Some headlines with links to original articles:
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- Macron Blinks in Fuel-Tax Dispute With Yellow Vests
- French student unrest gathers momentum
- Macron's popularity hits new low amid French protests - poll
- High school students are blasted with tear gas and kick grenades back at police - as thousands leave class to join 'Yellow Vest' riots across France
The yellow vests are a thing because France requires motorists to carry a high-viz vest for every driver and passenger in their vehicles (great idea actually - adding some to my vehicles' emergency kits) in case they break down or run out of fuel. The citizens are showing that they are drivers protesting the high fuel tax.
And of course, the United Nations steps in it:
Typical Marxist claptrap. They do not care about the climate - the latest report is built on computer models, not measured data. They just want their hands on the levers of power and will say anything and do anything to achieve this.
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