Everyman, many thanks for such a good report.
In my little neck of the woods I keep hearing rumours that there’s going to be a massive general strike in France (?).
Apparently, another big protest in Toulouse this evening…
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I saw some messages on twitter a few days ago calling for a truckers strike on the 15th. Have you heard anything about dates Rob?
Hello Kate. I haven’t heard anything further about a general strike.
As Everyman points out above, there’s going to be another huge demonstration next Saturday, 7th August.
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Ok, thanks 
Kate, today was the most mega I’ve seen it in France (and that’s saying something). In the usual places like Paris, Bordeaux, Marseilles, etc, there were huge numbers on the streets (100s of thousands). What seems to be different this time is that smaller cities, which hitherto only saw lowkey demos, also have large numbers on the streets. Here’s a small selection (all very brief clips, just to give an idea of it all)…
Rennes
Nantes
Nice
Mulhouse
There’s also been large scale demonstrations in Poland, Germany and particularly Italy, amongst others.
Hang in there.
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Oh, and I forgot Montpellier, which seems to be the biggest demo I’ve ever seen there (maybe Everyman can confirm)…
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“France had already required since July 21 a health pass to access museums, cinemas and swimming pools. From Aug. 9, this will be extended to restaurants, bars, cafes, large shopping malls and long-distance trains.”
Link: Macron's COVID-19 health pass rules approved by top court - Metro US
It looks grim - barred from cafes and bars - public life. And can’t leave your city!? There’s still buses but that right is axable at a stroke - any old covid reason would do when the big heat is off.
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Evvy, with this level of protest I don’t see any way that they will be able to enforce the passe sanitaire.
Perhaps the only ponderable is if Macron will survive.
Macron and his party, ‘France on the march’, were totally fabricated out of nowhere for the last Presidential election, and were totally pumped-up by the Presstitutes.
In the local and regional elections earlier this year, Macron’s party couldn’t field any candidates, because they have no political history whatsoever.
Macron & Co are about as real as hen’s teeth.
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I got told two great stories today. The first was from a frequenter of a particular bar. When the ban on indoor smoking came in, the proprietor put a tin on the counter. Smokers could sling their change in. When there was enough cash in the tin to pay the fine, indoor smoking was allowed. When the gendarmes arrived he gave them the tin with the correct payment in it. Indoor smoking was stopped until the tin again had sufficient funds!
The second was from the proprietor of a local cafe. She said, “I’m running a fast food business. I don’t have time to check everyones passe sanitaire. I won’t be checking anything”
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Yes, I attended the Montpellier demo on Saturday August 7. It was the biggest yet, well over 10,000 people. The police presence was much greater, concentrated at the Préfecture (site of the central govt authority) and the train station. There were definitely undercover cops in the mass of people marching. For the first time I saw the ‘black bloc’, who tried at one point to steer the march away from the planned march route. They were not successful and I think at this point the police bosses have not yet decided on their best tactics for destroying the credibility of the marchers.
Originally the ‘préfet’, the head of the ‘préfecture’ had tried to ban the march. Then he accepted the march but defined the route. Thus, in fact a victory.
Another victory: for the ‘passe sanitaire’, vaccine passport, you can provide proof of vaccination or proof of a negative ‘PCR test’. The latter was originally a test 48 hours or less before you used the passport. Now they say 72 hours. Shows how ‘scientific’ all this bs is!
A word on the black block and the undercover cops and agents provacateurs: they work together, some knowingly some unknowingly. I consider them a plague, they helped destroy public support for the ‘yellow vests’ movement. They are typically young men who want to get their rocks off breaking things, while being protected by the anonymity in the mass of a crowd of peaceful protestors. They are typically ideologically rigid and full of contradictions. They think they are a political vanguard. They are easily manipulated and infiltrated by the police, they ‘break shit and run’, then the cops attack the peaceful protestors and the media focuses on the ‘violence’.
It’s easy for many demonstrators to feel emotionally close to the black block and their tactics because people are angry and want to ‘really do something’. Thus the black block has their defenders in the mass of protestors, who cheer them on sometimes. Typically they also divide the potential marchers by attacking, verbally and sometimes physically, their (in their mind) ideological opponents on the ‘right’. This is happening on facebook pages currently.
Today is the beginning of the demand for the ‘passe sanitaire’.
In those places where it is required people can remove their masks.
If you don’t show your passe sanitarie you can be fired and NOT get unemployment money. This is huge in France. Imagine, you’ve been ‘paying into’ the system for years, and then you get fired for not accepting the passe sanitaire (many vaccinated people refuse the passe sanitaire also) and you lose your job and lose your unemployment money.
This is a huge social experiment. We will see how many establishments are boycotted, etc.
best wishes to all
Everyman
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I had a truly shocking experience this morning. I went to two of the cafe/terraces where I often have a coffee and at both place I was refused service because I did not have a ‘passe sanitaire’. Today is the first day of the real experiment with the central government imposed passe sanitaire. I really feel lousy. I bought a coffee from a machine at a local tabacco shop and went to the graveyard. In fact it was a beautiful quiet morning there.
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Poignant post, the first direct report from the not very brave new world.
You’re facing discrimination and probably abuse. Zero of it is your fault.
Cheers
ED
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That’s horrible, and disheartening.
The points you made about black bloc really resonated.
I’m quite sure similar tactics are in use in UK eg the very recent staged scuffles at what was television centre in London. The aim of the exercise seemed to be to show what utter pillocks those “antivaxxxers” are not to realise that the Baa Baa Cee don’t even use the building anymore AND to demonstrate their petulant violent outbursts on discovering their error. Not just nutters but nasty nutters.
A shame so many of them, overwhelmingly white males, keep glancing offstage for directions, and doing that “is that thing turned on” face when failing not to look at the camera…
The legislation that enshrines legal immunity from prosecution when breaking the law, in the name of State Security, is wholly reminiscent of the sinister shit that BOSS used to get up to in South Africa.
The UK feels much less stable and secure than ZA ever did, and the propaganda is every bit as crude. By the sounds of things France is much the same.
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Hi @Everyman . Yes shite indeed and as a realist, its only going to get worse (e.g. Lithuania) before it gets better.
For what its worth, I gave up on France as a country of “libeté, fraternité, egalité” when they brought in the state of emergency after the niece false flag although my opinion went downhill after Charlie Hedo. Why the **** I chose to live here having escaped SA as a youngster, is now beyond my mental capacity.
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Terrible and one assumes only the beginning. The trick is simple but clever as so many good tricks are. I see the same here, with small, independent businesses either fully signed up to official Covid or maybe just resigned to falling in line in order to save their livelihood. It would be interesting to know the ratio.
Here in the UK I hear things and read reports about nightclub chains and pubs saying they simply will not enforce any discrimination, but threats of fines will, I’m sure, change that; not to mention the power of the torch and pitchfork mob. The customer’s always right!
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Don’t give up on France yet. The gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrations (I participated a month after they began) were decentralized, widespread, and shocked the system. We can assume, with no direct evidence admittedly, that in part the covid psy op was a reaction to the Yellow Vest populism, which was in fact one manifestation of a world wide populist revolt.
I was in Genoa in July 2001. It was an incredible experience. Keep in mind that Genoa followed huge diverse demonstrations in Seattle, Quebec, Prague, against the state/corporate capitalism of the G8. In Genoa the G8 elite were barricaded, truly barricaded, in the city center surrounded by thick steel mesh fences. There were three days of mass public action, civil disobedience, massive, truly massive demonstrations. The city was burning. Huge containers that they use on container ships were being trucked hither and thither by the officials, trying to block of streets. Tear gas was being fired from helicopters. The movement was clearly growing worldwide. In August 2001 two of the attendees, Blair and Bush, met in Texas. We know what happened next.
This current psy op and medical martial law is in my opinion, at least in part, a reaction to populism. The elite’s solution to populism, which has not gone away, is Technocracy.
In France now the new propaganda narrative should be familiar to you: the Saturday pro freedom demonstrations are accused of being ‘antisemitic’ because people have been photographed with homemade signs that mention Soros and Macron’s employment with Rotshchilde bank. The "socialist’ mayor of Montpellier, where I live, just accused the demonstrators in this way, but it’s a national narrative campaign. Quite easy to plant somebody in a 10,000 person demo and photograph them, eh? Or maybe it’s a real person, but since when is listing ‘names’ (which included Catholics, by the way) a crime?
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Very good precis of the war agains the loony technocrats, E - which is what we’re in right now. This is indeed a global war against these self-promoting maniacs: the beginning of ‘Shrinking The Technosphere’.
Fortunately, we on the right side of the matter - the 'populist’s, who should more properly be called the sane humanitarians and properly-reverent Gaia worshippers - we have a potent, ultimately undefeatable ally: -
The Long Descent…
That’s what’s going to obliterate the techno-loonies’ criminally-insane digito-human borg schemes, thank god. Ray Kurzweil should eat his heart out - if it hadn’t already been replaced by a cluster of nano-bots…
Indeed. There may still be time though for Macron to be Eugene Terre’blanche’d.
A brief recap of what went on in France yesterday, Sat 21st August. There were protests in more than 200 towns and cities…
Also what went on in Australia, which, with time zone differences, happened 12 hours or so earlier…
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