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    I have so much respect for this movement. Once you stop doing their bidding, TPTB are screwed. It's a very simple concept.
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    It seems that some crystal balls and their readers are not all equal:


    Yellow Vests - Spontaneous Revolt or Color Revolution?

    by Jean L
    (henrymakow.com)
    December 21, 2018


    (The Hermit card from the 2017 Economist Cover. Yellow vests say no to EU and TTIP fuel tax.)

    The Yellow Vest revolt may be genuine but
    French citizen Jean L raises some red flags. Did the bankers initiate it as false opposition but did it get out of hand?

    ------------------------------------------

    by Jean L

    Last week my grandson informed me of two curious facts about the current movement of the Yellow Jackets.

    1) giletsjaunes.com was already registered May 15, 2017 in United States (just after election of Macron and the day after its installation) and the last update is 2018-12.

    All the informations about that name domain are secured with dropcatch.com and the transfer of the name domain is blocked and the addresses of the depositor and of the technical administrative contacts are at the same address (2635 Walnut Street - Denver/Colorado) which corresponds to Registar HugeDomaines.com.

    Questions: Why Denver and not Paris for a French Movement? And why such precautions to hide it?
    Domain Name: GILETSJAUNES.COM
    Registry Domain ID: 2124542527_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namebright.com
    Registrar URL: http://www.DropCatch1428.com
    Updated Date: 2018-11-24T09:07:29Z
    Creation Date: 2017-05-15
    T18:13:42Z
    Registry Expiry Date: 2020-05-15T18:13:42Z
    Registrar: DropCatch.com 1428 LLC
    Registrar IANA ID: 3637
    Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
    Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
    Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
    Name Server: BRIANNA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
    Name Server: PETE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
    DNSSEC: unsigned
    URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
    >>> Last update of whois database: 2018-12-14T17:50:55Z <<<


    2) Pay attention on the cover predictions of 'The Economist' (2017). ​On the 'The Hermit' card above, we can see clearly a political demonstration with a crowd of small yellow dressed men/women.

    Their demands (STOP and NO flags) are clearly against Europe (EU flag) and the TTIP (Transatlantic Treaty) and the TIPP (Taxes of the Oil Products).


    On the detailed card "Death' we can also identify the threats: Death, The rebellious Gallic follow one another like the sheep.

    3) The movement started immediately following Jacline Mouraud's Facebook denunciation of the increase in the diesel tax.

    Question: How did her You Tube account which had about 200 contacts... rocket up to 5 millions views in only 24 hours (which is technically impossible)?

    Several facts show that she is a 'useful idiot' who actually works for Macron.
    Just after his election, MACRON came in Rennes/Bretagne for a visit to thank his electors and she was chosen to organize the reunion with the journalists. Do you think really that Macron's staff would assign such a task to a perfect unknown without a background in politics?

    She also appealed to Yellow Vesters to accept Macron's compromises.



    Then when the movement started, she was immediately a privileged guest of the mainstream medias like BFM-TV (24/24 Fake News) RMC or RTL when the particularity of the movement is that there is no leader.

    And, after the TV allocution of MACRON, she was again invited by RTL and she said: It's time to open discussions with the government.

    L'allocution de Macron sur les gilets jaunes a mis le feu aux pages ...

    She has been rejected by the movement which has perfectly understood what was her part in the starting of the insurrection (to initiate the revolt against the oil tax... as represented in the Hermit Card) PROBLEM.

    The only question: Was she in the secret since the beginning or not? I think she has been manipulated... Like the jihadist in the attempt of STRASBOURG.

    -------------------------------------------------------------



    4. Jacques ATTALI, the french oracle and puppet of the bankster elite prophesied a civil war before 2022.

    SOROS and his 'Open Society' is clearly behind the curtains with the 'Foulards Rouges' and the incidents around the Arc de Triomphe.

    This interview with a CRS whistleblower is very instructive and confirms his implicit implication concerning the violent comportment of the police.

    On November 26, a movement "Foulards Rouges' is created by a Jason HERBERT, a journalist and syndicalist [CFDT/left wing and CGT/communist] in the department of Vaucluse (south France) against the Yellow Jackets and immediately its Facebook page is widely commented by all the mainstream medias...

    THE "FOULARDS ROUGES" WERE THE NEW 'GEORGE SOROS PRODUCTION' (THE RED REVOLUTION): THE FINANCED CONTROLLED OPPOSITION. They are a perfect example of the controlled opposition financed by Soros' Open Society.

    But rapidly that movement has disappeared after the violent incidents on the Arc de Triomphe and the success of the Yellow Jackets.

    Do you you think the 'red colour' was a coincidence?

    In PARIS, for the first time in 38 editions - at the stupefaction of all the Parisians included me -the illumination of the Champs-Elysées were "in red" for the Christmas Illuminations... and who was the 'godfather' and 'sponsor' of the manifestation?



    It was Karl LAGERFELD whose links with George Soros are well known as well as the links of his family with the Nazis during WWII. Recently he criticized Merkel for importing Muslims, who were the "worst enemies of Jews."

    5) The STRASBOURG terror attack is clearly a false flag like the last ones (Bataclan, Nice, etc...) to undermine the movement thanks to the classic 'Problem-Reaction-Solution.' The scenario is always the same: you take a useful idiot of jihadist who is under control, you manipulate him and then you kill him to prevent any unpleasant revelations.

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    Related:
    - Poll- 70% of French Support Yellow Vests, Want Referendums on List of Demands

    - Atali Foretold Mass Migration in 2006


    Note- Putin's Comments on YV:

    At his big annual press conference, Putin said that rising fuel prices had served to trigger the demonstrations Yellow Jackets and the general discontent vis-à-vis the situation was thus emerged. However, he stressed
    "I think the events in France are of course related to the increase in fuel prices, diesel, but they have served as a trigger which was followed by a general dissatisfaction of a substantial part of society, mainly the native French, "said Vladimir Putin.

    "It is necessary to ensure the right people meet. However, such events must adhere to the law. The events in France are linked to rising fuel prices, more than 70% of people support the demonstrations," noted the head of the Russian state.
    He continued:
    "It is absolutely inappropriate to evaluate the actions of the French authorities, in my opinion."
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    The reason I am posting the article below is because firstly it is good news in part and progress of sort.

    Secondly reading between the lines it indicates to me that the Macron government is sacred of the yellow vest movement, and that Macron government is well aware that the power of France lies with the people of France and not the government.

    I hope the military, police and yellow vests unite and force Macron's resignation with elections to follow shortly thereafter.


    French National Assembly approves ‘yellow vest’ tax cuts

    Quote:
    "Paris (AFP) – The French National Assembly on Friday approved a package of emergency concessions first announced by President Emmanuel Macron in a bid to end the violent “yellow vest” protests.......

    The measures provide a “quick, strong and concrete response” to the crisis, said the labour minister Muriel Penicaud in a debate which lasted into the early hours of Friday morning.

    The measures include the removal of a planned tax increase for a majority of pensioners and tax-free overtime pay for all workers.

    Economists estimate the cuts will cost up to 15 billion euros ($17 billion).

    The concessions will now move to the Senate for approval."

    Link: https://www.breitbart.com/news/frenc...vest-tax-cuts/
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    Herve, The link to GiletsJaunes.com does work, but brings up an empty 'White page', never seen this happen before, either a 404 or ' can't connect ' ?

    But Saturday 12:30 tried Henry's site, same thing.. Leads me to wonder if, after
    ' lighting the fuse ', they're now burying the evidence ?

    Certainly is Damning evidence of starting an ' European Winter ' ? ?

    btw, I expect all here will be aware of the bbc's ' https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction ', which is a 'not-so-covert ', Propaganga arm or the bbc.. ?

    Dropping these in here, Herve, not to 'clog-up' ca chauffe, but to provide links to help understanding that bbc coverage f the Protests, like F3 france 3 & France 24, is totally misleading...
    But if you prefer to move this elsewhere, that's OK too...

    1. https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/bbc...use-kazakhstan

    2. http://www.medialens.org/index.php/a...he-cracks.html

    3. http://www.enterthefray.org/topic/48...re-propaganda/

    Perhaps, following Henry Makow's aarticle, and your posting it here, someone here { Visitor, or Avalonian, might find a further expose leading back to Open Society ?

    The Gilets Jaunes movement is however, Grass-Roots, and if they align with https://conseilnationaldetransition.org/ , then real progress would be made...
    { As we trust will happen across the Pond, with ' Q ', and the White Hats... }

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    As a counter to Macron's public address in an attempt to appease the yellow vests, below is a video of Marine Le Pen and her thoughts on the issues fueling the protests, Macron's measures and her solutions.

    Marine Le Pen talks about Yellow Vests protests + Emmanuel Macron, Gilets Jaunes, English subtitles



    Cassius
    Published on Dec 19, 2018

    Some background to this.
    Last Monday (10th December) President Macron gave a televised address in which he announced some reforms intended to placate the yellow vest protests.
    This was a big event in France - 23 million people watched it (more than watched the world cup final).
    This video is Marine Le Pen's response to Macron's speech (this wasn't televised, it was posted on her Facebook page the following day (https://www.facebook.com/MarineLePen...1214356788052/).
    CSG = a social charge payable by everybody
    SMIC = minimum wage
    GAFA = four internet giants = Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon
    CICE = tax credit to help companies hire people and be competitive
    "Reculer pour mieux sauter" is a saying in French = taking a step back in order to help you jump forward = taking a step back in order to take two steps forward.
    "Unfair competition" is a phrase Le Pen uses a lot, it means for example French farmers having to compete with foreign agriculture, where wages are lower and there are less environmental standards etc.
    "UMP-PS system" UMP and PS are the two mainstream parties that have dominated France for decades. UMP are centre right (now called Les Républicains), PS are centre-left.
    La République En Marche = Macron's party
    Le Pen is saying here that Macron is not an outsider, his government is made up of establishment figures from the UMP/LR and PS.
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    French cop caught with bag of military-grade explosives amid Christmas hustle at Paris train station
    Published time: 28 Dec, 2018 23:41 Edited time: 28 Dec, 2018 23:47


    brief :-

    The officer aroused suspicion when he became “angry and defensive” after he was confronted by customs officers on his way through Paris’ central Gare de Lyon train station the day before Christmas Eve. When his volatile cargo was discovered, he tried to escape into the holiday crowds and had to be captured and restrained by multiple agents.

    My comment :- Herve, is it normal for les Douane Customs police to be in a Railway Station ? I thought they mainly target Road Checkpoints, Border entry points ?

    In THIS case, I would think they were acting upon information given to them - - " By European ' White Hats' " ???

    If so, great, ' it's going-down' W.W. !

    I think he was under surveillance, otherwise, he could have 'Bluffed 'his way out, claiming ' under-cover work ' ? just by showing his Police I.D. ?
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    "Fake News Journalists Come Down": Chanting Yellow Vests Protesters Gather Outside French TV Station

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...nch-tv-station

    Hundreds of Yellow Vest protesters gathered outside France's BFM TV station for week seven of nationwide protests.

    The protesters chanted various versions of "Fake news journalists come down," and "Macron out!" at the TV station which one protester told RT France spreads false information about the movement, while purposefully understating the size of its demonstrations.

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    Benalla confirms post-sacking contact with Macron, says powerful people make president do ‘BULL***T’

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    Published time: 31 Dec, 2018 13:23
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    FILE PHOTO. Alexandre Benalla stands next to French President Emmanuel Macron. © Reuters / Stephane Mahe

    Alexandre Benalla, ex-aide of Emmanuel Macron, says he kept in touch with his former boss for months after his dismissal, challenging claims made by the presidency that all contact with him had been severed.

    Macron talked to Benalla on the Telegram messenger app, discussing various topics related to statecraft, the ousted aide told Mediapart in an interview on Sunday.
    “We talk about different topics, it's often like ‘how do you see things?’ It can be about Yellow Vests, about this-and-that, and about security issues,” he stated, adding that all the

    “exchanges are on my mobile phone”
    and it will be very hard for the Elysee to further deny it.
    Moreover, the conversations were actually initiated by Macron himself and other members of the administration, Benalla claimed, adding that the communication continued up to the recent scandal over his use of diplomatic passports.
    "I could have slammed the door and moved on, but they’ve kept asking, so I kept answering."
    While Benalla was arguably the main source of scandals and embarrassment for the Macron administration over the past year, the aide insisted that he was actually a good guy, caring for the president.
    “I am an outsider who wishes well to the guy [Macron] who trusted him,” Benalla stated.

    “It disturbs a certain number of people, who are powerful and who act as if the president was under curatorship. They make him do phenomenal bulls***.”

    Benalla first came under the media spotlight when he was caught on tape while getting up-close and personal with protesters during demonstrations in Paris on May 1. The senior official was sporting a riot police helmet, armband and appeared to be “helping” law enforcement in beating up the demonstrators. Benalla was eventually fired in July, as the government faced accusations of trying to sweep the whole affair under the rug.

    The ex-aide’s name returned to headlines this month, when it emerged that he toured Africa ahead of Macron’s visit. Benalla arrived in Chad weeks before his former boss on a private jet and met with the President Idriss Déby and his brother Oumar Déby – who leads the Directorate-General of Strategic Reserves handling arms deals.

    While the French presidency insisted that the ex-aide did not have any official role, it turned out that he was holding a diplomatic passport during the visit. Benalla claimed that he got his passport back in October, when an official from Elysee allegedly gave it to him in a street near the palace with only the instruction to not do “stupid things” with it.
    “If they do not want me to use these passports, just deactivate them and send them to an archive,” Benalla said, adding that he actually visited a “dozen” countries with the papers, aside from Chad.

    Related:
    He’s not an official: Macron’s office left red-faced explaining ex-aide Benalla’s luxury trip

    Macron’s ex-bodyguard tours Africa with diplomatic passport issued after beating protester
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    Getting closer to target:

    Henry Makow‏ @HenryMakow

    Henry Makow Retweeted Paul Joseph Watson
    Banks are visible representatives of Rothschild tyranny.


    Henry Makow added,



    [click on picture above to go to video]
    0:37

    Paul Joseph WatsonVerified account @PrisonPlanet
    Yellow vests in France are now ramming banks with mini forklift trucks.

    10:56 AM - 5 Jan 2019
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    The "High-visibility Yellow Vests" have become "invisible":

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    Ben🇺🇸‏ @1776_ben

    The revolution will not be televised. The MSM is scared of showing this. It shows the consequences of implementing the government system many liberals are wanting to push in America rn. This is why there is 0 coverage. We wont surrender to the false song of globalism. Watch.

    5:39 PM - 6 Jan 2019
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    The Yellow Vests morphed into a full-blown revolt against globalism. It is the next stage of the dreaded populist uprising of Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables.’


    "I've Got My Yellow Vest, Do You?"

    by Tyler Durden
    Mon, 01/07/2019 - 05:00

    Authored by Tom Luongo,
    I have to hand out sincere kudos to Tucker Carlson. His opening salvo for 2019 was one for the ages. It was a broad-ranging, fifteen-minute rhetorical tour de force.

    Tying together Mitt Romney’s vulture capitalism, unchecked immigration, political corruption and the destruction of the middle class family, Carlson laid out a story that if everyone took off their ideological blinders for a few minutes (myself included) would see, as simply, a horror show.

    Carlson’s thesis is that the American family is disintegrating. He’s right. But it’s not just America. It’s everywhere globalism has been the watchword of public policy, i.e. Europe as well.

    The Yellow Vests in France began protesting over a rise in diesel fuel tax to support climate change initiatives and has morphed into a full-blown revolt against globalism, neoliberalism and French government institutions....

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    The “yellow vests” won’t let Emmanuel Macron take back contol
    7 January 2019

    https://www.newstatesman.com/world/e...e-back-control

    The French president’s refusal to offer further concessions is creating the conditions for more violent episodes.

    On 4 January, putting into practice President Emmanuel Macron’s new year’s resolution to be firm with the gilets jaunes (“yellow vests”) movement, the French government’s spokesperson, Benjamin Griveaux, declared that the administration would “go on with the reforms and be more radical”. He condemned the actions of the anti-tax protesters, who he described as “agitators stirring up insurrection”. The yellow vests might have ruined the fun in late 2018, but 2019 was absolutely going to be the year the Elysée took back control.

    On 5 January, Griveaux had to flee his office building as protesters smashed the entrance open with heavy plant machinery and entered the courtyard. The yellow vests’ “Act VIII”, held in Paris and across France last Saturday, saw a resurgence both in numbers of marchers – there were 50,000, compared to 30,000 in the weeks before Christmas – and in violent clashes between the police and the yellow vests.

    Projectiles were thrown, tear gas was used, cars and barricades were set ablaze. A protester beat up police officers on a Paris bridge. A police commandant beat up protesters on a Toulon street. In bad news for Macron (who, helpfully, wished the French a happy new year and referred to the yellow vests as a “hateful mob” in the same breath), the crisis is not over yet.

    In December, when the president made budget concessions to address the social and economic suffering felt by the working and lower middle classes and promised a dialogue with the movement, it may have appeared that he had the situation under control. But after more than a month of mobilisation, none of the yellow vests’ demands were met – there was no true re-evaluation of the minimum wage; the wealth tax was not reinstated; and Macron powered through with a smile. Meanwhile, when police forces organised their own strike to protest against their working conditions, an effort called the “blue vests”, their salaries were increased within a day.

    Participation in the big weekly marches has gone down, yet in rural towns and small cities across France, many yellow vests spent Christmas on roundabouts, where it all started. During the holiday, in the minus temperatures of France’s Great East, I saw bonfires lit by the roads, often surrounded by a dozen yellow vests. Any movement that can assemble willing participants all day outside, when it's freezing and they could be drinking chocolat chaud at home, is not a movement about to dissolve.

    Having pretended to make reasonable concessions, Macron’s government is now free to brand those protesters who keep marching “agitators” wanting “extreme violence”, and to demand that they stop. But you don’t engage in a “great national debate” with the most important social movement in decades by calling them thugs, unless you’re planning on the talks going sour.

    That’s not to minimise the violence of some rallies. There have undeniably been scenes of brutality – not just at Griveaux’s ministry and on Paris’s streets, but against the media too. Marches on the offices of news agency AFP, left-wing newspaper Libération and BFM TV were organised to protest the coverage of the movement and journalists – although often in jobs as precarious as those the yellow vests condemn – are regularly attacked in protests. Just days before Christmas, the tax centre in my hometown mysteriously burned down. Looking for culprits in the media and engaging in random acts of violence might mean the yellow vests have been radicalised – some certainly have. But it’s also a sign that their justifiable anger at meaningless promises hasn’t been contained or properly addressed.


    The longer the movement goes on, the angrier protesters become and the more they understand that Macron doesn’t want to budge and thinks he can get away with it, the greater the likelihood of violent episodes. The president’s gamble isn’t guaranteed to work: while the yellow vests are still backed by 55 per cent of the population, Macron and his government’s policies are opposed by 75 per cent.

    Social discontent is spreading. Teachers are mobilising (and planning to award the highest mark to all their students, which is unlikely to be unpopular), hospital staff and many public services are on alert mode, with local emergency services striking through Christmas. And the introduction of the pay-as-you-earn income tax system, rolled out in January, has come at a bad time: the automatic deduction of taxes risks leaving some with the feeling that they have less to make ends meet – there will be less disposable income available at the end of each month. Macron is also about to introduce comprehensive reforms of the French unemployment and pensions systems. Both are certain to kick things off again.

    The “great national debate” between the yellow vests and Macron’s government hasn’t even begun and already tensions are showing. Opposition parties, sometimes on the extremes, are preying upon the movement. The yellow vests might struggle to pursue peaceful revendications (claims), but they aren’t going anywhere.

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    Some more insight from two Anons from VOAT:

    Bonjour Goats !

    I read every now and then that many of you feel not enough informed about what’s going on in France so I’ve decided to bring my insight since I’m French and that I live there (near Toulouse in the South west part of the country). You should know that I’m affiliated in a political party called UPR which was the only one during last presidential election to go for Frexit not only saying it but also detailing the why, when, how… (Indeed Marine Le pen wants to stay in E.U)

    I do not wish to convert anyone here to UPR, I only wanted to clarify that point to be honest with you especially because I’m going to use UPR’s analysis which I believe to be interesting and which helps me a lot in doing that post.

    For starters let’s go check the yellow vest themselves. Lately it seems they have come up with 3 specific requests :

    1/ Low taxes on food, clothes and rent

    2/ Popular initiative referendum (approximate translation I guess…) so that we can decide by ourselves of laws and constitution changes and firing of elected people

    3/ reduce the benefits that elected people have, and they have a lot here, + reduce their numbers

    There is also a Facebook group called “la france en colère” (colère means angry) that wrote a letter saying the anger is gonna turn into hate if they keep going that way, speaking of Macron and its gvt of course ! This was all over in MSM…

    Government replied through Benjamin Grivaux saying that remaining of Gilets jaune were people that only want to overthrow the republic and the gvt needed to keep on doing what they’re doing and that it should actually be more radical. They also said they’re setting up a national debate on what is wrong in the country so that any citizen can contribute. Although they added we can contribute but gvt is not going to change what it already did.

    Then the gilets jaunes replied by breaking its door… That one seems weird to me… I have no proof but this could be cops or antifa doings only to make the gilets jaunes look bad.

    Let’s go the Elysée now : rats are leaving !

    Sylvain Fort, communication team, suddenly has new professional opportunities

    Stephane Séjourné same thing

    Ahlem Garbi, Africa and middle east adviser, got fired

    Barbara Frugier, international communication adviser, fired

    According to the newspaper “Le parisien” Clément Beaunes E.U and G20 adviser feels like leaving

    Ismael Emelien has trouble with justice and feels like doing something else with his life

    Last but not least Alexis Kohler, Macrons Right arm, has trouble with justice for a conflict of interest with the company MSC Cruises + everyone in his party says it’s on him. I guess he might be used as a fuse…

    On the MSM side it would seems Macron got himself in trouble with his boss who seems to want him out even Lemonde did something very unexpected :

    Le monde makes Macron looks like Hitler
    https://www.rt.com/news/447779-macro...over-le-monde/

    Obviously Macron & Co are totally disconnected from the people’s reality so it looks like they might be kicked out even though the road is still very long before we get there, in my opinion.

    I only fear people are going to choose the worst instead of Macron, almost nobody seems to understand we, at least, need to get rid of E.U… They all fall for the leftist (melenchon) or the rightist (lepen) which are both fraud who want to stay in E.U.

    This is the reason why I’m enlisted in UPR, plan is clear : Frexit. We’re almost totally black listed from MSM which make us look like fool or complotist as soon as they can, you guys know the drill…

    Whatever I keep fighting, I keep talking and I keep trusting the plan !

    Peace to you all.

    - Anonymous


    My own addition:
    Another French Anon here.

    It would take days to inform the US people on exactly what happens in France and Europe and how entrenched the cabal is there. Don't forget Europe is the old continent and the cabal had many more centuries to slither their tentacles in our European tissue than elsewhere.

    Whole generations have been educated with marxist socialist ideas, maybe not up front in your face but definately sneaky and almost unnoticable.

    This also became clear with the BREXIT, where mainly older and conservative folks voted exit and the young 'we're all one and naive' generations wanted to stay in their little NWO smartphone prisons.

    France is complicated as hell as it has a history of treason (Vichy France), communists, right wingers, republicans, cosmopolitan and rural people. It's not as seemingly simple as Democrat vs Republican. This goes for all the EU countries by the way. So who is who and who wants what is a challenge on itself to discover. Then there's so many people actually believing their right wing or left wing narrative that one half screams all yellow vestes are anarchists and the other half screams no they're xenophobic racists.

    This creates sooo much noise and shouting in especially the media

    But when you're on the street you find thousands of people peacefully marching and all kind of wanting the same thing:

    A true Republic (No more Rothschild, Central banker, EU lobbyist sellouts in government)
    Power to the people (by referendum or restructured government
    Equality (at this moment the richest class is EXCEMPT from taxes in France > reason > Macron says to help them invest in labour and economy) However all stats show there's no difference in investing with or without taxes. So why not Equally tax the rich as well.
    For French this is important as the republic was found on the ideas of EGALITÉ (equality, not the communist type) meaning: Under the Republic, everyt French citizen should have the same rights as well as duties to its countries. Excempting the rich from tax, and overtaxing the poor is a true break with this founding tradition.
    Macron has only 23% approval rate, eat that Trump hating US press !
    France has just signe the UN migration pact and is now chaining its population to the Paris Climate Accord Consequences
    French say it's not only Macron, it's a GENERAL DISTASTE of the past 40 YEARS of total decline of French society and wealth due to CORRUPTION, WARS, MISMANAGEMENT, OUTSOURING, DEINDUSTRIALIZATION and MASS IMMIGRATION

    When you've lived in the country of the best food, architecture, clothing, life quality, and human rights for decades, you're willing to put up a fight when ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

    When France once propelled the world into the nuclear age and its concordes were unmatched now it's but a trashbin for the globalists.
    When Paris once was the city of love and light and now it's the city of terror and immigrant camps, at one point the French just revolt.
    To get a real good view of the DAILY!! protests just use twitter and search #giletsjaunes

    This is a good fb group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/277506326438568/

    This is a fb group for YV worldwide: https://www.facebook.com/groups/694172157643710/

    Police are getting fed up with the government and their orders as well - ENG Subs avail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r60EbwsaysIYouTube

    And last but not elast, there's a massive awakening going on in France, spreading like wildfire

    Imagine 40 people on a turnaround blocking traffic, 38 of them have no political clue or sense, they're just there to fight for some decency Now there's two blokes among them who DO have some knowledge ans start explaining **** over the course of many days. In two weeks half the people on the turnaround are 'woke' and the other half are beginning to ask questions and make links they did not before.

    Multiply this by 3000 locations over France and theres a true spreading of wisdom

    That's why so many Yellow Vests in France are screaming no more Rothschild, no more banksters, etc. It is like the time of the old street prophets. Word is spreading. And oral traditions can't be censored!

    Personnally I still have doubts on what started it and WHY. It might have been an attempt to start civil war in France, contstructed, to push for total EU control.

    They allowed Police to use full force and expected violent revolts.

    The people however stayed mainly calm and pacific, a few incidents aside, and just kept on coming to protest non violently. So what was maybe orchestrated as a ORDER out of CHAOS tool has been hijacked by the people to actually be a massive passive revolt against the powers at be.

    MSM are blowing incidents up as a sign to say you see there's a violent revolution imminent. But honestly.. All we can do here is laugh at some of the incidents that are far from a civil war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD0u-Cgi-ikYouTube

    We the people also notice that Police officers (also with the exception of some incidents) in France do choose restraint over force as you can see in the video above. In the US the boxer guy would have swallowed 10 bullets before its first punch landed.

    Here they merely block and swallow the people's anger.

    Police are caught in between and it's a question for how long they're gonna support the government. Bad apples always exist but I know very few Police and Army Police in France looking forward to engage their own people to protect a clearly diabolic globalist and even maybe illegitime president who thinks spitting on his own people and exploiting them to the last dime is a good thing.

    Karma is a bitch, and he's gonna meet her

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    It is painfully obvious this mass migration out of africa to the western world that is UK, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, USA and Australia etc, is about the replacement of white culture and society and now a African Catholic Leader Cardinal Robert Sara, echoes similar thoughts on Europe as put forth by the Dalai Lama.


    This reason would be one of the motivations for the yellow vest movement.


    African Catholic Leader Cardinal Robert Sara, interview @ 8.40 minutes.


    African Catholic Leader: Immigrants are INVADING Europe and DESTROYING Its Culture!!!



    Dr. Steve Turley
    Published on Jan 7, 2019
    Find out why Paul Joseph Watson tweeted "If this guy becomes the next Pope, I'm going full trad Catholic"!!!


    Dalai Lama, quote:
    "The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said Wednesday that "Europe belongs to the Europeans" and that refugees should return to their native countries to rebuild them."


    Link: https://www.france24.com/en/20180912...ongs-europeans
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    Fall of Empires: London, Washington & Paris on brink of collapse

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    Published time: 9 Jan, 2019 14:07
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    © Global Look Press / Christoph Meyer/Dpa; © Reuters/Kevin Lamarque; © Reuters/Christian Hartmann

    Despite the thrashing around of the NATO disinformation apparat, the imperial heartland has entered 2019 in a state of complete chaos.

    Washington, London, and Paris – the three capitals of the Empire – are today effectively ungoverned, shutdown, tottering on the brink of collapse or under siege by their own people.

    Their self-chosen Nemeses – Moscow and Beijing – meanwhile toast the New Year in a state of considerable optimism and self-confidence. These are the facts, this is the news.

    We should start at the top of the Empire. The United States government has closed down amid stasis and a barrage of inter-governmental howitzers.

    The defense secretary, 'Mad Dog' Mattis, has resigned as have other uniformed subalterns angry at the president's re-found determination to withdraw from costly and losing foreign wars. The actual "mad dog" – John Bolton – openly defies President Trump over Syria, Mueller closes in, and the new Democratic majority in the House gears up to "impeach the mother***er."


    Nobody knows if President Trump will be around for much longer, and the merest glance at the views of his putative successor – Vice President Mike Pence – recalls the famous picture of President Nixon with his vice president, Spiro Agnew, standing behind him. The satirical speech bubble had Nixon pointing over his shoulder and saying "nobody is going to shoot me with this guy next in line."

    In London, British Prime Minister Theresa May is a dead woman walking; Britain's exit from the European Union is still a matter of total uncertainty, yet a mere 80 days away. Violence outside the Parliament has begun to erupt, no faction can command a majority, an election cannot be held because its most likely result would be the election of veteran anti-imperialist Jeremy Corbyn whom the 'deep state' would sooner see under arrest (alongside this writer, according to the coup-apparatus Integrity Initiative).

    A no-deal Brexit will see the south of England grind to a halt given the lack of preparation for it, as trucks headed to and from the continent turn Kent, the 'Garden of England', into a car-park.

    A Brexit in name only – otherwise known as Theresa May's deal – cannot pass in the House of Commons next week given Labour's opposition together with at least 50 of the government's own MPs and the 10 members of the coalition partners, the DUP.
    A third option, a new referendum, runs the risk of the same scenario being played out (but almost entirely unreported here) on the streets of Paris and other French cities. Defying the result of the first referendum, cheating 17.4 million people of that which they voted for, risks social peace in England. Millions of Brexit voters are among those in Britain with nothing left to lose.


    In France, the Elysee has become Macron's Bastille and it is not at all inconceivable that it will be stormed.

    Last weekend his own spokesman had to be smuggled out of a back-door after a truck hijacked by protestors smashed through the door of his government building. The very conditions Macron strove so very hard to bring about in Damascus and that France DID help bring about in Kiev are now rocking the very foundations of the French Republic.

    No amount of turning the 'Nelson's Eye' (when famously England's Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar was told that the French Navy were advancing on him, he put his telescope to the black patch covering his missing eye and said "I see no ships" – will alter the fact that for eight weeks and counting, hundreds of thousands of French people of all political stripes have been – increasingly violently – on the streets of cities throughout the country demanding that their president resign. And that Macron showering Euros down the Champs Elysees in concessions – in absolute defiance of the EU's fiscal rules – has merely encouraged 'les autres' to keep on demonstrating.

    This week, the EU (and NATO) government of Italy joined the side of the 'Gilets-Jaunes', with Italy's Salvini personally denouncing the French president as being "against his own people."

    This Saturday, a mammoth demonstration will take place in London, leveling the same raft of anti-austerity demands on the British government as the Yellow Vests are making of Macron. The center cannot hold.

    The old order is dying; the new one cannot be born. If we are not careful we will soon be alive in the time of monsters.
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    This might illustrate Why Jill & Joe Public, { Everywhere } have had enough, of this so called ' Club ', Bill Hicks & Carlin refer to....

    Organizer of Macron’s ‘grand debate’ with Yellow Vests defends her ‘shocking’ €176,000 salary...

    The spotlight has shifted to the extravagant salary of the official in charge of organizing it.


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    Chantal Jouanno the current chairwoman of the CNDP, an official body for public debates, a role for which she receives an annual salary of €176,000 ($201,000).

    Chantal a former national karate champion, deployed a series of blocks to stave off the discontent.

    ‘President against his people’: Salvini openly backs Yellow Vest protesters, lashing out at Macron

    She... adding that she does not negotiate her salary, which is set by the “CNDP, whoever they are.” Now Blood* ARROGANT of HER, if she thinks ppl believe that...

    French PM says new, tougher laws on unauthorized protests coming in wake of Yellow Vest clashes

    Published time: 7 Jan, 2019 19:56 © Reuters / Gonzalo Fuentes

    French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said that the government will crack down on unauthorized protests and toughen punishment for rioting in the wake of anti-government Yellow Vest demonstrations which began in November.

    The announcement comes as part of new “public order” measures unveiled by the government after the Yellow Vest protests resulted in violence against police officers and government buildings.
    *********************************
    Not only, but also !

    STILL wants to be a ‘ Sheepherd ! ‘


    The Emerging: Yellow Vest ex-rep seeks to create political party of ‘common sense’

    Published time: 9 Jan, 2019 09:50 © AFP / Damien Meyer


    Jacline Mouraud, once the self-appointed spokeswoman of the Yellow Vests, has announced the creation of a new party. ...
    Mouraud greatly contributed to stirring up the Yellow Vests protests and has become a highly recognizable figure after posting a video against fuel tax hikes which has been viewed several million times since October.

    However, she does not seem to crave political leadership, ... “I require no title, I’m trying to create a party, and that’s good. ...

    “The main thing is to create it, to unite people against violence and to ensure respect for our institutions.”


    The party already has quite a name – Les Émergents (the Emerging) –...


    The party is described by Mouraud as a “party of common sense,” which will provide “new and constructive ideas for the country, in harmony with the challenges of climate change.”

    The party’s statutes are being drafted with the “help of competent persons,” namely “lawyers, former parliamentarians,” she stated.


    Mouraud herself, a 51-year-old composer and hypnotherapist from Brittany, has no political experience.
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    However, Mouraud ... the Yellow Vests got infiltrated bad... good luck saving France with the help of lawyers and former parliamentarians, while distancing yourself from the people who actually take to the streets and TAKE ACTION against this rotten KlKE system

    Conversation { on
    *******
    She just happens to be exactly what the Macron government wants & needs to survive... no coincidence

    *************
    · yeah, it's not enough, nobody cares about a few deaths, nothing has really changed yet... they need to push harder and not be afraid to fight the cops
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    · Spot On 88. The extra police is the first sign the 2nd will be outside military...if that happens then the game is on.France isn't alone there are several countries showing Brussel's the finger...yes 88 momentum is definitely the key.

    *******
    You were the only one to put "Common sense" into the conversation and mix it with Yellow and Turmoil.Only ten people you say...you ignorant fark.This started years ago and the YV's are the push back of many a dead French Person in the Turmoil of what is the EU and what it stands for. France keep going and don't stop you may actually save Europe from the overlords in Brussle's...wouldn't that be ironic.
    *************
    So basically someone who is not representing the people, but representing HERSELF as a leader wants to get into politics?! The whole movement is so we can CHANGE the corrupt system that enslaves us all whether you're conscious of this fact or not. We don't need more politicians, we need a NEW SYSTEM and we need to build it TOGETHER - That governance doesn't involve parliament, congress/head of state - whatever your country subscribes to.....
    *******
    Excellent, perhaps someone will have the common sense to do it here in the UK as well. I said a world revolution needs to happen and it can come in many forms lets hope this catches on, God knows we can all do with some common sense controlling our systems. You go girl hope you wipe that grin off Macrons smug elitist populous hating boat race!.

    *************

    Just to add, when the YV were protesting outside a TV or News Establishment,
    One Stupid man, made a rude gesture to the YV,
    { from the safety of being inside the building ! }

    That man, will surely regret his stupidity, along with the 'journalist' smirking alongside of him !
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    Macron and the beast that is globalism is exposing its true nature as it seeks to clamp down on protests and jails leaders of the yellow vest movement. All in all only setting the stage for a more angered aggrieved and over taxed public to push back even harder, as across the pond the British people pick up pass with their own Yellow Vest movement.

    What They're Not Telling You About the Yellow Vests


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    The left despises the working class.
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    ‘Officials' worst nightmare’: Yellow Vests hope to trigger bank run with financial protest

    Published time: 10 Jan, 2019 00:32 Edited time: 10 Jan, 2019 08:40
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    Yellow Vest protesters are hoping to trigger a bank run with a nationwide coordinated cash withdrawal. By threatening the French financial system, protesters say, they want to peacefully force the government to pass their reforms.
    If the banks weaken, the state weakens immediately,” said Yellow Vest “sympathizer” Tahz San on Facebook.

    It’s elected officials' worst nightmare.”

    Protesters plan to empty their bank accounts on Saturday, withdrawing as much money as possible in a bid to undermine the French banks – if not the euro itself. The plan is to “scare the state legally and without violence,” forcing the government to adopt the movement’s Citizens’ Referendum Initiative, which would allow citizens to propose and vote on new laws.
    We are going to get our bread back…you’re making money with our dough, and we’re fed up,” said protester Maxime Nicolle in a video message shared on YouTube.
    A well-coordinated financial action has the potential to bring the French banking system – and by extension the euro – to its knees, as banks always hold only a fraction of the funds the country’s citizens have in their accounts. However, most banks limit ATM withdrawals to a relatively low amount, meaning protesters would have to line up inside the banks to withdraw the rest of their money, giving the state plenty of time to place restrictions on withdrawals – though this would, no doubt, spark further protest.


    The financial demonstration is a novel means of circumventing Prime Minister Edouard Philippe’s proposed crackdown on “unauthorized protests,” announced earlier this week after a particularly violent weekend of clashes with armed riot police – including an unexpected appearance by boxer Christophe Dettinger. Philippe has promised 80,000 security forces will be deployed for the next protest.


    Meanwhile, there is tension within the movement itself, as some former protest leaders call for a political solution.



    © Reuters / Gonzalo Fuentes

    The government has urged the protesters to make their voices heard in a national debate instead of demonstrating in the streets as they have done for the last two months. The debate, scheduled for next week, will cover climate change, “democratic issues,” taxes and public services.


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    Stop treating people like beggars or face hatred – Yellow Vests to Macron

    France's crackdown on protesters: 'Govt has nothing to offer except blood, sweat & tears'


    ==========================================


    This time, hopefully, "we"ll get to the top puppeteers and their boss:


    From over there:


    Quote The intended war [WW II]. The war of all, without borders. The son of the Beast loosens the wild beasts.

    And Europe collapses, like a statue of mud.

    The sea kills under water. And the sky spits fire. Innocent people killed in houses.

    And where boots and nails arrive, the children of Israel know the torment. Sheep pens for their pain and subtle death.

    The torturers know, they will lie at Nuremberg.

    Always look for the perpetrators, even when you believe they are dead. Look for them wherever power survives on terror. Look for them in the houses of the ones who have been enriched with the war.

    Not for revenge, but to prevent them and their children to invade the world once more by hiding the word and the chief.

    [...]

    The new Tsar has betrayed, he thought he had lost. He killed his men before the nails trampled them. And by his cowardice millions fall. But his honored body will be removed from the sanctuary.

    The Angels’ Land cries and her leader will betray. Other letters one day to be known. When the secret of the son of the Beast’s friend is discovered, who took off at night to the Angels’ Land. [Hess]

    [...]

    "Europe is in bloom.

    France has two leaders, but great is the one of the desert [De Gaulle]. He owes a secret gratitude to the general of Spain [Franco].

    We fight, but from the mountains, red and white flowers climb down, Europe, these are your best sons, who one day will be betrayed.

    Because the leaders they believe they shot down will control again, always the same.

    They shot down the money puppets, not the money masters. And they will be seduced by the new Tsar, who defeated despite the betrayal, with his fierce red flame.

    The sons of Luther in Europe. War of weapons, wars of the passions. The youngs from the mountains have new flags, which the powerful will tear out through deceit. Beware the sons of Luther and the sons of the new Tsar. They want a world battered for the last meal. France, rise up the Cross of Lorraine. Europe, brandish your songs louder than the sound of the guns.

    [...]

    These prophecies were allegedly written down in 1935 and ending at "Twenty centuries plus the savior's age" (which many interpret as being 2033)
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    Yellow Vests take aim at the power behind the throne - plans being laid for a bank run

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    In what may be the most audacious and appropriate act done yet by the Gilets Jaunes, the participants of this movement appear to be planning a run on banks in France. It is the bankers who have stood to benefit from supporting Macron's rise in power -and through the boy-king's tried and true brand of society-crushing neo-liberalism and austerity measures.

    #YellowVests #BankRun #ProtestFrance AWAKENS 2019: Weaponized Bank Runs Incoming

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    French protesters want to set off bank run with withdrawals


    Activists from a French protest movement encouraged supporters Wednesday to set off a bank run by emptying their accounts, while the government urged citizens to express their discontent in a national debate instead of weekly demonstrations disrupting the streets of Paris.

    Activists from the yellow vest movement, which started with protests over fuel tax increases, recommended the massive cash withdrawals on social media. One protester, Maxime Nicolle called it the “tax collector’s referendum.”

    “We are going to get our bread back ... You’re making money with our dough, and we’re fed up,” Nicolle said in a video message.

    The movement’s adherents said they hoped the banking action will force the French government to heed their demands, especially giving citizens the right to propose and vote on new laws.

    Meanwhile, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe gave details Wednesday of a “big debate” the government plans to start next week in all the regions of France.

    “We want it to be rich, impartial and fruitful,” Philippe said.

    The debates will focus on four main topics: climate change, democratic issues, taxes and public services, the prime minister said. Anyone can propose a local event and an internet platform will provide another venue for discussion, he said.

    President Emmanuel Macron proposed the debate as a way for the government to hear and to respond to the movement’s central complaints.
    Macron also announced 10 billion euros ($11.5 billion) worth of measures to boost the purchasing power of French households.

    About 200 protesters, including trade union members and participants in the yellow vest movement, gathered Wednesday in Creteil, a Paris suburb as Macron visited a handball facility dedicated to handball gymnasium.

    Police officers used tear gas to keep the crowd at a distance from the French leader.....

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