The biggest problem we have is that people have learned to do organization on the internet, become reliant on organizing on Facebook, and social media has now banned organization against any globalist policy.

Reuters:

Dutch farmers angered by government plans that may require them to use less fertilizer and reduce livestock began a day of protests in the Netherlands on Monday by blocking supermarket distribution hubs in several cities.

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport and KLM, the Dutch arm of Air France have advised travellers to use public transport, rather than cars, to reach the airport, as farmers’ activist groups said on social media they planned to use tractors to block roads.

Several traffic jams were reported on highways in the east of the country and on ferry routes in the north, but none near Schiphol during the morning commute.

At the heart of the protest are targets introduced last month to reduce harmful nitrogen compounds by 2030, the latest attempt to tackle a problem that has plagued the country for years.

Reductions are necessary in emissions of nitrogen oxides from farm animal manure and from the use of ammonia in fertilizer, the government says, estimating a 30% reduction in the number of livestock is needed.

High-intensity farming of cows, pigs and other animals has made the Netherlands Europe’s leading emitter of the substances. Construction and traffic also contribute.

Dutch and European courts have ordered the Dutch government to address the problem. Farmers say they have been unfairly singled out and have criticised the government’s approach.

Monday’s protest is widely supported by farmers’ groups but not centrally organised.

See?

“Not centrally organized.”

If we had a free internet, we could organize globally against globalism.

That should be the real “globalism” – the masses of the people working things out in a public forum online.

Whole villages marooned, possessions and livelihoods destroyed, sewage swilling from overflowing cesspits into kitchens and living rooms…

No, this isn’t some primitive corner of the Third World, stricken by an act of God. This is Britain, 2014 – and the blame for this wholly avoidable disaster lies squarely with human officials who have betrayed those they are paid to serve.

Indeed, it is hard to imagine the misery and squalor endured for almost a month – and, for many, the third year running – by the people of the Somerset Levels, where heartbroken farmers have seen  up to 95 per cent of their land 10ft deep  in floodwater.

As even the ecomaniacs at the Met Office agree, this has nothing to do with global warming.

It is the result of a deliberate strategy by the Environment Agency, with its peculiarly metropolitan mindset, to put fashionable green causes above the basic needs of rural dwellers.

For as little as £4million, as Christopher Booker today argues, the agency could have averted the floods by dredging local rivers and clearing ditches, following practices pursued since the 17th century, when Dutch settlers drained the Levels.

Instead, it allowed them to silt up – while £31million has been spent on dismantling flood defences a few miles up the coast to turn hundreds of acres of farmland into a bird sanctuary.

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