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Originally Posted by MTK
Found this in 2 seconds on the front page at CNN |
yeah, haven't seen anything on the front page...right now there is a blurb of Macron approaching the Saudi Prince on the left.
But you would think the worst riots in 50 years in Paris would garner more attention.
But also the article you link is rife with fake news which seems to protect Macron...from the article:
The protests were initially conceived in response to rising fuel prices. The cost of diesel has surged 16% this year from an average 1.24 euros ($1.41) per liter to 1.48 euros ($1.69), even hitting 1.53 euros in October, according to UFIP, France's oil industry federation.
The price hike is largely caused by a leap in the wholesale price of oil, with Brent crude oil -- a benchmark for worldwide oil purchases -- increasing by more than 20% in the first half of 2018 from around $60 a barrel to a peak of $86.07 in early October.
Macron has borne the brunt of the demonstrators' anger instead of OPEC for reducing oil production, or the US for imposing tariffs on Iran, which crippled oil exports.
Many protesters are angry with the president for extending the environmental policies that were first implemented by former President François Hollande.
This is clearly skewed, biased, uninformed and false. Its actually hilarious it attempts to shift blame to Hollande at the very end. Hilarious and pathetic.
This has nothing to do with OPEC or US tariffs...The protestors aren't in the streets to do rising Oil cost...first and foremost, this is about a green tax plan by Macron on petroleum. This is the final straw which launched these violent protest...This is in a series of poor Macron economic policies which have thrown the country into violence.
Its interesting that CNN is deflecting, attempting to change a narrative. Hilarity and why CNN is considered fake news.
This is the best summation about why and how:
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/67286...t-do-they-want
Absolutely zero to do with Oil prices, tariffs, Trump and previous French presidents. Once again CNN is clearly fake news.