{"id":153158,"date":"2024-02-12T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=153158"},"modified":"2024-02-11T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T20:21:37","slug":"mixed-news-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=153158","title":{"rendered":"Mixed news. Or is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Further to Ed’s column, the radical left is truly eating its own young. Or the worm has turned…I know there is a cliche that applies.<\/p>\n

“Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, you are a war criminal!” a man shouted as the former secretary of state walked onto a lecture hall stage at Columbia University in New York City.<\/p>\n

The former first lady then tried to begin her speech about conflict-related sexual violence, noting, “Yelling doesn\u2019t solve the problem,” when she was interrupted by a second protester.<\/a><\/p>\n

She tried to talk over the protester but then gave up as more appeared to join in, saying, “OK, we\u2019re going to stop a minute. You know what, why don\u2019t all of you just interrupt me so that you won\u2019t be interrupting our panelists so that we don\u2019t have this kind of disruption when we have people who are real experts in this area.”<\/p>\n

She added, “People are free to protest, but they are not free to disrupt events or classes and that is going to be the standards that we follow here and going forward.”\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember when cancel culture was hounding conservative speakers off campuses? Disrupting their speeches, etc? Surely I am not the only one seeing the irony.<\/p>\n

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But, on the side of sanity, I am seeing some signs of intelligent life across the pond:<\/p>\n

We’ve seen Europe doing what they can, again and again, to make their citizens miserable. Zero emissions zones in cities, taxing based on vehicle WEIGHT instead of mileage or emissions, so heavier EVs can pay almost $20 an hour to park in Paris. Elektrek<\/a>\u00a0 Shutting down electric plants in the middle of winter with no backups because they are ‘dirty’. Restrictions on farmers and their equipment, and even advocating eating insects instead of animal protein. Restricting pesticides , thereby ensuring lower food production. \u00a0 <\/cite><\/p>\n

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Protesting farmers descended on the heart of the European Union on Thursday as leaders across the bloc held a crucial meeting at which they agreed new funding for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators rolled into Brussels in their tractors in the early morning hours before gathering outside the European Parliament where the summit was being held, blaring horns, hurling eggs and sparking fires. CNN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re drowning us with all these regulations,\u201d he said. \u201cThey need to ease up on all the directives and bureaucracy. We can\u2019t compete with other countries when things are like this. We\u2019re \u2026 drowning.\u201d Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, it’s working and the EU is backing down.<\/p>\n

The response to the protest was immediate: The EU\u2019s executive commission announced plans to shield farmers from cheaper products exported from wartime Ukraine and to allow farmers to use some land they had been required to keep fallow for environmental reasons.<\/p>\n

The plans, which still need approval from member states and the European Parliament, amounted to a sudden and symbolic concession.<\/p>\n

In Paris, which is preparing to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, farmers are dismantling roadblocks and other barricades after the government promised more than 400 million euros ($436 million) in additional financial support. Newsday<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Worth following up…the farmers are challenging the zealots and winning. Makes me hope there is some sanity over there after all…<\/p>\n

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