Feb 172022
 


Edouard Manet Osny, The road-menders, Rue de Berne 1878

 

Trudeau’s Full-Fledged Financial Warfare on Freedom Convoy Protesters (CHD)
Canada Says ‘Freedom Convoy’ Seeks Regime Change (RT)
Police Give Ultimatum To Freedom Convoy Truckers (RT)
Trudeau’s Emergency Powers Endanger Everyone’s Rights (Turley)
Legal Voices Have Big Concerns With What Trudeau Has Done (Furey)
16 Governors, 2 Canadian Premiers: Reinstate Truckers’ Vaccine Exemptions (JTN)
Russian Government Mocks Incursion Rumors On Twitter (JTN)
Putin Warns Of ‘Genocide’ (RT)
Kremlin Teases ‘Alternatives’ To SWIFT If Sanctioned, Including Crypto (ZH)
There Was No Exit Plan from “Slow the Spread” (Blumen)
Covid Vaccines During Pregnancy Impact Newborns (RT)
Ivermectin Bill Advances To South Dakota Senate After Passing House (DNN)
Idaho Bill To Protect Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists On Covid Guidelines (ICS)
US Trending Toward China’s Social Credit System, Enabled by Big Tech (ET)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oz camp

 

 

“If this is happening in your country, “you [clearly] don’t live in a free country..”

Trudeau’s Full-Fledged Financial Warfare on Freedom Convoy Protesters (CHD)

In a move that gives him “sweeping powers,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked — for the first time in history — Canada’s Emergencies Act in response to what political commentator Krystal Ball characterized as a “pretty much completely peaceful” protest. Those powers include giving Canadian banks the ability, without a court order, to “immediately freeze or suspend accounts” of any Canadians’ who have donated $25 or more to the trucker convoy fundraising accounts. In an episode of “Breaking Points With Krystal and Sagaar,” Ball’s co-host, Saagar Enjeti, said the Canadian government also will be “seizing any funds that go towards the protests, including cryptocurrency.”

With the powers granted to the government by the Emergencies Act “they can not only seize and suspend your driver’s license forever, they can also go and take money out of the owner of the truck’s bank account,” Enjeti said. “So we are looking at full-fledged financial warfare on the truckers.” Not all Canadian leaders are on board with this drastic move, said Ball, pointing to a Reuters report that the premiers of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan opposed the move. Quebec’s Premier François Legault also opposed the move, stating he feared it would “throw oil on the fire,” according to the Montreal Gazette.

Canada’s War Measures Act, the predecessor to Trudeau’s Emergencies Act, was last used in 1970, when Quebec separatists kidnapped French and Canadian diplomats and murdered one of them. “So that was the last time anything similar to this was invoked,” Ball said. “You have here the Canadian Prime Minister, who is our neighbor to the north, invoking the Emergencies Act, declaring all out financial warfare on his own citizens and suspending civil liberties … in a supposedly free and open society,” Enjeti said. If this is happening in your country, “you [clearly] don’t live in a free country,” he argued.

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Very dangerous bullshit.

Canada Says ‘Freedom Convoy’ Seeks Regime Change (RT)

A senior Canadian security official has said the anti-vaccine-mandate ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest is driven by a desire to overthrow the government, disputing demonstrators who insist they are fed up with the country’s pandemic restrictions. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino questioned the protesters’ motives, suggesting that outrage over ongoing vaccine mandates is merely cover for a more sinister agenda. “There have been those who have tried to characterize these illegal blockades about vaccines and mandates and fatigue with the pandemic,” he said. “That is not what is driving this movement right now.”

What is driving this movement is a very small, organized group that is driven by an ideology to overthrow the government. While thousands of protesters have descended on the capital city of Ottawa and elsewhere to peacefully demand an end to the mandates, Mendicino cited a group of 11 demonstrators at a border crossing in Coutts, Alberta who were found to be carrying firearms and ammunition, calling the incident a “cautionary tale.” “The seizure of a significant number of illegal firearms by a group that is very committed to the cause is something that we need to be very sober about,” said Mendicino, an ex-federal prosecutor. The 11 individuals were reportedly taken into custody and charged with weapons offenses on Monday.

The minister’s warning of coup plotters comes one day after the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in its history to crack down on the “illegal” protest, which some officials have described as a “blockade.” The Act grants authorities a number of temporary powers, including to compel tow-truck companies to remove the large numbers of semi-trucks now parked across the Canadian capital. To date, some firms have refused to haul away the vehicles.

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“..The official reason police cited for removing the truckers is that they are committing “mischief” by denying the people of Ottawa “the lawful use, enjoyment and operation of their property..”

Police Give Ultimatum To Freedom Convoy Truckers (RT)

On Wednesday, police in the Canadian capital Ottawa handed out flyers to the ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers, ordering everyone to “leave now” or face arrest under PM Justin Trudeau’s emergency declaration. The truckers and their supporters have demonstrated for almost three weeks, demanding an end to strict Covid-19 mandates. “You must leave the area now. Anyone blocking streets, or assisting others in the blocking of streets, are committing a criminal offense and you may be arrested,” Ottawa police announced shortly before noon on Wednesday. Officers handed out fliers with the same message to the protesters and put them on the windshields of vehicles parked in front of the Canadian parliament.


Protesters face arrest, fines, jail, and could have their commercial or even private drivers’ licenses revoked, the police said. While the warning is almost the same as the one the city’s police issued last Wednesday, the new announcement includes language specifically referring to travel restrictions in the Federal Emergencies Act. The law was invoked by Trudeau on Monday, for the first time in Canadian history – and the law it replaced had only been used during the two world wars and a 1970 terrorism crisis. The crackdown comes just a day after Ottawa Police chief Peter Sloly resigned. The official reason police cited for removing the truckers is that they are committing “mischief” by denying the people of Ottawa “the lawful use, enjoyment and operation of their property” and “causing businesses to close.”

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“..it should not matter if you agree or disagree with the underlying cause..”

Trudeau’s Emergency Powers Endanger Everyone’s Rights (Turley)

For the first time in history, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to crackdown on what he has described as an attack on democracy itself in Canada. While civil libertarians in Canada have condemned the move as threatening core free speech and associational rights in the country, the American media and legal commentators have largely supported Trudeau in the use of these extreme measures. Indeed, I triggered a tsunami of outrage in stating that Canada could have used such powers to cut off donations for the Civil Rights Movement and arrest Martin Luther King today for such protests. Partly this was due to the distortion of my comments on MLK ever being arrested (as opposed to being subject to arrest under this law).

However, there was also an objection that there is no equivalency between the truckers and the Civil Rights Movement. Again, that is not the point of the reference: it should not matter if you agree or disagree with the underlying cause. The concern is that the Canadian government could declare such an emergency to crackdown on any group engaging in civil disobedience through blockades or occupation protests. It could even happen to Dr. King today if marchers sought to repeat historic marches in Canada. Without meaningful limits under the law, they could also be unilaterally declared threats to Canadian “sovereignty, security and territorial integrity” by Trudeau for acts of civil disobedience.

With the emergency powers, Trudeau can now prohibit travel, public assemblies, conduct widespread arrests, and block donations for the truckers. This also includes freezing bank accounts and ramping up police surveillance and enforcement.

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“..until it decided to invoke the Act, the federal government — along with their provincial and municipal counterparts — failed to do very much at all to attempt to disperse the Ottawa protest..”

Legal Voices Have Big Concerns With What Trudeau Has Done (Furey)

There is no downplaying the magnitude of the decision made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act. It’s a move that’s never been done before, and it’s not a decision to be made lightly. And yet a growing chorus of legal analysis suggests that the PM did in fact make the decision lightly — that the situation just didn’t warrant it. “The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act,” said a statement by Nao Mendelsohn Aviv, executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA). “This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met.” The CCLA added: “Emergency legislation should not be normalized. It threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.”

There are those who claim that civil liberties won’t be violated by Trudeau’s decision because any measures undertaken are subject to the Charter. But that’s not as reassuring as it may first sound. Now that the Emergencies Act has been invoked, a motion to confirm the emergency needs to appear before Parliament within seven sitting days. Until that time, there’s really nothing stopping Trudeau and cabinet from interpreting their new powers however they please. Here’s one of the new things Trudeau can now do: “Regulating and prohibiting public assemblies, including blockades, other than lawful advocacy, protest or dissent.” Now, whatever this means to you is irrelevant; it’s how Trudeau and the Prime Minister’s Office choose to interpret it that matters.

There’s no immediate adversarial review, and there’s no upfront judicial restraint. For example, the new powers Trudeau has given himself to mess with people’s banking who are suspected to be involved in the protests don’t require a court order like they would during usual times. It’s troubling that Trudeau would so readily reach for this lever. “The use of the Act is intended for crises where there are no other options on the table,” explains Aaron Wudrick, a lawyer who works with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. “Yet until it decided to invoke the Act, the federal government — along with their provincial and municipal counterparts — failed to do very much at all to attempt to disperse the Ottawa protest, making it hard for them to claim they have exhausted all alternatives.”

“Wait, how would the Canadian government, let alone a Canadian bank, know if you voted for Donald Trump? How deep is this rabbit hole Trudeau just put a spotlight on?”

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Zero chance, and that is worrisome. For one thing, all these people have been elected too..

16 Governors, 2 Canadian Premiers: Reinstate Truckers’ Vaccine Exemptions (JTN)

Two Canadian premiers and 16 American governors asked President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday to reinstate the vaccine and quarantine exemptions for cross border truck drivers. “We understand the vital importance of vaccines in the fight against COVID-19 and continue to encourage eligible individuals to get vaccinated,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney wrote in the letter. “However, we are deeply concerned that terminating these exemptions has had demonstrably negative impacts on the North American supply chain, the cost of living, and access to essential products for people in both of our countries.”

Sixteen Republican governors signed the letter along with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. The U.S leaders who signed were Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Idaho Gov. Brad Little, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon.

“The timing of your decision to terminate the vaccine and quarantine exemptions could not have been worse as North America already faces grave supply chain constraints,” the letter said. “These constraints, combined with increasing inflation, place significant burdens on the residents of Canada and the United States. Furthermore, transportation associations have informed us that the lack of exemptions will force thousands of drivers out of the trucking industry, which is already facing a significant workforce shortage. The removal of these exemptions is ultimately unnecessary, and we cannot afford to lose any more truck drivers who transport food and other vital supplies across the border.”

Doug Ford

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“See for yourselves what the collective Western media and officials’ words are worth.”

Russian Government Mocks Incursion Rumors On Twitter (JTN)

The Russian government has taken to Twitter to mock rumors that the country would invade Ukraine on Wednesday. While the Kremlin claimed it would withdraw some troops from near the border of Ukraine, a senior Biden administration official said that Russia has actually deployed about 7,000 troops to the border in addition to the estimated 150,000 already stationed there. The Embassy of Russia in South Africa tweeted a GIF of John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction” looking around an empty front St. Michael’s Monastery in Kiev, with the caption: “16 February 2022. Meanwhile in Ukraine.”

https://twitter.com/EmbassyofRussia/status/1493884806022713344

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted another GIF Wednesday of a tumbleweed. “Today we mark another day of the ‘start of war with Ukraine,’ which did not happen again, to the Western media outlets’ regret, no matter how hard they whip up the hysteria,” the ministry captioned the GIF. “See for yourselves what the collective Western media and officials’ words are worth.” The Foreign Ministry tweeted a photo with a “FAKE” stamp over a collage of websites claiming that Russia would invade Ukraine. “This week we witnessed the culmination of misinformation campaign, launched by the West, on Russia’s mythical ‘invasion’ of Ukraine,” the ministry wrote. “Meanwhile, [NATO] continues to pump weapons into Ukraine under the information cover they’ve created.”

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“..parliamentarians push for the Kremlin to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk.”

Putin has resisted this so far. Because of Minsk. But now Ukraine wants to change Minsk. Time for Berlin and Paris to speak out very clearly.

Putin Warns Of ‘Genocide’ (RT)

Fierce fighting that has killed thousands of people in eastern Ukraine, home to a large number of ethnic Russians, constitutes a genocide, President Vladimir Putin has claimed as parliamentarians push for the Kremlin to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk. Speaking on Tuesday at a press conference at the end of crunch talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Russian leader weighed in on the heightened tensions unfolding in the war-torn region. “I can only add that what is happening in Donbass is genocide,” he said. When asked by reporters about whether the push for the recognition of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics was guided by public opinion and sympathy from Russians, and how such a move could impact a major peace plan, Putin said it was still possible to solve the problems in the region by applying the Minsk agreements.


“We have to do everything to resolve the problem of Donbass, but do it first and foremost based on the possibility of implementing the Minsk agreements,” he explained, adding that he hoped Berlin and Paris would be able to encourage Kiev to fulfill their side of the deal. Scholz, however, expressed concern at the prospect of Donetsk and Lugansk’s recognition, claiming that such a move would violate the protocols and lead to a “political catastrophe.” Putin’s remarks come shortly after lawmakers in his country’s parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution, originally put forward by the Communist Party, calling for Putin to recognize the independence of the two regions. MPs said that the move would set the framework for ensuring guarantees and protecting the population, where ethnic Russians make up a large minority, from external threats.

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Russia has been preparing for this for decades.

Kremlin Teases ‘Alternatives’ To SWIFT If Sanctioned, Including Crypto (ZH)

NATO is now talking about Russia’s failure to withdraw troops from near Ukraine even though on Tuesday the Kremlin had announced the start of a draw down of some military units in the south. “Russia’s failure to withdraw can be confirmed through commercial satellite imagery,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday. His statement comes less than 24 hours after President Biden addressed the Ukraine situation in a televised speech wherein he alleged that a Russian attack on Ukraine is “still very much a possibility” and that the troop reduction is “not verified yet”. Biden took the opportunity to again warn of “overwhelming international condemnation” and unprecedented sanctions, including “export controls…methods we did not pursue when Russia took Crimea in 2014.”

As part of the “decisive response” the administration has said it has in its arsenal as a maximalist ‘nuclear option’ which would see Russia off from the international SWIFT payment settlement system. But Moscow was quick to respond Wednesday, with Finance Minister Anton Siluanov reaffirming his country has “prepared alternatives” which ensure such US sanctions while yet “unpleasant” would remain “not fatal”. He assured in an online briefing that Russia will fulfill all settlements, and further that “Any restrictions on energy exports will be compensated by corresponding price growth.” “Thank god we have enough forex liquidity and enough forex reserves,” Siluanov told reporters in the briefing. “They say we have a financial shield in the form of gold and forex reserves, budget surplus and [budget] rule, low debt.”

When it comes to the scenario of being cut off from SWIFT, which is being reported as possibly part of a sweeping sanctions package under preparation by US and European officials, Siluanov referenced the his country being able to withstand it, with plans being readied for a “Fortress Russia” approach: “We expect the country’s financial system to continue to focus inwards as part of the “Fortress Russia” strategy and advance digital and fintech sovereignty.” It was reported that as of early February, Russia possesses nearly $635 billion in gold and forex reserves. On the energy question, he affirmed that Russia stands ready to re-route to other markets. The comment about advancing “digital and fintech sovereignty” is particularly interesting in light of President Putin’s October 2021 statements wherein he rattled American financial officials after hinting that cryptocurrencies could be ‘weaponized’ as a dollar replacement.

https://twitter.com/crypto_relevant/status/1493969205523222530

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“..can’t work out what we’re even doing here, but he wants us to keep doing it.”

There Was No Exit Plan from “Slow the Spread” (Blumen)

If we are to believe that a worldwide pandemic grew from an outbreak of twelve people in Wuhan, China to infect nearly the entire world (even indigenous tribes in the Amazon jungle who are by definition quarantined) why would it not do the same when we emerged from our underground fallout shelters? What if through assiduously standing in small circles painted on the floor in grocery stores and wearing underwear on our faces, we succeeded in driving the number of Covid infections down to a very small number? To pick a number, for example, twelve people. Why would the contagion not, in the absence of broader acquired immunity, spread again from that new base of twelve, until eventually reaching all of those remaining uninfected?

It took me some time to give it a name. I settled on “suppression.” The fundamental reason that suppression is not a policy is that it has no exit. For a thing to work it must work within a limited time. If the measures to slow the spread succeeded in slowing it, then what? The nature of the off ramp is the answer to the question, “What happens when we stop doing it?” If the answer is, “It would go right back to what it was doing before,” then there is no exit. During 2020 I had people tell me that we could not end the lockdown because the epidemic would pick up right where it left off and millions would die AND (sometimes the same people ) that if we keep up the restrictive measures for a while then we could stop because the virus would not come back. A bit logic rules out the possibility that the virus could both come back and not come back.

Do we then spend the rest of our lives acting out Covid theater? Dr. Fauci said that he would never shake hands again. Blue check marks fret about quarantining their children. Jenin Younes reflected on a survey in which hypochondriac epidemiologists who are afraid to open their mail explain that they now consider a normal life to be dangerously reckless. Substack author Eugyppius writes about a medical journal editor who “can’t work out what we’re even doing here, but he wants us to keep doing it.”

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CDC claims vaccines protect the unborn.

Covid Vaccines During Pregnancy Impact Newborns (RT)

Babies born to mothers who took the Covid-19 vaccine during their pregnancy are likely to have some form of immunity against the virus, according to the latest research from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published on Tuesday. Researchers analyzed data from 379 hospitalized infants – 176 suffered from Covid-19 and 203 were admitted for other reasons. The children were all under six months old between July 2021 and January 2022. Their study found that hospitalization risks were reduced by 61% in children whose mothers were vaccinated during pregnancy. Protection increased to 80% when the mothers got their jabs later in their pregnancy (21 weeks to 14 days before delivery).


The effectiveness of the vaccinations dropped as low as 32% for babies whose mother was inoculated earlier during pregnancy. The authors cautioned people not to read too much into the study, given the small sample size used. “Right now we want to ensure that we are protecting both the mom and the infant,” CDC’s Dana Meaney-Delman told reporters. “So, as soon as a pregnant woman is willing to be vaccinated, she should so ahead and do so.” The CDC says that pregnant women are at greater risk of developing complications due to Covid-19, including risks to their own health, as well as preterm births and stillbirths. It is recommended that anyone expecting a baby or trying to get pregnant should keep up to date with their Covid shots.

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“Supporters say the bill doesn’t mandate medical professionals to prescribe ivermectin, just gives them permission to do so.”

Ivermectin Bill Advances To South Dakota Senate After Passing House (DNN)

The South Dakota House has passed a bill to allow medical professionals to prescribe ivermectin to patients suffering from COVID-19. House Bill 1267 passed Monday on a vote of 40 to 28, South Dakota Broadcasters Association Reports. Its prime sponsor is Rep. Phil Jensen (R, Rapid City). The bill gives medical professionals permission to prescribe ivermectin in accordance with accepted medical standards. If ivermectin is prescribed, medical professionals must provide patients with an information sheet about the drug and subsequent healthcare information.


Opponents of the bill argue the legislature should not be telling doctors what they can or cannot prescribe for their patients. Supporters say the bill doesn’t mandate medical professionals to prescribe ivermectin, just gives them permission to do so. Ivermectin is typically used to kill parasites in animals. Some have advocated for the drug to be used to treat COVID-19. However, the FDA says ivermectin should not be used in this way. The bill will go forward in the legislative process and will next be heard on the Senate floor.

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“.. the pandemic has made off-label use of ivermectin and other unproven drugs a matter of politics and, now, policy.”

Idaho Bill To Protect Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists On Covid Guidelines (ICS)

A bill in the Idaho Legislature would protect the licenses of doctors, nurses and pharmacists who prescribe or dispense unproven medications for COVID-19. Rep. Gayann DeMordaunt, R-Eagle, presented the legislation Friday to the House Business Committee. The committee voted by a voice vote to introduce the bill. The bill would prohibit licensing boards from taking disciplinary action against doctors, physician assistants and advanced-practice registered nurses when the action is “based solely” on their recommendations to patients regarding COVID-19, including prescribing drugs that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat the coronavirus disease. The bill also says pharmacists could not “block or attempt to block” a patient’s access to that unapproved drug.


If a pharmacist does not want to dispense the medication, they could direct the patient to a willing pharmacist, the bill says. Pharmacists’ licenses couldn’t be jeopardized by dispensing the drugs, the bill says. In addition, the bill orders Idaho hospitals, nursing facilities and residential care or assisted living facilities to allow a patient to take the unapproved treatment “if a patient has requested and is prescribed” that drug. The FDA has approved some drugs for other uses — ivermectin for intestinal parasites, for example — but not for COVID-19. While “off label” prescribing is sometimes done by health care providers for other ailments, the pandemic has made off-label use of ivermectin and other unproven drugs a matter of politics and, now, policy.

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“It’s that integration of the government and big tech companies to police speech that I think is troubling and very evocative of the coming totalitarianism..”

US Trending Toward China’s Social Credit System, Enabled by Big Tech (ET)

Big tech companies are doing the bidding of the U.S. government in actions that mirror China’s social credit system, and Americans must recognize what’s happening and take action, according to Kara Frederick, a former Facebook intel analyst and a research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Frederick recently authored a Heritage Foundation report titled, “Combating Big Tech’s Totalitarianism: A Road Map,” which details how Big Tech has wielded its power to censor Americans. The report proposes a range of actions Americans can take to counter the situation. “It’s that integration of the government and big tech companies to police speech that I think is troubling and very evocative of the coming totalitarianism,” Frederick said on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. She calls it a “symbiosis between the government and tech companies.”

She cited a few examples, including in earlier February, when White House press secretary Jen Psaki, at a press conference, urged Spotify and other major tech platforms to take further action to stamp out what the Biden administration deemed as “COVID-19 misinformation.” It’s not the first time Psaki told big tech companies what to do, Frederick noted. In July 2021, Psaki and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at a press conference urged social media companies to combat what the Biden administration called “health misinformation.” At the time, Psaki singled out 12 people whom she said were “producing 65 percent of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms.”

“All of [the 12 people] remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including Facebook—ones that Facebook owns,” Psaki said at the time. A day later, Psaki said, “You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others … for providing misinformation out there.” Frederick noted that within a month, all of the users and accounts were booted off the Facebook platform.

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  • #101811
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “quick, find me a new planet!”

    cnj

    All in a day’s work, tdk.

    #101812
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    TDK:

    time to buy some spf 17,353,498 sunscreen: https://jessicar.substack.com/p/directed-energy-weapons

    Directed energy weapon design is not a new phenom, I read a well sourced (.MIL docs) 1994 article that the USSR had extremely powerful Scalar wave weapons program (thanks Tesla) that was operational in 40 years ago…

    Following the fall of said USSR, certain Ruskies were advertising their Scalar weapon systems for hire, claiming the directed wave weapons could be used to start earthquakes & create Typhoons (control weather) ~ It appeared the analysis was confirmed by INSCOM, I have the article still in my collection from pre-Internet days.

    RE: U$ Empire Inc. weapon development, back in the 90s, achieved several major mission critical breakthroughs in super conductor development, with the ability to create mobile particle beam/rail gun systems, of which are now quite well known…

    Most of super conductor research has gone dark following the well publicized super conductor breakthroughs 20+ years ago, about the same time the USAF published on their website that they would own the weather by 2025.

    As I haven’t worked in defense contracting for 25+ years I can only hypothesize where things are at now, but I try not to think about it…

    Cheers,

    Gary

    #101813
    Sylvia 1
    Participant

    Germ #101793 What is the link to that video?

    #101814
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Rottotillerman – Agreed absolutely incredible work on the network analysis.
    Silences ANY argument against conspiracy theory.

    #101815
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Energy Weapons Addendum:

    To date .MIL spec directed energy weapons have not been deployed by LEOs, if they were everyone would know 😉

    Moreover, a former colleague & I theorized that when the story broke about Clinton/LORAL giving guided missile tech to the CCP it was allowed because directed energy systems had/would make such conventional tech obsolete in short order, except to benefit MIC profits created by .MIL World Police ops…

    This would also make non-stealth “hyper-sonic” toys a mute point when “Star Wars” weapons (thanks Reagan!) became readily deployed ~ Conventional weapons at this point are only deployed as a ca$hcow + .MIL probably doesn’t want to fully reveal capabilities.

    Then again, given the Clown World Psychosis of U$ Empire Inc. + MIC, I wouldn’t be shocked if advanced system development is mired in moronic B$…

    #101816
    zerosum
    Participant

    Imagine, the liberty convoy moves from the front of parliament before monday. The vote on the “Act” is monday.
    Guess, will the vote will pass?

    #101817
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Oroboros wrote: Desantis, Gabbard, controlled opposition
    Why can’t they tweet a comment about Turdeau as ass clown tyrant?

    Give me a break, controlled opposition. I guess there are no sincere actors in your world? Sad.

    I suspect former U.S. Senator Gabbard has more balls than most out there, both in words and actions. She has been a Fox guest with Carson recently where he covered the Freedom Convoy. But he chose to talk with Gabbard about the goings on in Ukraine, which is slightly more important both in the U.S. and on the world stage.

    Here is Tulsi recently on authoritarianism:

    https://video.foxnews.com/v/6292156314001#sp=show-clips

    #101818
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Pardon me, former Congresswoman.

    #101819
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Based on her regular appearances on Fox, I suspect, and hope, that she is planning another Presidential run.

    #101820
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Latest (8:59 ET): … Ottawa goes under the siege! One hundred check points are being erected throughout of the city over the next 12 hours. “Freedom Convoy” co-organizer, Chris Barber, was just arrested. Police presence on city streets is growing minute by minute, … seems exponentially. Things are not looking too good, …

    … fwiw,

    F.S.

    #101821
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Bosco I absolutely looooved that Chesterton quote. thank you

    #101822
    Dr. D
    Participant

    What is it about the hair color with these guys? The trope is true. Do they not like themselves, but as surface people change surface things? I don’t get it.

    Remember kiddies: 10-year rates have DOUBLED in six months. Yes, to only 2% so far, but 100%? In six months? So all your interest payments on borrowing for stock buybacks have DOUBLED? And what’s the rate of rate on that? And expectations?

    Okay, popped in to say I do not believe these guys. Canada says they want the wallets xyz that they’ve flagged halted. Great! Um, how would I follow them? A Bitcoin address is like “1HYLLUR2JFs24X1zTS4XbNJidGo2XNHiTT” (Automatic Earth, donations accepted) Many are far longer. So I’m a convenience store and I what? Print out a paper and post it on the register? How exactly am I going to keep track of 30 (and no doubt soon to be thousands) of totally randomized, 64 digit numbers? TD can, of course, but anyone else?

    Suppose I receive from a naughty address. I won’t know. And unless I receive it directly to Coinbase (KYC) they won’t know who got it. Do they jail me for the equivalent of finding a fiver in the street?

    By the way, what IS a wallet, exactly? For the inbred seventh sons who couldn’t make it in Moosejaw Community College, I’ll spell it out for you: ANYTHING. I can print a wallet and mail it there, Canada Post. I can create a wallet or 20 on a USB-stick device like Trezor. Anyone with that device and the keys can walk up and down the streets of Ottawa, with the bank account literally in their hands. This is the same on your phone. Point at Walter Langowski’s phone (noting AlphaFlight) and BEEP, he has the money to buy diesel. As you only just made it, there is no previous traffic on the wallet and no rules regarding its use yet. Even if there will be in six hours, spend it and it’s gone. Are you going to retroactively prosecute me for something that was legal at the time? That’ll go over well in court and in public.

    Next problem for the crayon-using functionally illiterate: So…GoSend has an address. Great. You’ve flagged that address, great. …But what if GoSend then splits the donations into 10,000 paper wallets 5 or 6 times, then recombines them somewhere? What if they send it into Monero or CloakCoin on Changelly.com and then back out again? Or not? And sends in a hardened Privacy coin?

    Is OPP down with tracking at that level? Um, no you f-ing retards. Maybe Mooselini can call a favor to the NSA to track them. …But day after day after day after day, as they roll the wallets, $50 at a time? I. Don’t. Think So. Or not yet anyway.

    And I’m an amateur, using only Western public sites to stick them in the eye. Imagine rolling it in Turkey, Russia, Sudan, or Congress’ favorite money-laundering safe haven, Ukraine. I can’t IMAGINE what those boys have at their disposal. Well, good luck to ya!

    The real problem is the people are not using the tools that were created.

    #101823
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Glad you liked it, oxy.

    ***

    “Police presence on city streets is growing minute by minute, … seems exponentially. Things are not looking too good, …”

    Actual realpolitik usually doesn’t, but it’s where the action is. Gonna be a lotta variables the next few days, from pipe bombs to skin-cook energy beams to uploaded live images damning to either side.

    They’ll want to deal r-e-a-l carefully with the truckers… unless they’ve decided to take the gloves off and go full force, which will be an even worse disaster for them than some ugly footage of them beating someone bloody with a baton.

    When the illusion of freedom on which so many people in Euromerica suddenly vaporizes, when the !pop! of several hundred million crania being sucked out of their cloacal hidey holes, collectively forming a sound like the BOOM of ten gazillion Big Mac wrappers dropping onto Parliament/Congress, there is very likely to be an explosion of anomie sentiment and trucks will roll and so will heads, I suspect. Good heads, bad heads. Heads.

    Jordan Peterson was, I think, trying in that 2:30 second video I shared, to give the people who don’t feel up to that level of confrontation (beginning with incarceration up to death) a sense of honor for bailing out now, and a strategy for maximizing their gains while minimizing their losses, including in their own psyches and self-esteems.

    Not everyone, we may have noticed, is up to a real fight.

    Soon we’ll see who, if anyone (ack! pessimism! ack! hairball!), is.

    #101824
    chooch
    Participant

    [..] Gabbard’s plan to overtly side with Assad and Russia while they commit crimes against humanity would be a strategic disaster, a gift to the extremists and a betrayal of decades of U.S. commitments to stand up to mass atrocities. Democratic voters who believe in liberalism and truth must reject not only her candidacy but also her attempt to disguise moral bankruptcy as a progressive value.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/tulsi-gabbards-syria-record-shows-why-she-cant-be-president/2019/08/01/f804c790-b497-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html

    Betrayal my ass.

    #101825
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “When the illusion of freedom on which so many people in Euromerica” rely

    #101826
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    One pattern from the last go round of this cycle, the 30s/Nazis/Tojo etc., is unmistakably happening here: the left is discrediting itself and disillusioning its followers so much and so fast we’re almost guaranteed top get a populist demagogue of the stripe that makes Hitlers.

    Nazis and Hitlers in one paragraph: I lose the discussion several times over. 😉

    #101827
    Autonomous Unit
    Participant

    Tulsi Gabbard is connected to the WEF Young Leaders program.
    https://www.weforum.org/people/tulsi-gabbard

    #101828
    chooch
    Participant

    Figures. Uncle.

    #101829
    chooch
    Participant

    Maybe the “My Pillow” guy tap into this, third party. ANYTHING!

    #101830
    those darned kids
    Participant

    bosco: space is the place

    vp: i’ve known of these weapons for quite a while. while i find there very existence shocking (humans is dumb), seeing them being used against peaceful people is very frightening.

    #101831
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Presidency is a joke, the real power goes on beneath the surface ,always has.

    Biden is embarrassingly incompetent and demented. Watch him talk about the kids at the pool rubbing the hair on his legs and his hair snuffing fetish.

    Please, at this point in history, a goat could be President.

    Reminds of when the Praetorian Guard in Rome finally realized that they actually held enormous power and ended up murdering 13 different Caesars.

    Imagine if the Secret Service had murdered 13 presidents to achieve a regime change instead of only one.

    I like Tulsi Gabbard, she talks a great game, but she could never be a Demo-rat nominee, not even a token VP. And even though she appears on Tucker, the Repugnant-cans would never welcome her to their half of the Uni-party either. She’s an attractive repackaged Bernie, meant to draw voters away from a Demo-rat.

    Here’s the Tweet she didn’t send:

    “Trudeau is a power mad tyrant leading Canada on a path to ruin. He has not even seriously talked to the trucker legitimate concerns.”

    There, that was easy.

    #101832
    those darned kids
    Participant

    autonomous: yep. klaus sure knows how to pick ’em.

    #101835
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I hate how academics tend to stick with One True Theory over another, when there is room for many since none of them are comprehensively conclusive, for example, So when I say that I’m a Big Believer in the Big Man theory of history, I by no means it’s even remotely comprehensive. It’s more an observation of a certain type of systempunkt, and that’s handy for anlysis (Genghis Khan totally fits as such a systempunkt), but doesn’t much address the cascades of history much less the overall oscillations caused by all this frenetic activity, unintended consequences etc.

    Right now the cascades are begging a Big Man systempunkt. It seems to have been trying them on for size since, oh, Obama: Big Man. (Love or hate him, the bastard’s tough as nails, way more than smart enough, and he surfed the cascades of that time adroitly into office for two terms and completed what Bush had started, majorly shifting that 911 arc even further after promising to straighten it out. But… he wasn’t his own man, and I take pleasure in politically-incorrectly calling him what Sidney Poitier called Colin Powell during the Iraq fiasco: house nigrah. Eunuch if you prefer, but I suspect Michelle disagrees, and man, wasn’t she the hottest 1st Lady since Jackie O?

    Then Trump, much much more a Big man. Order of magnitude: he kicked EVERYONE’s ass politically: DNC and GOP.

    But he’s nuts, old, and undoubtedly a bit senile.

    No matter what, election, revolution, bloody invasion from Mars, I foresee a BIG MAN arising, a major behemoth slouching toward Bethlehem. If I were scrying the horizon for the next bright shiny thing to reflect off my Special Edition Dior tinfoil hat, it would be the just-now-moulting-from-nymph-to-adult, BIG MAN emerging from hir<> or<> hes (ASCII for ‘non-binary) swamp cocoon. Not from any usual places. Hitler didn’t. Genghis Khan certainly didn’t.

    This prospect includes some seriously ballsy big man who actually runs a coup but charms the public. Tres old school, jah?

    #101836
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Here’s for champagne to my real friends and real pain to my sham friends*… but only just enough to remember to be nice to me unless deliberately provoked (in which case just shoot me, please). It’s not hard to honor a simple Golden Rule we’ve known since kindergarten, and hey, as experience now has scientifically proven, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

    wpg

    There. As someone asked me to yesterday, oxy? orboros?, I will now let that go.

    *that’s stolen from an old C.L.Moore Golden Age skiffy tale, it is.

    BIG MAN

    (Photoshoppng history into oblivion, one youtube vid at a time.)

    #101838
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Playing pro bono devil’s advocate for Tulsi Gabbard: not all teacher’s pets remain such. I didn’t. Eve before becoming a rebel proper as teenager, I recall making fun of her as being Hitler after I’d had enough of her dark side. Turned around and there she was, watching me. Said, “Okay, Mr. Morrison.”

    But I didn’t get in trouble. Makes a fellow wonder.

    With Tulsi, I’m reminded of when Bernie was running and winning, and the savviest political enthusiasts would often double-down that Bernie was only and always and ever could only be a sheepdog, don’t get your hopes up, when he sure didn’t act like he wanted to be on a leash. Point being that, him being the best thing anyone had seen in forever, guaranteed to win the election if nominated, why not get behind him and see if maybe he really was sincere all along about using the DNC as his private socialists’ voter revolution?

    But to win the nom from an at least superficially very fearful DNC playing every dirty trick they had would’ve required every sympathetic political enthusiast to back him. What did they have to lose? ‘I’ll take Clinton, pls.’ WHY?!? How could Bernie have possibly worse than Hillary? He’s a cave-in, not a sociopath, and an outsider to boot. He would’ve been Carter-Trumped to pieces but would’ve made some good noise on the bully pulpit and thereby at least have fomented more turnover in Congress.

    So, I say watch Tulsi with a very cynical and skeptical eye but don’t slander her yet. Not every graduate from West Point was willing to fire on civilians or, for that matter, even fight in the war. Conscientious objectors happen. Bad luck can take care of itself. Good luck wants our support.

    A Single Grain of Rice

    #101839
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    THis:

    BIG MAN

    (Photoshoppng history into oblivion, one youtube vid at a time.)

    Is supposed to be in my post on historical Big Men, not as a portrayal of myself. Mongo just pawn in game of life, and ladies, you can lie to me about the size of my Vice-President anytime, so long as it’s flattering. WordPress is being surly.

    #101841
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    ONe last try to get this through:

    I will split it into two and post them backward:

    second part first

    Their enemy was actually protecting them in a sense by any attempt to concentrate them or corral them: it’s like Eisenhower demanding all the Panzer divisions park together right next to his headquarters.

    etc. etc.

    But that would require major vision and gonads of steel and a highly-tuned sense of character and bullshit detection from at least one person able to convince others to give it a try. This person then watches closely over the gang and is willing to have intimate discussions in water closets with more painfully tender naughty bits and such of movement members who he is convinced are saboteurs or simply need to leave, being too wobbly to have in such a thing, and need to really really understand why they don’t wanna say nuttin’, zip, like a bodybag up your lip, see?

    Like a very highly ethical and deeply moral but equally ruthless Al Capone.

    One suspects this is at least a little the case with those ‘hard men’ WES mentioned a few days ago.

    But most people will steer clear of even using no-no’d donation venues.

    2bee continued

    #101842
    absolute galore
    Participant

    The WEF bestowed some kind of Leadership in Hawaii honors on her 7 years ago and based on that they threw her bio up on the website.. Is there something deeper than that to connect her with the WEF?

    Yes, there are many forces more powerful than the president. But I would rather have her talking to Russia than “Joe Biden” and his insane clown crew.. I doubt she would have such warmongers on her team.

    #101847
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Very weird paranoid experiment on my part:

    GoSend Monero or CloakCoin hardened Privacy coin

    #101848
    chooch
    Participant

    Sir bosco,

    If you ever start a substack, I would subscribe.

    #101849
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Dr D said:

    Point at Walter Langowski’s phone (noting AlphaFlight) and BEEP, he has the money to buy diesel.-

    Not that easy. Having money in an account is not the issue, getting it out of the account and spending it is the issue. Unless the person selling diesel is using the same currency (say bitcoin), the question is how to exchange that money for the currency that is accepted by the diesel seller? The diesel seller will have to have a bitcoin account at some exchange so that he can exchange the bitcoin for cash and pay himself and his suppliers. How long will it take the government to close down his CAD account once they see him receiving cash from, say, Coinbase?

    The misnomer “wallet” is confusing to many. The wallet is a device (paper, usb stick, PC, mainframe, super computer, tree truck, tattoo etc) that stores your digital currency account number (often referred to as a key). The wallet does not contain any money, the money is held in the distributed bank (on something called a block chain) on the internet and all you can do is to receive/send it, using your account number, to someone else who has an account number in the same currency. To do this you need the internet, so no internet, no transaction. To convert it to cash, you send it to a company such as coinbase who will convert it from bitcoin into CAD.

    #101850
    Veracious Poet
    Participant
    #101851
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    “Tulsi Gabbard is connected to the WEF Young Leaders program.”

    The Young Global Leaders website indicates that Tulsi Gabbard is not an active member.

    Dan Crenshaw, a Republican Congressman from Texas, was also on their list.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20201204043611/https://www.weforum.org/people/daniel-crenshaw

    #101852

    The pendulum swings and we thinks it’s a clock
    With a ticking to keep us all calm.
    If it swings to right, it will swing to left-
    But it isn’t a clock- it’s a bomb.

    #101854
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Sir bosco,

    If you ever start a substack, I would subscribe.”

    If you ever call me Sir again, I’ll, I’ll, I’ll… open up a nice French restaurant with nice lace doilies and consummately gay waiters. I SWEAR it. 😉 Then won’t you be sorry!

    WHile I have lots to say and am, imo, worth reading, I don’t have a the heart for a blog in me these days. I have just enough to hang here with these wonderful fellow lunatics, and work on fiction that may make a market impact yet before the market is dead.

    I get major momentum rolling, the novel is alive in my head and coming together, and then illness takes me down hard and puts me in a cannabis-loaded coma, so to speak. (Po po pitifoo me.)

    Now that I’m back in the game, and have good reason to think I’ll have a solid year or more before I get taken down again, I’m training hard and am now writing fiction close to 4 hours a day. Now I get to be manic as a methed-up monkey, sort of a bipolar springback from being so subdued for two months.

    But thanx so much for the vote of confidence, chooch. (I keep seeing Chooch and Cheng, the dyslexic drug comedy team.)

    #101855
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    aspnaz said part of what the post that WordPress and God Almighty will not allow me to make was working on saying. Crypto isn’t currency except between cryptonians. Some guy owns a gas statin is a cryptonian, you’re in for some diesel. Otherwise, crypto is cryptonite.

    ***

    “…But it isn’t a clock- it’s a bomb.”

    That one is catchy enough to become an earworm, my parents.

    #101857
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    tdk: space IS the place.

    #101858
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “EveN before becoming a rebel proper as teenager, I recall making fun of her as being Hitler after I’d had enough of her dark side. Turned around and there she was, watching me. Said, “Okay, Mr. Morrison.””

    Her being Mrs. Schwartz, a really HOT red-headed woman with a passion for teaching and science but a vicious streak, the time being 5th grade.

    #101859
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Since the other post won’t happen, I’ll note that this is about Ottawa truckers and Trudeau/Ottawa police:

    “Their enemy was actually protecting them in a sense by any attempt to concentrate them or corral them: it’s like Eisenhower demanding all the Panzer divisions park together right next to his headquarters.”

    #101860
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Let’s see if I can get this much through:

    Re: all that wallet jazz: it’s not 2-dimensional. There are many more planes of interaction than that.

    The crayon-wielding illiterates will scare a lot of people off bitcoin this way, especially the citizen equivalent of same, especially any crossover ‘leftists’ (to use a crudely inadequate label). Sometimes you can’t win a specific battle but you can make the enemy pay as much as possible for its win, and if the attrition happens early enough, convince them that they’re losing.

    The same logic can be said for the truckers. They could have parked en masse and gotten real serious about this stuff, and not just via the ‘hard men’ route. They could’ve carefully strategized, using terror cell methods and such to prevent whatever bunch was willing to scheme and dream from being infiltrated by G-men dressed as truckers (or hookers;) ) By now they could’ve had a high volume of dangerous things legitimate for them to have, beginning with gasoline in their tanks.

    Their enemy was actually protecting them in a sense by any attempt to concentrate them or corral them: it’s like Eisenhower demanding all the Panzer divisions park together right next to his headquarters.

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