Former Soros associate: Wilders and Le Pen elected, then chaos in the EU and global markets

[Ashy67]

Posted by TargeT (here)

Posted by ghostrider (here)
So many are so angry ,

Seemingly, (in the US anyway) only about half though.

I hate to get all "left / right"

But... doesn't it seem like only the "leftist" are angry for the most part?

it's like a complete role reversal.. the "right" is the peaceful calm ones this time, the right is (as always) supporting the status quo; but this time they are the less extreme (no abortion clinic bombings, no evangelic riots...)

And in Europe it's the "leftists" (socialists / Marxists) who are having a fit "GLOBALISM IS ENDING >>CHAOS WILL ENSURE<<" ....

I hope this panic is a good sign for "us" others.

I agree TargeT, here in the UK the socialists and the liberals are anti leaving the EU (the liberals even want another referendum) but it seems the Conservative right have got behind leaving in unity. The Labour Party are split and the leader has forced them to vote for triggering article 50 (the mechanism for leaving) but several disobeyed him. The political classes know that there would be trouble if they tried to water down the vote to leave. Then over in the US Trump staggers everyone and wins the presidency triggering demonstrations against him. Would there have been the the same demonstrations if Clinton would have won ? ? I have noticed that the press on both sides of the pond are biased for the status quo which tells me that the elite are beginning to worry. Despite all their efforts they are losing power. Politics has always lurched from right to left a bit like a ship rolling on the ocean but this time the cargo has shifted and the ship is lurching even more,the cargo being the populist vote so now anything can happen. People are more polarised now than for many years, I just hope that this is not a plan by the elites to allow chaos and devision so that they can come in with a solution and try to regain control.

[Hervé]

"Crimea was always Russian!": Marine Le Pen slams CNN

Sergey Gladysh The Duran
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:33 UTC

Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader. © Jacky Naegelen / Reuters

In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, France's National Front party leader and presidential front-runner, Marine Le Pen, said that Crimea was always Russian.

CNN's Christiane Amanpour didn't look too happy while interviewing France's presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen over the weekend. Amanpour interrupted Le Pen 5 times in a 3-minute segment and was clearly irritated by her objections to the fake news narrative on Ukraine and Crimea.

Here is how the conversation went:

Amanpour: Does it not bother you that a big country broke international law and invaded and annexed a small country?

Le Pen: There was a coup d'etat in Ukraine...(interrupted)

Amanpour: That's what you think?

Le Pen: It's not just what I think, it's the reality. There was a coup d'etat. There was an agreement among different nations and the next day this agreement was broken and some people took power...(interrupted)

Amanpour: After the invasion and the annexation...Yes!

Le Pen: There was no invasion of Crimea...(interrupted)

Amanpour: But they [Russia] annexed Crimea! It was part of Ukraine! And the French were part of the deal that guaranteed the independence of Ukraine in 1994.

Le Pen: Crimea was Russian. It has always been Russian...(interrupted)

Amanpour: So it's fine for you, though? You're okay with it?

Le Pen: The people [of Crimea] feel Russian. The people decided by a great majority that they wanted to belong to Russia. So we can't be democratic when it suits us and then reject democracy when you don't like it...(interrupted)

Amanpour: So you support lifting the sanctions? I'm trying to ask you that. Or should they be conditional to the implementation of the ceasefire agreement known as the Minsk accord?

Le Pen: The sanctions are completely stupid. They have not solved any problems. they haven't improved the situation at all. All they have done is create major economic problems for the EU. They're meaningless. Maybe we need to step down? Would we have better peace in the world if we could step back? The President of the United States, the President of Russia could end the Cold War, no one else.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p_XeQs5n5js

[Hervé]

Former French president Sarkozy faces trial over illegal campaign financing

Alex McGuiness Sky News
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:33 UTC

© Sky News Sarkozy lost the 2012 election to Francois Hollande.

Nicolas Sarkozy is to stand trial over allegations of illegally financing his failed 2012 re-election bid, according to reports.

The prosecution claims the former French president went over the €22.5m (£19.4m) spending limit by using false billing from a public relations firm called Bygmalion.

A judicial source told Reuters that 13 others would also face trial over the affair, which has involved charges of spending overruns and funding irregularities. Another told AFP that one of the two judges in charge of the case, Serge Tournaire, decided last week that it should go to trial after the failure of Sarkozy's legal efforts to prevent it in December.

Bygmalion allegedly charged €18.5m (£15.9m) to Mr Sarkozy's UMP party, which has since been renamed the Republicans, instead of billing his campaign. Company executives have acknowledged the existence of fraud and false accounting, and the trial will focus on whether Mr Sarkozy himself was aware of what was going on.

When questioned by police in September 2015, Mr Sarkozy said he did not remember being warned about the accounting and described the controversy as a "farce".

The 61-year-old, who was nicknamed the "bling-bling" president for his displays of wealth, has been fighting legal problems on a number of fronts since losing the 2012 contest to Francois Hollande.

After initially retiring from politics, Mr Sarkozy returned to lead the Republicans and sought the party's nomination to run for president in this year's election. In a surprise result, he was eliminated in the first round of the primary contest, trailing behind the eventual winner Francois Fillon and former prime minister Alain Juppe.

The decision comes as French politicians face growing scrutiny of their personal finances in the run-up to the presidential election in April and May. Only one other president - Jacques Chirac - has been tried in France's fifth republic, which was founded in 1958.

He [Jacques Chirac] was given a two-year suspended prison sentence in 2011 over a fake job scandal.

[uzn]

loosely related:
Meanwhile in Romania People are protesting and going to the streets against their corrupt Goverment and are demanding it´s Resignation

It sais : Romania wake up !



Source:
http://time.com/4660860/romania-prot...ption-problem/

[Ashy67]

Posted by uzn (here)
loosely related:
Meanwhile in Romania People are protesting and going to the streets against their corrupt Goverment and are demanding it´s Resignation

It sais : Romania wake up !



Source:
http://time.com/4660860/romania-prot...ption-problem/

I think there is a populist uprising around the world at the moment, we are indeed living in interesting times.

[Hervé]

French Presidential Candidate Le Pen Warns EU Must ‘Change or Die’

Sputnik Politics14:02 09.02.2017

© Sputnik/ Ramil Sitdikov

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen cautioned Brussels on Thursday it must ease the grip on member states or collapse, in an interview with the British broadcaster BBC.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Speaking with the BBC for the documentary "After Brexit: the Battle for Europe," she praised the UK decision to quit. She described it as a choice for state border control, "economic patriotism" and "intelligent protectionism." "I think the European Union must fundamentally change or it will die," the leader of the far-right National Front (FN) party said.

Le Pen is expected to make it into the final round of this year’s presidential election where she is likely to compete against Francois Fillon of the center-right party The Republicans. She has been advocating an EU exit and return to the national currency.

[Hervé]

More details via RT:

Marine Le Pen declares 'Euro is not a currency, it's a political weapon'

RT Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:24 UTC

© Jacky Naegelen / Reuters

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, who has been calling the country to leave the eurozone and give up the euro, has described the single currency as "a knife which the EU puts into the backs of the people."

In an interview with the BBC, she talked about her vision for the future of Europe after this year's elections in France, Germany and the Netherlands, and the UK's Brexit vote.

According to Politico, Le Pen said the European Union should change radically and deeply, and abandon its authoritarian character, "or it will die."

When asked if France leaving the eurozone would mean the end of the EU single currency, Le Pen said:

"Maybe, and so what? The euro isn't a currency, it's a political weapon. The euro is a knife which the EU puts into the backs of the people to force them to go where they don't want to go."

She also said that if the EU doesn't transfer powers back to Paris, there will be a French exit from the union or a so-called 'Frexit.'

"Either the EU gives French people back their territorial sovereignty, borders, control over their economy, control over their currency and the superiority of their laws, or I will say to the French people that we should leave the EU."

In a manifesto released last week, the leader of the National Front Le Pen said France should reconsider its relations with the European Union.

According to the 48-year-old candidate, the future French government should leave the eurozone, hold a Brexit-style referendum, levy taxes on foreign workers, lower the retirement age and increase some welfare benefits, while cutting income tax.

Earlier this month Le Pen pledged to introduce a new tax to prevent foreign employees being hired, claiming the money raised could be used for the French welfare system.

A new poll issued Thursday by research firm Harris Interactive shows Marine Le Pen will win the first round of France's presidential election in April, getting 24 percent of vote. Other polls indicated she will lose the runoff to Emmanuel Macron.


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Leave euro & vote Frexit: Le Pen unveils National Front manifesto

[Hervé]

French elite chose their new pawn, Emmanuel Macron, former Director of Banque Rothschild

By Cosimo February 10, 2017

The Short Version: In a shocker on Jan. 25, the French elite moved to destroy the right-wing candidate, François Fillon with a scandal that may be fake. The elite is clearing the way for their new pawn, Emmanuel Macron, a former Director of Banque Rothschild. Macron’s misdeeds are revealed here. The dissidents shine an unwanted light on the Macron-Rothschild connection and in return, the elite seemed to have gotten the police to put unspecified arrest charges against the well-known dissident Alain Soral. The FN will likely lose the second round of the elections. The Socialists, former pals of the elite, are running fourth in a field of four.

France: Scandal-Shock in the presidential race
Recall that in France, the April/May elections are for just the presidency. Legislative elections will follow in early June, but in the Fifth Republic, the President is extraordinarily powerful and the Senate and Chamber of Deputies are not.

On January 25, the French election campaign was thrown into turmoil when the oligarchs made it known that they had switched support to another candidate than the usual right-winger. Their tricks are quite visible now.

The background is that France’s globalist elites are in a panic. As elites elsewhere are also in a panic, really. Across Europe in 2017, voters are ready to kick out the oligarchy’s pawns with elections in France, Italy, Germany and perhaps Holland. American just elected an anti-globalist president. That’s Huuuge!!

In France, the oligarchy finds itself cornered, which only happens once or twice a century. The National Front is at record strength, as anti-elite as ever. The French elite enjoyed service from the utterly fraudulent “Socialist” Party since the summer of 1914, but in the last 5 years, the “Socialists” set new records for unpopularity and have little chance of winning elections any time soon, if ever.

Why the Elites Turned on Fillon
A casual observer might think the French oligarchs would be happy with François Fillon, a regular politician from the party now known as Les Républicains. That’s the old UMP, with a fresh name in 2015 but nothing else changed. Fillon was Prime Minister in the right-wing and very pro-American Sarkozy government, 2007-2012. Fillon was a safe bet if the polls can be believed, they showed him winning the second round of elections, the “knock-out round.”

This comes as a shock to people, especially outside France, but the oligarchs have rejected Fillon. A list of his “defects” reveal a stubborn French patriot who defends Christians and family values, who wants French-Russian friendship, and who is not a dyed-in-the-wool Europhile. This ordinary right-wing politician didn’t support the Maastrich Treaty which is a foundational document of the EU. That was 1992, and since then he rebuilt bridges with the Europhile elite, or so people thought. Fillon wants to end the sanctions and he’s also calling for an EU-Russian conference to work out new security arrangements. Fillion is also supportive of Syrian Christians, who have been a main target of the terrorists. In 2015, he spoke at a meeting of 1600 supporters of this endangered minority. (http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/fran...1939424_20.php)

It’s shocking how Christian churches have been so silent on this state-sponsored attack on their coreligionists. That silence means that Fillon has gone out on a limb in opposing the genocide of Christians because the US, France, Saudi Arabia, even Israel are up to their eyeballs in supporting the terrorists.

I could summarize it by quoting Gérard Bardy, current president of the Union de la Presse francophone-France (UPF) and an author of books on Charles De Gaulle. “In my latest book, “De Gaulle was Right, – The Vissionary” (Ed. Télémaque), I do not hesitate to say that François is, to this day, the only heir to Gaullisme.” ( www.facebook.com/groups/161767340689246/ )

The oligarchs schemed quietly for two years to build a brand-new candidate to oppose Fillon, but the immediate trigger may have been an interview which Fillon gave to both Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, published January 22, so 3 days before January 25, when The Chained Duck quacked its bombshell allegation. ( http://www.lemonde.fr/international/...6975_3210.html )

January 25 the elite’s chosen date to rock France with this scandal. Le Canard Enchaîné claiming that Fillon, as a Senator put his wife and two adult children on his expense account as his aides. There is no doubt they were paid from his parliamentary expense account. This type of nepotism is common practice among French politicians on the left and on the right. The salaries are in the public record and it’s legal. This nepotism is only illegal if the relatives didn’t work to earn their salaries. At time of this writing, Fillon’s supporters claim there is no evidence he did anything illegal, and they say it’s all cooked up.

The oligarchs could have uncorked the scandal at any time in the last 20 years. They could have uncorked it before the LR primary of Nov. 20 and 27, which would have caused the victory of Nicholas Sarkozy. Why not December 1, after their favored candidate didn’t win ? The oligarchs were clever and disciplined. They waited out December and most of January so their scandal would gain the greatest effect. When Le Canard Enchaîné ran the scandal on Jan. 25, Les Républicains didn’t have enough time to replace Fillon with someone else. Alain Juppé, the runner-up in November understand what was afoot, that the oligarchs support Macron, so he ruled himself out of a second chance to be the LR candidate.

Even if the charge were true, it’s worth noting how artificial this scandal really is, because that artificiality reveals a deeper truth. This routine scandal has been magnified and allowed to be sat on, probably for many years, which would support a suspicion that the scandal was cooked up. It’s also crucial to keep the sense of scale. This scandal, if it’s true, cost French taxpayers €800,000 over ten years. By contrast, as we will see below, Macron’s scandal cost France at least €9 billion, so 100 times greater. The only way the oligarchs could inflate this relatively small account-padding into a career-destroying mega-story is because the elites own all of the mass media and have the power to turn any story into whatever size they want. This sizing is only partially based on the collective gullibility of their readers. Gullibility can be overcome with more repetition, as Goebbels noted in the 1940’s. To rephrase, compare €80,000 a year to the €14 billion a year revenues of Alstom’s power division, described below.

Emmanuel Macron, Director at Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild S.A.
When the oligarchs pushed out Fillon, it became undeniable that Macron is their man, but in fact the process to create Macron the Candidate started two years ago.

Who is Macron ?

Until he resigned on August 30, 2016, he was the «Ministre de l’Économie et des Finances» a second-tier post where he is best knows for a labor law which cuts salaries, allows employers to demand work on Sunday, and the usual right-wing stuff, but his greater importance is his contribution to the de-industrialization of France, where the giant, Alstom was sold off to its American rival GE for a song. But since Macron also spent years as a Director at Banque Rothschild, he became a puppet of the rich and powerful, and they can work magic and turn Macron into a temporary somebody.

Macron and his Rothschild connection is really bad news for the French. Here is why:
The last time the Rothschilds put a puppet into the presidential office, it was to overthrow the great President Charles De Gaulle, who had become anti-imperialist. At the time, all the American Lügenpresse told us was that he kicked NATO out of France. In reality, De Gaulle’s offenses were far greater. Few Americans know that he used the prestige of his office to oppose the US wars in Southeast Asia. His speech in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Sept. 1, 1966) is breathtaking in its deep and eloquent denunciation of the American Empire. A French transcript of that speech is at http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pag...embre-1966.php

The most important offense is that De Gaulle, as a French patriot, was not interested in a European Union where France would lose her sovereignty, and De Gaulle had managed to Make France Great Again with a strong economy based on industrial competitiveness. The cherry on the top was his remark that “Some people even feared that the Jews, until then scattered about, but who were still what they had always been, that is an elite people, sure of themselves and domineering, would, once assembled again on the land of their ancient greatness, turn into a burning and conquering ambition.” (press conference, Nov. 27, 1967 – in the wake of the 1967 War). The elites decided De Gaulle had to go.

The chosen tool was Georges Pompidou. Like Macron, Pompidou was a relative nobody, but he was a former Director-General of Banque Rothschild. Behind-the-scenes support was vital for Pompidou to stage an insider revolt against Charles De Gaulle. Once Pompidou became president, he gave La Banque de France over to private bankers in early 1973. Dissidents scathingly call the legislation «la Loi Pompidou, Giscard, Rothschild». Destroying the Bank Of France was a huge treason. From 1936-1973, the sovereign French government ran its Bank of France to serve the public. The government borrowed money for public works at little or no interest. Bank policies were designed to grow the economy. Public Banking. It was the key to creating “The Glorious Thirty”, the 30 years of postwar economic growth and prosperity (1945-1975). Stripping France of its national bank killed off that prosperity in a few short years.

So Pompidou stands as a great warning. When a Rothschild pawn is running for high office, the people should be very concerned about what comes next. Unfortunately, the French Lügenpresse swept all that under the rug and turned De Gaulle into first a bogeyman, and later a remote icon of history. The only people who bring to light how this is relevant today, and how France needs another De Gaulle are the French dissidents which I discuss below.

The French business press has mentioned that Macron was a Director of Banque Rothschild, but this is not much discussed. Only the dissidents give it the prominence it deserves.

The French public knows two big bad things about Macron. Alstom and the Macron Law which attacks labor. The third, the Rothschild connection lies hidden in plain view.

Because the Macron Law affects all working people in France, the polemics around it have attracted widespread attention. It allows top-down changes to labor contracts with the consent of whichever trade union represents 50% of the workers. It abolished the restrictions on Sunday work, an important item and a serious blow to family life – a strategic goal of anti-humanist liberals, since strong families are a basic protection against predatory capitalism. It ends the 35 hour work week and allow companies to demand 46 hours work for up to 12 weeks a year. This law is another attack on the working class, with the propaganda that it will increase employment.

Macron wrote this law, but in an endless string of frauds, the French media call it la Loi El Khomri even though El Khomri, the Labor Minister, didn’t help write it and seems to have opposed it. (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriam_El_Khomri) Macron says long and loud that he would have gone much further in this law, if political realities hadn’t restrained him.

The Alstom matter is more serious, really.

Macron’s role in the sell-off of Alstom is very strategic damage. It de-industrializes France.

With his portfolio in the “Socialist” government, Macron should have worked to prevent the sell-off of Alstom to GE. This stands as a second clear warning that Rothschild puppets can inflict serious damage.

Alstom was one of France’s few remaining high-tech dynamos, a key to French prosperity in the 21st Century. Nuclear reactors, high speed trains, electricity transmission, etc. GE has a similar set of industries, so the American giant offered to buy the nuclear power and electrical transmission part of Alstom for €12.35 billion, but not the train business. That was a paltry sum for businesses with an annual turnover of over €14 billion. Any businessman would understand GE’s initial offer as a fire sale price – but Alstom was not in distress. Even worse, after all the flim-flam such as a US Department Of “Justice” fine ($970 million) for bribing Indonesian officials, French share-holders ended up with less than €3.7 billion. French people made a public outcry and an effort to prevent losing this jewel, but to no avail. Macron should have prevented this catastrophe, and he did nothing because he’s a neoliberal with masters to please and – amazing at is seems – his French masters serve American masters. The American website, Counterpunch, ran a detailed story on Alstom two months ago, although it failed to highlight the role of Macron as the most responsible “Socialist” minster. Link:

Behind GE’s Takeover of Alstom Energy

Emmanuel Macron, the Candidate
In the last two years, the oligarchic press, the French Lügenpresse, has been trying to turn the nobody Macron into a major candidate, creating a big PR campaign. The French website Le Vent Se Leve (The Wind Rises) has a good short exposé at http://lvsl.fr/medias-ont-fabrique-candidat-macron “How The Medias Fabricated Macron The Candidate”.

The exposé note that more articles were published about Macron than all three of the other “Socialist” candidates combined, a peer group that included Hamonthe “Socialist” presidential candidate. Polling data from before this campaign started, in late 2014, shows only 6% of the public considered Macron as a serious candidate. The way the glossy press portrayed him, you’d think the 1970’s pop star, Johnny Halliday, was being created all over again. Minus the good mood music and the Ford Mustang driving-on-the-beach commercial, however.

In April 2016, Macron started a political movement,“En Marche”, and it was clear he was preparing for a presidential run and he was soliciting campaign money. When he resigned on Aug. 30, President Hollande called him “a methodical traitor” so the bridge to the “Socialist” Party was truly burned. What’s curious, so odd and artificial, is that Macron waited until November 16 to announce his run for the presidency. That delay indicates Macron has run a stealth campaign.

Macron’s ties to Rothschild are in the French media if you know to search it out, but the ties don’t get the prominence and the analysis that it should. The Lügenpresse describes Macron as an “independent centrist.” He is “independent” of everything – except the oligarchs. “Centrist”? Really ? No, this label is as meaningless in France as anywhere. There’s only one polite label for Macron; he is a neoliberal. That means fundamentalist capitalism where, without exaggeration, nothing matters except the accumulation of capital.

Alain Soral, the Dissident Who Must Be Silenced
The critical importance of the French dissidents is that they make the connection between Macron and Rothschild, as well as Pompidou to Rothschild. The dissidents are the only people in France who describe 1968 as a Color Revolution created by hidden networks, and the dissidents also lead the way in describing De Gaulle as a great patriot, when the mass media tries to paint him as an authoritarian nut, just some obscure old general. A lot hinges on how people evaluate “1968”. It was sold, then and now, as being spontaneous, anti-authoritarian, romantic, etc. It was a great sales job and only the dissidents unravel the marketing of “May, 1968”.

The dissidents are a major force in France. Their main power is word of mouth. They are sprinkled throughout France, at most income levels and ethnicities, so they can bend the ear of non-political French citizens. I estimate there are about 250,000 dissidents, and obviously Alain Soral one of the most prominent. The main dissident web site is egaliteetreconciliation.fr/ and it averages 144,000 unique visitors a day. Almost none of this is in English. This is French nationalism at work and one of their goals is preservation of French culture and French language.

If ever the French oligarchs needed to suppress the dissidents, it’s now. The arguments of the dissidents are strong, but their biggest obstacle has been the passivity of the French people. Passivity is ending in France as it is elsewhere. So the elite decided it was time to call in the police.

The French police have been trying to arrest Alain Soral since Thursday, Feb. 2. The police haven’t stated why they want to arrest him, but the leaders of the “Socialist” government have said in just so many words, that they want to permanently silence Soral and Dieudonné. To quote Valls, the recently departed prime minister, “Death! … Uh, I mean social death!” So yeah, the oligarchs want the dissidents silenced for the duration of the elections.

Soral and fellow dissidents have been on the receiving end of a concerted campaign of intimidation with arrests and trumped-up civil suits. This has been going on for a decade and it’s a case of attempted social death [murder] by a thousand cuts. It drains the dissidents of money and energy.

Unlike the US, France does not have free speech. Some topics can’t be discussed openly without fear of arrest. Comments which can be interpreted as racist, as “hate speech”, or as “supporting terrorism”, or merely as revisions of details from the official history of the Holocaust, or simply annoying a few well-connected Jews, are all prosecutable under French law. In the US, back in the old days when free speech was not all that free, we had gray zones for artistic license, for humor, and for speaking when reporters were not present. France never developed these gray zones because they had free speech from 1881 until the new laws of 1972 and 1990 slowly crept up on them.

One example can give you an idea how this works. Dieudonné, an Afro-French humorist fills large halls at all his performances, at 50 Euro a ticket. He’s extremely talented, insightful, and his humor is gentle and fierce. This is all too dangerous and subversive. For a Facebook posting, he was sentenced to 200 days in jail or 30,000 Euros fine, reduced on appeal to 2 months or 10,000 Euros. After the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, he posted, «Je me sens Charlie Coulibaly.» “I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” It was a hybrid name. Charlie for Charlie-Hebdo, the humor magazine where the victims had worked. Like Dieudonné , they had been humorists, and Dieudonné understood that not everyone likes funny men. Coulibaly, supposedly one of the terrorists, was AfroFrench. Well, Dieudonné is Afro-French, too. Dieudonné said he was trying to do the Christian thing and to lovingly reconcile these two opposites which he said he also finds within himself. He told the court that he “condemned the terrorist attack, holding back nothing, and without any ambiguity.” The upshot is that in France, the government decides what’s funny.

Soral’s Views On The Election
In an interview on Saturday, Alain Soral had some interesting comments. https://youtu.be/Yl2TBBy3HII

Soral says the globalists are very concerned after Trump’s election and “the loss of America”. They believe they have no choice but to hold on to France «à tout prix», “at any cost.” He says the Empire is in panic mode because Hamon, Fillon, and the FN are all against the globalists.

Soral says the “globalist oligarchy” expected and wanted Juppé to win the LR primary. For them, Fillon is “too French, too Catholic, and not submissive towards the Empire.” He notes that the attacks on Fillon are coming from the globalist right-wing, not – as you’d expect – from the left. The globalists see Fillon, even with his Bilderberger membership, as a member of the “grande bourgeoisie” and too close to Putin. So the oligarchs need Macron and they are doing everything to puff up Macron “who incarnates the candidate of the Empire.” Soral says Macron is a nobody and, of course, the Empire magnifies Macron’s small accomplishments into the serious doings of a serious candidate, the same as they did with Manuel Valls before they had to dump him: Easily made, easily broken, like a pie in the Mary Poppins musical.

French Polls
Let me end this essay by asking what the polls do or do not reveal. First what do the polls say, and then the question of their credibility.

Broadly, the polls claim that Marine Le Pen will be the victor in the first round, with 29% or so of the vote. But in the second and decisive round, she will be defeated, either by Macron with 66% of the vote, or by Fillon with 58%. These are approximate numbers from an assortment of polls. So all the polls say the NF will not gain the presidency.

However, it’s a serious question to ask if these polls are credible. The American pollsters lied outrageously during the 2016 campaign. In hindsight, we can see this was a cross-organizational attempt to create an electoral reality with the use of well-coordinated lying. This stunt was also international and crossed channels. Three weeks before the elections, Paddy Power, an Irish betting firm, “called the election” for Clinton and paid off all the bets on her, saying there was no point in waiting.

They paid out a few million needlessly. One can only speculate how Paddy Power was reimbursed, in cash or in more favorable treatment of internet betting,; it’s trivial, really. So the manipulation of perceptions is not just a theory, it’s a fact.

A history of honesty isn’t worth a lot in a very high stakes situation, which is what we have here.

French polls must raise and then answer three questions.

First, were citizens really candid with pollsters who represent the establishment ?

Second, which people will actually go to the voting urns and,

third, how can the pollsters estimate the stay-at-homes ?

At the March, 2014 municipal elections, French voters stayed home in record numbers, causing a tidal wave of losses for the “Socialists”. They lost towns they had held for 100 years. The polls were wrong because voters boycotted the “Socialist” Party that ignored the working people. In 2014, the FN only gained 2 or 3 towns and a modest number of seats. But in the last 3 years, as the economic crisis grinds on, the FN has gained voters and more legitimacy. So it’s harder to rule out an FN victory.

There’s no need to mention Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of the Left Party. Fringe leftists get more coverage than they have electoral prospects.

[Bayareamom]

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[Ewan]

You know what I am getting tired of?

Labels.

The Liberals, the Left, the Liberal Left - they're revolting*. Its the Democrats. The Tea Party. F*ck the National Whatever. Schism after schism after fracture. These are all false dichotomies. Or false equivalences when you equate one side or the other with a particular mindset.

It used to be the left were associated with liberal intellectuals, now, suddenly they're the extremists.

I'm as liberal as they come. I'm bang in the middle of the left, if that isn't an oxymoron. I believe in one world, one people. I am against government. I'm all for empowering the individual to follow their dreams.

I'm against education, I'm all for learning. I'm against taxes, I'm all for sharing.

Every day, every minute of every day, we're being played. Like pawns on a chessboard and it sickens me to my very core that it still works!

The elite psychopaths would be overthrown in a night if only.... if only!

I saw someone remark the other day, I don't recall if it was on here, that Capitalism brought a better standard of living to the masses. Capitalism is just a refined system of control guaranteed to keep the elite safe and protected. After an infamous spoilt b*tch suggested 'Let them eat cake' it became apparent that perhaps they needed more than just cake. Let them vote too and enough money to buy a car.

Perhaps a TV, yes, a TV. We can continue to shape their interests with TV's. Even their very thinking... and that was just the beginning. Social Media, a sociopaths wet dream.

* I love words sometimes. You can just see some self-entiled vacuous personage claiming the 'peasants are revolting' - and now we all use the word for something unpleasant.

I missed an opportunity there, I should have got the word 'deplorables' in somewhere.

[Hervé]

Thierry Meyssan extracting the global constants:

Who is Using the Press and the Judicial System Against Trump & Fillon?

By Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network | Damascus (Syria) | 11 February 2017

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How not to be struck by the resemblance between the campaigns aimed at shooting down Donald Trump and François Fillon? How can we fail to observe that these two men, with their very different personalities and ideologies, threaten the same interests?

At the same time, very large press campaigns are developing in the Western world against both US President Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, against French presidential candidate François Fillon. The former is accused of being an irresponsible white supremacist; the second is accused of having committed what is described as a moral fault not sanctioned by law.

Only a year ago, one could never have imagined such campaigns against a former French Prime Minister and even less against the current President of the United States of America.

These campaigns display the ten traditional tenets of war propaganda, as observed in 1928 by Lord Arthur Ponsonby (Falsehood in Wartime) and then specified by Professor Anne Morelli (Elementary Principles of War Propaganda):

We deplore this confrontation with a president in office (USA) and during a presidential campaign (France).

• MM. Trump & Fillon are solely responsible for what is happening.

• MM. Trump & Fillon are dangerous personalities.

• We defend a noble cause, that of the principles of our Constitution (USA) and that of equality (France), while Messrs. Trump & Fillon only care about their personal fortunes.

• MM. Trump & Fillon behave very badly. The first attacks Muslims, the second is a thief. Of course, we have made mistakes, but not at all on the same scale.

• MM. Trump & Fillon use non-orthodox methods.

• MM. Trump & Fillon are off track. The first has just been disowned by the federal courts, the second by the polls.

• Artists and intellectuals share our indignation.

• Our cause has a sacred character.

• Those who question our media are neither true Americans nor true French.

In both cases, this campaign is accompanied by judicial actions that are destined to fail. The first aims at invalidating an immigration decree, even though it is perfectly legal and constitutional, while the second is to justify police investigations when the target is not suspected of any breach of the law. These actions thrive against all logic. Who is able to operate both the media and the judiciary?

Given the international nature of these campaigns, it is clear that their sponsors are not responding to national issues and are not themselves mere Americans or French.

In previous years, such campaigns have taken place at the instigation of NATO. The most recent in the Syrian Arab Republic. However, there is nothing to accuse NATO this time of acting against the White House, nor to disrupt the French presidential election.

In addition to the hypothesis of NATO’s being a principal sponsor, one can imagine a coalition of transnational financial interests capable of influencing the few magnates of the press, the gregarious effect causing the rest to tag along.

The New York Times sounds the halali: Donald Trump is preparing to ban the Muslim Brotherhood.

What interests feel threatened by these two men to the point of organizing such campaigns?

The only thing in common between MM. Trump and Fillon is to want to put an end to imperialism by installing, wherever possible, co-operation instead of confrontation. While many other policy makers around the world are defending this goal, Trump and Fillon are the only ones to take it to its logical conclusion. According to them, it will not be possible to restore peace and prosperity without first putting an end to the instrumentation of Islamic terrorism, without freeing the Muslim world from the grip of the jihadists, and without going so far as to attack the matrix of terrorism: the Muslim Brotherhood.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=u3xdXd3ZdVs

Thierry Meyssan

Translation Roger Lagassé

[Honesty]

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[Hervé]

Globalists disclosing their vested interests:

Fake news about fake news: Western media accuses RT of 'fake news' by citing story RT never published

RT Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:14 UTC

Emmanuel Macron © Robert Pratta / Reuters

Western media accuses RT of 'spreading fake news' citing an Emmanuel Macron story RT never published.

The accusations against RT were leveled by Richard Ferrand, secretary-general of Macron's En Marche! party, in an interview with the France 2 TV channel.

RT responded to the allegations that it had targeted French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron with "fake news" in a statement:

"RT adamantly rejects any and all claims that it has any part in spreading fake news in general and in relation to Mr. Macron and the upcoming French election in particular. Furthermore, we are appalled that such baseless accusations are taking place on a quotidian basis. Indeed, it seems that it has become acceptable to level such serious charges at RT without presenting any evidence to substantiate them, as well as to apply this 'fake news' label to any reporting that one might simply find unfavorable. It is both ironic and deeply disappointing that, in the noble fight against fake news, journalistic standards are so casually sacrificed when the conversation concerns RT."

International news media outlets picked up the Ferrand interview, apparently without checking the facts.

Many outlets relied on Monday's Reuters report, which claimed that RT ran comments by French National Assembly member Nicolas Dhuicq about Macron being an agent of 'the big American banking system.'

The Reuter's claim was entirely false as RT has never published such a report.

Reuters did not provide any other examples of RT's supposed role in the "fake news" attack on Macron in its lengthy article on the subject.

Furthermore, the agency did not contact RT's press office for comment to give the network the right of reply. Neither did almost all the outlets who reprinted the false claims.

Reuters amended their report and removed mention of RT from the discussion of Dhuicq's comments only after RT representatives reached out to the news service. The Reuters website eventually added the RT statement to their report.

However, Reuters has not provided any indication that the original report was amended in any way, that it included uncorroborated statements about RT and, that the network was denied the right to reply to these allegations prior to the article's publication.

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See : French elite chose their new pawn, Emmanuel Macron, former Director of Banque Rothschild in post # 48

[uzn]

News from Rumania,
This Weekend the Romanian People again Protested peacefully against their corrupt Government.

Multiple Thousand People used their Mobiles and colored Paper to have a giant colored romanian Flag.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jg6vlFllNdQ

The most popular Slogans on Pransparents are: Resign, and Thieves !!!
The Protestmovement reached a critical mass when the Minister of Justice (Florian Lordache) wanted to pass a Law that would make it impossible to investigate any form of corruption under 45.000 Euros. That would have legalised State Corruption. This Criminal (Minister of Justice) resigned last Thursday but that did not stop the Protests

[Hervé]

Wikileaks releases 'CIA espionage orders' for 2012 French presidential election

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Wikileaks has released three classified CIA espionage orders revealing details of an alleged seven-month long spying campaign by the agency ahead of the 2012 French presidential election.

The documents disclose that all of France’s major political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA's human ("HUMINT") and electronic ("SIGINT") spies.

WikiLeaks Verified account ‏@wikileaks

RELEASE: CIA espionage orders for the last French presidential election https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/#Press%20Release%20%28english%29 … #CIAFrance



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The CIA assessed that President Nicholas Sarkozy's UMP party was not assured re-election and ordered officers to find out Sarkozy's private deliberations "on the other candidates" as well as how he interacted with his advisors, according to the documents.

The agency also reportedly outlined orders specific to the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), including obtaining the party’s “Strategic Election Plans" and gleaning private thoughts within the party on Sarkozy’s campaign strategies.

The agency also outlined orders specific to the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), including obtaining the party’s “Strategic Election Plans" and gleaning private thoughts within the party on Sarkozy’s campaign strategies.

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RELEASE: Full text of CIA orders targetting French presidential election including Hollande, Sarkozy & Le Pen https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/document/2012-CIA-FRANCE-ELECTION/ …


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According to the papers, the CIA justification for seeking detailed information on the inner workings of the party was to assist “analysts assess and prepare US key policymakers” for the post-election French political landscape and the potential impact on US-France relations.

Another secret CIA order included in the leaks entitled, "Non Ruling Political Parties and Candidates Strategic Election Plans," demands information on rising party leaders and emerging political parties.

The information sought ranged from party strategies, opinions on the US and efforts to reach out to other countries, including Germany, UK, Libya, Israel, Palestine, Syria and Cote d'Ivoire.

The CIA also requested details on how candidates were funded, their views on the French economy, and the Greek debt crisis the documents indicate. The agency was also interested in French political opinions on the German model of export-led growth and any specific proposals that would help solve the Eurozone crisis.

The documents indicate that the CIA operation initially ran for 10 months from November 21, 2011, to September 29, 2012, and continued after the April-May 2012 French presidential election and into the formation of the new government.

The revelations are contained within three alleged CIA tasking orders, totaling seven pages, and published by WikiLeaks as context for its forthcoming ‘CIA Vault 7 series’. Wikileaks began tweeting about the mysterious ‘Vault 7’ series earlier this month, sending speculation into overdrive online over what the cryptic tweets indicated.

Related:
Thousands of dossiers on French presidential contenders available in archives – WikiLeaks

[Hervé]

Non, mais des fois... et puis quoi encore!?

"I Will Not Cover Myself Up": Le Pen Refuses To Wear Headscarf, Cancels Meeting With Lebanese Cleric

by Tyler Durden
Feb 21, 2017 8:01 AM

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, and leader of the National Front, canceled a Tuesday meeting with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter. After meeting Christian President Michel Aoun, her first public handshake with a head of state, and Sunni Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Monday, she had been scheduled to meet the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian. He heads the Dar al-Fatwa, the top religious authority for Sunni Muslims in the multireligious country.

Officials at the Dar al-Fatwa said Le Pen had been told in advance she’d need to put on a headscarf before meeting the Grand Mufti. Reminded again on arriving at his Beirut headquarters, she refused and left. “Dar al-Fatwa regrets this inappropriate behavior,” the council said in a statement

"I met the grand mufti of Al-Azhar," she told reporters, referring to a visit in 2015 to Cairo's 1,000-year-old center of Islamic learning. "The highest Sunni authority didn't have this requirement, but it doesn't matter. You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up," she said.

An aide of Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian, gives a head scarf to Le Pen, Feb. 20.

Le Pen disputed she broke a prior agreement. “I told them Monday that I wasn’t going to wear a headscarf. They didn’t cancel the meeting and so I therefore assumed that they had then accepted that I wouldn’t be wearing a headscarf,” she told reporters after the incident, according to Agence France-Presse.

As Reuters reports, Le Pen, who is a frontrunner for the presidency, is hoping to boost her foreign policy credentials with a two-day visit to Lebanon nine weeks from the April 23 first round, and may be partly targeting potential Franco-Lebanese votes. The cleric's press office said Le Pen's aides had been informed beforehand that a headscarf was required for the meeting and had been "surprised by her refusal".

Marine Le Pen shakes hands with Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai of Lebanon

But, as Reuters observes, it was no surprise in the French political context: French law bans headscarves in the public service and for high school pupils, in the name of church-state separation and equal rights for women. Le Pen wants to extend this ban to all public places, a measure that would affect Muslims most of all.

Furthermore, as discussed last month, buoyed by the election of President Donald Trump in the United States and by Britain's vote to leave the European Union, Le Pen's anti-immigration, anti-EU National Front (FN) hopes for similar populist momentum in France. Like Trump, she has said radical Islamism must be faced head on, although she has toned down her party's rhetoric to attract more mainstream support and possibly even woo some Muslim voters disillusioned with France's traditional parties.

After meeting Hariri on Monday, Le Pen went against current French policy in Syria by describing President Bashar al-Assad as the "only viable solution" for preventing Islamic State from taking power in Syria. "I explained clearly that ... Bashar al-Assad was obviously today a much more reassuring solution for France than Islamic State would be if it came to power in Syria," she told reporters.

“With geopolitics, one must often make the choice in favor of the lesser evil and for me, the lesser evil is Bashar al-Assad," said said in an interview with L’Orient-Le Jour. On Monday, Le Pen told Hariri that in her opinion the only realistic alternative to Assad was a Syria ruled by Islamic State. The French government insists Assad must leave office to establish peace in Syria, while saying it’s willing to talk to his government to arrange a transition.

Hariri, whose family has close links to conservative former French President Jacques Chirac and still has a home in France, issued a strongly-worded statement after their meeting.

"The most serious error would be to link Islam and Muslims on the one hand and terrorism on the other," Hariri said. "The Lebanese and Arabs, like most of the world, considers that France is the home of human rights and the republican state makes no distinction between citizens on ethnic, religious or class grounds."

[Hervé]

French election: Le Pen rising, Macron falling

Alexander Mercouris The Duran
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC


Opinion polls show Marine Le Pen increasing her lead in the French Presidential election, as the attraction of Emmanuel Macron - the centrist establishment candidate - begins to fade.

Latest opinion polls in France suggest that Marine Le Pen is increasing her first round lead, and is starting to close the gap between herself and whatever challenger she will face in the second round of the French election.

This is happening at the same time as the centrist challenger – Emmanuel Macron – is showing the first signs of losing support.

The poll conducted by Elabe conducted for TV broadcaster BFM TV puts the ratings of the various contenders for the first round as follows, extending her lead by 1.5% if the centrist candidate Francois Bayrou remained in the race, and by 2% if he pulled out.

Here are the results with Bayrou electing to stay in the race

Marine Le Pen 27%
Francois Fillon 20%
Emmanuel Macron 17%
Benoit Hamon 12%
Jean-Luc Melenchon 12%
Francois Bayrou 6%

With Bayrou pulling out the results are as follows

Marine Le Pen 28%
Francois Fillon 21%
Emmanuel Macron 18.5%
Benoit Hamon 13%
Jean-Luc Melenchon 13%

Bayrou has now – as widely predicted – pulled out and thrown his weight behind Macron. However, as the Elabe poll shows, it is far from certain that Macron will benefit significantly from his support. If anything it is likely to increase the growing (and correct) impression that he is the establishment’s candidate, and that the stops are being pulled out to help him.

As it happens Macron has fallen back significantly – by 5% over the course of the previous week. Partly this is due to the revival of support for Francois Fillon, who seems finally to be putting the scandal of the payments he arranged for his family behind him, but it may also in part be the result of the French electorate seeing through the absurdity of Macron’s claim to be the “anti-establishment” candidate.

In passing, comments on the thread to my previous piece about Macron questioned whether he really did attend the elite École nationale d’administration (“ENA”) in Strasbourg, the traditional training school of the French political elite and the alma mater of former French Presidents Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Jacques Chirac and François Hollande, and of countless other French politicians.

The answer is that he definitely did. The cause for the confusion is that before going to ENA Macron applied to a different Grande École – the equally prestigious and much older École normale supérieure in Paris, which however mainly trains academics rather than civil servants or politicians – but failed the entrance exam.

Perhaps even more interesting than Le Pen’s rise in the polls is that in a possible second round run-off against Macron the Elabe poll puts the gap between Macron and Le Pen closing to 59% to 41%, by some distance the tightest margin in the election so far, and putting Le Pen well above the mid-30s% ceiling which she has been hitting up to now.

There are many weeks of this campaign to go. However the latest opinion poll tends to confirm my previous claim: if the priority is to stop Marine Le Pen then Emmanuel Macron looks to be just about the worst candidate to put up against her. Just as every opinion poll during the US election showed that Bernie Sanders had a far better chance of beating Donald Trump in the election than did Hillary Clinton, so Fillon with a solid base amongst French Catholic voters still looks an easier second round winner against Le Pen than Macron. However because of Fillon’s heretical views about Russia and his friendship with Russian President Putin the French elite doesn’t want him, just as the Democratic Party’s elite in the US didn’t want Berne Sanders, insisting on Hillary Clinton instead.

I would add that in theory if the two left wing candidates – Hamon (the official Socialist candidate, who comes from the party’s left wing) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon – were to join forces, then whichever one of them were to stand as the candidate of the united left would on the strength of the polling stand a good chance of being the one to face off against Le Pen in the second round, and of being eventually elected President of France in the second round. However it seems that all efforts to get either Hamon or Mélenchon to stand down and support the other have come to nothing, making it all but certain that the two will divide the left between them and cancel each other out.

Le Pen has a mountain to climb and the electoral system and the deep seated political loyalties that mark French society still make it very unlikely she can win. However the odds are shortening.

[araucaria]

I do not entirely agree with the top-down conspiracy approach to the French elections, especially in the case of François Fillon. There is a great deal to be said for taking the grassroots-up approach of the democratic process. It is empowering when the other is disempowering, and calls for us all to take responsibility, which is the only way forward. Not for nothing do politicians themselves rely on the conspiracy approach when caught with their hand in the cookie jar. While Clinton says it’s the Russians, the French tend to blame the legal system. It is easy to blame allegedly politicized judges when that was the name of the game for so long. Typically the judges were politicized in order to protect those in power. What we see today is a throwback to those days, with a judicial moratorium during election periods (i.e. much of the time) combined with a judicial moratorium for incumbents (presidential immunity: you have to wait five years; parliamentary immunity: it has to be lifted). Hence, given that the justice system is much slower than the election system, nothing much gets done and the basic situation has continued to be, immunity = impunity. Only today, Marine Le pen has refused to show up for police questioning, allegedly designed to undermine her campaign prospects. This is what is changing. Why? Because the elite don’t like it any more? No way: because the grassroots have decided enough is enough.

This is not a people issue. Most politicians are well-trained and gifted in administration, probably the best we have to do the job. And yet the job has not been getting done, because corruption has been a major brake; hence Hollande and others have been rejected not for corruption, or necessarily for incompetence, but for lack of results nonetheless. What has to stop are the corrupt practices such as conflict of interest so deeply embedded that they no longer see them for what they are. For example, huge public contracts routinely cost double or triple the contracted amount. Any ordinary contractor knows that their price is a crucial clause of their contractual commitment that cannot be modified at will. Let’s just apply the normal rules to public contracts and to public officials.

This is the fact of life that has taken François Fillon both to presidential front-runner and subject to police interrogation and searches. It was his mantra that a leader needed to be above reproach (irréprochable) that won him the primary upset that stirred some investigative journalists (we still have a few) to check him out. He came from being a poor third to easily win his party’s primary principally on this issue of sleaze: one can’t imagine General de Gaulle coming under criminal investigation, he famously stated. His opponents were Sarkozy, mired in a dozen criminal investigations (only this month he was finally sent for trial on one count), and Juppé, who already has a conviction for setting up fictitious jobs. True, we had suspected for a long time that he was not the vote-catching lilywhite candidate he claimed to be: the guy after all was prime minister throughout the five years of the Sarkozy presidency, an elite puppet if ever there was one. He has been taking hundreds of thousands in lecture fees from the CEO of the AXA insurance company that stands to make a fortune from his proposed partial privatization of health insurance. So – apart from the background fact that many of these people hate each other – there was no obvious cause for any conveniently-timed back-stabbing. If, as I suggest, it was the work of the investigative journalists who claimed responsibility, there is no issue of convenient timing by people who had known all along; you have an event-driven scenario, i.e. fact-checking of the candidate’s own campaign statements.

What has happened is that corruption has been made a major election issue, which is of course no bad thing. The fact that they all fall short makes it very difficult. This of course includes Marine Le Pen’s Front National party, which is at least as corrupt as the rest, and crassly incompetent as well. I am talking about the career politicians; this is before we even get to the myriad newbies required to back up a presidential victory with a workable parliamentary majority. But as I hinted above, it is not something a change of personnel at the top is going to improve. For one thing, the political leaders are only the tip of a huge iceberg formed by the mass of civil servants not so much doing their bidding as digging in their heels. See this:

Posted by araucaria (here)
Spatially, Bordeaux was our closest bet for warm sunshine, and we wanted to see the dynamic new city we keep hearing about. The current mayor, Alain Juppé, is a former prime minister and presidential hopeful for 2017, and although a conservative, he has certainly transformed the grim, grimy old city centre into something else. The grey old buildings have been cleaned up and the traffic diverted away; and the pale sandstone reflects the bright light beautifully, turning the place into somewhere attractive to outsiders, who are flocking in to stay – so much so that the old patrician families are tending to lose their influence. We were told this by a talkative shopkeeper from the other end of the country for whom such things are clearly a hot topic with her customers.

While not all change is necessarily good, when a current situation is gridlocked then change is necessary. Clearly the change here is mostly positive, since people are voting with their feet. But the question is, why are these politicians so manifestly capable at the local level, and these same people so hugely incapable at national level? Spot the differences: those are the areas that we need to work on. One major difference is the inertia of the civil service – unelected officials working to a longer timescale and so able to stymy and outstay any elected administration, to impose their diehard rejection of change. The British have turned it into a comedy show, inducing amused passivity. Alternative theorists might talk about ancient long-lived reptilian beings exercising a negative influence on us humans and draining our energy; this might also just be our reptilian brain protecting itself. If the civil service can be seen as an embodiment of that influence, then that is a huge system that can be reformed in a straightforward manner in our ordinary reality, either by legislating, or more simply by elected officials cutting through the red tape for once. Here in France, every two or three decades, we get a brief window of opportunity lasting about a year when radical reform is possible. One of these windows is due soon… Let’s do something with it, without waiting for Europe or any other stragglers.

Where do we go from here? Obviously some kind of truth and reconciliation process is already kicking in. See this post. So Fillon may yet become the new president. The quid pro quo of reconciliation being truth, we need more hard information coming out through accredited journalistic sources. If we had that, then the uncontrolled whistleblowers and alternative media would not be all over the place as they are now. We have come to the point where Fillon bases his defence partly on his total lynching by the mainstream press. Well yes, they all say the same thing, but that was no problem when it helped him win the nomination. Reconciliation, amounting to a more effective democratic process, says, We may let you carry on but we have got your number, lots of little brothers are watching you: any more of the fancy tricks and you’re out. No one is ganging up against you, and by the same token no one is ganging up for you to give you a free ride.

There is a reverse side to this. The other frontrunner, Emmanuel Macron, is largely an unknown quantity who is gaining favour by proposing something different, with something for everyone and few firm promises. See this post. My point would be that if a really suitable politician were to slap us in the face (or perhaps kiss us on the cheek), most people would reject him, and rightly so, for as long as political campaigning is a branch of advertising, unsuitable candidates will be packaged to sell. People will have to just choose whomever they consider the least toxic, which is not necessarily a bad policy in the context of an increasingly well informed electorate wising up to the subtler packaging.

[Longjohn]

This thread started with a comment on the forthcoming chaos in global markets. I hope I am not off-topic, but I just want to remind us all that the burgeoning crisis in the EU is just one of many trails that are leading us to the edge of a global financial precipice.

I am currently reading Jim Rickard's book 'The Road to Ruin'. Here he talks about the Global Elite's 'Ice Nine' plan to take control of our money and refers to how these guys are building bolt-holes everywhere to protect themselves.

He says that there will mass civil unrest, but this will be brutally suppressed to ensure that that a New World Order can take control of Cash, Gold and Governments. Off course, this will all be done in the name of global stability.

I'm sure many of you have heard of him, but if you haven't, here is a taster:

https://dailyreckoning.com/a-glimpse...the-year-2024/

Best regards,

John

[Hervé]

Egg on his face: Macron splattered by protester on French campaign trail (VIDEO)

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Published time: 1 Mar, 2017 17:49
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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was left with egg on his face while attending an agricultural show after a protester threw the produce at him, splattering the En Marche party member.

The confrontation happened while France’s former economy minister attended Salon International de l'Agriculture 2017 in Paris.

Footage of the incident shows the minister in conversation before being blindsided with the incoming egg. Members of his security team then rush to protect Macron and chase the food-firing protestor.

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L'œuf reçu par @EmmanuelMacron au salon de l'agriculteur (filmé par un visiteur) #JoiesDeLaCampagne #SIA2017

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This is not the first time Macron has been egged, however. Last June Labour reform protesters pelted eggs at the former Rothschild banker outside a post office in Montreuil.

Macron is, meanwhile, reportedly building momentum on the campaign trail, edging closer to National Front Leader Marine Le Pen in the polls.

OpinionWay’s daily support poll for Wednesday leaves Le Pen just one point ahead of Macron in the first round voting.

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