[France] The Strikes Continue... Maybe It's Time To Wheel Out The Guillotine!

[BIAD]

It may be stay-a-home-time in France for Christmas. 350-mile tailbacks into Paris just don't smack
of a Yuletide feeling. What is the diminutive President to do?

French strikes: Flights, trains, Metro and buses cancelled on Tuesday's 'day of protest'.



'French transport strikes enter their 13th day on Tuesday with another round of street protests planned,
including a major demo in Paris. Trains, flights and the Paris Metro are all facing disruption on Tuesday.
Unions are calling for a day of all-out protest with demonstrations in the major cities on Tuesday, December
17th in their continuing battle with the government over pension reform.

Flights have been running normally for several days now, but Tuesday will see more services cancelled,
albeit fewer than in the early days of the strike. When the strike started on December 5th, French airspace
controllers asked all airlines to cancel 20 percent of their flights.

On Tuesday, only Paris Orly airport is hit with cancellations - with 20 percent of its flights cancelled.
However other French airports could see delays in takeoff and landing, and anyone who has a flight booked
is advised to check with their airline.

On the railways there is again severe disruption, with fewer trains running than in recent days as more train
drivers and SNCF staff follow the call to join protests. On the high speed TGV services there are just 25 percent
of services running - down from 33 percent on Monday - and local TER services again see just 30 percent of
services running. The worst hit is the Intercité lines, where just five percent of trains are running (down from
16 percent on Monday).

In Paris public transport services remain badly disrupted.
On the Metro eight lines - Lines 2, 3bis, 5, 6, 7bis, 10, 12 and 13 -  remain closed completely.
Lines 1 and 14 - the automated lines - are running as normal while the remaining six lines - Lines 3, 4, 7, 8, 9
and 11 - are offering a limited service at rush hour only.

On the tram network no lines are running a full service, but five lines - Lines 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 - are running all day,
albeit with fewer services than normal. The remaining tram lines are running a limited service either during rush
hour only - for Lines 1 and 3a - or between the hours of 12 noon and 3pm for Line 3b.
On the RER suburban trains there is still only a limited service at rush hour only and around 30 percent of the usual
bus services will be running.

There will also be protests in Paris which bring with them the possibility of trouble from 'black bloc' rioters who
have in the past attached themselves to union lead protests.

Unions representing rail workers and teachers will be leading the march in Paris, accompanied for the first time
by the moderate union CFDT. The CFDT decided to join the demos after, according to CFDT leader Laurent Berger,
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe "crossed a red line" in his speech last Wednesday when he set a new "pivot"
retirement age at 64.    

In Paris, the march is planned to leave from Place de la République at 1.30pm. The protesters will cross the Bastille
square, then take Rue de Lyon and Avenue Daumesnil before ending up at Nation, in the far east of the city. 
The Paris police have ordered all stores and cafés on this route to close.
Unions are concerned at proposed reforms to the French pension system, which they say will leave people working
longer for less money.

The government insists that its proposals to create a single 'universal' pension system for everyone will be fairer and
more transparent and will benefit women who take time out of the workplace and anyone whose current pension is
very low.

On Monday, the conflict was complicated further by the resignation of Jean-Paul Delevoye, appointed by President
Emmanuel Macron to oversee the pension reform, over a scandal about undeclared private sector payments while
he was earning a government salary.
The government has vowed to press on with the reforms regardless, and says Delevoye will be replaced soon...'

The Local:

Phone Angela... she'll tell you how to round them up.

[Ninurta]

Frenchmen can retire at the tender young age of 64, and they are complaining?

Pussies.


Sounds like they've really mucked services up there over it, with only 25 to 30 percent efficiency!

[Wallfire]

Seems that they may be getting the Guillotine out, question is will they sharpen the blade or leave it blunt

Macron accused of treason by French generals for signing UN Migration Pact

 By LAURA CAT  14 December 2018

Jeff Mott Photography / Shutterstock.com

General Antoine Martinez has written the letter signed by ten other generals, an admiral and colonel, and also includes former French Minister of Defense Charles Millon.
They’ve given strong warning that Macron’s signing the U.N. Global Migration Pact strips France of even more sovereignty providing an additional reason for “an already battered people” to “revolt”.
The highly decorated military co-signees assert that the beleaguered Macron is “guilty of a denial of democracy or treason against the nation” for signing the migration pact without putting it to the people.

“The French state is late in coming to realize the impossibility of integrating too many people, in addition to totally different cultures, who have regrouped in the last forty years in areas that no longer submit to the laws of the Republic,” the letter advises, also saying that mass immigration is erasing France’s “civilizational landmarks”.
The pact, which has been protested in the Yellow Vest demonstrations in five countries, was signed by 164 nations, most against the will of the citizens as stated in dozens of country specific petitions, on Monday in Marrakech.
The immensely opposed and disastrous document declares unlimited migration to be treated as a human right and criticism of mass migration to be treated as hate speech.

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[Wallfire]

Frenchmen can retire at the tender young age of 64, and they are complaining?

Pussies.


Sounds like they've really mucked services up there over it, with only 25 to 30 percent efficiency!

In many European country's they keep trying to push the retirement age up and up in the hope people die before the governments need to start to pay. In Europe the massive amount of imports, people with low IQ but have lots of low IQ children is stressing the system to breaking point, so massive changes in health care and retirement are been put into place so the imports can be paid for.
Im with the French, fight back and make sure your own people are protected

[Ninurta]

Frenchmen can retire at the tender young age of 64, and they are complaining?

Pussies.


Sounds like they've really mucked services up there over it, with only 25 to 30 percent efficiency!

In many European country's they keep trying to push the retirement age up and up in the hope people die before the governments need to start to pay. In Europe the massive amount of imports, people with low IQ but have lots of low IQ children is stressing the system to breaking point, so massive changes in health care and retirement are been put into place so the imports can be paid for.
Im with the French, fight back and make sure your own people are protected

In the US, the retirement age has been pushed up to a minimum of 67. That's because Congress has been steadily raiding the Social Security fund - a blatantly illegal move, but they make the laws, so they can ignore them with impunity - for the past several decades to pay for utterly unrelated stuff. So, now that an American gets to retirement age, the funds he or she has paid into it for his or her entire life are just not there... and they've pushed the retirement age steadily upward in hopes that we will die off and not collect what we paid to begin with.

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[BIAD]

...In the US, the retirement age has been pushed up to a minimum of 67...

With a similar scheme, in the UK, the State pension age equalised at 65 in 2018. Before that, women used to
be able to retire (on State pension) at 60 and men at 65.

The Labour Party actually had a plan n their manifesto to give reparations to the approximately 3,000 females
who were effected by the 'jump' of the change. It's now set to increase to 66 by 6th October 2020, 67 by 2028
and 68 by 2037.

In France, the minimal retirement age has gradually increased from 60 to 62 years by 2018.
The full retirement age is to be increased gradually from 65 to 67 years by 2023. However, the French Government
are currently looking to raise it 64, hence part of the rioting reasons.

[BIAD]

A new decade and the world famous Parisian tourist-spots are all-but gone.
All hail the EU.

Paris riots: Police charge yellow vests as Macron protests erupt in violence.

'Yellow Vest protests have taken another violent turn as riot police in Paris clash with demonstrators
who have been detained for the use of heavy tear gas at Gare de Lyon train station.



Thick fog-like tear gas can be seen in shocking pictures during clashes between police and protesters in
another consecutive week of anti-Macron demonstrations. It remains unknown just how many demonstrators
have been detained, according to witnesses who took to Twitter to share their shock.

One said: “Police seen charging "yellow jacket" protesters amid heavy tear gas in front of Gare de Lyon train
station in Paris, France.” Another said: “ Huge anti-government protests in the streets of Iran...or is it Russia?
“Nope. It’s Paris, #France, today. So of course mainstream media is nowhere to be found. #YellowVests #Gilets
Jaunes #Greve18janvier.”

Another added: “Thousands of #GiletsJaunes again take to the streets in the 62nd consecutive week of the
protests against Macron's Neoliberal policies which have brought so much poverty & human misery to France.
“Vive la France!”

Another Twitter user posted a picture of the mayhem.
In another image, an army of protesters are seen marking toward a camera with fire burning beside them.
A video shows police taking down a protester and restraining them.
It is the 62nd weekend of protests that began in November 2018 over French President Emmanuel Macron’s
crippling austerity reforms.

It comes after President Macron remains under increased pressure after violence continues to break out on the
streets of Paris over his Government’s planned pension reforms, with police forced to fire tear gas at protesters
as the clashes turned ugly.

Protesters joined a rally of several thousand people on Saturday against the pensions overhaul from President
Macron that has disrupted schools, railways and roads since the start of this month.

Police were forced to use tear close to tourists hotspots like the Centre Pompidou museum of modern art, where
some demonstrators tried to erect barricades and set fire to them, while also destroying a bus stop.
Protesters also gathered on the Place de la Bourse and the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, furiously waving
placards with Mr Macron’s face on them.

His government has said that the new age of retirement of 64 would help to fill the pension deficit as people live
longer. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe says the reform must result in a balanced pension budget and that raising
the retirement age is the best way to achieve this.
France spends the equivalent of 14 per cent of GDP on pension payments.

Unions have demanded protests across the country as to keep the pressure on the government and to change their
pension reforms. A 23 percent fuel hike was also responsible for the Yellow Vest movement.
President Macron appeared in a televised plea with protesters, offering them sweeteners such as benefits for the
elderly and a better living wage for the young. The proposal would cost the French government millions....'

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