Live video feed into the riots in Paris. Macron has fought a good fight in his attempts at further EU unification through EU wide deposit insurance schemes and a national army. Unfortunately, the construct of the EMU is doomed to eventually fail.https://t.co/m7MVAB8P8k
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A popular running event in Paris has been canceled due to thousands of migrants establishing a sprawling encampment on the race route.
The annual ‘Grand Paris’ 10 kilometer run drew over 6,500 attendees last year, but has been called off over safety concerns, in deference to illegal immigrants who have been allowed to commandeer the banks of Canal Saint-Denis, a key stretch of the race.
“The Great Paris Grand Race is a race for sporting values, but also ecological, solidarity and humanistic,” organizers wrote in an official statement. “Today, more than 1,800 refugees from various backgrounds have settled under the bridges along the Saint-Denis Canal, taken by our route.”
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Guest Post by Eric Peters
In Washington, President Trump announced that environmental regulations are “out of control” – and promised to get them back under control.
In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo (which sounds about as French as fries) has issued a fatwa banning diesel-powered cars built before model year 2001 – and is hoping to ban them all the way through model year 2005.
That’s 32 million cars (14 percent of the vehicle fleet) rendered economically obsolete by legislative edict. Imagine if you owned one of those 32 million. Your car now worthless to you.
American media has been noticeably silent about the Molotov cocktail firebombing of a bus in Paris last week by a large gang which yelled “Allah Akbar.’
The attack happened just after midnight on July 28 in the Paris neighborhood of Saint-Denis. Video shows a roadblock stopping the bus in the street and then a group of young males proceeding to throw Molotov cocktails into the city bus. The bus bursts into flames and burns down into a metal hull.
French publication Figaro reported that gang members told the bus driver and five passengers to get out of the bus before they threw the Molotov cocktails. The mayor of the district called it an “act of vandalism.” Video from LiveLeak shows the attackers yelling “Allah Akbar.”
While the incident happened last week, no publications outside of France reported on the attack until Wednesday.
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The Paris neighborhood of Saint-Denis is one of the city’s poorer areas and has a large North African population.
Submitted by Francis Marion
Letter by Scott Wilcox, Cold Lake Alberta
“An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada”
Prologue:
This is a little long, but very accurate and truthful, something we are not
getting from our Politicians and Media. I can vouch for the details on
screening as articulated very well by this gentleman.
•Ed. Rockburne, Retired member of the RCMP and Canadian Security and
Intelligence Service, of 25 years.
November 16, 2015
To the Honorable Justin Trudeau, Members of Parliament, and Provincial
Premiers:
Will We Learn Nothing From Paris?
I am a proud Canadian, and proud of our heritage of being a true global
leader in Humanitarian efforts. Given the events of recent years and
more importantly the recent week, however, I believe prudence requires
a pause in our assistance package for Syrian refugees, and indeed all
refugees and asylum seekers. I say this not in a tone of political
partisanship, but one of Citizenship. Any Parliament, be it Liberal,
Conservative, or NDP has as its first mandate the protection of our
country and its citizens. This must take precedence over all other
considerations and activities.
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What does one do, go to or refuse a party after a tragic event such as the recent Paris outrage? My son happens to live next to the Place de la République, where the massacre of innocents by those nice Islamists showing off their manhood took place. He was having dinner with his two little children when the shooting started. Luckily they’re all okay, but I spent a couple of terrible hours trying to get through after the news came over the TV screens. The next evening in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum, the Costume Institute was celebrating “The Art of Style” with a black-tie dinner honoring Jacqueline de Ribes, the international style icon whose dresses are being exhibited at the museum.
I was of two minds, then decency prevailed and the whole thing was called off. It would have been pretty ridiculous. Hundreds of dead and wounded in Paris, and us fat cats dressed to the nines celebrating a Parisian lady who has dressed well for most of her 86 years. Consumerist lust: 0, good sense: 1. It also saved me from a hangover, as I loathe fashion and fashionistas, and alcohol is the only antidote to the dreaded latter.
Just before the massacre of innocents, Curt Schilling, an American sports announcer and analyst, was suspended by ESPN for equating Muhammadans with World War II Nazis. It seems that mass murderers acting on their god’s orders should not be slandered as Nazis, who acted on their führer’s dictates. Go figure! Nor, according to effete hacks of the lefty persuasion, should Donald Trump be closing mosques that preach hate against us, nor should Muslims that do likewise be registered.
The usual holiday cheer that underpins the throngs of shoppers may be missing this season. Political pundits are eager to blame potential terrorist risks as a compelling reason to avoid the crowds at malls, but knowing the sentiments of the consumer culture, it is difficult to accept that retail businesses will be empty. Nevertheless, will the economy incentivize the bargain hunters to brave the added security obstacles to storm the doors for the reward of super discount pricing?
The expected immediate shock in France is understandable. Xmas sales plummet, Champs-Elysees empty in edgy post-attack Paris, indicates that upscale customers respond predictably.
“Department stores half-empty when they should be packed and a Christmas market on the prestigious Champs-Elysees avenue where vendors outnumber the visitors — the attacks on Paris are having a profound effect on retail business.”
Notwithstanding, Forbes makes an obvious point in the column, The Paris Attacks And The Economic Impact Of Terrorism.
“Consider the fragility of both European economies and the institutions underpinning the European Union. The euro zone grew by a meager 0.3% in the third quarter, well below expectations. And last week’s attacks may do some real damage to current spending, keeping shoppers away from crowded retail parks in the lead-up to the busiest month of the year.”
Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
If the purpose of terrorism is to terrify, the Islamic State had an extraordinary week. Brussels, capital of the EU and command post of mighty NATO, is still in panic and lockdown.
“In Brussels, fear of attack lingers” was Monday’s headline over The Washington Post’s top story, which read:
“Not since Boston came to a near-standstill after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 has the life of a major Western city been brought to a halt this way by the fear of terrorism.”
Below that is this headline: “After Paris, a campaign changed by fear.”
That story is about what’s happened in our presidential race: “Across the country … have come pronouncements of anger and fear not seen after the terrorist attacks in London and Madrid — or even in some ways after Sept. 11 2001.”
Voters speak of “feeling more afraid of the Islamic State, more horrified by the imagery of the beheadings and other atrocities.”
The New York Times’ Roger Cohen describes the Paris he loves.
“[T]hey are shaken. There is a void in the streets too empty, a new suspicion in appraising glances, a wary numbness. Paris is afflicted with absences — the dead, of course; visitors frightened away; minds frozen by fear; and tranquility lost. The city feels vulnerable.”
“I think France is attacked above all for what it is,” writes Cohen, “That in turn is terrifying. … I don’t think Paris has ever felt so precious or precarious to me as it did over the past week.”
Terrible as the massacres were, some perspective is in order.
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The Paris attack is playing out as I expected. The French government is attacking French civil liberty with legislation similar to the US PATRIOT Act. http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151117/1030277245/paris-massacre-france-orwellian-police-state-us-patriot-act.html
Readers in France have informed me that 84% of the French people, according to a poll, are content to be spied upon as long as it keeps them safe. This means that only 16% of the French nation is not brain dead.
Another reader informs me that a TV news station read a letter left behind by one of the alleged ISIL bombers, a letter written in perfect English. Really! I mean, Really! Those with their secret agendas know how stupid the Western peoples are, collectively a hopeless basket case.
French and Amerian politicians are demanding that NATO Article 5 be used to put NATO boots on the ground in Syria. This is important not in order to fight ISIL, which the Russians are successfully doing, but to overthrow Assad under the pretext of fighting ISIL, a crazy policy that could bring conflict with Russia. http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151118/1030346363/us-nato-paris-attack-war-against-isil-syria.html
Alternatively, to avoid conflict with Russia, Washington can take advantage of the Russian government’s hope that the Paris attack will show the West that Putin was correct that the West should join Russia in opposing ISIL. Once a NATO-Russian coalition, as advocated by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, is formed, Putin becomes the West’s captive in the overthrow of Assad. http://sputniknews.com/world/20151118/1030346645/isil-paris-attacks-coalition-pm.html
Hat tip Francis Marion
I’m reporting from the makeshift memorial near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where almost 100 people were killed by Muslim terrorists on November 13.
(LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING:)
Not enough people are pointing out that this Jewish owned theatre had been the target of anti-Israel BDS protests for years.
I’ve said before that this was also an attack on hipsters. The Bataclan is in the city’s equivalent of Brooklyn. I think the terrorists were hoping to provoke the city’s young professionals into become right wingers, but as we’ve seen, Paris didn’t take the bait.
The people Ezra and I spoke to are too encumbered with capitulation. They blame terrorism on America and the Jews, to the point where ISIS is getting annoyed that Islam isn’t getting credit!
This trip has been depressing, because no one here is angry. They certainly aren’t talking about — God forbid — letting people arm themselves.
It’s time for irrational hatred.
It’s time for vehement patriotism.
This city needs a slap in the face.
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How convenient these attacks came along to distract the American public from the economic recession that has overtaken the land. Obamacare is a fiscal disaster. The Fed has destroyed the free market. Global corporations based in the US are seeing their profits crushed by the strong dollar, so their solution is to fire more Americans and move their jobs to the Far East. The implosion of oil prices because of the global recession is destroying the shale and tar sands industry in North America. It’s a slow motion train wreck, with actual oil train wrecks happening every other week. We are on the verge of an economic dislocation, with stock, bond and real estate bubbles all popping simultaneously. So what does the government need? Another international terrorist threat. Nothing like phantom terrorists to strike fear into the hearts of the ignorant masses and distract them from their ongoing economic decline.
This entire episode has put me in a foul mood. The propaganda, misinformation, lies, nationalistic fervor, and shallow displays of support and grief for the victims is almost unbearable to witness without throwing up in my mouth. The vacuous analysis by faux journalists, just repeating talking points from the government, proves the dying legacy media is nothing more than infotainment attempting to maximize ratings and advertising revenue. Where is reality based information based upon the known facts?
The almost desperate attempt to link these attacks to Syria really makes you wonder about the motives of our governmental officials. I have a number of questions and comments about this entire episode:
I’m not persuaded that world opinion will ever “make sense” of the Paris attacks. The non-linear rules the day. So-called Fourth Generation Warfare works because there are so many small arms loose in the world and any band of maniacs with a few machine guns and a pound of Semtex plastic explosive can create the equivalent of a war zone in a given locality.
As for the French military, the obvious first move was to bomb the ISIS “stronghold” of Raqqa. But haven’t the US and Russian air forces been doing exactly that for some time now? Either they’ve already bombed the place and everything in it to gravel, or air power is not what it’s cracked up to be — and we have plenty of reason to believe the latter after a decade of selectively pounding jihadists from Afgahnistan to Libya with nothing to show for it except a refugee crisis.
One thing seems assured: hard-line governments are coming soon. Politically, the West had boundary problems that go way beyond the question of national borders to the core psychology of modern liberalism. When is enough of anything enough? And then, what are you really willing to do about it? The answer lately among the Western societies is to do little and do it slowly.
The behavior of college administrators and faculties in the USA these days is emblematic of this cowardly dithering. Intellectual despotism reigns on campus and the university presidents roll over like possums. They don’t have the moral strength to defend free speech as the campus witch-hunts ramp up. The result will be first the intellectual death of their institutions (brain death), and then the actual death of college per se as a plausible route to personal socioeconomic development. The financial racketeering that has infected higher education — the engineering of the gargantuan college loan scam in tandem with the multiplication of “diversity” deanships and tuition inflation — pretty much guarantees an implosion of that system.
The horrific attacks in Paris on Friday have, predictably, led to much over-reaction and demands that we do more of the exact things that radicalize people and make them want to attack us. The French military wasted no time bombing Syria in retaliation for the attacks, though it is not known where exactly the attackers were from. Thousands of ISIS fighters in Syria are not Syrian, but came to Syria to overthrow the Assad government from a number of foreign countries — including from France and the US.
Ironically, the overthrow of Assad has also been the goal of both the US and France since at least 2011.
Because the US and its allies are essentially on the same side as ISIS and other groups – seeking the overthrow of Assad – many of the weapons they have sent to the more “moderate” factions also seeking Assad’s ouster have ended up in the hands of radicals. Moderate groups have joined more radical factions over and over, taking their US-provided training and weapons with them. Other moderate groups have been captured or killed, their US-provided weapons also going to the radicals. Thus the more radical factions have become better equipped and better trained, while occasionally being attacked by US or allied planes.