France's state of emergency has lasted 2 1/2 months

[EatTheRich]

Which means that for 2 1/2 months the government has been able to search homes without warrants, order house arrests without charges, ban public demonstrations, disband dissident groups, and block websites without judicial approval. The state of emergency was put into place by President Francois Hollande, of the Socialist Party, following the November 13 Daesh-affiliated attacks for 12 days, the maximum without parliamentary approval. Parliament then voted to extend them an additional 90 days ... that is, through Feb. 26. Now he is seeking to extend it again. Prime Minister Manuel Valls, also of the Socialist Party, says the state of emergency should remain in effect "as long as Daesh is a threat." Meanwhile the government is seeking statutory expansion of its powers to monitor communications. French liberty looks very, very ill.

Meanwhile Obama is more interested in maintaining the NATO alliance and securing cooperation against Daesh than in keeping France from turning into a police state.

 

[Days]

Which means that for 2 1/2 months the government has been able to search homes without warrants, order house arrests without charges, ban public demonstrations, disband dissident groups, and block websites without judicial approval. The state of emergency was put into place by President Francois Hollande, of the Socialist Party, following the November 13 Daesh-affiliated attacks for 12 days, the maximum without parliamentary approval. Parliament then voted to extend them an additional 90 days ... that is, through Feb. 26. Now he is seeking to extend it again. Prime Minister Manuel Valls, also of the Socialist Party, says the state of emergency should remain in effect "as long as Daesh is a threat." Meanwhile the government is seeking statutory expansion of its powers to monitor communications. French liberty looks very, very ill.

Meanwhile Obama is more interested in maintaining the NATO alliance and securing cooperation against Daesh than in keeping France from turning into a police state.

We want to be the police state of the Americas. Fascism is on the rise, and any means to the end is acceptable. False flag hoaxes left and right, curtailed civil liberties, endless propaganda in the press... we are steaming toward the 5th Reich with fervor.

There's no reason for us to be at economic war with Russia, and there's no reason for us to be agitating Russia with regime change in their back yard. It stirs up WWIII, and Russia plainly doesn't want it, but it seems we do. All this meddling in the ME and North Africa is evil, and when Obama took over from Bush he not only didn't change what Bush was doing, he accelerated his foreign policy.

I'm beginning to think that Trump is our only hope of warding off WWIII.

From Russia with love: Why the Kremlin backs Donald Trump (Link)

 

[EatTheRich]

War is the inevitable final resort of finance capital in its quest to maintain its political rule. There is no way to stop it except by taking political power away from finance capital. As a matter of fact the opening battles of WWIII have already been fought in the Middle East and it is inevitable that it will become a war between rival global imperialist blocs before the working class can gain the strength to take power out of the imperialists' hands.

 

[Queen Titania]

False flags = martial law

 

[EatTheRich]

False flags = martial law

False flags are always a possibility, but not necessary to the inexorable logic of capitalism's march toward dictatorship. Capitalism and imperialism inevitably create instabilities which predictably lead to acts of violence such as terrorist attacks. It is perfectly reasonable, unless of course there is evidence to the contrary, to assume that ISIS launched the attacks they claimed credit for in Paris without coordinating those attacks with anyone, and that the authorities' response was partly an ad hoc adaptation (of the sort to which their political system tends to default) to an unforeseen situation, partly a long-planned power grab disguised by the excuse the authorities had been wanting.

 

[Days]

False flags are always a possibility, but not necessary to the inexorable logic of capitalism's march toward dictatorship. Capitalism and imperialism inevitably create instabilities which predictably lead to acts of violence such as terrorist attacks. It is perfectly reasonable, unless of course there is evidence to the contrary, to assume that ISIS launched the attacks they claimed credit for in Paris without coordinating those attacks with anyone, and that the authorities' response was partly an ad hoc adaptation (of the sort to which their political system tends to default) to an unforeseen situation, partly a long-planned power grab disguised by the excuse the authorities had been wanting.

there is evidence to the contrary. About 225 years of it, mostly ever since the French Revolution. Viva La False Flag!

Gonna pick-up my rich customers tomorrow back from a week in Paris. Chatted with them about the security on the way to the airport a week ago so I am anxious to learn what it was like.

Our Bill of Rights came out of the Reign of Terror...

 

[EatTheRich]

there is evidence to the contrary. About 225 years of it, mostly ever since the French Revolution. Viva La False Flag!

Gonna pick-up my rich customers tomorrow back from a week in Paris. Chatted with them about the security on the way to the airport a week ago so I am anxious to learn what it was like.

Our Bill of Rights came out of the Reign of Terror...

? Not if you're talking about the U.S. The Reign of Terror was announced in 1793, after the Bill of Rights were already part of the Constitution.

 

[Queen Titania]

False flags are always a possibility, but not necessary to the inexorable logic of capitalism's march toward dictatorship. Capitalism and imperialism inevitably create instabilities which predictably lead to acts of violence such as terrorist attacks. It is perfectly reasonable, unless of course there is evidence to the contrary, to assume that ISIS launched the attacks they claimed credit for in Paris without coordinating those attacks with anyone, and that the authorities' response was partly an ad hoc adaptation (of the sort to which their political system tends to default) to an unforeseen situation, partly a long-planned power grab disguised by the excuse the authorities had been wanting.

Isis is the Egyptian Goddess - will you stop defiling her name.

And ISIL/DASH, what ever we name IT, is in and of itself a false flag.

 

[EatTheRich]

Isis is the Egyptian Goddess - will you stop defiling her name.

And ISIL/DASH, what ever we name IT, is in and of itself a false flag.

I apologize for giving offense; I was unaware that she still had devotees. I disagree with your second comment.

 

[Queen Titania]

I apologize for giving offense; I was unaware that she still had devotees. I disagree with your second comment.

Don't need to apologize - you are not alone in using Isis name.

I thought you would

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

False flags = martial law

Top-Heavy Thought Control

Leftists wave the false flags. They are the brats of the Right Wing. If we outlaw birth privileges, that spawn will get nowhere. Only when their aristocratic clouds lift will we be able to think clearly.

Environmentalism: Hoarding. The uninhibited development of nature has been the only thing that has ever created class mobility. It is the main story of the America that is no more but can rise again. The Eco-Eunuchs also kill jobs, their unrecognized purpose being that we will become desperate enough to work for low wages.

Feminism: So that rich girls can inherit their class's positions like their brothers always did.

Integration: Because the born rich fear the power of White people being focused against them instead of distracted by feral rabble being turned loose on them.

Anti-war: In order to discredit working-class heroes as Nazi baby-killers or pathetic drifters.

 

[Queen Titania]

Top-Heavy Thought Control

Leftists wave the false flags. They are the brats of the Right Wing. If we outlaw birth privileges, that spawn will get nowhere. Only when their aristocratic clouds lift will we be able to think clearly.

Environmentalism: Hoarding. The uninhibited development of nature has been the only thing that has ever created class mobility. It is the main story of the America that is no more but can rise again. The Eco-Eunuchs also kill jobs, their unrecognized purpose being that we will become desperate enough to work for low wages.

Feminism: So that rich girls can inherit their class's positions like their brothers always did.

Integration: Because the born rich fear the power of White people being focused against them instead of distracted by feral rabble being turned loose on them.

Anti-war: In order to discredit working-class heroes as Nazi baby-killers or pathetic drifters.

A hodge podge --- which I don't even now how to comment upon other than to say lefty vs righty is also a false battle. Used now to divide and rule/conquer - a trap you have all fallen into, when in fact the power is behind the throne and it makes no bloody difference who you vote for, the throne is the same as the power behind it is the same.

 

[Queen Titania]

? Not if you're talking about the U.S. The Reign of Terror was announced in 1793, after the Bill of Rights were already part of the Constitution.

The English Bill of Rights was passed in 1689

 

[EatTheRich]

Top-Heavy Thought Control

Leftists wave the false flags. They are the brats of the Right Wing. If we outlaw birth privileges, that spawn will get nowhere. Only when their aristocratic clouds lift will we be able to think clearly.

Environmentalism: Hoarding. The uninhibited development of nature has been the only thing that has ever created class mobility. It is the main story of the America that is no more but can rise again. The Eco-Eunuchs also kill jobs, their unrecognized purpose being that we will become desperate enough to work for low wages.

Feminism: So that rich girls can inherit their class's positions like their brothers always did.

Integration: Because the born rich fear the power of White people being focused against them instead of distracted by feral rabble being turned loose on them.

Anti-war: In order to discredit working-class heroes as Nazi baby-killers or pathetic drifters.

Proletarian environmentalism means putting long-term, sustainable development of resources and public health and safety, especially for the most vulnerable, ahead of short-term profit motives.

Proletarian feminism is a radical threat to the family and the systems of inheritance it facilitates. It means abolishing the long-term unearned privilege of a minority sex, swelling the ranks of the fighting workers, liberating sexual minorities, and removing the cash nexus from interactions between men and women.

Proletarian racial integration is based on the self-determination of the oppressed, including the right of workers of oppressed races to join hands with workers of the dominant race against their common bourgeois enemy.

Proletarian opposition to imperialist war means the demand that poor people not be made cannon fodder in profit-seeking adventures by finance capital, and that they not be made the instrument by which poor people in other countries are plundered, violated, and enslaved. It means transforming an imperialist war into a revolutionary war of liberation.

 

[EatTheRich]

A hodge podge --- which I don't even now how to comment upon other than to say lefty vs righty is also a false battle. Used now to divide and rule/conquer - a trap you have all fallen into, when in fact the power is behind the throne and it makes no bloody difference who you vote for, the throne is the same as the power behind it is the same.

The "power behind the throne" is, of course, wealth. And we are given a narrow spectrum of voting choices designed to ensure that the wealthy remain wealthy. But there are tactical differences among the wealthy and their political representatives. By exploiting those tactical differences a way can be charted toward dividing the wealthy so that the poor and oppressed can conquer. If a political vanguard becomes so focused on the tactical differences that they get sucked into the morass of voting-centered politics, they'll be co-opted by the wealthy. But to ignore the distinctions of left and right is to abstain from politics. Instead we need a vanguard party that will adopt intelligent tactics based on the historically proven strategy of maintaining class independence alongside maneuverability.

 

[Queen Titania]

The "power behind the throne" is, of course, wealth. And we are given a narrow spectrum of voting choices designed to ensure that the wealthy remain wealthy. But there are tactical differences among the wealthy and their political representatives. By exploiting those tactical differences a way can be charted toward dividing the wealthy so that the poor and oppressed can conquer. If a political vanguard becomes so focused on the tactical differences that they get sucked into the morass of voting-centered politics, they'll be co-opted by the wealthy. But to ignore the distinctions of left and right is to abstain from politics. Instead we need a vanguard party that will adopt intelligent tactics based on the historically proven strategy of maintaining class independence alongside maneuverability.

I am not saying that there is no difference in essence in the left and the right but that now a days in practice, there is not. I live in a country where we have had the extremes of both and in the end they have both had a hand in destroying our evolved structures.

And who has profited?

Our old political structures are defunct - corrupted beyond recognition.

 

[Poseidon Atlantis]

A hodge podge --- which I don't even now how to comment upon other than to say lefty vs righty is also a false battle. Used now to divide and rule/conquer - a trap you have all fallen into, when in fact the power is behind the throne and it makes no bloody difference who you vote for, the throne is the same as the power behind it is the same.

Odd how the same organisations and people keep cropping up giving money to both " lefty " and " righty " ......and always get what they pay for ...

 

[Queen Titania]

Odd how the same organisations and people keep cropping up giving money to both " lefty " and " righty " ......and always get what they pay for ...

It is no different than it has ever been, in our life time at least.

There were once some serious voices agin --- all gone now.

 

[Queen Titania]

The "power behind the throne" is, of course, wealth. And we are given a narrow spectrum of voting choices designed to ensure that the wealthy remain wealthy. But there are tactical differences among the wealthy and their political representatives. By exploiting those tactical differences a way can be charted toward dividing the wealthy so that the poor and oppressed can conquer. If a political vanguard becomes so focused on the tactical differences that they get sucked into the morass of voting-centered politics, they'll be co-opted by the wealthy. But to ignore the distinctions of left and right is to abstain from politics. Instead we need a vanguard party that will adopt intelligent tactics based on the historically proven strategy of maintaining class independence alongside maneuverability.

My niece and daughter went to the Calais camp as volunteers last week - they were both very disturbed by the situation - so many young men, who, though they are living in awful circumstance all still have an innocence about them said my daughter, speak of the UK as though it is some sort of utopia, she said they say 'UK, I want to go to the UK' and felt 'yes, yes, the UK I want to go to the UK too'. At one point she said 'I understood the hatred the rich feel for the poor, so dirty and depressing, just wanted it to go away ( it was short lived but she got why they are so hated ) - all day they just hang around in a hopeless state and all night they try to get in and under the trains and lorries- being beaten by French Police etc - both of one young man's wrists were broken by the police, they hurt in the cold weather Some have been there for 6 years every night of which they have tried to get here. Every day between 50 and 100 hundred more arrive - dead rats and sewerage everywhere - My daughter said the only thing she could relate it to, that she has experienced, was the shanty towns she saw in India - hovels made out of plastic bags and such like - but they have made an orderly camp with 'roads' and their own shops, some have money - it is not just about money but a better way of life --- anyway I can't do what the two have said justice but might go myself in the summer, since most who run the kitchens and ware houses will not be there in the summer. Because there is no proper sewerage she dreads to think what it will be like in the summer - a new camp is being built at Dunkirk but ---- it is such a hopeless situation - so sad.
She said the children were still feisty - but children are resilient aren't they? A lot young men from the Sudan and Afghanistan she said and somewhere else, I forget.

ps one young man fro the Sudan made he coffee, she said that she had never tasted such wonderful coffee - made with ginger in it.

 

[Poseidon Atlantis]

My niece and daughter went to the Calais camp as volunteers last week - they were both very disturbed by the situation - so many young men, who, though they are living in awful circumstance all still have an innocence about them said my daughter, speak of the UK as though it is some sort of utopia, she said they say 'UK, I want to go to the UK' and felt 'yes, yes, the UK I want to go to the UK too'. At one point she said 'I understood the hatred the rich feel for the poor, so dirty and depressing, just wanted it to go away ( it was short lived but she got why they are so hated ) - all day they just hang around in a hopeless state and all night they try to get in and under the trains and lorries- being beaten by French Police etc - both of one young man's wrists were broken by the police, they hurt in the cold weather Some have been there for 6 years every night of which they have tried to get here. Every day between 50 and 100 hundred more arrive - dead rats and sewerage everywhere - My daughter said the only thing she could relate it to, that she has experienced, was the shanty towns she saw in India - hovels made out of plastic bags and such like - but they have made an orderly camp with 'roads' and their own shops, some have money - it is not just about money but a better way of life --- anyway I can't do what the two have said justice but might go myself in the summer, since most who run the kitchens and ware houses will not be there in the summer. Because there is no proper sewerage she dreads to think what it will be like in the summer - a new camp is being built at Dunkirk but ---- it is such a hopeless situation - so sad.
She said the children were still feisty - but children are resilient aren't they? A lot young men from the Sudan and Afghanistan she said and somewhere else, I forget.

ps one young man fro the Sudan made he coffee, she said that she had never tasted such wonderful coffee - made with ginger in it.

On the part of your post regarding the huge numbers of young innocents in Calais from outside the UK trying to get into the UK in the belief that it is an El Dorado . There are also huge numbers trying to come here from the parts of the EU with high unemployment looking for work. These countries include Spain , Portugal and Greece as well as others.
The U.K. Cannot absorb these refugees fron Africa and Asia , the U.K. cannot take all the Syrian and EU migrants either