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I've just heard a worrying broadcast on PM on BBC Radio 4 today (17:00+) about a possible new wave of terrorism resulting from left-wing militants in France.
I couldn't find anything on the BBC website - perhaps too early, since the programme is only just coming to an end. However, I did find an article in The Guardian which appeared on Jan 3 2009 and seems similar to what I heard on the radio:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/04/france-government-left-win g-extremism
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France braced for 'rebirth of violent left'
Despite claims of exaggeration, government reports insist a new generation of extremists will soon launch a wave of sabotage and bombings
* Jason Burke in Paris
* The Observer, Sunday 4 January 2009
* Article history
The French government fears a wave of extreme left-wing terrorism this year with the possible sabotage of key infrastructure, kidnappings of major business figures or even bomb attacks.
Secret French government reports, seen by the Observer, describe an "elevated threat" from an "international European network ... with a strong presence in France" after the radicalisation of "a new generation of activists" in recent years. Senior analysts and experts linked to the government have drawn parallels with the Action Directe group, which carried out 50 or more attacks in the early 1980s. Others cite the example of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
A report by the French domestic intelligence service talks of "a rebirth of the violent extreme left" across Europe that is likely to be aggravated by the effects of the economic crisis. Other secret documents expose alleged links with activists in Italy, Greece, Germany and the UK. "It has been growing for three or four years now and the violence is getting closer and closer to real terrorism," said Eric Dénécé, director of the French centre of intelligence research and a former Defence Ministry consultant.
While some believe such claims to be scaremongering, the present political atmosphere is tense, with many among right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy's aides fearing a repeat of the violence in Athens last month, when angry and alienated young people and a hard core of violent left-wing extremists rioted for several days, causing significant damage and bringing the city to a halt.
Last week hundreds of fly-posters around Paris called on young people "forced to work for a world that poisons us" to follow the example of their Greek counterparts. "The insurrection goes on. If it takes hold everywhere, no one can stop it," the posters said.
The recent intelligence reports have blamed violent demonstrations against changes in employment law in 2006, often by middle-class young people, for the recruitment of large numbers of new activists.
A series of incidents last year confirmed the fears of French police. In January two activists were arrested in possession of what was alleged to be bomb-making materials. In November nine people were arrested after a lengthy surveillance operation in the central French village of Tarnac, where they had set up a commune. Two of the alleged ringleaders, Julien Coupat, 34, and his partner Yildune Lévy, 25, are still in prison accused of sabotaging high-speed TGV railway lines and "associating with wrongdoers with terrorist aims".
Gilles Gray, assistant director of economic protection of the French domestic intelligence service, spoke recently of "a philosophy that was spreading in Europe". The arrests in Tarnac were "a strong message ... addressed to those who might be thinking about committing similar acts," he said. "We hope that this affair has put a stop for a time to this kind of violent action [and will avoid] a return of Action Directe."
Investigators believe that the arrests at Tarnac provoked "reprisals" in Athens, where the offices of the French news agency Agence France-Presse were attacked with makeshift incendiary devices, and in Hamburg, where the French consulate was daubed with paint.
A claim of responsibility for the sabotage of the TGV lines was, police say, sent to a German newspaper from Hanover and signed "those who have had enough ... in memory of Sébastien", believed to be a reference to Sébastien Briat, a young anti-nuclear militant crushed by a nuclear waste train in eastern France exactly four years before the night of the recent spate of sabotage. Coupat and Lévy had taken part in demonstrations and actions in Germany, the US and the UK.
Coupat has also been accused by investigators of anonymously writing a book, The Coming Insurrection, published by a little known Paris publishing house in 2007. The book, which has been translated into English and posted on US and UK anarchist websites, was found in the possession of three young activists arrested after detonating a bomb in a field. It contains instructions about sabotaging railways and other means of "destroying the power of the police, seizing local political power by the people, and blocking the economy". A statement from the publishing house said the author was "a committee from the subversive tendency".
But some accuse France's right-wing government of both exaggerating and exploiting the left-wing threat. "They are turning my son into a scapegoat for a generation who have started to think for themselves about capitalism and its wrongs and to demonstrate against the government," said Gérard Coupat, father of the alleged ringleader of the Tarnac group.
"The government is keeping my son in prison because a man of the left with the courage to demonstrate is the last thing they want now, with the economic situation getting worse and worse. Nothing like this has happened in France since the war. It is very serious."
Author and researcher Christophe Bourseiller told the Observer the threat was being exaggerated. "Yes, there is a certain renewed level of agitation, but there is a huge difference between deliberately slowing down a few trains without injuring anyone and something like the Madrid bomb blasts," he said. "The Ministry of the Interior has made it look like the Tarnac arrests halted a serious campaign of violence with a huge, huge media operation."
Certainly there is a widespread fear at the ministry in the Place Beauveau of violent protests in the coming months. A powerful and growing movement among schoolchildren forced the tactical withdrawal of wide-ranging reform plans after demonstrations in Lyon led to clashes with the police, mass arrests and the burning of cars.
Trade unions have promised a series of mass stoppages in the coming months. Among a population already made bitter by static salaries, rising prices and structurally high levels of unemployment, the lay-offs and wage cuts that could result from the economic crisis will fuel anger.
"Whether or not the Tarnac group is guilty, there are other groups in France, in Italy, in Germany, which, having lost faith in a political left in disarray, are tempted by violent action and are in a phase of semi-clandestinity," Alain Bauer, a criminologist at the Sorbonne, told the Observer. "With Action Directe and the Red Brigades, there was a first intellectual phase, followed by a radicalisation and then a transition to physical action. Books like The Coming Insurrection are strongly reminiscent of the first phase."
Other similarities include the tactics envisaged and the middle-class, educated profile of most of the activists.
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Their philosophical and ethical meaning cannot be revealed without altering the depth of their significance, but I do note that they practise mutual tolerance of each other, which means fighting dogmatism of others.
I know people who talk like that.
My first thought was whether Sarkozy might be connected with the French Grand Orient. On searching for that, I came across http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/9143
| Quote: | Operation Sarkozy: How the CIA planted one of its agents as President of the French Republic
When I read this article in French a few months ago, I really wished that it was available in English so that I could share it with more people especially my American friends. I have to thank Robert very much for having gone through the trouble of translating it because it is not a short or easy article. It is long but certainly nobody will regret reading it. Thierry Meyssan is extremely knowledgeable and if I am not mistaken, Mr. Meyssan had to disappear for a while after having published this article. In 2002, Thierry Meyssan also wrote a book about 9/11 entitled: 9/11 The Big Lie.
I am posting the English translation as well as the French original for those who would like to refer to it.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_27642.shtml
Europe
Mr Sarkozy and the CIA. Based on Thierry Meyssan's "Operation Sarkozy"
By Robert Thompson
Jul 18, 2008, 10:19
Editor's Note: The article discussed below is included at the end of the document, both in translation and in the original French. Translation into English by Robert Thompson, with additional edits from Siv O'Neall.
A most interesting study dated 14th July 2008 by Thierry Meyssan, entitled Operation Sarkozy, has been brought to my attention on how the CIA managed to place one of its agents, namely Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, as president of the French Republic.
To make his point, Mr Meyssan does not content himself with vague conjecture, but puts together checkable facts relating to the relationship between our President and the CIA (the well-known terrorist organisation financed by the tax-payers in the USA), and the USA establishment in general, with a view to ensuring that French policy should be dramatically re-aligned to serve the interests of the present USA administration (not, of course, the people of the USA).
The links between various arms of the USA establishment and Mr Sarkozy are much closer than I could ever have imagined, although I was aware of a fair number of the facts reported and examined by Mr Meyssan. I had not however thought, and this is indeed my own fault, how closely these links tie up with other links with groups on both sides of the Atlantic allied, or similar, to the Mafia and other conspiratorial bodies based in Italy and neighbouring states as well as being well entrenched in the USA.
Acceptance of the arguments put forward by Mr Meyssan serves to explain many of the otherwise seemingly inexplicable decisions made by Mr Sarkozy since he took over from Jacques Chirac in 2007, as well as giving very personal private reasons (previously totally unknown to me, but then I am not a fan of the gossip columns) for the obvious dislike, and perhaps even hatred, which Mr Chirac has for his successor.
This article should be read by everyone as the implications are extremely serious for the future of the world. I make this claim not because France is still a great power -- it is not and most of us recognise this -- but it shows a more subtle means of achieving a coup d'?tat than using military or other violent means. Mr Meyssan very carefully tracks the whole story of Mr Sarkozy's rise within the ranks of the successive parties which have claimed to be "Gaulliste" (as following the broad lines of policy laid down by the General, later President, but many of us still think of him as the great leader during the Second World War from 1940 onwards). It is a tale of most cunning duplicity supported by hyper-intelligent backing from within the USA establishment.
If the conclusions reached by Mr Meyssan are correct, and I can see no reason to doubt his analysis of the facts, then Mr Sarkozy is even more dangerous than he has so far appeared to be, and the poor and the oppressed can expect to suffer almost anywhere in the world from his actions on behalf of his masters in the USA. The Arab world, above all others, can expect to be the victim of highly sophisticated concerted trickery as he does everything that he can to crush any moves which the people may try to make towards freedom from tyranny, wherever such moves might in any way limit the greedy ambitions of those who rule the USA.
Copyright 2008 by AxisofLogic.com
This material is available for republication as long as reprints include verbatim copy of the article its entirety, respecting its integrity. Reprints must cite the author and Axis of Logic as the original source including a "live link" to the article. Thank you!
This the article in question: ...
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Then I found http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2860
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From the desk of Tiberge on Sun, 2008-01-13 15:17
If it isn't the certifiable Jacques Attali, it’s the Grand Orient. And if it isn’t the Grand Orient, it’s Tony Blair. Nicolas Sarkozy has no interest or affinity for ANYTHING that isn't left-wing. Yes, he’s accused of being a “capitalist” because he sails on the yachts of his rich friends. And he’s accused of being friendly to religion because of ONE speech he gave in Rome (that will turn out to benefit Muslims, most likely). And he is accused of being an ARCH CONSERVATIVE because he wants to deport 25,000 illegals a year, allowing the remaining 575,000 on French soil to collect welfare.
Tony Blair was the guest of honor yesterday at the national council of President Sarkozy’s UMP party. This excerpt is from Le Monde:
“In the United States I would be a Democrat, in the United Kingdom I'm a laborite. In France I would be... probably in the government,” joked the former British prime minister in the language of Molière, […] “No, I’m kidding,” said the leader of the New Labour Party, becoming more serious, “I would be in the Socialist Party, side by side with those who have its transformation at heart.” […]
“Education and not regulation, a welfare-state that is active, not passive, a balance between work and private life, a new frontier of the welfare state, and unions that are partners for change and not for resistance.”
Nicolas Sarkozy then left his seat and joined the former resident of 10 Downing Street on stage, saluting the public with his raised hand in Mr. Blair’s. “Socialists like this are completely welcome in government,” cried the French president, once again praising the theme of political openness.
Meanwhile, Sarkozy is considering amending the 1905 law separating Church and State. On Tuesday I referred to an interview conducted by Libération with Jean-Michel Quillardet, the grand master of the anti-Christian Grand Orient of France, the first Masonic lodge of France, who expressed his fears that the 1905 law would be in some way amended in favor of religion. As it turns out, guess who Sarkozy has appointed to modify the law? None other than Quillardet himself! This report is from E-Deo:
Jean-Michel Quillardet, Grand Master of the Grand Orient, visited the French president last Tuesday. After the meeting he expressed his relief and his satisfaction, assuring the press that the president was committed to leaving untouched the 1905 law separating Church and State except for a “few technical changes.” […]
[A]fter his interview with Jean-Michel Quillardet, Nicolas Sarkozy promised to visit the headquarters of the Grand Orient to acquaint himself with the principal doctrines of French masonic thought.
Like the GOF the Grand Feminine Lodge (GFL) had also expressed displeasure at Sarkozy’s Lateran speech last December in Rome in which he had spoken positively about religion. A GFL communiqué stated:
“[We] would regard the return of religion in the public sphere as an historical regression and as an intolerable offense to our fundamental freedoms: the freedom to believe, not to believe, or to believe differently.”
The problem with Sarkozy’s positive view on religion in France today is that it has to include Islam. The chances of any gains for Christianity emerging from such a debate are small. Islam is rapidly growing, and Christian churches are often empty. Mosques are being built and churches are decaying.
According to Le Monde:
[T]he Grand Orient confirmed that it had obtained from Mr. Sarkozy assurances that it will soon be granted television time on one of the national channels. Only religions – Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox and Buddhist – have programs on France 2, on Sundays. The freemasons have access to air time on France-Culture radio.
You can’t help wondering if this is a quid pro quo: television time in exchange for a minor amendment to the 1905 law that would allow the building of mosques, possibly as a “cultural” enhancement for the country. Has Sarko cut another deal?
The preparations have also begun for this year’s French national holiday on Bastille Day, July 14. When he was in Rome last month, Nicolas Sarkozy announced his plans to redefine Bastille Day. As Le Salon Beige wrote:
Sarkozy had transformed the national holiday in 2007 into a grand European gathering. July 14, 2008 will be devoted to a meeting of all the leaders of the member States of the EU and all the representatives of countries bordering on the Mediterranean. The last-mentioned will be present on the eve of the holiday for a summit on the “Mediterranean Union” which was officially launched [on December 20] in the “Appeal From Rome” issued by Nicolas Sarkozy, Romano Prodi and José Luis Zapatero.
Sarkozy is at the top of his game: the first two Bastille Days of his presidency will not have been French national holidays, but rather proof that France is immersed in a magma that will diminish, if not completely obliterate her. To choose the national holiday for such demonstrations will shock many Frenchmen. Others will see in it a logical continuity of the deterioration of France, that began with the Revolution commemorated on July 14 and ending with the final swallowing up of the country into the EU.
Last year Nicolas Sarkozy ran as a Conservative. Less than a year after his election as President of France he is in bed with the Socialists, the Masons, the Eurabians, and Carla Bruni. |
Am I right in thinking there might be tension between the French (secular) freemasons and the Anglo-American (belief in a divine being) freemasons, and that Sarkozy is playing the two off? Or is that bluff? Or is it a CIA takeover? |
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| Try BBC radio scotland "drive-time news" wednesday between 5/6pm same report |
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You're probably right, Ian. Anyone with French connections should pass this 'Gladio' threat on to them, along with info. that the 'Gladio' video series is still up on the web.
Re Tony's 'Grand Orient', where there's evil afoot, there will be Masons skullking about in the backgfround and/or foreground. Methinks they are no longer 'daggers drawn' with Western Masonic Lodges these days, or the Diana murder wouldn't have gone off so smoothly.
And the Beeb ain't all bad! They do commission programmes like 'Gladio' and 'Dead in the Water' now and again! (I know no one said they were all bad).
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Alex Jones is known to be a bit slip-shod in details on occassion. It does, however, make sense that atrocities would have been committed in these other areas, to be blamed on the Reds (or their allies, such as Egypt in 'USS Liberty' business - though that False Flag was so heinous it really does stand alone - not only was the ship to be sunk with no survivors, but Egypt was to be nuked in 'retaliation').
Perhaps someone should check with Daniele Ganser to see if he's aware of 'Gladio' links to these other areas.
But all three parts of 'Gladio' were, like 'Dead in the Water', a glowing tribute to what the BBC can do, and essential watching for any Truthers who haven't yet watched them (it's about time the BBC did an honest programme about Malalai Jaya, to show it hasn't been completely emasculated. Or 9/11 and 7/7!).
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| Quote: | | it's about time the BBC did an honest programme about Malalai Jaya, to show it hasn't been completely emasculated. Or 9/11 and 7/7! |
Or John Charles de Menezes.
Then we wake up and find the coffee's gone cold again, and it was all just a hopeful dream.
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| redadare wrote: | | Quote: | | it's about time the BBC did an honest programme about Malalai Jaya, to show it hasn't been completely emasculated. Or 9/11 and 7/7! |
Or John Charles de Menezes.
Then we wake up and find the coffee's gone cold again, and it was all just a hopeful dream. |
It wasn't a good sign when the BBC stopped showing 'Dead in the Water' on the anniversary of the attack (8th June 1967) this year. For several years past, and probably ever since the programme was made, I should think, they have re-broadcast it; not this year, though.
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