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  1. #91
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Letter from Gen Antoine Martinez to Macron (you will have to translate the page) source one: https://www.minurne.org/billets/19275 source two: https://ripostelaique.com/marrakech-m-le-president-vous-ne-pouvez-decider-seul-de-nous-priver-de-notre-patrie.html
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

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  4. #93
    Strasbourg

    BREAKING: Terrorist At Large After Shooting Near Christmas Market In France, At Least 1 Killed & Up To 10 Injured

    EHA News
    President of the EU Parliament Antonio Tajani:
    • 3 different attacks in the centre of Strasbourg France
    • toll has significantly rised (from 1 to 4 killed and many wounded)
    • assaliants at large

    (Some people blaming yellow shirts and others saying attack done by 'Arab looking men'...
    either way Macron can declare martial law and ban public gatherings to stop protests now.)

    InstaNewsAlerts
    BREAKING: Reports of shots fired (possibly a police operation) south of Strasbourg France just now
    https://twitter.com/InstaNewsAlerts/...96872991334400

    BREAKING Police say exchange of gunfire ongoing with Strasbourg shooting suspect on the run
    BREAKING: Some reports say the shooter shot and wounded by security forces but managed to get away.
    https://twitter.com/InstaNewsAlerts/...99091278999555

    ELINT News
    BREAKING: Strasbourg death toll rises to at least 4 dead with 11 others wounded including 5 critically- BFMTV

  5. #94
    Macron's government faces a vote of no confidence in parliament on Thursday amid nationwide anger at the French president which has seen violent riots across the country.

    To bring down the government, the motion would have to meet a majority.
    But this could be impossible due to the 62 elected on the left compared to the 577 deputies in the Assembly.
    Bloomberg reporter, Nikos Chrysoloras, tweeted: "O.K, this is an epidemic now: France’s government will face a no confidence vote in parliament on Thursday, AFP reports."

    More at: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...-vest-protests
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  6. #95
    The majority of French people are not satisfied with a series of new economic policies unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron this week, and say that the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protests should continue, according to a new poll.

    According to a poll by Odoxa, 59% of French say that they are not convinced by Macron, despite finding his proposal "satisfactory," according to Le Figaro. Just 21% found Macron's new policies convincing despite viewership for his speech jumping 40% over a speech last month.
    That said, while Macron may have failed to win his people over - most of those polled agreed with his specific proposals; 61% favored the minimum wage boost, 55% liked the tax-free year-end bonuses and 85% of those surveyed backed no tax on overtime pay.
    54% of those surveyed said the Yellow Vest protests should continue.
    Many of the Yellow Vests have flat-out rejected Macron's proposals, according to European-Views.


    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...conomic-crumbs
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  7. #96
    This is what happens when you let people riot without a permit.
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
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  9. #97
    Macron Faces Thursday No Confidence Vote As Protesters Reject Economic "Crumbs"
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  10. #98
    As protests continue to rage in France, discontent is festering elsewhere in Europe at the same time. What began as a routine protest deep in Paris has swelled to over a hundred thousand people and approximately five locations throughout the country. Anger over yet another eco-fascist “gas tax” seems to have been the straw that finally broke the camel’s back.
    This, of course, was combined with other problems too: constant foreign military adventures, falling wages, rising costs of living, rising costs of healthcare, privatization of essential services, cultural disruption as a result of heavy migration, and growing unemployment as a result of Free Trade globalist policies.


    France is now facing the possibility of martial law or greater unrest and violence.
    It’s not just France dealing with Yellow Vest protests.

    And the discontent being seen in France is also being felt elsewhere in Europe – most notably Belgium and the Netherlands. Although receiving much less media attention, the “yellow vests” have taken to the street in Belgium over many of the same concerns as their counterparts in France.
    But while the French version of the protests was set off by the proposed increase of fuel taxes and ballooned into a movement addressing greater issues, there was no straw to place on the camel’s back in Belgium. There were no new fuel taxes announced or any other new policy that was receiving coverage in the media or causing discontent with Belgians at the time. The Belgian government is increasing the cost of fuel but the policy is not a new one. Belgians already pay the highest state taxes for fuel in Europe.
    Interestingly enough, it seems that the “final straw” for Belgian was imported from France.
    For all intents and purposes, it appears that the Belgian and Dutch protests are the reverberating waves of discontent that comes with such an “integrated” society in Europe whereas the indignities suffered by the populations in one Sovietized EU “democracy” are grievously felt in another Sovietized EU “democracy.”
    It is also reminiscent of the French Revolution when British oligarchs were constantly on guard for signs of discontent with the dreadful conditions in that country, lest the same thing should take place in England.
    So Why Are The Protests Taking Place In Belgium?

    For the most part, the protests in Belgium are inspired by the same situation in France, i.e.; falling wages, rising costs of living, rising costs of healthcare, privatization of essential services, cultural disruption as a result of heavy migration, and growing unemployment as a result of Free Trade globalist policies.
    France 24 summed up a number of Belgian economic grievances when it writes,
    The demonstrations in both countries come from the same sense of struggling to make ends meet every month.
    It began, in both countries, with the government increasing the cost of fuel. Belgians, for instance, pay the highest state taxes on diesel in Europe. The French government backed down on the proposed fuel tax increase, and Belgian ministers did the same, announcing the fuel prices would not be index-linked from 2019. But in both countries, the protests have continued.
    ...
    According to Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical body, tax-to-GDP ratio rose across Europe in 2017. France tops the list, with tax revenue accounting for 48.4% of GDP, and Belgium follows close behind with a tax-to-GDP ratio of 47.3%.
    ...
    Economist Philippe Defeyt told Belgian media RTBF that while the cost of living has increased in Belgium, so too has the average income – apart from the lowest-earners, who have been squeezed even tighter.
    A retired man told RTBF that he receives a pension of €1,350 a month. “I get it on the 23rd of the month. It’s now the 8th and after I’ve paid insurance, rent, energy bills – which cost €150 – I only have €200 left for living expenses,” he said.
    A Facebook group for Yellow Vests in Belgium lays out some of their demands to the government: lowering the retirement age, decreasing fuel excise duties, decreasing the cost of electricity and water, the choice of referendums at all levels of legislative decision-making, increasing pensions, improving public services and increasing purchasing power. The average price of electricity has risen €10 in the past year. Protesters describe a general “ras-le-bol fiscal”, or financial despair.
    ...
    It’s a similar story in Belgium: in Brussels, salaries are €300 higher than the average salary in the rest of the country. With a capital that also doubles as the capital of Europe, Belgian citizens are frustrated by what they see as their lawmakers’ inability to solve problems closer to home.
    One protester gestured to the European institutional buildings behind him while talking to a NBC Euronews reporter. “There, in ‘Europe’, they’re having fun, they’re laughing,” he said. “The people who make the laws are the ones driving us further into the ground. We have empty pockets. We shouldn’t be called the ‘yellow vests’, but the ‘empty pockets’.”
    The protests in Belgium have been largely peaceful, but there have been some violent clashes as well. On December 8, police in Brussels blockaded a zone which houses the European Commission and European Council which essentially blocked in the protesters. When a group of protesters attempted to break through the barricade, there were clashes between them and the police. Around 400 people were arrested at the protest with three police being injured.
    Police fired tear gas and water cannons at the protesters calling for Prime Minister Charles Michel’s resignation. Some protesters threw paving stones, fireworks, flares, road signs, and other objects at police.
    There seems to be people deliberately escalating the violence.

    As was the case in France, there seemed to be the presence of anarchist wreckers whose only purpose was to fight with the police. Many of the Yellow Vest protesters denounced the “casseurs,” (translated “breakers”) and dissociated themselves from the violence.
    It should be noted that while anarchists typically disrupt and discredit any protest they involve themselves in, it has been demonstrated in the United States that intelligence agencies and police will send in agents disguised as anarchists to do just that. One such instance was seen during the infamous WTO protests in Seattle in 1999.
    It should also be mentioned that Belgium has been undergoing a quiet debate as to its future. As Wouter Verschelden writes for Politico, Belgium is debating which “club” it wants to belong to – Macron or Orban.
    The latter refers to Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary. Orban is bucking the Soviet-style EU system, George Soros’ influence over media, society, and academia, unfettered immigration, and radical leftist manipulation of culture. While Orban has made many moves that are concerning in terms of the rights of individuals, he has also kept his country free of the social upheaval and violence accompanied by hordes of immigrants and has done what he can to prevent Soros-funded organizations from disrupting the country and the culture any further than they already have.
    When compared to a country like France that also violates human rights on an hourly basis while also suffering under terrorist attacks, racial and religious violence against native French people, and a stagnant economy, many Europeans are wishing their country had taken the nationalist track, not the internationalist one.
    Protests in The Netherlands

    There have been Yellow Vest protests in the Netherlands as well though the protests have drawn much smaller crowds and there have been no reports of violence.
    In stark contrast to French President Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has expressed sympathy for the protests, indicating that there will be “more money to spend” for the Dutch people and acknowledging the problems they are facing. Notably, however, there hasn’t been any explanation of how they will have more money to spend or what the Dutch government is going to do in order to ensure it.
    At this point, the Netherlands protests seem to be more of acknowledgment of the Dutch crisis moreso than a mass movement against it.

    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...-across-europe
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  11. #99
    The terrorist attack should take some steam out of the neo-Jacobins, simply as a matter of distraction, scarcity of TV minutes, etc.

    On the other hand, it may embolden the national socialist groups (Le Pen et al), who have thus far failed to capture the riots.

    On yet a third hand, the attacks should galvanize the French police and army, who are (contrary to popular belief) still quite formidable.

    Macron must bring together the right people from the right factions and form a stable coalition.

    bonne chance

  12. #100
    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    The terrorist attack should take some steam out of the neo-Jacobins, simply as a matter of distraction, scarcity of TV minutes, etc.

    On the other hand, it may embolden the national socialist groups (Le Pen et al), who have thus far failed to capture the riots.

    On yet a third hand, the attacks should galvanize the French police and army, who are (contrary to popular belief) still quite formidable.

    Macron must bring together the right people from the right factions and form a stable coalition.

    bonne chance
    LOL
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  13. #101
    France is set to deploy tens of thousands of police and gendarmes across the country on Saturday, including 8,000 in Paris, to deal with a fifth weekend of Yellow Vest protests - just days after three people were killed and 13 injured after a mass shooting in the eastern city of Strasbourg.

    Paris police chief Michel Delpuech said authorities are on watch for "violent groups" infiltrating the protests, and that riot officers will protect landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe and the presidential palace, reports Reuters.
    "We need to be prepared for worst-case scenarios," Delpuech told RTL radio, who added that he doesn't expect businesses in the capital to suffer the same level of disruption as they have over the past three weeks, when major stores and hotels suffered a dramatic drop in business as tourists avoided the area.

    This weekend's Yellow Vest protests, nicknamed "Acte V" - mark the fifth week of anti-government outrage which began over opposition to an announced fuel-tax designed to pay for climate change policies.
    Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said it was time for the Yellow Vests to tone down their protests and acknowledge that they had achieved their goals after French President Emmanuel Macron rolled out a series of economic and tax incentives, including a minimum wage hike, no tax on overtime pay, tax-free year-end bonuses, and a six month delay to the fuel tax.

    While most French people polled by Odoxa said they found Macron's proposal "satisfactory," 59% of those polled say they were "not convinced" by the measures.
    54% of those surveyed said the Yellow Vest protests should continue.


    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...-vest-protests
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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
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  14. #102
    apocalyptic scenario in Nantes today.


    https://twitter.com/Syrian_Lion/stat...56672207495171




    https://twitter.com/armani_salado/st...71927604187136
    Last edited by goldenequity; 12-15-2018 at 11:26 AM.

  15. #103
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    apocalyptic scenario in Nantes today.


    https://twitter.com/Syrian_Lion/stat...56672207495171




    https://twitter.com/armani_salado/st...71927604187136
    This will end with a total police state or another revolution in France.

    Macron won't resign because he has a literal god complex and it looks like the people have the sense to settle for nothing less than his resignation.

    I never thought I would say this in my life but here it goes: VIVE LE FRANCE


    My Norman ancestors would be pleased, until now I thought the Jacobins, Napolean's defeat in Russia and both world wars had finished off the French for good.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

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    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  16. #104

    That moment when police try to pepper spray Yellow Vest protesters, but the protesters just pepper spray them back
    https://twitter.com/_DeleteTheElite/...70736756248576


    https://twitter.com/PureTele/status/1074006039312433152



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  18. #105
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post

    That moment when police try to pepper spray Yellow Vest protesters, but the protesters just pepper spray them back
    https://twitter.com/_DeleteTheElite/...70736756248576


    https://twitter.com/PureTele/status/1074006039312433152
    VIVE LE FRANCE! VIVE LE GILETS JAUNES!
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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  19. #106
    French President Emmanuel Macron was not only present at the Élysée Palace during “Act IV” of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests but had a helicopter on standby to escape in case protesters broke in, according to reports.

    The French leader fortified the Élysée Palace last Saturday with an unprecedented amount of security, including 500 republican guards, around a hundred police and gendarmes armed with water cannons, and other anti-riot measures, Le Dauphine reports.
    Should the protesters have managed to storm the Élysée and get past security, President Macron is also said to have had a helicopter on standby to evacuate him and others in what could have echoed the escape of former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu, who fled a popular uprising by helicopter during the collapse of his Communist regime on December 22, 1989.

    More at: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/201...elysee-palace/
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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  20. #107
    Protesters from the "yellow vest" movement hit the streets in France for the fifth straight Saturday, but the number of demonstrators was significantly smaller than in previous weekends.
    There were 33,500 protesters in France -- and 2,200 in Paris -- as of Saturday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Interior minister told ABC News. At the same time last Saturday, they were 77,000 total across the whole country and 10,000 in its capital.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/gma/yellow-ves...opstories.html
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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

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    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  21. #108
    Emmanuel Macron’s popularity continued to slide in December despite concessions announced by the French president in response to weeks of protests by the so-called Yellow Vest movement.Macron’s approval rating dropped two points from a month earlier, to 23 percent, according to a poll by Ifop for the Journal du Dimanche weekly. Macron’s popularity has fallen by 27 points during the course of 2018, the newspaper reported.

    Support for Prime Minister Edouard Philippe fell 3 points to 31 percent, according to the Ifop poll.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/macron-apos-p...104224455.html
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  22. #109
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  23. #110
    French police have sent a stark warning to the government after another weekend of violence in cities around the country left them "at breaking point".

    Although their response to violence has not always been exemplary as some videos on social media can attest to the French police say they are tired of being the punchbag for Macron and his government..
    Last weekend all police leave was cancelled in Paris and 8,000 officers took to the streets of the capital. The previous weekend there were 5,000 on duty when they were overrun by rioters and looters.
    Rocco Contento, representative for the Paris Unité-SGP police union, told Franceinfo that the police had been stretched to their limits.
    “Police resources are not inexhaustible. We were practically at our maximum. 89 000 members of the armed forces throughout France… We can’t do any more,” he said.
    He went on to warn that an untenable amount of pressure has been put on the police to manage a crisis that politicians are responsible for.
    “We also want to take off our vests. Not the yellow vests, but our blue vests if this continues. That’s the message that I want to give to the highest state authorities. We are in a political crisis. It’s not up to the police force to get us out of it, it's up to politicians,” he said.


    Working back-to-back days of long hours in hostile conditions, with breaks and meal times often cancelled, has left police officers exhausted according to Denis Jacob, the spokesman for national police union Alternative Police.
    They said of last Saturday's protests: "If the police have managed the situation perfectly well, with the number of injured significantly lower than the number of those taken in for questioning (1723) the fact remains that we are very tired and weary after successive missions."
    While the police “risk their lives” at work Alternative Police states that unpaid overtime and underpaid night shifts have left them suffering the same poor living conditions as the yellow vests they confront at the weekends.
    “Between their responsibility to carry out their missions, maintain order and guarantee everyone’s safety and the feeling that they too are affected by the demands of the yellow vests when it comes to spending power, the police are at breaking point," they said.
    The union has called on the government to deploy an emergency budget to compensate police officers “as a way of showing the gratitude that they like so much to assure us of.”
    If their demands are not met they warn the consequences could be serious.
    “The police, exhausted, could end up putting down their helmets and shields," said the union
    The union also sent an open letter to French lawmakers on Monday with a list of demands aimed at improving pay and working conditions of police across the country.
    The letter signed by Denis Jacob spoke of the "exhaustion, weariness and deep anger" of the police.

    More at: https://www.thelocal.fr/20181215/fre...breaking-point
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  24. #111
    Enrico Ivanov
    ‘Macron… WHAT?’ French TV channel ‘censors’ photo of YellowVest protester’s placard
    https://www.rt.com/news/446613-franc...-yellow-vests/







    France prepares 'last resort' chemical weapon
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-away.html

    ►French security forces could 'fog' centre of Paris with debilitating powder
    ►can be spread across an area the size of six football pitches in just ten seconds
    ►some of the 14 armoured cars deployed by gendarmes contained ‘a radical device that was only to be used as a last resort’ against their own citizens.
    ►A gun-like distributor on the vehicles’ turrets can spray the powder over 430,500 sq. ft. in ten seconds
    ►same power as 200 tear gas grenades

  25. #112
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Enrico Ivanov
    ‘Macron… WHAT?’ French TV channel ‘censors’ photo of YellowVest protester’s placard
    https://www.rt.com/news/446613-franc...-yellow-vests/







    France prepares 'last resort' chemical weapon
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-away.html

    ►French security forces could 'fog' centre of Paris with debilitating powder
    ►can be spread across an area the size of six football pitches in just ten seconds
    ►some of the 14 armoured cars deployed by gendarmes contained ‘a radical device that was only to be used as a last resort’ against their own citizens.
    ►A gun-like distributor on the vehicles’ turrets can spray the powder over 430,500 sq. ft. in ten seconds
    ►same power as 200 tear gas grenades
    Will they nuke them next?
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  27. #113
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Enrico Ivanov
    ‘Macron… WHAT?’ French TV channel ‘censors’ photo of YellowVest protester’s placard
    https://www.rt.com/news/446613-franc...-yellow-vests/







    France prepares 'last resort' chemical weapon
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-away.html

    ►French security forces could 'fog' centre of Paris with debilitating powder
    ►can be spread across an area the size of six football pitches in just ten seconds
    ►some of the 14 armoured cars deployed by gendarmes contained ‘a radical device that was only to be used as a last resort’ against their own citizens.
    ►A gun-like distributor on the vehicles’ turrets can spray the powder over 430,500 sq. ft. in ten seconds
    ►same power as 200 tear gas grenades
    Will the US/UK bomb France for gassing their own people?
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

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  28. #114
    The Macron government has changed its tone after five straight weeks of violent "Yellow Vest" demonstrations across the country.

    On Sunday Prime Minister Édouard Philippe admitted to Les Echoes newspaper that mistakes were made in the handling of the protests, and that a dialogue is needed.
    "We made mistakes. We did not listen enough to the French people. I remain convinced that they want this country to be transformed," said Philippe.


    Meanwhile, the Yellow Vest protests have spread to multiple European countries - most notably the Netherlands and Belgium, while also spreading to Israel, Iraq and now Canada.

    Yellow Vest protesters and counter-protesters were seen last weekend in several Canadian cities, including Toronto, Calgary, Halifax, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Moncton.

    "I have never met even one Canadian that understands how a carbon tax is going to reduce carbon emissions," said protester James Hoskins to CTV Atlantic. Another Canadian Yellow Vest, Barry Ahern, called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's summer grant program "oppression of Canadians by our own people." The program has been criticized for requiring organizations applying for summer job grants to sign an "attestation" confirming that they respect LGBT and abortion rights.

    In Calgary, a large rally began outside the downtown Kerby Centre, with protester Craig Chandler telling CTV Calgary that people were upset over pipelines and Trudeau’s leadership in general.
    Ever since France has been doing it, everybody wants to do it, “ said Chandler, a member of the Progressive Group for Independent Business, who also called out Calgary Centre MP Kent Hehr.
    “We want to know from our MP why he’s done nothing on the pipeline problem, why he’s done nothing on oil and gas when he represents oil and gas,” Chandler said. “We want to know why Quebec is getting $13 billion in transfer payments when we’re hurting.”
    Hehr acknowledged the difficulties in the city but stressed his government’s commitment to some pipeline construction — including the Trans Mountain expansion.
    “There is no doubt that we want to ensure that when Alberta does well, Canada does well,” he said. -CTV News
    Canadians in Toronto voiced their frustration over carbon taxes and immigration, while in Edmonton there were tensions between Yellow Vests and counter-protesters as hundreds assembled at the Alberta Legislature.
    "I’m tired of Trudeau basically doing what he wants with our money and sending it overseas," said Yellow Vest protester who goes by the name Turk. "Right now, personally, I’m facing a job crisis. All our oil jobs are gone, all our money is going south."


    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...nt-hits-canada
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  29. #115
    French officials vowed Monday to quickly push tax cuts and a rise in the minimum wage through parliament in a bid to end the anti-government "yellow vest" protests, amid signs the movement is losing steam ahead of the year-end holidays.At the same time police said they would start removing barricades at roundabouts and on motorways after a month of demonstrations which have at times spiralled into violence while taking a toll on the economy.


    President Emmanuel Macron announced a series of concessions last week, including a 100-euro increase for five million minimum wage earners, the removal of a planned tax increase for a majority of pensioners, and tax-free overtime pay for all workers.
    The concessions will be discussed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday before being brought to the National Assembly and Senate for votes before Christmas.
    "We have made mistakes. We haven't listened enough to the French people," Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told the financial newspaper Les Echos in an interview published Monday.


    But many of the yellow vests, so-called for the high-visibility jackets drivers are required to keep in their cars, have vowed to press on with the protests.
    Two more motorway toll stations were set on fire overnight in southern France, near Beziers and Manosque, officials said.
    "Unplug your TV and put on your vest!" a protester sings in a viral video clip showing demonstrators at a roundabout in Montbard, eastern France, on Saturday.
    "I was sick and tired of seeing in the media that 'the movement is waning'," the video's author, a 28-year-old florist named Antonin Froidevaux, told AFP on Monday.
    "We have to re-mobilise," he said.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/paris-governm...112737957.html
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    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  30. #116
    French "yellow vest" protesters occupied highway toll booths, setting a number on fire and causing transport chaos in parts of the country just days before the Christmas holidays getaway.France's biggest toll road operator, Vinci Autoroutes, said there were demonstrations at about 40 sites along its network and that some highway intersections had been damaged, notably in tourist towns such as Avignon, Orange, Perpignan and Agde.
    Protesters set fire overnight to the Bandol toll station, forcing the closure of the A50 highway between Marseille and Toulon, said Vinci, whose network is mainly in southern and western France. The Manosque station was also torched.
    Some 20 people were arrested on Tuesday following the blazes, while four others remain in custody following fires on Saturday.
    "Motorists should take utmost care as they approach toll gates and motorway access ramps due to the presence of numerous pedestrians," Vinci said in a statement.


    Protesters angry about high fuel costs and new speed limits have also damaged or torched hundreds of traffic radars.
    Radars-auto.com estimated that by the middle of last week some 1,600 - about half of all French traffic radars - had been damaged. More than 250 have been entirely destroyed, it said.
    The French state will also lose several tens of millions of euros in revenues, it said, adding that in 2017 the radars had yielded on average 84 million euros ($96 million) per month.
    The interior ministry declined comment on the number of radars damaged, but said that minor damage cost on average 500 euros per radar to repair, with major damage costing up to 200,000 euros.
    Fines for damaging radars can run as high as 75,000 euros.
    "Even wrapping a radar in plastic or a yellow vest... without destroying it is an offense," a ministry official said.
    Vinci estimates the damages since the start of the protests will cost it "several tens of millions" of euros, not including lost revenue, as the protesters have allowed thousands of motorists onto the highways for free.
    It dropped a plan to send invoices to motorists who drove through toll booths without paying and whose license plates were captured on cameras following government criticism.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/chaos-french-...--finance.html
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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  31. #117
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    The Macron government has changed its tone after five straight weeks of violent "Yellow Vest" demonstrations across the country.

    On Sunday Prime Minister Édouard Philippe admitted to Les Echoes newspaper that mistakes were made in the handling of the protests, and that a dialogue is needed.
    "We made mistakes. We did not listen enough to the French people. I remain convinced that they want this country to be transformed," said Philippe.


    Meanwhile, the Yellow Vest protests have spread to multiple European countries - most notably the Netherlands and Belgium, while also spreading to Israel, Iraq and now Canada.

    Yellow Vest protesters and counter-protesters were seen last weekend in several Canadian cities, including Toronto, Calgary, Halifax, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Moncton.

    "I have never met even one Canadian that understands how a carbon tax is going to reduce carbon emissions," said protester James Hoskins to CTV Atlantic. Another Canadian Yellow Vest, Barry Ahern, called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's summer grant program "oppression of Canadians by our own people." The program has been criticized for requiring organizations applying for summer job grants to sign an "attestation" confirming that they respect LGBT and abortion rights.
    In Calgary, a large rally began outside the downtown Kerby Centre, with protester Craig Chandler telling CTV Calgary that people were upset over pipelines and Trudeau’s leadership in general.
    Ever since France has been doing it, everybody wants to do it, “ said Chandler, a member of the Progressive Group for Independent Business, who also called out Calgary Centre MP Kent Hehr.
    “We want to know from our MP why he’s done nothing on the pipeline problem, why he’s done nothing on oil and gas when he represents oil and gas,” Chandler said. “We want to know why Quebec is getting $13 billion in transfer payments when we’re hurting.”
    Hehr acknowledged the difficulties in the city but stressed his government’s commitment to some pipeline construction — including the Trans Mountain expansion.
    “There is no doubt that we want to ensure that when Alberta does well, Canada does well,” he said. -CTV News
    Canadians in Toronto voiced their frustration over carbon taxes and immigration, while in Edmonton there were tensions between Yellow Vests and counter-protesters as hundreds assembled at the Alberta Legislature.
    "I’m tired of Trudeau basically doing what he wants with our money and sending it overseas," said Yellow Vest protester who goes by the name Turk. "Right now, personally, I’m facing a job crisis. All our oil jobs are gone, all our money is going south."


    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...nt-hits-canada
    "I have never met even one Canadian that understands how a carbon tax is going to reduce carbon emissions," said protester James Hoskins to CTV Atlantic.
    -
    Global warming is; fake science
    Hegelian Dialect*, a foundation to accelerate the funding
    of the NWO , had there ever been one ounce of
    truth regarding GW, Al Gore would have been out planting
    MASSIVE FORESTS 20 years ago, they don't want solutions,
    they want the Trillions in taxes, the first of hundreds
    if not thousands of new taxes they will implement.

    *The solution drives or precedes the 'problem' , the
    solution here is funding , then they decide on what
    to 'invent' as justification for the tax/funding.


    .

  32. #118
    Duplicate/delete
    Last edited by Stratovarious; 12-22-2018 at 02:00 AM.

  33. #119
    They’ve endured tear gas and rubber bullets, but the Yellow Vests still possess ‘joie de vivre’ – joy of life. A rousing video of protesters dancing cheek-to-cheek as police close in captures the spirit of their movement.
    Bloodied protesters on the streets of Paris may be grabbing headlines, but the true zeitgeist of the Yellow Vest movement can be found in the small town of Margencel in southeastern France.
    À #Margencel les #GiletsJaunes qui se font déloger ce matin dansent devant les forces de l’ordre sur un air d’Edith Piaf #HauteSavoie Vidéo de @vivionr pic.twitter.com/n27WBmDOiU
    — France Bleu Pays de Savoie (@bleusavoie) December 19, 2018

    https://twitter.com/bleusavoie/statu...96426496847872



    When French gendarmerie – military police – arrived to clear out a group of demonstrators who had set up camp outside the town, a troupe of Yellow Vests assembled for a final feat of heart-tugging defiance.

    Congregating around their makeshift bonfires, the yellow-clad resistors danced arm-in-arm to the tender strains of Edith Piaf. The military police, who had been sent to evict them, looked on – respectfully waiting, it seems, for the rousing French ballad to end before beginning their unpleasant work.

    This brief video tells a story that goes much deeper than opposition to fuel taxes or Emmanuel Macron – the nationwide Yellow Vest movement has stirred the French soul.

    More at: https://www.infowars.com/watch-yello...litary-police/
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    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  34. #120
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    – the nationwide Yellow Vest movement has stirred the French soul.
    I can see SJWs getting mad and pointing out that the protest is worthless at best and evil at worst because it left out stirring the Muslim, transgender, etc. soul.

    Viva la France!
    ...



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