Posted on 04/06/2023 12:58:19 PM PDT by Twotone
Massive protests condemning the Macron government's pension reforms have swept the nation in recent weeks. Macron is increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64.
Demonstrators seeking to strike a nerve went beyond the streets Thursday and stormed the Paris headquarters of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, with over $10 trillion under management.
Protesters marched into Le Centorial block carrying flares and firing smoke bombs, reported CNN.
The Telegraph reported that members of the railway workers' union set off incendiary devices in the atrium of the Centorial building, filling it with smoke.
Below BlackRock's office on the third floor, roughly 100 people, including some trade unionists, chanted and hollered. Some regurgitated anti-capitalist slogans while others sang labor songs.
"The meaning of this action is quite simple. We went to the headquarters of BlackRock to tell them: the money of workers, for our pensions, they are taking it," Jerome Schmitt, spokesman for French union SUD, told BFM-TV.
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Yes!
Bad Day at BlackRock.
there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes.
Larry Fink is almost as much of a low lifer billionaire as George Soros.
They should take their $10 trillion and leave.
Pensions are sacred.
Anyone even talking about negatively effecting a single one, anywhere, except for elected officials should be hung on the spot.
Show me someone who touches a pension fund and I’ll show you someone who should get the short drop.
There should be no event, such as bankruptcy or act of God, that gets any entity out of its obligations. Period.
While I despise Blackrock, this sounds like Aunti Fa.
The increase in retirement age is the trigger perhaps but this is all about a lot more than that.
Surely, reinvesting the pension funds in ESG projects would be a sufficient reason to lower or delay payouts, wouldn’t it?
Not only would the person who suggests that, NOT be hung...they would be promoted and given a bonus.
Set the whole place on fire... That’ll burn their carbon credits 🤣🤣🤣 Woke azzholes.
The French are making us Americans look like pussies.
Quick! Get the French Legume and the Legion le Grande Fromage onnthe phone.
By no means am I a communist, but the Capitalist/Fascist Bitzh on Steroids, mocks all that America stood for. These big conglomerates need to be dismantled and all properties returned to the open market. If we are going down in a total collapse, the big banks and fake reserve banks should burn along with the rest of us. A Jubilee year, all debts forgiven, all properties taken from non resident owners.
Sorry to those who put their retirement hopes in being landlords, keep your house and start at square zero like the rest of the country.
Mankind was not meant to live under a slave system forever. A system of fiat money, and borrowing from the Fed at low or ZERO interest to steal homes, has to end.
Nice!
are you joking?
I borrowed at 18 percent
No one got a ride on the fixeruppers that I worked on for my retirement.
You just want to pillage the middle and working class.
Leftist pig!
Sorry, when the Dollar falls, we will all be lucky to have a tent.
Has anyone read Peter Schweizer’s book, Red Handed? Black Rock is running the US government, as well. Heck , they run the Biden administration, from top to bottom.
One of the articles about the Paris BlackRock protest, said that the main Black Rock offense that has angered the French union is Black Rock’s manipulation of the housing market in major cities ( all over the world). Sound familiar?
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