by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times
Here’s the body count in the latest geopolitical earthquake afflicting the West: The Socialist Party in France is dead. The traditional Right is comatose. What used to be the Extreme Left is alive, and still kicking.
Yet what’s supposed to be the shock of the new is not exactly a shock. The more things veer towards change (we can believe in), the more they stay the same. Enter the new normal: the recycled “system” – as in Emmanuel Macron — versus “the people” — as in the National Front’s Marine Le Pen, battling for the French presidency on May 7.
Although that was the expected outcome, it’s still significant. Le Pen, re-christened “Marine”, reached the second round of voting despite a mediocre campaign.
She essentially reassembled — but did not expand — her voting base. I have argued on Asia Times that Macron is nothing but an artificial product, a meticulously packaged hologram designed to sell an illusion.
Only the terminally naïve may believe Macron incarnates change when he’s the candidate of the EU, NATO, the financial markets, the Clinton-Obama machine, the French establishment, assorted business oligarchs and the top six French media groups.
As for the stupidity of the Blairite Left, it’s now in a class by itself.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the domesticated hard-left of Insubordinate France, managed to equal the Catholic Right François Fillon in the final stretch. Yet the vapid PS candidate, Benoit Hamon, stole Mélenchon’s shot at hitting the second round.
As for Marine, she lost almost four points in the final tally. With one extra week of campaigning Fillon, despite Penelopegate, could have been equal with Marine.
Marine has only one extremely long shot on May 7. She will be frantically touring “deep France” to turn the second round into a debate on French identity and a clash of nationalists, patriots and sovereignists against pro-EU globalists and urban “liquid modernity” practitioners.
So what do they want?
Frontists are ready to rip Emmanuel Clinton’s neoliberal program to pieces, which will play very well in rural France and may even yield a few disgruntled Mélenchon votes.
Unlike Fillon and Hamon, he has not gone public calling his supporters to vote Macron. Disgruntled Fillon voters may also be inclined to switch to Marine — considering Fillon was viscerally opposed to someone he described as “Emmanuel Hollande.”
A quick look at the promises is in order. In a nutshell; Marine proffers a social model that “favors the French people;” Macron offers vague, “profound reforms.”
Macron’s plan to save 60 billion euros of public funds implies firing 120,000 functionaries; that is a certified recipe to a “see you in the barricades” scenario.
Marine only says she wants to reduce the public deficit — aiming at reducing state medical aid, the French contribution to the EU, and fiscal fraud.
Neither wants to raise the minimum wage and VAT. Both want to reduce the tax burden on companies and both want to fight the “Uberization” of work, favoring French companies (Marine) and European companies (Macron).
Marine’s absolute priority is to reduce social aid to foreigners and restitute “buying power” especially to pensioners and low-income workers. She’s vague about unemployment.
Macron’s “profound reforms” are centered on unemployment insurance and pensions. He’s keen on a universal unemployment protection managed by the state. Everyone would be covered, including in the case of being fired. Marine and Macron coincide on one point; better reimbursement of costly health benefits.
Europe is at the heart of the Marine vs Macron fight; that’s Frexit against a “new European project.”
Everyone in Brussels “voted” Macron as he proposes a budget for the eurozone, a dedicated Parliament, and a dedicated Minister of Finance. In short; Brussels on steroids.
Marine’s Frexit should be decided via a referendum — a direct consequence of the frontist obsession with immigration. Marine wants to reduce legal admission of immigrants to 10,000 people a year (it’s currently 200,000), tax employment of foreign workers, and suppress social aid. In contrast, pro-immigration Macron aims at what he calls an open France, “faithful to its values.”
On foreign policy, it’s all about Russia. Marine wants a “strategic realignment” with Moscow especially to fight Salafi-jihadi terror.
Macron — reflecting a French establishment as Russophobic as in the US — is against it, although he concedes that Europe must come to terms with Russia even as he defends the current sanctions.
About that Wall of Cash
If the coming, epic clash could be defined by just one issue that would be the unlimited power of the Wall of Cash.
Macron subscribes to the view that public debt and expenses on public service are the only factors responsible for French debt, so one must have “political courage” to promote reforms.
Sociologist Benjamin Lemoine is one of the few who’s publicly debating what’s really behind it — the interest of financiers to preserve the value of the debt they hold and their aversion to any negotiation.
Because they control the narrative, they are able to equate “political risk” — be it Marine or Mélenchon — with the risk to their own privileged positions.
The real issue at stake in France — and across most of the West — revolves around the conflicting interests of financial masters and citizens attached to public service and social justice.
The coming clash between Emmanuel Clinton and Marine LeTrump won’t even begin to scratch the surface.
“As for the stupidity of the Blairite Left, it’s now in a class by itself”.
Don’t you mean – at the very least – “the Blairite ‘Left'”? The very phrase “Blairite Left” is an extreme oxymoron – something like “soft diamond” or “sweet-smelling sewage”. Blairites are not “Left” or “Right” – they are unprincipled opportunists.
When Tony Blair – or rather his coterie of pseudo-intellectual hangers-on – invented “New Labour” more than 20 years ago, their thought process was something along these lines:
1. Labour has repeatedly demonstrated that, the more it remains true to its principles, the worse the defeats it suffers at the polls.
2. As presently constituted, Labour is unelectable.
3. So what we need to do is to discard outmoded and unhelpful encumbrances such as “socialism”, helping the working people, “human rights”, and so on.
4. What the British voter is apparently willing to support is middle-of-the-road, “safe pair of hands” managerialism.
5. So let’s steal all the Conservatives’ policies, while replacing their unwelcome, tired, dull, middle-aged faces with some bright new ones and a lot of fashionable jargon.
6. Result! Election victory, 15 years of hopeless misrule, and the final end of Labour as a party. (But it was fun while it lasted).
LOL … my reaction exactly. That ‘Blairite Left’ is a contradiction in terms.
Although, it does seem to be heading to the point, at least viewed from America, that ‘the left’ is now very pro-war, pro-banker, pro-corporation, pro-spying, pro-torture.
Well, there is still a real left, at least some remnants still out there, but they never, ever appear on TV.
maybe it could be spelt – Blare right left
I spelt Blair wrong intentionally because then its kind of like Trumpet Blarring Right Left – Right Left Right Left –
It’s the white-livered liar and Fabian – comparable to Roth-child Nazis/Trotskyites – Bliar.
Maybe Pepe is actually right (Marine LeTrump) and the whole Jean-Marie Le Pen (& family) circus is nothing but another Roth-child Nazi controlled opposition project (and was from the very start).
The whole thing certainly looks shady. One never gets used to these lying psychopaths, cr-ISIS actors, but that’s most likely what they are. There’re far too much (rabidly anti-Muslim) Zionist Jews involved anyway.
https://wideawakegentile.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/the-le-pen-family-jesuits-jewish-boyfriends-and-mossad-daddies/
“The real issue at stake in France — and across most of the West — revolves around the conflicting interests of financial masters and citizens attached to public service and social justice.”
That is a crude misreading.
This is not a conflict, but a (racketeering) business model. The higher the state, corporate and private debts, the deeper the knives of debt slavery cut into the flesh of our planet and humanity.
Well, no one would dare to publish it if Pepe told the truth too plainly. Most of it is pretty clear though.
Except why on earth is he still comparing Marie Le Pen to the (now provenly) monstrous fraud Trump? No doubt this U$ farce has already hurt her, apart from the monstrous smear campaign there’s always been against her and her father.
France as the rest of the West has simply a Roth-child Nazi/Trotskyite totalitarian system. It is the exact opposite of a democracy, A banana republic run by no-account thugs. That’s why the most likely people’s candidate Asselineau gets less than 1%, and the other people’s candidate has only an extremely long shot on May 7 (the vote – count – itself is no doubt totally rigged as well). The West is a Nazi tyranny. There’s no difference between Nazi Germany (or Ukraine) and the West.
If Ms. LaPen can make it into a vote on ‘financial masters vs citizens’, then that’s her best chance at winning. Over the past few years, every time an election is framed in such a way, the people vote against ‘the financial masters’. UK-Brexit, Greece and US elections all come to mind. Of course, in 2 out of 3, the eventual winners were lying to the citizens and turned out to be just another tool of the financial masters (Greece, Trump).
But still, there’s an obvious trend that when its a straight-up contest, the bankers lose.
Asselineau did quite probably get more votes than the results show. Voting fraude has been witnessed by many and on monday a petition requesting research into these matters had already well over 50,000 signatures.
http://www.mesopinions.com/petition/politique/commission-enquete-resultats-votes-election-presidentielle/29785
http://www.lepouvoirmondial.com/archive/2017/04/22/asselineau-et-cheminade-touches-dans-17-departements-par-les-5935809.html
Seems a little strange that the term “NATO” is not part of the discussion.
Since we have given up on political change in the US, as Trump has emerged as a champion of the neocons, the “last hope” to avoid nuclear war with Russia seemed to be the dissolution of NATO via the election of Le Pen. Of course, such promises in the past have always been illusory, but in order to provide some semblance of sanity it is helpful/necessary to cling to some shards of hope amidst the insanity.
Or maybe it is time to embrace the Apocalypse?
Thierry Meyssan’s latest:
France caught up in terrorism, victim of her own NATO allies
France has just become the victim of a new terrorist attack, three days before the first round of her Presidential election. For Thierry Meyssan, Paris needs to stop talking rubbish and realise the importance of what this means. International terrorism, in which France herself participates, is commanded and used – even against her – by certain of her NATO allies.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article196085.html
So if the vote is rigged, which I have no doubt it is, what will everyone say if/when Le Pen wins? Are the examples of Trump and Brexit too much for the French Deep State to pass up? I have no idea what polls in France are saying but nothing will change either way, though perhaps if French voters come to believe they actually voted for a Rothschild they are truly beaten. Heart and soul, the France of Charles DeGaulle is dead.
Except (Ashke-) Nazi/ISIS run Paris is entirely the terrorist itself of course – false flags-hoaxes in France, and terror in the Middle East and Africa.
Gearóid Ó Colmáin (as in his famous RT interview) and Joe Quinn (sott.net) dare to almost spell it out: http://www.gearoidocolmain.org/impact-champs-elysees-attack-french-presidential-election/
I don’t like this lumping Marine and Trump together as if they have anything whatsoever in common. Marine is no Trump, not even by a longshot. She’s no bumbling billionaire who can’t speak properly or or even form some sort of coherent thought and reasoning. Marine is a very polished and sharp politician who knows exactly what she stands for, so please don’t call her the French “Trump”.
Macron is indeed just an artificial construct as those in power realized they can’t use the Hollande platform anymore. So they made up this Marche BS and put their carefully selected golden boy in there. A tool for the bankers and the Merkel gang. With Macron France can look forward to austerity and yet more austerity to pay debt interest to German bankers.
Look at the candidates and their following, they’re all nationalist except for one.
Fillon – Christian conservative, wants return to old French nationalist values.
Melenchon – The French version of “Syriza”, wants to break free from the bankers.
Le Pen – The Frexit alternative to break free from Brussels, ECB and euro bankers.
Macron – More EU, ECB and austerity to pay interest to bankers.
Fillon and Melenchon are no longer in the race, does anyone believe their supporters will vote Macron???
Only way Macron can win is if he starts running his own version of a nationalist agenda. -There aren’t enough young women to fall for his cute smile to shore up that many votes. He’d have to grow up and become very French and very serious about what he stands for. I think most thinking adults in France can see right through Macron and his vacuous campaign..
@ ‘Jonas’
“I don’t like this lumping Marine and Trump together”. Agreed. Only a hopelessly deluded American can still believe Trump – possibly the thickest, most cultureless, inarticulate, self-regarding, bottom feeder yet to surface at the top of US shamocracy – is standing for them. Le Pen is the real deal.
“does anyone believe their supporters will vote Macron???”
He does not have to ‘win’. But the narrative and rational of why he will is being laid out in public everywhere, to prepare people for when it happens. It can not seem that an impossibility occurs. I guarantee that it will be a 49/51% type split again in favor of the establishment need. The difference between win and lose will be be a fix – overseas voters, double votes, polling machines, media bias, etc. The job for now is to make sure that voters kind of expect to lose, so that they are unquestioning when the inexplicable happens. Le Pen will not, can not, must not win. So she wont.
Macron, macro, maquereau.
Lepen if elected to the presidency could probably end up as Donald Trump. She will “forgot” all the promises very soon and continue with business as usual with a few cosmetic changes. Her political and economic proposals are too vague to be considered seriously, while her foreign policy is similar to trump’s ( let’s get along with Russia) . She will also lack parliamentary support as FN is impossible to win majority support at the coming parliamentary elections.
Melenchon will be submissive too if he had any change of being elected. He is similar to the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, a pseudo leftist who was portrayed by the corporate media as an anti austerity “radical ” but ended up a joke. Melenchon’s program is vague too, focusing on ecology and less austerity but
never explicitly mentions a withdrawal from EU and NATO or any nationalisations.
Xcv, Le Pen will put the country through a referendum first. If the French vote to leave she has the political mandate she needs to wield power. If they vote no she’ll resign.
She’s no Trump, she much much smarter than that.
I bet they already have something on Le Pen, so even if she wins, they will get to her as soon as she is elected to blackmail her and she will end up like Trump.
Why do I get the feeling that this is the last cycle of elections we will have in the West for a while?
If Macron continues driving France, as the vassal incumbents do Germany, Austria, Italy, etc against their people’s will, this will be the last time they vote. The sham is becoming ever more clear. Next they will march, or their repressors will.
Fiat everything. (Fiat = faith = something with no value is worth what the promoter claims it is worth). Fiat money, fiat sex, fiat sexuality, fiat faith, fiat democracy, fiat marriage, fiat house prices, fiat celebrities, fiat economy, fiat nationality, fiat education, fiat freedom, fiat elections and fiat Presidents. All these bubbles blown and inflated by a culture of debt.
And that’s why I get the sense that we have reached the end of believable, rational electioneering. All these bubbles have been blown so big they are becoming really, visibly transparent.
How do you let all manner of bubbles down at once? During a traditional, great distraction. War.
Last vote or not.. voting does not change anything so why bother. Next step will be an armed revolution.
Armed revolution. By the people against the establishment. People have been saying that since the 60’s. In the west, only the blacks and the French take pride in the threat of revolt, and have used it in recent history. Everyone else, not so much. If anyone will, the French will, but I doubt it.
As I said, revolution is an option for the public but also the aristocracy. If the 20th century is anything to go by, a revolution will be in the form of repression of the public, not the other way around.
You see, a globalist one-world government that these people are moving us towards can not be democratic. Am I, in the UK, to vote on an issue with the Bangladeshi’s? At what point do our interests and needs coincide? If you follow their logic, democracy is being killed off because it has no place in their vision of the future. If voting becomes a total sham, it equally serves their purpose of disbanding it. Which ever way you look at it, democratic voting for the plebs is coming to an end.
Voting always has been more of a ritual the citizens are invited participate in to make them believe they are represented so they keep quiet.
Like the US and Canadian elections, there is no viable candidate/party on offer that will improve the situation, let alone stop the slide into a Rothschild/Zionist/0.001%/corporate/militarist global empire.
Macron is a Rothschild production, no more, no less, just like Clinton.
Le Pen is probably the less-worse choice regarding the nature of her 0.001% backers, and in that is similar to Trump (vs the Clinton Crime Cabal).
But as we have seen, the Rothschilds/Zionists/0.001% are prepared to play “both sides” of politics against the people of the world. Why would France be treated any differently by them that any other country?
The first sentence I consider rather important. That no political party nor movement seems to be representing the mass of ‘ordinary citizens’ in these elections.
One key is that if we want that, and we seem to desperately need that, it must arise and be organized from the bottom up. We see too many con-people who try to claim leadership for themselves, but such a movement can only be trusted if it comes from the bottom-up.
Though I do believe Macron will win. The suicide pact continues in France. I am curious about one thing.If from things I’ve read before, Fillion voters are French conservative nationalists (not the party elite perhaps,but the voters). Why would they vote for Macron who is everything they are not. And not for Le Pen who at least seems much closer to their thinking. As as for the far left.Why would they vote for a globalist financier like Macron.Instead of someone ,who while on the right. Seems to share more of their economic ideas than Macron ever could. It seems to me both Fillion voters,and the far left,don’t need Macron to destroy France. They are doing a good job with that on their own.
I had a chat with a french priest friend the night before the election. Part of quite a large large, young community across Europe, but mainly France, it had largely voted Fillion. The sequence of their priorities was that Fillion was their man, Le Pen was distasteful, but Macron represented pure evil. People DO see him for what he is. They seemed ready to vote against him if it was a le Pen/Macron run off, knowing that Le Pen is probably a one term problem whereas Macron is something palpably sinister. As ‘Gay’ once meant ‘light spirited’, ‘Liberal’ is becoming increasingly associated with illegal invasions, war mongering, crack downs on civil liberties, fundamentalism of small interest groups.
“Hey, Hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?”
Sorry, your last sentence caused a flashback to when I entered this theater. :)
Yes,sadly the “liberalism” from those days is gone. And replaced by the very evil they purported to dislike,ironic.
Liberalism had just one meaning from the mid 1700’s until 1930. It was capitalist before that was a common word, it was anti-religious, and promoted “equity” over “equality”. Over a long era, libearl came to mean pro-bank. In 1930-32, the American Democrats re-purposed the word liberal, to mean left-wing. In truth, classical liberalism is exactly the opposite social policy from what the left talks about (but almost never implements.) When people lack even the very words to describe their situation, they can’t think straight. The American Democrats did not do this innocently. No, it was malign.
If you watch closely, you will see that the better-educated part of the political classes still use liberalism with the old meaning. So “liberal” was changed with an intent to deceive, but people who can’t afford to be deceived know both meanings and use the older, more accurate one, when talking with their peers. In South America, the word “liberal” has always retained its classical meaning.
@ cosimo
That’s is a good observation. Thank you.
This piece indicate there could be some serious fraud involved during the french election ( sunday 23/4).
Have you seen the polls made by a canadian firm named FILTERIS?
You should. And pay attention to the trends for each candidate.
(the last poll here was 1 day before the election: 21/4 @23:50′)
[Big One] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-HcpstXcAAwf-G.jpg:large
[Twitter account] https://twitter.com/Rv1392/status/856208029817208833
People do forget quickly.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170414/and-what-if-half-a-million-french-people-voted-twice
500,000 duplicate poll cards sent to overseas (anti le pen) voters. ‘It wont be re-called or investigated until after the election’.
Le Pen should just point out that Macron will be more Hollande. “You loved Hollande? Well, double down with Macron the Macaroon”.
Yes,I agree. That should be one of the main arguments in her campaign.A “vote for Macron” is a “vote for Hollande’s policies”.
Not one of Pepes best articles
Macron will win – le pen has too much historical baggage with the father and the racism.
Plus the establishment want macron
Don’t waste ink on this le pen has no chance
She knows this – however her party now has broken through and can build for the future
These two candidates support an exit from EU and NATO and got the following results
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Debout la France 4.70%
François Asselineau Popular Republican Union 0.92%
A lady taxi driver in Paris said it clearly: Macron is fake, fake, fake. In spite of this he got one fifth of the vote. At what level of idiocy would you vote a man which wants more austerity (which does not work), more unemployment (which affects growth), more refugees (which lowers salaries and promotes crime), more privatisation (which increases costs), less social and health services (which is already basic), closer alliance to Germany (Germany is destroying Europe) and more confrontation with Russia (which is already insane). We have seen for months the day to day brainwashing of all the media sectors, first against Fillon and now against Le Pen and promoting this nobody (no team and no party) Mr Macron. Anyway, he got close to 30%, which means 70% did not vote for him. 70% knows Macron is fake.
Cheers from sunny south of France.
@ Mario
“In spite of this he got one fifth of the vote.”
One fifth of France, excluding illegals, is migrant. And when it counts, they turn out.
In the UK, the muslim candidate for London mayor received over 6 million votes, the largest number of polls for a single candidate in the history of our country.
Muslim migration is not only very polarising, but it allows the establishment, with one single policy statement or candidate, to swing an election against the will of the natives.
Pepe’s quotation – Enter the new normal: the recycled “system” – as in Emmanuel Macron — versus “the people” — as in the National Front’s Marine Le Pen, battling for the French presidency on May 7.
I think this is really cynical – I guess Pepe would not deny it – but yeah, I agree with him totally on Macron – but Le Pen has been around forevery – its like a cartoon I saw – on Pepe’s FB page I think but not by him) that had Rand Paul as an angel and John McCain as the devil –
Its stupid of us to ridicule the people that are wanting to help the system like Rand and Marine –
Pepe, did you support Donald Trump – I can’t quite remember – or were you just totally sceptical of him – as everyone – ?
There’s got to be a braver more sincere stance than ridicule and cynicism and sceptisim
pepe’s quote – Europe is at the heart of the Marine vs Macron fight; that’s Frexit against a “new European project.”
Well Pepe, what do YOU want ? A Frexit that’s clear of the powerful criminal bankers or not ?
“”The coming clash between Emmanuel Clinton and Marine LeTrump won’t even begin to scratch the surface.””
Pathetic – no hope in the world.
Actually I think that given the choices, we should always chose the best one. And Marine – Le Pen – whatever you want to call the woman – is the best in this round.
It appears that France wants to drink to the full, the dregs of loyalty to the West’s crimes in Syria. The “intelligence (lack of intelligence) service has put out a report saying Assad ordered the chemical attack on April 4th. We are faced with a situation of either the Syrians needing to take action ,legal or military,or both,against these Western states that malign them. Or they will end by being destroyed without fighting back. The more I see the West’s evil play out the more convinced I’m becoming that the North Koreans have the situation 100% correct. A state under attack must have some sort of massive weapon for their defense. Be it nuclear,chemical,or whatever. The West only understands force. Diplomacy means absolutely nothing to them.Only the fear that they themselves will die stops them.Anything else is only useless talk.I know Iran doesn’t want to have nuclear weapons. But I’m almost certain that that is a mistake. Every nation without them is a target or potential victim of the West’s. But the key is you can’t just “have” the weapon. You must be committed in your heart and mind to be willing to use that weapon.For it to be effective as a deterrent.If the aggressor state doesn’t think ,for whatever reason,you won’t use it. Then you might as well not have it. Which is the great fear I have about Russia and China. I’m not certain that they would use those weapons when and if they need to. But worse still. I’m not sure the US thinks they will either. Otherwise I don’t believe the US would be conducting itself it such a provocative way. With North Korea,it would be a fatal error to mistake that they will not use those weapons if they need to. Or at least I believe they will.But again,I’m not sure the US believes that.
On a related story,the US is about to launch a Minuteman III ICBM to show ‘nuclear capabilities’ .The arrogance and hypocrisy of daring to object to North Korea testing their weapons while at the same time testing their own is staggering.The Russians and Chinese would do well to not overlook the message of that test. And test their own missiles as well to show the US their “nuclear capabilities”. As I said above the West “only” understands force.They must be shown that Russia and China possess equal or superior force, to get into their heads, that pushing for a war will end with their own death. Nothing else is adequate in dealing with the West.Its sad,but true.
https://www.rt.com/usa/386175-minuteman-iii-test-launch/
While not an expect on French Law (by a long shot). I would think that under a “democratic system” a head of the outgoing government ordering the government to do everything they can to defeat a particular candidate.Would/should be a major law violation. And subject him to prosecution and imprisonment.But the way the “law” works in the West today,I doubt it will.
“France’s Hollande tells ministers to ensure big election defeat for Le Pen – spokesman
French President Francois Hollande told government ministers on Wednesday to do all they can to ensure the biggest defeat possible for far right leader Marine Le Pen in the May 7 vote for the presidency against Emmanuel Macron, his spokesman said. Hollande has asked ministers “to fully commit themselves in the election campaign to ensure that Marine Le Pen has the lowest possible score,” the spokesman, Stephane Le Foll, said. Hollande, who has urged people to vote for Macron, asked each minister to be “totally mobilized in this campaign,” Le Foll added.” (Reuters)
The establishment is backing Macron because he is their way of holding on to power, given the discontentment of the voters.
Macron will open the floodgates to immigration. After two succesive mandates, in 10 years there will be enough immigrants to determine the outcome of any election. This will depend, of course on whether they will be able to vote, but that seems to be a given. Hollande has already proposed giving non-citizens the vote, so Macron will push that through.
This means that this is absolutely the last chance for the French to elect a nationalist. If Macron wins, France will have sealed her fate.
EU/Nato have full control of the whole supply chain of immigrants from Africa, from recruiting (giving brand clothes, iPhones and cash) to shipping across the Mediterranean. Even though there is no news, this chain is working at full capacity producing a thousand or more “refugees” every day. Just a week ago one German NGO ship lost control and had to be towed, because it lost maneuverability over a too large immigrant load!
It started officially in 2015, but in reality the organizing began in 2013. Look at the hellhole Sicilia and rest of southern Italy is today. Total absurdity.
slightly edited to conform to moderation standards … mod-hs
These days the left is the 6% party. Why?
Well, the left is fighting for sexual, racial or ethnic minorities, or for abstract values such as human rights, or democracy. The this discourse the good guys are LGTB, feminists, refugees, or migrants. The bad guys are white christian – if a white christian earns money it’s not because you work, but because of white privilege, or the colonial past, so the discourse goes. So the traditional left-wing voter – the white, christian worker – leaves. What is left is a party of minorities and intellectuals, altogether 6% of the voters.
Even maintaining this rump left-wing party may become a problem. If one and the same party unites gays, feminists, jews and muslim migrants, you may have a cohesion problem.
Why can we not get a normal person as French President? A Christian family-oriented man, with high morals and skills he may use to retract France from all wars against countries that are of no threat, and making France French again.
Oh, I know why – they do not exist any more. None left to fill this important position, since De Gaulle died. Make ready for more wars, terrorism and unemployment. And after that, NWO…
Off to Colorful Start: French Centrists Accuse Russia of Trying to Hack Servers
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201704261053017130-russian-hacking-french-elections-allegations/
“A few days after Sunday’s first round of voting in France’s heated presidential race, Western officials and media have decided to dust off the old broken record of accusing Russia of hacking elections, this time blaming Russian hackers for trying to crack the computer servers of centrist establishment candidate Emmanuel Macron.
Leading French media and US television network CNN have picked up on a sensational new ‘discovery’ by Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which found that unknown hackers had set up several fake web domain names similar to those of the Macron campaign, in an effort to trick Macron campaign workers into compromising their email accounts using a trick known as phishing.
Macron, a former Minister of Economy and investment banker at Rothschild & Cie Banque
Trend Micro analyst Feike Hacquebord told CNN that while he could not confirm that the hackers were Russian, the hacking did have a ‘similar M.O.’ to that of the hack of the Democratic National Committee, which US mainstream media and some US intelligence officials have claimed were tied to Russian intelligence.
US officials, pundits and media analysts have yet to provide any credible evidence backing their claim that Russia was responsible for the DNC hack. WikiLeaks, the organization which leaked the hacked information, has also denied that their source was affiliated with Russia.”
These “Russian hacker” smears are a sure-fire indication the ones making the claim are israeli assets. By joining in on the scam, trend micro just killed their credibility as a computer security firm. Only a dishonest or amateur would make such claims after the leaked material of cia spoofing hacks to look like Russians did these.
Some may agree with Messan… (voltairenet) Nothing proves that Marine Le Pen will be capable of playing the rôle of Charles De Gaulle, but three things are certain :
– Just as in 1940, the British, choking back their disgust, welcomed De Gaulle to London, today Russia could support Le Pen.
– 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.
– 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.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article196096.html
Very accurate analysis of the situation – except when you say about Marine that she “reassembled — but did not expand — her voting base”. In fact, she gained 3 million voters compared to last time.
A lot of French people are still afraid of leaving the EU – a shame. That, I think, could prevent her of winning the elections…
Michelle
“The coming clash between Emmanuel Clinton and Marine LeTrump won’t even begin to scratch the surface.”
Could someone please explain the deeper meaning of this statement?
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