Sandra Finley

Aug 232024
 

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  1.   2024-08-23   Calley & Casey Means: How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick, and the Dark Truth About Ozempic and the Pill

2.   2024-08-23 RFK Jr. Suspends Presidential Campaign, Will Join Forces With Trump to ‘Save Millions of Children’

3.   2024-08-21 Our will to break-the-back of Corruption is on trial.  Coutts and Ottawa

Aug 232024
 

Sandra speaking:  In order to get it distributed, I stopped watching Calley & Casey (it’s a couple hours).  I’ll finish it later.

Aside:  RFK Jr has just announced:  2024-08-23 RFK Jr. Suspends Presidential Campaign, Will Join Forces With Trump to ‘Save Millions of Children’

With thanks to Dan who writes:

Unfortunately, some people won’t watch Calley & Casey because of their socially engineered hatred of Tucker Carlson.

Nonetheless, for those of us that are able to focus on truth and not the truth bringer, this is one of the most enlightening interviews ever if you care about your health.

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Calley & Casey Means: How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick, and the Dark Truth About Ozempic and the Pill

Casey Means was a Stanford-educated surgeon. Her brother Calley was a lobbyist for pharma and the food industry. Both quit their jobs in horror when they rea…

🔗 https://youtu.be/mUH4Co2wE-I

Aug 232024
 

Children’s Health Defense founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today suspended his independent campaign for U.S. president but will remain on the ballot in most states. He said he will join forces with former President Donald Trump to work together on “existential issues” where the two are aligned.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy said that following discussions with former President Donald Trump, he has agreed to join forces with Trump in a unity party, which will allow the two to work together on “existential issues,” including ending the war on Ukraine, censorship and the childhood chronic disease epidemic.

“I believe I have a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of children,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy, founder and chairman on leave from Children’s Health Defense — whose campaign defied the odds by gathering more than 1 million signatures in a drive to get on the ballot in all 50 states — said he will remain on the ballot except in a handful of battleground states.

Kennedy delivered a scathing rebuke to the Democratic Party and the DNC, which he said “dragged us into court, state after state after state” in a campaign of “legal warfare” to keep him off the ballot.

He promised that if Trump is elected, in addition to ending chronic disease in children, he will work with Trump to clean up corrupt agencies and the “corrupt food system.”

Kennedy said he reached out to the Harris campaign in an attempt to engage them on issues he believes are critical to the country’s future, but the campaign didn’t respond.

Calling it a difficult choice to join the Trump campaign Kennedy said, “I have the certainty that this is what I’m meant to do. … Ultimately the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.”

 

Kennedy launched his campaign on April 20, 2023, with a nearly two-hour speech in Boston, during which he vowed to reduce chronic disease in children.

He reminded the audience of the obligation America’s leaders have to protect children — from toxic pesticides, from dangerous pharmaceuticals and from the “corrupt merger of state and corporate power” that robs future generations of their health and of their ability to achieve financial security.

On Oct. 9, 2023, Kennedy said he would no longer challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president, announcing that he instead would run for president as an independent.

He told a crowd in Philadelphia that most Americans are tired of divisive politics and that they agree more than they disagree when it comes to issues like the environment, education and the economy.

“We agree that we want a clean environment and wholesome communities for our kids,” Kennedy said.

He accused both parties of being beholden to corporate donors.

Watch Kennedy’s address to the media:

Aug 212024
 

“The Coutts 2”  (began as ‘The Coutts 4’).

The Prosecutor (Steven Johnston) is appealing the jury decision – – not guilty of Conspiracy to murder RCMP Officers.

The 2 men remain locked up (for 2.5 years now).  The only improvement is that they are FINALLY being processed.

In Lethbridge Court of King’s Bench, Crown prosecutor Steven Johnston and defence lawyer Katherin Beyak agreed the sentencing hearing would begin Aug. 26.   Four days are set aside. The first two days will involve a finding of facts heard in the case. After a one day break, it resumes Aug. 29.

Two of the co-accused (originally, the Coutts 4) were released on a plea deal, early February this year, 6 months ago.  A plea deal places information beyond public reach.  It’s a gag order.

Things happen for a reason.  There’s a pattern that emerges as more information sees the light of day.

(If you assume I am saying this in reference to the men in the Coutts trials, you are wrong.)

Sometimes weird behavior is as simple as someone’s act of desperation.

Or,  one desperate person “has the goods on” someone else.

The way the Mafia works.   In the darkness, it’s hard to discern the alleyways.

Where is the top of the heap?  Where did it start?

 

The Coutts 3, a different set of men:  Alex Van Herk, Marco Van Huigenbos, and George Janzen await sentencing.

“. . .  The sentencing has been complicated by the refusal of Van Huigenbos to be interviewed by a probation officer for the preparation of a pre-sentence report (PSR), which is used to inform judges’ decisions regarding sentencing. Van Huigenbos told Robert (Kraychik, Rebel Journalist) that the questions that Van Herk was asked in his PSR interview seemed too invasive, asking about political beliefs and religious practices. “He further told me that he has expectations that he will face more severe consequences — that’s his word — from the judge, given that his lack of compliance may be interpreted as intransigence.”

Opinion is divided on Marco’s position regarding the pre-sentence report  (not submitting one). I (Sandra speaking) respect his position.  He explains his views very well;  he knows the inside stories.  His actions have been informed, well thought out, even-handed, every step of the way, in spite of all.   He is an intelligent and honourable man.

Every step of the way he has been motivated by the well-being of others – – getting money to the families of the Coutts 4, for example.  Those working men were locked up, unable to provide for their families.  He had the advantage of not being locked up.  He spoke up, relentlessly.

I know Marco from listening to him on videos, and from one encounter in person.   Early on in the Coutts debacle, with his own trial off in the distance, I tried to support him with a financial contribution. His contribution to the public good is invaluable.  He would not accept my contribution;  the Coutts 4 needed the money more than he and his family did.  He requested,  please contribute to help them.

So, think about it:  Marco Van Huigenbos would view the prosecution of the Coutts 4 as foul play.  . . .  Right?

I searched the net and found “Unwarranted criminal prosecution”.

People argue  Marco should do this.  He should do that.

Yes, but.  Lawyers are expensive – – justice is far from free OR fast.  And you have to be able to counteract at least some of the propaganda, the “smearing”.  Marco is a young man, with a young family; he resigned the position of Town Councillor (Feb ’24);  he has a business to look after.

Canada is on trial, from top to bottom.  Covid brought it to a head.  Our will to break-the-back of Corruption is on trial.  Marco’s next step is up to him.   I support him.   No second-guessing and no pressure.

Aug 212024
 

https://www.thomsonreuters.ca/en/westlaw-canada/free-charter-rights-legal-resources/unwarranted-criminal-prosecution.html

Malicious Prosecution

A malicious prosecution occurs when a police officer or other government official causes criminal charges to be filed against a person when the official knows reasonable and probable cause is lacking and the charges are filed because of malice, personal animosity, bias, or some other reason outside the interests of justice. Malice in the form of improper purpose is the key to proving malicious prosecution. In such cases, the victim’s Charter “right to life, liberty and security of the person” has been violated.

Prosecutorial Misconduct

Prosecutorial misconduct happens when in the course of their official duties a prosecutor violates a law or code of professional conduct. This can range from a decision to withhold exculpatory evidence from the defence to discriminating based on race when picking a jury.  Victims of the misconduct can seek a new trial, to overturn convictions, a stay of proceedings, a Charter remedy, damages or other compensation.

Aug 202024
 

With thanks to Western Standard:

Vladmir Putin is rolling out the red carpet for westerners with traditional values
Vladmir Putin is rolling out the red carpet for westerners with traditional valuesKremlin photo

Moscow will assist any foreigners who want to escape the neoliberal ideals being put forward in their countries and move to Russia, where traditional values reign supreme, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin and reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

Under the document, such foreign nationals will have the right to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws.”

Applications may be based on the rejection of their countries’ policies “aimed at imposing destructive neoliberal ideals on people, which run counter to traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”

The values are listed in the foundations of Russia’s state policy in this field, while the Russian government is expected to compile a list of countries imposing unhealthy attitudes on their citizens. The Foreign Ministry has been instructed to start issuing three-month visas to such applicants as early as in September.

In February, Putin supported the idea of Italian student Irene Cecchini that Russia should ease entry rules for those who share traditional cultural and family values. The head of state agreed that each case requires an individual approach.

Cecchini, a student at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), proposed the idea in February, RT reports.

“This would be beneficial for Russia, because these people would bring new skills, they would be entrepreneurs, whose input would also help increase the population and boost the economy, the student told Putin in Russian.

Cecchini suggested the term, “impatriation” be introduced to describe “moving to a permanent place of residence in Russia on the basis of cultural, traditional and family values.” The Italian, who has been studying at MGIMO for four years and learned Russian from scratch, complained to the president that her attempts to get a Russian passport had thus far been in vain.

Cecchini also said a dedicated agency should be set up to individually assist and provide services to non-nationals who wish to come live in Russia, plus an online campaign to tell the world such opportunities were available.

Putin seemed to welcome the premise during his appearance at the ‘Strong Ideas for a New Time’ forum in Moscow.

”It’s a good idea to focus on traditional moral values when welcoming people who want to live here,” Putin said.

A state policy “to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” was approved by Putin in November 2022. According to the document, those values, among other things, embrace life, dignity, human rights and freedoms, patriotism, a strong family, the priority of the spiritual over the material, historical memory and the unity of Russia’s peoples.

”The destruction of the traditional family through the promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships” was singled out in that policy document as being among threats to the Russian way of life.
Marriage has been designated as a union between a man and a woman, in amendments to the Russian Constitution introduced in 2020.

The news comes as the Russian Foreign Ministry barred certain groups and people from the U.K.

“A number of British think tanks, consulting agencies and other such structures are seriously contributing to London’s hostile efforts,” the ministry said. “That is why, it has been decided to put representatives from a range of such structures on Russia’s stop-list and bar them from entering Russia.”

The list includes nine structures — Forward Strategy Limited, Institute for Statecraft, Media Diversity Institute, Toro Risk Solutions, Chatham House, Open Knowledge Foundation, Privacy International, Peace Child International, Aga Khan Foundation — and 32 of their employees.

“Work on the expansion of the Russian stop-list in response to London’s hostile policy will continue,” the ministry said.

Aug 192024
 

With thanks to Dan who writes:

This is one of the best articles I’ve read so far on Monkey Pox. It is worth the ten minutes and gives a helicopter view of the current outbreak, both from a scientific assessment as well as an excellent description of the business model surrounding it. It is a great context to the reappearance in the media of the latest outbreak.

What’s Really Happening with Mpox

By David Bell   August 18, 2024   PharmaPublic Health   7 minute read

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The Mpox Emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) acted as expected this week and declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). So, a problem in a small number of African countries that has killed about the same number of people this year as die every four hours from tuberculosis has come to dominate international headlines. This is raising a lot of angst from some circles against the WHO.

While angst is warranted, it is mostly misdirected. The WHO and the IHR emergency committee they convened had little real power – they are simply following a script written by their sponsors. The African CDC, which declared an emergency a day earlier, is in a similar position. Mpox is a real disease and needs local and proportionate solutions. But the problem it is highlighting is much bigger than Mpox or the WHO, and understanding this is essential if we are to fix it.

Mpox, previously called Monkeypox, is caused by a virus thought to normally infect African rodents such as rats and squirrels. It fairly frequently passes to, and between, humans. In humans, its effects range from very mild illness to fever and muscle pains to severe illness with its characteristic skin rash, and sometimes death. Different variants, called ‘clades,’ produce slightly different symptoms. It is passed by close body contact including sexual activity, and the WHO declared a PHEIC two years ago for a clade that was mostly passed by men having sex with men.

The current outbreaks involve sexual transmission but also other close contact such as within households, expanding its potential for harm. Children are affected and suffer the most severe outcomes, perhaps due to issues of lower prior immunity and the effects of malnutrition and other illnesses.

Reality in DRC

The current PHEIC was mainly precipitated by the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though there are known outbreaks in nearby countries covering a number of clades. About 500 people have died from Mpox in DRC this year, over 80% of them under 15 years of age. In that same period, about 40,000 people in DRC, mostly children under 5 years, died from malaria. The malaria deaths were mainly due to lack of access to very basic commodities like diagnostic tests, antimalarial drugs, and insecticidal bed nets, as malaria control is chronically underfunded globally. Malaria is nearly always preventable or treatable if sufficiently resourced.

During this same period in which 500 people died from Mpox in DRC, hundreds of thousands also died in DRC and surrounding African countries from tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and the impacts of malnutrition and unsafe water. Tuberculosis alone kills about 1.3 million people globally each year, which is a rate about 1,500 times higher than Mpox in 2024.

The population of DRC is also facing increasing instability characterized by mass rape and massacres, in part due to a scramble by warlords to service the appetite of richer countries for the components of batteries. These in turn are needed to support the Green Agenda of Europe and North America. This is the context in which the people of DRC and nearby populations, which obviously should be the primary decision-makers regarding the Mpox outbreak, currently live.

An Industry Produces What It Is Paid for

For the WHO and the international public health industry, Mpox presents a very different picture. They now work for a pandemic industrial complex, built by private and political interests on the ashes of international public health. Forty years ago, Mpox would have been viewed in context, proportional to the diseases that are shortening overall life expectancy and the poverty and civil disorder that allows them to continue. The media would barely have mentioned the disease, as they were basing much of their coverage on impact and attempting to offer independent analysis.

Now the public health industry is dependent on emergencies. They have spent the past 20 years building agencies such as CEPI, inaugurated at the 2017 World Economic Forum meeting and solely focused on developing vaccines for pandemic, and on expanding capacity to detect and distinguish ever more viruses and variants. This is supported by the recently passed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).

While improving nutrition, sanitation, and living conditions provided the path to longer lifespans in Western countries, such measures sit poorly with a colonial approach to world affairs in which the wealth and dominance of some countries are seen as being dependent on the continued poverty of others. This requires a paradigm in which decision-making is in the hands of distant bureaucratic and corporate masters. Public health has an unfortunate history of supporting this, with restriction of local decision-making and the pushing of commodities as key interventions.

Thus, we now have thousands of public health functionaries, from the WHO to research institutes to non-government organizations, commercial companies, and private foundations, primarily dedicated to finding targets for Pharma, purloining public funding, and then developing and selling the cure. The entire newly minted pandemic agenda, demonstrated successfully through the Covid-19 response, is based on this approach. Justification for the salaries involved requires detection of outbreaks, an exaggeration of their likely impact, and the institution of a commodity-heavy and usually vaccine-based response.

The sponsors of this entire process – countries with large Pharma industries, Pharma investors, and Pharma companies themselves – have established power through media and political sponsorship to ensure the approach works. Evidence of the intent of the model and the harms it is wreaking can be effectively hidden from public view by a subservient media and publishing industry. But in DRC, people who have long suffered the exploitation of war and the mineral extractors, who replaced a particularly brutal colonial regime, must now also deal with the wealth extractors of Pharma.

Dealing with the Cause

While Mpox is concentrated in Africa, the effects of corrupted public health are global. Bird flu will likely follow the same course as Mpox in the near future. The army of researchers paid to find more outbreaks will do so. While the risk from pandemics is not significantly different than decades ago, there is an industry dependent on making you think otherwise.

As the Covid-19 playbook showed, this is about money and power on a scale only matched by similar fascist regimes of the past. Current efforts across Western countries to denigrate the concept of free speech, to criminalize dissent, and to institute health passports to control movement are not new and are in no way disconnected from the inevitability of the WHO declaring the Mpox PHEIC. We are not in the world we knew twenty years ago.

Poverty and the external forces that benefit from war, and the diseases these enable, will continue to hammer the people of DRC. If a mass vaccination campaign is instituted, which is highly likely, financial and human resources will be diverted from far greater threats. This is why decision-making must now be centralized far from the communities affected. Local priorities will never match those that expansion of the pandemic industry depends on.

In the West, we must move on from blaming the WHO and address the reality unfolding around us. Censorship is being promoted by journalists, courts are serving political agendas, and the very concept of nationhood, on which democracy depends, is being demonized. A fascist agenda is openly promoted by corporate clubs such as the World Economic Forum and echoed by the international institutions set up after the Second World War specifically to oppose it. If we cannot see this and if we do not refuse to participate, then we will have only ourselves to blame. We are voting for these governments and accepting obvious fraud, and we can choose not to do so.

For the people of DRC, children will continue to tragically die from Mpox, from malaria, and from all the diseases that ensure return on investment for distant companies making pharmaceuticals and batteries. They can ignore the pleading of the servants of the White Men of Davos who will wish to inject them, but they cannot ignore their poverty or the disinterest in their opinions. As with Covid-19, they will now become poorer because Google, the Guardian, and the WHO were bought a long time back, and now serve others.

The one real hope is that we ignore lies and empty pronouncements, refusing to bow to unfounded fear. In public health and in society, censorship protects falsehoods and dictates reflect greed for power. Once we refuse to accept either, we can begin to address the problems at the WHO and the inequity it is promoting. Until that time, we will live in this increasingly vicious circus.

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Author  David Bell

David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, WA, USA.

Aug 182024
 
Joe Rogan made huge headlines regarding Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for President.
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Aug 182024
 

. . . The U.S. loophole represents “an incredibly blatant example of how Canada has divested the idea of having its own independent foreign policy, and instead seems to be perfectly happy to rely on the U.S. to make decisions for us about what weaponry made in Canada can be exported anywhere in the world.”. . .

 

https://www.readthemaple.com/u-s-names-quebec-contractor-in-newly-approved-arms-sale-to-israel/

The Maple                                                                                                                                                                         
“There’s absolutely no justification for their export simply due to the contracting body being the U.S. government.”

by Alex Cosh

 

Original graphic assembled by The Maple staff.

 

The United States government announced this week that a Quebec-based company will be the principal contractor in a “possible” $61-million US sale of high explosive mortar cartridges and related equipment to Israel.

According to a notice published by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Tuesday, “The Government of Israel has requested to buy fifty thousand (50,000) M933A1 120mm High Explosive (HE) mortar cartridges with M783 fuzes.”

“The principal contractor will be General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Inc., located in Quebec, Canada.” The value of the potential sale, which has been approved by the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is equal to approximately $83 million Canadian.

The goods and related equipment will be added to a previous sale valued at approximately $410,000 US, below the threshold at which the American government is required to notify Congress, according to the notice. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2026.

The potential mortar cartridge sale is part of a total of $20 billion US in weapon exports to Israel that the U.S. government announced it had approved this week.

The news shatters the Trudeau government’s repeated claims that only “non-lethal” Canadian goods have been approved to make their way to Israel since the beginning of that state’s brutal war on Gaza last October, which prompted a genocide case against it at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) back in December.

According to arms-monitoring groups, the potential sale also highlights a major loophole in Canada’s export controls, given the lack of adequate regulations over military goods that flow to other countries via the United States.

The Trudeau government announced in March that it was pausing approvals of new export permits for direct sales of military goods to Israel. However, that measure did not apply to any permits approved before January 8, or military goods that flow to Israel via the U.S.

Last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau falsely told a member of the public that “we’ve stopped exports of arms to Israel.”

Kelsey Gallagher, a researcher with Project Ploughshares, told The Maple: “If these transfers were proposed for export directly from Quebec to Israel, they would be denied, and there’s absolutely no justification for their export simply due to the contracting body being the U.S. government.”

“Canada has routinely made the case that it does not export what it describes as ‘lethal’ military goods to Israel. This most recent announcement clearly indicates otherwise.”

Gallagher noted that a major driver in Israel’s “disturbing disregard for human life” during its ongoing operation in Gaza has been its reliance on explosive weapons in populated civilian areas.

“We know when militaries use explosive weapons in populated areas, nine out of 10 casualties usually are civilians,” he explained.

The announcement, Gallagher said, also highlights a need for Canada to honour its obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by universally applying its military export control regime to all destinations, including the U.S. The current loopholes that allow goods to flow to the U.S. with little oversight are, he said, a feature of the system and not a bug.

“When we don’t see the comprehensive introduction of regulations, this is what happens,” said Gallagher.

To date, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 39,965 people, including nearly 16,500 children. However, in July, an article published in the medical journal The Lancet stated that “it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.”

Rachel Small, an organizer with World Beyond War (WBW), said the potential mortar cartridge sale highlights an egregious example of what anti-war groups and other civil society organizations have been drawing attention to for months.

“The government is obfuscating the truth at best, or frankly, is lying about the Canada-Israel arms trade,” said Small. “This announcement destroys any notion that the Liberal government’s statements on this issue have been truthful.”

Other Canadian products that could be ending up in the Israeli military’s hands via the U.S. include components found in the American-made F-35 fighter jet, which Israel has used to conduct deadly airstrikes on Gaza.

“What is maybe unique about [the mortar cartridge] case is that we are being shown in advance the end destination for some of these products, and therefore we have an opportunity right now to intervene,” said Small.

The U.S. loophole, Small explained, represents “an incredibly blatant example of how Canada has divested the idea of having its own independent foreign policy, and instead seems to be perfectly happy to rely on the U.S. to make decisions for us about what weaponry made in Canada can be exported anywhere in the world.”

Global Affairs Canada (GAC), which is responsible for Canada’s export control regime, did not respond to a request for comment from The Maple by publication time. This story will be updated if the ministry provides a response.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Inc. (GD-OTS) describes itself as “a world-class developer and manufacturer of ammunition adapted to the needs of the armed forces and law enforcement agencies.” Its Canadian branch is a subsidiary unit of the U.S.-based arms manufacturing giant, General Dynamics.

According to GD-DOTS’ website, the company is recognized by the Canadian government as “the centre of excellence for the maintenance and further development of an industrial defence capability in production.”

Gallagher explained that the company exports significant quantities of ammunition products to the U.S., and that these sales tend to fluctuate depending on whether or not the U.S. is engaged in conflicts around the world. The company also regularly supplies goods for other countries, including Ukraine, via the U.S.

However, Gallagher said there are major transparency issues around the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program, meaning that arms monitoring groups cannot be certain that all such contract awards are being made public. As well, only those that exceed the congressional disclosure threshold are revealed publicly.

It is therefore unclear whether or not other Canadian companies may be involved in such sales, Gallagher noted.

GD-OTS did not respond to a request for comment from The Maple. This story will be updated if the company provides a response.

Alex Cosh is the news editor of The Maple.

Aug 172024
 

PREVIOUS was:  For Your Selection AUGUST 3rd, 2024.

 

THE SELECTIONS, AUGUST 20th

1.  2024-08-17 What Joe Rogan said

short – regarding RFK Jr for President of the U.S.

2   2024-08-16 COUTTS: Crown is APPEALING the accquittal of conspiracy to murder a police officer charges. Men remain in remand. Western Standard.

3.  2024-08-21 Our will to break-the-back of Corruption is on trial.  Coutts and Ottawa

4.   2024-08-16 Ontario’s Amish community faces unprecedented fines ($400,000) and legal hurdles, because of the ArriveCan App. This Amish community doesn’t use phones, let alone smartphones; “Apps” are unknown.  By Rebel News.

See APPENDED:  the experience of other Canadians – –  charges arising from the ArriveCan app.  From my postings alone.  The outrageous; the dismissal of charges by the Courts.   Many people paid the fines, didn’t discover that the charges don’t stand up to court challenge.  And that there’s help for fighting “the tickets”.  This latest, the assault on the Amish community includes a lien placed on property 2 years ago, without knowledge of the owners, flowing out of the ArriveCan app.

5.  2024-08-16 Day 41 of the Lich/Barber trial, with thanks to The Democracy Fund

6.   2024-08-08  LAWFARE, what is it?

7.   2024-08-21   Unwarranted criminal prosecution, definition

8.   2024-08-15    U.S. Names Quebec Contractor In Newly Approved Arms Sale To Israel

9.   2024-08-15 Scotiabank de-banked a customer of 20 years.  Read C.L.E.A.R. on the use of CASH.

THE UPCOMING  “PANDEMIC” SEASON   Items #10 to #15

10.   2024-08-18 This is one of the best articles I (Dan) have read so far on Monkey Pox. From the Brownstone Institute

·        Monkeypox re-branded as Mpox.  Excellent article from Brownstone.

11.   2024-08-04 Covid: WHO’s Global Power Grab – Part 1

12.   2024-08-14    WHO: The News – we lost this round of the battle. Changes to the IHR (International Health Regs) are a done deal, without a quorum or due process. / / Health Canada accuses the public of misinformation while scrambling to address internal missing information, by Tamara Ugolini, Rebel News

13.   2024-08-02 Canada seeks bids for next mRNA pandemic vaccine as mRNA platform becomes the new normal. Tamara Ugolini, Rebel News.

14.   2024-07-19   request to sign Consent for Support form

#14 and #15 are templates of a sort – –  comprehensive, pre-emptive use of Charter Rights to NOT Consent to medical tyranny.  The onslaught of propaganda has started.  There may be ideas in the 2 documents that other people can use.

15.   2024-08-11  re Consent form, Reply to Rebuttal

16.   2024-08-07 Implications. Biden/Harris Team REVEALS How They Manipulated Voters to Think Biden’s Mental Decline was “Disinformation”. Link to The Orf Report. Plus Flashback to Tim Walz’ snitch-line (Kamala Harris’ running mate).

(Re  Implications.  The “revealing” was not intentional!   But it is very revealing to me.  Distressing because these are youngish people doing this.  It is as though they are oblivious to WHAT they are doing.  They are using their talents to help drive the USA further into fascism.  Dragging everyone else along with them.)

17.   2024-08-08 Robert Malone said I should know what Agenda 20 – 30 is. Includes Aldous Huxley interview 1962.

18.   2024-08-06 Appeals Court Dismisses Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Merck Over MMR Vaccine. Brenda Baletti, CHD

19.   2024-08-04 Alberta chiropractor cleared from regulatory overreach. Tamara Ugolini, Rebel News, reporting.

20.   2024-08-06 Coutts trial sets precedent for police self-approval of warrants. Robert Kraychik, Rebel News.

21.   2024-07-24      23 Year-Old Killed by Pfizer COVID Vaccine, CHD.

An interview of the parents.

22.   2024-07-24 TDF represents Dr. Hodkinson in misconduct hearing over COVID statements

From the Notice of Hearing  . . .  will meet virtually via Zoom on November 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2024 at the hour of 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon, . . .  to inquire into and ascertain the facts of the matter of a complaint against you referred to the Hearing Tribunal, mainly:
IT IS CHARGED THAT:  . . .  (go to the link in the posting.  It is not difficult to understand.)

(INSERT, S:  Dr. Hodkinson might be better off representing himself.  It will be hard to find someone as outspoken as himself!)

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Dr. Hodkinson devotes an enormous portion of his life to helping educate people on what’s happening.  He testified at the NCI Hearings in Regina at the end of March, 2024.   See https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-roger-hodkinson-may-30-2024-regina-saskatchewan/

23.   2024-05-24 Defend medical privacy in Nova Scotia and all of Canada. JCCF

In case you missed it earlier.

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NCI (National Citizens Inquiry, Canada)

24.   The Regina Hearings

Dr. Roger Hodkinson 2024-05-30:    https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-roger-hodkinson-may-30-2024-regina-saskatchewan/

I try to include one of the NCI testimonies in each set of Selections.  The testimonies are outstanding.  (As always,  it is very rare for me to agree with EVERYTHING someone says.  I expect that you don’t agree with everything I say!) /Sandra

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APPENDED:   ARRIVECAN APP POSTINGS.   RELATED TO THE AMISH POSTING, Item #3 above.  IN SOLIDARITY.

  1. Canadians seek Charter damages against Feds for ArriveCAN Enforcement
  2. Court hearing on if ArriveCAN constitutional challenge can proceed happening today
  3. 2023-07-21 Federal Court of Appeal dismisses constitutional challenge to ‘contentious’ ArriveCAN app, from Rebel News. Includes details of the $54 million price tag for ArriveCan. Also example case of Joanne Walsh.
  4. Crown Drops Ticket Against Pregnant Woman Who Refused ArriveCAN and PCR Test
  5. Justice Centre brings legal challenge against ArriveCAN and quarantine measures
  6. Justice Centre legal action will continue against ArriveCAN
  7. Vaccinated senior fined for declining use of ArriveCAN, Joanne Walsh | Stories of Brave Canadians
  8. 2024-07-11 Democracy Fund Covid: Fight The Fines project results in 109 withdrawn or stayed tickets
  9. 2024-04-01 Author exposes David Fisman’s data fabrication and ‘hate science’ to justify vaccine mandates
  10. 2023-11-08 Delay in Covid trial leads to stay of charge by prosecution. With thanks to the JCCF
  11. 2023-09-10 For your Selection, Updates on Covid Court Challenges. Numerous charges dropped during August. Big in US – an appeals Court finds that Biden Admin did censor free speech
  12. 2024-07-11 Covid: Ontario court rules PCR test for returning air travellers violated Quarantine Act. By Tamara Ugolini, Rebel News
  13. 2024-07-06 US courts across the board rule against COVID mandates. By Jen Hodgson, Western Standard
  14. 2024-06-10  Employees Can Sue L.A. Schools Over COVID Vaccine Mandate Because Shots Don’t Prevent Transmission, Appeals Court Rules. From CHD    (the covid shots don’t meet the definition of a vaccine.  I think this is a very important court decision.  EQUAL TO lawyer Umar Sheikh’s work in Canada:  Pharma companies in Canada are not immune to Prosecution for harm done by their products. (Pharma Corps in the USA have immunity from prosecution, but that appears to be changing.)