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Meanwhile, The French Are Revolting...
Amid record unemployment, even recorder youth unemployment, and politicians willingly breaking EU treaties (with apparently no consequences), it appears - just as in the US - police brutality in France was the straw that broke 'Le Camel's back. As RT reports, another anti-police brutality protest turned violent in the French city of Rennes, with masked youths and police engaging in running street battles. The unrest follows the death of a young environmental activist earlier this week. Overnight Thursday, protesters in the northwestern city lobbed flairs at police and flipped over cars, some of which they set ablaze. Police responded by firing tear gas. We hear guillotines are still cheap on ebay.
The French (youth) are revolting...
As RT reports,
A similar protest in Paris on Wednesday also descended into violence. Around 250 people gathered outside City Hall in Paris, with some throwing rocks at police and writing "Remi is dead, the state kills" on walls, The Local’s French edition reports. At least 33 people were taken into police custody following the unrest.
The protests are in response to the death of 21-year-old activist Remi Fraisse. He was killed early on Sunday by an explosion, which occurred during violent clashes with police at the site of a contested-dam project in southwestern France.
His death, the first in a mainland protest in France since 1986, has been blamed on a concussion grenade fired by police. France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who came under serious pressure to resign following the incident, announced an immediate suspension of such grenades, which are intended to stun rather than kill.
The incident has put additional pressure on the already unpopular government of Francois Hollande, who has vowed that a thorough investigation will be conducted into the circumstances surrounding Fraisse’s death.
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We revolt all we want, until we trust Satoshi we have no peace.
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Power to the sovereign people!
"Its a start" when they surpass the Saudis in beheadings.
Obama costumes are banned
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/halloween/11201606/Evil-clown-phenome...
Yawn, Pre-pre Black Friday sales start TOMORROW Bitchez!!!!!! </sarc>
They're revolting in Rennes?
Hell, I think they're revolting anywhere.
"The unrest follows the death of a young environmental activist earlier this week."
So clearly the French thing to do is burn a few things...lol.
i've seen this movie before
Not to worry, the oceans will now rise and put out their road flares, thus proving their point beyond any shadow of doubt.
Its Piketty Economics meets Social Science or sumpin ;-)
Wake me up when they bring out the guillotines
Yeah, its hard to take the French seriously when they're lobbing "flairs".
Very discriminatory ;-)
Hey,
Some of those stylish accessories have pointy ends that hurt.
LMAO!
Environmental activists protesting a dam, riot, break, and burn shit.
Does anybody but me see the irony from an environmental carbon sustainability standpoint?
Le miroir a deux faces! ;-)
Vive le France!
The French have always been revolting.....
This is just the movie trailer for 2015 - 2016, the collapse of the EU...
Give the French credit for protesting against their govt. I have a feeling the EU rapid reactionary force will use those Mistrals to land on the coast of France and put down any future French revolts.
Why? The protestors are clueless. They'll be begging for a dam to generage electricity before it's over.
Unlike us mercans who are perpetually bending over.
I don't know about that. I think there are a lot of sleepers out there keeping their head down living their life every day, but secretly hating all the rules and restrictions. I don't think they would mind one bit if the whole thing came down. When the fires start you'll be surprised who you see dancing.
Oh, do we have a carbon shortage? I have a hair sustainability problem. Can I get a gov. grant to save my hair??
Did the climate stop changing altogether? Tax me now, before it's too late!
activists do not destroy.
same ppl in ferguson, only grey and niggers...
when there is such act in france you never see a fucking single white in the pack... it's all oug oug monkeys with bandanas faced...
Ooh, tres chic!
Rumor has it that Ace Hardware will BOGO guillotines on Black Friday!
Hands up all those who can spell Flare
In French, Russian or English? ;-)
More
Maybe for the French we should stick with this spelling.
I always thought the French were revolting
Yuk yuk
what I think is seriously revolting is the way the English-speaking, now including RT, but particularly the American press treats news from France
the whole usual journalistic vocabulary changes, for example, with sprinkles of jokes about guillotines, once-dropped rifles, surrender, ungratefulness, etc. etc. etc.
all in all, articles appear that would not be accepted as even remotely serious if you would exchange "French" with any other nationality
in fact, kudos to ZH to distort French realities less then most other, supposedly more <insert media positive characterization here> sources. a little less
Well, I for one have equal disdain for Italian bankers, if that helps ;-)
nah, I think you have one specific central banker in mind. who has one mandate to follow, btw. one that is very easily felt, at street level ;-)
anyway, those are protests. ZH correctly refrains from calling them riots. this one death should highlight how unusual it is for them to do more then look violent
Yes I have one in mind...lol.
Ok, I know you're over there, so why exactly were they protesting a dam being built in the first place, outside of flooding the locals out?
Remi Fraisse and 2'000 other enviromentalists demonstrating there maintained that the dam was not necessary, besides having a too strong environmental impact. no locals to be flooded out
greens here maintain that we should all consume less energy, in general
So the Greens want the state (one assumes) to mandate how much energy everyone consumes. They have some way of knowing every individuals energy desires/wants/expectations/needs?
Sounds like a make work project for technocrats to me.
They feel the same way about their leadership doing a little globe-trotting for their cause? ;-)
you put the finger in the wound. they aren't terribly concerned about individuals and individualism. they maintain that the ecosystems are way more important, in danger and to be protected at all costs
for them, your attitude is that of a first class passenger demanding ice in his drink while they try to prevent the Titanic Earth from sinking. frivolous
The State is not only comprised of the most popular criminal gang in a geographic region, but it is also the biggest polluter. Greens expect the largest polluter (with all the guns) to listen, and make a meaningful impact towards "pollution" reduction? Good luck.
The Former United States of Amerikanallowed a dam to be built within the borders of Yosemite National Park. I thought NP's were protected from development?
It would be amusing, if it weren't so dangerous.
But its just how some people think. They think these things (governing bodies, domestic or foreign or international) are these altruistic, compassion filled entities only concerned for the general welfare.
They are not.
As we have seen, they sell you out to the highest bidder and the only way to really control them is to downsize them.
Ghordius - You know, I heard the green argument here in America for many years that stated that America had less than 5% of the worlds population but used 25% of the worlds oil. Of course, what was never mentioned was that America generated 50% of world GDP at the time. I like Ben Franklin's common sense about resource management:
"Waste not, want not."
There are good arguments of why dumping pollution without restraint is like pissing in the pool for everyone.
For some reason I could do business with any people on earth but the French. I am really not sure why they behave the way they do, it's arrogant and dickish. It's not like our American collective behavior is all that great nowadays but not sure where the 'tude originates from.
You're probably right.
Rioting is a far too industrious activity for the French.
First they have to form a union and negotiate a payrate...
Touché, monsieur!
there is, btw, a very interesting reason why RT, aka Russian Times, likes to jump on this specific bit of news: european "Greens"
interestingly, these parties, that are very widespread on the european continent, are very, very critical of... Putin's government
on one side for the Russian government's enviromental agenda, as expected. on the other side, they often visit trials in Russia which they find politically motivated, particularly those where journalists and various political activists are accused. several of them, particularly from the German Greens, but also French, Swedes, etc. have already been declared "persona non grata" and have their entry visa in Russia revoked. in one case, a gal with a diplomatic passport
nope, euro-greens don't like Putin very much. actually less then nuclear plants or weapons, and that's a feat, indeed
Quel surprise!
Someone will be along shortly to make you do penance for your heretical defamation of St.Pooty ;-)
yes, I get a lot of hysterical flak whenever I write something about Putin The Great without first admiring his pectorals. it's a bit embarassing, this "man crush" some have here
So that's two of you who don't love St Vlad. He's worth more than Buffett and, behind every great fortune is a great crime. I'll admit, watching him school oblabla is fun but he's probably just as evil. Sociopaths all.
I was not comparing him with anyone. I neither love nor hate him. As I wrote yesterday, he accuses America under Bush to have thrown to the sea the rulebook of the "Old World Order", and he has a point, there. On the other side, he is throwing the book, too, best seen in the Annexation of Crimea
and this is not an indictment of Putin as sociopath. this has a lot to do on how Russia's people see things, even if you discount a quite heavy propaganda barrage
Respect. a rare commodity, nowadays, in great demand, in Russia. If Putin was not there, someone very similar would. The same applies to Obama. It's about rulebooks, not "leaders"
If you've noticed what Kiev has done to Eastern Ukraine you might understand why he had to formally annexe Crimea to avert another bloodbath.
Can you seriously not see the link here?
Turkey did not annex Northern Cyprus, in a very similar situation of potential bloodbaths. no, I don't see the need of a formal annexation... in Crimea
that need was in Moscow and as a message to Washington. meanwhile, it goes heavily on the nerves of Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Rome, etc. etc.
if the Bear bites off so blatantly that piece of contested territory... where does it stop? The Old Order was dearest to us europeans, not to Washington... or Moscow or Beijing
Well, you can actually thank NATO with Kosovo, which happened before both the conflict in Ukraine and Georgia. At least people in Crimea had a chance to vote, the people in Kosovo did not. Oh well, seems Crimeans are Happy. Maybe this should be a sign for nations to actually start caring about their own people and work on their territories before they end up being separated or "conqured by Russia".
I am more impressed of russia's ability to take land without firing a bullet.
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It is hard to discern which is more clever at times.
One has been caught "red handed" in multiple lies while the other still passes himself off as the respective prince of the nationalistic common man. Or maybe I have that reversed...lol.
What is for sure is, Obama certainly does have more "flexibility" since his last election...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8DbSRQE
...thankfully, this was transmitted to Vlad.
It is possible the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
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I see the sun is rising on another part of the planet ;-)
Why are you asses so stupid?
The support for Putin is because he opposes the US NWO death machine.
As opposed to the Old World Order death machine?
Old World Order in Putin's "No NWO" context means no wars without UN approval, a reformed IMF, and an end to "unipolarity". in short, the world before Dubya
I liken Dubya's growth of the state (here and elsewhere) to going toward a cliff at 50mph and Obama hitting the nitrous and ramping it to 200mph.
Probably for many a distinction without a difference but still, its eye catching.
If Putin dind't support NWO there would be no more Putin. Hell even George Wallace merited a bullet. Do you think Putin would not be pushing up daisies if he was truly anti-NWO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGQvKiJi4Jw
True-up.
It's a schisim in the NWO.
The Neo-NWO vs the Paleo-NWO.
Pooty is Paleo and they lost the upper hand after 9/11.
Member Bush... "I looked into his eyes..." and all that?
Bush was a Neo and was trying to woo Pooty over to the Neos.
All that is a fictional account of a total fiction.
Anusocracy - There are two sides to a story or any argument. Yes he argues against overeach of NWO but also argues for a bigger seat at the table. I agree with Ghordius some respect is lacking for the Russians but leadership has a long memory of having to deal with the competitive and ruthless nature of the Soviet Union. I don't agree with 'containment' foreign policy based on Russia's current position. Here is why:
America handed the baton of reserve currency status to China. I don't see Russia in the next 50 years at least being in any kind of position to mess with the Chinese. The Russians already are contained. I think the "hate the Russians" memo is to deflect blame for public consumption of horrid American economy and politics. Reserve currency may be a blessing for a time but it becomes a curse at the end. The bust phase of it of course sucks.
The ManCrush is more transferable than Ebola.
It seems to be more transferable to the variants of bloggers that frequent this blog....
I am not influenced by bare chests of men, riding bareback, so I think that I will not catch the disease....
Nice to see you standing tall with the environmentalists.
Add that to your support of a US created NWO on your resume.
My resume speaks for itself Anusocracy.
Just because I can see self-centered Greens having their visa's stripped from them for the political purposes of oligarchs in Russia is an affront to freedom of speech (outside of the courtroom), doesn't make me a man-made global warming lunatic.
The other thing about resumes is, they're presented by the person (that would be me), its up to whoever is buying into it to fact check them. You don't get to compile my resume, you get to refute it by saying I padded it or claimed something thats not true.
So, knock yourself out ;-)
Thank god.
Enjoy the charade. Monday will be here soon enough, have a gay weekend in gay Paris!
So, why not dress up as evil politicians? (But I repeat myself!) :>D
Sort of a cheap shot on France there.
Tyler, this article is only a good excuse to make fun out of the French, and we will surely have a firework of hateful comments and “good jokes” coming from “superior people” - as usual in ZH, when it is about the French.
About the “great revolt of 250 people in Paris, Rennes or Nantes” I would say: Don't through stones at others if you live in a glass house.
For instance, just remember FERGUSON, and go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States
Last riots in 2014
· 2014 - Deltopia Party Turns Violent, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 5, Over 80 Arrested and over 8 police officers Injured.
· 2014 - Ferguson, Missouri, August 10. Protests turned into violent riots and unrest after the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a Ferguson police officer. Multiple arrests because of curfew violations and looting.
· 2014 - Keene, New Hampshire, October 18. Riots occurred at Keene's 24th annual Pumpkin Fest, where beer and liquor bottles were thrown at event-goers and police, property including vehicles were damaged, and fires were set. At least several people were injured during the riots. Dozens of arrests were made, many of whom were Keene State College students.
· 2014 - San Francisco, California, October 29. After the San Francisco Giants won the 2014 World Series, fires were set, bottles were thrown at police, and city buses and police vehicles were vandalized by fans. Multiple people were injured; two were shot, one was stabbed, and a police officer was seriously hurt from fireworks. 40 people were arrested.
The French may or may not have sold out at one or two times in their history but they have been around a long time and they did invent the blow job so when they are pissed off so much that they start burning cars like the Chicago Bulls won a championship I am okay with it...
"The French Are Revolting..."
Well everyone always knew that anyway What else is new?
Beat me to it. Too juicy not to say it.
Beat we too.
Fuck it I can say it :-)
I'm 75% French [cajun french on my dad's side ~ canadian french on my mom's side]
I've learned to laugh about myself 1st [b4 anyone else has a chance to] It's actually kind of FUN! :-)
C'Mon peeps IT'S HALLOWEEN [& a Friday as a bonus] RELAX & ENJOY Here's a classic [my gift 2u]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQLEjeTxWg
Anyone who judges a person based on their place of birth or level of melanin in their outer dermal layers is, very likely, a poor judge of character.
Is it ok to judge posts by their sanctimonious prissiness?
No one is judging anybody.
That's why there are stereotypes, so you don't have to be judgmental again.
Ignoring any variable with explanatory power is illogical.
Not when you apply generalizations to something specific.
Double post
go LIVE FOR YEARS in africa with niggers, then, come back and try to say the same thing without having the feeling of smoothing your say to stay appreciated in front of your friends.....
fucking liar morron you are.
Only partially true because what we are goes a lot deeper than the amount of melanin in our skins. Which explains why some diseases are confined to certain races. Blacks have less developed pre-frontal cortexes which, inter alia, results in excess impulsiveness and, ahem, greater difficulty in making correct moral choices.
They stink on ice.
It's good to be the king
Hump or Death....You have 10 seconds to decide.....
Hard to be first here. At least the French are exceptional at something...
Imagine how much worse it would have been if all those youthfull jihadists were still in France instead of in the ISIS where they can vent into places with lower insurance rates?
Hmmm, good point and worth considering.
You know there was a lot of buzz about this "Project Hornet's Nest" a while back.
Fringe (ish) Conservative and Intel blogs mostly.
It made a lot of sense to me. But I am pretty fucked up.
That made me think it was likely real.
Here is a primer:
http://topconservativenews.com/2014/07/operation-hornets-nest-alleged-sn...
Link From Above:
Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called "the hornet's nest".
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=381153
Yeah, but they'll be back in due course, probably demanding payment of the welfare unclaimed since their departure.
You tell me which is more revolting: Women in Paris France or Paris Texas
http://www.merlinsilk.com/2008/04/24/paris-texas-versus-paris-france/
Yeah well, I bet the ladies in Paris Texas still shave their armpits!
(Its hot there ya know...lol)
@nmewn
Racist comment
Have you ever been to France? There are more hairy and smelly women in the US than in France … and more obese ones ;-)
Everything is bigger in Texas...
Did they blame Putin yet? They will.
That asshole Putin just raised property taxes in Illinois and he hates liberal democrats... he must be a commie.
Amen brother.
Well it always starts in France...
not always, but this is minor pops, nothing serious.
the main feeling there is that gov spend more than he should, we are taxed more than we should, there is more money burnt/over windows than necessary for the country.
this become visible.
masse have 2 problem :
1- their lil comfort, thye do not want to loose it ( ie: social system aid -> overspends for gov )
2- they hate polticians but know that they need em to keep the ponzi in place.
35% of french ppl deserve to be abandoned in poverty to the death, this part of the population is draining almost half the give back social system.
to me usa is the best system : you work, you pay your health. you poor, die.
french should understand that french mediacal care is sinking the whole country, nobody wanna change this.
so we are slowly making the futur problem :
poor class vs mid class.
poor are niggers & co, dangerous, those who break n burn in rennes for exemple, the midclass, say nothing, tighten jaws... keep working... coz no choice.
the elite ? juggleing to prevent none of those 2 part of the population building guillotine. they know it.
if you look at french laws, they try to rebalance to make mid class more in the normal way, harden ez cash acces for poor to make more confident the mid class.
this is interessting.
do not be fooled, those who break, do not need money, they deal drugs, or having ebt system... ( called RSA )
most fun in france, you see a grey that never work, who is smoking, and guess brand of the vehicule...? BMW....
go figure.
@barre, for my clarity, is "grey" blacks or arabs? Better yet, let us know all of the slang. When I was in Sicily, they called the blacks "eggplants".
Where did the "Liberty" go, Goldman Sachs?
They stink on ice!
These are muslim immigrants revolting. Apparently TPTB want to totally destroy western civilization and have opened the gates for the barbarians to do it.
How....French.
Which side retreats first?
Those French don't lob anything. Protestors dropped their flares, police dropped their weapons...and the fight broke out over who surrendered first.
Is there some history in there? or are you just poking fun?
How ironic that so-called libertarians/Libertarians have the gall to criticize the French for their "inadequate" revolts, when 'Meri-sheeple are doing.... FUCK ALL.
How do YOU spell two-faced hypocrites?
Now junk away you phonies, cause that's all the courage you have: in your mouse.
p.s. Sometimes, to strengthen one's own ranks, the trolls, wankers, morons and cowards have to be called out and weeded out.
Pretty sure the French population demanded the French government regulate their right of defense against the state.
So yes, slightly inadequate.
But there is a lesson in that ;-)
the French people? for all their faults, they are already at their Fifth Republic. Their constitution is version 5.18, with version 5.0 launched in 1958, and 18 amendments since then, the last in 2008
if you compare with the US, there you'll find that version 1.0 was launched in 1789, amended immediately to 1.10 and now somewhere at 1.22, with no amendments since a generation, and the last bigger one being the Prohibition's repeal
I'd be careful with words like inadequate, they could rhyme with antiquated. Or badly upkept
In other terms, they had four revolutions in the time the US had... one
the French have - in comparison to many countries - very little to fear from their police. (even when young, brown, muslim and in the suburbs of Paris)
My favorite was the third, when the state butchered the rioting bolshevik hordes in the street, as ought to have been done in the preceding two.
And the United States have had two revolutions, 1775 and 1861.
And 1965 with the Immigration Act which started the process of replacing the population.
We have too little to fear from our police and it shows in how uncivil my freaking country got.
Crap in the USA is pretty localized and nasty (/involved lots of homicides), in France it is everywhere and it ultimately shows on everybody behaviours. It is a shame imo the country is done for, divided more than it knows, in debt more than it knows, betrayed more than it knows, and the list could go on...
Without the fighting frogs you would stil be kissing the Queen's arse sweetheart.........
And don't give me your Johnny come lately WW meme ........................The Ruskies stopped Hitler, your bankers helped fund him.............
Bruno - You probably right the French were the tipping point of the revolution but let's get serious here. The French did it not as an act of love but to weaken there multi century English enemy and it worked brilliantly.
At least for Lafayette it was an act of love ...
I hired someone to revolt for me but the bastard never showed up.
That's it for me.
I'm outta the revolting biz.
You beat me too it.
"...lobbed flairs at police..."
Did they lob fleur de lis too?
Your Majestey! The people are revolting!"
You said it, they stink on ice"
Ahhh, the protests of '86. Let the good times roll!
lobbing "flairs" huh
lol
The Trojan Rabbits didn't work
Apparently they're so dependent on the state for everything they can't afford molotov cocktails.
Good one.
I snorked.
Flares.
It isn't Reddit.
But the WAY they threw it had a lot of flair.
"Is this the start?"
It will start somewhere. France is as good a place as any.
Viva la Resistance.
Goforit.
Maybe, but I've had my hopes dashed so many times already......
They had a pretty popular revolution once I hear
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Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O52jAYa4Pm8
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Jacques Dutronc - Et moi,et moi,et moi 1966 Par Mitchou.mpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRaAghtPFRE
Isn't this just Muslims and other assorted brown people, and whatever the French equivalent is of white trailer trash, getting all uppity because they aren't getting enough government handouts and simultaneously being told that they have to work more than 10 hours in a week?
It's the legitimate role of the state to stamp out this kind of nonsense - except that these are French police, and they're probably gay.
the demographics, as they relate to money systems and
global corporate interests, tend to crush individuals
and their lives upon basic principles and on the spot.
it is a phase change, virtual and psychological/mental
thing that is expected but not justified;
a social control mechanism whereby one becomes
one of some "we" and "us".
aging is what it is and then some,
some much less, in times characterized by the
contraction term. (that would be the here and now
of socio-economic decay). trust
they say it is all on paper but it
is really all in the blood and spirit of the people,
moving on.
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Isn't this just Muslims and other assorted brown people . . .
Oh right, the French can go into Africa and colonize the shit out of the "Muslims" and "Brown People" but we can't have any of them coming into France now, can oui?
These damned guest worker programs have turned out to be a frightful hullabaloo. The cheap labour was nice in the beginning, but the whole mess has proven to be quite a bother in the end.
We all should have bred our own local workers instead.
That's the olde Annanukian spirit!
barb'd wit is my fave, and you've been excelling of late. . .
have a useless upvote on me!
100% correct Calling them French deprives the word of any real meaning, Just like those 'Germans' and Swedes' gone off to fight for ISIL.
Being French my-self and have been fed that much shit about immigration, assimilation, etc. I think you are up to something though you are clearly pushing it: the main issue is identity, and to which extend citizens of different culture and ethnicities really feel like part of the entity no matter how hard the state and others organizations claim that there are no difference between.
To quote a Brit person I know who feels more British when not in UK, I was also feeling more French while I lived in the US.
This should help expand the moat around all Government buildings everywhere. Now just burn the draw-bridge, oui?
The crowd dispersed after the police farted in its general direction.
That fire should kill most of the ebola germs
"We hear guillotines are still cheap on ebay."
Lovely!
"We hear guillotines are still cheap on ebay."
Lovely!
"The French are revolting"?
Well, yeah but, they've always been like that.
With respect to the subject of guillotines and justice, if you execute the right people for the wrong reasons does it count? Have you learned/accomplished anything?
Is this a matrix question? Like with the X axis running from wrong people to right people, and the Y axis running from wrong reasons to right reasons?
A scatter plot of executions might show a pattern, and outliers might be shown to be lacking in accomplishment or learning.
Interesting question.