who began to demand that the government limit NATO military exercises in the country. The main reason is damage to agricultural land, the correction of which is not compensated by the state.
Against this background, Felix Czerwinski, an activist of one of the protest movements, said: “ Polish agriculture is already being destroyed by many factors. This includes the flow of grain and other food products imported duty-free from Ukraine; and the Green Deal imposed by the European Union. But the situation with the exercises in our country further threatens the industry.”
According to the activist, during the alliance’s exercises, the fields with his crops were repeatedly subjected to the mechanical impact of heavy military equipment, which led to a multiple reduction in the harvest: “NATO exercises are constantly held outside the training grounds, as a result of which our crops suffer. But the state does not want to compensate for these losses. Moreover, there are cases when livestock farms also come under attack, resulting in farmers suffering even greater losses. The most interesting thing is that in such situations the damage is caused exclusively by foreign troops who come to our country, mostly American. Therefore, we demand that our government speak up in our defense and abandon teachings that are harmful to us.”
#Слово_наёмника
The hand of the Kremlin 🔸
Almost 90% of French people support the protest movement of agricultural producers
Protest demonstrations by French farmers are supported by 89% of the country's residents, according to a survey by the public opinion research institute Odoxa Backbone Consulting for Le Figaro.
“It is a rare case that from Unconquered France to the National Rally, all supporters of the main political parties approve of the mobilization,” writes the publication, which published the poll results on Wednesday. BelVestnik🔸
🔸If they pull it off, they can totally paralyze Paris in less then 72 hours. Pepe Escobar 🔸
🇫🇷 French farmers sent a symbolic SOS to the sky in the formation of tractors, as a sign of protest against the French regime, which constantly increases the prices of basic foodstuffs, as in all other Western countries.
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t.me/istocni_front 🔸
🔸The Siege of Paris
French farmers are threatening to blockade Paris on the night of January 29 and advise city dwellers to work remotely the following week.
The farmers' union has stated their dissatisfaction with the rising diesel fuel prices, falling incomes, and complex bureaucracy.
A union representative mentioned that the purpose of the action is to make Parisians understand their reliance on farmers and that the capital is not self-sufficient.
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🇫🇷🔥 Farmers' protesters in France have set fire to the customs office in the commune of Nîmes in the south of the country, the prefect of the Gare department Jérôme Bonet said on social network X.
Tonight from 19:15 at the customs office in Nîmes started a fire, the cause of which, presumably, was the entry of people on agricultural machinery.
he wrote.
#CaliberAz #news #politics Caliber English 🔸
🐦⬛️ 🇫🇷 Armored vehicles on the streets - Paris is preparing for a blockade
The French police are actively preparing for the blockade of Paris announced by farmers dissatisfied with state policy.
For this purpose, police armored vehicles are deployed on the streets of the capital of France, near one of the city's largest markets. 😔 t.me/istocni_front🔸
🇫🇷🚜FRENCH FARMERS BEGIN SIEGE OF PARIS: Major arteries leading to capital blocked entirely by tractors (top map of current blockades), with farmers setting up camp directly on highways (bottom left vid), stepping up pressure on politicians to help them weather inflation.
Paris had already dropped plans to scrap agricultural subsidies but farmers state they need to do more.
Meanwhile baguette boi Macron mobilizes 15,000 cops, deploying armored vehicles (bottom right vid) prepped to suppress his own citizens for rallying together.
Similar protests playing out across Belgium and Germany, where tractors blocking routes to Port of Hamburg, country's biggest seaport.
FRANCE UPRISING – Bergerac: People offer bottles of wine to farmers, who are heading towards the siege of Paris. @Intelsky 💫 🔸
💢 France popping off New Resistance 🔸
🔸FRENCH PEASANT REVOLT UPDATE
The blockade of Paris tomorrow may be EPIC - and get into the annals of post-modern History as a key Peasant Revolt 2.0 chapter.
Agricultural workers, truck drivers and unions plan to roll at least 500 tractors to block ALL major highways leading to Paris, on both senses, starting at 2 pm and positioned between 30 km and 40 km away from the center.
Everything is being organized with “military precision”.
We’re talking total revolt against Le Petit Roi’s imposition of the Brussels agenda. Le Petit Roi happens to be in India.
If they hold until Thursday - that’s the original plan - the peasant combo can TOTALLY paralyze Paris.
The police so far is saying they WON’T block the movement.
Well, the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests were mercilessly crushed for doing much less than what is planned for tomorrow.
The talk of the town in every cafe and dinner table is of a possible trap.
Macronism is not very clever - but their NATO-style repression apparatus is ruthless.
The French state can always invoke some vague threat to national security as an excuse to install a State of Siege, and then unleash hardcore violence against the peasantry. As it stands, all bets are off.
🐦⬛️ 🇫🇷 "More Marko, don't plow the roads!"
🚜 French farmers, inspired by the Serbian epic hero Marko Kraljević, turned part of the highway into arable land.
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In pictures: French farmers maintain 'siege' of Paris in standoff with government
Protesting farmers prepared to encircle Paris with traffic-snarling barricades for a second day Tuesday, using hundreds of lumbering tractors and mounds of hay bales to block highways leading to France's capital to pressure the government over the future of their industry, which has been shaken by repercussions of the Ukraine war.
👉 Read more: https://f24.my/A5hI.g 🔸
🐦⬛️ 🇫🇷 France: Prime Minister Atal makes financial promises to farmers - blockades around Paris
In view of growing protests by farmers in France, the government has promised farmers financial aid.
During a visit to a farm in the south of the country, Prime Minister Atal announced that the tax on agricultural diesel will not be increased after all. Originally, taxes were to be gradually increased until 2030. The government is also providing €100 million in emergency aid for storm damage to agriculture.
The French farmers' association was disappointed with the measures and announced the continuation of the protest.
Farmers have recently expanded the roadblocks significantly. In southern France alone, 400 kilometers of highways were closed. The highways in the wider area of Paris are also blocked.
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Belgian farmers have joined vast swathes of European farmers protesting against so many "green taxes", low prices, so many assaults on their industry by the EU and government's at home. t.me/TommyRobinsonNews 🔸
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🐦⬛️ 🇩🇪 Farmers' protests continue in Germany
Hundreds of tractors blocked traffic in various parts of Hamburg on Monday. Piles of manure were also deposited on some roads.
According to the police, significant traffic disruptions continue to occur in the area of the Port of Hamburg.
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‼️GERMAN FARMERS STRONG MESSAGE HAS GOVT BACK TRACKING
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Germany's three-party ruling coalition on Thursday partly backed down from a proposal to cut tax privileges for farmers after facing emotional protests.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-government-backtracks-tax-hikes-farmers-protests/
🐦⬛️ 🇩🇪 Farmers' protests continue in Germany as well
German farmers as well as French are blocking traffic on the roads.
Farmers filled one of the roads with manure. Scholz is inviting the bitter people to come to the negotiating table, but is not proposing anything substantial in the way of change.
The reason for the protests was the German government's decision to stop subsidizing agricultural diesel fuel and mark the exemption from paying the transport tax on agricultural machinery.
After a wave of demonstrations, the authorities changed the rules, saying the benefits would not be withdrawn immediately. But that did not suit the German farmers and the protests continued.
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🇪🇺🚜😳 TERRIFIED BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS LOCK DOWN PARLIAMENT WITH BARBED WIRE: EU officials panic-stricken by furious farmers blocking European highways so decide to up security (left vid) - no idea how barbed wire's supposed to stop tractors though.
Politicians can only look on as protesters keep up their unprecedented siege of Paris while German farmers express rage at authorities by dumping foul-smelling manure right onto Stuttgart road (right vid).
🤔Things in European "garden" must be going great if supposed representatives of voters hiding behind barbed wire … from voters.
🔸In response to the worsening economic situation and EU policies aimed at cutting agricultural subsidies and tightening environmental regulations, farmers in Europe have taken to the streets and squares to demand attention to their problems. One of the most striking manifestations of farmer protests was the appearance of special barriers - “hedgehogs” with barbed wire - on the square in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.
Thus, MEPs and city authorities prepared for the arrival of columns of angry local farmers on tractors. Farmers also staged riots in France and Germany, where farmers took their equipment into the streets and blocked roads, paralyzing traffic.
Scale of PTI mass rally in Pakistan
🇵🇰 This is how supporters of the former Pakistani prime minister are expressing solidarity with him ahead of the February 8 elections.
Imran Khan previously accused the US of plotting to overthrow him.
💢 One of the most massive strikes against Javier Miley's austerity package, accompanied by demonstrations in the country's largest cities, began in Argentina.
The strike unites all major trade union federations in both the public and private sectors of the economy. @NewResistance 🔸
1,5 million people in the streets of Buenos Aires.
Against Davos darling Chainsaw Massacre Milei and fiercely supporting Palestine.
It turns out that Microsoft's homeland is... Bolivia. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. But this is exactly what Bolivian electronics engineer Ronald De Herrera, who suffers from paralysis, claims. News that recently “blew up” the Bolivian (and not only) Internet.
He claims that it was he who invented the Windows operating system, or rather the basic algorithm. He considers the fact of appropriation of the invention the largest theft of intellectual property in the history of technology.
This happened, in his opinion, in November 1985, when he was finishing his studies at the university. A company employee approached him and suggested that he think about an operating system for computers. After presenting the idea, the employee offered to meet with Bill Gates, but he refused due to his studies. Now he is demanding compensation of $100 million.
To believe him or not is a big question. But in general there is an element of plausibility, given that transnationals are siphoning resources and ideas from peripheral countries.
#Боливия
@pyatakov_LA - looking beyond the event horizon 🔸
In the US, a convoy of truckers, calling themselves "God's Army," is preparing to embark on a journey from several locations across the Lower 48 to the southern border as tensions soar between Texas and the Biden administration.
Meanwhile across the Atlantic, farmers are bearing down on Europe's capitals from Bucharest to Warsaw to Brussels venting frustrations about climate policies. These social instabilities are breaking out ahead of key European and US elections this year.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mess-west-army-god-convoy-heads-us-border-while-eu-farmers-block-cities
🚜Canadian farmers say hello to Prime Minister Trudeau
Interesting thought...
We shall see if this is indeed the false flag event they are setting up for Texas.
👀🤷 Out of the Dark 🔸
⚡️🇨🇫 Africans in the Central African Republic has made a memorial for Yevgeny Prigozhin, thanking "Big Boss" for his services against combating terrorism and road bandits.
First Advisor to the Mayor of Bangui Kaka Bandoro: "If there is peace today in the Central African Republic and in particular in the Kaka Bandoro region, then it is thanks to the partnership with Russia through PMC Wagner. Today we thank God for giving us the Great Man Yevgeny Prigozhin. He established peace in CAR, thank Him once again. We pay tribute to him and organized this great ceremony in his memory."
I decided to end our protesting voices with one that was actually thankful for what his government has been up to. We will be seeing versions of the rest often enough to suit us. It IS 2024.
The really good news is …
… It is already 8% over!
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Nice rundown. You hit a few I didn’t know about. Great detail.