Ça Chauffe! - Turmoil in France

[Hervé]

Marine Le Pen to be prosecuted for tweets that criticized ISIS (https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/marine-le-pen-to-be-prosecuted-for-anti-isis-tweets/)

Emma R. Voice of Europe (https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/marine-le-pen-to-be-prosecuted-for-anti-isis-tweets/)
Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:55 UTC


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Prosecutors have called for French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen to be tried for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, judicial sources said.

Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after ISIS jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris - and after a French journalist drew a comparison between the jihadist group and her party. Her move sparked widespread condemnation in France.

One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American journalist beheaded by the Sunni extremists. Another showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank and the third showed a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage. 'Daesh is this!' Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.

She is facing a possible three year jail term (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6762113/French-prosecutors-call-far-Right-leader-Marine-Le-Pen-face-TRIAL.html?fbclid=IwAR2zwxhAnZJGtkLZwyqvkzylLFmNMDEHivw2zRnlHWADdV6DVQElDx3bSlc) and a fine of 75,000 euro's if an investigating magistrate decides a trial should take place for 'circulating violent pictures liable to bee seen by children'.

Prosecutors demanded that another member of her National Rally party, Gilbert Collard, also be tried on similar charges. Le Pen, who lost to Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 presidential elections, was stripped of her parliamentary immunity over the pictures and thereafter charged with circulating violent messages.

Last year, she expressed outrage after the investigative magistrate called for her to undergo psychiatric tests in connection with her tweeting. She has denounced the case against her as a violation of her freedom of expression.

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Macron eliminating competitors to his EU election...

[Valerie Villars]

There goes photo journalism. I can only think of the graphic photos in Life magazine that had such an impact on me growing up. What a shame. And from four years ago. Where does all this end?

[Hervé]

UN human rights rep demands 'full investigation' on France's 'excessive force' against Yellow Vests (https://www.rt.com/news/453191-un-demands-french-police-investigation/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/453191-un-demands-french-police-investigation/)
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:02 UTC


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UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has called for a full investigation into reports of excessive use of force by the French police against Yellow Vest protesters resulting in over 2,000 injured and dozens being maimed.

"We encourage the government to continue dialogue - including follow-up to the national discussions which are currently underway - and urge full investigation of all reported cases of excessive use of force," the former Chilean President said (http://webtv.un.org/search/annual-report-by-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-20th-meeting-40th-regular-session-human-rights-council-/6010602281001/?term=bachelet&lan=english&sort=date) in her annual address to the UN Human Rights council in Geneva. Her speech highlighted how the Yellow Vests' demand for "respectful dialogue" has seemingly been met with over the top violence by the state.

Bachelet spoke highly of France's weekly Yellow Vest protests which take place in cities across France, describing their struggle against "inequalities and deteriorating economic and social conditions" in Macron's France and arguing that they intend to inspire "genuine reform."

The French police force's heavy handed response to the yellow clad demonstrators has been widely criticized, particularly after videos began to surface of participants having their limbs blown off and eyes gouged out. According to government figures, over 2,000 protesters and over 1,000 police officers were injured since November.


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While the violence has hardly been one sided and a large number of police have also sustained injuries in the course of clashes with demonstrators, not a single police officer has actually been reprimanded (https://www.thelocal.fr/20190129/france-in-numbers-police-violence-during-yellow-vest-protests) for excessive force.

The majority of severe injuries among demonstrators have came from "non-lethal" crowd control weapons such as rubber-bullets, tear gas and stun grenades. Attempts by human rights activists and community leaders to roll back the use of these arms have been unsuccessful, leading some (https://www.rt.com/news/451065-onfray-yellow-vests-macron/) to accuse the government of complicity in the violence.

Paris responded swiftly, stating that investigations into issues of police violence at the rallies have already been launched, and that the French government has organized open discussions to facilitate public dialogue.

"We have always been extremely clear about it... Every time it was necessary, investigations were launched... It is surprising, however, to find us listed between Venezuela and Haiti, where there have been deaths," government spokesman Benjamin Grievaux told reporters.


Related:

Shocking video shows disabled Yellow Vest protester pepper sprayed in face by French police (https://www.sott.net/article/408533-Shocking-video-shows-disabled-Yellow-Vest-protester-pepper-sprayed-in-face-by-French-police)



Macron writes op-ed for the UK Guardian: "Dear Europe"... (https://www.sott.net/article/408639-Macron-writes-op-ed-for-the-UK-Guardian-Dear-Europe)

[Hervé]

Ça chauffe... toujours et encore...


Yellow Vests & police clash in Paris as Macron’s ‘great debate’ ends (VIDEO) (https://www.rt.com/news/453989-paris-yellow-vest-protests/)

RT
Published time: 16 Mar, 2019 10:53
Edited time: 16 Mar, 2019 13:08
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Clashes between protesters and police broke out as the Yellow Vest rallies entered their 18th consecutive week, causing more headaches for President Macron, whose “great debate” aimed at pacifying the protests ended on Friday.

Saturday’s rally saw thousands of people flooding the streets of downtown Paris, with many wearing black balaclavas and holding French flags.

Violence erupted on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, where protesters congregated to take part in the weekly march which began in November. According to the Associated Press, Paris mobilized more police than in previous weeks in an attempt to stave off unrest.


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Riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowd, some of whom were carrying firecrackers.


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The area around the iconic landmark was quickly enveloped in smoke. Some protesters tried to erect barricades to block streets around the Place Charles de Gaulle, prompting police to respond with crowd control measures.

AP reported that at least one car was set ablaze by demonstrators. The demonstration broke out into a riot, with some protesters looting stores on Champs-Elysees, according to reports.

Video taken at the scene shows cafes and shops with smashed windows and broken furniture, as police stand guard in the street. The Yellow Vests have been quick to distance themselves from looters, claiming that the vandalism is carried out by a radical minority.


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A Ruptly producer filming the demonstration was injured by a projectile fired by police. Video footage shows the producer receiving first aid from Yellow Vest medics.


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At least 30 people were detained by 10:30 local time, but the figure is likely to grow as the day progresses.


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In a message posted online ahead of Saturday’s protests, organizers said they wanted the day to serve as an “ultimatum” to “the government and the powerful.”


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The latest round of ‘Yellow Vest’ protests coincides with the end of President Emmanuel Macron’s “grand national debate”. The first round of the debates, meant to reconcile with the grassroots protest movement, kicked off in the northern town of Grand Bourgtheroulde, with Macron and hundreds of local officials attending.

Macron expressed hope (https://www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20190113.OBS8401/decouvrez-la-lettre-d-emmanuel-macron-aux-francais.html) that a frank nationwide discussion of pressing issues would help alleviate growing political unrest. He has promised to increase the minimum wage but also warned that he will not back down on his pro-business reforms.

As a result, Yellow Vest activists have criticized the “grand debate” as a mere PR campaign. "We don't care about the national debate because we know it won't change anything," a Yellow Vests campaigner told RT. Others said the whole approach is designed simply to placate popular anger.


Related:
Anti-Zionism equals Anti-Semitism? Macron fuels debate on how to define anti-Jewish hate (https://www.rt.com/news/452040-anti-zionism-semitism-macron/)

[Hervé]

Just an observation...




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1065990627412856832/lzcYmAmD_bigger.jpg Sarah Abdallah‏ @sahouraxo (https://twitter.com/sahouraxo) 6h6 hours ago (https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1106911199466270721)

Hello mainstream media! If this footage was from Russia, Syria or even Venezuela, rather than France today, wouldn’t you be broadcasting it non-stop? #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) #YellowVests (https://twitter.com/hashtag/YellowVests?src=hash)


Video at: https://twitter.com/i/status/1106911199466270721


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[Hervé]

A good synopsis of the history behind the "Gilets Jaunes":


Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media will not report (http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report/)

by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog
March 19, 2019 15 Comments (http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report/#comments)


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Disclaimer: if you think that Soros/Russia/America/Illuminati is behind the Yellow Vests or some other batsh*t nonsense, then please stop here. This article isn’t for you.

Full Article: http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report/

[Hervé]

Italy spearheading the crackdown on its "Deep State":


Italy cracks down on crime: Masonic lodge busted by police in Sicily, Camorra Mafia "superboss" arrested (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201903211073422158-masonic-lodge-busted)

Sputnik (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201903211073422158-masonic-lodge-busted)
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:16 UTC


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Numerous local politicians, officials and even police officers turned out to be connected to the lodge's illegal activities, which included corruption, bribery, drug trafficking, embezzlement, and interfering with the work of the judicial system.

Police from the commune of Trapani, Sicily have arrested 27 people during a raid on a local "masonic lodge" involved in illegal activities, the newspaper Giornale di Sicilia reported. Among those arrested in the course of the operation named "Artemisia" were former and present politicians, officials, including a former federal lawmaker and a former mayor of Castelvetrano commune, and even police officers.

They now face charges of committing crimes against the local administration, justice system, and for organising a crime syndicate. The lodge reportedly had great influence over the local government and influenced the distribution of its budget. Its members also allegedly managed to obtain secret information about ongoing investigations and influence them by tampering with evidence.

The group was reportedly also involved in a number of other illegal undertakings, including drug trafficking, bribery, fraud, and embezzlement. Apart from the 27, that have already been arrested, police are interviewing 10 others, whom they suspect of helping the lodge's activities.

Notably, the lodge itself was based in Castelvetrano - the hometown of one of the Cosa Nostra's leaders, Matteo Messina Denaro, who is considered to be one of the world's most dangerous criminals and who has long been wanted under an international arrest warrant.


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SOTT Comment (https://www.sott.net/article/409537-Italy-cracks-down-on-crime-Masonic-lodge-busted-by-police-in-Sicily-Camorra-Mafia-superboss-arrested): The Local.it reports that earlier this month they arrested a Camorra Mafia "superboss" who's been on the run for the last 14 years:
Di Lauro, 38, was arrested without a fight at a modest apartment where he lived with his wife in the Chiaiano district in southern city Naples, police said.

He was sitting with his two cats and eating pasta when police arrested him in an operation involving around 150 officers.

Police allowed Di Lauro to change his clothes and freshen up before taking him away, local media reported. He voiced concern for the fate of his cats.

Naples police chief Antonio De Iesu told a press conference that "unusual activity" had led police to the suspect, previously convicted of criminal association.

Police found no weapons and a small sum of money in the flat.


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Italian police on Saturday arrested top mafia fugitive Marco Di Lauro, the fourth son of ex-Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro, after over 14 years on the run.

An international arrest warrant was issued for Di Lauro in 2006, and he was one of Italy's four most-wanted criminals, according to the interior ministry website.

Italian media said he was considered the second most dangerous man in Italy, after Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

Photos in Italian media showed Di Lauro wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt being brought to the police station in Naples by car, with a police helicopter overhead.

Around 100 people including police gathered outside shouting "well done, well done", according to television images.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte tweeted his thanks to the police for the arrest of the "super fugitive".

Far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini voiced congratulations for a "very important operation".

The high-profile arrest was reportedly linked to the murder earlier in the day of the wife of a man linked to Di Lauro, Salvatore Tamburrino.

Tamburrino, 40, handed himself in for shooting dead Norina Mattuozzo, 33, shortly before De Lauro's arrest.

She was found dead at her parents' home in Naples where she had gone to live after her relationship with Tamburrino deteriorated, local media reported.

Police chief De Iesu refused to confirm or deny a link between the murder and Di Lauro's arrest.

Di Lauro had been on the run since he escaped a massive police swoop in 2004 known as the "night of the handcuffs".

An informant said in 2010 that Di Lauro was responsible for at least four murders.

Marco's father Paolo Di Lauro was head of the Camorra clan that operates in Naples' impoverished Scampia and Secondigliano neighbourhoods.

He has been in prison since 2005, and Marco had reportedly taken over running the much-weakened clan.

At least 130 people were killed in a bloody power struggle there after the Amato-Pagano clan split from the Di Lauro clan in 2004.

Marco Di Lauro, reportedly known within the family by the code F4 for "fourth son", had nine brothers and one sister.

All the brothers are now either in prison or dead, Italian newspapers reported. It appears that, unlike most Western governments, Italy is keeping its word and really is doing all it can to crack down on the notorious crime networks that operate in its country from the gypsy Mafia clans to Italy's Central Bank. This is the kinda of action citizens throughout Europe are crying out for:

'Prison time for fraudsters': Salvini calls for elimination of Italy's Central Bank (https://www.sott.net/article/406972-Prison-time-for-fraudsters-Salvini-calls-for-elimination-of-Italys-Central-Bank)



Eurojust coordinate arrest of 84 across Europe in crackdown on Italian mob (https://www.sott.net/article/402222-Eurojust-coordinate-arrest-of-84-across-Europe-in-crackdown-on-Italian-mob)



Rome's police seize 8 of notorious Casamonica gypsy Mafia family's villas, evicting 30 members (https://www.sott.net/article/401168-Romes-police-seize-8-of-notorious-Casamonica-gypsy-Mafia-familys-villas-evicting-30-members)



'They hate Italians and must resign': Salvini attacks mayors resisting immigration rules (https://www.sott.net/article/404242-They-hate-Italians-and-must-resign-Salvini-attacks-mayors-resisting-immigration-rules)



170 mobsters and public officials arrested in mafia raids across Italy and Germany (https://www.sott.net/article/373592-170-mobsters-and-public-officials-arrested-in-mafia-raids-across-Italy-and-Germany)



The mafia, fake news, and monopolies: Press freedom in Italy (https://www.sott.net/article/384803-The-mafia-fake-news-and-monopolies-Press-freedom-in-Italy)

[Hervé]

Macron's dangerous escalation: Military to be deployed against next round of Yellow Vest protests (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-20/french-military-counter-terror-forces-deployed-ahead-next-yellow-vest-protest)

Tyler Durden Zero Hedge (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-20/french-military-counter-terror-forces-deployed-ahead-next-yellow-vest-protest)
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:29 UTC


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If the black smoke over the Paris skyline and charred cars and buildings along the Champs-Elysees which have become characteristic of France's increasingly violent Yellow Vest protests over the past months weren't alarming enough, things look to get much worse as the government prepares to escalate.

In an effort to clamp down on the unraveling security situation, which has lately seen banks and residential buildings torched, and luxury stores and restaurants vandalized and destroyed, the French authorities have announced the deployment of anti-terrorism military forces in order to protect and secure public buildings.

Following the worsening protest situation of the past weekend (after a brief lull at the end of President Macron's failed 'great debate' initiative which pushed town halls to air grievances), which nearly turned deadly (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-16/mother-and-child-saved-paris-bank-fire-during-yellow-vest-riot) for random civilians caught in the mayhem of rioters clashing with police, the government will redirect counter-terror troops from Opération Sentinelle to focus on Yellow Vest related threats.

Opération Sentinelle began after the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks (the series of al-Qaeda linked terrorist acts that began with the Charlie Hebdo shooting) and resulted in some 10,000 soldiers and 4,700 police and gendarmes deployed at sensitive sites and public buildings across the country.


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According to Bloomberg, French authorities have sought to calm the obvious and immediate fears raised that the move constitutes the government taking a full martial law approach of sending the military against its own people.

Following a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux pointed to the "new forms of violence" Saturday which he said justifies deploying the counter-terror forces.
"After seeing the new forms of violence Saturday, emergency measures will be taken to reinforce the reaction of the security forces," Griveaux said (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/france-to-use-military-forces-during-next-yellow-vest-episode?srnd=premium). He added this is to include "the reinforced mobilization of Sentinelle to protect official building and other fixed positions in the capital."

"Individuals have decided to attack democracy and its symbols," Griveaux said further.


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#Paris (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Paris?src=hash) Situation very tense on the #ChampsElysées (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChampsElys%C3%A9es?src=hash) for #Acte18 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Acte18?src=hash) #ActesXVIII (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActesXVIII?src=hash) #Giletsjaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Giletsjaunes?src=hash) #Yellowvests (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yellowvests?src=hash) #France (https://twitter.com/hashtag/France?src=hash) #Macron (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Macron?src=hash)

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#Paris (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Paris?src=hash) Scenes of chaos on the #ChampsElysées (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChampsElys%C3%A9es?src=hash) with fires in progress, several shops completely destroyed, ... #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) #Acte18 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Acte18?src=hash) #ActeXVIII (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActeXVIII?src=hash) #Yellowvests (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yellowvests?src=hash) #France (https://twitter.com/hashtag/France?src=hash) #Macron (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Macron?src=hash)

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And noting the different nature of the latest unrest compared to that of months ago when the demonstrations first began in November, he asserted (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/france-to-use-military-forces-during-next-yellow-vest-episode?srnd=premium):

These are not demonstrators but rioters, and the distinction is very different. Demonstrations are protected by the law; rioting is not. Regular police forces will still "concentrate on crowd control, along with maintaining law and order," Griveaux said, which presumably means the Sentinelle could respond to more extreme situations that unfold like acts of rioting, burning, and vandalism.

Macron's government has lately appeared powerless as shocking and embarrassing (for security forces) images of the iconic Champs-Elysees looking like a bombed out war zone have been beamed around the world.

The deployment of troops is intended to allow riot police to engage more aggressively with the far-left and far-right groups as well as anarchists who have been blamed for much of the violence.

But some police unions have warned that maintaining law and order was not the role of a soldier.

"I'm worried about how they'll respond in case of attack," said Philippe Capon of the Unsa-Police union. - AFP (https://www.france24.com/en/20190320-french-soldiers-duty-next-yellow-vest-protest) But it now appears Macron is ever more ready to try a "gloves off" approach in his deploying counter-terror military forces against what Paris officials have described as far-left "black bloc" activists or ultra-radicals and anarchists who merely seek as much destruction as possible.

Related:
Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media won't tell you (https://www.sott.net/article/409453-Inside-the-Yellow-Vests-What-the-Western-media-wont-tell-you)

[Siphonemis]

This is why we’ve the 2nd Ammendment in the US, folks.

“ French soldiers will be permitted to 'open fire' if lives are threatened by Yellow Vest rioters this weekend, the military governor of Paris said today.

General Bruno Leray's ominous words highlight the growing law and order crisis faced by President Emmanuel Macron as he faces up to the increasingly violent social movement.

It has now been confirmed that the French Army will support some 5,000 police trying to keep order during the 19th Yellow Vest Saturday demonstration in a row in Paris at the weekend.

General Leray told Franceinfo Radio on Friday: 'If their life or that of the people they defend is threatened, they can go up to opening fire.'

There was widespread rioting across the French capital last Saturday, with banks, high-end shops, and restaurants looted and burnt out.

Police took part in running battles with the Yellow Vests, who are named after their high visibility motoring jackets, using teargas, baton charges and water canon to try and restrain them.

But despite 250 plus arrests and numerous serious injuries, scenes of anarchy were broadcast all over the world.

General Leray said an unspecified number of soldiers mainly used for anti-terrorism duties would be defending public buildings this Saturday. “

More at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6838623/French-soldiers-allowed-OPEN-FIRE-lives-threatened-Yellow-Vest-rioters.html?ito=social-facebook

[ExomatrixTV]

Macron to deploy French army against “yellow vest” protests (https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/21/macron-to-deploy-french-army-against-yellow-vest-protests/)

[Hervé]

This is why we’ve the 2nd Ammendment in the US, folks.

French soldiers will be permitted to 'open fire' if lives are threatened by Yellow Vest rioters this weekend, the military governor of Paris said today.
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Hello Siphonemis, I merged your recently posted thread with this pre-existing one on that same subject.

see post #258 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?88469---a-Chauffe-&p=1282161&viewfull=1#post1282161).

See also: Desperate measures: French government deploys soldiers to enforce Yellow Vest protest bans in central Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux (https://www.rt.com/news/454490-yellow-vest-protest-paris-ban/)

[Hervé]

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The actual real "rioters":




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Macron Regime Forces also kicked in the windows of shops in an obvious attempt at a #FalseFlag (https://twitter.com/hashtag/FalseFlag?src=hash) to make the #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) protesters look bad. Last weekend's violence was staged by people working FOR Macron https://ian56.blogspot.com/2019/03/th-violence-today-in-champs-elysees-was.html … (https://t.co/8bUudbnfoA)


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Extensive procession of #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) seen moments ago in #Rouen (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rouen?src=hash) for #ActeXIX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ActeXIX?src=hash). Despite false flags, attempts to infiltrate and politicize, rampant police brutality, protest bans, and now the army added into the equation - the #YellowVests (https://twitter.com/hashtag/YellowVests?src=hash) spirit simply refuses to surrender.


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[Vangelo]

My family and I were in Paris the last 2 weeks of December and we spoke to many Parisians about the yellow vest movement. Almost all of them said the same thing... 1) The French and global press are not reporting the popularity and the depth of the movement. 2) Many people have been seriously injured by the police but it is not being reported. 3) There are outsiders coming in who cause most of the violence and are trying to provoke both the police and the yellow vesters. The picture above validates this.

[BMJ]

A Fatal Decision’ – Macron Deploys Armed Soldiers for Yellow Vest Protests

French soldiers are set to be deployed for the first time during a Yellow Vest protest this weekend. Some reports indicate they are being told to avoid protesters, while others indicate they have been given permission to open fire.

The soldiers have reportedly been redeployed from anti-terror Operation Sentinel duties, and are expected to be placed to government buildings and other sensitive areas rather than engaged in regular law enforcement duties, but communication about their exact role has been poor, according to Le Point.

The military deployment, which follows renewed violence last Saturday and the Emmanuel Macron government’s decision to ban protesters from the Champs-Elysees and other French city centres this Saturday, has been slammed by many, including Les Republicans senator Bruno Retailleau, who labelled it a “fatal decision.”

“It’s a turning point, it’s mostly a failure! I do not know if we used the army in ’68, I do not remember, but using the army, including in static form to protect buildings, is extremely dangerous,” he said.

“The military is not trained in policing. They are trained in combat, to kill and neutralize. This decision is absolutely deplorable.”

“In what European democracy is the army called in to police a social movement?” added Raphaël Glucksmann, who will lead France’s Socialist Party, for which President Macron was a government minister under predecessor François Hollande, in the upcoming European Parliament elections.

Colonel Guillaume Thomas, deputy spokesman for the Armed Forces Staff, also suggested that Sentinel soldiers would not be taking part in regular police action on Saturday, and were merely “continuing our anti-terrorist mission… there is no question of sending soldiers to maintain law and order: they are not trained or equipped for this purpose.”

Some in the media and elsewhere have raised fears of soldiers opening fire on violent protesters — fears Colonel Thomas claimed were unfounded, as the soldiers were not likely to be in contact with rioters.

“The soldiers know how to anticipate situations, and if necessary appeal to the internal security forces if they witnessed looting or other abuses, or to escape a problematic situation,” he said.

However, when asked what would happen if a group of soldiers were cornered, Col Thomas simply remarked, “they are fighters.”

These sentiments appeared to be echoed by Paris military governor General Bruno Le Ray in comments to FranceInfo, with the commander remarking that Sentinel personnel are “subject to the same legal framework as the internal security forces” and can “go until the opening of fire… if their life is threatened or that of people they defend” .

The Yellow Vest protests have gone on every Saturday for the last 18 weeks now, and have seen Yellow Vest figures advocate storming the presidential palace and a helicopter being held on standby to help President Macron escape if such an event were to occur.

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/23/a-fatal-decision-macron-deploys-armed-soldiers-for-yellow-vest-protests/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

[Hervé]

Yellow Vests: “A Torrent of Hope Cannot Be Stopped by Police Blocks” (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-a-torrent-of-hope-cannot-be-stopped-by-police-blocks/)

by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog
March 26, 2019


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The following text was written (and translated by me) by the “Cerveaux non disponibles” Yellow Vests group after March 23rd’s protest event, which I reported about here (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-act-19-paris-report/). Of course, in many respects there is a chess game ongoing here. Macron thought that by sealing off the Champs-Elysees he would prevent the Yellow Vests from repeating what they did on March 16th – firing a proverbial, and in many respects literal, missile up his ass. But in reality, by doing this he drove himself into a corner, since now the Yellow Vests (and their partisan allies) will try to reclaim it, either by force or by outmanoeuvring the regime with asymmetrical actions. The next 3 weeks are critical – on the 30th there will be a demonstration against home evictions in Paris, which I will attend, on the following Saturday it is planned to gather in Toulouse, on the 13th of April it is planned to all gather in Bordeaux, and on April 20th the next Yellow Vests barrage of artillery is planned for Paris. Unless Macron has a lobotomy and starts implementing fully-fledged “democracy” before this day, we can only brace ourselves. I know that the “Black Blocks” are preparing a new strategy against “Manu” as I type.


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105 (https://www.facebook.com/BlackBlocFrance/posts/1666174136851768?comment_id=1666176950184820&reply_comment_id=1666178506851331) · on Sunday · editedIn the meantime, the prices and tariffs in France are augmenting all in unison, and the Benalla affair continues without an end in sight. I am hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.

“Once again, the Yellow Vests thwarted the government’s plans to stop the movement. Neither the call to the army nor the prohibitions to protest or the increase in fines could stop the mobilisation. Nor could the demonization campaign following the degradation of March 16th.

Castaner cries out victory, believing that the new apparatus has (finally) allowed protesters to express themselves without causing violence. But the reality is different.

Already, the first victory of the Yellow Vests is to have managed to block the most beautiful avenue in the world without even having set foot on it. Several hundred forces mobilised, shops were closed and totally barricaded (see Fouquet’s in steel). All of this without having to go to the Champs Elysees. Even if the political and economic power will not recognise it, it is something strong with a non-negligible impact.

Because the objective of the Yellow Vests is not to destroy a bank or a luxury store, but to disturb and harm the powerful. In this sense, the Champs Elysees district was certainly more affected by Act 19 than by the previous one. But it is obvious that all of this has been made possible because of the actions of Act 18.

The other victory (and it is no less of a victory) is the one against fear. The fear of the police response (or military) with verbal provocations suggesting that there would be no more limits given to the police. Fear also of being arrested, condemned and/or charged. Despite this extremely anxious climate, tens of thousands of people demonstrated everywhere in France, sometimes in prohibited perimeters. Without violence, but in a radical and determined way. Nothing but their presence is now a strong and radical act in this society that tramples human rights day after day.

Despite the heavy artillery out of the government, there were more Yellow Vests on the street yesterday than in Act 18. The picture is strong and clearly indicates that Macron attempted poker move hasn’t worked. And it will not work. The Yellow Vests wanted social responses to their social movement. They will only stop when this is the case. And now some reforms will no longer suffice. The poker game is a loss.

One of the images of this act 19 will remain that of Geneviève Legay – the 71 years old spokesperson of Attac 06, who is currently hospitalised following cranial fractures. She dared to protest despite the prefect’s ban. She dared to stay upright and dignified, with a “peace” flag in her hand, facing the dozens of CRS. She didn’t run when the police charge arrived. She now pays the price.


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Some might believe, and surely hope, that this tragedy can calm the heat of the Yellow Vests. Because of course, it’s scary to imagine that such an event could happen to you or your relatives.

But those who think this have not understood anything about the movement. A new strength is born among these thousands of people. A hope too. A desire for freedom and justice. Faced with this, fear will not be enough to save the government and financial powers.

A torrent of hope and revolt cannot be stopped by police blocks. It impedes it, but it does not stop it. The government must now deal with a part of its population that has risen and will not lie down soon.

Act 20 will be like the previous ones: unpredictable and full of surprises. Yellow Vests (including in the Ile de France) want to place this Saturday fight under the sign of the right to housing, since March 30 will mark the end of the winter truce and the return of evictions. Thousands of citizens, especially in urban areas and in the suburbs, bear the brunt of exorbitant rents in their daily lives. And this, in conditions of life sometimes indecent, like the drama of the rue d’Aubagne in Marseille. Why not take advantage of this act XX to try to occupy places in the city, and make spaces of reception, dialogue, and struggle?

The movement of the Yellow Vests is a river, which sometimes splits into small streams of initiatives and actions. And that regularly finds itself in one torrent of anger and hope.”

[Hervé]

"Democracy is dead": Video shows protesters vent fury outside parliament after Brexit deal vote fail (https://www.rt.com/uk/455105-leavers-remainers-protest-failed-brexit/)

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As both Leavers and Remainers came out in force in London to show how both camps have been pissed off by this endless Brexit, ICYMI's Jonny Fencesitter was there to lend an ear.

After three years of debating, bickering, and party infighting, Brexit Day has finally come, and gone (https://www.rt.com/uk/455077-theresa-may-withdrawal-vote-fails/).

Despite Theresa May's promises, March 29 has become nothing more than proof of a Brexit balls-up. Thousands of Leave campaigners and Remainers took to the streets outside parliament on what should have been the UK's last day in the EU to have their voices heard - and, luckily, Jonny Fencesitter was there to report.


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Brexit Has Exposed The Rotten Foundations of Britain's Political System (https://www.sott.net/article/392529-Brexit-Has-Exposed-The-Rotten-Foundations-of-Britains-Political-System)

[Hervé]

French people defy Macron's diktats: Yellow Vests flood streets of France for 20th straight weekend (https://www.rt.com/news/455152-yellow-vests-protest-france/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/455152-yellow-vests-protest-france/)
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 19:54 UTC


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French people peotest for the TWENTIETH week in a row, despite protests being outlawed, blazing a trail for Westerners and illustrating just how difficult it's going to be to bring about real democracy


Thousands of protesters are rallying across France as Yellow Vest demonstrations show no sign of abating on their 20th week despite authorities banning many locations. A heavy police presence can be seen throughout the country.


In Paris, protesters gathered in two locations, forming a joint column and marched towards the Trocadéro square.


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Several skirmishes broke out between protesters and police present in large quantities in riot gear. A thick plume of smoke was observed occasionally but it's not immediately clear what was its source.


At least 32 people have been detained in Paris, according to official figures from the city's police.

Minor clashes between riot police and the Yellow Vests occurred in the city of Avignon, where protesters were allowed to demonstrate only in one location. Following the brief scuffles, the protest continued peacefully.


In Bordeaux, a group of vandals attacked a bank, smashing its windows with iron bars while thousands marched peacefully through the streets of the city.


Here's what the Bordeaux event mostly looked like: a sea of ordinary French people:

The protest in Bordeaux officially didn't happen by the way: last week, it was made illegal to protest there. But that apparently didn't stop people from turning out in huge numbers.

The situation in Bordeaux remains tense, with police firing tear gas at protesters in volleys.

The protesters are also seeking to show solidarity with Genevieve Legay, a 73-year-old anti-globalization activist, injured in Nice last weekend. "We are all Genevieve!" an online appeal for the protests reads.

Legay was one of those who braved a blanket ban on protests in Nice and got pushed down by a police officer, receiving a head injury, according to the city's prosecutor.


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While the injury caused outrage by itself, French President Emmanuel Macron managed to add insult (https://www.rt.com/news/454691-macron-elderly-protester-wisdom/) to it when earlier this week he squarely blamed Legay for the incident.
"When one is fragile and risks being shoved, one does not go to places that are declared off-limits and one does not put oneself in that kind of situation," Macron said, wishing

"speedy recovery ... and perhaps a kind of wisdom."
The remark drew anger from the activist's family and fellow protesters, who accused Macron of being patronizing and disrespectful, as well as of whitewashing police violence.




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SOTT Comment (https://www.sott.net/article/410160-French-people-defy-Macrons-diktats-Yellow-Vests-flood-streets-of-France-for-20th-straight-weekend): Another massive turnout all across France. Officially, it's "just a few thousand." But to us it looks more like several hundred thousand - maybe even a million - in over two dozen cities nationwide.

The police, as always, are ruthlessly beating the shyet out of as many as they can because they've been ordered to clear the streets and make it look like the protest movement is finished.

Here's footage from Rennes today:


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Toulouse (also banned). They're singing: "we are here, we are here, even if Macron doesn't want it, we are here..."


Montpellier:

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See original article (here (https://www.rt.com/news/455152-yellow-vests-protest-france/)) with too many twitter videos to repost.

See reposted article (here) (https://www.sott.net/article/410160-French-people-defy-Macrons-diktats-Yellow-Vests-flood-streets-of-France-for-20th-straight-weekend) to watch the additional twitter videos and comments

[BMJ]

Without the politics and as common sense would suggest you should have a right to defend yourself and your family against attack and now in contrast to the globalist agenda Italy is enacting this in law.

Italy Passes Salvini-Backed Self-Defence Law to Protect Homeowners

The Italian Senate passed the new legitimate defence bill this week, liberalising the previous self-defence code and allowing citizens more options to protect their homes from burglars and other intruders.

The reform, which modifies article 52 of the Italian penal code, now allows Italians to use “a legitimately held weapon” to protect themselves and members of their household, making it far less likely individuals will be brought up on charges for defending themselves, Il Giornale reports.

The new changes were welcomed by populist Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, who has previously pushed hard for self-defence reform.

“It is a beautiful day for the Italians in which the sacrosanct right to self-defence is sanctioned,” Salvini said.

Previously, the Lega leader had even offered to pay the legal expenses of those brought up on criminal charges for using force to protect their homes.

“A thief comes into your house, company or store, and you defend yourself? It will be your right to do so, and the thug (and his relatives) will not be able to ask for a euro of compensation,” Salvini vowed.

“Besides, you won’t end up on trial for years and you won’t pay your own pocket: the state will cover any legal expenses of those who defended themselves.”

“From today the criminals know that to be a robber in Italy is more difficult: it is an even more dangerous job,” the League (Lega) leader observed

Around 4.5 million homes in Italy have access to firearms, according to figures released in June of last year.

33 million Italian homes have anti-theft doors, while 10 million or so have alarms and often video cameras as well.

The new policy marks a stark contrast to the United Kingdom, where it is alleged that home defence policies have made British homeowners easy targets — to the point where Chilean criminal gangs have been known to fly in to rob British homes in what has been dubbed “burglary tourism.”

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/31/italy-passes-salvini-backed-self-defence-law-to-protect-homeowners/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

[Hervé]

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Coverage summary of "Acte XX":

Report: Yellow Vests Act 20 [March 30th 2019] (media heavy – loads slowly!) (http://thesaker.is/report-yellow-vests-act-20/)

by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog
April 01, 2019 5 Comments (http://thesaker.is/report-yellow-vests-act-20/#comments)


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Act 20 of the Yellow Vests (http://stalkerzone.org/?S=Yellow+Vests) took place on March 30th nationwide in France and happened against the background of last week’s brutal beating of a female protestor in Nice (https://www.stalkerzone.org/a-french-prosecutor-admitted-that-the-police-are-to-blame-for-the-skull-fractures-of-a-73-year-old-protestor-in-nice/). My reports on Acts 18 and 19 can be read here (https://www.stalkerzone.org/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report/) and here (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-act-19-paris-report/) respectively.

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Full article: http://thesaker.is/report-yellow-vests-act-20/

[Hervé]

20+ arrested, leader fined: Yellow Vest protests open ‘Act 21’ in France (VIDEO) (https://www.rt.com/news/455735-yellow-vests-act-21/)

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More than a dozen people have been arrested as Yellow Vest protesters flood the streets of French cities, marking the 21st consecutive week of mass demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron and his government.

Some 28 protesters were arrested in Paris on Saturday morning, local media reported, citing police. Eric Drouet, one of the leaders of the Yellow Vests, was fined 135 euro ($150) for violating public protest laws. The ruling was slammed by his lawyer who said that “if Drouet wants to have a cup of coffee at the Champs-Elysees, he has an absolute right to do so.”


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Nevertheless, the rallies in the French capital and elsewhere remain largely peaceful. The Yellow Vests are singing songs and holding placards as they march to denounce the policies of Emmanuel Macron and demand his resignation.

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Full article here with lots of twitter and FB videos: https://www.rt.com/news/455735-yellow-vests-act-21/

[Hervé]

"It Belongs To The People, Not The Bankers" - Italy Moves To Seize Gold From Central Bank (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-05/it-belongs-people-not-bankers-italy-moves-seize-gold-central-bank)

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Sun, 04/07/2019 - 07:35

Two weeks ago, somewhat out of the blue, (https://www.reuters.com/article/ecb-reserves-draghi/countries-must-seek-ecb-approval-to-manage-gold-reserves-draghi-idUSF9N1XJ02N) ECB President Mario Draghi issued an odd statement confirming that the European Central Bank needs to approve any operation in the foreign reserves of euro zone countries, including gold and large foreign currency holdings.
“The ECB shall approve both the operations in foreign reserve assets remaining with the NCBs (national central banks)...and Member States’ transactions with their foreign exchange working balances above a certain threshold,”

“The purpose of this competence is to ensure consistency with the exchange rate and monetary policy of the Union.”
Specifically, Draghi made this statement to two Italian members of the European Parliament.


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At the time it did not seem notable for any reason other than its peculiar timing, but now things are starting to make more sense as The Wall Street Journal reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-populists-covet-central-bank-and-its-gold-11554300000) that Italy’s ruling populists pushed ahead this week with efforts to seize control of the central bank and its gold reserves.

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Complaining that hundreds of thousands of small individual investors lost billions of dollars after several Italian banks failed in recent years, the anti-establishment '5 Star Movement' and the nationalist 'League', depict the central bank as a symbol of a technocratic elite aloof from the needs of ordinary Italians.
“We need a change of course at the Bank of Italy if we think about what happened in the last years,” said Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, leader of the 5 Star Movement.
Five Star and the League have repeatedly attacked the Bank of Italy for not preventing the banking crises, and blamed it for the losses suffered by mom-and-pop savers who had bought bank shares and bonds.
“If you are here with your current account in the red, it’s because the people who were supposed to control things didn’t do so,” League’s leader, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, told a group of former investors in Banca Popolare di Vicenza, which was liquidated in 2017.
And this week saw Italian lawmakers from 5 Star asking Parliament to pass two draft laws:
One law would instruct the central bank’s owners, most of them private banks, to sell their shares to the Italian Treasury at prices from the 1930s.

The other law would declare the Italian people to be the owners of the Bank of Italy’s reserve of 2451.8 metric tons of gold, worth around $102 billion at current prices.

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As The Wall Street Journal notes, (https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-populists-covet-central-bank-and-its-gold-11554300000)such a move could in theory widen the scope for selling the gold and reduce the bank’s reserves, which help underpin the financial system...
“The gold belongs to the Italians, not to the bankers,” said Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy, a far-right opposition party that supports both bills. “We are ready to battle everywhere in Italy and to bring Italians to the streets if necessary.”
The establishment sees it differently, warning that their actions are an attempt to undermine the Bank of Italy’s independence, and to spend the nation’s gold reserves on populist policies.
“Gold is part of the assets of the Bank of Italy and can’t be used for monetary financing of the Treasury,” said Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco.

“This looks like revolutionary expropriation,” said Gianluca Garbi, chief executive of Banca Sistema (https://quotes.wsj.com/IT/MTAA/BST) SpA.
But as The Wall Street Journal concludes, (https://www.wsj.com/articles/italys-populists-covet-central-bank-and-its-gold-11554300000) the 5 Star Movement and the League support public ownership of the gold reserves, and with backing from parties comprising 60% of lawmakers, the draft law has enough support to pass. Lawmakers from 5 Star also support nationalizing the central bank, while the League hasn’t decided yet, leaving the bill short of a majority with around 40% support.

As of last week they had forced the creation of a parliamentary commission to look into the failure of Italian banks, launching what could be months of tense scrutiny.

Is it any wonder, Russia (and China) have started to hoard gold?

[Hervé]

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Yellow Vests: Realisation (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-realisation/)

The Saker
April 10, 2019 6 Comments (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-realisation/#comments)

Video translated and subtitled by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard
cross-posted with the Stalker Zone: https://www.stalkerzone.org/yellow-vests-realisation/


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[Valerie Villars]

What an inspiring video. We, the Yellow Vests of the World.

[Hervé]

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Yellow Vests get 1st game-changing win: A vote to stop denationalisation of airports (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-get-1st-game-changing-win-a-vote-to-stop-denationalisation-of-airports/)

by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
April 11, 2019 7 Comments (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-get-1st-game-changing-win-a-vote-to-stop-denationalisation-of-airports/#comments)

You never read the word “denationalisation” in Western media anymore, only “privatisation”.

That makes sense… “denationalisation” is so obviously negative; its lack of patriotism and concern for the public welfare isn’t being covered up.

The New York Times seemed to stop using the word (https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/09/business/french-denationalization.html) around the mid-1980s – which makes sense, because that’s when the propaganda of neoliberalism fully took hold. In 2019, a generation later, journalists don’t even question that “privatisation” is a bad thing: for them “nationalisation” is probably a pejorative term, smacking of “nationalism”, which has become essentially synonymous with “racism” in the Western vocabulary.

But “denationalisation” is totally accurate: the selling off businesses which were undoubtedly paid for by the People of the nation, and then operated for the good of the nation.

We cannot say that all neoliberals hate their nation – being “anti-nation” is the ideology of globalists, a subset of neoliberalism. We can say that neoliberals hate “the state”, and the distinction is important.

Listen to the talk radio in the United States and you invariably find Protestant religious radio, and they love to equate “the Beast” of the Bible with the federal government; this satisfies both neoliberal and libertarian listeners. This explains why neoliberals push “privatisation”. When they discover that the 1% to whom the denationalisation was made was to foreign 1%ers… they might get upset at that – they won’t if they are globalisation neoliberals.

Accurate political-economic terminology aside, the Yellow Vests can now tell everyone, “Ta gueule!” (shut your face)

They undoubtedly won their first real victory against Emmanuel Macron this week, as opposition parliamentarians surprisingly banded together to vote in favor of holding a referendum on the sell-off of all three airports in the Paris area. Swiss-style RICs – citizens’ initiative referendums – is the primary democratic-structural demand of the Vesters; the fact that one might now take place is undoubtedly due to their agitation.

A begrudging French media, which hates the Yellow Vests for daring to question the agenda leadership of the 4th estate, of course did not celebrate (https://www.france24.com/en/20190410-first-france-mps-move-trigger-referendum-privatisations?fbclid=IwAR0mk3acjaftwcwHYFcFzjG7UsnKGvhMLgGbd4mtFHPZFceD28k1mNIwtlI) what is an obvious victory for everyone living on French soil or just flying through Paris. However, their skepticism is justified: France’s last referendum was in 2005 for the Maastricht Treaty, and that was immediately ignored… much like the Brexit vote appears to be. Today was supposed to be the day the UK left the EU and regained their sovereignty, and now we’ll have a 24-7 media onslaught for a 2nd vote. Personally, I think the first vote should not be respected – everybody knows votes don’t really count until the 4th or 5th one….

I was quite surprised at France’s revival of economic patriotism/good sense. The day prior to the decision I did this report for PressTV (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/10/593036/Yellow-Vests-protest-Macrons-selloff-of-state-assets--) – there were only perhaps 150 Yellow Vest protesters in front of the Senate, which appeared certain to vote their approval for Macron’s sell off. It’s still not sure a referendum will actually take place – it would be a first – but it could be in the headlines for months, emboldening more to join the Yellow Vests all the while.


Did Macron’s incredibly dirty tactics turn the tide?
The idea of selling off state assets to rich people is already shameful to anyone who isn’t rabidly against Socialist Democracy, but Macron’s tactics went beyond the pale.

Firstly, he pushed the totally-compliant, neophyte, business executives-turned-politicians (or, to places like The Economist – “civil society”) in the National Assembly to rewrite laws allowing (https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-bruno-le-maire-set-to-unveil-inflammatory-privatization-bill/) the denationalisation of the airport. It’s always fun to read France’s Orwellian names for their “deforms” – this one was the Action Plan for the Growth and Transformation of Companies (Loi PACTE).

Then, to avoid media coverage and a possible defeat, at 6:15am on Saturday March 16, he called a vote on the sell-off. French PMs work really late hours – I have no idea why, this isn’t Spain – but I’ve never seen that. Only 45 deputies voted out of the lower house’s total 577. The mainstream media had to go into overdrive to explain why the vote was actually legal. Nobody covered that – we all missed it, including me. Hey, I’m a daily hack journalist – I can’t do a story 2 days after the fact. Ya can’t cover them all, and there’s always another one around the corner.

Then, in something no media appears to be connecting, Macron pushed back the end date of his phony PR-campaign known as the “National Debate” in order to draw attention away from this week’s planned Senate vote. Yellow Vesters did not care, they – as planned – engaged in massive civil disobedience on the Champs-Elysées the day after the National Debate was supposed to end, March 16, even burning down a bank, though I was truly the only one to properly explain why (https://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-police-clash-in-paris-ramin-mazaheri/) (and at the bank!). So this week Macron unveiled his “conclusions” of the 2.5-month talk-fest, which were, essentially (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/10/593114/Polls-show-French-reject-results-of-Macrons-National-Debate): “It’s good to know that I’ve been right all along!” He was clearly hoping the media would focus on his technocratic rightness, instead of giving column inches and air time to the airport sell-off.

But he didn’t count on non-Macron party deputies joining together for the good of the nation. Or, for many, the good of their re-election campaign: after all, denationalisation is so unpopular its name cannot even be uttered anymore – opposing the 10 billion euro windfall from the sale is a sure winner with the voters.

Briefly: it is totally absurd to believe Macron’s claim that the state can only find 10 billion euros for an “industrial innovation fund” via selling off Paris airports (as well as the National Lottery and France’s stake in energy giant Engie). France has given scores upon scores of billions in tax cuts to corporations and businesses during the Age of Austerity, repeatedly telling us that the 1% will invest in industrial innovations funds of their own making and all without state strings attached to the cuts. Then you have tax evasion which is in the hundreds of billions in lost money for state coffers… which will be hard to find, considering that Macron wants to cut thousands of jobs in the Finance ministry, the ministry whose job it is to collect taxes (must kill the Beast… it’s what Jesus would do!).

In short, it’s a very bad week for Macron: just 6% of France said his National Watch Macron Outdo Fidel Castro In Speechifying was a success, and then it didn’t even provide cover for the privatisation his neoliberal globalist ilk loves more than absolutely anything. Why is it better to them than even oh-so-profitable wars – you axe tens of thousands of Beast/government jobs, and you get an already-made cash cow which has a customer base which is obviously guaranteed / an outright monopoly.


Iran knows what everyone in France hasn’t learned (except the Yellow Vests)

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Full article: http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-get-1st-game-changing-win-a-vote-to-stop-denationalisation-of-airports/

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LIVE UPDATES: Yellow Vests Protesters Rally in Paris for 22nd Week (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201904131074098012-yellow-vests-paris/)

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Yellow Vests protesters are gathering in Paris for a 22nd round of protests after the French government earlier this week delivered a report on France's Great National Debate. Addressing the debate, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Monday that the government needs to "lower taxes as soon as possible".

The mass demonstrations have continued in the centre of Paris over the last two weekends despite the fact that French authorities have banned rallies on the Champs Elysees and in its vicinity in March.

The protests, triggered by the government's plan to raise fuel taxes, have been ongoing in the country since mid-November. The authorities gave up on their fuel tax increase and have offered several other concessions, but the Yellow Vests keep gathering in cities across France.

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France's National Rally to Discuss EU Right-Wing Alliance With Salvini - Member

YALTA (Sputnik) - The leaders of the French National Rally party and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini will gather in Milan in mid-May to discuss Salvini's new pan-European alliance of right-wing parties, formed last week ahead of the European Parliament elections.

"We have a big meeting scheduled with Salvini and our European allies in Milan in mid-May… We hope that with our Italian, Austrian allies and allies from other countries we will constitute a group maybe not the most numerous but important enough to influence decisions of the European Parliament. Moreover, if we have a considerable group we can hope to have responsibilities in the [European] Commission," Thierry Mariani, a member of the French party and a candidate in the elections, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Yalta International Economic Forum.

The politician, who is currently on a visit to Russia's Crimea as the head of the French delegation, added that after the European Parliament elections the National Rally and its allies would seek other partners in the European Union, including in Poland.

"Then after the elections there will be discussions with other groups and other states to see how we can constitute a group. The main question is whether we will succeed — and that is what I am looking for — to make a large group which will bring together the people around Salvini and also with the Polish, where we will have two groups," Mariani said.

On Friday, Salvini announced on his Twitter that the National Rally had formally joined his bloc. The pan-European coalition also reportedly includes Alternative for Germany, Austria's Freedom Party, the Danish People's Party, Finland's Finns Party and the Conservative People's Party of Estonia.

The populist bloc was formed to unite and boost disparate right-wing parties ahead of crucial EU elections next month.

The European Parliament elections are slated for May 23-26.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201904201074309237-france-discusses-alliance-salvini-ahead-eu-vote/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com



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LIVE UPDATES: Yellow Vests Hold 24th Week of Mass Protests in Paris (VIDEO)

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People are rallying in Paris and other French cities, holding Yellow Vests protests for a 24th week; this comes shortly after President Emmanuel Macron held his first-ever full domestic news conference, where he pledged to cut the income tax in order to ease the economic issues in France.

Last weekend, the number of yellow vests protesters rose to 27,900, with 9,000 gatherings in Paris. According to police, at least 126 people were arrested in the French capital alone.

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The 'Yellow Vests storm Paris hospital' fake news story: "I was there. Here is what really happened" (https://thesaker.is/the-yellow-vest-salpetriere-hospital-hoax-i-reported-live-from-there-as-it-happened/)

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The French government has been forced to shamefully admit (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/french-interior-minister-christophe-castaner-may-day-paris-hospital) that they made totally false accusations that May Day Yellow Vest anti-government protesters tried to break into the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in order to "attack", "assault" and "steal". Countless mainstream media are just as covered in ignominy for having repeated (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/04/pari-m04.html) these untrue claims.

I was right there when it happened, covering it for PressTV, so I witnessed exactly what transpired.

In fact, I even gave a live interview at the exact time of the incident, just after 4pm. I don't have a copy of that for now, but I hope to get one soon: certainly, I can explain what happened and why.

Why it happened: A new rule permitting even worse police brutality against Yellow Vests

May 1st was the debut of a new policing tactic (https://www.lejdd.fr/Societe/maintien-de-lordre-le-1er-mai-a-paris-le-gouvernement-a-gagne-son-pari-mais-a-quel-prix-3896291): cops can initiate violence against peaceful protesters.

It is just that objectively simple, openly discussed, and easy to explain:

Cops are now using the age-old method of "divide and conquer"... on peaceful protesters. On May 1st a line of riot cops repeatedly charged the demonstrators in order to sever them into two, more manageable sections. One section of the protest is forced to advance, while the other section is forced to wait behind.

Of course, police are not watching their elbows and politely saying, "Excuse me" - the only way to stop peaceful demonstrators from moving is to violently get in their way and then violently bar them from advancing one more step. That is "initiating violence", and they didn't used to do that with the regularity we saw on May 1.

The cops did this at the start of the demonstration at 2pm, and to achieve their goal of cutting the demo into two sides they gassed about 5-8,000 people. I was doing a live interview at that time as well (I don't have a copy of that one, but I do have others from that day, read on for the link!). It was so violent and so shocking - tear gas forcing thousands of people to flee - that I had to talk (yell) for 20+ minutes live, giving myself a temporary headache. We almost had to turn and run, but we stood our ground: I take no credit, of course, but when cops advanced as far as journalists reporting live they finally relented and let the demonstration proceed, as they had set up an unprecedented, shockingly-narrow, cop-filled corridor tens of thousands of people had to slowly pass through. Happy International Workers' Day!

Back to 4pm: the cops again cut the demonstration, and they did so right in front of the hospital. So, firstly, if anyone is at fault for putting the hospital in the line of fire it is the riot cops because they chose to re-initiate violence at that particular spot.

Why that spot? Because Boulevard de l'Hôpital was the final straightaway until the end of the protest - the roundabout Place d'Italie: the government's new tactic also meant they wanted to allow the first group of protesters (the most hardcore) to enter Place d'Italie all alone... so they could be gassed, attacked and cleared out before for the next section of protesters arrived. Gas, attack and clear out; gas, attack and clear out Place d'Italie - this happened three times (in my estimation, but I was only there for numbers 2 and 3). This is the result of the new, so called "more offensive" police tactics.

Why do that? Because the government did not want the protest - 40,000 strong - to finish together, in celebration. The government was threatened by this large gathering, so they simply did not allow it to happen.

This explains why when I finally got to Place d'Italie it was a bizarre, desolate, damaged ghost town. Construction barricades had been toppled and damaged, along with advertisements and bus stops, there was garbage, glass and tear gas canisters everywhere... yet no people. Just an empty Place d'Italie, surrounded by cops at all eight exits.

Allow me to say this: I have never seen more cops that day in Paris. This was a city under foreign occupation, truly.

Entire regions of the city were rendered inaccessible to citizens, with armored vehicles and enormous temporary, metal gates blocking off road after road after road. But the number of cops... staggering. There was a squadron of riot police every 200 meters along the demonstration route, which was limited to a tiny section; so small, in fact, that I started my day at Place d'Italie at 11 am, covering the first demo (ecological protesters, of course, who only want to make their stupid complaints and then leave - quite pleased with themselves - before the violence starts), only to return there at the end of the day. Yes, it was back and forth along the only, narrow, permitted path to celebrate International Workers' Day in the "birthplace of human rights". This is why there was not more violence that day - cops were everywhere.

But wait, it's worse! I actually drove in from 130 kilometers outside Paris that day: there were rural gendarmes searching cars and people (without warrants, based only on suspicion) at every toll booth and gas station. They waved me through, each time, without searching me.

What went down at the hospital
So the cops cut the demo at 14h, the start, and then they did it at again at 16h. I was in the group forced to wait behind, stuck in front of the hospital, as the first group was getting their butts kicked at Place d'Italie while waiting for comrades who would never be allowed to join them. May 1st was a demonstration in stages, and only in certain places - certainly not "freedom of assembly".

So to cut the demo into two means to separate friends from each other - that creates anger. The cops have no fear of provoking anger because they have tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, truncheons and the power to arrest against totally unarmed protesters... and that's exactly what they did at 16h.

It was a rough 30 minutes. I was at the front lines and I've seen worse in France, but it was no picnic either.

Cops launched tear gas first, as always, to repel the protesters from the separation line they were undemocratically enforcing. Tear gas, then water cannons, and then hand-to-hand combat - it's the same thing I've seen since 2010, but I assume this existed in France long before then: this is the culture here.

So, via tear gas, cops caused a third of the protesters to flee into a side street (Rue des Wallons), while another third fled further back on the Boulevard de l'Hôpitaux, while the final third was pushed against the side gates of the now-infamous Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière. This is where the cops made their mistake (although this is all mistakes in preserving citizen security): they tear-gassed protesters who had nowhere else to go. Some panicked protesters somehow got through the side gates and entered into the hospital grounds.

And it was "panicked protesters" - subsequent videos (https://youtu.be/lSfRRjVXQaE) have proven that it was not "Black Bloc" nor even Yellow Vests who forced their way into the hospital. The only people who actually made it into the hospital were just two elderly men who said they had been "tear gassed all day". The video has made the government and the mainstream media appear even more terrible and pathetic. Not much more needs to be said....

More interesting: Why even try to get into the hospital? It's a stupid move, like running upstairs in a horror movie - you have nowhere to go; you are sure to be arrested and/or abused. But those protesters couldn't think that far ahead, because they were frightened, gassed, hurt, simple everyday citizens and not Black Bloc, cops or that other group which straddles both those groups - journalists.

Of course, there were no TV reporters during this long melee. There were plenty of photographers and some cameramen, and surely some print reporters, but not any TV reporters. Maybe all these journalists were working for a company, or maybe they were working for independent Yellow Vest blogs - who can tell? However, as is often the case at the front lines, I was the only one with a logo and doing a live interview.

I take that back: a lady for Italy's RAI was there during all this. She was doing her "piece to camera", the little wrap-up for a TV report - not a live interview. Major kudos, though.

French media on the front line? Ha! Dream on!

I don't know why - they could be. They could hire 3 security guards (instead of the usual 1 or 2), and then 3 ombudsman to explain to (very likely angry and confrontational) protesters, "We are here now! We are trying to do a good job for France! Don't get violent with us, please!" Maybe that's naïve of me, but totally hiding from the front line - hiding the reality of what's going on at the front lines for everyday citizens, such as those trapped at Hospital Pitié Salpêtrière - only further ruins the reputation of French media within France. Don't they feel an obligation to report on such an event properly... in their own damned country?!

And then they so quickly relay whatever the government wildly claims without any verification. Oh boy....

Please stop the tear gas - I'm live on TV
The hand-to-hand combat: Tougher protesters had wanted to... keep marching. That's all. But riot police violence prevented them and attacked them - so they fought back.

Such "resistance" is really quite, quite stupid, I think - I mean, both sides keep the kid gloves on. And thank God, because it's not even close to a fair fight: every square inch of the bodies of cops are protected with 8,000 euros worth of equipment; cops have been searching for weapons from a 130 kilometer-wide radius around Paris, so nothing can even the playing field; protesters have none of the cops tactical knowledge, organization or discipline. Hand-to-hand means a cat and mouse game and very quick skirmishes.

I recall that, amid the melee, there was a teenager dressed in black tossing a rock up and down, like a gangster flipping a quarter on a street corner.

Stupid....

A plainclothes cop - dressed as if he was a fellow Black Bloc member - dropped his phony act: he grabbed the kid and threw him to the ground with 100% of his force. Hey, the kid was holding a rock like a weapon and looking like he was about to use it - the kid was dead to rights, and by showing off he gave the cops time to think and react. As they dragged him away I thought: Poor kid - he's going to prison for a year or so. Some might be surprised that a cop would - gasp! - dress up as a Black Bloc member: Why that never happens! Yeah, sure....

Anyway, about a minute later - amazingly - the kid actually breaks free! He's running away!

But a cop trips him up and the first, arresting officer hits the kid on the ground on his thigh with his telescopic truncheon as hard as anything you can imagine. Punches sound nothing like they do in movies, of course, but the sound of this hit was enormous. If the cop had hit the kid's knee it would have been shattered - thankfully, the human femur is stronger than concrete (http://www.know4now.com/2013/03/the-human-thigh-bone-is-stronger-than-concrete.html). The kid surely has a nasty, nasty mark and a limp today.

Good ending: The kid still jumped the short garden fence on the west side of the Boulevard and got away. LOL... kids.

During this whole time I am dodging all this and waiting to go live on (smartphone) camera. My cameraman is dodging too. PressTV, which doesn't seem to understand that I am avoiding the wild crowd along the hospital gate, the arrests and beatings across from the gate, and the cops further up the boulevard who can attack, gas or water cannon us at any moment, keeps pushing us back because they want a "stable shot". LOL, yeah right. Amid this fluid situation?! Where I was just "stable" a rock just landed!

They want me to stand there - stock still - amid this violence, LOL. Just put me on air, already!

But PressTV is still waiting - I move to the side of hospital gate. Cops gas there again. I'm not going in the hospital grounds, but some do. Various ministers, reporters and know-nothings at home will soon be calling them bad little boys and girls... until the truth comes out.

One has to realize that during a bad gassing there is only one thought: get away from the gas. Certainly, LOL, you cannot do a single other thing until you complete that task.

Then there is - maybe - a second thought: if cops charge and attack now, I am totally helpless and done for.

That's why ya gotta know these things, and avoid being right where the gassings land; ya gotta think a step or two ahead; ya gotta not celebrate your survival, as if it was some huge victory, because more gas (or worse) is coming. It takes time to learn this stuff - a couple dozen people haven't had good luck and lost an eye, while over 600 have been seriously injured. Reminder: the weekly anti-Yellow Vest violence is nearing a half-year now! A half-year!!!

Anyway, I get away from the re-gassed hospital gate, and PressTV finally puts me on the air. I'm thrilled, because I want to get this live interview over with. So, I'm between the line of cops higher up Boulevard de l'Hôpitaux, and across from the hospital (Rue des Wallons) where the cat-and-mouse, will-they-or-won't they is taking place, and I'm doing my live blah blah.

Blah blah is done, and all is well. I had been gassed several times in 30 minutes - medics kindly spraying my face with cooling solvent at one point - but I could tell the fight was ending, as it can't go on forever. The cops finally get the order to pull back and stop antagonizing and attacking this section of the protest.

I didn't know this at the time, but they had gotten these orders only because they had sufficiently gassed, attacked and cleared out the first protest section at Place d'Italie.

The protesters are thrilled - they have "won"... by not losing an eye or being arrested. Little victories for the oppressed masses. Cops are slowly pulling back, and the protesters all congregate in front of a group riot cops and start singing a chant. I forget what - On est la (We are here), probably.

Stupid. (But I did join in for a short minute.)

They're just going to get gassed again. I tell my cameraman that this is not the place to be - indeed, it's all about knowing where's the place to NOT be! The crowd is singing louder, and it reaches a point where it's either dance or fight, and the French don't dance even though they are a Latin culture. Therefore, I know that someone in the crowd is going to do something to offend or antagonize the cops - or the cops will just get annoyed at the crowd's sense of triumph - and gas will arrive shortly. Everyone is celebrating, but we are moving... and more gas arrived where we had just been. I had gotten my fair share of abuse by then.

Thanks to my press card the cops let us through and we enter Place d'Italie early.

Hey, I am not obligated to document and witness every tear gassing! LOL, this is France - that's impossible. And there are other journalists, both good ones and bad ones.

This was the exact time when a cop was filmed throwing a rock at protesters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2iIs3n31Kw), which is generating some news. Indeed, as we had passed the police line I had noticed that up and down Boulevard de l'Hôpitaux protesters had pried off chunks of road asphalt - they are being attacked and have no weapons, let's recall. Nothing will happen to that cop, who should be fired immediately. It is ABSOLUTELY the primary part of the job description of a "riot cop" to take punches and not give them... but that's only in a country which is honest, which enforces law and order, which doesn't sic the cops on the protesters, etc.

Place d'Italie is totally empty, except for a thousand or so cops, and it's a wreck. Me and my cameraman speculate on the possibility of an alien abduction of the first protest group.

The protest section we were with starts to filter in: we're all gassed immediately.

That pushes us to one side of the roundabout, and that allows cops to push them all out. Ah, so there probably wasn't an alien abduction? Coulda been nice, maybe....

We stay, because we have an interview at 18h.

So it's 18h and here I am - getting gassed live on camera (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G1MK5SwoR4&fbclid=IwAR2-N6Gb00x_WHQAfe9r6VlKBxGbvqIItx4-gWuv359-yKJBNodFkE7F3P0) again (6:50 mark). The wind had shifted and it was on us quickly... but I have a tolerance to tear gas after all these years.

PressTV takes me off camera... that's so annoying. What am I getting gassed for, then? We want to show the sufferings of the people - so show it! If we aren't going to show it, then I can just stay in back with all the other journalists!!!

But ya gotta be at the front - at least sometimes. Protesters gotta see professional journalists are there to (somewhat) protect them, and cops gotta see that professional journalists are there to document what they do.

It's a real shame more reporters aren't doing live reports from the front lines, because cops know they can't do anything to anyone on live TV - they surely are forced to rein in their violent tactics. It's a real shame mainstream reporters (and I include PressTV with them, in a rare instance) aren't going to the front line. Again, I am no courageous guy, I just feel that the Yellow Vests are nothing new: France's Yellow Vests: It's just 1 protest...which has lasted 8 years (https://thesaker.is/frances-yellow-vests-its-just-1-protestwhich-has-lasted-8-years/), was the first article I wrote on the Yellow Vests, and it stresses that this violence against peaceful protesters is absolutely, positively nothing new.

I've seen these "battles" before many, many times - and I think I know how to safely handle it. Knock wood for luck, but experience gives everyone - a reporter, a Black Bloc member, a cop - a sixth sense, and a genuine ability to predict what comes next because it is all rather formulaic (although not on May 1). I know I am not courageous, because I would never put my cameraman at risk; more importantly, I would never put his expensive camera at risk, and that shows you how well-paid we are when the camera is the utmost priority! No joke....

But French TV reporters weren't at the front lines with the rail workers, with anti-State of Emergency protesters, with the "you can't ban pro-Palestinian marches" protesters, and on and on and on in France since 2010.

That was, I assume, the last gassing of the day because right when I am gassed live you can see that unions and their fancy floats are starting to arrive - no more poor Yellow Vests.

Unions, of course, have signed off on every major austerity measure since 2010, and are incredibly easy to "divide and conquer" with targeted concessions... so cops surely just wanted to give them a nice Place d'Italie to stand around, talk loud and say nuthin'. This is why many Yellow Vests don't want to march with unions, even on May Day.

At that point, I left to go and do our report for that day (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/05/01/594877/Record-cop-violence-at-Paris-May-Day-demo?fbclid=IwAR1Nkbns7mfe73HpQz5lN1kMD921LE0XEHxHFz1f3HH2FO9nPkmp_R4kHHQ).

All in all - not a bad day
I was expecting May Day to be bad - I was honestly concerned, as I do have things to live for besides these articles, you know - and it was pretty bad.

But it was only bad at the start and the finish - the massive, massive, massive police presence all along the route made any sort of "permanent shenanigans" impossible. That filtering corridor after the first protest-separating was appalling. May Day 2019 in France was like holding a march during a North Korean military parade, minus the great choreographed dances and true socialism.

It was also bad because it is much safer when the cops are playing defense, as they are supposed to always be doing, but on May Day they were playing offense. They have all the weapons, all the tactics, all the legal ability to whatever they want... and then a reporter - who invariably finds his or herself on both sides of the front line - has to worry about the cops, and also about rocks being thrown in his direction (at the cops). Whereas on a day like March 16, (https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/03/20/ramin-mazaheri-champs-elysees-war-zone-reporting-the-coming-yellow-vest-crackdown/) the last time the Champs-Élysées was a scene of civil disobedience, things are perfectly safe because everyone knows who the Yellow Vests are targeting and why. Cops... they can do whatever they want, and whenever they want - they respect nothing.

French reporters need to be at the front lines... but they aren't. I'm sure editors tell them not to, and that they are told that by their publishers. But that's why we got nonsense reporting which initially accused May Day protesters of breaking into a hospital to... do what? Burn, pillage and behead? Yeah, right....

Frankly, this new tactic of "initiate violence in order to divide and conquer peaceful protesters" is something which I can't see the Yellow Vests being able to combat... but that's the subject of a future article.
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is the author of I (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6025095434?pf_rd_p=1cac67ce-697a-47be-b2f5-9ae91aab54f2&pf_rd_r=VD45AQ2HHJZQ0DQS7XVA)' (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6025095434?pf_rd_p=1cac67ce-697a-47be-b2f5-9ae91aab54f2&pf_rd_r=VD45AQ2HHJZQ0DQS7XVA)ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6025095434?pf_rd_p=1cac67ce-697a-47be-b2f5-9ae91aab54f2&pf_rd_r=VD45AQ2HHJZQ0DQS7XVA). His work has appeared in various journals, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and television. He can be reached on Facebook.

Related:
French interior minister slammed over fake news of hospital attack by Yellow Vests (https://www.sott.net/article/412296-French-interior-minister-slammed-over-fake-news-of-hospital-attack-by-Yellow-Vests)

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Says it all (see the video at link)...




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This video will not be shown in mainstream media: What is happening in France? [SOUND ON]

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1:11 PM - 24 Apr 2019
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Not Russia's fault? Macron blames imminent EU election wipe-out on 'US meddling' (https://www.rt.com/news/459901-macron-lepen-bannon-european-elections/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/459901-macron-lepen-bannon-european-elections/)
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Le Pen's National Rally is likely to be tied with "lobbyists close to the American government," the French president claimed as polls show his party is losing support just days ahead of the European Parliament vote.

Recent polls show (https://www.parismatch.com/Les-europeennes-en-temps-reel) Macron's party La République En Marche (LREM) is trailing behind Le Pen's right-wing National Rally and the president chose to lash out once again at its main rival.

Macron's fresh rant was triggered by the figure of Steve Bannon, a former Trump's advisor, whom French media suspect of backing the National Rally's campaign. Bannon, who is currently visiting Paris, insists (https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/europeennes-interesse-par-marine-le-pen-steve-bannon-se-presente-comme-un-observateur-1695111.html) he came as an "observer" but the president clearly feels it is not the whole story.

"I see for the first time a collusion between the nationalists and foreign interests, whose objective is the dismantling of Europe," Macron said on Monday, adding that Bannon is a "lobbyist close to the American government."

Macron's words were preceded by harsh remarks by his fellow party members. Nathalie Loiseau, LREM's top contender for the upcoming election earlier said (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/europeennes-lrem-denonce-la-presence-de-steve-bannon-a-paris-20190519) that Bannon "absolutely does not hide his desire" to interfere into the elections while National Rally members are trained according to the "Bannon method" which implies "disinformation" and "lies." Apart from this Macron's former political consultant and number six in the LREM list Stéphane Séjourné called (https://twitter.com/steph_sejourne/status/1129677452610031618) Bannon's actions "an attack on the sovereignty of elections."

Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen (while admitting that she previously used Bannon's services as a political adviser) indicated (https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/1130417883580788737) that he "plays no role" in the current campaign. Bannon, for his part, clarified (http://www.leparisien.fr/elections/europeennes/steve-bannon-l-election-europeenne-sera-un-tremblement-de-terre-17-05-2019-8074545.php) that at times he acts as an "informal adviser" who only "makes remarks to certain parties and gives advice on fundraising," but doesn't get paid for that.

Pressure on Eurosceptic parties across Europe is high in the final days of the electoral campaign. On Monday, a prominent liberal EP lawmaker and former Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt accused Marine Le Pen and four other right-wing politicians of being "paid by Putin" to destroy the EU.

The politician also urged (https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1130489771514564608) to support the pro-European parties in order not to let "our continent become a playground for Trump & Putin's puppets."

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Ça chauffe, encore et encore...




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Perhaps if this was Venezuela it would be headline news on @BBCNews (https://twitter.com/BBCNews) @SkyNews (https://twitter.com/SkyNews) and @itvnews (https://twitter.com/itvnews) . But as it’s France nothing said
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See video at: https://twitter.com/KevinPascoe/status/1132276277992411137


6:24 AM - 25 May 2019
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Macron Suffers Huge Blow With Defeat To Le Pen (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-26/macron-suffers-huge-blow-defeat-le-pen)

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Mon, 05/27/2019 - 05:33

In what may be the biggest shock from today's European parliamentary elections, President Emmanuel Macron suffered a major blow with French voters set to hand a victory to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, picking the vocal Eurosceptic and nationalist over the former Rothschild banker.


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Macron’s En Marche (Republic on The Move) will have just 22.5% of the vote compared with 24% for Le Pen, according to pollsters Ifop. With Macron and Le Pen neck and neck ahead of the elections, the outcome will be a humiliation for the liberal politician who said before the elections that everything less than 1st place would be a defeat.

Rounding out the The Greens were third with 13%, the conservative Republicans got 8%, while the implosion of the Socialists continues, coming in dead last with just 6.5% of the vote.


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Macron's default took place even as turnout was up around 10% points from 2014, however the increase was particularly marked in regions where Le Pen’s party has gained ground in the past years. In other words, as establishment apathy gets entrenched, the populist vote is increasingly demanding to be heard.

It gets worse: to the shock of globalists and statists everywhere, this is Le Pen’s second straight victory in the EU vote. In 2014 she beat the conservatives by 4 percentage points with Macron’s Socialist predecessor Francois Hollande trailing in third.

As Bloomberg notes, the result is a setback for the 41-year-old Macron who played a more prominent role in the campaign than any other European leader as he sought to mobilize voters.
The president is fighting for legitimacy as he tries to persuade the rest of the European Union to pursue tighter integration. Polls in Germany showed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats came first, although with fewer seats than last time.
“For Macron this was a defining election and it’s him who made it like that,” said Bernard Sananes, president of Elabe polling institute. “Finishing second would mean a sense of isolation in Europe.”

Today's vote followed months of relentless protests which have seen looting and vandalism in Paris. Macron responded with a raft of new spending plans and tax cuts to appease the Yellow Vest movement but the measures failed to convince voters.

Meanwhile, Eurosceptic, anti-establishment and hard-right parties were also expected to top polls in the UK, Italy, Poland, and Hungary. Nigel Farage’s Brexit party was in contention to be the biggest single national party in the parliament, potentially beating both Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and Matteo Salvini’s rightwing League.

Germany’s left-right grand coalition faced a potentially significant electoral shock, with estimates indicating the Green party had made a historic breakthrough, taking 20.9 per cent of the vote. Philippe Lamberts, leader of the Green group, said: “To make a stable majority in this parliament the Greens are now indispensable.”
This pushed the center-left Social Democratic party into third place for the first time in nationwide elections, raising pressure on party leaders to rethink their federal alliance with the centre-right CDU and the CSU, its Bavarian sister party.

While the EPP remains the biggest group in the parliament, its diminished size may hamper Manfred Weber, its lead candidate, in making a claim to the presidency of the European Commission.

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The longer the night, the greener the chart. Green wave also hits Portugal and adds another 1-2 Green seats to our live projection for the European Parliament. Via @EuropeElects


EPP parties were in first place in Germany, but Merkel’s CDU secured 28%, seven points down on its vote share in 2014. Finally, Austria’s Sebastian Kurz said he was “speechless” after a crushing victory, securing a third of all votes in spite of a corruption scandal that has brought down his coalition government with the far-right Freedom party.

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pyrenees:

Municipal: Cooking failure for Manuel Valls in Barcelona (https://www.newsy-today.com/municipal-cooking-failure-for-manuel-valls-in-barcelona/)

drbyos (https://www.newsy-today.com/author/drbyos/)
May 27, 2019 at 9:39 am (https://www.newsy-today.com/2019/05/27/)


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New setback for Manuel Valls. The former French prime minister will not become the new mayor of Barcelona as he had long been aiming for. After the failure of the presidential election in France in 2017, Manuel Valls had distanced himself from French politics in order to return to his hometown and conquer Barcelona City Hall. But it is a new defeat, very stinging, for the former French Prime Minister: Sunday, he arrived only fourth of the municipal ballot Catalan.

With about 13% of the vote, according to final results, Manuel Valls, 56, was largely outpaced by the candidate of the separatist Left Republican Party of Catalonia (ERC) Ernest Maragall (about 21%) and the left-wing mayor radical Ada Colau (nearly 21%). "My list (…) is far from our expectations and my expectations," admitted the former French Socialist Prime Minister (2014-2016), supported in Barcelona by the liberal and anti-independence party Ciudadanos.

Manuel Valls will he stay in Barcelona?
This candidacy for a municipal election in a large metropolis after a leading political career in another country was unprecedented in Europe, where any citizen can run for local elections in a country other than his own since the Maastricht Treaty. Ernest Maragall, 76, is expected to become the first independentist mayor of the second largest city in Spain since the reestablishment of democracy in Spain following the Franco dictatorship.

Born in Barcelona in August 1962, Manuel Valls was raised in Paris by a Catalan father – the painter Xavier Valls – and an Italian-Swiss mother then naturalized French at age 20. After his failure to socialist primaries for the 2017 presidential election in France and his rallying to Emmanuel Macron, Manuel Valls had decided to change horizon by committing to the other side of the Pyrenees. In a relationship with Susana Gallardo, rich heiress of a Catalan pharmaceutical company, Manuel Valls had promised that "whatever happens", he would stay in Barcelona where his place will now be on the opposition benches within the city council.

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Exclusive — Marine Le Pen: Emmanuel Macron Should ‘Definitely’ Resign, But He ‘Has Neither the Honesty to Do It, Nor the Panache’

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally party in France, in a Breitbart News exclusive interview on Monday called on French president Emmanuel Macron to resign the presidency, but said he is not honest or bold enough to recognize his worldview has been defeated.

In the United Kingdom, Le Pen noted, David Cameron stepped down as Prime Minister when the British people voted to leave the European Union back in 2016. And in 2019, Le Pen noted, Prime Minister Theresa May announced her plans to resign after the Brexit Party defeated her party and all others in the U.K.’s European Parliament elections.

Le Pen told Breitbart News that Macron should “definitely” follow Cameron’s and May’s leads and resign from the French presidency. “But Macron has neither the honesty to do it, nor the panache to do it,” Le Pen said.

Even if Macron hangs onto the presidency and refuses to resign despite the stinging defeat in this weekend’s elections, Le Pen told Breitbart News that Macron must dissolve Parliament “immediately” and hold new elections as soon as possible.

“They should happen immediately because of yesterday’s results, but mostly because of Macron’s posture during the election where he was not the warrantor of the constitution but he became an active player in one of the parties,” Le Pen said in a more-than-20-minute phone interview on Monday in the wake of her party’s win over Macron’s in the European Union elections. “Once he engaged, it became his personal responsibility. He should take into consideration the results and call for elections.”

Le Pen’s National Rally, rebranded from the old National Front party her father founded that she took over, surged into first place in the European Union elections in France this weekend. Le Pen’s party won more than 24 percent of the vote compared with Macron’s Republic on the Move, which finished under 22 percent.

Speaking through a translator via phone for the exclusive interview on Monday, Le Pen explained the victory and why she believes her party won, while Macron’s was defeated.

“There are two main reasons: One is a European reason, and the other is on a national basis. Macron, in the early stages of the campaign, presented himself as the leader of the European Union that the French people do not want anymore,” Le Pen said. “The European Union despises the people. The European Union protects unfair competition specifically with products coming from China. And more than anything, the European Union is fully open to immigration to the European Union that will be submerged.”

“The second reason is a national reason. He established some policies, specifically on a fiscal level, that are particularly unjust and unfair to the popular classes, to the common person. For the past two years, he has displayed extreme arrogance and spite for the common people and the French people in general. What I and the list have been doing is explaining to the French people that the former divide between right and left wing does not exist anymore. And for the second time in a row, which means including the presidential election two years ago, the new divide is between the globalists and the nationalists. Twice in a row, this narrative that I have been explaining has become true and has been put in place by the vote of the French people.”

Yellow Vest protesters have been blaming Macron for losing the election. Le Pen said that while the Yellow Vest impact on the election is “difficult to assess,” the bigger point is that people feel disenfranchised and not represented properly in their government.

“It is difficult to assess but an essential part of our dysfunctional democracy in France which is the lack of representativity of the national assembly in France,” Le Pen said. “We are the first party in France with 24 percent yesterday in the European elections, and yet our party has six members in Parliament out of 577. When democracy is so badly treated, it only can create tensions that are most likely irreversible.”

Le Pen has been campaigning on the narrative that the battle is no longer between the traditional left and right, but instead between the top and bottom—a globalists versus nationalists fight—and the contrast offers voters in elections around the world a clear choice.

“Globalism is a post-national spirit,” Le Pen said when asked to explain the differences between globalism and nationalism. “It carries a notion that borders must disappear, including the protection that such borders usually brings to a nation. It carries the concept that overwhelming markets decide about everything. This concept about globalism is pushed by technocrats that are never elected and they are the typical type of person who runs things in Brussels in the European Union. The people that believe in nations—the nationalists—it’s the exact opposite. They believe that nations are the most efficient way to protect national security, prosperity, and identity to make sure that people will prosper in the nations.”

Le Pen, when asked by Breitbart News about how some critics of nationalism point to the dark history of nationalism in Europe to criticize it, shot down such criticisms as efforts to defame those who believe in the ideology.

“The objective of the globalists is to discredit anyone who defends a nation, and to shame them or to defame them,” Le Pen said. “It’s specifically because a nation is the ground where democracy applies, where the people can decide. They do know that the people in fact do not agree with globalism.”

France was not alone over the weekend in electing right-wing nationalists to power in the European elections. In Italy, for instance, Matteo Salvini’s League Party won big—and Le Pen says she looks forward to working with him in advancing the ideas of nationalism against globalism.

“For a very long time, our party has been working with Salvini, for example, but also with other parties in several countries in Europe to defend the idea of nations,” Le Pen fold Breitbart News. “We are allied, but we also are friends. This specifically worries the globalists because they see that tomorrow they are going to face a real political alternative. The European Union cannot stand the idea of change or an alternative because it is in itself a totalitarian institution.”

Le Pen said there is “great enthusiasm” across Europe because of an “unconditional love” that nationalists have been expressing for their countries.

“What is being done, what these parties are doing right now, is a source of great enthusiasm,” Le Pen said. “Never since the beginning of the European Union has the possibility of a Europe of nations been so close. This is the reason why globalists are so violent and aggressive toward Matteo Salvini. But we are carried by something they cannot touch, that they cannot reach: an unconditional love we feel for our country and for our people.”

She said she sees National Rally, her party in France that just won big over Macron’s globalists, as being in a “central place” in this new rising coalition.

“A central place—both delegations, the French and Italian, will be the largest national groups within this coalition at the European Parliament. Matteo Salvini and myself have always worked together very closely, even when we were both smaller on the political stage, and we have a way of seeing things and of working together,” Le Pen said when asked where she sees herself and the National Rally in the bigger picture.

While Italian and French nationalists are perhaps the closest in terms of working together, others from other countries—notably the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom and nationalists in Poland and Hungary as well—have been on the rise throughout Europe. Le Pen said that it is important for those who see the world similarly to work together to take on the globalists.

“What is going on in Europe right now is of historical magnitude,” Le Pen told Breitbart News. “Patriots from all countries must unite.”

But, she noted, it will be tougher for all nationalists to unite because of differences in opinion on some things—even though, she said, French nationalists have always defended core principles of nationalists in other nations.

“Getting together is a long trip,” Le Pen said. “In the European Parliament, we have always defended the idea that Hungary and Poland have a right to defend their people within the European Union. Same for the United Kingdom – we have always defended the idea that they were free to leave the European Union if they wanted to, as they expressed in their vote. We believe this is at the core of defending democracy. One does not negotiate with such essential notions.”

When asked if her vision aligns with that of President Donald Trump here in the United States, Le Pen said that if he believes in sovereignty, borders, and the right of a people to protect their national interest, then they do.

“If President Trump’s vision of the world is that nations are to overcome empires and take over the destiny and the future of their people, in that case we fully share his view,” Le Pen said. “If his vision is to believe that the people of a country have a right to vote in order to protect their country and to make sure that their country comes first, in that case yes I share his vision. Will we always share the same ideas? Will the interests of France and the United States always be aligned? This is a question, this is not sure, this is called diplomacy.”

She also said it was “definitely” easier to take on the globalists in Europe with Trump in the White House here in the United States.

“This was used against us during the European election,” Le Pen said. “The overwhelming power of the economy, the desire to defend popular classes, the middle class, our refusal of uncontrolled unrestrained immigration, the idea that protectionism is an idea to offer social benefits to countries that are importing goods, the belief that identity of the people has to be defended, are all definitely common points with President Trump.”

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/27/exclusive-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-should-definitely-resign-but-he-has-neither-the-honesty-to-do-it-nor-the-panache/

[Flash]

She is a bitch but I like her, precisely because she is a bitch maybe.

She came to Quebec last year and was refused audience from the then liberal government which has been voted out last fall.

If she is to be president, I wonder what our government will do for contrition. Lol

Désolée Hervé pour le “y en a marre” de l’autre thread.

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The portrait of a "Globalist":

"Obstinate, deaf and contemptuous": Macron failed 'personally' in EU election - Official (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201905271075392966-macron-eu-vote/)

Sputnik (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201905271075392966-macron-eu-vote/)
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The second place of the alliance backing French President Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament election is a "personal defeat" for the French leader, Thierry Mariani, the number three on the list of the winning National Rally (RN), told Sputnik.

"During three months the government has used all the administrative resources to win this election ... We are very satisfied with the result that puts us on top. And even if the gap is small, it's a personal defeat for the president who engaged completely in this election", Mariani said.

Mariani stressed that a president who got so invested in the election campaign but failed to come first should "drive conclusions by either stepping down... or by organizing another legislative election, or at least by changing his politics."

However, Mariani is not expecting any of these options from Macron, who is "obstinate, deaf and contemptuous of the point of view of the French."

According to preliminary results of this weekend's vote, RN can claim 22 out of 79 French seats, Macron's alliance has secured 21 seats, while the environmentalists have got 12 seats.


Related:


European Parliament Elections 2019: Big Wins For Nationalist Parties in The UK, France, And Italy (https://www.sott.net/article/413868-European-Parliament-Elections-2019-Big-Wins-For-Nationalist-Parties-in-The-UK-France-And-Italy#)



Farage's Emphatic Victory in European Election Spells Doom For Both Tories And Corbyn (https://www.sott.net/article/413877-Farages-Emphatic-Victory-in-European-Election-Spells-Doom-For-Both-Tories-And-Corbyn)



Thierry Meyssan: Who owns Macron? (https://www.sott.net/article/402626-Thierry-Meyssan-Who-owns-Macron)



Niall Bradley to PressTV: 'Yellow Vests Movement a Result of Sclerotic, Totalitarian Politics in Western Europe' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8sM_3Ru10)

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"Il est un vent de folie..."


Marine Le Pen Ordered To Stand Trial For Re-Tweeting ISIS Atrocities (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-12/marine-le-pen-ordered-stand-trial-tweeting-isis-atrocities)

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Thu, 06/13/2019 - 02:45

Right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial for tweeting photographs of ISIS atrocities in December 2015, weeks after IS jihadis murdered 130 people (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/dramatic-footage-paris-attack-released-shows-gunman-opening-fire-pizzeria) in Paris.


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A judge ruled in the Western Paris suburb of Nanterre ordered Le Pen to face a charge of circulating "violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity," which included the brutal beheading of journalist James Foley, according to France24 (https://www.france24.com/en/20190612-frances-le-pen-go-trial-tweeting-gruesome-images). Another depicted a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank, while a third photo Le Pen posted was of captured Jordanian air force pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage in January 2015.

"Daesh is this!" wrote Le Pen in a caption, using the terror group's Arabic acronym.


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Le Pen faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 Euros ($85,000 US).
Last year, an investigative magistrate called for Le Pen to undergo psychiatric tests in connection with the IS tweets.

The 50-year-old trained lawyer, whose party topped France's vote in the recent European elections, has denounced the case as a violation of her freedom of expression.

She tweeted the images after a French journalist drew a comparison between Islamic State group and her party. -France24 (https://www.france24.com/en/20190612-frances-le-pen-go-trial-tweeting-gruesome-images)
Last year Le Pen, 50, was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if she was fit to stand trial. She has denounced the entire affair as a violation of her freedom of expression.

"I am being charged for having condemned the horrors of Daesh," Le Pen said last year. "In other countries this would have earned me a medal."

[Valerie Villars]

Herve', are the people still protesting in France? What is the latest with the yellow vests?

[Deux Corbeaux]

Yes they are still active.

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Events of yellow vests in Paris and throughout France Saturday, June 22, 2019:
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Last updated: Friday, June 21, 2019 by Flavien

The movement continues in June 2019, with calls to demonstrate on social networks for an act 32 Saturday, June 22 in Paris and in the provinces.
Yellow Vests call for a day of blocking ports, refineries, airports, shopping centers, roads and stations Total.

In Paris :

3 events converging on Madeleine starting at 10am from the forecourt of Gare du Nord, Porte Saint-Denis and Place du Châtelet. Once on the Place de la Madeleine, the procession will leave at 12 o'clock towards the Elysee.
Event scheduled at 11:30 am from the metro station Bercy (gathering at 9am) to that of Trinité Etienne d'Orves via Belleville and Gare du Nord.
Rally at 14h Place of the Republic.

In Province:

National Yellow Vest event in Charleville-Mézières at 13h at the Charleville-Mézières City Hall.

[Hervé]

Much safer to be a protester in Hong Kong than in France (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/27/599592/France-Yellow-Vest-protests-police-Hong-Kong-China)

Press TV
Thu Jun 27, 2019 05:44PM
[Updated: Thu Jun 27, 2019 06:20PM ]


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Police officers block demonstrators wearing Yellow Vests on a street in Paris on Dec. 8, 2018. (Photo by AP)


(Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is the author of “I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China”.)

The differences in handling the recent protests in Hong Kong and the weekly demonstrations in France illuminate an enormous democratic deficit between Western “liberal democratic” societies and non-Western “socialist democratic” ones.

It has been amazing to see how quickly the Hong Kong government - which under the “one country, two systems” system largely means the Chinese government (Hong Kong is officially a part of China) - acquiesced to public opinion after just two days of moderately-violent protests.

I am shocked. This is not because I falsely perceive Hong Kong or China as “anti-democratic”, but because every Saturday for months I have been dodging tear gas and rubber bullets in France. Hong Kong’s government backed down after barely more than a week of regular protests in the capital, whereas France has been unwilling to appease a protest movement which has lasted over seven months.

Almost immediately after protests turned violent, Hong Kong tabled the bill which proved so divisive, and their leader even apologised with the "utmost sincerity and humility”. What a contrast to French President Emmanuel Macron: Not only has Macron never apologised, but he did not even utter the words “Yellow Vests” in public until late April. His Interior Ministry can only be counted on to routinely remind Yellow Vests that they have “no regrets” about how the protests have been officially handled.

Hong Kong police reported that 150 tear gas canisters, several rounds of rubber bullets, and 20 beanbag shots were fired during the only day of serious violence. Conversely, a damning annual report this month from French police reported that 19,000 rubber bullets were fired in 2018 (up 200% from 2017), as were 5,400 shock grenades (up 300%).

Two things are appalling here: Firstly, the French government fired - at their own people, mostly for protesting neoliberal austerity – over 6,000 rubber bullets and 1,500 shock grenades in 2017. Shockingly violent protests were “normal” in France long before the Yellow Vests. Second: The Yellow Vests didn’t arrive until the final 6 weeks of 2018 - therefore, the increases and totals for 2019 will likely be 4-5 times more than the already huge increases in 2018.

The latest tallies count 72 injuries and 30 arrests in Hong Kong - it was shock over this heavy-handed policing which led to the government’s intelligent move to restore order and democratic calm.

In France, the casualty figures are catastrophic: 850 serious injuries, 300 head injuries, 30 mutilations (loss of eye, hand or testicle). Someone passed out or vomiting is not counted as a “serious injury”, but if we included those hurt by tear gas, water cannons and police truncheons the number of injuries would undoubtedly approach six figures, as astronomical as that figure sounds. As for arrests, France was at 9,000 on March 24, with nearly half receiving prison sentences. However, this count was announced before new, repressive orders were given to arrest democratic protesters even faster. After interviewing for PressTV one of the rare lawyers courageous enough to openly criticise a French legal system which is obviously not “independent”, I estimate that over 2,000 Yellow Vests have already become political prisoners. More are obviously awaiting their trial, and more trials will obviously be convened.

Western mainstream media coverage of the two events is best described by a (modified) French saying: “one weight, two measures”. Hong Kongers are “freedom fighters” against a “tyrannical” and “totalitarian” Chinese system, whereas Yellow Vesters are routinely slurred in the West as thugs, anti-Semites and insensible anarchists.

Western media has no problem printing the turnout numbers of organisers… when it comes to Hong Kong. The Yellow Vests’ self-reported “Yellow Number”, and the turnout count of a courageous, openly anti-Macron police union were routinely ignored by the Mainstream Media until mid-April (here is Wikipedia’s tally of all three estimates, in French).

However, finally printing crowd counts from sources other than the (obviously self-interested) French Interior Ministry was clearly in keeping with the anti-Yellow Vest Mainstream Media: starting on March 23, France began deploying the military against French protesters, banning protests in urban centres nationwide (bans in rural areas began in early May), gave shocking orders for cops to “engage” (that is, “attack”) protesters, and also gave orders to make arrests more rapidly. Therefore, the outdated count of 9,000 could easily be vastly higher.

All the repression achieved what it was obviously intended to: scare French anti-government protesters away. Weekly protests averaged a quarter million people from January 1 until mid-March (cop union estimates), but after the harsh repression was announced until today protests averaged only 65,000 brave souls.

Western “independent” (and always-saintly) NGOs are no better than Western media: In a report released in late March, US-based Human Rights Watch had issued 131 articles, reports and statements on Venezuela - zero on France. The NGO is still totally silent on French repression.

Perhaps the most important question is: what are the protests about? On this issue there is also a huge difference: The protests in Hong Kong are over a law to extradite criminals, whereas in France the protests are over the criminal lack of public opinion in formulating public policy.

Those primarily threatened by Hong Kong’s law are financial criminals, as the island’s primary economic function is to serve as an England-dictated tax haven. This explains why “exposed” tycoons are now rushing their wealth out of Hong Kong. Perhaps the primary initial complaint was that the law would damage Hong Kong’s “business climate”, which is undoubtedly why Western media - so supportive of neo-imperialism and rapacious neoliberal business practices - was so very opposed to the bill and so very supportive of the protesters.

Those primarily targeted by the Yellow Vests are also financial criminals - the anti-patriotic French bankers, politicians and journalists who have colluded to create a “Lost Decade” of economic growth even worse than either of Japan’s two examples. This decade of near-recession is being dramatically compounded by Francois Hollande’s and Macron’s executive decrees and socioeconomic “deforms” which are gutting France’s social safety net, working conditions and France’s tradition of being the only Western neo-imperialist nation which pursued relatively egalitarian economic policies (only domestically, of course).

So what can we learn from this comparison? We can fairly say that the differences are “cultural”, which is to say that they are linked to and produced by their political values.

On one hand we have Hong Kong’s Beijing-tied government - China operates on a “socialist democratic” model. The structure of their government, one easily finds from reading their constitution, has been deeply influenced by the early 20th century ideals of anti-imperialism and class struggle.

China has emphatically rejected the Western “liberal democratic” model, incarnated by France, which remains rooted in aristocratic, 18th century ideals, and which necessarily lacks the modern ideals of economic equality, gender and minority equality, democratic equality and the ability to prevent an oligarchic rule of the “1%”.

When it comes to China, Hong Kong and France, the numbers and data are so overwhelmingly one-sided that not much ink needs to be spilled in this column to draw the obvious conclusion: China’s socialist democratic system is obviously far, far more democratic than France’s.

The Chinese and Hong Kong model of democracy is far more responsive to the will of public opinion, and to the fundamental needs of their public, than France’s outdated, aristocratic, and fundamentally anti-democratic political system.

Perhaps this was not the case 100 years ago, but it is clearly the case in 2019.

However, much, much ink from other pens should be spilled to broadcast this conclusion, especially in hypocritical and deluded Western newsr
*Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is the author of “I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China”.

[Hervé]

France's Richest People Have Seen Their Net Worth Rocket 35% This Year (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-02/frances-richest-people-have-seen-their-net-worth-rocket-35-year)

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Wed, 07/03/2019 - 02:45

Despite the civil unrest in France to start the year, the country's richest citizens still had a fantastic start to 2019, according to Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-01/france-s-richest-people-get-richer-faster-than-everyone-else).

Amidst protesters taking to the streets to demand higher wages and better pensions, the 14 people from France on the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index added a combined $78 billion to their collective net worth since the beginning of 2019. That is an astounding 35% increase. The figures will likely serve as additional fuel for protests over income inequality in the country.


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France's pace was more than double China’s richest, who saw growth of 17% for the first six months of the year. The richest in the U.S. saw their wealth grow 15% during the first half the year.
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Outside of France, the other highest returns came from Thailand at 33% and Singapore, who came in at 31%. The richest in Japan saw their wealth grow 24%. The only Nigerian on the list, Aliko Dangote, saw his wealth up 60% so far in 2019.

Specifically in France, luxury businessmen Bernard Arnault and Francois Pinault, combined with cosmetics heir Francoise Bettencourt Meyersedit combined to make up $53 billion of the growth. The demand for luxury goods from China has continued even though there has been uncertainty from the ongoing trade war. Arnault’s LVMH shares are up 45% this year, making the company the second best performer in France's CAC 40 index. He joined Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as the only people that have fortunes of over $100 billion.

Thailand's success was a result of Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, founder and chairman of TCC Group. Sirivadhanabhakdi’s net worth rose by $4 billion to $16.5 billion as shares of his company, listed in Singapore, were up 38%.

[Hervé]

Yellow Vests: The undercover cop scandal that the Macron regime tries to cover up (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-the-undercover-cop-scandal-that-the-macron-regime-tries-to-cover-up/)

by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog
July 07, 2019
9 Comments (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-the-undercover-cop-scandal-that-the-macron-regime-tries-to-cover-up/#comments)


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During the near 8 months (at the time of writing) that the French Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) have been demonstrating nationwide I have written two articles (part 1 is here (http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report), part 2 is here (http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report-part-2/)) based on my own primary research that aimed to offer an insight into what is actually going on, since the mainstream, neoliberal media is either deliberately boycotting the topic or mentions it very briefly and in a heavily biased (pro-Macron) way. Part 3 in this series is on the way – I will publish it after July 14th (Bastille Day), but in this article I want to talk about a serious incident that happened during Act 34 (July 6th) in Paris – an incident that, of course, the French government and Brussels will try to hush up as much as possible.

Let’s start the timeline at 18:00 in the evening. The Yellow Vests have just completed their 9km – from Place de la République to Place de Catalogne -sanctioned demonstration (my videos and photos can be found here (https://www.facebook.com/OllieCRichardson/posts/636871123499574)). They then travel by metro back to Place de la République (hereon in – PdlR) for a sanctioned evening gathering. At this time some feminist protest is already ongoing, and CRS (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité) start to become nervous that the arriving Yellow Vests, being the “terrorists” that the mainstream media portrays them to be, might disrupt proceedings.

There is another reason why CRS are nervous: it should be noted that the few yellow vests that can be seen in the video above have nothing to do with the actual Yellow Vests movement. They, in fact, are the groupies of a Macron collaborator named Sophie Tissier, who deliberately registers a “Gilets Jaunes” protest with the police prefecture for every Saturday for the purpose of dividing the movement and preventing the formation of one large column. She espouses liberal values (as can be seen in the video above; she is the shaven-headed woman holding a sign saying “Anti-patriarchy”) and as a result is booed and jeered by the actual Yellow Vests every time she’s spotted. Thankfully, her joke gatherings now only attract 20 naïve individuals at most. However, that is 20 unhappy citizens who could, and should, be a part of the main Yellow Vests column, so in this sense Tissier can still declare a victory. Also present at this event is Muriel Robin – an ultra-liberal pro-Macron French personality. Inevitably, she enters into a verbal skirmish with an actual Yellow Vest (take note of the presence of men wearing baseballs caps and sunglasses):


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After around 10 minutes, the feminist event starts to come to an end, but amongst the Yellow Vests a shout of “medic” can be heard. Two “street medics” (Yellow Vests who have some first aid skills) respond to the call and start to head towards the northern corner of the square. The earliest footage of the scene (the videos below this paragraph) shows this same Yellow Vest (named Wesson) – enraged and with a bleeding mouth – explaining to the independent journalist Amar Taoualit that a police officer wearing civilian clothes, possibly from the Brigade anti-criminalité, without any identification insignia, has just punched him without any motive. At this moment all the Yellow Vests start to head towards the crime scene, which is surrounded by gendarmes, and learn very quickly that a cop has committed another unprovoked act of aggression against a Yellow Vest. A barrage of insults is launched towards a circle of gendarmes who are stood on the corner of the square seemingly protecting someone.


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Here are screenshots from the first of the two videos above showing the person who the gendarmes are protecting, even going as far as trying to obstruct the view of the camera:


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After 5 or so minutes these same gendarmes start to head southward down the square, but in a very agitated way. The Yellow Vests follow them:


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In the video above we can see on the left-hand side the same circle of gendarmes walking with the same mysterious person in civilian clothes. Here is a better angle:


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After reaching the Southern end of the square, the gendarmes form a line, and the Yellow Vests hurl insults at them. Wesson, the Yellow Vest who was assaulted, talks to other Yellow Vests and explains what happened to a crowd (3:24 onwards in the video below). Suddenly there is a shout “it’s them!” – attention is focused on three persons dressed in civilian clothes. The Yellow Vests start to pursue them, and the latter flee towards the police column on the Eastern side of the square, where an unmarked police car awaits them. One of the men enters the unmarked car, but not without Wesson giving him some abuse before he flees, and the other two hide behind gendarmes. The Yellow Vests try to approach the two other mysterious men but are prevented by the gendarmes. About 4 CRS vans arrive to the Northern part of the square and gendarmes push the Yellow Vests backwards, away from the two men. In the ensuing chaos Wesson suddenly goes to the floor. “Street medics” attend to him whilst the anger starts to mount. Prominent Yellow Vest Faouzi Lellouche explains (at 35:09 onwards) that inside the unmarked police car he saw that there were already other cops wearing balaclavas inside. The following video shows everything I described in this paragraph (the pursuit begins at 6:24):


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After around 15 minutes, Wesson is taken to the accident & emergency department of the local hospital, and the gendarmes re-enter their vans and disappear – they obviously understood that hanging around any longer wasn’t a good idea and would inevitably result in clashes. And that’s how things ended, with the Parisian Yellow Vests quite shocked at what happened.

At around 9pm Wesson starts a Facebook live broadcast from outside the hospital, where he waiting for his turn to be treated. His mouth is visibly inflated and he says that he is sore, and that he doesn’t know if any of his teeth are broken but they hurt nevertheless. However, one hour later Wesson will delete his Facebook video due to a desire to make another one the following day that is much more precise vis-à-vis what happened on July 6th, since wild speculation had started to spread on social networks.


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Here is a summary of his testimony video:


In the presence of Muriel Robin, Wesson asked a journalist why they don’t report about police violence against female Yellow Vests. After a brief discussion (which can be seen in the video towards the top of this article), Wesson left;



Wesson then departed towards the “Franprix” shop to buy a drink. A guy in civilian clothes squared up to him and offered to have a fight. A surprised Wesson accepted, after which he was punched in the face by the reinforced-glove-wearing man in civilian clothes.



He doesn’t know for sure if the guy in civilian clothes was a police officer or whether he is some bodyguard. Wesson says that the aggressor presented some kind of ID card to the cops who arrived at the scene and was thus recognised as being a friendly. An unmarked police car with balaclava-wearing men inside came to collect the civilian-clothes-wearing men in any case.



He fell to the floor because he had an epileptic episode.



A complaint will be filed with the police on July 8th.



He says that other Yellow Vests who witnessed the incident have given the same testimony on camera (I myself listened to two people who were present during the attack explain what happened, and they both affirmed the same thing – Wesson was attacked by the guy in the navy blue “NY” hat).

Conclusion
Those who are familiar with the scandals surrounding Emmanuel Macron will be familiar with the Benalla affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benalla_affair) – when a police officer that is very close to Macron violated the law and beat up a May Day protestor – and may draw parallels with the incident described in this article.


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In truth, I would argue that the attack on Wesson is worse since it was not in the framework of anything even resembling a police operation. However, there are still open questions, such as: why are the same guys in civilian clothes who the gendarmes protect after the attack also seen in the Muriel Robin video, seemingly acting as her security?

Example A-1 (look at the guy on the left in the blue hat)

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Example A-2 (look at the guy on the left in the blue hat)

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Example B-1 (look at the guy in the middle in plainclothes)

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Example B-2 (look at the guy on the right in the baseball cap, with his back turned to the camera)

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It’s a categorical fact that the two plainclothes guys seen in these photos are the same ones who were fulfilling some kind of security role for Muriel Robin and who were exfiltrated from PldR by the gendarmes. In the Muriel Robin video she is seen speaking to the guy in the darker blue baseball cap and pointing to Wesson. Some have claimed that over a good speaker system she can be heard saying “Virer le gilet jaune” (sort out the yellow vest), but I cannot confirm this since at the time of writing I don’t have access to such technology. In any case, it all looks very suspicious: Wesson was attacked within 10 minutes of his verbal spar with Muriel Robin.

However, it’s difficult to prove that Muriel Robin is responsible for the attack. What’s most important is that someone who looks and behaves like a plainclothes police or high-security officer (and recognised as such by overt gendarmes) attacked a civilian and is given an escort by gendarmes, and even evacuated by an unmarked police car with men wearing balaclavas inside.

Naturally, there is absolutely nothing about this incident in the French press. I stress: absolutely nothing. In fact, if one just relies on the usual mainstream propagandists for “information”, then apparently the Yellow Vests don’t even exist anymore. I remember very well how they were howling about Christophe Dettinger – who defended a woman (according to her own testimony) against police aggression – and presented him as a terrorist.


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Of course, they deliberately omitted to highlight what happened before he repelled the cops – the police gassed Dettinger in the face and recklessly threw grenades into the crowd.


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Concerning the Benalla case, he is still a free man and has incurred zero punishment. There is a fake “investigation” that Macron will probably drag out for as long as is needed, but nobody with any experience living under a neoliberal regime expects there to be any kind of justice.

Christophe Dettinger? He was given a 1-year jail sentence within the same month he was detained, the online fundraiser launched in his name was halted and the funds frozen, and the regime launched a police fundraiser (https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/2450963-20190214-gilets-jaunes-cagnotte-policiers-blesses-14-million-euros-remise-jeudi) as a weapon of psychological warfare against the Yellow Vests. Not to mention the fates of the hundreds of Yellow Vests who have been arbitrarily jailed just for the fact that they dared to resist against Macron’s socio-economic genocide, and the dozens of Yellow Vests who protested peacefully but were mutilated by the police and denied of any livelihood. No, there is no justice for them, because as we should know by now: there is one rule for us, and another for them. You didn’t pay your tax? Go to jail! Meanwhile, the regime’s offshore accounts continue to fatten up at he expense of the already impoverished poor.

July 6th 2019 – the day a plainclothes law enforcement employee – not wearing any identification number, or any insignia at all in fact, which is a violation of the law – assaulted a Yellow Vest, and uniformed law enforcement – also not wearing any identification numbers, which is also a violation of the law – protected the assailant. I think even the Milice Française would blush at such a level of impunity.


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[Hervé]

Macron booed & told to ‘step down’ during Bastille Day parade in Paris (VIDEO)

RT
Published time: 14 Jul, 2019 10:36
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France’s major national holiday didn’t proceed smoothly for President Emmanuel Macron, as dozens of protesters booed him and demanded his resignation ahead of a massive military parade in central Paris.

Numerous people started to vent their anger at Macron moments before his motorcade – accompanied by the French horse guards – showed up at the Champs Elysees avenue on Sunday afternoon. Ruptly agency filmed people booing and chanting ‘Macron, step down!’ in French.

Some were seen waving France’s national flag as the President and his entourage headed down the street to review participating troops. The protesters were encircled – though were not confronted – by dozens of police officers wearing riot gear.


[see video at: https://www.rt.com/news/464136-people-boo-macron-parade/ ]


At some point, however, the situation became more tense, with police using pepper spray during small scuffles in downtown Paris. It is unclear how many ‘Yellow Vests’ were present as they had been urged not to wear their iconic high-visibility jackets on this national day.


[see video at: https://www.rt.com/news/464136-people-boo-macron-parade/ ]


It has been reported that protest leaders, Eric Drouet, Maxime Nicolle and Jerome Rodrigues, were apprehended by police at the main military parade route, the Champs Elysees avenue.

It comes just one day after the ‘Yellow Vests” took to the streets again on Saturday, marking the 35th consecutive week of the nationwide protest against the Macron government’s policies. Simultaneously, leaders of the protest movement urged followers to take part in the rally on Bastille Day.

[Hervé]

Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media will not report (Part 3) (http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report-part-3/)

by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog
July 17, 2019

As we come closer to August, when most of France (and Europe) is in holiday mode, I think that it is an apt moment to summarise what has happened in relation to the Yellow Vests movement since the last time I wrote about this topic, which happened to be part 2 (http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report-part-2/) of my “Inside the Yellow Vests” series (part 1 (http://thesaker.is/inside-the-yellow-vests-what-the-western-media-will-not-report/) can be found here).

Those who follow events from afar and thus don’t have access to a reliable and consistent flow of information will probably consider that the Yellow Vests movement was just a flash in the pan and is now in the past, or that it achieved its aim and that everything is now great in France. Of course, they’d be very much mistaken. It’s important to think of the Yellow Vests movement as a stage of a process rather than just a fashionable trend that distinguishes itself by occasionally walking in a column and hurling insults at law enforcement. But what “process” do I speak of?

I’m sure that I will receive abuse from so-called “libertarians” and the like, but the process is capitalism. And the stage of the process I refer to is one that is relatively new to us – when the exploitation of labour reaches a critical level. A deadly cocktail of the consequences of colonisation, an oligarchic system, a tribalistic society, a total lack of sovereignty, a frighteningly ugly population pyramid, etc have resulted in what we are now seeing: the derailment of the train of “modernity”.

Essentially, everything of value has been sucked dry by the American imperialistic project known as the “EU”. The middle class has been demolished and replaced by a working class living on credit. The youth are being robbed of their future, and pensioners are being robbed of their legacy. The Macron (https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron) regime’s ethos is simple: work more; be paid less. Starve infrastructure, but make timely investments into personal offshores. Privatise everything in the interests of pals, present it as “reforms”. In general, it’s a classic neoliberal hit job. I can write much more about the mechanics of the “Le République En Marche” scam, but I prefer to keep this article laconic. So let’s now move on to what the situation now is – after the May 1st protest, where my last article (part 2) ended.

The May 1st protest was supposed to be a real missile, but it was smothered by the regime due to one main reason: the unions are rotten to the core, thus convergence with them is like pissing in the wind. They don’t care about the Yellow Vests and are ultimately in the regime’s pocket. Another factor was the pretty lame route chosen for the demonstration – almost a straight line, which the police can encircle easily. But in a way this flop was a blessing in disguise, because the Yellow Vests movement was starting to be outmanoeuvred by the regime. There was too much focus on Saturday protests and a lack of ideas concerning what else to do. Non-sanctioned protests became frankly impossible, since the police can read social media too.

In June the initiator of the Yellow Vests movement (not a “leader” per say) had the balls to say what needed to be said, even if it would initially upset many other Yellow Vests: the themed Saturday marches have become quite pathetic and ineffective, and thus more radicals actions are needed. And his video message had the desired reaction. The activity at the toll roads, where the Yellow Vests hold the barrier open and let travellers pass for free, had a surge. The number of Yellow Vests who waved flags on bridges over highways also surged. It was understood that a stake mustn’t be placed on just one action; otherwise the movement will become stale.

And now fast forward to June 22nd – when the Yellow Vests tried to block the transport infrastructure of the country. What happened? The regime had to again try to deflate the Yellow Vests’ tyres, and thus arrested and interrogated/intimidated one of the social media personalities who promoted the blockade. The Yellow Vests deleted all their live streams from this day too, as a precautionary measure, since the police were hunting for “organisers”.

So, on the surface it looks like the police (and the Interior Ministry) have adjusted well and are successfully coping with the situation, and that the Yellow Vests simply are not able to achieve anything, and this is why the participation is becoming less and less. WRONG! Firstly, the participation is at equilibrium with the level of repression. It is normal that the numbers reduce the tighter the state apparatus becomes. It shows that the state is afraid, and that the Yellow Vests indeed pose a threat. The turnout on Saturdays is still impressive and keeps the police mobilised. Secondly, the puppet media lies all the time about numbers, and parrots on a loop “the numbers decrease, the movement deflates”. Yet on June 29th in Paris there was close to 10,000 people there (my photos and videos from this day can be found here (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.632447613941925&type=3)). Of course, the TV pretended like nothing was happening – the usual deliberate total boycott.


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I am now going to share with you some exclusive information that should help to understand where things currently stand and what direction we’re heading in. My source will remain undisclosed for security reasons.

In order to cope with the constant Yellow Vests demos, law enforcement is using a rotational system with the forces based overseas. This gives the illusion of some rest, whilst in reality work isn’t being paid. In fact, the Interior Minister Christophe Castaner himself admitted (https://www.marianne.net/politique/je-ne-leur-dois-rien-castaner-dit-il-vrai-sur-le-paiement-des-heures-sup-aux-policiers) that there is no money for overtime.

In connection with this, the police unions are fed up and try to blackmail the regime into paying more. They want to protest in the street themselves, but the regime is clear – keep your mouth shut unless you want to be unemployed. The story found here (https://francais.rt.com/france/63627-suspension-policier-syndicaliste-alexandre-langlois-ils-veulent-asphyxier-financierement) is related to this circus.

If to look at the average level of participation on a Saturday, then the leader is Toulouse. And the police know that the heart of the Yellow Vests movement is here, and not in Paris. This explains why the police are extra brutal in Toulouse, with the video below serving as an example:


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The police (CRS in particular) are not happy about potentially not being able to go on holiday this summer. To stand in the heat in full gear & receive insults/glass bottles all day is quite torturous. They try to force Saturday protests to end quickly (making the column walk quicker) so they can go home for the weekend. So to be dispatched to Toulouse for the weekend is like drawing the short straw. Of course, Paris isn’t any better, but it is the capital, and so the urge to defend it is stronger. It’s at least a better excuse for the wife to justify why you won’t be home for the weekend.

How much is each CRS company being paid by Macron (via the taxpayer), despite the “austerity” policies being imposed on the public? If they leave their regional base for more than 12 hours it’s €40 extra per employee (known as IJAT). If the hours of service exceed 8, then it is classed as overtime. So here is an example: working from 04:00 Saturday to 00:00. That’s 12 hours of overtime at €10 per hour = €120. Add in IJAT (paid every 3 months), and each Saturday costs the regime €160 per CRS employee. Each company consists of 80 police officers, and there are also additional expenses for accommodation, food, fuel, etc. But this is still chump change for the regime. A tear gas grenade costs €30 per unit. A GLI-F4 grenade costs €40 per unit. A “désencerclement” grenade costs €50 each. Police commissioners earn €3k-5k each month (Christmas bonus is €40k-70k). So to say that there is money for public services is to tell a massive lie.

During the May 1st demo there was 40 squadrons of gendarmes and only 20 CRS companies. On May 2nd, at dawn, 11 of these 40 squadrons departed to protect Macron’s museum visit to Amboise. Talk about being treated like a slave – hence the high police suicide numbers (59 so far in 2019)…


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Between Act 1 and Act 18 (March 16, 2019) the police helicopters used in just Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes, and Nantes to monitor the protests have racked up 717 hours of flight at €1500 an hour. I.e., the taxpayer has paid €1.01m to be filmed just during this time. And during Act 3 in Paris (see video below) the regime wasted €300,000 just on grenades.


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Meanwhile, over this summer the regime will close down 400 schools (https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/rentree-2019-400-ecoles-fermees-en-france-1723563.html) due to a “lack of funding”. Go figure!

So if to return to my point about law enforcement being stretched to the limit, the scheme for the rest of the year is established. The Yellow Vests’ triangle of actions is: toll road ops (even if the police disperse the Yellow Vests), roundabout occupations (even if the police demolish the Yellow Vests’ cabins), and Saturday demos (even if they are more localised). All 3 types of actions complement each other.

It is understood that tackling the regime head-on is not possible since it is too well armed. This isn’t 1968. Instead it has become a war of attrition. And for the regime, whose troops are tired and pissed off, it becomes a mental challenge. The police are under pressure to not make mistakes, for gross errors (like killing a Yellow Vest in plain sight) can act like a flame to a dynamite barrel. At the same time, the Yellow Vests are under pressure to not be jailed and thus be eliminated from the “game”. There is a kind of equilibrium. Just in June alone the police made one massive error (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/disparition-de-steve-a-nantes-de-nouvelles-videos-de-l-intervention-policiere-publiees-13-07-2019-8115939.php) that was committed outside the framework of the Yellow Vests – they most likely killed a young man during a music festival. Read more here (https://www.marianne.net/societe/ou-est-steve-canico-nantes-plainte) (use Google translate if need be).

But through persistence and using the aforementioned triangle effectively, the police (and their resources) are being slowly exhausted and pushed closer and closer to the limit. This summer the movement will become more localised, but what will happen afterwards? I suspect that the situation will heat up in conjunction with the next batch of price hikes. I.e., from the autumn onwards. It is at this moment that the Yellow Vests will become most dangerous, since the repression can’t really be upped by another notch because the illusion of “democracy” would be definitively obliterated.

In the background, work is ongoing to get as many people to sign the semi-referendum against the privatisation of the airports as possible. Firstly, 4 million signatures are needed before spring 2020. Then over a hundred deputies in parliament must vote for it. Losing this battle will be a big blow for the regime.

Hospitals, firemen, teachers, migrants, environmentalists etc are all regularly striking. Public services are collapsing at an alarming speed (https://www.humanite.fr/node/674635). The regime fears a convergence of battles and will struggle to stem the tide. A general strike is problematic to organise, but not impossible. The union leaders are the main problem. But in any case, Macron is already starting to lay the foundations for his 2022 electoral campaign. He knows that he can win any battle versus Le Pen thanks to his pocket media. He desperately tries to smear the Yellow Vests and keep the bourgeoisie plugged into the matrix of consumerism.

Also, the Republican Party has effectively been liquidated, and its electorate has shifted over to Macron (LREM). In short: there is no political solution. The only solution is the Swiss style of governance. But that means to remove the current oligarchical system. The Yellow Vests intelligentsia is trying to set in motion the first stage of implementing the Swiss system (Citizens’ Initiative Referendum). I recommend reading this website (https://culture-ric.fr/) for more information. The sense is to create a demand for it at the grassroots level first.

Concerning what happened on Bastille Day (and the night celebration of Algerians), I recommend checking out the following links (bear in mind that on this day the Yellow Vests remained incognito and abandoned the yellow vest):


My real-time Twitter reportage, where I transmitted what I witnessed on the terrain – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1150276502086455296);
My Twitter thread of conclusions written in the morning of July 15th – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1150688746909708298);
My photos and videos from this day – link (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.642018229651530&type=3);
Video of a woman being attacked – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1150770793632210944);
Video showing a woman receiving a tear gas puck in the eye – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1150774291774017537);
Video showing tourists fleeing the gas on the Champs-Elysees – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1150801891850379264);
Video showing a man being dragged along the floor by the cops – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1150840724574887936);
Video showing the police hunt down and wound Algerians – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1150896643396591616);
Video showing a 6-year-old girl suffering from the tear gas – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1151089810234314753);
Video showing a woman being bludgeoned by the cops – link (https://twitter.com/O_Rich_/status/1151258314581381123);

I can quickly summarise the day as follows: wild protest at 9am outside Moulin Rouge, the police gas and disperse it; after Macron’s pathetic parade, the Yellow Vests manage to penetrate the Champs-Elysees and occupy the upper part of it; the police gas the entire avenue and struggle to keep the Yellow Vests away; the Yellow Vests encircle the Arc de Triomphe, the police are unable to disperse them and resort to gassing everyone, including tourists; the police groundlessly detain some Yellow Vests to intimidate the others, and thus manage to freeze the situation; the whole avenue is flooded with Algerians at 11pm, the police use violence all the night to prevent the avenue from being completely swamped.


Me on the Champs Elysees on Bastille Day (I have white stuff on my face because “street medics” sprayed me in the eyes with a special substance that negates the effects of tear gas)
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There is one particular aspect of what happened on July 14th in Paris that I would like to dedicate some space in this article to, because, if to be honest, it sent a shill down my spine.

After I had closely observed the wild protest in the morning and escaped the ensuing police assault, I headed towards the Champs-Elysees. As I arrived on the avenue I saw that lots of police vans were in the area, as well as riot police. I followed behind the riot police, who were moving down a street, and soon learned that other cops had encircled some Yellow Vests as they tried to penetrate the avenue. Legally speaking, this is not something they can be arrested for, but this didn’t stop the regime from bringing the notorious police bus to the scene and taking the captured Yellow Vests away for ID checks (although this could be done in the street, it’s just that Macron wants to intimidate the Yellow Vests as much as possible).


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An illustrative photo from May 25th showing the police bus being parked on the Champs-Elysees, ready to take away Yellow Vests who tried to protest on the avenue


One of the captured Yellow Vests who goes by the name “Mary On” filmed the moment she and others were encircled by the police and not allowed to go anywhere.


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After some time has passed, the encircled Yellow Vests are herded onto a police bus and told that they are going to the commissariat in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.


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Whilst they wait for the bus to set off, they start chanting the usual anti-Macron songs.


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After the bus finally set off and travelled in a Northeast direction, the Yellow Vests start to become nervous because they are not at all in the 8th arrondissement. They appear to be in some kind of run down and abandoned industrial area with train tracks running in parallel.


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After the bus finally stops, “Mary On” starts to film her surroundings, saying “we are not at all in the 8th arrondissement, we are at a Yellow Vest detention center”. She shows the view out of the bus window, which I can only describe as a horror. She herself describes it as “inhuman”.


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She is asked by social media followers to use her phone to locate where she and her fellow Yellow Vests are exactly. This was the result:


They are in the 18th arrondissement, at Porte de la Chapelle, which is one of the most run down areas of Paris. Put it this way: it’s not somewhere I’d like to walk around at night.

In her next video, “Mary On” describes how after being taken off the bus, her ID was verified by the cops, which took 2 hours, and she was allowed to leave.


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So what is going on here? Firstly, the police have no right to detain anyone for just walking the streets. And since the Yellow Vests were not wearing yellow vests, it is difficult to charge them with “conspiring to damage property in a group” – the habitual article of the Criminal Code that is pinned on Yellow Vests. But what the police can do is continue their unlawful practice (https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/130319/des-policiers-temoignent-est-oblige-d-accepter-des-instructions-illegales?utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3DtccGNAPpfuHKCNWK8_OhiCHf5rJHd459BNI3i_C7ANdvE_rKckRzhJU) of keeping Yellow Vests in detention without pressing any charges, with the added flexibility of using “ID checks” as an excuse to move Yellow Vests away from an area. And this is exactly what happened on July 14th. Twice, in fact. Whilst the videos above show what happened to a group of Yellow Vests on a side street of the Champs-Elysees, I myself witnessed (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=642018946318125&set=a.642018229651530&type=3&permPage=1) the police try to intimidate all the Yellow Vests who had reached the Arc de Triomphe by encircling a group and herding them onto a police bus on the avenue itself. And they also, most likely, were transported to this horrible looking camp.

Some readers may say “Don’t exaggerate by using words like ‘camp’, after all, these people were released and only kept for a couple of hours”. My response would be: “It’s not me who is using this word – it is the Yellow Vests themselves who are using it”. Yes, they refer to concentration camps, they recall the Vichy camps like the one in Drancy, and they create graphics like the one below:


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“This is really the impression we had, because we were told to get on the bus and nothing else, we did not know where we were going, and on the way in 4 people were waiting for us in front of a table with a pencil and paper to note our identity, and before this we had to be patted down and have our bags searched.”

The sheer horror (and I use this word consciously) of what these Yellow Vests experienced – being lawlessly taken to an unknown location where there are abandoned warehouses, railway tracks, and barbed wire fences – is almost certainly an act of psychological warfare. Frankly, it doesn’t matter if inside the building there are Hilton hotel conditions, what matters is the general aesthetics, which apparently the Macron regime thinks the Yellow Vests are deserving of. In the wider context of the repression being unleashed against not only the Yellow Vests, but also doctors, nurses, firemen, teachers, students, etc, my use of the word horror is fully justified. In essence, if one doesn’t like the neoliberal reforms being rolled out by the Elysee, then one will be groundlessly taken to a camp like this one, as if they are terrorists, which is ironic taking into account the French government’s support for Al Qaeda & Co.

After this scandal started to circulate on social media, the mainstream media was forced to start damage control – Liberation (https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/07/15/14-juillet-quel-est-ce-hangar-parisien-ou-des-gilets-jaunes-ont-ete-transportes-par-la-police_1740046) and LCI (https://www.lci.fr/police/14-juillet-des-manifestants-ont-ils-ete-parques-dans-un-entrepot-apres-les-incidents-des-champs-elysees-2127026.html) being two examples. The article of the former is determined to portray the facility as just a banal police station, saying that the police headquarters of Paris “seem to be surprised by this controversy”.


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One Yellow Vest named Marion told the Liberation agency: “They caught us in the street without giving us a reason … Then we were told we could leave after the parade, but eventually a police bus came and we were told that we were going to the 8th police station. A friend of mine was sent there. Except that in the bus, demonstrators who know Paris well understood that it was not the right road.”
The final paragraph is very telling:
“When asked about the number of people transported to the Hébert police station, and the reasons for the arrests, neither the prefecture of Paris nor the prosecutor of Paris were able to answer us, each footballing the issue. A judicial source indicated, however, that 48 major protesters were placed in custody following the protests on the Champs Elysees, without specifying whether they were taken to the police station of the 18th [arrondissement].”
Imagery is a very powerful thing, and the image below is simply abhorrent. If the people on the bus were mass murderers, paedophiles, rapists, etc then that would be one thing, but they are just ordinary French citizens who wanted to come to the Champs-Elysees and boo/jeer Emmanuel Macron. Is the fact of their arrest and “deportation” a sign of democracy? Are they not allowed to express themselves freely – after all, they are not USA NGO fifth column agitators, but genuinely angry and impoverished French citizens? If not, then it’s time to stop the blah blah blah about “democracy”, because in reality it is more of a dictatorship. Actually, there is a formed pattern whereby a government that the West describes as a “dictatorship” is actually democratic, and visa versa.


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In France it is a case of “work, consume, and shut your mouth”. And the latest Francois De Rugy scandal (https://www.france24.com/en/20190711-lobster-champagne-france-minister-de-rugy-lavish-tax-payers-scandal-macron-paris) (he resigned on July 16th) shows once again that there is one law for the “plebs”, and another for the elites. The figureheads of the Yellow Vests movement weren’t even allowed (https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/14-juillet-2019-les-gilets-jaunes-drouet-rodrigues-et-nicolle-interpelles_fr_5d2ae8cfe4b0bd7d1e1dc2de) to stay on the Champs Elysees on Bastille Day, and were in fact fined despite being initially allowed to enter the avenue and having their ID checked multiple times. Of course, the mainstream media loyal to Macron also deploy damage control (https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/gilets-jaunes/les-arrestations-des-gilets-jaunes-lors-du-defile-du-14-juillet-etaient-elles-legales_3536963.html?fbclid=IwAR1Tfe95sWmG7YC8Kt4DKHQbZiR3pPRhItwIgjIumn7PYxoXQy9RAAezYG0) vis-à-vis this disgrace too.


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With the prospect of another 5 years of Macron looming over France, the Yellow Vests movement is not going to disappear anywhere. On the contrary, after the summer, and especially after the next round of price hikes, the fire will burn even stronger. Macron’s government has already had 11 resignations, and it is very likely that this trend will continue. But the solution is not a change of government or an early election. The sole solution is to implement the Citizens’ Initiative Referendum, for it is only this system of governance that can reconcile the Yellow Vests with the rest of society. A failure to meet this main demand is an invitation for civil war.

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July 2019, Paris (top left = tear gas puck in the eye; top right = man unconscious after being bludgeoned by the police; bottom left = another truncheon wound; bottom right = a pensioner has a heart attack whilst being detained)



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French intelligence strategy document warns of "insurrectional violence" (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/fran-j19.html)

Will Morrow WSWS (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/fran-j19.html)
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:54 UTC


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The French national intelligence and counterterrorism organization quietly released the first update to its five-year public strategy document on Monday. The report — which was uploaded to a ministerial website and not accompanied by any presidential press release — states that the role of France's counterterrorism agencies is to fight "subversive movements" and the threat of "insurrectional violence" in the population.

The "National Intelligence Strategy" was published by the National Intelligence Coordination for the Fight Against Terrorism (CNRLT), an arm of the Élysée presidential palace. It advises the president and reports directly to the prime minister. The report was written in direct collaboration with the prime minister and personally approved by President Emmanuel Macron.

The strategy document "constitutes the road map for the intelligence agencies," it states in the preface. A comparison with the first five-year "road map" makes clear the purposes of the update. The 2014 version identifies its five areas of operations as terrorism, espionage and economic interference, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyberattacks and organized crime.

This month's report establishes a new category: "Anticipation of crises and the risk of major ruptures." Under the headline "Violent subversion," it states: "The growing strength of movements and networks of a subversive character constitutes a factor of crisis that is all the more preoccupying because they are aimed at weakening, and even destroying, the foundations of our democracy and the republican institutions through insurrectional violence."

The document explains that by "subversive" movements, it means not only "violent actions against people or goods," but "also the collection of traditional demands that these movements employ in order to infiltrate and radicalize them."

This is a formula for the criminalization and violent suppression of any expression of social opposition in the population. Within this framework, so-called "traditional demands" — i.e., against layoffs, for higher wages, improved living standards, against war and for social equality — do not represent the legitimate demands of the population. They are merely "employed" by "subversive" forces whose aim is the destruction of democracy. This is the argument of a fascist police state.

"The radicalization of these modes of action calls for a heightened vigilance by the intelligence services in their function of anticipation and the defence of the state to prevent violence of all kinds and the destabilization of our institutions," the report continues.

Under the headline "Crises of public order," the report outlines the response of the intelligence agencies to the growth of social opposition in the working class. "The anticipation, analysis and monitoring of social movements and crises in society by the intelligence agencies constitute a double priority," it states. "A knowledge of local life and the connection with its actors (elected officials, associations, media...) are important challenges for the different intelligence services."

These policies, outlined by a leading "counterterrorism" agency in France, underscore the fact that the vast expansion of the police powers and the evisceration of democratic rights under the banner of the so-called "war on terror" over the past decade and a half has always been directed against social and political opposition in the working class, while promoting the neo-colonial operations of French imperialism in the Middle East and Africa.

In France, the build-up of a police state has been carried out under both The Republicans and the Socialist Party — from which Macron's ruling Republic on the Move party emerged — with the support of the entire political establishment. Socialist Party President Francois Hollande utilized the November 2015 terror attacks as a pretext to declare — with the support of Jean-Luc Melenchon's Left Front — a state of emergency that lasted almost two years.

The report constitutes a warning of the far advanced preparations for authoritarian rule in France and across Europe. The objective source of this universal process is the staggering growth in social inequality in every country, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny corporate and financial elite, which is determined to enrich itself by wiping away whatever gains remain of those won by the working class in bitter struggles throughout the 20th century.

The ruling class is turning toward police-state measures and the promotion of fascistic and far-right forces to suppress growing opposition in the working class to capitalist and rising support for socialism.

In Germany, the Verfassungschutz intelligence agency has placed the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, on a list of "left-wing extremist" organizations requiring surveillance — citing its opposition to militarism and capitalism, and its call for the building of a mass revolutionary socialist movement in the working class. At the same time, the political establishment promotes the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany and covers for far-right terrorist networks inside the state apparatus.

In the United States, President Donald Trump, with his almost daily statements that "America will never be a socialist country," speaks and acts ever more openly as a fascist seeking to build an extra-parliamentary movement based on anticommunism and violent anti-immigrant attacks.

Within France itself, the Macron administration has responded to mass "yellow vest" protests against social inequality over the past six months, not with concessions but escalating police violence, including mass arrests, rubber bullets, tear gas and the deployment of the military.

The advanced preparations for authoritarian rule in France were underscored by the government's actions on Bastille Day on July 14.

Terrified that protests could erupt as thousands of soldiers marched through Paris for the Bastille Day parade in a humiliating setback to Macron, the security forces placed a blanket ban on anyone in political sympathy with the "yellow vests" from entering large areas of Paris around the parade area on the Champs-Elysées avenue.

Before the parade, the police rounded up hundreds of individuals identified as potential protest leaders. Leading "yellow vest" protesters including Eric Drouet, Maxime Nicolle and Jérôme Rodrigues were rounded up and detained until the end of the ceremony. Police then transported the detainees to a camp in Paris' 18th Arondissement, near a police station surrounded by barbed wire fences in an area of abandoned warehouses.

Nonetheless, masses of people booed and jeered Macron as his motorcade passed down the Champs-Élysées during the Bastille Day parade.

The French government is now giving a green light for a further escalation of police violence. This week, the news web site Médiapart revealed that the Macron government had bestowed a "yellow vest" award to more than 9,000 police officers last month as recognition for their role in violently repressing the protests.

Those who received medals included Grégoire Chassaing, the police commissioner in charge of the police raid on a music festival in Nantes on June 22 that caused the disappearance and presumed drowning of 24-year-old Steve Caniço; Rabah Souchi, who led the police charge that nearly killed the peaceful, 73-year-old "yellow vest" protester Geneviève Legay in Nice; and Bruno Félix, the leader of the riot police unit implicated in the death of Zinab Redouane in Marseille.

[Valerie Villars]

This is so incredibly disheartening. This eternal struggle. Will oppression never end? If only every police person would lay down their arms and refuse to brutalize those who are their brothers and sisters, then those in charge would never win.

[Constance]

If only every police person would lay down their arms and refuse to brutalize those who are their brothers and sisters, then those in charge would never win.

And then to take this all to another level - imagine if every person on this planet who understood this truth made the decision to set aside all of their differences and come together?
What if they also made the decision that what we ultimately wanted for ourselves and each other - all the commonalities - was what was far more important than anything else and then headed in that direction and that direction alone?

Is it possible that we could be an unstoppable force and a true force to be reckoned with?


Here are three commonalities close to my heart but the list I imagine would be far far greater:

To Love unconditionally as much as possible
To be Loved unconditionally as much as possible
To live in Divine Peace and fulfilment

Edited to add:
but I digress here...


:focus:

[Hervé]

Appeal for help by Ollie Richardson and the Saker (IMPORTANT!) (http://thesaker.is/appeal-for-help-by-ollie-richardson-and-the-saker-important/)

Ollie Richardson
July 23, 2019 3 Comments (http://thesaker.is/appeal-for-help-by-ollie-richardson-and-the-saker-important/#comments)

Dear friends,

As you may be aware, during the first half of this year I have been reporting on the “Yellow Vests” movement in France whilst being in the center of it. Since February 2019 (after I watched in horror on a live feed as a Yellow Vest’s hand was blown off by a grenade the week prior) I have travelled into central Paris every Saturday and observed for myself the now well-known protests against the current French government.

I’ve taken photos and recorded videos (https://www.facebook.com/OllieCRichardson) for the purpose of disseminating them on social media, hoping to counter the biased reports published by the mainstream media. In late March I decided to start writing articles (https://thesaker.is/?s=Ollie+Richardson+Yellow+vests) on this subject (published on The Saker) and up the ante. We are now in the summer, and I have produced many articles about the “Yellow Vests” that were the result of taking some serious risks (I’ve already been hit by a detonating grenade and almost detained on May 1st because I, in my black Donetsk People’s Republic t-shirt and black trousers, apparently resembled a Black Bloc member) and walking/running kilometre after kilometre in order to keep up with the pace of events. In order to understand what is actually happening I have had to acquaint myself with the different aspects of the movement and acquire the trust of the “Yellow Vests”.

In the video below you can see me at Place de la Republique in April (in the same DPR t-shirt; you can see a bandage on my arm from the aforementioned grenade incident) about to leave the protest, when a bleeding Yellow Vest is plonked in front of me. I witnessed the sequence of events, and the police indeed violated human rights by bludgeoning a peaceful person who posed no threat and just wanted to leave the Square.

Sadly, this is nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to the “Yellow Vests” movement. The systematic use of police violence in order to intimidate and silence those who oppose Macron’s policies is unacceptable and factually criminal. But what is happening in France is much more than just Saturday demonstrations. Macron’s government barely has the time to sweep one scandal under the carpet before another one erupts. And the reporting on these scandals in the Anglophone mainstream media has been either non-existent or frankly pitiful. For example, how many readers know about Steve from Nantes? Or Alexandre Benalla? Francois de Rugy’s lobster dinners? Radioactive leaks in the water supply? The backdoor privatisation of the airports? Zineb Redouane? The list is very long, and in some respects it makes “European” and “democratic” post-Maidan Ukraine blush. And yes, what is happening in France is directly connected to events in all theaters of military and informational operations. Every actions has a reaction.


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Me at a Yellow Vests protest on July 13th in Paris


In order to continue my work with the Yellow Vests (#GiletsJaunes) movement I am seriously in need of financial help. I have done what I can so far with very limited resources to provide the best coverage I can of what is happening in France without the habitual mainstream media bias that we are all accustomed to and fed up of. This entails a certain level of danger, but as the saying goes – no risk, no reward.
During the autumn/winter of 2019 I want to, as a minimum:
• create and run a dedicated Yellow Vests website/hub;

• translate and publish a mass of information about the main demand of the Yellow Vests – Citizens’ Initiative Referendum – in the hope of raising awareness about alternatives to conventional party politics;

• provide a live stream that is more raw than state-funded media’s;

• continue my series of articles entitled “Inside the Yellow Vests”;

• travel to other French cities and document what is happening there in relation to the movement.
It is simply a case of the more means I have, the more I can achieve. I am present on the terrain and have created a network of contacts. I’ve lived the movement from the very beginning, and want to ensure that it receives the fair coverage in the English language that it deserves.

I have created a Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/yellowvests) that has a more in-depth description of my project, and I ask those who have enjoyed my “Yellow Vests” work so far to consider donating what they can in order to help me not only continue my existing work, but also to expand it.

I appreciate the support of each and every person!

Ollie Richardson
——-

Note by the Saker:

Dear friends,

For many weeks now we have been getting superb analyses by Ollie Richardson and equally superb translations of key Russian texts into English made by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard.

Some of the best reporting anywhere on the Internet about the Yellow Vests movement was recently made by Ollie.

Check out this page in which he summarizes his immense work: https://www.patreon.com/yellowvests

Well, guess what? Ollie and Angelina are not only awesome members of our community, but also real people who have to pay their bills ontime.

Friends – we need to help them. Not only does their superb work deserve our gratitude, but we also want them to keep writing for us.

I therefore ask all those who can afford it to go to this page:

https://www.patreon.com/yellowvests and become patrons of Ollie’s crucially important work.

Many thanks in advance,

The Saker

[Hervé]

‘This Yellow Vest carnage’ more ‘French exceptionalism’ (http://thesaker.is/this-yellow-vest-carnage-more-french-exceptionalism/)

by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker Blog
July 23, 2019
(cross-posted with PressTV (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/20/601391/France-unrest-politics) by permission)

(Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea, and elsewhere. He is the author of (https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Ruin-Everything-You-Are/dp/6025095434/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18D3QPZMWUJ66&keywords=i%27ll+ruin+everything+you+are&qid=1563548085&s=books&sprefix=I%27ll+ruin+everyht%2Cstripbooks%2C229&sr=1-1) “I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China.”)
At a recent demonstration against (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/14/600872/French-protesters-slam-environment-minister) the recently fired, third-ranking French civil servant (the president of parliament), who had been caught enjoying jumbo lobster and 1,000-euro bottles of wine with his friends on the taxpayer’s centime, I chatted with a former political prisoner.

It may surprise some that he was a Westerner. The West is, of course, exceptional: everyone else has political prisoners, but there isn’t a single one in the free, free West.

He had just spent four months in prison for protesting with the Yellow Vests. In a story which appears trite but which I believed – given the fact that testimony by police cannot be questioned (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/21/599095/Yellow-Vest-Political-Protesters-Macron) in France’s judicial system – he said that it was the protester next to him who had thrown something at the cops and not him. There was no falsehood in the intense bitterness with which he said, “Four months in prison – I wish that I actually had thrown it!”

He showed me the many scars and permanent knots on his wrists and forearms – defensive wounds caused by protecting himself from fiercely-armed, well-protected and ruthless riot police. I praised his sacrifice for the common good, but I did not tell him that this was exceptional: in the past eight months I had heard many similar stories. Just last weekend I saw children getting tear gassed (https://twitter.com/i/status/1150394506690347008?fbclid=IwAR0jWsgNoZ_mvyCquP5189FDsnSyDgNOt9QsT6R0gg1EDG_6to8uwwnqVjI), and yet another woman shot in the eye (https://fr.sputniknews.com/france/201907151041674141-une-femme-grievement-blessee-a-lil-sur-les-champs-elysees-au-14-juillet---images/) with a rubber bullet.

This is carnage, pure and simple, and it happens all around France every Saturday starting around 11 am.

The biggest complaint of the Yellow Vests these days may not be against the French model of government, but towards a Western Mainstream Media which acts as if such carnage doesn’t exist.

If the world believed that the French system of governance was exceptional, then the repression of the Yellow Vest movement should forever silence that false claim. It has been eight months: their media system obviously cannot report on domestic political repression, and their political system can obviously perpetuate domestic repression with an impunity unparalleled in the world. In no other country has such regular, political repression occurred this century.

This ability to inflict such record-breaking repression while talking passionately about liberté – and being believed at home and abroad! – is the true “French exceptionalism”, and it is nothing to boast about or emulate.

Western propaganda has shut down all criticism of French repression in favor of (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/27/599592/France-Yellow-Vest-protests-police-Hong-Kong-China) hysterical and one-sided coverage of the protests in Hong Kong. Another widespread belief among Westerners is that they are exceptional in that their systems don’t permit the creation of “propaganda”, whereas that is the only thing the journalists of most other nations can do, especially nations like Russia, Iran, Syria, etc.

One thing about exceptionalists is their certainty of its permanence: it seems that once one is exceptional, one can never stop being exceptional, no matter how immorally one acts. Exceptionalism, once bestowed by God, can never be subject to a Day of Judgment, apparently. It’s a, uh, “unique” view….

Undoubtedly, the necessarily corollary to exceptionalism’s assertion that “We are different” is rarely stated but extremely important in order to understand the exceptionalist’s mindset, and it is: “while all the rest of you idiots are all the same”.

Those in the developing world are told that there is an enormous difference between Belgians and the English, for example. Even though the former is merely a peninsula of the latter, what a mighty chasm separates the Danes and the Germans! Yet in France all Blacks are just that – Blacks – even though they hail from parts as varied as West Africa, Madagascar and the Caribbean. In the US all Latinos – whether from the southernmost tip of Tierra del Fuego or Boston – are painted with the same brush. Of course, in both countries Muslims are certainly all “Arabs”. This total nonsense illustrates an obsessive self-esteem which necessarily strains cooperation, diplomacy and true tolerance.

A difference between US and French claims for their own exceptionalism is that the US believes it is exceptional lock, stock and barrel, yet the French are more likely to claim their “cultural exceptionalism”.

It takes a bit of experience here to figure that out, but what they mean is that “White French culture” is exceptional: any influences from the nearby Muslim world, or anything their neo-imperial subjects might bring, or even the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon world – all are second-rate and somehow corruptive of an exceptionally wonderful culture which must never change.

What especially galls nations like Iran and many, many others regarding French exceptionalism are two things:

France claims to especially honor human rights… and yet how do we explain the the Yellow Vest repression? This was after we were told to believe that their bombs in Libya, their guns in the short-lived Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and their rapes in the Central African Republic (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/un-aid-worker-suspended-leaking-report-child-abuse-french-troops-car) are “humanitarian interventions”. We also were disgusted by the deification of the dangerous magazine Charlie Hebdo, which made millions by publishing Islamophobic pictures but never publish an anti-Jewish one.

It boggles to mind to think of the weight of the cognitive dissonance which France’s political and cultural elite must bear in their minds: they regularly imprison hundreds of protesters in the morning, and then in the afternoon talk about France being a beacon, champion and even the inventor of human rights.

It is simply intolerable to get lessons on human rights from a nation which so clearly violates them; it is intolerable because all nations must converse diplomatically, and yet France believes they can continually disrespects everyone else’s intelligence and get away with it.

Secondly, Iran is a nation which has been under hot and cold war for 40 years, therefore they have been truly living in wartime conditions, forced to have a true state of emergency in the past, and endure vast suffering caused by an illegal, homicidal blockade which aims to provoke either civil war or all-out war. France, however, suffers none of these hardships, and yet are more homicidal by multiple orders of magnitude.

How can Iran have such a very poor image and France such a positive image, given the former’s unjust handicaps and the latter’s lack of restraint, common decency and refusal to cooperate? Part of it is Iranophobic propaganda, and the other part is propaganda which champions the alleged legitimacy of “French exceptionalism”.

However, current anthropological scholarship (https://thesaker.is/1491-also-stolen-from-american-indians-europes-creation-of-liberte/) is finally shedding their West-centric blinders to realise that France is not at all the “birthplace of human rights”: the conception of individual rights in today’s West was yet another resource stolen from the American Indians, namely the Iroquois Confederacy in the northeastern US. This fascinating subject, which academics simply must study,certainly seems logical – where was the conception of individual freedom in France’s long history of an absolute monarchy which was as absolute as anywhere in Europe? They obviously learned it from someone else, namely the Indians they came into contact with. To me, the Iroquois seemed to be about as freedom-loving as your average, ever-roaming Iranian nomad, but the point here is not to make exceptional claims about who invented human rights – the point is: the French did not invent them, as they claim.

It is inherent in countries which assert their exceptionalism – and perhaps in all Western Liberal Democracies – to deny shared authorship of the world’s many fine ideas and concepts, as they endlessly promote individualism and do not prize the communal, collective spirit.

I can report that those incredibly brave Yellow Vests who are still protesting – in the face of all the guaranteed state violence – repeatedly tell me what respect they have for Iran and its modern governmental system. They routinely tell me what shame they have in their own government. Indeed, the Yellow Vests are the new, courageous political vanguard of France. Unlike the French 1%’s support of aristocratic Western Liberal Democracy, Yellow Vests display French values which are in common with those around the world: solidarity, bravery, faith and self-sacrifice.

If the Yellow Vests could ever win political or cultural power they would certainly end the hypocrisy of “French exceptionalism”, which they correctly see as an unwanted yoke which only perpetuates France’s ongoing domestic repression.

The French have a fine saying: “One time does not make a custom.”

However, eight months does. The Yellow Vests obviously cannot be distracted with the false pride of “French exceptionalism” – they are busy defending themselves from the carnage such arrogance inevitably provokes.

[Hervé]

Police Suicide in France: the whistle was blown, but the Macron regime pretends to be deaf (http://thesaker.is/police-suicide-in-france-the-whistle-was-blown-but-the-macron-regime-pretends-to-be-deaf/)

by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog
July 25, 2019


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(Photo taken by me on June 29th in Paris during a Yellow Vests demonstration)

Dear reader, if you enjoy my Yellow Vests reporting and want it to continue, then please consider becoming my Patron (https://www.patreon.com/yellowvests) and helping me give the movement the fair English-language coverage it deserves. More information can be found here (http://thesaker.is/appeal-for-help-by-ollie-richardson-and-the-saker-important/).

I think by now most people who are interested in geopolitics are familiar with the “Yellow Vests” movement and the social unrest in France, but one topic that receives almost no mainstream media coverage (neither in the Anglophone nor French press), and which the French government deliberately ignores, is police suicide. At the time of writing – July 25th – there have been 66 police suicides in France so far in 2019. According to the President of the association “Uniformes en danger” Christelle Teixeira, 88 police officers killed themselves in 2018. At the current rate in 2019 it means that every four days (https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/04/19/un-policier-se-suicide-tous-les-quatre-jours,8141334.php) a police officer kills themselves. This epidemic of suicides (https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/04/21/ils-denoncent-le-taux-de-suicide-dans-la-police,8147478.php) in the ranks of law enforcement is becoming an endemic problem that some people sometimes like to compare to the suicidal tendencies of French farmers, who have also been hit hard by socio-economic distress and drought.

Thus, according to a Senate report from June 2018, the rate of suicide in the French police is 36% higher than what is seen in the general population. Concerning farmers, the same rate was 20% to 30% higher than the average for the French population, according to a study published by the “Public Health of France” agency in 2016. It is a similar trend, but with a big difference concerning police officers and gendarmes: they all have the same employer – the state; and the same boss, the Interior Minister Christophe Castaner. The plans that were launched in the past to try to solve the problem, especially in May 2018 under the leadership of Gerard Collomb, are considered to be too weak by some police officers, who cite the daily grind and the “social context that is currently tense in many socio-professional categories”, as Jean-Pierre Colombies explains (https://francais.rt.com/france/57907-les-forces-ordre-ils-s-en-foutent-cest-pions-suicides-continuent-dans-la-police).
“Christophe Castaner refused a hearing at the association ‘Angry Law Enforcement Wives’ on this topic in November 2018, which is quite evocative, but in any case, one finds oneself in such a context of social tension that one can hardly imagine fundamental work in our rigid administration. Meanwhile, in the police stations, it must be made clear that officials do not know how much they can trust their minister. These are the kind of ideas that come to us from the ground.”

“Concerning police suicides, the situation is catastrophic. A death every four days is unheard of, practically. It is unbearable for us to see this phenomenon boiled down to ‘personal problems’. When the Director of Public Order and Traffic, Alain Gibelin, resigned after a big burnout, we were told that it was the workload that caused his illness, but when it is a cop from the very beginning, we are told that it is the personal context that leads to suicide … It is therefore clear that the assessment of occupational pressure is variable depending on the department.”
Jean-Pierre Colombies proposed an idea that even he considers to be “utopian”:
“We should rethink the relationship between police and society, as well as the relationship between the administration and its police officers. Sometimes it works and there are some great service managers, I’ve known some, but you have to admit that some are real problems, very destructive people that make dialogue between the police and their administration often broken. In these cases, when occupational pressure adds to personal problems, some crack. That’s what we showed in our film (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=411676779649951)”.
On March 12th several police associations held a night gathering at Trocadero for the purpose of raising awareness of this cause. Despite the presence of some media, including RT France, two minority unions (VIGI and France Police), and two political figures (Senator François Grosdidier and the deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan), the government has not reacted to this new invitation for dialogue.


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And this is not the only initiation for dialogue that has been sent to the Macron regime by a police officer. Alexandre Langlois, who was the head of a police union until recently, when he was suspended from his duties (https://francais.rt.com/france/63627-suspension-policier-syndicaliste-alexandre-langlois-ils-veulent-asphyxier-financierement) for dissent, is subject to a six-month temporary exclusion from the National Police (Police Nationale) after revealing internally and to the press a number of serious things concerning the Ministry of the Interior. Suicides, sexual assaults, falsifications of numbers, toxic tear gas (a new secret formulae being used by the police) – he rips into the government…


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… whilst at the same time inviting Castaner for a debate.


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After a policeman from the Cergy branch of the Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Versailles committed suicide (http://www.leparisien.fr/val-d-oise-95/cergy-un-policier-se-suicide-a-l-hotel-de-police-24-07-2019-8123088.php) in the armory of the drop-in center of the Police Judiciaire in Cergy-Pontoise (Val d’Oise) on July 24th, the “Alternative Police” union was received (https://www.alternativepn.fr/crise-mortifere-dans-la-police) at Place Beauveau on July 25th by Fabrice Gardon, the police adviser of Christophe Castaner, “to address this painful subject.”

Through a press release (https://www.alternativepn.fr/crise-mortifere-dans-la-police), the “Alternative Police” union says it wants to “put an end to this slump and to this deadly crisis so that 2019 is not a year of sad recording breaking in relation to the last twenty years”. The union recalls that it alerts “the successive Interior Ministers” over the last 5 years about this situation, declares that it is necessary “to immediately tackle the causes that lead to suicide, and no longer the consequences via prevention plans whose effects remain to be demonstrated”.

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During this meeting, the union planned to send to the Interior Ministry a document entitled: “2019 -2022, the police flourish in their daily work for a national police at the height of social issues”. This “white paper” presents the “proposals” and “recommendations” of “Alternative Police” aimed at improving the working conditions and concretely fighting against the police suicide rate.

The union does not intend to stop at this meeting. It plans to catch “Emmanuel Macron’s police advisor, Mr. Hottiaux”, and “the Prime Minister in order to obtain a government commitment”. It also asks that the public authorities organize “without delay real high-level talks in the National Police”.
“Alternative Police considers that the whole of the government must face up to this suffering and this ill-being in order to meet the strong expectation of the police.”
Back in April Castaner announced (https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/2507039-20190429-police-castaner-installe-cellule-alerte-prevention-suicide) the opening of a “warning prevention” hotline based in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, designed to prevent police suicides, and said that suicides in the police were not a “fatality” and that it was necessary “break the silence”. It is headed by a police officer, a member of the Inspectorate General of the Administration, and a psychiatry professor. However, it doesn’t appear that this hotline is making much of a difference.

On June 21st the politician Eric Ciotti criticised Christophe Castaner for not having settled the issue of overtime owed to the police, which he estimates to be at €300m. The Interior Minister retorted sharply by saying
“No, I do not owe anything to them”.

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As if this wasn’t bad enough, Christophe Castaner, who, like his colleagues, is also embroiled in scandal after scandal, actually awarded (https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/170719/la-promotion-gilets-jaunes-de-christophe-castaner-les-medailles-de-la-honte) police officers that are involved in open police violence inquiries launched by wounded Yellow Vests. On June 16th he awarded at least 5 officers (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6205370-Arrete-Medailles-Ministre-De-L-int%C3%A9Rieur.html) who are suspected of violating the law: Rabah Souchi, who led the police charge that caused the injuries sustained by Geneviève Legay, and Bruno Félix, who commanded the police who killed the peaceful resident Zineb Redouane (https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/230719/inevitable-tragedies-french-government-turns-blind-eye-police-violence) in Marseille during a Yellow Vests protest, are two examples.

In reality I have only skimmed the surface of the police problem in France, but the main takeaway from this article should be the fact that there is a police suicide epidemic happening in the country. And in order to emphasise this point, I have consulted as many law enforcement unions as possible concerning information about the 66 (at the time of writing) suicides so far in 2019 and created the table below. Imagining what the data will look like by December 31st sends a shiver down my spine…

No. Date (2019) Region Department Name/initials and/or age (if known) Media report (if available)

1 January 1st La Rochelle Police Nationale J.B. charentelibre (https://www.charentelibre.fr/2019/01/16/la-rochelle-deux-policiers-se-sont-suicides-depuis-le-debut-de-l-annee,3373035.php)

2 January 2nd Cherbourg Police Nationale lamanchelibre (https://www.lamanchelibre.fr/actualite-641809-un-policier-se-suicide-dans-la-manche)

3 January 4th Reims Police Nationale actu17 (https://actu17.fr/reims-un-policier-sest-suicide-avec-son-arme-de-service/)

4 January 7th La Rochelle Police Nationale L.M. charentelibre (https://www.charentelibre.fr/2019/01/16/la-rochelle-deux-policiers-se-sont-suicides-depuis-le-debut-de-l-annee,3373035.php)

5 January 15th Paris Police Nationale Jordan R. actu17 (https://actu17.fr/3-policiers-se-sont-donnes-la-mort-en-24-heures/)voltage (https://www.voltage.fr/news/essonne-un-policier-de-la-bac-se-suicide-chez-lui-40975)

6 January 16th Saint Omer Police Nationale Stan, 42 actu17 (https://actu17.fr/3-policiers-se-sont-donnes-la-mort-en-24-heures/)

7 January 16th Paris Police Nationale Julien actu17 (https://actu17.fr/3-policiers-se-sont-donnes-la-mort-en-24-heures/)

8 January 17th Paris Police Nationale

9 January 20th Bédenac Surveillant pénitentiaire lefigaro (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2019/01/24/97001-20190124FILWWW00249-charente-maritime-suicide-d-un-surveillant-dans-la-prison-de-bedenac.php)

10 January 24th Le Mans Police Nationale actu17 (https://actu17.fr/sarthe-un-policier-affecte-a-la-crs-10-sest-suicide/)

11 January 27th Not disclosed Police Nationale

12 January 27th Not disclosed Police Nationale

13 February 14th Martinique Police Nationale actupenit (https://actupenit.com/2019/02/14/douzieme-suicide-dans-la-police-nationale-depuis-le-debut-de-lannee/)

14 February 18th Louvigné/Laval Police Nationale francesoir (http://www.francesoir.fr/societe-faits-divers/laval-un-policier-tue-son-ex-compagne-avec-son-arme-et-se-suicide) ouest-france (https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/louverne-53950/pres-de-laval-le-policier-aurait-tue-son-ex-compagne-avec-son-arme-de-service-6229386)

15 February 19th Grand-Quevilly Police Nationale Sebastien profession-gendarme (http://www.profession-gendarme.com/52432/)

16 February 26th Montpellier Police Ferroviaire

17 March 4th Elancourt Police Nationale Mickaël leparisien (http://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/elancourt-un-policier-met-fin-a-ses-jours-avec-son-arme-de-service-06-03-2019-8025951.php)

18 March 5th Dunkerque Police Nationale

19 March 5th Limoges Police Nationale ladepeche (https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/03/04/un-policier-se-suicide-au-commissariat-de-limoges,8049537.php)

20 March 7th Saint Saëns Police Nationale francesoir (http://www.francesoir.fr/societe-faits-divers/saint-saens-un-policier-vitriole-sa-femme-et-se-suicide)

21 March 9th Selles sur Cher Gendarmerie Nationale Romain, 32 actu17 (https://actu17.fr/loir-et-cher-un-gendarme-de-32-ans-sest-suicide/)

22 March 13th Roissy en France Vigipirate 24 lavoixdunord (https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/551752/article/2019-03-14/une-militaire-se-suicide-avec-son-arme-feu-roissy)

23 March 15th Limay Police Nationale Sébastien leparisien (http://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/yvelines-un-policier-se-suicide-avec-son-arme-de-service-16-03-2019-8033049.php)

24 March 19th Paris Police Nationale europe1 (https://www.europe1.fr/faits-divers/paris-un-policier-de-29-ans-se-suicide-avec-son-arme-de-service-3877019)

25 March 28th Bailleval Police Nationale francetvinfo (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/oise/policier-retranche-lui-bailleval-se-suicide-assaut-du-gign-1645944.html)

26 April 1st Paris Police Nationale

27 April 2nd Toulouse Surveillant Pénitentiaire centpourcent (https://www.centpourcent.com/les-infos-10/le-suicide-d%EF%BF%BD-un-surveillant-du-centre-penitentiaire-de-toulouse-seysses-10343)

28 April 2nd Marlieux Police Nationale Jean-François B. francetvinfo (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/rhone/lyon/lyon-policier-bac-se-suicide-lui-1650886.html)

29 April 6th Avignon Police Municipale midilibre (https://www.midilibre.fr/2019/04/10/policiers-morts-a-avignon-lhomme-a-bien-tue-son-amie-avant-de-se-suicider,8123199.php)

30 April 7th Conflans Police Nationale leparisien (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/une-policiere-des-yvelines-se-suicide-dans-sa-voiture-07-04-2019-8048067.php)

31 April 7th Alès Police Nationale Christophe ladepeche (https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/04/07/un-policier-retrouve-mort-dans-le-gard,8116247.php)

32 April 9th Orsay Gendarmerie Nationale Willy actu17 (https://actu17.fr/essonne-un-gendarme-de-35-ans-sest-suicide/)

33 April 14th Paris Police Nationale leparisien (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-un-policier-retrouve-mort-chez-lui-son-arme-de-service-a-ses-pieds-14-04-2019-8052990.php)

34 April 16th Metz Police Nationale Damien LCI (https://www.lci.fr/police/faits-divers-a-metz-un-policier-se-suicide-avec-son-arme-de-service-2118748.html)

35 April 16th Bèziers Police Municipale francetvinfo (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/herault/beziers/beziers-policier-municipal-se-suicide-son-arme-son-lieu-travail-1656090.html)

36 April 18th Montpellier Police Nationale Elisabeth G. francetvinfo (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/herault/montpellier/montpellier-semaine-apres-suicide-policiere-emouvant-silencieux-hommage-ses-collegues-1660187.html)

37 April 18th Paris Police Nationale 25 leparisien (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-un-policier-se-suicide-dans-les-locaux-de-son-unite-18-04-2019-8056041.php)

38 April 24th Paray le Monial Police Municipale Jean-Christophe actu17 (https://actu17.fr/saone-et-loire-un-policier-municipal-de-paray-le-monial-a-mis-fin-a-ses-jours/)

39 April 28th Gap Vigipirate rtl (https://www.rtl.fr/actu/justice-faits-divers/hautes-alpes-un-militaire-se-suicide-avec-son-arme-7797535388)

40 April 30th La réunion Gendarmerie Nationale Ludovic D. lepoint (https://www.lepoint.fr/faits-divers/la-reunion-suicide-d-un-gendarme-dans-sa-caserne-01-05-2019-2310292_2627.php)

41 May 5th Cholet Police Municipale Eric francetvinfo (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/pays-de-la-loire/maine-et-loire/cholet/cholet-policier-municipal-s-est-donne-mort-1666193.html)

42 May 6th Aunay sur Odon Gendarmerie Nationale actu (https://actu.fr/normandie/aunay-sur-odon_14027/un-gendarme-mobile-se-suicide-arme-service-dans-calvados_23584085.html)

43 May 11th Orange Police Municipale ledauphine (https://www.ledauphine.com/vaucluse/2019/05/11/un-policier-municipal-retrouve-mort-chez-lui)

44 May 13th Briançon Gendarmerie Nationale Quentin lessor (https://lessor.org/a-la-une/suicide-dun-gendarme-adjoint-dans-les-hautes-alpes/)

45 May 17th Lons le Saunier Gendarmerie Nationale francetvinfo (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bourgogne-franche-comte/jura/lons-le-saunier/lons-saunier-commandant-gendarmerie-se-suicide-son-arme-service-1671077.html)

46 May 22nd Lille Police Nationale Mickaël actupenit (https://actupenit.com/2019/05/23/lille-un-policier-age-de-46-ans-se-suicide/)

47 May 24th Nice Police Municipale

48 May 25th Chessy Police Nationale Baptiste leparisien (http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-et-marne-77/chessy-un-policier-se-suicide-avec-son-arme-de-service-26-05-2019-8080290.php) actu17 (https://actu17.fr/seine-et-marne-un-policier-de-38-ans-a-mis-fin-a-ses-jours/)

49 May 31st Not disclosed Police Nationale Pascal B. actu17 (https://actu17.fr/seine-et-marne-un-officier-de-la-police-nationale-sest-suicide/)

50 June 2nd Fougères Gendarmerie Nationale Jean F. francesoir (http://www.francesoir.fr/societe-faits-divers/fougeres-un-gendarme-se-donne-la-mort-avec-son-arme-de-service)

51 June 13th Paris Police Nationale Benoit actu17 (https://actu17.fr/paris-un-policier-sest-donne-la-mort-avec-son-arme-de-service/)

52 June 14th Fos sur mer Police Municipale Mickaël, 29 Syndicat de Défense des Policiers Municipaux (https://www.facebook.com/syndicatsdpm/photos/a.372597556227677/1334251360062287/?type=3&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBi3mpboUNsa3KNCqtJmjw2xDf89T4e4e9dq4FWQ6nlG2Y6nfmc9gBV7eCshgxASNfLOpgSVJMIsldALR 5MvSy4VQFSYyI0nGNmS4vC7Gff1ZZyYOb1caM--5SRSoreLamFBeIP-XyAlxWlz_9mssCsvh8-EhwGuZj8iE0va9g0XsVnEqqV65pjmHesEIpU7AmzpR2lR0Bc0qxoLLDu93gk4sxVhlScdqtnlk_tGodio5ZH2jRkZ32ZV9nKvxAC 2KU_-tx1GeYX24IXtHXsYKpdx9j9nE_pbpfPuZmb3MNiroyd5Y7kM1LxN26CyW5LZ_cRZBB1Ytkdp7zSq6cqYg2X6Q&__tn__=-R)

53 June 20th Paris Police Nationale Jean-Louis B. actu17 (https://actu17.fr/paris-un-policier-sest-donne-la-mort-avec-son-arme-de-service/)

54 June 21st Toulouse Police Nationale nouvelobs (https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20190621.OBS14758/suicide-d-un-policier-a-toulouse-le-34e-depuis-janvier.html) 20minutes (https://www.20minutes.fr/faits_divers/2545815-20190621-toulouse-policier-suicide-domicile)

55 June 25th Nimes Gendarmerie Nationale RT France (https://francais.rt.com/france/63327-gendarme-se-suicide-nimes-associations-alertent-desesperent-etre-entendues)

56 June 28th Bruay la Buissière Police Nationale Eric P.

57 June 29th Marseille Police Nationale Gérard B., 50 FranceInfo (https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/marseille/marseille-policier-retrouve-pendu-son-appartement-1692836.html) laprovence (https://www.laprovence.com/actu/en-direct/5572150/breve.html)

58 July 5th Bordeaux Police Nationale Caroline, 44 francebleu (https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/deux-suicides-en-moins-d-un-mois-dans-la-police-et-la-gendarmerie-en-gironde-1563309922)

59 July 8th Annecy Police Nationalele (https://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2019/07/08/annecy-un-policier-se-donne-la-mort-avec-son-arme-de-service-sur-le-parking-du-commissariat) dauphine (https://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2019/07/08/annecy-un-policier-se-donne-la-mort-avec-son-arme-de-service-sur-le-parking-du-commissariat)

60 July 12th Castelnau de Médoc Gendarmerie Nationale francebleu (https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/deux-suicides-en-moins-d-un-mois-dans-la-police-et-la-gendarmerie-en-gironde-1563309922)

61 July 14th Not disclosed Vigipirate

62 July 16th Douai Police Nationale Jean-Marc, 49

63 July 22nd Béthune Police Nationale Eric T. lavoixdunord (https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/616212/article/2019-07-22/un-policier-de-la-crs15-se-donne-la-mort-la-compagnie)

64 July 22nd Nimes Police Nationale Jamal Z.

65 July 23rd Isère Police Nationale Frédéric L., 49 acti17 (https://actu17.fr/isere-un-policier-de-49-ans-sest-suicide-le-3eme-en-48-heures/)

66 July 24th Cergy Police Nationale S. actu17 (https://actu17.fr/cergy-un-policier-sest-suicide-le-4eme-en-72-heures-en-france/)

[Hervé]

France Slowly Sinking into Chaos

by Guy Millière (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Guy+Milli%C3%A8re)
August 3, 2019 at 5:00 am



President Macron never says he is sorry for those who have lost an eye or a hand... from extreme police brutality. Instead, he asked the French parliament to pass a law that almost completely abolishes the right to protest and the presumption of innocence, and that allows the arrest of anyone, anywhere, even without cause. The law was passed.



In June, the French parliament passed another law, severely punishing anyone who says or writes something that might contain "hate speech". The law is so vague that an American legal scholar, Jonathan Turley, felt compelled to react. "France", he wrote, "has now become one of the biggest international threats to freedom of speech".



The main concern of Macron and the French government seems not to be the risk of riots, the public's discontent, the disappearance of Christianity, the disastrous economic situation, or Islamization and its consequences. Instead, it is climate change.



"The West no longer knows what it is, because it does not know and does not want to know what shaped it, what constituted it, what it was and what it is. (...) This self-asphyxiation leads naturally to a decadence that opens the way to new barbaric civilizations." — Cardinal Robert Sarah, in Le soir approche et déjà le jour baisse ("The Evening Comes, and already the Light Darkens").


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French President Emmanuel Macron never says he is sorry for those who have lost an eye or a hand from extreme police brutality. Instead, he asked the French parliament to pass a law that almost completely abolishes the right to protest and the presumption of innocence, and that allows the arrest of anyone, anywhere, even without cause. The law was passed. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Pool/Getty Images)


Paris, Champs-Élysées. July 14. Bastille Day. Just before the military parade begins, President Emmanuel Macron comes down the avenue in an official car to greet the crowd. Thousands of people gathered along the avenue shout "Macron resign", boo and hurl insults (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2PyqTc2aU).

At the end of the parade, a few dozen people release (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0rDTCAKlU&t=187s) yellow balloons into the sky and distribute leaflets saying "The yellow vests are not dead." The police disperse them, quickly and firmly. Moments later, hundreds of "Antifa" anarchists arrive, throw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9V7zP5uAGI) security barriers on the roadway to erect barricades, start fires and smash the storefronts of several shops. The police have a rough time mastering the situation, but early in the evening, after a few hours, they restore the calm.

A few hours later, thousands of young Arabs from the suburbs gather (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkxr3FappTo) near the Arc de Triomphe. They have apparently come to "celebrate" in their own way the victory of an Algerian soccer team. More storefronts are smashed, more shops looted. Algerian flags are everywhere. Slogans are belted out: "Long live Algeria", "France is ours", "Death to France". Signs bearing street names are replaced (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/lalgerie-championne-dafrique-maree-humaine-sur-les-champs-elysees-109192) by signs bearing the name of Abd El Kader (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w17hc4vLp0), the religious and military leader who fought against the French army at the time of the colonization of Algeria. The police limit themselves to stemming the violence in the hope that it will not spread.

Around midnight, three leaders of the "yellow vest" movement come out of a police station and tell a TV reporter that they were arrested (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id2BJ99KU50) early that morning and imprisoned for the rest of the day. Their lawyer states that they did nothing wrong and were just "preventively" arrested. He emphasizes that a law (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2019/03/13/01016-20190313ARTFIG00045-loi-anticasseurs-les-principales-mesures-du-texte-adopte-par-le-parlement.php) passed in February 2019 allows the French police to arrest any person suspected of going to a demonstration; no authorization from a judge is necessary and no appeal possible.

On Friday, July 19, the Algerian soccer team wins again. More young Arabs gather (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6TiNYTWmaE) near Arc de Triomphe to "celebrate" again. The damage is even greater than eight days before. More police show up; they do almost nothing.

On July 12, two days before Bastille Day, several hundred self-declared African illegal migrants (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/des-gilets-noirs-occupent-le-pantheon-20190712) enter (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/des-sans-papiers-envahissent-le-pantheon-20190712) the Pantheon, the monument that houses the graves of heroes who played major roles in the history of France. There, the migrants announce (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/des-gilets-noirs-occupent-le-pantheon-20190712) the birth of the "Black Vest movement". They demand the "regularization" of all illegal immigrants on French territory and free housing for each of them. The police show up but decline to intervene. Most of the demonstrators leave peacefully. A few who insult the police are arrested.

France today is a country adrift. Unrest and lawlessness continue to gain ground. Disorder has become part of daily life. Polls show that a large majority reject (http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/sondage-l-embellie-aura-ete-de-courte-duree-pour-emmanuel-macron-20190704) President Macron. They seem to hate his arrogance and be inclined not to forgive him. They seem to resent his contempt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS1XtHcBOW8) for the poor; the way he crushed the "yellow vest" movement, and for his not having paid even the slightest attention to the protesters' smallest demands, such as the right to hold a citizens' referendum (http://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/emmanuel-macron-rejette-le-ric-mais-veut-simplifier-le-referendum-d-initiative-partagee/6029911944001/) like those in Switzerland. Macron can no longer go anywhere in public without risking displays of anger.

The "yellow vests" seem finally to have stopped demonstrating and given up: too many (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfmXVhhcyxg) were maimed or hurt. Their discontent, however, is still there. It seems waiting to explode again.

The French police appear ferocious when dealing with peaceful protesters, but barely able to prevent groups such as "Antifa (http://blog.lefigaro.fr/rioufol/2019/02/les-bouffeurs-de-gilets-jaunes.html)" from causing violence. Therefore, now at the end of each demonstration, "Antifa" show up. The French police seem particularly cautious when having to deal with young Arabs and illegal migrants. The police have been given orders. They know that young Arabs and illegal migrants could create large-scale riots. Three months ago, in Grenoble, the police were pursuing (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2019/03/06/97001-20190306FILWWW00361-mort-de-deux-jeunes-a-grenoble-la-cite-mistral-s-embrase-a-nouveau.php) some young Arabs on a stolen motorcycle, who were accused of theft. While fleeing, they had an accident. Five days of mayhem (https://www.lepoint.fr/video/grenoble-nuits-d-emeute-apres-la-mort-de-deux-jeunes-poursuivis-par-la-police-04-03-2019-2297866_738.php) began.

President Macron looks like an authoritarian leader when he faces the disgruntled poor. He never says he is sorry for those who have lost an eye or a hand or suffered irreversible brain damage from extreme police brutality. Instead, he asked the French parliament to pass a law (http://www.slate.fr/story/173199/tribune-loi-anticasseurs-contre-droit-manifester) that almost completely abolishes the right to protest, the presumption of innocence and that allows the arrest of anyone, anywhere, even without cause. The law was passed (https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/le-parlement-adopte-defintivement-la-loi-anticasseurs-13-03-2019-2300359_20.php).

In June, the French parliament passed another law (http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/haine-en-ligne-l-assemblee-vote-la-proposition-de-loi-avia-en-premiere-lecture-20190709), severely punishing anyone who says or writes something that might contain "hate speech". The law is so vague that an American legal scholar, Jonathan Turley, felt compelled to react (https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/451813-france-has-turned-into-one-of-the-worldwide-threats-to-free-speech). "France has now become one of the biggest international threats to freedom of speech", he wrote (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/comment/725310).

Macron does not appear authoritarian, however, with violent anarchists. When facing young Arabs and illegal migrants, he looks positively weak.

He knows what the former interior minister, Gérard Collomb, said (http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2018/11/01/01002-20181101ARTFIG00181-quand-collomb-predisait-deja-le-face-a-face.php) in November 2018, while resigning from government:
"Communities in France are engaging in conflict with one another more and more and it is becoming very violent... today we live side by side, I fear that tomorrow it will be face to face".
Macron also knows what former President François Hollande said (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2016/10/17/31001-20161017ARTFIG00143-islam-immigration-quand-hollande-dynamite-les-restes-de-la-gauche-morale.php) after serving his term as president: "France is on the verge of partition".

Macron knows that the partition of France already exists (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG_fK_s3g0I). Most Arabs and Africans live (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10404/france-no-go-zones) in no-go zones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmZRGjLZt_M), apart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZc4JX5CeBI) from the rest of the population, where they accept the presence of non-Arabs and non-Africans less and less. They do not define (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2016/09/20/31003-20160920ARTFIG00173-enquete-du-jdd-en-france-les-musulmans-sont-ils-majoritairement-secularises.php) themselves as French, except when they say (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LrMw4AR2zA) that France will belong to them. Reports show that most seem filled with a deep rejection (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvAkkbL4OU) of France and Western civilization. An increasing number (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2016/09/18/01016-20160918ARTFIG00149-musulmans-de-france-28-d-ultras.php) seem to place their religion above their citizenship; many seem radicalized (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/08/30/01016-20170830ARTFIG00291-des-radicalises-de-plus-en-plus-jeunes.php) and ready to fight.

Macron seems not to want to fight. Instead, he has chosen to appease them. He is single-mindedly pursuing his plans to institutionalize (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/05/13/01016-20180513ARTFIG00190-macron-prepare-son-plan-pour-l-islam-de-france.php) Islam in France. Three months ago, the Muslim Association for Islam of France (AMIF (https://oumma.com/hakim-el-karoui-presente-officiellement-lassociation-musulmane-pour-lislam-de-france-amif/)) was created (https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/01/21/une-association-musulmane-pour-une-integration-sereine-de-l-islam-en-france_5412473_3224.html). One branch will handle the cultural expansion of Islam and take charge of "the fight against anti-Muslim racism". Another branch will be responsible for programs that train imams and build mosques. This autumn, a "Council of Imams of France" will be established. The main leaders of the AMIF are (or were until recently) members (https://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/3574486/les-nouvelles-figures--moderees--de-l-islam-de-france-et-l-ombre-des-freres-musulmans-alexandre-del-valle) of the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement designated as a terrorist organization (https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/muslim-brotherhood) in Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- but not in France.

Macron is aware of the demographic data. They show that the Muslim population in France will grow significantly in the coming years. (The economist Charles Gave wrote (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11044/europe-white-death) recently that by 2057, France will have a Muslim majority). Macron can see that it will soon be impossible for anyone to be elected President without relying on the Muslim vote (http://www.lefigaro.fr/elections/presidentielles/2017/04/13/35003-20170413ARTFIG00320-islam-de-france-signes-religieux-radicalisation-ce-que-proposent-les-cinq-grands-candidats.php), so he acts accordingly.

Macron apparently sees that the discontent that gave birth to the "yellow vest" movement still is there (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2T-fv0MWow). He appears to think that repression will be enough to prevent any further uprising, and so does nothing to remedy the causes of the discontent.

The "yellow vest" movement was born of a revolt against exorbitantly high taxes (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2019/02/15/31003-20190215ARTFIG00300-80-kmh-hausse-du-prix-du-diesel-et-des-cigarettes-le-terreau-des-gilets-jaunes.php) on fuel, and harsh government measures against cars and motorists. These measures included reduced speed limits -- 50 mph (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So72-kmWfD8) on most highways -- and more speed-detection cameras; a sharp rise in the penalties on tickets, as well as complex and expensive annual motor vehicle controls (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/economie/2018/04/27/31007-20180427ARTFIG00306-jean-pierre-robin-le-controle-technique-auto-est-plus-selectif-que-le-baccalaureat.php). French taxes on fuels recently rose (http://www.lefigaro.fr/conso/les-prix-des-carburants-poursuivent-leur-hausse-20190722) again and are now the highest (https://www.lepoint.fr/automobile/france-les-prix-des-carburants-au-plus-haut-19-03-2019-2302235_646.php) in Europe (70% of the price paid at the pump). Other measures against the use of automobiles and motorists still in force are especially painful for the poor. They were already chased (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2018/11/18/31003-20181118ARTFIG00132-christophe-guilluy-les-8220gilets-jaunes8221-attestent-la-revolte-de-la-france-peripherique.php) from the suburbs by intolerant newcomers, and now have to live -- and drive -- even farther from where they work.

Macron has made no decision to remedy the disastrous economic situation in France. When he was elected, taxes, duties and social charges represented (http://www.lefigaro.fr/impots/2018/11/28/05003-20181128ARTFIG00319-la-france-reste-championne-d-europe-des-impots.php) almost 50% of GDP. Government spending (http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2018/12/14/20002-20181214ARTFIG00097-depenses-publiques-la-france-le-mauvais-eleve-de-l-europe.php) represented 57% of GDP (the highest among developed countries). The ratio of national debt (https://www.lepoint.fr/economie/france-la-dette-publique-contenue-a-pres-de-100-du-pib-28-09-2018-2258615_28.php) to GDP was almost 100%.

Taxes, duties, social charges and government spending remain (http://www.lefigaro.fr/impots/2018/11/23/05003-20181123ARTFIG00009-impots-la-hausse-sans-fin-des-prelevements-obligatoires.php) at the same level now as when Macron came in. The debt-to-GDP ratio is 100% (http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2018/09/28/20002-20180928ARTFIG00319-la-dette-francaise-frole-les-100-de-la-richesse-nationale.php) and growing. The French economy is not creating jobs. Poverty (http://www.lefigaro.fr/economie/le-scan-eco/dessous-chiffres/2018/09/13/29006-20180913ARTFIG00001-pauvrete-en-france-les-chiffres-a-connaitre.php) remains extremely high: 14% of the population earn less than 855 euros ($950) a month.

Macron pays no attention to the growing cultural disaster also seizing the country. The educational system is crumbling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBDChjz5swQ). An increasing percentage of students graduate from high school without knowing how to write a sentence free of errors that make incomprehensible anything they write. Christianity is disappearing (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2013/03/29/01016-20130329ARTFIG00421-la-dechristianisation-touche-de-plus-en-plus-de-jeunes-francais.php). Most non-Muslim French no longer define themselves as Christians. The fire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnuvvzIobvM) that ravaged the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris was officially an "accident (https://nypost.com/2019/04/16/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-was-an-accident-officials-say/)," but it was only one of the many Christian religious buildings in the country that were recently destroyed. Every week, churches are vandalized (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2019/03/28/01016-20190328ARTFIG00098-les-eglises-victimes-d-un-inquietant-vandalisme.php) -- to the general indifference of the public. In just the first half of 2019, 22 churches (https://lincorrect.org/22-eglises-incendiees-en-un-an-en-france/) burned down.

The main concern of Macron and the French government seems not to be the risk of riots, the public's discontent, the disappearance of Christianity, the disastrous economic situation, or Islamization and its consequences. Instead, it is climate change. Although the amount of France's carbon dioxide emissions is infinitesimal (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/recul-des-emissions-de-gaz-a-effet-de-serre-en-france-en-2018-20190618) (less than 1% of the global total), combatting "human-induced climate change" appears Macron's absolute priority.

A Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, age 16, -- nevertheless the guru (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gghA8hW8c4) of the "fight for the climate" in Europe -- was recently invited (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/climat-greta-thunberg-sera-a-l-assemblee-nationale-francaise-le-23-juillet-20190715) to the French National Assembly by members of parliament who support Macron. She delivered (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWuaPXh89k) a speech, promising that the "irreversible destruction" of the planet will begin very soon. She added (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/climat-a-l-assemblee-greta-thunberg-ironise-face-aux-attaques-20190723) that political leaders "are not mature enough" and need lessons from children. MPs who support Macron applauded warmly. She received (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctFFdjOR43Q) a Prize of Freedom, just created, which will be given (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/l-egerie-du-climat-greta-thunberg-recompensee-en-france-20190721) each year to people "fighting for the values ​​of those who landed in Normandy in 1944 to liberate Europe". It is probably reasonable to assume that not one of those who landed in Normandy in 1944 thought he was fighting to save the climate. Such minor details, however, seem beyond Macron and the parliamentarians who support him.

Macron and the French government also seem unconcerned that Jews -- driven by the rise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrGVCQqnrU) of anti-Semitism, and understandably worried about court decisions infused with the spirit of submission to violent Islam -- continue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd9sk5CiBpo) to flee from France.

Kobili Traore, the man who murdered (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/meurtre-de-sarah-halimi-l-irresponsabilite-penale-du-suspect-plausible-20190712) Sarah Halimi in 2017 while chanting suras from the Qur'an and shouting that the Jews are Sheitan (Arabic for "Satan") was found not guilty. Traore had apparently smoked cannabis before the murder, so the judges (https://www.letelegramme.fr/france/meurtre-de-sarah-halimi-l-irresponsabilite-penale-du-suspect-jugee-plausible-12-07-2019-12337824.php) decided that he was not responsible for his acts. Traore will soon be released from prison; what happens if he smokes cannabis again?

A few weeks after the murder of Halimi, three members of a Jewish family were assaulted (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/09/11/01016-20170911ARTFIG00070-agression-a-livry-gargan-la-famille-juive-sequestree-raconte-son-calvaire.php), tortured and held hostage in their home by a group of five men who said that "Jews have money" and "Jews must pay". The men were arrested; all were Muslim. The judge who indicted (https://www.lemondejuif.info/2019/07/agression-dune-famille-juive-a-son-domicile-la-justice-ecarte-le-caractere-antisemite-de-lattaque/) them announced that their actions were "not anti-Semitic".

On July 25, 2019 when the Israeli soccer team Maccabi Haifa was competing in Strasbourg, the French government limited (https://fr.timesofisrael.com/strasbourg-les-supporters-israeliens-interdits-de-parader-hors-du-stade/) the number of Israeli supporters in the stadium to 600, not one more. A thousand had bought plane tickets to come to France to attend the match. The French government also banned (https://www.lemondejuif.info/2019/07/scandaleux-les-autorites-francaises-interdisent-le-drapeau-israelien-dans-le-cadre-du-match-strasbourg-haifa/) the waving of Israeli flags at the game or anywhere in the city (https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/25/maccabi-haifa-fans-assaulted-in-strasbourg/). Nonetheless, in the name of "free speech", the French Department of the Interior permitted anti-Israeli demonstrations in front of the stadium, and Palestinian flags and banners saying "Death to Israel" were there. The day before the match, at a restaurant near the stadium, some Israelis were violently attacked (https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/25/maccabi-haifa-fans-assaulted-in-strasbourg/). "The demonstrations against Israel are approved in the name of freedom of expression, but the authorities forbid supporters of Maccabi Haifa to raise the Israeli flag, it is unacceptable," said (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/quand-strasbourg-proscrit-les-drapeaux-israeliens-20190726) Aliza Ben Nun, Israel's ambassador to France.

The other day, a plane full of French Jews leaving France arrived (https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/200-people-from-France-Argentina-Brazil-Russia-make-aliyah-watch-live-595947) in Israel. More French Jews will soon go. The departure of Jews to Israel entails sacrifices (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKu82S3Kq4): some French real estate agents take advantage of the wish of many Jewish families to leave, so they buy and sell properties owned by Jews at a price far lower than their market value.

Macron will remain as president until May 2022. Several leaders of the parties of the center-left (such as the Socialist Party) and center-right (The Republicans) joined The Republic on the Move, the party (http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2017/07/17/01002-20170717ARTFIG00218-la-republique-en-marche-se-retrouve-a-la-tete-d-un-tresor-de-guerre.php) he created two years ago. After that, the Socialist Party and The Republicans electorally collapsed (http://www.lefigaro.fr/elections/europeennes/europeennes-2019-le-duel-macron-le-pen-s-installe-la-droite-s-effondre-20190527). Macron's main opponent in 2022 is likely to be the same (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/si-une-presidentielle-avait-lieu-en-2019-macron-et-le-pen-seraient-encore-opposes-20190529) as in 2017: Marine Le Pen, the leader of the populist National Rally.

Although Macron is widely unpopular and widely hated, he will probably use the same slogans as in 2017: that he is the last bastion of hope against "chaos" and "fascism." He has a strong chance of being elected again (https://www.bvoltaire.fr/emmanuel-macron-reelu-president-en-2022-si/). Anyone who reads the political program of the National Rally can see that Le Pen is not a fascist (https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/10/03/marine-le-pen-front-national-extreme-droite_n_4035588.html). Also, anyone who looks at the situation in France may wonder if France has not already begun to sink into chaos.

The sad situation that reigns in France is not all that different from that in many other European countries (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/economie/2019/02/14/31007-20190214ARTFIG00207-pourquoi-l-europe-sera-l-epicentre-de-la-prochaine-crise.php). A few weeks ago, an African cardinal, Robert Sarah, published a book (https://www.bvoltaire.fr/livre-le-soir-approche-et-deja-le-jour-baisse-par-le-cardinal-sarah-avec-nicolas-diat/), Le soir approche et déjà le jour baisse ("The evening comes, and already the light darkens"). "At the root of the collapse of the West", he writes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wKu-SrZX4I), "there is a cultural and identity crisis. The West no longer knows what it is, because it does not know and does not want to know what shaped it, what constituted it, what it was and what it is. (...) This self-asphyxiation leads naturally to a decadence that opens the way to new barbaric civilizations."

That is exactly what is happening in France -- and Europe.
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.

[Valerie Villars]

Thank you Herve. This is certainly very disturbing.

[Hervé]

President Macron’s amazing admission (http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=194718)

By wmw_admin (http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?author=1) on September 13, 2019
The Saker – Sept 11, 2019 (http://thesaker.is/president-macrons-amazing-admission/)

[this column was written for the Unz Review (http://www.unz.com/tsaker/president-macrons-amazing-admission/)]


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French President Emmanuel Macron. Click to enlarge


I don’t know whether the supposedly Chinese curse really comes from China, but whether it does or not, we most certainly are cursed with living in some truly interesting times: Iran won the first phase of the “tanker battle” against the AngloZionists (https://en.irna.ir/news/83470172/Adrian-Darya-oil-tanker-unloads-Iran-s-cargo-at-Mediterranean), Putin offered to sell Russian hypersonic missiles to Trump (https://www.rt.com/news/468111-putin-trump-hypersonic-weapons/) (Putin has been trolling western leaders a lot lately) while Alexander Lukashenko took the extreme measure of completely shutting down the border between the Ukraine and Belarus (https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2019-09-03---lukashenko-explained-the-) due to the huge influx of weapons and nationalist extremists from the Ukraine. As he put it himself “if weapons fall into the hands of ordinary people and especially nationalist-minded people, wait for terrorism“. He is quite right, of course. Still, there is a sweet irony here, or call it karma if you prefer, but for the Ukronazis who promised their people a visa-free entrance into the EU (for tourism only, and if you have money to spend, but still…), and yet 5 years into that obscene experiment of creating a rabidly russophobic Ukraine and 100 days (or so) into Zelenskii’s presidency, we have the Ukraine’s closest and most supportive neighbor forced to totally shut down its border due to the truly phenomenal toxicity of the Ukrainian society! But, then again, the Ukraine is such a basket-case that we can count on “most interesting” things (in the sense of the Chinese curse, of course) happening there too.
[Sidebar: interestingly, one of the people the Ukrainians gave up in this exchange was Vladimir Tsemakh, a native of the Donbass who was kidnapped by the Ukie SBU in Novorussia (our noble “Europeans” did not object to such methods!) and declared the “star witness” against Russia in the MH-17 (pseudo-)investigation. Even more pathetic is that the Dutch apparently fully endorsed this load of crapola (http://www.whathappenedtoflightmh17.com/leaked-letter-of-dutch-chief-prosecutor-states-tsemakh-is-a-suspect-for-downing-mh17/). Finally, and just for a good laugh, check out how the infamous’ Bellincat presented Tsemakh (https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/07/09/the-arrest-of-vladimir-tsemakh-and-its-implications-for-the-mh17-investigation/). And then, suddenly, everybody seem to “forget” that “star witness” and now the Ukies have sent him to Russia. Amazing how fast stuff gets lost in the collective western memory hole…]
Right now there seems to be a tug of war taking place between the more mentally sane elements of the Zelenskii administration and the various nationalist extremists in the SBU, deathsquads and even regular armed forces. Thus we see these apparently contradictory developments taking place: on one hand, the Ukraine finally agreed to a prisoner swap with Russia (a painful one for Russia as Russia mostly traded real criminals, including a least two bona fide Ukie terrorist, against what are mostly civilian hostages, but Putin decided – correctly I think – that freeing Russian nationalists from Ukie jails was more important in this case) while on the other hand, the Ukronazi armed forces increased their shelling, even with 152mm howitzers which fire 50kg high explosive fragmentation shells, against the Donbass. Whatever may be the case, this prisoner swap, no matter how one-sided and unfair, is a positive development which might mark the beginning of a pragmatic and less ideological attitude in Kiev.


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Urkoterrorists Sentsov and Kol’chenko. Click to enlarge


Some very cautious beginnings of a little hint of optimism might be in order following that exchange, but the big stuff seems to be scheduled for the meeting of the Normandy Group (NG), probably in France. So far, the Russians have made it very clear that they will not meet just for the hell of meeting, and that the only circumstance in which the Russians will agree to a NG meeting would be if it has good chances of yielding meaningful results which, translated from Russian diplomatic language simply means “if/when Kiev stops stonewalling and sabotaging everything”. Specifically, the Russians are demanding that Zelenskii commit in writing to the so-called “Steinmeier formula (https://www.intellinews.com/ukraine-under-pressure-to-adopt-steinmeier-formula-in-donbas-peace-efforts-110011/)” and that the Ukrainian forces withdraw from the line of contact. Will that happen? Maybe. We shall soon find out.

But the single most amazing event of the past couple of weeks was the absolutely astonishing speech French President Emmanuel Macron made in front of an assembly of ambassadors. I could not find the full speech translated into English (I may have missed it somewhere), so I will post the crucial excerpts in French and translate them myself. If I find a full, official, translation I will post it under this column ASAP. For the time being, this is the link to the full speech transcript in French:

https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2019/08/27/discours-du-president-de-la-republique-a-la-conference-des-ambassadeurs-1

Let’s immediately begin with some of the most incredible excerpts, emphasis added by me: (sorry for the long quote but, truly, each word counts!)

L’ordre international est bousculé de manière inédite mais surtout avec, si je puis dire, un grand bouleversement qui se fait sans doute pour la première fois dans notre histoire à peu près dans tous les domaines, avec une magnitude profondément historique. C’est d’abord une transformation, une recomposition géopolitique et stratégique. Nous sommes sans doute en train de vivre la fin de l’hégémonie occidentale sur le monde. Nous nous étions habitués à un ordre international qui depuis le 18ème siècle reposait sur une hégémonie occidentale, vraisemblablement française au 18ème siècle, par l’inspiration des Lumières ; sans doute britannique au 19ème grâce à la révolution industrielle et raisonnablement américaine au 20ème grâce aux 2 grands conflits et à la domination économique et politique de cette puissance. Les choses changent. Et elles sont profondément bousculées par les erreurs des Occidentaux dans certaines crises, par les choix aussi américains depuis plusieurs années et qui n’ont pas commencé avec cette administration mais qui conduisent à revisiter certaines implications dans des conflits au Proche et Moyen-Orient et ailleurs, et à repenser une stratégie profonde, diplomatique et militaire, et parfois des éléments de solidarité dont nous pensions qu’ils étaient des intangibles pour l’éternité même si nous avions constitué ensemble dans des moments géopolitiques qui pourtant aujourd’hui ont changé. Et puis c’est aussi l’émergence de nouvelles puissances dont nous avons sans doute longtemps sous-estimé l’impact. La Chine au premier rang mais également la stratégie russe menée, il faut bien le dire, depuis quelques années avec plus de succès. J’y reviendrai. L’Inde qui émerge, ces nouvelles économies qui deviennent aussi des puissances pas seulement économiques mais politiques et qui se pensent comme certains ont pu l’écrire, comme de véritables États civilisations et qui viennent non seulement bousculer notre ordre international, qui viennent peser dans l’ordre économique mais qui viennent aussi repenser l’ordre politique et l’imaginaire politique qui va avec, avec beaucoup de force et beaucoup plus d’inspiration que nous n’en avons. Regardons l’Inde, la Russie et la Chine. Elles ont une inspiration politique beaucoup plus forte que les Européens aujourd’hui. Elles pensent le monde avec une vraie logique, une vraie philosophie, un imaginaire que nous avons un peu perdu
Here is my informal translation of these words:
The international order is being shaken in an unprecedented manner, above all with, if I may say so, by the great upheaval that is undoubtedly taking place for the first time in our history, in almost every field and with a profoundly historic magnitude. The first thing we observe is a major transformation, a geopolitical and strategic re-composition. We are undoubtedly experiencing the end of Western hegemony over the world. We were accustomed to an international order which, since the 18th century, rested on a Western hegemony, mostly French in the 18th century, by the inspiration of the Enlightenment; then mostly British in the 19th century thanks to the Industrial Revolution and, finally, mostly American in the 20th century thanks to the 2 great conflicts and the economic and political domination of this power. Things change. And they are now deeply shaken by the mistakes of Westerners in certain crises, by the choices that have been made by Americans for several years which did not start with this administration, but which lead to revisiting certain implications in conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to rethinking a deep, diplomatic and military strategy, and sometimes elements of solidarity that we thought were intangible for eternity, even if we had constituted together in geopolitical moments that have changed. And then there is the emergence of new powers whose impact we have probably underestimated for a long time. China is at the forefront, but also the Russian strategy, which has, it must be said, been pursued more successfully in recent years. I will come back to that. India that is emerging, these new economies that are also becoming powers not only economic but political and that think themselves, as some have written, as real “civilizational states” which now come not only to shake up our international order but who also come to weigh in on the economic order and to rethink the political order and the political imagination that goes with it, with much dynamism and much more inspiration than we have. Look at India, Russia and China. They have a much stronger political inspiration than Europeans today. They think about our planet with a true logic, a true philosophy, an imagination that we’ve lost a little bit.
Now let’s unpack these key statements one by one:

1) “ great upheaval that is undoubtedly taking place for the first time in our history in almost every field and with a profoundly historic magnitude”

Here Macron sets the stage for some truly momentous observations: what will be discussed next is not only a major event, but one without precedent in history (whether French or European). Furthermore, what will be discussed next, affects “almost every field” and with huge historical implications.

2) “We are undoubtedly experiencing the end of Western hegemony over the world”

When I read that, my first and rather infantile reaction was to exclaim “really?! No kiddin’?! Who would have thought!?” After all, some of us have been saying that for a long, long while, but never-mind that. What is important is that even a Rothschild-puppet like Macron had to finally speak these words. Oh sure, he probably felt as happy as the Captain of the Titanic when he had to (finally!) order a general evacuation of this putatively unsinkable ship, but nonetheless – he did do it. From now on, the notion of the end of the western hegemony on the planet is no more relegated to what the leaders of the Empire and their propaganda machine like to call “fringe extremists” and has now fully entered the (supposedly) “respectable” and “mainstream” public discourse. This is a huge victory for all of us who have been saying the same things for years already.

3) “by the mistakes of Westerners in certain crises, by the choices that have been made by Americans for several years”

Here, again, I feel like engaging in some petty self-congratulation and want to say “I told you that too!”, but that would really be infantile, would it not? But yeah, while the internal contradictions of western materialism in general, and of AngloZionist Capitalism specifically, have been catching up with the Western World and while an eventual catastrophic crisis was inevitable, it also sure is true that western leaders mostly did it to themselves; at the very least, they dramatically accelerated these processes. In this context, I would single out the following politicians for a nomination to a medal for exceptional service in the destruction of the western hegemony over our long-suffering planet: Donald Trump and Barak Obama, of course, but also François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron (yes, he too even if he now changes his tune!), Angela Merkel, of course, and then last but not least, every single British Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher (maybe with special commendation for Teresa May). Who knows, maybe they were all KGB/GRU/SVR agents after all? (just kiddin’!)

4) “ the emergence of new powers whose impact we have probably underestimated for a long time. China is at the forefront, but also the Russian strategy, which has, it must be said, been pursued more successfully in recent years”

Next, it’s not only China. Russia too is a major competitor, and a very successful one at that, hence the admission that in spite of all the efforts of the AngloZionist elites not only did the Empire not succeed in breaking Russia, but Russia has been very successful in defeating the western efforts. To those interested, I highly recommend this article (https://thesaker.is/new-world-order-in-meltdown-but-russia-stronger-than-ever/) by Jon Hellevig on the true state of the Russian economy. Finally, in military terms, Russia has achieved more than parity. In fact, I would argue that at least in terms of quality the Russian armed forces are ahead in several crucial technologies (hypersonic missiles, air defenses, electronic warfare etc.) even while she still lags behind in other technologies (mostly truly obsolete things like aircraft carriers). But most crucial is the political victory of Russia: five years after the Euromaidan and the liberation of Crimea from the Nazi yoke, the USA is far more isolated than Russia. It’s comical, really!

5) “real “civilizational states” which now come not only to shake up our international order”

I have been speaking about a unique, and very distinct, “Russian civilizational realm” in many of my writings and I am quite happy to see Macron using almost the same words. Of course, Macron did not only mean Russia here, but also India and China. Still, and although the Russian nation is much younger than the one of China or, even more so India, 1000 years of Russian civilization does deserve to be listed next to these two other giants of world history. And what is absolutely certain is that China and India could never build the new international order they want without Russia, at least for the foreseeable future. In spite of all the very real progress made recently by the Chinese armed forces (and, to a lesser degree, also the Indian ones), Russia still remains a much stronger military power than China. What Russia, China and India are, is that they are all former empires which have given up on imperialism and who know only aspire to be powerful, but nevertheless “normal” nations. Just by their size and geography, these are “un-invadable” countries who all present a distinct model of development and who want a multi-polar international order which would allow them to safely achieve their goals. In other words, Macron understands that the future international order will be dictated by China, Russia and India and not by any combination of western powers. Quite an admission indeed!

6) “ Look at India, Russia and China. They have a much stronger political inspiration than Europeans today. They think about our planet with a true logic, a true philosophy, an imagination that we’ve lost a little bit.”

This is the “core BRICS” challenge to the Empire: China and Russia have already established what the Chinese call a “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Coordination for the New Era”. If they can now extend this kind of informal but extremely profound partnership (I think of it as “symbiotic”) to India next, then the BRICS will have a formidable future (especially after the Brazilian people give the boot to Bolsonaro and his US patrons). Should that fail and should India chose to remain outside this unique relationship, then the SCO will become the main game in town. And yes, Macron is spot on: China and, especially, Russia have a fundamentally different worldview and, unlike the western one, theirs does have “much stronger political” goals (Macron used the word “aspirations”), “a real philosophy and imagination” which the West has lost, and not just a “little bit” but, I would argue, completely. But one way or the other, and for the first time in 1000 years, the future of our planet will not be decided anywhere in the West, not in Europe (old or “new”), but in Asia, primarily by the Russian-Chinese alliance. As I explained here (http://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-last-western-empire/), the AngloZionist Empire is probably the last one in history, definitely the last western one.

Now we should not be naïve here, Macron did not suddenly find religion, grow a conscience or suddenly become an expert on international relations. There is, of course, a cynical reason why he is changing his tune. In fact, there are several such reasons. First, it appears that the on and off bromance between Macron and Trump is over. Second, all of Europe is in free fall socially, economically and, of course, politically. And with a total nutcase in power in London dealing with Brexit and with Angela Merkel’s apparently never-ending political agony, it is only logical for a French head of state to try to step in. Furthermore, while I have always said that Russia is not part of Europe culturally and spiritually, Russia is very much part of Europe geographically, economically and politically and there is simply no way for any imaginable alliance of European states to save Europe from its current predicament without Russian help. Like it or not, that is a fact, irrespective of whether politician or commentator X, Y or Z realizes this or not. Macron probably figured out that the so-called “East Europeans” are nothing but cheap prostitutes doing whatever Uncle Shmuel wants them to do, Germany is collapsing under the weight of Merkel’s “brilliant” emigration policy while the UK under BoJo is busy trying to self-destruct at least as fast as the USA under Trump. Macron is right. If united, Russia and France could build a much safer Europe than the one we see slowly and painfully dying before our eyes today. But he is also wrong if he thinks that Russia can be “re-invited” back into the AngloZionist sphere of influence. In that context, Putin’s reply (https://www.rt.com/news/468112-putin-g7-india-china/) to the question of whether Russia was willing to return to the G8 is very telling: first he said that if the G7 wants to come back to Russia, Putin would welcome that, but then he also added that the G7/8 is useless without, yes, you guessed it, China and India.

It will be interesting to see if the current G7 will ever agree to mutate into a new G10 which would make Russia, China and India the most powerful block (or voting group) of this new forum. I personally doubt it very much, but then they are becoming desperate and Macron’s words seem to be indicating that this option is at least being discussed behind closed doors. Frankly, considering how quickly the G7 is becoming utterly irrelevant, I expect it to be gradually phased out and replaced by the (objectively much more relevant) G20.

Finally, there are Trump’s efforts into getting Russia back into the G8 which are very transparently linked to the current trade war and geostrategic competition between the US and China. The offer is useless to Russia, just like the return to PACE, but Russia does not want to needlessly offend anybody and that is why Putin did not publicly rebuff Trump or directly refuse to come to Miami: instead, he approved of the general concept, but offered a better way to go about it. Typical Putin.

Conclusion: Macron reads the writing on the wall
Whatever his political motives to say what he said, Macron is no idiot and neither are his advisors. Neither is this a “one off” thing. The French meant every word Macron spoke and they are putting everybody on notice (including the Ukrainians, the US, the EU and the Russians, of course). In fact, Macron has already invited Putin to participate in a Normandy Format meeting in Paris (https://yandex.ru/news/story/Parizh_podderzhal_vstrechu_v_normandskom_formate_v_blizhajshie_dni--d6a57219bf0f9a24f796fb8f70d362f9?cl4url=d6a57219bf0f9a24f796fb8f70d362f9&from=newswizard&lang=ru&persistent_id=73323449&rubric=politics&stid=xFCmwY%20) in the very near future. If that meeting eventually does take place, this will mean that the organizers gave Putin guarantees that this will not just be the usual kaffeeklatsch and that some serious results will finally be obtained. That, in turn, means that somebody – probably the French – will have the unpleasant task of telling the Ukrainians that the party is over and that they now need to get their act together and start implementing the Minsk Agreements, something which Zelenskii might or might not try to do, but which the real gun-toting Ukronazis will never accept. Thus, if the West is really serious about forcing Kiev to abide by the Mink Agreements, then the West has to finally give-up its self-defeating russophobic hysteria and substantially change their tone about the Ukraine. To invite Putin to Paris just to tell him again that Russia (which is not even a party to the Minsk Agreements) “must do more” makes zero sense. Therefore, all the other parties will have to come to terms with reality before inviting Putin. Apparently, this might be happening in Paris. As for Trump, he just offered to mediate (https://yandex.ru/news/story/Parizh_podderzhal_vstrechu_v_normandskom_formate_v_blizhajshie_dni--d6a57219bf0f9a24f796fb8f70d362f9?cl4url=d6a57219bf0f9a24f796fb8f70d362f9&from=newswizard&lang=ru&persistent_id=73323449&rubric=politics&stid=xFCmwY%20) (if asked to do so) between Russia and the Ukraine.

It shall be extremely interesting to see if this Normandy Format meeting does actually take place and what role, if any, Trump and the USA will play behind the scenes. We shall then know if Macron’s epiphany was just a one-time fluke or not.

The Saker

PS: the latest rumor from the Ukraine: Zelenskii supporters are saying that Poroshenko is preparing a coup against Zelenskii (https://hyser.com.ua/community/110538-poroshenko-gotovit-maydan-golovorezam-i-snayperam-platyat-po-2-tysyachi-dollarov-nachalsya-nabor) and that he is preparing a special force of Ukronazi deathsquads to execute that coup. Dunno about a real coup, but they have already blocked the Rada (https://hyser.com.ua/politics/110596-nachalos-poroshenko-reshil-blokirovat-radu-i-vse-zakony). Never a dull moment indeed…

[Hervé]

Chaos erupts in Nantes amid 44th week of protests against Macron's economic policies (https://www.rt.com/news/468840-yellow-vest-nantes-clashes/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/468840-yellow-vest-nantes-clashes/)
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:36 UTC


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A protester throws a projectile during clashes with police during anti-government demonstration in Nantes, France on September 14, 2019. © AFP / Sebastien Salom-Gomis


Yellow Vests protests against President Emmanuel Macron's economic polices hit France for the 44th weekend in a row. It got especially heated in Nantes where clashes between police and protesters left several people injured.

Some 1,800 people took to the streets of the city on Saturday, according to police figures. This week, the Yellow Vests tried a different approach to the protests, avoiding the city's center and hitting different routes instead.

At some point protesters engaged in scuffles with law enforcement. The police extensively used tear gas to disperse the crowds, footage from the scene shows.

Water cannons were also deployed.

The protesters pelted police with various objects and even used Molotov cocktails.

Although most of the demonstrators marched peacefully, there were around 400 people from the so called 'black block' attacking and damaging various venues, including a local McDonalds, smashing bus stops and setting dumpsters on fire.


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© AFP / Sebastien Salom-Gomis


At least two protesters and four police officers were injured in the scuffles.


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A protester trips a French gendarme. © AFP / Sebastien Salom-Gomis


Ahead of the rally, the police managed to seize a whole crate of Molotov cocktails, a handful of firecrackers and a haul of around one hundred umbrellas - which come in handy to hide from water cannons and tear gas canisters.

In fact, many things get one in trouble during the protests, as one man was detained by police apparently over merely carrying a tennis racket. During protests such sports implements are known to be used to hurl tear gas grenades back at police.

The protests were also held in other major cities across France. In Lyon, the gathering was also marred by scuffles with the police, that deployed tear gas to disperse the protesters.


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Protesters cover their faces in a cloud of tear gas in Lyon, France on September 14, 2019. © AFP / Olivier Chassignole


In Toulouse, the yellow vests occupied a train station, getting onto the tracks in an attempt to disrupt the railroad.

[Hervé]

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Macron Regime Forces swarm #Paris (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Paris?src=hash) ahead of the 45th #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) protests today.
People are already being arrested. The threat of Police Violence is heavy in the air
Vive les #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) for their fortitude & endurance
Vive la France! #Acte45 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Acte45?src=hash)

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2:05 AM - 21 Sep 2019


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Massive crowd of #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) protesters sing and wave French Flags to protest Macron's disastrous policies in #Luxembourg (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Luxembourg?src=hash) gardens. #Acte45 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Acte45?src=hash) #GiletsJaunes (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiletsJaunes?src=hash) #Paris (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Paris?src=hash)

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5:12 AM - 21 Sep 2019

[Hervé]

Why France’s 20- and 30-somethings hate the Yellow Vests (http://thesaker.is/why-frances-20-and-30-somethings-hate-the-yellow-vests/)

by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
September 27, 2019

It’s a question which needs be asked, but we can’t wait for the French media to answer it because they have almost totally stopped reporting on the anti-government movement for several months.

The first poll (https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/gilets-jaunes/sondage-une-majorite-des-francais-en-assez-des-gilets-jaunes-6513388)on the Yellow Vests since late March (“!”, and then “?”) finally came out two weeks ago. It was so eagerly gobbled up by a French media hungry for objective knowledge on the Yellow Vests that as many as two media talked about it. I missed it because I have already wasted a minimum of 3 hours of my life doing fruitless Google news searches for “Yellow Vest poll”.

The headline of Ouest-France newspaper, by far the most read Francophone paper in the world, was typically “negative-no-matter-what”: “A majority of France have had enough of the Yellow Vests”.

That’s a pretty bold statement considering that this majority is just 52%, which must be within the poll’s margin of error.

The headline could have fairly been: “A majority of France still supports the Yellow Vests despite all the state repression and media negativity”. Considering what a historic anti-government movement this is – the French have just avoided a 9th consecutive austerity budge (https://www.france24.com/en/20190926-france-s-2020-budget-cuts-taxes-in-bid-to-placate-yellow-vests)t expressly because of the Yellow Vests – objective journalism would have prioritised the “support” angle and not the “oppose” angle.


More poll tidbits to munch on for those who care about public opinion (which means you are obviously not a Western politician):
Vesters are now openly opposed by retirees (63%), executives/management (61%) and technicians/professionals (58%). However, they are openly supported by workers (52%), rural citizens (47%), the National Front party (64%) and the (true, not far-) leftist Unsubmissive France party (80%). Per the pollers: “The Yellow Vests remain popular with those segments of the population which were at the origin of the movement.”
One final poll petit-four: 93% of those who support Macron’s party are against the Yellow Vests, while another recent poll (https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/popularite-macron-et-philippe-atteignent-leur-plus-haut-niveau-depuis-un-an_2099284.html) showed that 98% of Macronistas think he is doing a good job. What this reminds us is that there is a hard-core Macronista base for whom he can absolutely do no wrong. I assumed such adoration was limited to 60+ year old single women dreaming of a winter-spring romance (an incredibly winter-spring romance), but it is a solid quarter of the population. This rate of genuine support is actually unchanged since the election in 2017: a quarter of France just adores this guy, no matter what, and apparently no amount of violence can change that.

Let’s get to the point of this column
One segment of society which does not support the Yellow Vests is the 20- and 30-something crowd.

This is based on my regular attendance at Yellow Vest demonstrations, and also many months of informally talking with this age group (of which I am quite nearly a part of). I’d like to pass on what I think are the reasons for their opposition:


We must remember that the Yellow Vests are primarily a middle-aged phenomenon – the average of those marching is probably 50 years old. This age group is the one which is most motivated because they are nearing retirement and they see just how bad austerity will make things for them. This generation will not do anywhere as well as their parents, and they are rightfully upset – they really had no chance to “succeed”: they found jobs (or can’t find any job) which will provide the personal nest egg which is required in the Anglo-Saxon system, which is the system that neoliberal austerity seeks to disruptively impose on France. The main problem is that French wages have always been far lower, and taxes quite higher, than their Western counterparts because the deal was that they’d have low wages but a much better social safety net. This deal has been terminated during the Age of Austerity, and Macron’s absurd, inhuman “one-size-fits-all” pension reform is the coup de grâce. Therefore, this segment of society – not professional, working class, low savings, not university educated, not thrilled with their job but still as vital to the functioning of society as you or me – is leading the revolt because they know that if they don’t… they will be working their low-paying job until they are 64 or their knees give out (whichever comes first), and then have a pittance of a pension to boot.



What about the young adult Parisians? Firstly, this is an old persons’ town – you have to have money to live within its highway walls. But are you talking about those who were raised in Paris? I guess you mainly referring to those who grew up in the rich Western areas – that place I go and look at like a tourist (seems nice over there), with all their fancy little kids and quiet and trees. People who grow up in these areas are rich – these are the very Macronista urbanites who are young, terrifying and want to eat their elders. They view Macron as their leader, God and role model. So young adult Parisians manning the barricades? Fuggetaboutit. This holds true for all of France’s cities.



What about the working class adult urbanites? Like in my area? Do you mean the Chinese, the Hasidic or the Arabs? All of these worker bees crammed into small, noisy apartments were likely turned off by the immediate and totally false smear that the Yellow Vests were racist. Also, the working class is often quite busy working.



What about the poor city suburbs, surely they are sympathetic? Indeed, the poor Muslim, Arab and Black areas are all totally sympathetic to the Vesters. However, they are not stupid – they know that if they go to the Vester demonstrations in any city the cops will absolutely, undoubtedly wage police brutality on them first. This truth is so very, very, very self-evident to Muslims and people of Color that we cannot even imagine that many of you cannot accept this, and we just turn and walk away when we start getting blamed for not leading the Yellow Vest charge. People from these areas have been totally marginalised… but when you need cannon fodder, then we get an engraved invitation? LOL, thanks, but no thanks. Nobody cares about the opinion of these areas/groups anyway, but I can report that the Vesters do indeed have their sincere moral support. Finally, Muslims and Blacks probably compose around 5-8% of France – if they did join en masse only 1 out of every 20 Vesters or so would be a non-White, anyway.

And here is the main reason why French Whites – who are the majority among the 20- and 30-somethings in France – do not support the Vesters.


I was surprised at the immediate antipathy for the Yellow Vests among the young White French adults I talked with in Paris, but who are the young White French adults in Paris? These are the primarily the people from small towns who are creative types and who move to the urban areas in order to flee the small-town culture, people, mores and activities they found so very stifling. The Yellow Vests are a primarily rural movement, and – as I have described their primary social-class makeup – France’s young urbanites seem to view the Vesters as the older classmates/bullies who made fun of them for being arty and weird and urbanite-aping back in their small town – many 30-somethings in Paris moved expressly to get away from these types! Therefore, it is unthinkable for them to side with the Yellow Vests, and after only the very first couple of demonstrations Parisian young adults seemingly all turned against the Yellow Vests, in my experience. These Parisian young adults see a faded, generic, poorly drawn forearm tattoo on many a Vester, and then they look at their own fancy tattoo (a Chinese character, a magic symbol, or some emblem of personal motivation or social defiance) and they think: “To hell with those White Trash – I never got invited to their parties and I want to lead a different lifestyle.”

So there you have it in a nutshell. Many French people actually made the move to the big city from the small town because they fundamentally resent the people who primarily compose the Yellow Vests.

There are other reasons:


Paris attracts young adults from all over the world – where are they? The Western expatriates living in France feel similarly or even more hostile than their French counterparts, in my experience. Many absurdly view Yellow Vests as outright reactionaries, mainly because they have absolutely no idea what the hell they are talking about when it comes to “French culture + class struggle”. These Western White expats simplistically view Vesters as extensions of their own “Brexiteers”, “basket of deplorable American rednecks”, etc., and do not feel the need to dig any deeper than such a superficial comparison – many of these immigrants would have a hard time understanding even if they tried, such is their unfamiliarity with a class lens. Bottom line: they are not about to stop the “Western expat party” and get tear gassed for any Yellow Vest, that is certain.



France, contrary to Anglophone media claims, is not a socialist country: aristocratic snobbery permeates and runs amok in the culture here as only it can on the Old Continent. It’s worse in Paris, but “I reject you first” is the initial war a French person declares upon meeting someone. The young adult urbanites in France have not at all been inculcated with class warfare and class solidarity, but identity politics: they identify with their fellow “bobos” (bourgeois bohemians), hipsters, artists and pretty young people. Have a shoulder tattoo I can’t see and not a wrist tattoo? Not cool enough. Next please. Swipe left. Je m’en fous.



France was an individualist country even before the rise of neoliberalism, I imagine, but rapacious neoliberalism surely leads to a fundamental lack of sympathy: Young urbanites here simply cannot imagine – nor do they try to – the grim future which 50-year old Yellow Vesters know to be a rapidly encroaching fact.



Furthermore, young people are dumb, (If you were paying me for this I’d look it up and provide the link but you’ll have to just take my word for it): I read a recent poll which said that something like 10% of young French people think Macron’s radical reforms will not actually reduce their own pensions, LOL! Sure… you’ll be the one who is special. Vesters are old enough to know better to get involved with this movement.

Given all these facts, we must realise that these urbanites want revenge on the class which primarily composes the Vesters – they don’t want to see them win, and they have repeatedly told me they don’t want them marching anymore in their hipster paradise areas of Paris.

I use the strong word “revenge” because I have found this to be a hugely important motivator in Western capitalist society. These young (smug, stupid, classist, fake-leftist/rabid neoliberal) anti-Yellow Vesters want not only a huge chunk of the pie, but they also to show all the people they left behind what a big shot they lost.

This is not hyperbole – this is what “competition” truly is. Western society (being anti-socialist and rabidly individualist) is fundamentally predicted on competition, and thus these types of feelings can be found plastered on billboards as a form of encouragement.

Finally, it is not “cool” to be a Vester in the French mainstream, and 20- and 30-somethings in the West prize “cool” above all. If you think famous actors, musicians, artists, thinkers, ballplayers, etc. are showing up/have ever showed up to Yellow Vest demonstrations… you must think these people don’t fear losing their social status more than anything – then they would have to get a real job.

“But Ramin,” you object, “how can cool people not be at the Yellow Vest demonstrations when YOU are there?”

Thank you. It seems paradoxical, indeed, but there’s an easy explanation: I turn 42 next week.

[Bill Ryan]

Why France’s 20- and 30-somethings hate the Yellow Vests (http://thesaker.is/why-frances-20-and-30-somethings-hate-the-yellow-vests/)

Thank you! I have to say, that's really, really interesting.

[Hervé]

Alain Soral Sentenced to 2 Years Jail for Sharing “Gilets-Jaunes” Anti-Rothschild Rap Video (http://www.unz.com/gdurocher/alain-soral-sentenced-to-2-years-jail-for-sharing-gilets-jaunes-anti-rothschild-rap-video/)

By Guillaume Durocher (http://www.unz.com/author/guillaume-durocher/)
September 26, 2019
He Could Pay Over €170,000 in Fines and Compensation
The French civic-nationalist and anti-Zionist intellectual Alain Soral was sentenced to two years prison last week for sharing a rap video entitled “Gilets-Jaunes.”

The music clip (watch it while you still can (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxFchAvqwK4)) is typical of the Yellow Vests in denouncing French media, political, and financial elites, and making a plea for direct democracy, notably the famous proposed Citizen’s Initiative Referendum (Référendum d’Initiative Populaire or RIC).


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The video also argues for the abrogation of the banking law of June 1973 – known as the “Pompidou-Rothschild Act,” after the then French president and the investment bank he used to work for. Critics claim the law has reduced France to debt slavery by making her dependent on financial markets for loans rather than self-finance through the national bank.

The video also features a pyre where various figures are symbolically burned: President Emmanuel Macron, various media (TF1, Le Monde, BFMTV . . .), the Rothschild bank, and, most problematically, powerful elite Jews (Jacques Attali, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Patrick Drahi (https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/12/13/patrick-drahi-the-israeli-oligarch-taking-over-french-and-american-media/)).

The rapper points out: “And if we talk about the media and Macron, we’ll have to talk about Drahi. His bank account is in Israel and he pays no taxes here.” Drahi, a Franco-Israeli-Portuguese oligarch born in Morocco and residing in Switzerland, has bought up large swathes of French media in recent years.

In case the denunciation of Jewish-globalist and Jewish-Zionist power elites in the financial and media spheres were not explicit enough, the video also states: “We’re not talking about a so-called oppressed minority. We’re talking about the deliberately neglected majority [of workers, farmers, and pensioners] . . . France has decided to free itself from the Rothschilds.”


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President Macron speaking before the powerless lobby you will be destroyed for criticizing.


As the words “so-called oppressed minority” are uttered, images are flashed of the annual dinner of the CRIF – the influential official French Jewish lobbying organization – an event where the crème de la crème of the French politico-media elite regularly come to genuflect.

The rapper lauds the “prolo patriotes” (patriotic workers) who are rising up and denounces the oligarchic “parasites” who are enriching themselves all the while demanding austerity from the masses. The song concludes: “The French are fed up with these parasites. The French are fed up, it ain’t racist. National uprising!” The author is a certain “Rude Goy.”

There are various pro-Arab and pro-Muslim symbols included. Drahi is mentioned while a pro-Palestine hoody is flashed. The rapper wears a fashionable keffiyeh. As a mainstream journalist anxiously warns that the French State is bordering on collapse in the face of the protesters, the rapper answers: “Inshallah” (God willing in Arabic).

The video then artfully interweaves mainstream yellow-vest concerns about French democracy’s subversion by high finance with a denunciation of the specific role of Jewish elite power in this process. There is no blanket anti-Semitism or attack on day-to-day Jews.

The images of Jewish oligarchs and intellectuals being symbolically burned – along side mainstream media and the French president, mind you – angered a certain number of Jewish activist and (mostly Jewish-run) “anti-racist” organizations. I imagine these images felt downright Auschwitzian to them.

The groups sued Soral for “granting enormous visibility to this video by publishing it on his website” and thus promoting the anti-Semitic theory of a “Jewish conspiracy.”

Note Soral did not create the video: he merely shared it on his website, as he did innumerable other yellow-vest videos. One wonders if linking to the video is also considered a criminal act. Probably not, or only if your name is Alain Soral. This tells you something about the legal arbitrariness of these censorious laws and liberticidal ethnic lobbies.

Soral will also be requires to pay a 45,000-euro fine and tens of thousands of euros in “compensation” to the various aggrieved Jewish and/or professional “anti-racist” activist organizations. That’s called good business.

Coincidentally, or not, the bank BNP Paribas simply closed the bank account of (https://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Soutenez-nous-BNP-PARIBAS-ferme-illegalement-le-compte-en-banque-d-Egalite-Reconciliation-56378.html)Égalité & Réconciliation (https://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Soutenez-nous-BNP-PARIBAS-ferme-illegalement-le-compte-en-banque-d-Egalite-Reconciliation-56378.html), Alain Soral’s influential counter-cultural organization.

Presumably the court decision will be appealed. However, the noose is apparently tightening around Soral. Earlier this year, he was also sentenced to a year in jail (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/alain-soral-ecope-dun-de-prison-ferme-pour-negationnisme-105924) for sharing a cartoon highlighting various holocaust hoaxes (https://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Trois-mois-de-prison-ferme-requis-contre-Alain-Soral-pour-le-dessin-Shoah-ou-t-es-48460.html) (lampshades, soap, etc).

Soral has always said that true intellectuals must inevitably come up against the authorities sooner or later. An intellectual who really stands up for his ideals “passera par la case prison” (will go to jail, do not pass-go), as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Charles Maurras did.

Whatever happens, more people than ever are being sensitized to a certain certain ethnic group’s considerable power and privilege by the very fact of jailing a French intellectual on their lobbying organizations’ behalf.


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Look who's paranoid now! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?67181-Look-who-s-paranoid-now-&highlight=paranoid)

[Hervé]

'March of anger': Thousands of French police protest over suicides, working conditions and pension reforms (https://www.rt.com/news/470067-french-police-protest-suicides/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/470067-french-police-protest-suicides/)
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The center of Paris was paralyzed by the largest rally of police officers in years; they say they are in total despair after being abandoned by the government.

More than 20,000 police officers of different ranks - from operatives and commissioners to administrative staff - marched from Bastille to the Republic Square in the French capital on Wednesday, according to organizers.

They chanted slogans and carried union flags and banners with messages such as: "National Police are angry" and "Hands off the cops" among others. Flares were also lit, much to the delight of the crowd.

Several officers also brought a cardboard replica of a coffin with them to the protests to commemorate their colleagues who reportedly took their own lives this year due to tough working conditions. There have already been some 52 suicides among French police officers in 2019, local media says (https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/manifestation-des-policiers/mon-fils-nous-a-laisse-un-mot-en-disant-qu-il-n-en-pouvait-plus-les-policiers-et-leurs-familles-manifestent-pour-alerter-sur-le-fleau-des-suicides_3640277.html). Meanwhile, the annual average is standing at 42.


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Police have been on high alert since November 2015 when more than 130 people were killed in terrorist attacks in Paris and the pressure on the force has been mounting since.

France hosted the UEFA Euro 2016, which required unprecedented security measures. Since last year, there have also been weekly Yellow Vest protests in cities across the country which have frequently spiraled out of control.

The officers claim the government still owes them for 23 million hours of overtime, which it had agreed to pay them last year. They also say their job has become more dangerous, as the number of attacks against police rose by 15 percent in 2019.


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A parliamentary report earlier this year raised the alarm over numerous police stations in France in poor condition and officers having to use old cars.

Another sticking point is the planned pension reform, which, the officers fear, could deprive them of their traditional perks. Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner, vowed that "dangerousness of their profession" will be taken into consideration, but said nothing about the police staff occupying non-operative jobs.

[Bluegreen]

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[Hervé]

First in a decade: Yellow Vests end French austerity, finally (http://thesaker.is/first-in-a-decade-yellow-vests-end-french-austerity-finally/)


By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
October 02, 2019

The Yellow Vests forced the French government to not present (https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/28/607313/Yellow-Vest-movement-forces-end-8-years-austerity) an austerity-laden annual budget for the first time in a decade.

You should be saying, “Wow, that is a historic achievement.”

Please be clear: this is joyous, uplifting, pro-democracy, once-in-a-decade good news! An end to austerity is why France elected Francois Hollande in 2012, whose slogan was, “The change is now” – the “change” was away from far-right, neoliberal austerity.

The entire history of austerity is pretty pathetic, and I have covered it daily from the beginning:
It was first a screaming conservative-capitalist reaction to the huge plunge in global economic growth. When the hysteria wore off and some sort of logical, verbal explanation became required, they decided it was necessary to appease the “confidence fairy (https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/expectations-and-the-confidence-fairy/)” of investors. When people tired of belt-tightening to avoid giving financial speculators a bit of indigestion, it became necessary in order to appease Brussels’ totally arbitrary “3% fiscal deficit rule”. And then…people just stopped talking about it (https://thesaker.is/eurozone-didnt-admit-a-lost-decade-france-wont-admit-austerity-continues-in-2019/) altogether, as I wrote. Austerity went on so long it was just viewed as unstoppable and vitally necessary – the idea of a spending program instead of spending cuts stopped being discussed after Marine Le Pen lost the presidential election. Emmanuel Macron’s first budget was the 2nd-harshest in postwar French history.
Given these reminders, we should ask in 2019: How many millions and millions of people have marched in France in the past nine years to end austerity, either openly or indirectly?

They all failed – the Yellow Vests did not.

Furthermore, anyone who thought the Yellow Vests are useless have been proven totally wrong. The Yellow Vests have proven themselves to be more powerful than any other group – unions, NGOs, political parties, and also even Brussels, central bankers, the investor class, the mainstream media – because the French government ultimately bowed to the demands of the Yellow Vest demands and not those other groups.

The French government openly said that that a full decade of budget austerity was not possible in the context of massive social protest. No Yellow Vests? Tenth year of austerity, no doubt about it. Far-right Le Figaro’s headline read (http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/un-budget-2020-pour-ne-pas-reveiller-les-gilets-jaunes-20190926), “A 2020 budget to not wake up the Yellow Vests.” Make no mistake: the government did not derail budget austerity because they finally listened to the Yellow Vests, but because they fear them.

So… voila. The Yellow Vests ARE good, ARE effective, ARE anti-capitalist (at least neoliberal capitalism), and the previous 10+ months of repression have NOT been ineffective, 10+ months of sacrifices and risk have NOT been wasted, 10+ months of anti-mainstream democratic involvement have NOT gone unnoticed and unheeded.

Austerity: same as it ever was… only effective at increasing inequality
To remind those who may need a concise refresher of what budget austerity is…
Budget austerity has three primary components: increased taxes on individuals and households, cuts to government services and decreased taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The goals are, in associated order: to weigh people down with so much debt as to make them fearful & compliant workers & citizens; to achieve the neoliberal/libertarian goal of reducing the government as much as possible, as only the government can provide socio-economic constraints on the 1%; to create profits for the 1%, which are going to “trickle down” at some unknown time (this hype – not hope – has been going on since Ronald Reagan).
What is the problem with austerity?

Well, morally (to take an economic tack never conceived in the West and in non-socialist inspired economies), taxing the poor to feed the rich is simply wrong.

However, putting morality aside, economic austerity is a guaranteed recipe for low growth and especially in the context of a global slowdown. Thus, it is ineffective, wasteful and increases lasting socioeconomic inequalities.

Since Lehman Brothers in 2007 there has been a global economic slowdown, but for some unknown reason I seem to be the only reporter who has talked about the undeniable, factual (https://thesaker.is/eurozone-officially-achieves-lost-decade-media-refuses-to-admit-it/) “Lost Decade” in the Eurozone (2008-17). Annual economic growth averaged 0.6% during this era, a rate worse than either of Japan’s two recent Lost Decades; it’s also 3.5 times less than the global average of 2.1% over this timeframe Thus, the idea that austerity has been a total failure cannot be denied no matter where your ideas lay on the economic spectrum.

We are now widely expecting not just a global economic slowdown but a global economic recession. The blame is absurdly laid at the feet of China – for daring to grow at 7% instead of 8% – when the obvious culprit is the enormous stagnant backwater that is Europe. They remain the weakest leak in the global macro-economy.

You are crazy if you think Yellow Vests – down to each man and woman – do not recognise these economic realities: they are living it. They even articulate it better than I do half the time.

Prior to the budget news, I wrote how the (https://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-get-1st-game-changing-win-a-vote-to-stop-denationalisation-of-airports/) Yellow Vests had already stopped another far-right goal: the privatisation of Paris’ three airports. That’s a € 10 billion deal.

The total tax cuts are only €10 billion as well. €1 billion were the result of lowering the corporate tax rate 2% – no matter what, tax cuts for the wealthy/corporations occur with or without austerity.

The reality is that austerity continues, and I’ll explain why: Essentially, Macron didn’t want to waste his tiny amount of political capital by fighting for the small prize of austerity cuts. A much more lucrative prize – for the bosses and stockholders – is if he can successfully push through his backdoor raising of the retirement age to 64 as well as the shift to a universal, one-size-fits-all retirement system which even the mainstream media calls “radical”. And then after that, another radical reform to the unemployment system.

These reforms will effectively redistribute upwards hundreds and hundreds of billions in the medium term, and they gut what I call “the French bad example” – France’s social safety net is a lot like a Scandinavian country despite also being a Western imperialist nation.

Macron has now backed down on privatizing more state assets (which was done the most under the recently departed Jacques Chirac) and on an austerity budget – can the Yellow Vests stop his most sweeping “deforms” yet? The fights, strikes and protests began last month.

One thing is certain: the Yellow Vests have shown that persistence and bravery counts a lot in any fight.

Because the mainstream media is anti-Yellow Vest and pro-austerity, very few seem to have registered what the Yellow Vests have achieved. It’s surprising, because the word of the decade in France and Europe is undoubtedly “austerity”?

What’s certain is that the Yellow Vests have many goals which go beyond one year and 10 billion euros – regaining sovereignty from Brussels, leaving the Eurozone to gain economic control and, for many, kicking Macron out of office. These are the next, admittedly-huge steps, but the Yellow Vests have undoubtedly had a laser focus on them since last November.

Were you one of the tens of millions of Frenchmen whose life has been worsened by austerity? Thank a Yellow Vest for finally achieving what countless French marches and votes could not.

[Matthew]

I haven't been following the Yellow Vest phenomenon, but noticed this video report by Carl Benjamin

Editorial Censorship of the Yellow Vests

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From 7 mins. onwards:


... What this can be called is editorial censorship; because one of the great tricks the media has learnt, and I'm gonna be honest it is the left wing media that learnt this first. But to be fair the right wing media probably does the same. But one of the great things the media has learnt is that you can control the narrative through editorial decisions, you don't even have lie about the things you are writing about, you can write entirely true statements and leave out other true statements that will provide extra context, or you can ignore a problem entirely, you can ignore civil unrest entirely; if people aren't in France how are they going to know? Well, thank God for social media but no wonder that's being censored out of existence, isn't it?

They know very well that they're doing it as well, according to Carlos Maza, ex-vox.com, ...well they call him a journalist, but I don't think I'd call him that, ...it's something they call Gate-keeping; they decide what's valuable and important, and what the public needs to know. ...

[Hervé]

France: More Death to Free Speech (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15002/france-free-speech)

by Guy Millière (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Guy+Milli%C3%A8re)
October 13, 2019 at 5:00 am


Defending someone who is accused of being a "racist" implies the risk of being accused of being a "racist" too. Intellectual terror reigns in France.



France is moving from a "muzzled press to a muzzling press that destroys free speech". — Alain Finkielkraut, writer and philosopher.



Writers other than Éric Zemmour have been hauled into court and totally excluded from all media, simply for describing reality.



In a society where freedom of speech exists, it would be possible to discuss the use of these statements, but in France today, freedom of speech has been almost completely destroyed.



Soon in France, no one will dare to say that any attack openly inspired by Islam has any connection with Islam.


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On September 28, a "Convention of the Right" took place in Paris, organized (http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/marion-marechal-egerie-d-une-convention-de-la-droite-20190903) by Marion Marechal, a former member of French parliament and now director of France's Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences. The purpose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRBigVf70rc) of the convention was to unite France's right-wing political factions. In a keynote speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShnG7yThD7o), the journalist Éric Zemmour harshly criticized Islam and the Islamization of France. He described (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/eric-zemmour-blockbuster-speech/) the country's "no-go zones" (Zones Urbaines Sensibles; Sensitive Urban Zones) as "foreign enclaves" in French territory and depicted, as a process of "colonization", the growing presence in France of Muslims who do not integrate.

Zemmour quoted the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpADSKqcefE) that the no-go zones are "small Islamic Republics in the making". Zemmour said that a few decades ago, the French could talk freely about Islam but that today it is impossible, and he denounced the use of the "hazy concept of Islamophobia to make it impossible to criticize Islam, to reestablish the notion of blasphemy to the benefit of the Muslim religion alone..."
"All our problems are worsened by Islam. It is a double jeopardy.... Will young French people be willing to live as a minority on the land of their ancestors? If so, they deserve to be colonized. If not, they will have to fight ... [T]he old words of the Republic, secularism, integration, republican order, no longer mean anything ... Everything has been overturned, perverted, emptied of meaning."
Zemmour's speech was broadcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfaPz2gxLB4) live on LCI television. Journalists on other channels immediately accused (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4F-HxMjbRs) LCI of contributing to "hate propaganda". Some said that LCI should lose its broadcasting license. One journalist, Memona Hinterman-Affegee, a former member (http://www.rirm.org/en/list-of-the-member-authorities/csa-conseil-superieur-de-laudiovisuel/) of France's High Council of Audiovisual Media (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel), the body that regulates electronic media in France, wrote (https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2019/10/03/affaire-zemmour-dans-le-cas-de-lci-je-suis-pour-couper-le-signal_6014102_3232.html) in the newspaper Le Monde:
"LCI uses a frequency which is part of the public domain and thus belongs to the entire nation ... LCI has failed in its mission and lost control of its program, and must be sanctioned in an exemplary manner".
The journalists of Le Figaro, the newspaper employing Zemmour, wrote (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/derive-raciste-xenophobe-des-journalistes-du-figaro-veulent-lexclusion-de-zemmour-111260) a press release demanding his immediate dismissal. Calls (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/derive-raciste-xenophobe-des-journalistes-du-figaro-veulent-lexclusion-de-zemmour-111260) heard on most radio and television stations for a total boycott of Zemmour stressed (http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/tv/canal-rtl-le-figaro-les-medias-se-posent-des-questions-zemmour-sous-pression-01-10-2019-8164230.php) that he had been condemned several times for "Islamophobic racism".

Alexis Brézet, the managing editor of Le Figaro, said (https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/est-il-alle-trop-loin-les-redactions-divisees-sur-eric-zemmour-02-10-2019-2338999_23.php) that he expressed his "disapproval" to Zemmour and reminded him of the need for "strict compliance with the law", but did not fire him. SOS Racisme, a left-wing movement created in 1984 to fight racism, launched a campaign to boycott (http://blog.lefigaro.fr/rioufol/2019/10/ces-journalistes-qui-reclament.html) companies publishing advertisements in Le Figaro and said that its aim was to coerce the management of the newspaper to fire Zemmour. The mainstream RTL radio station that employed Zemmour decided to terminate (http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/rtl-cesse-sa-collaboration-avec-eric-zemmour-20191003) him immediately, saying that his presence on the air was "incompatible" with the spirit of living together "that characterizes the station".

A journalist working for RTL and LCI, Jean-Michel Aphatie, said (https://www.bvoltaire.fr/quand-le-commissaire-politique-jean-michel-aphatie-veut-la-peau-du-dissident-eric-zemmour/) that Zemmour was a "repeat offender" who should not be able to speak anywhere and compared him to the anti-Semitic Holocaust denier Dieudonné Mbala Mbala (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE8JGUfNovk):
"Dieudonné is not allowed to speak in France. He must hide. That is fine, since he wants to spread hatred. Éric Zemmour should be treated the same way."
Caricatures were published depicting Zemmour in a Waffen SS uniform. Another journalist, Dominique Jamet, apparently not seeing any problem comparing a Jew to a Nazi, said (https://www.marianne.net/politique/preference-nationale-esquisse-de-guerre-civile-rejet-de-l-islam-et-des-droits-de-l-homme) that Zemmour reminded him of Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. On the internet, death threats (http://www.adoxa.info/eric-zemmour-menace-de-mort-sociale-et-physique) against Zemmour multiplied. Some posted (https://www.bvoltaire.fr/jean-yves-le-gallou-un-jour-il-y-aura-le-famas-fou-dun-militaire-de-sentinelle-que-la-hierarchie-militaire-aura-repere/) the times Zemmour takes the subway, what stations, and suggested (https://lincorrect.org/eric-zemmour-en-danger-de-mort/) that someone push him under a train.

The French government officially filed (https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/est-il-alle-trop-loin-les-redactions-divisees-sur-eric-zemmour-02-10-2019-2338999_23.php) a complaint against Zemmour for "public insults" and "public provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence". The investigation was handed over to the police. Someone in France accused of "public provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence" can face a sentence of one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros ($50,000).

Whoever reads the text (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/eric-zemmour-blockbuster-speech/) of Zemmour's speech on September 28 can see that the speech does not incite discrimination, hatred or violence, and does not make a single racist statement: Islam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pSbxTOimTk) is not a race, it is a religion.

Zemmour's speech describes a situation already discussed by various writers. Zemmour is not the first to say that the no-go zones are dangerous areas (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10404/france-no-go-zones) the police can no longer enter, or that they are under the control of radical imams and Muslim gangs who assault and drive out non-Muslims. Zemmour is not the only writer to describe the consequences of the mass-immigration of Muslims who do not integrate into French society. The pollster Jerome Fourquet, in his recent book (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9OajfqJytA), The French Archipelago, points out that France today is a country where Muslims and non-Muslims live in separate societies "hostile to each other". Fourquet also emphasizes that a growing number of Muslims living in France say they want (https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/1568920086-poll-46-of-french-muslims-believe-sharia-law-should-be-applied-in-country) to live according sharia law and place sharia law above French law. Fourquet notes (https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/exclusif-jerome-fourquet-le-tchador-n-a-pas-encore-dit-son-dernier-mot-18-09-2019-2336481_23.php) that 26% of French Muslims born in France want to obey only Sharia; for French Muslims born abroad, the figure rises to 46%. Zemmour merely added that what was happening is a "colonization".

Zemmour had been hauled into court many times in the recent past and has had to pay heavy fines. On September 19, he was fined (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/eric-zemmour-definitivement-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans-19-09-2019-8155785.php) 3,000 euros ($3,300) for "incitement to racial hatred" and "incitement to discrimination", for having said (https://www.nouvelobs.com/teleobs/20190919.OBS18672/zemmour-definitivement-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-religieuse.html) in 2015 that "in countless French suburbs where many young girls are veiled, a struggle to Islamize territories is taking place".

In a society where freedom of speech exists, it would be possible to discuss the use of these statements, but in France today, freedom of speech has been almost completely destroyed.

Writers other than Zemmour have been hauled into court and totally excluded from all media, simply for describing reality. In 2017, the great historian Georges Bensoussan published a book (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqNK8ZKvhI), A Submissive France, as alarming as what Zemmour said a few days ago. Bensoussan, in an interview, quoted (https://www.lepoint.fr/justice/affaire-bensoussan-une-catachrese-pas-une-provocation-a-la-haine-07-03-2017-2110058_2386.php) an Algerian sociologist, Smaïn Laacher, who had said that "in Arab families, children suckle anti-Semitism with their mother's milk". Laacher was never indicted. Bensoussan, however, had to go to criminal court. Although he was acquitted (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/03/07/01016-20170307ARTFIG00235-l-historien-georges-bensoussan-relaxe.php), he was fired (https://www.tribunejuive.info/justice/georges-bensoussan-comment-il-fut-chasse-du-memorial-par-sarah-cattan) by the Paris Holocaust Memorial, which until then had employed him.

In 2011, another author, Renaud Camus, published a book (https://www.amazon.com/Remplacement-Introduction-remplacisme-global-French/dp/B076W7PMD7), The Great Replacement. In it, he talked about the decline of Western culture in France and its gradual replacement by Islamic culture. He also noted (http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/2019/03/20/25001-20190320ARTFIG00165-la-theorie-du-grand-remplacement-n-est-pas-absurde-pour-marion-marechal.php) the growing presence in France of a Muslim population that refuses to integrate, and added that demographic studies show a birth rate higher in Muslim families than in non-Muslim ones.

Immediately, commentators in the media accused (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqO3S0rgmg) Camus of "anti-Muslim racism" and called him a "conspiracy theorist". His demographic studies were omitted. He had never mentioned either race or ethnicity, yet was nonetheless described (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWuF5NW_ito) as a defender of "white supremacism" and instantly excluded (http://blog.lefigaro.fr/rioufol/2019/09/ne-cherchez-pas-lextreme.html) from radio and television. He can no longer publish anything in a French newspaper or magazine. In fact, he has no publisher at all anymore; he has to self-publish. In debates in France, he is referred to (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMJcz_eEbFM) as a "racist extremist," and credited with saying things he never said. He is then denied the possibility of answering.

The difference between Eric Zemmour and Georges Bensoussan or Renaud Camus is that Zemmour had published books that became best sellers (http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2014/10/16/03005-20141016ARTFIG00014-eric-zemmour-les-vrais-chiffres-de-vente-du-suicide-francais.php) before he talked explicitly about the Islamization of France.

Those who have destroyed the careers of other writers for stating unfashionable facts have been doing their best to condemn Zemmour to the same fate. So far, they have not succeeded, so they have now decided to launch a major offensive against him. What they clearly want his personal destruction.

Zemmour is not only risking a professional ban; like many other writers being silenced by an intolerant "lynch mob", he is risking his life (https://lincorrect.org/eric-zemmour-en-danger-de-mort/).

Almost no one shows any interest in defending him, just as no one defended Georges Bensoussan or Renaud Camus. Defending someone accused of being a "racist" implies the risk of being accused of being a "racist" too. Intellectual terror (http://blog.lefigaro.fr/rioufol/2019/08/bloc-notes-liberer-la-france-d.html) now reigns in France.

A few days ago, the writer and philosopher Alain Finkielkraut said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A5Neka6nBA) that suggesting that "Islamophobia is the equivalent of yesterday's anti-Semitism" is scandalous. He said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A5Neka6nBA) that "Muslims do not risk extermination" and that no one should "deny that today's anti-Semitism is Arab Muslim anti-Semitism." He added (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A5Neka6nBA) that France is moving from a "muzzled press to a muzzling press that destroys free speech".

France, wrote (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/zemmour-ou-le-crepuscule-de-la-societe-ouverte-111410) Ghislain Benhessa, a professor at the University of Strasbourg, is no longer a democratic country and gradually become something very different:
"Our democratic model which was based on the free expression of opinions and the confrontation of ideas is giving way to something else ... Relentless moral condemnations infect the debates and dissenting opinions are constantly deemed 'nauseating', 'dangerous', 'deviant' or 'retrograde', and therefore the elements of language repeated ad nauseam by official communicators will soon be the last words deemed acceptable. Lawsuits, charges of indignity and proclamations of openness are about to give birth to the evil twin of openness: a closed society."
On October 3, five days after Zemmour's speech, four police employees were murdered (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/attaque-au-couteau-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-syndicats-20191003) in Paris police headquarters by a man who had converted to Islam. The murderer (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/tueur-de-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-de-nombreux-indices-de-radicalisation-04-10-2019-8166537.php), Mickaël Harpon, had gone every week to a mosque where an imam, who lives in a no-go zone ten miles north of Paris, made radical remarks. Harpon had been working at police headquarters for 16 years. He had recently shared (https://www.europe-israel.org/2019/10/attentat-a-la-prefecture-de-police-cest-un-scandale-detat-une-organisation-islamiste-a-reussi-un-magnifique-exemple-dinfiltration-pour-alexandre-del-valle-video/) on social networks a video showing an imam calling for jihad, and saying that "the most important thing for a Muslim is to die as a Muslim".

Harpon's colleagues said that he had been delighted by the 2015 jihadist attacks (https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/europe/2015-paris-terror-attacks-fast-facts/index.html) in France in 2015, and said they had reported (https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/attaque-au-couteau-a-la-prefecture-de-police-les-failles-des-rg-au-coeur-de-l-enquete-05-10-2019-2339490_23.php) "signs of radicalization" to no avail (https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/radicalisation-castaner-veut-resserrer-le-filet-apres-la-tuerie-de-la-prefecture-07-10-2019-2339764_23.php). The government's first reaction had been to say (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-le-troublant-profil-du-tueur-20191003) that the murderer was "mentally disturbed" and that the attack had no connection with Islam. French Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner simply stated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMoAztKh6Ng) that there had been "administrative dysfunctions," and acknowledged that the killer had access (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/attaque-a-la-prefecture-comment-les-policiers-obtiennent-leur-habilitation-secret-defense-04-10-2019-8166555.php) to files classified "secret".

A month before that, on September 2, an Afghan man (http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/attaque-de-villeurbanne-un-tueur-au-profil-chaotique-01-09-2019-8143533.php) who had the status in France of a political refugee, slit the throat of a young man and injured several other people in a street in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon. He announced (https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/lyon-un-mort-et-plusieurs-blesses-dans-une-attaque-a-l-arme-blanche-31-08-2019-2332758_23.php) that the fault of those he killed or injured was that they did "not read the Koran". The police immediately stated that he was mentally ill (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/attaque-de-villeurbanne-justice-et-psychiatrie-l-equation-impossible-20190903) and that his attack had nothing to do with Islam.

Soon in France, no one will dare to say that any attack openly inspired by Islam has any connection with Islam.

Today, there are more than 600 no-go zones (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5128/france-no-go-zones) in France. Every year, hundreds of thousands immigrants (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/06/19/01016-20180619ARTFIG00310-les-chiffres-de-l-immigration-en-france.php) coming mainly from Muslim countries, settle in France and add to the country's Muslim population. Most of those who preceded them have not integrated (https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2016/09/19/31001-20160919ARTFIG00126-sondage-du-jdd-sur-l-islam-en-france-l-echec-de-l-integration-culturelle.php).

Since January 2012, more than 260 people in France have been murdered (http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/depuis-2012-263-personnes-sont-mortes-dans-des-attentats-islamistes-en-france-20191007) in terrorist attacks, and more than a thousand wounded. The numbers may increase in the coming months. The authorities will still call the attackers "mentally ill".
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.

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Police blast French firefighters with water cannons during protest over working conditions (https://www.rt.com/news/470986-paris-firefighters-protest-water-canon/)

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French riot police have turned water cannons on some of the thousands of firefighters who are marching through Paris to demand better resources in order to tackle the increasing number of forest fires each year.

Police have also reportedly fired tear gas at the demonstrators.

Firefighters are demonstrating against a number of key concerns, chiefly government policies on resources for their sector, funding problems, and difficult working conditions.


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Footage from the protests show riot police and protesters squaring up to one another in some parts of Paris, while water cannons were deployed to push firefighters back and clear streets.



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Don't play with fire: French firefighters protest low pay & difficult working conditions in Paris

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Starts at 1.30 minutes Dr Steve speaks of some positive backlash against Macron in a recent poll favouring Marine Le Pen, and draws similarities between Matteo Salvini rise in Italian politics to Marine Le Pen's possible rise to president.

BOMBSHELL POLL: Macron LOSES to Marine Le Pen for FIRST TIME!!!
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Related Article: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1199526/Emmanuel-Macron-EU-latest-France-Le-Pen-news

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'No farm, no food, no future!': Farmers clog traffic in Hamburg with 4,000 tractors, reject 'scapegoating' by govt (https://www.rt.com/news/473523-germany-hamburgs-tractors-protest/)

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German farmers have flooded a city's streets with thousands of tractors, in protest against new environment regulations; they are accusing the government of bullying them as it conducts its fight for a 'green' economy.

Around 4,000 tractors arrived in the northern city of Hamburg on Thursday, where a meeting of regional environment ministers was being held. The kilometer-long convoys, stretching across the city's busy streets, caused "considerable traffic disruption" downtown, police said. The protesters also held a rally at the city's Gaensemarkt square.

Placards displayed on the tractors included slogans such as 'Cooperation instead of bans' and 'No farm, no food, no future.' Another popular protest motto - 'Just say 'Thank you' - was also heavily present. It conveys many farmers' desire for the government to appreciate what those in agriculture do for the economy, instead of engaging in what they see as bullying and scapegoating in the name of pursuing green goals.

The Environment Ministry has recently proposed a set of regulations what would limit the use of certain types of weed killers and fertilizers - in order to protect birds, insects and groundwater. The farmers fear this will tank their businesses and endanger their very livelihood.


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"The rules, which are coming from the German government, are so hard for us that we can't work on our farms." Klaus-Peter Lucht, Vice President of the regional Farmers Association, told RT. "We can't make good crops. We can't have good fodder for the dairy [cows]."

The farmers have also been accusing the government of crafting ever-more restrictive rules without consulting them first. Dirk Andresen, the spokesperson for the 'Land Creates Connection' movement, which organized the rally, said that Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has been avoiding frank dialogue.

"We invited her to come here but she is staying in Berlin and isn't speaking to us."

The situation, meanwhile, remains grim, Andersen said. He earlier warned that "things for us look so bad that the regional farming culture will disappear in the long run."

Similar 'tractor demos' have taken place in different parts of Germany in recent months. Around 1,000 of vehicles rolled through Bonn alone last month. Food and Agriculture Minister Julia Koeckner promised the farmers subsidies and the help with modernization but their anger does not seem to cool down just yet.

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Hypocrisy much? Media glorifies 'medieval ingenuity' of Hong Kong protesters, while branding French Yellow Vests as 'rioters' (https://www.rt.com/news/473491-hong-kong-weapons-arsenal-catapult/)

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Universities across Hong Kong are shuttering their doors and foreign students fleeing the chaos, as protesters hurl bricks, fire javelins, construct “watchtowers” and start fires on campuses.

As anti-China protesters transform Hong Kong universities into "weapons factories" and arm themselves with petrol bombs, mainstream media is increasingly impressed by their ingenious and "novel" methods of taking on riot police.

Universities across Hong Kong are shuttering their doors and foreign students fleeing the chaos (https://www.rt.com/news/473323-hong-kong-university-weapons-factory/), as protesters hurl bricks, fire javelins, construct "watchtowers" and start fires on campuses, insisting that they have "no choice" but to resort to the most violent methods.


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Yet, mainstream coverage is focusing little on the danger posed to those caught in the crossfire and instead adopting a more admiring tone, which focuses on the students' ingenuity and the contents of their eclectic armories.

AFP, for instance, glorified the "novel arsenal" of weapons being used by students to "defend themselves" from police - from bow and arrows looted from sports stores to "giant makeshift catapults."

The news agency posted a video of black-masked activists hauling a massive hand-crafted wooden slingshot across a bridge, which was apparently being used to attack police officers from afar, seemingly in offense rather than defense.

AFP even produced a handy graphic showing photographs of all the types of weapons being used, including molotov cocktails and stockpiles of bricks ripped up from street pavements.


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Meanwhile, The Daily Mail reported that the students are "combining new tactics with medieval tech" and The New York Times described a "hard-core activist" who set a man on fire during an argument.

Reuters detailed how protesters have "fashioned garden hose and nails into spikes to puncture car tires" and even wielded "electric saws" against officers during the "purposeful anarchy." Though, the news agency did acknowledge that the increasingly violent methods create "a new level of risk for all sides."

The coverage of Hong Kong provides a sharp contrast (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/467401-cnn-hong-kong-protesters/) to that of the French Yellow Vest protests, during which anti-government activists were often disapprovingly branded as "rioters" in Western media. Similarly, despite their own brutal tactics, the media often sympathized with French police who were described as simply trying to restore public order.

The admiring coverage of the Hong Kong students' latest tactics is hardly surprising, given that CNN published a how-to guide (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/467401-cnn-hong-kong-protesters/) for anti-China protesters only a few months ago, complete with a list of all the materials one would need to battle police on the streets.

Indeed the risk to civilians is huge. A 70-year-old street cleaner is in critical condition after being hit in the head with a brick while he was clearing the bricks protesters had left around the Sheung Shui metro station. Video footage shows the man lying on the ground unattended as protesters continue to fling objects at police.

Footage has also emerged of a "pro-democracy" mob violently attacking and beating (https://www.rt.com/news/473292-hong-kong-attack-woman-video/) a woman who disagreed with them on the street. Yet, there has been next to no Western coverage of these incidents as the media prefers to focus on the heroism of protesters.

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Water cannon deployed & cars flipped as tensions run high during Yellow Vests protests (VIDEOS) (https://www.rt.com/news/473615-yellow-vests-paris-clashes/)

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16 Nov, 2019 14:32
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Yellow Vest protesters were doused with water during clashes with police and rioting in downtown Paris, ahead of the first anniversary of their nationwide anti-government demonstrations.

The Place d’Italie circle in the city’s 13th arrondissement descended into chaos as protesters erected makeshift barricades and threw stones at police officers, which responded with tear gas and water cannon.



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4:11 PM - Nov 16, 2019 (https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1195705848384905216)The protesters overturned several parked cars and set vehicles on fire. A group of Yellow Vests attempted to block a fire truck from getting through to the barricades, which were also set ablaze.

A shopping mall and several bus stops were vandalized when the protesters vented their anger over what they deem as government inaction towards their demands, made throughout a full year of weekly demonstrations.

The windows of a bank were smashed during the rioting. The protester groups on social media had earlier called on their colleagues to occupy and block several stores, including the Ikea and Apple stores.

Police were also called in to disperse protesters who were blocking traffic along the Boulevard Peripherique, the city’s main ring ‘beltway’ road.

The authorities revoked their permit to stage a rally at the Place d’Italie, after the protests turned violent. Police had arrested 61 protesters by 3pm, Prefect of Paris Didier Lallement confirmed, adding that some officers were injured in the clashes.

The Yellow Vests first hit the streets of major French cities in November last year. The protesters were initially enraged by the planned fuel tax hikes but since grew to make other demands, such as the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron and improving the living standards.

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ICYMI: Yellow Vests’ anniversary marked with barricades, militarized police & furious protesters (https://www.rt.com/news/473660-icymi-yellow-vests-anniversary/)

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17 Nov, 2019 14:06
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Exactly a year since the Yellow Vest protests first broke out in France and spread across the nation to become a regular weekend tradition, the anniversary was marked by clashes and tear gas.

The boutiques and brasseries of central Paris remained largely untouched, although there was a clear nervousness that protesters would make it to the center of the city, and streets were barricaded and traffic blocked off from any likely targets.

The main area of confrontation on Saturday was in Place d’Italie with angry protesters, now largely without their signature gilets jaunes, facing off against heavily armored police who have developed their tactics over the last 12 months to try and contain the confrontation.

ICYMI’s Polly Boiko traveled to Paris to chart the rise of the gilets jaunes, and see exactly how their anniversary would be marked.


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National Secretary of Firefighter Union: Many firefighters are ready to join Yellow Vests (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201911191077342950-many-firefighters-are-ready-to-join-yellow-vests-national-secretary-of-firefighter-union/)

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Tue, 19 Nov 2019 07:51 UTC

French professional firefighters are seeking to expand their protest movement with a new series of actions starting in the first week of December, says Remy Chabbouh, national secretary of the Firefighter Union of the South. He has explained why many of his colleagues want to join the yellow vests.


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On 16 November, the yellow vests took to the streets marking the first anniversary of the movement (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911171077328570-yellow-vests-in-france-mark-1-year-anniversary/) that was triggered by the proposed hike in fuel prices and swiftly morphed into a nation-wide action against Paris' economic policies, tax reforms, and social inequalities.

The protesters were confronted by riot police using tear gas and water cannons. Over 100 people were arrested in Paris (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911171077330778-over-260-people-detained-following-yellow-vest-protests-across-france---interior-minister/), where violent rioters smashed windows and ransacked historical monuments (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911161077326537-violent-individuals-try-to-invade-shopping-mall-in-paris-amid-yellow-vests-protests/).

The year-long protests forced the government into taking conciliatory measures, announced by French President Emmanuel Macron in April 2019. The proposed measures included the elimination of the fuel tax that became the trigger for the protests, middle-class tax cuts, increasing scrutiny of tax evasion schemes and reinvestment the country's in local administrations. However, the concessions failed to upend the protest movement.

Meanwhile, on 14 November, thousands of healthcare workers took to the streets in France's capital and other cities with the slogan "Save public hospitals" being joined by French professional firefighters who have been protesting for several months. In June 2019 seven unions, representing 85 percent of the professional firefighters informed France's Interior Minister Christophe Castaner about the forthcoming action citing problems with the emergency services.

Remy Chabbouh, national secretary of the firefighter union of the South, says that many of his colleagues want to join the yellow vests, since the freedom of action of traditional unions is now limited by French laws.

Sputnik France: You are protesting with healthcare workers today. Are we witnessing the convergence of struggles?

Remy Chabbouh: Yes, we hope so. Both healthcare workers and firefighters belong to a specific category, we operate in parallel. We face the same personnel and financial constraints. When firefighters attend to an emergency it is directed by the Emergency Medical Services, subordinated to the Regional Health Agency (ARS). Firefighters and healthcare personnel have common colleagues including nurses, medical assistants, doctors or emergency doctors.

Sputnik France: You say that the government did not take into consideration your demands voiced at the national demonstration of 15 October. You believe that the time has come to utilise the other modes of action. Which ones in particular?

Remy Chabbouh: For our part, today's demonstration was the last one in its traditional sense when an application is submitted to the prefecture with regard to the demonstrators' movement from point A to point B. We are going to resort to other modes of action starting in early December. Being an organiser, I can tell you about them. We intend to hold a protracted demonstration (for several days or even weeks) in one of the Parisian squares. We will embark on it from 2 December to 6 December and intend to settle there for a long time with tents and folding beds. This is a new form of struggle aimed at bringing together representatives of the professions that face the same problems as we do, as well as the general population. Having a sort of a static tent city will allow us to increase the amount of protesters starting with about 70 firefighters. And then we hope that 200, 300, or even a thousand people and maybe even more will take part in our action.

Sputnik France: On November 16, the yellow vests marked the first anniversary of the movement. They call upon representatives of all the social strata to join them. Will firefighters respond to this call?

Remy Chabbouh: Indeed, a certain part of firefighters believe that the demands of trade unions are no longer taken into account. When one snubs trade unions and does not listen to them, some of our colleagues take the path of radicalisation and chose to proceed with other forms of action. Today, many firefighters want to join the yellow vests which enjoy a freedom of action that the unions do not have anymore. It is necessary to inform the authorities about the demonstration and its actual route several days before the event takes place. Today, unpredictability is the key to effective action. Yellow vests proved it (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911171077332045-yellow-vests-vow-to-continue-rallies-on-anniversary-of-movement-say-government-deaf-to-protests/). So yes, many firefighters are ready to join the yellow vests. The authorities would have shown common sense by raising the prestige of trade unions and federations. This would have facilitated dialogue at a higher level, because right now, it's a real mess.

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Yellow Vests reach 1 year: The redemption of France’s revolutionary spirit (http://thesaker.is/yellow-vests-reach-1-year-the-redemption-of-frances-revolutionary-spirit/)

by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog (cross-posted with PressTV (http://old.presstv.com/Detail/2019/11/20/611675/France-Yellow-Vests))
November 20, 2019
(Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is the author of the books ‘I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China’ and the upcoming ‘Socialism’s Ignored Success: Iranian Islamic Socialism’.)

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For many years to come France will be divided into two periods – before the Yellow Vests, and after the Yellow Vests. It’s widely believed in France that things can never go back to the way they were.

I’m not sure there can be a better yardstick of domestic success – a better gauge of sociocultural impact – than that?

Outside of France the Yellow Vests have given the world a precious gift, and at a huge sacrifice: nobody will ever view “French-style democracy” with the respect their government arrogantly demands as the alleged “birthplace of human rights”. For a generation or longer, “What about the Yellow Vests?”, will be a conversation-ending question to anyone who claims the moral superiority of the “Western-style” political system.

Systematic repression of the poorest classes are indeed “universal values”, but only within neoliberal and neo-imperial systems. Make no mistake: It has been one year of open Yellow Vest revolt against the economic dictates of that “neoliberal empire”, the European Union, and it’s neo-colonial puppet temporarily occupying Élysée Palace in Paris.

What the last year has testified to is the redemption of France’s revolutionary spirit. Not every country has that, after all.

England, for example, will foolishly “keep calm and carry on” – a perfect summation of change-hating conservatism – until the bitter end, always. This is why reading English-language media coverage of the Yellow Vests was so very similar – “English conservative opposes egalitarian movement in France”. They have been running the same story for 200+ years, going back to Edmund Burke, who founded modern Western conservatism with his (reactionary) Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790.

France is not England, but 53 weeks ago I don’t think anyone imagined that the French could possibly muster the stamina, dedication and self-sacrifice to protest amid massive state-sponsored repression every weekend for one year.

It’s an amazing achievement, and only those full of spite and hate could deny them a modest present of honest recognition on their birthday.

But Western mainstream media coverage in English and French was just that – they claimed the Yellow Vests achieved nothing.

One thing the French don’t like to be reminded of is: the French Revolution failed, and quickly. It’s as if they forget Emperor Napoleon?

The French Revolution is not like the Iranian, Chinese or Cuban Revolutions, all of which have endured. The American Revolution has also endured – too bad that it was even more aristocratic (bourgeois) and sectarian than the French Revolution.

But the French Revolution occurred in an era of constant regional imperialism, war, slavery, repression of women, religious and ethnic sectarianism, etc. – we would be wrong to say it did not still have positive worldwide ramifications in the most important realms of politics, economics, culture, etc. The USSR – the only empire based on affirmative action – also failed, but we would be wrong to say it didn’t also produce positive changes for their people and also worldwide.

Quickly, here are a few tangible victories of the Yellow Vests: they prevented Emmanuel Macron from presenting a 10th consecutive annual austerity budget, they prevented Macron from de-nationalising the three airports of Paris, and the 10 billion euros in so-called “concessions” was credited with keeping French economic growth in the positive in the last quarter.

However, even if the Yellow Vests have obviously not yet toppled the 5th Republic and set up a new order, their cultural is inestimable. Just as the Occupy Movement of the US in 2011 gave us the slogan and mentality of “We are the 99%”, so will the Yellow Vests stand for something equally conscience-raising.

The Yellow Vests want a French Cultural Revolution, and should lead it
However, a big difference between the two movements is that Occupy was led by many college-educated “do-gooders” – and God bless them – whereas the Yellow Vests are undoubtedly a movement of the most marginalised classes.

Seemingly the most comprehensive survey thus far showed that few Vesters are unemployed, two-thirds of Vesters make less than the average national wage, and an even greater percentage regret a lack of cultural resources and social links. In other words: hard-working, (yet still) poor, isolated citizens who yearn for more cultural enrichment.

This is why I have repeatedly drawn (https://thesaker.is/what-the-west-can-learn-yellow-vests-are-demanding-a-cultural-revolution-8-8/) a different parallel: the Yellow Vests are essentially demanding a Cultural Revolution. Only China and Iran have ever had one, and both were state-sponsored.

Cultural Revolutions put the values of the formerly-oppressed classes into power – everything is brought to a halt for perhaps years in order to engage in mass discussions, with the aim of drastically updating a nation’s democratic institutions and general culture in order to accord with modern political ideals. This is precisely what the Yellow Vests want: a long, comprehensive, democratic rethink and public debate over France’s inclusion in the European Union, the eurozone, NATO, and the Americanisation/neoliberalisation of their domestic policies.

Chinese peasants, Iran’s “revolution of the barefooted” and the rural-based Yellow Vests – it’s impossible not to admit the parallels. The West, of course, only insists that both Cultural Revolutions were huge mistakes.

Not true: China’s Cultural Revolution created the rural economic and human capital (http://thesaker.is/a-necessary-revolution-in-discussing-chinas-cultural-revolution-an-8-part-series-1-8/) which laid the groundwork for their 1980s-onwards boom, although the West would have you believe its rebirth sprung only from Deng’s reforms; Iran’s Cultural Revolution swept away the elite’s oppressive aping of the West and created the first modern Muslim democracy.

The Yellow Vests insist that they are the “real” France, and after a year of talking with them I agree – they know as much or more about politics than I do. Politics is not rocket science, after all, but mainly applying common morality to public policy and daily events.
Iran and China already had a government inspired by socialist democracy (and not by aristocratic liberal democracy) when they embarked on their Cultural Revolutions, whereas France does not – thus the repression.

What did the Occupy Movement “achieve”, after all? They prevented no bailouts, they folded after infinitely less state repression and there is no direct movement linked with them today. However, only a Burkean conservative would insist that the Occupy Movement didn’t wake many people up to the struggles of class warfare, and of egalitarian right and greedy wrong. It’s never mentioned in the Western media – which only adores far-right, nativist, anti-socialist movements like in Hong Kong – but Algerians have protested for 39 consecutive weekends as well.

The Yellow Vests have not failed – they have much to celebrate on their birthday, and this article serves as a rare reminder of that reality.

Iranian and Russian media – doing France’s job for them
What’s important to note is that since late June – when France started going on summer vacation – Russian and Iranian media in Paris (including my Farsi- and Spanish-language colleagues) have been the only television journalists openly covering the Yellow Vest demonstrations.

My French colleagues have done the most cowardly thing possible – they quit the field. For many months people in Paris couldn’t believe I had to work covering the Yellow Vests on Saturday: I repeatedly heard, “I thought they were finished?”

With exceptions I can count on one hand, for many months French media has been either totally absent or hidden. There are certainly no reporters doing live interviews (even without a logo displaying whom they work for), even though the presence of live reporters inherently reduces the willingness of police to be violent. Considering the toll of violence – 11,000 arrested, 2,000 convicted, 1,000 imprisoned, 5,000 hurt,1,000 critically injured and the innumerable tear-gassings – it’s no wonder French people hate the media.

In France the vast majority of media are private, with editorial lines decided by a handful of billionaires – that’s just how Western journalism works, sadly. “Free speech”, they call it. However, where are the public media – they are paid by taxpayer dollars to objectively cover their own nation?! Quite pathetic….

This is probably why the Macron administration openly disparages Russia’s RT and Sputnik (we won’t get into their problems with PressTV here): we have spent the past year properly doing our jobs, unlike France’s media.

That’s too bad for France, but the unexpected and undeniable accomplishments of the Yellow Vests speak for themselves. Who knows what they might achieve in year 2?

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Thousands of tractors plow through Berlin streets again in protest at new green regulations (https://www.rt.com/news/474345-german-farmers-protest-berlin/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/474345-german-farmers-protest-berlin/)
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Up to 5,000 tractors descended upon the German capital on Tuesday to protest the government's latest agricultural policies and environmental protection regulations which farmers claim are too restrictive.

German authorities estimate somewhere in the region of 5,000 tractors and 10,000 farmers entered Berlin in a slow-moving convoy, bringing the capital to a relative standstill at certain points. The protesters eventually gathered at Berlin's iconic landmark Brandenburg Gate.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government made the proposals back in September to curb the use of pesticides and herbicides to better protect the country's insect populations, while also placing limits on the use of fertilizers to protect Germany's groundwater.



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Disgruntled farmers feel there should be consultation and cooperation between conservationists, environmentalists, farmers and the government to create policies that are effective at protecting the environment while maintaining German agricultural competitiveness.

While Merkel agreed in principle and talks are scheduled to begin at the start of December, these are not the first such protests by farmers in recent weeks.

Hamburg witnessed a similar demonstration of slow-moving outrage earlier this month.


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Ruptly is live from Berlin on Tuesday, November 26 as farmers drive through the streets of the German capital to rally against the country’s environmental, agricultural, and trade policy.

The protest comes after the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced a new package of regulations phasing out the weedkiller glyphosate in the next four years.

Farmers from other European countries such as France and the Netherlands have been taking part in similar protests in recent weeks.

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Irate French farmers descend on Paris in 1,000-strong tractor convoy to protest EU regulations (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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27 Nov, 2019 10:47
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Roughly one thousand tractors have descended on Paris as French farmers protest against government policies and international trade agreements which they say are impacting their bottom line and thus their quality of life.

The frustrated farmers are assembling at Avenue Foch, near the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe.


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The protest was organized by the two main farmers’ unions who have called for a joint meeting with President Emmanuel Macron to discuss his policies, which they claim are hurting the agricultural sector.


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The farmers are also complaining of widespread “agri-bashing” in the media and political spheres, in which the agricultural industry has become the sacrificial lamb for environmental issues.

Vegan activists have reportedly attacked farms and butcher’s shops amid animal welfare concerns, and environmental groups have criticized the use of the weedkiller glyphosate, calling for it to be banned.


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Macron has expressed interest in banning the weedkiller by 2021, which would go beyond current EU regulation.

France is the largest agricultural producer in the EU, and its farmers are irate over the bloc’s trade deals with the likes of Canada and the Mercosur bloc in South America, which they say will flood the European market with cheaper goods at lower standards.

Similar protests have been held across Europe in recent days.

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France's nationwide strike starts December 5th, set to be the biggest in decades (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2019/12/02/frances-nationwide-strike-on-december-5th-could-be-the-biggest-in-decades/)

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Even for a country with a reputation for strikes, France's planned walkouts on Thursday, December 5, could be the biggest the country has seen in years; many are predicting the country could come to an actual standstill. What's more, the strikes may last weeks.

Who exactly is going on strike?
According to The Connection (https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/France-SNCF-railway-staff-public-transport-workers-public-sector-employees-and-airport-staff-all-expected-to-join-pension-reform-protests-on-December-5), the strike is expected to start at 10pm on Wednesday, December 4, when workers at SNCF (France's national rail company) and RATP (Paris' regional transport authority) officially walk out. Air France air and ground crews will be on strike, making flights in and out of French airports difficult, notably because air traffic controllers will also walk out. Public travel generally will be made even more difficult by today's announcement by lorry drivers that they intend to blockade major French roads from December 7 onwards (https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-lorry-driver-anger-strike-confirmed-for-December-7). French people, reliant on cars to get to work have started stocking up on cans of petrol to have as a fall back in case garages run dry due to issues with delivery.

Postal workers and other public service staff are expected to protest-three teaching unions have given the Ministry of Education formal notice of their intention to strike. The police intend to hold action in support of the strikes from 10am to 3pm across all police services and won't take part in additional airport or motorway checks throughout the day.

Ambulance drivers and hospital workers - who were on strike last week -will likely join the fray and recent striking firefighters might be added to the mix. The strike also has the support of the Gilets Jaunes movement, which has taken to the streets every weekend for the past year. One barristers union is also in favour, calling December 5, "a day for dead justice".


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Why are they on strike?
The strike is against the French government's proposed pension reforms. President Macron wishes to streamline the current pension system comprising 42 separate regimes into a single operating system. The new system would introduce a "points system" of retirement, which threatens the current early retirement age of many public service workers.

More importantly for the protesters, the reforms would impact how much money they receive. Currently, public sector workers' pensions are calculated on the salary they earned for the last six months of working life (https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/age-de-depart-calcul-de-la-pension-familles-nombreuses-voici-ce-qui-va-changer-pour-les-retraites-des-2025-1732873.html) - which is usually the highest for most people - and they are also assessed on the 25 best years of their working life. The new system will take every year into account, meaning that people who worked on lower salaries for years or had periods of unemployment, will see that translate into a lower pension.


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How is this strike different from others?
The first smaller strike on September 13 was dubbed "Black Friday" and brought Parisian streets to a standstill (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2019/09/13/todays-strike-brought-gridlock-to-parisian-streets-and-more-might-be-coming/#23afa64e7a13), with some tailbacks trailing as far as 200km (125 miles). However, people generally seem to believe this will be much, much bigger. Firstly, in size, as it includes all union members across the major sectors comprising public life. Secondly, the five large trade unions in the RATP (Paris transport network) have called for "unlimited strikes" and want this to be only the first, so it's likely to continue. Many unions have warned that strikes might run until Christmas. Thirdly, because of the stakes. French workers have been fighting the government against pension reforms since 1995 when Jacques Chirac tried to change the system; the proposed reform at that time, according to The Local (https://www.thelocal.fr/20191126/december-strikes-major-disruption-that-could-last-until-new-year), brought people to the streets in a way that hadn't been seen since the spring of discontent in May 1968. After weeks of protest at the government threatening to increase the age of retirement, the plan was dropped. The new plans are much more severe.


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A recent poll in La Tribune (https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/retraites-une-majorite-de-francais-pour-la-greve-du-5-decembre-833115.html) suggested that 60% of the general public is in favour and believe that the government avance en terrain miné-that is to say, faces a mine field fighting the weight of public opinion. Detractors believe the public might shift its opinion when airports and train tracks lay empty and daily lives become affected. It's really a case of who blinks first; people feel strongly but President Macron has staked his political reputation on the outcome. And the French are used to fighting for a cause. A European Trade Union Institute study (https://www.etui.org/Services/Strikes-Map-of-Europe) found that between 2010 and 2017, French strike days were 125 per 1,000 employees, compared to 20 in the U.K., 17 in Germany and 3 in Sweden.
SOTT Comment:
Discontent with government cut backs is not limited to France, many countries within (https://www.sott.net/article/400516-Washingtons-and-NATOs-criminal-wars-and-government-austerity-policies-at-the-heart-of-European-US-migration-turmoil) the EU, and elsewhere (https://www.sott.net/article/415020-US-deaths-of-despair-reach-record-levels-Suicides-alcohol-and-drug-overdoses), are seeing a similar collapse in the overall quality of life; the difference in France seems to be that its citizens are taking the risk to push back.

It would appear that while Macron's government did manage to smear and suppress the Gilet Jaunes movement to some extent, that hasn't quelled the overall feeling that the lives of citizens are being sacrificed for government ideology.
Related:


Watch French riot police knock down elderly woman... during rally for 80 year old who died after being hit in the face by tear gas grenade (https://www.sott.net/article/424999-Watch-French-riot-police-knock-down-elderly-woman-during-rally-for-80-year-old-who-died-after-being-hit-in-the-face-by-tear-gas-grenade)
Irate French farmers descend on Paris in 1,000-strong tractor convoy to protest EU regulations (https://www.sott.net/article/424785-Irate-French-farmers-descend-on-Paris-in-1000-strong-tractor-convoy-to-protest-EU-regulations)
What do the protesters in France want? Check out the 'official' Yellow Vest manifesto (https://www.sott.net/article/402396-What-do-the-protesters-in-France-want-Check-out-the-official-Yellow-Vest-manifesto)
Economists forecast trouble: Rising food prices globally mean it's more and more expensive to eat (https://www.sott.net/article/425036-Economists-forecast-trouble-Rising-food-prices-globally-mean-its-more-and-more-expensive-to-eat)

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Police & protesters clash at Paris’ Gare de Lyon
as pension reform strike continues

23 Dec, 2019

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French riot police and protesters clashed inside the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris on Monday amid ongoing strikes against the government’s plans to overhaul the country’s pension system.

The strikes have been running for 19 days, causing major transport chaos at one of the busiest times of the year to travel.

BFMTV reports that hundreds of demonstrators crowded into the station, with some setting off a series of smoke bombs inside the corridors, briefly stopping the escalators and blocking access to part of the station. Some protesters were filmed carrying flares.

Monday’s protests also affected the Gare du Nord, which is also home to the Eurostar terminal in Paris, and the Gare de l’Est.

French President Emmanuel Macron has appealed to the unions to call off the strikes over the holiday period, but has refused to offer any concessions. The contentious reforms involve rolling multiple pension plans into one, and increasing the retirement age. 

The unions, meanwhile, have expressed concern that the new scheme will force people to work for longer and for less money, and have refused any truce. They say the government is not listening to what people on the street are saying, and are planning a new round of strikes in January.

French transport could be further affected into 2020 as airline crews and oil depots workers are expected to join the strike.

https://www.rt.com/news/476661-france-pension-reform-clashes-paris/

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Half Of France's National Train System "Grinds To A Halt" As Labor Unions Strike On Christmas Week


https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/half-frances-national-train-system-grinds-halt-labor-unions-strike-christmas-week Tue, 12/24/2019

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French labor unions won't be giving any presents to citizens who want to travel by train this Christmas. 

That's because strikes by transport workers against the government's pension-reform plan have shut down half of national train services this weekend, with 59% of services expected to be cut on December 23-24, according to Bloomberg. 

French railway company, SNCF, has suspended its unaccompanied minor service, canceling about 6,000 tickets for children this week. Four out of five trains were also suspended in the greater Paris area and the capital's metro system also stopped, with the exception of two automated lines. 

French President Emmanuel Macron urged the unions to come to a truce for the holiday week at the same time public support for the strike during the holiday had fallen to 51%. This is down from 63% just five days prior. However, a poll on Thursday showed 55% of respondents thought the labor unions were "wrong" to strike during the holiday period. 

Macron commented: “Strikes are protected by the constitution. But there are times in a nation’s history when it’s also good to know when to call a truce to respect families and family life.” 

Some unions are calling for truces, others aren't. And the strikes seem to be having an impact. Polls show 57% of people reject Macron's pension reform, which is higher than when the protests started on December 5. Some unions have called for a new day of demonstrations on January 9. 

Macron's administration has had better success with tax and labor laws, but the French people are "wedded to their pension system", making reform a difficult task. Macron aims to merge 42 separate regimes into a single, universal points-based system. The plan also seeks to raise the age for full benefits from 62 to 64. Workers have stood in stark opposition to the changes while the French government aims to phase out special retirement plans for sectors ranging from train conductors to dancers at the Paris Opera.

Macron has tried to lead by example, but to no avail:
Le Parisien newspaper reported on Sunday that Macron will also give up his right under a 1955 law to a set pension for life granted to French presidents once they finish their mandate and will instead switch to a points-based calculation. He will also abandon the right to a post for life at France’s Constitutional Council, which brings with it 13,500 euros ($14,957) in compensation, the paper said.
Meanwhile, the strikes are resulting in a surge of bookings for car-sharing services, which has, in turn, led to hundreds of miles of traffic jams around the French capital. 

Car sharing bookings have "doubled" since the start of the protests and have beaten records, ride hailing company BlaBlaCar said. The company says it'll have 2 million seats available between Dec. 20 and Jan. 5, which works out to the equivalent of 5,000 TGV high speed trains - but, you know, moving much slower. 

Nicolas Brusson, chief executive officer of BlaBlaCar, said: “We see a real solidarity of drivers, more people are offering seats than ever.”

SNCF says it'll try to keep the main lines running on December 23 and December 24. Union leaders met with French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Wednesday and Thursday, but said that talks failed to advance. 69% of people polled said they expect the government to push through with reforms without caving to protests.

One French union, the CFDT, called for a truce over the holiday. Laurent Berger, the leader of the CFDT, said: “Everyone should be able to travel freely to do what they need to do during the holiday season.”

We'll check back in on Easter. 

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Pilots break strike unity as Macron’s ‘Thatcher moment’ is right now

December 31, 2019

By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog crossposted with PressTV


But nobody is making a sound about it, and not even Macron.

Maybe they will now: The first union has selfishly broken ranks – French pilots and cabin crews. It’s a “universal” pension system, sure… except for the groups who Macron has to buy off to break the strike.

French President Emmanuel Macron has barely said two words about the general strike, even though it has lasted four weeks and will soon become the longest general strike ever in French history.

And many French don’t even mind. It’s a quirk of the French system I cannot yet explain: they view it as normal that Macron has not commented on the general strike because that is the domain of the prime minister.

French contradictions abound, and they think the mystery makes them appear deep: France’s president is well-known to be closest thing to a constitutional dictator the West has, and yet the PM is supposed to be given much latitude on domestic policy?

I have heard this often, but never seen it action: the idea that Macron’s PM is not beholden to the ideas and orders of his boss on the pension plan is absurd. To me it has always seen like a way for the president to have someone to blame his unpopular policies on.

But Macron has given one press conference in 2.5 years, and he didn’t say the words “Yellow Vest” in public until after 23 Saturdays, and no one seems up in arms about it (besides the Yellow Vests), so… c’est la France.

Macron will probably make a rote plea for unity at his annual New Year’s Eve wishes – the guy is speaking at 8pm, so if all you have going is watching Macron’s press conference then take heart: 2020 can only get better than 2019 for you.

The coverage of the general strike from non-French media reminds me of France’s recent coverage of the resolution (one step below a law) which equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism: there was a decent amount of coverage AFTER the resolution became a fact.

This was obvious to predict, but there is an omertà regarding France’s general strike from Anglophone media – it’s almost as if they don’t want to ruin a good thing. If there was any room for leftism in the West’s “free speech means corporate media own all speech” now would be the time to be up in arms with keyboards in hands. But people repeatedly tell me they can’t find anything about it in non-French sources.

Honestly: This can’t go on in France any longer

Without any exaggeration, the French (and certainly the “French model”, aka “Capitalism with French characteristics) simply cannot sustain more austerity attacks which “re(de)form” it into an Anglo-Saxon model and here’s why: If you take home €2,500 a month in France you have a really good job (especially in 2019). If you take home $2,500 per month in the US (making about $20 per hour) your job is desirable but not really good.

Yes, 42% of Americans don’t even make $15 hour but the point is: the French model is based on low wages. The Swiss, Germans, UK, etc. – they all make much more than rich France.

The reason France accepts lousy wages was their Nordic-level social safety net: so they had guaranteed work contracts (“CDIs”), 2-3 years of decent unemployment, 5 weeks paid vacation legal minimum, cheap schools from 3 months old to PhD, cheap medical care and a good pension. Make no mistake because I know you right wingers will: This is a system which is paid for by the French worker giving up 40% of their pay check every month, and then 10% annually in an income tax. I.e., low wages.

That concept is crucial to understand. A whopping 80% of the pension system is funded by taxes on individuals and bosses, and not the state.The French pension isn’t “unsustainable” at all: if it is “underfunded” it is only on the state side, and only because the state has purposely starved it of funds via funding cuts. With the stroke of a budget pen its minor deficit could be resolved. Baby Boomers will be dropping like flies by the 2030s reducing fiscal stress- the system works, and it can last.

This explains why all neoliberals can really come with to justify junking the ENTIRE system is that it is too “complex”. Why is complexity automatically a negative thing? I’m glad these guys didn’t take up physics. The other reason they deploy is that some people – like manual laborers, those who work in hard and/or dangerous conditions – retire early to avoid death/maiming on the job due to “you’re too old for this” syndrome. They have seized upon the “injustice” of these “special regimes”. All of a sudden neoliberals care about injustice….. Of course the one-size-fits-all, universal system is as regressive (not progressive) as a flat tax, and that’s why no nation does it.

. . . . . French pilots and cabin crews have called off a strike they had planned for January 3 – they got a sweetheart deal from Macron, and you can all go kick rocks for calling them “stewardesses”. The Macron administration has only negotiated en masse with unions for three days out of 26 consecutive strike days – they never wanted to make a broad deal but only a few small deals in order to “divide and conquer” and break the strike.

read more: https://thesaker.is/pilots-break-strike-unity-as-macrons-thatcher-moment-is-right-now/



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‚Art against austerity’: Paris Opera gives free street performance amid strikes over pension reform (31 Dec, 2019)



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France strikes break 51-year record as they enter 32nd day

Fresh CLASHES in Paris as French pension reform strike breaks records

Protests against the French government’s plans to overhaul the pension system have reached a new milestone on their 29th day, breaking national records for the longest-ever strike, as demonstrators and police clashed in Paris.
Thursday’s strike action saw protesters block two bus depots in Paris. Officers dispatched to the protest were filmed spraying what some described as tear gas directly into the faces of some of the demonstrators.

Tear gas was also reportedly used by police on the streets of the city center where protesters marched on Thursday, some bearing brightly-burning flares, and there were several arrests as riot police and demonstrators clashed.

Unions began protesting against the pension reform proposals on December 5, 2019, and warned the strikes, which have seriously impacted on the country’s transport services, would continue into the new year unless the Macron government took their concerns about the pension system changes on board.

The previous record for the longest continuous strike in France was 28 days, set by rail workers in 1968.

Videos: https://www.rt.com/news/477319-france-pension-reform-strike-record/



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France: Fires and violent clashes erupt as protesters
march through Paris (Dec 28, 2019)

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Violence broke out during the 24th day of the pension strike in Paris on Saturday, which coincided with the 59th consecutive week of Yellow Vest protests. Footage shows riot police firing tear gas at protesters and using their batons on the Ruptly producer at the scene, as huge swathes of protesters took over the streets in the French capital. Several lay injured as protesters from several public sectors, including the transport sector, brought Paris to a standstill. Macron's government is aiming to introduce a universal pension system, but trade unions say that this will result in millions of private sector workers having to work beyond the legal retirement age in order to get a full pension. The reform will see many workers retire at 64 rather than the current 62 to earn their full pension. Talks between the government and unions are set to resume on January 7.

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19 Jan, 2020: Paris, France. Yellow Vests: week 62.

Macron’s Pension Reform: 46th consecutive day of strikes.

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Operation Dead Ports makes Macron feel the worker’s strength [?]

January 16, 2020

Dockers have paralyzed the ports in response to the French government's intransigence.

The dockers' strike keeps French ports blocked for the third consecutive day, an action that responds to the call made by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform proposal.​​​

"The strike is alive and it is also at the ports," the CGT Secretary Philippe Martinez said and added that a lot of citizens are not convinced that Macron's reforms are fair.

The Corsica island has felt the effects of the "Dead Ports" strike that began on Tuesday [Jan 14, 2020] and will last until Friday.

Le Havre, Rouen, Calais, and Dunkirk ports woke up without activity and no ships were loaded or unloaded.

Similarly, in the west of the country, all the Saint Nazaire's terminals were paralyzed, something that did not happen in more than 10 years.

In La Rochelle port, access to the refinery was also obstructed, preventing oil tankers from refueling. Near Bordeaux, the Bassens terminal has also remained blocked.

The Marseille port was equally inactive, being docked all the ferries connecting the continent with Corsica, where food shortages are already evident.

. . . Since President Macron has not offered satisfactory answers to people's requests, the main French labor unions convened a new nationwide mobilization on January 24, when it is expected that the Council of Ministers approves the reform proposal.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Operation-Dead-Ports-Makes-Macron-Feel-the-Workers-Strength-20200116-0006.html




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Union calls an end to Paris Metro strike after six weeks

January 18, 2020

Members of the Unsa rail union have voted to go back to work on Monday, after more than six weeks of strike action that has severely disrupted Paris public transport.

Workers on the Paris Metro and the national SNCF rail network first walked out on December 5th in protest over the government's plans for pension reform.

Since then, services on the public transport networks have been severely delayed, particularly during the early days of the strike when thousands of Parisians were forced to walk or cycle long distances to get to work.

But on Saturday the Unsa-RATP union said it would be suspending strike action from Monday.

Unsa is the largest union for employees of the Paris public transport provider RATP, so although other unions are continuing the strike, the return of Unsa members is likely to see services return to close to a normal level.

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Are France’s unions even trying to win the General Strike?

January 18, 2020

by Ramin Mazaheri and crossposted with PressTV

Due to a Western media blackout on the subject, many may be surprised to learn that France’s general strike has just begun its seventh consecutive week. It’s the longest labor movement in French history – and by half – but the Western Mainstream Media is ignoring France until this historic moment passes.

It seems about to pass soon.

French unions have done a woeful job leading the strike despite having everything going for them at the beginning.

The alleged superiority of the so-called “independent” union model – favored by the West but opposed by any country with a revolution after 1917 – is once again failing the nation, if maybe not their dues-paying members.

The general strike is wobbling, and by January 24th the pension bill will be formally presented to the government. It’s amazing rapacity, because presenting a bill amid such strikes is obviously rushing it into the safe arms of a system dominated by President Emmanuel Macron; it is also amazing duplicity, because Macron only released the pension scheme’s details just last week!

Wasting time has been Macron’s main tactic during the general strike, despite the fact that workers and households are increasingly desperate after having gone without work for six full weeks. To be accurate, then: “wasting time” is not his tactic, but “increasing desperation”.

A simple recipe for the Macron era is: increase desperation + trace amounts of democratic discussion + rubber bullets + total control over Parliament = Macron’s deification outside of France and his vilification inside France.

read more (https://thesaker.is/are-frances-unions-even-trying-to-win-the-general-strike/)



from the comment section:

Richard Sauder @Ramin Mazaheri

Yes, Ramin, the unions are part of the corrupt MATRIX control system. They have too much invested in the status quo, political and economic control system(s) to break free of systemic slavery.

The revolution is/will be mental and spiritual, not institutional and not religious either. Neither the press, nor the unions, nor the government, nor the church(es), nor the banking system are capable of, or interested in, reforming themselves.

There will be no political party, no slate of reformist, political candidates, no “great” leader, no new political ideology that will reform the systemic, global, putrid rot. The massive criminal corruption is everywhere, in country after country, the world over.

The way out is in, and few there be who find it.




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[BMJ]

Anti-Macron Protesters Cut Power Lines, Cause Massive Outages to Distribution, Trains, Suburbs

In an escalation of protests against reforms being pushed by President Emanuel Macron, French union workers cut the power line to the world’s largest wholesale market in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

A local energy branch of the far-left General Confederation of Labour Union (CGT), citing the pension reforms of President Macron, claimed responsibility for cutting a powerline that supplied energy to the Rungis International Market, a 234-hectare wholesale facility outside of Paris that does 9 billion euros in trade per year. The outage lasted 90 minutes at the market before generators kicked in.

“We cut the power at the Rungis source substation this morning,” said union representative Franck Jouano, per Le Parisien.

“Our goal is to mark the occasion symbolically because there is little talk of electricians and gas, who are affected by the reform. We also want to mobilize against this reform because the government does not react to the demonstrations”, he added.

The power cut also shut down the rail shuttle service to Orly Airport, Paris’ second-largest airport, as well as affecting 11 different suburbs of Paris. Hotels in the areas impacted claim that customers were trapped inside elevators as a result of the power outage.

Julien Denormandie, the City and Housing Minister, denounced the action as “scandalous” and “irresponsible”, saying that the unions “must stop these actions that degrade the climate of social dialogue”.


https://twitter.com/BreitbartLondon/status/1212764737852919809?s=20

The powerline sabotage is a clear escalation from France’s left-wing unions in the fight over pension reform, following a month of transit strikes and street protests against President Emanuel Macron’s proposed reforms.

On Friday dozens of protestors shut down the Louvre, forcing the museum to close after several far-left unions called for public actions in response to Macron’s plan which they claim will “lower everyone’s pensions.”

Later that evening President Macron was escorted out of a theatre in Paris after a group of protestors attempted to confront the French leader. The protestors stormed through a police line into the building chanting “Macron, resign!” and “We are here, even if Macron does not want us we are here”.

Despite the protests, President Macron has held firm on his proposals, in which he would centralise the pension system that is currently spread out in dozens of different programs and provides special provisions for transit workers to retire in their 50s. Macron has also proposed to raise the age of pension eligibility from 62 to 64, in an attempt to keep more labourers in the workforce.


https://twitter.com/BreitbartLondon/status/1214549192741457920?s=20

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/21/anti-macron-protesters-cut-power-lines-cause-massive-outages-to-distribution-trains-suburbs/

[BMJ]

It is simple really if you control the narrative then you can control the mind of the people, and there goes free speech with this one precedent paving the way for future thoughts on the matter of migration.

Thankfully the Yellow Vest movement is growing in support and Macron's support is waning in the polls.

French Intellectual Sentenced to 2 Months in Prison For Calling Mass Immigration an “Invasion”

Forced to pay 1800 euros to anti-racism organizations for his crime of opinion.

French intellectual Renaud Camus has been given a 2 month suspended prison sentence for saying that mass immigration into Europe represents an “invasion.”

Camus will only avoid jail by paying 1800 euros to two “anti-racist” organizations, SOS Racisme and the LICRA (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism).

The writer, who is the author of Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement), was charged with “public incitement to hate or violence on the basis of origin, ethnicity, nationality, race or religion.”

The conviction stems from a November 2017 speech in Colombey-les-deux Eglises to the National Council of European Resistance in which Camus declared, “Immigration has become an invasion.”

“The irreversible colonization is demographic colonization, by the replacement of the population,” said the author, adding, “The ethnic substitution, the great replacement, is the most important event in the history of our nation since it has existed; as with other people, if the story continues, it will not be that of France.”

Camus also called for a “national consensus of resistance” to oppose Islamization in “the struggle for the salvation of our common civilization, Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, Greek-Latin, Judeo-Christian.”

The part of Camus’ speech that specifically garnered the attention of judges was when he talked about European people being replaced.

Camus said mass immigration “is the substitution, the tendency to substitute everything with its emulator, normalized, standardized, interchangeable: The original with its copy, the authentic with its imitation, the true with the false, the mothers with surrogate mothers, the culture with free time and entertainment.”

France suffers Islamic terror attacks on such a routine basis that it’s barely even an important news story anymore. Many of those terrorists are radicalized by mosques that escape any police scrutiny, but Camus must be punished for his crime of opinion.

And there you have it. Free speech is now a crime in France.

Link: https://summit.news/2020/01/21/french-intellectual-sentenced-to-2-months-in-prison-for-calling-mass-immigration-an-invasion/

[BMJ]

On the topic of Macron's waning public support, the people of France are disenchanted with the globalist puppet Macron making his failing support more good news for the people of France.

Poll: 69 Per Cent of French Predict Macron Will Lose Next Election

A poll has revealed that over two-thirds of the French public believe that current French President Emmanuel Macron will not be reelected in 2022.

The poll, which was conducted by the Elabe Institute, reveals that the French president has lost voters since 2017 with just 74 per cent of people who voted for him in the first round of the presidential race saying they would do so again in 2022, BFMTV reports.

Many French are becoming increasingly critical of the policies of Macron, as well, with 62 per cent saying they are disappointed and just 14 per cent stating they are satisfied by his term as president so far.

While Mr Macron has, to date, not publicly addressed whether he will be seeking a second term as president, 69 per cent of the poll respondents said that they do not expect him to be able to win the 2022 election.

Populist National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen, who came in second in the 2017 election, announced her intentions to run for president again in 2022 earlier this month.

Of those disappointed with Macron in the Elabe institute poll, Le Pen supporters polled the highest with 80 per cent expressing the sentiment, followed by 77 per cent of the supporters of far-left Jean-Luc Melenchon.

The poll is another blow for Macron who has seen over a year of continues protests every week by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement, with early protests threatening to topple the government.

In recent weeks, France has been gripped with new protests over pension reform, with protesters closing down the famous Louvre museum last week following 44 consecutive days of protest.

Last week also saw protesters attempt to storm a theatre in northern Paris which Macron was attending, forcing police to evacuate the French leader as police held back demonstrators.

While Macron won the presidential elections and the subsequent parliamentary elections with his La Republique En Marche! (LREM) movement, his party lost the European Elections last year to Le Pen’s National Rally.

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/25/poll-69-per-cent-french-predict-macron-will-lose-next-election/

[BMJ]

The article describes the extent that George Soros influence which still exists within EU and how the globalist lead countries such as France are still complying with unelected officials will that goes against the national interest of the people of France. 2022 elections cannot come soon enough.

France Must Disobey European Court of Human Rights, Le Pen Says After Soros ‘Ties’ to Judges Exposed

A new report by a French lawyer claims that one in five judges that have sat on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the last decade had ties to a network of social justice organisations led by George Soros.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s right-wing National Rally party, has called on Emmanuel Macron to stop abiding by the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

“Faced with these extremely serious revelations, [Emmanuel Macron] can no longer remain silent,” Le Pen tweeted on Wednesday, calling on France’s Court of Cassation and Council of State (a body advising the government on legal matters) to stop heeding the ECHR’s decisions.

“A free state must act against these anti-democratic manipulations!” she added.

Her comment came in response to a report by French lawyer Grégor Puppinck, who sits on the committee of experts on the reform of the ECHR and leads the European Centre for Law and Justice (click here to view).

Undisclosed conflicts of interest?

It claims that at least 22 of the 100 judges that had served on the ECHR between January 2009 and October 2019 had “strong links” to one of seven NGOs linked with George Soros prior to their appointment to the court, with roles varying from “official responsibilities” to “meaningful” participation in the activities of those organisations.

Moreover, 18 of the 22 judges are said to have heard cases involving the NGO with which they had been involved – something that could amount to a conflict of interest.

According to Puppinck, those NGOs are the AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the Helsinki Committees for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Interights (International Centre for the Judicial Protection of Human Rights), and “various branches” of the Open Society Foundations itself.

He said he had obtained most information about those links from the CVs of future judges published online by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

The PACE elects judges to the ECHR from lists of three candidates proposed by each member state to the European Convention on Human Rights. Those judges hear cases as individuals and do not represent their state, which means that the candidates for the position typically come from NGOs and international bodies because they are more likely to be impartial.

However, the report points out, that practice is “compounded by the importance of the presence and influence of certain NGOs in ‘small’ countries” like Albania, where the Open Society Foundations has spent $131 million since 1992 and where it secured two of the three candidates for an ECHR position in 2018.

NGOs are also allowed to intervene in ECHR hearings as a third party, but Puppinck wrote that there is a lack of transparency around the extent of their real involvement with the court as well.

What was the reaction in France?

The report has been picked up by French conservative magazine Valeurs Actuelles, which claimed the 22 judges in question had allowed George Soros to effectively “infiltrate” the court and influence its decisions.

The magazine cited rulings in favour of same-sex second-parent adoption in Austria and Greece; French male-to-female transgender persons who protested against the sterilising surgery required to have their new gender recognised; Russian activists from Pussy Riot who had a ‘punk prayer’ at a Russian Orthodox church; the review of whole life sentences in Hungary, and the application of Sharia law in Greece to solve inheritance disputes between Muslims.

Jerome Riviere, a National Rally member and leader of the French faction in the Eurosceptic bloc Identity and Democracy in the European Parliament, told Valeurs Actuelles that he was “not surprised” with the report because George Soros “aims to destroy nations and, more broadly, all the structures which are the foundation of our civilisation: the family, the homeland, authority, love of one's history”.
“The mere fact that a European Court of Justice can condemn nations is an anti-democratic scandal,” he said. “Unelected judges arrogate to themselves the power to assess and interpret, without constraint, a text that leads to the creation of law, when their role is merely to say what the law is.”

Nicolas Bay, National Rally Secretary General and vice chair of Identity and Democracy, has said that France needs to “get out” of the court.

“Guided by George Soros and his agenda to impose an ‘open society’, the ECHR has become the embodiment of the government of judges against the will of the people,” he noted. “In the light of these damning revelations, it is more than ever necessary to get out of it.”
Philippe de Villiers, a former French MEP from the Eurosceptic Movement for France, said that Soros’s “ability to penetrate European bodies is due to the fact that it is globalised private interests that govern Europe.”

“The Open Society Foundations is therefore more powerful than a country like France. George Soros is much more powerful than Emmanuel Macron,” he stated. “Moreover, the nickname given to him in Brussels speaks for itself: ‘the puppet master’.”

The ECHR and the Open Society Foundations have yet to comment.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/202002211078368571-france-must-disobey-eus-human-rights-court-le-pen-says-after-soros-ties-to-judges-exposed/

[Iloveyou]

Saturday, March 14. Yellow Vests continue protests
despite the ban on gatherings of over 100 people

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Yellow Vest protesters take to the streets of the French capital the day before the first round of France’s municipal elections.

The protests are taking place despite the ban on gatherings of over 100 people announced by the government, amid precautionary measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

This may become explosive as the determination and strength of the Yellow Vests will be clashing with the (already existing and coming) precautionary measures (restriction to public life, reduced social interaction, self-isolation, quarantine, lock-down)

[Gwin Ru]

Macron on the brink: Humiliation for French President as seven more MPs abandon his party (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1287893/Emmanuel-macron-news-france-latest-En-Marche-mps-quit-majority-parliament)

Luke Hawker
Express (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1287893/Emmanuel-macron-news-france-latest-En-Marche-mps-quit-majority-parliament)
Thu, 28 May 2020 13:32 UTC


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Emmanuel Macron is facing a revolt in his own party © GETTY



EMMANUEL MACRON is facing yet another leadership crisis after seven more French MPs abandoned his party to form a new political group.

Emmanuel Macron has now seen 24 MPs walk out of his party in recent weeks - shattering the French President's overall majority in parliament. On Tuesday seven members of Mr Macron's La République En Marche decided to quit - just eight days after 17 other members defected to form a new party.

Mr Macron now has just 281 members in the lower chamber - well short of the 289 needed for an absolute majority.

At the height of Mr Macron's popularity following his election win in 2017, his La République En Marche party had a commanding majority with 314 MPs in parliament.

The latest group of seven rebels will form a new faction called "Agir Ensemble" (Act Together) and will become the 10th parliamentary group in France' National Assembly.

In a statement Agir Ensemble insisted the party wanted to "give a voice to liberal, humanist, social and European political sensitivity".

The statement read: "The creation of the group Agir Ensemble comes to embody and give a voice to liberal, humanist, social and European political sensitivity which must be able to express itself fully within the current majority."

The head of the new faction, Olivier Becht, insisted the new formation was not in opposition and would continue to "support the action of the president".

The 44-year-old likened the group to a "third pillar of the majority" alongside La République En Marche and the Democratic Movement (MoDem).

Mr Becht said: "We want to support the action of the President of the Republic and be a pillar of the majority."

Despite the internal crisis Mr Macron retains power to railroad his policies through parliament thanks to the support of 46 MPs from the allied group MoDem, led by Pau Mayor Francois Bayrou.

A government source has downplayed the significance of the latest changes, saying the Act Together faction would be "absolutely loyal to the majority and a supplementary pillar".

However another source said that Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had criticised the move at an online meeting with La République En Marche MPs.

On May 19, when 17 members quit Mr Macron's party, they formed a new political group named "Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity" (EDS).

The group aimed to pursue greener policies in order to "modernise" the political system, and reduce social inequalities.

The latest Odoxo opinion poll published on Tuesday found Mr Macron's popularity had plunged by seven points to 35 percent over the last month.

France has been one of the hardest hit countries in Europe by the coronavirus pandemic.

In France there has been more than 140,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 28,000 fatalities.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said France had spent £403 billion (€450bn) - 20 percent of the nation's wealth - in order to tackle to economic crisis.

Like the UK Government, Mr Macron introduced a package of measures including state-subsidised furloughs, state-guaranteed loans, tax deferrals and handouts to small firms.

Mr Le Maire said: "If we take everything that has been done with the budget and in support of businesses' cashflows, its 450 billion euros, 20 percent of the nation's wealth on the table."

Related:


Macron loses absolute majority in parliament (https://www.sott.net/article/434694-Macron-loses-absolute-majority-in-parliament)

[muxfolder]

Are they still protesting? :happythumbsup:

[Gwin Ru]

Street battles rage between rival foreign Muslim militias in French city of Dijon (https://www.rt.com/news/492038-dijon-drug-gangs-chechen/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/492038-dijon-drug-gangs-chechen/)
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:32 UTC
SOTT Comment: (https://www.sott.net/article/436542-Street-battles-rage-between-rival-foreign-Muslim-militias-in-French-city-of-Dijon) There has been almost no media coverage about this incident in France...

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© AFP / Philippe Desmazes

The French city of Dijon was rocked by chaotic scenes reminiscent of a war zone as rival gangs clashed following an assault on a Chechen teen - but was it more a "battle of territories" in a drugs war than simple score-settling?

For several nights, the rule of law seemed suspended in parts of the historic French tourist town, as Chechen and Maghreb gangs openly brandished weapons and took over city streets, prompting surreal scenes (https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1272798940929200128) and leaving residents in fear of venturing outside their homes.

Footage posted to Twitter showed a car speeding through a group of Chechens and flipping over (https://twitter.com/asabove_asbelow/status/1272338829878403074), like a scene from a video game. The situation finally calmed on Monday, after the government deployed militarized police units to quell the unrest. Dijon Mayor François Rebsamen accused the Chechen community of attempting to "enforce its own right and law of retaliation."

On social media, some offered the knee-jerk explanation that the violence gripping the French city was simply the inevitable result of immigration - and, indeed, the non-integration of Muslim immigrants in France has led to plenty of cultural clashes. Yet, the reality of how Dijon became the center of all-out gangland warfare is more complicated.


https://twitter.com/asabove_asbelow/status/1272338829878403074
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1272798940929200128


'Sensitive neighborhoods'
The problem, it appears, boils down to the ghettoization of certain areas left to fester in crime, where many residents are terrorized and living in fear, the increasing powerlessness of local police and the subsequent ability of drugs gangs to enforce their own rules.
SOTT Comment: No it boils down to the mistake of mass immigration from outside Western civilization.
The exact number of Chechens in France is not known, but it's estimated that around 15,000 refugees from the Chechen wars of the 90s and early 2000s lived in the country as of 2018.
SOTT Comment: ...and those 'refugees' were on the other side of Moscow's war(s) against radical Islamist terrorism...
The communities are notoriously insular, with members preferring to stick to their own and have each other's backs above all else. This, combined with the presence of North African drugs gangs, creates a tinderbox scenario - a disaster waiting to happen.
SOTT Comment: A govt-made disaster.
"The hardest part is the language barrier," which "makes integration and access to work difficult," Naourbek Chokuev, who teaches French to Russian speakers in Strasbourg told (https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/une-communaute-tchetchene-discrete-peu-structuree-et-sous-le-choc-14-05-2018-2218357_23.php) the AFP news agency in 2018. Unsurprisingly, some Chechen youths in these areas are radicalized rather than integrated into wider French society.
SOTT Comment: No sh*t! They don't even speak the language.
Reporting on the recent violence, France's BFMTV network referred to the areas worst affected as "sensitive neighborhoods," though French nationals often refer to them as immigrant "banlieues" or city "quarters" that are to be avoided.
SOTT Comment: That's PC-speak for sh*tholes.

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© AFP / Philippe Desmazes


Drug wars and a 'battle for territory'
One journalist, who preferred to remain anonymous, told (https://www.letemps.ch/monde/dijon-redoute-devenir-un-bastion-gangs) the Le Temps news website that he finds it "difficult" to believe the recent outbreak of violence is simply reprisal for the assault on a 16-year-old Chechen teen, as most reports have suggested.

"Look at the map. Dijon is ideally placed on the route of drug trafficking. Between the drug which arrives from Turkey by the east and that which goes up from the south of France, it's a knot," the journalist said. He suspects that recent seizures of cannabis near Dijon in May with an estimated street value of €4.5 million ($5.1 million) could have fueled what he calls a "battle of territories," rather than the recent mayhem being a simple retaliation for the alleged assault on the teenager.

The sudden escalation in violence was expected by some in Dijon, particularly as the Covid-19 lockdown began to wind down. "We felt that something was going to happen with the deconfinement," one resident told Franceinfo, saying they had noticed that "the comings and goings of cars at drug outlets were much more than usual."
SOTT Comment: It seems that something like this is the case all over, whether in the form of anti-lockdown or BLM protests. The tension built up during the lockdowns is being released, and it's not pretty.
Public anger
An online poll by news website Le Figaro showed nearly 90 percent of respondents, out of more than 17,000, felt the police had not responded quickly enough to the violence.
SOTT Comment: Where were those people polled... in the 'sensitive' no-go zones? The same people out there rioting right now and demanding that the police in France be defunded??!
There is certainly significant public anger over the seeming inability of the authorities to control the situation. The anger is all the more sharp because French citizens had to endure a stringent lockdown that saw even homeless citizens harassed by the police and fined (https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-france-s-homeless-fined-for-not-staying-indoors-during-covid-19-lockdown) for the crime of not remaining indoors. So futile were the attempts to enforce social distancing in the banlieues, however, that one government official advised (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/484238-france-police-covid-suburbs/) police that it was "not a priority to enforce closings in certain neighborhoods."
SOTT Comment: Of course! The 'sensitive areas' received special status throughout the lockdown: govt handouts and drugs continued flowing on time...
Legalization of drugs
An op-ed in the libertarian Contrepoint newspaper argued (https://www.contrepoints.org/2020/06/16/373794-dijon-letat-de-droit-disparait-la-loi-du-plus-fort-reapparait) that police spend far too much time punishing ordinary citizens for non-violent and victimless crimes, while permitting total lawlessness among others.

The state is everywhere, it "monitors and punishes motorists who drive a little too fast or dispatches helicopters to discourage hikers who do not respect" Covid-19 rules, but it "does not fulfill its mission of fundamental protection" by allowing such scenes of street violence to unfold, the author wrote.

A possible solution, he said, would be to legalize the use and trade of cannabis. That would have "the concrete result of eliminating the mafias which are enriched by its trafficking and would allow the police to focus on something other than hunting down small dealers." This, in turn, could bring down the levels of violence, he said.

A new normal?
While the problem of gang violence in the banlieues is hardly a new phenomenon, given that French police have been dealing with such issues for years, it certainly seems to be spinning more out of control and seeping out of the suburbs and into the cities themselves - a development that's bound to spark fresh public debate on the situation.

"Until now," one French columnist wrote (https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/celine-pina-les-scenes-de-guerilla-a-dijon-ne-sont-pas-un-fait-divers-20200616) in Le Figaro, "we imagined [this behavior] exclusively reserved for the ghettoized districts of the suburbs."

Now these "symbolic boundaries" are disappearing, and the violence is metastasizing and out of control. Like many, she argues, this is because the powers-that-be have "turned a blind eye" to the endemic violence in these neighborhoods and given up enforcing the law.

There is a fear, she adds, that the scenes witnessed at the weekend in Dijon may not be an isolated case, "but the revealer of what awaits us in the future."
SOTT Comment: Pretty much. And govts, irrespective of their intentions, are helping that scenario to happen.

[Gwin Ru]

France celebrates its thousand points of light (http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2020/06/france-celebrates-its-thousand-points.html)

The Irish Savant
Friday, 19 June 2020
at 15:51 (http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2020/06/france-celebrates-its-thousand-points.html)


“We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." Thus said former US President G H W Bush, waxing lyrical on the joys of diversity.

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Recently in France different people with different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams came together as virtual civil war (https://youtu.be/EpCYn2pyLyw)broke out between Arab and Chechen gangs in Dijon.

"A car tried to ram a gang of approximately 100 Chechens armed with pipes, knives and other weapons. It failed and then flipped over." The would-be rammer then had summary justice applied. "However after being outnumbered for a few days, and being chased around and beaten by Chechens, the Arab gangs brought in assault rifles and are now posting videos and photos on Twitter, calling for the Chechens to leave town." But...but...diversity? What about the beautiful mosaic? It appears that the African 'communities' that run the city's drug trade are concerned at this unwelcome exposure.

And, Covid or no Covid, the brilliant diversity continues to spread like stars (do stars spread?) as the mud-slide envelopes the whole country. Same thing way up north in demographically vulnerable Iceland (population a mere 300,000) as they welcome a steady stream of invaders new citizens, all Muslim and/or African. The birth rate for Icelandic women is well below replacement levels but the new arrivals, like Hassan and his seven children (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2qIuzAvgTc&feature=youtu.be), will see to that. And presumably this guy (http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2011/11/is-anywhere-safe.html) - whose ambition is to have no fewer than twelve children - has been busy since I wrote about him nearly ten years ago.

Aristotle saw it all two and a half millennia ago.

“Another cause of revolution is difference of races which do not at once acquire a common spirit; for a state is not the growth of a day, any more than it grows out of a multitude brought together by accident. Hence the reception of strangers in colonies, either at the time of their foundation or afterwards, has generally produced revolution; for example, the Achaeans who joined the Troezenians in the foundation of Sybaris, becoming later the more numerous, expelled them; hence the curse fell upon Sybaris."
We're on the eve of destruction yet it cannot be denied that, aided and abetted by the traitors in our midst, we have brought it on ourselves. And you know what? Maybe it's for the best. Seriously. Because if things continue under the Present System our countries will end up as impoverished, faction-riven and violent failed states.



"Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, overthrown by strangers."
Isaiah 1:7

[Gwin Ru]

The slow disintegration of the Republic in France

by Thierry Meyssan Voltaire Network
Damascus (Syria) | 12 July 2020

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For the past three years, a profound protest has been heard throughout France. It has taken on hitherto unknown forms. Claiming to be a republican ideal, it is questioning the way in which political personnel serve the institutions. Faced with it, the President of the Republic monkeys a dialogue that he manipulates at every stage. For Thierry Meyssan, the country’s worst enemies are not those who want to divide it into communities, but those who have been elected and have forgotten the meaning of their mandate.

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The Yellow Vests have always displayed the French flag in their events; a symbol absent from events organized by environmentalists.


The first wave

In October 2018, in France, a surd protest swelled from small towns and the countryside. The country’s leaders and the media were stunned to discover the existence of a social class they did not know and had never met before: a petite bourgeoisie, which had been excluded from the big cities and relegated to the "French desert", an area where public services are rationed and public transport is non-existent.

This protest, which in some places turned into an uprising, was triggered by the increase of a tax on oil aimed at reducing fuel consumption in order to achieve the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement. These citizens were much more affected than others by this increase because they lived far away from everything and had no transportation options other than their personal means.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the world economy has reorganized. Hundreds of millions of jobs have been relocated from the West to China. Most of those who have lost their jobs have had to accept lower paid jobs. They have been forced to leave the big cities, which have become too expensive for them, and move to the outskirts [1 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nb1)].

The Yellow Vests reminded the rest of society that they existed and could not help fight the "end of the world" if they were not first helped to fight for their "ends of the month". They denounced the recklessness of political leaders who, from their offices in the capital, could not see their distress [2 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nb2)].

The first political debates between politicians and some of their leading figures were even more astounding: the politicians proposed sectorial measures to make the price of petrol affordable when they calmly responded to them about the disasters caused by financial globalisation. The former seemed bewildered and out-dated, while the latter were the only ones with an overview. Competence had shifted from the political staff to their constituents.

Fortunately for the ruling class, the media dismissed these troublemakers and substituted them with other demonstrators, forcefully expressing their anger without the same intelligence. The hardening of the conflict, supported by the majority of the population, raised fears of a possible revolution. Panicked, President Emmanuel Macron took refuge for ten days in his bunker under the Elysée Palace, cancelling all his appointments. He thought of resigning and summoned the president of the Senate to act as interim president. The latter rebuffed him. Coming to his senses, he appeared on television to announce various social measures. However, none of these allowances concerned the Yellow Vests because the State did not yet know who they were.

All opinion studies tend to show that this protest is not a rejection of politics, but on the contrary a political will to restore the general interest, i.e. of the Republic (Res Publica).

Citizens are more or less satisfied with the Constitution, but not with the way it is being used. Their rejection is first of all that of the behaviour of the political staff as a whole, not of the Institutions.

So, to take matters into his own hands, President Emmanuel Macron decided to organize a "Great National Debate" in each commune, somewhat along the lines of the Estates General of 1789. Each citizen could express himself. The proposals would be summarized and taken into account.

From the very first days, the president sought to control popular expression. It was a question of not letting the mob say anything. "Immigration", "voluntary termination of pregnancy", "death penalty" and "marriage for all" were to be kept out of the debate. Thus, while the president thought he was a "democrat", he was suspicious of the People.

Of course, all groups can be dominated by passions. During the French Revolution, the sans-culottes were able to disrupt the debates of the assemblies by invectivating members from the galleries. But there is no reason to anticipate that the mayors would have been overwhelmed by their constituents.

The organization of the "Great National Debate" was the responsibility of the National Commission for Public Debate. The Commission wanted to guarantee the free expression of each citizen, while the President wanted to limit it to four themes:
"ecological transition",

"taxation",

"democracy and citizenship", and

"organization of the State and public services".
The Commission was therefore thanked and replaced by two ministers. Unemployment, social relations, old-age dependency, immigration and security were forgotten.

The president then took the stage. He took part in several televised meetings during which he answered all the questions asked, imbued with his own competence. The plan had evolved from listening to citizens’ concerns to answering them that they were well governed.

Three months, 10,000 meetings and 2,000,000 contributions later, a report was delivered and filed in a cupboard. Contrary to what this synthesis claims, the interventions of the participants in the "Great National Debate" dealt with the advantages of elected representatives, taxation and purchasing power, speed limits on roads, the abandonment of rural territories and immigration. Not only did this exercise in style not move things forward, but it gave the Yellow Vests proof that the president wants to talk to them, but not hear them.


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All over France, the Yellow Vests organized petitions for the creation of a Citizens’ Initiative Referendum (RIC).


We are telling you we’re democrats

Not during the "Great National Debate", but during the demonstrations, many yellow jackets made reference to Étienne Chouard [3 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nb3)]. For about ten years, this man has been criss-crossing France assuring his interlocutors that a Constitution is only legitimate if it is drafted by the citizens. He therefore advocates forming a constituent assembly by drawing lots and submitting its result to a referendum.

President Emmanuel Macron responded by creating an assembly drawn by lot, a "Citizens’ Convention". In the continuity of the "Great National Debate", from the first day, he perverted the idea he was implementing. It was not a question of drafting a new Constitution, but of pursuing one of the four themes he had already imposed.

However, he did not see the drawing of lots as a means of overriding the privileges enjoyed by certain social classes or circumventing those of political parties. He approached it as a means of gaining a better understanding of the popular will, in the manner of polling institutes. He therefore had the population divided into socio-professional categories as well as by region. Then the members were drawn by lot from these different groups as for a panel of respondents. The definition of these groups was not made public. Moreover, it entrusted the organization of the debates to a firm specializing in panel facilitation so that the result was that of a survey: this assembly did not make any original proposals, but merely prioritized the proposals presented to it.

Such a process is much more formal than a survey, but it is not democratic since its members have never been able to exercise any initiative. The most consensual proposals will be transmitted to Parliament or submitted to the People by referendum. However, the last referendum in France, fifteen years ago, is not fondly remembered:
the People censured government policy which was nevertheless pursued by other means in defiance of the citizens.
The totally illusory nature of this citizens’ assembly appeared with a proposal that its members said they did not want to submit to a referendum because the People, whom they were supposed to represent, would surely reject it. In doing so, they admitted that they had adopted a proposal following the arguments presented to them, but knowing that the People would reason otherwise.

It’s not me, it’s the scientists.

When the Covid-19 epidemic broke out, President Emmanuel Macron was convinced of the seriousness of the danger by the British statistician Neil Ferguson [4 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nb4)]. He decided to protect the population by applying the generalized mandatory lockdown recommended by the former team of Donald Rumsfeld [5 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nb5)]. He protected himself from criticism by setting up a "Scientific Council", which he entrusted to a legal personality he believed to be indisputable [6 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nb6)].

Only one authoritative voice rose up against this device: one of the world’s most eminent infectious diseases physicians, Professor Didier Raoult [7 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nb7)] At the end of the crisis, he testified before a parliamentary committee. According to him, Neil Ferguson is an impostor; the Scientific Council - from which he resigned - is manipulated by conflicts of interest with Gilead Science (Donald Rumsfeld’s former firm); in an emergency situation, the role of doctors is to treat, not to experiment; the results of doctors depend on their conception of their profession, which is why patients entrusted to hospitals in Paris were three times more likely to die than those entrusted to hospitals in Marseille.

Didier Raoult’s remarks were not analysed by the media, which devoted their work to the outraged reaction of the administrative and medical nomenklatura. Yet the question of the competence of the President of the Republic, his government and the medical elite had just been raised by an undisputed member of the medical elite.

The second wave
The first round of municipal elections took place at the beginning of the health crisis on March 15, 2020. Peripheral towns and rural areas, the land of the Yellow Vests, had often achieved majorities to elect their mayors immediately. As usual, things were more complex in the big cities. A second round was held at the end of the crisis, on June 28. A new step was then taken.

Six out of ten voters, scalded by the "Great National Debate" and indifferent to the "Citizens’ Convention", went on strike at the polls.

Ignoring this silent protest, the media interpreted the minority vote as a "triumph of the environmentalists". It would have been more accurate to say that the supporters of the struggle against the "end of the world" have definitively divorced from those of the struggle for the "end of the month".

Opinion polls assure us that the environmentalist vote is mainly the work of civil servants. This is a constant in all pre-revolutionary processes: intelligent people, if they feel connected to Power, are blinded and do not understand what is happening before their eyes.

Since the Constitution does not provide for this fracture within the People, no quorum has been established so that this ballot is valid although undemocratic in all the big cities. None of the mayors, even though they were elected by only one fifth of their constituents or even less, requested the annulment of the ballot.

No regime can continue without the support of its people. If this ballot-box strike happens again when the President of the Republic is elected in May 2022, the system will collapse. None of the political leaders seem to care.

Thierry Meyssan (https://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en)
Translation Roger Lagassé (https://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125483.html?lang=en)


References
[1 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nh1)] “How the West eats its children (https://www.voltairenet.org/article204208.html)”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 4 December 2018.

[2 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nh2)] « Une colère très politique (https://www.voltairenet.org/article204031.html) », par Alain Benajam, Réseau Voltaire, 21 novembre 2018.

[3 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nh3)] Blog (http://etienne.chouard.free.fr/Europe/)

[4 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nh4)] “Covid-19: Neil Ferguson, the Liberal Lyssenko (https://www.voltairenet.org/article209749.html)”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 20 April 2020.

[5 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nh5)] “Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails (https://www.voltairenet.org/article209776.html)”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 28 April 2020.

[6 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nh6)] “Enough with the Consensus Already! (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210039.html)”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 2 June 2020.

[7 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article210517.html#nh7)] Site officiel de Didier Raoult et de son équipe : Méditerranée infection (https://www.mediterranee-infection.com).

[Gwin Ru]

Macron Surrounded by Anti Government Protesters Chanting ‘Resign’ (https://fort-russ.com/2020/07/macron-surrounded-by-anti-government-protesters-chanting-resign/)

By Drago Bosnic (https://fort-russ.com/author/drago-bosnic/)
On Jul 15, 2020


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PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were at the center of an astonishing security scare when furious anti-government swarmed towards them in a Paris park. “Macron Resign” was the chant as the 42-year-old head of state and the first lady, who is 67, were approached in the Tuileries Garden, close to the Elysée Palace, where they live, on Tuesday afternoon, Daily Mail reported.
https://fort-russ.com/2020/07/macron-surrounded-by-anti-government-protesters-chanting-resign/

They were walking hand in hand at the end of Bastille Day – the July 14 French national holiday, but this did not deter the demonstrators. “The black beast – it’s incredible,” said one, while others booed and swore openly while the disturbing scene was broadcast live on social media, including Twitter and Facebook.

As the couple’s security guards tried to calm the situation, Macron walked towards his tormentors and said “Happy July 14” before trying to usher them away. He was wearing a black leather jacket, with onlookers noting his resemblance to the Fonz, the character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom Happy Days who was obsessed with being “cool”.

After a political argument started about police violence against Yellow Vests – the protest movement that has been active in France for almost two years –Macron told the group to “stay cool, and there will be no problems”.
“It’s a public holiday and I’m going for a walk with my wife,” said Macron, adding that the protestors are not “models of respect”, while he was.
One of the men then said,
“‘Mr. President, I’m older than you. You are my employee, Mr. President. We are respectful, I did not show you disrespect, at least not today.”

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to hurt him. I don’t even want to. I will hurt him with my vote in 2022,” he added.
This is the year of the next presidential election, when Macron’s first five-year term will end.

He then said Macron was due “to be fired”, while also calling for an end to the BRAV (Brigade of Repression of Violent Action) – a rapid reaction police motorbike unit set up last year to deal with rioters.
“If not the President of the Republic who does that!” Macron retorts, telling the men not to shout, and to take their complaints to his new Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin.
Nobody was arrested during the confrontation, and the Macrons were able to make their [way] home to the presidential palace on foot, still surrounded by security guards.

Earlier in the day, Macron had led the traditional Bastille Day celebrations and also appeared live on TV saying that face masks will become compulsory in all enclosed public spaces in France from August 1 so as to try and prevent a second wave of Coronavirus. In January, Macron and his wife were evacuated from a packed Paris theatre by armed riot police after a mob of anti-government protesters tried to reach them.

The security scare led to them both leaving the Bouffes du Nord in the 10th arrondissement before the play they were watching ended. The video posted on Twitter showed around 30 demonstrators storming the doors of the historic theatre, which is close to the Eurostar railway station in the city.

[Gwin Ru]

Nantes cathedral fire: Arson suspected as 400-year-old organ destroyed in violent blaze (https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/18/large-fire-at-nantes-cathedral-in-france)

Alice Tidey
EuroNews (https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/18/large-fire-at-nantes-cathedral-in-france)
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:24 UTC


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French police officers look at the Gothic St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in Nantes, damaged by a blaze on Saturday morning. July 18, 2020 © Laetitia Notarianni/AP Photo


More than 100 firefighters were deployed in the western French city of Nantes on Saturday morning to tackle a "violent blaze" at the cathedral.

"For the moment, the fire has been contained," General Laurent Ferlay, the head of the local fire service, told reporters at around 10:00 CEST.

An arson inquiry has been launched, the Nantes prosecutor said.

Footage released on social media earlier by the French Federation of Firefighters showed flames leaping inside the gothic monument as a large cloud of black smoke escaped to rise towards the sky.

Firefighters have called on people (https://twitter.com/SDIS44/status/1284384371366072327) to stay away from the area.

Emergency services were alerted shortly before 07:45 CEST and some 104 firefighters were deployed to tackle the fire, Ferlay said.

The "violent blaze" erupted "by the organ located behind the rose window", Ferlay explained.

"The roof has not been affected", he went on, adding: "the scenario is not comparable to Notre Dame".

This will be a relief for most French people still reeling from the devastating blaze 15 months earlier at Notre Dame cathedral in central Paris.

Contrary to the 850-year-old monument in the capital, which still had timber roof beams, the Cathedral of St. Peter and St Paul of Nantes had been renovated with concrete roof beams following a large fire in 1972 which had reduced the roof to ashes.

The renovation was only completed in 2013.

Firefighters are expected to remain on-site for the rest of the day and have begun to assess the damage.

Per Ferlay, "damage is concentrated on the great organ which seems to be completely destroyed". The platform on which it stood is also "unstable", he added.

The great organ has been in the cathedral since 1621. It originally had only 27 keys but subsequent restoration works increased the number to 74.

It had survived the French Revolution, WWII bombings and the devastating 1972 fire.

Authorities have launched an arson inquiry with Nantes prosecutor Pierre Sennes revealing that "three distinct fire points" had been found.

He stressed however that "there is no conclusion to be drawn now because we still have a lot of investigating to do which can bring new elements."

A fire expert from the technical and scientific police laboratory in Paris is to be dispatched to Nantes to help with the investigations.

Nantes Mayor Johanna Rolland praised the fire service for their reactivity and professionalism.

President Emmanuel Macron expressed his support to firefighters "who take great risk to save this gothic gem in the city of the Dukes".

Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Twitter that his thoughts are "with our firefighters courageously mobilised to contain the fire".

"To the people of Nantes, whose emotion I share, I want to express my solidarity", he also wrote.

Construction of the cathedral, which began in 1434, took more than 450 years. The gothic monument was listed in 1862 before it was even finished.

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[Gwin Ru]

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[Gwin Ru]

Paris: Riot Police Storm Bar Over No Social Distancing (https://summit.news/2020/08/24/paris-riot-police-storm-bar-over-no-social-distancing/)


While actual riots were taking place across the rest of the city.


Paul Joseph Watson (https://summit.news/author/pjw/)
Published 17 hours ago on 24 August, 2020


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Video Screenshot

Footage out of Paris, France shows riot police storming a bar and beating people with truncheons because they were not properly ‘social distancing’.

The incident occurred during the Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich, which the bar-goers were watching on television.

Around a dozen fully kitted out riot cops raided the bar and violently removed people from the premises.

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“According to Paris police officials, the crowd was dispersed because some people were not wearing face coverings or were failing to follow social distancing rules,” reports Sky News.

More than 200 people receive a police caution for not wearing face masks.

The incident is made even more bizarre by the fact that the people inside the bar were behaving peacefully, while actual riots were taking place across the rest of the city.

According to RT, the streets of the French capital “descended into chaos, with multiple incidents of vandalism and looting.”

You’d think maintaining basic law and order while protecting people and property from violent criminals would be a higher priority than ensuring people in a bar are standing far enough away from each other, but in the age of COVID hysteria apparently not.


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[Gwin Ru]

On Air
Yellow Vest protesters return to Paris (https://www.rt.com/on-air/500530-yellow-vests-protest-paris/)

Where to watch (https://www.rt.com/where-to-watch/)
Schedule (https://www.rt.com/schedule/)

https://www.rt.com/on-air/500530-yellow-vests-protest-paris/

The ‘Yellow Vests’ are resuming their campaign against planned pension reforms and are marching through the streets of Paris. The protest is taking place after France noted an increase in the number of coronavirus infections across the country and the French government has limited the maximum number of participants to 5,000 for larger gatherings.

[Bill Ryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiVxk3_r88o

[Valerie Villars]

Dear Jesus. They (the police) are dressed and look like Roman Gladiators and they are acting like psychotic madmen programmed to kill.

We, less we fall into despair, are here as witnesses, among other reasons. We are important to the future.

I'm sorry to hijack the thread, but I had to say something. Mods, delete this if inappropriate for Herve's thread.

[Gwin Ru]

BREAKING: Major Investigative Report by Association of French Reserve Army Officers Finds COVID-19 “Pandemic” to Have a Hidden Agenda for Global Totalitarianism, Nanotech Chipping of All, 5G Irradiation, & Genocide (https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/)

by Ramola D (https://everydayconcerned.net/author/ramolad/)
Posted on September 4, 2020 (https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/)

Ramola D | Report | September 4, 2020
A document newly released in the interests of informing the public has been circulating online recently, offering deeper insight into what may really be going on behind the public facade of the COVID pandemic as its fabricators (WHO/Gates/CDC et al) issue an urgent call to unite to “fight the virus.”

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Image: Politico.eu (https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-vaccine-how-long-will-it-take-to-develop/)


The French Army Reserve officers who stand as author of this document ran a 50-day investigation of all matters COVID and concluded there is a larger sinister agenda behind the lies and misrepresentations of truth which have marked COVID coverage, and that agenda includes the rollout of global totalitarianism, the “chipping” of all humanity with nanotech-infused RNA vaccines with the dual function of transhumanizing or synthetically altering the human body and brain with nanobiosensors and nanomachines while essentially implanting GPS trackers or nanotech RFIDs, preparing humans for a lifetime of complete cellular and neuro monitoring, control, and modification, as well as hooking up brains to a central hive mind or brain internet: 1984 on steroids, beyond Orwell’s projections of sci-tech human takeover.

The opening preface includes a note from the head of the investigative group stating that they have found
“the identification of obvious corruption and an agenda contrary to public welfare, culminating in criminal and genocidal intent, and the implementation of a totalitarian state, which are reported in our conclusions.”
The translator, Claire Edwards offers further information:
“It was banned from publication, but the Officers wanted it to be in public hands and therefore redacted it to suppress their names, professions, ranks and affiliation, and passed it on to those who could publicize it.

I have faithfully translated all 156 pages of it, and provided equivalent English references to the French references included. I have also added some relevant supplementary information and indicated clearly where I have done so.

When you read this document, you will understand that it could have been written only by professional, well-informed and educated people. In my view, they include doctors, lawyers and army officers. They clearly had access to people who are aware of the “unavowable” purposes of the perpetrators of this scamdemic.”

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER FACTORS

ASSOCIATION DES OFFICIERS DE RÉSERVE
(ASSOCIATION OF FRENCH RESERVE ARMY OFFICERS)
13 May 2020

ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
BY CLAIRE EDWARDS, BA HONS, MA
27 August 2020


Important aspects covered by this study include the rollout of 5G under guise of need for greater bandwidth while people have been confined to homes, the evidence of symptoms of lung damage from electromagnetic radiation, and the euthanizing of the elderly without informed consent.

Covered as well is the nanotechnology to be carried in the vaccines for human modification, the corruption of the WHO, and the smoking gun of the ID2020 Alliance which points up the complicity of academe and private sector in the creation of subjugation technology for human beings.

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Excerpt, Investigative Report, French Army Reserve, May 2020





A second document of great interest referenced in this one is a report produced by UNESCO covering nanotechnology and bioethics, discussing how far nanotechnology has come today and the great powers of transformation (or deformation) over the human body it has.



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Links for both documents are provided below.

Findings of the Investigative Report On The Covid-19 Pandemic and its Relationship to SARS-CoV-2 and Other Factors

CONCLUSIONS
 Glaring inconsistencies and inexplicable “lacunae” invalidate the official theory

 The management of the health “crisis” seems to be a pretext for a totalitarian global takeover

 Totalitarian machinations: intention to impose a global cryptocurrency, a vaccine with nano-chips and a subcutaneous electronic chip

 There is massive corruption at the heart of WHO and the most unavowable intentions

 5G is implicated in Covid-19, with electromagnetic radiation having possibly highly potentiated:
o The pathogenic power of the virus, or

o The Prevotella bacterium that caused the cytokine shock
 Similarity between the lung damage observed by all emergency doctors and damage caused by the use of an electromagnetic weapon (plus permanent headaches, fatigue, burning sensations in the lungs, thrombosis and loss of sensitivity to smell and taste, also cited as symptoms of COVID-19)

 Many antennas were installed thanks to the lockdown, without concern for the “precautionary principle”, despite it being otherwise widely cited, in particular to hobble medical treatment

 “Covid-19” is a biological and electromagnetic war supported by a vast “smoke-and-mirrors” operation, which is sowing confusion among the ranks of medical and hospital personnel

 “Covid-19” could be the preparation for a much larger-scale joint operation combined with a smokescreen to conceal large-scale tests of the 5G weapon, for criminal ends that remain to be clarified

 5G installations, both terrestrial and aerial (Elon Musk’s satellites in low-Earth orbit), are clearly part of this “total war” project

 Dr. Jeremy K. Raines,2 an authoritative electromagnetic field engineer, reports that signals are used by the human body to regulate its processes, and warns that external electromagnetic signals can seriously interfere in this process.

 No investigation has been carried out on the reaction of the Earth to the
massive use of 5G technology despite it having been established that industrial activities (mining activities, oil and gas extraction, geothermal) can induce earthquakes

 Unusual earthquakes have taken place in France and municipalities have been declared to be in a state of emergency.

The Report also calls for further investigation and suggests all individuals worldwide prepare for independent living:

After fifty days of investigation and in terms of risk study, the Investigation Group recommends that an urgent analysis by a Threat Study Group should be carried out on:

 The sociological impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on civil liberties and the economy

 The content of the mandatory vaccine under preparation, including the
presence of nanotechnologies (electronic chips and population control)

 The intended abolition of physical currency and its impact on civil liberties (population chipping, which has already started in Europe)

 The impact on civil liberties and health of the widespread deployment of 5G, and the deployment and precise role of HAARP and SURA

 The precise nature of chemtrails and their objectives: heavy metals as
endocrine disruptors (aluminium, barium), the spraying of ethnic viruses

 The risk of intercommunal clashes as a tool for the destruction of nations

 The risk of world war (widespread CBRN conflict).

For individuals, the Investigation Group recommends that they:

 Develop their autonomy:

o Natural water point nearby
o Food
o Vegetable garden
o Chicken coop
o Beehives (if possible)
o Essential oils, green clay, quercetin
 Not submit to a vaccine (French and international law prohibits treatment without the informed consent of the patient)

 Keep their distance from operational 5G installations

 Beware of aerial spraying (chemtrails)

o They should not go out.
If we add to this the risk of intercommunal clashes being encouraged to destabilize and destroy nation states for the purpose of leading people towards unelected and totalitarian global governance, as well as the risks of CBRN conflicts, the future situation may well require considerable vigilance and solidarity, in a spirit of brotherhood and complementarity. Certain people seem to have decided to open Pandora’s box.

Further, the report notes that it is only the seizing of political control by nationalists and the ending of the dreams of the Globalists for a one-world government which can save the day, for all humanity.
“We are collectively on a tightrope and things can go either way, depending on the ability of citizens to react, either in the direction of full globalism with world government or in that of a political takeover of countries by their nationals. Only a political takeover of the organization of states by their nationals can lead to a favourable outcome for the populations.
“Otherwise, we will see the general shift desired by the supranational oligarchy towards a world government in the hands of the financial powers, with populations being destined to be sharply reduced and then the survivors enslaved.”
This writer does not agree with all matters contained in this Investigative Report, especially advice on social distancing and masks, and the treatment of the virus as a danger, but recognizes the value of the whole report and is posting here for general information–please read in full.

Both documents, for download in PDF form:

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND
(https://everydayconcerned.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/investigative-report-on-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-relationship-to-sars-cov-2-and-other-factors.pdf) ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER FACTORS (https://everydayconcerned.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/investigative-report-on-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-relationship-to-sars-cov-2-and-other-factors.pdf)
Download (https://everydayconcerned.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/investigative-report-on-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-relationship-to-sars-cov-2-and-other-factors.pdf)

The original report in French (downloads when you click on this link below): RAPPORT_D_ENQUETE_mise_a_jour_13_mai.pdf (https://sois.fr/fileadmin/pdf/pdf_2019-2020/RAPPORT_D_ENQUETE_mise_a_jour_13_mai.pdf)


https://everydayconcerned.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/frenchreportcover.png?w=1024


(https://everydayconcerned.wordpress.com/31700afe-50f2-4c05-bc0d-2a4fad0ed637) UNESCO: Nanotechnology, Ethics, and Politics (https://everydayconcerned.wordpress.com/31700afe-50f2-4c05-bc0d-2a4fad0ed637)
Download (https://everydayconcerned.wordpress.com/31700afe-50f2-4c05-bc0d-2a4fad0ed637)
Many thanks to SG for the information leading to this report. This report may be reposted anywhere online, with attribution and a linkback.

[Hermoor]

Towards the foot of Gwin's post.

Rough translation is:

"The reserve officers have investigated for 50 days to clarify issues related to the 2020 "pandemic". The report has been banned from dissemination for the the moment. However, faced with the urgency and gravity of the facts, we nevertheless chose to communicate it with the general population. You have in your hands the 'general public' version of the report with redacted references to the group and the acronyms of the unit."

This is a hugely positive development if it all checks out.

Many other militaries around the world will also be arriving at similar conclusions.

[Gwin Ru]

France's anti-maskers: the faces behind the movement (https://www.france24.com/en/20201009-french-anti-maskers-who-is-behind-this-divergent-movement)

Ségolène Allemandou France 24 (https://www.france24.com/en/20201009-french-anti-maskers-who-is-behind-this-divergent-movement)
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:04 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s29/585962/large/000_1WU5FJ.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s29/585962/full/000_1WU5FJ.jpg)
Protesters hold up face masks and shout slogans during a protest against the mandatory wearing of face masks on the Place de La Nation in Paris on August 29 2020. © AFP - Christophe Archambault


For many, face masks provide protection from the coronavirus. For others, they are a "muzzle" aimed at enslaving the population. Anti-maskers use social media to challenge what they consider to be a "health dictatorship". FRANCE 24 joined some Facebook groups to learn more about the movement.

Some people take off their face masks (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/face-masks/) as soon as they set foot outside, others forget them at the bottom of a handbag or buried in a pocket. But there are also those who never wear them, proudly claiming they are "anti-mask" despite the fact that it is mandatory to wear a face mask (https://www.france24.com/en/20200828-face-masks-compulsory-throughout-paris-from-8-am-local-time) outside in many cities and towns across France, including Paris.

Manuella*, interviewed by FRANCE 24 via a dedicated anti-maskers Facebook group, is in this latter category. Since the start of the Covid-19 health crisis (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/coronavirus/), the 57-year-old artist living in the Cévennes in southern France (https://www.france24.com/en/france/) has never bought a single mask. "Unthinkable," she says of the prospect. In shops, pharmacies or banks, she concedes she "yields to the rules" by covering the lower half of her face with a bandana. "But in the street, a mask is out of the question."

Fiona* says she will never give in. In a post published on September 29, she claims to have been fired for refusing to wear a mask.

Solène will not wear a mask for more than an hour at a time, even when she is at work in a health centre. "I only ever wear it with my patients," the 30-year-old Parisian explains to FRANCE 24. As a nurse, this attitude has earned much anger from her colleagues, but she refuses to give in.

"I told them it was either that I don't wear masks or wear one and I end up with a migraine, which would force me to go home and then I would have to hand over my patients to them." Since this exchange the subject has been closed, even though she is aware that it has created a distance between her and her colleagues.

"Apart from my partner and my brother, who share my point of view, I feel completely alone," confides the nurse, who is part of a Facebook group with more than 6,000 members. According to an Odoxa-Dentsu Consulting poll on the subject from August 31, only 9% of French people say they are "completely opposed" to wearing a mask, and 15% "rather opposed". Conversely, 75% are either "completely in favour of it" or "somewhat in favour" of it.

'Online mobilisation has not gained public acceptance'

Anti-maskers are definitely more of an urban phenomenon rather than a rural one, but they are also not very visible in France's city streets. Only a few hundred gathered in Paris to march in opposition to masks, shouting "Liberté! Liberté!" on August 29. This is a far cry from the 20,000 demonstrators (https://www.france24.com/en/20200801-protests-against-coronavirus-curbs-draws-crowds-in-berlin) who mobilised in the streets of Berlin on August 1 and the several thousand who formed a human chain along the German-Swiss border on October 3.

"The online mobilisation is still struggling to gain broader public acceptance," explains Antoine Bristielle, author of the study "Bas les masques" (http://jean-jaures.org/nos-productions/bas-les-masques-sociologie-des-militants-anti-masques) (Down with Masks) for the Jean Jaurès Foundation, speaking with FRANCE 24. "But this could gradually develop, as was the case with the Yellow Vest (https://www.france24.com/en/tag/yellow-vest-protests/) protests."

Bristielle, a social sciences professor, surveyed 1,000 anti-maskers as part of his study. He discovered four main objections to face masks emerged from respondents: masks are useless in preventing Covid-19 contamination; they are dangerous because they cause breathing difficulties and are a "hive of bacteria"; the coronavirus pandemic is over or never existed and the governments have lied to the people; and that masks are being used to control the people.

A very specific trend emerged in Bristielle's study: more women and more people in their fifties participate in this protest movement than in the Yellow Vests. They are also likely to be more educated.

"They are marked by a right-wing tropism, unlike the Yellow Vests, who are anchored more to the left," explains Bristielle. "Their demand is for more freedom, unlike the Yellow Vests, who are more concerned about equality."

Mistrust of institutions

One aspect that unites all of the anti-maskers is that they are very prolific on social media networks. They use these platforms to establish and expand their arguments: "the virus passes in spite of the mask"; "it prevents us from getting enough oxygen"; "we can't get acquire immunity wearing masks", as Manuella puts it.

Their arguments are regularly supported by videos from media figures such as Yellow Vest activist Maxime Nicolle. He claims that "if cigarette smoke can pass through a mask, it is proof that the same is possible for the virus".

Their arguments reflect a strong "structural mistrust of political institutions", says Bristielle, which tends to manifest in a higher susceptibility to conspiratorial theories. "Facebook groups function like closed spaces, where opposing arguments no longer have a place and no longer have a hold," he analyses. "On the other hand, they welcome anything that supports their views, including conspiracy theories."

According to the study, 63% of those surveyed believe more than half of the conspiracy theories presented to them. One of these is that the virus was created by China to wage a bacteriological war against the rest of the world. On this point, however, Solène now admits she is "not certain".

At issue: the government's inconsistent communication

Casting doubt about the very existence of the virus, these groups also question the political factions that might be behind it and who might be benefitting. For example, Manuella believes that the production of masks taxed with VAT has become "a money factory".

On this argument, Bristielle acknowledges that "the government's inconsistent communication [about the mask, which has been transformed from worthless to mandatory accessory] has only strengthened the anti-maskers' conviction".

The government measures have "become too intrusive in the daily lives of the French" and are becoming almost "illogical", according to Solène. She sees the obligation to wear a mask as a "muzzle" designed to control the population and reduce individual freedom.

"By what law are the elderly forced to die of loneliness? By what law are family gatherings forbidden?" she protests, referring to government advertisements "that make children feel guilty about going to see their grandparents".

Many call for resistance in the face of "this health dictatorship" so as not to become "sheep". And regularly, the comments get out of hand or turn into insults, as is often the case on social networks.

So what is the future for anti-maskers? While these groups may be struggling to get organised — just two meetings planned in October in Normandy and Lyon — they are joining other movements forming against government measures, such as those by restaurant owners or bar owners, whose industries have been wiped out. This is one way for them to attract new members into their ranks.

For the majority of French people, securing their health remains a priority, according to an Ifop poll (http://www.ifop.com/publication/les-priorites-des-francais-pour-les-mois-qui-viennent/) in August. "But if the crisis continues," warns Bristielle, "[this priority] could be superseded by a demand for freedom".

* First names have been changed

This article has been translated from the original (https://www.france24.com/fr/20201008-les-antimasques-qui-se-cache-derrière-ce-mouvement-disparate) in French.


Related:


The Science of Masks (https://www.sott.net/article/441144-The-Science-of-Masks)



Mandatory mask wearing is silent terrorism meant for psychological submission (https://www.sott.net/article/441945-Mandatory-mask-wearing-is-silent-terrorism-meant-for-psychological-submission)



The mask and the bump (https://www.sott.net/article/442293-The-mask-and-the-bump)

[Gwin Ru]

France puts Paris and eight other major cities under 9pm-6am curfew with businesses closed as Macron battles European second wave (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8840711/France-puts-Paris-eight-major-cities-9pm-6am-curfew.html)



Paris, Lille, Rouen, Saint-Etienne, Toulouse, Lyon, Grenoble, Aix-en-Provence and Montpellie will all curfew



French president Emanuel Macron announced the curfews in a televised address on Wednesday night



All bars, restaurants, theatres and similar businesses will have to shut at 9pm sharp from Saturday



Italy saw its highest ever daily spike in cases today with 7,332, while Russia also saw a single-day record



Bars and restaurants in the Catalonia region are closing for 15 days in 'painful but necessary' new measure



Scientists warn winter flu and cold weather could stretch hospitals and increase spread in coming months

By Peter Allen In Paris (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Peter+Allen+In+Paris) and Tim Stickings (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Tim+Stickings) and Chris Jewers For Mailonline (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Chris+Jewers+For+Mailonline) and Reuters (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Reuters)
Published: 19:45 BST, 14 October 202
Updated: 11:19 BST, 15 October 2020


Full article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8840711/France-puts-Paris-eight-major-cities-9pm-6am-curfew.html

[TargeT]

Are the Yellow vests still going, or has that died down?

[Gwin Ru]

The Yellow Vests are still going but like the rest of France, are under "Health Emergency Laws" and restrictions particularly targeting crowds of more than X people. It seems that Macron is hell bent on starving everyone as most of the planetary governments in order to implement the global financial reset and scoop most properties and assets.


Related:


Catherine was on with Alex Jones (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101087-Catherine-Austin-Fitts-all-things-Fitts&p=1383490&viewfull=1#post1383490)



The Planned COVID-21 and the Confiscation of all Personal Property (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112594-The-Planned-COVID-21-and-the-Confiscation-of-all-Personal-Property)

[Philippe]

https://youtu.be/-KIJ06h6FA0

Paris place du Châtelet. 16 october 2020

Protests against the increased freedom restricting measures with a curfew starting at 21 h

[edina]

This story has not showed up in general US media, and I'm not certain this is the right place to share it here in Avalon. Feel free to move it if there is a better place.

French Police Arrest 11th Suspect In Friday's Grisly Beheading As Government Vows To Disrupt Terror-Financing Networks (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-police-arrest-11th-suspect-fridays-grisly-beheading-government-vows-disrupt) (18 Oct)


"I want teachers to know that, after this ignoble act, the whole country is behind them," Castex told the Journal du Dimanche in an interview. "This tragedy affects each and every one of us because, through this teacher, it is the Republic that was attacked."

The backlash to the attack is already centering on the government's efforts to disrupt the funding networks that finance terror. Speaking on France 3 TV channel, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that he will prepare "proposals to strengthen the control over financial flows" to terror groups.

“There is a problem of financing a number of Islamist associations on which I think we can and must do better,” he said.

And perhaps social media companies, instead of fixating on helping Joe Biden win the upcoming election, can marshal their censorship resources to crack down on "doxxing" like what happened here. After all, Twitter banned ZeroHedge for allegedly "doxxing" a Chinese scientist, according to one explanation provided via the company and/or via the press. Why weren't the same standards enforced here?

French police conduct raids in crackdown after teacher beheading (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security/french-police-conduct-raids-in-crackdown-after-teacher-beheading-idUSKBN2740LL) (19 Oct) Reuters


Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said there were some 80 investigations being conducted into online hate and that he was looking into whether to disband about 50 associations within the Muslim community.

I follow a Counter-Terrorism expert on Twitter and her Twitter account is the only other place I've seen this story shared.

I'm curious how the people in France are affected by this, if they are talking about it at all?

[Gwin Ru]

...

A bit on MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/samuel-paty-beheading-teachers-slaying-spurs-protests-across-france/ar-BB1a9xIt) and The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/samuel-paty-french-police-raid-dozens-of-islamist-groups) but mostly on RT:



Mosque says it ‘regrets’ sharing video aimed at the beheaded teacher. French interior minister wants it to be closed (https://www.rt.com/news/503967-mosque-regrets-video-beheading-murder-france/)



France conducts more police ops after teacher’s murder, plans to dissolve Muslim NGOs branded ‘enemies of republic’ – minister (https://www.rt.com/news/503894-france-police-operations-islamism/)



France mourns beheaded teacher as thousands take to Paris’ streets (VIDEO) (https://www.rt.com/news/503853-france-rallies-mourn-teacher-beheading/)

[Gwin Ru]

Cui bono from the situation in France (http://thesaker.is/cui-bono-from-the-situation-in-france/)

The Saker
October 29, 2020

I won’t even bother repeating it all here, those who are interested in my views of this entire Charlie Hebdo canard can read my article “I am NOT Charlie” here: https://thesaker.is/i-am-not-charlie/

No, what I want to do is to ask a simple question: do you think the French leaders are simply stupid, suicidal or naive? I submit that they neither stupid, nor suicidal nor naive. In fact, they are using a well practiced technique which goes with some variation of this:


Infiltrate some pseudo-Islamic gang of cutthroats (literally!)



Keep them under close scrutiny ostensibly for counter-terrorism purposes



Inside the group, try to promote your confidential informers



Have your analysts work on the following question:

“how could we best provoke these nutcases into a bloody terrorist act?“





Once the plan is decided, simply execute it, say by organizing the posting fantastically offensive caricatures



Once the cutthroats strike, blame Islam and double down



By then, you have infuriated most of the immense Muslim world out there and you can rest assured that the process is launched and will continue on its own. You can now relax and get the pop-corn



Have your propaganda machine declare that Islam is incompatible with western civilization (whatever that means in 2020, both Descartes and Conchita Wurst I suppose…)



Shed some crocodile tears when the cutthroats murder some completely innocent Christian bystander



And announce a new crusade against “Islamism” (also a vague and, frankly, meaningless term!) and crack down on true Muslim communities and ideas while continuing to lovingly arm, train, finance and direct the “good terrorists” who have now become your own, personal, cutthroats.

Cui bono?
Anybody who knows anything about the political realities in France will immediately know in whose interests this all is and who is behind that: the Zionist power structure in France (CRIF, UEJF, etc. and the Israelis). They have a total control over Macron and over the entire political class, very much including Marine LePen.

Who else could have concocted the “beautiful” term “Islamo-Fascisme“?!

This is a new phenomenon, a new ideology and a new strategy, which Alain Soral calls “National Zionism” which I discussed in some details here: https://thesaker.is/the-great-fraud-of-national-zionism/.

In its inception (from Ahad Ha’am, Theodor Herzl, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, etc) Zionism used to be a largely secular and nationalistic, then, later, after WWII, it became very leftist and still secular ( Ben-Gurion, Shlomo Lavi, Golda Meir). Modern Zionism, however, is both rabidly racist and religious – the perfect example would be US neocons. It is also a ruthless and genocidal ideology which has created something truly original: God-mandated racism, something which, as far as I know, no other religion professes (so much for the ignorant and, frankly, plain stupid notions of “Abrahamic religions” or, even worse, “Judeo-Christian values”!). National Zionism is the next phase of Zionism – it is rabidly “conservative” (in a Neocon sense only, of course!) and it parasitically feeds on whatever nationalist ideology the local patriotic goyim are inclined towards (the best example of that being the so-called “Christian Zionists” in the USA).

But here is the demonic “beauty” of it all: in a society like the French one, the Zionists don’t even need to micromanage their false flags: given enough uneducated and murderous pseudo-Muslim cutthroats and enough rabid secularists wanted to offend the faithful – some kind of violent explosion will *inevitably* happen!

Right now, between the embarrassing Yellow Vests movement, the crumbling economy, the massive influx, wave after wave, of unwanted and un-adaptable immigrants and the resulting social tensions, the French regime is in deep trouble. Add to this the COVID pandemic which just added to the chaos and anger and finish with a total lack of foreign policy successes and you will immediately see why this regime badly needed what could be called a “patriotic reaction”.

Finally, there is the time-proven method of scaring your own population into a state of catatonic acceptance of everything and anything in the name of “security”.

We see it all in France today, we saw it in the UK before, and also in Belgium. And, rest assured, we will see much more such massacres in the future. The only way to really stop these “terrorist” attacks is to show their sponsors that we know who they are and we understand what they are doing. Short of this, these attacks will continue.


The Saker

[Gwin Ru]

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[Gwin Ru]

EU chaos: Macron on alert as violent riots over economic crisis spread across Europe (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1353590/EU-chaos-protests-Macron-France-Rome-Barcelona-riots-lockdown-coronavirus-latest-news-vn)

LEADERS across the EU are on alert as violent protests erupt across major European capitals, following fears concerning the economic impact of severe and lengthy coronavirus lockdowns.

By Oli Smith (https://www.express.co.uk/search?s=Oli%20Smith&b=1)
PUBLISHED: 08:22, Thu, Oct 29, 2020

UPDATED: 15:26, Thu, Oct 29, 2020

Emmanuel Macron (https://www.express.co.uk/latest/Emmanuel-Macron) imposed a second national lockdown in France last night, declaring that a sudden and “brutal brake” on virus transmission was needed. However, the French President acknowledged the threat of violence and riots exploding on French streets against the lockdown measures, saying that he would take "full responsibility for the reactions this lockdown will cause". There are growing fears that the number of violent anti-lockdown protests recently seen in Italy and Spain will follow in France.

[...]

Full article: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1353590/EU-chaos-protests-Macron-France-Rome-Barcelona-riots-lockdown-coronavirus-latest-news-vn

[Gwin Ru]

Charlie Hebdo Rides Again (https://www.unz.com/ishamir/charlie-hebdo-rides-again/)

Israel Shamir (https://www.unz.com/author/israel-shamir/)
November 2, 2020


https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MacronDevil-600x313.jpeg (https://www.unz.com/ishamir/charlie-hebdo-rides-again/)



The French President stepped on a rake for the second time, and was duly slapped in the face by its long handle. French products went off the shelf in the Arab and Turkish shops; heads chopped off in the midst of pandemics; a lot of animosity, anger, smacking of a civil war. Vous l’avez voulu (you asked for it), Emmanuel Macron! We saw it in 2015, why did you push “Replay”? Anyone can step on a rake once, but to repeat this mistake? It is not a sign of a smart guy, unless this response is exactly what he wanted.

[...]

Full article: https://www.unz.com/ishamir/charlie-hebdo-rides-again/

[Philippe]

The virus fanatics have touched the small children by enforcing masks all day long in school from as young as 6 years old.
Protest of hundreds of parents in the streets of the village of prime minister Jean Castex.
This is very significant.
Is the population going to overcome their induced fear of dying and being fined?


https://www.facebook.com/107554124439425/videos/371399277519511

🇨🇵 EN COURS - Plusieurs centaines de personnes notamment des parents d'élèves manifestent contre le port du #masque à l'école dès 6 ans à #Prades, la ville de Jean Castex. #COVIDー19 #COVID19

[Hermoor]

Merci pour la nouvelle.

What are the yellow vests doing these days? Is there a recommended website to follow their progress?

[Gwin Ru]

HOLD-UP - Le film-documentaire en version intégrale, non-censurée, actualisée (https://odysee.com/@HOLD-UP:2) 2:49:55

November 12th, 2020
126,962 views

(https://odysee.com/@holdup_ledoc:9)HOLD-UP - Le film-documentaire (https://odysee.com/@HOLD-UP:2)
(https://odysee.com/@holdup_ledoc:9)
@holdup_ledoc (https://odysee.com/@holdup_ledoc:9)

La pandémie de la Covid-19 a donné lieu à des échanges contradictoires entre médecins, spécialistes, professeurs, hommes politiques et experts, le tout orchestré et alimenté par le feu nourri des médias. Les scientifiques se sont ainsi retrouvés discrédités avec notamment l’affaire du Lancet. Le Conseil scientifique, censé piloter cette pandémie, est ouvertement accusé d’incompétence et d’arrogance, preuves à l’appui. Et nous dans tout ça ? Que penser ? Que faire avec toutes ces informations ? Qui croire ?

Ce sont les questions auxquelles le documentaire HOLD-UP tente de répondre en partant à la rencontre de soignants, chercheurs, experts, juristes offrant une autre lecture sur cette crise sans précédent et dénonçant une batterie de mesures gouvernementales jugées inefficaces pour la plupart.
« Ce qu’il y a souvent de plus difficile à apprécier et à comprendre, c’est ce qui se passe sous nos yeux.»

– Alexis de Tocqueville
Depuis l’éclatement de la crise du coronavirus en mars 2020 et face au nombre restreint de lits de réanimation en milieu hospitalier, le gouvernement français proclame l’état d’urgence sanitaire et assoit son autorité à grand renfort de mesures liberticides : confinement, attestations de déplacement obligatoires, couvre-feu, amendes pouvant avoisiner les 3750 euros et peines de prison allant jusqu’à 6 mois d’emprisonnement en cas de non respect des règles.

D’un point de vue économique, ces mesures ont pour conséquence la fermeture de 400 000 PME et la précarisation de 4 millions de français, 1 million d’entre eux risquant de rejoindre les rangs des 10 millions de français vivant d’ores et déjà en deçà du seuil de pauvreté et des 900 000 personnes sans domicile fixe.

Que dire de ces mesures pour une épidémie dont le taux de mortalité actuel est établi à 0,15% et touchant principalement les plus de 65 ans affectés par la comorbidité ?

Saisis par l’urgence de la situation, le réalisateur Pierre Barnérias (TPROD) et le producteur Christophe Cossé (Tomawak) décident de s’atteler à la production du documentaire HOLD-UP, dévoilant les erreurs commises par les plus hautes instances publiques et questionnant les fondements mêmes de nos libertés et l’avenir qui nous est réservé si nous restons impassibles face à ces dérives politiques.
« Il faut bien se figurer que la privation de nos droits, de nos libertés, de nos choix est un hold-up. Nous aurions pu l’intituler « Coup d’Etat ». » – Christophe Cossé
Dans un souci de diffuser ce film citoyen au plus grand nombre, TPROD & Tomawak se sont engagés à mettre ce film en accès libre sur différentes plateformes web; notre préférence va tout naturellement à www.odysee.com (http://www.odysee.com), une des dernières et rares plateformes à laisser la parole libre et non-censurée.


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The Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to contradictory exchanges between doctors, specialists, professors, politicians and experts, all orchestrated and fueled by heavy media fire. Scientists have thus found themselves discredited, notably with the Lancet affair. The Scientific Council, supposed to pilot this pandemic, is openly accused of incompetence and arrogance, with supporting evidence. And what about us ? What to think? What to do with all this information? Who to believe?

These are the questions that the documentary HOLD-UP tries to answer by going to meet caregivers, researchers, experts, lawyers offering another reading on this unprecedented crisis and denouncing a battery of government measures deemed ineffective for the most part.
"What is often most difficult to appreciate and understand is what is happening before our eyes." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020 and faced with the limited number of resuscitation beds in hospitals, the French government has declared a state of health emergency and is asserting its authority with great reinforcement of freedom-killing measures: confinement, certificates compulsory travel, curfews, fines of up to 3,750 euros and prison sentences of up to 6 months imprisonment for non-compliance with the rules.

From an economic point of view, these measures result in the closure of 400,000 SMEs and the precariousness of 4 million French people, 1 million of them risking to join the ranks of the 10 million French people who are already living below the poverty line and 900,000 homeless people.

What about these measures for an epidemic whose current mortality rate is set at 0.15% and mainly affecting those over 65 affected by comorbidity?

Seized by the urgency of the situation, the director Pierre Barnérias (TPROD) and the producer Christophe Cossé (Tomawak) decide to get down to the production of the documentary HOLD-UP, revealing the errors made by the highest public authorities and questioning the very foundations of our freedoms and the future that is in store for us if we remain impassive in the face of these political abuses.
“We have to imagine that the deprivation of our rights, our freedoms, our choices is a hold-up. We could have called it a "coup d'etat". "- Christophe Cossé
In order to distribute this citizen film to as many people as possible, TPROD & Tomawak are committed to making this film freely accessible on various web platforms; our preference goes naturally to www.odysee.com (http://www.odysee.com), one of the last and few platforms to allow free and uncensored speech.


https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v3/streams/free/holdup_ledoc/f7456710948d08c175f2b4e4877dc452d51bd8cb/ad105a

[Gwin Ru]

...


... well, all the links above are now defunct... :rant:


Y'a p'tet' moyen:

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ2W57Z73RtjDh0dhFCCNs8iOw9r0ErAtnX

https://theoriedelaconspirationmonq.blogspot.com/2020/11/hold-up-le-film-qui-fait-lobjet-dun.html ... pardon my French... :p

https://odysee.com/@SPZjulienINFO:3/Hold-UP-film-documentaire-version-final-VOD-sorti-le-11nov2020:1

[Lunesoleil]

What are the yellow vests doing these days? Is there a recommended website to follow their progress?

The yellow vests? How do you want to manifest in the street with confinement and restrictions that change according to the mood of our dear president.
If you don't wear a mask, it's € 75, a repeat offense is € 1,500, just not to wear a mask. A lot of people are in fear in France, we are all fed up with the didacture of this government which changes its mind as it changes its shirt.
Containment was in place until February 2021 and we should come out of the state of emergency in April. In truth the fear is caused to have docile sheep and when it comes time to vaccinate, everyone will agree ???
I am afraid that Macron will retain power and that there will be no elections in 2022, it is off to a good start in this direction!

[Philippe]

What are the yellow vests doing these days? Is there a recommended website to follow their progress?

The yellow vests? How do you want to manifest in the street with confinement and restrictions that change according to the mood of our dear president.
If you don't wear a mask, it's € 75, a repeat offense is € 1,500, just not to wear a mask. A lot of people are in fear in France, we are all fed up with the didacture of this government which changes its mind as it changes its shirt.
Containment was in place until February 2021 and we should come out of the state of emergency in April. In truth the fear is caused to have docile sheep and when it comes time to vaccinate, everyone will agree ???
I am afraid that Macron will retain power and that there will be no elections in 2022, it is off to a good start in this direction!

Large parts of the population is zombified by the masks. Turning against the small schoolchildren is waking up a small part of the mothers and parents. This crime is where the general mass may wake up, thats why I am supporting that revolt.

Good news from Berlin where from monday masks will be prohibited in the workplace and the schools !!!!!!! The state insurance company does not support the risk of mask wearing any longer and that made things moving.
I have the news only in Spanish, but those who understand german can listen in on the video.

https://canal7salta.com/2020/11/11/internacional-video-el-tribunal-de-berlin-ha-decidido-que-a-partir-del-proximo-lunes-esta-prohibido-traer-mascaras-a-la-escuela-y-al-trabajo/?fbclid=IwAR2XMWUMhhLyJdebqMxRMEW4wuvk3FwHL8Tow0mVe863kyyPkQYNHSG3lc0

[Lunesoleil]

HOLD-UP - Le film-documentaire en version intégrale, non-censurée, actualisée (https://odysee.com/@holdup_ledoc:9/holdup_ledoc:f) 2:49:55


Since the launch of the movie Heist, many shares of the movie have been blocked, even this one no longer works
I changed the video link three times since this morning.
Initially, a participation was requested on Vimeo, which gave in exchange a code, because the producer had not collected enough money.
He had announced on Youtube that the film had been pirated and that the videos on facebook, Youtube were not allowed.
Then the film on Vimeo was deleted because after the buzz, all the media were on the lookout.
Then the producer in another video authorized on condition of seeing it on a single link which is the official video to watch the film.

The problem this movie has been copied many times on Odyssey.
I don't understand, if it's free why restrict its distribution?
The donors are given a right of ownership in my opinion.
This Hold-up film has become a real shambles, we no longer understand anything, it lacks scientific sources to be taken really seriously


I had opened a discussion, because I didn't know that we were talking about the subject of the film Hold-up on the Avalon forum, here is the link
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112921-Hold-up-the-movie&p=1390029#post1390029

I added two articles in translation plus articles in English translation link, to understand how the film Hold-up presented by conspirators is perceived, this is how the information is relayed by the official media, the mainstream media which are able to block donations on tipeee ?, it happened in 2019 with a boxer who had raised a large sum of money to pay these lawyers, the donations had then been blocked.

A case at the time that had made a lot of noise
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.20minutes.fr%2Fjustice%2F2699615-20200120-cagnotte-leetchi-ex-boxeur-dettinger-tribunal-ordonne-reouverture-debats%23%3A~%3Atext%3DLa%2520cagnotte%2520avait%2520%25C3%25A9t%25C3%25A9%2520cr%25C3%25A9%25C3%25A 9e%2Cjusqu%27%25C3%25A0%2520atteindre%2520145.000%2520euros.&sandbox=1
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lefigaro.fr%2Factualite-france%2Fcagnotte-leetchi-de-l-ex-boxeur-dettinger-le-tribunal-veut-examiner-le-trouble-a-l-ordre-public-20200120
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sudouest.fr%2F2020%2F01%2F19%2Fgilets-jaunes-l-ex-boxeur-christophe-dettinger-va-t-il-toucher-sa-cagnotte-leetchi-reponse-lundi-7080575-10530.php

[Gwin Ru]

...

Apparently, France is on lockdown/health emergency till the 16th of February 2021... in other words:


https://www.brukmer.be/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quenelle-epaul%c3%a9e.jpg

[Gwin Ru]

WATCH: French police unleash tear gas & water cannons at protests against new draconian ‘Comprehensive Security Law’ (https://www.rt.com/news/507055-police-blast-security-law-protesters/)

18 Nov, 2020 12:11
Get short URL (https://on.rt.com/av8v)

Videos at: https://www.rt.com/news/507055-police-blast-security-law-protesters/


There were violent clashes across France as thousands took to the streets in protest against a controversial proposed all-encompassing “global security law” which would criminalize filming police activity in certain circumstances.

The proposed legislation, currently being debated by the French parliament, seeks to criminalize photographing or filming the police with intent to cause harm. It would also reportedly give more autonomy to local police, arm more officers nationwide and expand the use of surveillance drones in high-crime areas.

Video shared online purports to show journalists being detained at Tuesday’s nationwide protests, which grew increasingly violent as the day wore on.

Thousands of citizens attended protests in numerous cities across the country, including some 400 people in Rennes; an estimated 700 protesters in Lyon and 1,300 people in Toulouse; Up to 800 people, including a local councillor who lost a hand during a yellow vest protest in 2018, attended a march in Bordeaux and an 800-strong protest was held in Grenoble.

The draft bill would make it Illegal to “disseminate, by whatever means and on whatever medium, with the aim of damaging physical or psychological integrity, the image of the face or any other element of identification of an official of the national police or a member of the national gendarmerie when they are acting in the context of a police operation.”

Protests held in Paris were particularly violent, with tear gas and water cannon deployed to disperse the crowds.

Footage also purported to show fleeing protesters, soaked by water cannon and suffering the effects of tear gas, trapped on a metro.

Penalties of up to one year in prison and a €45,000 fine are being considered alongside the new proposed legislation, backed by President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling La République En Marche party.

The law's co-author Jean-Michel Fauvergue, a former chief of France’s elite RAID police unit, dismissed claims the law would provide immunity for police abuse, saying “in no way does this stop journalists from working.”

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin claimed the proposed legislation is necessary to “protect those who protect us,” but rights groups and journalists’ unions say the bill is ripe for abuse and dangerously open to errant interpretation.

Amnesty and Reporters Without Borders argue that the proposed law in its current form contains vague and poorly-defined terms, including the concept of “intent” behind the publication of images or videos on social media or via news sites, which would be open to abuse from authorities.

An open letter (http://www.snj.fr/article/une-proposition-de-loi-s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9-globale-contre-la-libert%C3%A9-de-la-presse-2111388983) signed by journalists across France calls for more consultation and claims that there is already sufficient protection for authorities in place.

The UN Human Rights Council also warned against the proposal, saying it was open to abuse and “could discourage, even punish those who could supply elements of potential human rights violations by law enforcement, and provide a sort of immunity.”


Related:


French move to outlaw images of police at work is a clumsy attempt to hide the everyday brutality that passes as law enforcement (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507013-france-bans-police-photos/)

[Bill Ryan]

From RT, today: https://rt.com/news/508106-france-protest-filming-police

Thousands of protesters march in France against security law that bans filming police

Protesters throughout France have shown up for rallies against a controversial draft law on public safety, under which filming a police officer on duty may result in a hefty fine. Critics say it fosters impunity for misconduct.

The protests were organized in many large French cities, including Paris, Marseilles, Lyon, Brest and Nice, with thousands participating despite Covid-19 concerns. The main event is happening in the Place de la République in the capital.

https://twitter.com/ClementLanot/status/1332676297135419394

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The demonstrators are voicing their anger over a draft law on public security, which was approved by the lower chamber of the parliament this week. Article 24 of the bill bans filming of police officers on duty with an intention to harm them. Lawmakers who voted for the bill are among the officials who were shamed by the protesters.

https://twitter.com/s_assbague/status/1332684147844902914

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The reasoning behind the provision, which introduces a fine of €45,000 ($53,450) or even a one-year jail term, is that members of the force need to be protected from doxxing and online harassment. Critics say it curtails journalistic freedoms and would be used to intimidate people who want to expose police brutality and other forms of misconduct.

https://twitter.com/L_insoumission/status/1332690077630214146

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The protests were organized by unions, but they have many supporters. The Yellow Vests movement, which was sparked by growing social and economic inequality and for months remained a major problem for President Emmanuel Macron, is among them.

https://twitter.com/actufrparis/status/1332671365669851137

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There is also a component of racism in why the proposed law sparked so much anger. Police abuse of people of color became more visible thanks to the spread of mobile phones with good cameras and social media.

https://twitter.com/dbelaid/status/1332687602877599744

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One such incident, which was filmed on CCTV rather than a personal device, went viral this week after the footage was leaked online. It showed French police beat and racially abuse a black man, apparently for not wearing a face mask.
Police have also been slammed for their heavy-handed tactics in clearing a migrant camp in central Paris earlier this week.

[EFO]

How 'bout London TODAY?
Freedom!Freedom!Freedom!Freedom!Freedom!Freedom!
Jump to 1:14:00 hrs.

LIVE: New round of anti-lockdown protest hits London
(4:14:08 hrs.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Crc07uQqzU

[Gwin Ru]

...

... just a little more than a few people at the "Marches des Libertés" (Paris):


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/En8ASRCXYAEwCa2?format=jpg&name=medium
(^ click for larger size ^)
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https://www.sott.net/image/s29/591089/full/201128115101_01_demonstrations.jpg

[Gwin Ru]

French Former Top General Says He Fears Civil War Due to ‘Crisis of Authority’ (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/09/french-former-top-general-says-he-fears-civil-war-due-to-crisis-of-authority/)

By Chris Tomlinson (https://www.breitbart.com/author/chris-tomlinson/)
9 Dec 2020


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ETIENNE LAURENT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

French General Pierre de Villiers, the former chief of staff of the French armed forces, has warned that France could be heading for civil conflict, due to Islamist radicals and growing urban violence.

General de Villiers, who made headlines by quitting (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40653756#:~:text=Gen%20Pierre%20de%20Villiers%20resigns%20after%20a%20public,clash%20with%20Presiden t%20Macron%20over%20the%20defence%20budget.) as armed forces chief of staff in 2017 over clashes on army budget cuts with President Emmanuel Macron, warned of a variety of factors that could see France heading to potential civil conflict.

According to the General, the social climate in France has been tense well before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns imposed by the French government.
“Let’s not kid ourselves with illusions about confinement, which is like a lid on the pot: the current climate is gloomy at best, eruptive at worst, in any case very unstable. Everywhere, poverty and anger are increasing,” de Villiers told (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.leparisien.fr/politique/le-general-pierre-de-villiers-les-francais-reclament-de-l-autorite-05-12-2020-8412630.php) the newspaper, Le Parisien.

“And six crises overlap: health, security, economic, financial, geostrategic and obviously political, what I call the crisis of authority,” he said and added that France could be reaching a tipping point.
“It can change slowly, or very quickly if there is a spark like in 1789 or 1914. France is an old democracy, a mature country, but it has historically struggled to reform. It is often by explosions, by ruptures,” he said.

“France has been at peace for 75 years. We soldiers do not want war. We know what it is. My fear is civil war. When we behead a teacher in front of a college or when we murder three people who come to pray in a church,” he added referring to the recent terror attacks in Yvelines and Nice.
The 64-year-old also spoke of the problem of radical Islamic extremists and others who hate France, noting it could take generations to integrate them.
“Recovering 20-year-olds who hate France, who are close to […] the Salafists, that can neither be simple nor quick. The task is gigantic. But do we have other choices? Politics should be the art of placing one’s action in the long term,” he said.
According to a leaked intelligence report released earlier this year, at least 150 neighbourhoods (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/22/leaked-french-internal-intelligence-report-claims-150-neighborhoods-held-by-radical-islamists/) and areas across France are “held” by radical Islamists.

The brother of General de Villers, former French secretary of state Philippe de Villiers, noted in 2018 that the General had warned (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/08/former-french-state-secretary-warn-rise-of-destabilizing-violence/) President Macron about the growing instability in parts of the country.
“If the suburbs give rise to further and even more violent uprisings, we will have no way to face them: we lack the means, we lack the men. This is the reality of the French political situation,” General de Villiers is alleged to have told the French leader, according to his brother.
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... the General had warned (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/08/former-french-state-secretary-warn-rise-of-destabilizing-violence/) President Macron about the growing instability in parts of the country.... leads me to consider that it was Macron's job to make it happen that way with army budget cuts paving the way to NATO and UN troups.

[Philippe]

French Former Top General Says He Fears Civil War Due to ‘Crisis of Authority’ (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/09/french-former-top-general-says-he-fears-civil-war-due-to-crisis-of-authority/)

French General Pierre de Villiers, the former chief of staff of the French armed forces, has warned that France could be heading for civil conflict, due to Islamist radicals and growing urban violence.


Breitbart better be very careful who to trust in the French military and that may include De Villiers. The Islamic threat may be real but it has been used again and again to terrorize french civilian society each time when the regime had to enforce unpopular measures. Several false flags by controlled terrorists of Arabian descent have happened over the last years. The "management of terror attacks"and the mind control of terrorists are realities. The country is now an open prison after the "coup d'etat" with the Covid19 operation. The resistance is waiting for a new D-Day when Trump gets reelected.
Not only in Frankfurt CIA servers may have been seased. Footage of 6th of december show 4 Navy seal helicopters tanking in a civilian Nice airport (when they usually go to a military base) and has been explained as a joint operation with French military white hats against a CIA antenna in that Mediterranean town. ( See the attached article with 4 x twitter footage but sorry no time to translate). That would be an operation of the COS (‘commandement des opérations spéciales’) of the French army and the JSOC (‘Joint Special Operations Command’, le COS américain)

http://clearlook.unblog.fr/2020/12/07/lantenne-nicoise-de-la-cia/?fbclid=IwAR3O4-xagPZZnxqv9ikXGzUyPSAxLULrhC1sQTHpQe8b_HLC6YV14Kon4rg

[Gwin Ru]

President of the Free French: Call for rebellion, Paris, 18 December 2020 (https://www.brighteon.com/54b363f3-78da-4043-9c09-67bb32f82f34) 15:37

Claire Edwards Uncensored (https://www.brighteon.com/channels/clairity)
Published Paris, 18 December 2020


54b363f3-78da-4043-9c09-67bb32f82f34


Popular Rebellion - State of national emergency by Free French. (English voice-over)

Demo Sophie | 6 December 2020:
Announcement by the President of the Free French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvSpgWABFw0 (original French version)

[Gwin Ru]

...

... full speed propaganda...

‘1 COVID patient admitted to ICU every 7 min’ | France extends nationwide curbs (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/1-covid-patient-admitted-to-icu-every-7-min-france-extends-nationwide-curbs/)

January 9, 2021 (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/1-covid-patient-admitted-to-icu-every-7-min-france-extends-nationwide-curbs/) by IWB (https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/author/maizipeng/)

Coronavirus situation in France shows no signs of easing up as authorities extend restrictions already in place across the country.

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[Gwin Ru]

European Court of Human Rights : Voted that prohibits Member States from making vaccination against the coronavirus mandatory (https://theirishsentinel.com/2021/01/29/european-court-of-human-rights-voted-that-prohibits-member-states-from-making-vaccination-against-the-coronavirus-mandatory/)

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Jan 29, 2021
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Excellent news from the Council of Europe (CoE), the world’s leading human rights organisation. It is the governing body of the European Court of Human Rights.

As you’re probably aware the CoE is distinct and separate from the EU. 47 countries including all EU Member States are contracting parties to the CoE and the EurOpean Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

This is excellent news for people concerned about mandatory or coerced vaccination or discrimination on vaccination status.

Today a Council of Europe resolution has been voted that prohibits Member States from making vaccination against the coronavirus mandatory or that it can be used to discriminate against workers or anyone who does not get vaccinated.

Here is the text extracted at specific points and the full resolution in original and original link.

7.3 regarding ensuring high vaccine acceptance:
7.3.1 ensuring that citizens are informed that vaccination is NOT mandatory and that no one is pressured politically, socially or otherwise to get vaccinated if they do not wish to do it yourself;

7.3.2 ensure that no one is discriminated against for not being vaccinated, due to possible health risks or because they do not want to be vaccinated;
7.3 regarding the guarantee of high acceptance of the vaccine:
7.3.1 guarantee that citizens are informed that vaccination is NOT mandatory and that no one is pressured politically, socially or in any other way to be vaccinated , if you don’t want it;

7.3.2 ensure that no one is discriminated against for not having been vaccinated, due to possible health risks or for not wanting to be vaccinated;
https://pace.coe.int/en/files/29004/html

[Gwin Ru]

The downfall of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1885)

Sonja van den Ende
OneWorld (http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1885)
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:11 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s29/597549/large/Mark_Rutte.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s29/597549/full/Mark_Rutte.jpg)
Mark Rutte (right), former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, defending ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Halbe Zijlstra (left) who lied about his visit to the dacha of Russian President Vladimir Putin.


The reason Mark Rutte had to step down is the big scandal about the children's allowance affair. The entire team of ministers stepped down after exposing the affair. For years, thousands of parents were incorrectly classified by the Dutch tax authorities as fraudsters. They received child benefits, but according to the department of Social Affairs, they were not entitled to them but actually they were! So, often they had to repay thousands of euros, and some of them lost their houses, their children, and their lives. But this was not the only crime of this government, or therefore the one that Prime Minister Mark Rutte committed. He already had to step down when it was known that he and his government supported terrorists in Syria, or the MH-17 cover-up and the criminal acts done by his party members. These include corruption and fraud, as well as Minister of Foreign of Affairs Halbe Zijlstra lying about his visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which never took place.


Full article: http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1885

[Brigantia]

European Court of Human Rights : Voted that prohibits Member States from making vaccination against the coronavirus mandatory (https://theirishsentinel.com/2021/01/29/european-court-of-human-rights-voted-that-prohibits-member-states-from-making-vaccination-against-the-coronavirus-mandatory/)

That is excellent news for Europe! There is a clause in Britain's Human Rights Act that British citizens have right to refuse medical procedures, though there is an exclusion in the case of any kind of public health crisis. I wondered whether under the EU withdrawal arrangements this would also apply to Britain seeing as the Human Rights Act 1998 (an EU-derived law) still remains as a statute, and it seems that it will (some legalese that I've quoted below to plough through from the House of Commons online library (https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-withdrawal-agreement-bill-sovereignty-special-status-and-the-withdrawal-agreement/)), which states that UK citizens continue to have EU Human Rights protection. Any announcement by the Council of Europe on human rights would therefore apply; that's my interpretation.

"In anticipation of EU exit, the Government repealed the ECA (European Communities Act) effective on ‘exit day’ (currently 31 October 2019) using section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. However the WAB ‘preserves the effect of’ the ECA until the end of transition, since the UK will (mostly) follow EU law until at least the end of 2020. We cover these arrangements in another Insight.
The Withdrawal Agreement, however, has commitments on the part of the UK well beyond the transition period, some having implications for decades into the future, especially in areas like citizens’ rights. For example, the Court of Justice of the European Union is to have jurisdiction to hear cases for up to 8 years after transition and certain rights will last for the lifetime of anyone who has accrued them.
Article 4 of the Withdrawal Agreement requires the UK to ensure that directly applicable provisions of the treaty (and anything done under it) are given ‘the same legal effects’ in UK law as they would have in EU law and in the law of Member States. It says:
The provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of Union law made applicable by this Agreement shall produce in respect of and in the United Kingdom the same legal effects as those which they produce within the Union and its Member States. Accordingly, legal or natural persons shall in particular be able to rely directly on the provisions contained or referred to in this Agreement which meet the conditions for direct effect under Union law.
The United Kingdom shall ensure compliance with paragraph 1, including as regards the required powers of its judicial and administrative authorities to disapply inconsistent or incompatible domestic provisions, through domestic primary legislation."

[Johan (Keyholder)]

Gwin Ru, I wonder whether point 7.3.2 (about non-discrimination) will make it possible for people to travel, take a plane or ferry internationally, regardless whether they have gotten a vaccination or not. What do you think?

[Brigantia]

Gwin Ru, I wonder whether point 7.3.2 (about non-discrimination) will make it possible for people to travel, take a plane or ferry internationally, regardless whether they have gotten a vaccination or not. What do you think?

Hope you don't mind me butting in, seeing as I've studied law and Gwin Ru's offline :); I would say that travel restrictions and being barred from any sort of activity, such as entering shops or being told that you cannot work unless vaccinated (this is the one I'm concerned about), would amount to discrimination.

The definition of 'discrimination' in law is to be treated differently, so if you're denied certain rights to do activities in your daily life on the grounds that you've not been vaccinated, that is discriminatory.

[Gwin Ru]

Riot police crack down on anti-Global Security Bill protesters in Paris (https://www.rt.com/news/514140-paris-protest-global-security-bill/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/514140-paris-protest-global-security-bill/)
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:33 UTC


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French citizens are once again protesting a bill that punishes those who release photos and videos identifying police officers, something critics say is a major challenge to press freedom.

As protesters marched near the Place de la Republique in Paris, police also took to the streets in riot gear, and several clashes between demonstrators and officers took place.

Saturday's demonstrations are only the latest protests against the security bill, which would fine offenders thousands and possibly land them behind bars for up to a year. Rallies in Marseille, Paris, Lyon, and other cities descended into violence in December, as protesters launched projectiles at riot police, and vehicles and businesses were vandalized.

In response to the protests, government officials announced they would rewrite Article 24, which takes aim at photos and videos of officers, and find a more balanced approach.


Related:

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Tens of thousands protest against new 'security' law in France (https://www.sott.net/article/444970-Tens-of-thousands-protest-against-new-security-law-in-France)



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[Gwin Ru]

Mayor of Paris District Agrees With Generals Threatening to Seize Control Amid ‘Civil War’ Danger (https://sputniknews.com/europe/202104301082771328-mayor-of-paris-district-agrees-with-generals-threatening-to-seize-control-amid-civil-war-danger/)

by Ilya Tsukanov (https://sputniknews.com/authors/tsukanov_ilya/) Sputnik
12:24 GMT 30.04.2021
(updated 12:43 GMT 30.04.2021)


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A group of over 1,200 French generals, officers, service members and police personnel signed an open letter to the French government last week urging it to act against radical ideologies and religious extremism to prevent a civil war and the disintegration of the Fifth Republic. The letter has sparked a major debate throughout France.

Rachida Dati, mayor of the 7th arrondissement (district) of Paris, has expressed her agreement with the recent letter to the government by current and former members of the military and other security services about the dangers of violence and civil conflict caused France-hating ideologies, Islamism and “suburban hordes”.
“What is written in this letter is a reality,” Dati said (https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/8h30-fauvelle-dely/tribune-des-militaires-regionales-cannabis-le-8h30-franceinfo-de-rachida-dati_4372861.html), speaking to France Info on Thursday.
“When you have a country plagued by urban guerrilla warfare, when you have a constant and high terrorist threat, when you have increasingly glaring and flagrant inequalities, when some patriotic people are breaking away from society, we cannot say that the country is doing well,” the official suggested.Recalling last week’s stabbing murder (https://sputniknews.com/europe/202104271082743500-macron-to-attend-funeral-of-policewoman-stabbed-in-paris-outskirts-reports-suggest/) of a policewoman by a Tunisian Islamist outside Paris and warning that the country’s police officers “have become a target for terrorists”, Dati expressed concerns that “the police will break down one day”, and stressed that if they “crack”, “we will go well beyond the disintegration of society”.

Dati served as a spokesperson to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and is a member of France’s liberal-conservative Les Republicains Party. Along with her job as mayor of the 7th arrondissement, she has served as a member of the European Parliament, where she took part in the drafting of reports on counter-terrorism and anti-radicalisation, and finding solutions to the migrant crisis which hit Europe in the mid-2010s. In early 2020, she attracted controversy over her remarks about the terrorist shootings in Hanau outside Frankfurt, Germany after she suggested that Chancellor Angela Merkel was “paying a high price today for the massive opening of the borders” in 2015, and said that many migrants do not appear to share Europeans’ “republican values”, which sparks “clashes”. A large group of current and retired military officers, including 20 retired generals, signed an open letter (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/pour-un-retour-de-lhonneur-de-nos-gouvernants-20-generaux-appellent-macron-a-defendre-le-patriotisme/) published in French magazine Valeurs Actuelles on 21 April warning about what they said was a growing danger of France’s disintegration.

What Did the Letter Say?
The letter argued that France is now facing a “grave hour” and “is in peril” from “several mortal dangers facing her,” including what it said were dangerous “racialist, indigentist and decolonial theories” which it suggested promotes a “racial war” between French people of all colours and creeds. “They despise our country, its traditions, its culture, and want to see it dissolve by tearing away its past and its history. Thus they attack former military and civilian glories with statues, analysing centuries-old words,” the letter said of the authors of these theories.
“This is a disintegration which, together with Islamism and the suburban hordes, is leading to the detachment of many parts of the nation and their transformation into territories subject to dogmas that are contrary to our constitution,” the letter continued. “The dangers are growing, the violence is increasing day by day,” the appeal stressed, pointing to the recent grisly incident involving the decapitation of a teacher outside his school in October 2020 after he showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The officers penning the article suggested that they, as “servants of the Nation…cannot be passive spectators of such actions”.
“It is therefore imperative that those who lead our country find the courage to eradicate these dangers. To do this, it is often enough to apply without weakness the laws that already exist,” the address recommended.

It warned that “if nothing is done, laxity will continue to spread inexorably in society, ultimately causing an explosion and the intervention of our active comrades in a perilous mission to protect our civilisational values and safeguard our compatriots on the nation’s territory”.
The latter remarks were interpreted by some as a threat of military rule, and 18 active-duty officers (https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210428-ex-generals-spark-backlash-as-they-warn-of-civil-war-in-france) who signed the letter have faced disciplinary action. 20 retired generals and over 1,000 officers and service members of various ranks, as well as police and gendarmerie personnel signed the appeal. Macron’s government has blasted (https://sputniknews.com/europe/202104261082723065-french-defence-minister-slams-marine-le-pen-for-hailing-retired-soldiers-anti-islamism-drive-/) the appeal, which was published on the 60th anniversary of the failed 1961 coup d’état against French President Charles de Gaulle, with Florence Parly, minister in charge of the armed forces, warning that all active duty signatories will face punishment, up to and including compulsory retirement. Parly also blasted the officers for their alleged lack of political “neutrality and loyalty”.

A poll by Harris Interactive commissioned by LCI, a French television channel, found that 58 percent of Frenchmen and women “support” the open letter’s authors, with a whopping 86 percent agreeing that some cities of neighbourhoods have areas where French law does not apply, and 73 percent agreeing that French society is disintegrating. 45 percent of respondents agreed that their country may soon face a civil war. 64 percent said the officers who signed their names to the letter should not be reprimanded.

Tweet reads: "64 percent of French say they have heard of the letter published by military personnel on the Valeurs Actuelle website."

Following the letter’s publication, Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Rally Party and runner up in the 2017 presidential election, slammed the current government for its alleged security and immigration-related failures, and warned that France would face an “explosion” (https://sputniknews.com/europe/202104271082742876-marine-le-pen-warns-france-will-face-explosion-in-security-if-macron-re-elected/) if he was reelected in the upcoming 2022 elections. Le Pen expressed support for the letter’s authors, saying what they were asking for was simply for the state to “apply the law”. She encouraged them to join her in her campaign to “fight for France”.


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Marine Le Pen Warns France Will Face 'Explosion' in Security If Macron Re-Elected (https://sputniknews.com/europe/202104271082742876-marine-le-pen-warns-france-will-face-explosion-in-security-if-macron-re-elected/)

[Gwin Ru]

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... May Day madness as tens of thousands protest in France, Turkey, and Italy (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-may-day-france-protest-idUSKBN2CI37U)

Dominique Vidalon Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-may-day-france-protest-idUSKBN2CI37U)
Sun, 02 May 2021 14:06 UTC


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Full article: https://www.sott.net/article/452205-May-Day-madness-as-tens-of-thousands-protest-in-France-Turkey-and-Italy

[Gwin Ru]

Open letter from retired military : a plot against the Republic ? (https://www.voltairenet.org/article213001.html)

by Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network | Paris (France) | 4 May 2021


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In three years, France has gone through two major crises that have not been answered: the questioning of globalization by the Gilets jaunes and the disintegration of the State by the police unions. Neither of them has received a substantial response. If the observations of these whistleblowers are shared by all, it becomes impossible to share them publicly. Democracy does not die from the absence of contradictory debates but, worse, from the erection of taboos.
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Full article: https://www.voltairenet.org/article213001.html


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[Gwin Ru]

Search & Seizure at Home of Judge Who Rendered the Sensational Weimar Mask-Judgment (https://2020news.de/en/house-warrant-executed-on-weimar-judge-for-political-reasons/)

2020 News
April 26, 2021


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As 2020News has just learned, the judge at the Weimar District Court, Christian Dettmar, had his house searched today. His office, private premises and car were searched. The judge’s cell phone was confiscated by the police. The judge had made a sensational decision on April 8, 2021, which was very inconvenient for the government’s anti Coronavirus measures policy.

At the suggestion of a mother, the judge had ruled in a child welfare proceeding pursuant to Section 1666 of the German Civil Code (BGB), Ref.: 9 F 148/21, that two Weimar schools were prohibited with immediate effect from requiring students to wear mouth-nose coverings of any kind (especially qualified masks such as FFP2 masks), to comply with AHA minimum distances, and/or to participate in SARS-CoV-2 rapid tests. At the same time, it had determined that classroom instruction should be maintained (full text of the ruling in German (https://2020news.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Amtsgericht-Weimar-9-F-148-21-EAO-Beschluss-anonym-2021-04-08_online.pdf)including three expert opinions – English translation will be available soon).

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Full article: https://2020news.de/en/house-warrant-executed-on-weimar-judge-for-political-reasons/

[Gwin Ru]

French fishermen blockade Jersey port as 2 British naval vessels arrive at the island amid fishing row (VIDEOS) (https://www.rt.com/uk/523054-france-jersey-britain-fishing-fleet/)

RT
6 May, 2021 11:52
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French fishermen have sailed their vessels to the port of St Helier to stage a protest at the lack of full fishing licences issued to French fishermen since Brexit; Britain has deployed two sizeable naval vessels nearby.

Data from marinetraffic.com (http://marinetraffic.com/) shows around 25 French-registered vessels stationed just outside Jersey’s main port on Thursday morning, although some eyewitnesses claim there are more.

The trawlermen are protesting the dearth of licences granted to French fishing vessels following the Brexit agreement which saw the EU lose its jurisdiction over British waters.


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Hugo Lehuby, a representative for the Normandy regional fishing committee, told Reuters that
“this is not a blockade… It’s not our objective to smash stuff up.”

“The objective is to express our unhappiness about the restrictive measures that were imposed,” he added.
In TV footage, one of the Royal Navy vessels deployed, the HMS Tamar, can be seen further out to sea. The 90-meter-long patrol boat was one of two vessels deployed to the island.

Media stationed on the island ahead of the protest reported a number of clashes between French and local ships, one of which was caught on camera.

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On Wednesday, Jersey’s external relations minister, Ian Gorst, hit back at France after Paris threatened to cut power supplies to the island in response to the Channel island’s non-issuance of full fishing licences to French fishermen. In 2019, 95% of Jersey’s electricity came from France.

Gorst said that of the 41 French vessels who were issued licences last week, the majority had provided the historic fishing data that Jersey had requested. However, 17 had not, “and that’s where the problem is.”

French fishermen have protested frequently that they’ve struggled to obtain new licences to fish UK waters since Brexit. In April, a group of trawlermen staged a protest at Boulogne, blockading trucks delivering UK-landed fish to France.


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[Gwin Ru]

'Civil war is brewing in France and you know it': French military launches another salvo at Macron with new open letter (https://www.rt.com/news/523363-france-military-civil-war/)

RT
10 May, 2021 11:44
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A group of active French military personnel has published a new open letter to the country's president Emmanuel Macron, warning him of a "civil war" brewing in the country after all the "concessions" he's made to Islamism.

The letter (https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/exclusif-signez-la-nouvelle-tribune-des-militaires/), published in the conservative Valeurs Actuelles magazine late on Sunday, strikes a similar tone to the message published by the same outlet last month. Unlike the previous one, which was signed by 25 retired generals and active-duty soldiers, the new letter is anonymous and is open for signing by the general public. As of noon on Monday, it had attracted over 100,000 signatures.

The authors of the letter have described themselves as active-duty French soldiers, belonging to the younger generation of the military that saw actual combat over the past years.
"We are what the newspapers have called 'the fire generation.' Men and women, active soldiers, of all armies and of all ranks, of all opinions, we all love our country. These are our only claims to fame. And while we cannot, by law, express ourselves with our face uncovered, it is equally impossible for us to stay silent," the letter reads.
The letter accuses President Macron of making "concessions" to Islamism on French soil, while the country's military has been spilling its blood to fight against it in "Afghanistan, Mali, the Central African Republic or elsewhere."

The authors have also indicated that at least some of them have taken part in the domestic Operation Sentinelle, launched after the devastating 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks, and witnessed certain ethno-religious communities in France completely detached from the rest of the country.

For such communities "France means nothing but an object of sarcasm, contempt or even hatred," the letter reads.

Like the previous letter, this new one warns the republic's authorities of an impending "civil war," with the very existence of France being at stake. "Once again, civil war is brewing in France and you know it perfectly well," the letter reads.
We are not talking about extending your mandates or conquering others. We are talking about the survival of our country, the survival of your country.
The authors of the letter have also voiced strong support towards the signees of the first one and harshly criticized the government's response to it.
"To encourage the army's senior officers to take a stand and expose themselves, before angrily sanctioning them as soon as they write anything other than battle reports, one must be quite perverse," the letter reads.
Cowardice, deceit, perversion: this is not our vision of the hierarchy. On the contrary, the army is, par excellence, the place where we speak the truth because we commit our lives.
The first letter, published on April 21 – on the 60th anniversary of a failed coup d'état against General Charles de Gaulle over his support in favor of independence for Algeria – caused an uproar among France's top officials. Prime Minister Jean Castex branded the message "an initiative against all of our republican principles, of honor and the duty of the army," while the military vowed to punish the active-duty signees.


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[Bill Ryan]

From Infowars yesterday:


https://nfowars.com/posts/ex-cops-warn-france-on-the-brink-of-collapse/

Ex-Cops Warn France is on the Brink of Collapse

More alarming news out of France, where a group of 93 former police officers are now warning that areas of the country have become “lost territory” thanks to illegal immigration and rampant criminality.


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[Brigantia]

More alarming news out of France, where a group of 93 former police officers are now warning that areas of the country have become “lost territory” thanks to illegal immigration and rampant criminality.

I heard the same about Berlin 4 years ago from people who live there; emergency services would never go to certain parts of the city as it was too dangerous.

It saddens me; I always loved Paris, but even back in 2012 on my last visit there I was shocked at the dump it had become.

[Gwin Ru]

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Senior Military Officers’ Open Letters to Macron – Commentary & Background (http://thesaker.is/senior-military-officers-open-letters-to-macron/)

by Gary Littlejohn for the Saker Blog
May 17, 2021

Part 1 – Contains the first two letters (http://thesaker.is/for-a-return-of-the-honor-of-our-rulers-20-generals-call-on-macron-to-defend-patriotism/)
Part 2 – Contains the next two letters (http://thesaker.is/france-translation-of-initial-response-by-other-officers-april-27-2021-part-2/)
Part 3 – Commentary (http://thesaker.is/senior-military-officers-open-letters-to-macron/) – you are now here.

Introduction
There have been reports recently in the French media that retired senior French military officers, and a lot of younger serving officers, had written an open letter to President Macron saying in effect that unless the French government took decisive action on the banlieues (suburbs, but here code for ‘immigrant’ areas) then the alternative could well be a civil war. To be clear, they were not threatening a coup, but urging the government to deal with what they saw as a serious, growing problem, a problem made still more acute by the despair and unrest manifested in the Yellow Vest series of demonstrations.

The letter was published on the 60th anniversary of the attempted military coup against President Charles de Gaulle over Algeria (21 April 2021). That date may not have much resonance these days, but I can say from personal experience that even on the 14th July 1961 (Bastille Day) tensions were very high in Paris, with machine gun nests on every corner around the Arc de Triomphe. It transpired decades later that there had also been a massacre of hundreds of Algerians at around this time, with the whole affair being completely covered up by the media. Here is the link to that open letter, which is referred to at times in commentaries as a ‘tribune’ or ‘platform’.
https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/pour-un-retour-de-lhonneur-de-nos-gouvernants-20-generaux-appellent-macron-a-defendre-le-patriotisme/

See the translation: https://thesaker.is/for-a-return-of-the-honor-of-our-rulers-20-generals-call-on-macron-to-defend-patriotism/ (https://thesaker.is/for-a-return-of-the-honor-of-our-rulers-20-generals-call-on-macron-to-defend-patriotism/)
What does this imply for the cohesiveness of France, given the lengthy protests by the Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) that were analysed so ably by Ramin Mazaheri on The Saker website? The growing Islamist unrest, which attracted greater attention after the Cathedral at Nantes was set on fire, is stretching the French police forces further at a time when a declared state of emergency has become the new normal in France, through legislative sleight of hand.
https://thesaker.is/police-suicide-in-france-the-whistle-was-blown-but-the-macron-regime-pretends-to-be-deaf/
The mayor of a part of Paris, a woman of Algerian descent, has supported the sentiments expressed in this first letter, but the public government response was to discuss how those officers could be punished for their actions, and hypocritically to accuse the anonymous serving officers of cowardice for not signing their names, which would be a disciplinary offense.

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Full article: http://thesaker.is/senior-military-officers-open-letters-to-macron/

[Brigantia]

This is an interesting video in English (10:50 minutes) about the exodus of people from Paris since the lockdowns started, their reasons and the effects it's having on Paris and the places that they're heading to in other regions. I'd heard of the many people in America moving out of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but not Paris.


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[Brigantia]

President Macron was slapped in the face today as he greeted crowds in Drome, south-east France today.

Bien fait, mon ami!


https://twitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1402258207649771522

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[Gwin Ru]

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[Journeyman]

:bigsmile:

The defence should show the jury a picture of Macron and ask them if they could honestly say they didn't want to do the same thing...

[Gwin Ru]

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Happy National Day, France! Bonne fête nationale! France was one of the six founding members of the European Economic Community in 1957. (http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/07/happy-national-day-france-bonne-fete.html)



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[Gwin Ru]

Macron announces vaccine passport restricting access to stores, healthcare, public transit on national holiday: Protests erupt across France (https://westphaliantimes.com/protests-erupt-across-france-on-national-holiday-after-macron-announces-vaccine-passport-restricting-access-to-stores-healthcare-public-transit/)

Samuel Rz
The Westphalian Times (https://westphaliantimes.com/protests-erupt-across-france-on-national-holiday-after-macron-announces-vaccine-passport-restricting-access-to-stores-healthcare-public-transit/)
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:45 UTC


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French citizens react to President Macron's Covid announcements


France's President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 13th that a vaccine passport would be required to attend public events and non-essential activities.

Macron announced (https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/extension-du-pass-sanitaire-vaccination-obligatoire-le-calendrier-des-annonces-de-macron-20210713) on July 13th that two island regions of France (Martinique and La Réunion) would return to the sanitary emergency status and adopt an 11 PM curfew.

The President also announced that starting July 21st, a vaccine passport would be required to partake in any non-essential activity with over 50 people (theatres, concert halls, festivals, etc.) This measure will apply to every citizen aged 12 years and older.

Starting mid-August, the vaccine passport will be required for any clients and employees of cafes, bars, restaurants.

The vaccine passport will also be required to take the train or board a plane.

Shopping malls, retirement homes and "socio-medical" establishments will also require a vaccine passport.

While vaccination will be mandatory for healthcare workers and firefighters, the police will be exempt (https://www.cnews.fr/france/2021-07-13/pass-sanitaire-pourquoi-les-policiers-et-les-gendarmes-ne-sont-ils-pas-concernes) from the vaccine passport.

In September 2021, the government will launch its third dose "booster" shot campaign, targeted mostly at vulnerable citizens and elders. The French government will also launch a vaccination campaign in high schools, colleges and universities.

Starting September 15, police checks will be implemented on health care workers who will face mandatory vaccination. Sanctions will be taken against those still unvaccinated.

On July 14th, the day after the announcement, and coincidentally France's national holiday, citizens took to the streets in 17 cities to protest the government's vaccine passport.

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Protesters chanted "Freedom" as they marched.

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A group of protestors in Paris chanted "down with the dictatorship". Another population slogan asked for the resignation of Emmanuel Macron.

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Police in Paris tried to disperse the protestors with tear gas.


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SOTT Comment (https://www.sott.net/article/455498-Macron-announces-vaccine-passport-restricting-access-to-stores-healthcare-public-transit-on-national-holiday-Protests-erupt-across-France): Macron decides to announce restrictions the day before Frances biggest holiday, which celebrates it's liberation from a tyrannical ancien regime. What better way to display his contempt for the French citizenry? But, there's a long way between announcement and implementation. Keep an eye on France.
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[Gwin Ru]

Courageous Macron Restarts the Yellow Vests Protest Movement Against Himself (https://anti-empire.com/courageous-macron-restarts-the-yellow-vests-protest-movement-against-himself/)

Marko Marjanović (https://anti-empire.com/guest-author/marko_marjanovi__/)
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In a move with consequences that anyone could have predicted Macron has galvanized another protest movement against him. Call it the Yellow Vests 2.0 for now.

Macron had been plagued by Europe’s most resilient protest movement for most of his mandate but caught a lucky break with COVID-19. The Mind Virus of 2020 allowed him to decree lockdowns which also took care of Gilet Jaunes.

Rather than remember he owed his new-found situation as a ruler not facing weekly uprisings to an extremely unlikely gift, he went out of his way to provoke them once again by decreeing Europe’s most Draconian vaccine passport regime.

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Why would Macron pull such a self-injuring move? A few possibilities come to mind:


After 16 months of lording it over the French people with decree he felt they were now broken and ready to accept anything whatsoever.



He thought a Stalinist line on vaccine religion could serve to further divide and suppress the Yellow Vests. (Harder to go for a protest when you’re banned from the train.)



Merkel is retiring and he’s coveting the position of EU’s unofficial leader. Forcing through EU’s most South African “virus” regime would impress the classes he is auditioning for.

Perhaps French speakers could contribute other reasons. Whatever Macron’s motivation for the virus apartheid, it has backfired already.

Gilet Jaunes, welcome back!

[...]

Full article with tweetted videos: https://anti-empire.com/courageous-macron-restarts-the-yellow-vests-protest-movement-against-himself/

[Brigantia]

Thank you Gwin Ru, that's a great article and I love to hear what's happening across La Manche. Macron's so fixated on following his paymasters' agenda that he's forgotten to learn from French history.

I love this comment to the article:


Fantastic! …………………..the French government always bend because the French people know their power and they will use it.

It is a shame the American people do not understand how powerful they are against their Doughnut fat police forces

It's a shame too about the British; we tend to grumble amongst ourselves and do nothing against our woke, Tik Tok dancing police.

Seeing as all the major cities in Europe now have a powerful criminal underground, and France has several large cities, will there now be a flourishing industry in fake jab certificates?

[muxfolder]

You can always count on the French people. How is it that Macron is still in power there?

[Gwin Ru]

...

... tout chaud off the press:

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... calling for Macron to quit...

[Bill Ryan]

Firemen in France pushing back the police if only we had the same here maybe when there kids are threatened

French Police Join Protesters Against Mandatory COVID19 Vaccines & Passports

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[Tintin]

Here's another where the police appear to be joining the protesters:

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[Bill Ryan]

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[Bill Ryan]

In France, Les Gendarmes are WITH the protesters
(The Massive Uprising in France has begun)

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[Brigantia]

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Great story, but... this footage was posted last November, and there are mixed messages of whether it was Rothschilds Bank or Banque de France, which is near Place de la Bastille.

Here's some clearer footage that claims to be Rothschilds Bank, maybe someone who knows Paris better can confirm where it is?

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[Merkaba360]

Courageous Macron Restarts the Yellow Vests Protest Movement Against Himself (https://anti-empire.com/courageous-macron-restarts-the-yellow-vests-protest-movement-against-himself/)

Marko Marjanović (https://anti-empire.com/guest-author/marko_marjanovi__/)
7 hours ago


In a move with consequences that anyone could have predicted Macron has galvanized another protest movement against him. Call it the Yellow Vests 2.0 for now.

Macron had been plagued by Europe’s most resilient protest movement for most of his mandate but caught a lucky break with COVID-19. The Mind Virus of 2020 allowed him to decree lockdowns which also took care of Gilet Jaunes.

Rather than remember he owed his new-found situation as a ruler not facing weekly uprisings to an extremely unlikely gift, he went out of his way to provoke them once again by decreeing Europe’s most Draconian vaccine passport regime.

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Why would Macron pull such a self-injuring move? A few possibilities come to mind:


After 16 months of lording it over the French people with decree he felt they were now broken and ready to accept anything whatsoever.



He thought a Stalinist line on vaccine religion could serve to further divide and suppress the Yellow Vests. (Harder to go for a protest when you’re banned from the train.)



Merkel is retiring and he’s coveting the position of EU’s unofficial leader. Forcing through EU’s most South African “virus” regime would impress the classes he is auditioning for.

Perhaps French speakers could contribute other reasons. Whatever Macron’s motivation for the virus apartheid, it has backfired already.

Gilet Jaunes, welcome back!

[...]

Full article with tweetted videos: https://anti-empire.com/courageous-macron-restarts-the-yellow-vests-protest-movement-against-himself/

Lol. He didn't think anything. He was ordered to implement this by the globalists to beta-test/test market the vaccine passport in france. Perhaps, they figured if they could get it to work in France, they could pull it off anywhere.

I will be starving myself to death before I take the shot and poo on my immune system. Better I die from nature than lose to these clowns :)

[Bill Ryan]

From https://muslimskeptic.com/2021/07/19/french-protestors-enraged-by-covid-restrictions-burn-vaccine-centers, reported yesterday:

French Protestors Enraged by Covid Restrictions, Burn Vaccine Centers

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Yet another French revolution is brewing. This time, it’s the Monarchs of Vaxx being overthrown.
BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57883397):

Two vaccination centres have been ransacked in France, as people protested against the introduction of tougher coronavirus rules.

One site in south-east France was vandalised and flooded using fire hoses on Friday night, authorities said.

A day later, another clinic in the south-west was partially destroyed by an arson attack, local media reported.
The French can be very violent and bloodthirsty people. Now they are out marching in the hundreds of thousands.
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The incidents came on a weekend of demonstrations. More than 100,000 came out to protest on Saturday.

Critics have accused President Emmanuel Macron’s government of violating freedoms by introducing new rules.

The most controversial of the rules include mandatory vaccinations for health workers and health passes to access most public places.
Mandatory vaccinations used to be a “conspiracy theory.” Now countries like France are clamping down on their citizens, forcing them to get injections that [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/why-most-people-who-now-die-with-covid-have-been-vaccinated"]seem to do very little (https://muslimskeptic.com/2021/07/04/algerian-genocide-france/) at preventing covid infection and subsequent death.

Basically, France has told its citizens, get vaccinated or starve to death. And, surprisingly, people are not too happy about that.

Meanwhile at a rally on Saturday, French politician Martine Wonner told protesters to “lay siege” to the offices of lawmakers who backed the government’s Covid policies.

A high profile sceptic of Covid vaccines, she faces a potential legal inquiry for this. She was forced to quit her opposition group in parliament on Sunday, but said her words had been misconstrued.

France has seen several acts of violence and vandalism against lawmakers who supported the new vaccination rules.
How severe will the violence get against the pro-vaccination politicians in France? Will they continue to risk their lives by pushing a Pfizer and Moderna agenda?

[Gwin Ru]

Investigation opened into giant Macron-Hitler billboard comparing Covid policy to Nazi regime (https://www.rt.com/news/529730-france-covid19-macron-hitler-vaccine/)

RT
20 Jul, 2021 12:35
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The Toulon prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into a defamatory poster which conflates images of French President Emmanuel Macron and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, amid criticism of ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.


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A billboard seen on the outskirts of Toulon and La Seyne-sur-Mer, displaying an image of French President Emmanuel Macron dressed in a Nazi uniform and sporting Adolf Hitler’s trademark toothbrush moustache, has caught the attention of the city’s prosecutor, according to local media reports.

A report in France Bleu on Tuesday morning stated that the Toulon prosecutor’s office had now opened an investigation into the defamatory posters displayed in the Var department.

The investigation has been entrusted to the departmental security of the Toulon police force and targets the owner of these signs, who initiated the display. According to reports, last week one of the two posters simply displayed the word ‘Honte’, meaning ‘Shame’.

The billboard also features the letters LREM – an abbreviation for Macron’s La Republique En Marche party – squeezed into a white circle, replacing the swastika, on the infamous red background adopted by the German Nazi party.

Responding to the news on Twitter, one person called (https://twitter.com/DianeDelahaye13/status/1417420130905100288) on the culprits not to be sent to jail but to be forced to copy Hitler’s famous ‘Mein Kampf’ in all languages with a quill pen.

France’s leader has experienced a substantial backlash since enforcing mandatory vaccines for certain groups, including health workers, and introducing vaccine passports for entry to leisure and cultural venues. According to a poll by public opinion agency IFOP for Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper, Macron’s approval went down by 13 points among people aged 18-24, although support grew among retirees.

On Saturday, as many as 114,000 people rallied across France to protest what they believe is an unjust intrusion into their private lives. Protesters chanted “Liberty!” and demanded that Macron resign.

[Gwin Ru]

[...]
Yet another French revolution is brewing. This time, it’s the Monarchs of Vaxx being overthrown.
BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57883397):

[...]

Mandatory vaccinations used to be a “conspiracy theory.” Now countries like France are clamping down on their citizens, forcing them to get injections that seem to do very little (https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/why-most-people-who-now-die-with-covid-have-been-vaccinated) at preventing covid infection and subsequent death.
[...]:jaw:
???... are the folks at the BBC okay? They seem to suffer an accute case of de-bias-citis?

Quick! Send them to nearest hospital!

... still don't like the "bloodthirsty" French though... projecting their own vampiristic tendencies?

[Brigantia]

[...]
Yet another French revolution is brewing. This time, it’s the Monarchs of Vaxx being overthrown.
BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57883397):

[...]

Mandatory vaccinations used to be a “conspiracy theory.” Now countries like France are clamping down on their citizens, forcing them to get injections that seem to do very little (https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/why-most-people-who-now-die-with-covid-have-been-vaccinated) at preventing covid infection and subsequent death.
[...]:jaw:
???... are the folks at the BBC okay? They seem to suffer an accute case of de-bias-citis?

Quick! Send them to nearest hospital!

... still don't like the "bloodthirsty" French though... projecting their own vampiristic tendencies?

Sadly not, Gwin Ru... you can't rely on the BBC to tell the truth...

I went through to the link and I didn't see that quote in the story, but when I went back to check I got 'bad gateway'. They've obviously realised that putting out a news story about the fight against the tyranny is a bad idea and have taken it down!

(Update - just tried the link again and it worked... strange...)

Looking again, the second link is to the Guardian; surprising to find such a story there, though. They may be left-leaning but they're still MSM.

[Gwin Ru]

'Hands off my natural immunity': French protest against COVID health pass (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-health-pass-idUSKBN2ER11Z)

Emilie Delwarde, Clotaire Achi
Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-health-pass-idUSKBN2ER11Z)
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:40 UTC


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A man shows a health pass to a security agent in front of the Louvre museum entrance amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Paris, France, July 21, 2021. © REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier


Hundreds of people protested in Paris on Wednesday against the introduction of a health pass for some activities and against compulsory vaccinations for health workers as the government seeks to curb a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections in France.

From Wednesday visitors heading to museums, cinemas or swimming pools in France will be denied entry if they cannot produce the health pass showing that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or have had a recent negative test.

Some of the protesters waved banners that read "Freedom to choose" and "Hands off my natural immunity!"

"They want to force us to be vaccinated at any price. No, no, no", Nathalie Labedade, a care home worker, told Reuters.

The health pass, previously only required for large-scale festivals or to go clubbing, will also be needed from the start of August to enter restaurants and bars and for long-distance train and plane journeys.

At the Louvre museum in Paris, the head of security, Servane de Landsheer, said the first morning of health pass checks had gone well, with most visitors having the document and those who did not agreeing to get a quick COVID test.

"I was really angry... I had no idea," said Nelly Breton, 51, after being turned away from the Louvre as not enough time had elapsed since her vaccination for her pass to become valid.

"But then I calmed down and understood there were health reasons," she said, adding that she would now look for a pharmacy to get a rapid COVID test.

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With the highly contagious Delta variant now dominant in France, tougher measures are essential and new lockdowns cannot be ruled out, Prime Minister Jean Castex told TF1 television, adding that vaccination was the only way out of the crisis.

The introduction of the health pass - a QR code on your smartphone or on a piece of paper - is part of a wide-ranging bill which parliament will vote on this week.

The bill introduces some of the toughest anti-COVID measures in Europe, including mandatory vaccination for health workers and 10 days of self-isolation for those who test positive.

The sharp rise in infections makes the draft law necessary, the government says. Health Minister Olivier Veran said some 21,000 new COVID cases had been registered in the past 24 hours, up from around 4,000 new cases a day at the start of July.

Some 96% of those who tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday had not been vaccinated, Castex said, adding that he hoped the number of people receiving their first shot would hit 50 million by the end of August, in a total population of 67 million. The figure stood at about 38.1 million as of Tuesday.

The new health pass, in particular, has proved hugely contentious. More than 100,000 people joined rallies across France last weekend against a pass they say infringes their liberties. More protests are expected in the coming days.

Police sources fear the rallies could escalate into the kind of large-scale protests staged by the anti-government 'yellow vest' movement, which caused major disruption for about two years before being curbed by the COVID lockdowns.

Holders of the health pass can remove their face masks once indoors - in a loosening of precautions criticised by epidemiologists - unless local authorities or the business itself decide otherwise.

Businesses which fail to check that their clients have the health pass could eventually face fines totalling thousands of euros, but the government said there would be a grace period, to give everyone time to adapt to the new system.

Regional prefects will be able to take further measures on a case-by-case basis, such as requiring businesses to shut earlier than usual or imposing the wearing of face masks outdoors - as has happened in recent days in areas with surging infections.

Reporting by Clotaire Achi, Emilie Delwarde, Matthias Blamont, Sudip Kar-Gupta, Ingrid Melander, Matthieu Protard, Claude Chendjou, writing by Ingrid Melander and Matthieu ProtardEditing by Gareth Jones

Related:


French protests call for 'freedom' amid government vaccine push (https://www.sott.net/article/455675-French-protests-call-for-freedom-amid-government-vaccine-push)

[Tintin]

I'll do my best to keep track on any Twitter feed around this today. There's also a protest planned in London as well.

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[Brigantia]

.... and Macron's abroad, in Japan for the Olympics.

Don't dictators often get deposed when they're out of the country? :dance3:


I'll do my best to keep track on any Twitter feed around this today. There's also a protest planned in London as well.

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[Gwin Ru]

French hospital goes on INDEFINITE strike to protest Covid-19 vaccination mandate (https://www.rt.com/news/530095-hospital-strike-france-mandatory-vaccine/)

RT
23 Jul, 2021 18:09
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File photo: Protest against 'health pass' announced by French President Emmanuel Macron, July 17, 2021. © REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol


The staff of the hospital in Montelimar, in the French department of Drome, have gone on indefinite strike to protest the new rules demanding they take a vaccine against Covid-19 by mid-September or face losing their jobs.

The strike against “forced vaccination” was announced on Thursday by the CGT-GHPP trade union, and affects some 200 doctors and 1,500 nurses in the southeastern French city.

Hundreds of them gathered outside the hospital on Friday, denouncing lockdowns and vaccine mandates and chanting “liberté!” (freedom).

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The French legislature is finalizing the proposal that would require all medical professionals in contact with the vulnerable to be fully vaccinated by September 15, or else lose their salaries and even their jobs.
“We are against mandatory vaccination and vaccine coercion,” Elsa Ruillere, local union representative, told Sputnik France (https://fr.sputniknews.com/sante/202107231045914428-lhopital-de-montelimar-entre-en-greve-contre-le-vaccin-impose-aux-soignants/).

“There is no choice between tests or vaccination: vaccination is compulsory. No, we don't agree. We want to have the choice like the rest of the world and we do not want compulsory vaccination.”
Ruillere says her union supports “free and informed consent” and is not against vaccination on principle but is against coercion. Some of the medical workers said they are waiting for the French-made Sanofi-GSK vaccine, promised for December.


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“We are well aware of the evolution of the virus. We do not take it lightly,” Ruillere said. However, she and her striking colleagues point out that even with the rise in positive tests for the Delta variant of the coronavirus, there is no commensurate rise in hospitalizations.

“Yes, we turned ‘red’ but that's in fact due to the positive tests. In terms of hospitalizations, we are fine at the moment, we did not need to reopen beds, we have far fewer hospitalized people than before and fewer people in intensive care,” she added.
Another union gripe is the lack of public debate, since France’s National Assembly seems to have simply proceeded on the advice of the High Health Authority (HAS), which called the vaccination mandate “justified.”

There have been widespread protests in France since mid-July, as the government of President Emmanuel Macron imposed the vaccination mandate on health workers and introduced a “health pass (https://www.rt.com/news/529827-france-covid19-pass-health-vaccine/)” requirement to access public venues with more than 50 people in attendance. The pass requirement will extend to cafes, restaurants and shops starting August 1.

There has been a 150% increase in coronavirus cases over the past week in France, attributed to the Delta variant. The government says 96% of those infected are unvaccinated.

[Tintin]

As a gesture it's very powerful.

They're welcome to come over to Britain and do the same at Chequers, preferably in the banqueting hall during dinner, with guests present :)

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[Gwin Ru]

French parliament approves bill forcing vaccination for medical workers & greater health pass use amid growing protests (https://www.rt.com/news/530241-medical-workers-mandatory-vaccination-bill/)

RT
26 Jul, 2021 10:49
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FILE PHOTO. A demonstration called by the French nationalist party "Les Patriotes" (The Patriots) against France's restrictions to fight the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak. July 24, 2021 © Reuters / Benoit Tessier


The French parliament has approved a bill to further tighten requirements for mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations and health passes in response to the Delta variant. The new constraints come amid mounting protests in France.

The new restrictions in Monday morning’s bill mean that French health workers will be obligated to receive the vaccine. The need for health passes will also be imposed across more areas of society, leaving fewer social activities and transport options available for those who are opposed to the jab.

Monday’s bill means that the health pass – a vaccine passport or a negative test – will be required in bars and restaurants, on long-distance train journeys, and on flights.

Prior to the measures approved on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron had already applied the health pass to museums, cinemas and swimming pools, following the spread of the Delta variant in early July.

The bill still needs final approval by France’s Constitutional Court – a body to whom many protesters are appealing for the protection of their ‘droits de l’homme’, or human rights.

On July 24, protests across France intensified in opposition to Macron’s health pass, which many claim is a coercive move to force people into taking the vaccine. There were 160,000 people protesting across the country on Saturday, chanting “liberty, liberty!”

Signs that read ‘Down with the dictatorship’, in reference to Macron’s measures, were also seen.

The demonstrations, which have been active since the start of July, are rapidly growing in strength, with the recent protests boasting some 50,000 more people than those held a week ago.

One of the major protests on Saturday, organized by French nationalist party Les Patriotes, took place at the Trocadero Square in Paris and appealed for more freedom and human rights.

Similar protests kicked off around Europe on Saturday, namely in Rome and Athens, where people opposed the vaccine.

According to the official data, 60% of adults in France are now fully vaccinated.


Related:


‘This is not freedom’: Macron denounces ‘irresponsibility and egoism’ of those who refuse Covid jab (https://www.rt.com/news/530193-macron-denounces-anti-vaxxers/) [or how to gaslight empaths]

[Gwin Ru]

As a gesture it's very powerful.

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[Tintin]

Gwin Ru:

Does this ring true at all? Pretty momentous if it is.

https://www.johnccarleton.org/BLOGGER/2021/07/25/shock-protective-detail-of-france-president-all-resign-over-covid-restrictions-will-no-longer-protect-president-macron/

SHOCK! Protective Detail of France President ALL Resign over COVID Restrictions; will no longer protect President Macron

(To be verified)

[Gwin Ru]

Gwin Ru:

Does this ring true at all? Pretty momentous if it is.

https://www.johnccarleton.org/BLOGGER/2021/07/25/shock-protective-detail-of-france-president-all-resign-over-covid-restrictions-will-no-longer-protect-president-macron/

SHOCK! Protective Detail of France President ALL Resign over COVID Restrictions; will no longer protect President Macron

(To be verified)Well... it might be tied to that Interim Head of State, AKA Kim Goguen (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112361-The-Global-Financial-System-Explained-Kim-Goguen-LifeForce-the-Assemblies&p=1442426&viewfull=1#post1442426), who mentioned that P3 (cf. Fulford) threw the towel... other than that, I have no other frame of reference to rely on for that bit of info. (to be verified, as you wrote :))

[Gwin Ru]

...

... sounds real:

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From: https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/shock-protective-detail-of-france-president-all-resign-over-covid-restrictions-will-no-longer-protect-president-macron

[Gwin Ru]

Frenchman to be tried for erecting dummy guillotines with names of politicians who support Macron’s health pass (https://www.rt.com/news/530767-france-dummy-guillotine-case/)

RT
31 Jul, 2021 09:00
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A man in France has been charged with threatening politicians by attaching their names to makeshift guillotines. He claimed it was in protest at the country’s Covid-19 restrictions.

A 50-year-old man from the southwestern Landes region will be tried in October for making “death threats against public officials,” a local prosecutor’s office said.

The suspect, who was identified through CCTV footage and detained on Thursday, set up dummy guillotines in the towns of Saint-Sever, Samadet, and Geaune last week. Sheets of paper with the names of 382 mayors were attached to the devices.

The listed officials had all put their names to a recent opinion piece in the Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper, in which they had “saluted the courage” of the decisions made by President Emmanuel Macron, including the introduction of a health pass.

The suspect was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying the guillotines were made of wood and cardboard, and not intended to be perceived as a death threat. He said he wanted to “alert the mayors to the violations of fundamental freedoms by the government’s decisions” during the pandemic.

Nevertheless, Pascale Requenna, the mayor of Hagetmau and a regional councilor, told the media she had been frightened by the installations and, along with Samadet Mayor Bernard Tastet, had filed a police complaint.
“The symbol of the guillotine is unbelievably violent,” Requenna said.

“We have the right to fight with words and ideas, but to use symbols like the guillotine to challenge the positions of elected officials – I find it distressing, violent, and extremely serious.”
A symbol of terror during the French Revolution, the guillotine was last used to execute a criminal in France in 1977. A dummy version of the lethal device has since been spotted during anti-government protests, such as those organized by the Yellow Vest movement.

France has strict laws against threats to public officials. In 2019, a protester was detained for merely shouting the word “guillotine” at a politician from Macron’s party, the Republic on the Move (LaREM).

The health passes to which the suspect was objecting serve as proof that a person has been fully vaccinated, has tested negative for Covid-19 within the past 48 hours, or has recovered from the virus.

From August 9, people in France have to show such a pass to visit cafés and restaurants, or board planes and inter-city trains. The pass is already required for visits to museums, cinemas, and cultural venues with a capacity of more than 50 people.

The authorities say the strict measures are necessary to curb the spread of the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. The introduction of the health pass has faced protests across the country, however, with activists insisting it infringes on peoples’ freedoms.


Related:


Macron sues French billboard owner over posters depicting president as Hitler (https://www.rt.com/news/530553-macron-sues-billboard-hitler/)

[Tintin]

More impressive gathering en France.

Paris earlier:

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[Bill Ryan]

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[Brigantia]

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Great scenes! I do beg to differ with the narrative that "the police are marching with the protesters" though, as it's evident that they're keeping the protest contained and hemmed in to a defined area.

From what I've seen, the massive police presence seems to be confined to Paris.

He also says that he thought Europe would be the least likely place for a revolution... he doesn't know much of our history then!

[Gwin Ru]

...

... mayonnaise woo - Explorers' Guide to SciFi World (https://www.bitchute.com/video/7J3XaN3NASja/) 38:57


Watch (https://www.bitchute.com/video/7J3XaN3NASja/#video-watch)

First published at 17:30 UTC on August 1st, 2021.

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mayonnaise - string - flags - crowd tactics in AMREV2 or GlobeRev1


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... or how to disable police forces...

[Gwin Ru]

...

... Ça va chauffer encore plus (flash point?):

Compulsory vaccination of EVERYONE - France's hospital union chief (https://www.rt.com/news/530828-france-mandatory-vaccination-proposal/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/530828-france-mandatory-vaccination-proposal/)
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 08:54 UTC


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A person receives a Covid-19 vaccine in Saint-Nazaire, France, May 2021. © Stephane Mahe/Reuters


A French hospital union boss has said a health pass will not be enough to curb another wave of Covid-19, and urged the government to make vaccination compulsory for everyone.
"We no longer have the luxury of taking half-measures," Frederic Valletoux, the head of the Hospital Federation of France (FHF) and the mayor of Fontainebleau, told Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

"Everywhere, the indicators are going up again. The context of the epidemic shows us the limits of intermediate measures."
Pointing to the "unprecedented speed of the fourth wave" of infections, Valletoux said the government should "assume the course of compulsory [measures] along with voluntary [ones]."

He added that the recently introduced pass had "worked in the short term, but will not be enough to achieve a real collective immunity."
SOTT Comment: (https://www.sott.net/article/456306-Compulsory-vaccination-of-EVERYONE-Frances-hospital-union-chief) Even the UK's SAGE admits that mass vaccination will likely result in antigenic drift, whereby the virus mutates into more virulent forms as a way to evade the vaccines. They theorize (https://www.sott.net/article/456298-Coronavirus-variant-that-could-kill-one-in-three-infected-people-is-a-realistic-possibility-SAGE-warns) that, far from being the relatively harmless virus it is now, it could actually become deadly, with the potential to kill up to 1 in 3 people.
The pass serves as proof that the holder has been fully vaccinated, has tested negative for Covid-19 in the past 48 hours, or has recovered from the virus. People in France must show such passes to enter crowded venues and, from August 9, will have to present them when visiting cafés and restaurants, and before boarding planes and inter-city trains.

The introduction of passes, along with the mandatory vaccination of health workers, has sparked debates and protests, with some describing the measures as discriminatory.

At the same time, the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Pharmacy called for a mandatory vaccination of the general population and advised that the health pass be replaced with a vaccination pass.

President Emmanuel Macron said earlier this month that only a "massive vaccination campaign" would prevent a new wave of hospitalizations from Covid-19 as soon as August and allow the nation to avoid a new lockdown.
SOTT Comment: (https://www.sott.net/article/456306-Compulsory-vaccination-of-EVERYONE-Frances-hospital-union-chief)
Macron is demonstrably wrong, because Israel achieved one of the highest injections rates on the planet only to discover that, even according to the official statistics, Pfizer's experimental drug was just (https://www.sott.net/article/455867-Pfizer-vaccine-efficacy-drops-to-39-in-preventing-infection-Israels-Health-Ministry) 39% effective in preventing infection, and health officials from the UK and Australia have admitted that the majority of those hospitalized were vaccinated. Surely the President of France and his supposedly expert advisors are aware of this data?

Whilst being unaware of the most up to date science would be concerning, it should be even more alarming, and telling, that, despite knowing the injections do not work, they still want to coerce the public into suffering the vaccines and the draconian vaccination passes. That their reasoning does not reflect reality shows that some people in positions of power are hystericized and incapable of logical though, whilst it's becoming clear that others are clearly pursuing another agenda, nefarious in nature, that has little to do with the official, nonsensical, narrative:

The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19 (https://www.sott.net/article/447849-The-Inanity-of-RNA-Vaccines-For-COVID-19#)



The real B3W-NATO agenda (https://www.sott.net/article/454263-The-real-B3W-NATO-agenda)



NewsReal: Pandemic is Over! (If You Want it) (https://www.sott.net/article/456275-NewsReal-Pandemic-is-Over-If-You-Want-it#)

[Gwin Ru]

French Constitutional Court rules health pass, mandatory vaccination of health workers constitutional amid nationwide protests (https://www.rt.com/news/531235-french-court-health-pass-vaccination-constitutional/)

RT
5 Aug, 2021 14:20
Updated 2 hours ago
Get short URL (https://on.rt.com/bdwj)


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Demonstrators gather outside the Council d'Etat and Conseil Constitutionnel during protests against the compulsory Covid-19 vaccination for certain workers and the compulsory use of the health pass called for by the French government in Paris on August 5, 2021. © AFP / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN


France’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the new law that makes the coronavirus ‘health pass’ mandatory for the general public, and vaccination compulsory for healthcare professionals, to be in line with the constitution.

France’s top court ruled on Thursday that the new legislation, which tightens the coronavirus restrictions, is largely compliant with the nation’s fundamental law. In particular, the court upheld the provisions that require people to hold a valid ‘health pass’ to access restaurants and bars, and for healthcare workers to be vaccinated against the virus by mid-September.

At the same time, the court considered it to be unconstitutional to fire a healthcare worker on a short-term contract who refuses mandatory Covid vaccination. It also rejected a provision allowing mandatory quarantine with checks for anyone who tests positive for the virus.

The constitutional review of the legislation was requested by Prime Minister Jean Castex, as well as by multiple opposition lawmakers before the law’s enactment scheduled for next Monday.

The controversial legislation was put forward by the French government in July, triggering heated debate and mass protests across the country. Last weekend, over 200,000 people marched through towns and cities across the country protesting the bill, which they say discriminates against the unvaccinated and tramples on individual freedoms.


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The government, however, maintains that the main purpose of the legislation is to speed up the mass-vaccination campaign and encourage people to get the shot, rejecting allegations of a slide into “dictatorship.”



“A few tens of thousands of people have lost their minds to such an extent that they are capable of saying we live in a dictatorship,” President Emmanuel Macron told Paris Match in an interview published Wednesday.




Related:


French firefighters’ & hospital unions declare strikes against ‘unconstitutional’ vaccination mandate (https://www.rt.com/news/531114-france-unions-strike-vaccination/)

[Gwin Ru]

...

... TAROT BY JANINE TAKES A CLOSE LOOK AT THE SITUATION IN FRANCE... IS THIS A WARNING TO THE 🌎 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1t-TQu__og) 19:50

Aug 7, 2021

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TAROT BY JANINE LOOKS AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN FRANCE...WARNING TO THE REST OF US ? WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE? HOW ARE THEY COPING?

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[Brigantia]

...

... TAROT BY JANINE TAKES A CLOSE LOOK AT THE SITUATION IN FRANCE... IS THIS A WARNING TO THE 🌎 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1t-TQu__og) 19:50

Aug 7, 2021

I used to like her until she got into bed (figuratively speaking, I hasten to add) with Charlie Ward.

She also predicted that divorce proceedings for Harry and Meghan would be announced in the summer of 2020. We're still waiting on that one.

[Gwin Ru]

... ^^^... I posted the above here due to the e-mail Jeanine read at the beginning of the video.

... events from last week:

‘Like a War Zone’: Scenes of COMBAT in Paris as police and citizens FIGHT in cafes, streets, and sidewalks over VACCINE PASSPORTS (https://newsthud.com/like-a-war-zone-scenes-of-combat-in-paris-as-police-and-citizens-fight-in-cafes-streets-and-sidewalks-over-vaccine-passports/)

written by J.C McCallum (https://newsthud.com/author/jmccallum/) August 1, 2021


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The streets of Paris are unrecognizable this weekend. Or very recognizable, depending on which part of history you’re comparing them against. The World Wars? The Terror?

Once again, western civilization’s canary in the fascism coal mine is in CHAOS as citizens fight STORMTROOPERS in the form or riot police and COVID cops, as France’s pandemic regime continues to impose more and more restrictions, including vaccine passports and mandates and more.

It didn’t start with war. It started with peace.

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But it got there.

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I used to say “it’s only a matter of time until this happens here.”

But it’s already happening here. We just aren’t doing as much to fight it.

[Bill Ryan]

From Clif High: :thumbsup:

https://twitter.com/clif_high/status/1424451505411608579

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[Satori]

... ^^^... I posted the above here due to the e-mail Jeanine read at the beginning of the video.

... events from last week:

‘Like a War Zone’: Scenes of COMBAT in Paris as police and citizens FIGHT in cafes, streets, and sidewalks over VACCINE PASSPORTS (https://newsthud.com/like-a-war-zone-scenes-of-combat-in-paris-as-police-and-citizens-fight-in-cafes-streets-and-sidewalks-over-vaccine-passports/)

written by J.C McCallum (https://newsthud.com/author/jmccallum/) August 1, 2021


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The streets of Paris are unrecognizable this weekend. Or very recognizable, depending on which part of history you’re comparing them against. The World Wars? The Terror?

Once again, western civilization’s canary in the fascism coal mine is in CHAOS as citizens fight STORMTROOPERS in the form or riot police and COVID cops, as France’s pandemic regime continues to impose more and more restrictions, including vaccine passports and mandates and more.

It didn’t start with war. It started with peace.

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But it got there.

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I used to say “it’s only a matter of time until this happens here.”

But it’s already happening here. We just aren’t doing as much to fight it.

Oh yes “we” are. You just have to recognize who “we” is. There’s more than one way to skin a [r]at.

[Gwin Ru]

France Gov’t Printed “VACCINE PASSPORT” Signs 4 days BEFORE France Ever Had a Case of COVID-19 (https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=240496)

by tts-admin (https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?author=39262) | Aug 9, 2021 | 6 comments (https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=240496#respond)

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This Whole COVID Situation has been PLANNED for years

Hal Turner – Hal Turner Radio Show Aug 8, 2021

Evidence has surfaced PROVING the French government had public signs for required VACCINE PASSPORTS printed-up FOUR DAYS BEFORE FRANCE HAD A CASE OF COVID. The signs were printed on 20 January 2020 yet France didn’t have its first case until four days later, on 24 January 2020.

The evidence that this whole “COVID-19” situation worldwide is not only a farce, but a PLANNED attack upon humanity, has arisen in France.

The video below, taken in France, shows the public signage being put up now in France (Sunday, August 8, 2021) telling the public they are REQUIRED to have a vaccine certification. Those signs show the printing production date of “20 January 2020” a full four days before France ever had a[n official] case of COVID in the country!

Here is the video:

https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/FrenchHealthPassPosterShowsGovernmentPrintedtheminJanuary2020.mp4

Continues … (https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/france-gov-t-printed-vaccine-passport-signs-4-days-before-france-ever-had-a-case-of-covid-19-this-whole-covid-situation-has-been-planned-for-years)
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Yep, y'a un truc!

[Gwin Ru]

Watch: French Police Patrol Cafés Asking To See Citizens' Vaccine Papers

by Tyler Durden
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, (https://summit.news/2021/08/10/video-french-police-patrol-cafes-asking-to-see-citizens-vaccine-papers/)
Tuesday, Aug 10, 2021 - 09:00 AM

Video has emerged out of Paris, France, showing police patrolling cafes and bars demanding to see people’s credentials and making sure they are not breaking the law by enjoying themselves while unvaccinated.


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Reuters reporter Antony Paone shared the video noting “The first checks of Police started as a preventive measure at Paris in cafes and restaurants where the Pass Sanitaire is mandatory as of today. Fines of 135 euros and verbal warnings from next week, up to 9,000 euros in the event of a repeat offense.”

Watch:

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Other footage also emerged of private security, train staff and business owners checking the passes which confirm vaccination, a negative test, or (for the time being) recent recovery from the virus on people’s phones:

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‘Proof of vaccination please.’ (https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-health-france-coronavirus-pandemic-655d8451d7494f8663ce2072e64cf7a6)

This is what a hi-tech dictatorship looks like in 2021.
And that is exactly why most cafes and restaurants in France currently look like this:

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Yep, France under cabal occupation... No free zone, no-more....

[Eva2]

A letter from France:
'UPDATE:
Here in France it has gone to the extreme with the "Health" Pass. Last week on the 21st ALL restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and any leisure activities like sporting events, theaters, cinemas, museums, were closed to anyone without "the pass" and all staff at these places are mandated to get the jab to keep their job.
It is now a 6 Month prison sentence if you are caught inside any of these places without the pass (the man who slapped the president in the face got only 3 months prison time). Business owners will get a fine of 45,000 euros and 1 year prison sentance if they do not comply with the use of "the pass" and force all their employees to get the jab. (If you know France, you can commit murder and have less of a sentence)
So the result? All the low paid employees quit, they can make more on welfare here. (for now) We can still technically "get take out food" but I just tried last night and every restaurant in our town (that is dine in with take out) has closed their doors due to the lack of staff.
As of last week ALL doctors, nurses and health industry workers have been mandated to get the jab or lose their license, practice, job, business etc. (ALL health care here is Govt paid positions and there are no private health care Doctors or Hospitals etc.)
Since the Health care system is state run and funded, it has been run into the ground. All the good doctors left France 5 Years ago, all the hospitals look like they are 3rd world hospitals since there is no money to repair them, half of the equipment doesnt work and not every hospital is stocked with supplies needed for daily needs (masks, gels, disposable gowns etc).
For 5 years Nurses have been understaffed and doing double the work because the Health care system is nearly bankrupt.... So add to this the mandatory jab.
So the result? Well they took to the streets by the millions and now all the hospitals just lost another 50% of staff capacity. My doctor just went into early retirement (a.k.a. he quit) and I have yet to find a replacement.
As of Aug 1st ALL large malls, retail stores and grocery store owners and their staff need to be jabbed and the health pass is required to enter for employees and customers. This would be the equivalent to closing ALL Targets, Walmarts, Costcos, Home Depots, and all major grocery stores. (basically any building over 20,000 squre meters) to those without "the pass".
Result.?? Aug 15th Truckers will be going on strike nation wide; Blocking all access roads in and out of Paris.
Yesterday an entire airport in Northern France closed due to the majority of staff quitting.
As of Sept 15th All public areas and access will be off limits. No farmers markets, no parks, no national parks, lakes, rivers, beaches, recreation areas, campsites etc. and no gathering over 100 people, no churches, no weddings, etc.
As of Oct 1st ALL small vendors such as, delis, pizza trucks, sandwich shops, butchers, bakers, vegatable stands etc.
So as of Oct 1st I will only be able to purchase food by internet and pick up (if allowed).
Food shortages, Truckers strike, hospitals and airports shutting down unemployment going through the roof. Its going to be a bumpy ride folks.
Is it me or does all this seem a bit extreme for a "pass" that isn't exactly working?
America Canada England Australia New Zealand you’d better wake up.'

[Arcturian108]

This is a reply to Jill's long post of a letter from France which begins thus:
"A letter from France:
'UPDATE:
Here in France it has gone to the extreme with the "Health" Pass. Last week on the 21st ALL restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and any leisure activities like sporting events, theaters, cinemas, museums, were closed to anyone without "the pass" and all staff at these places are mandated to get the jab to keep their job.
It is now a 6 Month prison sentence if you are caught inside any of these places without the pass (the man who slapped the president in the face got only 3 months prison time). Business owners will get a fine of 45,000 euros and 1 year prison sentance if they do not comply with the use of "the pass" and force all their employees to get the jab. (If you know France, you can commit murder and have less of a sentence)
So the result? All the low paid employees quit, they can make more on welfare here. (for now) We can still technically "get take out food" but I just tried last night and every restaurant in our town (that is dine in with take out) has closed their doors due to the lack of staff.
As of last week ALL doctors, nurses and health industry workers have been mandated to get the jab or lose their license, practice, job, business etc. (ALL health care here is Govt paid positions and there are no private health care Doctors or Hospitals etc.)
Since the Health care system is state run and funded, it has been run into the ground. All the good doctors left France 5 Years ago, all the hospitals look like they are 3rd world hospitals since there is no money to repair them, half of the equipment doesnt work and not every hospital is stocked with supplies needed for daily needs (masks, gels, disposable gowns etc).
For 5 years Nurses have been understaffed and doing double the work because the Health care system is nearly bankrupt.... So add to this the mandatory jab."

I asked one of my American students who lives in the suburbs of Paris if this letter was also her experience, and this is what she wrote me this morning:

"It is August here. A lot of shop and restaurant owners close and take the month off to go on vacation. It is kind of lonely in August.

I know that we went to a restaurant on Monday and had to present our QR code on our passes to eat inside. Chairs and tables were provided outside for those people who don’t have the pass. My daughter’s friend does not have the pass and they went to KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) at the shopping center.

The shopping center is composed of individual stores and supermarkets. No one is being asked for their pass sanitaire at a supermarket. If the stores are located in the mall then the people without the pass sanitaire are forbidden to enter. The girls could not go to the mall. Her friend could not get in there. People without the pass can not use public transportation. I am not sure about the rest.

The vaccine is now mandatory for healthcare workers. Many Healthcare workers have chosen to quit rather than get the vaccine. I know that my doctor is retiring early because he only makes 25 euros a visit.

Yes there are a lot of jobs open but during the confinements some people took the opportunity to train for different jobs.

There are regular protests in Paris because of the pass sanitaire.

I am not sure about August 15. French truckers are not suppose to roll on the weekends that is why the highways are much nicer to travel on the weekends. In addition, August 15 is a Sunday and it is August so a lot of people have gone to the coast. I am not sure about the 15th.

I am confirming what I do know. I suspect that there will be shortages in the fall due to climate conditions, strikes and lack of workers in the Fall."

[Brigantia]

I am amazed to see a report on the recent protests on one of Britain's MSM newspaper websites as they've been quiet on the story so far. This is behind a paywall so I've copied the pertinent points.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/20/thinks-stupid-children-france-turned-mutinous-macron/


‘He thinks we’re stupid children’: how France turned mutinous on Macron

Demonstrations against the country's controversial Covid passports have the president on the ropes.

“I’ve been good from the start. I respected every rule during lockdown. When we weren’t allowed outside our homes for more than an hour a day, I was back inside before the 61st minute was over. I didn’t kiss my mother for a year-and-a-half.”

Brigitte, a middle-aged receptionist from Hyères, southern France, interviewed on France Info news radio last week, has for many become the voice of the unexpectedly successful revolt against the Health Pass bill.

“I am a peaceful and moderate person,” she continued. “But Macron's last address was just too harsh. This pass is a dangerous tool. It will be used for more than health emergencies. That’s why I’m marching now.”

The bill – announced by President Emmanuel Macron on July 12 and passed on August 5 – means that anyone visiting a restaurant, café or bar, or boarding a long-distance train and plane, has to scan a QR code showing proof of vaccination, a negative Covid test or a certificate confirming that they have recovered from the virus in the last six months. 

Collective political wisdom, on which Macron was banking, says that nothing happens in France between Bastille Day and Assumption Day (July 14 to August 15). Collective wisdom got it wrong. From a handful of people, the marches have seen up to 250,000 gather at around 200 protests. And what has Macron worried is that they are uniting his opponents on both the Right and Left. 

Taking place every Saturday in town squares and streets across France, they have been largely peaceful, with banners reading “Vive La Resistance” and “The most dangerous variant is the Macron variant” – but show no sign of abating. Comparisons have been made to the Gilets Jaunes populist uprising of 2018-9, which began as a motorists’ campaign against rising fuel costs and ended as the most significant political crisis of Macron’s rule. A small number of the Gilet Jaunes are marching again now, spurred into action by what they see as the high-handedness of officials.

[Gwin Ru]

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[Gwin Ru]

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... "Vive les vacances!"

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[Gwin Ru]

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... France Continues Protests – Unvaxed Enjoy Picnics Outside of ‘Vax-Only’ Restaurants (https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/france-continues-massive-protests-the-unvaxed-enjoy-picnics-outside-of-vax-only-restaurants/)

Information Liberation (https://needtoknow.news/author/bookworm33/)
August 27, 2021 (https://needtoknow.news/2021/08/)


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France: Hundreds of thousands of people (or more) protested across the country against the vaccine passport/ Covid health pass last weekend, pushing back after the government passed a law requiring passports for entry into indoor venues. Reuters reported that only half of the restaurants in Paris were complying with the vax rules earlier this month. Restaurants that require proof of vaccination are nearly empty as citizens picnic outside their doors. -GEG

Excerpts from information Liberation:
The French have held massive protests against the Macron regime’s new vaccine passport.

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Video out of France shared Wednesday on social media shows protesters picnicking in the streets in front of restaurants that require vax passports to enter.

[Gwin Ru]

Victory in France: Judges Overturn Macron's Decree to Deny Food to the Unvaccinated (Video) (https://rairfoundation.com/victory-in-france-judges-overturn-macrons-decree-to-deny-food-the-unvaccinated-food-video/)

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August 29, 2021


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The embattled French President, who had previously said he would never mandate coronavirus “vaccines,” has not only broken his promises but is now trying to harm citizens who are refusing to be jabbed.

French judges have taken action against President Emmanual Macron’s oppressive and discriminatory coronavirus vaccination requirements. This past week, judges in two different French departments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France) overturned Macron’s decree’s making the health pass compulsory in several shopping centers. Instead, the judges ruled that it prevented access to essential goods to people who do not have them.

Chaos initially ensued after France had tried to discriminate against the unvaccinated. Citizens were terrified and angry that the government would force them to get vaccinated by banning them from buying essential goods from supermarkets. Crowds protested in front of food markets. You can hear the crowd chants in unison in a spontaneous display of solidarity in the following video.


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On August 24, the Versailles administrative court suspended the decree from the prefect of Yvelines that health passports be presented as a condition for entry into retail business centers.



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Following the victory in Yvelines, the Strasbourg administrative court also suspended the requirement of a health passport in 14 shopping centers (https://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/yvelines-le-pass-sanitaire-obligatoire-des-lundi-a-lentree-de-14-centres-commerciaux-19-08-2021-4DPVEJB4IJFWHPBOM2PS3UPD4I.php) of the Haut-Rhin (Department 68). The court ruled that the decree did not guarantee access to essential goods for all.

The judge ruled (https://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/yvelines-la-justice-suspend-larrete-du-prefet-sur-le-pass-sanitaire-dans-les-centres-commerciaux-24-08-2021-CVKBEB2IANE75D4ZMD7RZZA524.php)that the obligation to present the health passport “carried a serious and obviously illegal attack on the freedom to come and go.” The judge explained that the decree did not allow people who do not have a health pass to buy essential goods in the supermarkets of the shopping centers affected by the measure.

Mass demonstrations have taken place weekly (https://rairfoundation.com/france-fights-back-protesters-march-against-forced-vaccinations-health-passes-video/)across France following Macron’s announcement on July 12, 2021, of a new law mandating health care workers to be vaccinated. In addition, the left-wing leader warned that “depending on the evolution of the situation,” he would consider compulsory vaccinations for all of the French.

Macron also had extended health passes, (https://rairfoundation.com/alert-protests-erupt-across-france-after-macron-mandates-vaccinations-proof-of-compliance-videos/) which prove you have been vaccinated or received a recent negative Covid test, for citizens taking part in “places of leisure and culture,” along with restaurant and transportation services.

The embattled French President, who had previously said he would never mandate coronavirus “vaccines,” has not only broken his promises but is now trying to harm citizens who are refusing to be jabbed.

[avid]

This is horrendous, the erosion of anyone’s freedom. However, whilst the Nazi’s were supposedly in control of France, ‘allo allo’ tv series still makes it’s olde statement, the resistance, the camararderie, and the positivity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!
There is hope yet… :thumbsup:

[avid]

Sorry to digress, but the political tussle of ‘The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies’ was an absolute classic, the outright robbery of works of art, bribery and corruption are alive and happening as we read this,
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[Gwin Ru]

French riot cops brutally arrest 2 women... but retreat in face of big crowd of anti-Covid pass protesters in Paris mall (https://www.rt.com/news/533985-paris-police-arrest-women-mall/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/533985-paris-police-arrest-women-mall/)
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 04:42 UTC


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French riot police officers have been scolded for brutally arresting two women, after backing away when confronted by a big group of protesters against the so-called coronavirus health passes, who stormed a mall in central Paris.

Hundreds of people forced their way into the Forum des Halles shopping center on Saturday, amid a nationwide string of demonstrations against the Covid-19 restrictions and mandates. The group was seen chanting 'Freedom!' inside the mall, which is partially underground and connected to the metro transit hub of Chatelet-Les Halles.

To restore public order, authorities deployed a riot police unit, BRAV-M, a French acronym for the Motorized Brigades for the Repression of Violent Actions - even though the crowd was not even technically defying the ban on entering shopping centers without a health certificate, since Forum des Halles is one of a handful of Paris venues exempt (https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/les-centres-commerciaux-de-paris-ou-le-pass-sanitaire-n-est-pas-obligatoire_44020406.html) from the coronavirus pass mandate.

At one point, the riot cops trying to quell the crowd were "forced to leave the shopping center under pressure" from the demonstrators, according to journalist Clement Lanot.

Multiple videos showed tensions running high, but no direct clashes between the protesters and police. The crowd eventually dispersed peacefully, with no injuries and no damage reported, according (https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/anti-pass-sanitaire-trois-interpellations-apres-des-tensions-au-forum-des-halles-a-paris_AV-202109040213.html) to BFMTV.

French media said only three people were arrested inside the complex for "violence and insulting the police" - but a purported video of the arrest caused a torrent of outrage and indignation.

In one of the clips widely shared online, at least half a dozen officers in full riot gear with batons and shields are seen rushing inside the underground station, ganging up on two women and knocking one of them down to the ground. One of the cops is also seen pushing the camera operator aside.

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While it's unclear why the women were arrested, the brutality of the response was almost unanimously denounced as excessive. Many called the officers "cowards" who were not that brave in the face of a larger crowd. Others quipped sarcastically that women might feel safer in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In total, an estimated 140,000 people took part in more than 200 rallies all across France on Saturday, for the eighth consecutive weekend in a row. The rallies began in mid-July after President Emmanuel Macron's government introduced a system that made presenting a vaccination certificate or negative Covid-19 test obligatory for those wishing to visit a restaurant, theater, cinema or shopping mall, or travel on a long-distance train.

The authorities maintain that the measure is needed to encourage people to get the jabs and eventually avoid another lockdown. Just over 60% of French citizens have been fully vaccinated, and those who haven't got the shot yet, or are not planning to at all, say that the health pass diminishes their rights and turns them into second-class citizens.

[Tracie (Bodhicee)]

French riot cops brutally arrest 2 women... but retreat in face of big crowd of anti-Covid pass protesters in Paris mall (https://www.rt.com/news/533985-paris-police-arrest-women-mall/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/533985-paris-police-arrest-women-mall/)
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 04:42 UTC


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French riot police officers have been scolded for brutally arresting two women, after backing away when confronted by a big group of protesters against the so-called coronavirus health passes, who stormed a mall in central Paris.

Hundreds of people forced their way into the Forum des Halles shopping center on Saturday, amid a nationwide string of demonstrations against the Covid-19 restrictions and mandates. The group was seen chanting 'Freedom!' inside the mall, which is partially underground and connected to the metro transit hub of Chatelet-Les Halles.

To restore public order, authorities deployed a riot police unit, BRAV-M, a French acronym for the Motorized Brigades for the Repression of Violent Actions - even though the crowd was not even technically defying the ban on entering shopping centers without a health certificate, since Forum des Halles is one of a handful of Paris venues exempt (https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/les-centres-commerciaux-de-paris-ou-le-pass-sanitaire-n-est-pas-obligatoire_44020406.html) from the coronavirus pass mandate.

At one point, the riot cops trying to quell the crowd were "forced to leave the shopping center under pressure" from the demonstrators, according to journalist Clement Lanot.

Multiple videos showed tensions running high, but no direct clashes between the protesters and police. The crowd eventually dispersed peacefully, with no injuries and no damage reported, according (https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/anti-pass-sanitaire-trois-interpellations-apres-des-tensions-au-forum-des-halles-a-paris_AV-202109040213.html) to BFMTV.

French media said only three people were arrested inside the complex for "violence and insulting the police" - but a purported video of the arrest caused a torrent of outrage and indignation.

In one of the clips widely shared online, at least half a dozen officers in full riot gear with batons and shields are seen rushing inside the underground station, ganging up on two women and knocking one of them down to the ground. One of the cops is also seen pushing the camera operator aside.

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While it's unclear why the women were arrested, the brutality of the response was almost unanimously denounced as excessive. Many called the officers "cowards" who were not that brave in the face of a larger crowd. Others quipped sarcastically that women might feel safer in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In total, an estimated 140,000 people took part in more than 200 rallies all across France on Saturday, for the eighth consecutive weekend in a row. The rallies began in mid-July after President Emmanuel Macron's government introduced a system that made presenting a vaccination certificate or negative Covid-19 test obligatory for those wishing to visit a restaurant, theater, cinema or shopping mall, or travel on a long-distance train.

The authorities maintain that the measure is needed to encourage people to get the jabs and eventually avoid another lockdown. Just over 60% of French citizens have been fully vaccinated, and those who haven't got the shot yet, or are not planning to at all, say that the health pass diminishes their rights and turns them into second-class citizens.

Shocking. But I have such admiration for the French spirit. Such spunk. Go France....

[Gwin Ru]

WATCH: Tear gas & clashes in Paris as thousands protest over Covid-19 health passes for 9th consecutive weekend (https://www.rt.com/news/534591-paris-clashes-health-pass-protests/)

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11 Sep, 2021 17:53
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Demonstrators took to the streets of the French capital on Saturday to voice their discontent with the coronavirus health pass policy for the ninth weekend in a row. The protest quickly descended into clashes with police.

Four large-scale demonstrations were scheduled in Paris for Saturday. Crowds of people marched through the streets in various parts of the city, surrounded by tight cordons of police officers wearing riot gear.

The protesters were waving French national flags and holding placards that read: ‘health is not a business’. Some flags of leftist and even Royalist groups were seen in the crowds as well.

Large police forces were deployed in Paris, particularly at the Champs-Elysees and Wagram Avenue in the city’s northwest, where a large gathering was announced. The total number of demonstrators was unclear but the police said they expected around 30,000 to turn up on the streets of the city around midday.

Videos posted on social media showed Paris streets and boulevards flooded with dense crowds.

Tensions quickly boiled over during the demonstrations as footage published on social media showed protesters kicking and verbally assaulting police officers on several occasions. Another video showed the crowd attacking the police with various objects. The police responded with tear gas and batons.

Clashes erupted near the Champs-Elysees in particular, as the police prevented participants of one of the demonstrations from entering the avenue, the French media reported.

Saturday was the ninth consecutive weekend of protests. Rallies began in mid-July after President Emmanuel Macron’s government introduced a system that made presenting a vaccination certificate or negative Covid-19 test obligatory for those wishing to visit a restaurant, theater, cinema and shopping mall or travel on a long-distance train.

The government measures also involved obligatory vaccination for medics, which was opposed by some hospital staff members. The government insisted that the measures are needed to encourage people to get the jabs and eventually avoid another lockdown.

Earlier, the French media reported that the health pass was supported by at least 67% of the population. Opposition to the measure remains significant nonetheless. Some 200 demonstrations against it were planned for Saturday across France. The police expect up to 170,000 people to join such rallies nationwide.

Last Saturday, some 140,000 people took part in the demonstrations, according to the French Interior Ministry.
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Plenty more videos at: https://www.rt.com/news/534591-paris-clashes-health-pass-protests/

[Tintin]

Text: "FRANCE: Montélimar hospital where dozens of planned surgeries are being cancelled because - as decided by mad Macron - 30% of hospital staff now suspended as not vaxxed & there’s nobody to replace them. Yeah, this is about health"

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[Gwin Ru]

France suspends 3,000 healthcare workers for failing to get jabbed against Covid – health minister (https://www.rt.com/news/534994-france-suspends-healthcare-workers-covid-jabbed/)

RT
16 Sep, 2021 11:05
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A nurse demonstrates in Lyon on September 14, 2021 against mandatory health passport obligation for hospital workers. © AFP / Jeff Pachoud


About 3,000 French healthcare workers have been temporarily dismissed on grounds they had not received Covid vaccinations before the mid-September deadline which made inoculation mandatory, Health Minister Olivier Veran announced.

In an interview with RTL Radio on Thursday, Veran shared that on Wednesday “some 3,000 suspensions were served on staff in health and social care facilities who had not yet entered into the vaccination course” against the coronavirus.

Veran noted that a small number of services – mainly technical ones like scanning and x-ray imaging – experienced disruptions for a few hours. However, he insisted that the overall security and quality of care was assured amid the removal of medical personnel.

The layoffs of these few thousand workers, however, is only temporary in a large number of cases, Veran said, and pointed out that the dismissed staff accounted only for a small percentage of France’s 2.7 million healthcare employees nationwide.

The health minister said that a significant number of the personnel have heeded the government’s calls to get vaccinated after realizing that “obligation was a reality.” However, he remarked that “a few dozen” French nurses so far have handed in their resignation notices.

The dismissals come after Paris set a deadline of September 15 for all caregivers, medical personnel, and firefighters to have received at least one shot of a Covid vaccine or face sanctions.

France has been rocked with weeks of protests against the mandatory vaccination of staff in certain sectors, as well as the Covid ‘health pass’. The certification is required for attendees to prove their viral or vaccinated status for entry into some public venues, such as bars, restaurants and large events.

Despite the uproar, however, figures published by Public Health France found that 85.4% of caregivers in nursing homes and long-term care units were fully vaccinated as of Monday, while almost 90% had received at least one dose.

Around 88% of France’s adult population have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 84% are fully vaccinated, according to the latest figures released (https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/grands-dossiers/vaccin-covid-19/article/le-tableau-de-bord-de-la-vaccination) on Wednesday.

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... that's a lot of people having the guts to say "No!" to the death penalty by injection...

[Gwin Ru]

...

... the system got rid of them... maybe it's time to return the gesture:

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[Gwin Ru]

French Senate Introduces Bill to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations for All Beginning January 1, 2022 (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-10-05/french-senate-introduces-bill-mandate-covid-19-vaccinations-all-beginning-january-1)

by blueapples
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2021 - 14:26

Following in the footsteps of much of Europe, France has introduced several stringent vaccine mandates that have irrevocably changed the landscape of life in the nation. The city of lights has been illuminated with the allegorical ambiance of pitchforks and torches as massive protests have taken to the streets of Paris (https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/i-will-not-submit-140000-french-citizens-protest-against-vaccine-passport) since President Emmanuel Macron announced measures on July 12th that require proof of vaccination to enter cafés (https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-french-police-patrol-cafes-asking-see-citizens-vaccine-papers), restaurants, and even hospitals. The forewarning of the outcries of those protesters has now reached its apotheosis as the Social Affairs Committee of the French Senate has introduced a bill that will require mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 for all citizens beginning on January 1st, 2022.


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The proposed vaccine mandate (https://www.senat.fr/amendements/commissions/2020-2021/811/Amdt_COM-1.html) was introduced by Senator Bernard Jomier (http://www.senat.fr/senateur/jomier_bernard19683j.html) on October 4th. Jomier, the Senator of Paris who introduced the law proposition, sits as the Vice-Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices, Social Security Assessment and Control Mission, and Socialist, Ecologist and Republican Group within the French government. Jomier, a member of the Socialist Party, continues to work as a physician as he had preceding his initial term as a Senator which began in 2017. He and his fellow senators Marie-Pierre La Gontrie, Monique Lubin -- among others -- had initially introduced the premise of a nation-wide vaccine mandate to the French Senate on August 31st but have since crafted the premise of the bill in a much more actionable manner at its first reading before the Social Affairs Committee.

Jomier's vision for enacting compulsory vaccines against COVID-19 would cite precedent that already requires innoculations against other diseases. Under Article L3111-1 of the Public Health Code, there are currently eleven mandatory vaccines required for citizens without medical exemptions. The existing eleven mandatory vaccines are for antidiphtheric, antitetanus, antipoliomyelitis, pertussis, haemophilus influenzae type b, hepatitis virus type b, invasive pneumococcal infections, serogroup c meningococcus, measles, mumps, and rubella. Jomier's law proposition would amend that article of the Public Health Code to add vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 to that schedule. Mandatory vaccinations would take effect beginning January 1st, 2022 and would those who do not comply would be subject to a fine of €135 under Article 519 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure. The fine can increase to as much as €1,500 for repeated offenses in which those mandated to vaccine do not comply. A public session discussion on the proposed amendment to the Public Health Code will take place in the French Senate on October 13th before being forwarded for consideration to the National Assembly.

Effective on September 15th, the French Parliament, the bicameral legislative body which includes the Senate and National Assembly, previously mandated mandatory vaccinations for all healthcare workers. That mandate effected over 2.5 million people who work as hospital staff, paramedics, retirement home workers, and private physicians. Though somewhat of an outlier, the requirement applied to firefighters across France as well. Like elsewhere (https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/most-new-york-healthcare-workers-fired-over-vaccine-mandate-wont-get-unemployment-insurance) in the world, this mandate was met with resistance that manifest in organized labor strikes and criticism of the impact mass terminations of unvaccinated workers would have on the French healthcare sector. Since the imposition, at least 3,000 healthcare workers throughout France have been suspended for refusing to take the vaccine. As of October 5th, roughly 75% of the French population has received at least one dose of a vaccine against COVID-19 with 72.8% of them being entirely vaccinated.

The vaccine mandate proposed by Senator Jomier is the second to be introduced by the Socialist, Ecologist and Republican Group. In July, a similar compulsory vaccine requirement was introduced by the coalition but was rejected. However, at the time of that previous deliberation, the policy apparatus in France was drastically different. Now that the French government has implemented more stringent requirements that have led to a huge proportion of its population being vaccinated, they may provide them the momentum to become the first country to require vaccination against COVID-19.

[Brigantia]

French Senate Introduces Bill to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations for All Beginning January 1, 2022 (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-10-05/french-senate-introduces-bill-mandate-covid-19-vaccinations-all-beginning-january-1)

by blueapples
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2021 - 14:26

Following in the footsteps of much of Europe, France has introduced several stringent vaccine mandates that have irrevocably changed the landscape of life in the nation. The city of lights has been illuminated with the allegorical ambiance of pitchforks and torches as massive protests have taken to the streets of Paris (https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/i-will-not-submit-140000-french-citizens-protest-against-vaccine-passport) since President Emmanuel Macron announced measures on July 12th that require proof of vaccination to enter cafés (https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-french-police-patrol-cafes-asking-see-citizens-vaccine-papers), restaurants, and even hospitals. The forewarning of the outcries of those protesters has now reached its apotheosis as the Social Affairs Committee of the French Senate has introduced a bill that will require mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 for all citizens beginning on January 1st, 2022.

I'm dubious about this story because the document in the post is in American English - is there a copy of the original in French? Has it been reported elsewhere?

[Gwin Ru]

[...]
I'm dubious about this story because the document in the post is in American English - is there a copy of the original in French? Has it been reported elsewhere?
... very good point!

However:
https://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/ppl20-811.html (https://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/ppl20-811.html)
Vaccination obligatoire contre le SARS-CoV-2 - Sénat
(https://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/ppl20-811.html)proposition de loi instaurant la vaccination obligatoire contre le SARS-CoV-2. ... Travaux de commission. Commission des affaires sociales, saisie au fond.

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Vaccination obligatoire contre le SARS-CoV-2 - Sénat
(http://www.senat.fr/espace_presse/actualites/202110/vaccination_obligatoire_contre_le_sars_cov_2.html)5 hours ago ... Mercredi 6 octobre 2021, la commission des affaires sociales a examiné le rapport de Bernard JOMIER sur la proposition de loi instaurant la ...

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Documents déposés - Légifrance
(https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000044170958)11 hours ago ... N° 13 (2021-2022) Proposition de loi, adoptée par l'Assemblée ... par M. Bernard JOMIER au nom de la commission des affaires sociales sur la ...

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[Gwin Ru]

[...]
I'm dubious about this story because the document in the post is in American English - is there a copy of the original in French? Has it been reported elsewhere?
... very good point!

However:
https://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/ppl20-811.html (https://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/ppl20-811.html)
Vaccination obligatoire contre le SARS-CoV-2 - Sénat
(https://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/ppl20-811.html)proposition de loi instaurant la vaccination obligatoire contre le SARS-CoV-2. ... Travaux de commission. Commission des affaires sociales, saisie au fond.

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Vaccination obligatoire contre le SARS-CoV-2 - Sénat
(http://www.senat.fr/espace_presse/actualites/202110/vaccination_obligatoire_contre_le_sars_cov_2.html)5 hours ago ... Mercredi 6 octobre 2021, la commission des affaires sociales a examiné le rapport de Bernard JOMIER sur la proposition de loi instaurant la ...

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(https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000044170958)11 hours ago ... N° 13 (2021-2022) Proposition de loi, adoptée par l'Assemblée ... par M. Bernard JOMIER au nom de la commission des affaires sociales sur la ...

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(https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/direction-des-commissions)Mme Clémentine JOMIER, Conseillère, adjointe à la cheffe de service. 01.40.63.65.02 ... Service de la commission des Affaires sociales.

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(https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/instances/resume/OMC_PO781458/legislature/15)... proposer un texte sur les dispositions restant en discussion de la proposition de loi visant ... Affaires sociales La République en Marche Côte-d'Or 3e ...

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(https://www.publicsenat.fr/article/parlementaire/covid-19-un-amendement-pour-sanctionner-le-refus-de-la-vaccination-obligatoire)3 days ago ... Bernard Jomier, rapporteur de la proposition de loi instaurant la ... a été rejeté en commission des affaires sociales ce 6 octobre.
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... thinking of it now... I just clicked on the embedded link at the beginning of the summary:

The proposed vaccine mandate (https://www.senat.fr/amendements/commissions/2020-2021/811/Amdt_COM-1.html) was introduced by Senator Bernard Jomier (http://www.senat.fr/senateur/jomier_bernard19683j.html) on October 4th. Jomier...

[Brigantia]

Great news! I just stumbled on this, the mandatory jab law proposal for France was massively defeated two days ago. For - 64; against - 262.

This bodes well for the rest of Europe.

https://www.publicsenat.fr/article/parlementaire/covid-19-le-senat-rejette-la-proposition-de-loi-sur-l-obligation-vaccinale

"Le vaccin contre le covid-19 ne rejoindra pas la liste des vaccinations obligatoires. Les sénateurs n’ont pas adopté ce 13 octobre la proposition de loi déposée par les socialistes. Leur groupe s’est retrouvé isolé. Le gouvernement promet de poursuivre sur la voie de la pédagogie."

[Arcturian108]

The victory in French Parliament yesterday, mentioned by Brigantia is partially translated as follows:

"The covid-19 vaccine will not join the list of mandatory vaccinations. The senators did not adopt the bill tabled by the Socialists on October 13. Their group found themselves isolated. The government promises to continue on the path of education.
OCT 13, 2021
By Guillaume Jacquot
@Algdelest

Another setback for the supporters of compulsory vaccination against covid-19 in the general population, as well as the 11 vaccines imposed on children born from 2018. The Senate did not adopt the bill "establishing vaccination mandatory against SARS-CoV-2 ”. The text, tabled by members of the Socialist Group at the end of August, was rejected on October 13 in public session, by 262 votes to 64. This parliamentary initiative will therefore not go further.

Only almost all of the socialist group behind the text voted in favor of the text, joined only by three colleagues from the center and the right. The other groups preferred to reject it. 14 senators of various tendencies have chosen to abstain. The government, through Adrien Taquet, has also expressed its opposition. "We prefer to convince than to coerce," insisted the Secretary of State for Children and Families.

Last week, the text had already failed to convince the Social Affairs Committee in its vast majority. As of July 24, the Socialist senators tried to insert this provision by amending the bill establishing the compulsory vaccination for caregivers and the health pass. It was rejected by 262 votes to 76.

"A debate that now seems dated"
In the meantime, the country's vaccination coverage has continued to increase, especially since the entry into force of the health pass, a tool that the government wishes to be able to use, if necessary, until July 31, 2022. A bill was presented in this sense on Wednesday. However, the effects of the health pass, which without telling people to go to vaccination centers, "are running out of steam", according to Bernard Jomier. The rapporteur, a member of the environmentalist and republican socialist group, recalled during the introductory debates on the vaccination obligation that there were still "9 million people to be immunized" against the coronavirus. "The truth of the matter is that covid-19 vaccines are effective, as few vaccines have been, that they are safe, and that they are our best weapon," he said. argued."

[Gwin Ru]

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... ça chauffe... partout!
https://twitter.com/AnonymeCitoyen

[Brigantia]

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... ça chauffe... partout!
https://twitter.com/AnonymeCitoyen


Mais bien sûr!

Anonyme Citoyen has become my go-to resource for updates on protests around the world, also I've learnt from it about the awful conditions in Guadeloupe. They've just posted that more police have been flown in there to quell the protests.

[Gwin Ru]

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SciFi World (https://t.me/scifiworld0)
Sh!t throwers vs water cannon... https://twitter.com/i/status/1468663406177972224

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[onawah]

Can someone who speaks French please translate into English and tell us what is going on there?
Have protesters brought dump trucks full of manure to a protest and dumped it in front of police who were spraying protesters with water hoses?
If so, that's quite a statement! :lol:

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SciFi World (https://t.me/scifiworld0)
Sh!t throwers vs water cannon... https://twitter.com/i/status/1468663406177972224

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[Brigantia]

Can someone who speaks French please translate into English and tell us what is going on there?
Have protesters brought dump trucks full of manure to a protest and dumped it in front of police who were spraying protesters with water hoses?
If so, that's quite a statement! :lol:

Courtesy of Google Translate (which seems to be a lot more accurate than it used to be):

"Chaos in #Montauban. Angry farmers threw manure on the police water cannon and forced the anti-riot barriers protecting the Prefecture of Tarn-et-Garonne with a backhoe loader."

Yep, you've gotta love French farmers; a while ago they sprayed manure onto the windows of the Élysées Palace... someone had left a window open... :lol:

[onawah]

That's epic! Thanks Brigantia! :thumbsup:

[Gwin Ru]

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... yeah... farmers have "manure sprayers/canons" which they used against the police water canons... échange de bon procédés... :)

[Gwin Ru]

Vaccine Passports are ‘Disguised’ Mandates, Admits French Health Secretary (https://www.cracknewz.com/2021/12/mayor-de-blasio-turns-new-york-city.html)

The implementation of vaccine passports in France is a “disguised” form of vaccine mandates, the country’s Minister of Health admitted on Sunday.

Health Minister Olivier Véran revealed that the use of vaccine passports in France is primarily an effort upon the government to convince unvaccinated people to come forward to receive the jab rather than facing two-tiered restrictions on their freedoms.

Véran said in comments (https://www.lci.fr/sante/cinquieme-vague-de-covid-19-le-pass-vaccinal-contre-le-coronavirus-est-une-forme-deguisee-d-obligation-vaccinale-reconnait-olivier-veran-le-ministre-de-la-sante-2204971.html) reported by French broadcaster La Chaîne Info that the vaccine pass

“is a disguised form of vaccination obligation. But it’s more effective.”

“Preventing people from going to bars, restaurants, places that receive the public, if they are not vaccinated, is more effective than fining them €100 when caught in the street,” he added.
The admission came after French Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed (https://www.lci.fr/sante/covid-19-coronavirus-cinquieme-vague-omicron-jean-castex-premier-ministre-le-pass-sanitaire-va-devenir-un-pass-vaccinal-2204896.html) on Saturday that the current COVID pass (Pass Sanitaire), which allows people to submit a negative coronavirus test instead of proof of vaccination, will be limited to those with proof of vaccination.

“While we have given time, a lot of time, to these French people who had hesitations and doubts, we will strengthen the incentive to vaccination in January,” the prime minister said.
Making the case for the move, Castex argued that “it is not acceptable for the refusal of a few million French people to get vaccinated to put the life of an entire country at risk.”

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The transformation of the health pass into a fully-fledged vaccine passport is expected to be introduced in January. Proof of vaccination will reportedly be required to enter theatres, cinemas, stadiums and restaurants, however, it is not expected to be mandated for public transport like some other European nations.

Last week, the French government also announced that people over the age of 18 who have yet to take a booster shot will have their health passes invalidated by next month.

The acknowledgement from the government that the vaccine passport is a backdoor mandate flies in the face of previous statements made by President Emanuel Macron, who wrote (https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1343144938985451520) on social media last December at the outset of the vaccine campaign:

“I have said it, I will repeat it: the vaccine will not be compulsory. Let us have confidence in our researchers and doctors. We are the land of the Enlightenment and of Pasteur, reason and science must guide us.”
The prospect of vaccine mandates has increasingly become a reality across Europe, with Austria set to make jabs a requirement by February, with those refusing to take the vaccine facing fines and reportedly even prison time.

In neighbouring Germany, the incoming left-wing government, including Angela Merkel’s successor as Chancellor, Olaf Sholz, have said that they would push for making vaccines mandatory amid the rising cases of the Chinese virus in the country. German politicians are also actively debating creating a national vaccine registry to track the inoculation status of citizens.

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[Gwin Ru]

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... Joyeux Noël (''Merry Christmas'')!
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... that's a big family gathering :)

[Gwin Ru]

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Demonstration in Paris for the 25th consecutive Saturday against Macron and the health pass as well as the government's bill to transform it into a vaccine pass by associating it with an identity check. (@maroc_online)

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[Bill Ryan]

From Russia Today (and many other European news sites)


https://rt.com/news/545009-france-eu-flag-removed

EU flag taken down after backlash in France

The flag of the European Union was removed from the Arc de Triomphe after protests from conservative politicians

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Conservative rivals of French President Emmanuel Macron said the EU flag underneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was an attack on “French identity,” and was taken down soon after the wave of outrage.

President Emmanuel Macron’s office told French media that the blue flag with 12 golden stars was removed on Sunday “in accordance with the planned schedule.”

Secretary of State for European Affairs Clement Beaune also denied that the removal was related to the backlash from conservatives. “I’m proud that this symbol was displayed under the Arc de Triomphe,” he said.

The European flag was placed under the monument on New Year’ Eve to mark the beginning of France’s six-month presidency in the Council of the European Union, one of the bloc’s decision-making bodies. France has assumed the role for the first time since 2008. Government buildings and cultural landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame Cathedral, and the Louvre, were illuminated in blue for the occasion.

Several right-wing politicians, including Macron’s rivals in the upcoming presidential election scheduled for April, said it was disrespectful to place the EU flag instead of the French tricolor on the Arc de Triomphe, a war memorial adjacent to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Valerie Pecresse, a presidential candidate from the Republicans party, protested (https://twitter.com/vpecresse/status/1477007885867618305) against the “erasure of the French identity” and urged that the EU flag be removed. Marine Le Pen, also a candidate and former leader of the National Rally party, accused (https://mlafrance.fr/communiques/arc-de-triomphe-marine-le-pen-annonce-un-recours-en-annulation-et-un-refere-suspension) Macron of “arrogant contempt for our history.”

After the flag was taken down, Le Pen tweeted (https://twitter.com/MLP_officiel/status/1477565635211235331) that the removal of the EU flag was a “beautiful patriotic victory at the dawn of 2022,” thanking the “massive mobilization of all those who love France and the Republic.”

[Gwin Ru]

French rebels massively destroy 5G networks (https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/81504/french-rebels-massively-destroy-5g.html)

Published: January 4, 2022
Source: world-signals.com (https://world-signals.com/news/2021/12/31/french-rebels-massively-destroy-5g-networks/)

Rebels in France have declared war on the infrastructure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

An ever-expanding resistance movement has been sabotaging the widely-hated 5G network.

Says a three-part report on the Reporterre website:
“Relay antennae are being torched, fibre-optic cables cut, pylons unbolted. During the night, people burn construction machinery, attack masts with disc cutters or destroy electrical equipment with sledgehammers”.
Vehicles belonging to telecommunications businesses have also been set on fire in at least 140 attacks since the start of the Covid repression, with the cost to the industry running into tens of millions of euros.

Says the report: “This is a movement which is advancing underground, out of the spotlight, a deep revolt spreading across France”.


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Pascaline, a resistance fighter interviewed by Reporterre, says she has been forced into action by a sense of urgency: “We are living in a crossroads period. If we do nothing now, this industry will have permanently taken hold”.

Pascaline says her fellow saboteurs have a wide range of backgrounds, with Gilets Jaunes and anarchists fighting alongside Christians who are equally opposed to the fascistic New Normal grid being built with 5G.

With protests against the Great Reset ignored, smeared and repressed by the French state, dissidents have been forced to express themselves more directly.

Texts have been circulating calling for the creation of a new movement of “concrete, and not just symbolic, resistance”.

Resistance fighter Léon told Reporterre: “We have been pushed towards sabotage by very practical reasons. Since the Gilets Jaunes, the state has tightened the screws and it is harder and harder to push back against power on the streets”.


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Given the Covid restrictions, it was also impossible to build a mass mobilisation against 5G, he said, even though the majority of the population are opposed.

As the report notes, the sabotage movement amounts to “a refusal to live in a hyperconnected society” and “full-on resistance to the digitalisation of the world”.

Another saboteur, Margot, says that a web-like prison of cables and masts is being constructed.
“We are told about all the joys of a digital society which in reality only worsens exploitation, surveillance and environmental disaster”.
The telecommunications business is, of course, alarmed by the biggest wave of sabotage in France since the massive struggle against GM crops 20 years ago.

Orange boss Stéphane Richard has even spoken of the need to avoid “an Afghanistan of mobile phone networks, where we will have to fight mast by mast, community by community, to try and install 5G”.

As the saboteurs point out, masts are the nerve centres for the economic flow of the new technocapitalism. Rebel websites talk variously of “umbilical cords” and “Achilles’ heels”.

The revolution is never televised and the mainstream media have been largely avoiding any mention of what is happening, for fear that it will spread even further.

When the saboteurs’ existence is recognised, they are depicted as cranks and “conspiracy theorists”.

Notes Léon: “Conspiracy theory has always been a rhetorical tool to delegitimise a movement. We saw that with the Gilet Jaunes. After they have played the homophobia, anti-semitism and racism cards, conspiracy theory has become the new catchword of power.
“The authorities are trying pass the saboteurs off as lone wolves, as isolated individuals. In fact we are part of a collective initiative across France and Europe”.
Needless to say, the panicked system is also ramping up its traditional rhetoric of repression, using the term “terrorist” to smear all resistance to its technofascist coup.

But can it really do anything to stop what has now become a powerful wave of revolt?

Pascaline explains:
“We are targeting this infrastructure because it belongs to the digital industry but also because it is vulnerable.

“There are tens of thousands of masts in the country within an ever-denser network and the authorities are struggling to monitor them”.
Admits Vincent Cuvillier, boss of Ofitem (the body representing the operators of mobile phone infrastructure in France):
“It isn’t realistic today to say that we are going to install 66,000 video-surveillance cameras on all the masts. And let’s be clear: anyone who wants to enter and destroy an isolated site could do so”.
Source: winteroak.org

[Hermoor]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1478537470950182920

Oh la la. Il est complètment fou, ce petit garçon pétulant avec la femme gériatrique. Allez les oeufs!!!

http://c.tenor.com/fSNR8TAoKUMAAAAC/macron-oeuf.gif

[Gwin Ru]

Protest grows bigger after president vows to ‘piss off’ the unvaxxed (https://www.rt.com/news/545479-french-protest-bigger-expected/)

Macron’s words may have backfired after huge crowds took to the streets of France promising to piss him off instead


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Protests against Covid-19 vaccine passes in Paris, France, Jan. 8, 2022. © AP / Adrienne Surprenant


At least 100,000 people took to the streets of France in protest against Covid-19 restrictions and mandates, after President Macron promised to make the lives of the unvaccinated increasingly hard until they accept the jab.

The huge crowds on Saturday were roughly four times larger than back on December 18, according (https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220108-anti-vax-protesters-in-france-tell-macron-we-ll-piss-you-off) to police estimates. The protesters opposed, among other things, a nearly implemented government plan to make proof of vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory to use public transport, eat at restaurants, and attend events.

France’s National Assembly passed a bill this week which, if approved by the Senate, would introduce so-called ‘vaccine passes’ to replace the existing ‘health passes’. Under the current rules, a negative PCR or antigen test gives access to a pass that is valid for 24 hours. A vaccine pass, however, would only be issued to those who have been fully vaccinated. People who were infected with Covid-19 would have to receive a booster shot three to four months after contracting the virus in order to get a vaccine pass, Health Minister Olivier Veran said. In the meantime, they could use their recovery certificates.

The crowd in Paris alone numbered at least 18,000, according to official estimates, with protesters heard chanting “We’ll piss you off!” in reference to Macron’s controversial comments.

Ten protesters were arrested and three police officers were reportedly injured in scuffles in the capital. At least another two dozen people were reportedly detained at numerous protests across other French cities.

During an interview with Le Parisien on Tuesday, Macron said,
“I am not about pissing off the French people. But as for the non-vaccinated, I really want to piss them off.”

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Macron revealed that continuing to “piss off” unvaccinated French people “to the end” is his “strategy,” and boasted that only a “small minority” was resisting government restrictions.
“How do we reduce that minority? We reduce it – sorry for the expression – by pissing them off even more,” the French president said, explaining that the plan includes

“putting pressure on the unvaccinated by limiting, as much as possible, their access to activities in social life.”
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... "emmerder"... well, that would literally translate being completely sunk into a full septic tank or, at least, being fully encased with sh!t.

Similar word construction would be like "emplâtrer" (encased with plaster), "empêtrer" (spanner in the works or completely entangled), "embourber" (stuck in a mud pit or quick sand). In short, in French, the prefix en-/em- is equivalent to the English prefix be-... starting to sound like Clif High...

Anyway, Macron's strategy is to besh!t the unvaxxed!

[Gwin Ru]

Croatian MEP Calls Macron a Murderer to His Face! (https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/croatian-mep-calls-macron-a-murderer-to-his-face/) 01:04

AlexandraBruce (https://rumble.com/user/AlexandraBruce)
January 22, 2022

At the beginning of the year, France took over the rotating presidency of the European Parliament. On Friday, during the plenary debate, independent Croatian MEP, Mislav Kolakušić addressed President Macron:
“Given the rescinding of numerous rights and freedoms in France during the pandemic, I ask of you only one thing: While presiding over the EU do everything exactly the opposite of what you were doing in France.

“On the other hand; today you said that you are proud there is no death penalty in Europe. Tens of thousands of citizens have died due to vaccine side effects.

“Mandatory vaccinations represent the death penalty and its execution for many citizens. It has to remain a choice for every citizen. Murder is murder!

“To those of you who don’t know that and haven’t educated yourselves. Take a look at the official data of the European health organization (EMA). Thank you.”
The world needs more people like Mislav Kolakušić in every walk of life.

His comments coincided with a staggering outbreak of common sense all over the world. Last week, a US federal judge blocked Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal workers, as had the Supreme Court the previous week for private employers.

The UK, Ireland and the Czech Republic joined Germany, Denmark, Romania and Japan in ending their vaccine mandates. More nations will surely follow their lead.

Meanwhile, the WHO announced that travel bans “should be lifted”, masks, testing, vaccinations and quarantine “should be based on risk assessments” not mandates. This was after the WHO had backpedaled on their genocidal booster shot campaign against children (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/who-says-theres-no-evidence-healthy-children-adolescents-need-covid-boosters.html).

We may have won some battles recently but the war against Globalist tyranny has only just begun.

Contributed by Alexandra Bruce (https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/author/alexandra/)

vqgtcn

[Gwin Ru]

...

... vive la merde...

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... so, to benefit from the "Vaccine Pass", one basically signs in for a booster every 6 months... till dead! Deadly marketing plan, IMO.

[Hermoor]

I like their style. Allez les patriotes!

https://twitter.com/1e9petrichor/status/1485274937006899209

[Gwin Ru]

Pfizer Building Surrounded in Paris: ‘Assassins!’ (https://rumble.com/vtl3xf-pfizer-building-surrounded-in-paris-assassins.html) 00:28

AlexandraBruce (https://rumble.com/user/AlexandraBruce)
Published January 29, 2022

Today, the Pfizer building in Paris was surrounded by a crowd shouting at Macron and Pfizer executives, calling them “Assassins!”

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Véran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_V%C3%A9ran) is some sort of French health minister while Castex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Castex) is prime minister and Macron is the current usurper of the presidency... all of 'em Pfizer's executors...

[Hermoor]

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2019/status/1487544775926550532?cxt=HHwWiMC4yfSF6aQpAAAA

[Hermoor]

Oh la la. Incroyable....

The recently vaccinated dead appear to be sending out bluetooth signals from their graves in a French Polynesian cemetery. The lady is suspicious, concerned and saying don't just take her word for it, go out and research it for yourselves.

https://twitter.com/Marlenvonisny/status/1489277973542973441?cxt=HHwWgsC9jaWb_aopAAAA

[Gwin Ru]

...

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From TV YÉ !

(https://twitter.com/tvyefr)

[Hermoor]

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1492230127643770885?cxt=HHwWioC-laPZu7UpAAAA

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1492216989783314432?cxt=HHwWgMCyvcbctbUpAAAA

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1492234862358638597?cxt=HHwWisC5xe_svbUpAAAA

[Tintin]

....indeed..

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[Spiral]

....indeed..

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That's the Gendarmerie, they are part of the army, not part of the Police, yet they operate as a second police force. It's only a bit of paper work to slide a few APC's over to them, makes you wonder how far Macron is going to push this, and how far these forces will go against their own people.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, mon cul.

[BMJ]

Trump Backs Zemmour For French President

And tells him how to win.

Paul Joseph Watson
15/2/222

French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour appears to have secured the endorsement of a very prominent person – former US president Donald Trump.

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[Gwin Ru]

Freedom Convoy in Paris (France) - Several wounded and one dead [2022] (https://www.bitchute.com/video/RCxcPph26BPh/) 06:35


Watch (https://www.bitchute.com/video/RCxcPph26BPh/#video-watch)

First published at 02:33 UTC on February 18th, 2022.


#freedom (https://www.bitchute.com/hashtag/freedom/)
#convoy (https://www.bitchute.com/hashtag/convoy/)
#europe (https://www.bitchute.com/hashtag/europe/)


Monica Waade (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/monwaa/)
Monica Waade (https://www.bitchute.com/profile/CohRV6Q39i24/)

One dead after Paris police open fire at Gare du Nord station.
Published: February 14, 2022
https://www.thelocal.fr/20220214/one-dead-after-paris-police-open-fire-at-gare-du-nord-station/

RCxcPph26BPh

[Gwin Ru]

...

... truly hilarious:

t.me/QtimeNetwork/4544 (https://t.me/QtimeNetwork/4544) 0:15 (https://t.me/QtimeNetwork/4544) (<--- click)

(https://t.me/QtimeNetwork/4544)Kekek, the sense of humor of this guy 😂


Feb 21 at 19:41 (https://t.me/QtimeNetwork/4544)
97.3K views


Qtime Network ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (https://t.me/QtimeNetwork)
@QtimeNetwork (https://t.me/QtimeNetwork)

[Hermoor]

^ :highfive:

https://twitter.com/Marlenvonisny/status/1496158673101635585?cxt=HHwWgoC-3duYtsMpAAAA

[Gwin Ru]

...

... from Jim Stone (http://82.221.129.208/1/.to9.html):
FRANCE DE-ACTIVATES COVID PASSPORTS THREE MONTHS EARLY (https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220215-four-million-french-people-need-a-booster-to-keep-their-covid-health-pass) TO FORCE PEOPLE TO GET THIRD BOOSTER

It is all about controlled genocide and nothing more. So go get boosted, and get that canceled also, IF you live long enough to have that happen.

Get with the program people, WE HAVE A SCHEDULE to meet!!! Don't make the results we want by 2023 happen in 2025, that will set us back to 2030!!!

[Hermoor]

https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1495880719943761928

[Gwin Ru]

🔴 [19/02] Effectif de police à la manifestation Gilets Jaunes contre le Pass Vaccinal, à Paris (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sokZ9u1uBpI) 0:31

Feb 19, 2022
https://yt3.ggpht.com/IuEFDZr9QlX5ezKcLhArh9t15AKjuKJmbDpsctt6SPJ3Ju9x6o9a29xQmG8BJP7GJLsfV1f5HA=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6LJpbMLseoi3OE9UDZNjQw) TV YÉ (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6LJpbMLseoi3OE9UDZNjQw)

Manifestation contre les restrictions sanitaires samedi 19 février à Paris.

N'hésitez pas à partager, liker, mettre un commentaire, pour une meilleure visibilité de la vidéo, et à activer la cloche si vous vous abonnez, merci beaucoup ! Soutenir TV YÉ : : https://paypal.me/tvyefr (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkh2TENUSW5icGFvcWxOaTBmcHlJVENDdTRJQXxBQ3Jtc0trYWJENjBkc2JUZDNpRXI0TmQ5c0NMTUVl OTVqYWtma3U1OVltM3lsRzU3SEVkTWNNTkdkYlZSd1B1dUxLc2VBZmgzSzZLRGRqWGRoWUFJNGNvak5rOERKNWhVcElxa21hSWcw QWdaZ1h2dzQ3dDBzWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpaypal.me%2Ftvyefr)


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... notice, at the end of the video, that the cops/flics have their riot helmet hanging at their belt... they, too, are protesting!
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Vues aériennes accélérées des manifestations à Paris contre le pass :


Samedi 17 juillet : https://youtu.be/HAVP7WlIENc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAVP7WlIENc&t=0s)
Samedi 24 juillet : https://youtu.be/-60B0DuepMA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-60B0DuepMA&t=0s)
Samedi 31 juillet : https://youtu.be/fPD5LugxQQ
Samedi 07 aout : https://youtu.be/U6gB4uO4mbI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6gB4uO4mbI&t=0s)
Samedi 14 août : https://youtu.be/E9QChsl9mXE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9QChsl9mXE&t=0s)
Samedi 21 août : https://youtu.be/BgGfcJ70qiM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgGfcJ70qiM&t=0s) & (statique) https://youtu.be/GDBMKtxNGTM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDBMKtxNGTM&t=0s)
Samedi 28 août : https://youtu.be/PORQKjA7BKc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PORQKjA7BKc&t=0s)
Samedi 4 septembre : https://youtu.be/PPjEiBHm7gQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPjEiBHm7gQ&t=0s)
Samedi 11 septembre : https://youtu.be/tepo-3kefGM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tepo-3kefGM&t=0s) & (statique) https://youtu.be/jwMN4gzGYiU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMN4gzGYiU&t=0s)
Samedi 25 septembre : https://youtu.be/sGXa6qLWxpw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXa6qLWxpw&t=0s)
Samedi 2 octobre : https://youtu.be/D5dRzEzumUc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dRzEzumUc&t=0s)
Samedi 9 octobre : https://youtu.be/rC0Rd09dkHw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC0Rd09dkHw&t=0s)
Samedi 16 octobre : https://youtu.be/4I1NdfZrtN4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1NdfZrtN4&t=0s)
Samedi 23 octobre : https://youtu.be/d1ncDAaPlYM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ncDAaPlYM&t=0s)
Samedi 6 novembre : https://youtu.be/7nFapdNj_Bk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFapdNj_Bk&t=0s)
Samedi 13 novembre : https://youtu.be/aeX6gXH4Yz8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeX6gXH4Yz8&t=0s)
Samedi 20 novembre : https://youtu.be/ARho13yfzLc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARho13yfzLc&t=0s)
Samedi 11 décembre : https://youtu.be/f4zAFXde9Xs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zAFXde9Xs&t=0s)
Samedi 18 décembre : https://youtu.be/D6yGLtUR86w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6yGLtUR86w&t=0s)
Samedi 8 janvier : https://youtu.be/cOyzhbasyok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOyzhbasyok&t=0s)
Samedi 15 janvier : https://youtu.be/lBqtwJTNMK8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBqtwJTNMK8&t=0s)
Samedi 22 janvier : https://youtu.be/J0pqzP5LEpc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0pqzP5LEpc&t=0s)
Samedi 23 janvier : https://youtu.be/AZ3_ZAC6x5I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3_ZAC6x5I&t=0s) [BRUXELLES]
Samedi 12 février : https://youtu.be/WI4St9QiTb4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI4St9QiTb4&t=0s)

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[Gwin Ru]

🔴 [19/02] Traversée de la manifestation Gilets Jaunes contre le Pass Vaccinal, bld de Magenta Paris (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9LvUK1ztWA) 0:40

Feb 19, 2022

x9LvUK1ztWA

[Gwin Ru]

...

Antifa riots in French cities because they didn't like the election result (https://summit.news/2022/04/11/antifa-riots-in-french-cities-because-they-didnt-like-the-election-result/)

Paul Joseph Watson
Not a fan of democracy.
Summit News (https://summit.news/2022/04/11/antifa-riots-in-french-cities-because-they-didnt-like-the-election-result/)
Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:17 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s32/643198/large/antifa_france.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s32/643198/full/antifa_france.jpg)
© Carlos Gil Andreu via Getty Images


Antifa members in France reacted to the outcome of the first round of the presidential election by rioting in several cities because they didn't like the result.

Populist Marine Le Pen will face off against incumbent Emmanuel Macron in the second and final round of the election in two weeks after the pair racked up the most votes out of all the candidates.

This apparently displeased members of the far-left Antifa extremist group, who responded to the democratic vote by rioting in several major cities.

Rennes, Brittany saw innumerable acts of arson and several violent clashes last night in the aftermath of the vote.

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Protesters who marched through the streets also caused property damage.

Other Antifa rioters attempted to smash their way into a bank.

Riot police were deployed.

Rioters also set off fireworks to protest the result in the city of Lyon.

Marseille was also hit with unrest.

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Despite Le Pen's success, all the other establishment parties, from Republicans to Communists, have urged their supporters to vote for Macron in the second round, closing ranks around the former Rothschild banker and Socialist technocrat.

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[Gwin Ru]

Violent protests erupt across France as Macron wins election (https://rumble.com/v12bh1l-violent-protests-erupt-across-france-as-macron-wins-election.html) 04:00

RT (https://rumble.com/c/RTNews)
Published April 25, 2022

The incumbent French President Macron is to retain his post for five more years as his opponents take to the streets to show their discontent

vzpb1v



My dear Marianne... R.I.P.

[DNA]

Violent protests erupt across France as Macron wins election (https://rumble.com/v12bh1l-violent-protests-erupt-across-france-as-macron-wins-election.html) 04:00

RT (https://rumble.com/c/RTNews)
Published April 25, 2022

The incumbent French President Macron is to retain his post for five more years as his opponents take to the streets to show their discontent

vzpb1v



My dear Marianne... R.I.P.


The globalists appear to be faking and winning fraudulent elections in more than just the USA.

[Gwin Ru]

...

... from Jim Stone:

Macron did not win any election (http://www.jimstoneindia.com/.zw7.html)

He is simply the appointed leader until the WEF finishes implementing the great reset. For as long as people tolerate it, there will be no elections. I am not in the mood to beat a dead horse, the whole world should know by now that when it comes to the west, elections are over. And I am not even sure Putin won but at least he is not actively seeking to destroy Russia. The only two legit elections I know of recently were for Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Obrador in Mexico. I don't know of more than that.

http://194.233.91.97/photos/votingisfiction.jpg

[Spiral]

Latest by Bob Moran.

[Michel Leclerc]

Latest by Bob Moran.
Yes.

It went wrong right at the beginning.

Whereas "liberté" and "fraternité" are philosophically, morally and naturally sound principles, "égalité" is not. We are only equal in the eyes of God, i.e. looked at from the distance of Infinity. The obsessive insistence on equality destroys both freedom and brotherliness.

The phrase becomes more profound and sensible if it is turned into "Liberté égale Fraternité": freedom equals brotherliness. When they are in balance, things go well.

Or, if one is fond of the -ité rhyme:

“Liberté Équité Fraternité": Freedom, Fairness, Brotherliness. Fairness is that balance. The basis of law, as we were taught by John Rawls.

A real community can work well with those three.

(Terror would never win.)

[Bill Ryan]

An excellent brief commentary (as is to be expected) from a rather exasperated Alexander Mercouris, of The Duran, on his own channel. Start in at 1:00.

(And my own added comment: further evidence that the way-over-simplistic tags of "left" and "right" have been all but totally meaningless for quite some time now.)

Macron Wins Election in Crumbling, Immobile France


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkd01TQkeXI

[Bill Ryan]

An excellent brief commentary (as is to be expected) from a rather exasperated Alexander Mercouris, of The Duran, on his own channel.

And here's The Duran's analysis, now featuring Alex Christoforou as well.

Jupiter Macron ready to rule over Europe, prepares to deindustrialise German economy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqtQq7s1y4Q

[onawah]

EVIDENCE OF ELECTION FRAUD IN FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
April 25, 2022
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/clear-evidence-of-election-fraud-in-french-presidential-elections/

"Evidence of election fraud has emerged from the recent French presidential elections, which handed a victory to Emmanuel Macron.

In this first video, France 2 news anchor, Jean-Baptiste Marteau announces that data received directly from France’s Ministry of the Interior showed Marine Le Pen was slightly ahead of Macron with exactly 13,899,494 votes. But by the end of the night, her vote tally had decreased by over 1.13 million votes. This is causing many to cry foul.

A second video shows how the fraud was accomplished: The ballots for Le Pen were intentionally damaged in order that they be invalidated.

On his Telegram account, Aaron Hawkins (aka StormCloudsGathering https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/how-to-overthrow-governments-the-color-revolution-formula/ ), who lives in France says that many are pointing to the obvious parallels with the 2020 Elections in the US but he says that we will not likely see a repeat of what happened in America, because the politics are very different in France. As Aaron explains:

“[Macron] is the most hated politician in the history of France. He isn’t viewed as a champion of the Left, but rather as a puppet of the banking elite. The fact that he literally worked for the Rothschild bank in France, and made a name for himself by brokering Nestlé’s acquisition of Pfizer’s baby food division made this the case from the very beginning, and his policies while in office only reinforced this perception.

“The post election riots in France may dissipate temporarily but with evidence of election fraud hanging over Macron as the food and energy crisis begins, revolution isn’t just possible, it’s probable. Separatist movements in Corsica, and various overseas territories will accelerate this, and fighters from all over the world will participate. Expect Italy to destabilize in parallel, and it is at this critical moment that the insane quantities of weapons that are disappearing in Ukraine will become very, very important (as will the various neo-nazi terrorist groups that the CIA and Mossad have been cultivating throughout western Europe).

“Ordo Ab Chao. Order out of chaos. Don’t let them get away with it.” "

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[Bill Ryan]

Protests already starting in France. :muscle: Here's an 8-minute update from The Duran:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YVmGsMVFvc

[Gwin Ru]

...

... with Macron being a product of the Rothschild's indoctrination and Le Pen being in "good" company at the Senatum Consultum's "Society" (https://www.senatusconsultum.eu/Society/)


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... it may indeed be the time for us peons to sharpen the pitchforks...

Have a look as well at the Senatus Consultum's "Ambassadors" (https://www.senatusconsultum.eu/Ambassadors/) ... and some more dots could yield the intermediate size picture?

[kfm27917]

Growing up Yellow Vest: Seeing French elites, not French people, conquered by neoliberalism

http://thesaker.is/growing-up-yellow-vest-seeing-french-elites-not-french-people-conquered-by-neoliberalism/

[kfm27917]

The pan-European project wanted a Great Recession, winds up with Yellow Vests

http://thesaker.is/the-pan-european-project-wanted-a-great-recession-winds-up-with-yellow-vests/