Ahh, the smell of effective civic action in the morning. Gilet jaun slowing down? Getting a little weary on the weeknds? Just stay home. Effective? You bet - when millions of public transport workers and others all stay home on the same day, just as truckies have been barricading the oil refineries and other choke points, you got yerself a shutdown of Western France. Yee haw muffas :D France Paralyzed By Largest General Strike In Decades https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-paralyzed-largest-general-stri... ... On the fist day of the strike, parts of Paris resembled a ghost town during what are typically busy morning-commute hours. Roads were empty, and train stations were deserted, according to the Times of London. The biggest industrial action of Macron's tenure is, so far, staggering in scale: 50% of French teachers are off work, nine out of ten trains were cancelled and eleven of the fourteen underground lines in Paris are closed. A total of 245 separate demonstrations have been announced across France as students, firefighters, healthcare workers and others joining in. Strikes at Air France forced a wave of flight cancellations, leaving thousands of travelers scrambling for a workaround. Air France cancelled 30% of its domestic flights and 10% of international short- and medium-haul flights on Thursday, RT reports. Millions of workers are staying home. In Paris, some resorted to bikes, skateboards or walking in the bitter cold as 90% of the trains in the country were closed. ...