Today, on the DrudgeReport, I found a true delight to me entitled: France at 'risk of revolution'...
To my loyal coterie of subscribing readers, I put out an alert regarding it. Here it is unexpurgated, for your doubtless mere amusement.
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Subject: "There is a risk of revolution, . . ." - Dominique de Villepin
“There is a risk of revolution,� Dominique de Villepin, the former prime minister, said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 150447.ece
Yes!
Indeed!
The French government FEARS it's Citoyens, as well it should!
The guillotine collection is most easily placed BACK into operation; civil servants there DO take note! (But, in this the French variety really do not need my goading, do they?)
Far better that than the opposite, which suicidal malaise we do suffer here, in the US, and this practically from since the time of the killing-off of the Old Confederacy of the Articles, as done by the Constitution - "that rag!" - born in sin and secret!
(A pseudo-royalty replaced it here, in the form of Hamilton and his Federalists and mercantilist class of puffery and arrogance, one solely based upon monetary gain alone. Their current representatives now being personified corporations and banks! Do we LIKE IT? Really?)
AND NOW LOOK - the People have been rendered SO STUPEFIED and DEPENDENT upon the swilly mess slopped, that we don't even know that we are being swindled into debt slavery for generations to come, it all done by "our" own controlling apparatus called "government", at the behest of those 'pseudos'. (The rule in Hell also is called "government", of-a-sort! Would we like that??? Well, if-so, THEN DO NOTHING, for we shall surely have it. In-fact, it's beginning is well underway!)
"Just don't bother me!", is the popular mantra merrily adhered-to by us, and this very much as-taught. (The end phase of mindless Consumerism and "me", "me", "me" believed endlessly to madness!)
Does such a people, as we have become, really and truly deserve to NOT end up in chains?!
You all can easily guess my answer.
'Not so", it would be regarding the French. On-the-contrary; it is greatly respectable, I assert with force!
James
PS In the fine article as linked above, compliments The Times, at far below there, they leave their readers with a handy historical reminder.
As it regards the English and we Americans, many such steps of greatest utility we have both missed!
History of revolt
— The revolutionary movement that shook France between 1789 and 1799 rejected the social and economic inequalities of the ancien régime, overthrew the Government and abolished the monarchy
— Popular revolt in 1848 led to the creation of the Second Republic and established the principle of the right to work
— In 1920, strikes on the railways forced the Army to drive trains to get food around the country
— The de Gaulle administration's deployment of police against student rioters in 1968 provoked a widespread revolt, ending in widescale reform of the education system
— In 2005, rioting among poor African and Arab immigrant communities prompted the Government to impose a three-month state of emergency
— In 2006, students nationwide protested against an attempt to make it easier for French companies to sack employees under the age of 26. The law was withdrawn
— “Bossnapping� has become a popular technique in French labour disputes. Striking workers take their bosses hostage until they agree to demands
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re: “There is a risk of revolution,� - Dominique de Villepin
My little effort above was read by various, but commented-upon by none.
(James, James, James! Do remember that "Out of sight is out of mind" for very many of the teeming mortified. As it is, reality is a dreadful threat best ignored 'till the victim is seized by the throat and chewn-away at, and then they will consider action. Evidence in-support of this is findable in every corner of history. It is their way, and is their weakness in bliss.)
Yes, just as the very mystical "Ye DARE sayeth the words, and their like SHALL SURELY come-to-pass!"
Well, with all that as it may be, hard on the heels of the original offering, now comes this reinforcement, compliments The Guardian:
France: May Day warning
Editorial The Guardian, Saturday 2 May 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... mic-crisis
When the former prime minister Dominique de Villepin warned that there was a risk of revolution in France, it was not just because he wanted to make life difficult for his arch-rival Nicolas Sarkozy. It was also because social unrest is genuinely on the rise. Yesterday thousands of protesters took to the streets - not as many as the millions who protested in March, but this was a respectable turnout, considering that it was the third national protest at the government's handling of the global downturn in four months.
They are not just marching: universities have ground to a halt for three months over attempts to rewrite the terms of employment contracts for lecturers. There has been a wave of "bossnappings", where chief executives arriving at plants to announce layoffs found themselves barred from leaving. There have been commando-style "picnics" in supermarkets, where people feast from shelves shouting "we will not pay for your crisis". The protests are local and apparently spontaneous. Union officials find themselves not so much leading the action as trying to head it off. In five out of seven cases, bossnapping was used against foreign-owned companies (Sony, Caterpillar, 3M) which are reputed to be more cavalier about laying off workers than their French counterparts. Nor are strikes mere stunts. They represent a widespread feeling that if the president can pay billions to preserve the boss class, and their shares, he should do the same to protect workers. Popular outrage at the banking bailout may be similiar around the world, but it finds different forms of expression. Barack Obama may have told AIG bosses that the White House was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks. But in France the feeling is that the pitchforks are not just metaphorical.
International comparisons are deceptive, but on paper there is no glaring reason why the outrage in France should be so much more acute. The public deficit is high, but little more than half of Britain's. Nor is unemployment so much higher, although it is climbing faster. France entered the global turndown later than Britain, and fewer banks were in trouble. Social protection, although under attack, is still substantially more generous than in Britain.
The big picture, however, masks structural problems. France has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment in the developed world, with about one quarter of its 2.5 million unemployed under the age of 25. The truth is that no government in Europe has the luxury of treating French, German or Greek social unrest as a spectator sport. The breakdown in the social compact, the gulf between promise and delivery, should concern everyone.
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Oh yes! Do let joy be mine! Below are a few most delicious comments accompanying, done by some Englishmen rather well steeped in reality's boiling cauldron (there would seem to be some hope, at least):
chegavara
02 May 09, 12:15am
If you think France is angry
Watch England
the new revolution is about to explode
And here:
TomRainsborough
02 May 09, 12:31am
The French have always had the knack of terrorising their 'betters' to good effect.
We could learn a lot from them.
YES! We could, couldn't we? Just as I was saying, but, head-bone does often come diamond coating protected! (White-bearded Capricorns, anyone???)
James
(James, James, James! Do remember that "Out of sight is out of mind" for very many of the teeming mortified. As it is, reality is a dreadful threat best ignored 'till the victim is seized by the throat and chewn-away at, and then they will consider action. Evidence in-support of this is findable in every corner of history. It is their way, and is their weakness in bliss.)
Yes, just as the very mystical "Ye DARE sayeth the words, and their like SHALL SURELY come-to-pass!"
Well, with all that as it may be, hard on the heels of the original offering, now comes this reinforcement, compliments The Guardian:
France: May Day warning
Editorial The Guardian, Saturday 2 May 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... mic-crisis
When the former prime minister Dominique de Villepin warned that there was a risk of revolution in France, it was not just because he wanted to make life difficult for his arch-rival Nicolas Sarkozy. It was also because social unrest is genuinely on the rise. Yesterday thousands of protesters took to the streets - not as many as the millions who protested in March, but this was a respectable turnout, considering that it was the third national protest at the government's handling of the global downturn in four months.
They are not just marching: universities have ground to a halt for three months over attempts to rewrite the terms of employment contracts for lecturers. There has been a wave of "bossnappings", where chief executives arriving at plants to announce layoffs found themselves barred from leaving. There have been commando-style "picnics" in supermarkets, where people feast from shelves shouting "we will not pay for your crisis". The protests are local and apparently spontaneous. Union officials find themselves not so much leading the action as trying to head it off. In five out of seven cases, bossnapping was used against foreign-owned companies (Sony, Caterpillar, 3M) which are reputed to be more cavalier about laying off workers than their French counterparts. Nor are strikes mere stunts. They represent a widespread feeling that if the president can pay billions to preserve the boss class, and their shares, he should do the same to protect workers. Popular outrage at the banking bailout may be similiar around the world, but it finds different forms of expression. Barack Obama may have told AIG bosses that the White House was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks. But in France the feeling is that the pitchforks are not just metaphorical.
International comparisons are deceptive, but on paper there is no glaring reason why the outrage in France should be so much more acute. The public deficit is high, but little more than half of Britain's. Nor is unemployment so much higher, although it is climbing faster. France entered the global turndown later than Britain, and fewer banks were in trouble. Social protection, although under attack, is still substantially more generous than in Britain.
The big picture, however, masks structural problems. France has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment in the developed world, with about one quarter of its 2.5 million unemployed under the age of 25. The truth is that no government in Europe has the luxury of treating French, German or Greek social unrest as a spectator sport. The breakdown in the social compact, the gulf between promise and delivery, should concern everyone.
-END-
Oh yes! Do let joy be mine! Below are a few most delicious comments accompanying, done by some Englishmen rather well steeped in reality's boiling cauldron (there would seem to be some hope, at least):
chegavara
02 May 09, 12:15am
If you think France is angry
Watch England
the new revolution is about to explode
And here:
TomRainsborough
02 May 09, 12:31am
The French have always had the knack of terrorising their 'betters' to good effect.
We could learn a lot from them.
YES! We could, couldn't we? Just as I was saying, but, head-bone does often come diamond coating protected! (White-bearded Capricorns, anyone???)
James
Cynic-In-Chief, BesslerWheel (Ret.); Perpetualist First-Class; Iconoclast. "The Iconoclast, like the other mills of God, grinds slowly, but it grinds exceedingly small." - Brann
re: “There is a risk of revolution,� - Dominique de Villepin
Is it apathy or a sense of helplessness that we feel ?My little effort above was read by various, but commented-upon by none.
Maybe we're not angry enough ...............Yet.
I don't know what the outcome will be. This is a troubled world that we all live in but it always has been that way.
Humanity is the problem James , always has been, always will.
The majority of humanknd are just part of the "masses" . Power and control is the realm of a priviledged few.
The odds would seem to favour the masses just by their numbers , but then what ,anarchy?
I find this quite depressing
Graham
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re: “There is a risk of revolution,� - Dominique de Villepin
Hello Graham,
Thanks for being there with something to say.
About this subject most are wary of even being known to have thought, such is the chilling effect of the congressional act made against the advocating for that now unmentionable, last-resort-mode of self-protection, from tyranny unbound. (The condition we endure presently.)
The perrenial "they" do wish that we could just forget all about it. As I have observed to my great horror, most have, and many knowingly. (You know, as in ". . . don't bother me, I am too busy nibbling at the edges of important things!")
Just as it was with the twisted, autocratic "Alien and Sedition" acts of Adams' , the passage of the Advocacy Prohibition was (and is) TREASON-ABSOLUTE to the immutable principles of the Declaration.
These come FIRST distanced from all else, then the rest, third in importance by comparison and standing as good ONLY IF they are in conformance. If not, they too become treasonous, as well!
(I've found out by inquiry, that most do believe that July 4 is somehow about the Constitution and their vaunted rights that somehow flow therefrom. That is the general opinion of too many. It is the result of a mind-melding educational system, operated by a general government to the purpose of it's ever-contnuance as a living, insane 'entity', and not to ours in ANY WAY except as host to a parasite. Do we like it? Many do.)
Patrick Henry sniffed-out the rotting rat that was called a Constitution immediately, and said a few fine words conforming, for his posterity and our history.
The mercantilist, gentleman/wild animal in livery - Hamilton - they put front-and-center on the ten for us to have to look at, for a century now. The World Dictator would strip his ugly face right off the paper and ink fakery in banishment, and of course, replace it with that of Henry's after precious metal backing had been ordered and done. (The central bankers cannot manufacture precious metals.)
Also, the wildly imagined WD would order a special gold medal to be produced for one v.p., Aaron Burr, who shot the treasonous Hamilton's rear good and gone.
Even though happening twenty years or so too late, better later than never. Who knows what additional hell he might have caused, had he lived further.
If Burr's noble action had been more timely than otherwise, we might now not be suffering his central bankers' calculated (as in many times before) cash and credit, SLOW strangulation to death.
The mercantilists want IT ALL, Graham, even to the point of killing-off us hosts. Their own demonstrations prove the insanity-innate in this creature's type. They are, in fact, the present personified corporations gone totally hubris, it's that simple.
If I were to be asked, I would advise to judge them by their fruits, and not by their perverted and perverting appeals to us to buy their products, 95% of which man and woman have NO RATIONAL need-of!
'Free enterprise' of A HUMAN DIMENSION, is NOT what be now enjoy though they do endeavor to sell it to us as that very thing! On the extreme contrary, actually.
Yes, a seizing of them by their chinies and gotten all strung-up on the gibets is not by any means a "whether", but rather, a far simpler "how soon?'!
You see, their fatal flaw is that they and their ways are known by ever-increasing numbers of millions who are not amused!
James
Thanks for being there with something to say.
About this subject most are wary of even being known to have thought, such is the chilling effect of the congressional act made against the advocating for that now unmentionable, last-resort-mode of self-protection, from tyranny unbound. (The condition we endure presently.)
The perrenial "they" do wish that we could just forget all about it. As I have observed to my great horror, most have, and many knowingly. (You know, as in ". . . don't bother me, I am too busy nibbling at the edges of important things!")
Just as it was with the twisted, autocratic "Alien and Sedition" acts of Adams' , the passage of the Advocacy Prohibition was (and is) TREASON-ABSOLUTE to the immutable principles of the Declaration.
These come FIRST distanced from all else, then the rest, third in importance by comparison and standing as good ONLY IF they are in conformance. If not, they too become treasonous, as well!
(I've found out by inquiry, that most do believe that July 4 is somehow about the Constitution and their vaunted rights that somehow flow therefrom. That is the general opinion of too many. It is the result of a mind-melding educational system, operated by a general government to the purpose of it's ever-contnuance as a living, insane 'entity', and not to ours in ANY WAY except as host to a parasite. Do we like it? Many do.)
Patrick Henry sniffed-out the rotting rat that was called a Constitution immediately, and said a few fine words conforming, for his posterity and our history.
The mercantilist, gentleman/wild animal in livery - Hamilton - they put front-and-center on the ten for us to have to look at, for a century now. The World Dictator would strip his ugly face right off the paper and ink fakery in banishment, and of course, replace it with that of Henry's after precious metal backing had been ordered and done. (The central bankers cannot manufacture precious metals.)
Also, the wildly imagined WD would order a special gold medal to be produced for one v.p., Aaron Burr, who shot the treasonous Hamilton's rear good and gone.
Even though happening twenty years or so too late, better later than never. Who knows what additional hell he might have caused, had he lived further.
If Burr's noble action had been more timely than otherwise, we might now not be suffering his central bankers' calculated (as in many times before) cash and credit, SLOW strangulation to death.
The mercantilists want IT ALL, Graham, even to the point of killing-off us hosts. Their own demonstrations prove the insanity-innate in this creature's type. They are, in fact, the present personified corporations gone totally hubris, it's that simple.
If I were to be asked, I would advise to judge them by their fruits, and not by their perverted and perverting appeals to us to buy their products, 95% of which man and woman have NO RATIONAL need-of!
'Free enterprise' of A HUMAN DIMENSION, is NOT what be now enjoy though they do endeavor to sell it to us as that very thing! On the extreme contrary, actually.
Yes, a seizing of them by their chinies and gotten all strung-up on the gibets is not by any means a "whether", but rather, a far simpler "how soon?'!
You see, their fatal flaw is that they and their ways are known by ever-increasing numbers of millions who are not amused!
James
Cynic-In-Chief, BesslerWheel (Ret.); Perpetualist First-Class; Iconoclast. "The Iconoclast, like the other mills of God, grinds slowly, but it grinds exceedingly small." - Brann