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Political Nightmares Multiply for Europe Ahead of Davos
Political Nightmares Multiply for Europe Ahead of Davos Europe’s dreams of integration are slipping away as the people wake up from the nightmare erected for them. As we approach Act IX of the Yellow Vest protests in France and the threats of creating bank runs we get the news that both Presidents Trump and Macron […]
Macron – No taxation without representation
Macron – No taxation without representation The mass protests on the streets of French cities recall the first years of the American War of Independence. In the years before and during the American Independence Movement, the resentment that independence advocates harboured was that the Thirteen Colonies were obliged to pay taxes to the British Crown […]
Will the Yellow Vests Protests Come to the US?
Will the Yellow Vests Protests Come to the US? A truth about movements is, they move. They morph, evolve and move around a country or even around the globe. This occurs over months and often over years. The US Occupy encampment era occurred ten months after the Arab Spring and six months after the Spanish […]
Yellow Vests Destroying Speed Cameras
Yellow Vests Destroying Speed Cameras The Yellow Vest movement is indeed spreading worldwide. In France, they are out destroying speed cameras. Most Americans are familiar only with the red light cameras that cities have been forced to take down for they are unconstitutional. That is why you did not get points for the violation, just […]
Yellow Vests Advocate Taking Money Out of Banks in France to Topple Macron
Yellow Vests Advocate Taking Money Out of Banks in France to Topple Macron The Yellow Vest Movement in France is turning to an all-out war against Macron. Many are now advocating withdrawing their money from backs in order to topple Macron. Yellow Vest activists ‘Gilets Jaunes’, are now supported by up to 70% of the population. […]
Macron May Trigger Debt Crisis with Yellow Vest Crackdown
Macron May Trigger Debt Crisis with Yellow Vest Crackdown The Yellow Vests have reached critical mass. And the movement has now created the perfect storm for President Emmanuel Macron. He can no longer ignore it, even though he tried to do so. And his lack of understanding of the situation as well as his open […]
Is the Historical Subject Returning, Wearing a Yellow Vest?
Is the Historical Subject Returning, Wearing a Yellow Vest? If someone were to ask me the meaning of politics, I would say that it is concerned with the contestation of power; that it is agonistic, even antagonistic. And that it has to be, because what it contests is the balance of power wielded by different […]
Yellow Vest Movement Spreads to Australia & Poland
Yellow Vest Movement Spreads to Australia & Poland We are witnessing the Yellow Vest Movement now also spreading to Australia. We are seeing the rise there and in Canada also against Fake News that the media is desperately fighting Trump on who now label him an idiot in headlines. We are also witnessing a backlash against […]
France Moves To Ban All Protests As PM Announces Major Crackdown On Yellow Vests
France Moves To Ban All Protests As PM Announces Major Crackdown On Yellow Vests France is signaling it’s making preparations for a massive new crackdown on the gilets jaunes or “yellow vests” anti-government protests that have gripped the country for seven weeks. A new law under consideration could make any demonstration illegal to begin with if not previously approved by […]
France in Free Fall
France in Free Fall French officials evidently understand that the terrorists are engaged in a long war and that it will be difficult to stop them; so they seem to have given in. These officials are no doubt aware that young French Muslims are being radicalized in increasing numbers. The response, however, has been to […]
Macron Arrests “Yellow Vest” Organizer In Escalation Which Will Surely Calm Things Down
Macron Arrests “Yellow Vest” Organizer In Escalation Which Will Surely Calm Things Down French authorities have arrested a key organizer of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement for leading an unauthorized demonstration, signaling a crackdown on the anti-government demonstrators after nearly two months of violence-filled protests. Eric Drouet, a truck driver from the suburbs of […]
Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019
Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019 Much about 2019 is uncertain. But a few things are pretty much guaranteed, including the following: Government debt will rise at an accelerating rate Like a life-long dieter who finally gives up and decides to eat himself to death, the US is now committed to trillion-dollar deficits […]
Yellow Vests, Modern Junk Politics and Robespierre
Yellow Vests, Modern Junk Politics and Robespierre During the recent holidays, I had the opportunity to listen to my French friends extol the virtues of the yellow vests (gilets jaunes) movement. “We have had enough of the elitist rule that has left most of the French working class economically desperate,” Pierre said. “People have gone […]
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement The Yellow Vest Movement that began in France, is spreading. It appeared also in Belgium and it spread to Canada as well. The French arrested the leaders of the Yellow Vest Movement calling them an anti-government charging them for organizing an unauthorized protest, as authorities adopt a tougher approach to try to curb […]
Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S.
Why France’s Yellow Vest Protests Have Been Ignored by “the Resistance” in the U.S. “”The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.” — C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins In less than two months, the yellow vests (“gilets jaunes”) movement in France has reshaped the political landscape in Europe. For a seventh straight week, […]
