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Paris in lockdown as France braces for new anti-Macron riots...
France24 ^ | 12/8/2018 | France24

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accord; anarchists; cake; carbon; carbontaxes; climate; communism; elites; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; globalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; macron; paris; riot; riots; socialism; taxes; yellowvest; yellowvests
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To: 9YearLurker

I think like Reagan, he got to office past his prime.


I think so too. But I think those two didn’t realize they might be able to DO SOMETHING about this country until they were that mature.

I actually think we could turn around deep state crime by having two independent news media sources, independent from each other and everything else, who each eschewed sensationalism but who both go a bit deeper into crimes of globalists of both parties. With two very different sources actually uncovering some of the major crimes, like the Clintons, Bushes, or Obamas, the American people are still smart enough to turn away from the low IQ, low energy CNN crowd. The lefty media has so much dominance that they have become the lazy hare in the race with the tortoise.

What would help would be Americans banding together in anger at having been USED by political correctness. Etc. I’d like to see more minorities get outraged at being used by parties for the party’s own benefit, assuming the minority will just march lockstep like sheep. And never reap any of the benefits promised.


161 posted on 12/08/2018 1:24:12 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: caww

They all wanted the Paris Climate Accord when the United States would pay for it, but when it comes out of their own pockets they get mad as hell.


162 posted on 12/08/2018 1:43:10 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: Yaelle

Too bad our major news sources have been co-opted/are controlled by globalist corporate and CIA interests.

Even Fox is now run by Murdoch’s liberal spawn and Never Trumper executives.

We know what happened to Breitbart and the globalist corporate/CIA-run social media companies are censoring our access to each other and to news. (God bless JimRob and FR!)

No question Hillary would have been worse, but it is still hard to be truly optimistic.


163 posted on 12/08/2018 1:47:49 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: marajade

“They were elected. Jeff Sessions was appointed. Big diff.”

That’s true, but not the point. The point is that there can ALWAYS be somebody worse, in any situation.


164 posted on 12/08/2018 3:28:30 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Great things never come from comfort zones.)
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To: Spiridon

IT’LL KILL YA.

Outlawed by the Geneva Convention.
It’s POISON GAS!


165 posted on 12/08/2018 3:40:54 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: central_va

Macron received something like 66% of the vote


166 posted on 12/08/2018 3:55:09 PM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
In my county in MD, we have a County Police Auxiliary. They have uniforms very similar to the AA Co Police, but no weapons. In emergencies, they handle routine police work, like directing traffic, for example, while the regular AA Co Police deal with the emergency (such as a riot).

These BAC seem to be just the opposite: They don't have uniforms (except for their arm bands), they are armed, and they are attacking the gilet jeune protesters while the regular flics and even the Gendarmeier Riot Police stand by and do nothing.

167 posted on 12/08/2018 4:01:48 PM PST by VietVet
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To: VietVet

Correct.


168 posted on 12/08/2018 4:12:52 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: 9YearLurker

Agreed all points. But still our only hope is to wake up more Gullibles. That is myown invented name for good people who are just so busy (often doing wonderful things, good hard work, caring for others, constructing, fighting cancer, whatever) that they get all their info from the 15 minute news they see every couple days. Or from their friends. These Gullibles were all plenty woke about islamicism after 911. It just takes a lot to shake them from whatever they are doing.


169 posted on 12/08/2018 4:21:00 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: VietVet

gilet jeune = gilet jaune = yellow vests.

gendarmeier = gendarmerie = National Police.


170 posted on 12/08/2018 4:25:35 PM PST by VietVet
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To: central_va
"Service jobs, or what I call value added jobs, do not create wealth. Manufacturing CREATES wealth."

Agreed. In fact, service jobs obstruct the production of wealth.


171 posted on 12/08/2018 4:55:37 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: political1

Like most Libs...never think about where the cash is going to come from until it hits their pockets.

Wait til 2024 when the real hurt hits them!


172 posted on 12/08/2018 6:53:11 PM PST by caww
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To: Flaming Conservative
LoL...

HEck they even had the kiddies dressed in yellow vests...


173 posted on 12/08/2018 6:55:59 PM PST by caww
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To: familyop

No matter what’s on the list.....they want Macron out.


174 posted on 12/08/2018 6:58:44 PM PST by caww
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To: VietVet

Antifa?


175 posted on 12/08/2018 6:59:57 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Sa-teef
Well...Macron doesn't appear to be trusting just the police...check out the EU Emblem on these military vehicles....

Armored vehicles bearing EU flag in Paris, a sign European Armyalready in the making/created?... rather than bearing the French Tricolor flag, the vehicles bore the distinct starred EU flag, which critics have said is a sign an EU Army is drawing closer to existence.


176 posted on 12/08/2018 7:06:13 PM PST by caww
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To: Spiridon

....”Any idea how potent that stuff is?”.....

It was checked and reported as ‘police grade’ not military grade’....Police grade is designed for protests that get out of hand to push back the mobs.


177 posted on 12/08/2018 7:09:56 PM PST by caww
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To: beebuster2000
Oh...then you weren't at "The French Open"


178 posted on 12/08/2018 7:18:09 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

OMG!

Is that real or shopped?


179 posted on 12/08/2018 7:19:57 PM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Erik Latranyi
France is well known for really large protests.....this isn't the first time, and when they do it they do it big....

When they were blocked near the palace etc. a group went out to the highway to shut it down...police had not expected that


180 posted on 12/08/2018 7:25:11 PM PST by caww
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