by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2022
(Dec. 22, 2022) — We are watching people around the world erupt. They see the writing on the wall and have decided that they aren’t going to take it anymore. In China, from The Economist:
“Under a road bridge in central Beijing, just before two o’clock in the morning on November 28th, one of that city’s most powerful men came face to face with youngsters driven to despair by China’s harsh “zero-covid” controls. The brief meeting was revealing in several ways. It offered a glimpse of the security machine built by China’s supreme leader, President Xi Jinping, and the Communist Party’s confidence in it. On the protesters’ side, it showed how, in today’s China, youthful idealism is tempered by a sober understanding of the party’s might.
“Overall, this is an alarming moment for Mr Xi and his regime. China’s covid-19 epidemic is raging and public frustration over the government’s virus controls is deep and broad. In recent days that has sparked protests in every corner of the country, binding angry workers, locked-down city residents and students. In the icy depths of that Beijing night, hundreds of young Chinese staged a rare demonstration in the capital. They lit candles for victims of lockdowns and called for an end to endless covid testing and the quarantining of every positive case. They sang the “Internationale” and a song of farewell for the dead, notably for families who died in an apartment-building blaze in the western region of Xinjiang, reportedly after fire exits were sealed. As social media spread word of this protest on the banks of the Liangma river, scores of cars drove past to sound horns in support. For five hours police in uniform and plain clothes had mingled with the crowd, filming every moment, without intervening” .[1]
Even the workers who are paid to keep the Chinese people locked in their building are protesting – because they aren’t being paid. Nevertheless, the feel comfortable? strong? Enough to stand up to the powers that be in China.
Farmers in Belgium and the Netherlands have been protesting for a year. They are told they can’t use fertilizers on their farms. Now the Dutch are told:
“The Dutch government is planning to buy out and close as many as 3,000 farms in the country, exacerbating an already-bitter dispute with growers as leaders attempt to halve the country’s nitrogen emissions by 2030.
“Leaders said last week they plan to allocate some $25 billion to the buyout plan, which they will use to purchase between 2,000 and 3,000 Dutch farms and other large nitrogen emitters “well over” their property values.[2]
The Left-wing President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, who was elected in June 2021, has been arrested on the same day that he attempted to dissolve Congress, declare a state of emergency and re-write the constitution.
“An Argentine court sentenced Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to six years in jail and disqualified her from holding public office in a high-profile corruption case on Tuesday.
“The powerful vice president, who has temporary immunity due to her current role, will not face immediate prison time and is expected to appeal the sentence, with the case likely to spend years winding through higher courts.” [3]
And Iran has erupted. “Iran has seen large-scale protests in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old woman who died in the custody of the Iranian morality police on September 16. Her death sparked widespread protests in more than 80 cities within Iran as well as many more across the globe.“ [4]
And we should not overlook the protests in France and around the EU a few years ago. The only protests I see here are the “peaceful” protests by BLM, ANTIFA and other odious groups who burn down as much of the city as they can, attack people who try to save their businesses, and in general, cause as much human and property damage as they can.
Where are the voices? Ah, the silent majority. Got it. Right now, we are on the tipping point. We either stand up and be counted or “we will all hang separately”. You want to keep your job, so you shut up? Hmmm. That job won’t be there very long – everything we do “causes climate change” according to those who made up the lie of a heating earth. Because it is a false narrative (i.e. fiction), it can be whatever the Deep State/globalists say it is.
Think about this, in 1970, when the First Earth Day was celebrated, those (or their predecessors) greenies were out to save Mother Earth and her non-human inhabitants. They spiked trees, put sugar in the gas tanks of large equipment to destroy them, they threatened fur wears – threw red paint on their coats and put razors in the pockets of the coats in the stores. They set loose minks from farms to become food for the animals that knew how to live in the wild. and… and… and….
They got paper bags banned in grocery stores. What happened? The stores went to plastic and the greenies said not a word – in spite of the fact that those bags are “carbon” products. Oh, oh, oh. But then paper bags were targeted – gotta save the trees; they’d go after the plastic bags eventually – or, no, by the time they get around to that there will be no food in the grocery stores in need of bagging.
Our government is now destroying Mother Earth with wind and solar farms. Yes, our government mandated these destructive activities. And remember the “urban forests” that we were encouraged to build – to plant trees all over the city? Sure don’t see the Left/enviros urging us to do that today. And they certainly are not protesting the loss of trees or eagles and other birds. The wind and solar farms destroy those.
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