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The Yellow Vests: The Forgotten Wounded
Yellow Vests Attack Police With “Shit Bombs” In Latest Wave Of Protests
Authored by John Vibes via The Mind Unleashed,
According to French police, Yellow Vest protesters are now using an ancient form of biological warfare in the newest wave of protests. This weekend, authorities reported that Yellow Vest protesters hurled bags of fecal matter at the police. The rudimentary poop-filled mini bombs were made using thin bags and balloons with the intent that they would easily burst on impact.
Rudy Manna from the Alliance police trade union in the southern port city of Marseille, told the AFP that many of the “bombs” hit their targets.
“Three policemen were soaked through with it,” Manna said.
Marseille police headquarters even reported that one officer was injured when he was hit in the elbow with “a poop-filled projectile.”
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So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA?
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The Yellow Vest anti-government movement (#YellowVests, #GiletsJaunes) began in France on November 17, 2018, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel. President Emmanuel Macron claimed the French were leading the world in the battle against climate change. The Yellow Vest protests evolved rapidly into an all-out general anti-government movement that was supported by 70% of the French population.
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The ‘Gilets Jaunes’ Are Unstoppable: “Now, The Elites Are Afraid”
Authored by Christophe Guilluy via Spiked-Online.com,
The gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement has rattled the French establishment. For several months, crowds ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands have been taking to the streets every weekend across the whole of France. They have had enormous success, extracting major concessions from the government. They continue to march.
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FRENCH ROCKY
French Rocky: #YellowVest protester boxes group of policemen and walks away pic.twitter.com/C79qw9GNW2
— RT (@RT_com) January 6, 2019
Tucker Carlson and the Plight of the Yellow Vests
Guest Post by Tom Luongo
I have to hand out sincere kudos to Tucker Carlson. His opening salvo for 2019 was one for the ages. It was a broad-ranging, fifteen-minute rhetorical tour de force.
Tying together Mitt Romney’s vulture capitalism, unchecked immigration, political corruption and the destruction of the middle class family, Carlson laid out a story that if everyone took off their ideological blinders for a few minutes (myself included) would see as simply a horror show.
Carlson’s thesis is that the American family is disintegrating. He’s right. But it’s not just America. It’s everywhere globalism has been the watchword of public policy, ie. Europe as well.
The Yellow Vests in France began protesting over a rise in diesel fuel tax to support climate change initiatives and has morphed into a full-blown revolt against globalism, neoliberalism and French government institutions.
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Why Are the ‘Yellow Vests’ Protesting
Guest Post by Jesse
“Four weekends of mass protests in Paris and in towns and villages across France have hampered economic activity while hurting the country’s image with investors, the government said Monday…
He [Macron] did not mention changing course on the most business-friendly overhaul of the French labor market in decades. The omission was a signal to investors that, despite the recent chaos, Mr. Macron plans to stick with his strategy for re-energizing Europe’s third-largest economy by pursuing changes that had stalled for more than a decade…
His mostly unyielding attitude underscores the stakes for France as he eases business regulations to seed dynamism. His plans include altering the country’s strict labor code to encourage hiring, and making budget adjustments during his first year in office that hit low-income earners and retirees especially hard, even as he cut taxes for wealthy people.”
NY Times, Unrest in France Hinders Macron’s Push to Revive Economy
“The headline of an article [NY Times] on the protests in France told readers ‘Unrest in France hinders Macron’s push to revive economy.’
The policies in question include ending a wealth tax on the rich, cutting retirees’ Social Security benefits, and a series of measures designed to reduce the power of unions. While it is possible that Macron has taken these steps because he really does believe that this is the best to boost economic growth, it is also possible that he has taken these steps because he wants to give more money to rich people. In this respect it is worth noting that Macron is a former investment banker. Therefore he is likely to be very rich, and to have rich friends.”
“The problem of the last three decades is not the ‘vicissitudes of the marketplace,’ but rather deliberate actions by the [captured] government to redistribute income from the rest of us to the one percent.”
Dean Baker