{"id":389042,"date":"2018-12-13T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-macron-implosion-will-it-spread-to-other-eu-members\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:31:16","slug":"the-macron-implosion-will-it-spread-to-other-eu-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-macron-implosion-will-it-spread-to-other-eu-members\/","title":{"rendered":"The Macron Implosion: Will it Spread to Other EU Members?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Yellow Vest Movement \u2013 weekend 8 and 9 December \u2013 Round 4. Some say they are the worst riots in France since the student-driven mini-Revolution of May 1968. Over the four weekends, hundreds of thousands were in the streets, middle class people, from students to workers to outright employees and housewives. The police force increases by every new Round \u2013 and so do the demonstrators. Today more than 8,000 police, a considerable increase from last weekend\u2019s 5,000-plus. Tens of thousands Yellow Vests demonstrated; police reported more than 1,600 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>There are tanks in the streets \u2013 not seen for at least ten years \u2013 burning cars and shop fronts, vandalized buildings. The police are fighting them with teargas, water cannons and rubber bullets. Police brutality seems to be unavoidable, However, apparently more moderate than on other occasions. Nevertheless, a Youtube is circulating, where a group of riot gear protected police beat up a helpless Yellow Vest, already on the ground and defenseless. These are the pictures you see on TV.<\/p>\n<p>And the globalized \u2018everybodies\u2019 throughout Europe and the (western) world sit comfortably in their fauteuils, shaking their heads \u2013 \u201cthe French again; they are never content, always want more\u201d \u2013 having apparently no idea that what they, the French workers, had rightfully accumulated in terms of social funds and public infrastructure \u2013 hospitals, schools \u2013 since WWII (instead of paying for a heavy army) is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/the-macron-implosion-will-it-spread-to-other-eu-members\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellow Vest Movement \u2013 weekend 8 and 9 December \u2013 Round 4. Some say they are the worst riots in France since the student-driven mini-Revolution of May 1968. Over the four weekends, hundreds of thousands were in the streets, middle class people, from students to workers to outright employees and housewives. The police force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}