{"id":41572,"date":"2018-12-13T08:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41572"},"modified":"2018-12-13T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:06:33","slug":"the-end-of-france-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41572","title":{"rendered":"The End of France as We Know It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The End of France as We Know It?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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When an event grabs headlines like the protests in France have I temper my reactions to it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t give the Yellow Vest protests much thought at first wanting to see where they would lead.<\/p>\n

Protests like this and even bigger ones like Catalonian independence are invariably betrayed by the European political establishment.\u00a0 They become an excuse to move towards tighter control \u2014 more cops, more surveillance, crackdowns on free speech, etc.<\/p>\n

So, sometimes it\u2019s hard to separate the manufactured reality show from the spontaneous uprising of human frustration.<\/p>\n

But after the past two weekends of violent protests, after the French government backed down on the new diesel tax which was the inciting incident of this story, it\u2019s safe to say this is real and there is real fear brewing among the political elite of Europe.<\/p>\n

As Rev. Steve Turley points out in this video, the media across Europe and the U.S. are scared of where this leads.<\/p>\n

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