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SOTT Focus: Act 9 of Regime Change in France: Yellow Vests Protesters Remain Determined - Vincent Lapierre Reports


Le Média Pour Tous
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:33 UTC
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With the French establishment media under-reporting or misreporting the Yellow Vest protests in France - and with Western media of course following suit - accurate, unfiltered on-the-scene coverage is sparse.

Independent reporter Vincent Lapierre has been 'embedded' with Yellow Vest protesters since the movement began back in November, publishing video reports on his channel Le Média Pour Tous of each of the major Saturday protests in Paris.

The following is his video report from 'Acte IX' in Paris, which took place on Saturday 12th of January. Click on the captions icon (cc) for English subtitles.

Meet the Yellow Vests: working men and women, unemployed people, pensioners, parents, patriots, of foreign descent, Antifa, hoods from the banlieues, country-folk, and privileged students...

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Yellow Vests group gears up for European elections, comes under fire from comrades


RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 01:43 UTC
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A group of French Yellow Vests has announced it would put forth a list of candidates for the upcoming European Parliament elections. Yet the move has attracted a wave of criticism from their fellow protesters.

The Citizens' Initiative Rally (RIC) announced its decision to field a group of candidates for the upcoming May elections on Wednesday, unveiling first 10 names. The list is to be expanded, as the group plans to get 69 more candidates on it.

"The citizen movement... has shown the need to transform the anger into a political project capable of giving answers to the French people who have supported it," the group said in a statement.

Comment: How the Yellow Vests were going to organize themselves was always going to be tricky, but, for now, rather than attempt to reinvent the wheel they could tweak the system already in place; one idea put forward was the ability to vote to remove a politician at any point in time if they show they're not fulfilling their campaign promises: And check out SOTT radio's:

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France's Yellow Vests protests: Why it's different this time

Claudio Grass
Mises Institute
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:00 UTC
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When the first demonstrations on the streets of Paris were reported nine weeks ago, nobody could have foreseen the endurance, the tenacity and the viral effect of the Yellow Vests movement. After all, the French are known to protest and to strike, it's part and parcel of their culture. However, by the time this article is being written, protests, marches and demonstrations have broken out in a multitude of European cities.


Comment: The Yellow Vest movement spreading, now going global


Why Was it Different this Time?

To begin with, it is worth taking a closer look at the situation in France, the point of origin of this "contagion." There are a few very important elements that set the Yellow Vests apart from past protests. For one thing, unlike previous demonstrations, this one wasn't led by the unions, nor was it organized by any identifiable political body. The protesters had no unified or homogenous political beliefs, party affiliations or ideological motivations. In fact, through interviews and public statements of individuals taking part in the demonstrations, it would appear that any organized elements, or members of the far-left or the far-right were a slim minority among the protesters. And while those few were the ones largely involved in the violent clashes with the police and the destruction of private and public property, the crushing majority of the Yellow Vests were peaceful, non-violent and largely unaffiliated with any particular political direction.

Comment: See also: 'The gilets jaunes are unstoppable' - French Author

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Record numbers of children identifying as transgender in UK and abroad

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:08 UTC
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Kids as young as ten are switching gender by deed poll as record numbers of UK youngsters identify as transgender.

The Sun reports that the UK's Deed Poll ­Service has seen a sharp rise in the number of parents forking out £35 to change their child's title from Miss to Master, or Master to Miss, in the past five years.

A quite shocking stat is that the service says one child under the age of 16 makes the change every day, often with a new first name. Louise Bowers, a senior deed poll officer, said:
"We used to issue a couple every couple of months - but now it's seven to ten a week.

"The majority are teenagers, 14 or 15, but they go down to aged ten."

Comment: See also:

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Antiwar hero Medea Benjamin disrupts Venezuela coup circle jerk

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:33 UTC
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Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they drop bombs, they drop talking points. Before they implement crushing starvation sanctions, they demonize and condemn. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing starts, manipulation paves the way.

For this reason, the front line of any antiwar movement is a fight against the establishment narratives about disobedient nations that are aggressively promulgated by the political/media class. And right now one of the very most adept Americans at doing that is an activist named Medea Benjamin.


Benjamin once again displayed her knack for getting her message seen in high-profile spaces in a way that grabs attention and punches through cleanly and concisely as she crashed the warmongering bloviations of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting of the Organization for American States (OAS) in Washington, DC.

Following a speech in which Pompeo regurgitated already established Trump talking points referring to Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro as the "former president", accusing him of being "economically incompetent", "profoundly corrupt" and "undemocratic to the core," Benjamin cut off his applause by standing at the end of the council room with a sign reading "OAS: DON'T SUPPORT A COUP IN VENEZUELA" and decrying the Trump administration's attempts to topple the Venezuelan government.

Comment: See also:

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Latin America's first school for transgender kids looks to expand


Associated Press
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:08 UTC
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© AP Photo/Esteban FelixVioleta, a transgender girl, jumps during recess
Growing up as a transgender child in Chile, Angela was so desperate to escape the physical and verbal abuse from other students at her elementary school that she thought about taking her own life.

"I just wanted to die," said the now 16-year-old. "I didn't want to exist, because what they did to me made me feel awful."

After suffering years of discrimination, Angela and some 20 other transgender minors aged 6 to 17 have found hope at Latin America's first school for trans children . The institution, founded by the Chile-based Selenna Foundation that protects their rights, is a milestone in a country that was so socially conservative that it only legalized divorce in 2004.

In recent years, the families of trans children have demanded greater acceptance - a call that recently led to the approval of a law that allows people over the age of 14 to change their name and gender in official records with the consent of their parents or legal guardians.
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'The gilets jaunes are unstoppable' - French Author


Spiked
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Christophe Guilluy on the cultural divide driving the yellow vests.
Christophe Guilluy
The gilets jaunes (yellow vest) movement has rattled the French establishment. For several months, crowds ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands have been taking to the streets every weekend across the whole of France. They have had enormous success, extracting major concessions from the government. They continue to march.

Back in 2014, geographer Christopher Guilluy's study of la France périphérique (peripheral France) caused a media sensation. It drew attention to the economic, cultural and political exclusion of the working classes, most of whom now live outside the major cities. It highlighted the conditions that would later give rise to the yellow-vest phenomenon. Guilluy has developed on these themes in his recent books, No Society and The Twilight of the Elite: Prosperity, the Periphery and the Future of France. spiked caught up with Guilluy to get his view on the causes and consequences of the yellow-vest movement.

Comment: See also:
Niall Bradley to PressTV: 'Yellow Vests Movement a Result of Sclerotic, Totalitarian Politics in Western Europe'



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Italian police investigating case of kidnapped Belgian woman held for months as sex slave by Tunisian migrants


RT
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:53 UTC
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Italian police are investigating a nightmarish case of a Belgian woman, who was kidnapped by a group of Tunisian migrants, Italian and Belgian media report. The captors had allegedly been raping her for two months.

The horror story unfolded back in early 2017 when a Belgian woman, 32, was abducted by six Tunisians in the north-western Italian sea resort of Sanremo, not far from the French border. The victim, residing in the French Riviera, allegedly approached one of her future captors in the street seeking to buy drugs, according to media reports.

The Tunisians forcibly took her to a house, where one of the migrants lived, where she said she had been tied to a bed with ropes and repeatedly raped. One of her captors also always stood guard in the house to prevent her escape.
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Roger Waters funds operation to rescue abducted children from Syria


Sputnik
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:18 UTC
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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters used a private jet to reunite a Trinidadian mother with her two children, who were kidnapped by their now-dead father to live in the so-called Daesh caliphate.

Speaking with Channel 4's Jackie Long, Roger Waters has disclosed some details of the rescue operation of seven-year-old Ayyub and 11-year-old Mahmud, two boys from Trinidad, who were stuck in Syria after their father from Daesh* died.

"While Clive [Stafford Smith] and the others went across the Tigris and went to the camp and got the boys, it took hours and hours, and hours, and hours, much longer than you would imagine, to get them back and through all the police check-points...", he told the TV host.

Comment: Roger Waters is a rare entertainer with a conscience and stands in stark contrast to the majority of celebrities who bore us with their virtue signaling (when they aren't bashing Trump).

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Israeli citizen jailed for nearly a year for bumping into Egyptian woman


Sputnik
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:59 UTC
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© AP Photo / Vinciane JacquetAn empty public beach is seen in Namaa Bay, Sharm el-Sheikh.
Yusuf al-Assam, a 19-year-old Israeli citizen from the town of Tel Sheva in southern Israel, was arrested last April while on a family vacation at an unidentified resort in Sharm el-Sheikh. At the time, al-Assam was a senior in high school.

"He was playing with his little nine-year-old brother on the water slides and hit some girl," Assam's father, Khaled, recently told Ynet News. "When he got off the slide, she slapped him."

"There was commotion, and my son was detained until the police came and took him away," he added.

The young Egyptian woman, whose identity was not revealed, filed a complaint with police in Sharm el-Sheikh stating that Assam groped her chest on the water slide and thus offended her honor.
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