by Ramin Mazaheri
It’s not 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 the 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 – 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 – and yet the French are going to elect a guy who will enact 20% more austerity measures that 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!
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.
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. 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. 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”, 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!
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?! 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.
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. His work has appeared in various journals, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and television.
In the late 19th Century, first in “Looking Backward,” and then in “Equality,” Edward Bellamy put his finger on the underlying problem with what we call democracy: that the American and French revolutions only went halfway in creating it. They democratized the political side of life but left the economic side, the most fundamental and powerful, in private, autocratic hands. Inevitably in such a half-baked system, economic elites would buy and control the political leadership, so it would serve their interests rather than that of the general public. Bellamy made crystal clear that without some form of socialism, the exercise of public control over economics as well as politics, democracy would, at best, be short-lived. I challenge anyone to refute this simple exercise of logic, amply supported by the evidence of history.
“democracy” in 19th Century ?????? I am not sure we share the same definitions
There is only one definition for democracy, but I have news for you it was never different. Even in Athens only the richest families decided the events. Normal citizens never had a say, they were simply told what was decided.
@ Ramin
I perfectly understand what you are saying, but you are asking for to much.
You can’t expect any sophisticated reaction from anyone in Europe after they have been systematically zombified since the wwii.
Greece for example. After the dissolution of USSR. Parties like KKE (Greek Communist Party) saw huge drop in support. Syriza, which inherited most KKE members was supposed be smarted and better for the people. Well look at Greece today. Nothing but Lies and BS.
Bellamy’s point is that we have NEVER had democracy, because the people have never taken control of the means of production–the fundamental arena of life and death, where it is determined whether one has a job or not, whether one eats or starves, whether one sleeps under a roof or on the street, etc. Capitalism left the means of production, and all of these crucial decisions, in private hands. Communism put them in bureaucratic hands. Under either arrangement, the people remained powerless to determine how their essential needs were to be met, or if they were to be met at all. Democratic socialism, as envisioned by Bellamy, is simply the people’s assumption of this power. Because we’ve never had full, genuine democracy, which would necessarily entail democratic socialism, it’s fascinating to read “Looking Backward” and “Equality” to break out of TINA thinking about global neoliberal capitalism.
I’ve heard it said that the 18th Century and early 19th Century revolutions traded one elite for another. They traded a noble only class elite of rulers,for different ones that included the bourgeois in the mix. Said in a simpler way,those revolutions “freed the bourgeois”. Before that the “Magna Carta” and other similar movements during the Middle Ages,”freed the lesser nobility” and forced the Kings and high nobility to share power.So there was a continuum in the historical past. Even earlier the high nobility forced the Kings to share power with them.Then the lesser nobility forced the Kings and high nobility to share power.
The French Revolution gave the “third estate” the right to hold power. Unlike what we may think today, the “third estate” didn’t mean “the common people” as propaganda likes us to believe. It meant the rich upper middle classes,or even the very rich. But those without titles and noble birth.They were allowed after centuries of only noble rule,to merge into the “elite”.And together form the 1% of that age.
That elite who ruled Europe until WWI (and in part after) didn’t care about the mass of people in their countries.They considered them as ignorant bumpkins to be exploited and used to further their wealth (sounds very much like today in many ways). They needed them at times as cannon fodder for their colonial wars. And for any war in Europe itself. But they were never considered “equals” no matter what officially the nations laws might say.The Dickens books,Tolstoy,Balzac,Jakes (for the US) paint a good picture of the social scene of that era. Just one example was a British general even during WWI watching as men of his regiment bathed in a river in France.Turned to another officer and said,”I never knew the lower orders had such white skin”.His class bias didn’t let him understand that the lower classes were just as European as he was.
It took the Russian Revolution to “free the working class” as the French Revolution did for the bourgeoisie. We could (and people have) debate endlessly the rights and wrongs of that revolution.So I’m leaving that aside.My point is only that it brought the working class,lower classes,into the mix of power. No longer was power only allowed to the 1% of noble/bourgeoisie elite. It sent a chill down their spines.That the lower classes might actually take power. So rather, right or wrong in most things.That revolution upended the World of the past.And gave the “lower orders”,at least “officially” a place at the table of national governance.
The collapse of the USSR and its breakup. Has led to a “return to the past”. Where the 1% global elite have almost recreated the level of power they alone, had in the pre-WWI period. They exercise that power today through the mask of political parties of course. The current “deep state” can’t be as up front as the British General was in their “class bias” as he was. That would be hard to stomach today even by the bought media. Just look at the beating Romney took over the leak of a tape of him disrespecting the poor. And how Clinton suffered from her “deplorable” comment. No,they try to not be as open with their hatred.But their actions show clearly the menace we face Worldwide today at their hands.
I can’t help but think there’s something really wrong here. At 4 pm yesterday, there was a Belgian poll that announced that Macron and Le Pen would be in the second round. http://www.les-crises.fr/la-rtbf-dont-le-patron-soutient-macron-a-ose-sortir-un-sondage-a-16h00/ Afterwards, the results are extremely close to the polls before the election. Marine Le Pen’s numbers actually dropped by 2% from Friday to Saturday despite the terrorist attack, Macron’s by only one percent. Melenchon and Fillon score exactly as expected, and all of the candidates conceded before the votes had been fully counted.
I’ve also heard that when people were voting, some were given envelopes with the ballots of Macron and Fillon already inside of them: http://www.rtl.fr/actu/politique/election-presidentielle-des-anomalies-constatees-dans-des-bureaux-de-vote-a-paris-7788251639
There are some places where people registered to vote but their names were not on the list when they turned up to the polling station. This petition has been created: http://www.mesopinions.com/petition/politique/commission-enquete-resultats-votes-election-presidentielle/29785
With all of this having happened, and Macron’s face having been plastered all over the papers and the television for the past two years, is it truly the elites or the French who have chosen the victors of this election?
Why would anyone believe elections in France are “free and fair” ? It is simply not believable in a country that is run by Elite Cadres like Enarques and is almost Soviet in its Nomenklatura
The trick is convincing voters they chose the winning candidate, not an easy task in the age of instant mass communication, but also not so difficult when everyone is stupefied.
The system is illegitimate.
As soon as everyone dispenses with the illusion of Democracy we can begin thinking of alternatives, which in-system candidate Marine Le Pen most definitely is not, obviously.
So get over it, the world is run by sociopaths. Zionist scum holds all positions of power. The first step is developing an understanding of reality and having enough courage to tell your neighbours. If you can’t go even that far you are a collaborator with Zionist scum, and pathetic from my point of view.
the latest Aldo Sterone sums it all in his video today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAucwP6sRo
enjoy
Fabien
Does he actually believe that islamists were behind attacks in France? what a joke. thats spreading disinfo
One thing is sure: If they elect Macron the whole country will be crying in 6 months, just as France was with Hollande.
That much is clear !
As a French voter I agree with A. Mercouris’ analysis http://theduran.com/fading-le-pen-win-macron-victory-certain/, specifically his last 2 paragraphs:
“In saying this I should stress that I strongly doubt the ploy has actually fooled anyone. The reason Macron is now set to become President of France is not because anybody was genuinely fooled by the transparently false propaganda created around him. It is because a sufficiently large number of French voters wilfully colluded in the deception, with the propaganda being their excuse – not their reason – for voting for Macron.
That shows that for all the talk of malaise in France there is still a sufficiently large number of French voters with a stake in the current system to preserve the status quo, thereby keeping it going at least for a while longer.”
The only thing we can hope is that future violence will not be a consequence of the acceptation of the deception.
Thanks very much for sharing this insight with us.
“… The only thing we can hope is that future violence will not be a consequence of the acceptation of the deception.”
The entire ‘environment’ being created with the top 0.1%/sociopaths, is inevitably driving towards increased occurrences of violence.
Perhaps convincing the correctly alluded to … ” “…a sufficiently large number of French voters wilfully colluded in the deception, with the propaganda being their excuse – not their reason – … .” of the inevitability of the path, with the current trajectory, and guided by the executive branch of the top 0.1%
People have a natural fear of stepping out of the ordinary. In today’s environment, where real and fictitious fears are raining down, like psychological carpet-bombing, by competing agencies, amongst the top 0.1%, seeking to ‘get their fair share’ (gaming each other, because that is what they are, sociopathic ‘gamers’, gaming the system, and not even capable of stopping, even if the system is on the brink of collapse).
A better hope….
is to take actions to expose the grand lie, by capturing evidence of manipulations, and communicating it coherently and effectively to the “sufficiently large number of [all] …voters willfully…” colluding “…in the deception, with the propaganda…”.
These people need compassion (most of them), and assistance in unshackling them from the chains of this downloaded prison system of free thought.
Organize to identify better and more effective techniques in creating messaging that helps people out of the matrix.
The tiny minority has an almost zero probability of long term success, regardless of moral disposition.
giddyup
Macron has to be the blandest plain vanilla insipid vacuous candidate, excepting perhaps Hollande , that’s ever run for president. Couldn’t he have at least run for a departmental dog catcher beforehand to chalk up some real qualifying experience for the office he will glide down the chute into? He seems so clueless on just about every important issue, save to obey the orders he is given.
He will turn France into another Greece while his buddies divy up the airports, trains, and other state assets for centimes on the euro. Higher taxes on the middle class, cuts in social services.
He will also cause much social division with his economic policies which will pit different constituencies against each other for what’s left of the pie. Maybe he will have to impose the French version of martial law to put down riots.
He will cede what is left of national sovereignty to the EU which will feel free to openly impose tyranny now that the only threat to their dominance has been removed.
The coq gaulois will soon be eating DPW under Macron.
Really great writing, Ramin, and very refreshing after the poop one has to endure in the MSM.
But do you really believe that living within one’s means is a recipe for disaster? (” I repeat: austerity has never worked anywhere – just ask the IMF.) Before we got involved in one undeclared war after another, mainly for the benefit of the military-industrial-complex (well, better put, the Hollywood- military-industrial-complex, and the big banks, the U.S. did very nicely for many years with a balanced budget and a negligible national debt. These trillion-diollar debts are doing no one any good. Even Andrew Jackson, never known as a pacifist, regarded it as a mortal sin to leave the nation with one penny in debt- and the economy flourished (until he took on the Fed of his day, which engineered a vicious, but short, recession
France has been in a state of emergency for the past two years. During the election, 50.000 police and 7.000 soldiers provided security. Until recently, this only happened in failed states and military dictatorships. This would have been unthinkable for a Western country only a few years ago.
We are not raising the migrants’ standard of living to West-European levels. The migrants are lowering our standard of living to theirs.
How do say “Hope and Change” or “Change that You Can[not] Believe In” in French?
“Changement qui vous ne pouvez pas croire en.” mod fk
Espoir et changement
Changement auquel on ne saurait croire
Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she will step down as leader of her National Front (FN) party.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39696861
This article may be a better one to read:
http://theduran.com/breaking-marine-le-pen-resigns-as-party-leader/
Well it looks like Le Pen has realised the potential toxicity of being the head of FN and is going it alone. This may help her attract those who were put off by the party she represents.
I know that Saker doesn’t like Le Pen, and you don’t seem to like Le Pen, and I have never read anything to convince me why ?
I simply don’t know why people don’t like Le Pen.
So for me not to like Le Pen, without even knowing why – – but just because other people don’t like her – does not seem to me a good enough reason to not like her-
although this strategy is a very popular reason why not to like someone.
I like Le Pen.
She’s cool
any politician who is islamophobe and pushing islamophobia is owned by the zionists, islamophobia is a tool used by these politicians.
People don’t like Le Pen because she is the stumbling block in the way of those who want to silence once and for all ‘les cloches’ and replace them with the bleating of the muezzins from the ‘clochers’ of the Churches transformed in minarets.
In response to Ann here :
/le-pen-trump-arent-even-close-are-we-stuck-with-emmanuel-macr-obama/#comment-349140
Thanks for your little ray of sunshine Ann. But the question is not one of liking or disliking a particular politician. All have faults, Very few of them possess virtues and most of them are blackmailed or otherwise nobbled by the Deep State’s secret services, mostly of them in the NATO bloc today sayanim working for Greater Israel.
For all his glib analysis, Ramin Mazaheri cannot conceal the fact that he’s foolishly never stopped jumping on the bandwagon of what I call the New McCarthyism which now emanates from the left and, like the BBC, has the gall to suggest that Macron is not a wolf in sheep’s clothing ie a puppet of Zionist extremism and definitely not a centrist candidate.
Under the state of emergency France urgently needs to quit the EU and help bring down that rotten edifice which prevents all hope of reestablishing a balanced world without a bloodbath.
Jesus, Son of Mary, speaks in his parable of the folly of putting new wine into old bottles (Luke V:36-39). But there is every possibility that, to absorb its millions of young supporters, the FN, like the proverbial leopard, has been obliged to change some black spots !
I’m not a betting man, Ann. Even if Marine, who has announced that she will step down as leader of her party, to be the president of all the French (Cf. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39696861), even if she is elected to L’Elysée, there is no guarantee she will be able to act on this key electoral promise.
Melenchon is a shill who supported the shameful attack on Libya in 2011.
Madame Le Pen, like her father, has been a consistent critic of French foreign policy as an vassal of the EU and of NATO. Her presence in the second round is a sign that a huge swathe of public opinion in France has woken up to the importance of these massive geopolitical issues.
With Macron there is absolutely no possibility of Europeans being able to unbolt the shackles tying them to the Anglo-Zionist fiefdom.
Which way is the Assemblee Generale going to go?
Why would those who voted Fillon automatically vote for Macron? They might just skip the round and regroup for the Assemblee Generale vote….? Wouldn’t it be easier for Le Pen, rather than Macron, to pick up Melenchon’s votes? In this case, the race would be much tighter..
I realize we are going to see hysterical attacks on Le Pen over the next few weeks. From the little I’ve seen of her and Macron she ‘ll be the stronger candidate in any debate.
Le Pen will change the EU into caring for and representing Europe instead of despising and oppressing Europe. Le Pen is not Alexis Tsipras in Greece, she’s France and there’s no eurogroup or Merkel who can just wave their hand and make her(and France) go away. All of latin Europe is with her, I know it in my heart. In Europe we’re not all the same, we’re not one people… The EU must respect that or cease to exist.
Ramin. You’ve been spot on so far. No need to get excited now.. All Le Pen needs to do is to be French. The French know this. They also know all the things you wrote about Macron. If they think Macron is French, he wins. He’d have a heck of a job convincing French people from where he currently stands. Le Pen is well known and established, albeit with the negative baggage her father brought..
An inspired and revelatory point was made in the essay in the French Saker, “Un regard personnel sur l’Islam moderne” which I will quote in French and translate:
“Plus un côté va détruire efficacement la confiance du public envers les journalistes ou les scientifiques et les chercheurs qui présentent des faits réels, plus il devient facile pour ceux de l’autre côté de se méfier de ces sources et de nier les faits qui sont incompatibles avec leur réalité.”
The more that one side goes about destroying confidence in journalists or scientists and researchers who present real facts, the easier it becomes for the other side to distrust these sources and to deny the selfsame facts that are incompatible with their own preconceptions.
In effect, this idea lies at the very heart of the “fake news” issue. Bad and irresponsible reporting not only causes the public to doubt and distrust journalsim altogether, but it also has the perverse effect of reinforcing people’s prejudices and serves to generate conspiracy theories among the uneducated.
Ironically, real fake news like CNN has generated a plethora of alt-right websites that the establishment has labeled fake news and is now in the process of exterminating, such as through the cuts to monitising advertising for YouTube news videos. The upshot is that the bad journalism of MSM has enabled them to eliminate free speech.
Macron is the triumph of the Globalists. Once again.
The reason he doesn’t have any program is because he is to be the straw-man of the handful of people who control the world.
Explosive interview on that topic here — Dutch Illuminati Banker Ronald Bernard Exposes the Global Elite — it connects all the dots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuLNccJtieY
Really? Isn’t it about time the current event journalists paid some attention to the promises before and the policies after conundrum, better phrased as Continuity of Agenda? As this class of writers becomes more useless in describing what is actually taking place in this world they are taking on the mantle of distributors of fake news. Whether it is an Obama or a trump, a Corbyn or a May, or a Marcon or a Le Pen all are movable, controlled and controllable by the financial and multinational corporations that make up the entourage. Privatization of the public commons goes on unchecked as well as the financialization of every asset class on the planet. These writers of politics and of the Morlocks that infest politics are as blind as those who read their shtick as if it all means anything. You can put me down as disaffected and very very tired of all the bovine by product being spewed about elections and politics! when a journalist actually writes about those that run the world then I sit up and pay attention and weigh what is being written as to its validity or not. All the rest is a form of obfuscation to one level or another or whether consciously done or not.
Lo Stato Corporato. Mussolini wrote an essay about it The corporate state. What do you think we have been living in since Thatcherism and Reaganomics and the left coining the phrase the third way . All aspects of western economies have all been financialised,. All public services health education roads and transport have been financialised. We have been living Mussolini’s dream well over a quarter of a century. Bit by bit their has been an incremental shift to the right . Its called neo-liberal economics.Its called identity politics Its called global hegemony. The incremental shifts to a police state all the name in combatting terrorism. Hell look at the US. Flint Michigan . They can’t even give their citizens potable water but hell we can fire 59 Tomahawk missiles on fabricated evidence lies and deception.
I agree the Le Pen brand is tainted from the past and their white French supremacist rhetoric. Let us analyse her economic platform lets analyse her social platforms and lets look at what Macron and Co did in the past 25 years for France in general. Austerity does not work . Remember Straus -Khan well it was rumoured that he was totally against the idea of austerity and he was rumoured to take over the French socialist party to run against the globalist Sarkozy.
Post Scriptum : These globalist are basically modern day Trotskyist . The late great Antonio Gramsci Italian/Sardegnian of Arab background would often say that Trotskyist are the whores of the fascist.
Just thought I might add an old Italian expression which I am sure explains why the French do not trust Le Pen Il lupo cambia il pelo ma non il vizio. The wolf may change his coat but not his habits.
Is macron the anti-Christ, the entire SoS is rooting for him in unison?
He is certainly one of many antichrists.
Very much enjoyed reading this article. Indeed, it’s not over!!!
But … what do we say to our French friends to get them to vote Le Pen?
Needless to say, many French have been told for decades now that the FN is just a step away from fascism, if not fascism itself.
People are more woke now, but old patterns of thought are difficult to shake.
Reply to the question ”what do we say to our French friends to get them to vote Le Pen?” from Anonymous here : /le-pen-trump-arent-even-close-are-we-stuck-with-emmanuel-macr-obama/#comment-349243
As presumably ‘our French friends’ will speak French I propose two videos – an RT interview with Jean Bricmont and a censored LC1 broadcast revealing the spiritual void of Emmanuel Macron and resulting moral turpitude of those publicly supporting this political nonentity financially or by voting for him – plus an excellent appraisal from Thierry Meyssan – French and English versions … It’s not over yet … Not by a long chalk … Bon courage TNWNS
http://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Jean-Bricmont-La-plupart-des-electeurs-n-aiment-pas-Emmanuel-Macron-45340.html. Vidéo link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSA0MHFJ6So
Les Français se sabordent par Thierry Meyssan 25 avril 2017 http://www.voltairenet.org/article196093.html
The French scuttle their own ship by Thierry Meyssan 25 April 2017 (Shades of the Indomitable Pirates in the classic cartoon series Asterix !) http://www.voltairenet.org/article196096.html.
Thanks for this!
ChristineG, Here’s a better quality version of the interview.
I encourage everyone to share it as the information is so important.
https://vimeo.com/212237317
Uhh, this is a pretty insane interview. Very real. What do others make of it?
Le Pen will not be allowed to win, as she would have France leave the Euro, reintroduce a drastically devalued Franc, and write down France’s foreign debt. 90% of French debt is owned by German banks. France will suffer austerity just like Greece so that the Germans will get the money paid back in full.
I am French. I was appalled by Macron’s getting to the second round. I mean, even a soap bar has more ideas than this dude. « Empty suit » does not even begin to describe him, yet 25% of the voters (zombies?) cast their votes for that… I don’t know how to define him.
It was the medias. It was the TV. It was the Pokémon Go culture. I don’t know. But the manipulation may be even worse than that : Marine Le Pen may well be a phoney candidate, who is poised to lose.
Some days ago, François Asselineau, who is the most articulate and knowledgeable pro-Frexit candidate we had (and as such, was totally ignored by the media. He has been for the last ten years), has explained that the FN is a creation, a bogeyman who is regularly pulled out to get the Establishment candidate elected. After the first round, he said, « wait for it. The FN will say or do something outrageous, the old Jean-Marie will utter some unacceptable nonsense, something so the FN makes sure it loses. »
I dismissed it as a conspiracy theory. Asselineau had gone a bit too far this time, I thought.
Turns out it happened. As you all know, Marine Le Pen has stepped down from her position as leader of the FN. The dude who replaces her to run the party is, wait for it… is a Holocaust denier. Which, in France, is akin to being a serial killer or worse. The media « we told you so. MLP is a Nazi alright» reaction will be massive. And it will work.
And then, I remembered that in the past, François Asselineau had predicted the murder of Jo Cox. He had said to Radio Sputnik « Given the atmosphere about the Brexit vote, if I was a Labour MP, I’d take bodyguards ». Only days later, Jo Cox was murdered.
And so it turns out he might also be right about Le Pen.
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour? (Sic) Hell no!”
– Any more than it was over when the Japanese bombed Warsaw!