At TOO we have often said that the revolution will begin in Europe. Several new developments. First, the Swiss voted “‘against mass immigration,’ following a successful campaign by the populist right-wing Swiss People’s Party, which blamed an influx of foreigners for higher crime, rising rents and congested streets” and that “Swiss culture is being eroded.” Swiss Economy Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann blamed it on “a break in trust between business, citizens and the political elite.”

As in all Western countries, elites have advocated globalism and open borders with no input from the great mass of citizens. In the case of Switzerland, immigration is running nearly 1% of the population per year, an extraordinarily high rate. If the U.S. would mean around 3 million immigrants per year, around 3 times the current (outrageously high) rate.

The EU is not pleased because this vote conflicts with its policy that there be no borders within Europe (and high immigration from outside Europe). But it was cheered by Marine LePen, Geert Wilders and other European nationalists. Polls indicate that the May elections for the European Parliament could bring in around 150 nationalist MEP’s. “Those gains will pressure local policymakers to take a tougher stance on the nationalists’ favorite issues. The U.K. and Germany, for example, are already talking about limiting welfare benefits for migrants.”

In the U.K., UKIP leader Nigel Farage said in a statement, “Were the British people to be given their own referendum on this issue then the result would be the same, but by a landslide.” A recent by-election saw UKIP increase its percentage of the vote from 14.5 to 18% and coming in second ahead of the Conservative candidate.

In France there is a huge uproar over the comedian Dieudonne and Alain Soral, an intellectual who has defended Dieudonne. In the following video, Soral claims that the now famous quenelle gesture originated as an anti-System gesture but was described by the CRIF (the French ADL) as “anti-Semitic”; Soral asks if there is some deep connection between an anti-system gesture and an anti-Semitic gesture given the power of the organized Jewish community. Soral also claims that the attacks on Dieudonne began when he did a sketch on Israeli settlers (also noted in the Wikipedia article on Dieudonne) and that the powerful Jewish lobby has labeled as “anti-Semites” those who disagree with their policies.