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Macron’s new ‘hate speech’ internet law turns France into authoritarian state (Video)

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss France’s Avia law, which is setting up a system of censorship where private companies will be obliged to act as thought police on behalf of the French state or face heavy fines.
The new law will use ‘hate’ as the pretext to systematically silence dissenting opinions, including those of Macron’s political opponents.

MACRON & MERKEL cook up 500 BILLION EU rescue scam (Video)

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the €500 billion European Recovery fund cooked up by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.
The fund proposes the EU borrows on the financial markets in order to disperse 500 billion euros through grants to EU economies hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. EU member states receiving the funds would theoretically not need to repay the cash, instead liability for the debt would be added to the EU budget, which would eventually be paid for by EU citizens in the form of additional taxation.

Eurobonds or Bust? That’s the Next Phase of the EU

Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog:
We’ve reached the next stage of the EU’s evolution, whether it will adopt a common bond market or not. It’s been clear for a long time that something had to change if the European Union was to survive its political transformation.
And that issue is the formation of a shared debt structure underpinning the euro, commonly referred to as Eurobonds.

Assange European Defense Lawyers Will Try for Asylum in France

PARIS (AP) — Julian Assange’s European defense team said Thursday it will try to seek asylum in France for the Wikileaks founder, whose full hearings for extradition to the United States on spying charges start next week in London.
French team member Eric Dupont-Moretti said Assange’s case placed at stake “the fate and the status of all journalists.”