Macron at Omaha: "We Are Here and Will Not Weaken"
France needs its friends around the world to build up a technological edge to protect Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité
We need each other once again.
That’s the takeaway of a fantastic 80th celebration of D-Day put on by the French Republic.
Take the twenty minutes to watch Macron’s speech. It truly is marvelous, especially the moment when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy got his standing ovation with a flyover of French fighter jets.
“We are here and will not weaken,” Macron promised.
We’re Macron fans at this website. We find his taste in women alarming and yet charming in the way that true eccentrics appreciate when another man flies his freak flag. Isn't that a sort o f liberty too? Of course it is. Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner. To understand all is to forgive all.
For me, France is the nation of the polymath, of the eccentric, of the bon vivant. My work on Clearview — the leading facial recognition program — has captured the attention of the French world with a documentary about its uses winning France’s highest prizes. It would not have been possible without Alphonse Bertillon, the French police officer turned biometrician, or as I have called him, the “real Sherlock Holmes.”
There is no photography, no Facebook, and certainly no Clearview without Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre who invented modern photography.
You might say I was raised that way. My father’s earliest memories were in Paris where his father, Rear Admiral Dwight Lyman Johnson, was stationed with the Navy to SACEUR at SHAPE in Paris working on strategic plans and operations officer.
It was, indeed, a great pain when I thought I was going to be attacked by the French system. I had hoped that IDEMIA, the French facial recognition firm, would adopt me. It was not to be though I hold out hope.
For I am a son of the French system. It was in French immersion school that I learned about Voltaire, Baudelaire, Molière, Proust, Camus and De Gaulle. Le petit prince, Béatrice, and of course, Babar the Elephant were childhood stables.
And yet everywhere la francophonie is being pushed back.
We got a sense of that lately when we saw that the AUKUS deal meant that Australia would not purchase French diesel submarines and therefore would not refuel in the French South Pacific.
The Russians are trying to build an OPEC of uranium so they are playing aggressively in Niger. France needs reliable supplies lest its nuclear dream falter. Does France have any drones or satellites to protect its interests? Not really.
In New Caledonia riots, triggered by Azeri and Chinese interests, required French military presence.
There are some 2.8 million Frenchmen scattered all over that once flourishing empire. They are every bit as French as those living in the Fifth Republic.
Dear Charles, I have a proposition for you as a result of your efforts to clean the Zio-Cons (Bibi-Jabotinsky Hilter pact) out of Silicon Valley. Bibi's father was Jabotinsky's personal secretary. Bibi is following father's footsteps. For the record, Ben Gurion-the founder of Israel--called Jabotinsky "Hitler" and refused both Jabotinsky's last wishes and many post-humous pleas to have Jabotinsky's bones interned in Israel. Jabotinsky's is the founder of Betar (a militaristic-hilter-youth-movement), which supplied the shock troops to Irgun (a self-proclaimed terrorist group), which 'mainstreamed' post-independence into the Likud Party--with terrorists Ariel Sharon and Menachmem Begin being exemplars of the brutality of the Betar-Irgun-Nazi mindset. I applaud your support for Ukraine. I applaud Luckey Palmer's support for Ukraine. While I find some of your views as described on Wikipedia and elsewhere to be appalling, I share your commitment and passion for saving liberal democracy from the scourge of totalitarianism. Please reach out by whatsapp or signal at +1 424.436.0818 (or you can call the phone directly). My position on Ukraine is included here. You can find my anti-fascist-Bibi-Con writings there as well (and the Claremont Campus invasion) order by the Zio-Con board members at Pomona (yes Pomona, not CMC). -Bryan https://www.tulppp.com/ukraine
Adore your appreciation of fr. polymaths but if you seek to impress contemporary frenchies, disregarding the first lady+older women generally is unlikely to be helpful.