By unnamed Herald Sun authors in black, and, Tetractys Merkaba in red. :)
UPDATE 8.45am: A VICTORIAN woman has told of her horror when she was evacuated from the Eiffel Tower after a bomb alert.Joanne Brown was having dinner with her daughter and husband at Alain Ducasse's restaurant on the second level of the Paris landmark when a waiter told them to evacuate.
French police said “nothing was found” after a bomb alert led to the evacuation of thousands from the tower, a surrounding park and a central Paris train station.
“It was a false alarm,” a police officer at the scene told reporters.
Earlier, a Paris official told AFP: "The company managing the Eiffel Tower received an anonymous telephone call around 8.20pm."
"Special units, one with sniffer dogs, went to the site to search the Eiffel Tower floor by floor. Around 2000 people were evacuated," the official added.
Mrs Brown said her family - on holiday in Europe - got into a lift with chefs and fled.
"They said run, just run,'' Mrs Brown, from the Mornington Peninsula, said.
Compare the above comment that I have placed in bold and will label "1", to one further in this article that I will label "2".
"I sort of thought, 'This is probably how other people feel when there are terror threats and (is) something is going to happen to us?'.
"I sort of thought, 'This is probably how other people feel when there are terror threats and (is) something is going to happen to us?'.
Note how this poor woman parrots the message that has been embedded continuously by government & the corporate media about so-called 'terror threats'.
"Someone had asked a waiter if this happened often and he said every nine or 10 years. My daughter (Poppy) burst into tears. I think she was first out of the lift.''
Mrs Brown, 47, said the seriousness of the situation only hit her once she arrived back at the hotel.
"I want to go home. We are supposed to be going to Rome on Friday. We don't know if we are going,'' she said.
"We just took one (photo) of the Eiffel Tower in case it was never there again.
"We are having a nice bottle of chardonnay and trying to get over it.''
About 25,000 people were in the area around the tower, with all evacuated calmly shortly before 9pm local time (5am Melbourne time). Note the words in bold, "all evacuated calmly". I have labelled it "2". Compare it to "1" and ask yourself if the eyewitness account matches the description given by the author of the article. This is important to understand, because this process plays out time after time. Notable examples are 9/11, Bali, 7/7, Pt. Arthur etc etc. THE CORPORATE MEDIA CONTRADICTS ANY EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS THAT DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE MESSAGE IT IS TRYING TO EMBED INTO THE PUBLIC'S CONSCIOUSNESS.
Those evacuated, mostly French and foreign tourists, were asked to stay on the nearby Seine river banks and the Champ de Mars park to the east, and the tower area was cordoned off, an AFP reporter on the scene said.
Around a dozen police vehicles could be seen inside the cordoned-off area.
In central Paris, police briefly evacuated the platforms at the Saint Michel train station after an anonymous phone call.
Platforms of the RER C line which runs along the Seine river were closed for nearly an hour, the state rail company SNCF said.
On the intersecting RER B line which runs north-south, the platform was evacuated at the request of the police for 15 minutes, a spokesman for the Paris transit operator RATP said.
The station was reopened after a police check.
Despite the scare at the Eiffel Tower, tourists and curious Parisians continued to mill around the surrounding sidewalks, and traffic continued to circulate nearby.
The alert happened just hours after the French parliament passed a law prohibiting wearing a full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned by senior judges.
The bill makes no mention of Islam, but President Nicolas Sarkozy's government promoted it as a means to protect women from being forced to wear Muslim full-face veils such as the burqa or the niqab.
"Someone had asked a waiter if this happened often and he said every nine or 10 years. My daughter (Poppy) burst into tears. I think she was first out of the lift.''
Mrs Brown, 47, said the seriousness of the situation only hit her once she arrived back at the hotel.
"I want to go home. We are supposed to be going to Rome on Friday. We don't know if we are going,'' she said.
"We just took one (photo) of the Eiffel Tower in case it was never there again.
"We are having a nice bottle of chardonnay and trying to get over it.''
About 25,000 people were in the area around the tower, with all evacuated calmly shortly before 9pm local time (5am Melbourne time). Note the words in bold, "all evacuated calmly". I have labelled it "2". Compare it to "1" and ask yourself if the eyewitness account matches the description given by the author of the article. This is important to understand, because this process plays out time after time. Notable examples are 9/11, Bali, 7/7, Pt. Arthur etc etc. THE CORPORATE MEDIA CONTRADICTS ANY EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS THAT DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE MESSAGE IT IS TRYING TO EMBED INTO THE PUBLIC'S CONSCIOUSNESS.
Those evacuated, mostly French and foreign tourists, were asked to stay on the nearby Seine river banks and the Champ de Mars park to the east, and the tower area was cordoned off, an AFP reporter on the scene said.
Around a dozen police vehicles could be seen inside the cordoned-off area.
In central Paris, police briefly evacuated the platforms at the Saint Michel train station after an anonymous phone call.
Platforms of the RER C line which runs along the Seine river were closed for nearly an hour, the state rail company SNCF said.
On the intersecting RER B line which runs north-south, the platform was evacuated at the request of the police for 15 minutes, a spokesman for the Paris transit operator RATP said.
The station was reopened after a police check.
Despite the scare at the Eiffel Tower, tourists and curious Parisians continued to mill around the surrounding sidewalks, and traffic continued to circulate nearby.
The alert happened just hours after the French parliament passed a law prohibiting wearing a full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned by senior judges.
The bill makes no mention of Islam, but President Nicolas Sarkozy's government promoted it as a means to protect women from being forced to wear Muslim full-face veils such as the burqa or the niqab.
Note the language being employed here. The claim is that Muslim women need protection from Muslim men who are forcing them to observe a part of their religion. This is very easily understood if you consider how many non-Muslim's wear burqa's or niqab's.
There has not been any suggestion so far that the two events are linked, however.
There has not been any suggestion so far that the two events are linked, however.
Apart from this article placing the two elements together. If they are not linked, then why has the American-owned Herald Sun placed them together?
The Eiffel Tower has three floors open to visitors and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world. It has two restaurants and normally closes at 11pm.
The tower was built in just two years by engineer Gustave Eiffel as the centerpiece of the 1889 world fair in Paris, on the centenary of the French revolution.
The Eiffel Tower has three floors open to visitors and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world. It has two restaurants and normally closes at 11pm.
The tower was built in just two years by engineer Gustave Eiffel as the centerpiece of the 1889 world fair in Paris, on the centenary of the French revolution.
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