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France responds to economic downturn with a general strike
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CBC News
January 29, 2009
People everywhere talk about the economic crisis, but the French, in their way, are doing something about it. France has come to a near standstill for a one-day general strike, the CBC’s David Common reports from Paris.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets, protesting that banks, not people, are being bailed out and decrying President Nicolas Sarkozy’s cost-cutting moves as unemployment creeps toward 10 per cent.
“Today is being called Black Thursday here in France, and with good reason,” Common reports. “Here’s just a partial list of the things that are closed or in limited service: the metro, buses, trains, airports, hospitals, schools, government offices, post offices — the list goes on and on.”
Thierry Dedieu, a leader of one of country’s major labour groups, the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, put the protesters’ view this way: “We want to show that people are dissatisfied at the moment. We don’t want to have to pay for a crisis that we’re not responsible for.”
Although general strikes are no novelty in France, this one seems to have unnerved Sarkozy, who has been uncharacteristically quiet.
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January 29th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
They must have brought the heat up on those froggs alittle too quickly. Now the froggs are jumping out of the pot. I hope the Americans can wake up as quickly!!
MBG80 Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Frogs?? Dude, you can’t even spell you degenerate! America will never wake up because you’re too busy eating cheeseburgers and watching tv. The French have the right idea!!
GOOD JOB
Unemploied Carpenter Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Thank you for pointing out my missspelling. I hop that my point was not missss taken. Go France.
Unemploied Carpenter Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Would you stick around and help us all with your wisdom. Where are you from MBG80? I guess it is your job to point out misspellings and to belittle people who do. It must be nice to be perfect. PS I have shut down my TV over 6yrs ago and refuse to eat fast food. I cook at home and read my news. This American will defend himself and his country. My point on first post was GO FRANCE and I hope to see Americans will react the same and soon. You must be an eng-ish teacher.
egeey Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
cmon dont lie… we all love dollar cheeseburgers and the history channel….
John D. Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
i love you man
freedom Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
good job france
January 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
WOW LOOK AT EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA ON HOW THEY TAKE TO THE STREETS AND PROTEST. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE USA. HAVE THE AMERICANS BECOME TOO FAT AND LAZY TO PROTEST AND NO WONDER THE US GOVERNMENT IS TAKING OUR MONEY AND SHITTING ON US AT THE SAME TIME.
Ex-Believer, Critical Thinker Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
The Gov is not talking our money yet. The spineless sheeple gives it to them and then swear they paid their legal (Oxymoron), amount, yearly.
It would be different if the gov did steal by force.
gotballs Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
no you haven’t you stupid fuck. this is american stupidity in action right here, this is all of our fucking battle, we are all humans on the same fucking planet you half wit redneck fuck.
i’ve taken action, what the fuck have you done? you’ve come to infowars to preach bullshit, fucking dumbass, IT’S HAPPENING ALL AROUND YOU BUT YOU’RE TOO FUCKING STUPID TO SEE IT WITHOUT YOUR TV, REVOLUTION HAPPENS WHEN IT’S NEEDED
IT’S NEEDED, SO FUCKING START BEFORE WE ALL GET FUCKED OVER
January 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
The American sheeple have willingly been castrated by the Illuminati/NWO/globalists!
At least the rest of the world has some balls left!
Wake-up now & resist!!!
roger Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
GEORGE BUSH SHOULD BE CHEMICALLY CASTRATED DURING THE SUPER BOWL HALF TIME SHOW TO THE MUSIC OF METALLICA.
egeey Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
agreed
January 29th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Wow, first I heard of this all morning I think,.. not being mentioned on cnn? If you do it in the states you should start by crowds blocking the bridges etc. as to stop all economic activity flowing putting up the heat on the politicians…
January 29th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Bravo the French people, liberty, equality, fraternity. These words need to Echo here once again. The French people may have to show the world how it is done. BRAVO.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
OK- when France can get off its collective ass and raise hell about the present state of world finincial bullshit and we here still sit and spin on our thumbs something is terribly wrong.
trut Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
actually the soviets would have taken them in the long run, France and Britain should have never declared war against Germany, no need to.
Frank Stabone Reply:
January 30th, 2009 at 12:57 am
No, The Soviets beat the Germans in Stalingrad- a long bloody battle.
The Red army where marching to Berlin, with or without the U.S.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
from what i’ve been hearing some people are just too numb with fear and don’t know what to do, that and their broke. looked outside and no chemtrails today but i do see a highway patrol who has someone pulled over in a suv. unfortunately, alex is right about men and badges upholding mans laws above all else. oh wait… the guy was able to drive away. next.
January 29th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
if only the amerikans could be as unified, but they are too busy blaming each other and whatever scapegoat or distraction washington presents to them
NYgurf Reply:
January 29th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
or too busy thinking obama will do it for them, oh america land of procrastination
January 29th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Just seen on the news it is all kicking of in England and Scotland now as well. Oil company workers have walked out and portested in Scotland and England, after the oil companies brought in cheap labor to do the work, and housed these folks in big grey barges in the docks.
And this was in an area where there appears to be a lot of people out work.
John Henke Reply:
February 1st, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Just yesterday a general strike was averted by all of the AMERIAN oil refinery workers. Get ready to be back to $4.00 gas soon.
January 29th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
That because the French have strong unions that organise these strikes. U should start joining em too
January 29th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
France responds with strike.
Yea so what.
January 29th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
theres nothing on the news about all this in AUS but thats not surprising is it[yahoo is a virus]
January 29th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Do that in america and you will be charged with terrorism!
January 29th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Hope is in all of us happy,
but not funny.
Hope is in wishing harmony,
with fury.
Hope, in Greece and France, shall be,
should we not still be funny nor happy.
Should we be witness to agony,
Hopin all this story is freaky.
Pardon my french, but Why The …
are you all sitting on the bench?
Obama will not save Africa,
nor france will jump the fence!
New world is not an order,
New born brang disorder.
Hope will bring unity,
with fury in humanity.
Hopefuly, with dignity
January 30th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Is the stimulus plan going to build LA a new football stadium?
John Henke Reply:
February 1st, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Maybe. But most importantly, it will finance more government coupons for digital converters for our mind control machines!
January 30th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Hey Anti-semites! They have not closed this site down and moved you filth to the camps yet? Jones better shut his lard hole about Israel quick. The Jewish Internet Defence Force is keeping a close eye on you pigs.
OzzyKen Reply:
January 30th, 2009 at 7:22 am
If I had the money: I’d produce a remake of “Escape from Sobibor”. Only I’d call my remake, “Escape from Gaza”, It would be about an heroic escape, by Palestinians, from a Jewish orchestrated gulag, near Egypt.
I reckon the popular outcome of this smash hit movie would be the complete reversal of sympathy and unwarranted funding of the state Israel.
Still. I can see why, as a Jew, you could feel I’m being unfair and biased against Israel. Gentiles still buy products from “fuck human rights” China, after all. And Chinese aren’t even Gods chosen people (who did break their word on a deal, even with God Himself, according to the bible, but I’m not a thumper, so I’ll leave that be). So you might have a point there somewhere after all.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Dam! I wish Australians had the French spirit.
Our Gov imposed ‘green” home improvements that increased the cost of a new home by 35%. No body missed a beat. Yeah Oz.
A few months later the then French Gov proposed something similar in France that would have increased the cost of a home by only like 5%, and the French protests, turning over and burning cars in the streets etc. Cause3d a hasty reversal of policy by their gov.
We HAVE to get out and protest. Its the ONLY thing that will make a difference to their plans, no matter who “they” are.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:47 am
This is a dream come true, I was just thinking of this today, namely that the solution is to send the country on a strike, and there you go. But in the west, that is another story. I the west, people just don’t want to hear they don’t live in heaven.
Warship Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 11:23 pm
There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, that your so SICK AT HEART, that you cant take part! You cant even passively take part! and you have to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers and PILE THE APERATUS!!!! And you go to make it STOP! and you got to indicate to the people who RUN it, to the the people who OWN it, that unless your FREE, The machine will be prevented from WORKING AT ALL!!!!!!!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 8:15 am
The revolution has started here in Europe folks. Its time to stop watching your Alex Jones videos and start walking the walk over there in the US. Unless you’re jelly fish of course!
Dicky Mint Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 6:39 am
I’m going to watch Obama’s Brown Shirts reek revenge on you for slavery. I’m going to watch it on television. Black power!
January 30th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Better movie idea OzzyKen. Lets make a film about toothless Goy Anti-Semites getting hauled off to camps where they belong. There the brave and handsome IDF soldiers will question you and find out you are all mostly pedophiles and gun nuts that hate the government no matter what it does.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Sarkozy is a strong and DEMOCRATICALLY elected leader of a country. You Anti-Semites hate him because he is another Jew with enough ambition to make something of himself instead of an internet warrior.
Go buy your water filtration systems and freeze dried food and please leave the rest of society!!
January 30th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Ton beurre est dur pis tes toasts sont brûlés
Ton lait est sûr, ton jaune d’œuf est crevé
T’as pu d’eau chaude pour te faire un café instantané
You’re a frog I’m a frog kiss me, and I’ll turn into a prince suddenly
Donne-moi des peanuts, j’m'en va t’chanter ‘Alouette’ sans fausse note
Sept heures et quart, t’embarques dans l’autobus
Ton sight seeing tour pour aller travailler
Un beau voyage en groupe organisé
Comme toué matins
January 30th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
The Engineer of Diversity
More news stories on France
Tiberge, Brussels Journal, January 26, 2009
Recently Nicolas Sarkozy announced plans to pursue a vigorous policy of diversity and métissage. Concretely, this means giving preference to minorities in job hiring and prosecuting those who do not comply. In other words, affirmative action as a government policy from which none are exempt.
In his message Sarkozy insisted that the French people must change, that there will be dire consequences if they don’t, and that not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country. Thus he amalgamated the concepts of preference for minorities in job hiring with that of the need for the French to intermarry racially.
These are two separate things. But in the mind of Sarkozy they go together. Last December he chose a highly successful Algerian-born businessman, known as an impassioned advocate of diversity, Yazid Sabeg, to be his “high commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity”, and to implement these government orders.
It is well-known that in France ethnic statistics are forbidden by law, so in order to determine how many minorities are employed in any given enterprise, Sabeg will have to use all his resourcefulness, as this article from Le Figaro points out:
Recently named commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity, Yazid Sabeg has political representation [i.e. the number of minorities in politics] as a priority. In a few days he will meet with parliamentarians and party leaders. He intends, he says, “to listen to what they propose to advance the cause of diversity and to break the glass ceiling.” But he already states that he will recommend “normative measures”. Otherwise, the agreements are worthless.”
“Normative” means that the measures adopted will all have to obey the same criteria.
To advance the process, the commissioner will rely on a new study that determines the presence of minorities in political life. The Montaigne Institute, a think tank for entrepreneurs and businessmen, published an article on Wednesday tallying the ethnic composition of Parliament and the city councils of the ten largest cities in France, using an innovative method: photographs. Yazid Sabeg, a longtime pillar of the Institute, is enthusiastic for this method. “It’s an interesting possibility to deal with the crucial issue of racial discrimination. I have myself advocated a family photo in the assessing of enterprises,” he explains. He had proposed that big companies provide such a photograph as a way of measuring visible minorities for purposes of promoting diversity.
The article goes on to explain how a sociologist. Eric Keslassy, attempted to use photographs to determine the number of minorities in public office. He found in the National Assembly only three deputies belonging to minority groups, and in the Senate, four. Again using photos, he found that Paris had the highest rate of minority elected officials (17%), then Strasbourg (13.84%), Montpellier and Lille (11%), Toulouse (10%), Lyons (8%). Marseilles and Nice fared poorly, and Bordeaux had no minority elected official.
Keslassy says that to renew the political class there are other, better, methods such as ending the practice known as “cumul” where one politician holds several posts, and introducing primary elections.
“All of that will take time,” Yazid Sabeg is quick to point out, “since minority candidates cannot aspire to a position without a public profile or a history of accomplishments.” The art of the new commissioner will be to navigate between the need to promote people up the social ladder and the uncomfortable fact of counting the numbers of minorities by their facial features.
Eric Besson, the new minister of immigration, who replaces Brice Hortefeux, claims to be skeptical over the use of photographs: “We must come up with trustworthy methods, in keeping with our traditions, without classifying people by race, ethnicity or religion. . . . It’s rather complex. . . . I do not want to criticize those who are trying out new experiments, and I fully intend to work hand in hand with Yazid Sabeg.”
While they search for the perfect method to use for increasing the number of minorities, the system advocated by the High Council on Integration seems for now to be the most effective. Using family names and given names that were common in France at the end of the 19th century, and names that have recently appeared, a software program can determine persons of North African and sub-Saharan African origin, and persons from Europe, or even from overseas. This program showed that of the 35,000 elected officials in towns of more than 9000 inhabitants, 6.68% were minorities. A low figure but growing since 2001. While France is split from East to West, a reflection of the migratory waves.
The High Council on Integration (HCI) dates back to 1989. It is a government agency, composed of 20 members, dedicated to the study of the integration of minorities.
As for the East-West split, this is news to me. Does it mean that Eastern France has more immigrants, or vice versa? Since Marseilles, Lyons and Strasbourg are in Eastern France, and Paris roughly in the center, it seems reasonable to assume that there are more immigrants in the Eastern half of the country, especially since that is where the borders with other countries lie.
English-language readers can review Sabeg’s accomplishments in this article from January 2005 posted at Business Week. There is also some information at MLive. If you do a Google on him you will find numerous English-language references.
French readers can review his CV and get a closer look at his circle of friends in this article, also from January 2005, posted at L’Expansion. For the record, this millionaire is said to be a bon vivant, warm, with a wide range of cultural and intellectual interests. He is married and the father of three, but I could not find information on his wife. I am almost certain I remember reading that she is of Danish-French origin, but after a time-consuming search I could not find proof of that assertion.
Finally, one of his goals is to introduce diversity as early as possible in the schools:
“It should be an objective of the national education system. ( … ) You cannot create diversity in schools unless you change the school districting so that the high-schools in the downtown areas can accept students from the disadvantaged middle schools of the ghettoes, without ethnic quotas. ( … ) As for myself, I feel French and republican, and also Arab-Berber. I speak Arabic, and I am a Muslim. I repeat, I am a Frenchman and in no case will I renounce one single element of my identity.”
January 30th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
There are of course several things happening simultaneously and it is all dangerous.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
GOD BLESS THE FRENCH PEOPLE!
They have more cajones than we could ever dream of having. More common sense too.
Their revolution immediately followed ours, and they are still living it. Ours died a long time ago.
Viva Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality!!!
Long live France.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
n his message Sarkozy insisted that the French people must change, that there will be dire consequences if they don’t, and that not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country. Thus he amalgamated the concepts of preference for minorities in job hiring with that of the need for the French to intermarry racially.
White female with a black boyfriend? You may be eligible to lose more than $5,000 from your student loans!
White male with an Asian wife? You may qualify for 20% off the amount you pay annually for taxes!
White couple with children from 2 or more “ethnically-diverse” backgrounds? You may be able to get $50,000 off the price of your first home!
White couple with white children? You’ve both been fired!
With the election of Obama (and even preceding that) I knew it wouldn’t be long before European governments started up incentives to promote interracial relationships, and the decline of a homogenous Europe.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I concur with blessing the French for at least DOING SOMETHING.
It’s unfortunate that its a “general strike” – as this is usually organized and motivated by the labor unions (in Russian, the word for labor union is “Soviet”). But, hats off they’re doing something.
It’s weird to see how successful so many other peoples are at protesting. In the 60s, the hippies were doing it about just the Vietnam War…. Now, there is nothing but the sound of the wind on Main St, usa- and there is so much more to PROTEST.
Multinational protest spawning in Greece because a BART officer killed a kid… Iceland, because of bankruptcy. Now France. I wonder…. how much ass-raping will my Amerikan neighbor tollerate, until the sentence, “experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right the wrongs…”
Shall brother-comrade in France have a fuller sack than my neighbor? Is it the olive oil in Greece that slips the citizen from couch-potato to protester…
How much more ass-raping before that “righting a wrong” concept comes into play?
January 30th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
The people of Iceland brought down thier New World Order Government and the people of Franceare doing the same..You see they will not bring on the Hardcore system yet in Europe because they know what will happen but in America the NWO has set up camps and are good to go and round you Americans up…You need to stand up and protest and strike..its amazing you guys dont even stand up when kids are taken away by the CPS..how the hell you gonna overcome the NWO..damn I feel sorry for you guys and if Alex Jones is your leader ..God help you!
January 31st, 2009 at 11:09 am
VIVA LA REVOLUTION , POWER TO THE PEOPLE
January 31st, 2009 at 12:30 pm
this blog is for the french ,the only nation and peoples out side this nation that came to our aid with guns and naval fleets during ( THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, THE BIRTH OF THE U.S.A.) without them we would have been fighting a losing war but they bottled up the british army of cornwallis and stopped him from joining general clinton in new york that would have been the end of the war for the british would have controled the whole atlandtic coastline,ever since then they have been as our allies brothers in arms rightly so ,they are a gallant people and live all that this nation put into the costitution of our great nation, they have always been as family to anyone that believe in liberty and are a good lot at heart but the truth is that for the last 35yrs the french people hate the actions of the tyrants that have been put in power here by the very few and have always said why dont you do something to throw these evil people out, all i can say is ( VIVA LA FRANCE, may you always be our brothers and sisters in liberty,may we always defend each other against TYRANTS and foes. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
January 31st, 2009 at 1:32 pm
WHATS WRONG IN AMERICA? WHY DONT WE FIGHT? MAYBE THE ENHANCED WATER( FLOURIDE?) THE NAZIS GAVE IT TO ITS CONCENTRATION PRISONERS AND LOOK , LIKE LITTLE QUITE DRUGGED OUT PEOPLE NOT EVEN CARING ABOUT FIGHTING. ARE WE IN THE SAME STATE? JUST A THOUGHT BUT MAYBE THEY HAVE A DRUG LIKE A RABIES SHOT FOR CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT COME TO THIS SITE TO START TROUBLE WE GOT THE ADLTHE KGB>ETC>ETC>ETC> THE ANSWER IS GET A LIFE THIS BLOG ON THIS WEB IS ABOUT THE FRENCH PEOPLE NOT ABOUT THE TROUBLEMAKERS. P.S GO TO THE NEW YORK TIMES OR ANYONE OF THE MANY NEWSPAPERS THAT LOVE YOUR SAME EVIL , WE ALL COME HERE TO TALK ABOUT ISSUES , SOUNDS LIKE YOU NEED PROSAC TO HELP YOU MISTER YOUR SO ANTI-HUMAN , LIKE I GIVE A DAMN, BY THE WAY YOUR PEOPLE ARE THE BIGGIST WHITE SLAVE TRADERS IN THE WORLD 1997 JERUSLAUM POST ARTICLES, THE HELSINKI ACCORDS ON WHITE SLAVERY THAT ISREAL REFUSED TO SIGN, YOU WANT TO GET NASTY THERE IS A TON MORE NOT LIES BUT FACTS ,HARD COLD FACTS THEN WE CAN SEE WHOS THE BAD GUYS ITS A SHAME PEOPLE LIKE YOU HAVE MADE THIS WORLD SO SAD AS OF LATE YOUR SICK BUT LIKE THE RABID DOG YOU CAN ONLY THINK OF BITING EVERYONE, JUST THINK ABOUT IT , AND JUST POST WHAT THE SUBJECT IS ABOUT TROUBLE-MAKER.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Ok heres my point. GREAT JOB ICELAND AND FRANCE. Let you know there are Americans behind you. not for what you are doing..its for the people of those countries you are making a stand for.. GOD BLESS….and remember do not bow down to no man. As long as you now deep down this is what has to be done..than go and do what you have to. And remember To fight for one’s country is not to fight for the flag but for the poeple of that country. God speed and Best wishes. there are Americans who are behind you, and believe what your doing is right.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:34 am
Americans have no brains! They let the Jews cut their balls and don’t complain. The slaying of the Wall Street fraud Jews would be a start. More than 113 representatives with Jewish ambitions are allowed to pollute the Congress/Senate. Time to take them out.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I just can’t imagine where all the money and wealth has gone.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrfaWzREVM
Yep, that’s right, it’s all gone upwards, but it’s our fault of course.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:27 am
No offense but look at how often the French hold huge public protests. Say what you want about them, but they don’t put up with shit from their government.
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February 24th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
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