French Uprising of December 2018

[seemslikeadream]

People's Vote march: Hundreds of thousands attend London protest

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Young voters led the People's Vote march to London's Parliament Square, which supporters say attracted approximately 700,000 protesters.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45925542

[Grizzly]

It was the biggest protest march in London since Iraq* ...
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2018/10/21/it-was-the-biggest-protest-march-in-london-since-iraq-and-it-will-achieve-as-much/

*Well, we see where that got them....

[Heaven Swan]

[Grizzly]

28 Minutes of FUCK YOU!



BTW... Why Have Americans Stopped Resisting Economic Privilege?
https://billmoyers.com/content/steve-fraser-age-acquiescence/

The following excerpt is from the introduction to Steve Fraser’s new book, The Age of Acquiescence.

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[Heaven Swan]

Is France Having Its Rocky Balboa Moment?
WeAreChange7,147 views

[JackRiddler]

It was the biggest protest march in London since Iraq* ...
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2018/10/21/it-was-the-biggest-protest-march-in-london-since-iraq-and-it-will-achieve-as-much/

*Well, we see where that got them....

"as many as 670,000."

Okay, go ahead and round up on the upper estimate (no lower estimate is given). It was really big, what's to say about it? It's still damned confused. British politics really got the fuck-over when the exemplary binary choice of austerity vs. less-thereof-or-maybe-even-socialism was turned into the incoherent binary choice of extreme capitalism within the EU vs. extreme capitalism without the EU.

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[Heaven Swan]

Explosion in Paris Jan 12, 2019



Just saw that the explosion was caused by a gas leak in a bread shop. 2 dead and various injured. Some of the injured were giornalists in Paris to cover the yellow vest protests.

[Heaven Swan]

Livestream from Paris

[Sounder]

Sharp Guy


https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan19/Ge ... U1-19.html



As Germany and France Come Apart, So Too Will the EU

January 15, 2019

If we follow the logic and evidence presented in these seven points, we are forced to conclude that the fractures in France, Germany and the EU are widening by the day.

When is a nation-state no longer a functional state? It's an interesting question to ask of the European nation-states trapped in the devolving European Union. Longtime correspondent Mark G. recently posed seven indicators of dissolving national sovereignty; here's his commentary:

"RE: The Ghosts of 1968 (February 14, 2018):

In France the "Ghosts of 1968" have become the Poltergeists of 2018. This looks like another real watershed in European and world history. Once again Parisian mobs have appeared and have collectively realized they now hold the real power. And their issues are all anti-EU (European Union) and anti-NWO. (New World Order)

I'm honing my German Collapse Scenario as more data flows in, as it is in ever-faster and larger quantities. 'Germany' will implode in parallel with the EU.

So-called 'states' with:

1. no effective military forces
2. no control of their own borders
3. no control of their currency and banks
4. a government with a 'diverse' population in which the majority either has no loyalty to Berlin (recent 'refugee' immigrants) or has dropped its loyalty (large parts of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg), and which is also losing the allegiance of the many eastern European immigrants in Germany. These people are among the most energized opponents of the 'refugee' influx.
5. Fast rising anarchy and lawlessness by the recent 'refugee' immigrants, and which is well known to the population, as are the official orders to the police to minimize crime statistics reporting by not opening official cases.

and

6. A mass media believed by no one due to the bald lies it broadcasts 24/7 daily about numbers 1-5.

...will soon cease to exist. This is confirmed by:

7. The continuing spiral of the ruling post WWII political parties into their own political black holes. CDU/CSU on the right and SDP on the left have all lost their hold on the modern German population.

The biggest joke of all is that Theresa May is negotiating the terms of "Brexit" from the EU with a political corpse and not a viable polity.

Another round or lap is coming soon. Personally I think the only thing staving off another eurozone banking crisis is the absolute certainty that no imaginable German government can currently agree to the slightest external concession without risking an internal political collapse.

Thus all the various Eurozone elites involved are refraining from provoking such a crisis for calculated narrow reasons. This leaves it to a European mob in some capital to initiate it by confronting a national government with either internal political collapse or re-entering EU-wide monetary and fiscal conflict with the ECB/EU gang.

And yes, I'm sure you spotted the next part. Poland and Hungary acting on behalf of the Phoenix Rising Ersatz Austro-Hungarian Empire will twist the EU's tail at that time as hard as they can for maximum regional advantage."

The fracturing of Germany is conventionally viewed as somewhere between implausible and impossible, and the same can be said of France and Germany drifting apart and the EU dissolving: the mainstream is committed to presenting Germany, the German-French alliance, the euro and the EU as rock-solid.

Yet if we follow the logic and evidence presented in these seven points, we are forced to conclude that the fractures in France, Germany and the EU are widening by the day, and that the ceaseless propaganda spewed by the ruling elites isn't mending the fractures or restoring the illusion of stability.

(Regarding the French yellow vest dissenters: the 80,000 mobilized security forces are intentionally seeking to incite violence to justify crushing the yellow vest dissenters with massive paramilitary force: French Democracy Dead or Alive?)

In the long run of history, the apparent solidity of 20 or 30 years can shatter very rapidly as populations under increasing financial and political stress default to much more enduring divisions and loyalties.

[DrEvil]

4. a government with a 'diverse' population in which the majority either has no loyalty to Berlin (recent 'refugee' immigrants) or has dropped its loyalty (large parts of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg), and which is also losing the allegiance of the many eastern European immigrants in Germany. These people are among the most energized opponents of the 'refugee' influx.
5. Fast rising anarchy and lawlessness by the recent 'refugee' immigrants, and which is well known to the population, as are the official orders to the police to minimize crime statistics reporting by not opening official cases.

Shocker! Right wing tool from right wing think tank (Mises Institute) spouts right wing talking points.
Can you spell racist horseshit?

[JackRiddler]

What a complete asshole pontificating in total ignorance about any of the places or peoples he is defaming, doing exactly the same racist panic rhetoric as Trump about the border with Mexico, but at such a great distance from anything related to Europe that he can amplify it exponentially and assume, perhaps correctly, that an equally ignorant majority of his American readers will eat this poisonous shit gratefully. Shameful!

[Sounder]

Let's accept that this fellow is conservative and questionable in his racial assumptions. He still has opinions that are shared among wide swaths of regular and working folk.

My opinion and in a similar vein to his, is that the 'yellow vests' and similar populist movements yet to arise will have an increasingly coherent expression of the need for more local and citizen involvement in the creating of law and policy. People are tired of far off bureaucrats creating dictats that we must live by and pay for while they live their well paid and tax free lives in service to the EU.

So yeah, scream racist while you ignore the fundamentals of what is going on, it's always good to have something to suck on.

[DrEvil]

Let's accept that this fellow is conservative and questionable in his racial assumptions. He still has opinions that are shared among wide swaths of regular and working folk.

Questionable in his racial assumptions? It's pretty clear what his assumptions are when he consistently puts refugee in quotation marks and calls them disloyal to Berlin. Translation: ARGLEBARGLE SHARIA LAW!!!

My opinion and in a similar vein to his, is that the 'yellow vests' and similar populist movements yet to arise will have an increasingly coherent expression of the need for more local and citizen involvement in the creating of law and policy. People are tired of far off bureaucrats creating dictats that we must live by and pay for while they live their well paid and tax free lives in service to the EU.

So yeah, scream racist while you ignore the fundamentals of what is going on, it's always good to have something to suck on.

I'm not ignoring the fundamentals, I just take issue with you posting this simplistic, racist tripe. There's tons of good analyzes of what's happening, but this is not it.

[Sounder]

The racist charge is becoming a tired trope and juvenile dodge to the issues Dr. Evil.

I would you rather you tell me what you think about my opinion regarding these happenings, and hey take a chance, tell me what you think is going on.

[Elvis]

Sounder: I agree with DrEvil and Jack—this is disappointing, to say the least, to see posted sympathetically on RI. Are you sure you want to be endorsing this stuff?

4. a government with a 'diverse' population in which the majority either has no loyalty to Berlin (recent 'refugee' immigrants) or has dropped its loyalty (large parts of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg), and which is also losing the allegiance of the many eastern European immigrants in Germany. These people are among the most energized opponents of the 'refugee' influx.
5. Fast rising anarchy and lawlessness by the recent 'refugee' immigrants, and which is well known to the population, as are the official orders to the police to minimize crime statistics reporting by not opening official cases.

Shocker! Right wing tool from right wing think tank (Mises Institute) spouts right wing talking points.
Can you spell racist horseshit?