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Is Paris Burning? Yes, and So Are Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux and Rennes
GellerReport ^ | 3/2/23 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 03/26/2023 10:19:35 AM PDT by CFW

The classic 1966 movie Is Paris Burning? centers around Adolf Hitler’s desire, as the Allied armies advance through France in 1944, to see Paris destroyed rather than fall into the hands of his enemies. Paris didn’t burn in 1944, but the conflagration, as it turns out, was just delayed. CNN reported Friday that “Paris and most major cities – including Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux and Rennes – have been hit by protests.” Hitler is finally getting his wish. But why now?

France is in turmoil, CNN added, because of “proposed pension reforms.” Reportedly, “many people are unhappy with President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, which will raise the full-pension retirement age from 62 to 64. They’re also angry that he used constitutional powers to push the reform through.” France’s legendary welfare system has hit a wall.

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Interesting article on France, its failing welfare system, uncontrolled immigrants, and the current unrest and riots.
1 posted on 03/26/2023 10:19:35 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Do you hear the people sing?


2 posted on 03/26/2023 10:20:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CFW
From the article: "Why does France need this massively generous welfare system? In large part to support the migrants who were brought into the country to serve as a work force as the native French population, which had stopped reproducing, aged and retired. A 2016 Brookings study noted that while fifteen percent of native French fifteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds were unemployed, fully forty percent of migrants from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Turkey of that age were jobless."
3 posted on 03/26/2023 10:20:55 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

Sounds kinda “Insurrectiony”


4 posted on 03/26/2023 10:21:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

They have more guts than we do.


5 posted on 03/26/2023 10:23:12 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: CFW

HOW do you hire a person who does not speak/ read/ write/ understand the local language???

How do you hire a person that you cannot check background for skills & NO CRIMINAL PAST???


6 posted on 03/26/2023 10:23:34 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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Well, with all the migrants, at least we wont have to suffer the sound of the french language making our ears bleed for too much longer other than the Franglish in Canadia


7 posted on 03/26/2023 10:24:38 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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When I’ve gone to Paris, I heard more Arabic than French.


8 posted on 03/26/2023 10:25:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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This is interesting as there is quite a passion for people to retire while they are still for the most part able-bodied.


9 posted on 03/26/2023 10:26:05 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,016,040 Truth | 87,429,920 Twitter)
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To: CFW

Vote Democrat!


10 posted on 03/26/2023 10:29:40 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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It’s odd... The French become passionate when you raise their retirement age... But when the German’s came marching into town, they waved Nazi flags and cheered on Hitler.

They really do need to get their priorities figured out.


11 posted on 03/26/2023 10:37:55 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Well. They had the same government for a good 4 years under The Reich.
That’s a long time for the French. So they had that going for them.😉


12 posted on 03/26/2023 10:40:37 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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And Joan of Arc was martyred for this future Macron insanity? She is probably turning in her grave as we speak.


13 posted on 03/26/2023 10:48:45 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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And Joan of Arc was martyred for this future Macron insanity?

She was a sister who really cooked.

14 posted on 03/26/2023 10:50:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Question-Is this where Cajuns get they background? Start in Canada. Deport them too New Orleans. What for? I heard they can be crazy.


15 posted on 03/26/2023 10:56:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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**The classic 1966 movie Is Paris Burning?***

Saw it way back then! Now got it on DVD. Very hard to find.
Interesting scene where a man with glasses urges young Parisians to riot, then we find the man is a Gestapo agent and the young people are then shot.

Reminds me of something similar in January of 2020.


16 posted on 03/26/2023 10:56:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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Saw it way back then! Now got it on DVD. Very hard to find. Interesting scene where a man with glasses urges young Parisians to riot, then we find the man is a Gestapo agent and the young people are then shot. Reminds me of something similar in January of 2020.

History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

17 posted on 03/26/2023 10:59:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Maybe I just don’t understand the French, but I find it difficult to understand why moving the retirement age from 62 to 64 is causing all these protests and violence, when the people of France are mostly silent on their government allowing widespread Arab and African immigration into France. What am I not understanding here?


18 posted on 03/26/2023 11:00:08 AM PDT by rod5591
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France isn’t burning as bad as Hitler wanted Paris to in 1944, not yet.

But there are some demonstration fires being lit on doors and trash containers, bus stop shelters etc. etc.


19 posted on 03/26/2023 11:03:31 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: ridesthemiles

Most of the folks in N. Africa and sub-Saharan Africa are Francophones—that’s why they migrate to France.


20 posted on 03/26/2023 11:04:16 AM PDT by dinodino ( )
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