Spanish farmers burn EU flag over Russia sanctions war

Spanish farmers burn EU flag over Russia sanctions war

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Peach protest: Spanish farmers burn EU flag in anger over Russia sanctions war

… by  Russian Today,  Moscow

 

This is a classic example of takeover staging of the Tea Party.

[ Editor's note:  This is a big deal. Remember how I mentioned that the biggest way to have impact is to bring "pre-organized" groups into the fray, as all they have to do is have a meeting to agree to get into it, and their infrastructure, funding and people are already in place.

Once one union starts having protests, then the others will not want to look slack and will join in.

The politicians will not miss any of this and will start playing to the causes and unions for their support to run against opponents in the legislatures. This is democracy in action... the real kind.

The threat is always that these movements can be hijacked, with the saddest example being the Tea Party, which started out homegrown until the big money guys came in and instantly funded the national Tea Party effort, which got all the press. The grass-roots folks ended up being just along for the ride from that point, becoming a controlled opposition of sorts.

Sure, they had their mainline issues that were woven in, like gun rights, but the door was nailed shut on other issues, like support for the current wars, no criticism of Israel or the threat of their espionage operations here, etc. The thing to watch is if handlers come in to keep the focus solely on the sanctions, but not NATO and how the EU corrupt leadership has been onboard the aggression toward Eastern Europe.

That is the test as to whether they really want change, or just to get a bandaid on the sanctions hit they are taking. Historically, politicians take the path of least resistance, as they can show a quicker result, and that is one of the reasons they are in the current mess... Jim W. Dean ]

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 -  First published August 23,  2014  -

 

Who really has control over the EU?

A trade union representing Catalonian crop growers and cattle ranchers has staged a protest, demanding that the EU compensate them for the revenues lost as a result of the escalation of sanctions, which have closed the Russian market to them.

A group of about 30 representatives from JARC (Young Farmers and  Ranchers of Catalonia), one of the biggest agricultural unions in  the region, demonstratively burned crates of ripe peaches outside  the Lleida municipality building.

As a throng of journalists looked on, the unionists hurled an EU  flag onto the bonfire, which disintegrated in seconds.

“We will not accept any more that the EU keep telling us what  to do, these people that have never set foot in a fruit field.  For once you will have to listen to the producers, not the  consumers,” David Borda, a union official, told Ruptly news  agency.

Earlier this month, the European Union imposed sectoral sanctions  on Russian banks and high-tech industries in connection with  Russia’s alleged meddling in the Ukrianina crisis. Russia, which  said that it had no responsibility for events in eastern Ukraine,  retaliated by banning imports of agricultural produce from the EU  for one year.

JARC, which also delivered a list of demands to government  officials, believes that the European Union’s political standoff  has harmed farmers, and says that they should be compensated  through the raising of tariffs on imported fruit and vegetables  from other countries, such as Turkey and Morocco.

The EU has allocated €125 million to help farmers in the  immediate aftermath. Finance group ING has estimated that the  annual losses as a result of the blocking of the Russian market  will amount to €6.7 billion a year, and could result in the loss  of 130,000 jobs.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/23/spanish-farmers-burn-eu-flag-over-russia-sanctions-war/