U.S. media mum on the big reason for Paris riots

This is about the fourth week of the riots in France. The lamestream media would have you believe it's about the price of gas and the cost of living going up, but that's simply only part of the truth.

The big reason, the final straw that broke the camel's back and was the catalyst to people rioting in the streets, was French President Macron's outrageous "anti-Climate Change" policies. That is, putting another tax on top of those that already exist, for the use of carbon fuels.

Obama wanted to do the same.

CNN and CBS apparently have no idea what sparked these protests and riots, but Global News of Canada was somewhat more honest, writing:

Macron’s government has imposed several climate change-related fuel taxes in recent months — including another slated to take effect in January. Macron says the taxes are meant to encourage drivers to exchange diesel-fueled vehicles for more environmentally-friendly models, but many middle-class French citizens say the taxes are squeezing them to the breaking point.

There were over 400 arrests over the weekend, and more than 200 people were injured, including police.

French citizens, wearing the now ubiquitous yellow safety vests (which residence of France are required, by law, to keep in their vehicles for emergencies) marched down the Champs-Élysées, a high-end shopping and restaurant district in central Paris.

Although Macron's new efforts to combat "climate change" and reduce his country's dependence on "fossil fuels" by punishing those who use it with having to fork over more money is not the only reason for the protests, but it definitely got the French off their derrieres and out onto the streets. Many brought along books of matches.

The French had already been hit with a tax increase in January. Over 60 percent of the cost of fuel in France comes from government taxes.

But if you ask CNN or CBS, the riots are simply shrouded in mystery.

CBS simply refused to discuss the taxes altogether.

So @CBSEveningNews went through a whole segment on the Paris riots without mentioning that they are riots against taxes to curb global warming.

— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) December 2, 2018

CNN spent hundreds of words diddy-bopping around the tax issue before arguing that France's protesters were mistaken: the price of fuel in France went up because the price of oil has gone up globally.

"Rising fuel prices are largely attributed to a leap in the wholesale price of oil worldwide," CNN claimed smugly.

Strangely enough, the protests span both the "metropolitan elite" and the "rural poor." Smaller protests have also broken out across the French countryside, and those demonstrators are very clear on why they've taken to the streets: Macron's "anti-Climate Change" policies have created an unfair burden on French people across the financial spectrum.

Reuters and other, more global news organizations, like Global News, fared better in their coverage, accepting that Macron's efforts to curb fuel consumption may have gone a step too far.

The American media would love to see iron-fist control by the government to "save the world" with taxpayers' money.

Macron is getting desperate to quell the situation in the streets of France, especially in Paris. He announced that he'd consider taking drastic measures, but didn't spell out what that would entail.

If he has all 75,000 protesters arrested, where would he put them all?


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