The United Kingdom should have supported peace. They are in no position to call the shots.
Rule number 1: Don’t poke the bear. Rule number 2: Never forget rule number 1. Europe is in no place to play the big man. Bad stuff happens. How bad was the attack? USAID pays 90 percent of the media, so who knows for sure. But the Hindustan Times is usually on target.
The makings of World War III.
So how is this going?
Macron’s 24-Hour Disaster? Zelensky & Starmer Axe France’s Ukraine Plan? What Went Wrong In 1 Day…
The last thought on this.
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If we thought the USA and its government was the only country that was under duress, think again. Canadians have about had it or at least making noises about their freedoms, and France is not far behind with their confusion. Here first with Canada.
Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under even more pressure to resign on Tuesday after his Liberal Party lost a “safe seat” in Montreal to the Bloc Quebecois.
Current polling suggests Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party would obliterate the Liberal Party if the election were held today. The Liberals fear a vote of no confidence could knock Trudeau out of office long before the next scheduled election in October 2025.
Lametti said he was “surprise[d]” to get booted from Trudeau’s cabinet. In January 2024, Lametti announced he would resign his Montreal parliamentary seat “with some sadness,” in part because was still hurt from losing his position as justice minister, and his confidence had been shaken.
The Montreal district of LaSalle-Emard-Verdun was considered one of the safest Liberal seats in the land, handing Trudeau’s party a hefty 20-point victory as recently as 2021. When the last ballots were counted on Tuesday, however, the Liberals lost a tight three-way race to the Block Quebecois.
Montreal delivered the second cataclysmic loss to the Liberals in three months after the astounding victory by Conservative Don Stewart in Toronto. Stewart took a seat that the Liberals held for three decades, prompting a great deal of anxiety that Trudeau had become an albatross for his party.
“Liberals are done”: Poilievre, Singh blast Trudeau party after byelection loss
France is having its problems too.
Macron decided to have “snap elections” in June and it all went bad after that.
Impeachment proceedings against France’s Macron pass first hurdle
The bureau of France’s National Assembly has validated an impeachment procedure brought by hard-left MPs against President Emmanuel Macron.
NFP won the most votes in snap parliamentary elections in July, though it failed to secure an outright majority.
LFI has accused Macron of carrying out an “anti-democratic coup” after he ruled out choosing its pick for prime minister, naming veteran conservative politician Michel Barnier instead.
A petition, signed by more than 300,000 people, refers to Macron’s “unprecedented authoritarian drift … in the system of representative democracy”.
And that is what is going on in other’s governments swamp.
Source: (WP is acting up with embedded links today)
The Globalists are unhappy about all this free speech nonsense. It is curious how they let Twitter fall into the hands of Elon Musk. After all they had all but locked up the rest of the popular social media’s platforms.
Tucker Carlson sat down with Durov last April. An interesting interview to say the least.
First the background:
During a previous interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov said said the US government secretly attempted to infiltrate Telegram.
Pavel Durov: But there’s this second part, which was probably more alarming there in the US. We got too much attention from the FBI, the security agencies, wherever we came to the US. To give an example, last time I was in the US, I brought an engineer that is working for Telegram, and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cyber security officers or agents, whatever they are called.
Tucker Carlson: The US government should hire your engineer engineer?
Pavel Durov: That’s my understanding. That’s what he told me.
Tucker Carlson: To write code for them or to break into Telegram?
Pavel Durov: They were curious to learn which open source libraries are integrated to the Telegram’s app on the client side, and they were trying to persuade him to use certain open-source tools that he would then integrate into the Telegram’s code that, in my understanding, would serve as backdoors.
Tucker Carlson: It would allow the US government to spy on people who use Telegram?
Pavel Durov: The US government or maybe any other government, because a backdoor is a backdoor regardless of who is using it. That’s right.
Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away.
Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world. Here’s our interview with Durov from several months ago:
Ep. 94 The social media app Telegram has over 900 million users around the world. Its founder Pavel Durov sat down with us at his offices in Dubai for his first on-camera interview in almost a decade. pic.twitter.com/NEb3KzWOg8
It was a disgusting display of an attack on Christianity. Well the French sure did it. Two years in the planning and Jill Biden gushes over the ceremony without a negative word to be said about it. Worse, twitter showed it stripes as it banned and censored users for being critical. Does the news get any worse? The Olympics were to be a time for Nations to come together, instead another divisive attack.
Despite the backlash that is still going well into its third day, the spokesperson for the Paris Olympic Committee believes that their LGBT and drag queen-inspired opening ceremony performance achieved its goal of “community tolerance.”
Anne Descamps, an official with the committee, told reporters on Sunday that their performance hit its intended mark.
On Saturday, the organizers of the Paris Olympics scrambled to pressure social media platforms, such as X, to censor users who mocked and criticized Friday night’s shocking Opening Ceremony.
The event, which featured drag queens, nudity, and scenes deemed highly disrespectful to Christians, sparked outrage worldwide. When the International Olympic Committee’s social media 1984-style censorship efforts failed (read: here), the committee had no choice but to apologize for the drag queen parody of Jesus’ Last Supper on Sunday morning.
No other religion would be mocked in such a way.
The 2024 Paris Olympics has gone full Woke dystopian.
The opening ceremony was filled with transgend*r mockery of the Last Supper, the Golden Calf idol, and even the Pale Horse from the Book of Revelation.
The European Parliament, the world’s only directly elected transnational assembly, is a powerful entity. Its members, elected by the citizens of the European Union, represent their interests. Together with representatives of the governments of EU member countries, they shape and approve the laws that influence all aspects of life across the European Union—issues from the economy to mutual security.
The European Parliament also plays a crucial role in the election and accountability of the President of the European Commission and commissioners, approving the spending plan for the European Union. European elections are held every five years.
While each European Union member state is free to conduct its election, some rules apply to each member state. (1) Elections occur over four days, from Thursday to Sunday. (2) The number of MEPs elected from a political party is proportional to the number of votes it receives. (3) EU citizens who reside in another EU country can vote and stand for election in their country of residence. (4) Citizens can only vote once in an election.
In 2024, 720 MEPs are elected (15 more than in previous elections). The number of MEPs is decided before each election. At most, the number of MEPs can be 750 (plus the president). The number of MEPs chosen from each country varies. For example, Germany elects 96 members of the European Parliament, France 81, Italy 76, Spain 61 — and so forth. The countries with the least members of the European Parliament, six, are Cyprus, Luxembourg, and Malta.
National political parties contest elections, but once MEPs are elected and take their seat in the European Parliament, most become part of a transnational political party. Currently, there are seven political parties in the European Parliament.
Elections involving the European Union are separate from national polls.
The European Commission
The European Commission consists of 27 members (one from each EU country), led by the Commission President, who decides who is responsible for which policy area.
The president of the European Commission (also known as the presiding officer or commissioner of the College of Commissioners, is the head of the European Commission. The European Commission is also known as the College of the European Union and the European Union Cabinet.
The president is empowered to allocate portfolios among, reshuffle, or dismiss commissioners as necessary or desirable. The college directs the commission’s civil service, sets the policy agenda, and determines the European Parliament’s legislative agenda. The commission is the only body that can propose bills to become EU Laws.
The president is nominated by the European Council and elected by the European Parliament for a renewable five-year term.
The commission’s president also delivers an annual State of the Union address to the European Parliament.
The European Commission (EC) is the European Union’s politically independent executive arm. It is the sole European institution that submits laws for adoption by the Parliament and Council to protect the EU’s and its citizens’ interests on issues that cannot be effectively dealt with nationally.
The Commission also establishes spending priorities with the advice of the Council and Parliament, draws up annual budgets, and supervises how money is spent. Along with the Court of Justice, the Commission ensures that EU law is correctly applied in all the member countries.
The Commission speaks on behalf of all EU countries in international bodies, particularly in trade policy and humanitarian aid, and negotiates international agreements for the European Union.
National Elections
Each European country determines its national political scheme.
Example: In France, voters elect their president, legislature, and, at times, various referenda. French citizens choose the French president every five years. The parliament has two chambers: the National Assembly and the Senate. The National Assembly (577 members) is elected for a five-year term, and the Senate (328 members) is chosen by an electoral college representing 96 departments, eight dependencies, and 12 seats selected by the French Assembly of French Citizens Abroad. Each European country determines its national political scheme.
Note: The European Commissioner for France is not the President of France.
Bunk adds this to Mustang’s post. There is an ad at about 2:50 to 4:00. You can slide through it.
French President Emmanuel Macron calls for a sudden election after dissolving the National Assembly. Macron has said there will be legislative elections on June 30 and July 7. This is a reaction to his party’s loss to the far-right National Rally party in the European elections.
This after having to put up with Biden for several days. Add Zelensky and his push for ground troops. Interesting times. Here tis:
Le Pen’s populist-nationalist party got twice as many votes as the governing group of Emmanuel Macron’s globalist centrists in Sunday’s European Parliament election, prompting Macron to immediately dissolve the national parliament and call fresh French elections in a bid to regain authority for the remainder of his presidential term.
Shortly after President Macron announced he was calling fresh elections to buttress his position, National Rally (RN, Rassemblement National) leader Marine Le Pen took to the stage at her group’s election night party in Paris and declared their readiness to fight the snap election.
Hailing the progress of right-wing parties across Europe as the “dawn of a new day dawning for all the nations and peoples of Europe” and expressing her hope the result would finally comprehensively close “the painful globalist interlude which has caused the people of the world to suffer” Le Pen said it also confirmed the RN as the “great force for change for France”.
Belgian PM De Croo announces resignation after heavy loss on 2024 European Parliament Elections
Will Europe take a new direction?
JUST IN – Right-wing AfD becomes the second strongest party in Germany, outperforming all three members of the ruling left-green-liberal coalition in the EU elections. pic.twitter.com/Re5wbA9wOe
All of a sudden Europe is concerned about Russia and especially Ukraine. The nervous nellies are thinking that their nemesis Trump might just win the election this fall thus the U.S. might not be as willing to step up and bail them out like last century. Just in case Putin decides to go big or go home… Putin threatened Nukes. It doesn’t hurt also, that Congress is making it clear that the U.S. is not the endless piggy bank and we are getting cranky about the whole thing.
It doesn’t hurt that Europe’s farmers are not a bit happy in having their farm confiscated or at the least restrictions that insure their bankruptcy. Attention elsewhere never hurts.
They sure laughed last time around with Trump and his advancing theory that Europe might just be on their own… because as he says, they should be.
At the least, the U.S. not contribute the lion share of their defense.
The U.S. is by far the largest contributor to NATO’s budget. In 2023, the country accounted for $860 billion spent by the organization, representing 68% of the total expenditure. This amount is over 10 times more than that of the second-placed country, Germany.
Country
2023 Defense Spending (USD, Millions)*
🇺🇸 United States
$860,000
🇩🇪 Germany
$68,080
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
$65,763
🇫🇷 France
$56,649
🇮🇹 Italy
$31,585
🇵🇱 Poland
$29,105
🇨🇦 Canada
$28,950
🇪🇸 Spain
$19,179
🇳🇱 Netherlands
$16,741
🇹🇷 Türkiye
$15,842
🇳🇴 Norway
$8,814
🇷🇴 Romania
$8,481
🇫🇮 Finland
$7,325
🇬🇷 Greece
$7,125
🇧🇪 Belgium
$7,076
🇩🇰 Denmark
$6,775
🇭🇺 Hungary
$5,036
🇨🇿 Czechia
$5,033
🇵🇹 Portugal
$4,167
🌐 Other
$12,400
*Expected spending in 2023, based on July 2023 data from NATO.
Who knew? None of the press here in the States are reporting what’s going on. Only the foreign press.
Here are a couple of clips…
Hindustan Times: March 14, 2024
Then we have DW News- German Public Broadcasting Service
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė was in Berlin Thursday for defense and security talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Support for Ukraine’s war with Russia and German plans to station troops in Lithuania were on the agenda. After the meeting DW News spoke to Prime Minister Lithuanian Šimonytė.
Three weeks ago, The Guardian news out of Great Britain:
Western leaders visit Kyiv in solidarity with Ukraine on war anniversary.
Four western leaders – the European Commission president and the prime ministers of Italy, Canada and Belgium, arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to show solidarity with Ukraine on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
Ursula von der Leyen, Giorgia Meloni, Justin Trudeau and Alexander De Croo travelled to the Ukrainian capital together overnight by train from neighbouring Poland, the Italian government said in a statement.
Two weeks ago, – that should do it… Opec watch out . All those Euros can be confiscated anytime politics deem fit. Wreck the Euro..just like Biden wants to do to the dollar here in the States.
EU could use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s military, says Von der Leyen
Just like Biden wants to do here with confiscating Russia’s stuff too.
Let me cut to the chase: “There has also been concern among some top American officials that nations around the world would hesitate to keep their funds at the New York Federal Reserve, or in dollars, if the United States established a precedent for seizing the money.”
We are not talking freezing assets, but rather confiscating them. Something third world countries have done. The U.S. has never done this before.
The De-dollarization of the dollar could likely be the result if countries lose faith in the security of their funds. One step closer losing the dollar as the world’s currency.
Well, if all else fails, we have Canada with some good ideas too….this should lower the temperature.
Trudeau tells Ukraine parliament that Canada supports NATO membership ‘as soon as conditions allow’
Global News:
By now you have the drift. More countries are considering sending troops, if not to Ukraine, into the surrounding countries.
While the U.S. is heavily focused on the missing Secretary of Defense, the latest Sex lies and videotape of Clinton and assorted miscreants, we might want to gaze across the pond and take a look at what is happening there. Schwab and his “New World Order” are having a set back in Germany. The French? It appears that they would prefer being replaced by the hordes moving in, and are not happy about Macron’s move to the right with his coalition government if reports out there by the MSM are true.
Perhaps it’s Schwab’s pompous determination on how and who should live or die is finally catching on disfavor among the unwilling victims who seem to be awakening from their somnolence in Germany? So maybe the “Great Reset” is being figured out as perhaps not so great.
The we have France and Macron, finding he too is running into a rough patch.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has resigned
Add German Scholz’s name to the list of the unhappy voters.
First Germany:
Farmers won’t accept the ‘planned famine’ engineered by Scholz’s inane climate alarmist policies.
The headline:
German Farmers Stage Largest Protest Ever, Blocking Roads All Over the Country – Movement Opposes Climate Alarmist Policies and End to Subsidies
German farmers are staging their largest-ever protest, with thousands of tractors blocking roads across Germany, including in the capital, Berlin.
The farmers are demanding that the government abandon plans to cancel agricultural benefits.
The rallies are expected to last a full week, and among the first demonstrations across the country, several hundred tractors and other vehicles gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
“Farmers are demonstrating against plans by Germany’s government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the suspension of agricultural subsidies. The governing coalition is made up of Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP).
On Thursday, the government announced that it would walk back some of the planned cuts to subsidies, which the German Farmers’ Association (DBV) considers to be an insufficient measure.”
In all the abundant MSM coverage, never it is mentioned the anti-globalist nature of the movement, rejecting the deranged crackdown on fertilizer use, as well as the targeting of over 3,000 farms to comply with the Climate Alarmist policies of the floundering Scholz coalition.
France’s Macron launches political reset with PM change
PARIS, Jan 8 (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to give a new impetus to his second mandate ahead of European parliament elections and the Paris Olympics this summer.
(The second woman Prime Minister of France’s equity choices bites the dust)
Macron did not immediately name a successor for Borne, who will stay on as a caretaker along with the rest of the government until a new one is formed, the presidential palace said in a carefully choreographed move.
The change was made after a year marred by political crises triggered by contested reforms of the country’s pension system and immigration laws..
All in all, our so called allies are having their own political battles.
After rumors that the Notre Dame Cathedral was going turn into some form of monstrosity after the terrible fire, everyone breathed a sigh of relief that no it would not turn into a mosque.
The Notre Dame cathedral is owned by the French Ministry of Culture and is considered national property of France. There is a deal so there can be Catholic mass but the government owns it. Thus Macron could not help himself in trying to insert himself into the project. But first, a look at the extraordinary work being done in the rebuilding.
Inside the rebuilding of Notre Dame.
So after all of this meticulous work, all hand crafted, we have this:
During a visit to the 13th-century cathedral this month, Macron announced the windows in six of the seven chapels in the south aisle would be removed and replaced by contemporary stained-glass windows that would be chosen in a competition.”
Besides the fact that the 19th century stained glass windows by Violet-le-Duc have become an integral part of the Cathedral’s visual and appeal, there is also the problem that the change was suggested by the new Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, who wrote to the Élysée Palace suggesting that a series of six new windows be commissioned.
Appointed by Francis, Ulrich is a ‘reformist’ like him, so there is a natural concern that his ‘peculiar’ ideas would permeate the new windows’ artwork. – not to mention that a competition would transform the choice into a ‘popularity contest’ and may end up with poor, unsuitable choices.
As you would expect, French President Macron gave his full approval to the idea, but more than 122,000 people have signed a petition launched two weeks ago, demanding that the original windows remain.
The petition reads:
“The stained glass windows in Notre Dame designed by Viollet-le-Duc were created as a coherent whole. It is a genuine creation that the architect wanted to be faithful to the cathedral’s gothic origins.”
The cathedral is due to reopen on 8 December 2024.
For the past several years, master craftsmen have been working on restoring the stain glass windows. The finishing touch in having an exact replacement of this magnificent church. Alas to be denied?
How the Cologne Cathedral restores Notre Dame’s Windows
Barely a mention about the Green agenda bringing the downfall of the Dutch Rutte government. The confiscation of 3000 farms apparently didn’t do it, but immigration did.
France? Things not going so well there either but first from the Guardian:
Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, has announced his resignation and that of his cabinet, citing irreconcilable differences within his four-party coalition about how to control immigration.
The decision on Friday by the Netherlands’ longest-serving premier means the country will face a general election later this year for the 150-seat lower house of parliament.
“It is no secret that the coalition partners have very different views on migration policy,” Rutte told reporters in The Hague. “And today, unfortunately, we have to draw the conclusion that those differences are irreconcilable. That is why I will immediately … offer the resignation of the entire cabinet to the king in writing.”
“Everybody wants to find a good, effective solution that also does justice to the fact that this is about human lives,” finance minister Sigrid Kaag, a member of the centrist D66 party, said before the talks began.
The discussions underscored ideological divisions in the coalition between the partner parties that do not support a strict crackdown on migration – D66 and fellow centrist party ChristenUnie, or Christian Union – and the two that favour tougher measures – Rutte’s conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the Christian Democrats.
The coalition tried for months to hash out a deal to reduce the flow of new migrants arriving in the country of nearly 18 million people. Read more
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage may be her biggest critic. Addressing the European Parliament, he said:
“What you’ve seen from Ursula von der Leyen today is an attempt by the EU to take control of every single aspect of our lives. She wants to build a centralized, undemocratic, updated form of Communism that will render [obsolete] nation state parliaments, where the state controls everything, where nation state parliaments will cease to have any relevance at all.
The French?
Zero Hedge gives us this headline:
French Riots Show That Decades Of Mass “Colonizing Immigration” Could Lead To “Collapse”, Says Former Head Of French Counter-Intel Agency
After mass riots during the past week shocked France and the world, the former head of France’s powerful DGSE intelligence agency says the root cause of his country’s tragic situation is above all “the dominant ideology, which has justified and even glorified the massive colonizing immigration that has been taking place over the last half-century.”
In a discussion about immigration on the public radio station France Culture last April, Brochand issued a warning which found its full expression in the week of violent rioting and looting that took hold of France after the shooting of a teenager of Algerian origin on June 27:
“If we do nothing or if we do little, we are going to head either towards a progressive implosion of social trust in France, that is to say towards a society where the quality of life will collapse and where it will be less and less pleasant to live, or, by successive explosions, towards confrontations that will make France a country where one will not be able to live at all.”
Now, in an interview published on July 6 on the website of Le Figaro daily newspaper, Brochand exposes, as Le Figaro puts it, “the deadly cocktail of a society of individuals based on openness and democracy and the arrival of entire diasporas with totally different cultural backgrounds.”
Here is an interesting take on the world in general of course blaming the U.S. for much of the instability.
Here is the note in the clip.
The French Riots have been a disaster for France but if we zoom out these protests represent a real problem for the US and many Western countries around the world. What’s the biggest threat to the future of world security? Well Richard Haass, (?) one of America’s most respected foreign policy experts reveals a bombshell in today’s video.
What is your take? Do you agree?
There are some lessons here for the U.S. but we are more concerned with who stashed the coke in the cubby for Hunter.
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