Seems like its over now?
Attack, We are the 99%, massive war protests against e.g. the Iraq war and so on, it alla faded pretty soon. They – the One Percenters – and their sidekicks ain’t affected an iota, these things are no thereat what so ever to them. Their economic hegemony are safe and solid. And they have a firm grip on the propaganda machine.
Real revolutions are rare.
James Joyce — ‘History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’
Every nation and culture is built on a huge pile of lies–we Americans have no monopoly there.
If I may say so as an un-American:
It can be argued that the crushing of the Whiskey (and especially Shays´) Rebellion was America´s Original Sin – the first violation of good faith like the Boston Tea Party was the first false flag – and it went downstream from then on.
But we see iconoclasm carries the risk of being burned at the stake – the People do not WANT to be parted from their myths; it has something to do with ego-defense – rationalizations for one´s own depredations are more comfortable … nothing else the Greeks meant by the veiled statue of Sais: Nekkid Truth is seldom pretty 😛
Ms. Johnstone will be delighted to learn it is not limited to the Left 😛
Quite cogent.
It is interesting that many of the people who want this mural obliterated are the same ones that just this morning are frantically posting the image of the man and child from El Salvador laying face down in the river in as many public forums as possible. I guess they have never asked themselves why images illustrating injustice from 50-100 years ago are “triggering” while images illustrating “injustice” from last week are not (and, quite the contrary, are almost exultantly posted as evidence of their enlightenment).
George Washington certainly wanted to ‘extirpate this exhorable race’ as much as Amherst and Franklin. Had over a hundred slaves working hemp plantation / sailcloth & ropewalk (his original interest in the C&O Canal, he sorta started the Seven Years War to secure). But, WHO sent 13,000 militia to crush white settlers, trying to sell their rye, downriver; during the Whiskey Rebellion? If you patriots pay for the Krylon, I’ll be happy to fly out & add the renters, veterans, Shawnee, Mingo, Wyandotte, French, English, Lenni Lenape and the Gnadenhutten Massacre! You can’t paint out TRUTH.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-20-02-0661
Johnstone belittles the complex and often noble history of the colonists, pioneers and Founding Fathers as just a cherry tree myth.
...who chose to depart from the sterilized “I cannot tell a lie” cherry tree myth and the crossing of the Delaware glorification of George Washington to introduce reminders of the forgotten victims of the foundation of the United States – the exploitation of African slaves and the violent expropriation of Native American lands.
That amounts to “belittling” ?
Perhaps you are as whinny, knee-jerk super sensitive as those you criticize?
Ah-men! (any relation to Caitlin, parchance? 😛 )
But I think the problem is broader. In drugs, it is called “tolerance” i.e. you need ever more of the same to get the same high … like you are increasingly “triggered” by ever less noticeable things.
“Identity politics”, “the Bubble”, whatever you call it, produces thin-skinned, hypersensitive whiny little shits incapable of arguing a point or compromising; then they turn to violence but even that is pathetic – just look at what passes for “political discourse” these days.
Thank Odhinn White hetero males get these kinds of crap beaten out of them by age three 😛
…who chose to depart from the sterilized “I cannot tell a lie” cherry tree myth and the crossing of the Delaware glorification of George Washington to introduce reminders of the forgotten victims of the foundation of the United States – the exploitation of African slaves and the violent expropriation of Native American lands.
Johnstone belittles the complex and often noble history of the colonists, pioneers and Founding Fathers as just a cherry tree myth.
And she wonders why her fellow Leftists have no brains?
Dear Diane Johnstone, I have been reading your reports for I think probably 30 years, and always learn much from them, not only in detail, but how to analyze the matter. As I remember, long ago, before 1989 (?), you sent them on paper, and I still have several of them on the Soviet Union. I cannot find them now among my papers, but for my own research and political work I would find those old reports on paper very, very useful. Do you have them archived in any electronic way, so that you could make them generally available? If not, do you think you could have them scanned and made available? If this were possible, how much do you think it would cost?
Saludos solidarios,
John Womack
Let me try to address your points:
– I agree that the Magyar language is very ancient. I have heard about the claimed Sumerian link, not as much about the Etruscan link. One explanation for the Sumerian link is linguistic dispersion from the mega-Sumeria region northward and thus influencing proto-Magyars. The pre-ancient proto-Sumerian civilization around Indian Ocean was very widespread and incl. Elam, Indus Valley. etc… It is very likely that ancestors of Magyars who were a few hundred miles to the north were also linked to it.
If you have any data on the Etruscan link, I would like to see it. The Etruscan language is not deciphered and the remaining writings seems to be mostly divinity jibberish, but I am not an expert, so maybe I am missing a link.
it is in ancient folk lore
The ancient folk lore among Magyars is not a reliable source. The most likely link to Atilla and the Huns is with some Middle Age attempts to create a coherent story. It varies very little from the eventual consolidation of these folk tales in the 19th century as a founding myth for Magyars. There is no historical evidence that Magyars were related to the Huns – and they were separated by 400 years. If Huns stayed living in the Carptahian basin post 5th century, why aren’t they ever mentioned (e.g. in the Byzantium or Frankish sources).
Slovakia is a new country, but an old nation. There was in the 9-10. century a state called (Magna) Moravia and also a Nitra principality. The modern cyrilic alphabet originated there. This is very well documented in historical sources. For the next 1,000 years the population of Slovakia (or northern Hungarian and later Habsburg kingdom) was largely composed of Slovaks.
Both Hungary and the Habsburg Empire were consciously multi-national, so to claim:
pre-WW1 territory was ALWAYS Hungarian
…is very misleading. Magyars are not the same thing as Hungarians, the territory contained multiple nations, and it was controlled between 16. and 19.th century by the Austrian Habsburgs from Vienna. Magyars were a subject nations, the same way as Czechs, Croats, Italians, Slovaks, Poles,…
The Slovak etymology for ‘Hungarian’ is very simple from ‘Uhri’ based on ‘U hory’ – literally means next to the mountains. That’s the way my ancestors have always understood it. They might be wrong, but it is also a perfectly viable etymology.
U make incorrect assumptions.
“Magyars were ‘subjects of Attila‘ is a made up mythology”- says you.
Magyars were not known as magyars till hungary was born.
each ‘hungarian’ tribe had their own name.
“The whole Attila link is a mostly 19th century mythology invented by Magyar nationalists to give themselves more longevity in the Carpathian basin”= except it is in ancient folk lore, not 19th c.
The ancient folk lore among Magyars is not a reliable source. The most likely link to Atilla and the Huns is with some Middle Age attempts to create a coherent story. It varies very little from the eventual consolidation of these folk tales in the 19th century as a founding myth for Magyars. There is no historical evidence that Magyars were related to the Huns - and they were separated by 400 years. If Huns stayed living in the Carptahian basin post 5th century, why aren't they ever mentioned (e.g. in the Byzantium or Frankish sources).
it is in ancient folk lore
...is very misleading. Magyars are not the same thing as Hungarians, the territory contained multiple nations, and it was controlled between 16. and 19.th century by the Austrian Habsburgs from Vienna. Magyars were a subject nations, the same way as Czechs, Croats, Italians, Slovaks, Poles,...
pre-WW1 territory was ALWAYS Hungarian
That is true, but means very little. Magyars have had an affinity for nomadic raiders the same way as some Celts worship 'King Arthur', Romans claimed descent from 'Trojans', or today's Macedonians claim descent from Alexander Macedonian. History is full of false narratives, people like to mythologize. Linguistic, DNA and historical sources contradict any actual link. Some Magyars have tried to suggest that Huns somehow hid for a few hundred years in the Carpathian basin - unseen and undetected. Or that they were remains of Huns in Central Asia who joined Magyars on their trek westward. It is highly unlikely, and in any case 'Huns' are not a well defined tribe.There are credible alternative explanations for the German term 'Ungarn' (from which 'Hungary' was derived). The region has been referred to as Uhri or Wengri by surrounding nations like Poles, Czechs, Romanians since time immemorial. It means roughly 'next to mountains' - 'u hor'. Germans automatically replace 'h' with 'g', and Ungarn looks like an adoption of the local term 'Uhri'. It would simply mean the country 'next to mountains', and it is that, a huge valley surrounded by the Carpathian mountains. No need to dream up a Hun-Attila connection, other than by lazy English outsiders. Magyars are Ugro-Finns from around Ural, a much more interesting reality.
in Hungary schoolchildren were taught to look up to their “glorious Hun forefathers” with patriotic pride. An exclusive rowing club in Budapest was called “Hunnia,” and Attila is still a popular first name in Hungaria
The Fin connection is a poor one, started in the 19c by the Austrians to misdirect HUngarian culture away from its true roots, & has continued ever since. There is indeed some connection to Finnish language, but it is minimal, going back over 3000 yrs. There r far closer linguistic links to other groups, as well as cultural/ancestral/mythic.
An indepth investigation into magyar folk lore going back many milenia show connections to Sumeria (an identical musical instrument, & similar linguistic aspects, where were used early on to translate Sumerian).
The language is far older than indo euro languages, & remains largely intact at its base, a rare feat.
An italian professor emeritus Mario Alinei confirmed Magyar language is essentially Etruscan.
The myths & chronicles mention Atila, Hunor & Magor etc.
The weapons r identical, fighting style, etc.
It is also chronicalled that the 1st hungarians were able to speak to the natives in magyar.
recent Genetic evidnce etc.
I suggest u do far more research rather than relying on wiki & politically motivated common media.
Hungary is over 1100 years old. Most of pre-WW1 territory was ALWAYS Hungarian as officially sanctioned by the pope of the day.
The areas you mention were not ‘established’ countries nor known for settled populations till after Hungary became a nation.
Slovakia- never existed till 1800’s if i recall..
Croatia- voluntarily joined with Hungary for mutual protection
Transylvania, is hot disputed. Romania claims it based on dubious unsubstantiated claims.
Vojvodina- not enough info to comment
many groups were allowed in over the centuries & retained their ethnic identities.
So no, Hungary NEVER had a colonial empire by normal standards. But if by your stds they did then EVERY nation was a colonial empire at one time so the phrase is of zero relevance.
eg US Indians often invaded & colonized other indian territories, same with Aus Aborigines, NZ Maoris, etc etc.
As long as Europe exists under the American military and “nuclear umbrella”, its brand of “socialism” works. If Europe had to provide for its own defense, its “socialist utopia” would collapse.
As you are Dutch are you familiar with the claim that Holland was not a genuine neutral in 1939-40 ? The German government issued a White Paper which stated that the Dutch military had strategic talks with their British counterparts and were prepared to allow British troops to march through Holland to attack Germany. It also stated that the Dutch government was allowing the RAF to use its airspace to bomb targets in Germany. This link includes info on a book in the Dutch language by Loe De Jong – https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=12153
Bravo Diana
A very good analysis of what’s going on here.
Don’t forgot that we have a long history of beheading traitors like macon.
The fact that this YV movment has no leader is in fact what make it dangerous for macron.
Nobody to subvert or buy.
Yesterday about 300 000 people in the steets, and an approval rate of about 65%.
Hope other in EU will join or set up their own revolt againts savage capitalism.
I finally got around to reading my hard copy of this weeks The Economist. Two GJ pieces (one paragraph in the Charlemagne column and a news article.) Same talking points.
1. The GJ’s are anti EU
2. The GJ’s are anti immigration
3. The GJ’s are anti gay marriage
4. The level of taxation and redistribution in France is the highest of any country on earth; the GJ’s don’t know what they are complaining about (inference they are spoiled children and stupid)
At least they didn’t accuse the GJ’s of being anti-semites!
Well Macron more-or-less already did that one.
I am Dutch, was born in WWII, have been politically interested all my life, both my parents were members of socialist organisations, so I think I have some idea about Dutch politics since say 1960.
The simple fact of it being government makes its interests vastly different from those of the population
I know that getting rid of illusions is always painful. I had my illusions about Western democracy and media, all of which were wrong, as I found after moving to the US more than 27 years ago.
Just ask yourself, how come the governments of all the countries you mentioned are acting against the interests of the populace for many years, yet keep being “elected”. That tells you all you need to know about representative “democracy”, “free” elections, “free” media, and other myths used to fool people. I have to acknowledge that Soviet authorities were more responsive to the needs and opinions of the populace than “democratic” governments today. Maybe that’s why those “democracies” worked so diligently against the Soviet Union, which was in the end betrayed and destroyed by its elite.
There are no ideal social systems, but there are different shades of gray, some of which are decidedly black.
Not just in France, in any country more or less controlled by jews.
Maybe you can turn it around: in any country where holocaust doubts cannot be expressed there is jewish control.
Often these also are the countries where doubt on the Armenian genocide is not allowed.
Jews and Armenians support each other in this matter, as is made quite clear in
Ralph Giordano, ‘Israel um Himmels willen Israel’, 1993 Köln
Giordano is a German journalist and writer, who grew up in WWII, with a jewish mother.
Ralph Giordano, ‘Die Bertinis’, Frankfurt a.M., 1982
The novel is seen as largely autobiographic, I fear it may be close to the truth.
On the other hand, the contrast with
Victor Klemperer, ‘I will bear witness, A diary of the Nazi years, 1942-1945’, New York 1999 is incomprehensible.
The whole Giordano family survived WWII, but it was a horrible period for them, as it was for Klemperer.
The simple fact of it being government makes its interests vastly different from those of the population
I am Dutch, was born in WWII, have been politically interested all my life, both my parents were members of socialist organisations, so I think I have some idea about Dutch politics since say 1960.
Until, say 2000, we had governments interested in common people, social security systems and policies, around 1980 the socialist government Den Uyl fell because it believed in what then was called ‘maakbare samenleving’, the intention to regulate even investments by commercial organisations, regulation based on what was seen as good for the average Dutchman.
I realise that on a world scale this was the exception, but it was not much different in countries as Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
Even French governments, though French politicians are an oligarchy, cared for the the common man, protectionism.
Around 2000 this began to change, the EU ideals, illusions, whatever you want.
You are unbelievable optimist. Chinese did not even say thank you. You live in dreamworld.
Agree.
Let’s summarize, then:
Phase/step one:
The frustration gets expressed as a swarm, with one simple goal. Referendum, in this case, to change the game of politics. That creates the proper environment for phase/step two:
Getting organized with a clear vision.
Sounds promising.
I think that’s basically correct. State exceptions to the NWO fold likely would be any nation who is extremely isolated, like N. Korea and Iran, or who is invaded. No nation that is outside of the fold avoids sanctions or invasion for long, Africa largely excluded (as the Africans have no problem defeating themselves).
The Chinese genocided tens of millions of their own in order to get aboard the Jewish Communism train.
China is a primary beneficiary of the post WWII NWO commercial and financial relations system that was created at Bretton Woods. We gave up most of our non-advanced manufacturing so that their nation could be built up. Our trade protection made their country. We would not give those things to a rogue state.
It’s safe to say that the Chinese are on-board.
And Switzerland is unique place on this planet. Plus it's small, has specific history shaped by European, even world (ge0)politics.
Athenian style democracy works very well using the Swiss model...
“My take: if the frustration doesn’t get organized, with a clear vision, it will lose. It will be…”managed” and the show will go on.”
You are right, but one can also say that the movement understands this very well, and acts in such a way so that:
– it prevents the managerial class to directly manipulate/manage it (the movement) by being disorganized
– its goal is to set a tool (the popular referendum-RIC) that history proved the managerial class has a lot of problem to handle/manipulate (even when the medias are trusted, and the medias are now despised)
If the RIC is obtained (with probably a higher level of violence), then all doors are opened, and various political movements will develop, in a brand new context (the movement has opened the eyes of millions of people about the real situation, and about the nature of the powerclass).
I know that. Have you never made a typo?
That’s exactly what I mean. Widespread belief that the government is on your side is naïve, to put it mildly. It does not matter what form of government it is: ostensibly elected, monarchy, or dictatorship. The simple fact of it being government makes its interests vastly different from those of the population. I have to agree that the EU bureaucracy, which wields power without pretending to be elected, is an abomination even in smoke-and-mirrors “democracy” feeble-minded voters might believe in. However, it is just as subservient to the elites as “elected” governments, so no difference in substance.
The fact that it takes so long for Europeans to put two and two together is hardly an extenuating circumstance. Your examples showing how dangerous it is to do something prove beyond reasonable doubt that the government and the interests it represents are hostile to the populace.
I am Dutch, was born in WWII, have been politically interested all my life, both my parents were members of socialist organisations, so I think I have some idea about Dutch politics since say 1960.
The simple fact of it being government makes its interests vastly different from those of the population
In the podcast I linked to, Joe Atwell makes the link between Adam Smith and Crowley. What I found most interesting was that Adam Smith was a freemason, likely very high level to boot. Many of us know that once masonry is involved, no event or explanation can be trusted or taken at face value. Everything has to be de-constructed for symbolism, numerology and hidden messages. I do not have the time, or the ability, to properly deconstruct Adam Smith’s work, but Joe Atwell has.
In the period when Adam Smith was writing, various judaically and masonically owned mercantalist monopolies like the English east india company, Hudsons bay, Dutch east india had complete sway over world “markets”.
So why would a cabal of hidden hand masonist’s have one of their brothers push “free markets” in his book about the power of the “hidden hand” of markets? Could it be because with the power provided by their already existing monopolies would allow them to get power over every market on the planet?
A quick duckyduck returns:
You seem to ignore that the French empire controlled a large part of the world, just prior to WWII.
Since World War 2 – relative to the two remaining superpowers, that is. It doesn’t matter much that they are bigger than Latvia.
all true, and all irrelevant to the question at hand.
When I say “remunerated”, I mean that the people were making savings with a profit. Inflation was an average of 3.5% in the 1960 s. Today the popular “Livret A” in France gets 0.75% interest with an inflation of 1.85% in 2018.
The government can borrow from the usurers, but not from its own population, as it was before the 1973 law. The state is selling off its assets, just like Greece was forced to. The population must pay the interests through taxes and since the debt keeps growing, the interests and the taxes have no other way than up. Compound interest is really the “eighth marvel of the world”, if you sit on the right side of it. The Japanese can manage with a debt of over 200% GDP, because most of their debt is held by the Japanese.
Depends on what you define as ‘democracy functioning’.
After the Lisbon Treaty of 2005 I’d expected resistance outside the democratic legal system earlier.
The problem here in Europe is that we were accustomed to governments for us, not against us.
Just recently, maybe half a year ago, an establishment politician at a congress of his party was shocked, that a part of the Dutch population, not a negligible part, now sees the government as enemy.
Just in October 2017 FvD was established, a party of well educated Dutch, a party against the EU.
So in my opinion democracy functions, but reactions to political changes take time, in the EU case giving the politicians the advantage of the doubt, after reality has sunk in it again takes time until someone decides to do something.
This doing something is a risky business, as Janmaat and Fortuyn experienced.
Janmaat ended in wheel chair, after an attack from leftists, Fortuyn was murdered.
Wilders has 7/24 protection, he in fact lives in a prison.
The Bremen attempted murder was a few days ago.
“as groups met to pour through the daunting legalistic documents”
Excusez-moi, Diana – the word is “pore” –
“pore (v.)
“gaze intently,” early 13c., of unknown origin, with no obvious corresponding word in Old French. Perhaps from Old English *purian, suggested by spyrian “to investigate, examine,” and spor “a trace, vestige.” Related: Pored; poring.”
accord w. freedom and sanctity of contract–the participants all working for their self-interest would yet prosper one another
Yet the same Adam Smith knew quite well, and wrote this down, that in wage negotiations employees and employers were in quite unequal bargaining positions.
Since World War 2 - relative to the two remaining superpowers, that is. It doesn't matter much that they are bigger than Latvia.
Since when did Germany or France become small countries?
Korea got destroyed. Iranian governments were overthrown repeatedly (even the Islamic revolution was engineered by the CIA, even though it did not work out as intended), and it was severely crippled in the proxy war in the 1980s. It is now increasingly being targeted precisely because it is rising again out of insignificance. Nicaragua and Cuba are indeed insignificant, both economically and strategically - they are merely being harassed, while also being contained. However, you can be sure that the response would be very different if Germany tried to pull something similar. Why do you think the Americans still have an occupation force there? You are just trying to be cute.
Countries with much smaller economies, like NK, Iran, Cuba, or Nicaragua, dare to defy the Empire.
Since World War 2 – relative to the two remaining superpowers, that is. It doesn’t matter much that they are bigger than Latvia.
You seem to ignore that the French empire controlled a large part of the world, just prior to WWII.
The French navy was quite impressive at the time.
Politically and economically Germany is far from small
The principle component of a democracy is free speech and they have not had that for decades in France. On July 13 1990 the law against holocaust revisionism went into effect. Free speech doesn’t exist in France.
https://codoh.com/library/document/688/
There has been ZERO coverage of the Yellow Shirts in the main french media of Québec, the Journaldequebec.com Québec is France’s natural allie in Canada, through the Desmarais-Rothschild-BNP Paribas connection.
(Journaldequebec.com is owned by independentist PK Péladeau. Its world division belonged to Lehman bro and former special envoyé in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, the dog of war who said that Bombing Serbia had been a good thing for Serbs).
Oddly enough, if you try to access Journaldequebec.com, by hiding behind a fictive IP representing a European country, a message appears indicating that under a law voted by the European parliament, access to the site Journaldequebec.com is forbidden for European countries.
WHY???
Why can’t the French see what Journaldequebec.com says here about their protests? (That is why can’t the French see that these cowards refuse to cover the protests and remain totally silent?)
Note: The crown-owned Radio-Canada (1.5 billions -year, taxpayer money), which supported the ”rebels” affiliated to Al-Nusra in Syria, and LFIG in Libya, and which remains TOTALLY SILENT on the war crimes committed by Bagot (220 laser-guided bombs dropped on Libya), is now covering (superficially) the Yellow Shirts. Some insipid paragraphs resembling (as usual) to copies of their friends, the hypocrites AFP and BBC. I still haven’t seen the 25 demands of the protestors listed by Radio-Canada. This radio station is total bullshit. They prefer to support rebels heavily armed by NATO in the Middle East that covering legitimate protests in France. That’s cowardice as usual. And as usual, they say Marine LePen is a racist, Russia is the demon, Teresa May is a grande dame though we still don’t know what really happened in the Skrispal affair (ie, WHO DID IT?)
Since when did Germany or France become small countries?
Since World War 2 – relative to the two remaining superpowers, that is. It doesn’t matter much that they are bigger than Latvia.
Countries with much smaller economies, like NK, Iran, Cuba, or Nicaragua, dare to defy the Empire.
Korea got destroyed. Iranian governments were overthrown repeatedly (even the Islamic revolution was engineered by the CIA, even though it did not work out as intended), and it was severely crippled in the proxy war in the 1980s. It is now increasingly being targeted precisely because it is rising again out of insignificance.
Nicaragua and Cuba are indeed insignificant, both economically and strategically – they are merely being harassed, while also being contained. However, you can be sure that the response would be very different if Germany tried to pull something similar. Why do you think the Americans still have an occupation force there? You are just trying to be cute.
You seem to ignore that the French empire controlled a large part of the world, just prior to WWII.
Since World War 2 – relative to the two remaining superpowers, that is. It doesn’t matter much that they are bigger than Latvia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila
This is an effective deterrent to antiSemitism claims.
And it’s a pretty fun dance with a crowd of strangers.
‘…The demand is for a certain number of signatories – perhaps 700,000, perhaps more – to gain the right to call a referendum on an issue of their choice. The right to a CIR exists in Switzerland, Italy and California…’
In the case of California, this statement needs to be qualified.
A measure can indeed be placed on the ballot if enough people sign the petition. The courts, however, will of course overturn the outcome if the measure passes.
Most countries are small and have their governments foisted on them by some external great power. If they dare to change them, they will get liberated by that great power. So, "wise" leaders of small countries will just avoid upsetting the apple cart and just play along so as to avoid being liberated. This is how "leaders" like Merkel and Macron manage to look in the mirror while shaving - "sure, I am a despicable opportunist, but I only sacrifice my honour in my people's best interest."
You just confirmed that every nation has the government it deserves.
Since when did Germany or France become small countries? They behave like inconsequential nonentities, like Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia, but they do so by choice, not because they are small and insignificant. Countries with much smaller economies, like NK, Iran, Cuba, or Nicaragua, dare to defy the Empire.
Not to mention that the Empire wouldn’t dare bring “democracy” on the heads of Germans or French in 500 kg TNT installments. That would be too revealing. They behave like vassals because their elites are corrupt to the core, not because the countries are small and helpless.
Since World War 2 - relative to the two remaining superpowers, that is. It doesn't matter much that they are bigger than Latvia.
Since when did Germany or France become small countries?
Korea got destroyed. Iranian governments were overthrown repeatedly (even the Islamic revolution was engineered by the CIA, even though it did not work out as intended), and it was severely crippled in the proxy war in the 1980s. It is now increasingly being targeted precisely because it is rising again out of insignificance. Nicaragua and Cuba are indeed insignificant, both economically and strategically - they are merely being harassed, while also being contained. However, you can be sure that the response would be very different if Germany tried to pull something similar. Why do you think the Americans still have an occupation force there? You are just trying to be cute.
Countries with much smaller economies, like NK, Iran, Cuba, or Nicaragua, dare to defy the Empire.
It is clearly out of question that legislature full of bought and paid for people would ever adopt a law prohibiting “contributing” to them. It’s like expecting foxes to prohibit chicken meat.
Thus, the choice is either a messy revolution (that Americans have no stomach for, at least not yet), or the move from the ground up: state referenda establishing state funding of campaigns at a certain level and prohibiting any spending above that, any donations, PACs, etc. When two-thirds of the states have that on the books, there is a chance to get through a constitutional amendment to this effect. It would still have to get through absolutely corrupt Congress, but the pressure would be on. Like I said, the only alternative is a messy and bloody revolution. Then it won’t limit itself to campaign finance.
Glad you like it! it shows that at least some here have a throbbing heart–unlike the disinfo trolls in utter contempt on this thread trying to sow discourse; they along with their masters are fully panicked–and they DESERVE TO BE PANICKING, for their influence is losing its hold on the people!
Here is more info that your local news will NEVER cover (due to their subservience, greed, and short-sightness …. although their demise will be unceremonious and they’ll get what they deserve in the end!):
Smith’s “Invisible Hand” Refers To Natural Harmony Of Rationalism, Rule-Of-Law
As I understand, the “invisible hand” of Smith meant that within the free market (Smith was against mercantilism, w. it’s tariffs and monopolies, etc.)–remember a market w. genuine RULE-OF-LAW working, in accord w. freedom and sanctity of contract–the participants all working for their self-interest would yet prosper one another “as if by an invisible hand”–such is the proper context and understanding of Smith and “invisible hand.”
Note earlier, Bernard Mandeville (1705) wrote his “The Grumbling Hive” which similarly posed a thriving economy by means of participants all working for their simple self-interest, BUT in a rationalist fashion, governed by rule-of-law.
And even earlier, both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke posed the larger political system governed by RATIONAL self-interest, their pt. being we’re all necessarily self-interested by nature, the thing now to being is most rationalistic in accord therewith, hence the rationalist social-contract.
What thou art totally over-looking about Crowley is he pushed a gross self-INDULGENCE in DIS-REGARD for reason and rule-of-law, there being no rationalist rule-of-law for Crowley–total SUBJECTIVISM–whereas the aforementioned Englishmen (Smith fm Scotland) presumed the objective reality.
Thy problem is whether Crowley’s ignoring reason and rule-of-law is really in harmony and accord w. self-interest; thou are confusing self-interest w. irrational self-indulgence–typical of subjectivists, subjectivism, and satanism.
Yet the same Adam Smith knew quite well, and wrote this down, that in wage negotiations employees and employers were in quite unequal bargaining positions.
accord w. freedom and sanctity of contract–the participants all working for their self-interest would yet prosper one another
http://judeo-masonic.blogspot.com/2010/09/hitlers-struggle-part-i-two-world.html
"But, how can a simple book create a New World Order? Well, it all has to do with the way imperialism was imposed around the world. After the Seven Years’ War, from 1756 to 1763 (also known as the “First World War”, since it involved the whole of Europe, North America and part of Asia), Britain became the dominant empire throughout the world; gaining control over French and Dutch territories in North America and Asia. [7] It was after this war when Adam Smith began to promote his ideas for a new type of imperialism; arguing that it was far too costly to maintain a world colonial empire through military occupation, when those colonies could be given control of their own land while the empire could continue to exploit their richness and be looted just as before. [8] Adam Smith's book was such a success that just one year later, in 1777, the British government was already shaping its policies based on his ideas; using the book as a guide to introduce new duties and taxes, designing commercial treaties, promoting free trade and credit, [9] and shifting from colonial imperialism to capitalist imperialism.
This also meant that this New World Order could not only exploit and control colonies, but through its new economic system (capitalism) could actually exploit any other nation or empire. It also meant that power did not lay anymore on the hands of the aristocracy, but on the hands of those who controlled the economy."
It sounds as though France had been using what we would call Quantitative Easing today until 1973 and Giscard was attempting to impose discipline but that it didn’t have much effect on the money supply at first because the 18 per cent of GDP didn’t frighten the banks into limiting the debt finance to government. But why did inflation slow down after 1985, long before the Euro was introduced?
What do you mean by “remunerated” government bonds? Do you mean inflation proof, indexed linked bonds? If not wasn’t government stealing from savers before 1973 (and after) by way of very high inflation?
You seem to suggest government is no longer able to borrow so has to raise taxes. But that is simply not correct, is it? After all France continues to run a budget deficit which means that it has to borrow. So, if French private savers money is leaving the country other people’s money must be more than making up for it. N’est-ce pas?
Spengler in Decline of the West said that ‘democracy could never be anything other than the political tool of money.’ He also said that all the French revolution did was to deliver France into the hands of the army and the Bourse.
Would be interesting to see what soooooooooooooooo great philosopher Bernard Henry Levi think about this!
You mean Israel. Yes, you do have a point there, but I didn't want to go down that rabbit hole - we can consider both Israel and the U.S. parts of the "anglo-zionist empire", which is the great power that lords it over most of Europe.
France and Germany aren’t. Actually Merkel and Macron are working for that small country that tells usa what to do.
” we can consider both Israel and the U.S. parts of the “anglo-zionist empire”
Russia is also part of the “anglo-zionist empire”, although the “good cop/bad cop” being played by the msm and alt-media may trick lots of people in thinking that Russia is an independent country.
How about China ? I really don’t know. Maybe the chinese elite are only playing along with the zio-mafia but sometimes I believe the chinese really don’t care and never will care about the crimes committed outside their borders.
Which may be reasonable and morally sound but which makes them also morally/politically/economically compatible with the ““anglo-zionist empire”
Macron is a treasonous rat politician whore for the Rothschild Bankers and the plutocrat globalizers.
Macron is a clear and present threat to the national security interests of France.
Macron pushes nation-wrecking mass immigration and financialization and globalization and Macron pushes for more war on behalf of Israel in the Middle East. Macron is a threat to the safety, security and sovereignty of France. Macron is an enemy of the French people.
The French military must immediately begin preparations to remove the treasonous tyrant Macron from power.
VIVE LA FRANCE — VIVE LA YELLOW VESTS!
Rothschild Whore Macron attacks the proud and patriotic French people:
Now I agree with you. It’s the corrupting power of money, not the concept of representative democracy that needs fixed.
The American people, the bases of both parties, have named this as a top problem and have wanted the money out of politics for decades. But in support of your criticism, NOTHING HAPPENED. Instead, we got a bipartisan auction house.
I still think it is worth trying to fix rather than go to… what do you recommend?
Thanks! It’s so inspirational, which is no doubt why it is hidden.
France and Germany aren’t. Actually Merkel and Macron are working for that small country that tells usa what to do.
You mean Israel. Yes, you do have a point there, but I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole – we can consider both Israel and the U.S. parts of the “anglo-zionist empire”, which is the great power that lords it over most of Europe.
Okay, no doubt some limits would have to be placed on having a legislature made of The Public. If the current system could limit the effects of media and legalized bribery, maybe it could get better results than going to the telephone directory, but the Window needs moved over, so….
Most countries are small and have their governments foisted on them by some external great power. If they dare to change them, they will get liberated by that great power. So, "wise" leaders of small countries will just avoid upsetting the apple cart and just play along so as to avoid being liberated. This is how "leaders" like Merkel and Macron manage to look in the mirror while shaving - "sure, I am a despicable opportunist, but I only sacrifice my honour in my people's best interest."
You just confirmed that every nation has the government it deserves.
“Most countries are small and have their governments foisted on them by some external great power.”
USA isn’t exactly a small country but as you certainly know it isn’t the american people who decide of their government but that “great external power” which is smaller than New Jersey.
And imho the same applies to another big country (Russia) which in spite of propaganda and Syria, is controlled by the same state that controls usa.
“So, “wise” leaders of small countries will just avoid upsetting the apple cart and just play along so as to avoid being liberated”
You got that right. Switzerland is a very good example of that small country you’re talking about.
France and Germany aren’t. Actually Merkel and Macron are working for that small country that tells usa what to do. They are not defending their people’s best interest. They’re well known traitors.
Traitors like 99,5% of american politicians and journalists and scholars and…
Of course you know this – Don’t you ?
You mean Israel. Yes, you do have a point there, but I didn't want to go down that rabbit hole - we can consider both Israel and the U.S. parts of the "anglo-zionist empire", which is the great power that lords it over most of Europe.
France and Germany aren’t. Actually Merkel and Macron are working for that small country that tells usa what to do.
Eventually EU will fall apart. Immediately after when French will leave.
Germany will not be able to subside all those shitty little eastern European countries.
It simply cannot go on forever.
Eastern European countries will have to make it on their own.
Athenian style democracy works very well using the Swiss model…
And Switzerland is unique place on this planet. Plus it’s small, has specific history shaped by European, even world (ge0)politics.
I have no intention in going in this debate, really. Had it on some courses/papers I had once upon a time.
There is a pattern seen since start of recorded history: as an entity gets bigger and more (economically and militarily) powerful, the TRUE power tends to concentrate upwards.
Back to “yellow vests”. It feels as incoherent expression of frustration.
Granted, we are in uncharted waters so it might work. I am not optimistic.
The cosmopolitan/managerial class is an expert in managing masses. By any means necessary. That’s their core specialty and purpose.
I have a feeling that we are entering a phase of more frustration, more “management” and more chaos, everywhere in West.
My take: if the frustration doesn’t get organized, with a clear vision, it will lose. It will be…”managed” and the show will go on.
On practical level, “we” boast about that quality of the movement which has no leadership and that’ quality because it can’t be arrested, cooped etc.
I guess I am the only guy here who strongly believes that’s, simply, load of crap Or, better, sure way to lose.
Hehe….don’t bother, guys, with replies. Let’s just wait and see. Two things shall happen:
The movement will get ORGANIZED, with clear vision.
OR
It will continue as it is, getting just more violent.
If former, great.
If later, boring.
You just confirmed that every nation has the government it deserves.
Most countries are small and have their governments foisted on them by some external great power. If they dare to change them, they will get liberated by that great power. So, “wise” leaders of small countries will just avoid upsetting the apple cart and just play along so as to avoid being liberated. This is how “leaders” like Merkel and Macron manage to look in the mirror while shaving – “sure, I am a despicable opportunist, but I only sacrifice my honour in my people’s best interest.”
Of course you know this – you are just trolling, as usual.
The 1973 law abolished the money sovereignty of the country and forced the State to borrow from private banks. Before 1973, the central bank was providing money to the State at 1% interest. In 1973 the debt was about 18% of GDP. Today France has a debt of 2300 billion Euro (101% GDP) and has to pay about 55 billion per year in interests. Before 1973, the interests of the debt were recycled within the country, as citizens could benefit from it: many had their savings in remunerated government bonds. Today, all this money is leaving the country and the people must pay for it through taxes.
Interesting regarding that political scandal called Penelopegate. I recall that such scandals were used in Obama’s rise to power. All opponents were smeared with something. One got his divorce records unsealed.
So let’s go with Macronomic?
Better to try to do something different, because the present methodology applied since 1983 has proven to be a disaster for the french economy.
You know Albert Einstein said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
That won’t change anything unless money is taken out of politics. It does not matter how big or small the district is as long as candidates are getting money from those who have a lot of it. So, no honest person has a chance, as nobody will give him/her money. Corrupt people have an advantage: the donors give because they rightly expect payback. Thus, the key is to make all campaigns financed to exactly the same limit and prohibit any additional sources of financing. In this case even 50 states would work better than they do now.
Tim Kelly and Joe Atwell recently made a podcast about this:
The Free Trade Myth
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tkelly6785757/episodes/2019-01-05T11_48_31-08_00
They conclude that Adam Smith was a freemason, and that all this “Magic Hand” of “free trade” is really just a precursor to Crowley’s “Do what thou wilt”.
You just confirmed that every nation has the government it deserves. If Europeans sincerely believe that “democracy functions”, they deserve the “democracy” they have now. I had better opinion of Europeans. Apparently, I was wrong.
Most countries are small and have their governments foisted on them by some external great power. If they dare to change them, they will get liberated by that great power. So, "wise" leaders of small countries will just avoid upsetting the apple cart and just play along so as to avoid being liberated. This is how "leaders" like Merkel and Macron manage to look in the mirror while shaving - "sure, I am a despicable opportunist, but I only sacrifice my honour in my people's best interest."
You just confirmed that every nation has the government it deserves.
What you mean is representative democracy, not 'electoral'. Its the representatives that are the problem.
What politicians do after elections is hardly ever the same as what they promised before the elections.
Don’t you see that this statement means that electoral “democracy” is no more than a ruse?
Yes, you right, it is “representative”. Then again, if you elect, it means that someone else is supposed to represent you (which s/he never does), so in a way electoral and representative is the same thing.
If I’m not mistaken, to win this or to get your point across is to ‘Play the Game’. A playing the game in a Capitalist society is all about the $, £……..
Israel, knows what the game is, it’s called BDS and it’s go them so scared, they are trying to make it illegal in America.
The Israeli/Palestian issue is solvable, but without SpartUSAs clutsy feet and money. The people have the ability to challenge Israel and the anti BSD movement by pulling why I call a MRL/Ghandi double team.
It’s a couch potatoes wet dream.
That $ in your pocket is the greatest daily voting right you have.
Don’t buy Coke, Don’t use Facebook, Don’t use Amazon, Don’t use Google.
OH, THEY’LL HEAR!
Problem is, people have gone beyond being couch potatoes….they just dont care!
“The Coldplay members should be rounded up, and if necessary beat the s*it out of them, to make them confess what their prophecy is all about –”
They have no idea what it’s all about. Still, I’m fully on board.
There are no real free markets, and that’s the problem.
“Free markets” is an oxymoron, and the fact that so many don’t understand that is “the problem.” Markets are regulated by society (some form of government). Without money, markets don’t exist, just barter. Either government creates money, or the most common currency will control government. Without standards of weights and measures, there are no honest markets. Some authority must certify a merchant’s weights and measures. “Free markets” are a figment of imagination.
“We are just human.”
The Talmud says that only Jews are human and that goyim are mere animals. I am of European extraction with portions of English, German and French. I simply don’t buy into this “human race” jewish propaganda.
I do like your user name though…
Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
Sleeping by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whisky
He can call for his tea
Call all he want to but he
Can’t call me
Another strawman argument:
This would recreate the old world classical currency wars within an area spared this past 20 years +.
And so what? The rest of the world have their own currencies – as we did before – and get along just fine.
Don’t you see that this statement means that electoral “democracy” is no more than a ruse? A meaningless song and dance to entertain the population. The “circuses” part of “beard and circuses”. In a word, 100% fraud.
What politicians do after elections is hardly ever the same as what they promised before the elections.
What politicians do after elections is hardly ever the same as what they promised before the elections.
Don’t you see that this statement means that electoral “democracy” is no more than a ruse?
What you mean is representative democracy, not ‘electoral’. Its the representatives that are the problem.
Would you care to explain what you mean by Giscard’d 1973 law delivering the country into the hands of the usurers resulting in debt slavery.
It led me to look up the rate of inflation before the Euro was introduced. From 1956 to 1986 the French currency appears to have lost about 94 per cent of its value. It looks to me as though France continued for a long time after 1973 inflating its way out of the debt slavery problem. But no doubt that is not the whole story and you can explain why not.
Athenian style democracy works very well using the Swiss model, whose basic parts i.e. neutrality, citizen army, cantons, were actually formulated by the – (little known fact warning!) – the great Greek statesman Capodistrias with an independent Greece in mind.
It is a mistake to confuse size with efficacy. A country may have a huge population, yet all that is important is that the cantonal units are small enough to reflect that area’s popular will. So the USA has 350 million citizens? Let it have 1000 cantons of 350,000 pop. – or 500 cantons of 700,000. As with the 50 states of USA laws vary between cantons in Switzerland dependent on the will of the people.
The same mistaken assumption is made about voter ballots in USA. The answer is to make voting districts sufficiently small so that the paper ballots can be counted in maximum 2 hours….as is done in most of the rest of the world. Hardly rocket science!
And Switzerland is unique place on this planet. Plus it's small, has specific history shaped by European, even world (ge0)politics.
Athenian style democracy works very well using the Swiss model...
‘cooked’ = the filleting of Francois Fillon, the most popular candidate by leaps and bounds and most probable winner, by exaggerated and false claims and an unrelenting media campaign against him.
Very few have bothered to go to Codoh to verify Wally's links about the 6 gorillion. But they do know that jewish behavior in general and the "Holocaust" in specific is very sensative. They know about how jews will behave if you acknowledge the genocode of the Armenians, let alone call it a "holocaust" because jews are always trying to get laws passed to restrict calling the holodomort a genocide either.The people see this. They see foreigners like Irving and Zundel getting thrown in prison. They know about Germans like Germar Ruldolf who have been forced to flee the country. They see jews kvetching and extracting money. Israel is still sucking Germany dry after 70 years. Every time Israel puts on a media campaign and drags out some poor 95 year old "prison guard", the people see it.Greeks know that Golden Dawn was squelched under false claims of anti-semitism. Italians are aware that jewish central banks are turning the screws on Salvini. The Italians know Monti and Renzi were Rothschild dupes just like Macron, Holland and Sarkozy or Merkel and Schroder.No matter how hard Israel and the jews cover up and try to get the goyim to ignore their destriuction of Gaza and all the countries around them, the goyim are waking up about Palestine and the genocide of Arabs and Christians who had been living there too.So although I would agree that most Europeans have no idea of the breadth or the depth of the jewish fraud, they have become aware of jewish power and the price that is paid for crossing a jew.
"I’d say very few understand the facts and the connection."
There is no price for crossing a jew. They will try to extract a price as always, right? But there is no price… We are just human.
The Talmud says that only Jews are human and that goyim are mere animals. I am of European extraction with portions of English, German and French. I simply don't buy into this "human race" jewish propaganda.
"We are just human."
Many protestors will fall for the ruse and go home. The protestors who are sharp enough to see through the charade will continue. Eventually they will be mopped up by the police.
Anybody can have his expectations.
What now happens in France is not exclusively French.
Anywhere in EU member states nationalist parties are emerging, I expect my Netherlands to be ungovernable after the March elections.
The Belgian government limps on after Marrakech was signed.
Brexit or no Brexit, about half the British population wants to be liberated from Brussels.
The row between Brussels and the E European countries about admitting Muslim immigrants is escalating.
How tensions inside countries are escalating we just saw in Bremen, Germany.
An AfD party politician was nearly beaten to death.
‘Mopped up by the police’, how does one mop up 85.000 people, yesterday’s official, thus low, estimate of demonstrators in France ?
Mopping up by a police sympathising with the demonstrators, how ?
Where all this will lead to, I do not know.
But, as I wrote here quite a few times already, at the end of the twenties in the Weimar Republic a politician emerged who promised to lead the German people out of the Versailles desert
We just need a politician who promises to lead us out of the globalisation and EU desert, to change history now.
It seems unlikely that even Prince Charles would be thought a sensible choice as GG now so it should be everyone’s logical expectation that the PM (and Cabinet) would want to choose a GG that would make the country and the government look good. The evidence doesn’t give much support for that though the misjudgments or misfortunes of PMs have been various from the vainglorious android often drunk John Kerr appointed by Labor’s Whitlam to the seemingly excellent choice of Peter Hollingworth by John Howard whose handling of deviant clergy when Archbishop didn’t fit the fast moving fashions. There will sometimes be a tendency to appeal to a minority or interest group by appointing an Aborigine or an activist woman on the calculation that those who don’t like the choice won’t care much but, on the whole we should count on PMs not wanting to be associated with someone who was an embarrassment. I suppose some longserving public servant would usually draw attention to the need to inquire into the spouse’s drinking and spending habits….
What, in your experience and observation of human nature and human affairs makes you think the average citizen would pay enough attention with enough exertion of intellect to learn anything that seriously mattered about the system of representative plus bureaucratic government just because he became aware that there was some small chance that he would be called to serve as legislator? Does the average citizen who has not been called for jury service but might be try and learn anything about the jury system? Before conscripts were called up for past wars did they think they had a lot to learn about the armed forces and go out of their way to learn it?
Perhaps call 5000 of whom 500 are needed and then, as part of the culling process, offer them a course of study and require them to get 80 per cent of questions right when tested on it….
Don’t you see that this statement means that electoral “democracy” is no more than a ruse? A meaningless song and dance to entertain the population. The “circuses” part of “beard and circuses”. In a word, 100% fraud.
What politicians do after elections is hardly ever the same as what they promised before the elections.
No.
People are not stupid.
One can fool a lot of people for a long time, but not anyone all the time.
I must admit that the present French insurrection is late, already in 2005 the French rejected the EU.
On the other hand, French presidents since 2005 behaved cautiously, not the abrupt ‘modernising’ of Macron.
That Macron became president, the two anti EU candidates are at odds about immigration, how weak his basis was was made clear in the first round, he got six of the ten votes, Mélenchon and Le Pen tohether four.
Democracy functions
said:
I suspect Australians could be convinced to vote for a republic if Republicans could present a single solid well argued case: never ending debate over the merits of a direct election of a “president”
Yet the usual suspects have been pushing a Republic here for the last 35 years, at least, yet they still haven’t been able to come up with that ”single solid well argued case”.
Just out of interest,would you care to suggest what that case might look like?
Criticism of capitalism, markets etc = (naturally) communism. Introducing communism in this manner is a strawman.
“How has a truly free market economy ‘destroyed democracy’?
Silence.”
“Free” markets are mythical. There are (arguably) markets: some more, some less regulated. “Free” market is ideological shorthand for “market regulated to produce maximum benefit for an elite class”. Business people love government interference — when it benefits them.
It’s perfectly OK to blame big Gov’ for society’s ills if you remember that the line between big Gov & big Money is nebulous to the point of being a mere handy concept.
Incidentally, global warming is but one of a host of problems facing the planet: ocean acidification, massive dead zones & plastic islands, the dramatic decline of insect numbers (& pollinators inparticular), deforestation & etc etc. So even if global warming is a hoax there are still enough problems to be going on with…assuming that anyone gives a shit….
For those who would like to witness the events of Act IX (scroll past my posts if you uninterested).
Here is a series of events as captured by the Yellow Vest movement:
In case you hear that the crowd size was small by the MSM, look here at the Yellow Vests in various cities across France.
Massive crowds for Act IX:
#GiletsJaunes protest: #Paris
Massive crowds [compilation]pic.twitter.com/JmeCPQFweJ
— Oh boy what a shot (@ohboywhatashot) January 12, 2019
A good article. The Yellow Vests feel themselves becoming poorer.
And one of the major organizations making them poorer is in fact French, and was being enthusiastically greeted this weekend by working people around Europe.
The organization is Decathlon, the world’s largest sports goods retailer. It owns 1414 big box stores in 45 countries averaging 4,000m2 retail space each (located on main arterials that can be reached by at least 250,000 people within 20 minutes or less). It employs 87.000 staff, with an own brand lines of reasonable quality, well designed sports clothing/equipment (one or two brands for each individual sport) and it’s a budget one stop shop for its sector.
IMO it’s a microcosm of the problem at the French, European and world level.
For example, the retail assistants are all minimum wage young people, and the globalized manufacturing is all minimum wage Asian women. The European employees have no chance of getting a real living wage and the Asian girls live and work in conditions equivalent to slavery.
German newspaper Zeit, wrote about one of these workers in Sri Lanka (changing her name for her own safety) in the article, “Sewing on an Empty Stomach” https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/2017-12/decathlon-working-conditions-production-textiles-asia-english
Milanti, in any case, has just finished a 12-hour shift at one of the 12 Decathlon suppliers in Sri Lanka, and she has no claim to vacation time or sick pay.
As she does every day, Milanti walked the 1.5 kilometers to work after spending the night with her husband and children in the same bed. The family lives in a so-called boarding house, huge numbers of which have sprung up outside the multiple free trade zones in Sri Lanka, providing shelter to the army of workers. They tend to be little more than barracks with tiny rooms in which residents sleep and cook. The area around Katunayake, near the Colombo airport, or near Wathupitiwela, located not far away, is full of such boarding houses.
Many of the beds are shared. When one woman heads of for a nightshift, another who has just arrived home lies down to get some sleep. The boarding houses don’t have bathing facilities, with Milanti having washed herself with water from an outside well and a tiny piece of soap. Shower gel is much too expensive for the family.
Even in good months, Milanti’s wages from the Decathlon supplier hardly amount to more than 150 euros (172 dollars). A quarter of that total goes to rent and electricity, with an additional quarter going to childcare, with school ending in early afternoon.
So is anyone making a living wage in Decathlon?
Well, each brand has a dedicated team of designers and testers, who produce good products, and who at least live in nice places. The leading Decathlon ski brand, Wed’ze, has a design studio in the Haute-Savoie (which employs 70 people). https://www.wedze.co.uk/blog/wedze-inside-haute-savoie-region-birthplace-wedze-products
Also, outsourcing needs plenty of sophisticated logistics so there are going to be some well paid people there along with financial people to handle the billions of Euros in cash flow.
But basically the money arrives with the 0,1% elite billionaire private owners, and the next question is, who has more influence with the elite EU bureaucratic leadership, them or the mass of European unemployed?
Prior to the internet, digitalization and globalization, European sports good were developed and manufactured in Europe, in some cases providing a tradition livelihood to towns and villages in the poorer regions. Skills and capital were passed down through generations to make some excellent products which are now gone – with the work places abandoned or converted into rows of Chinese import warehouses.
If the EU elite wasn’t allied with the globalist elite, they could for example tell Decathlon that they have to manufacture in Europe is they want to sell in Europe. The result would be a boost for European employment with higher priced sports goods (and less sales and profits) and Decathlon scouring Europe for the lowest cost sourcing.
But, at least the money would stay in Europe, and the principle could be applied to the other industrial sectors that are all going the same way.
The next step on the path of “wising up” is that it doesn’t matter if the holocaust was a hoax or not.
Quite simply, the holocaust has been a blank cheque, drawn upon for so long it’s become totally threadbare. Nothing can justify the shenanigans of Israel & the infinite conceit, duplicity, hypocracy & self entitlement of its supporters — & certainly not the questionable events of over 70 years in the past.
The demonstrators should use the power of the word and call the movement “French Spring.” Time to give the globalist cannibals a black eye.
“the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.”
The so-called delusion disappears when you realise that neither “govern” nor “free” are absolutes. Both are complex & dynamic, admitting of possibly infinite degree, quality & interaction.
Interestingly, at the individual level, one could argue that self governance is the basis, if not essence, of personal freedom.
The slob is not over-educated — the slob’s general intelligence is not robust enough to allow him to become a thinker of any significance. The only competitor to the slob’s mediocrity is the gargoyle (and war criminal and France-wrecker) on the left.
I think you’re pretty spot here.
I suspect Australians could be convinced to vote for a republic if Republicans could present a single solid well argued case: never ending debate over the merits of a direct election of a “president”, or an election by parliament, or by the government of the day & so on leave people confused & ultimately nervous. Faced with uncertainty on such a political fundamental, people incline to the status quo — even if, in their hearts, a Republic is their real wish.
Yet the usual suspects have been pushing a Republic here for the last 35 years, at least, yet they still haven't been able to come up with that ''single solid well argued case''.
I suspect Australians could be convinced to vote for a republic if Republicans could present a single solid well argued case: never ending debate over the merits of a direct election of a “president”
“The single overriding demand of the movement: the Citizens’ Initiative Referendum (CIR)”, which exists in Switzerland, Italy and California.
The question is do the governments of Switzerland, Italy and California respect the will of the working class? No.
The truth is CIR is just another nice-sounding, toothless reform that’ll come to nothing.
If Dianna Johnstone’s reporting here is accurate it doesn’t take a genius to see where this GJ is going.
This demand was probably injected into the GJ movement by undercover government agents, who will keep agitating for it until an ideal moment arrives whereby Macron will concede to it.
The media will spin it as “Victory for GJ! Macron Concedes to CID Demand!”
Many protestors will fall for the ruse and go home. The protestors who are sharp enough to see through the charade will continue. Eventually they will be mopped up by the police.
Dianne Johnstone seems to support the demand. Hmm.
Anybody can have his expectations.
Many protestors will fall for the ruse and go home. The protestors who are sharp enough to see through the charade will continue. Eventually they will be mopped up by the police.
– Le Mercosur, nouvelle source de tensions entre la France et l’Union Européenne
– CETA : la France tente d’obtenir l’appui du Canada
– MERCO-SCAM – How the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement would encourage illicit financial flows
”This is the latest in a series of studies commissioned by the European Parliament’s European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) looking into EU taxation, with the focus shifting onto the problems that could arise under a free trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur, MEFTA.
Written by three Argentines – financial crimes investigator Magdalena Rua plus economists Martin Burgos and Verónica Grondona – “MERCO-SCAM – How the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement would encourage illicit financial flows” exposes the great potential for tax dodging and other illicit financial flows should a deal be concluded between the EU and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.”
Given that the French Republic is ontologically rooted in a protest that is precisely parallel to that of the Yellow Vests, one could make the argument that Macron lacks a viable moral defense and should step down in response: thankful that this is not one hundred years or so prior and thus that he gets to keep his head.
French politicians should always respect the prospect of the people’s razor, in moral and nationalist principle if not as a realistic outcome.
Second, the Jewish belief system holds in its doctrine that the souls of all non-Jews to be that of the animal and nothing more. Its fundamentally hostile to Europe and all other nations.
Any of its defenders are fundamentally hostile to Europe. This spiritual supremacy is responsible for the Jewish behavior that has led to the vast majority of Jewish-involved conflict. Macron is a traitor for attempting to use the anti-semitism charge as a cudgel. All Jews should relocate themselves to Israel as soon as possible, a mass relocation which was a fundamental justification for the creation of that State. Its about time that all that was sacrificed for its maintenance take its payment.
The Antifa scum are extralegal internationally supported shadow oppression against all non-Jewish nations in the West. They are only exist to help enforce the anti-foreign-national political ends of the Jews as described throughout their Torah. They can and will be dealt with as such.
Quite simply put, the EU is the Fourth Reich.
The Five Eyes + Israel are the hand in the sock-puppet.
MONSTERS
68. The intention of the European Union to develop a common European army is obvious.
46. Since concerns over Irish neutrality and European militarisation were a key reason for voting No in the first referendum, according to the Irish Times and TNS surveys in May and June 2008, why should the Irish people accept the Lisbon treaty take two?
35. The increased militarisation of Europe is of great concern to many people who would prefer to see Ireland retain neutrality. In the referendums on Nice , Ireland was assured that a European Army would never happen, but now the basis for a common defence policy and EU battlegroups are in place. Lisbon looks toward a ‘progressive framing of a common Union defence policy’.
100. Democracy.
Ireland’s 100 Reasons to Vote ‘No’ to the Lisbon treaty
The European Journal
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Jim McConalogue
https://europeanfoundation.org/irelands-100-reasons-to-vote-no-to-the-lisbon-treaty/
The French yellow vest are the bravest people on the face of the earth right now. Viva la France!!!
This ones for you..
Three years later, the National Assembly – that is, politicians off all parties – voted to adopt virtually the same text, which in 2009 became the Treaty of Lisbon.
Ireland REFUSED to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon. Then Sarkozy and his friends asked Ireland to vote again, i.e. to say Yes to Lisbon. They had ZERO respect for the initial decision of the Irish, which was NO to the Lisbon treaty. ZERO respect for ”democracy”.
”THE EUROPEAN UNION
We recognise the danger of the growing European Union becoming a world superpower in its own right. […]
Republican Sinn Féin has opposed full membership of the EU from the outset as a highly centralised political and economic power-bloc where decisions about our lives are taken in completely undemocratic institutions. Our struggle has been to manage our own affairs and our programme is for maximum power at the base. That is real democracy and the very opposite of EU imperialism.
Under the EU our resources (eg fish) are being taken. The EU bureaucrats are doing well on their large salaries and so are the big farmers. But the plan is to wipe out the small farmers and restructure industry so that the EU centre can prosper at our expense.
In agriculture far from the promised guaranteed level, milk, cattle and sheep prices are down. New standards for milk collection are being brought in to force the small farmer out. We can expect these processes to increase further. Irish neutrality is under sustained threat.”
From: rsf.ie
the monetary question among French opponents to the EMU and advocates of a return of full monetary sovereignty is the assumption that it would allow the French state to monetize its deficits outside of international financial markets ( in France, this BDF privileged was terminated in 1973 , much before the advent of the “snake” and then the EMU); doubled with the presumption that the recovered ability to devalue currency unilaterally would prime the trade pump, genrate trade surpluses, create employment and reindustrialization, totally forgetful of the economic reality that retaliatory devaluations are usually the result . This would recreate the old world classical currency wars within an area spared this past 20 years +.
And so what? The rest of the world have their own currencies - as we did before - and get along just fine.
This would recreate the old world classical currency wars within an area spared this past 20 years +.
And the last piece of free speech ended with the Fabius-Gayssot Act of 1990.
Where free speech and scrutiny of the fictitious ‘holocaust’ was banned because the ridiculous and impossible narrative & scam cannot withstand free speech & scrutiny.
Originating in Zionist run France, it is now the norm in the totalitarian EU.
see:
French Courts Punish Holocaust Apostasy: http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n2p14_Weber.html
much more here:
https://codoh.com/search/?sorting=relevance&q=Fabius-Gayssot+Act
Only lies require censorship and imprisonment of those who engage in free speech.
http://www.codoh.com
Thanks.
– More Communist nonsense, and you’re still not talking about a free market economy.
Your fake strawman arguments just keep on coming.
“How anyone can justify the continued pillage of the planet with it’s attendant human suffering based in the destruction of democracy is beyond me.”
– Here we go with “global cooling”, then switched to “global warning”, then switched to “climate change” then switched to “pillage of the planet”. LOL
– How has a truly free market economy ‘destroyed democracy’?
Silence.
– It’s the lack of that freedom which is destroying democracy, where Big Gov picks the winners & losers, where Big Gov robs workers of their pay to support Big Gov’s violent agenda.
– You’re engaging in hilarious, confused and desperate Marxist double speak, per Orwell. Communism is the most failed system of governance the world has ever seen yet you support it. How’s your ‘new Venezuela’ doing? LOL
“a global system that has left the five richest people on earth with as much wealth as the bottom one-half of earth’s entire human population.”
– Please tell us how those five guys infringed upon your rights. What have they done that proves a free market economy doesn’t work?
I’m calling you out. We want facts not loserville Communism.
You’re all bluster.
… it is a revelation of the real nature of “the system”. Power lies with a technocracy in the service of “the Markets”, meaning the power of finance capital. This technocracy aspires to remake human society, our own societies
TEKNOCRASSIE: ”Un âge d’humains sans coeur, de sang froid et de malheur, car l’homme sera réduit, à toutes les sciences assujetti”: