French strikes continue, should we dare call it Nouvelle Révolution Française? Even French high school students are going head to head with riot police! Today, the students have blockaded schools and set fire to cars. Strikes actually started more than a month ago, and have only gotten bigger, viva les Français!
According to the French news agency, AFP, around 1500 gas stations have run out of fuel. Workers at 11 of France’s 12 oil refineries have joined the country wide strike, protesting a two year raise in retirement.
On Sunday French truck drivers joined the strike, blocking the country’s major highways. Half of all airline flights in and out of France have been canceled.
This is a major event taking place in Europe, with implications for the United States, yet, the U.S. Media is barely covering it. Why? Maybe it’s because the Corporate Controlled U.S. Media, and our Government, doesn’t want us getting any ideas?
The amazing thing is that the French are striking over a proposed two year increase to their retirement age, it hasn’t even become law. Actually the retirement age issue is the final straw for most French. They’re tired of constantly getting screwed over by their leaders. Which brings me to my point, again, what’s up America? We’ve endured so much more hyperbole here in the United States, yet where is the public outrage?
Maybe Americans are waiting for November elections to see change. Idiots! How many generations of Americans have played that losing game? History shows that we the People have only gotten screwed over and over by our so called leaders!
Thomas Jefferson, a founder of the United States, and our 3rd President, warned: “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.” —Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. (*) ME 1:193, Papers 1:125
Wake Up America!