I understand Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris was nightmare fuel for everyday citizens around the world. 

A preview of things to come should global elites get their way. 

And I don’t use that term conspiratorially. 

Combine gobs of money with obscene levels of power — voilà! — you get absolutely rotted people. 

To-the-manner-borns like Prince Andrew. Or social strivers like Jeffrey Epstein. You get the idea. 

The French powers that be have been hiding their elitist proclivities in plain sight. 

Take, for example, their outright disdain for religious freedom: France’s notorious 2010 hijab ban. 

The French court doubled-down In August 2023, ruling that the wearing of abayas — robe-like dresses worn by some Muslim women — would be banned in the nation’s school system. 

According to French Education Minister Gabriel Attal: “Schools of the Republic are built on very strong values and principles, especially laïcité.” 

Which, in English, translates to the separation of religion and state. 

But the French government’s ban is often seen as openly hostile to its 5-6 million Muslim citizens. 

Liberté, égalité, fraternité? 

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Your Rundown for Monday, July 29, 2024...

“Ideological Adventures”

“Home to Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish communities,” Reuters notes, there’s no other country in Europe that had more at stake in the aftermath of last year’s Hamas attack than France. 

In response to this demographic reality, President Emmanuel Macron’s administration was arguably heavy-handed — if you believe the right to free speech is a linchpin of civil liberty…

“This event is an earthquake for Israel, the Middle East and beyond,” Macron said last year. 

“Let's not pursue at home ideological adventures by imitating or projecting.” 

Not that Olympic organizers (French organizers, we presume) were above pursuing “ideological adventures” on Friday. 

When they gleefully desecrated DaVinci’s The Last Supper… 

As if it were a tableau generated by Google’s Gemini. 

But for the sake of “laïcité,” let’s take a look at another assault on civil liberties courtesy of the French government. 

“The July 26 Olympic Opening Ceremonies will be grandiose and unprecedented,” journalist Rachel Marsden wrote last week. 

“But at what cost to French society and to humanity?” 

Marsden draws attention to “the return of the Covid-era QR code to control citizens’ everyday movement.” 

To wit, everyday citizens were told to “send [documents] to the government online and they’ll judge whether or not they consider your reason valid” to travel into Paris at all.

As for local businesses that anticipated more foot traffic? They were “told that maybe it would just be better if everyone [took] their vacations or worked from home during the Games.” 

Then there’s surveillance a la drones. And anti-drones. To shoot down other drones. 

Plus, “tens of thousands of giant metal barriers to turn Paris into a giant open-air cage,” says Marsden, “with police and military officers from all over the world enforcing compliance.” 

It sounds like a hellscape courtesy of global elites. More like a hellscape worthy of global elites. 

[Did you watch the Olympics’ opening ceremony? Thoughts? Namely, how to resist?]

Market Rundown for Monday, July 29, 2024

The S&P 500 is up 0.35% to 5,475. 

Oil is in the green at $77.34 for a barrel of WTI. 

Gold is up 0.35% to $2,340 per ounce. 

And Bitcoin is up 0.85%, just under $69,000. 

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