Posted on 12/08/2018 12:28:29 AM PST by caww
Paris was in lockdown early on Saturday with 'thousands' of French security forces braced to meet renewed rioting by "yellow vest" protesters in the capital and other cities in a fourth weekend of confrontation.....
The Eiffel Tower and other tourist landmarks were shut, shops were boarded up to avoid looting and street furniture removed to avoid metal bars from being used as projectiles.
About 89,000 police were deployed across the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
See my post at #134.
The European Union 2018 : Armoured vehicles on the streets of #Paris this afternoon displaying the symbol of the EU. #EU #Verhofstadt #Macron #Juncker #GiletsJaunes #Tusk #indyref2 #France #lyceensencolere #TheresaMay #Brexit https://t.co/tql0DGiN8t
SMH.
The thing about APCs is that the crew still has to eventually get out to pee, etc.
A determined foe will plan/position for that.
It is hard to tell who is who.
It is hard to tell who is who.
Interesting.....
Since EU involved, lets say that like WE did in 1770s, the French ‘rebels’ ask for our help, we decided to back the rebels and take our NATO troops to do battle with the EU troops (which WE probably are the chief financers(HA))
So, in essence ‘WE’ etal would be causing a brother against brother ‘Civil War’ by using NATO v EU.....
Man, I gotta get a life.......HA HA HA
How solid is the source of the photo?
Looking through a zillion photos and finding nothing close?
Makes it ‘easier’ if the one side is still wearing lime green fluorescent vests that ‘glow in the dark’.
A snipers ‘dream’.
They look like utility workers. I keep expecing them to fix a pole. Plus most are just standing around.
Didn’t realize you were the thread police! So very sorry for connecting a relevant situation in a foreign land to a possible future in America.
Enjoy the suck.
Cheers
They were elected. Jeff Sessions was appointed. Big diff
From this article:
“Macron’s decision early in his presidency to slash taxes on France’s wealthiest is particularly unpopular with the protesters. Arguing that such a move was necessary in order to boost investment and create jobs, the former investment banker has so far ruled out re-imposing the “fortune tax”.
But the policy, along with hikes on pensioners’ taxes, cuts in housing allowances and a string of comments deemed insensitive to ordinary workers, has led critics to label him a “president of the rich”.
“But the policy, along with hikes on pensioners’ taxes, cuts in housing allowances and a string of comments deemed insensitive to ordinary workers, has led critics to label him a “president of the rich”.”
From: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-02/france-s-dangerous-yellow-vest-protesters
““The ‘gilets jaunes’ movement will probably peter out, but not the anger, which is likely to go on and take new forms maybe more dangerous for Macron,” said Jim Shields, a professor of French politics at Warwick University in the U.K. “It’s hard to see how he can complete controversial reforms like pensions and unemployment insurance without yet more blood on the pavement.”
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““We pay more and more for fewer and fewer services. Where is the money going?” he asked. He wants the movement to focus on finding leaders at the local level and slimming its demands: “We need to focus on the basics: taxes, bringing back the wealth tax, politicians’ salaries, pensions, minimum wage.””
From a link in the above article:
“They’ve criticized the Yellow Vests for wanting both lower taxes and more services and for the violence that’s flared at some of their protests.”
From:
htps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/world/europe/yellow-vests-france.html
“Mr. Macron, it turns out, is also a change agent out of step with the times, just as France’s long delay in biting off structural economic overhauls has left it out of sync with its Western cohort. He is now trying to push through reforms to make France more business-friendly and competitive, as Britain did in the 1980s and Germany in the 1990s. Meanwhile, the global backlash is already cresting, fueled by the income disparities those changes ushered in.”
““Right now, give us more purchasing power,” Jean-François Barnaba, a Yellow Vest spokesman in the Indre administrative department, told BFM TV on Tuesday.
“The gas tax was only the beginning,” said Tony Roussel, a spokesman for the movement in Marseille. “Now there are all the other taxes. There are salaries. There is the minimum wage.”
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From me: High taxes and ridiculous employment issues (the inability to fire anyone, for example) have driven the French to take their businesses elsewhere. Macron tried to reduce taxes on the rich and change some of the socialist policies that keep business from locating in France. This has angered the yellow vests. The yellow vests want higher wages, which should not be a factor controlled by the government. Plus the YV’s want more services and controlled (subsidized) costs. As the government official said above, “they want more services and less taxes.” It all sounds pretty socialist to me.
Regards,
Great! I suppose, now, both Wal-Mart AND Amazon are out of yellow vests! And I was just about to order one! And of course, buying STOCK in yellow vests is also beyond my reach, now!
Ballot propositions are usually worded to sound like exactly the opposite of what they mean. One of the many dirty tricks pols, usually democrats, play on the electorate.
Look how ineptly the GOP/RNC let the Dems steal control of the House,..
NO! They didn’t do it ineptly, they did it on PURPOSE!
It’s quite sad.
And if a billionaire who believes just like us and has b*lls of steel and an over the top ego can’t do it, who can???
Yeah, pretty sad. I think like Reagan, he got to office past his prime.
But I’m of course still holding out hope that things will turn around, particularly in the battles against Deep State crime. But the massive loss of the House makes a lot of the promised legislative agenda a likely moot point for now, unfortunately.
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