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France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time When the first demonstrations on the streets of Paris were reported nine weeks ago, nobody could have foreseen the endurance, the tenacity and the viral effect of the Yellow Vests movement. After all, the French are known to protest and to strike, it’s part and parcel of their […]
Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests
Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests A State of Emergency That Does Not Say His Name According to Vincent Brengarth, a lawyer at the Paris Bar, in recent years we have been witnessing a disturbing drift in police repression in France, more specifically since November 2015 when the state of emergency was pronounced […]
Exclusive: They Spy With Their Little Eye
Exclusive: They Spy With Their Little Eye The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network,” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist and activist Suzie Dawson. NZ Spy Scandal: Elephants In The Room; US Used NZ Spies to Spy on Third Countries, Including France; US […]
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go
FREXIT? The “Gilets Jaunes” will Not Let Go Will France, under Macron – Implosion 2 – become a candidate for exiting the EU thanks to the Yellow Vests? The “Gilets Jaunes” will not let go. Not even – or especially not – after Macron‘s half-hearted, rather cynical and grandstanding concessions – of “too little and […]
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites
France’s Ghosts of ’68: General Strike vs. Macron and the Technocrat Elites The Paris elites and their enablers may find that the next general strike won’t immobilize Paris, it will strangle Paris from the periphery. Eleven months ago, I posited in The Ghosts of 1968 (2/14/18) that the idealistic hope that mass demonstrations could trigger real reform […]
As Germany and France Come Apart, So Too Will the EU
As Germany and France Come Apart, So Too Will the EU 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 […]
Are France And Germany About To Form An EU Superstate?
Are France And Germany About To Form An EU Superstate? Inching ever closer towards an EUSSR. As the fire rages on, the citizenry floods the streets, and political turmoil reigns supreme in Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are telling everyone to please disperse because everything is fine and there’s nothing […]
The Yellow Vests Get it Right, by Robert Gore
The Yellow Vests Get it Right, by Robert Gore Financial nuclear warheads. The mainstream media has degenerated irreparably. Here’s a reliable rule of thumb: if it’s important it’s not covered; if it’s covered it’s not important. Stories in the American mainstream press about Yellow Vest protests have been few. One aspect of the protests, transcendently important, […]
Fake News? How About No News?
Fake News? How About No News? Trump gets flak for characterizing the mainstream press as purveyors of Fake News. But what about no news at all? Isn’t lack of coverage even worse than biased coverage? Well, how much news have you heard or read about the gilets jaunes – or “yellow vest” – protests in […]
Europe Likely in Recession Now: Germany, France, Italy Production Collapsed
Europe Likely in Recession Now: Germany, France, Italy Production Collapsed German, French, and Italian industrial production collapsed in November. Italy GDP is negative for 3rd Quarter. Italy GDP Italy’s GDP was negative for the third quarter. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the euro zone’s third largest economy fell by 0.1 percent in July-September due to […]
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. […]
