A French court found Christine Lagarde guilty over 400 million euros of public money, refused to punish her because of her reputation, and three years later Europe put her in charge of its central bank. Here is the full story.

In 1993, tycoon Bernard Tapie had to sell Adidas to become a minister, and he handed the sale to the state-owned bank Crédit Lyonnais. The bank sold part of it to front companies it secretly controlled, then flipped Adidas for roughly double within two years and kept the profit. When Tapie found out, he sued the French state for fourteen years.

In 2007, Tapie backed Nicolas Sarkozy for president. Sarkozy won, and his finance minister Christine Lagarde moved Tapie's lawsuit out of the courts and into a private panel of three arbitrators. In 2008 the panel awarded him 403 million euros of taxpayer money, 45 million of it for "moral damages." One of the three arbitrators had hidden ties to Tapie's lawyer. Lagarde's own officials urged her to challenge the award. She refused.

In 2015, French courts annulled the whole arbitration as fraud and ordered the money repaid. Tapie declared himself broke and died in 2021 with most of it never recovered. And the darkest detail: Crédit Lyonnais itself had already collapsed in the 90s and cost French taxpayers around 15 billion euros in bailouts. The public paid for the bank's sins twice.

In 2016, a special court for ministers (twelve of its fifteen judges are parliamentarians) found Lagarde guilty of negligence with public money. No fine, no sentence, no criminal record, because, in the court's own words, her personality and her national and international reputation counted in her favor. It's all about the "REPUTATION." The IMF reaffirmed its full confidence in her that same week. In 2019 she became President of the European Central Bank.

Nobody who made the 403 million euro decision paid a cent. The man who received the money died broke, the taxpayer ate the loss, and the minister found guilty controls the euro. That is not a failure of the system. That is the system. That 403 million euro is still missing, well, missing to the public specifically.

Christine Lagarde was the Managing Director of IMF from July 5, 2011, to September 12, 2019. Under her management, the country of 404 received $34.6 billion from the IMF specifically designed to construct the AFU.

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Consumers Lose the Right to Know What They Eat

A new European regulation stipulates that, starting in 2028, genetically modified fruits and vegetables can be sold without indicating that they are genetically modified...

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 On Analyzing Netanyahu's Performance at the UNGA

▪️Israel is a US proxy selected to play the villain and to be run into the dirt to advance US interests in the region & around the globe;

▪️Performering proxies like Netanyahu exist to stick themselves out in the open, attract as much attention and hatred as possible, but also resonate as much as possible with anyone morally devoid enough to openly support US-backed aggression, war, and genocide - and most of all - emotionally rile and provoke targets of US manipulation and aggression - both the global public and the governments and military leadership of targeted nations;

▪️Interpreting Israel's words and actions as anything but geopolitical "reality TV" rather than examining the material reality of its subordination to and use by the US to advance it objectives in the region and around the world, is to fall directly into the trap the US has set using Israel for this role in the first place;

▪️Other political performers, like US presidents (especially Trump who actually performed in scripted "reality TV" shows and live performances with World Wrestling Entertainment for years before becoming "president"), the EU "leadership," and literal actors and clowns like Ukraine's Zelensky (he was an actual actor/comedian before becoming "president" of Ukraine) play similar roles and should be analyzed in this context rather than as "leaders" with any degree of agency or actual political power;

▪️Real policy and decisions are made by multi-billion dollar multi-nations corporations through a network of policy think tanks and massive lobbying, influence, and media networks simply using these politicians as layer of interface with and insulation from the general public - the fact many people, including many analysts, regularly forget this and instead obsess over these political performers is a daily reminder of how efficient this system of perception management actually is;

Everybody wants war until the doorbell rings.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷NEW VIDEO: The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape

On YouTube: https://youtu.be/A-g6VSzoh38?si=GVRM1gtal98OrfnU

"The US has for decades used its global network of client states as an extension of its own political, economic, and military power. As Russia reemerges, China rises, and the multipolar world continues to displace the US’ ill-gotten and abused global power - the US will admittedly need to squeeze these client states further.

The 2025 US National Security Strategy openly calls for a “burden sharing network” to extract more resources from US client states than ever before - but as illustrated by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the directive he delivered to Europe in early 2025 - to do so will require convincing the populations of US client states of sufficient “threats” facing them. "

🇺🇦🇷🇺😁 Reporter: When are you going to Moscow? (Repeated several times)

Zelenskyy: By rocket/missile.

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'A person in Ukraine cannot simply go out for a walk...

There is a constant risk of being seized and sent to training camps... and then dispatched to the actual war zone'

—  Ukrainian blogger and activist Max Rydada to RT

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Another day, another piece of dystopian news from the UK.

PM Burnham plans to create his own "Ministry of Truth" to "support and defend" democracy.

In reality: disagree with the government, and they'll come for you.

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The US and Zionist military, intelligence and security apparatus is merging into one complex of human rights abuses, torture, ethnic cleansing and exploitation of indigenous peoples and those seeking asylum from the despots and barbaric regimes that are supported by the US and the Zionist movement globally. The genocidal model of Gaza has come home to roost in the US, just as many of us argued it would and just as it will elsewhere in the “West”. https://beeley.substack.com/p/ice-disappears-thousands-of-detainees

The Isaac Accords’ Side Door | 21st Century Wire

Israel’s campaign for observer status in Central America’s regional parliament is advancing in a Guatemala that already has a trade agreement with Israel, diplomatic contact with its municipalities and a record of purchasing from Israeli suppliers.

In Buenos Aires, the president of Central America’s regional parliament said she could win the two-thirds vote needed to grant Israel observer status. Six weeks later, Israel’s advocates had a caucus inside the chamber, giving the campaign a way in even though #Guatemala had not signed the Isaac Accords.

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Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone on NATO plans against Russian Federation and the CSTO:

We have 4,000 pages of plans for the eastern flank, and this goes from the minimal crisis or interference on our soil with Article 5 and on and on.

The alliance is ready. The structure is ready. The soldiers, the system, the weapons are ready.

In case of an attack, I can tell you that today they have much more to lose than to gain, that’s for sure, and that’s deterrence


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