Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
We have an amazing number of readers in France, and I want to thank everyone for all the emails documenting what is going on. Anyone who takes videos of protests in the future I have no problem sharing them for the world to see.
The details of what moves people to revolution are important. During the summer of 1789, Paris was in a crisis. The people had been suffering from food shortages and the high taxes used to pay King Louis XVI’s vast debts because of his fiscal mismanagement the treasury was empty at the end of 1788. The French found themselves in the middle of unprecedented political turmoil which erupted with the opening of the Estates General, France’s Parliament, for the first time in more than one hundred years.
Many Parisians were also angered by the dismissal of the popular minister Jacques Necker on July 11th. Like Pelosi surrounding the capitol with troops, from the beginning of June 1789, Louis XVI had also positioned troops around Paris also claiming risk of extremists.
The militarization of Paris provoked a march to the Hôtel des Invalides, where the people also looted approximately 3,000 firearms and five canons. Instead of clothes and trinkets, they looted weapons. However, the weapons required gunpowder, which was stored in the Bastille. They then headed to the Bastille prison and tried to negotiate with its governor. That being unsuccessful, they burst into an outer courtyard and a battle erupted.
By the time it was over, the people of Paris had freed the prisoners held in the Bastille because they were simply there, and they had taken the governor hostage along with three of his officers. But the hostages were soon be killed and then beheaded. Their heads were paraded through the streets on pikes. Since the storming of the Bastille was to simply get gunpowder, the people were effectively unarmed and nearly one hundred died but only eight prison guards were killed.
All of this happened on July 14, 1789 (1789.53) which has been known in France as “Bastille Day” ever since. Once Louis XVI heard that the Bastille had fallen, he asked the duke de La Rochefoucauld: “So, is there a rebellion?” To which the duke retorted: “No, Sire, a revolution!”
Storming the Bastille became the beginning of the French Revolution when it was not intended as such. Yet, it has become an iconic moment in history. This was the spark that ignited the revolution forcing the King to begin concessions. That was the sign of weakness which then inspired the people’s movement to overthrow him that led to beheading both him and his wife in the hope of burying monarchy forever following the inspiration of the American Revolution nearly precisely 13 years before.
In 1880, the French made the Storming of the Bastille their national holiday. Unfortunately, France entered a century of revolutions (1789-1871) and numerous new republics after Napoleon.
Nevertheless, the two main issues that led to the revolution were (1) high taxes, and (2) food shortages which inspired the claim that Marie Antonette said: “Let them eat cake” which was the crust in the pan after baking bread.
Our models on France target 2021.73 which will be September 23/24. In 1895 on this day, that is when the French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) was formed. In 1920 on this same day, that is when Alexander Millerand was elected president of France. Then on this day in 1941, General de Gaulle formed his government in exile in London.
There is a risk that we will have a real version of The Hunger Games as Biden pays farmers not to grow food which seems to be the reason Gates became the largest farmland owner in the USA – to stop food production?
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I started figuring that out long time ago, way before the whole pLandemic came out.
Once I found the speech JFK gave I was sure of it.
PS: I was only 12 when he was killed and found out about this speech in the mid 80’s.
Prophetic, same cabal that axed him………GWB included……
I remember when Hunger Games first came out, it felt like predictive programming. Does not help that the author lives in Sandy Hook, CT. All the world is a stage.
The cost of the important things in life for most people leaves no money left for anything else unless you use credit…and that’s the best case scenario.
We have have come to the end result of that situation. I am constantly amazed why things are not worse but I think that is changing as we speak.
A “Revolution” will never happen. Yes there will be armed resistance…a lot of guns owned by a lot of outraged people.
People that are hungry fight, people that are starving won’t do much of anything.
We already had a Revolution … albeit a small one …. on Jan. 6th.
I don’t see why we can’t have another one.
6 Jan was merely an unscheduled tour of the U.S. Capitol building.
A real revolution would have had, minimum, 535 formerly occupied seats in two chambers to fill that very day.
I guess I should have closed with /s
I imagine fatass Milley worries about how his Rainbow Military will hold up if the one million protesters come back with guns.
Do most Americans feel hopeless? If so, there won’t be a revolution according to this ….
But, then again, Emerson said — “”Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.” And since thoughts of Revolution are seemingly now in the minds of millions, well ….. why not?
Then again, be careful what you wish for! Shaw wrote …. “Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.” IOW, the shit we get may be worse than the shit we have. Your “victory” may just result in a new master!
I am an immigrant citizen of the American dream … now living the American nightmare. A Revolution only needs dreamers who remember their dreams.
Are you talking about the “George Bernard Shaw” who endorsed “dictatorship” while at the same time denouncing the “Fabians” (which were those who proposed communism)
“until the Federation of the World becomes an accomplished fact we must accept the most responsible Imperial federations available as a substitute for it”
No wonder he didn’t like revolution.
And I’m no dreamer, my dream never took me at 70 in a world of chaos destruction and despair. But I’m ready to fight if it comes to it.
Yup, that Shaw.
Regardless of what one thinks of him, his foibles and his warts, he is absolutely correct.
The animals in Animal Farm deposed of their tyrant owner. They established a nation of their own. It wasn’t long before the more intelligent of the animals tasted the lure and addiction of power. They turned out to become the tyrants they once abolished! When has a revolution / rebellion ever resulted in a permanent place of peace and bliss? Never.
Tyranny, of various degrees from mild to viciously cruel, seems to be part and parcel of human existence. Why? Because the core of Human Nature is selfish and only seeks the good of oneself. Is that even in question?
One tyrant steps down, either voluntarily or by force, and another simply rises up from the masses.
This shifting of power is a repeating pattern in human history. It is always the psychopaths and humans with desires of power and glory who emerge (with the support of he people), then rise to glory (with the support of he people) , then rule and eventually shit on the selfsame people whom they needed in the beginning (with many promises of ‘it will be different this time!).
I don’t expect the next American revolution — if there is one — to be any different in the long run.
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Actually, it wasn’t me who came to these shores with an American Dream in mind. I was 4 years old. It was my parents who came here believing in he American Dream. They passed those thoughts on to me.
Do you really think the Founding fathers who were the most intelligent in the farm choose tyranny? I don’t recall the Constitution mentioning ruling over the average man (or maybe I missed something).
Shaw most likely choose to pattern because he was somehow a psycho (I don’t know much about him, his tyrannical leanings were a turn off for me, I prefer the writings of a Thomas Paine, a Henry David Thoreau, a John Locke, an Etienne de la Boetie).
Your parents did great. I envy you.
No, sir, I don’t. There are exceptions to every “rule”. It is pretty well established that what is sometimes called the “American Experiment” is pretty damned unique and exceptional in all of human history.
No, the Founding Fathers did not choose tyranny! But …. but …… here we are, in 2021.
What I was trying to say Mr Stuckmeister, is that every once in while, someone will show as an intelligent honest person. It’s up to us to be like that.
I understand your point, Georges, and agree.
John Dingleberry has been in CONgress for 59 years. Pelosi since 1787. Over 150 of these creepy fuckers have been there for 36+ YEARS!
What’s the stat? Something like 95% of incumbents get re-elected, no matter how shitty or corrupt they are?
Getting an intelligent honest person into a position of leadership seems like a Herculean task.
It happen before, it could be happening in France (check Eric Zemmour) and it could happen almost anywhere.
Zemmour thanks to the Micron justice has been in court regularly for the past 10 years for being truthful and honest.
Even IF they manage to get “elected” unless they play the game they quickly become USELESS with zero power to institute any measurable change. The system is irrevocably BROKE and no “election” will fix the problem as long as the “incumbents” run the farm…….
I have this sneaking feeling that all the Covid shutdowns and draconian crackdowns are happening as a cover for a massive financial collapse. ‘the Great Reset’ can’t happen until there is a massive collapse, such that the people will welcome any and everything that will put an end to the horrors. Agenda 21 writ large.
The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext and a justification to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.
Why destroy economies? Why shut down certain businesses, churches, etc. while allowing for corporate giants like Walmart to remain open? Why kill off the middle class, the backbone of the country?
In the words of Diana Johnstone, it’s “The Global Pretext”. An unelected “public-private partnership” under the auspices of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has come to the rescue of Planet Earth’s 7.8 billion people. The closure of the global economy is presented as a means to “killing the virus”.
Remember David Rockefeller’s statement from 2011?
David Rockefeller:
“…The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” (quoted by Aspen Times, August 15, 2011, emphasis added)
Additionally:
The Global Governance scenario imposes an agenda of social engineering and economic compliance:
“It constitutes an extension of the neoliberal policy framework imposed on both developing and developed countries. It consists in scrapping “national auto-determination” and constructing a Worldwide nexus of pro-US proxy regimes controlled by a “supranational sovereignty” (World Government) composed of leading financial institutions, billionaires and their philanthropic foundations.”(See Michel Chossudovsky, Global Capitalism, “World Government” and the Corona Crisis, May 1, 2020).
But Trump had nothing to do with the list you gave. He didn’t start lockdowns or vaxxes or put conservative small businesses out of work or cause mass forclosures or install New York bankers and NWO henchmen in every opening he could. Nope, it was the Dems.
Trump was too busy replacing NAFTA with something worse and building 10 miles of wall so he didn’t have time to do all that other evil stuff.
If you want to bash Trump, have at it. Just keep posting anonymously when you do, anonymous comments are the most bestest. .
Tree of Liberty, Blood of Tyrants, no it cant last, hence this bit being forever applicable.
Hope is the ugly stepchild of faith.
He certainly is an Evil Cocksucker. But, he was an Evil Cocksucker who knew what he was doing.
Does America have 10 or 15 of Absolute Faith?
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“Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
Castro had the help of the Soviet Union and the CIA. He did know what he was doing and that was the will of the Deep State. He was a communist. We can assume that what he said in his quote was a lie. Batista pissed off the wrong people.
Getting Batista to flee to Europe, and to his million$, is of a different order of difficulty from taking on and defeating Mordor-on-the-Potomac.
The Soviet Union, CIA, and Mordor are all one unit with one goal. A Satanic world government.
And Castro supposedly has a Bastard son named Justin Trudeau ;who is carrying on his tyrannical edicts
Supposedly? If Justin Castreau looked anything more like Fidel, it would be hard to tell them apart.
Revolution in America? Um…no. People are still vacationing at Disney, National Parks, going to Europe. Kids are in summer camps. Parents are shopping for back-to-school clothes and school supplies. People are busy working. Americans aren’t hurting enough yet. I don’t see it anytime soon.
Things turn on a dime these days, Abi.
True, but I just think it’s going to take a lot more to push people that far. Not many have the stomach for this. Already, suicides are way up. And we’re just getting started.
When facing life and death situation, people get the stomach.
George…But who will they turn on in this situation? Will they understand who the enemy is? Or, will they lash out at those they perceive as the cause of all this?
I mean, if I’m one controlled by the narrative, then I’m pretty pissed off at all you non-vaxxers who shut down my business, who kept kids from getting an education, who are responsible for the increase in cases and deaths. WHO RUINED MY LIFE!
They may get the stomach for certain actions that perpetuates the crumbling of society…but revolution? I don’t see it.
Hope I’m wrong though.
This has happened before Abigail, just on a smaller scale. This is just one instance,
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Good example, Machinist. I’m persuadable on this topic. It’s just really hard to see after the year we’ve had. There is some bone-deep hatred for people like us.
The key is to keep our head on our shoulders. The maniacs are running on emotion (hatred TDS etc..) emotions were never good advisement
The hatred has been created by an all out, no holds barred 24/7 disinformation campaign. Listen to the dems and the alphabets ginning up hatred for white people, all white people whom they believe are Trump supporters and ‘bitter clingers’ and deplorable.
The biggest threat to America is White Supremacist Terrorists, thus says teh FBI, The DOJ, all the democrats and the Lugenpresse. If you haven’t figured out by now what the game plan is and who they’re going after then it’s time to buy a clue.
Remember all that stuff the Orange Faggot promised to do in 2016, that he spent the next four years not doing any of?
Good times.
Another anonymous post? Yawn.
Whoa, don’t disagree with some dusty old cunt, you orange derangement syndrome leftard.
Make Israel Great Again, amirite?
What kind of fucking loser kills himself instead of his tormenters?
Um…are you asleep?
Abbey- HR just realized there are morans in the world.
Not a child of Odin.
Or staring mindlessly at fagbook
Watched Divergent recently. In the movie, one faction was injected with a chemical that turned them into drones. They were controlled by the government and ordered to kill the divergents…those who could not be controlled. The book series and the movies are aimed at the Young Adult market, as is the Hunger Games, Maze Runner, and others.
I consider books/movies such as these to be classics as they take on the complexity of human nature. As popular as the dystopian genre is among young people, it amazes me that they still cannot recognize tyranny and have the courage to stand up.
Losing hope for our young people. Some have courage, but not enough for massive resistance. This will fall on their shoulders. Were they born for such a time as this? I tell them that, but now wondering if I’m just lying to them.
For the younger crowd to start moving they need an Alpha to show the way. Actually Stucky was right when he mentioned Castro. The man was evil but he beat the system. What he did with it is despicable.
He had charisma and was a great athlete. He managed to get a lot of people you would never think would be drawn to him to help like a young Robert K. Brown of Soldier of Fortune magazine , Special Forces etc. fame before he announced he was a Red.
I love that movie! The trilogy flopped at the box office though. It must have been only me watching it because of Theo James….
LOL, SL. Me too! I was ready to kick some serious ass after watching it.
Biden is paying farmers not to grow food? Since when? Is it a program that was started before him?
That system existed already during the 1st Bush admin and continued under the Clinton adm. Nothing new. Back in 1992 Queen Elisabeth of England was making more money not farming her 300 000 acres of farmland (don’t remember where) than farming.
GS, none of the Queen’s private estates are anywhere near that big. The biggest is the Duchy of Cornwall at 135,000 acres which is headed by Prince Charles. Sandringham in Norfolk and Balmoral in Scotland are both farmed, so not sure where you got your info from.
Think you may mean the Crown Estate which is about 260,000 acres and is made up of lots of smaller parcels of land across UK, some of which is farmed, and under the sea. She is the nominal owner as the current Monarch but the Estate is owned by The Crown which is not the same thing. She is effectively the titular head but doesn’t own privately.
I’m not talking about land in UK but US… perhaps you should read and re-read.
The Queen is not the same as The Crown. Most people conflate the two. Goes back to Henry VIII and the City of London Corporation. It is very complex and even if we had a revolution and got rid of our Monarchy, The Crown would continue. It’s the power behind the Throne. Think the Vatican and The Pope, it is a similar set up.
You are so dumb
I think Georges S meant,
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Seen that before. There are lots of spurious claims all over the net. The countries mentioned in the article are part of the Commonwealth. Not sure any Title Deeds are to be found anywhere to show she is the owner. AFAIK countries like Canada and US are owned by Corporations and I’m not talking standard trading entities. Won’t find anything listed at Companies House in London that’s for sure. It’s a different type of incorporation done under Maritime Law.
GNL, Iceage Farmer carried a story about a farmer who was offered 1.5 times the value of his food crop (based on last year’s receipts) not to plant it. US govt
made the offer-I don’t remember the agency.
They pay to not grow crops to keep the market from having too much of anything and the prices up.
FDR did the same thing, he had milk thrown in river pork and chicken slaughtered and covered in quicklime.
That’s been a thing for a long time. You can look at it as conservation or strategic soil reserves (I might or might not have just made that up) or whatever, and it almost makes sense. I certainly think it’s better than growing more food for china.
But in reality it’s gibs for big landowners.
Revolutions are rarely if ever organic and spontaneous. 1789 and the one being ginned up now are no exceptions any more than the badly misnamed American revolution.
Until we understand the source, we are just a combination of witting and unwitting actors in the last hurrah.
The misinformed tell the uninformed who become the illinformed.
Oh god, more models.
Based on what data? Verified via what means?
The best way to control the opposition will be to lead it themselves. That is why the FIB has almost a million people looking for anyone organizing anything.
Just read the insane shit GenZ Cuckservative writes. They’re trying to head off the real populist stuff by derailing it into something fake and gay that can’t go anywhere.
This was awesome:
Micron may not come back from the Polynesian Isles as he might be running scared shitless… He might fly to mamy Merkel
No.
A whimper, not a bang.
Bring on the guillotine! Fauci first!
No, the revolution is over with nary a shot fired. What you are observing is power consolidation at breakneck speed.
Yes indeed.
Would have been there myself but it was 400km away and I had work. Still protest every day in a way. No mask. No bullshit check in conditioning. Give the bastards nothing.