Paris Protests Out Of Control

[AAAintheBeltway]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...des-as-yellow-jackets-storm-security-cordons/

An estimated 36,000 French have taken to the streets in violent protests. Strangely, the US media have largely ignored the tumult. The media are quick to highlight CIA-fomented revolts in oil-rich middle eastern countries or third world shitholes. A spontaneous uprising in France that involves tens of thousands of apparently ordinary Frenchmen, fed up with the arrogant globalism of the Macron government, and that government's violent repression of the demonstrators would seem like a major story to me.

The usual headlines would be something along the lines of "Macron orders police to fire on own citizens." As I recall, that was the excuse Obama used to justify his calamitous intervention in Libya. Things are different here however. This revolt was initially sparked by higher fuel prices brought on by ididotic global warming rules. Obviously the media do not want people objecting to that. The seething rage that was ignited however seems to be directed more at Macron's determination to force the Merkel version of migration and globalism on a French public that is fed up with it.

The protestors wear bright yellow vests, garb normally associated with traffic cops, probably so that people do not confuse them with marxist thugs who favor all black and face masks. This appears to be a legitimate people's uprising. It is an open question how much longer the security forces, which are said to be heavily rightwing and populist themselves, side with Macron and continue to fire on their fellow French.

Make no mistake, this is an enormous event, no matter how hard the media try to ignore it. We already have right wing populist governments in Italy, Poland, Hungary and somewhat in Austria and Czech Republic, not to mention Brazil of all places. Plenty of people in the UK are as fed up as the French. The yellow vest protests have spread to Holland already. What's next?

 

[Clubber Lang]

Pink pussy hats good
Yellow vests bad

Liberal Media rule #1-
“It’s not news if we don’t report it.”

 

[smallfil]

Imagine if the extreme liberal talking heads at CNN were to be forced to report on Paris burning and to tell the truth of the failed policies of Socialism which they continue to push, they would be all choking at their words! Would have been hilarious!
Now, the French has been voting for the extreme liberal policies of France including, bringing millions of Islamic refugees so, they have made their bed. Now, they have to lie in it! This is one more very good reason US patriots should not allow the extreme liberal Socialists and Communists of Hollywood and Congress to bring the US down! Otherwise, the US would be turned into one huge shithole like these extreme liberal countries!

 

[CaptainObvious]

The leftists over at CNN are too busy chasing down the next "bombshell" from some "unnamed source" to report actual news, especially news that doesn't support the narrative.

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

from breitbart:

"The protestors wear bright yellow vests, garb normally associated with traffic cops, probably so that people do not confuse them with marxist thugs who favor all black and face masks."

Sorta but not exactly. Truckers are hit the hardest by the fuel tax and french truckers are required by law to have those yellow safety vests in the truck at all times in case they have to get out of their truck on the road for a flat tire, an emergency, or something. You know, the kind of things that deplorables might have to do on their jobs but the Paris elite- not so much. So the yellow vests started as sort of a truckers solidarity symbol. Methinks.

 

[traderob]

Opinion
France is deeply fractured. Gilets jaunes are just a symptom
Christophe Guilluy


The author of a seminal account of French society charts widening cultural divisions



Sun 2 Dec 2018 01.00 EST

From the 1980s onwards, it was clear there was a price to be paid for western societies adapting to a new economic model and that price was sacrificing the European and American working class. No one thought the fallout would hit the bedrock of the lower-middle class, too. It’s obvious now, however, that the new model not only weakened the fringes of the proletariat but society as a whole.

The paradox is this is not a result of the failure of the globalised economic model but of its success. In recent decades, the French economy, like the European and US economies, has continued to create wealth. We are thus, on average, richer. The problem is at the same time unemployment, insecurity and poverty have also increased. The central question, therefore, is not whether a globalised economy is efficient, but what to do with this model when it fails to create and nurture a coherent society?



The change is not down to a conspiracy, a wish to cast aside the poor, but to a model where employment is increasingly polarised. This comes with a new social geography: employment and wealth have become more and more concentrated in the big cities. The deindustrialised regions, rural areas, small and medium-size towns are less and less dynamic. But it is in these places – in “peripheral France” (one could also talk of peripheral America or peripheral Britain) – that many working-class people live. Thus, for the first time, “workers” no longer live in areas where employment is created, giving rise to a social and cultural shock.

gilets jaunes movement was born. It is also in these peripheral regions that the western populist wave has its source. Peripheral America brought Trump to the White House. Peripheral Italy – mezzogiorno, rural areas and small northern industrial towns – is the source of its populist wave. This protest is carried out by the classes who, in days gone by, were once the key reference point for a political and intellectual world that has forgotten them.



The point, remember, of the gilet jaune is to ensure its wearer is visible on the road. And whatever the outcome of this conflict, the gilets jaunes have won in terms of what really counts: the war of cultural representation. Working-class and lower middle-class people are visible again and, alongside them, the places where they live.



Christophe Guilluy is the author of Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, Periphery and the Future of France

 

[elderado]

Isn't this Trump's fault? Hard to imagine it not being so...

 

[traderob]

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Isn't this Trump's fault? Hard to imagine it not being so...

according to CNN, yes it is.


France considers 'all options' to quell violent protests
By Sandrine Amiel and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN
Updated 11:21 AM EST, Sun December 02, 2018

Macron has borne the brunt of the demonstrators' anger instead of OPEC for reducing oil production, or the US for imposing tariffs on Iran, which crippled oil exports

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note , no mention of the fact that oil prices have fallen dramatically .. Does CNN even try to present the news, or is it only a far left propanganda machine like NYT and wapo?
No need to answer.

 

[gwb-trading]

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according to CNN, yes it is.


France considers 'all options' to quell violent protests
By Sandrine Amiel and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN
Updated 11:21 AM EST, Sun December 02, 2018

Macron has borne the brunt of the demonstrators' anger instead of OPEC for reducing oil production, or the US for imposing tariffs on Iran, which crippled oil exports

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note , no mention of the fact that oil prices have fallen dramatically .. Does CNN even try to present the news, or is it only a far left propanganda machine like NYT and wapo?
No need to answer.

The fuel price increases in France are strictly driven by Macron's imposition of high fuel taxes to support his climate change agenda.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

In recent decades, the French economy, like the European and US economies, has continued to create wealth. We are thus, on average, richer.

We are "richer" in the sense that total GDP has increased. That is cold comfort to a laid off coal miner whose life was destroyed by Obama's war on coal and oil. Or the high school grads who would have once held decent jobs in construction, jobs that now are reserved for illegal aliens who work for nothing. Or the factory workers laid off when their jobs were shipped to asia or mexico, but the CEO's all got gargantuan comp packages so the establishment republicans were happy. And people wonder why the establishment all despise Trump so much?