History tells us the French ‘do revolution’ quite well, the current status of the protests against President Macron’s unilateral pension reform cuts are no exception.
Worker strikes have hampered France for over a week in protest to: (1) the pension reform; and (2) the undemocratic way it was enacted via unilateral fiat by the French President, Emmanuel Macron.
Today the worker strike turned to massive protests in the streets throughout several regions.
As the day wound down, those protests then turned violent as the ultra-left-wing “Black Bloc” anarchists began attacking police.
(Reuters) – PARIS, March 23 – Police fired tear gas and fought with violent black-clad anarchists in Paris and across France on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age.
The ninth day of nationwide protests, mostly peaceful, disrupted train and air travel. Teachers were among many professions to walk off the job, days after the government pushed through legislation to raise the retirement age by two years to 64.
Demonstrations in central Paris were generally peaceful, but groups of “Black Bloc” anarchists smashed shop windows, demolished street furniture and ransacked a McDonald’s restaurant. Clashes ensued as riot police drove back the anarchists with tear gas and stun grenades.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 149 police officers were injured and 172 people were arrested across the country. Dozens of protesters were also injured, including a woman who lost a thumb in the Normandy town of Rouen.
[…] Police had also fired tear gas at some protesters in several other cities, including Nantes, and Lorient in the west, Lille in the north, and used water cannon against others in Rennes in the northwest. Labour unions fear protests could turn more violent if the government does not heed mounting popular anger over pension curbs.
Unions called for regional action over the weekend and new nationwide strikes and protests on March 28, the day Britain’s King Charles is due to travel to Bordeaux from Paris by train.
The main entrance of the Bordeaux town hall was set ablaze on Thursday, days before the monarch was due to walk through on his visit to the southwestern city.
On Wednesday, Macron broke weeks of silence on the new policy, insisting the law would come into force by year end. He compared protests to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.
[…] The French Interior Ministry said 1.089 million protested across the country, including 119,000 in the capital which was a record since protests started in January. The CGT union said 3.5 million people marched in the country, equalling a previous high on March 7.
“I came here because I oppose this reform and I really oppose the fact that democracy no longer means anything,” Sophie Mendy, an administrative medical worker, told Reuters at the Paris rally. “We’re not being represented, and so we’re fed up.” (read more)
World War III may break out against Russia in/around Moldova. However, another more widespread war may break out even sooner that has nothing to do with nation states.
Constitution, Shmonstitution.
Like Obama and Biden, Macron has a pen and a fōn …
Make The National Razor Great Again!
Teach Macron how to do the Mussolini dance 😂
#Ceaușescu
Far better to teach the entire EU how to do that dance.
It’s a shame that people all over the world allow corrupt politicians to destroy their precious way of life and then degrade them on top of that.
If you stop and think about it, All the real problem with our world as a whole is a direct result of corrupt politicians that are mere puppets and pawns of century old greedy and power hungry banking families. This is undeniable and indisputable.
This government is out of control and is no longer of the people, for the people and by the people.
It is of the corrupt, for the corrupt and by the corrupt.
Macron is a little Emperor wanna be asshole. But hes not wrong about the reform. You know whos wrong? The United States.For over 70 years weve defended Europe impoverishing the American people while Europeans have been living high on “social benifits”. A pox on them.
A pox on American intervention in another European conflict!
Another Marshal plan would break the bank thats already broken
yes include ww1… ww2…..
The US/We…have been paying for European socialism for 60+ years. They better grow up! These protests are funny to me considering Europeans think we Americans are the spoiled ones.
I’m hearing from my Polish friends that the Ukrainians are wearing out their welcome in Poland. Seems it brings back memories of East Germans, and more recently the Islamic tide. The newcomers always seem to get better treatment than the citizens.
Pass the popcorn.
🎯
I thought Poland didn’t allow the migrants??
I have seen reports that many Ukrainians that live close to the border go across the border to Poland.
Get the “freebies ” from Poland then cross back to Ukraine.
My first thought was….reminds me of our Southern border.
Just like our refugees from Castro, Ortega, Chavez/Maduro. Come for the bennies and go visit the relatives for months at a time.
I believe that is Hungary
Yes, and Czechia and Slovakia as well.
And who knows of the Ukrainian “refugees” which are the Ukrainians and refugees, and who are the Straight Descendants of the German AZOV Nazis who fled from the Nuremberg Trials to the Ukraine and have been so Handily helpful to Zelensky, and have a very nasty history with Poland.
Khazarians (by DNA). They created both the Bolsheviks, the Nazis, every similar dictatorial totalitarian group and all of the destruction those groups fomented. They are the evil scourge of Europe and Asia Minor since the Dark Ages when they took on the false cover of being Jewish despite having zero true Israeli DNA. They are behind Klaus Schwab, the WEF and everything wrong it and its anti-liberty allies represent.
“As of February 2023, over 8 million refugees from Ukraine were recorded across Europe…”(unhcr.com)
“This is the largest migration crisis in Europe since World War II…We need systemic measures and Poland is taking them…Today, Poland and other Central and Eastern Europe take the greatest burden in organizing humanitarian aid…I appeal to all leaders and citizens of the European Union: this is our common cause and responsibility…we must help refugees, let us stop the war and save the defenceless.”
–Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, March 7, 2022, Poland
One year on, volunteers in Poland are still doing all they can for Ukrainian refugees
“Agnieszka notices fewer volunteers in Krakow these days: ‘At the beginning, the outpouring of help was massive…'”
unhcr.org/en-au/news/stories/2023/2/63f548a44/year-volunteers-poland-still-ukrainian-refugees.html
I wouldn’t get too content with the entertainment. For decades now, what happens in Europe is just the spoiler for what happens in the U.S. Watch to see what works, dissect the techniques, then prepare to use them at home.
Lighting fires in streets as a tactic, meh. A lot of show with few results, most the time.
Pissing off the firefighters who normally fight the fires, however, serious mistake.
Now, if the railway union and the electrical workers union all go full gilets jaunes, then we will see whether this will play out as the globalists believe it will. It is difficult to extract wealth from slaves if the slaves stop most commerce.
And wouldn’t it be interesting if a few more European banks went bust in the next week? I wonder what the curve looks like for SocGen credit default swaps in the last two days?
Not that Yellen and Powell won’t bail them out with a few trillion over the weekend, like they did with the Swiss National Bank, was it just last month?
Still, teeter totter. Maybe London Bridge is falling down.
Trains are an essential part of a functioning France, and the unions know it.
The French definitely know how to throw sand in the gears!
Last I heard of French Street fires, they destroyed close to a thousand private automobiles each night, towards that enterprise. And that was the “refugees” doing that.
that would be the French equivalent of BLM and Antifa at work. Wonder if Soros is funding it?
Correct. Not typical French protest behavior. Paid infiltrators.
They bailed them out like a week or so ago. SVB and the other bank about two weeks ago now.
by the way, was Samantha Power over there recently?
Ahhhh yes, the QUIET ONE that Obama has doing his handy work all over the globe……
She was crap – stirring in Hungary recently, now I think she moved on to Georgia.
No CIA color revolutions in France. The Deep State globalists LIKE Macron, so they don’t like these protests.
Where did that J6 Revolution Macron claims the protests against abuse of power happen?
He appears not only egotistical, but undeniably ignorant of facts.
The J6 travesty in US was orchestrated, led & turned into a political tool by the Government, the Alphabet Agencies & killer cops not worthy of being in any uniform other than an orange jumpsuit.
The eunuch who should be nervous watching these protests is Justeen in Canada. Little dictators usually don’t do real well when the entire nation turns against them
Well, Org, if my numerous relatives are a micro-representation… there are not enough Canucks enough peed-off to get rid of Trudope, or to rid themselves of his Chinese handlers.
Exactly! Look beyond the “normal” people who just want a decent life, and look to Soros money, Samantha Power and the likes as the instigators of violence.
PS the French are REALLY good at revolution…not really good at government.
Yet again, we have not been either.
Pssst…they’re not that good at revolution. The last full blown French revolution ended up with an Emperor crowning himself.
What the heck…nothing to lose one’s head over!
So far… too comfortable.
Some firefighters joined the protesters. Good for them. It’s time for the elites to start paying attention to their citizens and not the US demands for the conflict in Ukraine.
Meloni in Italy has been a huge disappointment saying today that she would support Ukraine even if that meant going against what the people want.
I recall this was her stance even before she was elected, so at least she is consistent.
I don’t know what is meant by Ukraine. It seems to imply a nation where none exists. I have heard that of a population of 37 million before the conflict, 10-11 million have simply left. Many to Russia, others to Europe. Somewhere between 200 and 400 thousand men are dead on the field, which usually means double that disabled. Energy, water, transport, all decimated and the air filled with shrapnel over much of the region.
Ukraine is no more. If it stopped right now it would take generations to re-establish a functioning society and that society will definitely not be Western or NATO. Why do these sadists continue to delay the inevitable?
Cause there is coin to be made.
Bullseye!
Because they have been caught in their own trap.
Russia, China, BRICS+ et al…..they are an existential threat – a threat that has to be addressed independent of any outcome in Europe.
Team Obiden and its WEF puppeteers have really mucked things up. They planned/schemed for an internal Russian collapse. Didn’t happen. Doesn’t look like it will happen. What we have is a broadening economic alliance slowly forming. Whether this morphs into a formal military alliance remains to be seen.
Mexico may join BRICS
Time to convert dollars to peso and rubles?
Wait till the DU munitions that the scum in the UK want to send are being used.
Country 404 will never survive!
Yes, that IS disappointing.
Anything that weakens the globalists is good.
Viva la France
Isn’t Macron one of the WEF young leaders? Two years retirement extension is no big whoop but to pass it by fiat is. People don’t like being treated as subjects, plain and simple.
Yep…Fiat.
Obama, Biden, Arden, Trudeau, Andrews( Australia) all are WEF leaders.🤮
And what do they have in common? The voting machines. A gift from George W Bush
Yes. That Bush name keeps popping up. Recall how violent the rhetoric was from the Left when he ordered American forces into Iraq. Orchestrated? Connecting all the pieces in this grows more complicated by the day.
Nothing is ever what it seems.
Yeah….little justin should take note.
Looking forward to the creation of The Republic of Western Canada.
Two years is a lot….and not what the population signed up for.
If the “government” didn’t waste the people’s money, none of this might be necessary.
Yes, I believe he is. You are correct about the “by fiat” reason.
Nous sommes tous français !
Mais non!
Agreed. That’s going a little far. My children’s mother is French. Therefore, they can legitimately claim to be ‘Francaises’.
I do respect the French for their sustained and admirable cultural history of telling tyrants where to go, time and time again.
Zut Alors!
Yes, all people who want to retire with state subsidies at 62 and not 64 are French at heart.
Thank you. I recall when the age was upped TO 62 some years ago, the French rioted then as well.
….and much as happened since then.
The straw that broke the camel’s back comes to mind! (Thanks to whomever it was that brought that ‘straw’ forward!)
Taxation to support the quasi socialist state in France is alive and well. Trust me on that one. I paid into those coffers for a period of time.
Hey, its just the French “summer of love”. We just need to see it through the right…. oops, sorry, left lens.
Wish we could replicate it over here. These cowardly leftists in this country need to feel some heat.
The French are learning that liberal democracy is fake, and that when push comes to shove the transnational oligarchy gets its way. Most of those who serve the oligarchy (taking the ticket) get paid in full after service, but some, groomed for critical executive service, have their remuneration frontloaded. Mitt Romney was one such at Bain Capital. However, he flubbed it like a Romney and failed to become President, although he continues to serve (the oligarchy) in the Senate. Macron spent years as a financialist for one of the Rothschilds banks before transitioning into government ‘service’.
I thought he was transitioning to a weasel?
🙂
He already was one – where does he go from here?
Romney did NOT flub his candidacy. He was a fake candidate all along, having been told by his superiors to let Ozero “win.”
Couldn’t even punch back against Candy Crowley.
That’s not just taking a dive, it was a face plant.
Yup. Good memory. I wouldn’t have remembered her name. She WAS pathetic.
I hope our neighbors to the north take a good look at what the proles do when their Supreme Leader rules by fiat.
Hey hey ho ho Trudeau has to go.
Who knows. We may end up fighting China for ownership of Canada.
Lost already without a fight
https://rumble.com/v2cbpta-ep-14-dont-do-nothing-sing4freedom-jeremy-brown.html
An enlightened conversation with a J6er.
Maybe tiny Macron would like to fight Russia AND the entire population of France?
I hope the French People are serious this time.
There should be huge banners saying “Don’t go FULL HITLER on us, Emmanuelle!”
Taunting him to do what everyone knows he’s going to do anyway.
That way, when he *does* go Full Hitler, he will become a parody of himself.
Ransacking a McDonald’s is de rigueur for any revolt anywhere in the world today.
And Burger King and Pizza Hut!
Ryan Cunningham
@rycunni
Now police officers are standing with protesters in France.
I love it. Not about when they were locked down, not about forced vaccination, not about forced acceptance of immigrants who don’t share there culture and French women getting raped by the “guests”. The pensions. The stupid pensions that if they don’t fix the economy will go belly up just like Greece. Greedy asshats.
Money is the root of all Evil… but don’t touch my stash.
Here we are once again forced to cheer for the lesser of two evils 😞
LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Not money itself. That’s just a tool to be used.
‘The pensions. The stupid pensions that if they don’t fix the economy will go belly up just like Greece.’ – Jolie
Or just like the USA, where Social Security exhausts its trust fund in eight years or so. Executive orders are our version of France’s Article 49.3 override.
Even with a hiked retirement age of 64, France is WAY behind the curve in catching up to longer life expectancies and extended retirement periods.
The European welfare state is going bankrupt. France will be in the vanguard.
wait until the USA is too broken to send them protection .
When America has impotent leadership, world leaders act as insolent children.
Hmm… the french may not use their rifles so well when a couple of Panzer groups overrun Belgium, but they know how to use pitchforks and guillotines.
They put it very well. ( a rather bloody song if you tell me… ).
Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides
L’opprobre de tous les partis,
Tremblez ! vos projets parricides
Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix ! (bis)
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre,
S’ils tombent, nos jeunes héros,
La terre en produit de nouveaux,
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre !
…
Tremble, tyrants and you traitors
The shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their prize! (repeated)
Everyone is a soldier to combat you,
If they fall, our young heroes,
Will be produced anew from the ground,
Ready to fight against you!
Let’s see what happens….
Get the guillotines greased up and ready to roll!
Aah… the child would be King should remember that “Le Etat, c’est moi” is not a good thing to say in a nation that is extremely touchy when they hear”ou’ils mangent du gâteau“
It would be most lovely to see them Remove Macron in the way he has EARNED.
I remember being so surprised when the Ceaușescu’s realized just how loved and adored he and his wife were in 1989
Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu — On Christmas Day December 25, 1989.
Who can REMEMBER all of his filthy CRIMES anymore, for Sheer NUMBER and MAGNITUDE.
It might give others who are so much like him a Momentary Pause for Thought, and Concern!
“And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Kim Dotcom
@KimDotcom
Over a million protesters call for “Macron the Dictator” to be removed. Why? Macron used an emergency law to impose reform without input from the Senate / Parliament. Macron used this tool 11 times in a year. The French are fed up with this abuse of power.
Video linked…
There is only one way to deal with the globalists, they ain’t gonna shut up and they ain’t gonna stop. It’s time it gets done.
In ‘things the American Legacy Media will never show you’ (because it counters the ‘official narrative’),
I just watched a video sub-titled: “France: In Paris the riot police laid down their arms and joined the protesters. A huge blow to Macron’s tyranny.” https://t.me/WeTheMedia/85290
In ‘Game of Thrones’, Cersei Lannister taught Peter Baelish a lesson about what ‘power’ really is:
When a ‘leader’ loses the foot soldiers whose very existence is to carry out their orders, does one really have any ‘power’ anymore?
Things probably won’t end well for Emmanuel.
Depends on whether he had the foresight to buy a mansion in Florida like Zyy did.
There are videos of the police taking off their helmets and joining the protests……
I suspect their “anarchist” thugs are, like those in the U.S., merely hirelings of the Intel state. In the U.S. we have seen them employed to taint protests in ways that de-legitimize the politically legitimate reason behind the protests, most forcefully those populist uprisings protesting the trend towards fascist enslavement by the international criminals. I am further deeply skeptical of the police being employed, ala Canada and Australia. It seems to me surprising that, with no support from the populace, so-called police forces brutally and sadistically abuse the people. How do these officers escape being disowned by their own people after brutalizing women, children, and elderly who are peacefully protesting? I suspect the criminals are employing outside mercenaries, likely convicts and antifa scum to be let loose on legal protests.
Well, I have a child hood friend who is an Ottawa cop. He has been since 1994.
When the protests started, he literally booked his time off and never once participated in that illegal squashing of peoples rights. When they tried to call him back, he used the PTSD route, and sat it out.
I asked him, to his face, what he thought about it all, and he said he personally would never have anything to do with something like that. But, he did say, most of the people he works with, did participate, and that most of them lamented the fact if they didnt do as they were told, they could lose their pensions. And that was something most could not have happen, because money, or something…..then there was the ones who said the people were overstepping the boundary’s that separate good from bad. Tsk, tsk, those pesky proles huh? Figures….
The police are not our friends, most of them, anyways.
As I figured, most of the jack boots will gladly trample us, and our freedoms, to keep the money flowing, from our tax dollars.
Team Jackboot doesnt give a flying F about us. The majority anyways. They care more about money, than anything regarding our Constitution and freedoms.
We all have a big hill to climb, to keep what we have and keep our freedoms intact. These clowns want us all under their boot.
That goes for all of them, for the most part, all over the world. The Western leaders are hell bent of keeping us right where they want us. Under their control, with threats and de-banking etc….
Im not sure what brings them back to reality, but sitting back and watching it all go down is surreal. I always thought the good guys would step up.
Not happening as far as I can tell. The jackboots play along. The West is under attack. And so far, no pushback.
1.089 million. I wonder how the French government came up with such a detailed number.
Storm the Bastille and while you’re at it clean out your no-go zones.
I imagine, from what I read, that we in the U.S.A. have many “no-go” zones… and not necessarily are they occupied by Immigrants.
Keep in mind the French have been in the streets for 4-5Years starting with the Yellow Vest protest the Wuhan Con quelled that. But as the government WEF Demons continue to ignore it’s people the angrier the people get, they need a distraction stat. Escalation in Ukraine, China into Taiwan, run out of wine & cheese?
Watch out, “Look Squirrel” because the swamps are feeling real pressure.
Interior Minister Darmanin is quoted in France 24 as saying there were 903 fires lit in Paris yesterday during the “mostly peaceful” protests.
Look for George Soros and Klaus Schwab money behind the French version of BLM and Antifa “Black Boc”.
I bet that the majority of the French are like us; just want to go to work, keep most of the money we earn, eat, sleep and otherwise live our little lives in peace.
The problem are the people in power all around the world; the ones with money, like Bill Gates who can’t stop meddling in peoples lives to make a profit off them, George Soros who sows hate and division everywhere he spends his money (to buy politicians at any level), and Klaus Schwab with his “rule the world” complex.
I think we should all unite around the goal of eliminating these people from power. We need to declare them a danger to humanity, strip them of their wealth and power, and ship them to some island they can’t get off of so the rest of us can live in peace and get on with our lives.
My prayers are for the French people. Vive la France!
I’m not certain that the “Black Bloc” can be accurately described as ‘ultra-left-wing anarchists’. Typically anarchy is to the far right on the political spectrum whereas ultra-left is generally a totalitarian dictatorship. The only exception being when leftists create a power vacuum and then fill it with their own warped and demented ideology.
Nihilists that call themselves anarchists and destroy whilst espousing Communist ideals ain’t right wing.
Did the guillotine originate in France? I honestly don’t know……
Yes: there had been various machine-ancestors throughout Europe, but this particular design came from a French doctor named Guiilotin (no “e”), who thought it would be painless and guarantee an “equal death” to both aristocrats and unreconstructed peasants.
This Is France’s January 6th Insurrection Moment? But then that would mean Macron’s own government orchestrated the “insurrection” then, would it not? Yes it would. Which would also mean he considers the indigenous French population as domestic terrorists and enemies of the state. Yes he does, and he has been treating them as being just that too. Even putting his own “Black Bloc” agent provocateurs in among the mostly peaceful protestors. After all, “The best way to control the opposition it to lead it ourselves” ~ Vladimir Lenin
“days before the monarch was due to walk through on his visit to the southwestern city.”
Reuters said that?!?
Referencing King Charles no doubt, whose impending visit was recently canceled.
Thanks largely to Biden, Soros, Schwab and Communism, most of the people in the World are tired of their shit and pissed off, because it is nothing but political nonsense starting and continuing all the distress. Let these old geezers die without the glory they seek, because NOBODY WANTS WAR!
….A mostly peaceful revolution however….Or it’s Jan 6th all over again, France style…Depending on who you ask and who they voted for.
I felt different about things after the Canadian Truckers were marginalized and dispersed. We will watch and wait… meanwhile in the US….. the fight of the week rages over Tic Toc.
How? did you feel ‘different’? About WHAT ‘things’? Serious questions.
This video of more than a couple of police siding with the protestors says a lot about how the people feel.
Hmmm….hate to be the one to throw cold water on the euphoria, but…
…I’ve seen this French protesting before. Several times before. They get all angry and full of angst, and….nothing happens except some minor collateral damage the French government can overlook.
Their government knows that disrupting the trains will hurt the people more than it will hurt the government. Strikes won’t faze the government at all, as the labor that counts with the multi-nationals that pull Marcon’s strings…isn’t in France.
This may well not be a very Christian thing to say, but here goes: the governing by the political offices (anywhere) isn’t going to change until the multinational corporate and hedge fund manager heads begin rolling, French Revolution style.
When the correct people start answering for the woes of the common man, then the rethinking will begin. Corporations and Bankers have figured out that it’s easy to stage a revolution against political institutions and figures. It’s quite another thing to stage a revolution against those holding your paycheck and finances.
Politicians are disposable pawns now. The Financier/Mercantile giants hold the real power – and these are proving unaccountable to the people, as they are now beyond the reach of strikes and boycotts.
Macron? Stalin? The “Lil Dictate” in Canada and Joe ARE ALL THE SAME! In fact while driving home this morning I heard Bidet speak up over the radio blessing “our (communist) neighbor up north that think exactly like us.” I immediately thought of the truck driver protests and our own J6 political prisoners and had to agree. fjb
The Republicans were America’s dominant Party until FDR introduced the welfare state.
Blacks voted for the Party of Lincoln (of course) until the coming of FDR’s New Deal.
Government welfare was non-existent. Charity came from private groups (like churches) or not at all.
The revolutionary act would be government making major cuts to welfare programs.
George Floyd was a piker at starting big trouble, compared to Macron.
When THE PEOPLE have finally had enough, like our Founding Fathers, then the serious protests take place, again like our Founding Fathers did. We know what the then government in our colonies did when they saw THE PEOPLE would no longer play their game. I see THE PEOPLE in the major western countries, including America, have had enough or are VERY NEAR to coming to that same conclusion.
Now this is some real insurrection stuff. Not some guy walking around with a US flag and horns to a chamber where he prays for the cops who escorted him there.