Europe ‘feels like Nazi Germany,’ says Madonna

[SecularMotion]

Rising intolerance and anti-Semitism have reached the point when “it feels like Nazi Germany,” pop icon Madonna said, adding that France, in particular, no longer encourages diversity and freedom.

"We're living in crazy times. It feels like Nazi Germany," Madonna said in an interview to Europe 1 radio, adding that the situation in Europe is “scary.”

The 56-year-old singer also pointed that France has totally lost its tradition of welcoming diversity and honoring freedom, saying that "anti-Semitism is at an all-time high" in the country.

"It [France] was a country that embraced everyone and encouraged freedom in every way, shape or form – artistic expression of freedom… Now that's completely gone.”

http://rt.com/news/236027-madonna-europe-nazi-germany/

[RKP5637]

1. It's very unsettling. n/t

[notadmblnd]

2. I thought she moved to Europe because she didn't like the way things felt here?

[FLPanhandle]

3. As if Madonna would know what Nazi Germany felt like.

Why celebrities get their opinions published is beyond me.

[Snow Leopard]

13. my thoughts exactly

n/t

[yuiyoshida]

26. I didn't know that Madonna

was in her 90's... must be all that plastic Surgery

[onehandle]

4. While Bush was in office, Europe was going left. With Obama in office, Europe is going right.

I can't help but think that the GOPNRAteahadists have something to do with this.

[BlueCaliDem]

9. I believe it's the media. The media is becoming more anti-foreigner lately, and I can't help

but wonder if Europeans are being fed the same style propaganda as we are here. I mean, Rupert Murdoch has all but bought up most of the popular media in England (as he and his fellow Libertarians have done in the U.S.) and it's just a tiny effort and pretty cost-effective to infiltrate and buy up the popular media in the smaller countries in Europe.

CEOs in Europe look to "that shining city on the hill", the United States, and think, "Hey! It's hugely profitable for CEOs there, and it's working fabulously there, so why not do it here, as well?"

I haven't done any real research to back up my theory, but I can't help but think that the information citizens of Europe are getting isn't being skewed in some way because Europeans are generally very liberal...but there's a noticeable change in demeanor and political view happening that's beginning to alarm me.

[Fumesucker]

5. I had no idea the Vichy government had returned to power

And were sending Jews to the death camps again.

You can learn a lot listening to celebrities.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. You do understand that there was a Nazi Party for years prior to the death camps, yes?

The woman quoted did not say it was like Vichy France but like Nazi Germany. Not sure what you see as inaccurate.

[Fumesucker]

16. Familiar enough with history to have spent a lot of time on the alternate history newsgroup..

Shoah is a word that I'm conversant with for instance and I know it refers to an extended process not a single example of maximum savagery.

France has yet to experience a Kristallnacht in the modern era to the best of my knowledge.

[leftynyc]

12. The Nuremberg laws

were put in place in 1935 - long before the concentration camps became a reality. You may want to get educated on what it was like for Jews long before they were shipped to the death camps.

[Fumesucker]

17. See my post #16

[tularetom]

6. There's always been anti semitism in France

She just never hung out in places where she'd see it.

[DetlefK]

7. Speaking of Russia Today... I wonder what she would think of Russia.

Where demanding more democracy makes you a foreign agitator bent on toppling the russian government.

[jakeXT]

11. She invoked MLK in St. Petersburg

[cwydro]

8. She is

an effing idiot.

[LittleBlue]

14. Dumb thing to say

Not a valid comparison. Let me know when Merkel embraces antisemitism

[Avalux]

15. How does Madonna know what Nazi Germany 'felt' like?

I hate it when celebrities with a microphone say stupid shit like this. She's a mess.

[KingCharlemagne]

18. She should stick to singing and dancing, as her comments are a serious

insult to the actual victims of Nazi Germany.

Anti-semitism in France is NOT at an "all-time high". Google the 'Dreyfus Affair' to get a sense of when it was worse.

What a moron she is.

[Karmadillo]

20. Freedom is "completely" gone in France. Really?

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. "Madonna described Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s rightwing National Front, as “fascist.”"

Le Pen, RT?

France’s cash-strapped far right turns to Russian lender

The French far right’s cosiness with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is back in the spotlight as Marine Le Pen’s party confirms it borrowed nine million euros from a Russian lender, saying “no one else will give us a cent”.

France’s far-right National Front (FN) said Sunday it had borrowed the money from Moscow-based First Czech Russian Bank (FRCB), confirming a report by the investigative news website Mediapart.

The party treasurer Wallerand de Saint-Just told France Info radio a deal was signed with the Russian lender in September.

Saint-Just said the party had received a first installment of two million euros.

http://www.france24.com/en/20141123-france-far-right-turns-russian-lender-national-front-marine-le-pen/

I can't find that news item on RT, oddly enough.

[Reter]

22. How would she knows what it feels like?

She was born in 1956.

[Skittles]

27. 1958

[Coventina]

23. WhileI think her choice of comparisons is unfortunate (Nazi Germany), I think her concerns are

spot-on.

There HAS been rising intolerance in Europe.

I don't see how anyone can dispute that.



But, people just like to hate on Madonna, it seems.

[jwirr]

24. I am also scared of the hate that seems to be everywhere in the developed countries including the

USA. I am very aware that hatred and economic woes led to WWII but I do not think we have reached that level yet. Or a least I hope not.

What I am afraid of is where this could all lead us to. Born in 1941 - been there once do not want to do it over.

[Mojorabbit]

29. It scares me also. nt

[uhnope]

25. RT lol. Of course they love this babble from the known expert Madonna

anything to cast dispersions on the west

[KamaAina]

28. RT AND Madonna. What could go wrong?

[closeupready]

30. I really have no idea what she means, nor why anyone should see her

as an authority on the subject of anti-Semitism or the current state of freedom of expression in Europe. Really, the very idea is lol.

Freedom of expression is completely gone? What the fuck was "Je Suis Charlie" all about, Madonna?