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yellow last protests paralyzed france for weeks on end sending shock waves across europe. as there's a new french revolution in the making or just a splash in the sand i asked. former presidential candidate and founder of the solidarity in progress. the streets of french. clashing with police and others marching against the mayhem. that's protest survive the backlash can they find a way to really influence that country and where exactly do they want to take you. now to former presidential candidate and a founder of the solidarity and progress party welcome to the show great to have you with us so mr sherman at this streets of paris are getting even more colorful

blue vests the rest scarse are a new movement that marched just recently to voice their frustration whether yellow best protests is this a sign that their french are getting fed up with all the commotion is just a beginning of a serious push back what should be that tension is not the streets of paris is what happens in the whole country. you know various there's a reaction against the state against against the. president my quote but my quo seeing as a result of many i'm in a you. people game to the streets having been forgotten it's a forgotten majority in that sense i'm people want to recover that summer and they want to be taken care of and they want it who is their state we other people

are saying so it's very important because if the problem is used to have all these people meeting and this by the efforts of the earth or it is to get rid of them they are still wrong. it's different when they came to paris to show the horror france would come to paris then there was all these provoker from extreme left or extreme right and the government trying to disrupt the motion of the movement but now the movement is there and it's a groundswell. and these people are protesting against the bully see. that would be a runoff from the top. level so it's not true the monasteries on the top of the runnels goes above operational money to the classes of the society and the protest of this is we want our money back and that's the issue no i mean we will all understand what's behind the point of yellow

vests like everyone understands it's a popular opera or against you know across palaces for the rich but the point is. whatever we're seeing right now in a sense of paris where there is yellow vests over the counter protest with you blue scar blue vests and the red scarves those are also people right and there seem to be clashing with each other the political center has been retained only described as bad in our iraqi polarization but there are the counter protests and is this a sign that it could be actually coming back to life. well mccall can see the politics as a number that extreme left on the scene right and he says we are the center but the problem is that the center if an entree rotting because of french elites are submitted to financial globalism and these yellow vests this start

understanding it started from. speed limits or that you don't want those hours instead of ninety so they need to go fast to go to the jobs are far from the jobs of the protested that there was a guzzling prize and there was a purchasing power and then there was a quarter for d.d. but while they understand is that something above france which is this financial globalism is a real issue and they want to recover. that our country recovers the issuance of money now it's in the hands of the european central bank and the hands of something related to the world financial markets so they have a sense that if they're a government that they could have a decent education. small and medium size from such work. good police and a good ami and they called for that they want schools they want the hospitals they

want service for the people but the point is the point is that the message behind yellow vast is a noble that's a message no one really disputing that but the point is what it has turned into and the whole cast that it has brought along i mean eleven people have died at yellow vests protests in state broke out in mid november none of the deaths happened as a result of police action i mean that's a lot the level of poor talent he at this protest has been remarkable how do you explain this. france has always been a very tense country and there is because of all the social advances in the past and this advances are threatened today it's not that there is inequality per se but there is. chances to. be to get a better life so these people protest against that and the police was not in the

cities organized for that or was given weapons against demonstrators that were not adequate now they have all this. difference whether flushable and then they have this. granados this they call them instantaneously a cream arjan granados so all this happens because there was not an organization from above two hundred what will happen it was not expected by people above i expected it there are some seen two thousand and nine saying i. am writing something for the anger that's coming and the anger now is there and it's there for a long time it's it's a tension in the whole country and it's people who are there and they have been provoked in a sense a provocateur. this mountain is a social french system and not the ones that are. just.

talk to me a little bit more about the police response a minimum bunch of people have lost their vision and human eyes in some cases as a result of police using right weapons at the same time the interior minister denies police brutality do you think acts of police violence are random in the heat of the moment accidents or do you feel that the security forces a lot of whom are also injured and up injured are losing their patients with the street protesters. according to the state there were one thousand five hundred injured among the demonstrators and once i was on among the police the dead people were mainly crushed by cos one woman was shot out from the who was watching from a window and she was shot on something arrived because he got a shot on the head so that's more or less what howie it is but there were eighty

two injured people with great damage for them for example almost vegas who is one of the charismatic leaders was hit by a flushable on the head and he's probably losing one i saw this has created a lot of discontent because everybody saying that the police has been given free hand for an excessive kind of demonstration i think it's absolutely true so this is because france you have it like of the state is like a pyramid and this pyramid is shaken by this the most traitors so everybody in the pyramid tends to overreact and at this point the only way to get out of feet is to give to the demonstrators something that they asked for violence as well. however i guess there is no such thing as bad publicity after all do you

feel that the controversy is part of what has kept the movement going about stars while started its outreach efforts maybe still keeps it going. well this started. among the you know various person to person contacts and then they related to facebook and zuckerberg the head of facebook questions jago everything sort of yet of as we're able to connect among themselves in a much more efficient and faster way and it's rare it was it reacted like that and it's a kind of battleship butt. i'm keen effect something wrong happens the sailors are giving. damage meat bad meat and there is a revolver but what's important it's what's behind it and what falls in public so of course the media by filming it racing and the source and that's why people with their own phones filming the whole are seen as being

a factor of situation of the most of the motion and yes i thought of wrong sayings have been said about old people and there was a kind also. an east view of seeings some some people say that it was the extreme right others say that was extreme left other people as i was russia were going to is that all seeing that created an environment where people were confused so what i said before try to make what other really shoes behind this confusion. all right we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to sharon add a former presidential candidate founder of the solidarity and progress party discussing the yellow that's protests in france stay with us. thank you in that.

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a little the most they'd say look it is it's. just not a chance to just meet them and try to present a complete control to. be able to choose to go to sleep or come up and do it because that is the girls with you. just a good. shooting star you should go door for the one who's doing. and we're back with jack shimmy now their former presidential candidate and founder of

the solidarity and progress party talking about the french protests and how they will affect the european political landscape so mr schmidt emmanuel mccoy is now on a tour through the country's regions with the so-called great debate q. and a session where the locals local representatives do you saying this is something that the yellow vests have forced them to do something useful or is it just trying to sweep their work under the yellow best movement feet. he's trying to control the debate and he appointed two ministers to the debate so the yellow vests one foray into the trap. and also president of the frenchman says on a review. we kind of continue to reduce taxes without growing the global level of our public expenses so if. there is no way to give. the months away you know this and the president doesn't seem to consider the

possibility of a national credit so that this protest there were partially triggered by climate tax which has now been rolled back how much more to the protesters want to achieve and can they. universe around here because they say they do something and then. they said they won't do it this is not a compromise this is not some. sort of blackmail so they don't like this type of block me so one of the points that that's been coming up in a debate around the yellow that movement is day idea that there is a need for higher taxes on the rich earlier i spoke to jake a prank call of j.p. morgan chase and he said that such measures and dissuading they reach for saving and investment and that's how for of course for all want to tax on the wealthy only drive them away from france into some kind of a tax haven. has worried it being

a move out of france or some of the rich people the issue is not that the issue isn't my question organize it both as a first climbed and the other sayings of the other core victims so you can't organize an economy thinking that the first climbers would give money and would organize economy for those below them under them so that the issue the issue is not so much to tax the rich is to create wealth and you create wealth by public credit for the future betting on the future this is what has been the policy of france after world war two ways there was nobody to tuck's because there was no way there was no seems to sale there was nothing. in there was no money to be found so there was public credit bet on the future and

it worked france was a construct and i think that russia the soviet union of these days was also reckon structed by the will of the people and great for the future and that's a shoe so as not to tax the rich and assorted other thing is that the movement of the yellow vests doesn't really have a leader or so they claim that they don't have a leader it's really hard to understand what exactly they want because there's no one person that would speak out for them how can i call plaque a pan and caving to their demands when they don't really have a go to working group to top corner. you know this thing's looks like in a way it's very different but it looks like the beginning of the french revolution where there were no leaders an essential movement these people that you know vests they didn't know each other they never went on most of them never went to demonstrations after cross when they are middle class people from a working class background that's what they are so they found themselves

to be there this one saw that the king is naked and another one sort of the king is naked the king being the moniker and now they say that yes we are all things the same thing and we want to be together and we despise political institutions we despise politicians the level of respect for politicians at this point in france is nine percent and the most respected seeing is a public hospital which is ninety percent so that so these people they have. to be leaders and it's a lot some would call rosa luxemburg in the old days call that they must write for money it's a ferment it's firmaments so in this moment there is no real leader some appear like a. pretty little dusky there are names of us try to announce at least but at least was patronized by my core because my quite expect that at least of your vest would siphon votes out of the extreme left the extreme right and out of the. center right

opposition so that all these contradictions but this you know of as movement is saw difficult to characterize as a political movement that the only way to give them a purpose would be the issuance of money in how the money is issued and for what if not it would be something that would remain as a groundswell in france hitting the institutions hitting the political world. and not going anywhere. in the united states you have trump for the same reason in italy the presence of so-called popular government in france is something more it goes more in depth of the fabric of society ok so talking of the fabric of society you have all of this people a lot of them here not

a by what they're against the same movement will split as soon as the time comes to decide what you are for because right not the only thing he nithing them against. for denied them is also the. citizens referendum initiative. and they want that because they want participative policies fed up with the representative. so at the same time it's very interesting that sometimes you need an education so it will be a long process for them to be educated in how the society functions they know it functions. the wrong way and i wrong way but they don't know how to make it function in the right. job. dissidents. is to organize them to understand why they have to do positively it's

difficult it would be an educational ask which will take wrong but it's very interesting because one of the general vests who want to petition from cells in france calling for a national bank and saying there should be this referendum but the question should be a national bank and not how many deputies are you against or not against abortion or against those issues so-called social resource a real issue which is how you organize a state and how we should money and for what and these demands to be truthful break with the present european union and for the rest spect of the true european civilization. yet it seems to me that the yellow vests are like other st louis occupy or even arab spring or the greek and spanish protests do you see any similarities as of now they meet in assemblies to other contrie and they

discuss and they try to figure out what they want we are at this point but at the same time you have other movements you have the first movement of. help you have movement in hospitals of cutting the financing of hospitals so nurses are in a state of rebellion also doctors you have the yellow. sorry the. red pens education people for example if you want to measure the conditions of the social conditions in this contrary it person who started. would have more or less would gain more or less. two hundred percent. average wage now it's only a hundred percent so there's

a lowering in the income of people in the whole social services so that explains in part at least the year of the other part is that they don't feel represented by the user politicians they are trying to find among themselves who represent them so and that's really with grassroots something that's not short term exactly but with a grassroots and leaderless movement like you said the yellow vests you will have your share of wacky people crazy people but it's same sad anti-semitism believe in conspiracy theories holocaust denial all of that is very much present among the yellow vests did he like yellow vests are maybe in danger of being hijacked by radicals like this. noise on seeing saw they're being provoked by radicals all the time but they themselves they care of the right across the seeing is that

it was being all firm on this type of uprising they had not the security services so now are little by little with the help of some unionists their organization security services for their own demonstrations so it's a process of education and. my bet is that this process of education would leave them in a good direction good for the people good for the nation after all the french constitution says a principle of france is a government of the people for the people by the people so they have to understand that that means respect of all what belongs to the state and not old to become to interview or property and not to break things around so i think this rage is there but it's very limited with very few you know various

i mean it's provoked by extreme right wing of extreme left wing educators and probably also. in the police people or even in the government some people respect that violence would discredit the you know this so i think it won't work some yellow vests want to branch out into traditional politics preparing to run for they hear a pale actions actually either earth condemned mandela and are pledging to keep up their street brand of politics how big can this division get can the rift grow big enough to splinter the movement. this is this is an advanced approach a discredited indicator of who is ok the very least a woman. and. this woman was. recruited by b.f.m. t.v. which is the major which is hated by the you know best so she she has not in

a sense. it's a person or authority to have business that already two people left is least one of them was it i don't my call agent at threave so this list would need to know where. the leader. or the fury there was while an influence i don't believe does in the us or sense but they are references of the you know of s. they call for the least and they called for a long term thinking and education. to form that would go in depth of emotion in french society which is much beyond the opium elections i think this european elections are in advance fake because if you live on one side the so-called populist or national sovereignty is our other side's a progressive so-called reformist it's it's just a construct it's nothing it doesn't go into the real problems of the kountry and

the yellow vests are more connected to the real problems of the contrary than the politicians running in your parent actions that recession that thank you very much for the center here where we're talking to rejection in add a former presidential candidate and founder of the solidarity and progress party has gotten a french protests and that's it for this edition of stefan cotswold next. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of

their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defenses officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for. dollars from blasts his hand-picked intelligence leaders over their assessments of threats to the u.s. he calls a naive and too passive. so he's not listening to their assessments who's evil is into we'll try to find out on this edition.

of the politicking on larry king on tuesday america's top intelligence officials easy of whom was chosen for their job by president drummed publicly split with the president in their congressional testimony about the biggest threats to america's security it's important to remember that u.s. policy is often based on their assessments of our intelligence agencies donald trump blasts of the intel chiefs is naive assuringly passive and wrong so he's not listening to them who's the president losing two for his information on global threats we start there with old friend bill richardson former u.s. ambassador to the united nations former democratic governor of new mexico he also served as secretary of energy during the administration of bill clinton.

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