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May 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Richard Waghorne
15:19 EST, 6 May 2012
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01:25 EST, 7 May 2012
Flags of the French Communist Party were visible in numbers at Place de la Bastille on Sunday night, the symbolically-charged location of Socialist François Hollande’s victory rally.
Mr Hollande is not a communist, but his election nonetheless foretells a sharp shift to the left in France and the deepening of Europe’s crisis of social democracy.
There is a certain fashionable cynicism which holds that Mr Hollande will soon tack towards the comfort of the centre-ground and govern without undue reliance on campaign pledges that were both extreme and alarming.
Lurch to the left: Communist flags alongside socialist banners at the Place de la Bastille
Those promises include a litany of unreconstructed old-left nostrums, ranging from new punitive taxes on individuals, banks, and businesses, to a further expansion of France’s vast public sector.
The warrant for such optimistic cynicism is scant. There is the all too apparent sincerity of Mr Hollande’s ideological convictions. He is a man who felt the need while campaigning to insist, ‘I am not dangerous’. His freely volunteered loathing of the rich is spoken with the asperity of true disgust. His capitulation to France’s unreconstructed trade unions was early and pre-emptive – being made as long ago as the early stages of the primary election through which he became the Socialist Party’s candidate.
François Hollande is a man who means what he says and his rise to the French presidency comes at a moment when there are exceptionally few restraints on how far the French Socialist Party may now push its agenda.
Victory: Exit polls show a victory for Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande, pictured with his wife
The party already controls many of the branches of French government. There are few institutional checks not already in the hands of his allies. In the hands of a resolute politician, the powers of the French presidency are almost breathtaking in their latitude. Most fundamentally, he has earned a mandate to do much of what France’s unreconstructed left he longed to do for years.
Aiding the ease with which Mr Hollande may now proceed to the introduction of punitive socialism, Nicholas Sarkozy’s presidency has marked the at least temporary destruction of France’s centre-right.
Its credibility lies in tatters following five years in which Mr Sarkozy debased the coin of mainstream French conservatism through transparently insincere pledges to defend French sovereignty, identity, and economic prowess.
In at least the first two respects, Marine Le Pen’s Front National is now the authentic voice of the right in France. It is the country’s tragedy that nobody now speaks for the third, for the restoration of French competitiveness, all shades of France’s political spectrum now being committed to collectivism to a greater or lesser degree.
Stepping down: Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy conceded defeat in a speech soon after the poll results were released
No French election can occur without consequence for the rest of Europe.
Mr Hollande’s victory confirms the emerging pattern of public self-deception in the face of Europe’s crisis of social democracy, the crisis of a generation and more of accumulations debts and deficits. Faced with the stark urgency of economies not merely in the interests of efficiency but of both sovereignty and national survival, voters yesterday in both France and Greece turned to politicians pretending that pain could be avoided.
A Socialist victory in France, even against a candidate who thoroughly deserved to lose, raises anew the question of whether Europe possesses the capacity to survive its current crisis in a meaningful sense. The restoration of European leadership in the world, or even the recovery of a degree of European strength compatible with the self-respect of an ancient continent, turns on the capacity of European publics to choose to see beyond their unaffordable entitlements to the interests of the European generations yet to come.
There is no higher political providence infallibly restraining the bankruptcy of Spain and Italy or the extinguishing of European democracies by the European Union. France has now fallen to a man who will aggravate his country’s critical weaknesses, surrender its sovereignty to Brussels, and watch on without any effect of the heart as French national identity continues to dissolve amidst the legacy of failed multiculturalism.
France’s election of François Hollande is a vote for decline. His victory confirms a pattern of elective decline visible across Europe, a decline which may well not now be arrested until it is too late by some distance to reverse.
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We all have to work to eat as we have done since we got on this planet, but when some maybe by birth or luck have riches beyond their time to spend it while others live in poverty, then somethings not quite right. No way am i a communist, just someone looking at life. So if the bankers who happen to be rich, who helped cause this problem along with greedy self serving politicians who are just out for their own riches, then a man is voted in who will try to spread money around to everyone, then whats the problem?. The rich will still be rich and if they wish to go live in Richville, ok. I think thats how a lot of French see it.
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#surrender its sovereignty to Brussels, and watch French national identity continue to dissolve#
So their going to end up like us then!
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When Eastern Europe wallowed through 40+ years of socialist abject misery, poverty, decrepitude and indenture it had, at least, the excuse of being forced into it by the tanks of Red Army and British and American, “allies” all, betrayal. How fitting, and utterly satisfying that the Western European descendants of Polish, Czech, etc “allies” should now voluntarily VOTE for the same outcome. Yes, indeeedy-did, vote themselves into a couple generations of poverty, indentured servitude to government masters, of shabbiness and hopelessness.
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just like we have since they lied about the advantages of the eu.
from butter mountains to debt mountains…….funny old world.
neither blair or dave dare give us an in or out vote.
all in it together.
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” Years of decline under a socialist leader” You mean France is now heading in the same socialist direction as Brazil Australia and China bet the people can’t wait
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So in other words, democracy should always be subservient to “monied interests”. Yet more proof that capitalism is the enemy of democracy!
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Too many citizens are being robbed by the state with their eyes open, stealth taxes have the state with their hands in everybodies pocket, including the poor.
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As has been said many times before: Once citizens in a democracy realize they can vote their hands into other peoples’ pockets, the democracy begins to fail. Too many in France, the USA, and elsewhere are voting for the government to do things for them, instead of voting for the responsibility of doing for themselves.
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– michael, essex, 7/5/2012 8:35 ___Every right wing cliché and received opinion in the book. If the Tories were so great why did we have TWO recessions 1979-80 and 1990-91 under St Maggie? Why have we had a double dip recession under Cameron? Why did we lose £8bn on Black Wednesday because our economy was too weak to remain in the ERM after ELEVEN years of awful Tory government? Why did unemployment average 1 million more under the Tories over 18 years than under Labour? Why did the Tories tell the unemployed to sign on the sick in their thousands? Why did we need a fire sale of state utilities (other people’s assets) under the Tories? Which party kicked off the deregulation of the financial sector and the obscene rewards for mediocrity spiral?
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Its an inevitable consequence and there will be more not less of this type of result. Real power in a democracy is in the hands on the people who vote, you can fix the terms, change the boundaries and the structure but in the end the people decide and that should be respected.
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