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    20 arrested in French taxi driver, air traffic controller, teacher protests (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

    Published time: 26 Jan, 2016 10:51
    Edited time: 26 Jan, 2016 15:29


    Anti-riot policemen arrive as taxi drivers block the traffic with a fire during a demonstration against the VTC (transport vehicle with chauffeur) on January 26, 2016 on the ringroad (peripherique) at porte Maillot in Paris. © Thomas Samson / AFP


    Taxi drivers in France are blockading roads with burning tires in protest at the low-cost Uber app, resulting in at least 20 arrests. Air traffic controllers are also staging a demonstration, leading to dozens of canceled flights.

    At least 20 arrests had already been made by 10 a.m. local time, following taxi driver protests around major cities including Paris and Marseille.

    Drivers blocked roads with burning tires, prompting the arrival of riot police and firefighters. Some drivers had set pre-dawn bonfires which authorities had to put out.

    Hundreds of taxis, joined by a few from Belgium and Spain, blocked a massive intersection leading into western Paris, causing huge disruption to the area.

    Dozens of drivers tried to march from Porte Maillot intersection on to an eight-lane road, but police pushed the back with tear gas.

    Drivers also staged ‘go slows’ on roads, causing major traffic jams.

    One taxi driver was injured when a shuttle bus at Orly Airport forced its way through a blockade. Other drivers then threw stones at the windows, forcing passengers to get off the bus and walk.

    The protesters threw firecrackers in front of the Palais des Congrès de Paris at Porte Maillot.

    Activists from the taxi drivers’ trade union shouted slogans such as “Left to die economically, will die at Porte Maillot.”

    Prime Minister Manuel Valls has condemned the “unacceptable” violence during the protests.

    "There is a right to protest... even during a state of emergency," he said on Tuesday. "But violence is unacceptable."

    Following a meeting with representatives of taxi drivers’ organizations in Magtignon on Tuesday, Valls announced that a government mediator will be appointed to resolve the economic crisis that has hit the sector.



    There were also blockades around Charles de Gaulle Airport.

    Meanwhile, protesters in Paris at Porte Maillot have expressed their intentions to stay all night, according to RT France correspondent Malik Acher.

    The taxi drivers are protesting over working conditions and competition from non-traditional services such as Uber.

    Uber drivers "vandalize professionals who are paying taxes, who respect the rules," Rachid Boudjema, president of the taxi drivers union in Marseille, told AP.

    In response to the protests, Uber sent a message to its French customers which said that the goal of the demonstrations was “to put pressure on the government to...limit competition.”



    Meanwhile, a planned walkout from air traffic controllers prompted the French civil aviation authority, DGAC, to call on airlines to cancel one in five flights.

    EasyJet said it had cancelled 35 flights, although Air France said it would operate more than 80 percent of its short and medium-haul flights in France and Europe. It did, however, stress that “last-minute delays or cancellations cannot be ruled out."

    Social networks users denounced violence at the protests. Some people even urged a boycott of traditional taxis and to use Uber instead.

    Hundreds of thousands of civil servants and teachers also went on strike on Tuesday, protesting against a pay freeze and poor salaries. Teachers are scheduled to march in cities across the country on Tuesday afternoon.

    It's the newest challenge to Francois Hollande's Socialist government and its stop/start efforts to modernize the economy, in response to low economic growth and record-high unemployment. Earlier this month, Hollande announced what he called a “state of economic and social emergency,” involving a €2 billion (US$2.1 billion) plan to revive hiring and catch up with the world’s economy.

    The protests come just one day after French farmers demonstrated against the prices of dairy and meat products in the province of Brittany, blocking roads and burning tires. The farmers demanded that prices be increased because the proceeds from their sale don't cover the cost of production.

    Full article (i.e. with Tweets): https://www.rt.com/news/330156-franc...-taxi-workers/
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    France's Highways Descend Into "Chaos & Lawlessness"

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2016 10:45 -0500


    Via GEFIRA,
    While the media attention is directed to the refugee crisis in Germany, France’s highways in Normandy are descending into complete chaos and lawlessness.

    France’s rule of law has ceased to exists in the area around Calais. In Europe highways used to be inaccessible to pedestrian traffic. Nowadays in France immigrants are wandering on the highways, and trucks are being stormed, which has become the “new normal”. As the events are unfolding in France, European mainstream media are ignoring them. Calais has had a migrant problem for more than 10 years, but since last year the situation has been deteriorating rapidly. The governments in Paris, London and Brussels have completely lost control, they are not able to maintain the rule of law and they are miserably failing to protect their citizens.

    European and especially English politicians have tried to solve the problem by punishing the victims. European truckers, already at the bottom of the earning pyramid, can be fined up to half of their annual salary when refugees manage to get aboard their trucks.

    According to the Telegraph:
    Quote “In one case, a lorry driver was issued with a £19,500 fine, despite calling police when he discovered around a dozen people inside his trailer while driving on the M25.

    The number of fines issued to hauliers for “clandestine entrants” has more than tripled in just three years, new figures show, with drivers facing on the spot fines of up to £2,000 for each person found inside their vehicles.”
    Thanks to the endless spots on youtube those who live outside France can get an idea of what is going on:

    The situation on the highways in Normandy, France, December 2015 and January 2016.

    December 2015
    December 2015
    December 2015
    January 2016
    January 2016
    January 2016
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    France's Highways Descend Into "Chaos & Lawlessness"

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2016 10:45 -0500


    Via GEFIRA,
    While the media attention is directed to the refugee crisis in Germany, France’s highways in Normandy are descending into complete chaos and lawlessness.

    France’s rule of law has ceased to exists in the area around Calais. In Europe highways used to be inaccessible to pedestrian traffic. Nowadays in France immigrants are wandering on the highways, and trucks are being stormed, which has become the “new normal”. As the events are unfolding in France, European mainstream media are ignoring them. Calais has had a migrant problem for more than 10 years, but since last year the situation has been deteriorating rapidly. The governments in Paris, London and Brussels have completely lost control, they are not able to maintain the rule of law and they are miserably failing to protect their citizens.

    European and especially English politicians have tried to solve the problem by punishing the victims. European truckers, already at the bottom of the earning pyramid, can be fined up to half of their annual salary when refugees manage to get aboard their trucks.

    According to the Telegraph:
    Quote “In one case, a lorry driver was issued with a £19,500 fine, despite calling police when he discovered around a dozen people inside his trailer while driving on the M25.

    The number of fines issued to hauliers for “clandestine entrants” has more than tripled in just three years, new figures show, with drivers facing on the spot fines of up to £2,000 for each person found inside their vehicles.”
    Thanks to the endless spots on youtube those who live outside France can get an idea of what is going on:

    The situation on the highways in Normandy, France, December 2015 and January 2016.

    December 2015
    December 2015
    December 2015
    January 2016
    January 2016
    January 2016
    it truly feels like a war zone, those migrants throwing stones to truck drivers and stopping any possible trafic on the highway. This is scary stuff. No women there by the way.
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    Prime Minister Valls Pledges Permanent State of Emergency in France

    By Stéphane Hugues and Alex Lantier
    Global Research, January 26, 2016
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    On Friday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reaffirmed initial Socialist Party (PS) statements after the November 13 terror attacks in Paris carried out by the Islamist State (IS, or Daesh), that the current state of emergency in France must be made permanent.

    In an interview with the BBC while attending the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, Valls proclaimed that France is waging all-out war with IS. “As long as the threat is there, we must use all available means,” he said, adding that the state of emergency must stay in place “until we can get rid of Daesh”.

    He continued,
    Quote “In Africa, in the Middle East, in Asia we must eradicate, eliminate Daesh, it is a total and global war that we face with terrorism. … We will have to live for decades or for many years with this menace or this threat and that’s why it’s a war. There are many generations that will have to live with this and the crisis will have to be managed in north Africa and the Middle East.”
    The implications of Valls’ statements are staggering. Like Egypt, now ruled as a military dictatorship by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a personal friend of President François Hollande, France is to be run under a permanent state of emergency lasting generations, perhaps forever. According to Valls’ statement, the French people have effectively lost fundamental social and democratic rights guaranteed to them by the French Constitution.

    As if in a slow-motion coup d’état, the ruling elite is moving to transform political life in France, creating an authoritarian regime. Under the state of emergency, public protests are banned, there is no guarantee of freedom of the press or freedom of assembly, and no judicial oversight of arbitrary searches and seizures carried out by police. Already, the government banned protests against the COP21 ecological summit in Paris after the November 13 attacks and put the organizers under house arrest.

    Police can enter anyone’s house, search without warrants, and arrest people on mere suspicion that they are a threat to public order. The state has sentenced Goodyear workers to prison for striking and struggling to defend their jobs, even after Goodyear itself dropped all charges against them.

    The arguments provided by Valls to justify the indefinite suspension of democratic rights are a pack of lies. IS (Daesh) is not an unstoppable foe that poses an existential threat to the French Republic and to the French people, leaving the French state no choice but to suspend democratic rights in order to safeguard the very survival of the French people.

    IS is, in fact, a political asset of the ruling class of France and of all the major NATO countries. It is a militia operating in Iraq and Syria, financed and backed by key French allies in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, as part of the regime change operation to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

    This organisation emerged from wars launched under Hollande’s predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, who played a central role in pressing for a war, ultimately led by all the NATO powers, against Libya. The NATO powers, led by the United States, France and Britain, encouraged Islamist fighters to come to Libya to act as proxy ground forces whilst they provided aerial bombardments. Many of these Islamist forces were then dispatched from Libya to Syria, as the spearhead of the NATO war for regime in Syria.

    Valls’ claim that France and its allies are engaged in total, global war with IS does not hold water. Rather, IS and the reactionary attacks it has carried out in France are being invoked as a pretext to push through vast attacks.

    As late as last year, Hollande insisted that France would only attack IS in Iraq—where Paris had joined Washington in bombing IS in 2013 to prevent IS from toppling the US puppet regime in Baghdad—so as to avoid weakening opposition to Assad by attacking IS in Syria.

    In his February 5, 2015 press conference after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Hollande explained that France would not bomb IS forces in Syria, but only Iraq. He said, “It is in Iraq that we direct our efforts. Why? Because it is in Iraq that there is a state, sovereignty, and army that can struggle against IS and ensure the reconquest of lost territory.”

    That is, Hollande was willing to shield and rely upon IS as a tool of various twists and turns of French and NATO policy against Assad. When IS emerges as a domestic policy issue, however, the PS suddenly insists France is engaged in an all-out war on IS in which no democratic right can be allowed to stand in the way of the assertion of state power.

    The claim that the assault on democratic rights is primarily a response to the IS’ terror attacks is a political fraud. This assault is the response of the French ruling class to the worsening class and geo-strategic contradictions of international capitalism, preparing above all for war against the working class.

    As a presidential candidate, Hollande said his enemy was “finance”, but once in power, he has pushed for austerity and war on every front. While collaborating with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to impose deeper austerity on the Greek people, he launched wars across Africa and the Middle East and worked closely with the Obama administration to threaten Russia. Social inequality is reaching explosive levels, and Hollande had to admit last year that France now found itself on the brink of “total war” with Russia.

    Besides the danger of a major international war waged with nuclear weapons, Hollande fears social anger developing in the working class under conditions where the PS and its political and trade union satellites are thoroughly discredited. The response of the PS has been to dub Hollande a “war president” and a conscious turn towards military and authoritarian forms of rule within France.

    During the French invasion of Mali in 2013, French presidential advisors at the Elysée told Le Point that they were hoping for a “Falklands effect.” While the war was presented to the public as part of a struggle against Islamist terrorism, the PS’ main concern was to shift official public opinion far to the right, so as to be able to impose a drastic austerity program.

    Pointing to the similarities between the Falkland Island (Malvinas) war and French imperialism’s wars today, Le Point journalist Anna Cabana wrote:
    Quote “When the Argentine troops landed on the Falklands in 1982, Margaret Thatcher decided to reply militarily. The Iron Lady [Margaret Thatcher], deeply unpopular at the time due to her drastic free-market reform policies, embarked Britain on a military adventure that ensured her re-election in 1983.”
    The PS’ incendiary and politically criminal policy of launching wars of aggression in an attempt to anti-democratically impose anti-working class policies at home has failed, however. The looting of much of Africa and the Middle East did not make PS austerity any more popular, and social and international tensions have only grown since 2013.

    Unable to win over the masses of working people, the French ruling class is preparing to stake everything on a ruthless attempt to repress them.


    The original source of this article is World Socialist Web Site
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    Belgian security was aware of Paris attackers’ terror cell since 2012 - report

    Published time: 26 Jan, 2016 12:46


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    Belgian security services knew about the terrorist cell responsible for the fatal Paris attacks in November 2015 for over three years, local paper reports.

    Brussels-based Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) newspaper claims to have come in possession of a security service paper dating April 2012, which indicated some suspicious activity in an apartment in the Brussels district of Molenbeek.

    The officers recorded residents discussing possible attacks against Western democracy and ways to acquire explosives and weapons. The cell members also traveled to Syria several times, the paper says.

    The apartment belonged to Gelel Attar, currently in detention over suspicion of being directly involved in Paris terror attacks on November 13 last year.

    Attar was considered to be the right hand of recruiter Khalid Zerkani, who sent two other Paris attackers to Syria, including the assault’s coordinator Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Zerkani is reported to have been present at the Molenbeek apartment meetings in 2012, however Belgian security hesitated to arrest him as it would result in shutting down Zerkani’s network, HLN says.

    Attar, a Belgian of Moroccan origin, was apprehended in the town of Mohammedia near Casablanca, Morocco, on January 15, after traveling through Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, media report.

    The alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) member was detained on an international arrest warrant, issued after he was convicted in absentia last year and sentenced to five years of prison for participation in the activities of a terrorist group by Belgian court, Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor, said as cited by local media. However he expressed doubt that Attar will be extradited to Belgium, as Morocco does not normally surrender its nationals.


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    Mod action notice thread indicates "retired at her request". I've no idea what happened, and a tad bit surprised ... c'est la vie.
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    Mod action notice thread indicates "retired at her request". I've no idea what happened, and a tad bit surprised ... c'est la vie.
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    Probably she was upset that, there was no women at the demonstration.
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    Related material.


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    Is there any translation that anyone knows of, of the angry Hungarian trucker's rant?

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    Ça cest typique pour les Parisiens. They prefer to strike and riot instead of working. Just kidding. but I've lived there and the situation is critique. take it with humor and love is the only way. (Y)

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    France justice minister quits over terrorism bill

    Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:54PM
    France’s outgoing Justice Minister Christiane Taubira

    The French justice minister has stepped down in protest at the government’s controversial plan to strip convicted French-born terrorists of their citizenship if they have a second nationality.

    Christiane Taubira announced her resignation in a tweet on Wednesday, saying, "Sometimes to resist means staying, sometimes resisting means leaving.”

    The minister from French Guiana became France's most senior black politician when she was named to the portfolio in 2012.

    Taubira's resignation came just hours before a parliament commission debate on the contentious proposal, including a range of measures for convicted terrorists that would go from depriving them of the right to vote and the right to become a civil servant, to revoking their citizenship.

    French President Francois Hollande called for the measures to be written into the constitution after terror attacks in and around the French capital city of Paris on November 15, 2015. Some 130 people lost their lives and 350 others were injured in the assaults claimed by Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

    Presenting the bill, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reassured that France would respect its obligations under international law preventing people from becoming stateless.

    Taubira had criticized the plan, calling it discriminatory and useless in preventing the radicalization of French citizens.

    Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the president of parliamentary committee in charge of reviewing the legislation, was named as the new justice minister.

    Following the Paris attacks, France has been under a state of emergency, giving authorities extra powers to keep people in their homes without trial and search houses without judicial approval.
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    Angry farmers wreak havoc in French motorways over low EU agro-prices

    Published time: 28 Jan, 2016 15:34

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    ...

    Next False Flag: Tunisia?

    Staff at Paris airport angry after finding fake bombs ordered by American embassy

    19 hours ago

    The exercise was called “irresponsible”.



    Air France planes at Charles De Gaulle.Image: AP/Press Association Images

    A SECURITY EXERCISE gone wrong saw tempers flare in a Paris airport, after fake explosive devices were discovered by FedEx workers in a ripped package, sources told AFP.

    Employees of the American courier service at Charles de Gaulle airport were shocked to find a pressure cooker filled with nuts and bolts inside a package in transit from the US to Tunisia.

    On further inspection they discovered a container of other similar devices, along with what appeared to be detonators, said Frederic Petit, who represents the company’s employees for the CGT union.

    The staff alerted authorities of “imminent danger,” and officials arrived to test the device using sniffer dogs and X-ray machines.

    A security source at the airport said the devices were actually decoys bound for the US embassy in Tunisia that were being used for a training exercise.

    “This type of delivery is not common, but sometimes takes place,” the source told AFP. “This is just the first time that a package has been opened.”

    But Petit slammed the exercise as “irresponsible,” given the heightened security concerns since the Paris attacks in November, when jihadists killed 130 people.

    “Nobody was aware of this cargo,” he said, adding that FedEx employees want to see such parcels banned from transit through France.

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    Hmmm... "fake" bombs with real pressure cookers filled with real nuts and real bolts... en route to an American embassy in Tunisia... I guess they needed some "Made-in-somewhere" pressure cookers for their next False Flag?
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    Thousands [20,000] march to protest state of emergency in France

    Published time: 31 Jan, 2016 10:59
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    Thousands of people marched in 70 French cities, including Paris, to demand immediate action to stop France's ongoing state of emergency and openly voice outrage over government plans to revoke the French citizenship of dual nationals, many of them Muslims, convicted of terrorism.

    Up to 20,000 protesters – many of them members of human rights groups, political parties and trade unions – took part in a peaceful protest in Paris on Saturday, RTL reported the organizers as saying.

    According to police estimates, some 5,500 people gathered in the heart of the French capital, between Place de la République and the Palais-Royal, holding banners that read: “State of emergency, police state” and "My France of liberties, where are you?"

    "I am here to protest against the state of emergency and against the deprivation of nationality for dual nationals. That's important because we saw a lot of drifts during the state of emergency, some rallies were prohibited, some people were arrested just for protesting peacefully. That shocks me," one activist told RT's Ruptly video agency.

    "The state is allowing itself to take absolutely catastrophic decisions for the life and future of liberty of France," Youssef Boussoumah, member of the Indigenes de la Republique party, said.

    One woman at the Paris rally, referring to Islamic State, told RTL: “The state of emergency is until when? The end of Daesh? 10 years? Never?”

    Another participant, Grenut Louise, a student, told Le Monde:"They impose this state of emergency on us by pure political calculation, the government has no other card to play, except for the security-related one.”

    “It is cynical to play on our fears to impose this state of permanent exception when we already have laws and means to fight terrorism," she added.

    The state of emergency was meant to be used “in the worst moments of our history,” another protester, Adrien, and his girlfriend, Valentine, told the French daily, adding that this makes it an additional reason to protest against the measure's renewal.

    "Democracy is moving backwards ... at the expense of judges and the rule of law, freedom to demonstrate and [freedom] of expression," Jean-Baptiste Eyrault, of the Right to Housing movement, told AP.

    Green party lawmaker Noel Mamere, who also took part in the protest, reportedly noted that the state of emergency eventually gives rise to "a society under surveillance."

    Up to 3,000 people took part in a similar protest in Bordeaux, the organizers said; 1,800 in Toulouse (1,300 according to police); 1,000 in Nantes (800 according to police), AFP reported. Demonstrations also reportedly occurred in Strasbourg, Auxerre, Bayonne, Metz, Nancy, Nice, Nimes, Montpellier, Limoges, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne and Montauban.

    Meanwhile, according to the latest poll for Atlantico, as many as 79 percent of French people support the prolongation of the state of emergency for three more months.

    A report published by two French senators, Alain Fouche and Francois Bonhomme, earlier this month revealed their fears that Islamist jihadists could blend in with the homeless population on the Paris metro to carry out terrorist attacks on the French capital’s transport system.

    "Terrorists can get in by blending with the homeless people who sleep in the metro at night, then seize the opportunity to carry out any number of attacks," they wrote, France Bleu reported.

    On Wednesday, the Cabinet plans to review a measure to prolong the state of emergency, imposed in France after the November 13 Paris attacks in which Islamic State militants killed 130 people and injured 350 more. Last week, a French high court upheld the measure, saying the danger is “still there.”

    The state of emergency gives more power to police and administrative authorities, allowing house arrest and searches without warrants, along with other measures. The current state of emergency runs until February 26.

    Opponents of another controversial plan – to revoke citizenship for dual nationals convicted of terrorism – said the move would only boost racism. “It's a racist measure which tells us that some [people] are more French that others,” one protester told RTL.

    Many dual nationals are Muslims, who say they have been recently made the scapegoats for IS attacks.

    Earlier this week, French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, an outspoken critic of government plans to strip French nationality from dual-citizens convicted of terrorism, resigned. Shortly after her resignation was announced, Taubira wrote on Twitter: "Sometimes you remain in place to resist. Sometimes resisting means you go. Out of loyalty to oneself, to us. For the last word in ethics and law.”

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    She told iTele news channel in early January that she was strongly against plans to revoke the French citizenship of dual nationals, saying it's “not desirable.”


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    I appreciate those PA members from Europe posting about what is happening.

    Serious stuff.

    Mainstream in amerika won't touch it and alternative is all over the map.


    It will be here soon enough ... open borders, government bussing immigrants deep into the country and (allegedly ... albeit with private vid evidence) UPS flying in undocumented people with no checks whatsoever)


    I expect it will be more of a "big event" here as "they" position all the players into place.


    Already have the UN pieces after the Jade Helm AI march to dominating the human domain ...
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    More news not reported: the effect of the refugee crisis on the settled migrants from earlier generations.

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    First plane has departed from Zaventem taking back 100 asylum seekers to Iraq, by their own volition. Apparently they miscalculated the Eldorado of Europe and Belgium*, says the Minister for Asylum and Migration, Mr. Francken.

    Yes, Mr. Francken, this is truly an accomplishment, that we, the one and only civilised party in this story, have brought people who were seeking refuge from the terror of war thusfar that they will now accept a return to the same situation they fled but came to deem better than what we could offer them according to our much-prided humanitarian values. Bravo, Monsieur le Ministre!





    *Literal translation: They are disappointed in El Dorado Europe en Belgium as the land of milk and honey.
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    ‘Wrong' Maidan: Ukraine demands that France’s Canal+ TV take hard-hitting documentary off air

    Published time: 1 Feb, 2016 08:26
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    Police officers and opposition supporters are seen on Maidan Nezalezhnosti square in Kiev, where clashes began between protesters and the police, February 19, 2014. © Andrey Stenin / Sputnik


    Ukraine’s authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled “Masks of Revolution” off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events, and have a list of their own suggestions for what needs to be shown.

    The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in their facebook statement went as far as to urge Canal+ TV to overhaul their editorial policy.

    The film is scheduled to be shown on February 1.

    “Paul Moreira strips the masks of modern-day Ukraine and carries out an investigation on the firing line of the new 'Cold War' between the East and the West,” the synopsis posted on the Canal+ website reads.

    The film is a special investigation carried out by Paul Moreira, which covers the events in Ukraine over 2014: the far-right radical groups allegedly backed by the US, as well as the deadly violence in the southern Ukrainian town of Odessa.

    Ukrainian authorities say that Moreira’s Masks of Revolution is “deception” and not an example of “media pluralism,” as it provides a “misrepresented view on the situation in Ukraine.”

    "The version of events in the Ukraine offered in the film is pleasing to the ears of conspiracy theories’ supporters and of pro-Russian propagandists. This pamphlet is a documentary made in the worst tradition of misinformation,” the statement adds.

    The diplomats went on to urge Canal+ “to reconsider the possibility of airing the film on TV.”

    Also, the embassy gave a list of suggestions about what the French broadcaster should show about 2014 Maidan events, “hoping that one day these movies will be presented on Canal +”

    The filmmaker, Paul Moreira, has responded to the accusations, saying his film was “contrary to the commonly accepted narrative” but the reaction still shocked him.

    “I knew I was going to meet a strong opposition, would be accused of playing into the hands of Putin, of using elements of propaganda. I didn’t expect to meet such denial, bordering on hysteria… I was called a ‘terrorist’ in the pay of the Russian secret services. [They are] urging that the film be banned.

    “Even the Ukrainian ambassador pressured Canal Plus. That is what surprises me the most. For it seems to me that Ukraine must urgently raise the question of these paramilitary groups. They are, as stated in the film, the greatest threat to Ukrainian democracy.”
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    Yes, let's practice persecution to the point of causing even the most moderate amongst us to by pushed past the point of becoming radicalized. Then we can easily justify furthering our police powers, so the elites we serve can feel more secure while driving the rest of society to live in fear. Pshaw!

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