French Election

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French Election

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri May 05, 2017 10:01 pm

Emmanuel Macron campaign hacked on eve of French election
En Marche! movement says posting of massive email leak on document-sharing site ‘clearly amounts to democratic destabilisation as was seen in the US’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... h-election


AUTHOR: ANDY GREENBERG. ANDY GREENBERG SECURITY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.05.17.
05.05.17
TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:32 PM.
7:32 PM
HACKERS HIT MACRON WITH HUGE EMAIL LEAK AHEAD OF FRENCH ELECTION


Emmanuel Macron, candidate for the 2017 French presidential elections.ED ALCOCK/REDUX
ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, another massive data dump seemingly intended to sabotage a center-left candidate. But in the case of France’s impending runoff, slated for Sunday, the latest leak of emails appears far more slap-dash than the Russian hacks and leaks that plagued Hillary Clinton’s campaign. And in this case, they’re timed to prevent the target of those leaks from even having a chance to respond.

On Friday, a collection of links to torrent files appeared on the anonymous publishing site PasteBin. The 9GB trove purports to be an archive of leaked emails from the party of Emmanuel Macron, the left-leaning candidate currently favored to win France’s impending runoff election against far-right opponent Marine Le Pen.

The latest data dump comes less than 48 hours before France’s election, possibly too late to shift its outcome—at least to the degree that the hacks of the DNC and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta did in the months leading up to the US election. Its timing so close to the runoff could still prove strategic, as French law forbids candidates from speaking publicly for two days ahead of an election. That timing could prevent Macron himself from responding to any scandal that surfaces in the data dump, real or fabricated.

A Well-Timed Hack
In a statement, Macron’s political party confirmed that hackers had compromised it. “The En Marche! party has been the victim of a massive, coordinated act of hacking, in which diverse internal information (mails, documents, accounting, contracts) have been broadcast this evening on social networks,” reads a public statement in French from the Macron campaign. “The files which are circulating were obtained a few weeks ago thanks to the hacking of the professional and personal email accounts of several members of the campaign.”

En Marche’s acknowledgement of the hack doesn’t mean all of the leaked emails themselves are genuine; the party’s statement also warned that among the authentic documents in the leak were “numerous false documents intended to sow doubt and disinformation.”

At a glance, the hacked email haul appears to not be entirely fabricated, says Rob Graham, a security consultant for Errata Security who has downloaded portions of the collection. “It has the structure of real email archives,” Graham says. But he cautions that even if some part of the leak turns out to be genuine, it could easily contain specific forgeries designed to spark scandal.

“Presumably, someone will start pointing out any salacious emails,” Graham adds. “You can bet that someone like WikiLeaks will pick these emails apart and post them individually.”

A Familiar Pattern
Late last month, the security firm Trend Micro noted in a report that the Macron campaign appeared to be a target of the Russian-government-linked hacker group Fancy Bear, also known as Pawn Storm or APT 28. The firm’s researchers found a phishing domain created by the hacker group in March, designed to target the campaign by impersonating the site that En March uses for cloud data storage. At the time, the Macron campaign claimed that that hacking attempts had failed. On Friday morning, users of the anonymous forum 4Chan had also purported to have published evidence of Macron’s tax evasion, though those claims were also unverified, and it’s not clear if they’re connected to the current leak.

In the wake of Russian hackers’ attempt to sway the US election, which remains the subject of two Congressional investigations, the cybersecurity community has warned that the Kremlin may attempt similar tricks to swing elections towards its favored candidates in the French and upcoming German elections, too.

Former British intelligence staffer Matt Tait warned that regardless of what it contains, the simple fact of the data dump achieves certain objectives. “By all means, look through them,” he wrote on Twitter. “But do[so] with your eyes open and knowing that you’re being played for free negative coverage/headlines.”

The Macron campaign compared the hacking directly to the hacker targeting of Clinton campaign. “Intervening in the last hour of an official campaign, this operation clearly seeks to destabilize democracy, as already seen in the United States’ last president campaign,” the statement reads. “We cannot tolerate that the vital interests of democracy are thus endangered.”
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Fake News And The "Alt-Right" Are Pushing Forged Documents To Aid Marine Le Pen In France's Election
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Forged documents originating on 4chan alleging that French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was evading taxes spread online thanks to an ecosystem that includes social media, “alt-right” outlets, and fake news purveyors. The campaign was seemingly aided by Russian-linked entities, and it subsequently reached Macron’s opponent, who aired the claim in a public debate.

Macron is competing in a May 7 runoff against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. On May 3, hours before a scheduled debate between Macron and Le Pen, an anonymous user on 4chan posted documents purporting to show that Macron used a shell company to dodge taxes. Users on the forum responded that the documents should be sent to “independent journalists” and “the alternative media” like “Cernovic (sic), Breitbart, and so on,” and encouraged each other to “spam” the documents “on social media” such as Twitter to get “it trending.” They also said to “send it to Le Pen.” The documents soon spread on Twitter, with many of the Twitter accounts promoting them appearing to have connections to Russia, according to a Belgian researcher. The claim was promoted by “alt-right” media figures such as Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec.

That these figures would attempt to smear Le Pen’s opponent is not surprising given that Le Pen is widely admired by much of the “alt-right” and closely tied with Russia.

Along with Twitter, 4chan’s campaign was picked up by forums on 8chan and Reddit; “alt-right” fringe outlets The Gateway Pundit, Got News, Zero Hedge, and Daily Stormer; and fake news purveyor Before It’s News.

The 4chan-based documents eventually reached Le Pen herself. During her debate with Macron, she said, “I hope that we will not find out that you have an offshore account in the Bahamas.” Le Pen later backed down on her claim, and Macron filed a legal complaint against her for the statement. Multiple outlets have reported that the documents were fake, with The Telegraph noting that they were “widely denounced as crude forgeries.” Additionally, following Le Pen's accusation, the French prosecutor's office has opened an investigation regarding “suspicions of fake news being spread to influence Sunday's presidential vote.”

The case is yet another example of the way the misinformation ecosystem involving the “alt-right” and fake news purveyors amplifies fringe falsities and lies (and even Kremlin-connected conspiracy theories). The network has often succeeded in pushing those false claims into more traditional conservative and mainstream outlets and, thus, the public realm.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/ ... ion/216305




Jack Posobiec


Re: What's Happening? It? (TRIGGERS UPON TRIGGERS)
Postby guruilla » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:04 pm
Long piece, not exactly balanced but not a complete smear-up job either; a few interesting points. I post it because reportage about Pizzagate is relevant to the cultural phenomenon/public perception that is "Pizzagate," not because I necessarily agree with anything in it.

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On Nov. 16, Jack Posobiec, a former Navy Reserve intelligence officer who had spent much of the previous year as a leader of a pro-Trump grassroots organization, decided he’d had enough of just reading tweets and blog posts about the pizza place in his city.

Posobiec, 31, had never eaten at Comet; he had never even heard of the place until he started reading about it on conservative, anti-government media sites.

Now, with Trump elected, he read the posts more closely. Any story that accused Clinton, John Podesta and Brock of nefarious deeds deserved some investigation, he thought. He believed the Clinton campaign was “full of secrecy and deception.”

It seemed reasonable to Posobiec that Podesta might have organized a sex ring in cahoots with Brock. But the only part of the scenario that was real was that Podesta had been known to eat pizza at Comet. This part is false: pictures purporting to show that symbols, such as butterflies and spirals, in signs at Comet and other shops were statements about pedophilia.

Posobiec said he was curious and confused. He and a friend decided to go have some pizza. They walked into Comet eight days after the election, sat down and ordered. Posobiec got the garlic knots. His friend got a beer. But they were not just hanging out. Posobiec was using his phone to broadcast his evening at Comet on Periscope, an app that allows users to stream video live.

Posobiec said he never made any disturbance inside Comet, but the restaurant’s managers saw him take his camera into a back room where a child’s birthday party was underway. It did not seem appropriate for a child’s party to be broadcast on a stranger’s Periscope feed. The manager asked two D.C. police officers who happened to be across the street to assist.

Posobiec and his friend “were gently refused service and asked to leave,” said a person familiar with the restaurant’s decision.

That evening, after Posobiec was ushered out of Comet, Pettibone tweeted: “You’re my hero for doing this, Jack. Never let go.”

On Twitter, the hashtag #pizzagate peaked in the hours after Posobiec’s video appeared.

On the phone and online, threats poured in, with as many as 150 calls a day.

.........

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Re: Hillary Clinton is Seriously Dangerous
Postby Rory » Thu Nov 03, 2016 1:54 pm
http://www.inquisitr.com/3672706/hillar ... -and-more/

The Hillary Clinton email investigation has rocked this year’s election with its timing, but it’s about to be rocked even more, that is if a report by online news source True Pundit is legitimate.

The right-wing publication claim the new emails have exposed the Clintons for being involved in such atrocities as child sex crimes, child exploitation, sexual slavery, money laundering, perjury and obstruction of justice to name a few.

FBI: We are moving towards a Hillary Indictment pic.twitter.com/Cn67Ixph1T

— Jack Posobiec ???????? (@JackPosobiec) November 3, 2016

The laptop that authorities needed to officially begin the renewed Hillary Clinton email investigation was recently confiscated from Anthony Weiner through a search warrant. This was just a couple of days ago, and already the device has revealed hundreds of thousands of potentially incriminating emails, and according to a New York Police Department whistleblower who spoke with True Pundit, the content of some of those emails is enough “to put Hillary and her crew away for life.”
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Re: Video surfaces of Milo Yiannopoulos defending pedophilia
Postby American Dream » Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:00 pm

.........

The theory that this is a deep-state psy-op has taken hold in many of the circles of the alt-right. Jack Posobiec, another prominent alt-right social media figure, tweeted that a source told him $250,000 was spent on opposition research on Yiannopoulos, where “they” hired PIs and video editors—former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is somehow involved as well. Lauren Southern, a 21-year-old Canadian media personality for the northern equivalent of Breitbart, also tweeted out that it was a hit job but later deleted her tweets.

...........
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Re: French Election

Postby seemslikeadream » Sun May 07, 2017 2:39 pm

Macron to become next French president after beating back Le Pen and her populist fascist/xenophobic racist tide

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Re: French Election

Postby chump » Mon May 08, 2017 11:55 am


http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2017/05/ma ... lands.html
MACRON - CAYMAN ISLANDS - GAY

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Emmanuel Macron, in a fake picture, appears topless - PinkNews

Leaked documents about Emmanuel Macron may or may not be fake.

The Got News site says it has discovered, among the leaked documents, evidence that Emmanuel Macron is on a mailing list of 'VestiaireGay.'

"Mailing lists like that are opt-in only," says Got News (you can not sign up against your will, you have to validate the registration).

"A huge leak of emails from Emmanuel Macron’s campaign team may have been orchestrated by the same group behind the Democratic National Committee leak, analysts say.

"Code within a cache of up to 9GB of data and documents posted on an anonymous filesharing website was partly written in Russian, despite apparent efforts to delete metadata."

The Independent.


Documents Indicate That Emmanuel Macron May Be Engaging In Tax Evasion.

French Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been accused of tax evasion.

Macron has denied the allegations.

Now, new leaked documents suggest he lied?

Documents leaked online appear to show that Macron entered into an operating agreement for a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in the Caribbean island of Nevis.

The company may have had a business relationship with a bank which has been previously involved in tax evasion cases in the Cayman Islands.

Document analysis can be found at GotNews.

It is possible that the leaks are fake.

It is possible that the leaks are the work of Trump's gang, and/or Israel and/or Russia, which may have wanted Le Pen to be elected.

Analysis conducted by The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab found that the hashtag #MacronLeaks was first used by Jack Posobiec, a writer in Washington for the far-right news organization The Rebel.

Posobiec's online biography said he coordinated grassroots organizing for a group that supported U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign.

dailymail.

Brabantian comments:

This is a sophisticated game.

My read here is that the Powers That Be, have moved to trigger the collapse of Macron & France itself, even before Macron 'wins' tomorrow night ... serving their ongoing oligarch goal of de-stabilising Europe.

The 'leaks' seem intentionally delayed until just before the election, when they are under French media 'black out' and much less likely to change the result.

But they are likely to have a huge effect throwing France into chaos, in the 'inter-regnum' before the French parliamentary elections 11 & 18 June next month.

A mix of fake and true 'leaks' would be optimum for chaos.

Israeli and CIA asset 'Wikileaks' - led by faker-hoaxer 'not really at Ecuador embassy' Julian Assange - are playing big in the Macron game, a sign that 'Macron Leaks' are a big intel op ... using the now-favoured 4chan to 'legitimise' the Macron leaks 'launch'

Macron is apparently fairly talentless & destined for failure, there have been past pieces exposing his incompetence in banking, tho it was clear Macron had Big Connections and was being groomed ... his backers are the old French establishment behind Hollande, Sarkozy etc, Macron was an empty vessel, he seems unable to get anything done in office.

Macron likely didn't know exactly how he would be 'used' ... some 'leaks' it is said perhaps refer to cocaine being bought for him.

Macron sometimes talks like a druggie, or a mind-control victim with programming gone awry ... YouTube videos in French compile Macron's incomprehensible babble, for example here, 2 min. with French text on screen, quite funny.

Présidentielle : on a tenté de décrypter le langage Macron (en vain)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446Am7O5yCc

France has long been in grid-lock, slowly drifting into un-governability ... the Powers That Be can profit by inciting & managing the collapse of the French Fifth Republic, at the time they choose.

Given that the world debt bomb is perhaps about to explode, it may be a preferred time for oligarch controllers to collapse France and make European assets cheap to buy.

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... Brabantian7 May 2017 at 15:18

Macron was rather robotic, mind-control-survivor-ish in his victory speech

Those links Aangirfan gives above are interesting ... the Macron Leaks do seem to have some credibility

Especially charming on Got News are the photos of a site where Macron is apparently enrolled, 'Vestiare Gay', gay men's clothing

With Rothschild-lawyered Julian Assange helping promotion of the Macron leaks, we have Rothschild fake 'alt-media' promoting leaks instantly undermining the Rothschild banker empty suit President ... Seems to be all a plan

They are discrediting the whole idea of voting ... leftists across Europe have been de-moralised ever since those Syriza liars sold out the Greek people

In the USA now, Trump's key support now hate the 'forget all my campaign promises' Trump as much as many other people hate him

And Macron will now leave France in despair

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The French are 'trendy' & Macron & his party were 'new' (plus 'gay is ok!') ... Whilst Le Pen's party traces to Vichy France and Petain, & that is something the majority of French would like to forget.


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Re: French Election

Postby Iamwhomiam » Mon May 08, 2017 1:02 pm

The bots are busy tonight!
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Re: French Election

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon May 08, 2017 1:23 pm

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Jack Posobiec, tracked down as "patient zero" on Macron "leaks", with his Russian wife at Trump's "deplorables" ball. pic.twitter.com/OCBOfgY1da
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Re: French Election

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Mon May 08, 2017 5:12 pm

One of my more hare-brained hypotheses regarding the USA Deep State and Russia is that the rebooted Cold War rivalry is a ruse. As much as they shit on Yeltsin's handpicked heir Putin, they've been working hand in hand covertly with a mutually beneficial goal in mind: the destruction of the Euro.

It's admittedly a wild hypothesis with some probability gaps, but one thing the election in France proved is that where stolen elections are concerned, first the election has to be close in order to have a chance at making the theft believable. Just because you have the means to steal an election doesn't mean you have the opportunity.
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Re: French Election

Postby Harvey » Mon May 08, 2017 7:27 pm

Americans routinely spit out the word populist as though it means something dirty like Red or Pinko or Commie:

Populist: 1892 (n.) "adherent of populism;" 1893 (adj.), American English, from Latin populus "people" (see people (n.)) + -ist. Originally in reference to the U.S. Populist Party organized February 1892 to promote certain issues important to farmers and workers. The term outlasted the party, and by 1920s came to mean "representing the views of the masses" in a general way.


Well, it's an American word and it was coined for the group which later incorporated into the Democratic party. Not surprising then. After all anyone who agitates that "...instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the benefit and advancement of the oppressed masses as a whole..." ought to shut his or her stupid face right?
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Re: French Election

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon May 08, 2017 7:49 pm

gee I wonder why?

haven't you been following the Mercers and how they did it?

Society Is Being Programmed By A Black Box
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Re: French Election

Postby kool maudit » Tue May 09, 2017 4:23 am

I know people who once manned barricades in Seattle, Quebec, and Toronto to protest neoliberalism and globalisation. Now they are cheering Macron.

I know, I know... "the alternative is even worse".

Dat realignment tho.
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Re: French Election

Postby Harvey » Tue May 09, 2017 9:22 am

Yes, SLAD, exactly. I was referring to how things which indicate the preferred direction receive titles such as 'positivism' or 'right' while other things, such as doing what most people want are described pejoratively as 'popularism' or'left'which has in part a Roman semantic origin from'sinister.' As if to prove this suspicion of popular movements, centuries of orchestrated racial agitation show us how naturally the plebs come to be 'racist ignorant thugs' and not to be trusted. In effect, "trust in your fears."

And SLAD wonders why we don't own our bodies. Because we don't even own our minds.
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Re: French Election

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue May 09, 2017 10:00 am

where ever did you get the impression that I wonder why we don't own our bodies?


I ABSOLUTELY own my own body

although I do protest old white men trying to take that away from me and my daughters and granddaughters

and I ABSOLUTELY most definitely own my own mind...sorry you feel you do not ..that's a shame

and while I'm at it ...it pisses me off to no end the broad generalities people sweep around here


I do wonder why members here insist that all Americans are one and the same and joined at the hip...it's a very big country and there are a whole lot of people
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Re: French Election

Postby Harvey » Tue May 09, 2017 10:53 am

They're all apparently immune to accusation in MSM for some time, especially where they're most vulnerable, the truth, which is now inadmissible in the court of public opinion.* I'm quite fascinated by Macrons outright denial. It means we are expected to believe it. 'It's not in my nature,' former Bank of Satan employee confessed to breathless reporters.

Are we seeing the connections?**

On the eve of Sunday’s French presidential election runoff, establishment candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign claimed he was targeted by a “massive and coordinated” cyberattack – disclosing potentially damaging 11th hour information. His campaign railed about hackers anonymously releasing emails, documents and other materials “to sow doubt and misinformation,” claiming: “Intervening in the final hour of the official campaign, this operation is clearly a matter of democratic destabilization, as was seen in the United States during the last presidential campaign.”

Anonymous hackers released damning documents, emails and images, showing Macron’s alleged involvement with La Providence, a Limited Liability Company in the Caribbean island of Nevis. He allegedly created the firm as an offshore tax haven. Reportedly it’s connected to the Cayman Islands-based First Caribbean International Bank, earlier involved in tax evasion cases.Leaked materials purport to show Macron hid unknown amounts of wealth offshore to avoid French taxes.

Macron denied stashing wealth secretly offshore, saying

“I have never had accounts in any tax havens whatsoever, firstly because it is not in my nature and secondly because I have always wanted to return to the public domain.”


His campaign claimed material released is part of a Russian effort to smear him in favor of Le Pen – providing no evidence proving it because none exists.

On Friday, WikiLeaks tweeted

“Who benefits? Timing of alleged dump is too late to hit vote but will surely be used to boost hostility to Russia & intelligence spending.”

France votes on Sunday, Macron heavily favored to win. Will the damning dump materially affect the outcome? We’ll likely know shortly after polls close.

The NYT supports all deplorable establishment candidates in US-allied countries. Its editors accused Russia of meddling in France’s election, citing no evidence. None exists.

They claimed Putin favors Le Pen. He’d “dearly like to see (Macron) weakened,” they said – calling the former neoliberal Rothschild investment banker/economy minister “strong on maintaining Russian sanctions and favors strengthening the European Union.”

Separately, The Times claimed

“(g)roups linked to Russia…have previously been accused of trying to breach the Macron organization.”

The self-styled newspaper of record cited unnamed security experts, saying they believe “Russian hackers” were behind the latest dump of damning Macron materials.

No evidence suggests Russian interference in foreign elections anywhere – not America’s, France’s or others.

False accusations persist anyway, part of longstanding Russia bashing.

A Final Comment

On May 6, France’s Election Control Commission

“ask(ed) the media, and websites in particular, not to report on the content of the (leaked Macron) data,” stressing “dissemination of false information is liable to fall within the scope of the law, in particular criminal law.”

French oligarchs and aristocrats want neoliberal globalist Macron elected president on Sunday – threatening to prosecute anyone publishing leaked defamatory information about him.

Suppressing free and open expression is a hallmark of police state governance.

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*According to the manufactured backlash against Trump.
**You know, those undisputedly authentic leaks you railed against.



Christ knows there were and are enough avenues to impeach the President already but revealingly, the total focus is upon one of the least credible. And frankly, that Trump was friendly with Putin was one of his few reasonable characteristics. The Liberal mind was still a foetus in the womb while the neo-liberal mind was running rings of pure opportunism around it. Almost as if the establishment wrote the book on conspiracy theory.*** The (real) Left saw the dangers clearly but were too busy being shouted down to be heard protesting that Trump is substantially no different to Clinton, that the real battle was elsewhere. From outside your US borders, I promise you, we can't tell the difference.

Le Pen is enjoying record popularity primarily because her policies are mostly leftish, the outer edges of politics ceded wholesale to the BNP. Or how Liberal mainstream press deserted anything resembling the meaning of the word 'liberal' and learned to love the bomb.

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Re: French Election

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue May 09, 2017 12:05 pm

***Why is green the colour of sarcasm?


cause the Irish are the best at it
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Re: French Election

Postby Rory » Tue May 09, 2017 12:09 pm

Nice summary, Harvey.

I thought it was a pointed message to the French people that Merkel Macron played Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 'Ode to Joy' (the EU anthem) instead of maybe the national anthem (or at least music from the many superlative French composers or musicians).
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Re: French Election

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue May 09, 2017 12:25 pm

yea joy that the fascist Marine Le Pen didn't win

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Fascists support enriching the rich and to hell with the rest of us. They are racist, misogynist, anti-ecological, militaristic and authoritarian. They hate democracy, freedom of speech and an open media. They take power by fomenting hate and division
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And today’s “Populists of the Right,” i.e., fascists, take it even further. They cynically spew snippets of grass-roots rhetoric to attract a working-class constituency. But they violently oppose the rights of the working class, as well as those committed to social justice, economic equality, peace and ecology.

The fascists’ divide-and-conquer scapegoating embodies the precise opposite of real populism. Their small-minded meanness of spirit and blatant greed contradict everything the People’s and Socialist Parties stood for.

Led now by France’s Le Pen, America’s Trump and so many others, the core corporate values of Kleptocracy, war mongering, racism, misogyny, homophobia and ecological contempt can be seen in sibling reactionaries throughout Europe, in Russia’s Putin, in the Philippines’ murderous Duterte and among countless corporate dictators in developing nations.

There is nothing “populist” about these thugs and thieves except the media’s use of the term to describe them.

The “F” word applies. It is FASCIST. It’s time to use it—and to reclaim the true meaning of populism, in all its humanistic glory.
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Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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