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Gilets Jaunes - A Lawyer’s Testimony

This is a testimony about what is happening in France. Georgia Pouliquen is a lawyer. She is currently on administrative leave after blowing the whistle on corr...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART TEN - Who Are Those Masked Mystery Men?

In French, they are referred to as “casseurs”, which means people who break stuff. https://youtu.be/NhnA3NLFdJ8 According to Olivier Cahn who teaches at the Uni...

Foulards Rouges - who do they think they’re fooling?

The Foulards Rouges (Red Scarves) are a joke, but the independent police union “Syndicat France Police - Policiers en Colère” (France Police Union - Angry Polic...

After the Yellow Vests, let me introduce the Red Scarves (Foulards Rouges)

The bottom line: A little more fashionable than those yellow vests, I’ll grant you that. The Red Scarves were created in opposition to the Yellow Vests. It star...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART NINE - Police Violence by Numbers (and a bit more)

Well, so much for the police taking off their helmets and joining the Gilets Jaunes. If anything, direct orders (and bribery in the form of some payment of unpa...

More To Life Than Yellow

Before I go back to my Yellow Vest frenzy, I want to close the weekend with a salute to the other colors from my Barrett-Jackson Auction escapade. So take a sea...

One Year Already!

It is my one-year anniversary on Steemit! So a lighthearted post on the Barrett-Jackson auto auction, and this time no focus on yellow, I promise. Just a stroll...

And Now for Something Completely Different…

As you may have noticed, I have been going nuts with the Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests lately, ever since the French have started sporting these most fashionab...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART EIGHT - Opposing Forces

THE GILETS JAUNES Their estimated numbers vary greatly depending on where you get your information. For example, a total of 50,000 Gilets Jaunes was the officia...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART SEVEN - Losing Steam, Oh Yeah?

According to official sources and the MSM the movement is losing steam. Oh yeah? This is Saturday 5th January in Bayonne. (And be sure to watch the hate-filled ...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART SIX - “The Hate-Filled Mob”

In the traditional presidential speech to wish the French people a happy new year, Macron made some references to the social unrest shaking France right now. He...

Wishing You a Yellow New Year - ”The Deplorables”  🎶 🎶

This is the first new year in decades that I have a modicum of optimism, thanks to the Gilets Jaunes movement. This song was written for the Gilets Jaunes (cred...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART FIVE - Small victories

In the first video the police are retreating. https://youtu.be/qRFLBTgwFwU In the second video the “merdia” (media +merde i.e., media + shit = merdia) are force...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART FOUR - “The police with us!”

Yesterday, I featured the police wall of shame. In this blog I want to pay homage to the police officers who removed their helmets, to those who joined the Fren...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART THREE - Police Brutality Wall of Shame

France: The powerful and the weak. This is what a police state looks like. The elderly, the handicapped, high school students, women, come get your beating! PLE...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART TWO - The Faces of the Gilets Jaunes

PLEASE RESTEEM. I am not after upvotes. Just want to make sure the word goes out. (Most if not all of these videos are in French. If you would like to translate...

The Gilets Jaunes aka Yellow Vests - PART ONE - Why you Should Care

PLEASE RESTEEM. I am not after upvotes. Just want to make sure the word goes out. As a French citizen living abroad I have been wearing my virtual gilet jaune, ...

The spirit of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests)

Even the blind are marching (approx. 30 seconds in) https://youtu.be/TzoeGrGXpB4...

GILETS JAUNES! RIC! RIC! RIC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPKZKvQzhik&t=2s...

This is getting bad

Even if this woman were completely barmy, which I very much doubt, this is some pretty scary stuff. https://youtu.be/c5aChhWZh1k...