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On To Britain!

Yes, the "yellow vest" crowd has been blocking traffic in jolly olde London town today. Of course, being a welfare state, it's not really necessary to do things like hold a job, so they've got plenty of time to be annoying.

 

France Again

French police were searching for a gunman who shot two people dead and injured at least 12 others in a terror attack on Strasbourg’s celebrated Christmas market on Tuesday evening. One of the dead was said to be a Thai tourist who was shot in the head outside a restaurant. Staff and diners tried to save him but were unsuccessful.

Six of the injured were reported to be in a critical condition.

Clearly, they need more "migrants" over there.

 

Sacrificing For The Cause

A French protester lost his hand after reportedly attempting to throw an active stun grenade back at police, a French news outlet reported, according to The Daily Mail. A graphic video of a man clutching his bloody arm surfaced Saturday as the “yellow vest” protests continued into a fourth straight weekend.

A French 'Yellow Vest' protester had his hand blown off after reportedly trying to pick up a grenade in Bordeaux while a woman in Paris lost an eye during violent clashes last night. The device detonated when the man tried to pick it up in order to throw it back, the city's deputy public prosecutor Olivier Etienne confirmed, Sud Ouest reports. 

That's one way to phrase it: he lost his hand, she lost an eye. Presumably, then, a hand and an eye will turn up in a lost & found kiosk at some point. Seems doubtful, though. Actions do have consequences.

Some like Leonardo claim "police blow up his hand". Well, if the guy hadn't picked it up, he'd still have it. The correct move is to get the heck away from it.

the police blow up his hand#GiletsJaunes pic.twitter.com/u7Wt8u7T3g

— Leonardo Avila (@Leo58883) December 9, 2018

Stupidity on his part does not imply intent on the part of the cops.

Apparently, nobody's supposed to get hurt while rioting. Who knew?

 

French Unrest Moves Into Belgium And The Netherlands

On the positive side, at least demonstrations in the latter two countries have been relatively peaceful, whereas in Paris police have deployed armored vehicles in addition to the tear gas and water cannons.

In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, a few hundred protesters in the high-visibility vests that have become a symbol of the movement walked peacefully across the downtown Erasmus Bridge singing a song about the Netherlands and handing flowers to passers-by.

Sisters Beb and Ieneke Lambermont, aged 76 and 67 respectively, were among them.

“Our children are hard-working people but they have to pay taxes everywhere. You can’t get housing anymore. It is not going well in Dutch society,” Ieneke said. “The social welfare net we grew up with is gone,” she said.

“The government is not there for the people. It is there to protect its own interests,” she said.

“The Netherlands is not like France — you light 100 cars on fire and you get what you want,” he said in a phone interview this week. “If you torch 100 cars here you are never allowed to demonstrate again and nothing more happens.”

In Belgium, police have employed tear gas and water cannons, but not on the scale seen in France. As well, they have refrained from bringing in the heavy stuff. One common thread seems to connect the protests in all three countries: governmental change involving reductions in taxation, along with better living conditions.

 

ICE Srikes New Jersey

Foreign nationals from 24 countries — including four people with Interpol warrants for their arrests — were among the 105 arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a five-day sweep.

The agency said more than 80 percent had either prior convictions or pending charges for a variety of crimes, including sexual assault on a minor, child abuse, possession of narcotics, distribution of narcotics, extortion, DUI, fraud, domestic violence, theft, possession of a weapon, robbery, promoting prostitution, aggravated assault, resisting arrest, endangering the welfare of a child, credit card fraud, insurance fraud, shoplifting, and illegal re-entry.

Merely "cultural misunderstandings", without a doubt.

 

Free Stuff!

Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to abolish all fares on public transport.

Of course, the country's less than a thousand square miles, so you could pedal a bicycle almost anywhere there anyway. But it's probably the thought that counts.

One issue still to be considered in Luxembourg is the likelihood that homeless people may shrewdly decide to move from the streets to the trains in winter, in order to stay warm while they travel the nation.

Maybe they should have considered the probability a bit earlier in the game.

 

At Least We Won't Need To Bomb Them

The ground is shifting under Iran's capital, Tehran, home to approximately 15 million people and the biggest city by population in western Asia. High-resolution satellite images recently revealed that in some places, the metropolis of the Middle East is sinking about 10 inches (25 centimeters) per year.

Just let them keep doing what they're doing; they'll be too busy trying to shore things up to worry about shooting missiles at the USA.

A side effect of the subsidence is the sudden appearance of giant cracks and sinkholes in some areas. In one case, a farmer was trapped for hours in a 20-foot-deep (6 meters) sinkhole after a crack opened where he was standing, Ali Beitollahi, head of engineering seismology at the Building and Housing Research Center in Tehran, told Nature.

Nature will take care of them.

 

French Fuel Taxes Hoist White Flags

At least, temporarily. The mobs, however, maintain that a moratorium is unacceptable and demand that the increases be scrapped altogether. Macron's "carbon tax" is not being well-received, from the look of it.

You Say You Want A Revolution

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

The centre of Paris was on lockdown tonight after masked protesters stole an assault rifle from police, clashed with riot squads and set fire to cars and Christmas trees on the Champs-Elysees in furious demonstrations against the French government. Protesters said today's actions were 'the start of a revolution' that would eclipse the mass strikes and occupation of universities and factories in1968 when the country was on the cusp of civil war.

Fires and clouds of tear gas covered the French capital from early morning until late in the evening, in some of the worst violence ever seen in the French capital as more than 5,000 demonstrators brought chaos to Paris for the second week running.

French police confirmed there had been at least 224 arrests today during the protests for a series of offences, ranging from violent disorder to theft. There were 110 serious injuries, including more than 20 police officers.

Gay Parie, indeed.

Meanwhile there were further rallies spiralling across the country, spreading to Marseille, Biarritz and Antibes on the Mediterranean coast and even into the Netherlands.

Kind of reminds me of the old Watts riots in California, wherein "protesters" demonstrated their displeasure by burning down pretty much everything they had.

Boy, that whole "European Union" thing was a great idea, wasn't it?

Amusingly, the Russians won't need to do any invading; Europe will tear itself down without any assistance.

 

Here They Come Again

The United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration seeks to make immigration a universal human right. “One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech. “The agreement wants to criminalise migration speech. Criticism of migration will become a criminal offence.

“Media outlets that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down.

Screw borders and national sovereignty, right? These people are nuts. You won't be permitted to even talk about "migration".