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SOTT Focus: Scapegoating Yellow Vests? Macron Moves to Outlaw Criticism of 'Zionism' as 'Anti-Semitism Wave' Hits France


The Local, France
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:30 UTC
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© AFP/Frederick FLORINMacron visits a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, desecrated just that morning, before attending the Paris Holocaust memorial in the afternoon, then joining the 'anti-anti-semitism' demo in Paris that evening
Swastikas and anti-Semitic tags were found daubed over 80 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France on Tuesday on the day of nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

The damage was discovered on Tuesday morning at a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany in the Alsace region, a statement from the regional security office said.

It's just the latest shocking incident of anti-Semitism in France.

According to authorities around 80 graves in total were vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti and swastika symbols.

Photos show the Nazi symbols in blue spray-painted on the damaged graves, one of which bears the words "Elsassisches Schwarzen Wolfe" ("Black Alsacian Wolves), a separatist group with links to neo-Nazis in the 1970s.


Comment: I.e. it's now defunct!


Comment: A fine line of BS.

The French media has been pumping out - day in, day out, in both regional and national outlets - the message that the Yellow Vest movement 'hates Jews' for over two solid months now. The French establishment - both its Franco-Français and Dual-Israeli branches - have gone full 'literally Hitler' on everyone.

Rounding off the theatrics yesterday was a demonstration in Paris called by France's main left-wing party (effectively a state-sponsored event, in other words), at which former presidents Sarkozy and Hollande joined Macron and other establishment figures to 'defend Jews' (but really to attack the Yellow Vests by implying that they are vile Jew-haters).


Today, Wednesday, Macron, the 'legitimate and democratically-elected' president of France, spoke at the above-mentioned CRIF, announcing that he will decree legislation to expand the definition of anti-Semitism to include criticism of Israel and Zionism...

In Hitler's Germany, it was illegal to criticize Nazism. In the USSR, it was illegal to criticize Communism. That's one of the hallmarks of totalitarianism. Today we are witnessing a bizarre variation of this in the West: it is soon going to be illegal to criticize Jews and the definition of what that means includes serious criticism of government, as in the Yellow Vest movement.

In Judaism, a scapegoat was a goat sent out of the city walls into the wilderness after the chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it. The French government wishfully thinks that it can symbolically cast out the 'sins of the people' (their insurrection) by conflating criticism of the government with contravention of 'The Law'.

They're completely unaware, of course, what the real effect of all this political choreography is on the 75-85% of the population that wants regime change: behind the words, what they're actually communicating to the non-elite classes is that "the conspiracy theory is factual - powerful Jews are your overlords."

What they're essentially doing then, inadvertently, is making a scapegoat of the Jews. The results are horrifyingly predictable.

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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - The Skinny on Skin Health


Sott.net
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:19 UTC
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How much do you really know about your skin? It may surprise you!

Skin is our interface with the outside world - it's the place where we're in constant physical contact with the environment that surrounds us. But we tend to take the health of the skin for granted. Skin problems are often regarded as cosmetic - 'surface level problems' - and we often think creams, lotions and topical medications are the best way of dealing with them.

However, the skin can be, and usually is, a reflection of what's going on inside the body. Problems with the liver and detoxification, an imbalance in the microbiome or any number of other imbalances can all be reflected in the state of the skin. This is why dealing with skin issues often requires going beyond 'Skin Deep'.

Join us for this episode of Objective:Health as we give the straight skinny on skin health - what your skin could be telling you, how to deal with skin issues and look your glowing best!

Also stay tuned for Pet Health with Zoya. This week she shares with us how to deal with a pet that excessively licks its paws.


Running Time: 01:20:12

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SOTT Focus: 'Hate-crime' Hoaxes Reflect America's Victimhood Culture Sickness

Andy Ngo
National Review
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:16 UTC
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© Danny Moloshok/ReutersJussie Smollett
There's an obvious answer to the question, "Why would Jussie Smollett do something like that?"

On January 29, tabloid news site TMZ broke the shocking story that Jussie Smollett, a gay black entertainer and progressive activist, had been viciously attacked in Chicago. Two racist white men had fractured his rib, poured bleach on him, and tied a noose around his neck. As they were leaving, they shouted the ominous words: "This is MAGA country" - a reference to President Trump's campaign slogan. MSNBC reported the rumor that they were even wearing MAGA hats.

Leaks from the Chicago police over the weekend, however, indicate that Smollett likely paid two Nigerian-American brothers he knew to orchestrate the attack. Smollett denied any wrongdoing through a statement released to the media by his lawyers.

That the original story broke days just after the Covington narrative fell apart last month didn't stop it from spreading quicker than a wildfire. Within hours of TMZ's report, some of America's most influential politicians and celebrities amplified the story - and the belief that America is a dangerous place for minorities - to millions across the world.
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SOTT Focus: The Long, Hard Road Back to Sanity: Escaping the Vegan Cult and the "Why I'm No Longer Vegan" Phenomenon

Doug DiPasquale
Sott.net
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:43 UTC
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A curious thing is happening of late across the interwebs, a social phenomenon as prolific as the cinnamon challenge - some people seem to be coming to their senses. Specifically I mean some vegans, and by coming to their senses, I mean they're leaving veganism. More and more video confessionals from both prominent and less-prominent vegan pundits are surfacing within the last year with the title, or some variation of, "Why I'm No Longer Vegan". It appears to be a growing trend as hundreds, possibly thousands of vegans, citing unresolvable health issues, return to eating animal products.

For the most part, the decisions being made to return to animal foods don't seem like easy ones. The videos are usually long, very humble and often heartbreaking, as these individuals confess their miracle diets don't seem to be providing the glowing health and abundance they're promised to. But it's not just that they're changing their diets. These videos have an apologetic air, confessing to the flock that they're no longer a believer, no longer drinking the Koolaid, leaving the compound to go back to the sadistic animal killing masses. Alas, the first step towards truth, rather than a blissful and cathartic moment, is often a difficult one, as reality hits you like a ton of bricks and the old coping mechanisms, like avoidance and denial, no longer provide the solace they once did.
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SOTT Focus: Maffick Media CEO, Host Slam Facebook's Unprovoked 'Censorship' After CNN Runs Hit-piece: 'End of Free Speech'


RT
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:26 UTC
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Facebook blocking several pages operated by Maffick Media is nothing short of outright censorship, the company's CEO Anissa Naouai said, after a US-funded think tank pointed them out to CNN for a 'hit-piece'.

The actions of the social media giant, which suspended the accounts of In the Now, Soapbox, Back Then and Waste-Ed last Friday without providing any explanation or even contacting the company that ran the pages, is nothing but a simple attempt to get rid of dissenting voices critical of Washington's policies, Naouai told RT.
"It is blatant censorship. What else can you call it?"
Unexplained ban

The ban came literally out of the blue even though Maffick did not violate any existing Facebook regulations. "There is no rule that you have to post anything about your funding or personal funding. No one does it, not any of the US-sponsored outlets," Naouai said. However, that was apparently the stated reason for the blocking as a Facebook spokesperson said the social media giant wanted the pages to become more transparent by disclosing their funding and "Russian affiliations."

Comment: Facebook has made its partisanship and its fealty clear: The silver lining in all this is that people are smart to it now, and are learning to reverse whatever the authorities say in order to get the right answer. If they say it's black, it's actually white; if they say it's down, it's actually up; and so on.

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SOTT Focus: 'I'm Committing Professional Suicide': CBS Star Reporter Admits 'Mostly Liberal' Journalists are Now 'Political Activists'

Robert Kraychick
Breitbart
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:44 UTC
Lara Logan
© Chris Hondros/GettyLara Logan
Lara Logan, foreign correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes, said Breitbart News offers "the other side" of news media relative to what she described as a mostly left-wing and partisan Democrat news landscape in the U.S. and abroad.

She offered her remarks in an interview published last Friday with the Mike Drop podcast, hosted by retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland.

Ritland characterized U.S. news media as "absurdly left-leaning" and supportive of Democrats, further describing the status quo of American news media's left-wing and partisan Democrat biases as a "huge fucking problem" and "disaster for this country."

Logan concurred, "I agree with that. That's true." She described U.S. and international news media as "mostly liberal," adding, "most" journalists are left.

"The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just the U.S.," assessed Logan.
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SOTT Focus: Mutiny in Western Ranks as Top French Commander Slams US' Phoney War Against ISIS


Middle East Monitor
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:04 UTC
Francois-Regis Legrier
© DAPHNE BENOIT/AFP/Getty Images(L to R) French Major of the Wagram Task Force Francois-Regis Legrier explains military positions on a sand map to French Defence Minister Florence Parly, French General Jean-Marc Vigilant, US Army General Paul Lacamera, and French ambassador to Iraq Bruno Aubert, at a French artillery forward operating base (FOB) near al-Qaim in Iraq's western Anbar province opposite Syria's Deir Ezzor region, a few kilometres away from the last scrap of territory held by Daesh, on 9 February 2019.
A senior French officer faces punishment after publicly condemning the US-led coalition's military tactics against Daesh in the east of Syria, accusing Washington of prolonging the conflict and disregarding a growing civilian death toll, the army said on Saturday.

Colonel Francois-Regis Legrier - who has been in charge of directing French artillery supporting Kurdish-led groups in Syria since October - said the coalition's focus had been on limiting its own risks and this had greatly increased the death toll among civilians, as well as raised the level of destruction.


Comment: Unlike the Russians, who die on the field side-by-side with Syrian forces and thus swiftly liberate Syrian cities with minimal destruction.


"Yes, the Battle of Hajin [near Syria's eastern border with Iraq] was won, at least on the ground, but by refusing ground engagement, we unnecessarily prolonged the conflict and thus contributed to increasing the number of casualties in the population," Legrier wrote in an article in the National Defence Review.

France is one of the main allies in the US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Syria and Iraq, with its warplanes used to strike militant targets, its heavy-artillery backing Kurdish-led fighters and its special forces leading the ground assault.

Comment: No, they deliberately target mosques, weddings, funerals and hospitals when they are full of civilians specifically to harvest more terrorists/insurgents from the general population. Without terrorists, there is no 'great game' for control of world energy resources.

That's why 'removing the scourge of terrorism from the Middle East' is totally antithetical to Western interests.

Legrier also wrote:
"The question is whether the liberation of a region can be done only at the cost of the destruction of its infrastructure (hospitals, places of worship, roads, bridges, dwellings, etc.). This is the uncomplicated approach taken yesterday and today by the Americans; it's not ours."
We find it interesting that the French military staff at this publication elected to publish this at all...

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SOTT Focus: Essay by Kremlin Advisor Vladislav Surkov: 'Putin's Long-Lasting State'

Vladislav Surkov
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:26 UTC

Comment: The following essay was recently published in Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Russian-American author Dmitry Orlov has translated it, as published here on The Saker.

The essay's author is Vladislav Surkov. If Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin is mischaracterized in the West as "Putin's brain," then Surkov is similarly mischaracterized "Putin's éminence grise." Surkov was Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999-2011, during which time he apparently played a role in the transition from Yeltsin to Putin and later developed the concept of sovereign democracy, which is arguably 21st century Russia's 'state ideology'.

Surkov also served as Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Modernisation from 2011-2013, and has since remained an aide to Putin, apparently with the specific brief of handling Russia's relationships with Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Ukraine. When Western elites went apoplectic because Crimea joined the Russian Federation in 2014, Surkov was one of the first names on Obama's sanctions list. Asked how he felt about no longer being able to travel to the US, Surkov responded:
"The only things that interest me in the US are Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. I don't need a visa to access their work."
As Western actors hurl invective, sanctions, cyberattacks, political subterfuge and proxy wars at Russia - all apparently with a view to 'correcting' its policy decisions in the short-term, and thus its developmental trajectory in the long-term - Surkov ignores the screamers to describe the nature of modern Russian governance, a unique system developed by Vladimir Putin, which, Surkov argues, has become - whether they realize it or not - the new standard-bearer for all countries to follow...

[Hyperlinks to Wikipedia and other sources concerning historical events/actors referenced by the author are ours, as are the endnotes]


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"It only seems that we have a choice." 1 These words are amazing in their depth of meaning and audacity. They were uttered a decade and a half ago, and today they are forgotten and are never cited. But according to the laws of psychology, that which is forgotten affects us much more than that which we remember. And these words - having gone far beyond their original context - have as a result become the first axiom of the new Russian statehood upon which have been built all theories and practices of contemporary politics.

The illusion of choice is the most important illusion, the centerpiece of the Western way of life in general and Western democracy in particular, which has for a long time now adhered more closely to the ideas of P.T. Barnum than to those of Cleisthenes. The rejection of this illusion in favor of the realism of predestination has led our society first to reflect upon its own special, sovereign version of democratic development, and then to completely lose interest in any discussions on the subject of what democracy should be like and whether it should exist even in principle.

Comment: How about that for a Kremlin come-back to the petabytes of lies?!

Not that many in the West will hear it.

They're too busy screaming about how evil Russia is.

But they doth protesteth too much, and signal merely the noisy preamble to the nations of the world embracing Putinism.

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SOTT Focus: Boot And Kristol: Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around?

Tucker Carlson
The American Conservative
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
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© U.S. Navy/Gage SkidmoreMax Boot • Bill Kristol
Pundits like Max Boot and Bill Kristol got everything after 9/11 wrong but are still considered "experts."

One thing that every late-stage ruling class has in common is a high tolerance for mediocrity. Standards decline, the edges fray, but nobody in charge seems to notice. They're happy in their sinecures and getting richer. In a culture like this, there's no penalty for being wrong. The talentless prosper, rising inexorably toward positions of greater power, and breaking things along the way. It happened to the Ottomans. Max Boot is living proof that it's happening in America.

Boot is a professional foreign policy expert, a job category that doesn't exist outside of a select number of cities. Boot has degrees from Berkeley and Yale, and is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written a number of books and countless newspaper columns on foreign affairs and military history. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, an influential British think tank, describes Boot as one of the "world's leading authorities on armed conflict."

None of this, it turns out, means anything. The professional requirements for being one of the world's Leading Authorities on Armed Conflict do not include relevant experience with armed conflict. Leading authorities on the subject don't need a track record of wise assessments or accurate predictions. All that's required are the circular recommendations of fellow credential holders. If other Leading Authorities on Armed Conflict induct you into their ranks, you're in. That's good news for Max Boot.
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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective - Darwinian Delusions: Why Darwin Is More Dangerous Than You Think

Corey Schink, Elan Martin and Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 17:00 UTC
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The 19th century saw a wave of theories claiming to provide the answers for everything: Marxism, psychoanalytic theory, utilitarianism, Zionism, Darwinism, and more. But what did all their creators have in common, besides impressive beards? They all seemed to have a hollowed out, psychologically primitive understanding of human nature which denatured their own theories, and which has denatured the thought of all those influenced by their theories in the process.

Today on the Truth Perspective, we look at some of these theories, with an emphasis on Darwin, with reference to excerpts from Andrew Lobaczewski's writing on schizoid personality disorder and the creation and propagation of ideologies.

Running Time: 01:33:11

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