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Paris is BURNING: Huge bonfires are lit on the Champs Elysee in Paris as police blast [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 25, 2018 | Peter Allen and Chris Dyer

Posted on 11/25/2018 5:29:41 AM PST by C19fan

Huge plumes of smoke were seen on one of France's most iconic streets today, as protesters burned large plywood sheets, chairs and other material in demonstrations against planned fuel hikes. A water cannon and rounds of teargas were also used by riot police against thousands of French 'Yellow Vest' fuel protesters in Paris today as the Champs Elysee was reduced to a battlefield. The grassroots movement is campaigning against a what is believes to be a general decline in living standards across the country, and the recent decision to raise fuel prices. The worst violence took place on the most famous avenue in the city where a huge crowd called for President Emmanuel Macron to resign.

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From what I read this is not your typical French mob. This is a middle class revolt against the out of touch elite who run France. Looks like Macron's gas tax to get people out of their cars and giving money away to "Green" technologies broke the camel's back and people have had enough.
1 posted on 11/25/2018 5:29:41 AM PST by C19fan
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Looks like instead of a mob of takers demanding more free sh!t, it’s a mob of makers who are enraged at being taxed to death.

The birth of a French tea party...?


2 posted on 11/25/2018 5:32:12 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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They need to light things up fast before the cost of molotov cocktails goes up.


3 posted on 11/25/2018 5:33:29 AM PST by fruser1
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Assuming these aren’t the typical “youths”, then we Americans should stop calling the French “Surrender Monkeys”. There may be some fight left in the Europeans,


4 posted on 11/25/2018 5:35:18 AM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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I bet the elites aren’t worried. The welfare state has plenty of cannon fodder lined up in the “no-go zones”.


5 posted on 11/25/2018 5:35:35 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Between this, Germany reasserting its dominance over Europe and the Brits getting ####ed by their own leaders, could make for an interesting few years in Europe.


6 posted on 11/25/2018 5:36:16 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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The elites are plenty worried, hence the need for the passage of the meme ban and link tax.


7 posted on 11/25/2018 5:37:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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Oh' noes...

Sounds like the French are getting a touch of the nationalist virus....

LOL

8 posted on 11/25/2018 5:38:10 AM PST by Popman ("GOD´S NOT LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH US, BUT OWNERSHIP OF US")
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Those danged Nationalists.

If only Trump hadn’t triggered them.


9 posted on 11/25/2018 5:38:49 AM PST by Paladin2
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They elected a socialist, and then they are surprised that taxes went up?


10 posted on 11/25/2018 5:39:27 AM PST by iowamark
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Interesting years? Nah. Europe has spent too many centuries slaughtering its best all over its battlefields. What’s left are sheep.


11 posted on 11/25/2018 5:40:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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Huge plumes of smoke

So much for the Paris Accords...

12 posted on 11/25/2018 5:41:31 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Maybe Macron should ask Chancellor Merkel to send in peacekeepers.


13 posted on 11/25/2018 5:44:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Reminds me of LA’s so-called “Road Diets”.

A road is working fine, so the city comes in and removes an entire lane. For instance, a 4 lane [2 in each direction, o ver-night becomes a 2 lane street ... one lane in each direction.

There little millennial will view to “make LA people stop driving cares and use a bicycle to work.

Problem ,,, I’d go to work at 4:30-5:00 in the morning. Trading stocks. I’m really not big on walking blocks to a rare [in LA] bus stop ... then transferring all over the place to get out to Santa Monica. Then doing it again on the way home. And, at 70, it’s getting hard to walk across the room, let alone a distant bus stop.

My revenge is that every time I drive that street, I go up the side streets ... it PO’d the millennial owners.

Anyway, I’m retired now!


14 posted on 11/25/2018 5:45:43 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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I have heard about that listening to John and Ken podcast of their radio show. Just another reason I am glad I am out of CA. The politicians there go out of their way to make life miserable.


15 posted on 11/25/2018 5:47:26 AM PST by C19fan
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Protesters hail from the French countryside where escalating diesel fuel prices have had a major impact.

And the issue has broadened beyond tax hikes to a perception the government is more concerned with well-off than with plight of the majority of struggling French.

Who so far haven’t seen the benefits of Macron’s reforms reach them. All they’ve seen is the pain.

For the foreseeable future, the present standoff appears set to continue.


16 posted on 11/25/2018 5:50:28 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Leaning Right

An orderly procedure

/s


17 posted on 11/25/2018 5:51:06 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: C19fan

People will eventually resist globalism.


18 posted on 11/25/2018 5:52:55 AM PST by allendale (.)
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The islamic invaders are sitting back and enjoying their free stuff and waiting for the French to become weak enough for them to start their jihad.


19 posted on 11/25/2018 5:54:01 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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“This is a middle class revolt against the out of touch elite who run France. “

“Marie Antoinette, Marie Antoinette...you have a call on the courtesy phone in the lobby. Mademoiselle Antoinette, please pickup the white courtesy phone in the lobby. Monsieur Louis would like to talk to you.”


20 posted on 11/25/2018 5:55:24 AM PST by moovova
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