On May 28, 2015, a poster using the pseudonym Commandoair40 postedi n the Forum:

Paras, bérets bleus, verts et rouges, tous unis !
(slang) Paratroopers, berets, blue,green and red, all united! 

(blue, green, and red are the various colors of the berets worn by different services)

(The 40/541 was the Regiment or demi-brigade for which Jea Rene was the Captain from November, 1957 to April, 1960. He was promoted to Captain when the Regiment's then current commander, Captain Fuhrer was wounded in battle.)

https://paras.forumsactifs.net/t13070-grand-combattant-jean-souetre

"Le journaliste d’investigation français William Reymond, pense que le SDECE a voulu fabriquer « de toutes pièces la présence de Souètre, détenant ainsi un moyen de pression sur l’OAS."

TRANSLATION

The French investigative journalist William Reymond, thinks that the SDECE wanted to manufacture “from scratch" the presence of Souètre, thus having a means of pressure on the OAS.

I personally believe that that comes closest to the truth. The allegation that Souetre was in Dallas was not so much an attempt to shed light on what happened on November 22nd, as it was a ruse by the SDECE to discredit the OAS.

Steve Thomas

‘F-bombs were dropped' after Arizona election denial witness accused GOP officials of taking bribes: report

by Brad Reed February 24, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-republicans-2659465102/

:Despite the existence of ample evidence to disprove election fraud claims in Arizona, elected Republicans in that state held yet another hearing this week that gave conspiracy theorists space to air false accusations about the 2020 election being stolen from former President Donald Trump.

Local news outlet ABC 15 Arizona reports that the hearing brought together many conspiracy theorists whose work has been cited in the past by Arizona state Republicans, including Jacqueline Breger, who accused Mesa Mayor John Giles and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer -- both of whom are Republicans -- of taking bribes to change election results.

According to ABC 15's report, Breger offered no evidence to back up her claims of bribery among elected Republicans, and Republican State Sen. Ken Bennett "told Breger to stop talking, ending her testimony."

https://www.abc15.com/news/political/elections/gop-lawmakers-double-down-on-az-elections-despite-ag-report-saying-theyre-safe-and-secure

“AVONDALE, AZ — Any chance that the release of a concealed attorney general report which discredited nearly every claim that Arizona's 2020 election was stolen quickly evaporated Thursday when Republicans, who sat on the Municipal Oversight & Elections Joint meeting, continued to press their belief that elections in Arizona are not safe and secure.

Only Republicans attended the hearing, while Democrats boycotted it.”

“Another witness was Jacqueline Breger, who accused election workers by name along with Mesa Mayor John Giles and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer of accepting bribes to alter the outcomes of elections.

Breger offered no proof of claims and none of the lawmakers asked for any. Finally, State Senator Ken Bennett of Prescott District 1 told Breger to stop talking, ending her testimony.”

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1629178543119933440

LEAKED CHATS, DOCUMENTS SHOW ATOMWAFFEN FOUNDER'S PATH TO TERROR PLOT

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/23/leaked-chats-documents-show-atomwaffen-founders-path-terror-plot

Like other white-power accelerationists, Russell promoted the strategy of attacking public infrastructure in the belief that it would trigger a crisis that would cause the collapse of “The System” – a term that accelerationists use for the status quo political order.
The new charges were outlined in the criminal complaint filed by the FBI on Feb. 2 and unsealed on Feb. 6. The complaint accuses Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel – his alleged accomplice and apparent girlfriend – of planning and equipping themselves for attacks on electricity infrastructure in Maryland.

Steve Thomas

Steve Bannon started a cryptocurrency business.

It charges an 8% transaction fee.

It's lost 95% of its value and there's money missing.

It's nice to see that the sun still rises in the east.

Steve Thomas

Well, at least he didn't throw them paper towels.

Steve Thomas

‘This is why God made pipelines': GOP senator gives nonsensical explanation of Ohio train derailment

by Brandon Gage February 19, 2023

https://www.alternet.org/why-god-made-pipelines-ohio/

“United States Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) suggested during a Fox News appearance on Saturday that "God made pipelines" and that somehow that form of notoriously unreliable infrastructure would have prevented the 150-car February 3rd Norfolk Southern Railway freight train derailment that poisoned East Palestine, Ohio with toxic vinyl chloride gas. “

“What do you think of how the federal government has been handling this? And should the secretary of transportation be out there talking to folks?" host John Roberts asked Kennedy, referring to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

"Well, this is why God made pipelines," Kennedy replied. "They're much safer than trucks or trains. Now, I understand this particular chemical, uh, could, could not have been transported by a pipeline. Um, but, but all you can do is require the truckers and require the railroads to be as safe as they possibly can. But when you can do it through a pipeline."”

Yup. God made pipelines.

Of course, this one doesn't work, but hey, nobody's perfect.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Bill Simpich said:

  There is nothing "funny" about this kind of malicious forgery.

Bill.

On top of anything else, Hidel is spelled wrong.

Steve Thomas

Alaska Republican stuns observers by asking about economic benefits of abused children's deaths

by Brad Reed February 22, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/david-eastman-alaska/

“Republican Alaska state Rep. David Eastman this week stunned observers when he asked about the potential economic benefits of abused children dying.

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Eastman spoke up during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that was centered on the deleterious long-term effects that being sexually abused has on children.

As ADN notes, part of the presentation included economic data showing that an abused child "could cost the family and broader society $1.5 million in terms of trauma and what the child could potentially have earned over their lifetime."

It was based on this that Eastman started asking if society might save money if the child were to simply die instead of remaining alive to be a burden on society.

“It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment," he said.”

“Eastman has long been a controversial figure, as he is a member of the Oath Keepers militia and was present in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, although there is no evidence linking him to any violence that took place at the Capitol on that day.”

Ah yes, the Final Solution.

Steve Thomas

Marjorie Taylor Greene lays out her rules for living in red states and blue states after the National Divorce:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1628062963754999809

Awful lot of rules in the name of freedom and liberty.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, David Butler said:

Hi @Steve Thomas Is Doctor Lefevre definitely Albert and not Doctor Bernard Lefevre ?

http://deltas-collines.org/galerie/BERNARDLEFEVRE

 

David,

No, you're right.  Thanks for catching that. His name was Dr. Bernard LeFevre

CIRCULATION OF FRENCH SECRET ARMY ORGANIZATION WATCHLIST

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=64991#relPageId=3

Steve Thomas

Watch: Trump vows to use the federal government to discipline your children

by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement February 21, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2659447838/

“Donald Trump is promising to use the federal government to discipline children if he becomes president again.

"We will end the leftist takeover of school discipline and juvenile justice," Trump says in a five-minute pre-recorded campaign video released Monday (below).

"Many of these carjackers and criminals are 13, 14, and 15 years-old. I will order the Education and Justice Departments to overhaul federal standards on disciplining minors," he added. "So when troubled youth are out of control, they're out on the streets and they're going wild, we will stop it. The consequences are swift, certain and strong and they will know that."

Trump's rambling remarks were part of an apparent seven-point plan that is focused on using police force and violence against American citizens, and going as far as calling up "federal assets" to flood America's streets.

"I will not hesitate to send in federal assets including the National Guard until safety is restored," Trump says.”

“Trump also says he will increase funding available to local police departments, but only if they enact "proven, common sense policing measures such as stop and frisk."”

Tanks. I want to see more tanks!

Tanks, chasing little kids through the streets All right!

Stop and Frisk. Throw 'em up against the wall!

More! More! I want more! American Idol is just showing re-runs tonight.

Steve Thomas

In the late 1950's (an might still be the case, I don't know), the French had a system of 2 years of compulsory military service for males between the ages of 18 to 20.

One way of fulfilling this 'requirement was to enroll in a Officer's Candidate program - sort of like our ROTC program.

Jean-Rene Souetre elected to pursue this course.

The earliest I know of him was in 1950.

After a stage of EOR, (military cadet?) (Ecole d'officiers de réserve de l'Armée de l'air – E.O.R?)

He was incorporated into the French Air Force (l'armee de l'air) in 1950 where he passed briefly as a Commander of an anti-aircraft battery. He was made a second-lieutenant in 1952. He was attached to Mourmelon, a commune in the Marne Department of north-eastern France. He was then posted to Lahr, in western Germany in the air artillery. At the end of 1954 the air artillery group was dissolved to form the half-brigade of Air Riflemen (Fusilliers d'lair), which was sent to Algeria. (from Wikopedia: The term "Demi-brigade" was chosen to avoid the feudal ancien régime connotations of the term "Régiment". Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the term to be abandoned in 1803, and the demi-brigades were renamed "régiments". The term was reused by certain later units in the French Army, such as the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade, the only permanent demi-brigade in the modern French Army.)

As a junior grade, second lieutenant, he was stationed at Petite Mulion and commanded an anti-aircraft battery.It was during this period that he met the future Dr. Lawrence Alderson.

After he arrived in Algeria, he would be arrested in 1956 and sentenced to two weeks hard labor for acting without orders.

https://site.fncv.com/biblio/grand_combattant/souetre-jean/index.html

"In 1954, Lieutenant Souètre found himself in Geryville, Algeria, in the air riflemen. Two years later, he will be able to show his voluntary character: learning that oil tankers have fallen into an ambush, he goes to their aid with his section and manages to free them, which will earn him a fifteen-day arrest sanction. of rigor by his hierarchy, for having acted without orders..".

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Leslie Sharp said:

 Deloncle, an engineer, who spoke precious little in public about La Cagoule, said the purpose of the group was to restore the Catholic monarchy to France. 

 

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Leslie,

I think the "movement", if you want to call it that, went by several names,

There was a throwaway line in something Jean-Claude Perez told Fensterwald in 1982. He said that,

“post 1962, Souetre was part of an ultra-right, ultra-Catholic splinter group which included four men named Pichon, Lefevre, Bourget, and Grossouvre. Group called Integraliste"
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Souetre%20Jean%20with%20aka%27s/Item%2011.pdf

p. 4.

(Albert Lefevre, by the way, was the one man I could find that both stood trial with Souetre in December, 1961 and who escaped with him from the Camp at St. Maurice L'Ardoise in February, 1962.)

From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralism

Integralism is an ideology according to which a nation is an organic unity. Integralism defends social differentiation and hierarchy with co-operation between social classes, transcending conflict between social and economic groups. It advocates trade unionism (or a guild system), corporatism, and organic political representation instead of ideological forms of representation. Integralism claims that the best political institutions for given nations will differ depending on the history, culture and climate of the nation's habitat. Often associated with blood and soil conservatism, it posits the nation or the state or the nation state as an end and a moral good, rather than a means.[1]

The term integralism was coined by the French journalist Charles Maurras, whose conception of nationalism was illiberal and anti-internationalist, elevating the interest of the state above that of the individual and above humanity in general.[1]

Although it is marked by its being exclusionary and particularistic, and there has been consideration of its historic role as a sort of proto-fascism (in a European context)[1] or para-fascism (in a South American context),[2] this link remains controversial, with some social scientists positing that it combines elements of both the political left and right.[3]

Catholic Integralism does not support the creation of an autonomous "Catholic" state church, or Erastianism (Gallicanism in French context). Rather it supports subordinating the state to the worldwide Catholicism under the leadership of the Pope. Thus it rejects separation of the Catholic Church from the state and favours Catholicism as the proclaimed religion of the state.[5]

Catholic Integralism appeals to the teaching on the subordination of temporal to spiritual power of medieval popes such as Pope Gregory VII and Pope Boniface VIII. But Catholic Integralism in the strict sense came about as a reaction against the political and cultural changes which followed the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.[6

In the paragraph above the one I cited earlier, there is this paragraph:

Notice how Dr. Albert LeFevre's name appears in both the Interegeliste movement, and here in the MCR. I'm beginning to think he was a much more dangerous man than I originally thought.

I just think that in addition to the "stay behind" network, and the "stratehy of tension" movements, there were other elements in play that should be taken into consideration. Aside from political forces, there's this whole religious thing thrown into the pot.

Steve Thomas

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for Secession!

She has no business being a member of Congress.

'National divorce': Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to 'separate red states from blue states'

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2659441725/

"In a Twitter post Monday, the right-ring member of Congress said, "We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government."

Steve Thomas

20 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

Jean-Rene Souetre was mentioned a couple of times in the book by Quivy - once in relation to his establishment of the first Maquis in 1961 and then again with respect to the establishment of the CNR Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR) after the dissolution of the OAS in 1962. Souetre truly was one of the Soldats Perdus.

Establishment of the CNR

Report dated April 26, 1963

CURRENT STATUS OF ACTIVIST GROUPS

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=64993&relPageId=3

This is from Item# 10 on page 6:

I told another researcher that there is a right-wing Catholic militant group that is floating around in the background that I don't think has received enough attention from researchers.

Steve Thomas

'People in the asylum have taken control': Michigan GOP operative sounds alarm about party's new leader

by Brad Reed February 19, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/kristina-karamo-2659439146/

“Michigan Republicans have elected failed Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo to be their new chairwoman, despite the fact that has a long history of spouting QAnon-style conspiracy theories and she refuses to concede an election she lost by 14 points.”

“Kamaro has also accused Democrats of selling off the body parts of babies and engaging in ritual child sacrifice, and has also said that demonic possession is not only real but can be transferred from one person to another via sexual intercourse.”

Oh boy.

Have the people in our country lost their friggin mind?

What the he**'s wrong with us?

Steve Thomas

On 2/18/2023 at 9:34 AM, Steve Thomas said:

This is the General Amnesty that DeGaulle issued on July 31, 1968 for the members of the OAS and others who had participated in the events iin Algeria and elsewhere. Marton and Sari had already been released from prison on March 22, 1968.

Steve Thomas

Les Soldats Perdus - The Lost Soldiers

This phrase was first coined by Charles DeGaulle in a radio broadcast on October 2, 1961.

As Mighty as the Sword: A Study of the Writings of Charles de Gaulle

By Alan Pedley. Elm Banks Publications, 1996.

http://books.google.com/books?id=cA7IIjGHdJ8C&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq="soldats+perdus"+DeGaulle+speech+October+1961&source=bl&ots=OPWK1Bx8Yt&sig=UO_wyf3-JFpRXiwD5aBGKpwc7qU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MyRZU5rfBNSryATt5ILwCw&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q="soldats perdus" DeGaulle speech October 1961&f=false

In a speech broadcast on October 2, 1961, Charles DeGaulle said, “dès que l'Etat et la nation ont choisi leur chemin, le devoir militaire est tracé une fois pour toutes. Hors de lui, il ne peut y avoir, il n'y a, que des soldats perdus”.

“As soon as the state and nation have chosen their path, military duty is drawn once and for all. Out of it, it can not be, that is, as soldiers lost.”

He later invoked the "lost soldiers: in a speech in Strasbourg.

In a speech at Strasbourg on November 23, 1961, DeGaulle said:

Anniversaire de la Libération de Strasbourg

http://fresques.ina.fr/de-gaulle/fiche-media/Gaulle00284/anniversaire-de-la-liberation-de-strasbourg.html

“Certes, on peut s'expliquer, et moi-même le premier, que dans l'esprit et dans le cour de certains soldats, se soient faits jour d'autres souhaits, et même l'illusion, qu'à force de le vouloir, on pourrait faire en sorte, dans le domaine ethnique et psychologique, que les choses soient ce que l'on désire, et le contraire de ce qu'elles sont. Mais, dès lors que l'Etat et la nation ont choisi leur chemin, le devoir militaire est fixé une fois pour toute. Hors de ces règles, il n'y a, il ne peut y avoir que des soldats perdus”.

“Certainly, we can explain, and myself the first, that in the minds and in the hearts of certain soldiers, other wishes have come to light, and even the illusion, that by dint of wanting, one could ensure, in the ethnic and psychological domain, that things are what one desires, and the opposite of what they are. But, once the state and the nation have chosen their path, the military duty is fixed once and for all. Outside of these rules, there are, there can only be lost soldiers”.

Jean-Rene Souetre was mentioned a couple of times in the book by Quivy - once in relation to his establishment of the first Maquis in 1961 and then again with respect to the establishment of the CNR Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR) after the dissolution of the OAS in 1962. Souetre truly was one of the Soldats Perdus.

Quivy, Vincent, Les Soldats Perdus: Des Anciens de L'OAS Racontent. Éditions Du Seuil, April, 2003. p. 81.

Joe “Nani” Eizza told Quivy, “À Bougira, je trouve Souètre, se souvient Rizza, on est ensemble dans le maquis, lui dans une ferme, (of Robert Martel?) moi dans l'autre, on communique par radio... Il y a Montpeyroux, Esquère, un ancien para... Souètre prend une fferme avec Montpeyroux et les commandos de l'air qui ont déserté avec lui. On a de l'armement, mais on ne combat pas. Lui a été arrêté, moi je suis sauvé.”

Joe “Nani” Eizza told Quivy, “In Bougira, I find Souètre, recalls Rizza, we are together in the maquis, he in a farm, (of Robert Martel?) me in the other one, we communicate by radio.. There is Montpeyroux, Esquère, a former para... Souètre takes a farm with Montpeyroux and the air force commandos who deserted with him. We have weapons, but we don't fight. He was arrested, I am saved.”

Former Captain Jean Marie Curutchet , told Quivy that, “J'ai des contacts à Paris, j'appartiens au réseau Centurion,...” p.77.

Jean Favarel told Quivy that (in 1962) “La situation continue à se dégrader. Il y a eu une réunion à Oran, avec le capitaine Souètre qui a remplacé le commandant Guillaume.” p. 160.

Jean Favarel told Quivy that (in 1962) “The situation continued to deteriorate. There was a meeting in Oran, with Captain Souètre who replaced Commander Guillaume.” p. 160.

The haut tribunal militaire was instituted on April 27, 1961 to judge those responsible for the putsch of April, 1961. On May 27^th, DeGaulle invoked it by ordinance. p. 159.

In the 1980's the FN or Front National was formed to further the aims of the extreme right. “Comme Jean René Souètre, Pierre Descaves, Roger Holeindre, tous responsables de premier plan de l'OAS, il figurera sur la liste du leader d'extrême droite aux élections européennes de 1999 et ce malgré la présence en bonne place du petits-fils du général de Gaulle.” p. 214.

“Like Jean René Souètre, Pierre Descaves, Roger Holeindre, all leading officials of the OAS, he will appear on the list of the far-right leader in the 1999 European elections, despite the prominent presence of the grandson of General de Gaulle. p. 214.

Steve Thomas

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1626621827945582593

"Trump cultist/MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn says that Satan used Sen. John Fetterman to help the Democrats keep control of the Senate "and now that Satan's done with him, now we send him to the mental nuthouse. He just checked himself in for being crazy."

dumb old Satan

Steve Thomas

32 prisoners were released on Friday afternoon,  March 22, 1968

Le  Monde March 23, 1968

The Republican National Committee has put out a proviso that if you want to take part in the National primary debates, you must sign a loyalty pledge first, declaring that you will support the eventual nominee, whoever he or she is.

Donald Trump has already said that he will not blindly commit to supporting the ultimate nominee. He want to see who it is first - so he might not get to appear on the debate stage.

This has also placed several of the other candidates in a bind because they (like John Sununu of New Hampshire) have publicly said that they will not support Donald Trump if he becomes the nominee.

Once again, the Republican National Committee has put their foot in it. January 6th was just "legitimate public discourse", remember?

Go, Ronna McDaniel, go!

Steve Thomas

This is the General Amnesty that DeGaulle issued on July 31, 1968 for the members of the OAS and others who had participated in the events iin Algeria and elsewhere. Marton and Sari had already been released from prison on March 22, 1968.

Steve Thomas

AI "reporters" spread disinformation about Ohio train derailment

Conspiratorial claims about chemical contamination can be traced back to "reporters" who aren't real.

By Caroline Orr Bueno 02/17/23

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/ai-reporters-spread-disinformation?utm_campaign=post

“The Ohio train derailment and subsequent chemical release has spawned a flurry of conspiratorial claims about the event being akin to “America’s Chernobyl,” with some users saying the accident has poisoned the water supply over a vast area and warning residents up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers that they’re in danger if they drink the water.”

“On Monday, I pointed out the beginning of what looked like a coordinated campaign on Twitter in which users were spreading conspiratorial claims about the Mississippi River being contaminated”

“All of these users were sharing the exact same map, which was unrelated to the current incident, and none provided a link or a source for their claims about how the contamination would spread, in what concentration, or how it would pose a danger to human and animal health. Generally, repetitive posting of outdated and out-of-context visuals as seen in these tweets is a sign of possible coordinated activity and/or disinformation campaigns.
 

“But the claims in those tweets weren't just thinly sourced — some of them were actually sourced from a website that purports to be a news outlet but is really a disinformation website whose writers are fake people with AI-generated faces. The website using fake writers with AI-generated pictures is called “Eden Reports”. The site was created on Dec. 27, 2022, and is registered with a Lithuanian-based registrar.”

Steve Thomas

Florida education officials discuss SAT alternative focused on ‘Western tradition’
MiamI Herald
https://nordot.app/999469652315095040?c=592622757532812385

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters say is focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.”

Steve Thomas

53 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Steve,  I'm curious why you delved into Jean Rene Souetre?

Leslie 

I found him to be fascinating as an individual. 

Read what I wrote back in 2016

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/22775-jean-rene-souetre-aka-robin-hood/#comment-328381

Steve Thomas