"Foreign Criticisms of the 1871 Paris Commune: The Role of British and American Newspapers and Periodicals" fashion statements and "color revolutions"

A Times correspondent described the situation in Paris on April 4th as "lugubrious" and "grotesque."28 In a similar fashion, journalist D. A. Bingham reported, "the streets were filled with swashbucklers who indulged in fanciful uniforms and quaint denominations, and appeared to be under no control."29 Historian Gay L. Gullickson analyzes this statement arguing that at the time, different military groups in Paris each had unique uniforms, thus the descriptions are unfounded. Ultimately, Bingham's words should be read as a caricature in lieu of fact.30 Additionally, many of these articles should be looked at under the same microscope, as we see that common insults espoused by these writers are often slanderous.

FOCUS, ppl: What are your goals? What are the barriers to your goals?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

"Non-lethal weapons"

Gilets jaunes leader hit in eye during protest 'will be disabled for life'

A gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrator injured in the eye at a demonstration in Paris will be disabled for life, his lawyer has said.

Jérôme Rodrigues, a high-profile member of the protest movement, claims he was struck by a "flash-ball", a launcher used by French riot police to fire large rubber pellets. They have been blamed for dozens of injuries, some serious, including the loss of an eye.

More than 15 people may have lost an eye (or got their jaw pulverized) since the beginning of the gilets jaunes protests last November. Dozens of others, including high-school students, over the past two decades. This is part of the  executive power implicit threat against would-be protesters: protest and you might loose a limb.

Other "non lethal" weapons in the arsenal of the republic: crowd-control grenades which killed one protester a couple of years ago in the south of France.

'Red Scarves' and 'Blue Vests' launch counter-protest against Yellow Vests

that had upended weekend traffic and resulted in the worst rioting in Paris in decades, costing taxpayers millions of euros.
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On Saturday, nearly 10,000 people had ticked the participation box on the "#RepublicanMarchForFreedom" Facebook event page, and 27,000 people had said they were interested in going.

'People can't get to work'

The Red Scarves saw the light of the day in November, and began as a Facebook group set up by John Christophe Werner from the southern French region of Vaucluse. In an interview with regional newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré, Werner said he had created the group because French "citizens are being penalised every day by the Yellow Vests' methods".

punked again! by your bourgeois neighbors

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French Security 'Have Right' to Use Weapons at Protests
Council of State has ruled:  the frequency of violence and property destruction at protests, some of which deviated from approved routes or weren't declared in advance. It concluded that authorities' use of the devices doesn't constitute a "grave attack" on the freedom to demonstrate, or the right not to be EXPOSED to inhuman or degrading treatment."

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Acte XII
Sputnik | LIVE UPDATES 2 Feb 2019
"Yellow Vests demonstrations are underway on Saturday, with the anti-establishment movement reaching its twelfth week of nationwide protests. Rallies are expected to take place not only in Paris, but in Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulouse, Lyon, Lille and numerous small French towns. ... 17:35
Video of Massive Protest in French City of Bordeaux Emerges Online "

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.