BREAKING NEWS:  WEEK 14 OF YELLOW VESTS PROTEST IN FRANCE, THREE MONTH ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEKEND

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(2AM  SATURDAY EASTERN US TIME, 8AM IN FRANCE)

Tomorrow February 17th will mark the three month anniversary of the Yellow Vests protests in France, a response to the economic-tax policies of President Emmanuel Macron.

And a special protest is planned in Paris in connection with the anniversary tomorrow afternoon.

But for today a nationwide protest schedule including multiple locations in Paris.   Bordeaux, Marseille and other locations also involved today.

(3 AM EASTERN US, 9AM IN FRANCE)

Yellow Vests are visible on the Champs-Elysees in Paris right now.

(4AM EASTERN US, 10 AM IN FRANCE)

As we wait for protests to materialize today its worth considering how the Left side of politics is so mixed up and the mainstream parties of the "Left" like "Labor" and "Socialist" suffer in public opinion today because its obvious those parties are just pro-business operations.

Many have been hustled into a so-called "Left" or "Liberal" agenda that's about diversity and inclusion, open borders and the climate change scam.

And what do you end up with out of all this.   Big Business gets Cheap Labor from a diverse background and they get lower taxes on them while little people pay higher taxes like the folks in France do at the gas pump.

These mainstream parties and politicians like Emmanuel Macron in France are tools of Big Banks and Big Business using a supposedly progressive policy on climate change to favor Big Business at the expense of rural people, small business and middle class-lower class people.

Nancy Pelosi and her "Green New Deal" is exactly what the big money donors want and it will shaft the working people.

(410 AM EASTERN US, 1010 AM IN FRANCE)

Several processions moving in the streets of Paris with the first moving down the Champs-Elysees at Noon.

Video from the "Muliplex" showing protesters in several places right now including Tarbes near the border with Spain.  Also visible a protest at a warehouse distribution facility in Amiens.

Here is the link......LIVE-MULTIPLEX-YELLOW VESTS-ACT XIV

(420 PM EASTERN US, 1020 AM IN FRANCE)

The protests in Paris wrap up this evening from 7 to 10 pm with a rally at the Stalingrad Square in Paris.  Also this evening from 5 to 10 pm a rally at the Place of the Republic in Paris.

Will come back after 5am Eastern US...…

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What we've been shown on BFM-TV in the last half hour or so is the large group of protesters at the Arc de Triomphe moving into the area where cars circle around it and causing some disprution of traffic.

Police in that area as well with the procession set to start on the Champs-Elysees at Noon.  The police have some of their armored vehicles with them.

We are also getting word that protests are on along highways with Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines the site of a toll free day.   Protesters letting cars pass without having to pay toll on this road, one of many given over to private companies by the government and turned into toll roads by the private entities.

More video from locations around France coming up on the Multiplex like Metz.

And now the link to the RT video coming from the Arc de Triomphe-Champs-Elysees in Paris.....RT-RUPTLY VIDEO FROM PARIS


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A few minutes to go before the procession starts but for now some protesters sitting down around the riot police guarded Arc de Triomphe.

News reports in the last 24 hours with Mrs. Macron being interviewed.  Brigitte Macron saying:  "We have to talk to each other, to reconcile ourselves.".

We will have more after 7am Eastern time....

(730 AM EASTERN US, 130 PM IN FRANCE)

This is not just a protest in urban areas as we see from the various Facebook videos in the Multiplex on You Tube.

Its also happening at the "roundabouts", traffic circles in towns and villages across France today.

And from Metz the Facebook video at the toll booth of the privately operated highway with the Yellow Vests letting motorists through without paying toll.

How do end up with private companies operating highways and charging tolls?

Because nations have to be attractive to business, the multinational corporations.

They must keep their corporate taxes low, so governments and politicians say "the sky is falling" as in global warming, climate change etc.

They justify taxes on little people like these gasoline taxes in France and in Canada they are jacking up utility bills to "save the planet" and creating a Yellow Vests movement there.

And you cut the costs of government by privatizing it as in selling off highways for operation by private companies.

But with that idea and I've heard it broached even here in the USA, the private companies run toll roads socking it to the little people again so corporations don't have to pay higher taxes to fund government, the welfare state etc.

(740 AM EASTERN US, 140 PM IN FRANCE)

Word from Strasbourg that 150 protesters are staging an unannounced protest in the city center disrupting business and causing police to warn them by megaphone the protest was not announced in advance.

Protesters are shouting back with "Benalla in prison" as in the former bodyguard of President Macron caught up in scandal and controversy.

(840 AM EASTERN US, 240 PM IN FRANCE)

The afternoon is the main period for protest today with a march underway in Toulouse right now.

Also a gathering in the town of Bourg-en-Bresse, northeast of Lyon and not too far from the Swiss border.   Authorities setting up 13 checkpoints there to search protesters and police plan to keep them out of the town center.

And that's it for this post with another one later today or this evening.......


Link below......

BFM-TV LIVE VIDEO