The popular farmer and trucker protests in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, France and now Belgium are continuing.
Sensing the problematic nature of the uprising, watching the protests escalate to direct confrontation at parliament, and facing considerable political opposition on many domestic issues, the French government of Emmanuel Macron has agreed to the terms of the French farmers. However, the two major labor unions associated with the farmers in France are not asking for the protests to stop until they see the agreement of the French government in writing.
Protesting farmers blockaded multiple roads and camped outside the European parliament building in Brussels on Thursday, ahead of a EU leaders’ summit in the Belgian capital. The demonstrators lit two fires outside and placed their tractors in front of the European parliament building. Farmers have been protesting across Europe against the globalist agenda, rising costs in the agriculture sector and targeted taxes by the various governments.
(Associated Press) – France’s two major farmers unions announced they would lift country-wide blockades Thursday, shortly after the prime minister introduced new measures aimed at protecting their livelihoods that they described as “tangible progress.”
However, farmer activists who have snarled traffic along major highways around Paris said they would stay put at least another day to see the government commitments in writing, and both unions said they would closely monitor any government implementation.
“We don’t want to hear words of love. What we want is proof of love,” said Thierry Desforges, a farm union member at road blockade of the A6 highway in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris.
Thousands of French farmers have been demonstrating for a couple of weeks across the country in protests over low earnings, heavy regulation and what they call unfair competition from abroad. Similar protests also have extended across Europe, including at the European Union headquarters in Brussels.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, whose earlier promises to address farmers’ issues had failed to quell the French protests, announced a new set of measures Thursday.
They included tens of millions of euros in aid, tax breaks and a promise not to ban pesticides in France that are allowed elsewhere in Europe — which French farmers say leads to unfair competition. Attal also said France would immediately ban imports from outside the EU that use a pesticide banned in the bloc.
Arnaud Rousseau, president of France’s biggest farmers union FNSEA, and Young Farmers union President Arnaud Gaillot said Thursday that they were calling on their members to suspend the protests.
[…] At the Chilly-Mazarin blockade, Damien Greffin, a FNSEA representative, said farmers still need time to “better analyze the measures” as some appeared to him “a bit deceptive.”
Desforges, a fellow FNSEA member, remained cautious about proposals that concern the EU because “we know how Europe works, the countries still need to agree.”
Regarding domestic proposals, “we really need to wait and see if they are turned into law,” Desforges added. (read more)
And now Ireland.
Shades of Lord MacMillan’s answer to the question what could throw his government off course…
“Events, dear boy, events.”
And here they come…
Do you have any link that anything similar is happening in Ireland??
Saw this through a tweet which I can’t link to I very much regret. But it is through X and citizen reporting that most all reliable news and video footage is occurring.
Finding actual news stories about all of this is like hunting for the Snark.
Now why is that do you think.
Boom.
Thank you, Martin 👍🏻
They’re going to have to up their game eventually…
Ireland was forced to vote twice on joining the EU.
First time was a resounding “No”.
Second was a miraculous ” Yes”.
“Now why is that do you think?” 🙂
Has law enforcement been used against the farmer protests or the truckers???
Rubber bullets in front of the EU parliament building.
It is possible that the farmer protests have been infiltrated … I DO NOT KNOW about the graffiti in question … but in general, law enforcement (and intelligence agencies and military) is like a gun – a good person in control of a gun / law enforcement uses it stop a bad person but unfortunately the opposite could be true … example: Border agents under Biden assist the illegals – in contrast to Trump. Look how the judicial system treats Trump, Giuliani, Navarro, J6ers, … QUESTION: FOR EXAMPLE: ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE FBI HOSTILE TO AMERICA FIRST/MAGA ??? Is it just the 7th floor or is there a culture ??? How many whistleblowers in the FBI??? Would law enforcement want to lose their jobs, pension, … ??? DOD got rid of MAGA / America First supporters … – what about the education of law enforcement???
These aren’t peaceful protests. Of course it’s possible, but I believe the blood of farmers, truckers, railroad workers in France, Germany, Belgium, and now Ireland is up. I wouldn’t want to be an infiltrator there.
…and get caught.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium#m the official languages of Belgium are Dutch, French, and German – did they have similar graffiti in Dutch, French, or German? Was this the only graffiti against police???
I’m sorry, Robert…that I can’t answer.
I do know that my normally reliable source for good information on this, Gates of Vienna, hasn’t had a single article about it.
Curious…very.
Can’t you research that and let us know.
There are defensive measures that protester can employ, to protect their protests from being infiltrated by provacatuers, as we saw in Canada with the Freedom Convoy.
J6 obviously worked, but in protests since, with such defenses measures employed, gummint forces have not been successful in repeating it.
Every one of your questions has been addressed on this site repeatedly in the past.
And every one of them is a diversion to the subject of the post.
WTF – Black Knight : Is it me or are you just a crazy antisemitic infiltrator or is it both??? I have been here 8 years; show some respect …
https://nitter.cz/philosophytweet/status/1692535283705586012#m
Whatever …
Again.. It’s you.
And we see it. You aren’t good at it either.
Ignore him, Robert. It is BK flexing his beer muscles.
Montgomery County Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Northern Virginia are the areas where all federal govt officials live if they work in DC. The voting results for those areas are over 90% (closer to 99% in DC) Democrat. All the local offices are held by democrats. I lived in DC for 25 years. I know those people and I voted there. If you’re paid by the federal govt you are more that 99% likely to vote Democrat and donate to democrats. Why? BC that’s how you ensure higher wages and job growth. They are parasites. You will not find differing attitudes in govt employees. They are virtually all leftists. The agencies are not “like a gun”. That’s a ridiculous analogy if you know anything about the people in govt. time to wise up. The fed employees will happily “just follow orders” and attack any America First target they are given. How many examples do you need? No whistleblowers to speak of in the fbi/dhs/cia/nih/DoD/irs…..
Or maybe the police have been compromised?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chaos-erupts-brussels-rubber-bullets-fired-farmers-protesting-outside-eu-parliament
Not sure, but the police in that region were pretty rough during covid lockdowns.
Something doesn’t smell right.
Exactly. To me this indicates that govt supported anarchists have infiltrated the popular farm movement in order to act as agent provocateurs …. thus, justifying a govt crackdown.
Look behind every anarchist movement and you will find an intelligence operation controlling it.
Didn’t Macron do the same thing with the Yellow Vest protests? Seem to recall infiltration then too.
We will have to ask him between courses, he is still in the middle of a 12 course meal.
Yes.
Governments best he careful with that.
It isn’t only France.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Just like everything here.
And their hubris is so great, ‘they’ always leave a “calling card” for those with eyes to see.
Hubris or pathological nature?
Doubt they can help but give themselves away.
Not unlike an actor making a theatrical performance in front of spectators.
Can’t it be both?
Sure.
Intelligence types have uses for all sorts like that.
Government crackdown like J6, but this time with farmers whose property is endangered…..farm equipment taken, court costs, jail, land confiscated by the French government.
You might be on to something there.
Graffiti looks planted. I’m certainly not an expert but it looks too neat in comparison to Graffiti normally seen. But maybe those EU people take pride in their penmanship.🤷♀️
Put there by a government official – GUARANTEED !!!
Can’t wait to see how this fits?
I have no clue.
Edit😁 They soooo want their Gavrilo Princip
It was by chance he got his moment. I suspect most officials are hiding in their well supplied bunkers.
“All Criminals Are Black”, in honor of Black History Month?
I think one of the protestors said “Pouvez-vous m’appeler un taxi” (“call me a cab”) since his tractor was being used as a roadblock.
So someone called him “a cab”. /s
A guy here from Rio Linda, what is AC BC?
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When I looked online all I found is Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.
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I know that is not correct.
In such matters the Urban Dictionary is your friend.
Of course, you could read the thread, as is quite often the case when questions are posed, it’s already been answered.
Totally agree, Maquis, but wondering how this phrase translaes to French and why the graffiti “they” would use English.
It has become an internationally recognized acronym. And since English is almost the default universal language and the USA is to whom many of these messages are meant for it’s not such a mystery. Remember all the color revolutions, Middle East protests? They often had signs written in English.
Same movement. Same “black bloc” which includes anarchists, anti-fascists, blacks, communists, paid provocateurs, mixed in with intelligence assets.
George Soros’ foot soldiers for chaos.
C’est exactement ma propre question. Why en anglais?
In France, the term for the American-English slang word, cop, is the French slang word “flic” (fleek), as in, “Àbas les flics!” “Down with the cops!” I don’t know, oui ou non, if the same expression is the one of choice in Belgium, where the installed EU Parliament has been so busy making life miserable for Europe.
We know that those behind the world-wide-disruption-of-everything are multi-national and multi-lingual, but the average Belgian or Frenchman would neither be likely to zero-in on this graffiti message, nor to welcome the intrusion into their protest of the bastardized American English language, and the glory of all its sloppiness.
So I guess we’ve figured out how to explain the code.
“ACAB” is for the anglosphere –
in France and Belgium they usually chant : “Le monde déteste la police – c’est nous”
DEC 2020 – FRANCE -Lyon
MAY 2019 – ITALY – Bologna
Just past the 3:32 mark:
“le monde déteste la police etc ”
MARCH 2023 –
What say you, my friend? Any prognostications at this point?
It has been reported that trucks delivering food to Paris have been destroyed, leaving 3 days worth left (and that report was a day or so ago)
I say the farmers haven’t gone far enough, and few to none seem intent on revealing the whys of this oppression of the foundations of human civilization.
My thoughts on the matter landed at 10:53 down thread.
I suspect they understand the existential moment, which this is. French culture… heck, WESTERN civilization itself..is being dismantled. It doesn’t get more existential than that. Is there a Charles Martel anywhere?
Will look down thread 👍🏻
Type your search using ACAB + BLM + ANTIFA
I ain’t responsible for what you see.
So, all the advice on where to go with some ridicule thrown in, and nobody actually answered this guy’s question…
All Cops Are Bastards ACAB.
At some point, just answer the darn question.
AC BC is ACAB read by a guy with lexdysia?
It doesn’t make me go hmmmm…
Law enforcement is NOT the same as lawless enforcement. Lesser magistrates have a solemn responsibility. A vast majority have abdicated their responsibilities.
Lesser Magistrates, and really anyone in a position of delegated authority over others does have a solemn responsibility.
The Doctrine of Lesser Magistrates goes more into this.
Matthew J. Trewhella wrote a very good book, and he walks his talk. 🙂
It seems to have a long history but recently a symbol of resistance to the modern police state.
“The use of ACAB as an expression of working class dissent against people in authority has itself been criminalised. Cops, it seems, do not like being called bastards. There are regularly reports of people across Europe being arrested by police for wearing items of clothing featuring the acronym. In Germany, the highest court in the land ruled in favour of a man who turned up to a football game with ACAB written on his trousers. “
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzv48/acab-all-cops-are-bastards-origin-story-protest.
Did Ray Epps move to Brussels?
👀😎
Well done.
because most EU citizens are far more leftist than we are, and “all cops” are generalyl standing with their government to persecute the common man who resists?
How do you know that’s an English acronym?
In Dutch/Flemmish “All Cops Are Bad” translates to Alle politieagenten zijn slecht; French would be: Tous les flics sont mauvais
Edit – OK, global slang term started in England
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzv48/acab-all-cops-are-bastards-origin-story-protest
If Senator Durbin has his way the illegal thugs pouring over our borders can serve in the armed forces and be granted citizenship.
Gavin Newsome wants them on the police force. We are going the way of Ancient Rome. Half the population is fiddling while our lives are destroyed. The other half had better stand up like the European farmers before it is too late.
All these anarchist thugs scattered throughout the government will also ultimately reap the effects of what they implement. Blowing up the Republic will rain bricks down on their heads as well. Stupid!
There’s cameras everywhere. So just like the J6 pipe bomb Reichstag ploy, the evidence of gov provocateurs involvement can be proven.
Black Bloc, the parent group of Antifa, is very active in Brussels.
Typical. Infiltrators to justify heavy handed tactics and shut everything down. These evil people have been doing this forever. Undermining the will of the people with slithering tactics. Keep eyes open at all times and call these people out in front of all to see.
“the two major labor unions associated with the farmers in France are not asking for the protests to stop until they see the agreement of the French government in writing.”
Damn straight! They are lying rotten sewer rats. It would be foolish to trust a thing.
The peoples of the European countries have been lied to time after time, starting with the promise that if countries gave up their sovereignty to an all powerful EU elite, the union would be purely economic.
This is a pot which has been simmering for decades.
It has finally boiled over.
And there is the problem. What about your own?
““It is a complex issue involving many countries,” Mitsotakis said, stressing that concerns about inflation and rising costs are “being heard across the European Union.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1230617/pm-addresses-eu-policy-and-agricultural-concerns/
John Kerry who until recently was the US Climate czar basically declared war on behalf of the NWO against cows and farming in general. THIS IS A WAR AGAINST ALL HUMANITY. WE ARE CARBON. WE NEED WHOLESOME FOOD TO LIVE. Just look at the prices of food. They do everything to make having and raising a family difficult – they horrifically mutilate children and treat parents like threats … Please G-d save us from these fascist communist totalitarian scum.
Well that’s a feature, not a flaw. 3rd world invaders will have plenty of time & free tax dollars to reproduce in numbers great enough to displace us.
Whether that’s with willing partners… is of course optional.
Amen! Dearest Lord, Father God; hear our earnest and sincere prayers . . . .
Even David had to pick up his rock, just as the farmers and others have picked up theirs.
We ALL need to pray, fast, and turn back to Him!!!
Lurch is an ignorant puppet. Every time his name is mentioned my skin crawls. What a total piece of human waste
They don’t need to let up for one second.
Macron swanned off to Sweden for a glitzy dinner…
Talk about his Marie Antoinette moment…
I wonder if Macron is eating cake?
We’ll be making progress in this country when we do the same to blockade shipments of noncitizens nationwide.
Good for the farmers calling the bureaucrats out as proven liars.
They should all be sent to within the DC Beltway.
Then blockaded in with congress and the bureaucrats.
So they can be locked up in the DC gulag like the J6 protesters?
There are not NEARLY enough guards to simultaneously keep inmates IN,….AND keep out a force detirmined to free the prisoners from outside.
Just sayin,..
Send them to Obama’s house. Not joking. Sending them to high school shelters lets these terrorists live consequence free.
I’m for fundamental change: quarter illegals in the homes of Democrat politicians and government employees.
Support for deportations will go through the roof.
And no, I’m not being sarcastic.
I’m glad they are asking for written confirmation from the leadership in France.
Once bitten….!
Instead of supposedly 700,000 vehicles heading to the Texas border they should be headed to DC to blockade the scum there. Nothing in or out and block all trains too. Then let’s add another million to ensure they get the point.
Storm the Bastille!
Meh, they can keep it.
Uh, it’s a metaphor…
It’s France. Of course they were going to surrender.
(My French cousins would kill me for that, but they were castrated in WWI as the Japanese were in WWII.)
French tanks have five speeds you know. One forward and four in reverse.
I once had a VW van like that.
I didn’t realize that the van transmissions had a reduction gear in them and the output shaft rotated opposite of the bug transmissions.
I got it into 4th reverse gear a few times with my college buddies out for a joy ride.
maybe because if summer olympics are coming?
The French are fighting like we should be.
Trying to compete with imports that do not have our regs has been the biggest problem for domestic manufacturers since oh, say 1972?
Good for the French farmers for wanting everything in writing. Even with that I would still want to tar and feather the politicians.
T & F is a distinctly American tradition, the French used the guiottine.
The Irish used T&F on the enemies of Ireland prior to colonial America.
“Your Majesty, the peasants are revolting!”
“You said it. They stink on ice”
Thank you. Thank you very much. I’m here til next Thursday. Try the veal.
“damien greffin aFNSEA rep said farmers still need time to “better analyze the measures”as some appeared to him “a bit deceptive”say it isn’t so the gov being deceptive.this better be written so a 3rd grader can read and understand it.
I am proud of all the farmers on their tractors.
“They included tens of millions of euros in aid..” Is this aid to compensate the farmers that will still lose their farms to “save the earth.”
I’m sure most of the French farmers won’t fall for the political traps and enticements but we’ll see.
With Shieldmaiden Eva on your side, how can you lose? The Dutch farmers are still fighting: The entire subtitled video below is a must to watch.
Yet their demands still don’t get to the heart of the matter; the WEF is colluding with their governments and corporations to eliminate farming entirely as part of a scheme for global domination.
Nitrogen being thrown into the mix as a danger to the planet such that tiny farming over achiever The Netherlands must destroy thirty thousand farms immediately almost makes AL Gore’s carbon fantasy seem sane.
They should indeed fight the easily seen means of corralling them but they need to look deeper at the specious nature of the entire Eco-Nazi movement and its true Anti-Human goals; without that insight and that level of awakening, today’s concessions will prove a Pyrric Victory at best.
Is getting one government to agree to anything significant given the overwhelming pressure of huge corporations?
Given there is no such thing as a free market worldwide ……..is any easing of the EU farmer’s pain only temporary?
Are the farmers asking for tariffs and a total dissolution of the WEF proxy EU government?
We will know its real, when massive hoards storm davos, drag the participants out and mob them to death, litterally ripping them limb from limb.
This is far too civilised..WEF wants the farmers DEAD, and their lifestyles ended forever, and they are NEGOTIATING?
Its like being surrounded by a pack of jackals that want to eat you, and trying to negotiate.
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Store food. everything you like to eat; stock up.
I believe the Red Sea/Suez Canal will get worse.
Truckers are busy protesting(great and we should support them) and that means chain supply disruption.
God bless our truckers and Lord help our farmers in every way needed.
Would also suggest to add acquiring vegetable seeds for home gardening to that list of things to stock up on.
It is a good idea but the Governors in the Western part of the US, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming are restricting water use just like California did years ago. California is removing Dams already and and Biden is allowing, promoting dam removal along the Snake River in Idaho, and Washington State on the eastern side. Water is everything out here because dry periods are normal.
https://www.siskiyoucountywaterusersassociation.org/
Looks like the Grocery Stores emptying out in Paris produced a result.
No matter which country one might pick, farmers and truckers can affect change. Mess with the food chain and asinine politicians, are made to see the light.
Oops, the water was boiling a little too quickly. The elites have to turn down the heat a little so that the frogs stay content in the pot. So, they make promises that they will never keep or change the language so the changes are nullified.
Need another war or pandemic so they can turn up the heat again.
As with the Yellow Vest Protests, the parasites of Government House will go back into hiding once again
– waiting for another opportunity to launch upon their prey.
Trump could do — and is the only one now capable of doing –this here, and bring the treasonous Junta and Deep State to its knees.
[I’ll take “Things I’ve been advocating since 2020 for $300 trillion, Alex!”]
WHERE is John Galt?
They should talk to Trudeau… all they need to do is shut down everyone’s finances, and make it impossible for anyone to donate to the cause, and it all goes away.
Clapping………
Vive la France! Showing the Americans how it’s done and being smart enough to hold off moving the tractors until they see the whites of their eyes (the promises in writing). Let the American truckers and farmers take note. I would happily contribute money to them doing the same thing here.
Having lived in Paris for 3 years I can tell you that you would absolutely LOVE to have ANY fresh veggies of ANY kind in Dec/Jan/Feb/March other than some wilted, pathetic practically dead produce from some “French greenhouse” somewhere available in our local Supermarche. It wouldnt matter what pesticide was used, I would happily have eaten it!
This will now speed up corporations/rich globalists to continue buying up all the farm land to stop this from ever happening again.
Hmmmm. …Citizens need to keep their power by preventing corporations buying all the farmland.
But how to stop them?
Form citizen/farm groups?
Donations to organized farm groups? Idk. But someone should think of something before the rich buy all the land.
Eat the Rich…
Aerosmith
“So take your Grey Poupon, my friend, and shove it up your a**!”
Definitely get it in writing, not that these people will honor their agreement. Kudos for a peaceful but effective protest.
God Bless the Farmers of the World.
The farmers had better be aware of 1848 across Europe and 1905 in Russia where concessions were made and later withdrawn when TPTB felt secure. Generally, Europeans know history better than Americans (low bar alert).
No Way! FILTHY FRANCE Surrendered? That’s not like them…..
We need tractors not tanks.
The farmers will withdraw their protests and during the lull the govt will freeze their bank accounts and go after them in the courts to bankrupt them. Govt (any govt) cannot be trusted. Just ask the native American population in the US.
Love the photo of the “elites” looking horrified at the gall of the peasants.
That is a scene from the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot.
FEB 02 2024 – Dutch and Belgian farmers block lanes of highway between the two countries.
FEB 02 2024 – ITALY – Milano
FEB 02 2024 – ITALY – Pavia
FEB 02 2024 – ITALY – Novara
FEB 02 2024 – Greece –
FEB 02 2024 – Greece –
Those POS politicians are just pulling back to regroup. They will be back of another offensive. The farmers need to end this now.
Von der Leyen sings ode to farmers, promises action to appease protests
Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen met with farmers’ representatives at the end of the EU summit promising new upcoming initiatives in a bid to douse flames after a day of protests in Brussels.
This is what I meant the other day about Americans and Europeans pushing back. It’s gotten to where they do it a whole lot better than us.
So the way I see it.. The EU wants to give the US dark label food conglomerates opportunities to poison them with GMO crops like they have us.. After watching what they have done to our food products the European farmers want their right to grow health product sustained and protected.. why would country with the ability to feed their people safely want any of the US mega food monopolies operating in their country..