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France Yellow Vests Week 225: US State Department "Global Engagement Center" Links Yellow Vests To Russia, Government Creates Drama Over Tuesday Strike Plans
Nextrush Free ^ | 3/4/2023 | Nextrush/Self

Posted on 03/04/2023 7:12:35 PM PST by Nextrush

In the latest Twitter Files revelations American journalist Matt Taibbi looked into the US government's "Global Engagement Center" ostensibly started to fight terrorist activity online.

It became a vehicle for blacklisting by the US government that mainly hit conservatives but France's Yellow Vests also figured in the work of the "GEC" with a Twitter employee stating that the GEC's reporting:

"attributes membership in the Yellow Vest movement as being Russia-aligned"...

Meanwhile this coming Tuesday a national shutdown day in France in opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's "Pension Reform" plan the massive strike denounced by government spokesman Olivier Veran.

At a Council of Ministers meeting Wednesday Veran spoke of an "ecological, agricultural and health disaster" if the strike occurs...

Protesters in Paris today confronting the Government-Media Complex and protesting the propaganda it puts out...

Drama and distraction very much the order of the day for the Macron government in the face of the mass strikes and protests...

But the big issue the big story for the French people is the 'pension reform'.

The common people in France not distracted.

Working French people seeing the banker turned politician President Emmanuel Macron taking aim at their future, their standard of living...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: emmanuelmacron; france; russia; yellowvests

1 posted on 03/04/2023 7:12:35 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Has anyone actually done a reasonable article/investigation into what this “Yellow Vest” thing REALLY is?


2 posted on 03/04/2023 7:38:40 PM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: TheBattman

In its beginning very clearly the Yellow Vests were a mass protest movement in the fall of 2018 directed against Emmanuel Macron’s plan to tax gasoline and fuel “green taxes” as he called them.


3 posted on 03/04/2023 7:50:47 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

And those green taxes on the little people the poor people not the big people again reminding us that the banker turned politician Macron was using ‘climate change’ as a vehicle to do something to tax the poor but not the rich.

Climate Change is not about Climate Change.


4 posted on 03/04/2023 7:52:44 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: TheBattman

I took it as an allusion to Les Miserables. I’m not saying that’s right.


5 posted on 03/04/2023 8:47:24 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Nextrush

How is Macron not a commie or a Socialist of a national flavor?


6 posted on 03/04/2023 9:42:51 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nextrush

“Climate Change is not about Climate Change.”

As with much else, it’s all about The Revolution.


7 posted on 03/04/2023 9:44:51 PM PST by Paladin2
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