Short & Fun, yes!
https://www.facebook.com/100043164721769/posts/446577386791082/
NOTE: I don’t know exactly what happened when I tried to comment.
Somehow it triggered an overlay of put-you-to-sleep music.
The video was like pantomime in the background.
None of the sound track from the video playing.
Reply to a video sent to me. You might be interested.
I am wary of this video – – is it clever propaganda? (How Australia Is Crashing the World Economy And Taking Down China)
The creator is a blogger. But it’s by a blogger who’s bought and paid for? It’s his job; he’s effectively an employee? Hmmm . . .
Right now, what is being manufactured is a another wave of fear, close on the heels of covid. Like covid, it comes in disguise. I ran into it again a couple days ago, took me a while to make sense of it – – anyhow, You will have heard the messaging.
– – the “scarcity”, “supply chains can’t deliver goods”, crisis caused by “the supply of computer chips”, the computer chips which by now are embedded EVERYWHERE into our Totally Tech society. It’s going to be worse than 2007-08 Wall Street. “can’t get the parts needed”. Missing one kind of chip, cannot build the thing. “huge labour shortage”, “unloaded ships sitting in harbours”.
And who are the culprits? The Chinese! Largest chip manufacturer in the world is in Taiwan. China’s “One China” policy. China will invade Taiwan. War. And so on.
China is easy to make into a culprit because of the excesses of communism. I do not defend them. Nor do I defend the excesses of the Americans and their allies which includes Canada.
The stupidity of China under Mao (admitted) – – the forensics person who explains – – the effectiveness of THE LIE is that there is always a “grain of truth” in the lies that the manipulator spins. We’ve heard that little bit of truth somewhere – – and nod our heads in agreement with the propaganda.
Mao’s rule came to an end in 1976 when he died. The incredible stupidity of what was done to the birds (not only sparrows) under Mao is almost 50 years old. The blogger uses it well.
The incredible stupidity of what Canada has done to birds and insects (try “pollinators”) (one could also mention poisoning of “human beings”??), that Canada continues to do, is a one-up-manship on the stupidity of China and the Sparrows under Mao??
But never mind that.
I believe there are flaws in the statements put forward in the video that point to it being a tool of propagandists
As I’ve mentioned before, we happened to have been in Wuhan the year before the Tianamen Square massacres in 1989.
Wuhan was a city of blackened buildings and blackened air from the burning of low-grade coal for heating. And other coal for factories with no pollution controls. We could not get out of Wuhan fast enough. It was unimaginable that anyone would have to breathe air that was so thick with pollutants. A City covered with a heavy grey blanket; you could not tell the time of day because the sun could not penetrate the blanket. And we were there in the SUMMER time.
Heavy use of the low-grade coal was in the winter for heating. There was no air conditioning to create a demand for electricity in the summer. Wuhan in the summertime had an earned reputation: it was one of the 5 “Furnaces” of China. Indeed it was. The temperature was 45 degrees in still, thick, heat-trapping poisoned air.
China implemented projects to reduce air pollution: Germany was a leader – – you may remember – – in beginning the transition to cleaner energy. It was good for Germany’s economy. China followed suit – – also went into transitioning to alternate technologies (solar cells, windmill farms).
I described Wuhan – – it helped motivate the Chinese. They are not all stupid, ineffective, dangerous people. They can be very pragmatic.
We happened to also take a boat down the Yangtze River, joining the tail-end – – some parts of the Yangtze, after 5,000 years of use for transportation – – no longer.
The Chinese deemed hydro-electricity to be one of the answers to cleaner energy, especially needed with their goals for economic growth. The “3 Gorges Dam” was (still is?) the world’s largest-capacity hydro-electricity dam. Construction was completed by 2006. The planning for the dam was known at least by 1988 when we were there.
So by 1988 the Chinese were taking ACTUAL major steps toward less dependence on dirty fossil fuels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam (Not that their choice of mega dams is without controversy.)
China produces most of the thermal coal (both black and brown) it burns, but imports coking coal to make high quality steel (from Australia, the example in the video – – until there was a dispute between Australia and China.)
What else did the Chinese do? – – – they invested in, for example, the Canadian Tar Sands – – “off-shoring” some of their air and water pollution to Canada. A DELIBERATE strategy. Did we care? Oh no. Our fossil fuel industry (not really Canadian) was happy to have their money; the governments too were happy, and really did not care about the serious polluting and poisonous effects on Canadian water resources.
Emissions were (still are?) “regulated” in a dishonest way by measuring Alberta smoke stacks in isolation one from the other – – never looking at cumulative impact. Which was how “acid rain” came to be a problem through “downstream” air flows over northern Saskatchewan. The acid rain treaty worked out between Canada and the U.S. when the Great Lakes were under great threat from industrial emissions in Ontario, somehow applied in Ontario, but not in less populated, and Indian-populated areas of the Canadian Shield.
The ship in the video marooned in China for almost a year loaded with Australian coal. This video, How Australia Is Crashing the World Economy And Taking Down China? The creation of “us” versus “those bad guys”. Well, we can BOTH qualify for the title “bad guys”, can we not? Very legitimately? The Chinese show-cased cleaner air achievements at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. How is Canada doing?
The “nuclear threat” from China? . . . I am not convinced that China is a more potent threat than the USA and its allies. Daniel Ellsberg, renowned “Pentagon Papers” whistle blower (1971) published The Doomsday Machine in 2017. Sub-title Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.
In 1971, because of the nature of the work he did, Ellsberg had to choose between whistle-blowing on the out-of-control American military and their nuclear war agenda – or, the other information he held – – truth about the Viet Nam War.
What was to him most important, most wrong, most dangerous and most in need of public disclosure was the American planning for war that would be waged with nuclear weapons and a “first strike” policy.
Revolution in the U.S. against the Viet Nam War was in full force. In the end, Ellsberg opted for the whistle-blowing to help bring the Viet Nam War to an end.
Today (2021) Ellsberg is 90 years old. In his eighties, with assistance from his son, he decided not to die before he did the whistle-blowing on the nuclear war planning; it remains a serious threat to planet Earth.
The Doomsday Machine (2017) is a critical, you could say scary, documentation of American military ethic and practice vis-à-vis nuclear weapons and the “communist threat”. Not even American allies who live in countries on the other side of a political border with Russia or China will be spared – – the Americans embrace “first strike” with no room for re-consideration if an attack order moves down the chain-of-command. Ellsberg documents U.S. launch sites that effectively ring China and Russia. China and Russia would be fools not to regard the Americans as highly dangerous to their survival.
To me it makes no difference under which tyranny you are a citizen. It is foolish to be ignorant, and to be manipulated by propaganda.
You know the litany: there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; but the cunning propaganda machine manipulated people – – THE LIE enabled the launch of the Iraq War in 2003.
But prior to that was the First Gulf War.
https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-great-lie-of-the-first-gulf-war/271486/
You may remember “THE GREAT LIE” of that War. Even now I am astounded by how effective the 15-year old girl was in her acting, moving herself AND others to tears.
1990 – The Nayirah testimony
In her emotional testimony, Nayirah claimed that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die.
The coaching of Nayira al-Sabah was run by the American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Her testimony has come to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda.[1][2]
Prior to that – – – 1964. There was no missile in the Bay of Tonkin, but the propaganda machine manipulated people – – THE BAY OF TONKIN LIE launched the Viet Nam War.
Lies about the War on Terror. Whistle-blower Julian Assange. And the recent (surprise!) investigative journalism by the New York Times documenting lies that buried 2019 atrocities. The American military is clearly the terrorist force, committing illegal, terrorist acts that would put either the hate or flight into you or me.
And so the list goes on – – STRATEGIC LIE AFTER STRATEGIC LIE – – lots of them originating in the Government – Big Pharma complex.
What is it? Do we WANT to be feeble-minded, quivering, fearful victims of manipulation and propaganda?
Figure it out: Video How Australia Is Crashing the World Economy And Taking Down China A shipload of Australian coal marooned in China.
Take JUST ONE sphere where international cooperation is badly needed – – Climate Change. In whose interests is it to finger the Chinese as the bad guys? To frustrate cooperation?
/Sandra
The New York Times has published a very solid investigative report on a US military coverup of a 2019 massacre in Baghuz, Syria which killed scores of civilians. This would be the second investigative report on civilian-slaughtering US airstrikes by The New York Times in a matter of weeks, and if I were a more conspiracy-minded person I’d say the paper of record appears to have been infiltrated by journalists.
The report contains many significant revelations, including that the US military has been grossly undercounting the numbers of civilians killed in its airstrikes and lying about it to Congress, that special ops forces in Syria have been consistently ordering airstrikes which kill noncombatants with no accountability by exploiting loopholes to get around rules meant to protect civilians, that units which call in such airstrikes are allowed to do their own assessments grading whether the strikes were justified, that the US war machine attempted to obstruct scrutiny of the massacre “at nearly every step” of the way, and that the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations only investigates such incidents when there is “potential for high media attention, concern with outcry from local community/government, concern sensitive images may get out.”
“But at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike,” The New York Times reports. “The death toll was downplayed. Reports were delayed, sanitized and classified. United States-led coalition forces bulldozed the blast site. And top leaders were not notified.”
Journalist Aaron Maté has called the incident “one of the US military’s worst massacres and cover-up scandals since My Lai in Vietnam.”
Asked by The Times for a statement, Central Command gave the laughable justification that maybe those dozens of women and children killed in repeated bomb blasts were actually armed enemy combatants:
“This week, after The New York Times sent its findings to U.S. Central Command, which oversaw the air war in Syria, the command acknowledged the strikes for the first time, saying 80 people were killed but the airstrikes were justified. It said the bombs killed 16 fighters and four civilians. As for the other 60 people killed, the statement said it was not clear that they were civilians, in part because women and children in the Islamic State sometimes took up arms.“
I mean, how do you even address a defense like that? How do you get around the “Maybe those babies were ISIS fighters” defense?
Reading the report it becomes apparent how much inertia was thrown on attempts to bring the massacre to light and how easy it would have been for those attempts to succumb to the pressure and just give up, which naturally leads one to wonder how many other such incidents never see the light of day because attempts to expose them are successfully ground to a halt. The Times says the Baghuz massacre “would rank third on the military’s worst civilian casualty events in Syria if 64 civilian deaths were acknowledged,” but it’s clear that that “acknowledged” bit is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
And it really makes you appreciate how much work goes into getting information like this in front of the public eye, and how important it is to do so, and how tenuous the ability to do so currently is.
Julian Assange currently sits in Belmarsh Prison waiting to find out if British judges will overturn a lower court’s ruling against his extradition to the United States to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for journalistic activity which exposed US war crimes. War crimes not unlike those that were just exposed by The New York Times in its reporting on the Baghuz massacre.
The precedent the US government is trying to set with its persecution of Julian Assange will, if successful, cast a chilling effect over journalism which scrutinizes the US war machine, not just in the United States but around the world. If it can succeed in legally establishing that it can extradite an Australian journalist for publishing information in the public interest about US war crimes, it will have succeeded in legally establishing that it can do that to any journalist anywhere. And you can kiss investigative reporting like this goodbye.
This is what’s at stake in the Assange case. Our right to know what the most deadly elements of the most powerful government on our planet are doing. The fact that the drivers of empire think it is legitimate to deprive us of such information by threatening to imprison anyone who tries to show it to us makes them an enemy of all humanity.
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I am indebted to Brian Peckford. He brought Dr. Ponesse to my attention.
A professor of Ethics for 20 years, fired by Western University because of covid. Listen to her!
(The text of her speech can be found at https://brownstone.org/articles/do-not-give-up-your-rights-dr-julie-ponesses-remarkable-speech/)
Brian Peckford, former Premier of Newfoundland/Labrador is shocked by the loss of rights being experienced by Canadians, at the hands of their own governments and institutions.
VIDEO BELOW – – journalist Lawton asks excellent questions. The former premier has a reputation for straight-shooting. He hits the mark with his call, in common language for a “Constitutional Reference“.
“There is a measure to expedite this through the Courts . . . nobody is talking about this . . .”.
The current cases lined up in Canadian courts will receive decision in 4 to 5 YEARS.
A “Constitutional Reference” lands in the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in 6 months to a year. A government asks the SCC:
More on a “Reference”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_question
In Canadian law, a reference question or reference case .. is a submission by the federal or a provincial government to the courts asking for an advisory opinion on a major legal issue. Typically the question concerns the constitutionality of legislation. . . .
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By Andrew Lawton
Brian Peckford is the last living premier involved in the construction and adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Now, the former Newfoundland and Labrador premier says the Charter and parliamentary democracy are being “violated and abused” by governments whose pandemic policies have taken aim at freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and other Charter-guaranteed rights as well. As the Charter’s 40th anniversary nears, Peckford joined True North’s The Andrew Lawton Show to speak out about the “collective psychosis” he says is afflicting Canada.
I recommend the video – – click on the above link. Then scroll down a bit.
The show’s hosts discuss the concept of freedom with Naomi Wolf, best-selling author, journalist and Rhodes Scholar.
Wolf, who also is CEO of the online information hub Daily Clout, said freedom needs urgent representation from both sides of the political aisle. Wolf described how she crossed party lines to join the medical freedom movement.
Wolf also discussed how to use Daily Clout to track and follow important federal and state legislation related to specific medical freedom issues and mandates, and the need for “boots-on-the-ground” activists for the Nov. 3 kick-off of Worldwide Walkouts.
(INSERT: Naomi Wolf is an innovator. The legislation data base tool developed by Daily Clout to suit public needs is of course American. It is very interesting to see what they are doing.
Wolf is experiencing what you too may be finding: roll over, open an eye – – my goodness! what an unlikely bed fellow!
Wolf voted for Joe Biden and now she’s right behind Florida Governor Ron De Santis (Republican) and Montana Governor Republican Greg Gianforte, because of their work to thwart Biden’s mass vaccination agenda. Cannot afford to be partisan.)
Wolf said people have a limited time to act:
“We need to ramp up … a transpartisan movement around the world of people who just love liberty. In my happier moments, that’s what I do see when I read the headlines is people on the streets … in France, people on the streets, in Britain, people on the streets in the United States just saying, ‘Give us our liberties — we’re entitled to liberties — we’re a family that needs to be protected by human rights.’”
Wolf said it was obvious to her that fighting for liberty should be non-partisan. When she joined the medical freedom movement, she joined as a person, not a party.
She said:
“It’s not left versus right. It’s all of us here and our bodies, and our children and our planet against these rapacious oligarchs and massive corporations that are trying to turn us into a state of what I call ‘biofascism.’”
Wolf discussed how to use her website to act on specific bills that affect people’s districts and voting blocs.
“This tool is so amazing and we definitely want our listeners to know about it and use it and keep track of what’s happening,” McBride said. “We are seeing that medical freedom is at the forefront in so many states. So for the first time ever it is top trending legislation.”
The hosts closed the show with commentary on recent Project Veritas footage (starts at 57:30) of senior advisor to Phil Murphy, a democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, saying his staff used the vaccine mandate to further his political career and win votes.
U.S.: Police and Fire departments “across the country”, along with “city workers”.
The PBA filed its lawsuit on the same day as thousands of city workers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest the vaccine mandate. Union opposition to these obligations, especially in city police departments, has been growing across the country and increasing in fervor. Earlier this month, the Los Angeles county sheriff said he would not enforce the mandate in his department. In Washington State, 1,785 state workers reportedly left or were fired for not complying with the vaccine mandate. . . .
October 31st News:
More than 2,000 New York City firefighters have taken medical leave in the past week as unvaccinated municipal workers face the start of sanctions Monday.
Frank Dwyer, deputy commissioner of the New York City Fire Department, said by email that the number of firefighters on medical leave was “very unusual.” The department employs roughly 11,000 firefighters.
Some first responders in the U.S. have been relatively resistant to employers’ Covid-19 vaccination mandates, with some saying they would rather lose their jobs than lose their sense of freedom over having to be inoculated.
Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro suggested in a statement Sunday that firefighters who participated in the apparent sickout were neglecting their oaths, which commit them to “faithfully discharge the duties” of their jobs. Those who do not meet the vaccination requirement have been threatened with unpaid leave starting Monday.
“Irresponsible bogus sick leave by some of our members is creating a danger for New Yorkers and their fellow Firefighters,” Nigro said. “They need to return to work or risk the consequences of their actions.”
© Mike Segar Image: Union firefighters and others protest against mandated vaccines in New York City (Mike Segar / Reuters)
Nigro, however, refuted news reports and politicians’ claims that the staffing challenge has forced the department to close a number of firehouses. U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-New York, said in a statement Saturday that 26 city fire stations have closed.
“The department has not closed any firehouses,” Nigro said.
The department said fire companies — groups of firefighters composed of specialized teams — open and close regularly but might face more closures than usual. The FDNY was prepared to shut down 20 percent of them while deploying private emergency medical response services to help out, it said.
Malliotakis said New Yorkers were being left without a safety net as the city and its firefighters stand off over the mandate.
“God forbid there is a major fire, or a severe car accident, or if a crime takes place, or even worse,” she said as she pointed out a firehouse she said was temporarily without a ladder company because of staffing shortages.
Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, blamed city officials and suggested the vaccination requirement could have been staggered among groups of firefighters to avoid staffing shortages.
“My members have not been given the proper opportunity to be informed by the department or the city what’s going to happen to them,” he said.
Ansbro acknowledged the increase in sick days taken by firefighters but said many could be attributed to firefighters getting vaccinated and experiencing flu-like symptoms afterward.
In an information page on Covid-19 vaccines, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not use the term “flu-like” to describe symptoms or effects. It does say, “Side effects can affect your ability to do daily activities, but they should go away in a few days.”
The New York Police Department did not immediately respond to a question about the number of officers who have taken medical leave in the last week.
The union that represents rank-and-file officers, the Police Benevolent Association, said it has filed a lawsuit challenging the vaccine mandate.
Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed some optimism about the situation Saturday, tweeting that 91 percent of city employees had so far been vaccinated. The deadline for many workers to get at least one dose was Friday.
The NYPD reported that 84 percent of its employees, civilian and sworn, were vaccinated. The fire department’s figure was 80 percent, according to NBC New York.
This video makes clear a most important element of the CONTEXT
within which FORCED INOCULATION is occuring.
The presentations are outstanding. Edward Snowden, just one, never disappoints.
Just after the bombshell revelations about the CIA plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange while he sought political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the Progressive International comes to London with the first physical Belmarsh Tribunal.
The intervention comes ahead of Assange’s extradition proceedings, which are set to continue in London’s High Court from 27 to 28 October 2021.
The Tribunal video features 22 speakers of WORLD-CLASS stature (listed below), including Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg.
I was spellbound by the presentations I heard today even though this is a case I have been following for years. It was important to get new information and to be able to see how committed the members of the tribunal are – not just to help free Julian Assange but much, much more than that. Many thanks for streaming it as I can now share it with others who could not be present today.
Srecko Horvat (moderator) 8:03
Tariq Ali 14:17
Selay Ghaffar 18:17
Jeremy Corbyn 26:59
Eyal Weizman 32:36
Apsana Begum 38:50
Özlem Demirel MEP 43:36
John McDonnell MP 49:07
Yanis Varoufakis Greek MP 54:08
Heike Hänsel German MP 59:04
Richard Burgon UK MP 1:04:47
Video in evidence 1:08:10
Ewen McCaskill 1:14:14
Scott Ludlam 1:17:20
Deepa Govindarajan Driver 1:24:30
Renata Ávila 1:30:26
Stefania Maurizi 1:38:39
Rafael Correa 1:44:03
Annie Machon 1:50:15
Daniel Ellsberg 1:55:35
Stella Moris 2:03:18
Ben Wizner 2:08:54
Edward Snowden 2:18:09
Coming Events 2:20:29
Eyal Weizman 2:21:20
CLOSING – Tariq Ali.
More info here: https://act.progressive.international…
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https://tnc.news/2021/10/29/ontario-doctor-suspended-from-practicing-medicine-for-criticizing-vaccines-and-lockdowns/
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CSPO) has barred a doctor who has been a vocal opponent of COVID-19 vaccines and lockdown measures from practicing medicine, alleging her activities put patients’ health at risk.
Dr. Rochagne Kilian, a former emergency room doctor from Owen Sound, Ont., spoke out multiple times against mask mandates, the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and lockdown measures.
Dr. Kilian resigned as an emergency room doctor at the local hospital in August. The CPSO suspended her from practicing medicine entirely as of Wednesday.
CPSO spokesperson Shae Greenfield said in a statement emailed to True North on Wednesday that the suspension is an interim order made under the Health Professions Procedural Code of the Regulated Health Professions Act, which permits the regulator to issue interim orders where it has evidence that patients might be exposed to risk of harm or injury.
INSERT: I left a message for Shae Greenfield, asking him to phone back. I asked him how old he is. Because I cannot imagine an older generation person thinking that in an ostensible democracy it is okay to revoke a doctor’s license in this manner. I am especially offended because I know how how the pharmaceutical companies are. I have listened to what Dr. Kilian has to say. That the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO)would muzzle her goes beyond the pale.
CPSO contact:
. . . you can speak to us at 416-967-2603 or 1-800-268-7096 ext. 603 or send us an email at feedback@cpso.on.ca. When emailing, please provide a phone number at which you can be reached so we can best assist you and address your concerns.
“Although we are limited in what we can disclose at this point, additional information about Dr. Kilian’s conduct will be made available at the earliest possible opportunity,” said Greenfield. “That may include allegations referred to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal.”
Members have the ability to appeal interim orders to the courts, at which point the CPSO would present information supporting their decision, according to Greenfield.
Dr. Kilian is known for being an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccines and lockdown measures. In September, she was a speaker at anti-lockdown protests organized by the Grey-Bruce Freedom Fighters. She has also spoken out against vaccine mandates, vaccine passports and mask mandates.
Dr. Kilian could not be reached for further comment in time for publication.
Earlier this month, the CPSO barred Dr. Kilian and Dr. Mark Raymond Trozzi from issuing medical exemptions to mask mandates, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing.
In a statement issued earlier this year, the college stated that physicians should not communicate any statements that go against public health orders.
“(Doctors have) a professional responsibility to not communicate anti-vaccine, anti-masking, anti-distancing and anti-lockdown statements and/or (promote) unsupported, unproven treatments for COVID-19,” the CPSO statement said.
“Physicians must not make comments or provide advice that encourages the public to act contrary to public health orders and recommendations.”