RT News - October 20 2022 (20:00 MSK)

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An RT crew follows the dismantling of parts of the Crimean Bridge that were destroyed in a recent terrorist attack by Kiev forces.

Liz Truss becomes the shortest-ruling UK Prime minister in modern British history, resigning after just 45 days in office.

In Palestine, Israeli settlers brutalised a volunteer helping with the olive harvest. Farmers say this is not the first time this has occurred.

Ursula Von Der Leyen says that the reprisal attacks on Ukraine infrastructure are acts of terror which will deprive Ukrainians of heat and power (QueenStreet comment - this is happening in Britain and Europe and we aren't at war with anyone, except perhaps our governments war on us citizens who pay for them all and are forced to fund their lousy proxy wars)

Feature: Syria reconciles with Hamas after ten years. That's as many other Arab states resume relations and diplomatic ties.

Pres. Biden order 15 million barrels of oil to be released from the strategic reserves and continues to blame oil producers for the price hikes. He said "not now - not now as war is raging" (QueenStreet comment : once again I suggest the war is deliberately against us citizens, we are the ones suffering from their phoney policies)

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As every other outlet seems to be talking about Liz Truss, I thought I'd make a post from the RT website about New Zelands's proposed "cow fart tax" as the farmers and other citizens protest this folly (as did the farmers in the Netherlands and likely everywhere else that this tax is proposed). For me this is very relevant as I have been watching the hypocrisy and lies coming from the .govs across the liberal democracies for at least two years and have collected a lot of evidence - maybe I will post that as a separate video in the next few days)

NEW ZEALAND 20 Oct, 2022 15:32 (via RT)

Farmers protest ‘cow fart tax’

New Zealand’s largest industry is rising up against the government’s latest ‘green’ initiative

New Zealand farmers took to the streets across the country in their tractors on Thursday to denounce Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s scheme to tax “agricultural emissions,” including cow farts and burps. They argued that not only would the added costs put them out of business, they would increase - not reduce - greenhouse gas emissions.

Farmers’ advocacy group Groundswell New Zealand organized the protests in over 50 towns and cities, some filling the streets with dozens of tractors. “Several hundred to a few thousand people” were predicted to join in, though media reports claimed turnout was underwhelming.

Farmers at the protest argued the tax would not only drive them out of business but ultimately increase emissions by forcing farmers in other countries with less efficient practices to take up the slack. They pointed out that the tax does not take into account the trees and bushes farmers plant on their land, which take carbon out of the atmosphere. Some said they would refuse to pay it.

The new regulation, which has yet to obtain final approval, would tax farmers based on the estimated methane and nitrous oxide gas generated by their livestock herds starting in 2025. Payments would come due every one to three years, and every farmer who reached a certain threshold for herd size and fertilizer use would be affected. The government has argued farmers could recoup the money by charging more for environmentally-friendly products, though with a recession menacing most of the world’s developed economies, it’s not clear who will be able to afford them.

Farming is a massive industry in New Zealand, where there are twice as many cattle as people and five times as many sheep, and dairy is the country’s chief export. Accordingly, the industry makes up about half of its greenhouse gas emissions, and much of that is the methane that comes from burping cows. That hasn’t stopped critics of the legislation from dubbing it the “cow fart tax,” a popular misconception stemming from the unfortunate wording of US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 2019 “Green New Deal” bill.

The agricultural emissions tax would be the first of its kind in the world. As part of Ardern’s pledge to make New Zealand carbon neutral by 2050 in order to tackle climate change, the government hopes to reduce methane emissions from livestock by 10% by 2030 and by as much as 47% by 2050. A similar initiative in 2003 was stymied by massive protests from the industry.

https://www.rt.com/news/565054-new-zealand-farmers-protest-greens/