Posted on 08/24/2019 4:15:22 PM PDT by Nextrush
The Yellow Vests on the streets of Paris again for Week 41 of protests and at other locations across the country..
The procession stepping off at around 215 pm Paris time, 815 am Eastern US time.
But much attention focused on the southwest of France where the kind of globalization the Yellow Vests movement protests against is on full display this weekend at the G7 summit.
Coordinated 'green' policies like President Emmanuel Macron's obsession with the wildfires in the Amazon remind us of Macron's domestic agenda of gasoline taxes in the name of 'green' that helped to spark the Yellow Vests movement in the first place.
The G7 meeting is at Biarritz, a resort community on the Atlantic coast near the Spanish border.
Some 13,000 plus police deployed in the area including large numbers of mobile gendarmes and CRS riot police (six thousand).
Some nine thousand protesters estimated in the area where protests are being allowed to the southwest of Biarritz at Urrugne and Hendaye. Their numbers appeared to have swelled to some 15-thousand as the day went on Saturday.
The 'black blocs' anarchists in evidence among the protesters with Friday night confrontations involving the anarchists and police. The two hour fight at the weekend protest camp included the use of tear gas grenades by the police.
Getting back to the Paris protest, Yellow Vests continue to offer a strong message in favor of referendums. The signs that say 'RIC' are advocating a 'Citizens Initiative Referendum'.
Reporting from AFP news agency and BFM-TV on today's Paris Yellow Vests includes comments from Olivier Pham, a 48 year old maintenance man who describes himself as being on the "Right".
Pham says the 'RIC' concept works in California and Switzerland saying for France:
"It would be very good. It would not be anarchy"....
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Shower time ..... hot water and cold ...... BURRRRR
Looks like Brazil and YVs have a common problem: Macron
Wonder what the communists are now spinning to persuade people that the YVs believe in climate change and that Macron is not doing enough about it...
Climate change seems to me a business of deceit to promote higher taxes and higher costs for consumers so big government and big business win.
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