Socialism! for the people…
Buildings and cars were torched overnight as youths and police clashed in the northern French city of Amiens, say officials and police.
…In 2005, the deaths of two teenagers sparked weeks of looting and car-burning in housing estates across France.
It sparked an debate about deprivation and social exclusion, but many analysts say little has changed for France’s marginalised youth, many of North African origin.
…16 officers injured and several public buildings torched in some of the worst rioting in the area for years – reopening the fraught political debate about France’s troubled housing estates. [what we call "projects"]
…There had been unrest among youths on housing estates in Amiens-Nord earlier this month and again on Sunday night, apparently sparked by tensions over spot checks by police on residents.
During a night of disturbances, rioters set fire to a number of vehicles, in some cases hauling the drivers out of their cars before burning them…
Gutted buildings, including a nursery school, and burnt out cars were still smoldering early today, though the streets were otherwise calm. No-one has been arrested so far.
Wow. How’d that happen?
Tensions remain high in many French suburbs, where poor job prospects, racial discrimination, a widespread sense of alienation from mainstream society and perceived hostile policing have periodically touched off violence.
…The repeat bouts of violence have provoked agonized debate over the state of the grim housing estates that ring many French cities and the integration of millions of poor whites, blacks and North African immigrants into mainstream society.
What about those who don’t want to be integrated? Who want to keep their heritage and cuuuulture? Isn’t that the Diveeeersity Model?
Aziz Senni …raised in the decaying tower blocks of Val-Fourre, Europe’s largest council estate, in the suburb of Mantes-la-Jolie just west of Paris.
“The first few years I had no social life and worked like crazy because I felt I had something to prove,” he said.
“I saw my success as an act of social revenge.
“At school teachers never told us that we could own our own companies, or become businessmen.”
…Aziz has also written a memoir of his struggle to reach the top – The Social Elevator Is Broken… So I Took the Stairs.
…”Of course it is tough for young people from the suburbs but it’s no good sitting around waiting for someone to fix the elevator.
“We can’t rely on the state to help us – we need to take the stairs.”
well… it’s a start.
Here’s another:
Banks, companies and investors are preparing themselves for a collapse of the euro. Cross-border bank lending is falling, asset managers are shunning Europe and money is flowing into German real estate and bonds. The euro remains stable against the dollar because America has debt problems too. But unlike the euro, the dollar’s structure isn’t in doubt.
Just a few years after Chinese companies lined up to sell shares on Wall Street, a growing number are reversing course and pulling out of U.S. exchanges.
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Great title: The Social Elevator Is Broken… So I Took the Stairs.
“Basically all I wanted to say is in the title.”
Here in the USA, he might be a regular on the Porch.
Whell, Hollande is off to a *good* start. It`s like Fwance elected their own *OBoBo*!
Expected.
When Sarkozy was elected, after the first car-be-que, they sent in the Foriegn Legion, quelled the rioting, identified, the “youths” who were responsible … and deported their parents for raising their sons to be anti-french vipers.
The car-be-ques suddenly stopped.
The French public elected a socialist, so the car-be-ques can now resume.
Fwance elected their own *OBoBo
They surely did ColJ. Wait until the 75% income tax hits. They’ll be over the waterfall then as anybody with money will flee. And with ragheads running wild in what used to be Europe’s beautiful cities, tourists won’t come either. Just wait until some tourists get killed by
youthsmuzzie thugs.I have a friend who was a B-17 bombardier in the 34th Bombardment Group out of Mandlesham England in WW2. They had a big, beautiful cast bronze monument at their old airfield, and recently, sombody stole it, probably to melt for scrap. Wanna bet it was “disafffected youth” who stole it?
All but the most slow-witted can see through the “mainstream” media’s wishy-washy platitudes and rationalizations. The perpetrators of these riots are disproportionately Muslim blacks and North Africans, and those few French youths who joined in would not have done so but for the anti-culture culture which is spread like an infectious virus by these unassimilatable immigrants. Egalitarianism is a failed social experiment supported only by those who with religious-like fanaticism deny the objective reality of human differences.
Claire, I saw that article on the Chinese companies pulling out of our exchanges. At risk of over simplifying, here’s part of what caught my eye in that:
Now why would that be a surprise to anyone?
Harry Reid’s been lobbying for *BIG* favors (the financial kind) for Chinese “green energy” companies at the taxpayers’ expense, though. Harry’s a man who has become a multi-millionaire while being employed in the public sector most of his adult life. Wonder how that happened?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/harry-reid-promotes-crony-capitalism-with-chinese-cronies.php
Could all this be because Joe Biden is “the conscience of our nation’s capital.”
http://freebeacon.com/biden-on-romney-theyre-going-to-put-yall-back-in-chains/
Well no, Biden is probably “the conscience of our nation’s capital” so that all this can happen.
November is coming.
Tumbrils and guillotines in 3…2…1…
Paging Mme Defarge.
The car-be-ques have never stopped, I have circus friends that go home to France every winter. The only thing that stopped is reporting them every week-end. I suppose it became tedious.
They tell me it’s like most Americans don’t frequent inner-city slums only there the muslim youth burn cars as opposed to pimpin’ hos and selling drugs. Not that they don’t dabble in those too.
Tourist are fore-warned to stay away from Amiens-Nord, those that don’t have their vehicles car-be-qued.
I read your story about the euro earlier today, and have been following it’s downward spiral for about a year. When it goes watch Merkel’s play. But at least her Reich might quell those North African troublemakers.