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Paris in lockdown as France braces for new anti-Macron riots...
France24 ^ | 12/8/2018 | France24

Posted on 12/08/2018 12:28:29 AM PST by caww

Paris was in lockdown early on Saturday with 'thousands' of French security forces braced to meet renewed rioting by "yellow vest" protesters in the capital and other cities in a fourth weekend of confrontation.....

The Eiffel Tower and other tourist landmarks were shut, shops were boarded up to avoid looting and street furniture removed to avoid metal bars from being used as projectiles.

About 89,000 police were deployed across the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accord; anarchists; cake; carbon; carbontaxes; climate; communism; elites; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; globalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; macron; paris; riot; riots; socialism; taxes; yellowvest; yellowvests
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To: central_va

Reports I read showed that they wanted gas taxes reduced, and wealth taxes reinstated. It’s the middle class against the rich.


121 posted on 12/08/2018 7:31:35 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (XY)
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To: PghBaldy

A police car just drove past, with one of the persons inside waving a Yellow Vest as a banner. Are the Police deserting to the rioters? Did the rioters capture a police car?


122 posted on 12/08/2018 7:31:50 AM PST by VietVet
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To: central_va

Citation...

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/france-dangles-wealth-tax-review-as-yellow-vest-anger-persists/10587730?pfmredir=sm


123 posted on 12/08/2018 7:34:08 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (XY)
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To: Flick Lives
Socialism is voted in by those ignorant enough to think it’ll work and or those greedy enough to think they are deserving of more than their neighbor. Then the bill arrives.

Exactly.

"Socialism only works until you run out of other people's money."
----------- Margaret Thatcher

124 posted on 12/08/2018 7:35:13 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: central_va

Don’t tell that to Microsoft or google or amazon or Starbucks or costco or Facebook or.....


125 posted on 12/08/2018 7:36:05 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (XY)
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To: VietVet

They are “citizen helpers” from what I read a few days ago. You mean the ones with the red arm bands along side the police, right?


126 posted on 12/08/2018 7:41:24 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: central_va

A truck.


127 posted on 12/08/2018 7:41:54 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: VietVet

I saw an ambulance doing this as well...I assumed they were waving the yellow vest as a flag to ensure safe passage through the protesters.


128 posted on 12/08/2018 7:42:20 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Amazon is a retail/delivery service. It doesn't create wealth. Once you get the item in hand there is no value added. The wealth(profit) created stays in the country where it was made, unfortunately more and more not the USA.

Microsoft is a software company, the makes a tangible product. Except for the H-1B indentured servants crushing wages, the wealth created stays in the USA.

Starbucks, sells a product, coffee. Unfortunately coffee and bananas do not grow in N.A. So I can see importing them.

Costco = retail = value added, no wealth creation at all.

Facebook is a product - software. I don't use it but many do.

129 posted on 12/08/2018 7:45:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I was being funny, but thanks.


130 posted on 12/08/2018 7:45:48 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One thing I notice right away is the protesters are not 20 somethings.


131 posted on 12/08/2018 7:46:00 AM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: VietVet

Some are now saying they are mercenaries hired by Macron because the police won’t touch the protesters.


132 posted on 12/08/2018 7:59:31 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
“citizen helpers”

Yes, the guys with the red armbands.

“Citizen Helpers” eh? Like the American “posse comitatus” constabulary, or the Northern Irish “Special B Constables?” France's National Law, based on the Code Napoleon is so different from American Common Law.

133 posted on 12/08/2018 8:00:17 AM PST by VietVet
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To: VietVet

OK. This is who they are:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_anti-criminalit%C3%A9


134 posted on 12/08/2018 8:02:58 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“...mercenaries hired … because the police won’t touch the protesters.”

Hired from where?


135 posted on 12/08/2018 8:03:34 AM PST by VietVet
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To: Uncle Miltie

Some of the Gilets Jaunes are also using the F-word: FREXIT.


136 posted on 12/08/2018 8:05:29 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: PghBaldy

The Christmas tree lights just snapped on in Paris on the boulevard leading to the Arc. Interesting choice of all red lights they used which makes the whole street look like it is already on fire.


137 posted on 12/08/2018 8:07:12 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Some are now saying they are mercenaries hired by Macron because the police won’t touch the protesters.

I can see this spiraling out of control real fast.

138 posted on 12/08/2018 8:09:19 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Boardwalk

Looks like things may be ramping up as well.


139 posted on 12/08/2018 8:09:49 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: pepsionice

The axiom is the French vote their heart in the first round and vote their wallet in the second round.

The WSJ had an interesting take on the French voting system this past week.

LePen is not the answer, and Macron may be the last best hope?
He now appears to be toast.


140 posted on 12/08/2018 8:10:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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