The worst of the violence seems to have subsided, but the destruction has been considerable: As of yesterday 600 or more vehicles have been torched and nearly 500 buildings damaged, 74 of which were likewise set on fire, among them the Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar in Marseille. There have been at least 20 attacks on police barracks, and even one on the home of L’Hay-les-Roses mayor Vincent Jeanbrun. Rioters crashed a car onto his terrace and attacked his fleeing family with fireworks, putting his wife in hospital. There have been around 2,000 arrests, and as of yesterday perhaps 500 police injuries. Probably the intensity of the violence has been greater than in 2005, but there is hope at least that it will be of shorter duration, with less damage overall.
The right-thinking European press, in its deep originality, has blamed the unrest on racism and a “rhetoric of exclusion”, which we are asked to believe has “become completely normal in France”:
In everyday life, France is ostensibly a functioning multicultural society, but in the talk shows and on the opinion pages of Right-wing papers and websites, open racial warfare prevails. Here, hatred of ethnic minorities is mixed with Islamophobia and class conflict: inhabitants of the banlieues are, in in this view, the dirty opposite of good France. The entire Right wing of French politics sees migration as the country’s biggest problem, and hardly anybody can be found to contradict this view.
Perhaps the opinion columnists at Süddeutsche Zeitung need remedial lessons in how to use the internet, if they cannot find any voices in France denouncing French racism. Within seconds, I found this piece by literal Atlanticist agent Rokhaya Diallo, which works hard to reframe the rioting in American terms, as an antiracist uprising in the mould of the Floyd protests from 2020. “Nahel’s death,” Diallo writes, “is another chapter” in the “long and traumatic story” of French colonialism, racism and police violence towards minorities:
Whatever our age, many of us French who are descended from postcolonial immigration carry within us this fear combined with rage, the result of decades of accumulated injustice. This year, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of a seminal event. In 1983, Toumi Djaïdja, a 19-year-old from a Lyon banlieue, became the victim of police violence that left him in a coma for two weeks. This was the genesis of the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first antiracist demonstration on a national scale, in which 100,000 people took part.
For 40 years this movement has not stopped calling out the violence we see targeted at working-class neighbourhoods and more broadly black people and people of north African origin. The crimes of the police are at the root of many of the uprisings in France’s most impoverished urban areas, and it is these crimes that must be condemned first. After years of marches, petitions, open letters and public requests, a disaffected youth finds no other way to be heard than by rioting. It is difficult to avoid asking if, without so many uprisings in cities across France, Nahel’s death would have garnered the attention it has. And as Martin Luther King rightly said: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
It goes without saying that such understandings were never extended to public demonstrations against the Corona hygiene regime. The state is firmly uninterested in hearing those kinds of voices, and Diallo is too.
In much the some vein, American-educated UN human rights spokesbot Ravina Shamdasani has used the protests to demand that France “seriously address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in law enforcement”. She’s also very concerned about the protesters and their unheard message, which has been carried by all major European press on front pages for days now:
We also emphasise the importance of peaceful assembly. We call on the authorities to ensure use of force by police to address violent elements in demonstrations always respects the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, non-discrimination, precaution and accountability.
What incited the rioting was not the nefarious colonial past of France, and it is not so easily discounted as a random act of police racism either. On June 27th, police in Nanterre stopped a car driven by a 17 year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent named Nahel Merzouk. When he tried to flee, one of the officers shot and killed him. This officer is now in custody and under investigation for manslaughter, but it’s far from clear he acted beyond his authority.
Beginning around 2012, and escalating in intensity through 2017, France has been subject to a series of terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic militants. These included not only the Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan massacres of 2015, which together took the lives of 148 people, but also vehicle attacks like that carried out in 2016 by the Tunisian driver of a cargo truck in Nice on Bastille Day, who was able to crush 86 people to death before security services could kill him. In the wake of these attacks, the French Government passed legislation permitting police to fire on motorists who flee traffic stops if they believe they pose a danger to others. France, in other words, responded to assaults on public life from self-identified Islamic militants by granting their police wider latitude in the use of force, extending to the shooting of noncompliant drivers like Merzouk.
Colonial sins are a very poor explanation for negative European experiences with the mass importation of foreigners from the developing world. Sweden had no colonies to speak of, but it has not been spared migrant violence since opening its borders in 2005. The consequence of migrant attacks is a steady brutalisation of society and the police, whose harsher methods are then freely reinterpreted as signs of racism and xenophobia in the next step of this tiresome game. It is the same with the rise of populist-Right parties in Europe, which are direct reactions to mass migration and its attendant social disorders. Alternative für Deutschland, a small Euro-sceptic party founded in 2012, was polling around 3% before Merkel’s wir-schaffen-das moment of 2015. In the wake of the Cologne sexual assaults months later, it surged to 13%. These political developments are subjected to the same disingenuous interpretation as escalating police force, and cited as evidence of the ambient racism to which migrant violence is merely a response.
The Leftist Green-adjacent France Insoumise party has published a lengthy tirade anticipating a new alliance between the ethnic minorities of the banlieues, victims of state violence, and the climate activists, who “resist the destruction of living things and the planet” and believe that this makes them police targets as well. John Keiger, writing in the Spectator, has also noticed this fascinating statement, and to it he adds the evidence of reports in Le Monde on the role of climate activists, anarchists and other extreme-Left groups in organising the rioters and directing their violence towards specific police and state targets. His conclusion, based partly on the rhetoric of the activists themselves, is that France may be facing a civil war.
I don’t think that’s right. Protests about carbon emissions, racism and colonialist sins are not sincere demands for a better and more just world, but they are not the pretence of internal seditionists bent on the overthrow of the state either. They are rallying cries in support of the globalist programme, and an appeal to the issues via which our political elite aim to free themselves finally from the constraints of their own native populations.
It’s no surprise to find American soft power behind some of these episodes, but U.S. influence is only one factor here. The postwar international order, founded around organisations like the United Nations and the European Union, bears the explicit mandate of counteracting nationalist politics, which are regarded as the root cause of the great world wars. Especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this globalist ethos has given rise to a whole world of densely interrelated political parties, NGOs and philanthropists, while also fostering an increasingly uniform and inward-looking elite political culture. These new elites hope to find in imported minorities a basis of popular support for globalism at home and a counterweight to the dreaded nativist Right. Most major Leftist and Green parties are mere instruments and expressions of this culture, as is any demonstration that is not immediately and brutally repressed.
This is about power and they don’t care. They’ll vaccinate billions and take years of heightened mortality in stride. They’ll burn whole cities to the ground if they have to.
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I have just posted this article in the previous thread but it definitely belongs here.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/researchers-call-urgent-action-address-mass-contamination-blood-supply/5858209
“Blood contaminated with prion-like structures from the spike protein raises the risk of inducing fatal neurodegenerative diseases in recipients. The potential transmission of harmful proteins through exosomes (“shedding”) and the risk of autoimmune diseases due to the vaccines’ mechanism and components like lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are other major concerns
Proposals for managing blood collection include rigorous donor interviews, deferral periods, and a suite of tests to ensure the safety of blood products
The researchers advocate for comprehensive testing of both jabbed and unjabbed individuals to assess the safety of blood products and suggest discarding blood products contaminated with spike proteins or modified mRNA until effective removal methods have been developed
They call for suspending all gene-based “vaccines” and conducting a rigorous harm-benefit assessment in light of the serious health injuries reported. They also urge countries and organizations to take concrete steps to address and mitigate the already identified risks”
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A most readable and worrying article.
On a separate topic, I do wish the irksome down-voters could be identified, a la Conservative Woman articles. Their contributors seem to suffer far less from mischievous down-voters, who like naughty children rap on the door and scoot off in anonymity. Perhaps they’d think twice if they were named.
I find the downvoters amusing, as you say, very much like naughty children. I definitely have a couple of trolls who simply downvote anything I post.
Watch this space.
27 up 9 down at the time of writing this.
It’s only Hamster Dick and the Scroteless Wonders. Don’t mind the ever-present shit-munching, shadow-lurking pilot fish. Personally, I find that if I’ve not ate enough roughage to keep up with demands they do quite well on just the barnacles until I get my second wind. They’ll be along to provide the proof of this in just a tick, you watch. They get the hump if I go too long without acknowledging their presence.
( 3,2,1…GO!! )
They must lurk with finger poised and senses sharpened ready to pounce and down vote in an instant. Sexual repression I guess. Sad tuesdays.
Thanks shit-munchers. I knew you’d come through for me.
You’re nothing if not predictable.
Here’s a small token of my appreciation:
I’m glad to see that it’s not just me (with my “constant complaining”) that finds this behaviour regrettable.
I wouldn’t necessarily be in favour of forcing people to reveal themselves, but I do think it’s kind of pointless especially in a place where I think we are all looking to further our understanding of the world.
Some coherent scientific arguments from the downtickers would be welcome.
Maybe both sides could learn things?
Stop whinging, and scoot right back to the Maryolater Woman articles.
It would be beneficial if up and down voters had to pay the minimum £5 subscription a month …. not sure that that is the case.
A cracking article.
Much to commend in Herbert Spencer’s theory which is why blood transfusions received from “vaccine” contaminated donors must inevitably be dangerous.
Quite. The same tribe who inflicted the blood transfusion scandal on its victims should be in prison, not doling out more blood contaminated with gunk of which nobody knows the long-term dangers.
Yes, ”anti-vaxxers will be the death of us”, blah blah. Remember the incessant tripe spewed by these professional shysters who now want to suck up to you just to get your vote?
https://x.com/JacquiDeevoy1/status/1795404922726367731
”Anti-vaxxers cost lives”…Well at least this poor guy wasn’t one of those. He got the vax ( probably because he listened to Starmer et al ) and subsequently died long before his time due to ”coincidence”. But imagine how much worse it would’ve been? He could’ve been piloting the plane you were on! These sorts of stories are all over online, sadly;
”England: A dad suffering
with indigestion died suddenly.
“I’ve Had My Covid Vaccine”
“Stephen McGowan ‘healthy’ 44-year-old died on a family trip in the Lake District.
“Its believed it was a symptom of a blood clot which caused a fatal heart attack.”
https://x.com/tulloch1978/status/1794864094190985332
It was well known in the 19th c that quackcines murdered and maimed, and saved no one. Alfred Russel Wallace the spiritualist-hermetic quasi natualist; wrote a very good book on this topic using the government’s own stats to destroy their narrative of the safe and effective (the marketing for the poisons has not changed in 200 years).
In his 1885 letter to Parliament, Wallace calls out the fraud of vaccination:
After 70 years of quacking the greatest smallpox death spree occurred in 1871 – 44 K dead in the UK – by law everyone had to be stabbinated. Why then the worst smallpox epidemic in the ‘modern’ era?
No efficacy and lots of harm – the same we experienced with the mRNA fraud during the recent plandemic. Nothing has changed.
Instead of paper clip boy, maybe Wallace instead as the patron saint of the Quackcine Sceptics.
https://peakd.com/health/@reddust/where-did-the-first-anti-vaxxers-come-from
Leicester was the scene of severe rioting in 1885 when forced vaccinations were rejected by the city’s population.
Coincidentally, or not most probably, Leicester was the first whole city placed in to Lockdown during the Scamdemic. The Davos Deviants do like their history.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/28/and-the-bird-flu-just-keeps-on-coming/
Kit Knightly at Off-G is still confident that ‘bird ‘flu’ will be used for Billy’s next “pandemic” and probably H5N1 and for which the “vaccines” undoubtedly have already been brewed. The Pandemic Preparedness Treaty and the International Health Regulations hiccups must be a real PIA to Billy and his DD mates.
I don’t think it will be long now.
Nah, everyone knows it’s going to be ‘Monkeybollox: The Sequel’. When does Pride kick off again…..? Obviously it will just be pure correlation and not at all caused by the sudden increase in men attending leather fetish S&M orgies where no-one bothers to use a condom. That would be too much of a stretch ( ”Oooh Missus!” ), therefore don’t kill granny and get vaccinated now!!
Well, every single chicken now has to be registered and will no doubt be destroyed “when” the next scamdemic is announced ….. thereby ensuring that egg consumption will be prevented.
Exactly.
Why on earth do chickens need passports?
Oh, of course, Billy’s next Scamdemic.
The only good thing to come out of covid and the modified RNA ie GMO’s is an ever increasing awareness of the dangers of even traditional vaccines.
This is perhaps the most sensible paper I’ve read regarding vaccinations in general.
Should be freely available in every GP’s practice, med schools and all NHS departments.
Even better if Doctors actually read it instead of being in thrall to bigpharma :-
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/determining-the-risks-and-benefits?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748806&post_id=144975313&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=x6a6a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Thanks for the link. A good but very long read.
After reading this it would appear that far from doing good “vaccines” actually cause multiple harms.
For some of us the C1984 has been a blessing in disguise particularly where medicine, as a subject is concerned.
Indeed .
Hopefully it will open a few eyes.
Do you know that wild animals don’t get cancer – Sir Macfarane Burnet, Nobel prize, immunogy.
I’ve often wondered why….
Blimey.
Lots of probigpharma downtickers on here.
Hopefully we’re getting to the bastards.
Hear, hear.
Wonderful article by Dr. Alexander about Herbert Spencer’s unexpected vaccines discovery:
“…deaths-from-all-causes had dropped in number, while deaths-caused-by-specific-diseases had risen in number as a proportion of the population.”
And he came to the correct conclusion, more than a century ago. Let’s hope that “Spencer’s Principle” becomes more widely known.
Speaking of vaccines, here’s today’s example of Mad Cow Disease:
Watch: EU Commission President Pledges to ‘Vaccinate’ Population Against Wrongthink (infowars.com)
Tja paperclip was a sign of the resistance in Norway in WW2.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/unbelievable-paperclip-wwii-resistance-mark.html
Very interesting article. It makes me wonder how many other “enlightened” people from previous centuries have just been forgotten.
As far as I’m concerned, every day is now International Vaccine Scepticism Day.
Seconded
AZ vaccine failure. Dr David Cartland….
https://x.com/CartlandDavid/status/1795492020326215980
Thanks for the link
Maybe we should consider a national Operation Paperclip day.
Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945–59. Some were former members and leaders of the Nazi Party.
Many of these criminals ended up running the UN.
This may focus peoples minds to the levels of corruption that governments will stoop to. Especially from the land of the free and the just.