Showing posts with label Marine le Pen. Show all posts
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Thursday, 30 May 2019

Dirty tricks by the Tory Party against leadership contender, Boris Johnson


“May Resigns, Bring On The Circus, Boris Johnson”


We live in an era when any dirty tricks are fine so long as they are directed against one's opponent.

 Dirty tricks by the Tory Party to stop Boris Johnston in his quest for Tory Party leadership

There is corruption in other places as well

 George Galloway has a way of getting to the nitty-gritty.




Here is my brief (and rough) report:



Boris Johnson could go on trial for 'lying and misleading' in Brexit campaign, judge orders


 Judge summonses MP to court after throwing out arguments that allegations are ‘vexatious’ attempt to undermine Brexit


Brexit battle: Fury as ‘DIRTY TRICKS’ deployed in bid to STOP Boris - 'The one to beat!'


TORY leadership rivals stepped up their efforts to sabotage Boris Johnson’s bid for Downing Street yesterday after a poll of Tory activists confirmed him as the runaway favourite for the job.


Brexit cost: How much has Brexit cost the UK so far?


Marine Le Pen charged for posting violent Isis images on Twitter


French far-right leader could face up to three years in prison over photos tweeted in 2015


'It's staggering!': Marine Le Pen outraged after court orders her to undergo psychological examination

A French court has ordered a psychological assessment of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a case about the dissemination of extremely violent images. Le Pen says the order is part of a government plot to discredit her.


EU top court rejects Le Pen's appeal over €300,000 parliamentary assistance funds


Israeli parliament votes to dissolve after Netanyahu fails to form government



Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be indicted on corruption charges

The announcement marks the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister faces criminal charges of this nature.


This came in after I made the video
Top French Journalist Interrogated For Report on Corruption in Macron Government



29 May, 2019


Ariane Chemin, the French journalist for Le Monde who first broke a story in July 2018 regarding a corruption scandal involving French President Emmanuel Macron’s former security aide, Alexandre Benalla, was questioned Wednesday by France’s domestic intelligence service.

According to Chemin, she was questioned by France's General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) for around 45 minutes with her lawyer present, after the service demanded that she appear for questioning last week, raising questions about the freedom of the press under Macron.



"I explained that I only did my job as a journalist," she told AFP after the meeting.

"They asked me many questions on the manner in which I checked my information, which was an indirect way of asking me about my sources," Chemin added, also noting that under French law, she has the right to withhold information regarding sources.

According to a copy of Chemins' police summons obtained by the Washington Post, Chemin is accused of "committing or attempting to commit the offense of revealing or disclosing, by any means, any information that could lead, directly or indirectly, to the identification of a person as a member of special forces."

The summons also states that she may be thrown in jail if she is convicted under France's "state of emergency" laws adopted in April 2016, which were meant to reinforce national security and combat terrorism following the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015.

In a Wednesday editorial, Le Monde's editorial director, Luc Bronner, noted, "We [the newspaper] will obviously protect our information, and we express our concerns over this summoning."

However, according to a French official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Washington Post, the summons was "the normal functioning of the justice."

"French authorities are of course respectful of the freedom of the press," the official added.

In July 2018, a video of Benalla punching a young protester in France went viral. The former security aide was charged with multiple offenses, including violent acts, interfering in the work of public services, wearing an official insignia without authorization, concealing video materials and breaching professional secrecy.




Following a parliamentary investigation regarding the video, it was revealed that French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, one of Macron's closest allies, was aware of the incident. Subsequent investigations revealed that Benalla had ties with Iskander Makhmudov, a Russian mining mogul. Benalla is believed to have negotiated a corrupt security contract between Makhmudov and a French security firm run by Benalla's acquaintance Vincent Crase to protect Makhmudov's family while in France. 



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Friday, 21 September 2018

In France to reveal ISIS atrocities is a sign of madness


  In today’s France it is taken as a sign of insanity to post real picture of ISIS atrocities!
France’s Marine Le Pen ordered to undergo psychiatric tests over IS group tweets

20 September, 2018


French far-right leader Marine Le Pen expressed outrage Thursday after being ordered to undergo psychiatric tests for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group.

Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris, sparking widespread condemnation in France.

The 50-year-old leader of the National Rally (formerly the National Front), who lost to Emmanuel Macron in last year's presidential vote, was stripped of her parliamentary immunity over the pictures and charged with circulating violent messages that can be viewed by minors.

On Thursday, she tweeted copies of a court order requiring her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Dated September 11, it calls for the tests to be carried out "as soon as possible" to establish whether Le Pen "is capable of understanding remarks and answering questions".
"It's crazy," fumed Le Pen, herself a trained lawyer.
"I thought I had been through it all: well, no! For having condemned Daesh (IS) horrors in tweets, the 'justice system' is putting me through psychiatric tests! Just how far will they go?" she asked, repeating her view that it was part of a government plot to discredit her.

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Speaking to reporters in the halls of the National Assembly, Le Pen said she felt "persecuted" by the state and would defy the order.
'I won't go!'
"Of course I won't go and submit myself to this psychiatric evaluation," she declared, daring the investigating magistrate to "force" her.
Under French law there is no legal mechanism for forcing a person to comply with such an order.
The prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the court is located, said such tests were routine in cases involving the dissemination of violent messages.
But there were howls of indignation from Le Pen's supporters and allies nonetheless.
Italy's powerful far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted his sympathy for Le Pen, along with a photograph of himself and the Frenchwoman greeting each other, their arms outstretched and faces wreathed in smiles.

"A prosecutor has ordered psychiatric tests on Marine Le Pen. There are no words. Solidarity with her and those French people who love liberty," wrote Salvini, whose League party is in an alliance with Le Pen's faction.

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Rightwing eurosceptic Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wondered whether the French justice system was inspired by the Soviet Union, where political opponents were thrown in psychiatric hospitals.
"Next step the gulag?" he asked in a tweet.
Even some of Le Pen's opponents expressed misgivings about the tests.
Her leftist nemesis Jean-Luc Melenchon, the France Unbowed leader who once called Le Pen "half-demented", tweeted his "total disagreement" with the court order.
"It's not these kind of methods that will drive back the far right," wrote Melenchon, a fierce critic of Macron, who denounced the court order as a "political decision".
Party 'risks death'
Le Pen shared the IS images in response to a French journalist who drew a comparison between the jihadist group and her party.
One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American journalist beheaded by the Sunni extremists.
Another showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank and the third showed a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.
"Daesh is this!" Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
She later deleted the picture of Foley after a request from his family, saying she had been unaware of his identity, but she has denounced the case against her as a violation of her freedom of expression.
If convicted, she faces up to three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($87,000).
Another National Rally lawmaker, lawyer Gilbert Collard, has also been charged for tweeting pictures of IS atrocities.
The furore over the psychiatric tests comes as Le Pen attempts to rally support for her cash-strapped party ahead of European elections next spring, in which she is hoping to rebound from her presidential defeat.
Last week, she repeated warnings that her party's existence was at stake if it didn't manage to win back two million euros in subsidies seized as part of an inquiry into claims it misused millions worth of European Parliament funds.

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Tuesday, 9 May 2017

What IS fascism, really?

Google Redefines “Fascism”




 Google have redefined the word fascism to suit their own interests to cover anyone who is “right-wing”.

What is “right wing” these days.

The broader definition of fascism is where gvovernment is by/for the corporations. This comes from the original fascist, Benito Mussolini.

The definition below provides a pretty good indication that what we already have, cetainly in the United States and Britain is fascism and “democracy” is just a fig-leak for unbridled corporate power.

The following already apply and no doubt will develop even further under Donalad Trup, Theresa May, Emmanuael Macron and others:

  • Corporate power protected
  • Labour power suppressed
  • Obsession wit national security (the US spends more than everyone else combined on ‘defence” and have troops over most of the globe)
  • Disdain for human rights (Obama went after and prosecuted more whistleblowers than any president in US history)
  • Identification of enemies as a unifying cause (look at the “Putin did it” meme)
  • Controlled mass media (this is increasingly a theme)
  • Rampant cronyism and corruption
  • Fraudulent elections
  • Rampant sexism (not in this case but the imposition of ‘identity politics’ falls into this category)
  • Osession with crime and punishment
  • Religion and government intertwined (in the liberal case we have a disdain for religion)


I have no doubt in the world that there are fascist elements to the present US adminstration although Trump ran on a policy of ‘draining the swamp’ and not interfering with endless wars.


Marine le Pen is not xenophobic as painted – she just wants a return of soverreignty to France (call it nationalism if you like). Unlike Trump who goes on about ‘the Muslims’ le Pen is intelligent enough to distinguish between ‘Muslims’ and Salafist Muslims Iie the extremists and terrorists).

The difficulty would come in distinguishing between the two.

Neoliberalism is a species of fascism

by Manuela Cadelli, President of the Magistrates’ Union of Belgium, via Defend Democracy


8 May, 2017

The time for rhetorical reservations is over. Things have to be called by their name to make it possible for a co-ordinated democratic reaction to be initiated, above all in the public services.

Liberalism was a doctrine derived  from the philosophy of Enlightenment, at once political and economic, which aimed at imposing on the state the necessary distance for ensuring respect for liberties and the coming of democratic emancipation. It was the motor for the arrival, and the continuing progress, of Western мemocracies.

Neoliberalism is a form of economism in our day that strikes at every moment at every sector of our community. It is a form of extremism.

Fascism may be defined as the subordination of every part of the State to a totalitarian and nihilistic ideology.

I argue that neoliberalism is a species of fascism because the economy has  brought under subjection not only the government of democratic countries but also every aspect of our thought.

The state is now at the disposal of the economy and of finance, which treat it as a subordinate and lord over it to an extent that puts the common good in jeopardy.

 The austerity that is demanded by the financial milieu has become a supreme value, replacing politics. Saving money precludes pursuing any other public objective. It is reaching the point where claims are being made that the principle of budgetary orthodoxy should be included in state constitutions. A mockery is being made of the notion of public service.

The nihilism that results from this makes possible the dismissal of universalism and the most evident humanistic values: solidarity, fraternity, integration and respect for all and for differences.

There is no place any more even for classical economic theory: work was formerly an element in demand, and to that extent there was respect for workers; international finance has made of it a mere adjustment variable.

Every totalitarianism starts as distortion of language, as in the novel by George Orwell. Neoliberalism has its Newspeak and strategies of communication that enable it to deform reality.  In this spirit, every budgetary cut is represented as an instance of modernization of the sectors concerned. If some of the most deprived are no longer  reimbursed for medical expenses and so stop visiting the dentist, this is modernization of social security in action!

Abstraction predominates in public discussion so as to occlude the implications for human beings.

Thus, in relation to migrants, it is imperative that the need for hosting them does not lead to public appeals that our finances could not accommodate. Is it In the same way that other individuals

 qualify for assistance out of considerations of national solidarity?

THE CULT OF EVALUATION


Social Darwinism predominates, assigning the most stringent performance requirements to everyone and everything: to be weak is to fail. The foundations of our culture are overturned: every humanist premise is disqualified or demonetized because neoliberalism has the monopoly of rationality and realism. Margaret Thatcher said it in 1985:
There is no alternative.”
Everything else is utopianism, unreason and regression. The virtue of debate and conflicting perspectives are discredited because history is ruled by necessity.

 This subculture harbours an existential threat of its own: shortcomings of performance condemn one to disappearance while at the same time everyone is charged with inefficiency and obliged to justify everything. Trust is broken. Evaluation reigns,  and with it the bureaucracy which imposes definition and research of a plethora of targets, and indicators with which one must comply. Creativity and the critical spirit are stifled by management. And everyone is beating his breast about the wastage and inertia of which he is guilty.

THE NEGLECT OF JUSTICE



The neoliberal ideology generates a normativity that competes with the laws of parliament. The democratic power of law is compromised. Given that they represent a concrete embodiment of liberty and emancipation, and given the potential to prevent abuse that they impose, laws and procedures have begun to look like obstacles.

The power of the judiciary, which has the ability to oppose the will of the ruling circles, must also be checkmated.  The Belgian judicial system is in any case underfunded. In 2015 it came last in a European ranking that included all states located between the Atlantic and the Urals. In two years the government has managed to take away the independence given to it under the Constitution so that it can play the counterbalancing role citizens expect of it. The aim of this undertaking is clearly that there should no longer be justice in Belgium.

A CASTE ABOVE THE MANY


But the dominant class doesn’t prescribe for itself the same medicine it wants to see ordinary citizens taking:  well-ordered austerity  begins with others. The economist Thomas Piketty has perfectly described this in his study of inequality and capitalism in the twenty-first century (French edition, Seuil, 2013).

In spite of the crisis of 2008 and the hand-wringing that followed, nothing was done to police the financial community and submit them to the requirements of the common good. Who paid? Ordinary people, you and me.

And while the Belgian State consented to 7 billion-euro ten-year tax breaks for multinationals, ordinary litigants have seen surcharges imposed on access to justice (increased court fees, 21% taxation on legal fees). From now on, to obtain redress the victims of injustice are going to have to be rich.

All this in a state where the number of public representatives breaks all international records. In this particular area, no evaluation and no costs studies are reporting profit. One example:  thirty years after the introduction of the federal system, the provincial institutions survive. Nobody can say what purpose they serve. Streamlining and the managerial ideology have conveniently stopped at the gates of the political world.

THE SECURITY IDEAL


Terrorism, this other nihilism that exposes our weakness in affirming our values, is likely to aggravate the process by soon making it possible for all violations of our liberties, all violations of our rights, to circumvent the powerless qualified judges, further reducing social protection for the poor, who will be sacrificed to “the security ideal”.

SALVATION IN COMMITMENT


These developments certainly threaten the foundations of our democracy, but do they condemn us to discouragement and despair

Certainly not. 500 years ago, at the height of the defeats that brought down most Italian states with the imposition of foreign occupation for more than three centuries, Niccolo Machiavelli urged virtuous men to defy fate and stand up against the adversity of the times, to prefer action and daring to caution. The more tragic the situation, the more it necessitates action and the refusal to “give up” (The Prince, Chapters XXV and XXVI).

This is a teaching that is clearly required today. The determination of citizens attached to the radical of democratic values is an invaluable resource which has not yet revealed, at least in Belgium, its driving potential and power to change what is presented as inevitable. Through social networking and the power of the written word, everyone can now become involved, particularly when it comes to public services, universities, the student world, the judiciary and the Bar, in bringing the common good and social justice into the heart of public debate and the administration of the state and the community.

Neoliberalism is a species of fascism. It must be fought and humanism fully restored.
Published in the Belgian daily Le Soir, March 3, 2016, translated from French by Wayne  Hall



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