[Newsbot]

Title: France fuel protests: Police in Paris fire tear gas
Category: World
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2018-11-24 03:31:20

[martin14]

2nd week now. Paris protests are getting violent.

Road conditions here:
https://www.autoroutes.fr/en/Realtime-t ... mation.htm

The whole country is shut down again, they protest at the toll booths.

[martin14]

[BRAH]

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"Vive La France!"

[martin14]

$1:

Mr Macron has insisted that fuel prices have to rise in line with green initiatives made necessary by the Paris Climate Change agreement.

He said there would be 'no possibility' of his government backing down in the face of disturbances.

Oh, you mean the one the Americans didn't sign ? Alrighty then.

Look for Dopey to pull the same bullshit with us.

[Tyler_1]

martin14 martin14:

Look for Dopey

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

2nd week now. Paris protests are getting violent.

Road conditions here:
https://www.autoroutes.fr/en/Realtime-t ... mation.htm

The whole country is shut down again, they protest at the toll booths.

You seem surprised, like violent protests in France are a new thing.

They've been happening most of my life time.

[martin14]

Protests by absolutely regular people is new.

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

Protests by absolutely regular people is new.

It's good that people are asserting their rights. Perhaps it's the only avenue we have left to affect change.

[martin14]

Week 3, been protesting since 9am, much more violent in Paris this week.

Rest of the country also shut down as usual.

[N_Fiddledog]

$1:

At last, a people’s revolt against the tyranny of environmentalism. Paris is burning. Not since 1968 has there been such heat and fury in the streetsThousands of ‘gilets jaunes’ stormed the capital at the weekend to rage against Emmanuel Macron and his treatment of them with aloof, technocratic disdain. And yet leftists in Britain and the US have been largely silent, or at least antsy, about this people’s revolt. The same people who got so excited about the staid, static Occupy movement a few years ago — which couldn’t even been arsed to march, never mind riot — seem struck dumb by the sight of tens of thousands of French people taking to the barricades against Macronism.

It isn’t hard to see why. It’s because this revolt is as much against their political orthodoxies as it is against Macron’s out-of-touch and monarchical style. Most strikingly this is a people’s rebellion against the onerous consequences of climate-change policy, against the politics of environmentalism and its tendency to punish the little people for daring to live relatively modern, fossil-fuelled lives. This is new. This is unprecedented. We are witnessing perhaps the first mass uprising against eco-elitism and we should welcome it with open arms to the broader populist revolt that has been sweeping Europe for a few years now...

More at Spectator

[N_Fiddledog]

[BRAH]

Carbon Tax Revolt coming soon to Canada.

[martin14]

Macron SURRENDERS to the rioters: French president caves in and suspends fuel tax hikes in victory for the Yellow Vests after days of violent protests

Days of 'yellow vest' protests have seen mass vandalism and hundreds of arrests
Huge demonstrations over fuel tax increases that had been planned for January 1
French PM Edouard Philippe met with ministers to find ways of ending violence
Government are to freeze planned hikes on regulated electricity and gas prices

[DrCaleb]

Good to know that people can affect change, if they have the desire to.