France on Brink of Revolution As Families Are Blocked From Buying Food Without ‘COVID Passports’

Sean Adl-Tabatabai – A disturbing video out of France shows desperate shoppers being blocked from entering a supermarket by police because they don’t have COVID passports.

The footage shows residents, some with children, being blocked from buying essential food items by security guards.

The guards then begin pushing one woman away as the crowd becomes more upset.

A number of police officers then begin physically assaulting the frightened shoppers. Continue reading

Rothschild Puppet Macron: Those Without ‘COVID Vaccine Pass’ Will Be Banned From Normal Activities

MacronSean Adl-Tabatabai – French President Emmanuel Macron has declared that citizens who do not have a ‘COVID pass’ will be banned from participating in basic life activities such as shopping, eating at restaurants and using public transport.

In a public address to the nation, Macron slammed those who refuse to take the vaccine, saying that only those who have taken it and who carry proof via a COVID passport will be allowed to enter the venues, in addition to hospitals, bars, cafés and tourist attractions. Continue reading

Ex-French President Sarkozy convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail

Just the News Staff – French former President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty Monday in a Paris court of corruption and influence peddling.

He was sentenced to one year in prison and received a two-year suspended sentence, according to the Associated Press.

The 66-year-old Sarkozy was president from 2007 to 2012. He was convicted for attempting to illegally obtain information in 2014 from a magistrate about a legal action in which he was involved.

The court said Sarkozy will be entitled to request to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet. Continue reading

Macron’s Notre Dame “Rebuild” Proposal

Notre DameJoseph P Farrell – There is already talk of re-building Notre Dame, but the question is, as what? We’ll get back to that, but before we do, there is already talk of using the new technology of additive manufacturing or 3D printing to rebuild the cathedral, a process which, incidentally, could conceivably restore the structure more or less to its pre-fire state, according to this article shared by M.W.:

Can Notre-Dame rise from the ashes with 3D printing?

Speaking to FRANCE 24, Eric Geboers, co-founder of Concr3de, said, “As the extent of the damage is becoming clear, it is time to think about how to rebuild this sacred monument that has seen so much history. We propose a strategy to rebuild Notre-Dame in a modern way that maintains the soul and layered history of the building. Continue reading

Notre Dame and the Identity of France

exerciseCharles Hugh Smith – As rationalists, we’re supposed to take the dramatic and profoundly tragic fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris as random chance or bad luck. But I cannot be the only one who feels a symbolic tie between the near-destruction of a French religious and cultural icon and the embattled identity of France.

As it happens, I am reading Fernand Braudel’s massive two-volume history The Identity of France: Volume One: History and Environment and Volume Two: People and Production.

Longtime readers know I have often recommended Braudel’s three-volume history, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, as essential to the understanding of the rise of Capitalism in Europe: Continue reading