Thursday, February 6, 2014

Big Fuss Over French Funnyman

It's the same old voices and it just is not funny anymore, so I thought I would start you with a different perspective today from someone whose viewpoint I admire and respect:

"It just goes on and on, doesn't it? You keep expecting some significant event, some kind of game changer, for better or worse /but the vermin in the shadows are running into difficulties that we hear not one word about/ out here. One thing that is happening is that Zionist control, behind the scenes of Western European governments is being made public in a big way. The Zionist owned government of France has violated the civil rights of Dieudonne then, rather promptly, the Zionist owned government of England refused Dieudonne entry into their county... . Europe isn't America however. In Europe a lot of the public knows how powerful and venal the Zionists are and what they are up to. Blowback is coming. Although it may be hard to understand how they got such wide control throughout so many countries, what has to be understood is that there is a world wide conspiracy of Zionist bankers and moneychangers....

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And now on with the $how!

"Concern grows in France over comedian’s gesture; ‘Quenelle’ seen as anti-Semitic and menacing" by Scott Sayare |  New York Times, January 03, 2014

PARIS — No one seems to know just what is meant by the “quenelle,” the vaguely menacing hand gesture invented and popularized by a French comedian widely criticized as anti-Semitic, but it is clearly nothing very nice, and it appears to be spreading.

Fans of the performer, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, send him photos of themselves making the gesture, known as the quenelle, in front of monuments, next to unwitting public officials, at weddings, and in class photographs, but also, increasingly, beside synagogues, Holocaust memorials, and street signs displaying the word “Jew.” At least one young man appears to have posed outside the grade school in Toulouse where, last year, four Jews were killed by a self-proclaimed operative of Al Qaeda. 

Oh, an Al-CIA-Duh asset and disciple, huh?

Related: French False Flag Saves Sarkozy 

No, it did not.

Jewish leaders, antiracism groups, and public officials have pointed out that the quenelle, which is also the name of a fish dumpling that is a French delicacy, strongly resembles a downward-facing Nazi salute.

Then doesn't it mean down with the accepted Zionist definition of fascism? 

M’Bala M’Bala, who goes by Dieudonné, insists that it is nothing more than an “antisystem” joke for his initiates, most of them young men, some from the disaffected immigrant suburbs, some from the xenophobic far right.

Oh, right. When you consider the fascists from my history books are misdefined ultra-nationalists, and that the true fa$ci$ts are the banker-controlled governments that make up the EUSraeli Empire, then all this $wirl becomes quite clear.

Still, when he seethes against “the system” onstage or in his popular Internet videos, Dieudonné generally points to a supposed cabal of Jewish “slave drivers,” secret rulers who cloak themselves in the memory of the Holocaust.

Well, as a reminder:

Preface
Introduction
Who are the Elders?
Protocol I The Basic Doctrine
Protocol II Economic Wars
Protocol III Methods of Conquest
Protocol IV Materialism Replaces Religion
Protocol V Despotism and Modern Progress
Protocol VI Take-Over Technique
Protocol VII World-Wide Wars
Protocol VIII Provisional Government
Protocol IX Re-education
Protocol X Preparing for Power
Protocol XI The Totalitarian State
Protocol XII Control of the Press
Protocol XIII Distractions
Protocol XIV Assault on Religion
Protocol XV Ruthless Suppression
Protocol XVI Brainwashing
Protocol XVII Abuse of Authority
Protocol XVIII Arrest of Opponents
Protocol XIX Rulers and People
Protocol XX Financial Programme
Protocol XXI Loans and Credit
Protocol XXII Power of Gold
Protocol XXIII Instilling Obedience
Protocol XXIV Qualities of the Ruler

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Gee, for a work of fiction it sure has been very accurate for the times, huh! 

Not funny, though.

The performer, the son of a black Cameroonian and a white Frenchwoman, often argues that Jews have unfairly claimed a monopoly on the status of “victim.”

This autumn, military leaders discovered that the quenelle was popular with soldiers and the army chief of staff banned the gesture after two uniformed infantrymen were sanctioned for performing one outside a Paris synagogue.

Now that really has to raise concern in some quarters!

Last week, a top French soccer player, Nicolas Anelka, was widely criticized for performing a quenelle during a game.

Tony Parker, a star with the San Antonio Spurs, and a teammate, Boris Diaw, both of them French, have been criticized for making the gesture. Parker, noting that the photo of him making the salute was three years old, has issued an apology saying that he was unaware until recently of the “very negative concerns associated with it.”

Anelka, like other French sports figures and celebrities seen performing the quenelle, said the gesture was not anti-Semitic. But authorities say they have watched the spread of the quenelle with increasing alarm. Jewish groups have pressed the government to act, although just what can be done is not clear: The traditional Nazi salute, for instance, is not expressly banned here, and any effort to ban the quenelle would raise questions of free speech.

Or interpretation. Just because the Jew says it is so doesn't make it so.

But state intervention in such matters is traditional here, with racist speech strongly restricted by law, and last week the interior minister, Manuel Valls, announced that he would attempt to ban the humorist from performing in France.

And if you question the holohoax™ you can get thrown in jail. What a laugh.

Valls’s decision followed the broadcast of a video in which Dieudonné laments that a prominent Jewish journalist did not die in “the gas chambers.”

I'm again reminded that no one did. Most of them actually died of disease.

Under French law, those words will likely be deemed “incitement to racial hatred.” Dieudonné’s lawyer said they could earn his client fines. It is far less clear, however, if there is a legal basis for an outright ban on his shows.

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Related: Why all the fuss? 

We know why:

"French fad’s ugly overtones" February 04, 2014

Dieudonné M’bala M’bala is a French comedian who has been cited for anti-Semitic slurs. He has referred to Jews as “slavers” and “bankers,” for example, and has suggested it was “a shame” that a well-known Jewish journalist didn’t die in “the gas chambers.” Though he’s been fined under France’s stiff hate-crime and anti-incitement laws, his following remains robust. Dieudonné’s online videos have been viewed by millions. And an unpleasant gesture that he calls the “quenelle” — it looks like a downward-sloping Nazi salute — has become a new and dismaying French fad.

Dieudonné first featured the salute in a campaign poster when he ran for office on what he called the Anti-Zionist List, and his fans embraced it. Though he claims it is merely a symbol of “anti-system” disaffection — a sort of “up yours” to the establishment — many find it hard to separate the man’s mockery of Jews from the gesture he has popularized. On social media, scores of people, including uniformed French soldiers, have posted images of themselves making the quenelle at sites associated with Jews and Jewish history.

Particularly offensive have been pictures of the salute at places that evoke anti-Semitic murder, such as Holocaust memorials, death camps, Anne Frank’s house, and the Jewish school in Toulouse where jihadist Mohammed Merah gunned down seven victims in 2012.

Some French politicians want to ban the quenelle, or even shut down Dieudonné’s act. But that would only add to his notoriety, which he relishes, and allow him to pose as a victim of the “system.” Rather, leaders in France and other European countries should continue to trumpet their objections to the quenelle, and its connection to anti-Semitism, lest this unfortunate national fad become an international one.

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Sorry I'm not losing my marbles in laughter over the endless whining and crying about the fraud and false flags

"Arresting Dieudonné - especially on the corrupt method of levying bogus fines against freedom of speech and then criminalizing the behavior by punishing failure to pay the fines, the debtor's prison model very familiar to the the 99% - will only make him more popular.

Atzmon:
"Dieudonné has proved to be resilient to Jewish nationalist terror. All attempts to destroy him achieved the opposite, it only helped him to refine his humour and criticism of Jewish power. By now Dieudonné has managed to expose the lethal continuum between the Jewish Lobby, the so-called Palestinian solidarity movement and the French imaginary ‘Left’ establishment. Is it really a surprise that the ‘socialist’ government that just a few weeks ago shamelessly attempted to jeopardize the negotiation with Iran in a desperate attempt  to appease the Israeli government is now chasing a black comedian who refuses to subscribe to the primacy of Jewish suffering?"
Note how quickly the Angry Arab uses guilt by association to throw Dieudonné under the bus.  As we all know, the ultra right is completely infiltrated by the government, and the most likely scenario is that any meeting was part of a conspiracy to impugn Dieudonné.  'Have you ever associated with . . . ?' is pure Joe McCarthy.  I've lost all sympathy for Angry's current problem of being accused of being a 'CIA host'. 

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I've got anger enough at both although I/m trying to manage it. I just don't like having been lied to my whole life by agenda-pushing PtB.

More French ugliness:

"Francois Hollande won’t comment on love life" by Raphael Satter |  Associated Press, February 01, 2014

LONDON — French President Francois Hollande wants to talk about his country’s work with Britain on a new combat drone, a multibillion-dollar deal which could see France help build new nuclear power plants in the UK, and thorny questions about his British counterpart David Cameron’s contentious relationship with the European Union.

Related: Chinese To Build British Nuclear Power Plant 

I could drone on and one, but.... 

Just don’t ask him about his love life.

Quizzed by reporters during a news conference that was held at an English air base whether his reported philandering had turned France into an ‘‘international joke,’’ the 59-year-old leader deadpanned.

‘‘I’m afraid I decline to answer,’’ he said.

British journalists had been looking forward to Hollande’s appearance, which comes less than a week after the French president officially ended his relationship with Valerie Trierweiler following a report that he was having an affair with glamorous actress Julie Gayet.

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Related:

"Perhaps because we’re so fixated on the dangerous liaisons of current French President Francois Hollande, we were very excited to see Carla Bruni, wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, perform April 19 at Berklee. Alas, Bruni, who became a singer after working for many years as a model, has abruptly — and without explanation — canceled her Boston show. (Tickets can be refunded at the point of purchase.) We’re not sure what the problem is. Bruni was well enough to show up this week at the Schiaparelli Couture fashion show in Paris, looking cool in leather pants and sunglasses. (She did, after all, date Mick Jagger back in the day.) While we wait for the concert to be rescheduled, we’ll console ourselves by reading about Hollande’s titillating love triangle. The French president’s secret affair with actress Julie Gayet was just revealed, and now he’s negotiating with girlfriend Valerie Trierweiler to end their nine-year relationship."

My "news" section then turns into a tabloid!

"Hollande, first lady end relationship

PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande has split with the country's first lady two weeks after a tabloid reported he was having an affair with an actress, an official said Saturday. A presidential aide confirmed that Hollande ended his seven-year relationship with Valerie Trierweiler. Hollande, who has four children with former presidential candidate Segolene Royal, has lived with Trierweiler since 2007, and while they are unmarried, Trierweiler occupied the so-called madame wing of the presidential palace, traveled abroad with Hollande, and functioned as the first lady (AP)."

"France’s ex-first lady says, ‘Don’t worry about me’" Associated Press, January 28, 2014 

I'm not and I won't.

MUMBAI — In her first public appearance since her split with the French president, Valerie Trierweiler bristled Monday when asked about her future during a charity visit to India and said, ‘‘don’t worry about me.’’

Trierweiler did not address her split with President Francois Hollande directly during a news conference with the aid group Action Against Hunger. But in response to a reporter’s question about how she feels about her future life, Trierweiler, 48, said she was not sure what the years will bring.

‘‘I don’t know,’’ she said in some of her first public comments since the scandal erupted earlier this month. ‘‘I have time, there are some years to come. I will see bit by bit. For now I am not foreseeing anything. In any case, don’t worry about me.’’

She acknowledged that her days as first lady were over, but she refused to talk about her accomplishments in the role....

Because there were none.

Earlier, Trierweiler spent the day cuddling children in a public hospital in Mumbai.

The former first lady arrived in Mumbai on Sunday evening on a long-planned trip that has provided her with an escape from the scandal.

She has been a subject of intense media interest after being hospitalized earlier this month with what aides described as shock and the blues after a tabloid’s publication of photos it said proved Hollande was having an affair with an actress.

Why was she shocked when that is how he met her?

On Saturday, Hollande announced their seven-year relationship was over....

Trierweiler, a career journalist who has three children from a previous marriage, said it was agonizing to see children suffer....

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"No regrets for former French first lady" by Angela Charlton |  Associated Press, January 31, 2014

PARIS — ‘‘Je ne regrette rien.’’ (“I don’t regret a thing.”)

I regret wasting time on this.

That’s what France’s former first lady, Valerie Trierweiler, told the weekly Paris-Match amid the drama of being dumped by French President Francois Hollande for a younger actress.

Trierweiler and Hollande seem to be keeping things civilized, though. Since the president announced their split over the weekend, they have apparently continued to talk and text.

Trierweiler, speaking to journalists on a trip to India this week, described for the first time some of what led to their breakup. She seemed to be trying to smooth over her reputation and win sympathy from the French, who have seen her as aloof and manipulative.

Really?

Trierweiler blamed the deterioration in their relationship on Hollande’s ascent to the presidency, the country’s macho political culture, and the shock of learning about his affair with French actress Julie Gayet.

She is so naive!

Trierweiler told Paris-Match, where she long worked as a journalist, that she didn’t believe rumors about the affair until the gossip magazine Closer reported it earlier this month.

Then she believed it?

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There are other things that are not so funny in France; however, they are not rating the same attention as the presidential sex scandal. Seems familiar to me in a Clinton kind of way.