In the southeastern city of Lyon, a tourist office building was burned. Some storefronts along the shopping streets near Bordeaux's city hall were destroyed, and the goods inside appear to have been stolen, social media videos geolocated by NBC News showed. City halls in Marseille, Lille, and Angers were broken into, Interior Minister Laurent Nuez said Sunday, adding the arrests made had little to do with the student protests. Authorities had "lost control" in major cities, the interior minister conceded. He offered his resignation to Macron, who rejected it. read more
A fire engulfed the historic town hall in Limoges, central France, after a group set the 143-year-old building alight amid unrest following nationwide cost-of-living protests. Local prefect Maurice Barate said the roof had collapsed onto the lower floors, except for the west wing, and that around two-thirds of the building's exterior had already disappeared. The blaze followed demonstrations that escalated into violence in several French cities on Saturday. The extent of the damage to the town hall was still being assessed read more
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For the first time in 74 years, CBC did not broadcast NHL hockey on Saturday night, instead filling its traditional Hockey Night in Canada window with cricket. The change follows the end of CBC's agreement with Sportsnet, with the two sides unable to reach a new deal after Rogers secured a new 12-year, $11-billion NHL rights agreement. CBC says it will continue broadcasting hockey, including women's PWHL games, but the end of Saturday-night NHL coverage marks a major break from one of the broadcaster's most iconic traditions. read more
So an FBI informant lured a minor into this exchange
#1 | Posted by Dbt2
This is what the conservatives were saying about the Whitmer plot.
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I believe the FBI in both cases, you on the other hand pick your side then only believe your side is correct.
Liberal politician in Denmark responds .. sounds eriroly similar to what I see here in CA with the number of administrators needed to keep the peace, no one in public school is learning.
Henrik Dahl
Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal Alliance.
Full text here ...
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I do not know how things are in other countries. But in Denmark, when I follow the coverage of the unrest in France on our two public-service television broadcasters, the explanation I keep hearing is this:
France has spent years cutting back on upper secondary education. Classes are overcrowded. Add teacher shortages and excessive centralisation, and young people take to the streets.
That is only half the truth. And when you peddle half the truth, you are, as we know, also peddling half a lie.
Here is what can be pieced together from the French quality press and the official figures.
France's public spending per upper-secondary pupil is above the OECD average. That should complicate any account which treats a lack of money as the whole explanation.
There is some truth in the criticism: some lyces have large classes, and the French education system is centralised and bureaucratic.
One example worth mentioning is Parcoursup, the higher education admissions platform. I suspect it would be a strong contender in any international competition for bureaucratic opacity and unnecessary stress.
But, as I have already said, this is only half the truth.
The other half concerns what teachers and school leaders are being asked to endure.
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In my view, France faces a problem we also know in Denmark: schools are being asked to compensate for failures of integration and basic socialisation that extend far beyond the classroom.
The danger is that, instead of institutions civilising their pupils, disruptive pupils end up barbarising the institutions.
No school can function properly if it is expected to tolerate young people who turn up unprepared, have no interest in learning and spend their time causing trouble and destroying the learning environment.
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It is hardly surprising that such conditions can wear teachers down. They cannot reasonably be expected to shoulder the entire responsibility for correcting mistakes that the French political elite has spent decades making.
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That is the kind of convergence I mean by Islamogauchism in practice.
The flags also deserve attention. Palestinian, Moroccan and Algerian flags have appeared at some of the protests, including scenes of disorder. To me, this is another indication that, for some participants, the agenda extends beyond class sizes and school budgets.
We do not yet know the full picture. But what concerns me is the apparent convergence, within parts of this movement, of several forms of radicalism: Antifa activism. Decolonial ideology. Islamogauchism. Islamist networks that have learnt from the left to speak fluent woke.
That is why I do not think it entirely misplaced to speak of an "Islamogauchist intifada" when describing this radical current within the French protests.
The wider protest wave has already spread to Belgium and Italy.
The Danish public-service coverage I have seen gives me far too little of this side of the story.
Two questions: Is it the same elsewhere in the Western world? And if so, why?
One could just think of Palestinians as Future Native Americans on Reservations.
What would America do if Native Americans kept killing Citizens?
Basically it's a stupid analogy. As the Palestinians at one time were able to go into Israel and work, enjoy owning property, adding to their economy. But they fell under the spell of a violent Islamic extremist (oxymoron isn't it?) and Intifada after Intifada kept shrinking their world. Too bad so sad.
But writing this I can see the parallel. Lumpers like and promote killing of women on light rail, thus killing more Israelis is met with the same glee. Truly Lumpers deep down are evil people.
Jewish communists
But they weren't over bearing communists, they came to Israel and started Kibbutz. Which really makes alot sense, too bad American Commies just want to oppress people and not actually join a commune, we'd all be much better off.