[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald 2018-12-02

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source: deutsche welle




How the U.K. and Ecuador Conspire to Deliver Julian Assange to U.S. Authorities

The accidental revelation in mid-November that U.S. federal prosecutors had secretly filed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange underlines the determination of the Trump administration to end Assange’s asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been staying since 2012.
Behind the revelation of those secret charges for supposedly threatening U.S. national security is a murky story of a political ploy by the Ecuadorian and British governments to create a phony rationale for ousting Assange from the embassy. The two regimes agreed to base their plan on the claim that Assange was conspiring to flee to Russia.
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source: american herald tribune
https://ahtribune.com/us/2666-uk-ecuador-julian-assange.html



Gangs of "yellow vest" militants set heart of Paris ablaze

PARIS (Reuters) - Groups of young men, their faces masked and some carrying metal bars and axes, rioted through the streets of central Paris on Saturday, setting a dozen vehicles ablaze and torching buildings, unleashing the city’s worst urban unrest for years.
Near the Ritz hotel, not far from high-end boutiques and restaurants, and in the avenues off the Arc de Triomphe, where several foreign embassies are located, gangs of violent protesters ran riot, setting a police van on fire and overturning cars. At least two buildings were aflame.
Near the Ritz hotel, Christmas trees decorating the streets were upended and piled in the middle of an avenue and set alight, prompting chanting from scores of protesters.
Youths tried to smash through the windows of the flagship Apple Store on the Champs Elysees which opened just a few weeks ago. A boutique on the Rue Rivoli was broken into and looted.
Police said several hundred far-right and far-left extremists had infiltrated a demonstration by some 5,000 “yellow vest” protesters, who had gathered in the capital to denounce President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax increases.
“We are in a state of insurrection, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Jeanne d’Hauteserre, the mayor of the 8th city district, near the Arc de Triomphe, told BFM TV.
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source: reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests-violence/gangs-of-yellow-vest-militants-set-heart-of-paris-ablaze-idUSKCN1O03N4?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29

French govt considers imposing state of emergency after 'Yellow Vest' protest violence

The French government will consider imposing a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of France's worst riots in years, but while it is open to dialogue it will not change course, its spokesman said on Sunday.
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source: france24
https://www.france24.com/en/20181202-france-consider-state-emergency-prevent-riots-recurring

Yellow paint & rubber bullets: Paris descends into chaos as protests continue

source: RT

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"Pruning hard evidence of infiltration # GiletsJaunes ...
Arrested man screams to agents that 'he belongs to them' ... and is released ..."



Yellow-West protests also in Belgium - Is ecology becoming a social issue?

The protest movement of the Yellow West is also heterogeneous in Belgium. Various parties are looking forward to it - in view of the 2019 election.
AMSTERDAM taz | It is a well-known pattern in francophone Belgium: political-cultural phenomena or discourses from neighboring France often echo in the Wallonia region. Since the end of November, this also applies to the gasoline protests of the gilets jaunes . On Thursday, several roads in the southern part of the country were blocked again.
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source: taz
http://www.taz.de/Gelbe-Westen-Proteste-auch-in-Belgien/!5555053/
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taz.de%2FGelbe-Westen-Proteste-auch-in-Belgien%2F%215555053%2F

'Yellow Vest' protest hits Brussels

source: RT




Left-wing extremists confess to the attack on the house of Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz:

Action against home of the Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz in Hamburg as an international smoke sign

On 30.11.2018, the first summit day of the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, we threw paint on the house, Schillerstraße 26, where German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz lives in Hamburg, torching the police container parked in front of it and setting a smoke signal , We have used our funds responsibly and purposefully.
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source: indymedia
https://de.indymedia.org/node/26432
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