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@mrmaxaxl
From Marseille France. I feel for you. We have a reputation of being the worst city in Europe ( so writes Landeur ), but no bombings so far , and to tell the truth it seems safer than Germany . It doesn't look French , at all , if you consider skin colour, and you have to lock your cardoors when driving around... for pickpockets on scooters who will try to grab at purses and cameras from foreigners... gypsy children used to pickpocket as groups, they have long been controled. If you don't visit the suburbs where communities are settled , you will be ok. I am an old woman, french roots, born here, burgled and pickpocketed, but the only violence in burglary was from european local young men who held up my neighbour, only had a very short prison sentence... it is a known fact that drugdealers keep the peace to avoid police medling... dreadful to think, but the high death rate here in Marseille doesn't involve passerby... or very rarely, for that reason.
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Thanks for your video. I knew about Britain's so unfavorable comparison with Russia on free speech, but indicting a 9 years old, that seems unbelievable. I wish I could share the information around me, with only your video it seems inadequate, from a document point of view. Anyway, I am indebted for just knowing about it .
Right and left : Sandrine Rousseau, one of our députés at the Assemblée nationale, far left group LFI= "la France insoumise ", proudly proclaimed her support to girls who chose to wear a veil as a sign of their freedom as women.
As you probably know the wearing of a veil has been officially banned from schools where it had never been worn before integrist moslems infiltrated ( no other word comes to mind ) the long established moslem community. I used to teach in the "disfavoured" parts of the city, never saw any veil even on mothers, let alone pupils. Many of my pupils came from moslim families, I'm speaking of the early 1970's, the parents had arrived from north Africa neither reading nor writing, but they were the best behaved and best working young people, because I only had to write a note, the family would set them right back on course, with the help of reading neighbours or elder siblings. I then taught the lower secundary school level, 11-15, as I didn't want my daughter to have the disadvantage of a mother in her school, so when I went to visit her teachers my ex-pupils gathered around to kiss me ( this being France) and one of them told me I mustn't leave that lower school "we need teachers like you there". Only many years later ,when we met in a demonstration against the extreme right founder of the present far right movement, he explained : I used to hate you, you made me work for 2 years when it didn't interest me, and I vowed I would stop when I changed teachers. So I did, and was barred from proceding to high school. I was so shamed that I worked so hard, because you had showed me that I could, now I'm an accountant at the bank. But I went to take a degree in English after my accounting degree. Of no use in my job."
I could tell many such stories. I have seen things worsen but not so much because the incoming population changed ( in my school the large "input" of turkish immigrants brought violence, sexual aggressivity,) it changed because at the same time as those new problem brewing people arrived, teaching assistants were taken away in large numbers, and no information was given to the schools about the new situation to be expected.
Don't know if this long text shall get to you... 👏🤞🏽🙏
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@BritishLandeur
How extremely disappointed I am about my country to be still so unwelcoming , not to say arrogant with foreigners. I decided to teach English precisely because the English had a bad name in France 70+ years ago. But the population is completely different now. I hoped it had changed. From 1957 on I fell in love with your people, precisely for their welcoming , socially easygoing qualities. As a young girl I never felt in danger, as I did every day in Marseille. When I was 19 I spent a year as a "French mademoiselle ", giving conversation classes, in Bromley Kent. I travelled to London several times a week , even late at night after concerts I felt safe. I cycled all over the south of England during that year, down to Land's End, a very old bicycle and a repair shop on the saturday before Easter refused to take my money for their repair job, I probably looked both poor and very foreign ; in France I would have been sent away or overcharged, for my appearance.
After my daughter and husband each going their separate way left me free to choose my holidays I started hiking again, at 50, and there again I didn't find pleasant encounters until I came to Italy. I kept to the high parts of the Alps for solitude sake...
I am looking foreward to following your travels. Right now the interest and anxiety is about Tommy 's security ; I am listening while writing this. In between the American election...
Best wishes on your travels ; with heartfelt thanks.
P.S: until he was swallowed by a snowdrift my companion was an Italian alpinist ! Living in Italy😁. I am still an honorary aunt to the Italian babies I gave their first bottle to while the parents were mountaineering.❤🤩
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@BritishLandeur
Every year some journalist recalls Russia rather than the USA was a real agent in the end of WW2, and the shame of keeping them away from the celebrations to make believe liberation came from accross the Atlantic. It used to be the contrary. It all changed when the globalist world trade agenda was activated, already in the 80ies with the reassignation of productivity to different countries in Europe ; I very well remember the social shock when perfectly functionning plants were closed and all the north of France was devastated, not by war, but by international agreements about policies the people in our country did not agree with, as who would gladly see work go away. Not to India or China then, but to Spain and Italy for the textile industry, to Germany for steel . Today french wool has to go to Italy to be cleaned and tinted , not so very far but still... work lost. The great plan was to have agriculture and tourism as the main french industries . Not sustainable. And when we voted against the European Union superpower ( as did the Nederlands) in 2005, our vote was ignored with a transeuropean meeting of the chiefs of states in Lisbon which made a treaty of it without popular vote. At the same time our government decided to stop teaching history in schools. It didn't pass, but you see the tendency.
You are quite right about the french being generaly unpleasant. That was why I decided to teach English when i went t England for the first time when I was twelve. When I was 50 I visited Germany for the first time and when I came back I went straight from the station to buy a german learning combine book/ audio...😀
Marseille has a high number of violent deaths, but the risk would have been more for your possessions. Even old cars can be robbed... to ram shops or gates with 🤪
I grew up in the very center, but when we had a child we moved to the hill , with a great view, trees and boars. If you came back you would have to park behind my gate for protection and use the buses and metro. This is where you meet people, at least I do 🤩
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Once I wrote about my only military ancester, a captain in the French revolutionary army who was head of the captive baloon crew at the battle of Fleurus. Which saved the young revolution from the allied royal armies of Europe. The story was rather long because he was a protestant from the Cévennes, a region of protestant tradition, from where many had emigrated over a century before to escape the king& church killings of protestants. So that when that captain met and married one of the descendants of the ex-french protestants in northern Italy during the napoleonian campaigns, they not only had the same religion but spoke the same dialect. Our family still has the travelling "matrimonial piemontese bed" ( a bare thing) at the Cévennes home. That bed travelled to Egypt, where the family name was engraved with those of the other inventors in the army ( not the military names 😯 ) on a very famous antique monument. So much for French arrogance... and yet when I visited the ancester 's valley in the Italian mountains, the village lady I asked about an ancestor who had married a member of the occupying army corrected me with indignation : the liberating army, madam !
It changed my own point of view, about armies and wars.
Something else about those protestant ancestors : Napoléon had to drop his non roman-catholic followers to get the pope to come crown him emperor in Paris Notre Dame. The name Coutelle could not be erased. But the stories were changed, as efficiently as those in Stalin's Russia. The captain retired in the Cévennes mountains with his wife; his sabre hung behind the door of the room with the piemontese bed when I was a child. The name is not rare, but his line ends with my generation. Long live yours, your own war may be what you are doing now 👍👏🤩
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@BritishLandeur
Thank you 😁
I am surprised at your surprise about my knowing about some of my ancestors: those who lived in the same place for many generations are known and remembered. Beside, the family Bible served as a repertory of the family members, as they were born, married, died. In that manner my father ( born 1921 ) knew the family birthname of the "Italian" wife of the capitaine. When I asked about her in the protestant mountain village, using the Italian pronounciation of "Michelin", the Italian lady answered using the FRENCH !!! After over 500 years !!! You see, centuries are nothing... memory is everything. At least I think so.
We also learnt about ancestors of 500 years ago and more around the time the internet came into the international communication practice of the European burocracy. My Coutelle grandmother was born Bense, in a village about 25 km from Marseille, and her nephew ( who bore the name ) recieved a letter from a danish lady called Bense, saying we with the name Bense had jewish ancesters , who in the year 1500 had been obliged to add the name of the village to the usual "son of..". Then were obliged to leave , then obliged to be killed or convert. Obviously the surviving Bense had converted ancesters. But the first born son had the duty to remain a secret jew, and call his son "Given by god,"( you will know the german for it, ) and instruct his son when he came of age. After so many centuries, so much fleeing through Europe, my great grand father in the south of France was Dieudonné Bense. My grand mother, being a girl, never knew 😯😯😯
What about that !!! I hope your mother ( and you) find more about your families. On my mother's side we are sedentary families ( though the actual family mills here and there have disappeared ) but one great great grand mother, being an orphan with home and pastures, was able to marry for love and married a gypsy. He was a horse peddler and rarely home, his family and life we may never know... but the chromosomes remain 😁
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Hello BL, in the comments of Pa ul Thorpe's video after visiting Tommy Robinson, several people suggested HE, Tommy, should be knighted. The mayor of London seems to be one of those civil servants ( perhaps this is not the word for an elected "servant" of the people ?) who would be targeted by the DOGE team...
Our own "Légion d'Honneur" has become a despicable trinket by association with the moral and patriotic level of the persons on which our French leaders bestow the distinction.
But let us keep our spirits up to be ready for better days...
Last night I listened to Mr Lavrov, the Russian foreign affairs secretary, ( a very admirable politician, we can all envy Russia for him ), as he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson ( 👍👏🙏 ) and the commentaries coming from all around the world at the same unorthodox hour , and keeping on exchanging, was trully gratifying. Several Russian young 18 yro men , English or Russian speaking ( Google translation went to sleep after a while ), evidently older people too, expressed their emotion at the goodwill they discovered coming to them from all around the world, when they thought they were hated because they had only found hate mail on YouTube up to then.
After two hours of witnessing such exchange I felt both extremely grateful and hopeful.
I will not explain why... because it seems everyone of you will understand.
Good luck , keep your spirits up. ❤
Change may be on the way. 🤞🏽🌟
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Dear British Lander, thank you for your clarification about what a nuclear strike could be, in the present provocation. Still hoping the hawks on Putin's side of the divide can be neutralised as well as the Pentagon's.
As for your considering Ukraine as a historicaly distinct country, I believe it is not so. That it was indeed a part of the Russian Empire under the czars, and even before that was well established. If I may be forgiven to refer to a great sovietic period film, Alexander Nevski, Kiev is mentionned as the Russ of Kiev. In literature and politics those people were a part of the Empire, were they not? For hundreds of years.
Perhaps the nations on the continent have had more fluctuating confines than those in the british isles; perhaps it is my generation ; anyway, Russia ( and the countries in that empire if you want to make a distinction) has always felt like a cousin, a neighbour, a country you will perhaps fight but must come to an understang with; inevitably; as you must with your neighbour/ your brother. British sovereigns have often married with germans, but the people ? There is an islandish isolation ( it seems to me) that the continental people don't share.
My generation and my mother 's read stories for children written by la comtesse de Ségur, who was russian born and bred. Not that I think highly of the stories, what I mean is that we are more one people "de l'Atlantique à l'Oural", ( in the words of Général de Gaulle) than you may perhaps think. The soldiers who walked the continent fighting could not but discover that the soldiers and the people in those distant lands were like their own. It must have infused a sense of belonging together, quite beyond the reach and understanding of the governing isolated class.
That is what I feel. I have been very distressed all these last years by the double tongue of our French and German leaders who had promised Ukraine would never be part of Nato ,nor of the EU, then went back on their word. When Russia invaded Ukraine I immediately thought of the Cuba missiles crisis, and that politics never get wiser.
Thanks again for your video. My friends in northern Italy and Normandy sent photos of so much snow, you seem to have little .
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Dear BL, it is impossible to have a consensus on this subject with all the fairytale romance the media and politicians have been building in the last 10, and specially the last 3 years. Ukraine as you recall was deemed the most corrupt country in Europe. It has its main streets named to honour Nazi figures, nazi emblems are born proudly by its soldiers. Television footage had to be edited in France, it was certainly the same in Britain.
It seems the war was desired, and the Russians egged on, by "our" western leaders, i.e. the US deep state + the WEF , Soros ,Bill Gates and all. You mentionned the covid craze, war and health scare have the same goal, to drive us blindfolded into a 1984 Orwellian society. What they did to Greece they can do to us. Europe is implementing the plan to steal all of our personal bank savings, to finance the higher end of putting men in trenches and buying weapons from ... our big brother overseas.
He no longer agrees to war... but wait till the buying orders come...
By the way, I was listening to a retired French general, he says we just do not have the men to oppose Russia. He gave the numbers.
It is all make believe... except for the highjacking of all our ressources. That 's quite real.
Thanks for yor enthusiasm and indignation. 😢👍💐⭐😅
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From the end of ww2 to this new century all french young men had to serve 2 years in the army, or do public service in non military work. So both my husband and friends my generation did. It was the war in Algeria generation, not the best memories certainly, but it certainly brought all walks of society together, and unexpected friendships were formed for life. I am sure , from experience, that was a good way to bring a nation together. Give its young people a sense of belonging together. Wether it is true in the new religious oriented push, I would like to know. Tommy Robinson in his interviews said at school all races and religions mixed, but the moslems kept apart. It didn't use to be that way, but I personally saw a change among my pupils when moslems who had come from north africa before started coming from Turkey.
About nuclear energy. my generation opposed it with the idea that it would bring about a police state, that we would lose our freedom and be spied upon, because a nuclear plant is a nuclear bomb we build in our land. The twin towers were a spectacular hit. Imagine what the hit on three nuclear plants would have been . A Patriot act would not have covered the damage to the country.
Our electricity is mostly nuclear, with a fair share of hydroelectricity. From mountain dams. Which the European non elected power decided to make us destroy. To favor their agenda of foreign bought air and sun electric sources. The recent spanish catastrophies, so I have read, are owing to such destructions.
Food for thoughts.
Don't know if you can find Jean-Pierre Petit on nuclear energy. He had invented a way of using uranium without the deadly end products of those our industries developped. Probably for the same financial profits. He also invented impressive propulsive betterments... which only the soviet scientists invited him to develop ; we see them at work during the present war. He is in his eighties, a very alert, clear eyed and clearbrained scientist. I only listened to interviews in French, by french people. And am in no way a physicist, couldn't begin to understand. Perhaps you could. Life is so full of questions, answers, and wonders. 😮😀👍
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It is the stock response girls and women got for centuries (= as long as they have dared denounce a r*pe). I am 80, I have lived in another era of mankind, it seems 😮. In a town, Marseille, not a distant mountain cave. Both my grand mothers were school teachers, to the end of their lives they would not have left their home bareheaded. Neither would my grand -fathers, to be honest: how else could they have shown respect by taking off their hats ? 😮 When I had a man friend my mother asked us: when are you getting married? We had never spoken about it. But she was so afraid of having an unwed mother in the family. Molested girls just didn't denounce their r*pist, often in the family, for shame. The shame was only theirs. I believe many of the men and women in places of responsability in your country still live with that fear of uncovering a public shame , they have been shaped by the past . The MP lady who so hystericaly reacted to Rupert Lowe's simple questions seemed to have come directly from Queen Victoria's times, when tables had to hide their legs. And many men in high places also are paedophiles, probably. Going to Thailand on holiday. Or is that only for our French top guys ? The buzz around the world independent channels about the pakistani gang r*pes cover up is really the very good news ! Quite uncovered, and 3 french friends, 2 italians, sent me communications on X by Elon Musk on Starmer's vote against a general inquiry. 💪💪💪🌟🙏🐕 the future holds hope .
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Pedjamiloslav... expresses what I know is true.
During the 2011 first effort to oust Bachar my christian syrian friend in Marseille told me exactly that ; they lived at peace with other religions under Bachar, and his family were obliged to flee for their lives all over Europe and Canada. They remained extremely worried because only the younger members left. Then Bachar and his peace returned. And now this. I am a bit late in listening to your video, the news from the USA take up time. It seems the republican senators hostile votes to kill Donald Trump 's team choices are meeting with a counter strike they hadn't expected : the spreading of their treachery on the internet, on X and others. " you are the media" is a reality that's come back to hit them in the face, and they seem to get second thoughts. This seems to apply to our European predicament. It will not save Syria, we can grieve for them. But it could save us. I don't know about you all, I for one see a pattern in all those upheavals, from the colour revolutions, to the bringing down of functioning countries ( Syria and Lybia among others) to the fake pandemia ( like a world government on trial) and the consistent reversals of popular votes when they don't fit the pattern. We in France saw it in 2005, when a referendum vote discarded the European organisation from our government... but only to have its agreement come back without vote, with the lisboa treaty. Treachery rather. Did you notice ( as they did in the USA) that war on Syria was only started when there seemed little hope of once again taming/ manacling Trump as "they" had his first time around ? First the open war on Russian territory launched "by Biden". Then the war on Syria to open yet another war front for Russia. It seemed the crooked heads over the Atlantic hoped for a world W to avoid being brought to justice. Or put out of work.
😮😢 The Daniel Penny shameful trial and the BLM screaming for his blood when he was found not guilty is an american example of what we in Europe live with "Islam lives matter." Politicians, judges, mainstream media, react in fear, refuse to state the obvious. But "we are the media ". British Lander and all the answering listeners everywhere are a new power. I told you ( or did I?) how wonderful it was to find so many countries from every continent and hemisphere represented in the exchanges at 1 to 3 a.m. following Tucker Carlson 's interview of Lavrov. Those millions of sightings definitely killed the poisoned warmongering speeches of our national puppets. The Russians said : we thought everybody hated us, we only found hate on YouTube. And another answered : the hate speech comes from bots, but they will stop when they don't get paid.
Well, thank you BL , and everyone for listening and sharing.❤
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Good luck.
All this is SO not new that your emotion is surprising . Though French I have seen a great number of testimonies in the last months ( looking up Tommy Robinson ). Including a moslim of Indian (?) Origin, Raj Habib (?) excuse me for not remembering the name , who redeemed his religion, suffering in the same way as Tommy Robinson. Many in England have been ceaselessly trying for years to move justice, police , the media... one of them today asked why is Elon Musk coming after them now .
I think he saw an opportunity to launch his campaign against child trafficking on a small scale before moving on to the USA to tackle a much larger hunt, including many men in very high places . (As the twitter files must have shown him.)With all his technological interests, he sincerely cares for children ; perfect working creatures on their own. I believe he wants to go after those who maim them so deeply. And that England is a starting point. Do any of you share my hope ?
France, as you guess , has been well versed in child abuse. But when Isabelle Adjani played the main part in a film to denounce the rape culture in the muslim communities , the very good film was given very little theatre and almost no television time. Yet, she was a much loved actress. And her father a north african muslim. " la journée de la jupe" the name of that film. Girls in those neighbourhoods not wearing skirts to respect the muslim creed that it is not men who must respect women, but women who must hide their bodies.
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Sylvie here 🇨🇵😘
I had understood you were taking time out ! So am very late😂 agree with Kim and Fiona, find this quite interesting really, in the "we may have to agree to disagree" sort of way. Defining what makes ( or made ?) us a nation, be it British/ English / Welsh / Scotch/ Irish... ( so many nations with one language ) or French, Italian, and so on, seems extremely important when we live under invasion rule. I have just spent 8 hours in what felt like England 60 years ago , a time when what English values were seemed evident, because the war was still so close, and the unity it had brought , a real sense of duty , of sharing social burdens, of responsability, such as gathering the foil seals of milk bottles. As a 12 yo in 1957, at my first visit, I found England ( Sevenoaks, Kent, and London + travelling) and the people so very admirable that I decided to teach English to share that admiration.
I am sure I would feel very differently now...
I spent those hours in the past of England, with the videos of the Salisbury organist, Ben Maton. I know England is only for a very small part in those videos of country lanes and old darling beautiful churches. Beautiful carols; if Turner is not part of every true Englishman's culture, I believe carols are , and caroling used to be. I was surprised to recognise some I had not heard since I was the French Mademoiselle in a grammar school in 1964--65. I do agree that "christian values" seem a common ground... and then you may find you are thinking of social rather than christian values... which may be as difficult to define as British ones . And we are back in the circle. 😂
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It seems to me our countries are living the backlash of our colonial pasts; Britain's so much more extended geographically, but also into the present, with the Commonwealth a lasting reality, all the royal ceremonies in Westminster speaking to the distant would-be immigrants . They already somewhat speak your language. Pakistanis just have no dreams of coming to France.
I don't want to offend you, I enjoy listening to your ideas, yet you see ,don't you ? that you have reinvented that British famous invention of the concentration camp. I do not say that they are avoidable. When Trump and his "czar" close the border, the humane thing to shelter the migrants on the other side shall be to build such camps...just as we have to build some in France for the Pakistani hoping to reach Britain, so with zero interest in working in France, only hover along the coast.
Nobody wants migrants ; Germany did before the ban on Russian trade and the destruction of its gaz supply by our Western Big Brother put an end to the country's industry. It seems it wishes to completely change that policy, with the rise of the far right.
I believe real campaigns of information about the realities of the journey and of failure on arrival to live what they had expected is a good deterrent , with the pitiful returns home of the expelled migrants.
The tent cities a very transitory shelter between two phases.
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Ayan Hirsi Ali , a somali born , moslim born ex-member of the parliament of the Nederlands, has written many books on the subject, which she shows to be very much a civilisation problem, ( archaic versus evolved ), having lived it in her life . She had to leave the Nederlands to escape reprisals for her books. She now lives in the USA. She recently gave an interview you would derive much hope from in these horrifying circumstances. A staunch supporter of Tommy Robinson. Also today, the blackbelt barrister had an interesting ( as always) video on some legal aspects concerning the government lady allegedly offended by Elon Musk's twit.
I would like to be more precise about the film on the subject of young muslim r*pists I mentionned yesterday, " la journée de la jupe", a franco-belgian TV production with Isabelle Adjani as the audience-bringing star. It was released in 2008, but very rarely aired, the subject being totaly tabu. A pity, it is very good.
Indepent podcasters and radios in France are following developments in Britain . So is India . There is hope. Here in France even the farmers's current unequal clashes with our army-like police are not really documented on the MSM.
Thank you BL for your continuing involvement .
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