Sunday, May 01, 2022

France In Flames - Anti Macron Protests Across The Nation Only Days After He Was Re - elected

by Arthur Foxake, 1 May 2022

FRANCE erupted in an orgy of violence today as traditional May Day festivities turned into angry protests at the victory of incumbent president Emmanual Macron as more evidence emerged that the election was not free and fair. Balaclava-clad protesters took to the streets of Paris and other major cities to mark May Day and vent their outrage at Emmanuel Macron's re-election, ahead of the legislative elections in June.

More than 250 anti-Macron rallies erupted across the country as thousands of people joined the annual May Day celebrations, turning them into protests against the deeply unpopular president who in his first term has consistently ignored the concerns of ordinary people in favour of pursuing the globalist agendas of the wealthy elites. Things quickly descended into chaos in Paris.

Around 5,000 police officers were deployed in the capital city alone to control the violent protest, which left shops ransacked and streets ablaze.

Demonstrators light red flares as they take part in the annual May Day march in Paris, France, 01 May 2022. Labour Day, also known as International Workers' Day or May Day, is observed annually on 01 May worldwide to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers as well as fight for laborers rights. EPA-EFE/YOAN VALAT

Many protesters demonstrated peacefully but police stepped in as black-clad members of the group known as "Black Bloc" attempted to put up a barricade to block the march.

Dozens of businesses were also damaged amid the protests including a McDonald's branch, banks, insurance companies and real estate agencies.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin called the violence at the rallies "unacceptable."

French unions and left-wing politicians have used the workers' day demonstrations to express displeasure with recently re-elected President Emmanuel Macron and rally support for the nation's upcoming parliamentary elections.

Macron, who defeated far-right opponent Marine Le Pen in France's presidential election last week, has faced criticism that he is out of touch with France's working-class on issues such as the rising cost of living.

Opposing politicians looked to the rallies Sunday to prevent Macron's centrist La Republique En Marche party from winning a majority during the two-round parliamentary elections on June 12 and June 19.

"Without MPs to support him, Emmanuel Macron will be powerless to apply his harmful project for France and his unfair choices for the French," Le Pen said in a video to supporters Sunday.

The May Day protests also come as left-wing parties in France aim to strike an agreement ahead of the June legislative elections following the defeat of leftist candidates in the first round of the election. Labour unions and student organisations led protests against newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron with demands for higher wages, support for public services and more climate-friendly policies.

In Paris, leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for an agreement between left-wing parties tonight.

The CGT labour union claimed that 50,000 protesters were present in the capital city. Thousands also protested in other large cities across France such as Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon and Strasbourg, according to police.

Clashes broke out between young people dressed in black and Paris' police with many shop windows destroyed and fires breaking out.

Demonstrators broke bank windows and wrote anticapitalist messages on a McDonald's and police fired tear gas.

Interior minister Gérald Darmanin said that "thugs" were committing "unacceptable violence" and expressed his "full support for police".

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The Propaganda Of The War Cult Is Lying About What Is Happening In Ukraine

1 May 2022

In reporting and commenting on the conflict in Ukraine we Boggart Bloggers have tried to look deeper into the situation than mainstream media propaganda mouthpieces which have simply passed on the Russophobic misinformation and fake news contained in the official naratives. Russia bug bad bully, brave little Ukraine resisting being pushed around the stories go but it is not quite that simple, things never are.

Eva Bartlett in a name that has featured in these pages before. In 2016 we brought you summaries, snippets of, and links to the Canadian independent journalists reports from within Syria's war zone revealed how western governments and their media mouthpieces were using fake news, misinformation and downright lies to whip up support for their sponsored and stage managed proxy war in this middle east which was intended (but failed,) to bring down the Assad regime.

Now Eva Bartlett is in the Donbas region of Ukraine, sending back reports on how the one - sided reporting of the war in that unfortunate country give the impression that the atrocities andwar crimes are all being committed by Russian troops. Bartlett's reports show that similar atrocities are being committed by Ukrainian troops against members of Russian speaking minorities in eastern Ukraine and that military and paramilitary forces under the control on the neo - Nazi paskudnyaks in Kiev are carrying out false flag attacks on Ukrainian citizens in order to fabricate stories that will fuel propaganda aimed at persuading citizens of the liberal democracies to accept direct military intervention in the conflict by the NATO powers, this triggering a global, nuclear conflict.

Ukrainian strike on Donetsk market was a false flag terrorist attack

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If the Donetsk marketplace that was hit by rocket artillery on Thursday had been in a city controlled by Kiev, the names and faces of the five civilians killed would be on all major news sites. But because it was another Ukrainian attack on civilians in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the deaths and 23 additional civilians injured will almost certainly go unreported, as has the been the norm during the regime’s eight years of the Donbass and Western media’s eight years of ignoring the attacks.

According to the DPR's Healthcare Ministry, “The strike at the Tekstilschik neighbourhood in the Kirovsky district killed four people on the spot. One patient died in an ambulance during the transportation.”

With another journalist, I went in a taxi to the bombed markets. Two of the dead still lay at the site when we arrived, splayed on the ground. The other bodies had already been removed, but traces of their blood remained on the ground, doors nearby were riddled with shrapnel holes and debris from the strike was all around.

Presumably, rescue workers dealt with the injured first and didn’t prioritize retrieving all the dead as further Ukrainian strikes were possible. I saw this during my experience in Gaza, where Israeli's waited for people to come to the scene of their attack, then bombed again.

According to Gennady Andreevich, a local employee of the district's safety commission, at 11:40 am Grad missiles struck two different nearby markets: the vegetable and clothing market where the bodies lay, and a household chemicals and building materials market across and down the street. The latter was far more damaged, stalls completely burnt out, but no one was killed there.

Gennady walked with us to the vegetable market, speaking about previous Ukrainian attacks–which have been happening since 2014. More recent shellings hit near a gas station outside the market, at a residential building beyond the market, and in his own market administrative building, killing two colleagues.

He noted that at this time of day the market would have been filled with people, and that Ukraine knows very well what it is firing at.

“They know there is a market here and that from 10am to 1pm there are many people here,” Gennady said as we walked past shops.

This is a completely civilian area, no military installations.

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