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In committee last week a key provision of legislation proposed by the National Assembly lawmakers from France's overseas territories taken out. That was the part restoring France's retirement age to 62. When the full assembly take on the legislation next week there will be an effort to put it back in... This week President Emmanuel Macron forced to clarify comments of his Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne... Next Tuesday (June 6th) will be a nationwide day of strikes and protest against President Macron's imposition of pension reform... The First Live Video From Paris Today Of Yellow Vests Protest. A protester in...

Amid usual scrubbing for Tiananmen Square anniversary, searches for bridge where protest was held in 2022 return no resultsChinese censors scrubbing the internet of any words or symbols that could be used to reference the Tiananmen Square massacre in the run-up to Sunday’s anniversary have a new target in their sights: a bridge in Beijing where a rare protest was staged last year. It is still possible to search for the bridge using the traditional Chinese characters used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, rather than the simplified characters used on the mainland. And it is still possible to find related...

During the spring of 2023, J’den McAdory, in Maryland, has been openly carrying a long gun in protest over Governor (D) Moore’s push for infringements on Second Amendment rights.For weeks, maybe months, people ignored J’den’s protests. WBALTV interviewed McAdory, and then the governor responded and called McAdory’s brave protests an “act of cowardice.” Whatever else is true, for a young man to stand against the entire state apparatus in Maryland and assert his First and Second Amendment rights is not the act of a coward.From wbaltv video :The man, J’den McAdory, told the I-Team on Thursday he’s protesting the governor’s...

A 51-second video clip shows a crowd of over a hundred students cheering as the 'pride' flag is tossed from an upper balcony by another student.PINCOURT, Quebec (LifeSiteNews) — A crowd of students recently protesting the LGBT agenda in a Quebec school tore down and trampled a rainbow “pride” flag. Last week, a group of teenagers from the Chêne-Bleu Secondary School in Pincourt, Quebec cheered as one of their fellow students tore down a flag representing the LGBT agenda, supporting the act of defiance by trampling the flag once it was no longer flying. A 51-second video clip circulated by...

A member of far-right group Patriot Front has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges stemming from his arrest protesting a pride event last year. The pedophile was one of 31 Patriot Front members who were arrested last year on their way to intercepting a gay pride event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. ollowing his arrest, a search of his phone by the FBI uncovered a slew of disturbing images, leading him to reportedly confess to the crimes to investigators. Boyce's arrest came as Patriot Front members attempted to storm a gay pride event in June 2022. Police say the group had...

On June 6th a major effort at protests nationwide against President Emmanuel Macron's imposition of pension reform is planned. For now there are smaller protests like this one in Paris last Tuesday. A banner at the protests read in full when translated into English: Money for Our salaries, pensions, our allocations Not for war or repression! The protest sign a concise summary of conditions in France right now where Macron's neo-liberal capitalist agenda is in full bloom. One major move lessening long-term government spending through pension cuts has been imposed. The raising of the retirement age to 64 is a...

Emmanuel Macron staged an event "Choose France" on Monday promoting the notion of Global Business investing in France. Luminaries like Elon Musk meeting Mr. Macron... A very disturbing event Tuesday with the Grand Nephew of President Macron's wife, Brigitte, attacked.... And on Thursday a media stir over posters of Emmanuel Macron put on display the night before. The posters depicting Macron with a Hitler moustache... Friday brought a ruling from an Administrative Court in Lille against the government for keeping a file on people arrested during the protests against pension reform... And What About The Notion Of An Active "Far-Right"...

It happened a week ago today in Paris. A rally of a "Far-Right" group in Paris that got no attention till after the fact but by Monday it became a big story in the Mainstream Media. Was it a staged event like the ones here in the US of the so-called "Patriot Front"? Accounts Minister Gabriel Attal suggested last Tuesday that some of those protesting last weekend were associated with the National Rally of Marine Le Pen. Earlier in the week Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin director local prefects of police to ban "far right" protests... Meanwhile on Friday a festive...

There have been confrontations between anti-immigration protesters and gardaí after protesters marched to the International Protection Office on Mount Street in Dublin city centre. Since March, a growing number of tents have been pitched outside the office and in surrounding streets. The protesters shouted at asylum seekers, telling them they were not welcome; and there were also confrontations with gardaí as some pursued a man they objected to. A number of garda units, including one Public Order unit, attended the scene. No arrests were made. “All persons present later dispersed from the scene,” An Garda Síochána said in a statement....

Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised to pardon following his murder conviction last month, is slated to be sentenced on Tuesday for killing a Black Lives Matter protester. Perry was working as a rideshare driver when he shot and killed 28-year-old Garrett Foster, an Air Force veteran, during a racial justice rally in Austin on July 25, 2020. The deadly violence came amid a summer of protests triggered by police violence nationwide, including the death of George Floyd, who was killed by officers in Minneapolis just months earlier. Perry served in the military for more...

May Day is a traditional day of Leftist and Labor Union protests in France. But this year the demonstrations amplified by opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's imposition of pension reform without legislative approval. 2.3 million people protesting nationwide according to the CGT labor union federation while the Ministry of the Interior says the number was less than a million. The government and the mainstream media didn't make much of the peaceful nature of the huge crowds but chose to seize upon January 6th style incidents of vandalism involving the usual suspects black uniformed anarchists. Arrests and injuries to police highlighted...

WASHINGTON — At least four members of the far-right Proud Boys organization were found guilty Thursday of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean and Zachary Rehl each faced nine counts, and were found guilty on the rare charge of seditious conspiracy under a Civil War-era statute. They were also found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. The jury has only reached a partial verdict, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said Thursday, and the verdicts on other charges are still being read.

After a trial lasting several months, a jury in Washington on Thursday reached at least a partial verdict in the Proud Boys Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Tarrio was not present in Washington on Jan. 6 after his arrest on separate charges just days before. Prosecutors argued he directed his troops remotely with messages about revolution and telling them "don’t f---ing leave" after the building was breached that afternoon. Tarrio was accused of orchestrating a fighting force with a...

A former FBI supervisory agent has been arrested on charges that he joined a mob storming the U.S. Capitol, where he cheered on rioters attacking police officers, federal authorities said.

@JustStop_Oil After weeks of inflammatory language from politicians and right-wing media personalities, a car has finally rammed into a peaceful protest.

@julie_kelly2 ParaderHunters cheers 5-month jail sentence for woman who pleaded guilty to trespassing count. No criminal history. DOJ wanted 3 months but Clinton judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (80)--who last week told govt it was ok to call a J6 defendant an insurrectionist--gave her 5 months

All hell broke loose in Boston Saturday for the city’s annual SatanCon when hundreds showed up to protest the devilish event with signs declaring “Satan has NO rights!” and “Hellfire awaits!” SNIP On Saturday, Catholic protesters were joined by members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front, according to the Boston Herald. One protester carried a banner that read “Satan has NO rights!” while another’s stated, “Don’t be deceived! Homosexuals, baby killers, idolaters, unbelieving, liars, drunkards, gossips, cowards, thieves, mockers, fornicators: Hellfire awaits.”

This week Emmanuel Macron encountered various kinds of protests as he attempted to tour France and tout his concern for teachers (higher pay) and health care among other issues. But everywhere he went there was dissent ranging from the clanging of pots and pans to up close conversations challenging him regarding the issue that is unresolved. The issue of him imposition of pension reform without a National Assembly vote including the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64. Other cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne greeted with the: "Concert de Casseroles" translated into English: "Concert of...

Climate change activists have announced plans to protest at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday where President Joe Biden is set to speak. Climate Defiance organizers told ABC News that they plan to blockade the area near the dinner on Saturday night is an effort to hold Biden, who announced his reelection bid on Tuesday, accountable for what they say was his 2020 campaign promise to end fossil fuel extraction on public lands. "Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry...

The Fort Worth Police Department released surveillance and body camera videos of Antifa members attacking people who were protesting a drag event and then resisting arrest from officers after they attempted to bring them in custody for the initial assault. The first video taken from a surveillance camera shows the Antifa members walking over to the side of the street where the anti-drag protesters were. The Antifa group started to surround them and one of them used pepper spray on the protesters. Fort Worth Police say many in the Antifa crowd were armed with either handguns or long guns. When...