Politics PARIS IS BURNING

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  1. MARIS61

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    Globalist pawn has 80% of France calling for his head on a stick.

    Macron openly admits he is deliberately taxing his citizens so they will become too poor to afford to drive at all.

    Thousands of French protesters clash with police, call for Macron’s resignation over gas taxes

    By Adam Shaw | Fox News
    Police and protesters clash in Paris over gas prices
    Thousands of French protesters flooded the nation’s capital Saturday to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial fuel tax increase -- clashing with policies as they called for Macron’s resignation.

    The angry clashes, both in Paris and other towns and cities across the country, mark the eighth day of “yellow jacket” protests against the tax, but have also come to encompass a growing anger against Macron and the French ruling class -- seen by many as out of touch.

    The yellow jackets have become a uniform of sorts for the protesters, originating from the neon yellow jackets French drivers are required to keep in their vehicles.

    Authorities said that at least 8,000 protesters flooded the Champs-Elysees in Paris alone, with 81,000 protesters in total nationwide compared to 244,000 last Saturday. Police deployed some 3,000 security forces after an attempt to march on the Elysee Palace last week.

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    Plumes of smoke are seen the Champs-Elysees avenue decorated with the Christmas lightings during a protest against tax Saturday (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

    Police used smoke, tear gas and even a water cannon to try and disperse the protesters, Le Monde reported.

    Officials said that a no-go zone, set up around key areas including the presidential palace and the National Assembly on the Left Bank of the Seine River, has not been breached.

    At least eight people, including two police officers, were injured, while dozens of protesters were detained, including for throwing projectiles.

    In La Madeleine, an area filled with luxury brand shops popular with tourists, businesses shut down due to the protests.

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    Demonstrators created a fire barricade and began chanting “Macron resign!” when tear gas was launched at them, sparking a brief dash. Thick black smoke was billowing into the sky and the area was completely shut down

    French police appeared have created a barricade in the area to prevent the protesters from joining the rest of the group at the Elysee Palace. Sky News reported that other protesters sang the national anthem, called Macron a thief and demanded his resignation.

    In other cities, such as Lyon and Marseille, protests were more peaceful.

    MACRON POPULARITY PLUMMETS AT HOME AS HE PUSHES GLOBALISM ON WORLD STAGE

    The diesel fuel tax has gone up seven euro cents (nearly eight U.S. cents) and will keep climbing in coming years, according to Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne. The tax on gasoline is set to increase by four euro cents. Gasoline currently costs about 1.64 euros a liter in Paris ($7.06 a gallon), slightly more than diesel.

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    A demonstrator holds a flare on a barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue during a demonstration against the rising of the fuel taxes, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 in Paris. (AP)

    Macron, however, has said that gas tax increases are necessary to reduce France’s dependence on fossil fuels and fund renewable energy investments.

    The protests are the latest blow for Macron, who has been dogged by sinking internal poll ratings for months, dropping into the 20s as he has struggled to shed the perception that he is an out-of-touch elitist,

    Responding to those concerns, Macron has noted that he does not face any midterm elections and told Bloomberg News in October he intends to keep “exactly the same pace” with his reforms

    Fox News' Katherine Lam and The Associated Press contributed to this report
     
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    Macron has been hiding from his country for a week now, as Paris continues to burn.

    Over 1,000 arrests by 8,000 police, tourist sites closed...

    Even Sweden is joining in now.

    Civil War: Swedish Citizens Rise Up To Protest Globalism
    December 10, 2018 Sean Adl-Tabatabai News, World 0

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    Citizens across Sweden have begun rising up to protest globalism, in solidarity with hundreds of thousands of French protestors.

    As the anti-globalist movement continues to sweep across Europe, the people of Sweden took to the streets of Stockholm over the weekend, protesting the UN Migration Pact.


    Voiceofeurope.com reports: Plenty of Swedish flags, placards and yellow vests were seen. children participated as well. “We are not extremists. We are ordinary Swedes”, shouted the protesters.

    “It’s not about political colours, it’s about the people, one of the speakers”, journalist Katerina Janouch stated.

    “I am here for the 9-year-old girl who was raped and beaten in a junk room. I am here for all the women who no longer dare go out.

    “I am here for the poor elderly who paid tax their whole lives and now are forced to starve. I am here for the homeless. I am here for those who don’t get what the social contract promises.”

    According to Janouch, all Swedes, regardless of political affiliation, should participate in the demonstrations and protest against the politics in Sweden.


    “We don’t need more division in this country. It is the ones in power that want us to turn against each other.

    “We need to unite. I want the Swedish people to stand together against the abuse of power that’s going on in Parliament.

    “We will not give up”, she continued.

    “I’m originally from Czechoslovakia and in 1989 the dictatorship fell. It is called social revolution. Do you know how it started?

    “The pen, the written word. The first time there were 30 people, they were arrested. Next time 300, and then came 3000. Then the social revolution was a fact. And we can do the same thing”, she told the cheering crowd.
    https://newspunch.com/civil-war-swedish-protest-globalism/
     
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    Macron's approval rating is now 19%.

    Marine Le Pen: ‘New World Order’ Will Be Overthrown From Within By 2018
    December 17, 2017 Sean Adl-Tabatabai News, World 14
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    Marine Le Pen claims that the New World Order will be overthrown by rogue members within the organization by the year 2018.

    The leader of France’s National Front Party said at a conference in Prague that globalist institutions such as the European Union will be overthrown from within “very soon.”

    Sputniknews.com reports: Leader of right-wing France’s National Front party Marine Le Pen urged the European anti-immigration parties at the conference in Prague to “liberate the European nations from the chains of the European Union” and said that the bloc has entered a period of decline.

    Earlier in the day, the conference of anti-immigration parties of Europe took place in the Czech capital and was attended by Le Pen, leader of the right-wing Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders, member of the EU parliament Lorenzo Fontana from Italy’s Lega Nord, among others.

    “The European Union is losing its breath. I hope that we will overthrow the European Union from within. We must behave like conquerors … European nations must free themselves from the chains of the European Union,” Le Pen said at the press conference following the gathering.

    At the same time, Tomio Okamura, the leader of the Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy party, noted that the future of Europe lies in the political and economic decentralization, while Brussels is currently trying to turn the continent into a “single totalitarian state.”

    “We are interested in a close cooperation between the sovereign European countries on the basis of mutual benefit and we reject the dictate of the current supranational structure that parasites on the unification of the European nations,” Okamura said.

    The parties’ meeting in Prague was run under the theme “For a Europe of Sovereign Nations – a model of cooperation for a better future for the Peoples of Europe.” The event is organized by the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENL), which is a part of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group in the European Parliament.
    https://newspunch.com/marine-le-pen-new-world-order-overthrown/
     
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    Reporter's Notebook: Riots in Paris streets ahead of Macron address

    By Greg Palkot | Fox News
    PARIS – France has been rocked by violence again, anti-government protesters battling police and triggering damage in the heart of Paris and elsewhere. As many as 2,000 people were arrested, a record in the history of France for one day. Some 264 were injured, including 39 police.

    This is the fourth week of the protests and follows another weekend of violence which caused over a billion dollars in damages to businesses and others.

    It started out as a revolt against a hike in taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel -- hence the yellow vests worn by the activists, standard emergency gear in French cars -- aimed by the French government at dealing with global warming.

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    It has morphed into a broader attack on high taxes and low wages in France.

    “At the end of the day,” Mathilde Poset, one of the yellow vest protesters, reportedly said, “we get the impression that we’re modern slaves.”

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    "Yellow vest" protesters in Paris. (Fox News)

    But beyond that, the protests are aimed at the person seen as behind France’s troubles today, French President Emmanuel Macron. Voted in overwhelmingly last year to make changes, his reforms are seen by many to benefit the rich, leaving the middle classes and working poor behind.

    “It’s not a revolt, it’s a revolution,” political analyst Christian Mallard told us. “They don’t want to keep Macron any more. They want to get rid of him. It’s an uprising against Macron.”

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    Law enforcement was on hand as protesters took to the streets. (Fox News)

    Adding a dangerous and violent punch to the protests are militant left-wing and right-wing activists, including youth from the tough suburbs of Paris and other big cities.

    France’s Interior Minister Christophe Castaner had a warning to the protesters that they had created “a monster that was out of control.”

    Protesters “don’t want to keep Macron any more. They want to get rid of him. It’s an uprising against Macron.”

    — Political analyst Christian Mallard
    And what does President Macron have to say about all of this? So far, very little except for some tweets praising the police forces.

    “He’s behaving like a real monarch, he is so aloof,” Mallard observed. And, he added about the protesters, “When the king is wrong, they want to ’kill’ the king,” or remove him from office.

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    Protesters took over many of the city's busy streets. (Fox News)

    The Élysée Palace has now said Macron will speak to the French on Monday night. His ministers already have spoken out, with Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire saying this is “a crisis of the nation.” Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told President Trump to “leave our nation be.”

    That followed some bitter tweets by Trump claiming faulty French environmental policy was behind the anger of the people. Some political analysts, in fact, have drawn comparisons between the populist nature of the latest French revolt and the appeal of Trump.

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    The protests have shown little sign of slowing down. (Fox News)

    At the very least, Mallard sees a contrast in the two leaders: “Trump has been winning with the people from the deep part of America and has left the establishment aside. Macron has been winning with the establishment and has left the poor people from rural areas aside.”

    With activists already promising more protests next weekend and beyond, it remains to be seen what “King Macron,” as some opponents have called him, could say or do tomorrow to save his leadership.
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/reporters-notebook-paris-riots-ahead-of-macron-address
     
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    Those riots are nothing compared to the ones Maris61 will be leading in La Pine when Trump is resigns.
     
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    I was in Paris just a little over a month ago. It was really quiet. I guess I'm glad we missed all this.
     
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    I protest anybody who protests by burning stuff ..especially if they don't pass it around
     
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    Newspunch.com? Egad, you read some strange stuff. Just wish you'd post some credible sources once in a while.
     
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    ‘Lord of the Rings’ actor Andy Serkis brings back Gollum to mock Theresa May over Brexit

    By Brian Flood | Fox News
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    “The Lord of the Rings” actor Andy Serkis mocks British Prime Minister Theresa May.

    “The Lord of the Rings” actor Andy Serkis got back into character as the iconic Gollum Sunday to mock British Prime Minister Theresa May’s controversial Brexit deal.

    “We's in a nasty mess my precioussss...and there's only one way out....We wants it,” Serkis tweeted with a link to the video. “We neeeeds it!”

    Serkis’ award-winning character, Gollum, is revived in a video titled, “LEAKED: Footage From Inside No. 10 Downing Street!” Serkis plays May as both Gollum and his “Lord of the Rings” alter ego Smeagol. A man enters the room and hands May a copy of the withdrawl agreement as the camera angle moves, revealing that May is actually Serkis in costume.

    “Oh precious, our agreement, this is it, our deal, yes, yes. We takes back control, money, borders, laws, blue passportses,” Serkis’ May says, while channeling Gollum.

    Smeagol fires back, “No, it hurts the people… makes them poorer.”

    May, as Gollum, then declares that since she negotiated the deal herself it must be done, which leads to bickering back and forth with Smeagol. Gollum calls the deal “juicy and sweet,” insisting that people need it as Smeagol repeatedly chimes in, attempting to explain that the people want something else.

    “We hates them,” an angry Gollum says.

    As the screen fades to black, the following message appears: “The people’s vote, we wants it.”

    May on Monday delayed a vote in Parliament to approve her Brexit deal, a move that presents an uncertain path ahead in Britain's lengthy divorce from the European Union -- and one further imperiling the embattled prime minister's political future.

    May's Conservative government does not have a majority in the House of Commons, and opposition parties — as well as dozens of Conservative lawmakers — say they will not back the Brexit deal May and EU leaders agreed upon last month. The vote had been set for Tuesday. It is not clear when it will be rescheduled.
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...s-back-gollum-to-mock-theresa-may-over-brexit
     
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    These days, our citizens don't express themselves like Swedes and French. We worry over the cable bill and what to eat tonight.
     
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    3 months of rioting in Paris, labor strikes, crime wave, collapse of social services for citizens due to overwhelming invasion from non-citizens, demands for Macron to resign, literally the biggest news story in France since the US liberated them from NAZI enslavement in WWll, largely unreported by the Fake News.

    Thousands of migrants set up camps in Paris as authorities scramble to cope

    By Adam Shaw | Fox New
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    Migrants mainly from Sudan, and Chad, Africa, gather in a makeshift camp along side of the Porte de la Villette ring bridge in Paris, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

    France's capital is facing another migrant crisis as more than 2,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East are now sleeping in the open in the city, according to French media -- less than a year after President Emmanuel Macron’s government evacuated makeshift camps around the capital.

    Migrants, mainly from Afghanistan, are occupying 200 tents under a highway in the north of the capital, according to Le Figaro and AFP. That is similar to a nearby situation at Porte de Clignancourt, where there are 250 other migrants living on the sidewalks, keeping warm by improvised campfires and subway vents.

    PARIS BAKERY EXPLOSION KILLS 4 PEOPLE, INJURED 47 WITH 10 IN CRITICAL CONDITION

    Paris officials said that the Ile-de-France region experienced a 45 percent increase in asylum seekers in 2018 and that its accommodations were “saturated.” Officials were implementing an emergency plan to open 1,200 places of shelter for migrants “very soon.”.

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    Migrants, mainly from Afghanistan, are occupying 200 tents under a highway in the north of the capital (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

    One French charity said that the number is growing rapidly and there could be as many as 4000 migrants on the streets by the end of winter, according to Le Figaro. Charities have written to Macron -- whose poll numbers have plummeted in 2018 -- reminding him of promises he made in July that there would be no more men and women on the streets by the end of the year.

    “It’s a question of dignity,” he said in Orleans.

    FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO EVACUATE THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS FROM SQUALID, MAKESHIFT CAMPS NEAR PARIS

    The ongoing saga in Paris has been one of the more visible effects of the broader European migrant crisis which began in 2015. In 2016, the French government tore down the Calais migrant camp known as “The Jungle,” but that led migrants to make their way toward the capital, setting up down Paris’ famous Champs D’Elysee.

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    In May, Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said that the situation was “no longer bearable for Parisians” and that it was evacuating the then-2,3000 migrants from camps around Paris.

    Collomb accused Paris officials of refusing to deal with the matter, leading to asylum seekers and rejected asylum seekers disproportionately gathering around the capital.

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/thous...amps-in-paris-as-authorities-scramble-to-cope
     
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    Yet Swedish citizens are significantly more happy than Americans. I hope you're happy with that response.
    And I fail to see the tie in with France.
     
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    I believe France has a whole lot more immigrants than the United States.
    Also, most of those immigrants are Muslims and here in the United States many of Trump's ardent followers hate Muslims. Why? I'm guessing it's the same reason Trump's fans hate Latin Americans, Jews and Democrats, they're different.
     
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    I wouldn't say I hate Muslims or Democrats. I definitely DON'T hate Latin Americans or Jews.
     

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