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

[Bill Ryan]

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I felt this was interesting enough (as a discussion point about the political and economic future of Europe) to post as a standalone item.


http://kingworldnews.com/rmer-soros-associate-just-warned-we-are-about-to-witness-total-fcking-chaos-across-the-globe


Alert: Former Soros Associate Just Warned We Are About To Witness ‘Absolute F*cking Chaos’ Across The Globe

Today a former associate of George Soros told King World News that we are about to witness “absolute f*cking chaos” across the globe in a little over two months.

Victor Sperandeo oversees over $3 billion, has been in the business 45 years, and has worked with famous individuals such as Leon Cooperman and George Soros. Below is what Sperandeo had to say

Victor Sperandeo: “What people are underestimating is the upcoming election in the Netherlands on March 15. A month later France is going to hold their election…

http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/secondary/Geert-Wilders-680936.jpg

A Lion Will Lead The Netherlands Out Of The EU

Victor Sperandeo continues: “Greert Wilders, who is running to lead the Netherlands, is going to win that election. He was arrested for making the claim, in a nice way, that Muslims should stay in their own countries and not come to the Netherlands. So he is pissed off and so are many of the people in the Netherlands. And Wilders is going to win that election and get the Netherlands out of the EU.

http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/139/590x/secondary/Marine-Le-Pen-675542.jpg

A Lioness Will Lead France Out Of The EU

And over in France, Le Pen is now in the lead and she is going to win and pull France out of the EU. The euro is going to go away and each country will go back to their own currencies. So what is going to happen in the aftermath of this, Eric, is complete chaos and world depression! The EU is toast and the whole world is going to feel the effects of the collapse of the EU. As an example, there will be extreme inflation in countries such as Italy.

Death Of The EU – “There Will Be Absolute F*cking Chaos”

And what is going to happen to the U.S. stock market? People will stop buying U.S. stocks because the whole world is going to go into a depression. There will be absolute f*cking chaos starting on March 15 and nobody is talking about it. The populist movement, which are people who have been f*cked, are moving away from the globalist movement. And when 27 countries get their own printing presses back it will be chaos. I have been tempted to go 100 percent long gold. It’s such a slam dunk that the world is in trouble. The EU was built on France and Germany, so without France there is no EU. Gold will be in extreme demand when this unfolds and that is why the gold market is already firming up. Eric, I promise you there will be total chaos.”

[sheme]

He could just need the price of gold to rise enough so it is worth his while selling the gold he and his friends already have.

[loc333]

Thanks Bill i was wondering where this evil bastard (Soros) is hiding out . Im not a church going person but believe in a god. I think we have front row seats a huge battle between good and evil . Everyday in the U.S. there is a new twist and turn which will effect Europe as well. Soros funding riots in america and elsewhere with an unlimited budget. He is pure evil and needs to be exposed . And this Jewish guy from Hungary effecting politics everywhere 3/4 of Americans dont know who he is. I wish i could wake more people up.

[sheme]

They did it before they can do it again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/9968494/Roosevelts-gold-confiscation-could-it-happen-again.html

[TargeT]

The EU is toast and the whole world is going to feel the effects of the collapse of the EU. As an example, there will be extreme inflation in countries such as Italy.

Death Of The EU – “There Will Be Absolute F*cking Chaos”

Aweee, is the poor elite panicking?


And what is going to happen to the U.S. stock market? People will stop buying U.S. stocks because the whole world is going to go into a depression. There will be absolute f*cking chaos starting on March 15 and nobody is talking about it. The populist movement, which are people who have been f*cked, are moving away from the globalist movement. And when 27 countries get their own printing presses back it will be chaos. I have been tempted to go 100 percent long gold. It’s such a slam dunk that the world is in trouble. The EU was built on France and Germany, so without France there is no EU. Gold will be in extreme demand when this unfolds and that is why the gold market is already firming up. Eric, I promise you there will be total chaos.”


Hmm.. for some reason I'm not so sure the US will be drug into this, at least not much... but it is fun to see the panic.

[norman]

There's been a lot of arguing here in UK about losing access to the "single market".

The way this is looking, there won't be a single market to worry about.

[Jantje]

The title says Wilder (missing an s). Geert Wilders that is. very populistic and he has a lot off support mainly because the failure of the multi-cultural society.
That is because every person with a working brain should be able to figure out you can't mix cultures except for corrupt politicians with hidden agendas.
If he wins remains to be seen and even if he does he will need support from other parties.

Europe might just have been doomed to fail from the start. We'll see what happens. I'm not gonna hold my breath

[Baby Steps]

can it be managed in an orderly fashion? perhaps

the chances of melt downs in Italy are high, and that, coupled with the value destruction that markets rightly ascribe to the break up of a large 'state' into smaller ones, means it would be a global event.

markets rightly believe that the eu assists corporate profits, and this is priced in. it can equally be priced out. the £ lost 15% of its value. companies with significant business in the eu will be priced down.

[Cognitive Dissident]

Interesting times.

The EU is obviously doomed, but I don't think Wilders will be the trigger. He may be the single largest party in the Netherlands in the March election but there will be many other small parties. It's unlikely to lead to an immediate Netherlands exit from the EU.

If Marine Le Pen wins in France, that will be a game-changer, but even so will take time to play out.

More immediate problems are the Greek crisis - they really have run out of money this time! And the IMF has admitted that Greek's debt is unsustainable, which means by their own rules they cannot lend any more to Greece (of course it was unsustainable 3 years ago, but they ignored this until finally now). Eventually the Greek people will realise that being out of the Euro is the least worst option, and when they leave it really will be a crisis.

And of course Italy could go critical at any moment. It's a slow motion train wreck actually.

Not to mention Portugal and Spain...

[Dick]

Wilders will get a lot of voters behind him, bit like Jantje said, he cant rule our country allone, and other political groups have already said they wont coopperate whit him, so lets see how things work out.

[ghostrider]

So many are so angry , and the sleeping masses have been by design have been divided into groups ... There has never been such division and anger placed on a global scale ...it will be easy for the controllers to crash the system, as everyone is always looking for change...Some are just sick and tired of being sick and tired , they will march glady into oblivion... I follow a small prepper group on youtube for getting a pulse for what small side groups are talking about , they are at the highest state of ready i have seen in the last four years ... i would advise those who feel the ned, stock up on food, water and first aid , just in case... they say a three month supply is a good start ...

[TargeT]

So many are so angry ,

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

I hate to get all "left / right"

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

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

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

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

[ghostrider]

Exactly , the ones that always accuse the right of being racist, violent, unhinged, etc , are doing the very things they claim they are against, while the right engage peacefully in ideas ... its like the entire world went crazy in a week ...

[Helene West]

It's hard to know where people like Sperandeo are really coming from when they make provocative statements as this.

1) He can be trying to subvert populist movements by intimating that when populists are elected everyone goes to hell in a handbasket. He sounds like he's making a prediction but he really could just be fear mongering before the Dutch and French elections. It's the ones who are threatening to not work with a populist victor and sabotage their own country that are the problem, not the populists.

2) He is telling us our U.S. stock market will crash. We don't have to go along with that. DON'T SELL INTO PANIC. All we need is a calm, intelligent, authoritative voice in the country (if any exist) telling people not to panic and don't do the same old stupid thing - start selling en masse when you hear the yelling. That is how collapses happen. Don't do anything. If you see some precautions you can take, take them now, not on March 15th.

3) He says he's thinking of going 100% long on gold! I don't believe it. A billionaire financier putting all his eggs in one basket? nah, but it sure sounds like he wants us going 100% long on gold! Why? and he doesn't mention what kind of gold, paper like ETFs? or is he buying physical gold and hoarding it in his mansions?

Very interesting but as usual these days everything with ample grains of salt....

[AutumnW]

There will be major contagion. The U.S. is still exposed through international banking in a Yuuuuge way.

[TargeT]

Exactly , the ones that always accuse the right of being racist, violent, unhinged, etc , are doing the very things they claim they are against, while the right engage peacefully in ideas ... its like the entire world went crazy in a week ...

Prophet:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGjsPdpUYAAAekw.jpg

[AutumnW]

So many are so angry ,

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

I hate to get all "left / right"

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

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

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

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

Oh well, you're a former soldier. You have to go all "left right, left right, left right," marching in parades, right?

[TargeT]

Oh well, you're a former soldier. You have to go all "left right, left right, left right," marching in parades, right?

Well, I'm sitting here at my desk in uniform right now, so not former ;)


and yes.... but mostly left (strangly... haha)

example:
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[Hervé]

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https://www.sott.net/image/s18/375285/large/FullLeftist.jpg

[Justplain]

What credibility does this currency speculator have? Since when does the breakup of a plutocratic monopolistic semi-fascist trade organization result in a world wide depression? If anyone has analyzed switzerland's relationship with the EU they'll see a model that foretells how the new EU will look like, one where the individual countries retain control of their borders and internal markets but still have general trade with their neighbours. No more EU bureaucrats who ignore the public to serve their fascist corporate taskmasters. Watch for a revival of the middle class who are the true wealth and employment generators in the economy. This guy is just a fear mongerer probably looking to make a quick profit off a rise in gold prices. We've had enough of these dirtbag speculators.

[Chester]

It's hard to know where people like Sperandeo are really coming from when they make provocative statements as this.


Well, if what he says is old news (that he was tempted and instead that he actually went 100% in, long on gold) then he may just be trying to push up the price for a slow (stealthy) sell off and BIG profit, especially if he went long on futures oprions (giving him huge leverage).

Cha-ching?

[Helene West]

It's hard to know where people like Sperandeo are really coming from when they make provocative statements as this.


Well, if what he says is old news (that he was tempted and instead that he actually went 100% in, long on gold) then he may just be trying to push up the price for a slow (stealthy) sell off and BIG profit, especially if he went long on futures oprions (giving him huge leverage).

Cha-ching?

yes, he's trying to give us (mis)directives but he's not going 100% gold, that's crazy....

[AutumnW]

Since when does the breakup of a plutocratic monopolistic semi-fascist trade organization result in a world wide depression? .

When it breaks down from a complete and total lack of confidence by those who have been forced to support it -- much like the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. It is unlikely that it will be as bad as that, as Russia and its satellite states went from a Communist system to a quasi-Capitalist one and the EU will be going from what you describe to something the citizens recognize.

But Depression, of course. And a global one? Definitely.

[Justplain]

Since when does the breakup of a plutocratic monopolistic semi-fascist trade organization result in a world wide depression? .

When it breaks down from a complete and total lack of confidence by those who have been forced to support it -- much like the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. It is unlikely that it will be as bad as that, as Russia and its satellite states went from a Communist system to a quasi-Capitalist one and the EU will be going from what you describe to something the citizens recognize.

But Depression, of course. And a global one? Definitely.

Hi AutumnW, i have a uncle who lives in the uk who says the eu is a quasi-idiotic rule making gong show. The eu rules restrict some very fundamental freedoms of choice, like whether you can grow apple trees. The eu trade commissioner is quoted as saying her mandate is not to serve the will of the people. She serves people like soros. When the eu is a truly democrati institution, then europe will benefit from it. Right now its killing the middle class and national cultures. Europe will be better off with reforming itself. And it wont result in a depression, it will result in european revival.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Might be a silly question...but who's Eric?

Viking

[A Voice from the Mountains]

I also think that western Europe is going to have a very tough time if/when Le Pen, Wilders and maybe even the AFD party in Germany gain power. Just Le Pen alone leading France out of the EU, the EU would probably collapse at that point as it would be an obviously German-dominated affair that even the German people are turning against.

If the EU fails politically, the EU as a currency will be in trouble too. And US banks are intricately tied into the financial corruption of European banks, so I think this is one of the biggest reasons Trump is trying to get so many jobs coming to the US as quickly as he possibly can, because he knows that he's running on borrowed time already.

The Trump Administration is already moving ahead quickly on getting Bitcoin out to be publicly traded, which will be interesting. Gold, silver or Bitcoin may become a safe haven asset to better retain the value of your cash if you have Euros.

[Eram]

The whole reason why the EU is going to fail and was always going to fail is because it is undemocratic.
It was a CIA invention and brought into existence because that way, EU was better controllable for the US and also of course the bigger picture of the plan for a one world government.

Everyone with half a brain in Europe has now seen that the EU is not functioning on behalf of it's population, but rather acting as a body to bring about legislation in favor of big corporations.

In many respects, the EU body is just as corrupt and under the influence of lobbyists as the US, or at least fast going there.
In my opinion, the EU has to go and make way for a new experiment.

A league of nations that focuses on friendship between nations.
No power what so ever to make legislation.
That power should stay with the respective sovereign nation states.
This is paramount for any chance of succes imo.

[Eram]

If reincarnation exists in function of an evolving soul and I think that evidence for that is overwhelming, then people should understand that not every person that is alive is on the same level of soul adulthood.
Looking at the world and all that goes on there, it's not hard to understand that most people alive today are not in the upper part of soul adulthood I think.

Just as a child needs a family with a mother, a father and perhaps brothers and sisters to feel safe and secure, to feel grounded and part of something "bigger" then just it's "individual self", so do people need to be part of a nation and it's culture to have those same feelings of security and being part of something "bigger".
There's nothing scary about that.
It only becomes a problem when it grows out of control to the levels that we witnessed with Hitler and Mussolini for instance.

Imo, we have seen the rise of globalism for at least 50 years or more and I think that the growing nationalism all over the world is a "peoples" reaction to it and rightfully so.

The Elites idea to kill sovereign nation states in order to have their one world government was a very bad idea and a good example of their ignorance.

[uzn]

Statistics about the Election in the Netherlands:
http://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/p/laatste-cijfers.html
one row down press the button : Trends

[Ewan]

So many are so angry ,

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

I hate to get all "left / right"

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

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

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

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

It can't be that simplistic though, perhaps the left/right divide was always a false dichotomy. I would fall on the left of any spectrum divide and I'm not angry, quite sure I am not unique in that.

Perhaps a snowflake/glacier comparison? :D

[norman]

I'm a little bit surprised by how disconnected the lefties seem to be, and how many of them there are.

Am I to assume that none of them have ever even flirted with "new-age" or otherwise bumped into truth seeking communities and got at least SOME mileage on their clocks.

I hated it when the Alex Jones crew were taking the piss calling them all babies etc. I have to say though, either they are faking it or they really are astonishingly naive and somehow haven't done much if any real life learning.

What kinds of lifestyles can continue for 25 to 35 years without even a hint of dot joining from within ? Oh, wait, I was pretty stupid as a youngster too, and I went to at least a half decent school where we were taught stuff.

I must be SO out of touch with what's actually going on in education these days. The product coming out of it, is baffling me silly.

[Flash]

Critical thinking (meaning being able to analyse, compare, use logic, and decide, etc. not meaning to be able to criticize unless it is logical) is not being neither taught, nor used in actual school year, at any level of schooling (from primary school to universities). What is being taught is a bunch of pushed in information, that can be gathered nowadays on the internet, pushing a bunch of information without the analysis and critical thinking skills to be able to make connections and truly understand the whole picture of anything. And in the state of Florida for example, history and geography (the biased ones, let alone the true history) have been taken off the compulsory courses - therefore young people growing not able to make any kind of links and real sense of the world.

Critical thinking was taught right after my own schooling and before my daughter's schooling (very few years). With all the data available on the net, what is truly needed is critical thinking - but it will not be taught, because it creates thinking and good decision making.

EU countries are not there yet as we are in North America, but getting near.





I'm a little bit surprised by how disconnected the lefties seem to be, and how many of them there are.

Am I to assume that none of them have ever even flirted with "new-age" or otherwise bumped into truth seeking communities and got at least SOME mileage on their clocks.

I hated it when the Alex Jones crew were taking the piss calling them all babies etc. I have to say though, either they are faking it or they really are astonishingly naive and somehow haven't done much if any real life learning.

What kinds of lifestyles can continue for 25 to 35 years without even a hint of dot joining from within ? Oh, wait, I was pretty stupid as a youngster too, and I went to at least a half decent school where we were taught stuff.

I must be SO out of touch with what's actually going on in education these days. The product coming out of it, is baffling me silly.

[TargeT]

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


It can't be that simplistic though, perhaps the left/right divide was always a false dichotomy. I would fall on the left of any spectrum divide and I'm not angry, quite sure I am not unique in that.

Perhaps a snowflake/glacier comparison? :D

I could have worded it better with more emphasis on "seem" (as in the general perception is).. I do not think it's true that "all liberals have gone crazy", more that the perception is being put out there hinting at that, I do think you can get a general idea of people's feelings on a certain topic based on the R/D divide, probably a lot of other useful information too, but that's not my area.




I'm a little bit surprised by how disconnected the lefties seem to be, and how many of them there are.
I hated it when the Alex Jones crew were taking the piss calling them all babies etc. I have to say though, either they are faking it or they really are astonishingly naive and somehow haven't done much if any real life learning.
What kinds of lifestyles can continue for 25 to 35 years without even a hint of dot joining from within ? Oh, wait, I was pretty stupid as a youngster too, and I went to at least a half decent school where we were taught stuff.
I must be SO out of touch with what's actually going on in education these days. The product coming out of it, is baffling me silly.

Great example of what I'm trying to speak to....

the role reversal is amazing.


Leftists went from the "academia/intellectuals" in "public perception" to the out of control emotional basket-cases that we are being "shown" on MSM.

[BMJ]

Imo, we have seen the rise of globalism for at least 50 years or more and I think that the growing nationalism all over the world is a "peoples" reaction to it and rightfully so.

Agreed. Beyond this, we have for years given our trust and faith to our governments, they have in turn abused this relationship.

The game changer is the fact that the people are awakening to this fact and are now taking back reponsibility for their lives and holding their governments accountable for their actions.

(And is this not in part what us as truth seekers have been aiming for, that is truth and accountability to the people for their actions).

BACK TO TOPIC.

[Hervé]

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[Hervé]

If these two get elected, there'll also be a change of views and actions regarding economic sanctions against Russia:

Lavrov reveals why Russia imposed an embargo on the EU: It's 'one simple thing' (https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702051050360628-lavrov-russia-eu-sanctions/)

Sputnik (https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702051050360628-lavrov-russia-eu-sanctions/) Sun, 05 Feb 2017 14:14 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s18/375484/large/1030248396.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s18/375484/full/1030248396.jpg)
© Sputnik/ Vladimir Sergeev


Russia's Foreign Minister revealed the one and only reason why Moscow had to retaliate in response to the European Union's economic restrictions.

Russian countermeasures were a reciprocal and honest response to the EU sanctions, because unfair competition from EU producers was unacceptable in light of the sanctions Brussels introduced, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (https://sputniknews.com/tags/tag_SergeiLavrov/) said.

"We imposed sanctions as a countermeasure over one simple thing. The European sanctions limit the ability of our banks to get loans to finance agriculture, which would mean agricultural producers from the European Union would have had an advantage and maintained an unfairly competitive position in the Russian market," Lavrov told the Austrian magazine Profil in an interview.

When asked under what conditions would Russia cancel its restrictive measures, the minister said that the question was not for him to answer.

"We did not initiate the sanctions, so it is not for us to lift them," Lavrov noted.

Since 2014, relations between Russia and the European Union and the United States have deteriorated amid the crisis in Ukraine. Brussels, Washington and their allies introduced several rounds of sanctions against Russia (https://sputniknews.com/trend/western_sanctions_against_russia_2014/) on the pretext of its alleged involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, which Moscow has repeatedly denied. In response to the restrictive measures, Russia imposed a food embargo (https://sputniknews.com/trend/russia_responds_to_western_sanctions_2014/) on some products originating in countries that have targeted it with sanctions.

[Hervé]

Ditch the euro, vote Frexit: Le Pen's National Front manifesto (https://www.rt.com/news/376340-france-elections-lepen-manifesto/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/376340-france-elections-lepen-manifesto/) Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:47 UTC


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© Emmanuel Foudrot / Reuters


Abandoning the euro and a possible vote on exiting the EU are part of a newly-released manifesto by France's presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen. Drastically curbing migration and leaving NATO's integrated command are also among the proposals.

France should reconsider its relations with the European Union and give up the single currency, Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, said in her recently released manifesto. If that doesn't happen, France may face a referendum on leaving the alliance.

"The aim of this program is first of all to give France its freedom back and give the people a voice," Le Pen said, introducing the manifesto on Saturday in Lyon, Reuters reported (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-fn-idUSKBN15J007?il=0).

In the manifesto, which consists of 144 "commitments," the 48-year-old candidate says a future French government should leave the euro zone, hold a Brexit-style referendum, levy taxes on foreign workers, lower the retirement age and increase some welfare benefits, while cutting income tax. The document, however, is quite vague on how the National Front's economic program would allow it to reduce taxes and at the same time raise welfare payments.

The National Front leader also promised extra public spending to build new prisons for 40,000 more inmates and hire an additional 15,000 police officers.

France should be automatically deporting foreigners convicted of a crime, according to Le Pen's manifesto. People tracked by intelligence services for possible inclination toward radical Islam would be immediately ordered to leave. Mosques suspected of teaching radical jihadist ideas would be closed as well.

Le Pen also stands for withdrawing from the NATO Integrated Military Command Structures and allocating more funding to defense.

Under her manifesto, free education, now available to all residents of France, may only be accessible by French citizens in future.

Undocumented migrants will no longer have a chance to legalize their stay and would be stripped of free basic healthcare. Children of immigrants born in France won't be given French citizenship, as they are now by default. In general, France's migrant quota could go down to 10,000 people per year, Le Pen said.

"This presidential election puts two opposite proposals. The 'globalist' choice backed by all my opponents ... and the 'patriotic' choice which I personify," Le Pen said in the manifesto.

If the presidential elections resulted in a win for Marine Le Pen, the daughter of National Front founder and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen, she says she plans to push for a review of relations between EU states, aiming at very loose cooperation with no single currency. In case other members of the EU don't agree with Le Pen's plan, she said she would then initiate a referendum to leave the union.

Opinion polls, cited by Reuters, predict that Le Pen would go forward to the second round of election on April 23, but would fail to secure the victory on May 7, possibly paving the way for pro-European centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron to take the presidency.

However, with the unexpected win of Donald Trump in the US, Britain's decision to leave the EU and corruption speculation surrounding conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon all happening amid the overall rise of populism across Europe, the National Front believes in Le Pen's success.

"We were told Donald Trump would never win in the United States against the media, against the establishment, but he won... We were told Marine Le Pen would not win the presidential election, but on May 7 she will win," top National Front official Jean-Lin Lacapelle said, addressing party officials and members.

Macron, a former economics minister who distanced himself from the Socialist Party and is now running as an independent with his own En Marche party, held a rival rally in Lyon that attracted nearly 16,000 of his supporters, AP reported.

[AutumnW]

Since when does the breakup of a plutocratic monopolistic semi-fascist trade organization result in a world wide depression? .

When it breaks down from a complete and total lack of confidence by those who have been forced to support it -- much like the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. It is unlikely that it will be as bad as that, as Russia and its satellite states went from a Communist system to a quasi-Capitalist one and the EU will be going from what you describe to something the citizens recognize.

But Depression, of course. And a global one? Definitely.

Hi AutumnW, i have a uncle who lives in the uk who says the eu is a quasi-idiotic rule making gong show. The eu rules restrict some very fundamental freedoms of choice, like whether you can grow apple trees. The eu trade commissioner is quoted as saying her mandate is not to serve the will of the people. She serves people like soros. When the eu is a truly democrati institution, then europe will benefit from it. Right now its killing the middle class and national cultures. Europe will be better off with reforming itself. And it wont result in a depression, it will result in european revival.

I am very anti EU as I was antiCommunist. I am just pointing out that extreme change can cause huge dislocations and chaos and...depression. If the new truly sovereign nations work very quickly and in a united way (without the idiot EU) to hammer out realistic trade agreements, it shouldn't be quite as disastrous, in the short term. In the long term, it will work out better for everybody.

Thanks so much for your response. I LOVE first hand accounts of how oppressive the EU is!:clapping:

[AutumnW]

I'm a little bit surprised by how disconnected the lefties seem to be, and how many of them there are.

Am I to assume that none of them have ever even flirted with "new-age" or otherwise bumped into truth seeking communities and got at least SOME mileage on their clocks.

I hated it when the Alex Jones crew were taking the piss calling them all babies etc. I have to say though, either they are faking it or they really are astonishingly naive and somehow haven't done much if any real life learning.

What kinds of lifestyles can continue for 25 to 35 years without even a hint of dot joining from within ? Oh, wait, I was pretty stupid as a youngster too, and I went to at least a half decent school where we were taught stuff.

I must be SO out of touch with what's actually going on in education these days. The product coming out of it, is baffling me silly.

It's an interesting demographic thing. I am left leaning, sort of, but also jad my own small businesses years ago and have some basic understanding of how money works, so totally get the 'right' wing and how annoying too much govt control can be and how centralization of services can work out to be pretty oppressive.

What I notice is, people who are on the left are often employees and even more often govt. employees, academics and professionals. They hang out with their own kind and don't get all the issues with Obamacare, etc...that small business owners face. So there is a rural/urban divide, a right/left divide and also a small business sole proprietorship/govt employee divide, too.

It is very important that those on the 'right' understand this and even MORE important for those who have never struggled to create their own business, to understand the other sides!

[Hervé]

And, now, for a real, new "Marianne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne)," Marine Le Pen's niece:

National Front is only force standing for Europe of sovereign states – Marion Marechal-Le Pen to RT (https://www.rt.com/news/376392-marion-pen-sovereign-eu/)

Published time: 5 Feb, 2017 17:43
Edited time: 5 Feb, 2017 17:57
Edited time: 5 Feb, 2017 18:32
Get short URL (https://on.rt.com/82fc)


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France's right-wing National Front party, the leader of which, Marine Le Pen, is running for the presidency this year, is "the only force" that can get France out of the EU and help protect it from radical Islam, politician Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told RT.

"Currently, we are the only political force in France that promotes a sovereign project, based on [the idea] of Europe made up of national sovereign states," the National Front (FN) member said.

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen added that "there are no other candidates" supporting the same ideas as her aunt's party, who can boast "a potential possibility to take part in at least the first round" of the French presidential elections.


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Another French presidential hopeful, Emmanuel Macron, a former economy minister under president Francois Hollande, who has recently lashed out at the EU project at a rally, "has not changed his views" as a europhile, the granddaughter of FN's founder Jean-Marie Le Pen said.

"Emmanuel Macron has no wish at all to question the core idea of European federalism, the idea of European government, the euroze and the Schengen zone," Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told RT in Lyon where Marine Le Pen launched her presidential campaign on Sunday.

While Marine Le Pen has already released a manifesto that highlights abandoning the euro and a possible vote on exiting the EU among some of the key proposals, Macron is in no rush to present his official manifesto, the FN politician said.

"It's a great talent of Emmanuel Macron to create an imitation of a program, which is in fact based on total emptiness. His program is a real marketing product, said to be something new, but in fact he's been doing the same thing since he was a minister in the Manuel Valls government. I honestly think he will not succeed in converting his purely marketing product into electoral votes," Marion Maréchal-Le Pen said.

There is little known about Macron's program, she added, saying that among a few things that can be understood so far are his favor for "total liberalization of the economy" and support for gay marriage and other LGBT rights.

"I also think that he stands for protecting immigration, and thus is against expectations of the majority of the French people," Marion Maréchal-Le Pen said.


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Marion Maréchal-Le Pen

Meanwhile, "drastically limiting immigration" is among the main points of Marine Le Pen's program, the politician said.

"We want to get out of Schengen, regain control of our borders and know who goes in and out" of the country, she told RT, adding that her party "also wishes to have an extremely tough policy" on Islamists.

There are plenty of projects in France financed by the Qataris and the Saudis, she said, adding that the FN party seeks to close down "all organizations that are in touch with radical Islam." The party also "wants to deport the radical imams," she said.

Speaking at a thousands-strong campaign launch rally on Sunday, Marine Le Pen announced that she alone - if elected president in May - could protect the French people against Islamic fundamentalism. The promise was greeted with the crowds chanting, "This is our country," Reuters reported.

National Front policy proposals have been used by other French political parties, both left and right, the party general secretary and MEP Nicolas Bay told RT. Yet, he added, if they succeed in getting into power, "like Nicolas Sarcozy in 2007... [the other politicians] do exactly the opposite" to what they've promised.

"I think the totally disoriented right and left use our ideas in every campaign, to have a chance to be elected. But the French people know that those [politicians] have done nothing," Bay said.

Marine Le Pen is expected to become the frontrunner in the first round of the elections in late April, according to a recent poll by international Ifop research firm cited by RIA Novosti. Yet, the poll has shown that the National Front leader might lose in the second round in May to Macron. Ratings of another candidate, France's former prime minister, Republican Francois Fillon have dropped following a scandal (https://www.rt.com/news/375623-france-fillon-wife-fake-jobs/) involving corruption allegations against his family members, the poll showed.


Related:
Marine Le Pen's parliamentarian niece dismantles feminist hypocrisy in 3 minutes (http://russia-insider.com/en/most-satisfying-thing-youll-watch-today-marion-le-pen-dismantles-feminist-hypocrisy-3-minutes)

[Ashy67]

So many are so angry ,

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

I hate to get all "left / right"

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

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

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

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

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

[Hervé]

"Crimea was always Russian!": Marine Le Pen slams CNN (http://theduran.com/crimea-always-russian-frances-marine-le-pen-schools-cnn/)

Sergey Gladysh The Duran (http://theduran.com/crimea-always-russian-frances-marine-le-pen-schools-cnn/)
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:33 UTC


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

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

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

Here is how the conversation went:
Amanpour: Does it not bother you that a big country broke international law and invaded and annexed a small country?

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

Amanpour: That's what you think?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former French president Sarkozy faces trial over illegal campaign financing (http://news.sky.com/story/ex-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-to-face-trial-over-campaign-financing-10759136)

Alex McGuiness Sky News (http://news.sky.com/story/ex-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-to-face-trial-over-campaign-financing-10759136)
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:33 UTC


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He [Jacques Chirac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac)] was given a two-year suspended prison sentence in 2011 over a fake job scandal.

[uzn]

loosely related:
Meanwhile in Romania People are protesting and going to the streets against their corrupt Goverment and are demanding it´s Resignation ;)
http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/02/romania759.jpg
It sais : Romania wake up !

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/romania-corruption-protests-2.jpg

Source:
http://time.com/4660860/romania-protests-corruption-problem/

[Ashy67]

loosely related:
Meanwhile in Romania People are protesting and going to the streets against their corrupt Goverment and are demanding it´s Resignation ;)
http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/02/romania759.jpg
It sais : Romania wake up !

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/romania-corruption-protests-2.jpg

Source:
http://time.com/4660860/romania-protests-corruption-problem/

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

[Hervé]

French Presidential Candidate Le Pen Warns EU Must ‘Change or Die’ (https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702091050501041-france-candidate-lepen-eu/)

Sputnik Politics (https://sputniknews.com/politics/)14:02 09.02.2017


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

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

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

[Hervé]

More details via RT:

Marine Le Pen declares 'Euro is not a currency, it's a political weapon' (https://www.rt.com/business/376833-euro-political-weapon-frexit/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/business/376833-euro-political-weapon-frexit/) Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:24 UTC


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© Jacky Naegelen / Reuters


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

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

According to Politico (http://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-either-the-eu-changes-or-it-will-die-france-election-2017-populism-europe/?utm_content=buffer79699&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer), Le Pen said the European Union should change radically and deeply, and abandon its authoritarian character, "or it will die."

When asked if France leaving the eurozone would mean the end of the EU single currency, Le Pen said:
"Maybe, and so what? The euro isn't a currency, it's a political weapon. The euro is a knife which the EU puts into the backs of the people to force them to go where they don't want to go."

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

"Either the EU gives French people back their territorial sovereignty, borders, control over their economy, control over their currency and the superiority of their laws, or I will say to the French people that we should leave the EU."
In a manifesto released last week, the leader of the National Front Le Pen said France should reconsider its relations with the European Union.

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

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

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


Related:
Marion Marechal-Le Pen: National Front is only force standing for a Europe of sovereign states (https://www.sott.net/article/341700-Marion-Marechal-Le-Pen-National-Front-is-only-force-standing-for-a-Europe-of-sovereign-states)
National Front's Le Pen surges in wake of Nice attacks - promises vote on Frexit if elected (https://www.sott.net/article/322437-National-Fronts-Le-Pen-surges-in-wake-of-Nice-attacks-promises-vote-on-Frexit-if-elected)
It's not just Brexit: Greece, Spain, and France are also on the brink (https://www.sott.net/article/319527-Its-not-just-Brexit-Greece-Spain-and-France-are-also-on-the-brink)
Leave euro & vote Frexit: Le Pen unveils National Front manifesto (https://www.rt.com/news/376340-france-elections-lepen-manifesto/)

[Hervé]

French elite chose their new pawn, Emmanuel Macron, former Director of Banque Rothschild (http://thesaker.is/french-elite-chose-their-new-pawn-emmanuel-macron-former-director-of-banque-rothschild/)

By Cosimo February 10, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

This comes as a shock to people, especially outside France, but the oligarchs have rejected Fillon. A list of his “defects” reveal a stubborn French patriot who defends Christians and family values, who wants French-Russian friendship, and who is not a dyed-in-the-wool Europhile. This ordinary right-wing politician didn’t support the Maastrich Treaty which is a foundational document of the EU. That was 1992, and since then he rebuilt bridges with the Europhile elite, or so people thought. Fillon wants to end the sanctions and he’s also calling for an EU-Russian conference to work out new security arrangements. Fillion is also supportive of Syrian Christians, who have been a main target of the terrorists. In 2015, he spoke at a meeting of 1600 supporters of this endangered minority. (http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/francois-fillon-se-mobilise-pour-les-chretiens-d-orient-24-06-2015-1939424_20.php)

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

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

The oligarchs schemed quietly for two years to build a brand-new candidate to oppose Fillon, but the immediate trigger may have been an interview which Fillon gave to both Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, published January 22, so 3 days before January 25, when The Chained Duck quacked its bombshell allegation. ( http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2017/01/22/francois-fillon-je-propose-une-alliance-europeenne-de-defense_5066975_3210.html )

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

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

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

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

Who is Macron ?

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

Macron and his Rothschild connection is really bad news for the French. Here is why:
The last time the Rothschilds put a puppet into the presidential office, it was to overthrow the great President Charles De Gaulle, who had become anti-imperialist. At the time, all the American Lügenpresse told us was that he kicked NATO out of France. In reality, De Gaulle’s offenses were far greater. Few Americans know that he used the prestige of his office to oppose the US wars in Southeast Asia. His speech in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Sept. 1, 1966) is breathtaking in its deep and eloquent denunciation of the American Empire. A French transcript of that speech is at http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/accueil/discours/le-president-de-la-cinquieme-republique-1958-1969/discours-de-phnom-penh-1er-septembre-1966.php

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Alstom matter is more serious, really.

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

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

Alstom was one of France’s few remaining high-tech dynamos, a key to French prosperity in the 21st Century. Nuclear reactors, high speed trains, electricity transmission, etc. GE has a similar set of industries, so the American giant offered to buy the nuclear power and electrical transmission part of Alstom for €12.35 billion, but not the train business. That was a paltry sum for businesses with an annual turnover of over €14 billion. Any businessman would understand GE’s initial offer as a fire sale price – but Alstom was not in distress. Even worse, after all the flim-flam such as a US Department Of “Justice” fine ($970 million) for bribing Indonesian officials, French share-holders ended up with less than €3.7 billion. French people made a public outcry and an effort to prevent losing this jewel, but to no avail. Macron should have prevented this catastrophe, and he did nothing because he’s a neoliberal with masters to please and – amazing at is seems – his French masters serve American masters. The American website, Counterpunch, ran a detailed story on Alstom two months ago, although it failed to highlight the role of Macron as the most responsible “Socialist” minster. Link:
Behind GE’s Takeover of Alstom Energy (http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/behind-ges-takeover-of-alstom-energy/)
Emmanuel Macron, the Candidate
In the last two years, the oligarchic press, the French Lügenpresse, has been trying to turn the nobody Macron into a major candidate, creating a big PR campaign. The French website Le Vent Se Leve (The Wind Rises) has a good short exposé at http://lvsl.fr/medias-ont-fabrique-candidat-macron “How The Medias Fabricated Macron The Candidate”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

French polls must raise and then answer three questions.
First, were citizens really candid with pollsters who represent the establishment ?

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

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

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

[Bayareamom]

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[Ewan]

You know what I am getting tired of?

Labels.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Hervé]

Thierry Meyssan extracting the global constants:



Who is Using the Press and the Judicial System Against Trump & Fillon? (http://www.voltairenet.org/article195246.html)



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

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

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

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

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


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



MM. Trump & Fillon are dangerous personalities.



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



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



MM. Trump & Fillon use non-orthodox methods.



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



Artists and intellectuals share our indignation.



Our cause has a sacred character.



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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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


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Thierry Meyssan (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en)

Translation Roger Lagassé (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125483.html?lang=en)

[Honesty]

..........

[Hervé]

Globalists disclosing their vested interests:

Fake news about fake news: Western media accuses RT of 'fake news' by citing story RT never published (https://www.rt.com/op-edge/377245-rt-debunks-macron-fake-news/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/op-edge/377245-rt-debunks-macron-fake-news/) Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:14 UTC


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Emmanuel Macron © Robert Pratta / Reuters


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

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

RT responded to the allegations that it had targeted French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron with "fake news" in a statement (https://www.rt.com/about-us/press-releases/rt-debunks-macron-fake-news/):
"RT adamantly rejects any and all claims that it has any part in spreading fake news in general and in relation to Mr. Macron and the upcoming French election in particular. Furthermore, we are appalled that such baseless accusations are taking place on a quotidian basis. Indeed, it seems that it has become acceptable to level such serious charges at RT without presenting any evidence to substantiate them, as well as to apply this 'fake news' label to any reporting that one might simply find unfavorable. It is both ironic and deeply disappointing that, in the noble fight against fake news, journalistic standards are so casually sacrificed when the conversation concerns RT." International news media outlets picked up the Ferrand interview, apparently without checking the facts.

Many outlets relied on Monday's Reuters report (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-cyber-idUSKBN15S192), which claimed that RT ran comments by French National Assembly member Nicolas Dhuicq about Macron being an agent of 'the big American banking system.'

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

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

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

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

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

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See : French elite chose their new pawn, Emmanuel Macron, former Director of Banque Rothschild (http://thesaker.is/french-elite-chose-their-new-pawn-emmanuel-macron-former-director-of-banque-rothschild/) in post # 48 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1133311&viewfull=1#post1133311)

[uzn]

News from Rumania,
This Weekend the Romanian People again Protested peacefully against their corrupt Government.
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Multiple Thousand People used their Mobiles and colored Paper to have a giant colored romanian Flag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg6vlFllNdQ
The most popular Slogans on Pransparents are: Resign, and Thieves !!!
The Protestmovement reached a critical mass when the Minister of Justice (Florian Lordache) wanted to pass a Law that would make it impossible to investigate any form of corruption under 45.000 Euros. That would have legalised State Corruption. This Criminal (Minister of Justice) resigned last Thursday but that did not stop the Protests ;)

[Hervé]

Wikileaks releases 'CIA espionage orders' for 2012 French presidential election (https://www.rt.com/usa/377619-wikileaks-cia-election-france/)

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

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




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RELEASE: CIA espionage orders for the last French presidential election https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/#Press%20Release%20%28english%29 … (https://t.co/ARd8alUjMS) #CIAFrance (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CIAFrance?src=hash)

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9:39 AM - 16 Feb 2017

119 replies 1,929 retweets 1,555 likes The CIA assessed (https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/document/2012-CIA-FRANCE-ELECTION/page-2/#pagination) that President Nicholas Sarkozy's UMP party was not assured re-election and ordered officers to find out Sarkozy's private deliberations "on the other candidates" as well as how he interacted with his advisors, according to the documents.

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

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




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RELEASE: Full text of CIA orders targetting French presidential election including Hollande, Sarkozy & Le Pen https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/document/2012-CIA-FRANCE-ELECTION/ … (https://t.co/BUrH14uePb)

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9:54 AM - 16 Feb 2017
100 replies 1,939 retweets 1,630 likesAccording to the papers, the CIA justification for seeking detailed information on the inner workings of the party was to assist “analysts assess and prepare US key policymakers” for the post-election French political landscape and the potential impact on US-France relations.

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

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

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

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

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

Related:
Thousands of dossiers on French presidential contenders available in archives – WikiLeaks (https://www.rt.com/news/375908-wikileaks-france-election-files/)

[Hervé]

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

"I Will Not Cover Myself Up": Le Pen Refuses To Wear Headscarf, Cancels Meeting With Lebanese Cleric (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-21/i-will-not-cover-myself-le-pen-refuses-wear-headscarf-cancels-meeting-lebanese-cleri)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Feb 21, 2017 8:01 AM

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

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

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


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


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

As Reuters reports (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-lepen-idUSKBN1600R6), Le Pen, who is a frontrunner for the presidency, is hoping to boost her foreign policy credentials with a two-day visit to Lebanon nine weeks from the April 23 first round, and may be partly targeting potential Franco-Lebanese votes. The cleric's press office said Le Pen's aides had been informed beforehand that a headscarf was required for the meeting and had been "surprised by her refusal".


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

[Hervé]

French election: Le Pen rising, Macron falling (http://theduran.com/le-pen-rising-macron-falling/)

Alexander Mercouris The Duran (http://theduran.com/le-pen-rising-macron-falling/)
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
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Opinion polls show Marine Le Pen increasing her lead in the French Presidential election, as the attraction of Emmanuel Macron - the centrist establishment candidate - begins to fade.

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

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

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

Here are the results with Bayrou electing to stay in the race
Marine Le Pen 27%
Francois Fillon 20%
Emmanuel Macron 17%
Benoit Hamon 12%
Jean-Luc Melenchon 12%
Francois Bayrou 6%
With Bayrou pulling out the results are as follows
Marine Le Pen 28%
Francois Fillon 21%
Emmanuel Macron 18.5%
Benoit Hamon 13%
Jean-Luc Melenchon 13%
Bayrou has now – as widely predicted – pulled out and thrown his weight behind Macron. However, as the Elabe poll shows, it is far from certain that Macron will benefit significantly from his support. If anything it is likely to increase the growing (and correct) impression that he is the establishment’s candidate, and that the stops are being pulled out to help him.

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

In passing, comments on the thread to my previous piece about Macron (http://theduran.com/emmanuel-macron-francois-fillon-scandal/) questioned whether he really did attend the elite École nationale d’administration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_d%27administration) (“ENA”) in Strasbourg, the traditional training school of the French political elite and the alma mater of former French Presidents Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9ry_Giscard_d%27Estaing), Jacques Chirac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac) and François Hollande (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hollande), and of countless other French politicians.

The answer is that he definitely did. The cause for the confusion is that before going to ENA Macron applied to a different Grande École – the equally prestigious and much older École normale supérieure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Normale_Sup%C3%A9rieure) in Paris, which however mainly trains academics rather than civil servants or politicians – but failed the entrance exam.

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

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

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

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

[araucaria]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where do we go from here? Obviously some kind of truth and reconciliation process is already kicking in. See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95745-CIA-Good-Guy-Robert-David-Steele&p=1131361&viewfull=1#post1131361). So Fillon may yet become the new president. The quid pro quo of reconciliation being truth, we need more hard information coming out through accredited journalistic sources. If we had that, then the uncontrolled whistleblowers and alternative media would not be all over the place as they are now. We have come to the point where Fillon bases his defence partly on his total lynching by the mainstream press. Well yes, they all say the same thing, but that was no problem when it helped him win the nomination. Reconciliation, amounting to a more effective democratic process, says, We may let you carry on but we have got your number, lots of little brothers are watching you: any more of the fancy tricks and you’re out. No one is ganging up against you, and by the same token no one is ganging up for you to give you a free ride.

There is a reverse side to this. The other frontrunner, Emmanuel Macron, is largely an unknown quantity who is gaining favour by proposing something different, with something for everyone and few firm promises. See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95892-Vault-7&p=1136384&viewfull=1#post1136384). My point would be that if a really suitable politician were to slap us in the face (or perhaps kiss us on the cheek), most people would reject him, and rightly so, for as long as political campaigning is a branch of advertising, unsuitable candidates will be packaged to sell. People will have to just choose whomever they consider the least toxic, which is not necessarily a bad policy in the context of an increasingly well informed electorate wising up to the subtler packaging.

[Longjohn]

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

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

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

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

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

Best regards,

John

[Hervé]

Egg on his face: Macron splattered by protester on French campaign trail (VIDEO) (https://www.rt.com/viral/379095-macron-egg-french-campaign/)

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

The confrontation happened while France’s former economy minister attended Salon International de l'Agriculture 2017 (https://en.salon-agriculture.com/) in Paris.

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




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L'œuf reçu par @EmmanuelMacron (https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron) au salon de l'agriculteur (filmé par un visiteur) #JoiesDeLaCampagne (https://twitter.com/hashtag/JoiesDeLaCampagne?src=hash) #SIA2017 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SIA2017?src=hash)

7:47 AM - 1 Mar 2017
149 replies 1,449 retweets 750 likes This is not the first time Macron has been egged (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/06/french-protesters-egg-the-countrys-economy-minister/), however. Last June Labour reform protesters pelted eggs at the former Rothschild banker outside a post office in Montreuil.

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

OpinionWay’s daily support poll (https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-01/le-pen-slips-in-presidential-poll-leaving-macron-1-point-behind)for Wednesday leaves Le Pen just one point ahead of Macron in the first round voting.

Related:
French National Front convoy attacked on way to rally (VIDEO, PHOTOS) (https://www.rt.com/news/378684-french-national-front-convoy-attacked/)

[Hervé]

Insider Foretold Mass Migration in 2006 (https://www.henrymakow.com/attali.html)

By Henry Makow March 1, 2017


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In a book Henry Kissinger called "brilliant and provocative..difficult to dismiss," Jacques Attali confirms that the Illuminati bankers are imposing a hideous "Brave New World" on mankind, one divorced from goodness, truth or reality.

In his futuristic tome, A Brief History of the Future (2006) Illuminati insider Jacques Attali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Attali), a Jew, spoke of third-world hordes engulfing the West.

'Ever more numerous masses will hurl themselves at the gates of the West. They already number hundreds of thousands every month; that figure will increase to millions, then tens of millions.'

The United States will be the most popular destination and 'In twenty years, the Hispanic and African-American populations will almost constitute a majority in the United States.'

Atali also foresaw a surveillance state where "our i-phones send data to the NSA," and Christianity is pitted against Islam. Clearly Atali was no clairvoyant. He had access to the blueprint.

Latest (today): Twenty million African migrants headed for Europe (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4268820/TWENTY-MILLION-African-migrants-heading-Europe.html)


by David Richards (From December 22, 2010)
(for henrymakow.com)

A Brief History of The Future by Jacques Attali (2006) outlines the elite's agenda for the 21st Century.

A French Jew, (he recently told the European Jewish Congress the world's Jewish population needs to rise to 200 million), Attali is a high-level technocrat working to fulfill the New World Order.

Jacques Attali has a varied CV. For ten years he worked as an adviser to former French President Francois Mitterrand. In 1980, he started the European program Eurêka (a major European program on new technologies that invented, among other things, the MP3).

In 1991, he co-founded the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is also at the origin of the higher education reform, known as LMD, designed to bring all European degrees into line.

He has published over 50 books, selling over 6 million copies worldwide. They include an adoring biography of banker Siegmand Warburg.

He has also written a glowing account of Karl Marx, arguing that Marx was a free-marketeer who favored capitalism as a stepping-stone to his Communist ideal and predicted globalization as we know it today (i.e. the New World Order).

In 'A Brief History of The Future' Attali predicts that this century will unfold in three distinct phrases.

1. Super-empire = an era of privatization where corporations rule the day. He writes, "money will finally rid itself of everything that threatens it- including nation states, which it will progressively dismantle." The market will become the world's only recognized law. A system of power whose 'structures remain elusive but whose goal is global.'

2. Hyperconflict = super-empire will implode and there will be a period of worldwide chaos. Starting about 2030, Attali foresees 'devastating wars, pitting nations, religious groups, terrorist entities, and free-market pirates against one another'.

3. Hyperdemocracy (2060)= Exhausted by wars and social upheavals the world public will welcome with open arms 'the creation of a democratic world government.' It will be a collectivist system, with everyone working towards the 'common good.'
I have selected a few themes to give you a flavor of the book.


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(Jacques Attali)


IMMIGRATION
Immigration flows will expand and submerge nation states. 'Great Britain will become a major host country, especially for citizens of Central European countries. The latter will in their turn welcome Ukrainian workers, themselves replaced by Russians, themselves replaced by vast Chinese populations.'

Resistant countries will learn that a population inflow 'is the condition of their survival.' In a sinister passage, Attali speaks of third-world hordes engulfing the West.

'Ever more numerous masses will hurl themselves at the gates of the West. They already number hundreds of thousands every month; that figure will increase to millions, then tens of millions.'
The United States will be the most popular destination and 'In twenty years, the Hispanic and African-American populations will almost constitute a majority in the United States.'

Nomadism will also become the norm in the West, 'more and more people will leave one country for another: there will soon be more than ten million of them switching countries every year.

Our main incentive will be money, but many will leave because they are disgusted by their homeland.

'They [will] no longer want to depend on a country whose tax system, legislation, and even culture they reject. And also to disappear completely, to live another life. The world will thus be increasingly filled with people who have become anonymous of their own free will; it will be like a carnival where everyone - ultimate freedom! - will have chosen a new identity for himself.'
SEXUALITY
In the future, people will no longer bond and create families. 'The couple will no longer be the principal base for life and sexuality. [People] will prefer to choose, in full transparency, polygamous or polyandrous loves.'

The driving force of this trend is technology that frees youth from parental control.

The first was the radio, which allowed the young:

'To dance outside the ballrooms and therefore be free of parental supervision- liberating sexuality, opening them to all kinds of music, from jazz to rock, and thus announcing youth's entry into the world of consumption, of desire, and of rebellion.'
A media-dominated culture will create an egocentric populace who 'will be loyal only to themselves.'

With lovers failing to mate for life, 'the world will be no more than a juxtaposition of solitudes, and love a juxtaposition of masturbations.'

The elite goal is to remove love from sex so that they control reproduction. Attali writes that in the twentieth century, society 'sought to evacuate the reproductive role of sexuality by making motherhood artificial, by using increasingly sophisticated methods- pills, pre-mature labor, in vitro fertilization, surrogate mothers.'

In the future, society 'will even go so far as to dissociate reproduction and sexuality. Sexuality will be the kingdom of pleasure, reproduction that of machines.'

Future generations 'will manufacture the human being like a made-to-measure artifact, in an artificial uterus, which will allow the brain to further develop with characteristics chosen in advance. The human being will thus have become a commercial object.'

SURVEILLANCE
Attali paints a picture of a surveillance society that would make the Stasi wince.

Even our washing machines will be conspiring against us, while the 'packaging of food products, clothing vehicles, and household goods will become "communicative."'

We will live with untrustworthy robots.

'Domestic robots will become universal in daily life. They too will be constantly connected to high-output grids in nomadic ubiquity. They will function as domestic help, as aids for the handicapped or aged, as workers and as members of security forces. In particular they will become "Watchers."'
All our data will be collected by public and private security firms. The main form of surveillance will be portable entertainment devices. The embryo of this today is the iPhone that sends data to the NSA.

'The unique nomadic object will be permanently traceable. All the data it contains, including images of everyone's daily life, will be stored and sold to specialist businesses and to public and private police.'
By 2050, these machines will have evolved into what Attali calls 'self-surveillance machines' that will allow everyone to monitor his own compliance with the norms.

We will monitor our consumption of water, energy and raw materials. We will even have the 'opportunity to measure, permanently or periodically, the parameters of [our] own body.'

'Electronic bugs, worn subcutaneously, will ceaselessly register heartbeat, blood pressure, and cholesterol. Microprocessors connected to various organs will watch their functioning as compared to the norms.'
Living insecure and chaotic lives, we will be dependent on insurance companies for security. These companies will make sure their clients 'conform to norms to minimize the risks ... They will gradually come to dictate planetary norms (What to eat? What to know? How to drive? How to protect oneself? How to consume? How to produce?)'

These companies will be ruthless.

'They will penalize smokers, drinkers, the obese, the unemployable, the inadequately protected, the aggressive, the careless, the clumsy, the absentminded, the spendthrift. Ignorance, exposure to risks, wasting, and vulnerability will be considered diseases.'
Prisons 'will be gradually replaced by long-distance surveillance of a person under house arrest.'

THE FUTURE OF THE US
The dollar will remain dominant until at least 2025, when foreign backers will start abandoning it and 'the credit pyramid, based on the value of American housing, will collapse.'

The US will then start disintegrating, with violence and chaos ensuing. Attali states, 'it will not be tomorrow's Africa that will one day resemble today's West, but the whole West that could tomorrow evoke today's Africa.'

The US will then have to redesign its government to regain control.

'The United States could then become a Scandinavian-style social democracy, or a dictatorship - and even perhaps one after the other. It would not be the first time such a surprise occurred: the first leader to apply the principles required to emerge from the crisis of the [last depression] was Mussolini; the second was Hitler. Roosevelt only came third.'
As chaos and violence engulfs the world, Christianity and Islam will strengthen. The Bible belt region in the Southern US will mobilize and could dominate US politics.

'The United States could then around 2040 fall prey to a theocratic temptation, explicit or implicit, in the shape of theocratic isolationism in which democracy would be no more than a shadowy presence.'

This Christian movement could be used in a war against a mobilized Islam, which would presumably weaken and discredit both religions.

An international Christian alliance 'could well form alliances here and there with secular pirates and traffickers in arms, women and drugs.'

This alliance will 'stand face to face against Islam - and the struggle will be relentless. They will defend Christians in countries where they are a minority, as in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Syria.'

Before the end of century the US will be disintegrated and under the authority of a collectivist world government.

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Part Two (https://www.henrymakow.com/insider_reveals_21st_century_i.html)

Insider Reveals 21st Century Illuminati Agenda-2

by David Richards January 9, 2011
(for henrymakow.com)

Illuminati members like Jacques Attali (above) think they have a right to decide the fate of humanity.

This is the 2nd part of highlights from 'A Brief History Of The Future' by Jacques Attali. The first part can be found here. (https://www.henrymakow.com/attali.html)

'A Brief History Of The Future' is a revealing title because in the book Attali defines history as 'never anything but the thinking of the strongest.'

It is a predictive account of the 21st century in light of the Elite agenda.

Future Wars
Around 2030, Attali sees 'hyperconflict' starting, a period of tremendous violence and upheavals, out of which 'hyperdemocracy'; a one-world communitarian government, will emerge around 2060.

Hyperconflict will consist of 'devastating wars, pitting nations, religious groups, terrorist entities, and free-market pirates against one another'.

Future wars will be fought with 'chemical, biological, bacteriological, electronic, and nanotechnological' weapons.

'Chemical arms will be capable of seeking out and killing leaders without being detected; pandemics should be ready for unleashing at will; complex genetic arms may one day be directed specifically against certain ethnic groups. Nanorobots as small as a mote of dust, known as gray jelly, could carry out stealth surveillance missions and attack the cells of enemy bodies.'
Even cows will be utilized by military pioneers, 'cloned animals could well carry out missions-living animal bombs, monsters out of nightmare.'

These weapons will be widely available.

'Most of these weapons will be accessible to small nations, to non-states, to corsairs, to pirates, mercenaries, maquisards, mafias, terrorists, and every kind of trafficker... In the not so distant future, it will be possible to make an e-bomb for $400 from a condenser, a reel of copper wire, and an explosive.'
Wars will break out worldwide, some will be fought over resources, such as water wars, others wars of influence or between ethnic groups vying for autonomy. It will lead to a splintering in countries and the emergence of new nations worldwide, likely nations of conflict include Nigeria, Turkey, Iran and the Philippines.

'Even cities will proclaim secession; ethnic or linguistic minorities will demand independence. The partitioning of territories will go badly.'
Attali believes many conflicts will be savage.

'Genocides will then be committed with the crudest of weapons. At least three of these massacres - against the Armenians, Jews, and Tutsi - were perpetrated in the twentieth century. And those who do not believe it only have to remember that 1938 no one thought the Shoah would be possible.'
Western nations could be provoked into big wars, with North Korea believed to be a likely catalyst.

'Now pointed at Japan, North Korea's missiles will one day target the United States and China. The missiles of a Pakistan fallen into the hands of fundamentalists will threaten first India, then Europe. Those of Hezbollah - in other words Iran - that now target Israel will one day be pointed (from Beirut or Tehran) at Cairo, Riyadh, Algiers, Tunis, Casablanca, Istanbul, then at Rome, Madrid, London and Paris.'
Legalization of Drugs
Attali predicts a future world where the masses drown themselves with amusement to escape their insecure and meaningless lives.

We will claim (are claiming) the right to grow roots.

'They will miss the days when frontiers were closed and lifetime employment was guaranteed, objects were long-lasting, marriages were sealed and remained sealed, the laws unbreakable.'
Entertainment will be our main escape.

'Some will cloister themselves in the autism of an assiduous use of nomadic objects. They will narcissistically obsessed by the self-monitors, like the Japanese otaku - those fanatics of virtual nomadism, of autistic listening to music, and of the self-monitoring of the body.'
In collusion with entertainment, drugs will be legalized to numb us to the growing insanity around us.

'Alcohol, cannabis, opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine, synthetic products (amphetamines, methamphetamines, Ecstasy). Chemical, biological, or electronic drugs, distributed by "self-repairers," will become consumer products in a world without law of police, whose chief victims will be the infranomads.'
(Infranomads= world's poor)

Feminism Necessary for Socialism


Jacques Attali is a pioneer of microfinance, founding PlaNet Finance, the third biggest organization of its kind. Microfinance consists of giving loans to poor people and community groups worldwide to start businesses.



When asked in an interview with Charlie Rose why 80% of microloans are given to women, Attali describes the phenomenon as a 'strange thing' but in the book he gives the real reason.

Women will defer to state collectivism.

By 2060 Attali sees Hyperdemocracy (one-world collectivist government) becoming a reality and the pioneers of this system are what he calls 'transhumans.'

Transhumans will find pleasure in serving others in their communities. They will 'usher in an economy of altruism, of free availability, of mutual giving, of public service, of the general interest.'

'Women will become transhumans more easily than men: finding pleasure in giving pleasure is peculiar to motherhood.'

'The progressive rise of women in every dimension of the economy and of society- particularly through microfinance- will add enormously to the numbers of transhumanists. '
Brainchips
Future man will walk the streets terrified of his own thoughts. He will be implanted with a brainchip.

'Bionic prostheses directly connected to the brain will help us build bridges between spheres of knowledge, produce mental images, travel, learn, fantasize, and communicate with other minds.'
This technology 'already allows a quadriplegic to write fifteen words a minute through a simple thought transmission, and send them off by email. Telepathy is thus (already) reality.'

We will all reap the 'benefits' of this technology.

'Tomorrow, these processes will make it possible to come up with new forms of direct communication via the mind and improve the process of apprenticeship and onscreen network creation.'
The consequence of this development will be suffocating surveillance. Today, the State has access to our Facebook profile; tomorrow it will be our every thought.

One day consciousness will be stored digitally, and it will be possible to live in multiple hosts.

'Thanks to the astounding progress we can expect from the nanosciences, everyone will even hope to transfer his awareness of himself to another body, to acquire his own double, copies of beloved people, dream men and women, hybrids built with peculiar traits preselected to reach precise objectives. Some will even seek to overtake the human species with a life-form endowed with a different and superior intelligence.'
Some will live for thousands of years and will enter a twilight zone between life and death.

'Then man, at last manufactured like an artifact, will no longer know death. Like all industrial objects, he will no longer be able to die, since he will never have been born.'
Insanity Of The Agenda
The book is littered with other similar descriptions of future man being an industrial object, echoing the communist dream of the 'soviet man.'

At one point in the book Attali says children will be grown in laboratories like a 'commercial object.'

He predicts that before the end of the century the moon will be colonized, and it is interesting to note the psychological process he describes man experiencing.

End Goal Of NWO
Near the end of the book Attali tells us the ultimate goal of the NWO: to destroy humanity.

Attali says hyperdemocracy will be a One World Government run by the UN that will force obligations on each citizen towards the environment and other people.

Hyperdemocracy will develop a common good defined by a collective intelligence, which 'is an intelligence peculiar to itself, which thinks differently from each member of the group,' in the same way, 'a computer thinks differently from each processor.'

We will then progressively erase ourselves with technological advancement.

'Finally , at the ultimate stage of evolution, we might witness (we may already be witnessing) a hyperintelligence of the living, of which humanity will be but an infinitesimal component.'
Humanity will then die.

'The singular history of Homo sapiens sapiens would achieve consummation.'

Our World Or Theirs
Attali believes that all opposition to the coming world order will be futile because it will not propose another system.

'Most of these new contestants will propose no system of substitution... Expect for a handful who will propose a return to theocracy.'
To criticize and expose is not enough, we must strive to create our own world, before a crazed cult destroy us forever.


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First Comment from Dan:
Attali had a great run from the early 90's till lately. The Globalists peaked from 2005-2009. But only time will determine whether he goes down as prophet, or will be forgotten twelve years on.

France is in the throes of Presidential election fever with voting day only two months away. Predictably, Attali is lobbying for Emmanuel Macron (former investment banker at Rothschild & Cie Banque and former member of the French Socialist Party).

Last week in (http://www.worldlingo.com/S5JZ3IUWwlQkil6ei3XWq9wgjS2SrRDYN/translate) L'Humanité (http://www.worldlingo.com/S5JZ3IUWwlQkil6ei3XWq9wgjS2SrRDYN/translate), Attali remarked with acerbic French sarcasm that he wondered if the media (theirs) might be the "objective allies of Marine Le Pen" by sabotage of their own work" so much. However, like his Globalist counterpart pundits in the US during the US election, the Great Attali completely ignores the point that attacking the Right can't make the general public ignore the fact that 'Multiculturalism' ala EU is a disaster. And electing another Jewish Rothschild lieutenant is sheer suicide for the French people.

This week however REUTERS, BLOOMBERG, CNBC, and the rest turn up the volume on Macron: 'FEARS EASE AS POLLS SUGGEST MACRON WILL BEAT LE PEN'

But the same Media said Hillary was 85% in the polls the day before our election, so we're not buying what they say anymore.

[Hervé]

Now, from the other side of the pond:

Globalists interviewed: they admitted they controlled the government (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/globalists-interviewed-they-admitted-they-controlled-the-government/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Mar 2 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/globalists-interviewed-they-admitted-they-controlled-the-government/), 2017

This is a bombshell. It’s a crucial piece of history that has been ignored by mass media.

I’ve published this interview before. Here I want to make new comments.

First of all, David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission was born in 1973, in part because the Globalist plan to ensure “free trade” (no tariffs paid by predatory mega-corporations) had run into a glitch.

That glitch was President Richard Nixon. He began laying tariffs on certain goods imported into the US, in order to level the playing field and protect American companies. Nixon, a substantial crook in other respects, went off-script in this case and actually started a movement to reject the Globalist vision.

After Nixon’s ouster from the White House, Gerald Ford became president, and he chose David’s brother, Nelson Rockefeller as his vice-president. It was a sign Globalism and free trade were back on track.

But David Rockefeller and his sidekick, Brzezinski, wanted more. They wanted a man in the White House whom they’d created from scratch.

That man was a peanut farmer no one had ever heard of: Jimmy Carter.

Through their media connections, David and Brzezinski vaulted Carter into the spotlight. He won the Democratic nomination (1976), spread a syrupy message of love and coming together after the Watergate debacle, and soon he was ensconced in the Oval Office.

Flash forward to 1978, the second year of Carter’s presidency. An interview took place.

It’s a close-up snap shot of a remarkable moment. It’s a through-the-looking-glass secret—in the form of a conversation between a reporter, Jeremiah Novak, and two Trilateral Commission members, Karl Kaiser and Richard Cooper.

The interview concerned the issue of who exactly, during President Carter’s administration, was formulating and controlling US economic and political policy.

The careless and off-hand attitude of Trilateralists Kaiser and Cooper is astonishing. It’s as if they’re saying, “What we’re revealing is already out in the open, it’s too late to do anything about it, why are you so worked up, we’ve already won…”
NOVAK (the reporter): Is it true that a private [Trilateral committee] led by Henry Owen of the US and made up of [Trilateral] representatives of the US, UK, West Germany, Japan, France and the EEC is coordinating the economic and political policies of the Trilateral countries [which would include the US]?
COOPER: Yes, they have met three times.

NOVAK: Yet, in your recent paper you state that this committee should remain informal because to formalize ‘this function might well prove offensive to some of the Trilateral and other countries which do not take part.’ Who are you afraid of?
KAISER: Many countries in Europe would resent the dominant role that West Germany plays at these [Trilateral] meetings.
COOPER: Many people still live in a world of separate nations [!], and they would resent such coordination [of policy].

NOVAK: But this [Trilateral] committee is essential to your whole policy. How can you keep it a secret or fail to try to get popular support [for its decisions on how Trilateral member nations will conduct their economic and political policies]?
COOPER: Well, I guess it’s the press’ job to publicize it.

NOVAK: Yes, but why doesn’t President Carter come out with it and tell the American people that [US] economic and political power is being coordinated by a [Trilateral] committee made up of Henry Owen and six others? After all, if [US] policy is being made on a multinational level, the people should know.
COOPER: President Carter and Secretary of State Vance have constantly alluded to this in their speeches.
KAISER: It just hasn’t become an issue.

SOURCE: “Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management,” ed. by Holly Sklar, 1980. South End Press, Boston. Pages 192-3.
Of course, although Kaiser and Cooper claimed everything being manipulated by the Trilateral Commission committee was already out in the open, it wasn’t.

Their interview slipped under the mainstream media radar, which is to say, it was ignored and buried. It didn’t become a scandal on the level of, say, Watergate, although its essence was far larger than Watergate.

US economic and political policy run by a committee of the Trilateral Commission—the Commission had been created in 1973 as an “informal discussion group” by David Rockefeller and his sidekick, Brzezinski, who would become Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor.

Shortly after Carter won the presidential election, his aide, Hamilton Jordan, said that if after the inauguration, Cy Vance and Brzezinski came on board as secretary of state and national security adviser, “We have lost. And I will quit.” Lost—because both men were powerful members of the Trilateral Commission and their appointment to key positions would signal a surrender of White House control to the Commission.

Vance and Brzezinski were appointed secretary of state and national security adviser, as Jordan feared. But he didn’t quit. He became Carter’s chief of staff.

Flash forward again, to the Obama administration.

In the run-up to his inauguration after the 2008 presidential election, Obama was tutored by the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Four years before birthing the Commission with his boss of bosses, David Rockefeller, Brzezinski wrote: “[The] nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force. International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation state.”

Goodbye, separate nations.

Any doubt on the question of Trialteral goals is answered by David Rockefeller himself, in his Memoirs (2003): “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

Patrick Wood, author of Trilaterals Over Washington and Technocracy Rising, points out there are only 87 members of the Trilateral Commission who live in America.

Obama appointed eleven of them to posts in his administration.

For example:
Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary;
James Jones, National Security Advisor;
Paul Volker, Chairman, Economic Recovery Committee;
Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence.
Here is the payoff. The US Trade Representative (appointed by Obama in 2013), who was responsible for negotiating the Globalist TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) treaty with 11 other nations, was Michael Froman, a former member of the Trilateral Commission. Don’t let the word “former” fool you. Commission members resign when they take positions in the Executive Branch of government. And when they serve in vital positions, such as US Trade Representative, they aren’t there by accident.

They’re operatives with a specific agenda.

Flash forward one more time. Trump, who squashed the Globalist TPP treaty as soon as he was inaugurated, has been busy making staff appointments. Patrick Wood writes (2/6/17):
“According to a White House press release, the first member of the Trilateral Commission has entered the Trump administration as the Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, where he will sit on the National Security Council:

“Kenneth I. Juster will serve as Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs. He will coordinate the Administration’s international economic policy and integrate it with national security and foreign policy. He will also be the President’s representative and lead U.S. negotiator (“Sherpa”) for the annual G-7, G-20, and APEC Summits.”
Juster’s duties will take him into the heart of high-level negotiations with foreign governments on economic policy.

Keep your eye on Mr. Juster. Will he take actions in line with Trump’s avowed anti-Globalist stance?

Or will Juster work as one more covert Trilateral operative in the center of American decision-making?

If the answer is “covert operative,” does Trump know this? Does he condone what Mr. Juster will do?

Or is this a case of secret infiltration, on behalf the most powerful Globalist group in the world, the Trilateral Commission?

Jon Rappoport

[Rocky_Shorz]

So the Trilateral commission is another name for Kharzarian mafia?

[Eram]

So the Trilateral commission is another name for Kharzarian mafia?

No, The Trilateral Commission is another name for Trilateral Commission (http://trilateral.org/).

"Kharzarian mafia" is fantasy writer Benjamin Fulford jibberish.

[Hervé]

“Freedom of Speech”: European Parliament Revokes Marine Le Pen’s Immunity (http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/03/freedom-of-speech-european-parliament.html)

Fort Russ News -March 2nd, 2017 -
forwarded by Samer Hussein -


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The EU parliament has revoked the immunity of the French politician and Front National presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.

Majority of members in the plenary of the EU parliament are said to have supported the decision, according to Reuters.

The official reason for such measure were allegedly 3 graphic photos of ISIS beheading that Le Pen published on her Twitter page back in December 2015. One of the photos included a dead body of James Foley, US journalist that was said to be beheaded by ISIS.

“I am a politician, I play my role when I condemn Daesh. This is my role …. And I am sure that no one can prevent a politician, a member elected by the Republic to condemn Daesh atrocities. And in the meantime you persecute Marine Le Pen for it” said Le Pen while speaking to the French LCP Network.

Le Pen has been a staunch opponent of ISIS and the related terrorists groups for a rather long time. During her last month’s visit to Lebanon she vowed to destroy ISIS and also expressed support for Bashar Al Assad and his counter-terrorism activities.

It is not known whether the rather unexpected decision taken by EU is a part of the pre-election hysteria or not. According to some of the polls and expert opinions, Le Pen could win the 2017 French presidential race.

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The timing of that revocation is a dead give away of who/what is behind it.

[amor]

Soros is headed for the HOT place he does not believe exists.

[Karma Ninja]

What wonderful mountain of information provided here. Some I have seen and am familiar with but tons of good new stuff (to me).

Thanks for this discussion Herve!

[Hervé]

Google Directing the French Election Campaign (http://www.voltairenet.org/article195522.html)



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Since February 28, 2017, Google News Lab and the European Journalism Center (EJC) have coordinated French and foreign companies for the duration of the French presidential election campaign.

Both organizations rely on the experience of ProPublica, which directed the media against Donald Trump during the US election campaign.

They not only bring together media, but also schools that provide them with "experts".

Companies that have reached an agreement with Google News Lab and the European Journalism Center (EJC) for the duration of the French presidential campaign are:


AFP,
Bellingcat,
Bloomberg,
Buzz Feed News,
Journalist Training Center,
Center France,
Channel 4,
Sciences Po School of Journalism,
Euractiv,
Euronews,
Explicite,
Facebook,
Factoscope ,
France24-
Les Observateurs,
FranceTelevision,
Global Voices,
International Business Times,
L’Express,
La Provence,
La Voix du Nord,
L’Avenir,
LCI,
Liberation,
London School of Economics,
Mashable-France 24,
Meedan,
Nice-Matin,
West-France, [Ouest France]
Street 89,
StoryFul,
Street Press,
South-West. [Sud Ouest]

For example: during the transition period, Buzz Feed News published a hoax stating that the Russian intelligence services had a compromising file against candidate Donald Trump. Moscow would therefore have been in a position to blackmail the President of the United States. ProPublica’s partners had largely republished this "verified" allegation, despite the protests of the president-elect. It has proven to be purely defamatory.

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Translation Roger Lagassé (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125483.html?lang=en)

[Kindred]

Now, from the other side of the pond:

Globalists interviewed: they admitted they controlled the government (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/globalists-interviewed-they-admitted-they-controlled-the-government/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Mar 2 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/globalists-interviewed-they-admitted-they-controlled-the-government/), 2017

This is a bombshell. It’s a crucial piece of history that has been ignored by mass media.

I’ve published this interview before. Here I want to make new comments.

First of all, David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission was born in 1973, in part because the Globalist plan to ensure “free trade” (no tariffs paid by predatory mega-corporations) had run into a glitch.

----------

Or is this a case of secret infiltration, on behalf the most powerful Globalist group in the world, the Trilateral Commission?

Jon Rappoport

So.. where did the term 'Trilateral' originally come from??? See this video... the actual reference to the origin of the term 'Trilateral' comes at 31:00. However, the back story to this entire issue begins at 25:40, and runs into the above reference.
pOxabjfqIEE

As far as the problems outlined in OP and other posts about the 'money problem' in Europe, this little gem reflects the reality of the situation in a humorous fashion:
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To Truly Solve the World's Problems is quite simple, really...
Get rid of money, and...

Love One Another.

In Unity Peace and Love...

[BMJ]

Hollande’s ‘ultimate duty’ is to ensure France won’t choose Le Pen – French leader to media

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/379545-hollande-le-pen-france/

French President Francois Hollande, quote:
“My ultimate duty is to make sure that France is not won over by such a program, and that France does not bear such a heavy responsibility,”

The vote on April 23, as well as on May 7, will “determine not only the path of our country, but also the future of Europe and the way that it’s built.”

“For if the candidate of the National Front wins, she will immediately start a process of exit from the eurozone and even from the European Union,” Hollande warned, noting that this is a key element in populist rhetoric.

“It is the goal of all the populists, wherever they are: To leave Europe, to close the world and to imagine a future surrounded by barriers of all kinds and borders defended by watchtowers,” he said.

[Hervé]

Le Pen states the obvious: 'Cold War against Russia is threat for Europe' (https://www.rt.com/news/379607-le-pen-russia-cold-war/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/379607-le-pen-russia-cold-war/)
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:01 UTC


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Marine Le Pen, French National Front political party leader and candidate for the French 2017 presidential election. © Robert Pratta / Reuters


French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has branded the claims that Russia poses a threat to Europe "a big scam." She believes that the real danger is "carrying out a Cold War against Russia and pushing Russia into China's arms," she said in a CBS interview.

During the interview, CBS host Anderson Cooper challenged Le Pen with questions (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/frances-marine-le-pen-says-shes-not-waging-a-religious-war/)such as, "You don't believe Russia's a threat for Europe?" while raising the familiar "Crimea invasion" argument against Moscow.

The right-wing French presidential candidate dismissed the "Russian threat" claims as a "big scam," saying she doesn't believe in it "at all."

"I'll tell you what the danger is for Europe. It's carrying out a Cold War against Russia and pushing Russia into China's arms. That's the threat to Europe," Le Pen emphasized.

Asked if she regards Russian President Vladimir Putin as "a threat,"Le Pen was quick to deny the claim.

"No, I don't believe it is so. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion."

Le Pen went on to discuss growing globalization, which, according to her, "has become an ideology with no constraints," leading to "nations forcing themselves back into the debate."

"Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization," which has been "a catastrophe for most," Le Pen said.

A steady stream of migrants is part of this issue, she added.

"France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where you are no longer living a French life. That's undeniable."

However, this will stop if she becomes president, Le Pen said.

"France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France. I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to France, why would they want to change France, to live in France the same way they lived back home?"

Asked if she would agree with a motto like "Make France great again," mimicking Donald Trump's "Make America great again," Le Pen said: "Yes, of course. I've been saying that for many years. We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France."

CBS host Cooper seemed to have his doubts about Le Pen's potential presidency, saying: "The polls say you can't win."

Le Pen quickly fired back by saying: "Yes. They also said that Brexit wasn't going to happen, that Donald Trump wasn't going to be elected, wasn't even going to be his party's nominee. Well, they're saying that less and less now. They are much more cautious."

The French presidential elections take place on April 23, with the run-off scheduled for May 7. In the latest polls, centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron is projected to beat Le Pen in the run-off, with 60 percent of the votes in his favor. However, National Front leader Le Pen is predicted to get 27 percent of the vote in the first round, while Macron is forecast to come in second with 24 percent.

[norman]

You GO ! Marine, stick it to em.

[Ewan]

Right now I'd put my mortgage of Le Pen winning, (lucky for me I don't gamble as its just a hunch. :) ).

[Hervé]

Reasons Why 'Dutch Trump' is Winning Voters Ahead of Elections (https://sputniknews.com/politics/201703071051347534-dutch-trump-winning-voters/)

Sputnik Politics (https://sputniknews.com/politics/) 18:12 - 07.03.2017


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On March 15, Dutch voters will go to the polls to vote in a general election that is being watched with interest due to the popularity of Eurosceptic candidate Geert Wilders. In an interview with Sputnik Germany, Dutch political expert Andre Krouwel commented on the upcoming election and explained the reasons behind Wilders' popularity.
"We analyzed which topics dominate the media, and we can quite clearly say that these are immigration, integration, refugees, security and terrorism. Interesting is that these topics determine the political agenda despite the fact that the country has stayed away from major terrorist attacks. This is due to an obsessive attention that is being paid to Geert Wilders," the expert stated.
According to the expert, Wilders' election campaign is very similar to that of Donald Trump. He talks to people directly and focuses on the issues that really concern the majority of the public.
"He uses Twitter and communicates directly with the voters. In this way he dominates the news, representing half of the content the media are writing about," Krouwel told Sputnik Germany (https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20170303314765494-jezus-leeft-niederlanden/).

"Moreover, people really think that there are too many immigrants. They believe that it is necessary to close the border."
At the same time, Wilders (https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201702251050941572-geert-wilders-wild-or-wise/) is being supported not only by the "protest electorate," although his election program can probably fit on one sheet of A4 format paper, the expert argued.
"For example, there are people who face competition from labor migrants from Eastern Europe in the lower segment of the labor market — Bulgarians, Romanians, Poles, who have come here in search of a job. Others are unhappy, because they perceive the culture of migrants as completely foreign to their own, and they feel that their environment no longer gives them a sense of security," Krouwel noted.
In Krouwel's opinion, the political landscape in many European countries is rapidly changing. Many things that one couldn't imagine a couple of years ago have become a reality now.
"If five or ten years ago you would say — let's get out of the EU — you would be shot down in flames. Now, when it came to Brexit (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201702201050873606-brexit-parliament-legal-challenge/), this suddenly became a reality. The victory of Donald Trump in the US election showed that a politician who opposes migration and stands against the establishment can gain an upper hand over this establishment. It inspires courage and gives political oxygen to those who want to get rid of the establishment and the entire elite," the expert concluded.
Until recently, Wilders' anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV) (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20170218/1050828638.html) had lead in opinion polls ahead of the March 15 election, though the BBC notes that his major rival, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, has been cutting into his lead in recent weeks. The Freedom Party currently holds 12 of the 150 seats in the Netherlands' lower house of Parliament. The latest combined opinion polls give the Freedom Party 24 to 28 seats in the 150-seat chamber.

Unlike countries such as Germany, or Russia, which require a party to get 5 percent of the popular vote to qualify for parliamentary seats, the Dutch system simply divides the number of votes by the number of seats in the House of Representatives. So, in order to be allocated one of the 150 seats, a Dutch political party needs to get a mere 0.67 percent of the public vote.

[sheme]

The Bookies think Marie Le pen is going to win -odds at 9/4 at the moment. Brexit taught them a lesson- so they are more cautious these days.

[sheme]

Hollande’s ‘ultimate duty’ is to ensure France won’t choose Le Pen – French leader to media

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/379545-hollande-le-pen-france/

French President Francois Hollande, quote:
“My ultimate duty is to make sure that France is not won over by such a program, and that France does not bear such a heavy responsibility,”

The vote on April 23, as well as on May 7, will “determine not only the path of our country, but also the future of Europe and the way that it’s built.”

“For if the candidate of the National Front wins, she will immediately start a process of exit from the eurozone and even from the European Union,” Hollande warned, noting that this is a key element in populist rhetoric.

“It is the goal of all the populists, wherever they are: To leave Europe, to close the world and to imagine a future surrounded by barriers of all kinds and borders defended by watchtowers,” he said.

That statement is tantamount to declaring "Hey nationalists vote Le pen".

[Karma Ninja]

CBS host Cooper seemed to have his doubts about Le Pen's potential presidency ....

It makes me kind of laugh that they keep saying Anderson Cooper is from CBS and not CNN. I wonder if it a purposeful disrespect or if they genuinely made the error. I don't have cable or watch much CNN but I know which network Cooper is on. You would think an RT writer posting on Reuters would know too. Not sure if this is :bigsmile: or :facepalm: or both...

[ThePythonicCow]

CBS host Cooper seemed to have his doubts about Le Pen's potential presidency ....

It makes me kind of laugh that they keep saying Anderson Cooper is from CBS and not CNN. I wonder if it a purposeful disrespect or if they genuinely made the error. I don't have cable or watch much CNN but I know which network Cooper is on. You would think an RT writer posting on Reuters would know too. Not sure if this is :bigsmile: or :facepalm: or both...
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper):

Cooper has been a correspondent for the CBS News program 60 Minutes since 2007, while concurrently serving as a CNN anchor and correspondent.

[ThePythonicCow]

On March 15, Dutch voters will go to the polls to vote in a general election
Also on March 15,

the moratorium on enforcing the US debt limit expires, and
the Federal Reserve is scheduled to announce whether it will raise interest rates.

It should be an interesting day :).

[Karma Ninja]

Thanks for clearing it up. I had no idea.






CBS host Cooper seemed to have his doubts about Le Pen's potential presidency ....

It makes me kind of laugh that they keep saying Anderson Cooper is from CBS and not CNN. I wonder if it a purposeful disrespect or if they genuinely made the error. I don't have cable or watch much CNN but I know which network Cooper is on. You would think an RT writer posting on Reuters would know too. Not sure if this is :bigsmile: or :facepalm: or both...
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper):

Cooper has been a correspondent for the CBS News program 60 Minutes since 2007, while concurrently serving as a CNN anchor and correspondent.

[Hervé]

Marine Le Pen's reporter smackdown: 'No one trusts the media' (https://www.infowars.com/video-marine-le-pen-smacks-down-reporter-no-one-trusts-the-media/)

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars (https://www.infowars.com/video-marine-le-pen-smacks-down-reporter-no-one-trusts-the-media/)
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC


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A fascinating exchange in which French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen informs a reporter that no one trusts the media highlights how incredibly disconnected from reality the establishment press really is.

The reporter tells Le Pen her advice that people "turn away from the traditional media, (and) go and find news on the Internet" is "dangerous".

Le Pen looks bemused, asking, "why?"

The reporter responds by stating, "On the Internet, you can find conspiracy theories, all types of things, it's not necessarily verified information."

"Don't you think that the traditional media have conspiracy theories?" replied Le Pen, adding, "I've read a ton of things about Russia intervening in the presidential campaign and other things like that - I mean there is at least as much fake news in the traditional media as on the Internet!"


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The reporter then accuses her of 'inciting' people to "find information" on the Internet "about things that weren't verified".

"It could never be worse than what you guys are saying or what you write in the traditional newspapers," responds Le Pen.

The reporter then accuses the National Front leader of acting like Trump in trying to undermine the media as a campaign tool.

"Madame, French people have no confidence in the media whatsoever, are you aware of that, or not?" asks Le Pen.

The exchange once again highlights how the mainstream media is completely out of touch with reality.

These people still think that they have absolute credibility when in reality trust in the establishment press is lower than at any time in recent history.

The latest polls (https://twitter.com/Marine2017_EN/status/841347073635147777) show that Le Pen has pulled ahead of establishment candidate Emmanuel Macron with 26.5% of the vote compared with 25% for Macron.

The first round of the French presidential election takes place on April 23, with the second round to follow on May 7. Le Pen is almost certain to pass the first stage, although she is widely expected to be defeated in the second round.

Then again, those making this forecast are the same people who got it spectacularly wrong on Brexit and Trump - and the same people who think the mainstream media is still trustworthy.

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"Madame, French people have no confidence in the media whatsoever, are you aware of that, or not?" asks Le Pen.
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[Hervé]

Le Pen slams Theresa May for snubbing her in favor of 'globalist' Macron (https://www.rt.com/uk/380845-pen-farage-may-brexit/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/uk/380845-pen-farage-may-brexit/)
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:09 UTC


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French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has slammed British Prime Minister Theresa May for "contradictions" over Brexit, in an interview with former UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

Le Pen criticized the British prime minister for hosting her main rival, centrist Emmanuel Macron, at Downing Street in February, but failing to offer her the same privilege.

When asked in the interview with Farage, due to be aired on LBC Radio on Wednesday night, whether she thought this was overt support for Macron and a snub towards her, Le Pen said: "It seems to be the case."

Highly controversial Le Pen, who has been forced to deny her National Front party is racist, told anti-EU Farage the decision to host Macron was inconsistent with May's own stance on delivering Brexit and reducing immigration to Britain.

Macron, who is strongly pro-EU, represents "the opposite of what Brexit stands for," according to Le Pen.

"I find it difficult to understand the consistency of the ideas and convictions in this approach of hers because Mr Macron is of course the key salesperson of globalization.

"He's for everything, deregulation of everything, opening up the borders, mass immigration.

"He went to Algeria, he explained it was necessary to build a bridge as it were between Europe and Algeria for even more immigration, which is the opposite of what Brexit stands for in the choice made by the British people.

"So I do not understand this inconsistency, this contradiction between what Theresa May stands for - because she has decided to be the woman who will implement Brexit - and her meeting with Emmanuel Macron."

Asked whether she had requested a meeting with May herself, Le Pen said she had not, but would have to meet May if she was elected.

The British government has a long-standing policy not to engage with Le Pen's National Front, which has been considered toxic for decades by many mainstream European parties, Reuters reports.

The first round of the French election takes place on April 23, after which the two candidates with the most votes, expected to be Le Pen and Macron, enter a run-off on May 7.

Macron is expected to win by a wide margin.

Farage suggested to Le Pen that May's attitude towards her would change if she won the French election, drawing a parallel to Britain's dealings with US President Donald Trump.

"She is good at getting it wrong but this is rather reassuring," Le Pen responded.

[Helene West]

Here is Henrik from Red Ice doing live coverage of the dutch election

https://youtu.be/0WoDps89xEs

[Hervé]

First French Presidential Debate: Migrants, Islam, Independence (https://www.rt.com/news/381583-france-presidential-candidates-debate/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/381583-france-presidential-candidates-debate/)
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:36 UTC


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During France's first presidential debate on Monday, the leading five French presidential hopefuls traded punches on the most burning issues, ranging from immigration and Islamization, to the country's alliances and its very sovereignty.

The timing of the debate, a month before French voters head to polls for the first round of the elections, provided candidates with a perfect opportunity to swing public sentiment in their favor. It was aired live by French channels TF1 and LCI.

While a total of 11 candidates will take part in the first round of the presidential elections on April 26, the five front-runners include Francois Fillon from the 'Les Republicans' party, Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron, Benoit Hamon of the ruling Socialist Party, and the left-wing leader of the 'Unsubmissive France' movement, Jean-Luc Melenchon.

EU & sovereignty
Known as a passionate advocate of France who wants to follow Britain out of the EU, Le Pen vowed that she will not become"the vice chancellor of Madame Merkel" or "the salesperson for a multinational group."

"I want to be the president of the French Republic, truly. I am not going to become involved in a vague region in Europe," she stressed, pointing out that France's independence is a core value for many French people, who want to "defend their values and traditions" and remain competitive "without being lectured" to by a "supranational structure."

However, Fillon claimed that holding a Frexit referendum, as the National Front leader wants, would "drag the country into social and economic chaos." Le Pen fired back at the conservative, reminding him that there had been a campaign in Europe voicing similar attitudes against Brexit, which she branded "Project Fear."

Macron, whose is pro-EU, rejected the idea of Frexit, arguing that Brexit turned out to be a much more tumultuous process than its backers had expected.

"All those who said Brexit will be wonderful... ran away and hid," Macron said.

Immigration
The debate on the migration crisis and the consequent challenges of integrating newcomers, which was one of the central topics discussed during the three-hour-long event, saw the candidates resorting to personal attacks at times.

Le Pen, known for her tough stance on migration, spoke in favor of closing the nation's borders, pointing out that France must handle the issue itself, as "we can't count on Greece to deal with the flow of migrants."

"Stop immigration, and I will not make any excuses for that," she said, stressing that France's security situation is "explosive" and measures need to be taken "to discourage immigration."

Former Economy Minister Macron, Le Pen's centrist rival, argued that the unending flow of migrants can only be stemmed through more cooperation within the EU.

"We don't do enough to coordinate the protection of European borders," Macron said, calling for a buildup of security forces and the creation of an "effective expulsion policy" in France.

Conservative candidate Fillon, whose campaign has been mired in a corruption scandal involving an allegedly fictitious political job he gave to his wife, championed quotas on newcomers that "do not affect asylum seekers, but other immigration."

Islamization
Another hotly contested topic was the contention that French secularism is under attack and that Islam is having a negative effect on the life of French citizens.

One heated exchange was sparked when Le Pen referred to the frequent sightings of burkinis on French beaches, citing them as evidence of the "rise of radical Islam in our country."

The burkini, a head-to-toe swimming suit, grabbed a lot of media attention in France last summer, when some French city councils sparked uproar by banning them.

When Le Pen accused Macron of being a burkini supporter, he snapped back, claiming that she is "failing [voters] by twisting the truth," and "trying to divide the French."

Relations with Russia & US
The candidates also proposed differing geopolitical strategies, particularly regarding relations with Russia and the US.

Macron, a centrist, cautioned against building closer ties with Russia, while pointing out France's long-standing relationship with the US. Claiming that France and the US "have built the world peace together," he advocated for "more independence" in the foreign policy realm, without getting closer to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, Hamon seemed prejudiced against both Russia and the US, which is now led by President Donald Trump.

"We are facing the instability that emerged with the election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States. We also cannot ignore the claims of Russia," Hamon said.

While Le Pen stressed the importance of defense, promising to increase defense spending to three percent of French GDP by 2022, she also called for more independence from partners and alliances, saying that the French should "not let [others] decide for us."

"I don't want to force our soldiers to make war that we don't need," she said, referring to overseas conflicts.

Speaking about the right to self-determination exercised by the people of Crimea when they opted to rejoin Russia in a referendum held more than two years ago, Francois Fillon acknowledged that "we [Europe] have changed borders ourselves,"referring to NATO's intervention in the war in Yugoslavia in 1999, which resulted in the country breaking up and the separation of Kosovo from Serbia.

"There is a fundamental principle of the right of people to decide for themselves. There are borders that have been established in a way, unacceptable for people," he said.

Macron came out as the most persuasive in the first debate, according to a BFMTV poll. Out of 1,157 people polled, 29 percent preferred Macron, 20 percent picked Melenchon, while both Le Pen and Fillon were favored by 19 percent.

Before last night's event, he had been running neck-in-neck with Le Pen, with both polling at 26 percent in the latest Figaro poll.


SOTT Comment (https://www.sott.net/article/345866-First-French-Presidential-Debate-Migrants-Islam-Independence): There are those infamous "polls" again. After November 2016, you'd think the MSM would've learned their lesson by now. Nope. Real polling data suggests Le Pen might be more popular (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-20/french-presidential-race-marine-lepen-far-ahead-rivals-secret-polling) than acknowledged:
An editor at French daily, Le Figaro, (http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2017/03/16/31001-20170316ARTFIG00246-ivan-rioufol-marine-le-pen-peut-deja-leur-dire-merci.php?redirect_premium)has alluded to secret polling data which show the Front National's Marine Le Pen polling close to 34% (https://francais.rt.com/france/35373-editorialiste-evoque-sondages-secrets-donneraient-marine-le-pen-30-pourcent)among those with intentions to vote in the first round of the French presidential election.

Authored by Damien Cowley (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/french-presidential-race-marine-lepen-far-ahead-rivals-secret-polling/),

Surveys in the public domain consistently have populist Le Pen ahead of her rivals in the first round, at 26-28% of intentions to vote but losing to whichever rival she faces in the second.


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A score of above 30% in the first round, however, would significantly boost her chances of continuing to victory on May 7th.


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In his recent article on the failing efforts of the media and political classes to thwart LePen's continued rise, editorialist Ivan Rioufol cites 'sous le manteau', or hidden surveys in circulation which show Le Pen likely to score double her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen's 2002 score of 16.86%.

The politically correct 'Maginot line' of France's elites can no longer hold out against the popular anger of the French public, Rioufol writes, arguing that the threats by leftist intellectuals and celebrities to quit the country in the event of a Le Pen victory are actually boosting her campaign. Likewise for scare-mongering media warnings on a 'return to the 1930s'.

The French media and political establishment are now openly contemplating a Le Pen victory, with frequent reference to the Front National 'at the gates of power', an eventuality until recently considered impossible.

Outgoing president, François Hollande, who describes it as his 'final duty' to keep Le Pen from winning, and who is actively campaigning with government ministers in Front National strongholds to keep LePen from power, has recently admitted that she may win. Privately, Hollande is said to fear that Le Pen's support is under-estimated in the opinion polls and that the momentum of a high score in the first round could make it difficult for any rival candidate to beat her in the second.

[Hervé]

Putin & Marine Le Pen devise 'evil plan' [Video] (http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/03/putin-marine-le-pen-devise-evil-plan.html)

March 24th, 2017 - Fort Russ News -
Translated by Inessa Sinchougova (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeix8jbmQnS6FprsJIsjVyQ/about)


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And that plan is to get along. God forbid! - NATO

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French party National Front, has attended an official meeting with Russian President, Vladimir Putin on 24 March 2017. Putin made sure to inform, that given France is soon to undergo a Presidential election, Moscow was not in any way attempting to influence the French voter by meeting with Le Pen; a very Putin-esque type of trolling of Western mainstream media.


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Mmmnom-nom... les p'tits fo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_four)urs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_four)... sweet distractions...

[Hervé]

This Map Explains The Roots Of France's Growing Nationalism (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-27/map-explains-roots-frances-growing-nationalism)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Mar 28, 2017 3:30 AM

Via MauldinEconomics.com, (http://www.mauldineconomics.com/editorial/this-map-explains-the-roots-of-frances-growing-nationalism)

What does it mean to be French?
Inherent in this question is a fundamental tension within French nationalism (http://www.mauldineconomics.com/this-week-in-geopolitics/what-past-empires-tell-us-about-the-future) that is unique to France.

Originally, France consisted of diverse regions with their own languages, resources, and way of life. Take a look at the map below.

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This diversity grew into a united country. From this, we can understand how one aspect of French nationalism is that it views itself as a universal program.

This nationalism holds that French ideas about “liberté, égalité, and fraternité” are as equally important as speaking French and living on French soil.

In this sense, anyone who adopts these principles can be French. And anyone who becomes a French citizen is heir to these principles.

Nationalism and Immigration
French nationalism was based on the idea that the nation was of paramount importance. It was defined by class and a set of ideas about how society ought to be structured.

All of the various factions in the French Revolution believed they were unifying the nation. But each faction had to exclude certain groups from the nation in order to define the whole.

This has morphed far beyond the original exclusion of the aristocracy. It has been used to exclude immigrants to France. The question of immigrant and Muslim assimilation (http://www.mauldineconomics.com/this-week-in-geopolitics/europe-the-process-of-change-continues) as full members of the French state is at the forefront of debate leading up to presidential elections in April.

France is currently at the beginning of an inward turn that indicates a moment of crisis. The next French President will enter office (http://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/europe-is-a-minefield#french) with a country whose strategic position is weak, its economy stagnant, and its society divided.

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[Hervé]

Le Pen smacks down the BBC: "You want war at all costs! What is your problem?" (http://theduran.com/marine-le-pen-blasts-the-bbc-for-wanting-to-start-ww3-with-russia-video/)

Alex Christoforou The Duran (http://theduran.com/marine-le-pen-blasts-the-bbc-for-wanting-to-start-ww3-with-russia-video/)
Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:59 UTC


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Just weeks ahead of the French presidential elections, Front National candidate Marine Le Pen sat down with the BBC's Emily Maitlis to discuss Brexit, Putin and NATO.

Le Pen did not hold back, dishing out realpolitik answers to the BBC's neo-liberal propaganda...


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Key Le Pen moments:

On US policy toward Russia...
"The previous American administration put the Berlin Wall on wheels and pushed it back to Russia's borders." On whether France would defend the Baltic states or the Ukraine against a fantasy invasion from Russia...
"You want war at all costs! What is your problem? You want to go to war! Do you like war? You want conflicts - you want us to start World War Three!"

"At the moment no one wants to go to war with anyone."

"I'm happy to go into all the hypotheses, but no one is going to war with anyone - no one wants to go to war with anyone else."

"There was a territorial conflict with Ukraine - these things happen."

"Now it has to be resolved diplomatically, and I think France's voice has weight as long as France is France, not a region of the EU."

"Honestly, if you're trying to say that Russia is a military danger to European countries, I think you're mistaken in your analysis." On her support for the nation state policies of Putin and Trump...
"There's Russia, which doesn't deserve to be treated with prejudice. It hasn't led any campaigns against European countries, or the US."

"What I notice is that Putin's government must be pretty popular with Russians, given that it is constantly being reelected." The role of being the "anti-Merkel" and the German Chancellor's destructive monetary and migrant policies...
"She's increasingly isolated, because the policies I represent are the policies represented by Mr Trump and Mr Putin, and the British people made it clear they want to go in that direction." Finally, on the end of the EU, Le Pen noted...
"The EU is almost already over - rather than waiting for it's chaotic collapse, I suggest we organise its transformation to a Europe of nations while respecting the wishes of the European people."

"The EU is shining with the light of a dead star."

[araucaria]

For years now, the general attitude to the Front National in France has been that it asks the right questions, but comes up with the wrong answers. This time around, I don’t think they are addressing the key election issue at all. I don’t believe the key election issue is the EU or anything the Front National is showcasing. It is the moral issue of no more sleaze. The right wing candidate François Fillon has turned this unlosable election into an unwinnable one by having his antisleaze platform pulled out from under his feet by his own corruption. See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1136641&viewfull=1#post1136641). Now his wife has been formally charged as the beneficiary of the embezzlement or fraud that her husband is accused of committing. This saga has totally poisoned the campaign and overrides discussion of the political issues. Half of voters don’t know who they’ll be voting for: this is unprecedented.

This has nothing to do with the Front National, except negatively, in the sense that what the Fillons have allegedly been doing at a family level, Le Pen’s gang have (among other things) been doing at party level, using the EU to service a 100,000 euro/month overdraft (http://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2017/03/29/affaires-du-front-national-les-documents-qui-accusent-marine-le-pen_5102441_1653578.html).

By far the main issue of this election is, simply owing to the endless hours of airtime and column inches of media coverage, politician’s morality, not just financial, but also in terms of keeping promises – especially since the outgoing PM, Manuel Valls, reneged this week on a written undertaking to support the winner of the Socialist Party primary, even if it wasn’t himself. The question that this election is definitely going to answer one way or other is, Does the country have a moral backbone of any kind? If Marine Le Pen were to be elected, then the answer to that question would be No.

There is an opinion poll (http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2017/03/25/si-les-francais-votaient-sur-le-seul-critere-de-lhonnetete-le_a_22011346/) which on the sole criterion of honesty, shows a very different picture from the one painted by voting intentions. The opposition leftists Mélenchon and Hamon have 61% and 57% ratings for honesty, the centrist Macron 48%, Le Pen only 23% and Fillon a pitiful 9%. We have the paradoxical situation where despite massive rejection of the outgoing administration, voters are favouring more of the same (Macron), presumably because his combination of sufficient perceived honesty and relative conservatism outweighs the alternative combination of greater conservatism with insufficient honesty. Fillon’s right-wing party was a shoo-in for this election; the moral issue has well and truly scuppered that, and for the same reason Marine Le Pen will fail to extend her voting base sufficiently beyond the stalwarts unfazed by her and her party’s sleazy side.

I personally am quite happy that this issue should be dealt with ahead of any other, because it goes without saying that any political agenda is going to depend on a person’s uprightness. Someone like Fillon who doesn’t appear even to understand the concept of conflict of interest may on the face of it have a more attractive programme, but it is inevitably one that will suffer from conflicts of interest. Conversely, others may have plans that seem unworkably idealistic, but only because they are easy prey to the same lobbies – until, that is, the whole political climate changes.

[Hervé]

Le Pen: Investors know the Euro system is dying, will invest in France under national currency (https://www.rt.com/business/383473-france-euro-le-pen/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/business/383473-france-euro-le-pen/)
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:53 UTC


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French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen who's known for her anti-euro stance said on Tuesday investors won't pull their money from France if it gives up the EU single currency.

"There's so much liquidity in the world that they are not going to pull their chips out of France, above all when France will once again be back on the road to economic growth," she told French Sud Radio and TV channel Public Senat.

According to Le Pen, investors "are worried because they know they will no longer be able to make the profits they made previously."

"The world has changed, and that's what's worrying them. The world is moving away from free trade and laissez-faire policy," she added.

The 48-year-old candidate said she will negotiate to restore French national sovereignty and will call a referendum where French voters would decide on the EU and euro membership.

Le Pen who has promised to take France out of what she called "the prison" of European Union politics earlier warned of a so-called 'Frexit' if the EU doesn't transfer powers back to Paris.

During Sunday's political rally in Bordeaux she said the euro currency was like a knife in the ribs of the French people. The politician has pledged to restore the national franc currency if elected.

"We are at the mercy of a currency adapted to Germany and not to our economy. The euro is mostly a knife stuck in our ribs to make us go where others want us to go," Le Pen said.

The leader of the National Front has promised to curb migration, expel all illegal migrants and restrict certain rights now available to all residents (including free education) to French citizens.

Opinion polls suggest Le Pen will make it through the April 23 first round vote but will lose the May 7 run-off.

[BMJ]

The Truth About the French Election

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Published on 14 Apr 2017

It's the people vs. the establishment once again.

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[Hervé]

Election interference! German president warns French against Le Pen, fears Frexit (https://www.rt.com/news/384908-steinmeier-france-election-warning/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/384908-steinmeier-france-election-warning/)
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 11:08 UTC


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The German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has urged the French electorate to be responsible and not to vote for the "populist and nationalist" candidate in the upcoming presidential election out of fears that Marine Le Pen will stage Frexit, shattering one of the pillars of EU stability.

"Don't listen to the siren songs of those who promise you a great French future after getting rid of all that is part of France today — guaranteeing European stability and being a pillar of the European Union," Steinmeier told (http://www.ouest-france.fr/elections/presidentielle/les-elections-francaises-un-enjeu-pour-l-europe-4931182) French newspaper Ouest-France and Germany's Funke Mediengruppe in response to a question about the possibility of Le Pen securing the election.

Without mentioning Le Pen by name, the German president hinted that her ideas will lead to a potential Frexit, as the National Front leader remains extremely critical of the European Union. In the past, she promised to renegotiate France's membership of the bloc and potentially pull out of the Union.

Steinmeier insisted that EU membership is of great benefit to France.

"The EU can be complicated sometimes but it is an advantage for all of us, including France," he said. "We must understand that it is only together... that we can make Europe a true global actor" that could exert influence in world affairs.

"By opposing it, like the populist nationalist parties in France, we will not be actors, but we will become a toy in the hands of the other powers. The stake of the elections in France is, therefore, considerable," the German leader warned.

Less than 10 days before the first round of the French presidential elections, Le Pen and her National Front (FN) party are leading in the majority of the polls.

According to an IFOP poll, the far right candidate is set to secure 23 percent in the first round, an entire percentage point higher than her closest rival Emmanuel Macron from En Marche! (Forward!).

An Ipsos-Sopra Sterna poll shows that independent centrist Macron and Le Pen would share 22 percent each, while far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon would attract 20 percent of the vote. An Opinionway poll says that Le Pen would garner 23 percent and Macron 22.

France has 45.7 million voters, but according to the polls, about a third of them might abstain from voting on April 23. The tight presidential race will see the top two candidates advance to the May 7 run-off.


Related:
Migrants, Islam, independence: Top French presidential candidates clash in 1st TV debate (https://www.rt.com/news/381583-france-presidential-candidates-debate/)
HELP! French farmer mows ‘message of despair’ in wheat field (https://www.rt.com/news/384733-french-farmer-wheat-help/)

[Hervé]

Facebook shuts down pro Le Pen posts as French election nears (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/facebook-shuts-down-pro-le-pen-posts-as-french-election-nears/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Apr 16 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/facebook-shuts-down-pro-le-pen-posts-as-french-election-nears/), 2017

Well, sure. Wouldn’t you? The woman is running for the presidency of France. She wants to reverse the tide of immigration in her country, so she must be a racist, and whatever she says or whatever anyone else says in support of her is, automatically, fake news, mindless, evil, and the population must be protected from that infection. This is how free speech works. It’s free unless it could do harm, unless certain minds might be taken in by it, and apparently Facebook is stepping up to the plate. Mark Zuckerberg is long overdue for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Zero Hedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-14/facebook-scrambles-shut-down-pro-le-pen-accounts-election):
“The first round of French elections will be held on April 23rd, prompting Facebook to shut down pro Le Pen accounts, which they deem to be ‘fake’.”

“In addition to outright bans, the company [Facebook], in conjunction with French media, are running ‘fact checking’ programs — designed to fight ‘fake news’, heightening their efforts around the elections — which spans from 4/23-5/7.”
France must be purified. Only then can media function.

Immigration, you have to understand, isn’t an issue. There is nothing to debate. Immigration is a fact, wholly beautiful, and anyone who wants to limit it is speaking against love, flowers, and the proposition that the sun rises every morning.

Facebook is providing a public service. Just as Mussolini made the trains run on time in Italy, FB is making the news run on time—the real news.

Fake news should be shut down. Free speech only concerns what isn’t fake. Yes, I’m beginning to see the light.

After fake news is purged, then we can have free speech.

Aha. Yes.

Somehow, I must have missed this when I studied the 1st Amendment. James Madison, who wrote it, made this note: “Except for fake news.”

The guiding principle should be: if you’re not sure whether an item or issue or report is fake, don’t talk about it, don’t write about it, don’t express an opinion about it, until the authorities have cleared things up, until they’ve decided whether it’s fake or real.

Mark Zuckerberg is providing us with an easy way to check. If he and his people censor a post, it’s fake. Ignore it. Remain silent.

And if you’re French, don’t vote for Le Pen, unless you want a faker as your president.

Things are basically simple. They really are. If you know how to follow the signs and the warnings and the people in charge.

For example, right now I can sense an errant thought creeping into my mind: a corporation based in the US is colluding with the French government to influence an election in France. But I reject that thought. I denounce it. I urge everyone to denounce it. Pretend I never uttered the thought.

Please. I beg of you.

It’s fake.

Jon Rappoport

[Hervé]

...

:pound:

:heart: to you Jon!

[Hervé]

Election interference: Obama tries to swing French election by endorsing Macron (http://theduran.com/obamas-caught-tape-interfering-french-election/)

Ricky Twisdale The Duran (http://theduran.com/obamas-caught-tape-interfering-french-election/)
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:00 UTC


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Putin keeps getting charged with getting Trump elected - meanwhile Obama's busy interfering in elections in France

He's baaaack...

With his huge ego (much larger than Trump's, I am sure) unable to stand remaining out of the spotlight, Barack Obama has publicly thrown his support behind left-wing establishment candidate Emmanuel Macron in France's tight presidential race.

The first round of France's presidential election is due to be held on Sunday. Should no one receive over 50% (almost certain to happen), the top two vote-getters will proceed to the second round on May 7th.

Polls - if they are to be believed - currently show (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/french-presidential-election-poll-tracker-odds/) Macron, a former investment banker at a Rothschild-owned bank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_%26_Cie_Banque), neck in neck with right-wing nationalist Marine Le Pen. Conservative establishment candidate François Fillon and socialist Jean-luc Mélenchon are trailing slightly.

Enter failed 44th president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama. Apparently thinking he could help swing the polls in favor of Rothschild-puppet Macron, he gave Mr. Macron a personal phone call of support:




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/834424630630817795/TfyS4uXb_bigger.jpg Emmanuel Macron‏Verified account @EmmanuelMacron (https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron)

Let’s keep defending our progressive values. Thank you for this discussion @BarackObama (https://twitter.com/BarackObama).

11:43 AM - 20 Apr 2017 Yeah....because Obama's endorsement worked out great for Hillary...

If Obama were truly a real progressive, he would have endorsed Mélenchon, the real left-wing candidate, not the big-money financed fake leftist.

But since Obama is what he always was - a big-money financed fake leftist himself - his words of encouragement for his fellow establishment puppet are not unexpected.

Obama's interference in the French presidential election - just like his earlier interference in the UK's Brexit vote - comes at a time when the rotting carcass of a dead horse called "Russian election interference" is being beaten anew (http://theduran.com/russiagate-returns-riss/) by all the established fake news outlets (here (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/19/russian-thinktank-putin-interference-us-election) and here (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/hillary-clinton-russian-election-meddling/index.html)).

Needless to say, the Twittersphere was quick to point out the hypocrisy:




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/756825397388533760/yXYx6CNC_bigger.jpg Paul Joseph Watson‏Verified account @PrisonPlanet (https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet)

Paul Joseph Watson Retweeted Emmanuel Macron
The MSM whined about Putin interfering to help Le Pen. Obama does the same to help Macron and nobody bats an eyelid.

Paul Joseph Watson added,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C94FHg3XYAATjzO.jpg 1:00

Emmanuel MacronVerified account @EmmanuelMacron
Let’s keep defending our progressive values. Thank you for this discussion @BarackObama.

1:37 PM - 20 Apr 2017 Wikileaks pointed out the irony of Obama calling to support the man he previously ordered hacked:




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/512138307870785536/Fe00yVS2_bigger.png WikiLeaks‏Verified account @wikileaks (https://twitter.com/wikileaks)

Obama just 'endorsed' Macron. Previously ordered CIA hack French presidential candidates & steal their strategies: https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/ … (https://t.co/nLpkc4YmfM)

12:05 PM - 20 Apr 2017 Of course, no hubbub at all concerning Barack Obama's election hacking in the MSM. It's all about Russia and their alleged hacking - which despite the claims, nobody in the fake news media or US government has yet conclusively proved.

[Hervé]

Champs-Elysees attack: Timed to swing the French elections? (http://thesaker.is/champs-elysees-attack-perfect-timing-for-some/)

Ramin Mazaheri The Saker (http://thesaker.is/champs-elysees-attack-perfect-timing-for-some/)
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:57 UTC


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On the night of April 21st I was in my office in Paris, just 100 meters from the Champs-Elysees, when I got a phone call from a fellow journalist telling me about the deadly attack on policemen there.

I was in the middle of working on my latest report on France's presidential election for Iran's Press TV.

When I got the call, I had just written this sentence - I was still mulling it over (lotta numbers for TV copy):
"The last week has seen two major surprises which may push undecided voters to the right: the alleged discovery of a 2-man terror plot to attack 1 of the 3 main right-wing candidates, and the surprisingly-timed start of a court case involving 20 people accused of being part of a terror cell in 2012." Well...as you can guess, I had to add a third major surprise: the alleged terrorist attack on Champs-Elysees Avenue.

France's 1st round vote in the presidential election is just two days away - on April 23rd - so let's be very, very clear: The industrial-military-finance-media complex cannot live with a victory by Communist-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon.

If the establishment wouldn't do "anything" to prevent Melenchon from taking office, they would certainly do "most anything".

But let's be level-headed: We know that governments commit assassinations. We know that they often send their soldiers off to certain death to advance unjust goals. The murder of this policeman is going to remind many of Jo Cox's murder in the run-up to the Brexit vote.

What is absolutely undeniable is that the Champs-Elysees attack will have some sort of political effect

Tension here is high - the race is currently a 4-way dead heat. It's too close to call because four candidates are within the margin-of-error.

But even the polls are somewhat useless, because there is an enormous undecided voter rate of over 30%.

I have used some form of "the only certainty is uncertainty" at least a half-dozen times in my reports over the last week, because it truly does bear repeating.

But one thing is certain: all three of this week's "surprises" - which pushed terrorism, xenophobia, insecurity, fear and hate to the top of the headlines in this final week of unparalleled importance and indecision - have benefitted everyone except for Melenchon.



The industrial-military-finance-media complex wants Emmanuel Macron or Francois Filllon to win. Both are a continuation of Sarkozy and Hollande: austerity, globalization, racism, foreign intervention, Eurozone cannibalization of weaker members.



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They industrial-military-finance-media complex can even live with a Marine Le Pen victory, even though she is also promising many of the same anti-system/anti-Brussels measures as Melenchon - on Frexit, NATO, the Euro, etc. She goes even further by promising to suspend the Schengen visa-free requirement if elected, and that would make the refugee crisis look like small potatoes, because it would do untold damage to the pocketbooks of the leading capitalists.

Heck, 60% of active cops are going to vote National Front (http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/politique/election-presidentielle-2017/20170105.OBS3446/la-moitie-des-policiers-et-militaires-prets-a-voter-marine-le-pen.html), so they might work in her favor just to get their way, high-finance be damned. God bless the sainted "boys in blue", eh?

But the establishment absolutely cannot cope with the rise of a leftist candidate in any country, no matter how backwards. Not Burkina Faso, not Nicaragua, not Laos and not any other country most people can't find on a map.

So for sure it can't happen here: France, the world's 5th-largest economy.

The French say "once does not make a custom", but 3 times in 1 week?
Of course I have no proof to offer, but the timing of the Marseilles 2-man terror cell "discovery" (http://www.france24.com/en/20170418-france-police-arrest-two-suspects-over-imminent-attack-elections) and the Champs-Elysees "terrorist attack" are going to make them ripe for accusations of being a false-flag operations.

Or maybe it's all a coincidence? I'm a reporter - I need facts. I need to examine all the angles. Coincidences do happen, in fact.

Maybe France truly is being targeted by terrorists during the election campaign, as authorities have repeatedly claimed? They certainly prepared us for that possibility with announcements to that effect.

Maybe the court docket was so full that the unprecedented 20-person terror cell trial simply HAD to start 3 days before the vote (http://www.france24.com/en/20170420-france-suspects-linked-cannes-torcy-jihadist-terror-cell-face-trial)? Another coincidence? They don't decide these court dates by lottery, I know that.

Maybe...but what's sure is that the industrial-military-finance-media complex is toasting these 3 events, because it aids their 3 favorite candidates.

Because what they don't want is serious discussion of the problems which touch all French people.

Quickly: record unemployment, austerity, economic stagnation, state of emergency, 2,000+ arrests of democratic protesters last year, cops anally raping with batons, angry riots.

I could go on, but it's after midnight - need to finish my Press TV report, then do a 2 am interview. Welcome to journalism!

Everyone else has already had their workday. All those voters lying in their bed, wondering who they will vote for, and possibly wondering if another killer escaped from the Champs-Elysees. That rumor was floating around just an hour ago, but at some point you have to switch off the TV.

I am not calling the roughly 16 million undecided voters "weak-minded" for being prey to such faithless, late-night monsters during this last week of campaigning - I simply imagine them to be politically uninterested. Because how can you still be undecided 2 days before the election when you have 4 candidates who have rather radically different candidates? Simple - you are not paying very much attention.

Hey, I'm not looking down on them - I wouldn't listen to most of these guys unless I got paid, and thankfully I do. I'm interested in politics, but many aren't. Many don't have time.

But it's these people - the huge 30%-plus - who might let themselves be affected by these 3 events.

This is also going to be a huge factor: The abstention rate should surpass the record 28% in 2002. That's why Jean-Marie Le Pen got into the 2nd round back then - his right-wing voters got out to vote while the uninterested stayed at home.

These 3 events galvanize not just the undecided, but the both lazy-and-far-right voter.

The complex, the cops, the establishment - all going very well for them
Except for Francois Hollande - what a patsy (http://thesaker.is/hollande-was-the-ultimate-patsy/). He's actually speaking live right now. Unless he's apologizing, I have no interest in listening and not even for pay.

Nobody does, which is why he can't even run. His Socialist Party's candidate is down to just 8% - might not even make 5% and get the Party's campaign expenditures reimbursed, which must be the only reason the candidate hasn't dropped out: He is just going to split the leftist vote and ruin Melenchon's chances, most likely.

Hollande didn't even back his own party's candidate - he indirectly supported Macron, who Hollande plucked from obscurity to become a minister and who is now absolutely, 100% running on a Hollande-Part Deux platform.


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And Macron's leading...and the French are buying all of this...just like many will not even see the possibility of a false flag situation, or two, this week.

The helicopters have mostly stopped now - must be terrible to be in Palestine and hear that regularly. Or the ghettos of Los Angeles.

ISIL just claimed responsibility for the Champs-Elysees attacks, I just read.

Makes me wonder if the "false flag" idea would have gained more traction if it was Al-Nusra (Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate) instead? After all, in 2012 France's foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said of Al-Nusra: "they are doing good things on the ground."

And for this Fabius is being sued by Syrians - it is rather obvious why: "defending terrorism speech," is illegal in France. (http://en.rfi.fr/france/20150907-syrians-take-french-fm-fabius-court-encouraging-al-nusra) But that's what Fabius clearly did.

Check back with me in 2032 when that case is finished. Of course, if you are a young Muslim in France and you are accused of "defending terrorism speech" then you're rushed through the system: accusation, trial, prison within days (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/30/french-jailed-crackdown-speech-glorifies-terrorism). They convicted the mentally ill, they convicted the drunk, but they convicted the Muslim above all.

I'm getting off-track here and talking about things which increase citizen alienation and dissatisfaction. The story line is terrorism, always terrorism, right?

Yeah, if it was Al-Nusra, then maybe the "false flag" idea would gain some mainstream traction. Too bad it was ISIL - the two groups are enemies, for those who don't know. Bad luck, no story there....

The only candidate who will end the state of emergency is, you guessed it, Jean-Luc Melenchon. If the French truly loved "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" they'd vote in Melenchon just for that....

3 "surprises", but only 3 facts to remember
The most important fact - and I even thought about leading this article with this fact - is that seemingly every terrorist in France since 2012 has cited France's foreign interventions as their motivation for terrorism. It is not Islam, it is not jihad - it is foreign intervention, and their obviously capitalist motivations.

Secondly, France's establishment wants - above all - to avoid discussions about capitalism and its ineffectiveness.

Thirdly, these attacks are simply not important.

No matter who did them, or why, they simply are not important right now. Whether they are government assassinations or ISIL-led terrorist attacks, you French citizens owe it to each other to make an intelligent vote, not an emotional one.

For the undecided voters: You haven't made a stand for your political morals yet, but that's a good place to start.


Related:
UPDATES: Police officer killed, another injured in Champs-Elysees shooting in Paris (https://www.rt.com/news/385468-officer-killed-shooting-paris/)

[TargeT]

Good lord... the MSM hates le pen eh?

hkZir1L7fSY

[Atlas]

Good lord... the MSM hates le pen eh?
I don't know about the new generation but the old Le Pen was involved in Algeria (Le Pen et la Torture en Algérie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG4kK-YyL8))

Le Pen could face charge of racism:
SuHE5TAnlcE

[araucaria]

Good lord... the MSM hates le pen eh?
I don't know about the new generation but the old Le Pen was involved in Algeria (Le Pen et la Torture en Algérie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG4kK-YyL8))

Le Pen could face charge of racism:
SuHE5TAnlcE
Thank you Atlas; when I saw your post, I had already written the following in response to TargeT’s comment: the French people have had plenty of opportunities to decide for themselves. The National Front is a nasty reactionary organization that has repackaged itself under Marine Le Pen, who has been publicly in dispute with her father, but is actually selling the same old same old. In the heyday of Jean-Marie, the ex-paratrooper who carried out torture in Algeria, the cornerstone of their platform was the fear of blacks. People in rural areas who had never seen a black in their lives were voting for his anti-immigration policy. Nowadays of course, if they still don’t see any blacks in the street, they will find half of their favourite soccer team is coloured: no big deal. It is the turn of the Arabs to play the bogeymen.

You cannot have it both ways: either the Arab threat is for real, and Marine Le Pen’s Front National is the answer. But then, why would it be any more real than blacks? Or it is a fake phenomenon constructed by the people also running the mainstream media, and their attacks are of the false flag variety carried out by plants or mind-controlled subjects, as many conspiracy theorists claim. In that case, Marine Le Pen’s Front National is simply playing the other side in this racial conflict scenario – because the commonality over the decades has been stirring racial hatred. So, the MSM hate the Front National? No, they are pretending to; this may be a different ploy, of the backing-both-sides variety. Taking sides with Macron does not prevent them from being happy with Le Pen. The question then becomes: Is this because they are leading the people by the nose? Or is it because they are trying to be in charge of something that has got out of their control?

Edit to add: In the video linked by Atlas, which is in French only, Le Pen admits the charge of torture, saying he was only doing his duty. This is not a mere accusation, it is established fact.

[norman]

Last time I checked, the MSM have le Pen ahead in the polls. That's not a good sign for her, surely.

Selling national representation to the masses took a dive when Trump let the military loose. I predict le Pen gets hammered. No promises to eat my hat though, just a prediction.

[Hervé]

Don't be fooled by the length of the following article... it's a summary :)


The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty and the Future of France (http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-main-issue-in-the-french-presidential-election-national-sovereignty-and-the-future-of-france/5586321)

By Diana Johnstone (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/diana-johnstone) Global Research, April 21, 2017

Region: Europe (http://www.globalresearch.ca/region/europe)
Theme: Police State & Civil Rights (http://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/police-state-civil-rights)



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The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.

Standard media treatment sticks to a simple left-right dualism: “racist” rejection of immigrants is the main issue and that what matters most is to “stop Marine Le Pen!”

Going from there to here is like walking through Alice’s looking glass. Almost everything is turned around.


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On this side of the glass, the left has turned into the right and part of the right is turning into the left.



Fifty years ago, it was “the left” whose most ardent cause was passionate support for Third World national liberation struggles. The left’s heroes were Ahmed Ben Bella, Sukarno, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, and above all Ho Chi Minh. What were these leaders fighting for? They were fighting to liberate their countries from Western imperialism. They were fighting for independence, for the right to determine their own way of life, preserve their own customs, decide their own future. They were fighting for national sovereignty, and the left supported that struggle.

Today, it is all turned around. “Sovereignty” has become a bad word in the mainstream left.

National sovereignty is an essentially defensive concept. It is about staying home and minding one’s own business. It is the opposite of the aggressive nationalism that inspired fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to conquer other countries, depriving them of their national sovereignty.

The confusion is due to the fact that most of what calls itself “the left” in the West has been totally won over to the current form of imperialism – aka “globalization”. It is an imperialism of a new type, centered on the use of military force and “soft” power to enable transnational finance to penetrate every corner of the earth and thus to reshape all societies in the endless quest for profitable return on capital investment. The left has been won over to this new imperialism because it advances under the banner of “human rights” and “antiracism” – abstractions which a whole generation has been indoctrinated to consider the central, if not the only, political issues of our times.

The fact that “sovereignism” is growing in Europe is interpreted by mainstream globalist media as proof that “Europe is moving to the right”– no doubt because Europeans are “racist”. This interpretation is biased and dangerous. People in more and more European nations are calling for national sovereignty precisely because they have lost it. They lost it to the European Union, and they want it back.

That is why the British voted to leave the European Union. Not because they are “racist”, but primarily because they cherish their historic tradition of self-rule.

The Socialist Party shipwreck

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As his five-year presidency drew to its ignominious end, François Hollande was obliged by his drastic unpopularity to let his Parti Socialiste (PS) choose its 2017 presidential candidate by primary. In a surprising upset, the Socialist government’s natural candidate, prime minister Manuel Valls, lost to Benoit Hamon, an obscure member of the PS left wing who refused to vote for the unpopular, neo-liberal, anti-labor laws designed by Hollande’s economic advisor, Emmanuel Macron.



To escape from the unpopularity of the PS, Macron formed his own movement, “En Marche!” One after another, Valls, Hollande and other prominent PS leaders are tiptoeing away, leaving Hamon at the helm of the sinking ship. As Hamon justifiably protests against their betrayal, the party bigwigs pledge their support to Emmanuel Macron.


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Macron ostentatiously hesitates to welcome his shopworn converts into the fold, fearing that their conversion makes it too obvious that his “En Marche!” is a clone of the right wing of the PS, on the way to becoming the French subsidiary of the U.S. Democratic Party in its Clintonian form. Macron proclaims that he is neither left nor right, as discredited politicians from both left and right jump on his bandwagon, to his embarrassment.



Hamon himself appears to be unaware that the basic cause of the Socialist Party’s shipwreck is its incompatible devotion to two contrary principles: traditional social democracy, and the European Union (EU). Macron, Hollande and their fellow turncoats at least have made their choice: the European Union.

The Twilight of the Traditional Right

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The great advantage of Republican candidate François Fillon is that his policies are clear. Unlike Hollande, who tried to disguise his neoliberal policies as something else, and based his claim to be on the left on “societal” issues (gay marriage), Fillon is an unabashed conservative. His policies are designed to reduce the huge national debt. Whereas previous governments (including his own, when he was President Sarkozy’s Prime Minister) beat around the bush, Fillon won the Republican nomination by a program of sharp cutbacks in government spending.



Fillon claims that his austerity measures will lead French capitalists to invest in France and thus save the country’s economy from being completely taken over by foreign corporations, American retirement funds and Qatar. This is highly doubtful, as there is nothing under EU rules to encourage French investors to invest in France rather than somewhere else.

Fillon departs from EU orthodoxy, however, by proposing a more independent foreign policy, notably by ending the “absurd” sanctions against Russian. He is more concerned about the fate of Middle East Christians than about overthrowing Assad.

The upshot is that Fillon’s coherent pro-capitalist policy is not exactly what the dominant globalizing elite prefers. The “center left” is their clear political choice since Tony Blair and Bill Clinton revised the agendas of their respective parties. The center left emphasis on human rights (especially in faraway countries targeted for regime change) and ethnic diversity at home fits the long-term globalist aims of erasing national borders, to allow unrestricted free movement of capital. Traditional patriotic conservatism, represented by Fillon, does not altogether correspond to the international adventurism of globalization.

The Schizophrenic Left
For a generation, the French left has made “the construction of Europe” the center of its world view. In the early 1980s, faced with opposition from what was then the European Community, French President François Mitterrand abandoned the socializing program on which he been elected. Mitterrand nursed the hope that France would politically dominate a united Europe, but the unification of Germany changed all that. So did EU expansion to Eastern Central nations within the German sphere of influence. Economic policy is now made in Germany.

As the traditional left goal of economic equality was abandoned, it was superseded by emphatic allegiance to “human rights”, which is now taught in school as a veritable religion. The vague notion of human rights was somehow associated with the “free movement” of everything and everybody. Indeed the official EU dogma is protection of “free movement”: free movement of goods, people, labor and (last but certainly not least) capital. These “four freedoms” in practice transform the nation from a political society into a financial market, an investment opportunity, run by a bureaucracy of supposed experts. In this way, the European Union has become the vanguard experiment in transforming the world into a single capitalist market.

The French left bought heavily into this ideal, partly because it deceptively echoed the old leftist ideal of “internationalism” (whereas capital has always been incomparably more “international” than workers), and partly due to the simplistic idea that “nationalism” is the sole cause of wars. More fundamental and complex causes of war are ignored.

For a long time, the left has complained about job loss, declining living standards, delocalization or closure of profitable industries, without recognizing that these unpopular results are caused by EU requirements. EU directives and regulations increasingly undermine the French model of redistribution through public services, and are now threatening to wipe them out altogether – either because “the government is bankrupt” or because of EU competition rules prohibit countries from taking measures to preserve their key industries or their agriculture. Rather than face reality, the left’s reaction has mostly been to repeat its worn-out demand for an impossible “Social Europe”.

Yet the dream of “social Europe” received what amounted to a fatal blow ten years ago. In 2005, a referendum was called to allow the French to approve a Constitution for united Europe. This led to an extraordinary popular discussion, with countless meetings of citizens examining every aspect of this lengthy document. Unlike normal constitutions, this document froze the member States in a single monetarist economic policy, with no possibility of change.

On May 29, 2005, French voters rejected the treaty by 55% to 45%.

What seemed to be a great victory for responsible democracy turned into its major failure. Essentially the same document, renamed the Lisbon Treaty, was ratified in December 2007, without a referendum. Global governance had put the people in their place. This produced widespread disillusion with politics as millions concluded that their votes didn’t matter, that politicians paid no attention to the will of the people.
Even so, Socialist politicians continued to pledge undying allegiance to the EU, always with the prospect that “Social Europe” might somehow be possible.

Meanwhile, it has become more and more obvious that EU monetarist policy based on the common currency, the euro, creates neither growth nor jobs as promised but destroys both. Unable to control its own currency, obliged to borrow from private banks, and to pay them interest, France is more and more in debt, its industry is disappearing and its farmers are committing suicide, on the average of one every other day. The left has ended up in an impossible position: unswervingly loyal to the EU while calling for policies that are impossible under EU rules governing competition, free movement, deregulation, budgetary restraints, and countless other regulations produced by an opaque bureaucracy and ratified by a virtually powerless European Parliament, all under the influence of an army of lobbyists.

Benoit Hamon remains firmly stuck on the horns of the left’s fatal dilemma: determination to be “socialist”, or rather, social democratic, and passionate loyalty to “Europe”. While insisting on social policies that cannot possibly be carried out with the euro as currency and according to EU rules, Hamon still proclaims loyalty to “Europe”. He parrots the EU’s made-in-Washington foreign policy, demanding that “Assad must go” and ranting against Putin and Russia.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Grasps the Nettle

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Not only is the drab, conformist Hamon abandoned by his party heavies, he is totally upstaged on the left by the flamboyant Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a maverick ready to break the rules. After years as a PS loyalist, Mélenchon broke away in 2005 to oppose the Constitutional Treaty, gaining prominence as a fiery orator. In 2007, he left the Socialist Party and founded the Parti de Gauche (Left Party). Allied with the much weakened Communist Party, he came in fourth in the first round of the 2012 Presidential election with 11% of the vote. This time he is running for President with his own new movement, La France Insoumise, which can be translated in a number of ways, including “the France that does not submit”.



Submit to what? Mainly, to the euro and to the antisocial, neoliberal policies of the European Union that are ruining France.

French flags and la Marseillaise have replaced the Internationale at Mélenchon rallies. “The Europe of our dreams is dead,” he acknowledges, vowing to “end the nightmare of dictatorship by banks and finance”.

Mélenchon calls for outright disobedience by violating EU treaties that are harmful to France. That is his Plan A. His Plan B is to leave the EU, in case Plan A fails to convince Germany (the current boss) and the others to agree to change the treaties.

But at best, Plan B is an empty threat to strengthen his hand in theoretical negotiations. France is such a crucial member, he maintains, that a French threat to leave should be enough to force changes.

Threatening to leave the EU is just part of Mélenchon’s vast and complicated program which includes calling a national convention to draft a constitution for France’s “sixth Republic” as well as major ecological innovation. Completely changing both France and the European Union at the same time would require the nation to be in a revolutionary effervescence that is by no means visible. It would also require a unanimity among the EU’s 28 member States that is simply impossible.

But Mélenchon is canny enough to have recognized the basic problem: the enemy of jobs, prosperity and public services is the European Union. Mélenchon is by far the candidate that generates the most excitement. He has rapidly outdistanced Hamon and draws huge enthusiastic crowds to his rallies. His progress has changed the shape of the race: at this moment, he has become one of four front-runners who might get past the first round vote on April 23 into the finals on May 7: Le Pen, Macron, Fillon and himself.

The Opposites are (almost) the Same
A most remarkable feature of this campaign is great similarity between the two candidates said to represent “the far left”, Mélenchon, and “the far right”, Marine Le Pen. Both speak of leaving the euro. Both vow to negotiate with the EU to get better treaty terms for France. Both advocate social policies to benefit workers and low income people. Both want to normalize relations with Russia. Both want to leave NATO, or at least its military command. Both defend national sovereignty, and can thus be described as “sovereignists”.

The only big difference between them is on immigration, an issue that arouses so much emotion that it is hard to discuss sensibly. Those who oppose immigration are accused of “fascism”, those who favor immigration are accused of wanting to destroy the nation’s identity by flooding it with inassimilable foreigners.

In a country suffering from unemployment, without jobs or housing to accommodate mass immigration, and under the ongoing threat of Islamist terror attacks, the issue cannot be reasonably reduced to “racism” – unless Islamic terrorists constitute a “race”, for which there is no evidence. Le Pen insists that all French citizens deserve equal treatment regardless of their origins, race or religion. She is certain to get considerable support from recently nationalized immigrants, just as she now gets a majority of working class votes. If this is “fascism”, it has changed a lot in the past seventy years.

What is significant is that despite their differences, the two most charismatic candidates both speak of restoring national sovereignty. Both evoke the possibility of leaving the European Union, although in rather uncertain terms.

The globalist media are already preparing to blame the eventual election of a “sovereignist” candidate on Vladimir Putin. Public opinion in the West is being prepared for massive protests to break out against an undesired winner, and the “antifa” militants are ready to wreak havoc in the streets. Some people who like Marine Le Pen are afraid of voting for her, fearing the “color revolution” sure to be mounted against her. Mélenchon and even Fillon might face similar problems.

As a taste of things to come, on April 20, the EU Observer published an article entitled “Russia-linked fake news floods French social media”. (https://euobserver.com/foreign/137624)

Based on something called Bakamo, one of the newly establishment “fact-check” outfits meant to steer readers away from unofficial opinion, the article accused Russian-influenced web sites of favoring Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, François Fillon, Francois Asselineau, and Philippe Poutou. (They forgot to mention one of the most “sovereignist” candidates, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, currently polling in sixth place.)

Since a large majority of the eleven candidates, including three of the four front-runners, are strongly critical of the EU and of NATO and want to improve relations with Russia, it would seem that Putin wouldn’t have to make a great effort to get a more friendly French government next time around. On the other hand, the EU Observer article is only a small sample of blatant “interference in the French election” on the part of the globalists on behalf of their favorite, Emmanuel Macron, the most enthusiastic Europhile.

The Future of France

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Among those listed as alleged Russian favorites, François Asselineau is by far the most thorough critic of the European Union. Systematically ignored by the media since he founded his anti-EU party, the Union Populaire Républicain (UPR), ten years ago, François Asselineau has thousands of ardent supporters who have plastered his poster all over the country. His tireless didactic speeches, reproduced on internet, have driven home several key points:



– there is no way to improve the EU from the inside, because any change would require unanimity among 27 member states who disagree on key issues.

– the only solution for France is to use Article 50 of the EU treaties to withdraw entirely, as the United Kingdom is currently doing.

– only by leaving the EU can France save its public services, its social benefits, its economy and its democracy.

– it is only by restoring its national sovereignty that genuine democratic life, with confrontation between a real “left” and “right”, can be possible.

– by leaving the EU, France, which has over 6,000 treaties with other countries, would not be isolated but would be joining the greater world.
Asselineau is a single issue candidate. He vows that as soon as elected, he would invoke Article 50 to leave the EU and immediately apply to Washington to withdraw from NATO. He emphasizes that none of the other critics of the EU propose such a clear exit within the rules.

Other candidates, including the more charismatic Mélenchon and Le Pen, echo some of Asselineau’s arguments. But they are not ready to go so far as to advocate a clear immediate break with the EU, if only because they realize that the French population, while increasingly critical of the euro and alienated from the “European dream”, is still fearful of actually leaving, due to dire warnings of disaster from the Europeists.

The first round campaign is an opportunity for Asselineau to present his ideas to a wider audience, preparing public opinion for a more coherent “Frexit” policy. By far the most fundamental emerging issue in this campaign is the conflict between the European Union and national sovereignty. It will probably not be settled in this election, but it won’t go away.

This is the major issue of the future, because it determines whether any genuine political life is possible.


The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Diana Johnstone (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/diana-johnstone), Global Research, 2017

[norman]

OMG, I was just starting to think the "right" was going to have to share voters and lose, when I realised that French politics is so proportional in the early stages of an election that everybody on the right left center and wherever are pushing through a crowd with their elbows flailing in a political riot.

[Hervé]

Some astute observer (probably a mathematician and presumably British) of French people realized that when putting together twenty French citizen, one is not performing an addition but, rather, 20 divisions... :)

[Flash]

I wish such "résumé", that could be understood by most people with a high school degree, and a bit of efforts, could have been written for Americans to be read as well.

It becomes so easy to understand what is going on in France when reading this article, even for foreigners like me. Everytimes I read American articles on their politics, it was so complicated and convoluted that it took a university degree to follow up.

What I like in this article is that it is clearly named that EU is the puppet of bankers and corporations and that it is destroying the social tissue of basically every nation and rendering every individual of every nation much poorer on the whole, and forced to paralysis with an incredibly inneffective (but wanted to be) bureaucracy. My terms: 1984 - the novel - at its best.

I do wonder if Americans would have read such an article if it were on their politics on the other hand. They became a rather emotional and irrational country on the whole - with low educational standards, which is waaay away from what they once were.

[Hervé]

French presidential election 2017: Round 1 Live updates (https://www.rt.com/news/385741-france-election-live-updates/)

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The French are heading to the ballot boxes to cast their votes in a tight first round of their country’s presidential race.

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Electoral committee - Ifop - Ipsos

Official data from the electoral committee (Constitutional Council)

Votes, percent

1 Marine Le Pen National Front 24,3

2 Emmanuel Macron En Marche! (Forward!) 22,28

3 Francois Fillon Republicans 19,6

4 Jean-Luc Melenchon Unsubmissive France 18,16

5 Benoit Hamon Socialist Party 5,8

6 Nicolas Dupont-Aignan France Arise 5,26

7 Jean Lassalle Resistons! 1,55

8 Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party 1,24

9 Francois Asselineau Popular Republican Union (UPR) 0,86

10 Nathalie Arthaud Worker's Struggle 0,76

11 Jacques Cheminade Solidarity and Progress 0,19


Latest update 23.04.17 21:46

Check updates here: https://www.rt.com/news/385741-france-election-live-updates/

[araucaria]

Votes, percent

1 Marine Le Pen National Front 24,3

2 Emmanuel Macron En Marche! (Forward!) 22,28


This is not what we are getting either on TV or in the press: http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/article/2017/04/23/emmanuel-macron-et-marine-le-pen-qualifies-pour-le-second-tour-selon-les-premieres-estimations_5115951_4854003.html

[Flash]

on Google search neither, Macron is ahead




Votes, percent

1 Marine Le Pen National Front 24,3

2 Emmanuel Macron En Marche! (Forward!) 22,28


This is not what we are getting either on TV or in the press: http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/article/2017/04/23/emmanuel-macron-et-marine-le-pen-qualifies-pour-le-second-tour-selon-les-premieres-estimations_5115951_4854003.html

[sheme]

BBC are trending towards Macron ( the Cabals insert) he doesn't even have a party so he will be relying on the power hungry hangers on to put themselves up for political selection , I find it hard to believe the French people are that stupid> so he should fail. He married his teacher who was married and had children, he worked for Rothschild in banking> need I say more. Look out France you have a Trecherous little git ready to do the cabals bidding.

[araucaria]

on Google search neither, Macron is ahead




Votes, percent

1 Marine Le Pen National Front 24,3

2 Emmanuel Macron En Marche! (Forward!) 22,28


This is not what we are getting either on TV or in the press: http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/article/2017/04/23/emmanuel-macron-et-marine-le-pen-qualifies-pour-le-second-tour-selon-les-premieres-estimations_5115951_4854003.html
The official results are always announced by the Ministry of the Interior, and by the minister in person http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/
I don't know what this electoral council is supposed to be.

Edit: 22.22 local time: Macron is making his 'victory' speech. Making all the right noises...

[Hervé]

Check the updates here: https://www.rt.com/news/385741-france-election-live-updates/

... and compare with the other Tabs: "IFOP" and "IPSOS."

[Atlas]

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[Hervé]

Liberté d'expression? RT, Ruptly crews blocked from Macron HQ despite press requests

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Pas d'accréditation pour l'équipe de RT Moscou et RT France au QG de #Macron (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Macron?src=hash) #ElectionPresidentielle2017 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionPresidentielle2017?src=hash) malgré de nombreuses relances


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RT and Ruptly were not allowed into the headquarters of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, despite earlier being promised accreditation by his team.



Producers from RT contacted Macron’s press team earlier in April and were promised accreditation for the evening of the first round of the French presidential elections. However, despite repeated requests accreditation was never received, with the Macron team merely saying, “They are still being processed.”

And so on Sunday evening, neither RT nor the Ruptly film crew were allowed into the Macron campaign HQ, where there was a heavy security presence.





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Security very high OUTSIDE Macron HQ, I say outside because we weren't allowed in, after sending countless requests in recent days and weeks


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9:06 AM - 23 Apr 2017
Members of Macron’s campaign have repeatedly accused RT and Russian news agency Sputnik of spreading “fake news” and misinformation on behalf of the Kremlin. In March during an interview with Sky, Macron’s aide Mounir Mahjoubi accused RT and Sputnik of being the “first source of false information shared about our candidate” and working with “fascist organizations or extreme right news organizations.” And in February, the general secretary of Macron’s campaign, Richard Ferrand, accused the two Russian media outlets of “spreading [and] developing fake news” to allegedly “influence democratic life” in France.

RT has adamantly denied these allegations as appalling and unfounded.

“It seems that it has become acceptable to level such serious charges at RT without presenting any evidence to substantiate them, as well as to apply this ‘fake news’ label to any reporting that one might simply find unfavorable,” RT’s Press Office said (https://www.rt.com/about-us/press-releases/rt-debunks-macron-fake-news/) in response to Ferrand’s remarks.
Indeed, Macron’s campaign has referenced the channel so much that RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said (https://russian.rt.com/world/article/364942-makron-rt-obvineniya) it was “flattering that Macron’s team keep building their election campaign exclusively on lies about RT and Sputnik.”

RT International and RT France are, over the next two days, reporting live (https://www.rt.com/news/385741-france-election-live-updates/) on the French elections from an open studio located on the banks of the Seine at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. This coverage from the HQs of each of the key candidates (except, it seems Macron) as well as views and analysis of leading experts and politicians including members of the National Assembly and the presidential candidates themselves.

Related:
RT ‘flattered’ to be centerpiece of Macron’s French presidential campaign (https://www.rt.com/news/379467-france-macron-aide-accusations-rt/)

[Yetti]

Loc, you are absolute right. Soros is one of the worst bugs ever roam yhis earth, along with kissinger and many other obscure figures . Front seat? , hell yea ! we're about thave a hell of a ride my friend, buckle up! because we are getting speed downhill!

[TargeT]

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[Mod-edit: ad hominem blipped out, Hervé]

a fundamentally restrictive and violent belief garment vs a protective outer ware.. if anyone is confused enough to see this as NOT a move to deter Islamic extremism they are very self deluded.

[Atlas]

By definition, the Burkini is swim gear.

Australian burkini inventor unimpressed with Nicolas Sarkozy's decisions
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[Hervé]

Establishment Shunts Establishment Puppet into the Élysée: More Warmongering To Follow (https://www.sott.net/article/348998-Establishment-Shunts-Establishment-Puppet-into-the-Elysee-More-Warmongering-To-Follow#)

Joe Quinn Sott.net (https://www.sott.net/article/348998-Establishment-Shunts-Establishment-Puppet-into-the-Elysee-More-Warmongering-To-Follow#)
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:20 UTC



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Trust me, I'm a banker...


In his "victory" speech in the 1st round of the French presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron said he will represent all French people "in facing the threat of nationalists".

Apparently being a French nationalist is now a hate crime.

It is highly suspicious that Macron went through with most votes and will now likely win the Presidency on May 7th.

Here's a 39 year old Rothschild banker who was virtually unknown less than one year ago, endorsed by Obama and NATO, never elected to public office, spent a couple of years as a shoe-in economy minister under Hollande where he proposed a 'labor' law that bears his name that hundreds of thousands protested against and had to be forced through by executive decree and with a manifesto slightly less bland than his personality.

Hollande's presidency, under which Macron served, is probably the least popular in French history. And yet we're expected to believe that a majority of French voted for this guy??!

Sounds like a rigged game to me.

Yet despite the media already assuring everyone that Macron will easily take the laurels on May 7th, the game may not be over.

Mélenchon (the uber lefty trotskyist nut job) who received about 20% of the vote had the role of drawing votes of the large number of those disgruntled with the system away from Le Pen. He did his job well. But now Mélenchon has to decide how to urge those who voted for him to vote for Macron. Those who voted for him did so largely out of severe distaste for an establishment dupe like Macron. To avoid exposing himself for the shill he is, Mélenchon has said he will not endorse either Le Pen or Macron but will instead ask his 450,000 party members to decide via his website.

This is a sneaky move, because when he does endorse Macron, he can blame his party members. Nevertheless, his supporters may not be fooled and the result may be that they will turn to Le Pen as the only "anti-establishment" option. It's a long shot, I know, but remember Trump. In fact, a similar scenario played out in the USA last year, when Clinton screwed over Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination. When Sanders then endorsed Clinton, many of his supporters, feeling betrayed, voted for Trump in protest.

The other point of interest is the 1% of votes won by candidate François Asselineau.

In the French regional elections in November 2015, with little to no mainstream media coverage and with only 12,000 members of his party (UPR), Asselineau received 190,000 votes, which worked out at 1% of the vote.

Today, with 26,000 party members, a month of decent mainstream media coverage, 11 million views on his youtube channel and many rallies attended by thousands of people, his total votes increased to 300,000, which somehow works out to 0.8 %. Go figure. Voting is a murky business, hard to figure out. Open to being meddled with. Just ask the Russians.

All in all, it's not looking good for France or the French people, all of whom would be well advised to prepare themselves. Postmodern, globalist, nihilistic, warmongering and REAL racism against Muslims everywhere (in the form of more bombing of Muslim nations) has installed itself fully in La République.

[Atlas]

Sounds like a rigged game to me..

The Fifth Republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic)

Since the French Revolution in 1789, France has had five different republican systems. All of them have been the results of violent crises. The fifth and current one was an outcome of the Algerian crisis in the 1950’s. It withstood several assassinations attempts and rebellions, proving to be one the longest lasting and most stable political systems France has seen so far. In this article (http://www.popularsocialscience.com/2013/10/08/the-french-fifth-republic-against-all-odds/) I seek to give a brief overview of how this happened.

[araucaria]

From Joe Quinn (post #115 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1148153&viewfull=1#post1148153)): ‘Mélenchon (the uber lefty trotskyist nut job)’ is not political analysis, it is the childish ranting of a far right-winger for whom lefty alone is an insult, but he still needs to pile on three extravagant epithets in order to make sure we got the message. Anyone who is genuinely working to release the elite stranglehold on power is going to side with the people, as human beings, putting the social in socialist and the communal in communist: not the same thing as setting one nation’s people against others (Le Pen).

If you can accept for just a moment that there can be such a thing as an honest politician – i.e. imagine that there is something going on of which one could be a part – not endorsing the plastic ‘rigged game’ candidate Macron is not ‘a sneaky move’; it is the honest position to adopt when rejecting that candidate. That would contradict the notion that he ‘had the role of drawing votes of the large number of those disgruntled with the system away from Le Pen’. No, an honest man would not be playing a role, but ploughing his own furrow. Quinn cannot have it both ways by himself rejecting Macron in the severest terms and expecting Mélenchon to endorse him. He clearly does not understand how Mélenchon ticks, or Le Pen either.

It seems to me that Mélenchon (who is no flash in the pan, having reached 18% intended votes a week before the 2012 election) has been doing the intellectual donkey work and pedagogically been doing more than anyone to wise voters up to what is going on in the world. http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/francois-ruffin/jean-luc-melenchon-1er-tour-presidentielle_a_22052234/?utm_hp_ref=fr-homepage Had the Socialists’ official candidate Hamon thrown his 6.5% vote behind Mélenchon in the first round instead of waiting for the second that never came, then Mélenchon could have won the run-off and addressed many of the issues that Macron won’t and Le Pen won’t. As he stated last night, the issues he campaigned on don’t suddenly disappear when someone else takes over. They certainly don’t, and we have Parliamentary elections coming up in June, so the fat lady may sing, but the show is definitely not over.

Instead of insulting the man, let’s take a look at what he is actually saying. Below is a scan of his election manifesto delivered to all voters last Thursday. For non-French readers, I’ll translate some of the more salient points.


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I know your anger. I want to be its progressive, humanist mouthpiece.
We must separate the Republic of lobbies that threaten the environment and our health, halt the almightiness of finance, abolish the presidential monarchy and the privileges of the cast that runs everything. This is the time to become a sovereign, independent people again, freed from the European treaties and warmongering military alliances.
(...)
SHARING THE WEALTH
I will be the social president with a programme to eradicate poverty and unemployment. France has never been so rich in her history: we are the record-breaking country in Europe for the number of millionaires and for paying dividends to shareholders. But this wealth is shared out too unfairly. The people must claim back their share from finance.

ECOLOGICAL PLANNING
We will disengage from nuclear and carbon-based energy to reach 100% renewable energy by 2050.
We will help farmers to put an end to chemical farming and factory farms: my government will organize 100% organic produce in collective restaurants [school canteens etc.] It will banish animal suffering.
Ecological planning will be at the heart of economic activity (...) create most of the 3 million jobs that my programme allows.

HUMAN PROGRESS FIRST
I will be the president of human progress. Money must not determiner access to knowledge, culture and sport. (...)
I will make schooling compulsory from 3 to 18. I will make school really free, including books...
(...)
EXITING THE EUROPEAN TREATIES
I will be the president of a France unsubmitting in Europe and the world. She will free the French people and the people of Europe from the European treaties and free exchange agreements that oblige them to tear each other apart.
(...)
I will withdraw France’s signature on the free exchange agreement with Canada (CETA) and will oppose the one with the USA (TAFTA).
FOR FRENCH INDEPENDENCE AND PEACE
I will be the president of peace. I am worried at seeing war growing in the world and in Europe. We will leave NATO so as not to be caught up in US wars.
We well build a new alliance of non-aligned countries, acting for peace and solely within the framework of the UNO.
(...)
I am of the people. This French people which is not indifferent to the fate of others, which does not accept poverty, discrimination, injustice. This people that respects the law, pays its taxes, behaves like good citizens. This people that has had enough of ‘affairs’ and ‘scandals’.
Our collective intelligence can overcome all difficulties if we all place ourselves at the service of the common good. (..). I am ready; You are ready, I know.Mélenchon is Le Pen without the passive fear/hatred of foreigners and instead with reliance on an active, generous, intelligent (informed) population. The big difference then is that the people get to become cheerfully involved rather than submitting to an authoritarian regime, which is all that is left on offer. It is not an attractive to many who would rather not have to pull their weight.

[ElfeMya]

Watching the news tonight, it is like the whole media is already celebrating the victory of Macron. It is astonishing to see the manipulation of the videos and and the way he is pictured. He is endorsed by EU as well and it is just crazy to see how much medias and politicians aloke are talking about him like he is already elected.... given that we still have to cast our votes again in a couple of weeks...
The feeling of this election being rigged, I totally feel it.
The vocabulary used to qualify Le Pen and her voters is also appalling. If somebody was on an agenda to create a break in society to justify any terribale actions against those voters, it would be no different. It is the whole ' us and them ' crap again. All while MAcron pretends to be the president of all the French people... seriously ?

Am I the only French being appalled by the way this election is unfolding and the manipulation of videos and informations served by medias, political analysts and politicians and their official supporters and speakers ?

[araucaria]

The ‘dédiabolisation’ of the FN under Marine Le Pen is designed to counter people with longer memories or who know their history. You have to go all the way back to World War II. When she stated recently that the Vél d’Hiv Jewish deportation atrocity was not the work of France, represented by De Gaulle in exile in London, but by individual members of the Vichy government, she is rewriting history. Her party has never been Gaullist, but is in fact an offshoot of the pro-Nazi collaborationist community.
See this page and the whole site: http://www.gauchemip.org/spip.php?article15713

There is no need for an elite plot to keep Le Pen out of power. She can muster 7 million votes to get her into the runoff, but not the 15 million needed to win. Why? The French people are still recovering from the defeat that led them to fight on both sides of that war, a civil war in effect. Le Pen’s position amounts to pretending to have changed sides. A forum like Avalon is aware that with Project Paperclip, the US effectively started fighting World War II over again having changed sides in the opposite direction. In other words America and the National Front have the commonality of being ostensibly anti-Nazi but actually pro-Nazi. Which is why the likes of Mélenchon can be very consistently against both the warmongering USA and the far right here in France.

[Hervé]

Probably the reason why Marine (daughter) and Jean-Marie (father) are not talking to each other anymore as well as why the latter got kicked out of the active FN leadership. The ‘dédiabolisation’ might be a factual reflection of the actual change taking place, within the family/families as well as nationwide.

[Sierra]

BBC are trending towards Macron ( the Cabals insert) he doesn't even have a party so he will be relying on the power hungry hangers on to put themselves up for political selection , I find it hard to believe the French people are that stupid> so he should fail. He married his teacher who was married and had children, he worked for Rothschild in banking> need I say more. Look out France you have a Trecherous little git ready to do the cabals bidding.

And we have the doubly divorced (and adulterous, his second wife was his mistress) man who *also* joined the political machine with no background, one year before taking the presidency.

So how stupid are we?

It's an international sign of the times. People know politics don't work, but the choices offered ... *shudder*

I would (as some countries do) dearly love to have the option on our (paper, hardcopy ballots only please) ballot that says "None of the Above". Had that been the case, imo, I think no candidate would have won the presidency (55% of the eligible voters did not vote).

[Hervé]

Le Pen & Trump aren’t even close – are we stuck with Emmanuel Macr-Obama? (http://thesaker.is/le-pen-trump-arent-even-close-are-we-stuck-with-emmanuel-macr-obama/)

by Ramin Mazaheri April 24, 2017


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It’s not [so much] that the National Front has changed since the 1980s – it’s that the other parties have changed so much for the worse.

C’est ça – that’s the point, as the French say, and which translates into English rather ineffectively.

Nobody should be happy about having to vote for Marine Le Pen, but please tell me what economic policies has Emmanuel Macron espoused which will end the systemic anti-Muslim, anti-Colored racism in France?

Got nuthin’? Of course you don’t.

And that’s why it is intolerable to hear French people say that a vote against Le Pen is a vote against racism: Racism is not just pretty words but concrete actions – it is the government installing a Black family next to yours to promote equality.

Don’t fancy that: congratulations, you are not a leftist!

But Emmanuel Macron is the epitome of today’s “fake leftism” – leftism which has a “non-racist” and “minority-friendly” face, but which is neutered of any economic or social policy that would actually improve the lives of any minority.

What good is having gay marriage in France if you can’t afford the marriage certificate because you are both unemployed?

Gay marriage typifies the misplaced priorities of the West’s fake leftists – the show over substance –which must make the Ho Chi Minh’s of the world roll their eyes and mutter, “This is the Left I sacrificed for?”

While preparing to cover the first round of France’s election I was reviewing five years of news reports I made while covering the Francois Hollande era for Press TV. I was reminded that November 7, 2012, is a day which must not be forgotten.

On that date Hollande announced he was breaking the essence of his electoral campaign: He cut taxes for the wealthy and on corporations, with financing to come from cuts to social services and a hike to the VAT (sales) tax, which is a regressive tax on the average person.

Here were the two lead paragraphs from that report:
“France has announced another round of austerity measures, in an unpredicted change-of-heart. Many expected a recent report calling for tax breaks for businesses to be ignored, but the Hollande administration will implement its neoliberal measures almost completely.”

“This plan corresponds with President Hollande’s promises,” said Jean-Marc Ayrault, France’s Prime Minister. “They are leftist because our objective is to create more jobs and to correct injustice,”
Also on November 7, 2012: Hollande, Ayrault and the Socialist Party unveiled the bill for gay marriage in Parliament.

The politics of distraction….

It’s disgusting for fake leftists like Francois Hollande, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to manipulate civil rights in order to push right-wing economics, but it works.

Today, not enough French voters saw through the masquerade of Macron, I’m sorry to report.

Even fewer remember the lessons from 5 years ago, it seems. How many journalists even helped people to remember?

However, all of France does remember perhaps the biggest-ever anti-government demonstrations which followed November 7, 2012: between 300,000 to 1 million people marched – not against austerity, but against gay marriage.

The politics of distraction causing misplaced priorities….

Then in January 2013 Hollande launched a war in Mali.

The politics of distraction, this time with dead Colored bodies….

Blame Hollande for a lot, including Macron
Hollande is the one who foisted Macron on us. He plucked him from the obscurity of the chorus, schooled him as his deputy secretary-general of Élysée Palace, appointed Minister of the Economy out of nowhere, and dubbed Macron to carry on his legacy.

Hollande admitted as much (http://www.france24.com/en/20170413-presidential-election-melenchon-hollande-macron-fillon-media) – he wants to see what he “built” continue. Many thought he was the only one who felt that way, and that’s why Hollande couldn’t even run for re-election.

So France elects a younger version of Hollande instead?

Once again I write these words: This ends the myth that the French are more sophisticated or intellectually cultivated than everyone else.

They couldn’t even see through Macron!

Anyone think Macron will be promoting peace? Or even “first do no harm” isolationism?

Le Pen might…if the military-industrial-financial-media-cultural complex doesn’t hound her with accusations of being a Russian spy like they did with Trump. Maybe she won’t even bomb Syria to get some breathing room from the fake leftist hordes in pussy hats.

Or maybe not, but Le Pen is, like Trump, the hope candidate in the French election because a vote for Macron is a vote for your own unemployment. Or your wife’s. Or your children’s.

One thing is sure: If they elect Macron the whole country will be crying in 6 months, just as France was with Hollande.

It’s simply staggering that he’s expected to win at a huge 65%-35% margin. Austerity has never worked anywhere, ever – even the IMF now admits that, only after decades of ruined lives (http://fortune.com/2016/06/03/imf-neoliberalism-failing/) – and yet the French are going to elect a guy who will enact 20% more austerity measures than Francois Hollande.

Trump and Le Pen are totally different
Let’s admit it – Trump is hilarious…by presidential standards.

His tweets, his self-importance, his shilling for Trump merchandise while meeting with the president of China – he’s what we’d all like to be if we had no conscience or sense of responsibility.

In France we call this person: Gerard Depardieu. Seriously! The French talk about how they secretly would love to be this fat, vineyard-owning glutton who shoots his mouth off however he wants – the guy got a Russian passport from Putin, after all! (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20921208)

But it’s simply not accurate to say that Trump and Le Pen are the same just because they both represent the White Trash Revolution sweeping the West (https://thesaker.is/white-trash-both-a-book-and-trump-revolution/).

Trump is hilarious and entertaining (and thousands of kilometers from where I live), yes, but hate for him is new: Le Pen and her family have been hated for decades.

The Le Pens have spent decades insulting Muslims, Roma, minorities – French people – and that simply cannot be erased.

French people repeatedly tell me: “Ramin, you are new here – you’ve only been here 8 years – you don’t understand the National Front.”

It’s possible, but I respond: Everybody I meet views the National Front in some sort of time warp. Only the cynics claim politics never changes: look closely and you see that the situation is different from 1980, or 2002, or 2007, etc. And they cannot see that five years of austerity will do far more collective damage than taking a risk on Le Pen.

Worse, they can’t understand that nearly all French parties are racist: Fillon wrote a book titled “Conquering Islamic Totalitarianism”; Melenchon is rabidly secular; the Socialists cracked down on the Roma worse than Sarkozy. Only the Communists got the brotherly love in France: Our 2 candidates only got 1.8% combined, and that is your fault and not ours.

Understand this well: Very few people are “happy” about Macron tonight. Think about it: 4 candidates all won nearly 20% of the vote – that’s unheard of! Macron eked out a miniscule victory – this is no sweeping mandate whatsoever.

And listen to me now and believe me later: This is not a “seismic shift” in French politics (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/23/french-election-live-results-exit-polls/). Yes, the Gaullists didn’t advance for the first time ever, and the other mainstream party is absent too, but Macron has no party: he will necessarily staff his cabinet with the same old Socialists and Républicains; his neophyte party will necessarily make a coalition government with them in Parliament.

Macron is simply an Obama-style brand shift by the Empire. Like Obama he will be a smooth-faced handmaiden for Clintonian globalization. Nothing will change if Macron is elected.

However, I can report to you that this current of National Front fear/resentment/myopia is too strong for me to think that Le Pen will win: I have met so many people from across all boundaries who simply cannot, will not, ever vote for any Le Pen. Their dead ancestors practically forbid it.

Nobody can say the same about Trump.

So I am not hopeful that Le Pen will go the way of Brexit and Trump.

I write this while waiting to do interviews #9 and #10 on Round 1 Election Day for Press TV – maybe I’m not thinking clearly?

The worst has been seeing my grinning colleagues on France’s major media stations – they are thrilled to pieces. Of course, they’re on the wrong side of most of the issues. I’ll give them some credit: The #1 channel in France – TF1 – interviewed me as part of a piece about the view of foreign journalists and had the sense to make the lead quote, LOL. (https://mail.google.com/_/scs/mail-static/_/js/k=gmail.main.en.eLyNpfvJhSQ.O/m=m_i,pdt,t/am=toBzmDyZ94c5zMAsNcMw5__zl5PFw57v0fuJB8hRwU_Af7P_B_g_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAWxSE/rt=h/d=1/rs=AHGWq9BKvvYkilcvjPpAoHEU1PwQ_x6Xqw) I coulda done it in French – they didn’t ask!

I have been repeatedly proven wrong about Macron
I was hoping the fawning, brain-dead, hugely pro-Macron French media would be wrong about “the Roths-churian candidate” (https://thesaker.is/emmanuel-macron-frances-roths-churian-candidate/), but it seems I was.

I never took him seriously because he’s such a seriously flawed candidate: 39 years old, Rothschild banker, Macron Law author who sparked 4-months of strikes and protests in 2016, 64-year old wife, heir to Hollande-ism, 7 step-grandkids, selling off industrial jewel Alstom to the Americans which only profited shareholders and not citizens, etc. and etc.

The guy is like Teflon! Nothing stuck! And why? He said nothing! He didn’t unveil his 60 billion in euros in austerity cuts (10 billion more than Hollande) until early March (http://en.rfi.fr/france/20170302-macron-unveils-long-awaited-presidential-programme)!

Robbers never tell you they are stealing, after all. But, beyond just the economy, Macron was as vague as possible – and it worked!

Well, now it’s up to Le Pen to attack him mercilessly for the great sins of…his record. Everybody should.

But instead it is Le Pen who will be attacked mercilessly and by everybody under the French sun. And let’s be honest – she is no saint, and her sins are not just bad TV and gaudy real estate.

In fact, she’s a terrible candidate, period. She’s useful to spark debate, but she’s no winner. Who really wants her to win? This all makes her a loser on May 7, most likely – that’s what Trump would say, and he can say that: he won.

The National Front is fighting decades of correctly-earned ill-will. There is undoubtedly tremendous – just tremendous – dissatisfaction in France, but how is Le Pen going turn the battleship around to take office?

I think I can fairly write that nobody is happy tonight, but Macron will provide an uplift when he likely wins. He will: it’s human nature – he has youth on his side. I suppose he’s an Adonis when you stand him next to hated hobbits like Hollande.

People will look at Macron and say: “it’s a fresh start”. They’ll lie to themselves – human nature.

The fools – they’ll be crying in 6 months again. And I hate to write that – I’m a fool too. But I’ll be a fool for the 3% chance that Le Pen could turn out to be a real statesman instead of just a blonde Mussolini. I repeat: austerity has never worked anywhere – just ask the IMF.

Hell, I’m a fool for democracy! Give the people a chance to simply VOTE on a Frexit! How can the EU be “democratic” if we are scared of democracy?

Waitaminut – I’m really losing my head here, eh? I’m forgetting the damned facts, the damned platforms, no matter how much Macron tried to hide his!

A referendum on Frexit, leaving NATO, possibly dropping the euro, finally ending austerity…what on earth is Macron offering that is even close to that?!?!?!?!?!

Macron is economically as far-right as Marine Le Pen is on the far-right on the cultural spectrum! Do you have to be a Communist like me to even THINK about an economic spectrum actually existing anymore?!

Dammit, it’s not over! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI) Heck no! We have 2 weeks of serious debate to make! We can quit when it’s over, not before!

I just talked myself into having faith in Le Pen again!!!!!!!!!!

Sure it was borne out of desperation, but it’s founded on facts.

Now we just have to let France know that.

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Macron was/is tutored/mentored by Jacques Attali (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1137998&viewfull=1#post1137998)...

[Atlas]

[...] scared of democracy?
For Aristotle the underlying principle of democracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#Aristotle) is freedom, since only in a democracy the citizens can have a share in freedom:



"But one factor of liberty is to govern and be governed in turn; for the popular principle of justice is to have equality according to number, not worth, ... And one is for a man to live as he likes; for they say that this is the function of liberty, inasmuch as to live not as one likes is the life of a man that is a slave." Aristotle, Politics 1317b (Book 6, Part II)


And the definition of freedom (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom) is: the quality or state of being free, such as:


a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action
b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : independence


Fareed Zakaria: The Future of Freedom and Democracy
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[Hervé]

The Attali-Macron ties:

French Embrace Rothschild Flunkie (https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/04/french-embrace-rothschild-status-quo.html)

Source -- Originally appeared at Vzglyad; Appeared in Bulgarian at Memoriabg, translated by Valentina Tzoneva exclusively for SouthFront (https://southfront.org/emmanuel-macron-rothschilds-choice-for-president-of-france/)
(Abridged by henrymakow.com) April 23, 2017


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(Macron married his highschool teacher, Brigitte Trogneux, 24 years his senior. She is now 63.)


A Rothschild frontman seems poised to become the next president of France.
The French embrace national suicide. "Terror" wasn't even an issue. The Rothschilds continue to govern through blackmailed cutouts.


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Emmanuel Macron, the photogenic 39-years-old financier with an amazing career became the leader of the presidential race in France with 23.8% of the vote, followed by Marine Le Pen with 21.7%. According to opinion polls, he will reach the second round with Marine Le Pen, where he will win 66 percent of the votes.

Emmanuel Macron ... has no real political experience. He has not been elected anywhere before....He is an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions and was successful in his career. He graduated from the National School of Administration, a leading university for the French elite. He worked for several years as an inspector at the Ministry of Economy. Then in 2007, a crucial year in his career, the promising 29-year-old economist was groomed by [Rothschild's Jewish lickspittle] Jacques Attali. (https://www.henrymakow.com/attali.html)



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Jacques Attali (above) is a philosopher-globalist, a writer of colorful utopias of how all nations and states will disappear from the face of the earth during bloody conflicts, and the survivors of humanity will unite under the banner of democracy and under the control of a World Government. Moreover, for many years Attali was well received at the Elysee Palace and is one of the most influential advisers of generations of French presidents, from François Mitterrand to Francois Hollande. Local media, calling him "the true president of France" is hardly exaggerating.



It is Jacques Attali who created the link between financial capital and the elite of the ruling Socialist Party, which he supports. He is exceptional in his ability to skillfully wrap the predatory plans of the bankers in beautiful leftist slogans.


MIGRATION = LOW COST LABOR
In 2008, the Attali Commission presented to President Nicolas Sarkozy "300 proposals to change France" - a plan for modernization of the economy meant to save it from the long years of stagnation. The main idea can be formulated as follows: to avoid losing its competitiveness in the global market, the country must drastically reduce the cost of labor. One way for this to happen is to increase immigration to France; low-paid recent immigrants, who will not be able to get organized in trade unions, will displace the local workers from manufacturing and services. Also, the plan includes the proposal to drastically reduce government spending on health, education and pension provision. Sarkozy did not dare to accept this radical plan.


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David de Rothschild

During his stay at the Commission, Macron managed to win the sympathy of Attali, who soon introduced him to his friend, Francois Enron. Enron, in turn, is the best friend and main partner of David de Rothschild (above). In 2008 Macron was hired by the Rothschild's & Co Banque where he rose from analyst to partner. His commissions exceeded more than one million euros per year.



Macron's biggest heist was his involvement in the purchase by Nestle of the US drug maker Pfizer's baby food division (for $ 11.85 billion). At that time, Matthew Pigasse, director of the French branch of the Lazard Brothers bank, who wanted to make the same purchase for his client, Danone, but failed. So Macron found his greatest enemy in the face of Matthew Pigasse.

In 2010, Pigasse who is a leftist banker and a friend and patron of the French socialists, planned to become an economic adviser to Francois Hollande but the ubiquitous Jacques Attali recommended Emmanuel Macron to Hollande. For several years Macron, perfectly fluent in English and German, was liaison between the top-socialist of France and the foreign financial circles. As the Guardian noted maliciously, while Hollande was shouting at rallies "My main enemy is the financial capital!" the banking officer of Rothschild, Macron, was flying to London City to assure bankers that under President Hollande everything would remain as usual.

In 2012, Hollande became president and Macron left the Rothschild Bank. He was appointed deputy secretary general of the Elysee Palace. In 2014, in his position of "young reformer", he headed the Ministry of Economy and Industry (taking the place of longtime friend and business partner of Pigasse, Arnaud Montebourg). Hollande gives him carte blanche for activities related to the modernization of the economy and Macron presents a bill with more than 300 sections, providing for the liberalization of the French market. Experts say that the nature of the law of Macron embodies all the ideas of the Attali commission. In it, embedded and encouraged are immigration, downsizing of employees, increased competition within the various professions, indirectly increased is the working day at the expense of Sundays and night shifts.

The working people in France did not approve this bill. The discussion was accompanied by massive protests. There was no chance to pass the law in parliament. Hollande then exercised his right to adopt certain bills without the approval of parliament and in August 2015 approved the "Law of Macron". Interestingly, before becoming president, Hollande sharply criticized this presidential law and even called it "fascist".

YET ANOTHER DARK HORSE
In 2016, when the rating of Hollande was embarrassingly low something unusual started to happen around Emmanuel Macron. Thus, out of nowhere a movement, "Youth for Macron" arose. It is difficult to even imagine the youth uniting suddenly around such an unpopular minister of economy in a country with depressed economy. However, several thousand people turned out to participate in the new movement.

Macron founded his own party with the vague name "Forward!" (En marche!) The rallies began to gather huge crowds and this at a time when the socialists gathered with great effort several hundred people at their events. Macron's program was also unclear. Condemning the terrorist attacks, he has no plans to close borders or restrict immigration; promising to increase the country's military spending he does not distance it from NATO. In fact, Macron remains the same globalist, an exemplary pupil of Jacques Attali, focusing on the slogans of European unity. He criticized both the left and right, trying to distract voters who traditionally vote for the Socialists, and also to attract those for whom the National Front of Marine Le Pen is too radical.

With his sudden appearance in politics Macron got off at an incredible rate. Journalists literally carry him in their arms. Women's magazines call him a new sex symbol and a dream for any French woman. Influential newspapers highlight the advantages of his centrist position. Sociologists predict his victory. And no one reveals something serious to discredit him. In January, when some criticism undermined the chances of his main competitors, Marine Le Pen and Francois Fillon, Macron stayed out of any scandals.

[...]

Full article: https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/04/french-embrace-rothschild-status-quo.html

[BMJ]

Can Marine Le Pen Win?

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Published on 24 Apr 2017

Can Marine Le Pen upset the odds and beat the establishment lackey Macron?

Front National parliamentary candidate Tony Thommes joins me to break it down.

Tony Thommes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonythommes

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[Desire]

Why would anyone believe a friend of Soros.

[Hervé]

The French scuttle their own ship (http://www.voltairenet.org/article196096.html)

by Thierry Meyssan


We are witnessing an historical reversal in France, where the ancient political spectrum is exploding into pieces as new fractures appear. Because of the intensive storm of media propaganda which has recently almost drowned the nation, the French can now perceive nothing more than the essential markers, and cling to red lines which no longer exist. However, the facts are clear, and certain evolutions are predictable.



Voltaire Network | Beirut (Lebanon) | 25 April 2017

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Private soiree at La Rotonde – congratulated as the new French President, Emmanuel Macron welcomes personalities from the CAC40 and the entertainment world on the evening of the first round of the election. Seen here with his friend, the banker Jacques Attali.


After a very agitated electoral campaign, the French chose Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the second round of the Presidential election.



Already, almost all the losing candidates, with the exception of Jean-Luc Melenchon – and that’s no accident – have appealed to their followers to support Macron, who should then be easily elected.

The two major historical parties which have governed France since the beginning of the Fifth Republique - Les Republicains (ex-Gaullists) and the Parti Socialist (ex-Jaurèsians) - have been beaten. A newcomer, En Marche !, has made it to first place on the podium, facing the Front National.

Is there fascist candidate?
This is not the first time that this sort of cleavage has occurred in the history of France – on one hand, a partisan of an alliance with what seems for the moment to be the world’s greatest power (the United States), and on the other, a movement seeking national independence – on one hand, the totality of the ruling class, without notable exceptions, and on the other, a party cobbled together of various bits and pieces, composed mostly of proletarians, two thirds of whom come from the right wing and one third from the left.

Evidently, the next French President will be Mr. Macron – a man from the Banque Rothschild & Cie, now supported by the totality of the business leaders of the CAC40.

However, whether our prejudices like it or not, the unanimity of the power of money is the fundamental characteristic of fascist parties.

This unanimity of Grand Capital is always accompanied by a National unity which erases the differences. In order to become equal, we must become identical. This is what President Hollande began with the law « Marriage for all », in 2012-13. Presented as establishing equality between citizens, whatever their sexual orientation, it posited de facto that the needs of couples with children are the same as those of gay couples. And yet there were several other more intelligent solutions. The opposition to this law led to a number of very important demonstrations, but they unfortunately failed to provide any other proposition, and were sometimes mixed with homophobic slogans.

Identically, the attack against Charlie-Hebdo was celebrated to the chant of « I am Charlie ! », and those citizens who declared that they were « not Charlie » were prosecuted.

It is a shame that the French people do not react either against the unanimity of Grand Capital, nor against the injunctions to use the same judicial techniques and to favour the same slogans. On the contrary, they insist on considering the current Front National as « fascist », with no other argument than its ancient past.

Can a fascist candidate be resisted?
In the majority, the French think that Emmanuel Macron will be a President à la Sarkozy and à la Hollande, men who will pursue their political beliefs. They therefore expect to see their country increasingly decline. They accept this curse, thinking that in this way, they will evacuate the menace of the extreme right.

Many of them remember that at its creation, the Front National gathered together the losers of the Second World War and the losers of the social politics of the colonisation of Algeria. They focused on the figures of a few men who had collaborated with the Nazi occupier, without seeing that the Front National of today has absolutely nothing in common with those people. They persist in holding Second-Lieutenant Jean-Marie Le Pen (Marine’s father) responsible for the Algerian tragedy, and exonerating from their responsibilities the Socialist leaders of the time, particularly their dreadful Minister of the Interior, François Mitterrand.

No-one remembers that in 1940, it was a Fascist minister, General Charles De Gaulle, who refused the shameful armistice with Nazi Germany. This man, the official heir apparent of Marechal Philippe Petain (who was his daughter’s godfather), charged into the Resistance alone. Struggling against his education and his prejudices, he slowly gathered around himself, against the wishes of his ex-mentor, French people from all horizons to defend the Republic. He linked up with a left-wing personality, Jean Moulin, who, a few years earlier, had secretly embezzled money from the Minister of the Marine, and trafficked weapons with which to support the Spanish Republicans against the fascists.

No-one remembers that a colleague of De Gaulle, Robert Schuman, wrote his signature on the armisitice of shame, then, a few years later, founded the European Economic Community (currently the European Union) – a supra-national organisation based on the Nazi model of the « New European Order », against the Soviet Union and today against Russia.

The Obama-Clinton model
Emmanuel Macron has recieved the strong support of ex-US President Barack Obama, and has gathered a team for foreign policy composed of the main neo-conservative diplomats. He makes no secret of supporting the external politics of the US Democratic Party.

Barack Obama, although he presented his foreign policy with a rhetoric which was diametrically opposed to that of his predecessor, the Republican George W. Bush, in practice followed his lead in all points. The two men successively continued the same plan for the destruction of the societies of the Greater Middle East – a plan which has already caused more than 3 million deaths. Emmanuel Macron supports this policy, although we do not yet know whether he intends to justify it by speaking of « democratisation » or « spontaneous revolution ».

If Hillary Clinton was beaten during the US election, Emmanuel Macron had to be elected in France.

Nothing proves that Marine Le Pen will be capable of playing the rôle of Charles De Gaulle, but three things are certain :

http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif Just as in 1940, the British, choking back their disgust, welcomed De Gaulle to London, today Russia could support Le Pen.

http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif Just as in 1939, only a few Communists braved the orders of their party and joined the Resistance, there will only be a few of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s partisans who will take that step. But as from the Nazi attack on the URSS, it was the whole Communist party who supported De Gaulle and formed the majority of the Resistance. There is no doubt that in the years to come, Mélenchon will fight side by side with Le Pen.

http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif Emmanuel Macron will never understand people who resist the domination of their homeland. So he will not understand any better the people of the Greater Middle East who struggle for real independence alonside Hezbollah, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran.


Thierry Meyssan (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en)

[Hervé]

French election reality: Macron booed and jeered in his hometown, where crowd chants 'Président Marine!' (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-26/macron-booed-jeered-factory-workers-his-hometown-after-le-pen-ambush)

Tyler Durden Zero Hedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-26/macron-booed-jeered-factory-workers-his-hometown-after-le-pen-ambush)
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:42 UTC


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© DR


Chaotic scenes broke out during a visit by French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron to striking factory workers in his hometown of Amiens.

Macron was greeted Wednesday with jeers, boos and chants in favour of his far-right rival Marine Le Pen as he made a chaotic visit to the factory in northern France, after what Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-26/le-pen-ambushes-macron-with-french-plant-trip-to-attack-on-trade) said was "an ambush" by his nationalist rival Marine Le Pen forced him into a confrontation with some of her hardcore supporters.


Earlier on Wednesday, Le Pen had made a surprise visit to the Whirlpool plant on the edge of Amiens while election front-runner Macron was meeting with union leaders from the plant in the center of town. Le Pen told reporters on the picket line that Macron's decision to meet the workers' representatives behind closed doors showed his "contempt" for their plight, forcing her rival to change his plans and engage with the demonstrators live on television. During the hastily arranged visit, some in the crowd shouted "President Marine!" and booed as the 39-year-old former banker stood outside the appliance factory in the rustbelt city of Amiens.


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French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen outside a Whirlpool home appliance factory in Amiens, France, Wednesday April 26, 2017. © Associated Press


"I am here to speak to you," said the pro-business former economy minister, ringed by a horde of cameramen and journalists.

The Whirlpool factory has become a focus of the free-trade debate at the heart of the French election campaign because 280 jobs will be cut next year when the company shifts production to Poland.

As Bloomberg describes the scene, "with the black smoke of burning tires whipped up by a cold wind and cries of "Marine! President!" punctuating his remarks, Macron tried to mount a defense of the European trade regime in the factory parking lot as angry demonstrators crowded round."

"When she tells you the solution is to turn back globalization, she's lying," Macron told the workers, his comments picked by the microphones of more than 100 reporters witnessing the clash. "We cannot outlaw firing. We must fight to find a buyer."

Judging by the response, the local workers did not find Macron very convincing.



A worker at #Macron: "There is no work. You do training to lower the unemployment rate."

Earlier, Macron was in his hometown of Amiens to try to counter accusations that he had made a complacent start to campaigning for the presidential runoff on May 7 after he finished ahead of Le Pen in the first round on Sunday. But his trip to the city was upstaged when Le Pen made an unannounced visit to the factory earlier in the day, arriving while he was meeting with workers' representatives elsewhere. She posed for selfies with workers and waved to supporters, AFP reported (https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/35173434/frances-macron-booed-in-le-pen-country/#page1).

"Everyone knows what side Emmanuel Macron is on -- he is on the side of the corporations," Le Pen said. "I am on the workers' side, here in the car park, not in restaurants in Amiens."

Macron said after Le Pen's stop that he would also visit the site. He told angry workers at the factory that the only reason she had come was "because I'm here." As the following clip shows, it was not a good idea.


Macron spoke to the strikers for almost an hour, some still booing throughout, but many engaging with him, while France 2 television's special correspondent broadcast behind the candidate from a temporary set they'd erected.


Patrice Sinoquet from the CFDT union, who met with Macron earlier in the day, said 90 percent of his members will be voting for Le Pen. "Macron is the worst of free-market politics," said Clement Pons, a 32-year-old unemployed man waiting outside the town-center meeting. "He's a globalist who will kill the working class. He makes me want to throw up. I don't understand his ideas."

Chantal Flahaut, a 57-year-old assembly line worker on the Whirlpool picket line, said she's been striking on and off all week and she's so sick of the situation in France that she didn't even register to vote on Sunday. Her T-shirt said "Whirlpool Manufactures Unemployment."

"I am so disgusted," she said. "Macron is in favor of big companies like ours. Stop giving aid to multinational billionaires and give us our money."

The theatrics continued on Twitter, where Macron said that Le Pen had spent "10 minutes with her supporters in a car park in front of the cameras" whereas he had spent "an hour and a half with union representatives and no media."


"Come May 7, everyone will make their choice," he added.

Benjamin Griveaux, an aide on the Macron campaign, said Le Pen was focusing on political stunts rather than trying to address voters' problems. "If this is about tweets and selfies, then she hasn't understood what's at stake," Griveaux said. "She's fueling her political ambitions with misery and suffering. What has she proposed? Nothing. We are trying to deal with the issues."

Macron, who created his own centrist movement, was to hold a rally later in nearby Arras, a city in the northern rustbelt where Le Pen topped the first round of voting. On Monday, Macron drew criticism for what some saw as a triumphalist speech and then a celebratory dinner at a Paris bistro on Sunday.

Socialist Party boss Jean-Christophe Cambadelis told French radio: "He was smug. He wrongly thought that it was a done deal."

Macron served as economy minister in the Socialist government, after working as an M&A banker at Rothschild, before quitting in August to launch his presidential bid.

[Desire]

Whom ever Obama wants......I don't want

[Hervé]

Twenty truths about Marine Le Pen (http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=2139)

James Petras Petras.Lahaine.org (http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=2139)
Tue, 02 May 2017 13:47 UTC


https://www.sott.net/image/s19/391697/large/58fd21d4c36188a7128b45ed.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s19/391697/full/58fd21d4c36188a7128b45ed.jpg)
La candidata a la presidencia francesa, Marine Le Pen, el 23 de abril de 2017. © Charles Platiau/Reuters


Introduction: Every day in unimaginable ways, prominent leaders from the left and the right, from bankers to Parisian intellectuals, are fabricating stories and pushing slogans that denigrate presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.

They obfuscate her program, substituting the label 'extremist' for her pro-working class and anti-imperialist commitment. Fear and envy over the fact that a new leader heads a popular movement has seeped into Emmanuel "Manny" Macron's champagne-soaked dinner parties. He has good reason to be afraid: Le Pen addresses the fundamental interests of the vast- majority of French workers, farmers, public employees, unemployed and underemployed youth and older workers approaching retirement.

The mass media, political class and judicial as well as street provocateurs savagely assault Le Pen, distorting her domestic and foreign policies. They are incensed that Le Pen pledges to remove France from NATO's integrated command - effectively ending its commitment to US directed global wars. Le Pen rejects the oligarch-dominated European Union and its austerity programs, which have enriched bankers and multi-national corporations. Le Pen promises to convoke a national referendum over the EU - to decide French submission. Le Pen promises to end sanctions against Russia and, instead, increase trade. She will end France's intervention in Syria and establish ties with Iran and Palestine.

Le Pen is committed to Keynesian demand-driven industrial revitalization as opposed to Emmanuel Macron's ultra-neoliberal supply-side agenda.

Le Pen's program will raise taxes on banks and financial transactions while fining capital flight in order to continue funding France's retirement age of 62 for women and 65 for men, keeping the 35 hour work-week, and providing tax free overtime pay. She promises direct state intervention to prevent factories from relocating to low wage EU economies and firing French workers.

Le Pen is committed to increasing public spending for childcare and for the poor and disabled. She has pledged to protect French farmers against subsidized, cheap imports.

Marine Le Pen supports abortion rights and gay rights. She opposes the death penalty. She promises to cut taxes by 10% for low-wage workers. Marine is committed to fighting against sexism and for equal pay for women.

Marine Le Pen will reduce migration to ten thousand people and crack down on immigrants with links to terrorists.

Emmanuel Macron: Macro Billionaire and Micro Worker Programs

Macron has been an investment banker serving the Rothschild and Cie Banque oligarchy, which profited from speculation and the pillage of the public treasury. Macron served in President Hollande's Economy Ministry, in charge of 'Industry and Digital Affairs' from 2014 through 2016. This was when the 'Socialist' Hollande imposed a pro-business agenda, which included a 40 billion-euro tax cut for the rich.

Macron is tied to the Republican Party and its allied banking and business Confederations, whose demands include: raising the retirement age, reducing social spending, firing tens of thousands of public employees and facilitating the outflow of capital and the inflow of cheap imports.

Macron is an unconditional supporter of NATO and the Pentagon. He fully supports the European Union. For their part, the EU oligarchs are thrilled with Macron's embrace of greater austerity for French workers, while the generals can expect total material support for the ongoing and future US-NATO wars on three continents.

Propaganda, Labels and Lies

Macron's pro-war, anti-working class and 'supply-side' economic policies leave us with only one conclusion: Marine Le Pen is the only candidate of the left. Her program and commitments are pro-labor, not 'hard' or 'far' right - and certainly not 'fascist'.

Macron, on the other hand is a committed rightwing extremist, certainly no 'centrist', as the media and the political elite claim! One has only to look at his background in banking, his current supporters among the oligarchs and his ministerial policies when he served Francois Holland.

The 'Macronistas' have accused Marine Le Pen of extreme 'nationalism', 'fascism', 'anti-Semitism' and 'anti-immigrant racism'. 'The French Left', or what remains of it, has blindly swallowed the oligarchs' campaign against Le Pen despite the malodorous source of these libels.

Le Pen is above all a 'sovereigntist': 'France First'. Her fight is against the Brussels oligarchs and for the restoration of sovereignty to the French people. There is an infinite irony in labeling the fight against imperial political power as 'hard right'. It is insulting to debase popular demands for domestic democratic power over basic economic policies, fiscal spending, incomes and prices policies, budgets and deficits as 'extremist and far right'.

Marine Le Pen has systematically transformed the leadership, social, economic program and direction of the National Front Party.

She expelled its anti-Semites, including her own father! She transformed its policy on women's rights, abortion, gays and race. She won the support of young unemployed and employed factory workers, public employees and farmers. Young workers are three times more likely to support her national industrial revitalization program over Macron's 'free market dogma'. Le Pen has drawn support from French farmers as well as the downwardly mobile provincial middle-class, shopkeepers, clerks and tourism-based workers and business owners.

Despite the trends among the French masses against the oligarchs, academics, intellectuals and political journalists have aped the elite's slander against Le Pen because they will not antagonize the prestigious media and their administrators in the universities. They will not acknowledge the profound changes that have occurred within the National Front under Marine Le Pen. They are masters of the 'double discourse' - speaking from the left while working with the right. They confuse the lesser evil with the greater evil.

If Macron wins this election (and nothing is guaranteed!), he will certainly implement his 'hard' and 'extreme' neo-liberal agenda. When the French workers go on strike and demonstrators erect barricades in the streets in response to Macron's austerity, the fake-left will bleat out their inconsequential 'critique' of 'impure reason'. They will claim that they were right all along.

If Le Pen loses this election, Macron will impose his program and ignite popular fury. Marine will make an even stronger candidate in the next election... if the French oligarchs' judiciary does not imprison her for the crime of defending sovereignty and social justice.

[seko]

In this video Le Pen seems to be repeating the same words as the other French candidate Fillon, I wonder if Herve or another French speaker can tell us if they are using the same speech. If so, why? Is she part of the elite; just a mistake or is she trying to get Fillon's voters??

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[Hervé]

It does sound very much to be almost the same speech... bizarre... teaching fillon a lesson about the difference in "delivery"? Or, maybe, a dirty trick played on Le Pen by her speech writer? However, Fillon and Le Pen do share some common ground (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1133311&viewfull=1#post1133311) with respect to France and her future.

[araucaria]

It is a verbatim, even synchronized quote. Scroll down for a video with Fillon and Le Pen speaking side by side. https://www.marianne.net/politique/video-voila-comment-marine-le-pen-plagie-le-discours-de-francois-fillon
It is a blatant copycat tactic to attract the other man’s votes. She did something similar with Mélenchon, presenting a list of bullet points purportedly showing that her agenda was the same as his, which of course it is not. Apparently there is no problem aping opposite ends of the political spectrum at the same time. She needs all these voters to have even the remotest chance of winning. She cannot persuade them with her own words, so she uses the words used by the candidates they voted for.

[Hervé]

[...]
... Or, maybe, a dirty trick played on Le Pen by her speech writer?
[...]

Voilà:
VIDEO - Voilà comment Marine Le Pen a plagié le discours de François Fillon (https://www.marianne.net/politique/video-voila-comment-marine-le-pen-plagie-le-discours-de-francois-fillon)

Par Étienne Girard (https://www.marianne.net/auteur/etienne-girard)
Publié le 02/05/2017 à 08:48,
modifié le 02/05/2017 à 10:07

Pour son meeting du 1er mai, Marine Le Pen a copié des pans entiers d'un discours de François Fillon. Ses proches plaident le "clin d'oeil assumé". Difficile à croire alors que RTL affirme que les deux candidats ont tout simplement la même source d'inspiration : l'essayiste nationaliste Paul-Marie Coûteaux. Lui-même s'en est expliqué.




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/506405299008176128/NUaKMtGI_bigger.jpeg Paul-Marie Coûteaux‏ @pmcouteaux (https://twitter.com/pmcouteaux)

2/2 #clind (https://twitter.com/hashtag/clind?src=hash)'oeil. Ces termes, d'inspiration gaulliste, sont ceux de mon ouvrage "L'Europe vers la Guerre" (1997) Nécessaire #UniondesDroites (https://twitter.com/hashtag/UniondesDroites?src=hash)

12:35 AM - 2 May 2017A 60 ans, Paul-Marie Coûteaux [...] a été tour à tour proche du FN, de Debout la France et du Parti chrétien-démocrate de Jean-Frédéric Poisson... avant de soutenir François Fillon en 2017. Mais l'on ignorait jusqu'à présent qu'il avait contribué à ses discours.

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VIDEO - This is how Marine Le Pen plagiarized the speech of François Fillon

By Étienne Girard
Published on 02/05/2017 at 08:48,
Modified on 02/05/2017 at 10:07

For her meeting on May 1st, Marine Le Pen copied entire sections of a speech by François Fillon. His relatives plead the "wink of the eye". Difficult to believe while RTL claims that the two candidates simply have the same source of inspiration: the nationalist essayist Paul-Marie Coûteaux. He himself explained it.




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/506405299008176128/NUaKMtGI_bigger.jpeg (https://twitter.com/pmcouteaux) Paul-Marie Coûteaux‏ @pmcouteaux (https://twitter.com/pmcouteaux)

2/2 # clind'oeil. These terms, of Gaullist inspiration, are those of my book "Europe towards War" (1997) Necessary #UniondesDroites

12:35 AM - 2 May 2017 At 60, Paul-Marie Coûteaux [...] was in turn close to the FN, Debout France and the Christian-Democratic Party of Jean-Frédéric Poisson ... before supporting François Fillon in 2017. But l It was unknown until now that he had contributed to his speeches.

[AutumnW]

Well, much as a le Pen presidency could start France on a road to ruin, I must say, I do really like her and love the way she bi*** slapped Christine Amanpour in an interview. It was hilarious!

[araucaria]

Nonetheless what remains is a series of layers. One layer is Fillon quoting his speech-maker. This presupposes another layer above it, where Fillon would be speaking directly for himself. When that occurred, it was mostly out of his control: the fake jobs for family, the conflicts of interest. The same can be said of Le Pen; she cannot speak too much for/about herself either: the fake jobs for FN subordinates, the embezzlement of the EU, her microparty Jeanne misappropriating public funds (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/france-front-national-charged-election-finance-inquiry-corruption) by selling compulsory parliamentary candidate kits at exorbitant rates to be refunded by the State.

What Le Pen is doing here is several layers further down: not speaking for herself, not quoting her speech-maker, not even quoting Fillon speaking for himself, but deliberately quoting Fillon quoting his speech-maker only two weeks ago. She has acknowledged doing that by claiming it was a wink or nod in his direction. If we were talking about factual statements as opposed to lofty sentiments, we would we well into urban legend territory: my Dad’s friend’s workmate’s brother says.... In the case of lofty sentiments – which one would like to hear coming from the speaker in person – the embedded quotes dilute the message until it eventually becomes nothing but hot air. Sincerity disappears, to be replaced with irony – watch Le Pen smirk all the way through this piece – and turning it into blatant vote-catching rhetoric. She is prepared to say whatever it takes to get votes from suckers who are prepared to believe any of it – to any of her campaigning at all at face value. As Chirac once said, promises are only binding on those who believe them.

[Hervé]

Documents Indicate That Emmanuel Macron May Be Engaging In Tax Evasion (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-03/documents-indicate-emmanuel-macron-may-be-engaging-tax-evasion)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-240135.png (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/william-craddick)by William Craddick (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/william-craddick)
May 3, 2017 3:03 PM

Documents leaked online today appear to show that French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron entered into an operating agreement for a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in the Caribbean island of Nevis, and that the company may have had a business relationship with a bank which has been previously involved in tax evasion cases in the Cayman Islands. Macron claimed he was not concealing assets or holding secret offshore accounts less than a month ago.

The first document (https://ia601507.us.archive.org/14/items/onviuq/onviuq.pdf) is an operating agreement drawn up on May 4th, 2012 to form "La Providence LLC" under the 1995 Nevis Limited Liability Company Ordinance bearing Mr. Macron's name and signature. La Providence is the name of Macron's former high school in Amiens, where he first met his wife. The decision to form a company in Nevis is suspect, as the Nevis Confidential Relationship Act (http://archive.is/0IdBO) prohibits the disclosure of information and guarantees the secrecy and privacy of offshore LLCs in Nevis. Information about company owners is not published nor is it available to the public. Nevis has been described by Bloomberg (http://archive.is/YsiqR) as one of a number of popular tax havens in the Caribbean.


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Screenshot of document showing Macron's name on the operating agreement for La Providence LLC


A second document (https://ia601507.us.archive.org/14/items/onviuq/bspenp.pdf) is a letter sent to La Providence Ltd. from the First Caribbean International Bank, indicating a business relationship with Macron's LLC. Forbes (http://archive.is/Z1yH0) reported that First Caribbean International Bank was implicated as a facilitator of tax evasion in 2013. It has also been named by Reuters (http://archive.is/eGlNU) as a player in fraud relating to the 2015 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) scandals, after it emerged that a representative for First Caribbean had personally collected a check from a FIFA official and then returned to deposit it in an account in the Bahamas.

In April, Macron denied (http://archive.is/MVeOm) that he was hiding offshore accounts or inheritances from French authorities, even as his opponent Francois Fillion became mired in similar allegations. If confirmed as authentic, the documents would prove these claims to be untrue and provide important clues as to where the hidden funds might be located.

[araucaria]

When politicians seeking high public office make their statutory statement of their assets, they often seem as improbably hard-up as someone facing divorce proceedings. Macron’s 3 million earned as a banker several years ago were not mentioned in his current assets; in other words he invested nothing. He says he paid hefty taxes and blew the rest: a private matter, which of course it is. Not, however, if this is how he ‘spent’ the money, a possibility that has occurred to not a few people, as it was bound to do after Jérôme Cahuzac, the minister in charge of curbing tax evasion, was jailed for precisely that.

This only confirms once again that we have two unsuitable candidates in the presidential run-off. In last night’s debate Le Pen again showed that she doesn’t have a clue about what government of any kind actually entails, while Macron gave no hint that he has a clue about what is totally unacceptable about his technocratic governing style. The only viable solution to this dilemma would be a ‘white hat’ type of candidate, one thoroughly acquainted with the workings of government and having the moral fibre to use that inside knowledge in order to tweak the system into something it was not designed to be. This would not be a spectacular event of the prime-time TV kind like the boxing match that passes these days for a presidential debate. Are we getting any closer to where we need to be? Possibly (probably) so, but then, how would we know?

[araucaria]

The position in France is that the documents published by 4chan.org are obvious fakes and that Le Pen herself was talking about them too quickly after they were released not to have been personally involved in some way.
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/123954111/happening-macron-exposed-as-a-fraudster
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/05/04/macron-et-l-evasion-fiscale-itineraire-d-une-rumeur-de-4chan-aux-plateaux-tele_5122473_4408996.html

The least that can be said is that, true or false, these accusations are clutching at straws, too little too late, just as the accusations against Fillon, starting in February, were timely (almost too much almost too soon); but while they were ascertained to be factually true – since Fillon admitted as much, merely contesting their interpretation – Macron has simply shrugged off the allegations. As usual, the entire scenario makes sense to both the conspiracy theorists and the rest.

[Hervé]

Nigel Farage pledges full support to Le Pen (https://www.rt.com/uk/387101-nigel-farage-le-pen/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/uk/387101-nigel-farage-le-pen/)
Thu, 04 May 2017 11:49 UTC


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Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. © Reuters


Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has come out in full support of far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. In a column for the Telegraph, Farage said he would welcome Le Pen as the new president, despite his long-standing concerns about the Front National (FN), of which she was leader before deciding to run as an independent. Farage said he would welcome the independent candidate, who is competing against Emmanuel Macron, leader of the centrist political party En March!

The Brexiteer, who currently hosts a radio show on LBC, said he would welcome her especially in light of her clear willingness to seal a trade deal with a post-Brexit UK. "From a UK perspective, as we enter tough negotiations, what is best for our country?" Farage asked.

He said Macron, on the other hand, is a mere "cardboard cut-out creation of the political class." "I have no doubt that a Le Pen victory would give the EU an even bigger headache than the UK voting for Brexit, which is why the European Commission is openly backing Macron. "Her victory would take much of the pressure off our negotiations. She will put France first and take her country out of the euro, which has damaged their competitiveness."

Farage, who is also a Fox News commentator, claimed even if Le Pen does not win the presidency this time around, she will be elected in 2022. He said it is "monstrous" that Le Pen has always been automatically associated with her father, who is a convicted anti-Semite.

"I wonder whether, had her surname not been 'Le Pen', she might now be ahead in the polls. There is nothing she has said in this entire election campaign that I find unreasonable or extreme. Indeed, she has a more rational line on Islam than many Euroskeptic parties across the Continent. She is a sincere Euroskeptic, and under her the FN is about sovereignty, not race. Marine has met virtually all of my previous conditions."

Le Pen has previously hailed Brexit a "great" move. Speaking on Farage's LBC show, Le Pen said: "It's really great what they've done in the UK. The results in Great Britain are formidable. Their growth is double our growth."

She encouraged relations between France and the UK, before slamming the EU for its "blackmailing" tactics. "There is no reason not to take the British decision in our stride and work with Great Britain in negotiations that will take place between two nations that have had long-standing trade relations for centuries."

"What I cannot stand in the behavior of the EU with regards to Great Britain is blackmail, constant threat. This structure is no longer moving without blackmail and threat."

[araucaria]

It does sound very much to be almost the same speech... bizarre... teaching fillon a lesson about the difference in "delivery"? Or, maybe, a dirty trick played on Le Pen by her speech writer? However, Fillon and Le Pen do share some common ground (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1133311&viewfull=1#post1133311) with respect to France and her future.
OK, we are invited to reread post #48 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1133311&viewfull=1#post1133311), let’s do it.

First off, France, a country that doesn’t have free speech like the US does, nonetheless has a whole string of anti-cabal candidates, Hamon, Fillon, Le Pen and the unmentionable/irrelevant Mélenchon. Wow, yet in a country that does have free speech like the US, until recently the cabal had been happily playing one side against the other in such a way that the outcome didn’t really matter that much. While the French can’t say what they like, they produce politicians who apparently can, but they don’t get elected, presumably because the people are not only dumb, they are deaf too. These politicians have grassroots support to get them electable, but not enough grassroots support to get them elected. Together they captured 76% of the popular vote, but the cabal, who are unexpectedly down to just one candidate, are going to get him in.

De Gaulle once said a country with 365 cheeses and 36,000 communes with their own mayors was ungovernable. The communes have been getting together, but I reckon there are still more cheeses now than then. That is no bad thing and is not going to change any time soon. Even Le Pen is not suggesting we should have just a red cheese, a white cheese and a blue cheese. :) Paradoxically, De Gaulle, we are told, did a pretty good job of proving himself wrong by governing the ungovernable. His independence from the US likely also has something to do with his personal experience of presidential assassinations (no work for lone nuts), and possibly evidence from the French secret service that JFK was murdered by the Corsican mafia. This very real cabal would give him the political and diplomatic leverage to get away with making known his anti-American views. The question is over his failure to explain why. The problem was the secrecy: it doesn’t matter that he/France were innocent of any wrongdoing: by maintaining secrecy, this leverage amounted to blackmail, which is an aggravating form of complicity in wrongdoing. The alternative that De Gaulle did not take was to announce to the world what had happened at Dealey Plaza as boldly as Kennedy announced to the world what the USSR was up to in Cuba during the missile crisis. So it is no good harking back to De Gaulle except to note that he took a wrong turn through the moral maze. This would naturally be exploited by the cabal (blackmailers usually get silenced, but by this time at nearly 80 he was running out of steam anyway). We are still trying to find our way back; this is a long-haul saga, which means that the idea that the cabal’s options are reduced to Macron or Macron is an encouraging sign, unless one takes the view that it is now or never. Things are rarely ‘now or never’, unless one is panicking at the thought of imminent catastrophe. Macron hasn’t been elected yet, but he already has the next big hurdle looming in June of trying to gain a parliamentary majority on the basis of 24% support from mostly newbies.

The cabal has always been a tiny minority, and therefore only in charge for as long as the majority cannot get its act together. Fillon was right to say that this had to be achieved through unimpeachable honesty. But that doesn’t mean Fillon himself was a valid candidate, or Le Pen either: it did not need a hatchet job by the cabal to remove him; he removed himself by setting a standard that he could not live up to. But the combination of candidacy and removal was a major step forward in implementing that agenda, without the man himself. See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1136641&viewfull=1#post1136641).

There are several inconsistencies in the story offered in this post #48 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1133311&viewfull=1#post1133311). If Fillon is an anti-cabal candidate, why did nothing get done during his five years as prime minister (2007-12)? Possible answer: because Sarkozy was president, and Sarkozy is pro-cabal, right? Objection: why then would Sarkozy stick with such a PM for his entire term? You tell me, I don’t know; unless it was because Fillon was compromised by the dirt that came out this year, and being blackmailed on that account. Objection: Fillon only opened his consultancy/conflict of interest business in 2014.

Hence the alleged timing of the Fillon scandals is totally irrelevant. The fact remains that, for all his good Catholic family background, he has been behaving for years in ways that the Pope would disapprove of (btw I thought the Pope was part of the cabal?), adding hypocrisy to his other sins, and basically just way off being the ideal candidate he himself was calling for. You don’t need to introduce a cabal at all to see that he was never more than a straw man ready to be blown over by any gust of wind.

If the cabal needed Fillon out of the race, it would have been so much easier to have ousted him at the first round stage of the primary; he was not expected to reach the run-off, and only did so by presenting himself to voters as Mr Clean. Why let him through, when to do so he had to beat Sarkozy, who was also running, and Sarkozy is pro-cabal, right? It makes no sense. It makes even less sense when we consider the fact that Fillon would have to be actively involved in his own downfall. Why would he do that? Either because he was himself part of the cabal or because blackmailers, as I was saying, need to be silenced – in this case Sarkozy, who is also under formal investigation and has even been sent for trial on one of many counts. We are not talking about cabals, just good old-fashioned sleaze.

I don’t have all day to dismantle this stuff. Let me just finish with this: ‘Pompidou was a relative nobody’: what utter tosh. Even Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou)will tell you ‘he appeared as the natural successor to de Gaulle’. Hint, Pompidou was De Gaulle’s prime minister, leading five governments from 1962-68. You have the Sarkozy-Fillon setup in reverse: why did the ‘great De Gaulle’ place so much trust in the former Rothschild banker who was set on undoing his work? Answer, because black-and-white conspiracy theories fail dismally to explain the complexity of individuals and groups.

[Hervé]

No surprise: Clinton allies blame Russia for Macron emails leak (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201705061053331800-clinton-blames-macron-leak/)

Sputnik (https://sputniknews.com/europe/201705061053331800-clinton-blames-macron-leak/)
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Hillary Clinton's former campaign aides on Friday accused Russia of masterminding a massive leak of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign emails despite pre-election silence in France.

Tens of thousands of emails were purportedly stolen from accounts of Macron's political movement and posted online late on Friday. The campaign confirmed it had been the target of a massive hacking attack but said the leak was laced with fake papers to spread lies ahead of this Sunday's voting.

"Putin is waging war against Western democracies and our President is on the wrong side," Clinton's former press secretary Brian Fallon tweeted.

"For those who thought Russia was dialing back. Macron's French presidential campaign emails leaked online," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said on social media.

​​Zac Petkanas, the rapid-response director of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign said on Twitter that "Russians just hacked Macron to help another puppet get elected."

​The US intelligence has accused Moscow of orchestrating Clinton campaign leaks last year to undermine her bid against eventual victor Donald Trump. No evidence was provided.

The Macron email dump took place just hours before a media blackout of campaign propaganda came into being in France. The French will go to the polls this Sunday to choose between Macron, a centrist endorsed by Barack Obama, and his right-wing rival Marine Le Pen, who called for a dialogue with Russia.

Russian officials have repeatedly denied the allegations of meddling in foreign elections, calling them absurd. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the Munich Security Conference in February there were "no facts, just accusations" against Moscow.



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Emails & docs from France’s Macron campaign leaked after ‘massive’ hacking attack (https://www.rt.com/news/387326-macron-camp-documents-leaked/)

RT
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French presidential hopeful Emmanuelle Macron’s team confirmed that it suffered a massive hacking attack after a trove of internal documents was released online just a day before the final round of elections.

On Friday evening, a profile called EMLEAKS posted a nine-gigabyte leak to Pastebin, a web application where users can store plain text.

WikiLeaks posted a link to Pastebin on Twitter, saying that the release in question “contains many tens of thousands of emails, photos, attachments up to April 24, 2017.”

However, the group denied being involved in the leak, saying only that it is verifying the information.





WikiLeaks‏Verified account @wikileaks (https://twitter.com/wikileaks) 18h18 hours ago (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/860577607670276096)

Alleged multi-GB team Macron email archives. Could be a 4chan practical joke. We are examining

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Update: #MacronLeaks (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MacronLeaks?src=hash) contains many tens of thousands emails, photos, attachments up to April 24, 2017--around 9Gb in total

1:31 PM - 5 May 2017 Macron’s political movement, En Marche!, has released a statement confirming that the candidate and his campaign team were hacked.

“The En Marche movement has been a victim of a massive and coordinated hacking attack leading to the spreading this evening on social media of internal information of a diverse nature (emails, documents, contracts),” the statement said (https://en-marche.fr/article/communique-presse-piratage).

According to the team, “those circulating these documents are adding many false documents to authentic documents in order to sow doubt and disinformation.”
The release came “in the last hour of the official campaign” and this hack is “clearly a matter of democratic destabilization,” the statement added.

“Throughout the campaign, En Marche! has constantly been the party the most targeted by such attempts, in an intense and repeated fashion. The aim of those behind this leak is, all evidence suggests, to hurt the En Marche! party several hours before the second round of the French presidential election,” it continued.

The statement stressed that the documents “arising from the hacking are all lawful” and show the “normal functioning” of Macron’s presidential campaign.

In the meantime, the presidential election commission has confirmed that it is aware of the hack, but urged (http://www.cnccep.fr/communiques/cp14.html)the media to be cautious about publishing the details.

“It [the commission] asks media, and in particular [news] websites, not to report on the content of this data” as distribution “of false information” may lead to criminal charges, it said.





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#MacronLeaks (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MacronLeaks?src=hash) assessment update: This massive leak is too late to shift the election. The intent behind the timing is curious.

2:12 PM - 5 May 2017


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WikiLeaks Retweeted Reuters Top News
Macron confirms #MacronLeaks (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MacronLeaks?src=hash) Vague claims of fakes was also tried by Clinton. Which? Leaks: http://archive.is/eQtrm (https://t.co/wLemQiYHT2)

WikiLeaks added,

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Reuters Top NewsVerified account @Reuters
UPDATE: Macron campaign says it has been the victim of a massive, coordinated hacking operation. http://reut.rs/2qMUdjj

3:22 PM - 5 May 2017


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Why #MacronLeaks (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MacronLeaks?src=hash) will not change French election. Macron has a 13 point advantage and French media pre-poll blackout has already started.


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3:38 PM - 5 May 2017


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We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MacronLeaks?src=hash) & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us

4:31 PM - 5 May 2017


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#MacronLeaks (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MacronLeaks?src=hash) archives are now available as uncensorable magnet links http://archive.is/aULcm (https://t.co/woLR5BOhrr) @WikiLeaks (https://twitter.com/wikileaks) is still assessing content.

8:14 PM - 5 May 2017

[Atlas]

@1:03: "4 million people live in bad housing and it's unbearable"
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[norman]

Emmanuel Macron has beaten Marine Le Pen in Sunday's French election

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/07/french-election-live-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-presidency/

[sheme]

It was inevitable he was the cabals man, we knew this would happen . He has no party . Just the cabals man .

[norman]

I wonder what this does to Theresa May's ideas now?

If she thought the EU would fall to bits before she'd have to start signing agreements, that plan's up the shoot.

[araucaria]

It was inevitable he was the cabals man,
This may be so, but it is not something that has been demonstrated in this thread, not one of Avalon’s best. We have had plenty of posts saying what you say, and quoting what other people have to say, but whenever I have applied a little critical thinking in order to offer a few objections, I have been met with polite silence. I was expecting, even hoping for someone to explain my mistake with some info or insight I had overlooked, but I am still waiting.

Macron is in for a rough time because he hasn’t really broadened his base of 24% in the first round, and it has nothing to do with conspiracy research. Quite simply, he was clearly the candidate representing banking and corporate interests, with both a track record in government and an explicit agenda. The French man in the street is not stupid; he is perfectly aware that Macron does not have his best interests at the top of his list. He is also very annoyed at having to vote for this guy to keep out the neo-fascists, for that is what they are.

Quite apart from that, Marine Le Pen showed in Thursday’s debate to anyone still under any illusions (including her own aides) that she is simply not up to the job. When for example she mentioned the wrong corporation with reference to an affair handled by Macron during his time as minister, you are talking about a major train wreck. Again, it takes no conspiracy: like Fillon before her, she simply self-destructed. Not smart enough for the man in the street.

Not only does it take no conspiracy, but conspiracy theory has been shown up in its negative aspect, as the excuse of guilty parties presenting themselves as victims: like Fillon, who claimed a campaign was being organized by a ‘black cabinet’ at the Elysée Palace. Nonetheless, had he been the unimpeachable man he claimed to be, instead of being forced to confess, none of the mud would have stuck. Conversely, allegations by possibly sore losers of Macron having an offshore account maybe did not stick because they were denied and the denial was accepted. This should be even easier to understand for a conspiracy buff, and here is why. Given that they had been grooming a candidate over a period of years – back in 2015, Jacques Attali announced in the magazine l’Express that the next president would be a new face (meaning his own protégé) – and that it was planned to use sleaze as an issue to blow away the competition, then it follows that the candidate in question would need to be squeaky clean. This would be absolutely no problem since we are talking about the filthy rich, for whom money is no object: it would make absolutely no sense for Macron to expose himself over a trivial sum of a million or two when his life was completely scripted and anything he might have needed would be handed to him on a plate. These guys are smart and would not do anything so dumb as to expose Macron to this sort of attack; on the other hand, knowing him innocent, they might well have initiated the allegation themselves. Again, we have no necessary conspiracy - just business as usual with campaign dirty tricks.

[Chester]

Who am I to even think I have any place to comment on this thread. I am not saying this sarcastically. I am stating this because I truly know little about French politics.

But I must admit that up until just prior to this election, I was rooting for Le Pen because Macron appeared to me to be the establishment (perhaps I could say 'cabal') candidate. Yet just a week before the election and perhaps because of a post I read by araucaria, I looked at the whole thing from a helicopter view where I saw the neighbor of Germany and thus one of the most effected (and perhaps ideologically torn) countries of the rise of Nazi Germany and all that Nazi Germany represented 75 to 85 years ago and it occurred to me that perhaps the best outcome... and I am sad to say this... but that the best outcome may not be Le Pen... because the associations (especially with regards to her father) may still be too sensitive and thus risk more damage than good.

But again, I truly have no reason to post about the matter except that I just felt I needed to express this. I have no clue if what I am suggesting is in any way valid or in any way foundationally supported.

[turiya]

Macron - The Welcome Mat?

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/05/06/20170507_welcome_0.jpg

[araucaria]

Bienvenue: an interesting word and concept. Every morning I get an extremely irritating Bienvenue from Bill Gates welcoming me to Windows as if I were entering his space rather than he mine. His software is full of holes, windows of opportunity for unwelcome outsiders, and windows of opportunity for ‘Bill Gates’ to offer endless patches and add-ons and unwanted upgrades. Rant over. We find the same in these elections. The primaries on both right and left were organized in such a way that anyone could vote, merely by paying a token fee and claiming to embrace the values of whichever side they were voting with. Given that many people were openly admitting to interfering in the process of the party they would be voting against later on, it is hardly surprising that the primaries produced unlikely, and possibly straw man candidates. Open borders to undocumented aliens translated into electoral terms.

The next step is the Parliamentary elections. Macron, a president without a party, is recruiting 577 members of the public to stand for what would become a ‘presidential majority’. He is recruiting these people, maybe not on eBay, but on the Internet all the same, of all places. In the last three months he has collected 14,000 applicants (http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/presidentielle-2017/20170508.OBS9146/macron-une-impossible-majorite.html). Let us hope there is a vetting process worthy of the name in place; nevertheless, you have a party with no history whatsoever with anonymous citizens defeating odds of better than 28 to 1 to become candidates for whom we are expected to vote simply on Macron’s recommendation. Some of these people will be unknowns, and that will be their platform: new faces; others will be opportunistic politicians scuttling from their own drowning formations to save their careers, and that will be their platform: some reassuring old faces practising a new brand of politics. And of course there will be some good bona fide people in the mix as well.


Will it work? Will Macron get his majority? And will it act to ratify his decisions, or to undermine them? The paradox is that more democracy means fewer and less docile minions and more citizens speaking their mind; another paradox is that more democracy is intended to lead to greater consensus. Contrast with the current situation where everyone is squabbling and yet the same old agenda is getting pushed through regardless: divide and rule. The resolution of the two paradoxes only leads to a third: in matters of government, less is more. Presidential elections are the worst of all, one huge diversion, tending to focus all the power upon a single individual. Macron is not just an ex-banker, he trained as a philosopher, and I gather has been studying the philosophy of kingship. He considers that ever since Louis XVI lost his head the French have been yearning for a king, the last one being De Gaulle; and his elaborate pantomime in front of the Louvre pyramid was supposed to restore a bit of regality to the proceedings. One pundit dubbed him Tutanmacron (i.e. a latter-day Tutankhamen). This is the theory of the elite in everyday retrograde terms. Last year we had an interesting discussion on related matters on the Here & Now thread. Start here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=1050845&viewfull=1#post1050845)and track back.

Kingship is retrograde, in historical terms: the long-term trend shows that we are trying to move on. See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?97496-Feudalism-Then-and-Now&p=1150563&viewfull=1#post1150563). But it is an island of stability, or a phoenix, reinventing itself when everything else around it changes, as the notion of ‘feudalism then and now’ suggests. See here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?94371-Is-America-the-greatest-country-in-the-world-Maybe-NOT.-See-this-video-clip&p=1112305&viewfull=1#post1112305)and here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=564069&viewfull=1#post564069).

[Hervé]

[...]
... because the associations (especially with regards to her father) may still be too sensitive and thus risk more damage than good.
[...]


Le Pen & Trump aren’t even close – are we stuck with Emmanuel Macr-Obama? (http://thesaker.is/le-pen-trump-arent-even-close-are-we-stuck-with-emmanuel-macr-obama/)

by Ramin Mazaheri April 24, 2017


It’s not [so much] that the National Front has changed since the 1980s – it’s that the other parties have changed so much for the worse.

C’est ça – that’s the point, as the French say, and which translates into English rather ineffectively.

[...]

Trump is hilarious and entertaining (and thousands of kilometers from where I live), yes, but hate for him is new: Le Pen and her family have been hated for decades.

The Le Pens have spent decades insulting Muslims, Roma, minorities – French people – and that simply cannot be erased.

[...]

However, I can report to you that this current of National Front fear/resentment/myopia is too strong for me to think that Le Pen will win: I have met so many people from across all boundaries who simply cannot, will not, ever vote for any Le Pen. Their dead ancestors practically forbid it.

[...]
===============================================

Macron was/is tutored/mentored by Jacques Attali (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1137998&viewfull=1#post1137998)...

There you have it: The choice between bankers and the Nazi "Collabos" ghosts...

... wait... didn't the bankers finance Hitler's Brown Shirts and war machine as well as the Bolsheviks?

... either way, France is toasted to a golden crisp, both sides...

[Bill Ryan]

... either way, France is toasted to a golden crisp, both sides...

Yes. As Alex Jones said when the election news broke: (21:45 in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--W3AERd20))




You can pretty much stick a fork in France. They're done.

[sheme]

Richie Allen show Is Macron being groomed by his wife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7qqQTff7U Richie Allen show

[norman]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. My daughter lives in Toulouse with my only two grand children and a guy who earns good money flight testing Airbus planes off the production line. She's thrilled with the result of the election and seems to buy the line that Le Pen was a raving fascist they were very lucky to escape.

She's even sharing her pleasure on her facebook page:
https://scontent.fman2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18274784_432057020500703_8374701380508332387_n.jpg?oh=481eb424f551a9587fcb7dee7b6dbae5&oe=5974556F

I love her, she's my daughter. I don't want a big fight with her.

I responded by posting a jolly little haha note on my bogus FB timeline that only she can see, with this:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag289/mclies2/20170507_welcome_0_zpsdbp5uquu.jpg


Seriously, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I'm trying to laugh but there are no tears of joy.

I could see this coming. It was in the tea leaves I was reading.

[araucaria]

... either way, France is toasted to a golden crisp, both sides...

Yes. As Alex Jones said when the election news broke: (21:45 in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--W3AERd20))



You can pretty much stick a fork in France. They're done.


Thank you for that, Bill and Hervé, but it does nothing to improve the quality of this thread. When our friend Sam Hunter has the honesty to say:

Who am I to even think I have any place to comment on this thread. I am not saying this sarcastically. I am stating this because I truly know little about French politics.
the likes of Henry Makow and Alex Jones step in where angels fear to tread. What do they know about French politics? They are talking from the lofty viewpoint of the overarching conspiracy, itself viewed from the lowly position of alternative media contributors. Both those positions have advantages and drawbacks, and when taken together may have a self-fulfilling effect. I would suggest that if toast is all you can see, then maybe we are talking about a ‘magic’ viewpoint, as in ‘magic bullet’.

My own viewpoint is the outcome of over 40 years living on the spot, in France. I first arrived when President Pompidou was still fairly new in his job. In November 1970, the month De Gaulle died, literally as the typical ‘man in the street’ I came within about three feet of Pompidou as he drove past to open France’s first intercity autoroute. This is as lowly a position as you will get, which is an advantage in that one ‘has one’s ear to the ground’, being oneself ‘grounded’, i.e. most sensitive to tiny local detail. If on the other hand you take the overarching view, then either you belong to the elite of planners, or, in the case of Makow and Jones, you are looking at them through a distorting mirror, second-guessing what they are up to, in addition to sharing their blindness as to the detail at the grassroots level, notably due to the ignorance that comes from being so far above the rabble. Maybe they can read a car number plate from geostationary orbit, but until they have universal and total mind control, they can’t deal with the deepest thoughts of every individual and how those thoughts pan out into collective action. There is no smaller than lifesize model for that. We are talking about pure planners who have to rely on others on the ground to implement their plans, and at that distance the best-laid plans can go awry at any stage.

Here is an anecdote that I can bring you from my years of experience here. For the 1994 Normandy landings, having decided to attack the beaches, Churchill and others decided they needed a couple of artificial ports codenamed Mulberries to bring troops and supplies ashore while establishing a bridgehead. Churchill told the engineers, ‘Do not argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves.’ The difficulties were clearly ironed out since the British harbour at Arromanches was duly built and operated to plan. But the American Mulberry was never completed on time and was destroyed unfinished in a storm. The reason for this was that the Americans were not terribly interested in this British contraption, and decided they didn’t need it anyway, preferring to unload the ships directly onto the beach. So we see that there was nothing wrong with the plan or the blueprint per se, but a combination of a foreign mentality and practical considerations on the ground meant that a totally different outcome resulted from the same set of circumstances through failure to take into account the human factor on the one hand and practicalities (unexpected difficulties and/or shortcuts, etc.) on the other. The fact that all ultimately went well does not mean that everything went according to plan. Moreover, all these people were very much on the same side in a battlefield situation with an enemy to face on top of everything.

Things tend to be very neat in theory; in practice they often get rather messy. Transpose this to France: Macron and his planners mean to introduce a regal-type regime to be implemented not only by his allies, who are fewer than advertised, but also by opponents in large numbers. Hence while providing a king-figure to be welcomed with open arms by one section of the population, they expose themselves to another, regicidal, section, potentially capable of mobilizing a majority in the spirit of 1793. From the overarching viewpoint, such an occurrence is always unexpected, simply because the elite is so completely cut off from the populace; if it weren’t, there would be no problem. The messiness I take away from the demise of Charles de Gaulle (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?78782-Charlie-Hebdo-shooting-eleven-dead-at-Paris-offices-of-satirical-magazine&p=921033&viewfull=1#post921033) is that the cabal was tugging in two different directions; they wanted rid of him, but now they see him as a useful model.

Was it Henry Makow said the cabal got rid of De Gaulle? To repeat my earlier comment, the fact that all ultimately went well does not mean that everything went according to plan. It is not true that everything went according to plan, and it does matter. The fact is that the 1968 student-worker coalition got rid of him, albeit with a delayed effect, and they did so without the help of the CIA. Which shows that the simplistic, dualistic idea that my enemy’s enemy is my friend is not universally applicable. There were no allies in the CIA-De Gaulle-student rebels triangle, so nothing can be deduced from the ouster of one party. Something had to give, and it was the old man, end of story. The CIA obtained its planned result: it did not achieve it. It simply coincided with the student-workers achieved objective of toppling King Charles. Hence modern-day ‘regicide’ is alive and well. If it could independently see the back of General de Gaulle, I wouldn’t hold out much hope for Emmanuel Macron.

[Hervé]

Jim Stone's math:

I HAVE A GOOD QUESTION: (http://82.221.129.208/baaasepages2.html)

Now, there is supposedly a huge impending terror attack planned for France.

QUESTION: WHY would there be a "huge Islamic terror attack" planned for France, right after France was in effect, handed to Muslims and the EU?

How about: The Rothchild dynasty knows the native French know the election was stolen, MILLIONS of them received destroyed ballots, and a terror attack on top of it all might spark a revolt that can be exploited for whatever they have planned next?

Le Pen most likely beat Macron by 4 million votes
Here is the math:
33 million votes cast (and counted).

16 million votes cast (and nullified due to damaged ballots, and claimed "forfeited protest votes".)

Votes cast to Macron: 22 million.

Votes invalidated by damaged ballots (100 percent of these were Le Pen's) : 15 million.

Votes for Le Pen that were not invalidated by damaged ballots: 11 million.

Probable actual protest votes, no more than 1 million

Le Pen: 11 million plus 15 million is 26 million.
ACTUAL PROBABLE FINAL VOTE TALLY:
Le Pen: 26 million.
Macron: 22 million.
Protest: 1 million.
But it is a lot worse than that, because there were extra ballots printed for Macron, that went poof into nowhere. So obviously they got stuffed. Macron DEFINITELY, beyond a doubt, did not get 22 million votes.

Macron is openly and publicly stated, even by the MSM, to be the Rothschild big banker choice. Macron hates France, and did not even honor the national anthem after "winning".

It is flatly impossible for him to have been elected.

In French elections, any damaged ballot is automatically thrown out as "spoiled". So to steal a French election all you have to do is tear up most of one candidate's ballots before mailing them out. They will then be rejected when counted.

This is precisely what happened to Le Pen. The torn ballots by the millions, which are a confirmed fact, prove the French election was stolen.

Beyond saying this, while the MSM refuses to report it, what can I say or do? There is nothing I can do about it if the French just sit there and suck it up.

It took a huge secret operation to destroy that many Le Pen ballots by hand. Thousands of people had to have been employed to do it....
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Full article: http://82.221.129.208/baaasepages2.html


Related:
French election commission looks into claims by Le Pen campaign of ballot tampering (http://uk.businessinsider.com/le-pen-claims-ballot-tampering-2017-5?r=US&IR=T)

DIRTY TRICKS: French Voters Receive Invalid, Damaged Le Pen Ballots (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/dirty-tricks-french-voters-receive-invalid-damaged-le-pen-ballots/)


Edit: Actual numbers recorded/published:


https://www.marianne.net/sites/default/files/styles/mrn_article_small/public/rsultat_montage_0.png?itok=7hMCYi8a


[...] (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-election-results-2017-marine-le-pen-third-spoiled-ballots-abstentions-emmanuel-macron-a7723711.html)

Mr Macron earned over 20.8 million votes in the election, while Ms Le Pen gained a record 10.6 million votes for Front National.

But while France had 47.5 million registered voters, a near-record 25 per cent abstained from casting their ballot in this year’s election. A further 8.6 per cent of people who did vote spoiled their ballot or left it blank.

The number of people who abstained from voting totaled 12.1 million, already outnumbering the amount of people who chose to vote for Ms Le Pen.

This, coupled with the amount of blank and spoiled ballots - numbering more than four million - would have comfortably put the Front National candidate in third place.


Related:

Macron victory praised by Hollywood as 'a win for sanity and light' (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/emmanuel-macron-victory-french-election-marine-le-pen-a-win-for-sanity-and-light-a7723576.html)
Investors, economists and strategists react to Macron's victory (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/french-presidential-election-results-2017-emmanuel-macron-victory-marine-le-pen-investors-economists-a7723456.html)
Euro hits a six-month high as Macron’s wins French election (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/euro-six-month-high-dollar-emmanuel-macron-france-president-victory-marine-le-pen-stocks-a7723406.html)
Nearly half of young French voters backed Le Pen, projections suggest (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/nearly-half-young-french-voters-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-french-election-2017-a7723291.html)

[araucaria]

Beyond saying this, while the MSM refuses to report it, what can I say or do? There is nothing I can do about it if the French just sit there and suck it up.
I can’t believe I’m reading this stuff. While ‘the French just sit there and suck it up’, Marine Le Pen goes dancing (https://www.marianne.net/politique/video-moment-genant-marine-le-pen-ambiance-le-dancefloor-du-fn-malgre-sa-defaite). Did no one tell her she won? Or is she a part of the cabal, bought off to lose? That would explain her appalling debate performance. But then, if she was trying to lose, why would anyone want to vote for her anyway?

For the record: 47 million votes would require a 100% turnout: not going to happen. Personal testimony: I can see our local polling station through my windows: pretty quiet all day. Fact. People I have seen voted Macron and were unhappy about doing so. Fact.

[turiya]

... either way, France is toasted to a golden crisp, both sides...

Yes. As Alex Jones said when the election news broke: (21:45 in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--W3AERd20))



You can pretty much stick a fork in France. They're done.


Thank you for that, Bill and Hervé, but it does nothing to improve the quality of this thread. When our friend Sam Hunter has the honesty to say:

Who am I to even think I have any place to comment on this thread. I am not saying this sarcastically. I am stating this because I truly know little about French politics.
the likes of Henry Makow and Alex Jones step in where angels fear to tread. What do they know about French politics?

I don't think it has really much to do with "knowing about French politics." This is not a very complicated discussion to have. It's whether the people really care about preserving their French heritage, or whether they could care less about having their country / society being completely destroyed by the onslaught invasion of foreign migrants that have no willingness or capability to assimilate into a hosting nation's culture.

More than a few good points brought up in this conversation between Stefan Molyneux & his associate, Mike.


Au Revoir France
True News: Week In Review (https://youtu.be/-mnoc7odpLU)
(Published May 9, 2017)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-mnoc7odpLU/mqdefault.jpg
VIDEO (https://youtu.be/-mnoc7odpLU)

[araucaria]

I don't think it has really much to do with "knowing about French politics." This is not a very complicated discussion to have.
That is just your unreasoned contradictory opinion supposedly backed up by yet another outsider contribution that I refuse to look at. I am truly appalled – particularly at a time when Bill Ryan is explaining elsewhere what serious research involves – by the total unwillingness of Avalonians to contribute any personal critical input here to turn this non-discussion into a genuine exchange of ideas. I am not talking about ideological debates such as immigration policy. I am talking about the nuts and bolts of an election, hard facts. Concrete events like Fillon admitting he took cash or favours from certain people, or Marine Le Pen conceding defeat. The points I have been making have been systematically ignored, including now.

Please someone answer in their own words just one of my questions: Why would Marine Le Pen be dancing to celebrate passing 10 million votes when she is supposed to have won this election? Wouldn’t the normal reaction be to kick up a huge fuss? If I use the Startpage search engine recommended by Alex Jones to search for “Le Pen a gagné” (Le Pen won), I come up with just eight pages including no conspiracy theories whatsoever, and mostly predating or otherwise irrelevant to the election result per se. Tell me how news of the alleged vote-rigging on such a massive scale got out to an English-speaking audience with zero leakage through a single French-speaking Internet poster.

Here is another factual element to deal with. In the vote-counting system we have, ballots are placed by the hundred, unopened in individual envelopes which are given to a table of four people to count with members of the general public breathing down their necks. One person opens the envelopes, another reads out the candidate’s name, and the other two record the result on paper. Once counted the entire hundred ballots go back into the envelope which is sealed. This means that it would be a huge task to isolate for special treatment large numbers of ballots for a given candidate, and particularly to do so unnoticed by anyone.

[Ewan]

Was it Henry Makow said the cabal got rid of De Gaulle? To repeat my earlier comment, the fact that all ultimately went well does not mean that everything went according to plan. It is not true that everything went according to plan, and it does matter. The fact is that the 1968 student-worker coalition got rid of him, albeit with a delayed effect, and they did so without the help of the CIA. Which shows that the simplistic, dualistic idea that my enemy’s enemy is my friend is not universally applicable. There were no allies in the CIA-De Gaulle-student rebels triangle, so nothing can be deduced from the ouster of one party. Something had to give, and it was the old man, end of story. The CIA obtained its planned result: it did not achieve it. It simply coincided with the student-workers achieved objective of toppling King Charles. Hence modern-day ‘regicide’ is alive and well. If it could independently see the back of General de Gaulle, I wouldn’t hold out much hope for Emmanuel Macron.

Would we know if agents provocateurs had been involved? Those matters are, by their very nature, difficult to ascertain with any degree of certainty; often only coming to light decades later if at all.

I wasn't there, I know nothing about it, but I am a little familiar with the track record of the CIA. Given that as the basis for further musing it is not difficult to hypothesise, at least, that perhaps there were people involved that had a more political agenda than just dissatisfaction.



That is just your unreasoned contradictory opinion supposedly backed up by yet another outsider contribution that I refuse to look at. I am truly appalled – particularly at a time when Bill Ryan is explaining elsewhere what serious research involves – by the total unwillingness of Avalonians to contribute any personal critical input here to turn this non-discussion into a genuine exchange of ideas. I am not talking about ideological debates such as immigration policy. I am talking about the nuts and bolts of an election, hard facts. Concrete events like Fillon admitting he took cash or favours from certain people, or Marine Le Pen conceding defeat. The points I have been making have been systematically ignored, including now.

Please someone answer in their own words just one of my questions: Why would Marine Le Pen be dancing to celebrate passing 10 million votes when she is supposed to have won this election? Wouldn’t the normal reaction be to kick up a huge fuss? If I use the Startpage search engine recommended by Alex Jones to search for “Le Pen a gagné” (Le Pen won), I come up with just eight pages including no conspiracy theories whatsoever, and mostly predating or otherwise irrelevant to the election result per se. Tell me how news of the alleged vote-rigging on such a massive scale got out to an English-speaking audience with zero leakage through a single French-speaking Internet poster.

Here is another factual element to deal with. In the vote-counting system we have, ballots are placed by the hundred, unopened in individual envelopes which are given to a table of four people to count with members of the general public breathing down their necks. One person opens the envelopes, another reads out the candidate’s name, and the other two record the result on paper. Once counted the entire hundred ballots go back into the envelope which is sealed. This means that it would be a huge task to isolate for special treatment large numbers of ballots for a given candidate, and particularly to do so unnoticed by anyone.

I can back Sam's point above that I contribute nothing due to complete ignorance, I would be in the same position were the topic about British politics.

Your points may not be getting a response but they are not being ignored by everyone, it does appear some avoid responding though.

If I may generalise on a wider issue, there was a theory being postulated that a particular goal, (of the cabal) might be the destruction of Europe. The enforced immigration combined with the twisted new liberal madness was creating a scenario that would explode by its very nature. Then the Brits voted Brexit, Trump became president and, to follow that theme, Le Pen should have been elected - that might have slotted nicely into the developing jigsaw on the Demise of Europe. In fact Le Pen winning might have earned the 'France is toast' prediction more accurately as it would naturally follow, according to one line of reasoning, from the collapse of the EU.

(I personally believe France stood a better chance alone, free of the EU but as I've already stated I know little about the situation so my opinion is pretty meaningless.)

From an onlookers perspective Macron does not seem to be the result France would have truly wanted, in fact Macron would appear to be everything the French should despise the more you delve into what the man is, his history and connections.

I found it very interesting that you could find no French references in respect of a vote-rigging scandal yet the English language results are awash with them.

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Jim Stone's math:

I HAVE A GOOD QUESTION: (http://82.221.129.208/baaasepages2.html)

It took a huge secret operation to destroy that many Le Pen ballots by hand. Thousands of people had to have been employed to do it....

Jim kind of sabotages his whole premise right there, do you not think?

[araucaria]

Thank you Ewan for your comments. Among the hard facts, the reality of the EU is as hard as they come. It is there, and the only way to change it is little by little, all together. For example Le Pen’s idea of reverting to the franc is all very well, except that she wouldn’t get to fix its value and it would likely end up worthless through the exchange rate with the euro. It boils down to this issue of smartness I mentioned earlier: she is simply not smart enough. Macron is smartness on steroids, which I reckon to be a prerequisite, but it can be turned to nefarious purposes as well. If you are that smart, then working for someone else (inevitably not so clever) means devaluing your intelligence and being dumbed down – unless you manage to be your own man regardless.

Your mention of the CIA’s track record is relevant here. If you take Joseph Trento’s sympathetic two-book history of the CIA up to pre-911, (see this thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95553-JFK-the-CIA-the-KGB-and-Russia-today&p=1128500&viewfull=1#post1128500)) it is a story of incredible bungling and incompetence. Angleton’s ‘monster plot’ theory of deep Soviet infiltration was crazy yet true inasmuch as the Americans were totally out of their depth against the smart Russians. This story leads to an understanding of the official 911 story as presenting a reality that is chilling enough without all the other stuff. The bottom line is that the CIA may be incredibly smart at some level – whether above its head or at the grassroots level of certain brilliant agents or assets – but nonetheless it is established as having carried out a large number of incredibly dumb operations without ever learning from mistakes. Granted, Trento’s account may be disinfo through omission, but such omissions concern the JFK assassination, which was itself an act of unbelievable stupidity. They killed JFK but he simply wouldn’t go away, not even now. Similarly, kill the EU by all means: you won’t remove the problems without creating more. Likewise, we now have Macron. ‘France is toast’ is no answer to that challenge.

I am speaking to both sides of this argument. If the elite have a different agenda, then for it to succeed, whether good, bad or indifferent, they need to be smart about it too. That means at every level, including the grassroots; they cannot succeed without us all succeeding. And that in turn means that any agenda has to be for the greater good, otherwise it is bound to fail. One way forward is the policy at the top of Macron’s agenda: to clean up French politics. He can deliver on this because whatever his handlers are up to, the man himself, for reasons I set out in an earlier post, is likely to be squeaky clean. The election has already answered a question I asked here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1143256&viewfull=1#post1143256), namely does France have a moral backbone? The answer is yes. Let’s take it from there.

See also these posts:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95745-CIA-Good-Guy-Robert-David-Steele&p=1131361&viewfull=1#post1131361
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95892-Vault-7&p=1136384&viewfull=1#post1136384

[turiya]

I don't think it has really much to do with "knowing about French politics." This is not a very complicated discussion to have.
That is just your unreasoned contradictory opinion supposedly backed up by yet another outsider contribution that I refuse to look at. I am truly appalled – particularly at a time when Bill Ryan is explaining elsewhere what serious research involves – by the total unwillingness of Avalonians to contribute any personal critical input here to turn this non-discussion into a genuine exchange of ideas. I am not talking about ideological debates such as immigration policy. I am talking about the nuts and bolts of an election, hard facts. Concrete events like Fillon admitting he took cash or favours from certain people, or Marine Le Pen conceding defeat. The points I have been making have been systematically ignored, including now.

Well maybe, but then look at what was found below... :)
And also, why would it be a crime to be loosening up by dancing after an election defeat... more healthy than drinking alcohol into oblivion in order to cover over a frustrated expectation.


Thousands of torn Le Pen ballots discovered in the French presidential election, all invalid and disqualified (https://1earthunite.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/thousands-of-torn-le-pen-ballots-discovered-in-the-french-presidential-election-all-invalid-and-disqualified/)

https://i0.wp.com/powderedwigsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mlpp.jpg?w=240
Many French voters have received their ballots in a large envelope in the mail, some of which contained two Macron ballots and no Le Pen ballot, while others contained a perfectly intact Macron ballot and a torn Le Pen ballot. Torn ballots are invalid and will be disqualified. 1EarthUnited


May 8, 2017

[Hervé]

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Jim Stone's math:

I HAVE A GOOD QUESTION: (http://82.221.129.208/baaasepages2.html)

It took a huge secret operation to destroy that many Le Pen ballots by hand. Thousands of people had to have been employed to do it....

Jim kind of sabotages his whole premise right there, do you not think?

Indeed :)

His "math" is also skewed... but:

Received in a household with five registered voters... had to be done by hand...


https://i0.wp.com/powderedwigsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mlpp.jpg?resize=657%2C345
Thousands of torn Le Pen ballots discovered in the French presidential election, all invalid and disqualified (https://1earthunite.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/thousands-of-torn-le-pen-ballots-discovered-in-the-french-presidential-election-all-invalid-and-disqualified/) May 8, 2017 (https://1earthunite.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/thousands-of-torn-le-pen-ballots-discovered-in-the-french-presidential-election-all-invalid-and-disqualified/) by 1EarthUnited (https://1earthunite.wordpress.com/author/mclovinkindness/)


[...]

Many French voters have received their ballots in a large envelope in the mail, some of which contained two Macron ballots and no Le Pen ballot, while others contained a perfectly intact Macron ballot and a torn Le Pen ballot. Torn ballots are invalid and will be disqualified.
http://players.brightcove.net/2540076170001/ByveBcs0_default/index.html?videoId=5425185730001#t=17s

In the following video, watch as the ballot envelopes are opened to reveal perfectly intact Macron ballots and torn, invalid Le Pen ballots.
http://players.brightcove.net/2540076170001/r1xbn45iC_default/index.html?videoId=5425190863001#t=30s

[Ewan]

I fail to see how this is proof of anything. How many people do you know that decide to video the opening of their mail, almost as though they know what they are going to find inside is worthy of being filmed. Furthermore, if you received a torn ballot would you not go to the polling station with it and complain, or demand a new ballot paper, likely finding others there also that were complaining of the same thing. Film that, it would be more convincing.

Elsewhere on the forum at present there is a lot of discussion regarding discernment and a method of scaling to determine authenticity. I saw a video on Liveleak this morning of a supposed arab looking man picking up Le Pen ballots and just walking out of the polling station with them. A) It seemed unlikely and B) I couldn't understand what was being said, so I never bothered posting it.

I don't understand why this would be so quickly accepted as factual, and like any student who fails to understand some point or other I hope someone appears to explain why this is most likely legitimate.

I cannot search in French for news of this voting scandal, but it does interest me that it is seemingly primarily in English that these stories are to be found. Perhaps you could verify this for me?

[araucaria]

I don't think it has really much to do with "knowing about French politics." This is not a very complicated discussion to have.
That is just your unreasoned contradictory opinion supposedly backed up by yet another outsider contribution that I refuse to look at. I am truly appalled – particularly at a time when Bill Ryan is explaining elsewhere what serious research involves – by the total unwillingness of Avalonians to contribute any personal critical input here to turn this non-discussion into a genuine exchange of ideas. I am not talking about ideological debates such as immigration policy. I am talking about the nuts and bolts of an election, hard facts. Concrete events like Fillon admitting he took cash or favours from certain people, or Marine Le Pen conceding defeat. The points I have been making have been systematically ignored, including now.

Well maybe, but then look at what was found below... :)
And also, why would it be a crime to be loosening up by dancing after an election defeat... more healthy than drinking alcohol into oblivion in order to cover over a frustrated expectation.


Thousands of torn Le Pen ballots discovered in the French presidential election, all invalid and disqualified (https://1earthunite.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/thousands-of-torn-le-pen-ballots-discovered-in-the-french-presidential-election-all-invalid-and-disqualified/)

https://i0.wp.com/powderedwigsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mlpp.jpg?w=240
Many French voters have received their ballots in a large envelope in the mail, some of which contained two Macron ballots and no Le Pen ballot, while others contained a perfectly intact Macron ballot and a torn Le Pen ballot. Torn ballots are invalid and will be disqualified. 1EarthUnited



May 8, 2017


OK, thank you, I hadn’t realized this was the way it was done. Now we are getting somewhere. I have just opened my kids’ two envelopes: perfectly OK like the other two. The question then is, how smart do you need to be to realize that torn ballot papers are useless and that you can always pick up a good one at the polling station instead? For those who have never been inside a French polling station, you have to pass in front of a person standing behind piles of ballot papers and who gives you an envelope while inviting you to take at least two papers (in order to mask your vote); they will let you take none at all, but most people take some. How then is the FN voter vulnerable to this kind of incitement to spoil their vote? I can only think that they are traditionally chary of telling pollsters who they are intending to vote for and so may be more prone to use the ballot paper they have in their pocket.

The first question is the scale of the problem: searching for “bulletins déchirés” (torn papers), I came across this webpage (http://www.leparisien.fr/elections/presidentielle/bulletins-le-pen-dechires-et-tractages-pro-macron-le-fn-s-insurge-05-05-2017-6921225.php). The problem concerns 35 rural communes (remember I told you the other day that France has 36,000 communes, where Paris and other large cities count as one each, and the majority number only a few hundred inhabitants). In Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), we are told, according to the paper «Sud-Ouest» people got ONLY Marine Le Pen ballot papers; that’s a population of 34 344 in 2013. My guess is that these figures all even out.

In addition to appearing as a warning two days before the ballot, the above webpage offers another interesting factoid: Le Pen herself tweeted at 15:59 on 3rd May that there was this problem, and to be careful, and so did the Préfet de la Drôme, the local official representing central government. It strikes me that this was a minor glitch that was handled as well as possible in advance of the vote. Had all these people turned off their smartphones for three or four days??!!

I have another explanation. Supporters of Mélenchon had been looking for two weeks for ways to vote for neither candidate without abstaining. Apart from blank votes and spoiled ballots, one idea was to vote for Macron, but only after five p.m., a move that would be recorded in the turnout figures announced at 12 and five, with the final figure coming later. It strikes me that a few of these zealots who had access to ballot papers ahead of the vote found another way. It is voting fraud, and not to be condoned, but Marine Le Pen was not robbed of the election. Sure, she can dance, no problem with that; but I repeat, would she be dancing with a big grin on her face if she thought she had been robbed?

As I have been saying over and over again, there are two ways of viewing this situation. From the top down, it is simply divide and rule. But why would anyone not belonging to the elite take the top-down view? I know: a large section of the alternative media do precisely that. They are not the first to work against their own interests. When people stop doing that, it is game over. As I wrote back in 2011 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30317-Is-a-One-World-Govt-part-of-our-evolutionary-process&p=308002&viewfull=1#post308002), ‘in the words of Jean Cocteau, “Puisque ces mystères nous dépassent, feignons d’en être l’organisateur” – since these mysteries are beyond us, let’s pretend to be organizing them. That is how the cabal operates: it has got the pretence of being in charge running so smoothly that conspiracy theorists actually believe it is true. Time to wake up folks: the people are in charge and are increasingly realizing their power. From the bottom up, it is simply that we have still not got our act together: not yet. The rich diversity of the grassroots is a hindrance against the filthy rich monotony/monopoly of the elite. Normally speaking, it should be no contest, and the time is coming when that will indeed be the case.

Note: post written before reading Ewan’s just above.

[Hervé]

Marine Le Pen: The French Election Was Rigged (http://yournewswire.com/marine-le-pen-election-rigged/)

May 9, 2017 (http://yournewswire.com/2017/05/) Baxter Dmitry (http://yournewswire.com/author/baxter/) News (http://yournewswire.com/category/news/), World (http://yournewswire.com/category/news/world-news/) 168 (http://yournewswire.com/marine-le-pen-election-rigged/#mh-comments)


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It’s not some grand conspiracy, but it’s grand theft all the same. Le Pen voters lost their ballots, their rights, by the millions on Sunday.

In France, if a ballot is damaged, it cannot be cast. So the political establishment, who are desperate to prevent Le Pen from taking office, arranged for the destruction of millions of Le Pen ballots.

Up to one third of all ballots sent out to voters, an estimated 60% of Le Pen ballots, were destroyed at the time of mailing.

Only Le Pen ballots arrived destroyed, there is not one report of a single ballot for Macron arriving destroyed.


http://yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/C_KsBArWAAE5B8x.jpg
These ballots arrived at a household that had five eligible voters. 100% destruction rate. In the week leading up to the election, reports began pouring in that an enormous number of ballots for Le Pen were destroyed at the time of mailing. They were torn badly, rendering them void, before they were mailed out.


The randomness of the tears proves they were torn by hand – with intent. This was a major, co-ordinated effort, orchestrated by the establishment.


http://yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/le-pen-ballot-torn-.jpg


The Le Pen campaign complained to the election watchdog, claiming ballots had been “systematically torn up (http://www.businessinsider.com/le-pen-claims-ballot-tampering-2017-5)” – but the watchdog merely gave a Gallic shrug, and banned the media from reporting on it.

But it gets even worse.
Voters in districts which heavily favored Macon also received multiple ballots, enabling them to vote twice. The French election commission even confirmed that multiple votes would count, and wouldn’t be investigated until after the election.

The French election was, in this method, stolen. Macron is not the legitimate president of France.

How did this happen?
The French media, forever in the pocket of the elite, refused to report on the issue, allowing the establishment to stifle the will of the people.

However, after the election, mainstream outlets did publish some interesting data. Agence France Press, for instance, admitted that a staggering number of French voters cast ballots which didn’t count.

Nearly one in three French citizens who voted on Sunday did not cast a valid ballot for Macron or Le Pen.

There is always a number of blank or spoiled protest votes in any election. But the number of spoiled ballots in this election was quadruple the usual number in France.

Suspicious much?

Agence France Press tried to cover up the fact that many people had their votes destroyed by claiming that these people “declined to choose” between Macron and Le Pen, and reported that many of them had spoiled their ballots.

Spoiled how? Rips and tears? How convenient.

According to Agence France Press:

A third of French voters declined to choose between centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s presidential election, either abstaining or spoiling their ballots — a record rate in nearly half a century.

According to official results with more than 80 percent of votes counted, the abstention rate stood at 24.52 percent — the highest since the presidential election in 1969.

“That would make a total of one French person out of three who decided not to choose between the two candidates. It’s really a lot for a presidential election,” Anne Jadot, political science professor at the University of Lorraine, told AFP.

The steal is in. The French establishment successfully silenced the voice of the people. Now the media is attempting to cover it up.

Macron is a usurper and not a legitimate president. He was selected by the elite (http://yournewswire.com/macron-rothschild-pedophile/), and placed into power via a rigged election that silenced millions of French patriots. What millions of French people suspected has now been visibly and obviously proven to them – will they now join Le Pen’s call for revolution against the establishment (http://yournewswire.com/marine-le-pen-destroy-new-world-order/)?

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In the week leading up to the election, reports began pouring in that an enormous number of ballots for Le Pen were destroyed at the time of mailing.When one hears of those and becomes suspicious... one starts documenting, right?

There were reports but none covered by the MSM, especially the French ones which also muzzled any publications of the Wikileaks material on Macron's e-mails... dirt on Le Pen? Sure, go ahead! Publish anything!

Now, don't be shy, and use GiggleTranslate (https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/)...

http://www.leparisien.fr/elections/presidentielle/bulletins-le-pen-dechires-et-tractages-pro-macron-le-fn-s-insurge-05-05-2017-6921225.php

[turiya]

...I cannot search in French for news of this voting scandal, but it does interest me that it is seemingly primarily in English that these stories are to be found. Perhaps you could verify this for me?

From Gateway Pundit (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/dirty-tricks-french-voters-receive-invalid-damaged-le-pen-ballots/) site by Damien Cowley (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/author/damiencowley/) May 6th, 2017:

1) A press statement released by the Le Pen campaign
http://www.frontnational.com/2017/05/communique-de-presse-de-david-rachline-directeur-de-campagne-de-marine-le-pen/

2) Man records himself taking/stealing/trashing Le Pen ballots from polling station.
https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/861681269809217536

3) #France: This is how the business works! Sent duplicate ballots for #EmmanuelMacron. None for #MarineLePen! #JeVote #JeVoteMarine:https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/861235933919813633

4)...

This looks familiar
https://i.redd.it/hthfzznkssny.jpg
SOURCE (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/61n639/marine_le_pens_rally_vs_macrons_rally_is_trump_vs/)

[araucaria]

Post #166: utter garbage. See my post #165 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1151967&viewfull=1#post1151967)

[norman]

Everyone DOES seem surprised how low the "turnout" was.

If you remove a lot of the votes, that's kind of the same thing.

[araucaria]

Everyone DOES seem surprised how low the "turnout" was.

If you remove a lot of the votes, that's kind of the same thing.
Not in France they don’t. The low turnout – which would actually be a high turnout in the US or the UK – was expected for various reasons including the following. When neither candidate is acceptable, abstentions are naturally higher. When the result is a foregone conclusion (the 60-40 percent split was known for over a year), abstentions are naturally higher. When scaremongering over the Front National stops working as it used to, people are not going to come out in droves any more to make sure Le Pen doesn’t get in. The last time a Le Pen was in the runoff, in 2002, the plebiscite handed to Chirac was misused and he simply carried on as before as if he had earned those votes: small wonder that this time round, people were not ready to fall for that mug’s game all over again. When a first-round candidate with nearly 20% of the votes does not take sides in the runoff (Mélenchon), there is a huge pool of potential abstainers among his electorate.

Given this complicated mess, there is nothing more unsurprising than a low turnout. The biggest reason of all, which could be the subject of a whole new discussion, is that the office of president, regal or otherwise, with so much power invested in a single person, is no longer at all congruent with the country’s needs. It has been mostly downhill for fifty years now. This was the cornerstone of the Mélenchon campaign, and regardless of the overall quality or otherwise of his program of government, I believe he will eventually be proven right on this particular issue.

[araucaria]

This looks familiar
https://i.redd.it/hthfzznkssny.jpg
SOURCE (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/61n639/marine_le_pens_rally_vs_macrons_rally_is_trump_vs/)

Not having attended any of these rallies so I cannot comment one way or the other on attendances; what is clear however is that it very much depends on who you listen to. Here are pictures of a Le Pen meeting which tend to justify an advertised figure of 25,000 being closer to 6,000.
http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2017/05/01/25-000-personnes-au-meeting-de-le-pen-a-villepinte-dapres-les-o_a_22063631/

Another thing I don’t know for sure firsthand is whether still shots are more easily tampered with than video; but I should be surprised if they weren’t.

One thing I have experienced firsthand is the use of a curtain to make a hall smaller and still look full. I’ve seen it at tennis tournaments. Apparently François Fillon (http://www.francetvinfo.fr/politique/francois-fillon/direct-presidentielle-regardez-le-meeting-de-francois-fillon-a-toulouse_2143792.html) used this method before the first round. The question then becomes, Why is this idiot Macron speaking to empty seats? Did no-one tell him there was a much better way? This beggars belief. If even I know about it, then the slickest outfit by a country mile in contemporary French politics cannot not have known almost from the cradle. I am going to do something I never ever do: use one of those ROFL smilies:ROFL:

[norman]

The plot thickens.

Those empty seats at Macron's rally don't fit the results. How does a guy with a half full (at best) arena end up with the high percentage he had in the end ? You'd think (or I'd think), with such a poor visible support base, they would have made sure his win was close.

All I can think of right now is that they really want riots in France. I have a hunch that's what they wanted in America when Clinton won last November but they didn't get it.

[Hervé]

The plot thickens.

Those empty seats at Macron's rally don't fit the results. How does a guy with a half full (at best) arena end up with the high percentage he had in the end ? [...]


This could explain it: Fillon's and Melenchon's supporters weren't much interested in listening to Macron (no real platform)... but who ended up gathering most of their voters.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_GNEHgXsAERZA1.jpg
(see here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1151031&viewfull=1#post1151031) <---)

[Desire]

After losing the United States the Cabal was NOT going to lose France. The rally pictures said it all.

As far as LePen dancing, I thing she showed the Cabal that she was not going to "give up" as they had hoped she would. Carry on Ms LePen until next time.:blackwidow:

[araucaria]

If I may generalise on a wider issue, there was a theory being postulated that a particular goal, (of the cabal) might be the destruction of Europe. The enforced immigration combined with the twisted new liberal madness was creating a scenario that would explode by its very nature. Then the Brits voted Brexit, Trump became president and, to follow that theme, Le Pen should have been elected - that might have slotted nicely into the developing jigsaw on the Demise of Europe. In fact Le Pen winning might have earned the 'France is toast' prediction more accurately as it would naturally follow, according to one line of reasoning, from the collapse of the EU.
Precisely. That was the premise of the opening post, as reflected in the title of this thread. I am not sure at what point the thread got twisted, but while it started out as ‘The EU is toast’ because of Le Pen, supposedly a good thing, it ends up with ‘France is toast’ because she lost. To date this Victor Sperandeo has got two predictions out of three completely wrong.

A Lion Will Lead The Netherlands Out Of The EU
Victor Sperandeo continues: “Greert Wilders, who is running to lead the Netherlands, is going to win that election. He was arrested for making the claim, in a nice way, that Muslims should stay in their own countries and not come to the Netherlands. So he is pissed off and so are many of the people in the Netherlands. And Wilders is going to win that election and get the Netherlands out of the EU.

A Lioness Will Lead France Out Of The EU
And over in France, Le Pen is now in the lead and she is going to win and pull France out of the EU. The euro is going to go away and each country will go back to their own currencies. So what is going to happen in the aftermath of this, Eric, is complete chaos and world depression! The EU is toast and the whole world is going to feel the effects of the collapse of the EU. As an example, there will be extreme inflation in countries such as Italy.

Death Of The EU – “There Will Be Absolute F*cking Chaos”

And what is going to happen to the U.S. stock market? People will stop buying U.S. stocks because the whole world is going to go into a depression. There will be absolute f*cking chaos starting on March 15 and nobody is talking about it. The populist movement, which are people who have been f*cked, are moving away from the globalist movement. And when 27 countries get their own printing presses back it will be chaos. I have been tempted to go 100 percent long gold. It’s such a slam dunk that the world is in trouble. The EU was built on France and Germany, so without France there is no EU. Gold will be in extreme demand when this unfolds and that is why the gold market is already firming up. Eric, I promise you there will be total chaos.” http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95823-Former-Soros-associate-Wilders-and-Le-Pen-elected-then-chaos-in-the-EU-and-global-markets&p=1132020&viewfull=1#post1132020

[araucaria]

This is probably going to be my last post on this thread, and it explains why. They say the elite has to announce what it intends to do before it can do it. There is no need for mystical mumbo-jumbo about laws of the universe to account for this impression. Several words come to mind to describe the phenomenon’s various avatars in all walks of life; some of them are neutral, others not: these include defeatism, self-fulfilling prophecy, or in electoral situations, as we say in French, ‘prime aux sortants’ (advantage to the incumbent). Let me give a few examples.

If you want people to sing from the same hymn sheet, then you need to distribute hymn sheets to your congregation. If you have an orchestra on your hands, you distribute instrumental scores, supplying notes on a need-to-know basis, full of gaps where a given player is not playing. If you are staging a play, you get your actors to learn their parts. So maybe there is a performance aspect to the world (‘all the world’s a stage...’ wrote Shakespeare). People, and especially researchers who are paying close attention, are not so much picking up clues as picking up cues.

I once had a university teacher whose advice for essay-writing was ‘say what you’re going to say, say it, then say what you’ve said’. This is a comical caricature of the proper method, for which no redundancy is involved. You keep the thing moving by first setting out a problematic – why you are writing in the first place – which you then explore, before reaching some tentative conclusions – reviewing the ground covered and where you have got to. If your exploration is to take you any distance, then your introduction will be very different from your conclusion; on the other hand, if your writing style is any good, your introduction, being finalized only once you have already reached your conclusion, will bridge that gap, which is how an effective essay will carry the reader along through to the end. An introduction is important because the problem containing the germs of a solution is set out in such a way as to bring that solution to the forefront. From a higher perspective, you don’t so much discover as you remember.

When Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali used to say ‘I am the greatest’, this was an introduction to his career that became synonymous with its conclusion. He was only definitively the greatest when he stopped proclaiming it. It turned him into a ‘sortant’, a winner with the benefit of the ‘prime aux sortants’ whereby champions only need to show up knowing they are going to win and their opponents know in advance they are going to lose; and so it is. When Ali announced which round he would win in, his opponents’ knew exactly when their knees would turn to jelly. That is how it works. People who are told when they are going to die often oblige: see this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80996-Question-to-Avalon-Forum-Do-You-Know-When-You-Will-Die&p=946529&viewfull=1#post946529). Another prime example of self-fulfilling prophecy is of course the Oedipus myth. Oedipus, Laius and Jocasta interact the way they have to do; the only mystery is that they don’t know each other. Freud places this on the unconscious level, the level I suppose where they do actually know their own flesh and blood. From a Jungian perspective, I am surmising that they would know each other on the level of their collective unconscious. At this level, everyone knows who they are and who they are dealing with, which again amounts to saying we are performing together in a play.

From the viewpoint of Greek myth, this would mean that we are the playthings of the Fates. From a thespian standpoint, we are sticking to the script. This is how the Alex Jones of the alternative ‘scene’ get to be regularly called out as shills; this is how the Corey Goodes get wheeled out on cue, one after the other, sometimes interacting, often soliloquizing. In other words, the alternative media are playing their part effectively, maybe slightly ahead of the beat like an orchestral conductor, but the idea that they are bringing about change is merely something written into their lines, it has no basis in reality. That is precisely what this thread has been doing, in my humble opinion needless to say. My point is that change is scripted in certain players’ lines because the play is in fact evolving as we speak but while these players are indeed the agents of the ongoing change, it has to be translated into reality.

They are the creative characters who are tired of the same old play and deliberately change the script, wander offstage, and cause others to flub their lines and generally turn the performance into a fiasco. Or, to put a positive slant on this, take a jazz band. It has given its last conventional concert, players start improvising off the cuff, creating a cacophony that the audience doesn’t like. They have just created the concept of the jam session, but until they get their improvisational act together, many or most will fail to see where this great new future is taking them. Getting an improvisational act together will sound like a contradiction in terms, but it can be done by setting an overall (i.e. non-improvisational) framework that will become increasingly minimal. What you have in the meantime is everyone excitedly ‘talking’ over each other, creating not necessarily a cacophony, but perhaps a ‘buzz’. The more aware alternative media players embody this paradox of organized chaos: more than others they have the feeling of having come here to do a job, i.e. play a part, in this transformation: out of order chaos, out of chaos a new world order – in the totally neutral meaning of the phrase, banishing the kneejerk negative reaction: let’s take our language back.

This is where I see us heading, why we are holding back and unable to let go of things. Things we need to let go of include for players in the alternative media conspiracy talk, whether it be theory or fact, it’s all the same. It doesn’t make a ha’penny-worth of difference what you think of the elite, simply acknowledging their continued guiding presence is a mistake if one intends to be creative – like a musician keeping an eye on the conductor: if he intends to improvise at all, the first this to do is to ignore the conductor’s existence altogether. ‘New world order’ is one of those three-note chords on your instrument, there to be used in whichever way you want.

Transpose this to a presidential election: the only criterion for creative voting is to find a candidate willing and wishing to down play the role of the president – rather in the way smaller classical musical formations tend to do away with a conductor, as indeed they did in former times. In other, concluding, words, voting for a traditional president is absolutely not the hugely important event it is made out to be. If you are looking for diversionary tactics, this is one conspicuous example, and it needs to be reduced to a sideshow.

[Hervé]

Kadima! En Marche! (http://www.voltairenet.org/article196311.html)



by Thierry Meyssan



After having successively elected an agent of the CIA and an employee of the emirs of the Gulf to the Presidency of the French Republic, the French have been ripped off a third time, this time by an Israeli product. They believe that they have chased away the spectre of fascism by voting for a candidate supported by NATO, the Rothschilds, all the companies of the CAC40 and the unanimous Press. Far from understanding their mistake, they are still in a trance, and will probably not wake up before the end of the general elections.




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As soon as his victory was announced, democratically elected President Emmanuel Macron defined a distance between himself and the People. Refusing to mingle with the crowd, he took a long, solitary walk across the courtyard of the Louvre where his supporters were gathered.

The team of elected French President Emmanuel Macron has managed to hypnotise the French nation. They managed to fabricate the election of their protégé with two thirds of the votes cast – a young man, only 39 years old, whose party was created on the Internet just one year ago, and who had until then never stood in any election.

Steele & Holt
This exploit was realised by the team of Steele & Holt, a mysterious company whose name refers to the TV series Remington Steele, a police procedural in which the director of a detective agency asks a thief (Pierce Brosnan) to play the rôle of her boss in order to serve as her cover.

Don’t bother trying to find out who is hiding behind this company – you’ll find nothing. Except for the fact that its two main clients are AXA and the Rothschild family. Everyone knows that Emmanuel Macron worked for the Rothschilds, but it’s a well-guarded secret that they organised his party. As for the insurance company AXA, it is presided by Henri de La Croix, fifth Duke of Castries, who is also president of the NATO think-tank (the Bilderberg group), the Bosphorus Institute (Turkey’s think-tank) and, in France, the Institut Montaigne (a right-wing think-tank).

Henry Kissinger also incidentally invited Macron to the annual meeting of the Bilderberg group in 2014, along with François Baroin and Christine Lagarde.

The Bosphorus Institute made it possible to identify and corrupt various personalities from the right and the left who lent their support to Macron.

The first meetings of the new party were held in the offices of the Institut Montaigne, whose headquarters were declared as the personal address of the Institut’s director.

Kadima !
The name of the new party - En Marche !, was chosen in order to have the same initials as its candidate. Otherwise, it would have been called En Avant ! In Hebrew - Kadima ! When it was pointed out to general Ariel Sharon that the name of his new party evoked the name of Mussolini’s party - Avanti ! - he retorted that that was not the case at all. En Avant ! was the order he gave to each of his special teams, for example when he invaded Beirut against the advice of his military staff.

Kadima ! and En Marche ! are centrist parties assembling personalities from the right and the left. Ariel Sharon was a well-known « centrist » who created his party in order to break away from Benjamin Netanyahu. Sharon was a colonialist who wanted to create a Palestinian state on the model of the South African Bantustans. For him, apartheid was the only way to preserve Israël. On the other hand, Netanyahu is a Talmudist. He refuses to accept the idea of sharing Palestine with the goyim. For him, they must be expelled, if they can’t be exterminated.

We will no doubt learn later why Macron wanted to break with the Socialist Prime Minister, Manuel Valls. For the moment, it’s enough to note the insistance with which Valls attempted to join En Marche ! and the flippancy with which Macron rejected him, to see that there is a serious conflict between them.

Fascism En Marche
In order to launch Macron, Steele & Holt – in other words NATO and the Rothschilds – relied on the old pro-US network of the Fondation Saint-Simon. Together, they staged the « peril Le Pen », so that many electors who are strongly opposed to Macron nonetheless voted for him for fear of a possible victory by the « foul beast ». Since there was little for which they could blame Marine Le Pen, they accused her of the crimes of her father... and many others.

This manipulation shows that in our « showbiz society », form is more important than content. Indeed, what are the characteristics of fascism ? The end of the class struggle, thanks to corporatism, which unites bosses and workers in the same organisations, the end of the right-left dialectic thanks to a unique party, and consequently, the end of all opposition by the use of force.

While the first of these three characteristics might have been applied to the vision of Jean-Marie Le Pen, none of them are valid for his daughter – however, the first two are applicable to the vision of Emmanuel Macron. He is supported by all the major bosses of the CAC40, as well as by the CGT. He does not question the capacity of the right- and left-wing parties to defend the values to which they claim to adhere, but calls their leaders to join him in his party to defend their common interests. There can be no doubt that if the general elections go the way Macron hopes, the destruction of the opposition will begin. Indeed, the unanimous support of the written Press for candidate Macron, and the campaign against dissenting Internet sites, give us a taste of things to come.

History repeats itself – in 1940, the French supported Philippe Petain in order to preserve themselves from Nazism, but it was Petain who installed fascism. In 2017, they voted for Macron in order to preserve themselves from fascism, yet he will be the one who installs it.

A hijacked campaign
It’s true that some electors were disturbed both by the unusual personality of the candidates and by a wealth of propaganda methods which have never been used in Europe since the Second World War.

At the age of 15, Emmanuel Macron had a sexual relation with his drama teacher, who was 23 years older, moved in with her, and then married her 15 years later. Marine Le Pen inherited the presidency of her party from her father – she first of all cleaned it up, and then excluded him from it. In psychoanalytical terms, Macron married his mother, and Le Pen killed her father.

Above all, Emmanuel Macron’s team did not hesitate to accuse his rivals of the worst forms of treason, without any logic, certain that the local and national Press – which it already controls in its entirety – would not dare to express the slightest criticism. The right-wing candidate, François Fillon, is now perceived as a thief, although not one of the accusations levelled against him has been verified. Marine Le Pen is considered to be the incarnation of fascism, although she has never supported the positions with which she is charged.

A solitary victory
As soon as his election was announced, President Macron gave a short speech from his campaign headquarters – a string of platitudes pronounced with the ponderous demeanour of a man who has suddenly felt the weight of his responsibilities descend upon his fragile shoulders. Then he offered himself a new moment of theatre with his supporters in the courtyard of the Louvre. He crossed Paris in a procession of limousines with tinted windows. He took a long, solitary, inaccessible walk across the courtyard of the Louvre to climb onto the podium which had been built in his honour. There, at the base of the pyramid, like Bonaparte, he delivered a new speech, once again consisting of verbiage, but this time in a frenzied tone - a man who has never seen combat. Finally, he gathered together with his family and a few militants to sing La Marseillaise.

Contrary to all his predecessors, at no time during this evening did he shake any hands. No-one was ever allowed to approach him. He allowed none of the political personalities who had supported him to appear alongside him and share his victory. They will only be able to collect the bounty of the betrayal of their respective parties by betraying them again and supporting him during the general elections in June.

It will only be when President Macron has a firm grasp on all the reins of power that he will allow France to wake up. It will be too late.

Forward, march !


Thierry Meyssan (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en)


Translation Pete Kimberley (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125569.html?lang=en)

[BMJ]

LQSoikbLjYs

Paul Joseph Watson discusses the Macron's acceptance speech and the related symbolism that indicate he is part of tptw.

Interesting photo at the 4.00 minute mark.

[Hervé]

Macron all set to appoint a Prime Minister selected by Nato (http://www.voltairenet.org/article196358.html)



Voltaire Network | 16 May 2017


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On Monday 15 May, the new French President should name a Prime Minister from a list vetted by Nato. The candidates are:
http://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L9xH11/puce-cebf5.gif Sylvie Goulard (European MP, advisor to the New Pact for Europe);
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All three were invited by Henry Kissinger to the most recent annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group (9 to 12 June 2016, Dresden, Germany). All three were formally invited to this meeting by the Bilderberg Chair, Henri de La Croix, the fifth Duke of Castries and were evaluated at it.

It seems highly unlikely that Mrs Lagarde will be immediately appointed. Those sponsoring Mr Macron would prefer her appointment to be delayed until 2019. This would allow her to complete her second term as Head of the IMF.

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[Desire]

Invited by Henry Kissinger
Invited by the Bilderberg Chair
and Macron walks on stage to the E U National Anthem ( shouldn't it be called world anthem)
WOW
whey time to Mentally Oppose this.

[Hervé]

Macron wins Parliament in landslide: Total failure inevitable (http://thesaker.is/macron-wins-parliament-in-landslide-total-failure-inevitable/)

By Ramin Mazaheri - The Saker, June 19, 2017

That headline is not even a bold statement because Macron has promised austerity and…when has austerity ever worked? It is really that simple.

There has been nearly four decades of trickle-down economics and anti-socialist policies, but there has been no promised increase in the standard of living. It has only dropped (http://www.mybudget360.com/cost-of-living-compare-1975-2015-inflation-price-changes-history/) since the gains of the 1970s, the era of maximum worker power in the West.

I say the West because Iran, to give a personal example, did not have maximum worker power in the 1970s, so let’s not paint everyone all with the same brush – that’s inaccurate and only aids rampant depression in the West.

The alternative headline was: “Macron and new party to do what has never been done”.

The case for Macron’s economic proposals are so flimsy, so based on faith instead of facts, that even the IMF has finally admitted (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/27/austerity-policies-do-more-harm-than-good-imf-study-concludes) their own decades of truly deadly wrongdoing by pushing austerity. With just another 40 years of failure we can hope they will also come around on “free” trade, unregulated foreign investment and the false correlation (https://newint.org/features/2015/12/01/private-public-sector/) between privatization and efficiency.

But the EU and Eurozone will not give up the capitalist ghost: the ECB (now holding renminbi (https://www.ft.com/content/ca4e11bd-941b-3435-9f54-1ac843f0ee1e) for the first time) is continuing with monthly banker bailouts in the scores of billions, they are continuing (https://www.ft.com/content/07414518-5210-11e7-a1f2-db19572361bb) to “lend” Greece money in order to send it straight back to interest repayment, and Macron’s own new centrist alliance now has a roughly 62% majority in Parliament to continue with trickle-down economics.

This president is being portrayed as having some sort of massive mandate in the press of the French elite and the foreign press, but that is false and everyone here knows the emperor has no clothes:

Abstention absolutely soared by some 20% since 2012 to reach a stunning 58% overall. This is already well-short of the necessary basis of any democracy which deserves to even be classified as “functioning”: a majority. (Of course, France has been in a state of emergency since November 2015, so it is not a democracy. It is a police state dictatorship.)

But Macron’s failure to win a democratic majority is even worse: His centrist alliance won 32% of the total 2nd round vote, and that translates into just 15% of the total electorate.

Wow, win over just 15% of the electorate in the legislative elections, after just 24% of the presidential elections, and the covers read (https://www.relay.com/le-point/-jupiter-a-l-elysee-numero-2335-newsmagazines-555589-13.html), “Jupiter in Elysée Palace”. That’s one way of looking at it…which is a way Americans politely say, “That’s incredibly stupid.”

What’s more, history shows that Macron’s legislative victory was already guaranteed: Since 2007, when France fully went off the 7-year presidential term system and aligned their legislative and presidential elections, all 3 successive presidents have been handed Parliamentary majorities; Macron’s score in 2017 is nearly identical in terms of seats.

This is basically organized collusion between two of the three branches, and how can that be good? They are supposed to be balancing each other, I thought? I don’t know how many more election cycles it takes to make this a fact to people? Is it 40 years – do all reactionaries think in 40-year cycles? Is this the light at the end of the tunnel, LOL? I look forward to my joyous 79th birthday, Inshallah.

The thing is, Hollande even admitted after his 2012 election victory that this aligned election system was not good for democracy – of course, he did nothing about it. There seems to be zero chance that Macron will change it, as he appears far less the benevolent dictator than “Flanby” Hollande appeared in 2012.

So Macron’s victory is as “sweeping” as Sarkozy’s and Hollande’s…and they both totally failed. Just like Macron will.

Back to the future of failure
The line in France and Europe has been two-fold: “Reforms” (i.e. right-wing economics) are needed. Once that is done, then it becomes: “Time is needed to create success”.

Here in France, the most glaring problem with this is: How will record high unemployment be essentially halved to “normal” by allowing bosses a freer hand to whip, I mean fire, workers? A boss cannot whip physically, so the modern whip is psychological: the threat of being fired (with no social safety set to cushion the fall, capitalists hope).

But here in France the idea or “sacred cow” is a crazy one: one should not live in fear of destitution, and therefore workers have had more rights than in their US and UK counterparts.

One of Macron’s most hated but least-discussed measures will kill the peasants’ idiotic sacred cow – with all of its dung used to provide warmth and to build huts; with all of its milk for long-term productivity; with its ability to allow more land to be cultivated for public benefit, etc. It is this: If you turn down a job twice at the unemployment office, the unemployment office crosses you off their list (http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2017/02/24/97002-20170224FILWWW00097-macron-un-chomeur-pourra-refuser-un-emploi-mais-pas-deux.php).

It is no matter if you do not want this job; if you are qualified for the job but it is not in your desired field; if this job does not suit your family’s needs; if this job requires a lengthy commute of 30 kilometers even though you can’t afford a car much less highly-taxed gas.

And this is what the 2nd or 3rd “most advanced” socio-cultural country in the world says “modernity” is. And they must be right? Right?

The African-Americans may have actually devised a pithy phrase for this model long ago: “Massa sez work.”

It’s hard to see how this is a model worthy of emulation, much less exportation.
The reality is that the French model of “mixed socialism” is being done away with: the US/UK model is being exported, forcibly, into France.

France calls this the “Anglo-Saxon” model, and how the English press detests that term, LOL! It even gets quotation marks, just as they do for any official statement by Iran, like “Iran ‘says’ that…(insert anything here, even “the sun came up this morning”).

Of course, they should realize that calling it “Anglo-Saxon” is at least not calling the “Protestant” model, which is a fair statement, and I think any honest, Chosen Calvinist will agree to that. Half-Catholic Germany is only semi-entrenched in the Anglo-Saxon model, after all.

Theology aside: The average French citizen knows the death of their sacred cow will not bring them any juicy cuts of beef or fine leather goods, because they are not any dumber than I am.

So why did they vote for Macron?
The only thing I can say in a positive way is: They have decimated the Socialists for their anti-austerity betrayal, but I am chagrined to report they may have 50 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, the main house of Parliament; the mainstream conservatives have their fewest seats in postwar history. This is good and justice, both political and moral.

It’s disgusting on this election night to listen to Socialist Party members talk about fighting neoliberalism and getting back to their progressive roots. Their presidential candidate didn’t survive the first round and the party secretary the second round. A “fired list” of Socialists is impressive, and schadenfreude may compel me to make that a whole article in the future. Some right-wing socialists survived, mostly those even more right-wing than the “camembert Socialists”: they made deals with Macron that he wouldn’t present an opposing candidate, and these horrid fake-leftists will remain in the Parliamentary spotlight.

But France has swept many of the liars, back-stabbers and incompetents. We all know they won’t stay unemployed long enough to run out of benefits…must be nice to have such security.

Will the French Street explode in violence?
France is never portrayed as a country which has serious, violent and authoritarian unrest, but that is certainly the case in 2017 because there has been 2 years of mass arrests of anti-government protesters (more than 2,000) and there is no sign of letting up.

I cannot report that anyone is seriously reporting that Macron is going to end this multi-year trend. Macron, like all modern Western politicians, is adding to, not dismantling, the vast right-wing powers first initiated by Dubya Bush to “fight terrorism”. His plan is to normalize the state of emergency (http://thesaker.is/macron-to-turn-the-state-of-emergency-into-common-law/) police practices with a formal bill this Wednesday.

And even pro-austerity people (falsely) claim their “reforms need time to take effect”; clearly, unrest won’t stop in the interim because there will be no alleviation of ongoing suffering.

I can report that many believe that social unrest will get worse. It’s a fair prediction: Why should we not presume that more years of repression will not lead to intensification?

But no worries: there is no “French Street”. That’s only for gutter people like Arabs, right?

But French rues will certainly see major unrest in response to Macron and the parliamentarians they just voted in.

Should this voting contradiction be attributed to those ‘confounding French’?
Such stereotypes are obviously absurd, but they do make for interesting heds and subheds. But in the English-language press – so infected with the virus that is English tabloid journalism – this interpretation will be seriously debated.

A more intelligent analysis is: The French couldn’t vote in new ideas, so they settled for voting in new faces.

But this is another problem with the French model: The new faces should also have had different ideas in 2017.

Even though the brand-new party Unsubmissive France (real left, not far-left or hard-left) and their Communist allies won 14% of the popular vote, they are looking at only around 30 seats – just 5.1% of the 577 total seats. That is clearly a problem, and this is another reason why abstention is trending sharply upward this century.

Add in the National Front’s 13% of the popular vote and only around 7 seats (1.3% of the total seats) and this problem becomes exponentially compounded like vile banker interest.

So the French did vote in a serious minority – 27% for these two groups – but French capitalist democracy (bourgeois and not worker, unmodern, anti-socialist) only allotted them 6% worth of representation at the highest legislative level. That…must be aggravating.

But this is normal in the European Social Democratic model – simply ask the Greeks, the Portuguese, the Finnish, the Italians, and others and, until March 2019, the British. After that, the UK is on their own and can only speak from reminiscence.

There will be 2 new key faces: Marine Le Pen finally won a seat on her 3rd try. As her appallingly bad debate against Macron (https://thesaker.is/le-pen-clowns-at-debate-instead-of-taking-anti-austerity-seriously/) proved, she is now free to clown around in front of the really expensive cameras on a regular basis, which was likely her only goal all this time.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the head of Unsubmissive France, won on his first try. He’s a good orator, and the left’s only real hope, whatever flaws he is always pasted with, so this is good. The most heavily-immigrant and Muslim area –Seine-Saint-Denis adjacent to Paris – also elected a UF delegate despite the highest abstention of the 102 departments.

Who will lose: Macron the golden child of capitalist fantasies, or the people?
I get paid to crystal ball – actually, this is free – so what I’ll say is:
5:1 odds that France protests and right-wing reforms are still forced through. I.e. the status quo since the Great Recession began.

20:1 odds that France protests on the level of 1995, when a three-week general strike actually forced the withdrawal of right-wing “deforms” (only 3 weeks!). Not many horses win at 20:1, but it’s not impossible. Frankly, I’ve seen a lot of talk and no action in my 8 years in France. Yeah more social action than the US, but c’mon…that’s like being the tallest building in Topeka, Kansas.

30:1 odds that Macron and EU leaders agree on moderate but truly democratic reforms in the next 5 years. Whatever they do will be branded “democratic”, but the “2-speed solution” is already in place (https://thesaker.is/eu-to-offer-2-speed-solution-too-late-to-stop-french-election/), so that’s not really reform, just a changed tactic under the status quo.

1,000:1 odds that Macron and EU leaders agree on reforms which are democratic enough to stop continued unrest and the slide in the standard of living. I would offer 1,000,000:1 odds, but I can’t pay that off.
The needed reforms are not Macron’s – they are anti-capitalist and pro-socialist. The right wing has failed, in France and across the West. The left has lost in the West, but succeeded in places like China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and very few others.

These are quite simple facts, and 40 years is no longer a small sample size.

No comfort can be given, due to France’s new reality
There is no opposition party.

The mainstream conservatives are technically it, and they are more pro-austerity and pro-security than Macron’s centrist alliance. They won’t stop the death of the French model.

These two groups account for about 480 of 577 seats – a stunning 83% of Parliament (with only 54% of the total vote).

Macron – as his neo-fascist bill this week proves – is both far-right on security and economics. It’s crucial to accept that the far-right wave in Europe is actually continuing – do not overrate Marine Le Pen’s loss, as the 1% wants you to do.

When it comes to real power in France there is no opposition in 2017. There is no left. There is no far-left. There is no far-right. There are only voices without power.

Sounds about right….