The removal of the diesel discount was the last straw for the farmers.
Their protests get to the heart of what moves the entire SME sector.
Politics has become completely disconnected from the reality of people's lives.
Financial expert Ernst Wolff places the current developments surrounding the farmers'
protests in Germany in a wider context.
In his opinion, it is about much more than just the removal of tax concessions.
WHO boss Tedros declared last year:
Our food systems are damaging the health of people and the planet.
Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions and are responsible for almost a third of the global burden of disease.
A reorganization of food systems is therefore essential.
The 2030 Agenda, a UN resolution adopted in 2015, states: We are determined
to take the bold and transformative steps urgently needed to put the
world on the path to sustainability and resilience...
Here it becomes clear that the current policy is not the real problem:
It is about a global transformation and increasing monopolization of the food supply under
the guise of climate protection.
Financial expert Ernst Wolff analyzes the current developments surrounding the farmers' protests as follows:
Hello, Ernst Wolf here.
The German Farmers' Association, together with the state farmers' associations, is calling for
a nationwide week of action from January 8, culminating in a major demonstration
in Berlin on January 15.
The official reason for this is the planned abolition of tax concessions for agricultural diesel
and vehicle tax by the coalition government.
The farmers' anger is not surprising when you consider how they have been
put under increasing pressure for years.
As a result, more and more smaller and medium-sized farms are having to give up and
make way for large agricultural enterprises.
Expressed in figures, the situation is as follows:
While there were still around 390,000 farms in Germany in 1995, in 2020, a quarter of a century
later, there were only around 240,000.
The figures for the European Union are even more alarming.
From 2005 to 2020, i.e. within just 15 years, the number of farms fell
from 14.4 million to 9.1 million.
This corresponds to a decline of around 37 percent.
As you can see, there has been a rapidly advancing concentration process in agriculture, as well as in industry, at the
expense of small and medium-sized enterprises, and thus a strong redistribution from the bottom to the top.
Over the past three years, the situation for farmers has become even worse.
In addition to the structural change already described, there have also been supply chain collapses
as a result of the lockdowns.
In addition, the more difficult maintenance and repair of agricultural machinery due to the lack of chips, the increase
in tolls and CO2 taxes, the rise in the price of fertilizers, particularly as a result
of the war in Ukraine, and the more difficult borrowing due to the increase in interest rates
by the European Central Bank.
But that's not all.
This barrage of problems has also been exacerbated.
This is due to ever new bureaucratic rules and regulations.
Almost all in the name of the climate.
However, it is no coincidence that more and more farmers are losing the fight for survival in this way and are becoming
victims of international agricultural corporations.
We are currently experiencing a global economic and social turning point,
the dawn of the digital age.
However, this leads us to a vanishingly small minority.
And without the majority having any say whatsoever.
This minority, a cartel of powerful financial and IT groups, is pursuing several goals, which
are now also known as the Great Reset.
It wants to biometrically register us all,
it wants to force new money on us all, i.e. digital central bank money,
and it wants to completely transform agriculture.
And that is through so-called smart farming.
These include the automation of the work of tractors and equipment, the use of drones
or working robots and the use of artificial intelligence, for example through
the application of algorithms in plant cultivation.
But that's not all.
The Great Reset in the field of agriculture is primarily based
on the findings of synthetic biology,
i.e. genetically modified seeds and,
more recently, laboratory meat.
The protagonists of the Great Reset are selling all of this to us as measures that are being
taken in our interest to combat climate change.
Seeds supposedly have to be manipulated to make plants resistant to climate change.
And lab-grown meat must replace normal meat.
Because cattle, pigs and sheep emit too much methane.
None of this is satire, but bitter reality.
Behind this is a billion-euro business in which numerous
major investors have already entered.
But it also means the complete subjugation of agriculture to these investors.
This is because the licenses and patents for both climate-resistant seeds and climate-neutral laboratory
meat do not go to the farmers, of course, but to the representatives of the cartel.
Smart farming, and we should be clear about this, will do just as little to save
the world as the rest of the climate agenda.
Smart farming is nothing more than a huge business for the benefit
of a tiny minority and also the end of agriculture as we know it.
A particularly inglorious role in this fatal development is played by politics, which has almost completely
subordinated itself to the Great Reset agenda.
The Greens, who currently hold the Ministry of Economics and the Ministry of Agriculture, have
proven to be the biggest opponent of farmers within the German coalition of the two parties.
They seem to know no bounds when it comes to driving farmers further and further
into a corner and rolling out a red carpet for large investors.
But what does the farmers' association think about this development?
It is hard to believe, but the farmers' association is not only helpless
in the face of it, it actually promotes it.
On his website you can read that he supports all the climate targets of the United Nations
and the targets of the climate summits and is fully behind their CO2 agenda.
He was even among the exhibitors and sponsors at the Green Party
conference in Karlsruhe in November.
But what prompted the farmers' association to call for a week of action with
a major demonstration in January 2024?
Presumably the growing dissatisfaction of small and medium-sized farms in particular,
which in recent weeks and months have vented themselves in numerous local and regional
protest actions, which in turn threaten to turn into a conflagration.
It can therefore be assumed that the farmers' association is not reacting to the protests entirely voluntarily,
but rather out of pure self-preservation and is having to give in to pressure from the grassroots.
Does this mean that we should reject these protests?
No, quite the opposite.
If you really want to help the farmers, you should use the whole of next week to provide them with factual information to make it clear that there is much more at stake than just the abolition of tax concessions, that their entire profession is to be deprived of its foundation and that if they want to successfully defend themselves against the Great Reset, they must not leave their fate to the officials of the Farmers' Union under any circumstances.