Well, the new Narrative™ is that Muslims are not involved in the French riots, but dark foreign governments like Russia, and perhaps the United States, are misusing the Mostly Peaceful™ Protests for their own political gain. 

Nothing to see here, move along. 

You just HAD to know that the transnationalists were desperate to change the subject from "France is burning, and the Red-Green Alliance has lit the matches" to something that fits their framing better. 

Well, here it is. It's not migrants. The videos aren't real. And, by the way, those (too few people) being arrested for (not?) destroying things and harming people have no nationalities or ethnicities. 

Seriously, they are going with that. 

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🇫🇷 Macron on France's riots:

"There has been foreign manipulation of information afterward

This led to unacceptable and downright stupid comments from many people, including foreign leaders.

People have claimed that we were invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is completely false."

Apparently, France's problems can all be explained by AI-generated images and foreign interference. 

They talk to us like we're idiots...

First, my necessary concession, which I also made yesterday: of COURSE Russia and others are amping up the temperature by sharing real and edited videos of what is going on in France. France and Russia are in a proxy war, and that is part of the game. Russia really did put effort into stirring up trouble (against both sides) during the 2016 election. 

But, as with the 2016 election, the efforts are modest, the effects are nearly nil, and the underlying reality is impossible to miss. France really IS burning; the rioters really are shouting in Arabic, carrying Palestinian flags, threatening to rape French mothers, and the communists really ARE in the streets. 

Quit gaslighting us. I know that is the best tactic you have, but it's insulting. 

One of the statistics I have been trying to track down from the beginning is the ethnic breakdown of the rioters who are getting arrested. The videos show that a substantial fraction, and perhaps the majority, are either migrants or their descendants, yet the actual statistics are thin on the ground by design. The French police and prosecutors won't release them. 

Most media are spending their efforts trying to "debunk" what everybody can see, but in the dribs and drabs that have been ferreted out, the fact that the arrestees are heavily migrant seems clear. Le Courier de France is trying to debunk the connection between the rioters and Muslims, but the sum total of their evidence is that the government won't release the numbers, which means that it is wrong to point out what you can plainly see with your own eyes. 

The police are pointing to the Far Left, which is fair, since the far left is openly embracing the riots and is among the groups organizing them. But that is only half the Red/Green alliance. The other half is the Islamists. 

What makes this all so unintentionally hilarious is that Macron is making these accusations while in...Qatar, where he suddenly flew during the riots. Gee, I wonder why? Could there be a connection?

He says it is to lower oil prices, which he blames on Trump, but it's unclear what flying to Qatar during a national crisis he formally declared (but is now downplaying) will do, unless he thinks Qatar might influence the rioters. 

"Misinformation" has been the go-to explanation for anything that people can see or read that conflicts with what the transnationalists want you to believe. For over a decade, that claim has led to the most substantial crackdown on speech in Europe since World War II. 

The fact that bad information is floating around with the real is nothing new; it is the business model of every news station during any crisis. Watch TV after any notable event, and you get instant takes; you get hoaxes perpetrated by "journalists" and governments; you get the Covington kids and the "fine people" hoax. 

You get Macron saying the videos of what is happening are fake, even though he has troops ready to deploy, has declared a national emergency, and his own ministers describe a crackdown. 

Compared to that bulls**t, anything Russia is putting out is noise. 

Fact: France is burning. Fact: the flag of the rioters is the Palestinian flag. Fact: the radical left is funding and organizing the riots, and even puts out press releases on when and where the next ones are going to be. Fact: the identities of the arrestees, listed only by age, turn out, when prosecuted, to be largely migrants and their descendants. Fact: Macron himself said only days ago that the rioters were trying to bring down France. 

And Fact: Macron, in the midst of all this, flew to Qatar on a trip that only got planned when the riots took off. Make of that what you will. 

You can find white faces in the crowds of looters, but they stand out like sore thumbs. 

The actual peaceful marches are filled with native Frenchmen, but who cares? They aren't the rioters burning down France. 

The new Narrative™ is out. The old was "peaceful student protests." Then came "it's only communists, nobody else." Then it was "Donald Trump's war."  Now, it is Putin and misinformation, and things are mostly peaceful again. 

The France we think of when we consider a trip to Paris is not exactly what the brochures tell us, and the same goes for the riots that Macron is trying to sell us as not actually happening; it's AI, now. 

I would say, "Get your story straight," but really, do they have to? The media will sell their line of BS, and people who are desperate to maintain trust in our leaders will pretend to believe them. The real danger is the "far right," not the people literally burning things down. 

It's all so predictable. And maddening, because the propaganda works on so many.