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    ... parceque Ça Chauffe:
    This week in totalitarianism: France bans gatherings "due to heatwave" as Germany mulls annual mask mandate, China uses Covid app to target protestors

    Will Jones
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    Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:11 UTC



    Sceptical blogger Eugyppius has spotted the creeping normalisation of draconian Covid measures to address other 'public health' issues.

    The BBC reports that outdoor public events have been banned in an area of France - because of the heat, I kid you not.
    Outdoor public events have been banned in an area of France as a record breaking heatwave sweeps across Europe.

    In Gironde, officials said public events, including some of the official June 18th Resistance celebrations, will be prohibited from Friday at 2pm "until the end of the heat wave". Indoor events at venues without air-conditioning are also banned.

    Private celebrations, such as weddings, will still be allowed.

    "Everyone now faces a health risk," local official Fabienne Buccio told France Bleu radio.
    Then we hear that the German Federal Government is considering making face masks compulsory in October, just because it's October.
    In preparing new infection control measures, the Federal Government is intensively discussing a general obligation to wear a mask beginning in October... Part of the coalition Government favours introducing a so-called "O-to-O" ["Oktober bis Ostern" - "October to Easter"] rule, which up to now has been used primarily for motorists, requiring winter tyres on the roads between October and Easter. In future, a similar rule could apply to indoor mask mandates during this period.

    In response to a question from Welt on Sunday, the Chancellor's Office said that such a rule was being considered among various possible regulations for upcoming amendments of the Infection Protection Act...

    A seasonal mask requirement would be an attempt to curb other respiratory infections besides COVID-19, supporters of the plan say.
    Eugyppius comments that "everything crazy internet people told you about why lockdowns were a bad idea is coming true".
    The most destructive aspects of containment have been retired, but for what remains, they don't even bother with Corona as an excuse anymore. All you need is a heat wave to ban mass gatherings in France now; public health officials just have to declare that "Everyone faces a health risk", and that's it, your right to assemble is voided. The lunatic German Government, meanwhile, is feverishly trying to make masks a permanent feature of winter life, even if SARS-2 disappears tomorrow. Masks might "curb ... respiratory infections", and that's all you need to mandate face coverings in a major central European country these days.
    Eugyppius's post is worth reading in full.

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    Default Re: Ça Chauffe! - Turmoil in France

    This might not be a perfect fit for this thread, it's not a story about protest or turmoil in France but about a seemingly bungled French police investigation into a multiple murder that happened 10 years ago in the French Alps. We've had quite a few stories in our press over the years about botched French police investigations (though it's not the case that our coppers are perfect either), but this tragic event made international news.

    The source is behind a paywall, so here are the pertinent parts.

    "What went wrong in the French Alps murder investigation – by the detective who saw it all

    Ten years on, the murder of a British family remains unsolved - and the lead UK detective says that the investigation was 'damaged by egos'


    There are images Mark Preston wishes he could erase from memory, but after a 30-year career as a detective, a handful of cases invade his thoughts on an almost daily basis. One is the unsolved, staggeringly violent case of the al-Hilli family, three of whom were, along with a French cyclist, shot dead in an Alpine beauty spot on 5 September 2012.

    A decade on, Preston, who led the British end of the investigation for three years, can still see the crime-scene photos of Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal and her mother Suhaila al-Allaf, each shot twice in the head, in the family’s bullet-riddled BMW. He thinks about the two little daughters who somehow survived the attack, and wonders what their lives are like today. He goes over and over the facts involuntarily, wondering what he could have done differently and what he might have missed. 
    ‘It leaves an emotional footprint,’ he says.

    Having worked on dozens of murders, the al-Hilli case is the retired detective chief inspector’s major unfinished business. It is also the ‘most complex and challenging’ investigation of his career – but it should not have been unsolvable. 

    Preston believes the murder inquiry was hampered by a series of blunders by French investigators, who apparently failed to secure vital pieces of evidence and, in his view, spent years going down blind alleys. He claims that instead of keeping an open mind about who might have pulled the trigger, and why, they fixated on a single theory, eventually abandoned, meaning the trail had gone cold by the time they considered alternatives.

    ‘I couldn’t get the investigation in France to change direction and that I bitterly regret,’ he says. ‘There were times when the French asked us to do things and we took them at face value because we were fearful of damaging the relationship, when we should have just said, “You’re wrong.”

    This is all laid out in a new three-part Channel 4 documentary, Murder in the Alps. Preston, who retired from Surrey Police in 2019, hopes it might persuade someone to come forward with some information that could unlock the case. ‘There could be someone who was in a relationship with the gunman who is willing to come forward, or someone decides they can’t live with the guilt any more, or it could be a serving prisoner who said something to someone,’ he says.

    As to his belief about what happened: ‘When I combine all the evidence, there is one theory that would stand up to scrutiny, that fits very nicely…’

    The case became an international news story, not least because it made so little sense. Why would anyone have gunned down a middle-class British family, on a last-minute caravanning holiday to France, as they took an unplanned drive up a mountain road near Lake Annecy?

    Saad al-Hilli had stopped the family car in a lay-by and his eldest daughter, Zainab, then aged seven, had got out with him to look at a sign showing hiking trails. Before the rest of the family could get out of the car, the killer was upon them, firing at least 21 shots from a pre-Second World War Luger pistol. Saad managed to get back in the car, shouting to Zainab to do the same, and tried to drive away, only for the car’s wheels to get stuck.

    The gunman ruthlessly picked off Saad, 50, Iqbal, 47, and Suhaila, 74, as well as local cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, who had stopped to attend to his bike chain. Zainab was shot in the shoulder as she tried to get back in the car, and pistol-whipped over the head. She narrowly survived after being put into a coma for days. Her sister Zeena, aged four, ducked into the rear passenger footwell when the shooting began and hid under her mother’s legs. Eight hours later she was found, physically unharmed and still hiding, by French police.

    This is the first in a series of questions levelled at French police in the documentary: why did it take eight hours to find her?

    The investigation was already eight months old when Preston joined it, taking over from the previous senior investigating officer, who was moving on to another role, and he had concerns of his own: ‘My first impression was that the investigation had grown too big. There were lines of investigation that were taking up extraordinary amounts of time that were unnecessary,’ he recalls.

    ‘There was a big gap between my expectations and what was delivered by the French. From a forensics point of view, the crime scene was carnage. Items that were found in one part of the BMW were moved to another part… There was incompetence on the part of the French. But the bigger mistakes were strategic.’

    In overall charge was Eric Maillaud, the local prosecutor who had announced a week after the murders that ‘the reasons and causes have their origins in [the UK]’. The more Maillaud dug into the al-Hillis’ background, the more convinced he seemed to become that secrets within the family held the key. 

    Saad had fallen out with his brother Zaid over inheritance, and there were unproven allegations of a forged will. There was a Swiss bank account with almost a million euros in it that had belonged to their late father. Saad had a Taser in his home; police concluded he may have been worried about his safety. Zaid was arrested and questioned by Preston as part of the investigation.

    But the police’s job is to prove who committed a crime, and how, not why. Zaid had been in England at the time of the murders and, after months of ‘overt and covert’ evidence-gathering, there was ‘not a shred of evidence’, says Preston, that he was involved. Preston is convinced of his innocence.

    Investigators also made inquiries in Iraq, chasing down rumours that the al-Hillis, who came to the UK in 1968, had connections to Saddam Hussein. It went nowhere. There were reports that Saad, who worked for a company that makes satellites, could have been a spy, killed as part of an elaborate plot after arranging to hand over secrets. That, eventually, was also ruled out.

    Maillaud also discovered that Iqbal al-Hilli had lived in Louisiana before she met Saad, where she married a local man in 1999 and for 18 months was known as Kelly Thompson. Astonishingly, it emerged that her former husband, James Thompson, had died on the day of the murders. Was Iqbal the real target? The French wanted to exhume James’s body to see if he had been poisoned (rather than had the heart attack that was given as his cause of death) but US authorities declined.

    Maillaud’s belief that the al-Hillis had been the victims of a contract killing was heightened by another mystery: Saad and Iqbal’s passports were missing. Had they been taken by a hitman as proof that he had got the right targets? No. Almost two years after the murders, Saad’s passport was found in the pocket of his jacket, which had been bagged up without being properly searched.

    It was another terrible oversight by the French investigators – and there were more. The most important witness was a British RAF veteran called Brett Martin, who had been passed by Mollier as they both cycled up the hill; he was the first to discover the bodies and put Zainab in the recovery position. His clothes were covered in blood and he had touched a victim who had been in close contact with the killer, but the police did not immediately seize those clothes for forensic analysis – after he returned home, they were washed.

    Preston believes the French authorities’ insistence that the al-Hillis were the target of a ‘hit’ led to a blinkered ‘groupthink’ approach that ignored contradictory evidence and failed to explore other possibilities. ‘My experience is that investigations can often be damaged by egos,’ he says, ‘and I don’t think this case was any different.’

    Could investigators have been too eager to prove that foreign victims had been preyed on by foreign criminals, rather than having to look for evil in their own midst? ‘Hugely so,’ Preston says. ‘Within days of the inquiry starting, they were saying the answer lies in the UK. That’s an incredibly bold statement to make at a time when they couldn’t possibly be sure, and having made that statement, human nature makes it difficult to go back on it and admit you were wrong.’

    From the outset, Preston harboured an alternative theory. What if the al-Hillis were not the targets? In that case, everything about their colourful backgrounds would be a red herring. ‘I began to have my doubts that the al-Hillis were the target the first time I drove up the road to the murder scene,’ he says. ‘It’s a couple of miles of single-track road, so following someone up there is unlikely.’

    No one apart from the al-Hillis knew where they were going that day, so the idea of a gunman lying in wait for them seems impossible. If the family were the targets, why did the gunman, who tried to kill Zainab, apparently have no idea they had another daughter? And why would a professional hitman use such an antiquated weapon?

    Ballistics reports revealed another disturbing fact: Mollier had been shot no fewer than seven times, more than any other victim. When Preston reconstructed the sequence of events, he became convinced that Mollier was shot first, and that after turning his gun on the al-Hillis, the killer went back and shot Mollier again, in the face. Had Mollier been the intended target all along?

    ‘To me it was very clear the killer wanted Mollier dead,’ says Preston. It is this theory that ‘fits nicely’ with the circumstances, he says.

    Mollier, a divorced factory worker, had started a relationship with Claire Schutz, a local whose family owned a lucrative pharmacy business and who had recently given birth to his child. Mollier was known to go cycling in the area, and may well have mentioned to someone where he was going that day. 

    The car park marked the end of the metalled section of the road and he was on a road bike, so it was a logical place to predict he would take a break or at least turn around, and the obvious place to pick him off. The use of a Luger also points to a local killer; they were issued to Swiss soldiers for decades and many remain in circulation in the area, close to the Swiss border.
    ‘Maybe the gunman struck lucky by having the al-Hillis there,’ suggests Preston. ‘By killing the al-Hillis, it would have helped to disguise the real target and made the investigation much harder.’

    If that is the truth, it seems to have worked.

    French prosecutors are now working on the theory that it was a random attack. Preston shakes his head: ‘I don’t think it was random.’

    Maillaud says in the documentary that failing to find the passports for two years was ‘a mistake’, which was ‘down to the clumsiness of some of the investigators’. He dismisses as ‘fantasy’ the idea that influential people could have orchestrated a cover-up if Mollier was the intended target, and adds, ‘There are questions which we could ask for ever and I’m not sure we’ll ever get answers.’"
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    Default Re: Ça Chauffe! - Turmoil in France

    A concise summary of the situation in France by Alexander Mercouris at 17:29 in this video. (And what we're seeing in France, Mercouris correctly states, is reproducing itself everywhere.)
    • A lame duck president who doesn't know what to do.
    • A parliament that is in open revolt against him.
    • An angry and sullen population.
    • A military that's becoming increasingly critical.
    • An economic crisis that is only just beginning.

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    ... French Politician Slams Ukraine for Abandoning Howitzers to Russian Forces

    by tts-admin | June 27, 2022 |

    There is a lesson for the West in this. France recently gifted Ukraine with six self-propelled Caesar howitzers. Two were abandoned on the battlefield and are currently being examined at Russian defense labs, from where engineers sent a sarcastic thank you note to President Macron


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    ... Covid pass voted out in France



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    ... France threatens air-conditioned shops to keep doors shut under penalty of a fine

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    A notice announcing air-conditioning inside, as the air temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius in the centre of Nantes, western France, on July 13, 2022. © Loic VENANCE / AFP

    Leaving the doors open, when the air conditioning is on, leads to "20 percent more consumption and... it's absurd," French Minister of Ecological Transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher told RMC radio.


    Full article: https://www.sott.net/article/470310-...alty-of-a-fine

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    ... France threatens air-conditioned shops to keep doors shut under penalty of a fine

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    Sun, 24 Jul 2022 18:45 UTC


    A notice announcing air-conditioning inside, as the air temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius in the centre of Nantes, western France, on July 13, 2022. © Loic VENANCE / AFP

    Leaving the doors open, when the air conditioning is on, leads to "20 percent more consumption and... it's absurd," French Minister of Ecological Transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher told RMC radio.


    Full article: https://www.sott.net/article/470310-...alty-of-a-fine
    What's the point ? Smaller shops & banks don't leave the door wide open when they have the clim on anyway, the bigger places have automatic doors. Well they did when I lived there pre covid.

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    ... Ça Chauffe encore et toujours!

    France on course for driest July on record

    The Local France
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    An aerial view shows the dried out bed of Brenets Lake, part of the Doubs river, a natural border between eastern France and western Switzerland© Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP

    "The month of July will very likely be the driest July ever recorded since 1959," spokesman Christian Veil from Meteo-France told AFP.

    On average, just eight mm (0.3 inches) of rain fell across the country from July 1-25, less than the previous low of 16 mm which was clocked in 2020, he said.

    "We're in a very difficult situation even though we're only at the end of July," he said, saying soil humidity was at record lows and many trees were losing their leaves prematurely.

    Farmers across the country are reporting difficulties in feeding livestock because of parched grasslands, while irrigation has been banned in large areas of northwest and southeast France due to water shortages.

    The flow of the river Loire for example, which empties into the Atlantic in northwest France, has fallen by a quarter since the start of July.

    On the eastern river Rhine, which forms the France-Germany border, commercial boats are having to run at a third of their carrying capacity in order to avoid hitting the bottom because the water level is so low.

    A total of 90 out of 96 administrative regions in mainland France have water restrictions of some sort, a record number, according to the environment ministry.

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    ... Over 100 French towns without drinking water amid 'historic drought'

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    The fountains of Concorde plaza are empty in Paris, France, as Europe is under an extreme heat wave, Aug. 3, 2022. © AP Photo/Francois Mori/ File

    More than 100 towns in France have no more drinking water and must receive deliveries by truck, France's ecological transition minister said while visiting the country's southeastern region.

    "There are already more than a hundred municipalities in France that today have no more drinking water, and for which supplies are being transported by truck to these municipalities because there is nothing left in the pipes," said Christophe Béchu, while visiting the town of Roumoules.

    Multiple European countries are experiencing historic drought conditions amid low precipitation and high temperatures made more likely due to climate change.

    France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne activated an interministerial crisis cell on Friday to address the drought which her office said in a statement was the "worst ever recorded" in the country.

    "The exceptional drought that we are currently experiencing is depriving many municipalities of water and is a tragedy for our farmers, our ecosystems and biodiversity," the statement said.

    Borne called on the French to be "very vigilant about the use of our water resources."

    Already, 66 French départements -- more than two-thirds of them -- are at the highest drought warning level of "crisis" with at least 93 départements at one of the top three levels of warning for drought.

    The ecological transition minister Béchu said the challenge was to tighten up water restrictions to avoid getting to the point where there is no longer any water.

    Already in areas at the crisis warning level, there are restrictions on watering golf courses, filling pools, watering gardens, and washing cars. Some areas are no longer allowed to have fountains running.

    Capital city Paris has been placed on the first level of the alert system for drought with the city already taking measures to limit water usage, including watering parks only at night.
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    In the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s recent sixth assessment report, scientists said that human-caused climate change would contribute to the "increased likelihood and severity of the impact of droughts" in several regions.

    Climate change will also impact the likelihood of other extreme weather events such as floods.
    A recent report from the European Commission said that nearly half of the EU is exposed to warning levels of drought. This is likely to threaten agricultural production and crop yields in several countries.

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    Deliberate?
    The love you withhold is the pain that you carry
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    ... ben, voilà, ça chauffe déjà plus; from Jim Stone:
    Russia to HAS cut gas to Largest gas supplier in Europe

    France's Engie gas has the largest gas distribution system in Europe, spanning several countries. Engie did not pay their gas bill, there's no political play on the part of Russia, obviously no one expects Russia to send free gas!!! The link goes to RT, in case you can't hit RT, here's the text:

    "Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom confirmed on Tuesday it had cut off gas supplies to French utilities company Engie. The Paris-based firm has failed to pay for July gas deliveries in full, the Saint Petersburg major explained.

    Gazprom informed Engie that it would cease the gas deliveries starting September 1 until the moment it gets the payment for the already supplied gas in full, the energy giant said in a statement. It also noted that the French side had failed to make the payment by Tuesday evening, making any further gas deliveries impossible under Russian law.

    Earlier in the day, Engie warned that Gazprom had informed it "of a reduction in gas deliveries" and cited "a disagreement between the parties on the application of some contracts," according to Bloomberg. It did not provide any details about the nature of the disagreements and did not specify the level of delivery restrictions.

    French Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher accused Moscow of using its gas exports as a weapon on Tuesday. She also said that France "must prepare for the worst-case scenario of a complete interruption of supplies." Her statement was made before the Gazprom announcement."

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    So, that stupid French energy minister announces Russia will cut the gas BEFORE Russia did, DID NOT PAY FOR THE GAS and then called - being disconnected for nonpayment - Russia using gas as a "weapon". Cute. I see how that works!!! Gotta beat those war drums somehow!

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    Yesterday:

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    ... Swiss Citizens Who Overheat Their Homes This Winter Could Face Hefty Fines & 3 Years In Jail

    by Tyler Durden
    Thursday, Sep 08, 2022 - 12:55 PM

    After the Swiss and Finns joined the Germans, Austrians, and Swedes in bailing out there energy providers, who are facing trillions in margin calls; new legislation covering Switzerland’s energy supply will make heating homes to more than 19°C unlawful in the event of an energy shortage.

    In addition, hot water should not be heated to more than 60 degrees, and portable electric heaters, saunas, and heated swimming pools are prohibited.



    Remix News' Thomas Brooke reports that Swiss citizens found to be in violation of the country’s new heating rules, which prohibit warming homes above 19°C this winter, could face daily fines of up to 3,000 Swiss francs and up to three years in prison.

    To note, the World Health Organization has long held that a temperature no colder than 20°C is recommended for children, the elderly, and those with existing health conditions.

    Markus Spörndli, a spokesperson of the Swiss Department of Economics (DEF) explained that “infringements of the law on the supply of the country are always misdemeanors, even […] crimes, and must be prosecuted ex officio by the cantons.”

    The fine to be imposed on consumers found to be violating the new energy laws will range from 30 francs up to a maximum of 3,000 francs per day, Spörndli said, confirming the amount would be dependent on the nature of the offense and the economic situation of the perpetrator.

    Furthermore, willful violations of the government guidelines could see consumers jailed for up to three years in prison, something Spörndli says the government hopes to avoid.
    “The draft ordinances are based primarily on the fact that the vast majority of the population respects the laws,” he added.
    Economy Minister Guy Parmelin told a press conference at the Federal Council last Wednesday that Switzerland is “not a police state,” but it is understood, as reported by Swiss news outlet Blick, that there may be spot checks undertaken to ensure people are complying with the rules.

    Swiss cantons now have until Sept. 22 to discuss the proposals and address how they may be enforced, with some officials concerned they may be inundated with citizen complaints from nosy neighbors.

    As such, the DEF only expects fines to be dished out “if the infringement was reported and checked and could then be proven.”

    However, police chiefs believe enforcement will be difficult.
    “There are still a few open questions that need to be clarified,” Fredy Fässler told Blick, adding that he does not want to see the energy police going door to door: “We want to apply the ordinance with discernment.”
    As we previously highlighted, numerous other European countries are introducing similar restrictions in the face of a worsening energy crisis following the shut down of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

    French economist Charles Gave said many more people aren’t buying the narrative that Vladimir Putin is solely to blame for the crisis.

    “For the last 15 years, our European leaders have gone into a climate craze, promoting magic mirrors and windmills as the solution. It does not work. These solutions demand the same capacity in gas power plants,” Gave said.

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    ... world largest food distribution terminal... disrupted.

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    Who shoots themselves in the foot deliberately? Nonsensical politics. Who benefits?
    The love you withhold is the pain that you carry
    and er..
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    REALLY long gas/petrol lines in France. (Watch the 20 second Telegram video below)
    One in ten French petrol stations running on empty as refinery strike continues

    https://t.me/azmilitary11/23991


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    As best I understand, this was a demonstration demanding that France leave NATO.

    https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/28842


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    ... yes ^^^ (Let's quit NATO, quick!)

    and, not too unrelated (from French military brass, no less):

    Home / 2022 / October / 05 / French General Tributes The Unvaccinated… “Superheroes” Who “Embody The Best Of Humanity”

    French General Tributes The Unvaccinated… “Superheroes” Who “Embody The Best Of Humanity”

    By P Gosselin on 5. October 2022
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    Unvaccinated Are “Cut From The Cloth Of The Greatest Who Ever Lived”

    As an unvaccinated resident living in Germany I’ve experienced first hand periods of psychological hell and dark hours over the past year or so, what follows is one for the greatest compliments and motivational messages I’ve ever seen in my 63 and half years of life.

    Last month French General Christian Blanchon paid tribute in the French press to the UNVACCINATED for their extraordinary achievement in withstanding immense – even inhuman – pressure from all sides.

    His powerful message of “tribute” gives all the people who were defamed, marginalized and viciously attacked during the Corona period the credit they deserve. They stood strong against the worst imaginable kind of government and institutional coercion, and did so peacefully, courageously and intellectually.

    Tribute in honor of the unvaccinated

    By General Christian Blanchon
    (Translated, emphasis added, from the German here by P. Gosselin)
    They are there, by your side, they seem normal, but they are superheroes.

    Even if I were fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressures I have ever seen, including from spouses, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors.

    People who were capable of such character, courage and critical thinking undoubtedly embody the best of humanity.

    They can be found everywhere, in all age groups, educational levels, countries and opinions.

    They are of a special kind. They are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks.

    They are the parents that every child desires and the children that every parent dreams of.

    They are beings beyond the average of their societies, they are the essence of the peoples who have built all cultures and conquered all horizons.

    They are with you, by your side, they seem normal, but they are superheroes.

    They did what others could not, they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion.

    And they did it because they thought they were alone, and they believed they were alone.

    Excluded from their families’ Christmas tables, they had never seen anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, they let go of their careers, they had no money…

    But they persevered.

    They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciations, betrayals and humiliations…

    … yet they persevered.

    Never before in human history has there been such a “casting”, we now know who the resistance fighters are on planet Earth.

    Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races and all religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen ones of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.

    You are the ones who passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not master
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    You are cut from the cloth of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.”

    – Gen. Christian Blanchon (8 September 2022)
    That’s what I call one hell of a general. God speed you, sir!

    I’m going to frame this tribute and hang it on the wall.


    French original version: https://profidecatholica.com/2022/09...-non-vaccines/ 12 septembre 2022
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    This beautiful text has been attributed to many authors in different languages and it is hard to believe that the General Blanchon is the originator. I am not impressed by my sporadic contacts with french retired military. There are though some strong independent voices with military experience that are getting organized to liberate France. .And what to believe of a hidden international military alliance that is operating under total secrecy?

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