64% angry French back the strikes: 'Socialism est mort'!

[conspiracy analyst]

Whenever there is a strike wave or issues related to working conditions riots appear to emerge in the poor districts of Paris always involving immigrants.
Its either a coincidence or a move provoked to increase the power of the state which could do nothing for 9 days when France was paralyzed by severe transport strikes.

Now its been announced Sarkozy has been asking for a Taser for every cop.
Mass youth unemployment hovering around 40% will only get worse now the Euro has hit the skies in relation to the dollar and all export based industries close or are forced to relocate to Eastern Europe or China.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35011/117

Sarkozy is pushing for a NWO agenda more than Brown at the moment.

[PaulStott]

[Disco_Destroyer]

Quote:

French students and public sector workers turned out in force on Tuesday as protests against pension reforms intensified across France. Unions said as many as 3.5 million people had taken to the streets across France, while police put the estimate at 1.2 million, the largest turnout in four nationwide demonstrations over the last five weeks.

http://www.france24.com/en/20101012-france-pensions-reform-youth-join- strikes-protests-senate-vote?autoplay=1

nice video after dodgy Axa/Sunlife ad

[Disco_Destroyer]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozy-stands-firm-as- pension-protests-escalate-2105000.html

[Thermate911]

As Mike Rivero at www.whatreallyhappened.org is wont to say:-

"The French have cojones Americans can only dream of"... Perhaps it's partly due to the lack of fluoride in L'eau Francais?

[TonyGosling]

An American student studying in France, witnessed and experienced the violent riots in Lyon, France. 'We were standing taking pictures and the police were behind us, and warned us to move but didn't explain why. Suddenly gas pellets came to our area and it filled the whole square with tear gas,' she said.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-504953?ref=feeds%2Foncnn

[Disco_Destroyer]

WORKERS opposed to a higher retirement age blocked access to airports in Paris and around the country last night.

Hooded youths, meanwhile, smashed store windows amid clouds of teargas outside the capital.

Riot police in black body armour forced striking workers away from blocked fuel depots in western France, restoring petrol to areas where pumps were dry after weeks of protests over the decision to raise the pension age from 60 to 62.

Riot officers in the Paris suburb of Nanterre and the southeastern city of Lyon sprayed teargas but appeared unable to stop the violence that erupted this week after months of largely peaceful protests.

President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed last night that his Union for a Popular Movement party would pass the reform in a Senate vote expected tonight.

Mr Sarkozy said he would "carry the retirement reform through to the end" as France's tolerance for a long tradition of strikes and protest appeared to be waning after weeks of snarled traffic, cancelled flights and dwindling petrol supplies and, now, rising urban violence.

Protesters blocked the main road leading to one of two terminals at Orly airport last night, then moved to block the road to the other terminal.

At Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris, the nation's biggest, protesters sang the French national anthem before pushing through a police barricade.

The CGT transport union says protests also shut down the Clermont-Ferrand airport in the south and disrupted airports in Nice and Nantes.

With nearly a third of France's petrol stations dry, authorities stepped in without incident overnight to force open three fuel depots blocked by striking workers for days, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said.

Mr Hortefeux warned that the blockades threatened emergency services and could have grave consequences for the entire French economy and public health and safety. "The right to strike does not give anyone the right to prevent people from working or the right to block things, or the right to prevent travel," he said.

"The right to protest is not the right to break things, the right to set things on fire, the right to assault, the right to pillage. We will use all means necessary to get these delinquents."

Over the past week, 1423 people have been detained for protest-related violence and 123 are facing charges. Police are looking at video surveillance to find more perpetrators.

In Nanterre last night about 100 students blocked the school entrance and part of the highway in front of the school, while a "tranquillity team" of about 30 adults in special red jackets sought to keep things calm. Then about 100 other youths arrived and started darting through the town streets, smashing store windows and throwing stones.

In Lyon, new clashes broke out, with rioters throwing projectiles and setting off flares. Police responded to that with teargas.

This week's clashes revived memories of student unrest in 2006 that forced the government to abandon another highly unpopular labour bill. And the spectre of 2005 riots that spread through poor housing projects with disenfranchised immigrant populations is never far away.

Students plan new protests tonight, with a demonstration in Paris hours before the Senate is expected to approve the retirement measure.

NOTE: This article is originally published at this website:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad-application/protests-create-chaos-in- france/story-fn6s850w-1225941471031

[outsider]

Not in use yet, but 'RiotBots' in use in a street near you, before too long:

http://defense-update.com/wp/20101019_riotbot.html

[TonyGosling]

Macron is preparing authorization act against labor rights
Of Alex Lantier
24. May 2017
https://www.wsws.org/de/articles/2017/05/24/macr-m24.html

The new French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing a historic assault on jobs, wages and work rights, he wants to enforce by presidential decree. In contrast, in France there is wide resistance.
Details of Macrons plans were revealed on Monday, a day before his first Meeting with representatives of the trade unions and the economy at the Elysee Palace.
After the elections to the national Assembly in the next month, Macron wants to request an enabling law from the Parliament, the President should allow the French labour law changes. "The Reform of the labour law is well prepared", said the designated Prime Minister Edouard Philip the Journal du Dimanche: "We will now discuss, improve and explain. This means, and it is essential that we discuss with the unions. Furthermore, in parallel to the vote on the enabling act, held a parliamentary debate. The law will allow the government decrees to be adopted by the Parliament of the defined framework.“
Phillipe said that he and Minister of labour Muriel Pénicaud would work closely with the trade unions and each trade Union individually, to hold a Meeting. "But immediately after these conversations, we need to act quickly," he added. "Then we can't wait two years until we come in the course. Emmanuel Macron has heard the Anger of the French. Also he knows how urgently the country needs to be reformed.“
The decrees indicate that Macron wants to throw the whole of the labour relations in France on the pile, go back to the time after the liberation from the Nazi occupation. Its basis is the social concessions from the period immediate after the Second world war.
Some new decrees aim of the provisions in the labour act of 2016, and it had taken the government of the Socialist party (PS), because the resistance was too strong. In the population, seventy per cent were against the law, and in Parliament, the PS pushed through the bill without a vote. Under the state of emergency, demonstrations and work have held strikes with the help of the riot police under control, but the government preferred, however, numerous provisions, the Macron were actually in the heart, again to take out in order to avoid a social Explosion. Now he wants to insert it again.
It deals with the following questions:
• The fines against companies that have fired Workers illegally, to obtain an upper limit. This has been so far avoided, because a low ceiling makes the fines to the labor courts, obviously, to Popanzen. The entrepreneurs could be the low level of fines for unfair dismissal in your calculations involve. Le Parisien according to Macron considered to determine the ceiling of three monthly salaries. This is half of the current minimum, which is six months ' wages. The aim is obviously to allow the entrepreneurs to hire at will and fire.
• Companies should obtain the permission of collective agreements to deviate and worse contracts. Currently, the companies themselves will be able to conclude for their employees only different collective agreements, if these are better than the applicable area rates. Macrons decree would put the legislation on the head. The company could blackmail their employees and their jobs in question, if you are willing to accept lower wages and benefits than in the applicable area collective bargaining agreement.
• If in a company contract of the majority is rejected in operation, employees, trade unionists, and only a minority of trade unionists accepted him, then the chief can vote on this Treaty. Because in almost all companies, yellow unions exist, this would give the business a free Hand to dictate collective bargaining agreements, by securing the consent of a minority, and the workers then put under pressure to accept the contract.
Other proposals Macrons are inspired by anti-working class social legislation elsewhere in Europe, such as, for example, by the Agenda 2010 and the Hartz IV laws in Germany introduced by the SPD. For example, workers must meet strict conditions to get in the case of unemployment, in fact unemployment benefits. Low unemployment benefits for workers "incentives", also work in the low-wage sector.
The Macron-government is trying to sell these proposals as part of a Plan for the "modernisation" of France. A special Trick is that certain actions be taken as a defense of women's rights. The different maternity leave arrangements are to be combined into a single program. This should then correspond to a proposal that, "the best program". Are provided for random Tests in the company to check, supposedly, if women are not discriminated against.
The Whole thing is a reactionary fraud. Such a law would be a big step backwards, because it would throw women and men to the dictates of the bosses and the state. The proposals for gender equality include undemocratic restrictions on the freedom of religion and a ban on "religious Propaganda" in the workplace. This is a dangerous sign: It could allow entrepreneurs to dismiss veiled Muslim women and spread anti-Muslim prejudice.
The capitalist crisis and the austerity policy of the European Union (EU) have intensified since the Wall Street Crash of 2008. Democratic rule is strongly eroded forms.
The Macron-government has no mandate for her program, and the labour law was also without its controversial elements, are highly unpopular. Macron. the economic policy of the current President, François Hollande (PS), which has received in the polls just four percent approval Now Macron represents a similar program after an election, he won without any Action on the part he was about to face an even unbelieb more candidate: the Neofaschistin Marine Le Pen.
The former investment banker Macron wants to enforce the dictates of the banks. Under Hollande's presidency of the standard of living of the workers sung and the wealth of the richest French billionaires like Liliane Bettencourt and Philippe Arnault has almost doubled. But the world economy is still in crisis and France's economic Position, and the French weight in world trade to continue to fall. That's why the ruling class is determined even more money from the workers to squeeze and it zuzuschustern the very rich.
The working class faces a political struggle against a particularly resolute government. She is ready to resort to methods of Suppression, as it has since the 1940s. The new government knows that it is strong against wind, and makes detailed plans for strikes and protests to suppress.
Last week, the media revealed that the PS had developed plans for a coup in the event of an electoral victory of Marine Le Pen. The purpose would have been to stop Le Pen coming to power, but anti-fascist protests to press to throw the normal parliamentary practice, the heap and Le Pen force to a cohabitation with a PS government.
The new Minister of the interior, Gérard Collomb said on Friday he wanted to check the state of exception, but he was in favour of a further extension on the 15. July: "I think, eventually, we will have a state of emergency is cancelled. But now is the right time? Maybe not immediately after the formation of a new government.“
Under the state of emergency workers who exercise their constitutional right to strike and the right to demonstrate can be caught in the clutches of the judiciary, and arbitrary detention and the police placed under house arrest. That is, the French capitalist class to break her promise she had given after the end of the Second world war, the working class will never again arbitrarily.
This Situation confirms the Position of the Parti de l'égalité socialiste (PES). She is quite rightly called for an active Boycott of the second round of the presidential election. As the PES has argued, was the Macron is not an Alternative to Le Pen. The crucial question was of a politically independent, revolutionary perspective of the working class against the attacks can fight, no matter who the new President is. This Position was confirmed after the election, Macrons perfectly.

[TonyGosling]

Kadima! En Marche!
by Thierry Meyssan
After having successively elected an agent of the CIA and an employee of the emirs of the Gulf to the Presidency of the French Republic, the French have been ripped off a third time, this time by an Israeli product. They believe that they have chased away the spectre of fascism by voting for a candidate supported by NATO, the Rothschilds, all the companies of the CAC40 and the unanimous Press. Far from understanding their mistake, they are still in a trance, and will probably not wake up before the end of the general elections.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article196311.html
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | BEIRUT (LEBANON) | 10 MAY 2017

As soon as his victory was announced, democratically elected President Emmanuel Macron defined a distance between himself and the People. Refusing to mingle with the crowd, he took a long, solitary walk across the courtyard of the Louvre where his supporters were gathered.

The team of elected French President Emmanuel Macron has managed to hypnotise the French nation. They managed to fabricate the election of their protégé with two thirds of the votes cast – a young man, only 39 years old, whose party was created on the Internet just one year ago, and who had until then never stood in any election.

Steele & Holt

This exploit was realised by the team of Steele & Holt, a mysterious company whose name refers to the TV series Remington Steele, a police procedural in which the director of a detective agency asks a thief (Pierce Brosnan) to play the rôle of her boss in order to serve as her cover.

Don’t bother trying to find out who is hiding behind this company – you’ll find nothing. Except for the fact that its two main clients are AXA and the Rothschild family. Everyone knows that Emmanuel Macron worked for the Rothschilds, but it’s a well-guarded secret that they organised his party. As for the insurance company AXA, it is presided by Henri de La Croix, fifth Duke of Castries, who is also president of the NATO think-tank (the Bilderberg group), the Bosphorus Institute (Turkey’s think-tank) and, in France, the Institut Montaigne (a right-wing think-tank).

Henry Kissinger also incidentally invited Macron to the annual meeting of the Bilderberg group in 2014, along with François Baroin and Christine Lagarde.

The Bosphorus Institute made it possible to identify and corrupt various personalities from the right and the left who lent their support to Macron.

The first meetings of the new party were held in the offices of the Institut Montaigne, whose headquarters were declared as the personal address of the Institut’s director.

Kadima !

The name of the new party - En Marche !, was chosen in order to have the same initials as its candidate. Otherwise, it would have been called En Avant ! In Hebrew - Kadima ! When it was pointed out to general Ariel Sharon that the name of his new party evoked the name of Mussolini’s party - Avanti ! - he retorted that that was not the case at all. En Avant ! was the order he gave to each of his special teams, for example when he invaded Beirut against the advice of his military staff.

Kadima ! and En Marche ! are centrist parties assembling personalities from the right and the left. Ariel Sharon was a well-known « centrist » who created his party in order to break away from Benjamin Netanyahu. Sharon was a colonialist who wanted to create a Palestinian state on the model of the South African Bantustans. For him, apartheid was the only way to preserve Israël. On the other hand, Netanyahu is a Talmudist. He refuses to accept the idea of sharing Palestine with the goyim. For him, they must be expelled, if they can’t be exterminated.

We will no doubt learn later why Macron wanted to break with the Socialist Prime Minister, Manuel Valls. For the moment, it’s enough to note the insistance with which Valls attempted to join En Marche ! and the flippancy with which Macron rejected him, to see that there is a serious conflict between them.

Fascism En Marche

In order to launch Macron, Steele & Holt – in other words NATO and the Rothschilds – relied on the old pro-US network of the Fondation Saint-Simon. Together, they staged the « peril Le Pen », so that many electors who are strongly opposed to Macron nonetheless voted for him for fear of a possible victory by the « foul beast ». Since there was little for which they could blame Marine Le Pen, they accused her of the crimes of her father... and many others.

This manipulation shows that in our « showbiz society », form is more important than content. Indeed, what are the characteristics of fascism ? The end of the class struggle, thanks to corporatism, which unites bosses and workers in the same organisations, the end of the right-left dialectic thanks to a unique party, and consequently, the end of all opposition by the use of force.

While the first of these three characteristics might have been applied to the vision of Jean-Marie Le Pen, none of them are valid for his daughter – however, the first two are applicable to the vision of Emmanuel Macron. He is supported by all the major bosses of the CAC40, as well as by the CGT. He does not question the capacity of the right- and left-wing parties to defend the values to which they claim to adhere, but calls their leaders to join him in his party to defend their common interests. There can be no doubt that if the general elections go the way Macron hopes, the destruction of the opposition will begin. Indeed, the unanimous support of the written Press for candidate Macron, and the campaign against dissenting Internet sites, give us a taste of things to come.

History repeats itself – in 1940, the French supported Philippe Petain in order to preserve themselves from Nazism, but it was Petain who installed fascism. In 2017, they voted for Macron in order to preserve themselves from fascism, yet he will be the one who installs it.

A hijacked campaign

It’s true that some electors were disturbed both by the unusual personality of the candidates and by a wealth of propaganda methods which have never been used in Europe since the Second World War.

At the age of 15, Emmanuel Macron had a sexual relation with his drama teacher, who was 23 years older, moved in with her, and then married her 15 years later. Marine Le Pen inherited the presidency of her party from her father – she first of all cleaned it up, and then excluded him from it. In psychoanalytical terms, Macron married his mother, and Le Pen killed her father.

Above all, Emmanuel Macron’s team did not hesitate to accuse his rivals of the worst forms of treason, without any logic, certain that the local and national Press – which it already controls in its entirety – would not dare to express the slightest criticism. The right-wing candidate, François Fillon, is now perceived as a thief, although not one of the accusations levelled against him has been verified. Marine Le Pen is considered to be the incarnation of fascism, although she has never supported the positions with which she is charged.

A solitary victory

As soon as his election was announced, President Macron gave a short speech from his campaign headquarters – a string of platitudes pronounced with the ponderous demeanour of a man who has suddenly felt the weight of his responsibilities descend upon his fragile shoulders. Then he offered himself a new moment of theatre with his supporters in the courtyard of the Louvre. He crossed Paris in a procession of limousines with tinted windows. He took a long, solitary, inaccessible walk across the courtyard of the Louvre to climb onto the podium which had been built in his honour. There, at the base of the pyramid, like Bonaparte, he delivered a new speech, once again consisting of verbiage, but this time in a frenzied tone - a man who has never seen combat. Finally, he gathered together with his family and a few militants to sing La Marseillaise.

Contrary to all his predecessors, at no time during this evening did he shake any hands. No-one was ever allowed to approach him. He allowed none of the political personalities who had supported him to appear alongside him and share his victory. They will only be able to collect the bounty of the betrayal of their respective parties by betraying them again and supporting him during the general elections in June.

It will only be when President Macron has a firm grasp on all the reins of power that he will allow France to wake up. It will be too late.

[TonyGosling]

Meet The Real Emmanuel Macron: Consummate Banker Puppet, Bizarre Elitist Creation
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-25/meet-real-emmanuel-macron-con summate-banker-puppet-bizarre-elitist-creation

by Tyler Durden Apr 25, 2017 8:30 PM

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The last thing I ever wanted to do was write about France’s likely next president, Emmanuel Macron, but here we are. This post was inspired by a very telling Financial Times article sent to me by a reader, but we’ll get to that in a bit.

Most Americans paying attention to global affairs have some conception of his opponent, nationalist firebrand Marine Le Pen, but Macron is likely to be very much a black box. I hope today’s post changes that.

Any knowledge you may have on Macron probably comes from mainstream news outlets, which have been uniformly gushing about the socialist-centrist Rothschild protege.

As an example, just take a look at the following title from a January article published at Foreign Policy.





You’d think this guy was the second coming or something. Naturally, the gushing continues beyond the title. Here are the first few paragraphs.

In some of his many previous lives, 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron has been a philosophy student, an investment banker, and a minister of economy. It is not surprising, then, in his current life as an independent candidate for the French presidency, he does not always speak like other candidates. And it’s not only the substance of his language that stands out but also, sometimes, his choice of language. Last week, in a speech at Berlin’s Humboldt University, Macron spoke in impeccable English on the imperative of giving Europe a chance.

And of giving the future a chance: Macron’s speech offered a powerful and convincing case that he is the last great French hope for a European future based on a common market and a common morality, a single currency and a singular commitment to the continent’s core values.

Though his immediate audience was Humboldt’s faculty and students, Macron was in fact addressing a far wider audience. He was seeking to mobilize French as well as German youths, and — in a reference to the program that allows EU citizens to study in other member states — the non-Erasmus as well as the Erasmus generations. Based on the audience’s response to his speech, and his surging poll numbers in France, Macron — despite not having the support of an established party, or perhaps becausehe doesn’t — is no longer the dark horse but instead the white knight for a growing number of French voters. However, what this particular knight promises, beyond verve and vitality, is not yet clear.
This author certainly isn’t holding back on the Macron infatuation. Within the first three paragraphs alone he refers to the man as “the last great French hope” and a “white knight.” Amazing.

But that’s not the most telling part of the above excerpts. I find it particularly remarkable that the author positions this manufactured candidate as some sort of outsider. Sure, he may not have the backing of an established political party, but those who do back him have far more power than that.

I came to this conclusion based on an extremely enlightening article published in the FT titled, Emmanuel Macron’s Rothschild Years Make Him an Easy Election Target. Based on the title, you’d think that the man merely had a normal, brief stint at the bank, but you’d be wrong. As you read, it becomes clear that he was groomed from day one by a Rothschild partner and ended up on a fast track like I’ve never seen before. But first, let’s examine the first two paragraphs of the article, which betrays the man’s intentions.

When Emmanuel Macron told friends in 2008 he was joining Rothschild, the prestigious investment bank, the then 30-year-old civil servant was warned it could scupper a future career in politics.

“You’re conscious that banking is not any kind of job? And Rothschild not any kind of bank?” said one friend to the man who, nine years later, would become frontrunner in France’s presidential election.
Contrary to media myths about a “white knight” who came out of nowhere to save France, this character has had his eye on high political office for at least a decade. Indeed, it appears Macron has been groomed by powerful financiers for a very long time. As the FT also notes:

The graduate of ENA, the elite school that breeds France’s future leaders, came recommended by powerful alumni of the institution, including François Henrot, a longtime Rothschild partner. But young bankers were not so impressed.

“He was the guy who would constantly say ‘thank you’,” a former colleague said. “He didn’t know what ebitda [earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation] was. He didn’t try to hide it. And instead of looking it up in a corporate finance book, he asked around, which was disarming.”
Yet it wasn’t just a Rothschild sponsor who took the young Macron under his wing…

What Mr Macron lacked in technical knowledge and jargon at first, he made up for with contacts in government, says Sophie Javary, head of BNP Paribas’ corporate finance in Europe, who was asked by Mr Henrot to coach Mr Macron in the first year.

This is straight up bizarre. It appears Macron was so important to banking interests the had to form a consortium of firms to all pitch in to help him out. Yet it gets stranger still.

On the Atos deal, Mr Macron “had a fairly junior role at the time — he would be asked to redo the financial models on Excel, the basics,” recalled an adviser. But a few days after the deal was announced, Mr Macron was made a partner. A few months later, he stunned colleagues and rivals by winning a role in Nestlé’s purchase of Pfizer’s infant food operations.
As someone who spent ten years on Wall Street, I can tell you with certainty that you don’t go from updating excel models at a junior level to partner overnight. Someone extraordinarily powerful was pulling all sorts of strings for this guy. There seems to be little doubt about this.

Further hints that Macron is a total manufactured elitist creation can be seen with the following.

At the bank, Mr Macron mastered the art of networking and navigated around the numerous conflicts of interest that arise in close-knit Parisian business circles, making good use of his connections as an Inspecteur des Finances — an elite corps of the very highest-ranking graduates from ENA.

In 2010, he advised, for free, the staff of Le Monde when the newspaper was put up for sale. Journalists at the daily started doubting his loyalty when they happened upon him in conversation with Mr Minc, who was representing a bidding consortium that the staff opposed. They did not know that it was Mr Minc, a fellow Inspecteur des Finances, who had helped the young Mr Macron secure his interview at Rothschild.

A media executive who was part of the same consortium recalled: “It wasn’t clear who Emmanuel worked for. He was around, trading intelligence, friends with everyone. It was smart, because he got to know everybody in the media world.”
Indeed, who does he work for? I’m sure the French people would like to know.

Meanwhile, Macron is like a conspiracy website’s wet dream. Not only was he groomed by Rothschild bankers, he was also a Bilderberg meeting attendee in 2014. Of course.

Incredibly enough, Macron’s personal life is just as bizarre. Wikipedia notes:

Raised in a non-religious family, he was baptized a Roman Catholic at his own request at age 12.
Impressive that the man figured out religion at such a young age, but what’s even more bizarre is what he did three years later. At 15, shortly after discovering Jesus, he decided to seduce his high school teacher who was 24 years older and married with three children. I’m not in the habit of quoting Slate, but an article on this topic published there was excellent. We learn:

At 39, Emmanuel Macron would be France’s youngest-ever president. His wife, Brigitte Trogneux, just turned 64. The two met when Macron was 15 years old; Trogneux was his high-school drama teacher. After putting off the young Macron’s advances for a while, Trogneux eventually divorced her husband—the father of her three children—and moved to Paris to be with Macron, who’d left his hometown to finish high school in the capital city. They married more than a decade after meeting, in 2007.

Media accounts of their once-illicit relationship have offered it as evidence of Macron’s daring personality and willingness to break with tradition, qualities that helped make him a presidential frontrunner without a political party or any experience in elected office. “Their love affair was the kind of audacious undertaking that has defined Mr. Macron’s life and career,” the New York Timesreports. “His sheer drive, his focus and his willingness to leapfrog in a country where most success is built step by step make him more like the entrepreneurs he admires than a typical politician.” The Associated Press writes that, “from his teenage romance with a teacher to his recent ambition to become president, Emmanuel Macron often is described as unconventional and tenacious.”

This is a strange way to frame a romantic relationship between a teenager and his 40-year-old teacher. If Macron were a young woman who’d seduced her male high-school teacher away from his wife and family, her determination and ultimate success would not be proffered as signs of her leadership skills, the beginning of a life as an effective politician. She would be cast as an opportunistic Jezebel with daddy issues who slept her way into every political role she got. If Macron were an ex-teacher who’d left his wife to be with a teenage student, we’d rightly cast doubt on his maturity and morals. Depending on the details of the case, I might think he should have lost his teaching job and wonder which combination of possible gross reasons caused him to reject women his own age.

Swap Macron and Trogneux’s gender again, and the story of a goal-oriented romancer would be spun as a conventional tale of an unhinged, desperate homewrecker. Conquering resistance through patient pursuit would, to most observers, seem like obsessed-stalker behavior coming from a young girl and sexual-predator behavior coming from an older man. Macron’s disregard of Trogneux’s initial rejection—and his dogged fixation on making her his girlfriend despite her marriage and his age—don’t ring such alarm bells because we’re far more used to seeing older men with way-younger women.
What’s most notable about the above is how corporate media such as The New York Times celebrates Macron’s less than savory behavior in his pursuit of Trogneux. It may not be fake news, but it certainly looks a lot like pro-Macron propaganda.

Finally, I’d like to end with the following tweet, which I think summarizes the situation.

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Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz
Macron is like the fiat money of politicians.
Created out of thin air to help bankers steal everything.
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The bottom line is Macron is a total fake. Indeed, he’s almost embarrassingly phony, but will it matter? My feeling is that he will probably win the May 7th runoff, but I don’t think the spread will be anywhere near as wide as everyone is predicting. I continue to think that it won’t be France, but more likely Italy, which will put the final nail in the EU coffin.

As always, we shall see.

[TonyGosling]

Emmanuel Macron, the candidate of the Bilderberg group and the Institute Montaigne
http://yetiblog.org/index.php?post/2181
By BA on January 11, 2017 - tickets from BA
Macronite_mediatique.jpg
Macronite media acute
About the participants of the Bilderberg Group : all this small world forms a clan, and this clan, this new aristocracy, supported in death by the media of the microcosm anxious to mitigate the drowning of the candidates to the nomination of the PS, found a champion for the French presidential election of 2017 : Emmanuel Macron.

The political movement of Emmanuel Macron is called " power up ! ". In April 2016, the headquarters of this political movement was located at the home of the director of theInstitut Montaigne, Laurent Bigorgne, close to the right wing ultra-liberal.

Discovered by the news site Mediapart, the link would appear in the legal notices of the website of the movement, which has changed since the publication of the article, but recovered in the screen capture by Mediapart.

The band Bolhuis-Bigorgne

These legal notices were appear the name of the publication director of the site, Véronique Bolhuis, and its editor, " power up ! "association law of 1901, residing at 33 rue Danton, 94270 Kremlin-Bicêtre.

Gold, says Mediapart, Véronique Bolhuis is the girlfriend of Laurent Bigorgne, the director of theMontaigne Institute. And the address of the association "march !" is the private home of the couple.

Laurent Bigorgne has participated in the Bilderberg Group, from 11 to 14 June 2015.

His friend Emmanuel Macron has participated in the Bilderberg Group, from 29 may to 1 June 2014. At this precise moment, Emmanuel Macron was deputy secretary-general of the presidency of the Republic. He was the counsellor for economic and financial François Hollande. Two months after the meeting of the Bilderberg Group, he was appointed minister of the Economy.

To succeed Macron, her friend Laurence Boone is appointed as economic advisor and financial of the president of the Republic. Laurence Boone had also participated in the Bilderberg Group, from 11 to 14 June 2015. In January 2016, she joined the private sector : she became the chief economist of AXA insurance, whose president is his friend Henri de Castries.

The friend of Emmanuel Macron, Henri de Castries, the head of AXA, is the chairman of the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group.
Jean-Pisani-Ferry, the sidekick

Wednesday 11 January 2017 :

Jean Pisani-Ferry joined Emmanuel Macron to lead his project.

It is a recruit of choice for Emmanuel Macron. According to our information, Jean Pisani-Ferry, general commissioner of the France Strategy, will join his campaign team, where he will coordinate the program and the applicant's project " In the Works ! ".

65-year-old, a graduate of Supelec and professor of Economics in Berlin, and Jean Pisani-Ferry is a respected figure on the left. He has been an adviser at the ministry in paris to the ministers Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Christian Sautter.

In 2009, the meeting of the Bilderberg Group was held from 14 to 17 may 2009 in Greece in Vouliagmeni, 20 km south of Athens, the Nafsika Astir Palace, a 5-star luxury hotel on a peninsula, with private beach and private harbour for yachts.

Jean Pisani-Ferry was one of the few French guests at this meeting.

There were other members of the left-caviar : Pascal Lamy, Denis Olivennes, Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

In short, the band of pro-europeans of the left, the clan of the brewers ' money, the gang of businessmen as usual.

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Pro-Brexit group sparks fury by comparing Emmanuel Macron victory to France's surrender to the Nazis
Leave.EU were branded "fascists" after making the comments on Twitter on the eve of the anniversary of VE Day
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pro-brexit-group-sparks-fury-103 78888

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The heir to Blair? Macron is more like the French Thatcher
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2018/04/heir-blair-macron-more-fren ch-thatcher


By Michael Chessum
16 April 2018

The French president’s agenda of tax cuts and privatisation is actively corrosive to the progressive dream of Europe.

Real political incompetence ought to be understood not in terms of the ministerial bumbling of The Thick of It, or the gaffes that make momentary headlines, but in terms of mass self-delusion.

Tony Blair’s interventions into the public debate on Brexit do not lack eloquence, they lack self-awareness. When Labour’s centrists attempted to remove Jeremy Corbyn as leader in 2016, they did so under the delusion that their triangulating politics could capture the support of members and the wider public. As the centre falls out of politics, many still cling to its false certainties.

In May last year, the dream of a centrist comeback was given a major boost with the election of Emmanuel Macron in France. Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell, now editor-at-large of the New European magazine, praised his “energy and confidence and conviction”. Painting himself as the liberal, pro-European antithesis to Marine Le Pen of the National Front, Macron came to power on a momentary wave of optimism about breaking free from the Socialist and Republican parties, winning big among better educated and urban voters.


But the real story of Macon’s Presidency so far has been his economic policy: his determination to cut 120,000 civil service jobs and his adherence to an orthodoxy that, everywhere else in Europe, is being rolled back.

It would be over-generous to say that Macon’s promise to the disillusioned working class voter is simply more of the same. As a fresh faced, charismatic technocrat, he often draws comparisons to Tony Blair. In terms of his real ambitions and France’s less neo-liberalised economy, he is more like a French Thatcher. As Francois Hollande’s economy minister, he oversaw labour market reforms, which, among other things, made it easier for employers to sack workers.

Now, his policy is to increase taxes on pensions, undermine trade union representation and power in public services, and introduce performance-related pay for civil servants as a means of undermining general wage increases – all on top of reforms last year which attacked collective bargaining. Simultaneously, the French government has introduced controversial selection practices in higher education, and, perhaps most significantly, paved the way for the privatisation of French railways.

Thus far, most of the commentary in Britain has focused on a rather wonkish analysis of whether or not Macron can get his reforms through – whether he can “win”. Like the British miners’ strike, this is a race between the unity of the French labour movement and the government’s resolve. But the reality is that, regardless of who wins, Macron’s policies are a disaster for the ideals he claims to be fighting for – most obviously his Europeanism.

When introducing its package of reforms to the railways, the French government has argued that the dismantling of the working conditions of staff is simply a part of readying the state train network, SNCF, for being opened up to competition and liberalisation under the EU’s latest railway directive.


The new EU rules do not really require Macron to do what he is doing – and in any case, the directive could simply be opposed and amended if the French government had the will to do so. And yet, when confronted with the privatisation of the railways, the average French worker finds themselves opposing not just the French government, but, seemingly, the concept of the EU as well.

This is a classic example of how technocratic neo-liberalism operates. Governments with an agenda of privatisation use their seat at the table of trade deals or transnational institutions (in this case the EU) to create rules which supposedly force them to privatise public services – and then claim merely to be following those rules. Fans of privatisation and opponents of state intervention are quite open about the role that state aid rules play – they provide the excuse for right wing governments to do what they want.

Where progressive European idealists would seek a regime of international solidarity and levelling up, Macron offers a race to the bottom. As banks consider their future in the aftermath of Brexit, he is keen to make France a competitive option for big capital and the super rich, offering a big cut to corporation tax, scrapping some property taxes, and maybe even removing the highest bracket of tax for bankers.

It does not take a genius to work out that this situation is a disaster for pro-Europeans and opponents of the far right in France and beyond. But Macron, who carries an axe in one hand and a European flag in the other, is still held up as a saviour of progress by much of the political elite. What his supporters will find is that a deregulatory economic agenda is actively corrosive to the progressive dream of Europe.

The political agenda of Macron – like that of the Labour right, Hillary Clinton and the rightward-drifting establishments of Europe’s social democratic parties – is an agenda sustained only by the collective delusion of its adherents. Every day, it pushes ordinary people into the arms of the far right and resurgent nationalism.

The politics of technocratic centrism are resistant to being labelled in ideological terms, so perhaps we ought to describe them in their own terms. They are incompetent. The growing movement of French workers and students currently mobilising against Macron’s reforms are not just fighting over their own wages and public services.

They are the only force that can save the European project from itself.