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FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Emmanuel Macron’s team blasted a “massive and coordinated hacking attack” against his campaign after a flood of internal documents were released online barely 24 hours before the election.
The centrist candidate’s furious staff said last night’s release of thousands of emails, accounting documents and other files was an attempt at “democratic destabilisation, like that seen during the last presidential campaign in the United States”.
The documents spread on social media just before midnight – when 39-year-old Macron and his far-right rival Marine Le Pen officially wrapped up campaigning for Sunday’s decisive run-off vote – with his aides calling the leak “unprecedented in a French electoral campaign”.
Hillary Clinton has alleged Russian hacking of her campaign’s emails was partly to blame for her defeat in last year’s US presidential election to Donald Trump.
The leak, posted by someone calling themselves EMLEAKS, came as an 11th-hour twist in what has proved to be one of the most drama-packed elections in French history.
Macron’s team said the files were stolen weeks ago when several officials from his En Marche party had their personal and work emails hacked – one of “an intense and repeated” series of cyber-attacks against Macron since the launch of the campaign.
In a statement, aides said:
Clearly, the documents arising from the hacking are all lawful and show the normal functioning of a presidential campaign.
But they warned that whoever was behind the leak had mixed fake documents with real ones “in order to sow doubt and disinformation”.
The WikiLeaks website posted a link on Twitter to the trove of documents, saying it was not responsible for the leak but that it was “examining” parts of the cache, amounting to around nine gigabytes of data in total.
Last month cybersecurity research group Trend Micro said Russian hackers called Pawn Storm had targeted Macron’s campaign, using “phishing” techniques to try to steal personal data.
Senior Le Pen aide Florian Philippot suggested on Twitter that the leak might contain information that the media had deliberately suppressed.
France’s presidential election commission advised media not to publish details of the documents, warning that publication could lead to criminal charges and that some of the documents were probably fake. The commission is due to meet later today to discuss the hack.
Security jitters
The upset came at the end of a frantic final day of campaigning and as fresh security concerns emerged following the arrest of a suspected extremist.
Polls released yesterday had showed Macron gaining momentum, forecasting victory for the pro-European, pro-business former banker with around 62% to 38% for Le Pen.
He and Le Pen – who is hoping to ride a global wave of anti-establishment anger to the Elysee Palace – have offered starkly different visions for France during a campaign that has been closely watched in Europe and around the world.
After a policeman was shot dead in an Islamic State-claimed attack on Paris’s Champs-Elysees three days before the first election round last month, jitters rose again when police arrested a suspected extremist near a military airbase yesterday.
Guns were discovered as well as a pledge of allegiance to IS and several of the group’s flags, sources close to the case told AFP after the arrest in Evreux, north of Paris.
The suspect, a 34-year-old Muslim convert, was arrested early yesterday after police found his car near the base.
In another major security incident yesterday, Greenpeace activists partially scaled the Eiffel Tower to hang a giant anti-Le Pen banner saying “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” and “#resist”.
Paris police said the stunt exposed “flaws” in the security surrounding the world-famous monument, and city authorities announced immediate measures to reinforce patrols at the site.
Polar opposites
Le Pen has tried to portray Macron as being soft on security and Islamic fundamentalism, playing to the concerns of many of her supporters after a string of terror attacks in France that have killed more than 230 people since 2015.
She has said she wants to copy Britain’s example and hold a referendum on France’s EU membership, sending alarm bells ringing in capitals across the bloc.
In the first round of the election, she finished second behind Macron on 21.3% after softening the FN’s image over the past six years – but without fully removing doubts about the party’s core beliefs.
A former economy minister under Socialist President Francois Hollande, Macron quit the government last August to concentrate on his new political movement En Marche, which has drawn 250,000 members in 12 months.
He won high-profile backing from former US president Barack Obama on Thursday, who said in a video that Macron “appeals to people’s hopes and not their fears”.
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The guy who got groomed by his school teacher is the ideal candidate for Merkel and our EU overlords.
@Big Lee: That was a good one
@Big Lee: what an in depth observation.
The other side of that is that Le Pen, being anti EU, is the ideal candidate for Putin and his expansionist notions
@Tony Canning: Le Pen won’t allow Merkel and her buddies continue to groom France and it’s people for violation. Macron will sit in Angela’s lap while she does it.
@Big Lee: Le Pen is the candidate for Le Pen only. She craves the position and the hunger for power is etched on her face. In the, according to the polls, extremely unlikely event that she wins, she will quickly do a Trump when faced with the impossibility of doing what she promised, and the rest of us will be up shit creek . . .
@Big Lee: Once again we know what this points at. You think this about one issue and it’s not.
@Big Lee: What about the guy that sexually assaulted numerous women and speed on underagec girls in their dressing room running the free world?
@Big Lee: It could be said of Le Pen. Failed twice in marriage, failed 6 times to become a French MP and previously failed to become President and looks like failing again.
Let’s give him the excuse that they use on the people when further eroding their rights through surveillance, ‘if you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear’.
Maybe this blaming the Russians is just a case of sporting excuses, getting them in before he fails in case the French people abandon him en masse. (Had to get that in).
Seriously if you are reading this and have a vote tomorrow then veuillez considérer vos voisins et cousins de la Méditerranée qui sont subjugués par l’euro, libérez-les, votez Le Pen. Je vous remercie.
@Big Lee:
Or on bended knee, after all he has a thing for pensioners..https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_BuD2EXcAQLVcq.jpg
@Revolting Peasant: Oui, d’accord.
@Mick Jordan:
Yes as opposed to the Rothschild banker who had 50,000 euro at such a young age to get out of his job contract, was part of the despised Hollande government, and at only 39 and in the space of less than a yr, tops the polls, if they are to be believed, while all the EU bankers, polticians and liar media, cheerlead and support him. And you sneer at Le Pen against all this corruption and banker boots stomping down on the ordinary people as they get their man into power, while siding with him yourself, yeah right
Something rotten in the state of France.
CNN said “he is defying the mainstream”
……….he is the frigging mainstream
Macron – the ultimate insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6H0cjIN4gw
@Atlantean Irish: So you have a problem with him being smart!!! If he had €50,000 then he earned it by being intelligent enough to land a job that paid that type of money. Who was hired directly by the Hollande government to become one of France’s youngest ministers because they were able to recognise talent. And had the get up and go to create his own party and standing in his very first election looks likely to become the President of France. Against a woman who has been involved in politics her entire adult life but has continuously failed at it. Who inherited a party from her father who likewise continuously failed in his political ambitions.
@Mick Jordan:
Nobody earns that kind of money when you are just starting out in your new job, unless you are an establishment puppet being groomed to do their bidding in govt at a later date, which reports say is exactly what happened, he went straight into the high civil service and began doing deals for the bankers, he was their man in govt position.
“the get up and go” LOL that is naive. An Irish person who has seen how we have been at the mercy of corruption both national and international and how we are paying an austerity debt we do not owe to the same people who Macron is the lapdog for, should know better.
@Mick Jordan:
Le Pen’s actually did succeed, especially when you consider they had the whole establishment, banker system and media against them, did Msr Le Pen not reach the 2nd stage of a Presidential election, is that not an achievement despite the whole media being against you, same with Marine Le Pen in this election.
You seem to ignore the fact of the multicultural social engineering that has gone on for the past 2 decades and how anyone against it has been osctracised, vilified and been threatened with fines or jail, so even against that they actually were a success, whereas all the OpenBorders Extremists have had the luxury of the state being on their side and the media, yet could never get past a certain % of the vote, now that is real failure.
@Atlantean Irish: I would suggest talking to some stock traders in London or Frankfurt. Some have earned millions in their first year on the job. As for international banking wages can be astronomical just as they can be in the IT sector. Clever people can earn huge money very quickly. And like any other businesses, governments Headhunt those they deem to have what they need. And as for get up a go, then you discount those like Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Bill Gates,Mark Zuckerberg etc, self made Billionaires. They had the get up and go to make it.
@Atlantean Irish: Second is not winning no matter how you frame it. Losing is losing. 6 times she ran for the French Parliament and 6 times she Failed. She ran for President in 2012 and Failed. Failure after failure after failure. See a trend here.
@Big Lee: What about the radio DJ?
@Mick Jordan: By your estimation all the 1916 hero’s are losers too. Nigel Farage has done nothing but lose. I think you haven’t got very long-term view. Le Pen might not win this battle but her mere existence is just another torpedo into the disgusting EU project and she will feel like a winner the day it sinks forever
Is there another surprise in Le Pen being elected ? Have the media turned the people again on insisting Macron ? Power of the media is diminished hugely with the internet. Similarly here in Ireland , Media , FF and FG after near 100 years are losing their grip with the church included..
@Willy Malone: Yeah that’s why the Irish people voted for a FF / FG government for the first time since the foundation of the State only 12 months ago.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: I think you’ll find FF FG combined vote was lowest in history of state ☺
I predict that trend of diminishing returns to continue as explained above ☺
@Willy Malone:
I think the internet is doing more harm than good to AAA/PBP.
Are AAA/PBP (or whatever you call yourselves ) at 3% at the moment ? I think it is because of your party’s nasty , arrogant and hostile social media campaign against anyone with an opposing view.
You need to change the broken record whining on about FG /FF/LAB , “banksters” and neoliberals .
Even with the dreadful Enda Kenny and Michael Martin calling the shots you are still bouncing around rock bottom with Renua and the Greens
I am glad that your propagandist wing have stopped the cutting and pasting .
@Jimmy jones: You must be a blouse shirt or perhaps a flip flopper agitated by my truthful comment ☺
Seems you and your kind have lost the ability or are loosing that ability to force your elitist ways on the people and as said your very agitated … Poor soul ☺
@Willy Malone: Exactly ……nasty , arrogant and hostile social media
On official record:
Combined voted for FG and FF in last elections for last four decades.
1982 – 84.6%
1982 – 84.4%
1987 – 71.3%
1992 – 63.6%
1997 – 67.2%
2002 – 64%
2007 – 68.9%
2011 – 53.5%
2016 – 49.8%
I think people voted for a party or person they liked or least hated. Nowhere on the ballot paper was there an option for choosing a coalition.
Welcome to the New World Order, a dictatorship run by Vladimir Putin and supported by his Alt-Right cheerleaders. The Far-Right have killed democracy.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: they’ve cracked the art of manipulating it. Killing it could potentially be less damaging.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: CIA/NSA lead the world in this field. No doubt about it.
@Big Lee: So easy to type, as usual – link/evidence? No…
@Grainne Abdulaziz: I’d take putin over sharia any day…
@Big Lee: that’s a fabrication, they have been overun by Russia for more than 15 years. But the projection that the us is stronger in this regard is something the Russians want you to think.in fact your posts and efforts on the subject are an example of this in action.
@Matty kinevan: why have either.? See again this is the type of stuff that is put out . Putin’s not as bad as that extreme Islamic stuff… They are both bad we don’t want or need either.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: Do you have any proof of your allegations that Russia and the Alt-right are behind this?
@Jason Culligan: Jason isn’t real Jason is an example of this ever present consistent diatribe anti democracy anti EU anti anything.
@Grainne Abdulaziz:
Proof, links etc?
@Fank Pulman: mute is a great thing for idiots like him.
@Jason Culligan: releasing emails of only one candidate (the one that isn’t considered far right) is obviously an attempt by someone to influence an election in favour of one candidate. It doesn’t have to be the Russians etc to be an affront to democracy. Everyone has baggage and secrets. If u only learn of the secrets of one candidate of course ur views will be unfairly biased. Either have all secrets of both candidates open for scrutiny or allow candidates to have privacy. U can’t have it one way for one candidate and not or the other.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: Lol, Liberals are the ones protesting democracy on a daily basis
@scoop delivery
Extreme Islam is a ting group in the Muslim world… Putin posses nuclear weapons and an army of hackers…
Putin is far more dangerous
@George Orwell: you are being found out. You are now on a pedestal your subversion is no longer under the radar. People can see you. People will see you. Europe is stronger than you.
@Matty kinevan: get a life you bigot.
@Ossi Fritsche: Oh name calling. Well done. *clap clap clap What next? Are you going to break all my crayons in half?
IT’s amazing how up their own hole some people are about proof when it suits them. If you want to be all academic about things then be consistent. The same people happy to put out their own unverified opinion aren’t so quick to provide links, quotes, proof when asked.
@Grainne Abdulaziz: Really? by the misbehavour and lies of democracies ruling elites this nonsesen about false data mixed with true is a good one I give you. But the devil is in the detail will make good reading seeing what the next French president got up.
@Austin Rock: Matty and Big Lee are Putin trolls, plain and simple. The same ones that flooded the Trump threads with red thumbs during the US election. Putin wants to destabilize the west, plain and simple. The easiest way to do that is to instill populist morons and let them rot from the inside.
@Philip Gerard: Do you even know what a populist is Phil? You’re consistently embarrassing yourself here
@Grainne Abdulaziz:
Austerity and immigration was not done by Putin, but by Western leaders allied to big banking system.
What’s he afraid of if the emails are untrue as he says they are. He’s the media’s pet politician so they were hardly going to publish them and yet he felt he had threaten them with legal action if they did. Makes you wonder.
@John Adams: about what John? It makes you wonder why Russia is actively engaged in tearing Europe apart.
@John Adams: your question makes me wonder about you John.
@John Adams: Silly comment given the timing of this release. There is a ban on French media doing ANY reporting on the election until polls close.
Naive.
@John Adams:
a) he hasn’t threatened them not to publish, the French Commission for Electoral Affairs did.
b) they did so because fake were mixed with the real ones.
c) everyone knew his websites had been hacked a couple of weeks ago, and there would be some kind of last minute leak.
d) I’m French but my grammar, spelling and punctuation in English are correct, unlike yours. Excuse my French.
Constant and ever present misinformation, no breaks no alterations just continual negative posts , comments jibes automated and manual efforts by Russia to control the views they wish to present in any country anywhere on earth. This is the new future and it’s subversive and consistent. Be aware.
@scoop delivery: there’s reds under the beds …
@scoop delivery: Yep, And as I said hundreds times before the West do nothing about it. I have been monitoring these bots since 2004 in Ukraine and Ireland since 2009. Assange opened his face completely. Anyone has any doubt who this “hero” work for? After publishing info on Clinton during US elections (and not just publishing all but 1 by 1 so to change ppl opinion), then saying “US intelligence report on US is a joke” (yet even Trump admitted that was the case and Russia arrested 3 senior FSB officers related to IT after one week of Trump’s briefing by FBI), and now, he said he had info on Macron around 1 month ago, yet he is publishing this info right before the election and mixing with fakes. And yea , the country he works for has huge level of corruption, low level of life ,science, education . There are no privacy at all. Any website could be shut by local judge, and FSB does not need any “super smart” programs to tap into social networks like ANB. They just come and take info they need, and everybody phones monitored without any permission.
@scoop delivery: Ha Ha really funny
@Austin Rock: What funny?
You can already see on this article the streams of paid shills directing the narrative heavily liking and promoting their comments to get to the top of the thread , this is an online war ever present consistent and always on.
@scoop delivery: paid shills? Just like everybody that espouses differing views to your own?
@JJ O Riordan: you are not real jj but good try xxx
@scoop delivery: not real? Explain?
@scoop delivery:and you are a real person!!!! LOL
@scoop delivery: It’s always the case. Consistently happens on most stories.
Macron can tell a tall tales,he is learning this from enda Kenny.
@@mdmak33: how nice , localised for each country . You guys know what you are doing. In the same breathe it’s blantantly obvious.
@scoop delivery: You’re becoming extremely paranoid, Scoop. Careful you don’t overload yourself and suffer some kind of psychotic episode.
Oh, to get back to the days of innocence and decency when all media outlets delivered only the truth and transparency was the norm and there was no left or right or in between, just pure unadulterated facts! Ha hahahahahaha!
Will they leak his plan to reduce public service numbers by 120000 and reduce France public spending by €65 billion……Thatcherisn comes to France finally….
@John003: Erm, this has actually been well known throughout the campaign . . .
@Neil Mcdonough: All the coverage I saw on RTE and the BBC left that little detail of his policy out
@John003: Well, as it is part of his election policies, the French media covered it and that’s what counts no?
@John003: Another Putin shill speaks shyte.
Crooked Emmaunel!
@Big Lee: Biased anonymous coward.
@Big Lee: Enfermez-le! :-)
@Danny Rafferty: He’s a Putin fluffer. Try posting something negative about Russia on these threads. Watch the backlash.
@Big Lee: This right here is a sign that the comments section of the journal is compromised by bots. It is a non-comment lacking in wit or information from a troll, that has accumulated 66 likes. Before the ditching of red thumbs on the journal, those making far right supportive comments were pushed to the top by a barrage of likes and centre or left leaning comments got a barrage of red thumbs pushing them down.
After the thumb system change, centre and left leaning comments were higher in order as they reflected the true view of the Irish majority. Recently though bots have been rewritten to adapt to this change and have seen auto liking of right leaning views, pushing them to the top again.
@Tom Cullen: This was widely seen on Facebook and Twitter in the build up to the US elections.
Do the views of the Irish public change according to software overhauls of The Journal? Or is there strong symptoms of outside interference?
There needs to be better IP observance by the journal. What is the origin IP address of likes and comments made on articles, is there a a relatively rapid liking by a certain string of the same IP addresses on one particular users comments. This is getting serious as it shows, if a small Irish news outlet has resources being used on it, to what extent does this go on for larger international outlets. The Czech Republic noticed this phenomenon and set up a dedicated team to investigate and tackle the spread of this IT sabotage on news outlets in its own country.
@Tom Cullen: It’s the crab people
Yep, maybe it’s Crab people who have a vision and hope for the world that differs to Tom Cullen. Why would anyone think that a small Irish publication, such as this one, would have any influence in the playground of world affairs? If the crab people actually exist I’m sure that they wouldn’t bother their ar&ss with this rag.
@Tom Cullen: Tom where do you buy your tinfoil? (Thanks Alan b)
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: The journal has over 500,000 installs on Google play store and probably not far off the same on Apple store. Any outside interference has potential to influence 1 million people. For one hacker to be dedicated to this task would not take a huge amount of time, but have a massive return of influence. Real warfare is not being fought with bullets anymore, the cyber threat is real and there is one country that does it better than anyone for over a decade now.
@Matty kinevan: You and Big Lee are clearly a trolls with backing of bots, you use a fake Twitter account purely to comment on Journal articles. If you were real or credible you’d use a real account that hasn’t been created in the last month. Nothing more needs to be said on this issue as the above string of comments are transparent enough.
It would seem that the sensible thing for Macron to do is release the originals of the documents he is saying are fake (if such originals exist)
If he has nothing to hide, then it will put much of this to bed without any fuss.
@John Fitzpatrick: The fair thing to do would be for LePen to release all her stuff too, no????
@Philip Gerard: Yeah, it would. In an ideal world are politicians would be transparent about their dealing, but that doesn’t happen.
However, your argument is whataboutery – do you not think Macron should take actions to clears his name, especially if he says some of the leaks are falsified?
@John Fitzpatrick: there is a media blackout before the elections. He’s not allowed to publish anything. That’s why it was done just before midnight so Macron can’t defend himself. Has Russia and Assange written all over it.
Any candidate standing against the far, hard or extreme right can expect to be hacked. The extreme right will not get into power without cheating and so they cheat.
@Tony Daly: The rise of the “right” is due to the failures of the left. You’re taking the Clinton line of, oh it’s everyone else’s fault… Very immature.
@Matty kinevan: And you’re taking the line that the rise of the right is the lefts fault! Pot, kettle?
@Matty kinevan: I’m explaining that the hard right/extreme right hacked Macron’s campaign so as to reduce his decisive and overwhelming lead over Le Pen.
Most Western democracies have not had a real left wing Government in well over the last decade. It is right wing neo liberal economic policies which are at the root of the malaise in Europe.
@Neil Mcdonough: Well who else is to blame? In your world, Europeans have just become super racist all of a sudden haven’t they?
@Tony Daly: Right wing neo liberals… did you really just say that..
@Matty kinevan: What do you know about my world? Comments like that kind of ruin the little credibility you have. Who’s to blame? Well, the journal is hardly the forum to really expand on that, too many simpletons here who blame loony lefty libtards for everything . . .
@Neil Mcdonough: In other words, you have no argument. Just say that then
@Matty kinevan: Great comeback Matty, lacking in substance as usual . . . Just for you: the rise of the far right is mostly down to scared sheep believing the biggest apes who thump their chests the loudest rather than actually trying to live in a complex world that requires thinking. It’s, as Tony said, right wing neo-liberal feral capitalism that has created the mess. It might surprise you, but if it wasn’t Le Pen he was up against, I wouldn’t vote for Macron in a million years . . .
@Neil Mcdonough: The rise of the “right” in Europe is due to the migration crisis and the utter failure of the left wing establishment to deal with it in an honest and efficient manner. Plain and simple. It was predicted many years ago, by many people, that this would occur. This might surprise you, I place myself firmly on the left. My politics are probably pretty much identical to yours. I just don’t have the blind spot that many so called liberals seen to have developed in recent years.
@Tony Daly:
What makes Le Pen extreme? Saying her country France should be kept French? Saying she looks out for the interests of the French people? Defending the people against capitalist bankers and big business who got the left to open the borders to cheap labour. Doesn’t sound very “rightwing” to me nor extreme.
I would be very interested in seeing what is in Le Pen’s and her staff’s emails.
If there was anything incriminating in the documents they would have been released some days ago. In all likelihood, in the absence of anything incriminating, they released them this late to cause questioning and confusion. The cyber ops attack falsely alleging tax evasion by Macron on the day of the debate was traced to alt-right linked accounts in the US and over 200 separate Russian-based French-language twitter accounts. It certainly looks like another coordinated ploy by the international right to smear an opponent and to maximise LePen’s vote share.
@Roland Tormey: a fair assessment.
The far right know that Macron will decisively win on a democratic basis. Therefore, the far right wants to subvert democracy and in that way prevent Macron’s election.
The obvious observation is that Le Pen’s campaign has not been hacked.
@Roland Tormey: Those who wish to mess with elections learned a lot from Comey.
“France will be led by a woman either me or Merkel”
Marine Le Pen
One would wonder if Putin & Co are behind this. Russia has given millions of Euro to the NF in France plus RT and Sputnik news channels ( both news channels are run from the Kremlin) are openly hostile to Macron and supportive of Le Pen. And Moscow has been feeding stories to Wikileaks for years plus all the recent Russian cyber attacks on Sports people. Maybe I should put a few quid with the bookies for the French Intelligence services to say it was Russia behind this.
@Mick Jordan: Of course in Russia there are no elections that deserve the name so there’s little chance of anyone else interfering is there . . . :-)
@Mick Jordan: Of course they are. Closeted, self-loathing homosexual Putin is still fighting the cold war his nation of criminals lost.
@Mick Jordan:
Of course they are. Putin’s objective is to weaken Europe by sowing the seeds of division, doubt and discord, and splinter society in the process.
If he can succeed in tearing apart the EU it would be his wet dream, hence his involvement in Brexit and his tacit support of Le Pen.
Similar tactics already worked in the US – just look how deeply divided they are as a country since Trumpy took office.
I’m amazed that so many people aren’t awake to what’s going on.
@Mick Jordan:
Any proof russia are behind it or that they have given millions to FN?
And if are openly hostile to Macron, then so what, doesn’t that balance out the open hostility of western media to Le Pen, which you seem to have no trouble with?
@Atlantean Irish: The evidence of the money given to FN by Russia is in their accounts that by French law all political parties have to publish. As for proof of Russian hacking were did I claim they did? What I did do was ask if it could have been Russia especially as they have been proven to have interfered in other elections and have been attacking sports people because of Russian cheating being exposed.
When yer explainin yer losin ya little bankster Rothschild pr ick. Go Le Pen Go (attaches clothespeg to nose) keep that little financial frog out of the irish corporate tax pool.
@John O’Driscoll: Yeah John, let’s destroy Europe just to protect the Irish corporate tax pool. Bit contradictory then to rant about a banker, no?
Without France, there is no ‘Europe’ in any sense other than a landmass.
@Neil Mcdonough: in truth Neil Europe has done its bit to destroy us quite a lot lately. Fair’s fair. End of the day if IRL doesn’t look out for Her own interests the Big Beasts hardly will. Which is better, sovereign and indefeasible destines or a PRovinCe once again at the farthest reaches of a nEU Roamin’ Empire, with its hypermilitarising bankster dominated unaccountable and democratically challenged Elites? Well history shows we’ve our own unaccountable Elites here always home-grown or imported so like Le Pen and this latest Bankster Puppet we are caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue as ever, just as with Trump and Hilary. There are no good options there is no solid ground
@John O’Driscoll: You need to stop taking whatever it is you’re taking.
Just look at all these “Irish people” with first time commenting on The Journal(they are Russian Bots in reality) who woke up today and decided to log in and write a comment under this article :)))))).
@Oleksandr Savitskyy: just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean we’re not out to get you Olek…
@John O’Driscoll: You are a well known Putin supporter so you are hardly one to speak.
@Mick Jordan: gosh Mick, evidence?
@John O’Driscoll: That you are a Putin supporter? Just go back through any story that has or involves Russia.
Sounds like they are getting the excuses in early, just in case like.
What I find most telling about this article is the light in which Macron has cast by the media, the ‘centrist’ candidate. The left now deems itself the new Centre, that is the objective truth and therefore the reasonable choice, and anything or anyone else is by implication unreasonable and untrue. No surprise there though.
Well he would say that wouldn’t he but I don’t believe ham hacking is going to overturn a two to one lead in the polls because modern western voters are a tiny bit wiser than that.Voters are suspicious of both sides anyhow.
It’s sad that absolutely any grisly story true or a lie about Le Pen or Trump or any of the far right guys will only harden their supporters ardour in the same fashion as Kim Yong, Hitler, Mao tse tung were untouchable.
“France will be led by a woman either me or Merkel”
Marine Le Pen
@Atlantean Irish: Macron is a big fan of Merkel and her policies and an ex-Rothchild employee?
Being backed by Obama now as well???
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/barack-obama-elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-meghan-mccain-speech-fee-400000-wall-street-journal-new-a7707091.html
Again, Russia innovates nothing. All they are good for is hacking emails and bank accounts. A nation of cyber criminals and thugs. The Russians have the manners of pigs. Anyone who’s holidayed where they are or dealt with their tourists in Ireland know it’s true. They have nothing to offer the world except oil and that’s going away soon. Poor, little, closet gay Vladi and his Napoleon complex. Still angry he lost the Cold War so he bombed women and children in Syria to make himself feel relevant and prop up his butcher friend. He won the US election but the French are prepared now.
@Philip Gerard: Ever looked up Vault 7 on the wikipedia website? I just think you hate Russian or are you like the army of paid ones that Monsanto has but with Russians instead??
https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGomotion.pdf
https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/
Y at-il une merde dans les fichiers????
I was looking forward to something like this, almost expected at this point.
@David Fülöp: When in a panic blame the opposition or Russia?
What if in a weeks time they were proven not to be false? I can’t see how they can be false if they were stuck on the wayback machine website, if they were hacked from an account that allows this site to keep a copy of them???
This guy has slimebag written all over his face.
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