Sandra Finley

Jan 212024
 

Jubilation!

News just in!  Andrew Lawton (True North)

  1.   Federal Court rules that the Invocation of the Emergencies Act was Unconstitutional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44FzcNs37mQ

2.    Keith Wilson aids interpretation of the Court Ruling:

Lawyers break down Federal Court verdict ruling Emergencies Act unconstitutional Keith Wilson, Chad Williamson

3.   Doctor/Lawyer Aris Lavranos takes us through the decision:

https://pairodocs.substack.com/p/canadian-federal-court-rules-invocation?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=692649&post_id=141010612&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&r=5olsj

A powerful tribute to the Freedom Convoy from jb24

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The last “For Your Selection” was for December 2023  (link at the bottom).

I am encouraged:

  1.   Important video.  Bret Weinstein with Tucker Carlson  quickly passed three million views a day after its release  on January 8th.

2024-01-08 Watch: ‘A Terrible Truth’: COVID Response Was About Profits and Power, Bret Weinstein with Tucker Carlson. With many thanks to CHD.

2.    Continuing progress in legal challenges:

2024-01-11  Peckford, Bernier take covid travel restrictions to Supreme Court of Canada

Update on the Detective Helen Grus (Ottawa Police Dept) story:

2024-01-13  Witness intimidation accusation mires misconduct hearing for Ottawa cop (Helen Grus) who probed child deaths during covid.  By Jason Unrau, True North.

3.    Young Bright Lights.  The corruption of the Universities has long been a serious problem.  I suspect that the floodgates are opening:

2024-01-03 “Autism Tsunami” republished in the journal Science, Public Health Policy, & the Law. By Toby Rogers.

2024-01-04 “The Conservative Mastermind Behind Claudine Gay’s Ouster” (Gay is the deposed President of Harvard University)

 

4.    Learn to recognize “emergent, radically self-organizing social movement”:

2023-12-21 Meet the woman behind the petition calling for the end of the Trudeau government. 386,698 signees in 30 days.

2023-12-15   Quotes from David Korten’s “When Corporations Rule the World” added to “Could Tamara Lich & Chris Barber have organized millions of people internationally?”. Or was it an “emergent, radically self-organizing social movement?”

5.  2023-12-13 Canada Reports 300% Increase in ‘Unspecified Causes’ of Death, Sparking Calls for Investigation

6.  023-12-15 Lawmakers Dodge U.S. Sovereignty Question During House Hearing on WHO Reform. The connection to Bill 36 in British Columbia.

7.  For Your Selection December, 2023

Jan 212024
 
  • The court cases,
  • the National Citizens Inquiry, and
  • the War Crimes Tribunal looking into the conduct of the American Defense Contractors

need all the attention we can muster.

In globally-turbulent times, it will become ever more important to have a justice system that does what is expected:  hold people to account.  Awareness of what’s happening and citizen engagement are essential.  I don’t think there’s a place on the planet where we can run and hide.  Stay calm in rough seas.

Previous was    For Your Selection November, 2023. Sent during the last week of Nov.  

It was dedicated to the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI)

NEW:  The NCI Final Report is available for download:  https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/commissioners-report/

NEW:  2023-12-01 ‘We Cannot Allow This to Happen to Our Children and Grandchildren’: National Citizens Inquiry Report Blasts Canadian Government Response to COVID

NEW:   Laura Jeffery, embalmer, testimony to the NCI. (You will understand why the NCI and others say: stop the vaccines NOW!).  An interview with Dr. Ryan Cole on the science of the “blood clots” encountered by embalmers is included.

The November Selections included links to testimonies of

  • Leighton Grey,  justice system
  • Rodney Palmer, journalist (specific – newsgathering versus propaganda)
  • Col. David Redman,  Govts refused to use plans in place for pandemics
  • Gail Davidson, International Laws apply
  • Deanna McLeod, re kids
  • Bruce Pardy, re the Administrative State
  • Rick Nicholls, MPP
  • Laura Jeffery, embalmer (added)

NOTE:  The preceding 8 testimonies are excellent, and not in any order.  There are more and equally important testimonies on the NCI website.   As well as the Final Report.

Blog Postings since the November Selections:

The Government relies on people not knowing:

2023-12-06   Bill 36 (B.C.) is the Health Professions & Occupations Act. First class tyranny. Help the Canadian Society for Science & Ethics in Medicine.   Spread the word.

I cannot overemphasize the importance of Bill 36.  The battle is STILL on-going.   It is B.C. Legislation – – it will come to other places, if we can’t torpedo it here.

The Act was passed a year ago.  Read the 8 points at the link.  The legislation is fascist.  Outrageous.

It has the look of being a trial balloon.

DO YOU REMEMBER “Swift Current”?

2023-03-14 The Swift Current video. Govt Vans (StatsCan). Harassing Folks For Blood, Saliva & Urine Testing. Paying $100, $150, $175  if you do the survey (give more info – 3 hours’ worth, receive more money).  Personal Information Banks (PIB’s). History, Lockheed Martin partnered with StatsCan.

I think “SWIFT CURRENT” was a trial balloon.  The setup was scheduled to go to other communities across Canada.  I have not heard that that happened.  People in Swift Current mobilized against it.  Maybe the Feds got the idea that they are not popular, not even welcome with their money.

Bill 36 is perhaps a trial balloon, too.  The difference?  It’s for a whole province.

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The War Crimes Tribunal investigation into select American Defense Contractors is introduced in (1 of 2).  Lt Col Wilkerson’s testimony at the Tribunal is (2 of 2).  It is exceptional.

2023-12-06 (1 of 2) Notice of the War Crimes Tribunal investigation into Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing. And I am condemned without notice.

(2 of 2) Next Evidentiary Video: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

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2023-12-04 Pastor challenges Dr. Bonnie Henry over illegal discrimination between faith groups. From the JCCF.

2023-11-29 B.C.: Bonnie Henry named as defendant in class-action lawsuit over her role in COVID-19 vaccine mandate

2023-11-21 Ontario Police Officer Appealing his Conviction for Making a $50 Donation to the Freedom Convoy. With thanks to the JCCF.

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2023-11-30 The Wuhan Cover-Up: EXCLUSIVE Interview With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – –  Book by same name.    

2023-12-01 Texas Sues Pfizer for ‘False’ and ‘Deceptive’ Marketing of COVID Vaccines, from CHD

Wishing you a season of warmth and light,

Sandra

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From: Druthers News & Information
Sent: December 10, 2023
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THE NEW WEBSITE IS READY!!

As many of you know, this Druthers project was started by regular folks from the lockdown protests back in 2020 as a way to bypass all the insane amounts of censorship on the internet on important topics, news & information. We are not professional writers, publishers or web developers. We are just people who care and we decided to figure out how to make a difference.

Also, as you are likely aware, online censorship has continued to increase dramatically over the last 3 years, making Druthers more important than ever! We have now printed and distributed over 9.5 MILLION physical newspapers since this project began and it is entirely funded, written, promoted & distributed by concerned Canadians like you.

What’s great about the new website?

First, every single article we’ve published in the 3 years of papers (about 600 articles) are now online as stand alone posts. That means you can share your favorite articles in Druthers much more easily.

Another great thing about this new website?

Facebook and Instagram blocked druthers .net from being shared on their platforms since they deemed us as news and Canadian news isn’t allowed on their platforms now. But now with the new domain being Druthers.ca, anything on that website can now be shared on FB & IG. I don’t imagine this will last long as they are likely to flag this domain eventually too, but in the meantime, let’s milk it and share the new Druthers website and its articles everywhere you can, as quickly as you can.

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It starts with awareness, for if people do not recognize there is a problem, they will not step up to change things. That’s where Druthers is playing such and important role in this Great Awakening that is happening right now. People are waking up faster than ever… I know… I have been consciously watching for nearly 20 years and I see we ARE waking up faster than ever before. That is highly exciting to me and I thank you all so much for seeing the bigger picture and caring enough to do something about it.

Without all of you, Canada would have fallen much further & harder by now. YOU are literally helping save this country and I am honoured to be able to provide Druthers to help you all in your mission.

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Jan 132024
 

EARLIER ARTICLES RELATED TO PECKFORD’S WORK:

        1. 2022-07-07 Canada. The Constitutional law court challenge to the Covid mandates (the Brian Peckford et al constitutional case) was scheduled to be heard in September; has been POSTPONED to October 31st
        2. 2013-09-23 Newfoundland’s (then-Premier Brian Peckford’s) Contribution to the Patriation of the Constitution, Stephen Azzi, from the Canadian Encyclopedia
        3. 2022-01-27 Brian Peckford, Jordan Peterson, and the Charter
        4. 2022-02-29 Brian Peckford’s Speech at Convoy For Freedom 2022 Victoria BC (Official Video)
        5. 2021-10-20 The contributions of Brian Peckford, former premier of Newfoundland/Labrador to the Freedom Fighters. Conversation with journalist Andrew Lawton.
        6. 2021-12-18 More manoeuvering in US re covid mandates .. referred to Supremes (Sent to Brian Peckford. Esp for anyone interested in the Court Cases. NUMBERS of refusals & Ramifications for enforcement in U.S.)
        7. 2023-10-20 Are the failed court cases evidence of abuse of process? (unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings to further a cause.) Add: Refusal of Federal & Provincial Governments to do a Constitutional Reference
        8. 2023-09-14 (Covid): Timeline blowout: Crown pushes for 22 more witnesses in Barber and Lich trial, with thanks to Rebel News, Robert Kraychik
        9. 2021-11-03 re faith put in the Courts to uphold Charter Rights

 

UPDATE:  2024-01-11 Peckford, Bernier take travel restrictions to Supreme Court of Canada (covid)

OTTAWA, ON: The Justice Centre announces that the Honourable Brian Peckford, the Honourable Maxime Bernier, and other applicants seek to appeal their vaccine mandate challenge to the Supreme Court of Canada. These Applicants argue that vaccine mandates are an issue of national importance and that Canadians deserve to receive court rulings regarding any emergency orders that violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In November 2021, the Government of Canada required all travelers of federally regulated transportation services (e.g., air, rail, and marine) to provide proof of Covid vaccination. These restrictions on the Charter freedom of mobility prevented approximately 5.2 million unvaccinated Canadians from traveling by air and rail.

In response to these restrictions, the Honourable Brian Peckford (last living signatory of the Charter and former Premier of Newfoundland), the Honourable Maxime Bernier (leader of the People’s Party of Canada), and other Canadians took the federal government to court in February 2022, arguing that the Charter freedoms of religion and conscience, assembly, democratic rights, mobility, security, privacy, and equality of Canadians were infringed by these restrictions. In addition, affidavits filed in this court action (e.g., the affidavit of Robert Belobaba at paragraph 19) attest that, in a country as large as Canada, prohibitions on domestic and international air travel have significant, negative impacts on Canadians.

In an affidavit (at paragraph 29), Jennifer Little, Director General of Covid Recovery at Transport Canada, provided her Covid Recovery Team’s October 2, 2021 presentation, entitled Implementing a Vaccine Mandate for the Transportation Sector. The presentation outlined options and considerations for the purposes of seeking the Minister of Transport’s approval of the travel vaccination mandate. Her presentation outlined (at pages 12 and 13) that the Canadian travel restrictions in question were “unique in the world in terms of strict vaccine mandate for domestic travel” and were coupled with “one of the strongest vaccination mandates for travelers in the world.” She admitted during cross examination (at paragraphs 162-163, PDF page 61) that she had never seen a recommendation from Health Canada or the Public Health Agency of Canada to the Ministry of Transport to implement a mandatory vaccination policy for travel.

At the same time, Dr. Lisa Waddell, a senior epidemiologist and the knowledge synthesis team lead at the Public Health Agency of Canada, admitted during a cross examination (at paragraphs 300-305, PDF pages 91-93) that there was no recommendation from the Public Health Agency of Canada to impose vaccination requirements on travelers.

In June 2022, the Government of Canada announced that it would suspend the travel vaccine restrictions, but that it would not hesitate to reinstate the mandates if the government considered it necessary.

As a result, the federal government (the Crown) moved to have Premier Peckford’s constitutional challenge struck for mootness (irrelevance). The Crown argued that the travel restrictions were no longer a live issue because they had been lifted and should not, therefore, take up further court resources. The Crown brought this motion after each side had produced expert evidence, called on experts to testify under oath, cross-examined the other side’s experts and witnesses daily for six weeks, conducted significant legal research, and prepared substantive written arguments. Lawyers for both sides spent hundreds of hours placing all the evidence and legal arguments before the Federal Court for its consideration. The only remaining step in the trial process was the presentation of oral argument, scheduled for October 31, 2022. The Federal Court was fully and properly equipped to render a thoughtful decision as to whether the travel restrictions had been a justified violation of Charterfreedoms.

Even though the federal government can impose these same travel restrictions on Canadians again, without notice, the Federal Court granted the Crown’s motion on November 9, 2023, and dismissed this Charter challenge as moot. The Federal Court of Appeal affirmed this lower court ruling on November 9, 2023. Effectively, the courts determined that a constitutional challenge to the use of unprecedented emergency powers was neither sufficiently interesting to the Canadian public nor an appropriate use of court resources.

Premier Peckford, Maxime Bernier, and other Canadians now seek to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear their case. This involves a two-step process, whereby the applicants first ask whether the Court is willing to hear the appeal. If so, the appeal will then be scheduled for a hearing several months later. The applicants in this case argue that the issues raised in their case are of national importance and that Canadians deserve access to court rulings about policies that violate the Charter freedoms of millions of Canadians.

(See the January 8, 2024 Leave Application of Premier Peckford here. See the January 8, 2024 Leave Application of Maxime Bernier here.)

Further, Premier Peckford and the other applicants warn that all challenges to emergency orders risk being deemed irrelevant due to the simple fact that emergency orders are normally implemented only for short periods of time. In most cases, emergency orders will be rescinded by the time a constitutional challenge makes its way through the court process and all the relevant evidence, along with legal arguments, has been put before the judge. For this reason, the Applicants argue that the courts should provide guidance on how emergency orders should be handled in the context of the mootness doctrine.

“If courts are going to affirm and uphold emergency orders that violate our Charter rights and freedoms whenever the emergency order is no longer in force, how can the Charter protect Canadians from government abuses?” asks John Carpay, President of the Justice Centre.

Emergency orders are not debated in, or approved by, federal Parliament or provincial legislatures. Rather, they are discussed confidentially in Cabinet such that ordinary Canadians are prevented from understanding the reasons for, or the legality of, emergency orders, such as mandatory vaccination policies that discriminated against Canadians who chose not to get injected. Therefore, it is only through court rulings that Canadians can learn whether a mandate or emergency order is constitutional.

“The Supreme Court of Canada has an opportunity to create an important precedent for how Canadian courts deal with all so-called ‘moot’ cases involving questions about the constitutionality of emergency orders,” stated lawyer Allison Pejovic, who represents Premier Peckford and Maxime Bernier.

“The public interest in this case is staggering. Canadians need to know whether it is lawful for the federal government to prevent them from travelling across Canada, or from leaving and re-entering their own country, based upon whether they have taken a novel medication,” continued Ms. Pejovic.

“The Court’s dismissal of constitutional challenges to Covid orders for ‘mootness’ has deprived thousands of Canadians from knowing whether their governments’ emergency orders were lawful or not. It is time for the Supreme Court of Canada to expand the legal test for mootness to account for governments’ use of emergency orders, which are devoid of transparency and accountability. Canadians have a right to know whether unprecedented mandatory vaccination policies, which turned millions of Canadians into second-class citizens, were valid under our Constitution,” concluded Ms. Pejovic.

Jan 132024
 

Witness intimidation accusation mires misconduct hearing for Ottawa cop (Helen Grus)

who probed child deaths. By Jason Unrau, True North.

Perjury, witness intimidation and obstruction of justice are among allegations the defence team for detective Helen Grus levelled at senior Ottawa Police Service personnel during week three of her disciplinary hearing, which adjourned on Thursday afternoon in Stittsville, Ont. but could stretch well into the year.

“Provided there’s not a mistrial for intimidation of a witness,” remarked Grus’ co-counsel Blair Ector, who had just filed a criminal incident report with Ottawa police against a senior Professional Standards Unit inspector for alleged witness intimidation.

Just as Grus was to testify in her own defence Wednesday afternoon, Ector announced to the tribunal that his client had received a suspect communication earlier in the day.

“It’s come to my attention today that Inspector Hugh O’Toole sent an email to my client stating that she cannot rely on any (Ottawa Police Service) documents,” said Ector, noting O’Toole had a law degree.

“That is witness tampering. That is intimidation. That is obstruction. This tribunal should be outraged. I am outraged.”

Exasperated that tribunal officer Chris Renwick denied his attempts to speak about O’Toole’s offending email, table it as evidence or even allow a brief statement on the matter, Ector, co-counsel Bath-Sheba van den Berg, and Grus stood together and faced Renwick.

“I am a witness of a crime and I’m filing a police report right now,” said Ector before the trio turned and exited the hearing room, conveniently located at the Ottawa police’s Huntmar Dr. detachment.

Grus stands accused of discreditable conduct, which hinges on alleged Ottawa Police Service policy violations she committed in her probe of a possible link between COVID shots and sudden infant deaths in the region.

Related activities have been described by prosecutors as an “unsanctioned…quality control project,” including allegations that she interfered in ongoing investigations by seeking the COVID vaccination status of the related mothers.

Throughout 14 hearing days to date, Renwick has ruled more often in favour of Stewart and the Ottawa police, in so doing suppressing seemingly key pieces of evidence like related autopsy reports and a notebook containing Grus’ last entry before she was suspended in February 2022 – items her lawyers argue could prove exculpatory.

This pattern of denying evidentiary disclosure reached new levels this week as Stewart insisted that Grus cannot use generic Ottawa police policy documents and job descriptions for her defence without express permission. In the coming weeks, Renwick must decide whether Grus can access such documents; he must also rule on a separate defence motion to have Stewart removed from the case for alleged prosecutorial misconduct.

Buckling under the weight of these legal maneuvers, at points Renwick admitted that he was overwhelmed by adjudicating this administrative law matter now rife with constitutional implications. Renwick also lost his cool when the defence accused a police witness of committing perjury during his testimony, and ordered Grus’ lawyers to refrain from such accusations.

On Tuesday, Renwick threw in the towel on proceedings 30 minutes early stating he had to “end it here for today…I’m suffering from fatigue and I’m challenged in giving direction in running this hearing.”

Remarks like these from Renwick prompted van den Berg to remind the retired police superintendent that he had the opportunity to hire independent legal counsel to assist in managing the tribunal, but declined.

“I have a vast amount of experience in policing, but I’m not a lawyer. You as trained counsel have much more experience in these matters,” Renwick explained to participants during one legal impasse. “I feel like more of a referee function.”

Prior to the tribunal’s resumption on Monday Jan. 8, Renwick ruled in Nov. 2023 to deny all of Grus’ proposed expert witnesses, including three medical doctors whose statements indicate Grus’ concern about vaccines billed as safe and effective by public health officials was reasonable.

Family physician Gregory Chan noted in a questionnaire provided by the defence that COVID vaccines were not sufficiently tested, that a patient of his suffered a “chronological” stillbirth two months after receiving a COVID shot and the overall “lack of safety information generates questions/concerns.”

Pediatric neurology specialist Dr. Eric Payne’s expert statement also notes the dearth of safety data, particularly for pregnant women and babies.

“Pregnant women and babies less than six months of age have been excluded from all of the clinical trials. We also know that the spike protein product of these genetic vaccines can circulate widely throughout one’s body, including the reproductive organs, brain and heart (and)… has been found to distribute through breastmilk,” he wrote. He also indicated Grus was “astute” in her questioning and that there was “solid scientific and medical support for her inquiries.”

Though Renwick also denied retired Ottawa police Staff Sgt. Major Peter Danyluk the opportunity to appear as an expert witness for the defence, in a rare victory for Grus, Renwick allowed Danyluk to appear as a lay witness. He testified this week.

Danyluk, a retired member of both the Canadian Armed Forces and more recently the Ottawa Police Service, testified that he co-wrote the force’s ethics manual and in his expert statement indicated that he did not agree with the charge against detective Grus. He also testified that Grus had told him about her vaccine inquiries. He described her actions as “fact-finding” in nature and didn’t see anything amiss.

“She wasn’t asking my permission, she was just bouncing ideas off me like ‘I’ve seen the statistical anomaly.’ I think she said it was double the amount of SIDS (year-over-year 2020-21),” recalled Danyluk of their conversation.

“It’s so basic, it didn’t raise any red flags for me.”

In other testimony, Danyluk described Grus as “rational” and “articulate” and said that others who spoke about the detective, then part of the sex assault and child abuse unit, “had nothing but extraordinary things to say about her, her work ethic, her integrity, her honour.”

Before Renwick adjourned proceedings on Thursday afternoon, he agreed with Stewart’s motion to impose 14-day timelines for introducing new motions to the tribunal as well as a seven-day period for lawyers to respond.

Van den Berg described these new rules, introduced late in the proceedings, as financially onerous for Grus and would likely delay the disciplinary tribunal even further. It’s been almost 18 months since Grus was charged with discreditable conduct. While she was originally suspended with pay, the Ottawa Police Service has since brought her back as a detective in the robbery unit.

If Grus is found guilty, she could face demotion or termination.

 

 

Jan 092024
 

The video quickly passed three million a day after its release  on January 8th.

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Interview  Bret Weinstein and Tucker Carlson.  From CHD (Children’s Health Defense).

The transcript is below.

RECOMMEND:  the one hour video is worthwhile. The excerpt below is just one part.

It looks as though (?)  Weinstein & Carlson don’t know that the Legislation Tedros refers to is already enacted and yes, it is OUR Law, not the WHO’s law (WHO = World Health Organization).   I submitted a correction, JUST IN CASE they don’t know:

REPLY SENT TO CHD, from their web-site:  January 9th

             IMPORTANT information

Tedros,  (Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017) in an inserted small video in the Carlson-Weinstein interview says at [00:36:25] :

. . . The claim that the accord will cede power to W.H.O. is quite simply false. It’s fake news. Countries will decide what the accord says and countries alone and countries will implement the accord in line with their own national laws. No country will cede any sovereignty to W.H.O.

MY REPLY:   The Legislation is already in place.

It’s in the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA), a.k.a. Bill 36.

The Provincial Government of British Columbia enacted it in November 2022.

We’re fighting hard

Read the 8th point.  The Legislation is already enacted to adopt the WHO agenda.  (“our own laws”).   Other jurisdictions in Canada may have the same or similar legislation in place, from the same source.  People in B.C. are mobilizing, spreading the word.   The Act needs to be repealed.

The next Provincial Election is Saturday, October 19, 2024.   If you know anyone in B.C., it’d be great if you let them know about the B.C. Health Professions Legislation.   They will not be deciding which health protocols they use.   If we can get enough awareness in B.C. and stop these insane people,  people in other parts of the country might be spared the same battle.

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EXCERPT from the Transcript

…  Bret Weinstein [00:33:59] I call it the World Health Organization Pandemic Preparedness Plan. Right. And what is under discussion are some modifications to the global public health regulations and modifications to an existing treaty. But all of this makes it sound minor and procedural. What has been proposed are, and again, the number of things included here is incredible. It’s hard even for those of us who have been focused on this track, all of the important things under discussion and to deduce the meaning of some of the more subtle provisions.

But they, the World Health Organization and its signatory nations will be allowed to define a public health emergency. Any basis that having declared one, they will be entitled to mandate remedies. Remedies that are named include vaccines. Gene therapy technology is literally named in the set of things that the World Health Organization is going to reserve the right to mandate, that it will be in a position to require these things of citizens, that it will be in a position to dictate our ability to travel, in other words, passports that would be predicated on one having accepted these technologies are clearly being described. It would have the ability to forbid the use of other medications.

So this looks like they’re preparing for a rerun where they can just simply take ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine off the table. They also have reserved the ability. Dictate how these measures are discussed. That censorship is described here as well, the right to dictate that. Of course, misinformation is how they’re going to describe it.

Tedros [00:36:25]   Denial.

We continue to see misinformation on social media and in mainstream media about the pandemic accord that countries are now negotiating. The claim that the accord will cede power to W.H.O. is quite simply false. It’s fake news. Countries will decide what the accord says and countries alone and countries will implement the accord in line with their own national laws. No country will cede any sovereignty to W.H.O. if any politician, business person or anyone at all is confused about what the pandemic accord is and isn’t. We would be more than happy to discuss it and explain it.

Tucker [00:37:13] So he’s going to be more than happy to discuss and explain the misinformation that your now spreading.

Bret Weinstein [00:37:20] That is comforting. Well, on the one hand, I must say I had not seen that. And it is tremendously good news. Actually, what it means is that once again, we have managed to raise awareness of something in time that there is conceivably a better outcome still available to us.

Tucker [00:37:40] They are spooked enough to bother to lie about it.

Bret Weinstein [00:37:43] You couldn’t have said it more accurately. Yes. No, those were clearly lies. And of course, his saying that into a camera is supposed to convince you, you know, nobody could possibly lie so directly. So there must be some truth in what he’s saying, which is, of course, nonsense. And anybody who goes back through a compendium of various things that people have said into cameras over the course of COVID, that they then swear they didn’t say, you know once later, knows that these folks are very comfortable at saying totally false things into a camera that doesn’t cause them to think twice or sweat or anything. But. It’s great that we have managed to raise enough awareness that Tedros is actually addressing our spreading of what it actually is, is malinformation. You’re aware of this? Oh, it’s beautiful.

Tucker [00:38:35] I’m so old that I was still stuck in the truth or falsehood binary. Where what mattered was whether it was true or not.

Bret Weinstein [00:38:44] No, the malinformation is actually exactly what you need to know about to see how antiquated that notion is because this is actually the Department of Homeland Security actually issued a memo in which it defined three kinds of, I kid you not, terrorism. Mis, Dis and Mal information, misinformation are errors, disinformation are intentional errors, lies and malinformation are things that are based in truth that cause you to distrust authority.

Tucker [00:39:16] Oh, so mal information is what you commit when you catch them lying?

Bret Weinstein [00:39:20] Exactly. Yeah, it is, discussing the lies of your government is malinformation and therefore a kind of terrorism, which I should point out, as funny as that is and as obviously Orwellian as that is, it’s also terrifying because if you have tracked the history of the spreading tyranny from the beginning of the war on terror, you know that terrorism is not a normal English word the way it once was. Terrorism is now a legal designation that causes all of your rights to evaporate. So at the point that the Department of Homeland Security says that you are guilty of a kind of terrorism for saying true things that cause you to distrust your government, they are also telling you something about what rights they have to silence you. They are not normal rights. So these things are all terrifying. And I do think as much as.

Tucker [00:40:10] My jaw’s opened.

Bret Weinstein [00:40:11] The COVID pandemic caused us to become aware of a lot of structures that had been built around us, something that former NSA officer William Binney once described as the turnkey totalitarian state, the totalitarian state is erected around you. But it’s not activated. And then once it’s built, the key gets turned. And so we are now seeing, I believe, something that even outstrips William Binney’s description because it’s the turnkey totalitarian planet. I think the World Health Organization is above the level of nations, and it is going to be in a position, if these provisions passed, to dictate to nations how they are to treat their own citizens, to override their constitutions, despite what Tedros has told you. So that is frightening.

It’s not inherently about health. What I think is happened is the fact of a possible pandemic causes a loophole in the mind. It’s not a loophole in our governance documents. Our Constitution doesn’t describe exemptions from your rights during a time of a pandemic emergency. Your rights simply are what they are, and they’re not supposed to go anywhere just because there’s a disease spreading.

But nonetheless, people’s willingness to accept the erosion of their rights because of a public health emergency has allowed this tyranny to use it as a Trojan horse. And I think that’s also, it’s something people need to become aware of, that there are a number of features of our environment that are basically, they are blind spots that we can’t see past. Vaccine was one. And I know I was an enthusiast about vaccines.

I still believe deeply in the elegance of vaccines as they should exist, but I’m now very alarmed at how they are produced, and I’m even more alarmed at what has been called a vaccine that doesn’t meet the definition. That because many of us believe that vaccines were an extremely elegant, low-harm, high-efficacy method of preventing disease. When they called this mRNA tech technology a vaccine, many of us gave it more credibility than we should have if they had called it a gene transfection technology. We would have thought, wait, what? You know that that’s that sounds highly novel and it sounds dangerous. And how much do we know about the long-term implications? But because they called it a vaccine, people were much readily, much more willing to accept it.

Public health functions the same way, if you think about it, public health. Step back a second. Your relationship with your doctor, your personal health ought to be very important to you. But there are ways in which things that happen at a population level affect your personal health. And your doctor is not in a position to do anything about it. So somebody’s dumping pollution into a stream from which you’re pulling fish. You know, you might detect the harm at the population level. You might need a regulation at a population level in order to protect you. Your doctor’s not in a position to write you a pill to correct it.

So the idea that public health is potentially a place to improve all of our well-being is real. But once you decide that there’s something above doctors relative to your health, then that can be an excuse for all manner of tyranny. Public health has been adopted. It’s like, it’s like the sheep’s clothing that has allowed the wolf to go after our rights because in fury it’s trying to protect us from harms that we would like to be.

Tucker [00:44:12] And it generates such fear at such a huge scale that it weakens people’s moral immune systems, they will accept things they would never accept otherwise.

Bret Weinstein [00:44:21] Absolutely. And as you know, and as as I know, when we raised questions about what was being delivered to us under the guise of public health, we were demonized as if we had a moral defect. It wasn’t even a cognitive defect where we were failing to understand the wisdom of these vaccines. It was a moral defect where we were failing to protect others who were vulnerable by questioning these things.

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Jan 042024
 

(Sandra speaking:)  “Autism”  is about vaccinations.

IMPORTANT ARTICLE.  Toby Rogers does good work.

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The truth routes around censorship

Toby Rogers
  1. The backstory

As many of you know, from 2019 to 2021, Mark Blaxill, Cynthia Nevison, and I built the best societal cost of autism model ever developed. Previous societal cost of autism models assumed constant prevalence. But the one thing we know about autism is that the rates are increasing over time. So with Mark’s best-in-class prevalence history and Cynthia’s computer programming genius we built a model showing how much autism will likely cost the United States over the next 40 years. Titled, “Autism Tsunami: The Impact of Rising Prevalence on the Societal Cost of Autism in the United States” our manuscript sailed through peer review. It quickly became one of the most downloaded articles on the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (JADD) website.

Then (apparently) the Simons Foundation freaked out. Since 2003, the Simons Foundation has spent hundreds of millions of dollars searching for “the gene for autism.” They are the second largest funder of autism research in the U.S. (after the NIH) and they have almost nothing to show for their efforts because there is no “gene for autism” — autism is caused by environmental factors (mostly vaccines).

The sharply rising autism prevalence that we documented in our study suggests that:

1.) the search for “the gene for autism” was a total boondoggle; and

2.) the soaring cost of autism will cause the political and economic collapse of the United States in our lifetime (so we should probably do something to stop children from being poisoned in the first place).

Apparently this was embarrassing to the Simons Foundation because it falsified their approach to autism. The Simons Foundation has largely captured the field of autism research and they have hundreds of academics who are dependent on their largesse. Rather than change direction based on new information the Simons Foundation doubled down on their wrongheaded strategy and they put the word out that ‘this article needs to get got.’ Some well-placed hit pieces soon followed from defenders of the status quo.

The Editor-in-Chief of JADD, Fred Volkmar, dutifully organized a witch trial. We brought on the best lawyers in the country, Siri Glimstad LLP, to defend us. Late one night in preparing a letter to send to JADD, I discovered that Fred Volkmar took millions of dollars from the Simons Foundation over the years. At a minimum I thought he would have to recuse himself. It underscored the whole point we were making — JADD’s attack on us was in service of a wealthy benefactor and contrary to scientific best practices.

But the facts did not matter at all to JADD, their attorneys at Springer/Nature, nor the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) that we later appealed to. JADD and COPE were riddled with financial conflicts of interest (see explanation here) but the conflicted parties carried on regardless. There were never any independent findings of fact — JADD just made up accusations whole cloth, ignored our responses, and that was that. JADD had some witches that needed burning (us!) on behalf of the people who have been wrong for decades (the Simons Foundation and really the entire academic autism industry) and they were not going to let the facts get in their way.

We battled them for two years but the fix was in from the beginning. So over the summer they disappeared our article and attached a digital scarlet letter for eternity, “RETRACTED!” The next day the Simons Foundation put out a hit piece on us just for good measure with an image of a trash can and the caption, “Case closed.” It was all so cartoonish and over the top — these are not serious scholars.

  1. A new day

Thankfully, that’s not the end of the story. The truth always routes around censorship. Last week our article was republished in Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law. It went through independent peer review once again and we added two new paragraphs so this version is even better than what was published in JADD.

Founded in 2019, Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law has quickly become one of the best journals in the country because they publish without fear or favor and follow the data wherever it leads. It’s one of the last scientific journals that still does actual science. It’s the journal we should have published with in the first place.

You can download “Autism Tsunami” (here).

The facts remain: autism prevalence has been increasing for fifty years, the costs of autism are astronomical and growing (soon to hit a trillion dollars a year in the U.S.), and the U.S. will collapse in our lifetime if we don’t stop the mass poisoning of our children.

III. The Simons Foundation’s strange retreat from the autism conversation

In writing this article I went over to Spectrum News (the wholly-owned blog of the Simons Foundation that put out the hit pieces on us) and discovered this notice:

Wait, what!? Spectrum News is no more and now it’s just a column within the Transmitter, a generic neuroscience blog.

Then I went over the website of the Simons Foundation. And they are in the midst of a massive rebranding.

The President is an astrophysicist — so clearly, autism is not their top priority.

Okay but what about the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)?

Well, it’s still funded (to the tune of millions of dollars) but they are in the midst of a six-month “strategic planning process.” They no longer announce that they are searching for ‘the gene(s) for autism.’ Instead their mission consists of generalities:

SFARI’s mission is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance.

I imagine some of this is a function of having more money than they know what to do with. Of course rebranding and periodic reassessment of mission are essential in any large organization. But it’s still wild to watch the largest private funder of autism research flounder like this after twenty years of futility.

I cannot help but reflect on the tragedy of it all. Just imagine how different the world would be today if Bernard Rimland, Sallie Bernard, Mark Blaxill, or Lyn Redwood had been invited to those initial planning meetings for the Simons Foundation in 2003. Putting $200 million into political efforts to stop regulatory capture would have stopped the autism epidemic whereas the search for the “autism gene” allowed the epidemic to continue to surge.

It’s beyond infuriating that even as the Simons Foundation retreats from the front lines of the autism conversation they also went to great lengths to try to prevent anyone else (us!) from explaining how to stop the autism epidemic.

  1. Lessons learned

I want to take a moment to share my “lessons learned” from this process. It’s obviously painful to be publicly lynched by a bunch of grifter clowns for two years. But I think we learned some really important things about the current state of the autism epidemic as a result of this long ordeal:

  1. Retraction has been weaponized. It’s now just a tool for powerful interests to censor evidence they don’t like. During my Ph.D. I read and liked, Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives by Vinayak Prasad and Adam Cifu. They make the case that not nearly enough papers are retracted. I imagine that’s true. But it is also true that retraction has been weaponized to serve powerful interests and far too many good papers that challenge the status quo are retracted to serve the interests of powerful corporations and benefactors.
  2. Censorship is a confession of guilt. There was a time, not too long ago, when the mainstream crowd was certain that they could win a debate about vaccines and autism. But that’s over now. They don’t have any RCTs. They refuse to have any discussion about the evidence. All they have left is censorship. Their position is untenable.
  3. The other side is unable to have a conversation about the cost of autism. This is stunning. There are eight good societal cost of autism studies that built the foundation for our study. But once we accurately modeled the rising wave of costs (as the prevalence continues to increase) the causes and the urgent need to stop the poisoning of our kids becomes crystal clear. So the gatekeepers threw the chessboard across the room and announced that we cannot have a conversation about the costs of autism ever again. Thankfully Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law rectified this unjust situation.
  4. Ignoring, suppressing, and denying evidence about rising autism prevalence and cost consigns the growing autism population to a life of misery and early death. If we cannot have a conversation about the cost of autism then government will never provide the necessary revenue and facilities to make sure that adults with autism have a place to live after their parents die. That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we wrote the article (to get government to step up now to provide more support for the growing wave of adults on the spectrum). If our society refuses to plan for what’s ahead, hospitals, homeless shelters, and the streets will be where millions of autistic adults live and die. Increasingly this will be the story in every town across America:

This is what 50 years of academics lying about autism in order to enrich themselves has done to this country.

Our study is an important first step in finally telling the truth about the full scope of the autism epidemic. Congress should immediately convene hearings on the rising prevalence and cost of autism in the U.S.

  1. It’s not just Pharma that wants to cover up the autism epidemic — the trillion dollar a year Autism Industry wants to cover up what is happening as well. In my Ph.D. (2014-2019) I showed that the autism epidemic stems from the political economy problem of regulatory capture (that’s Pharma). But what I learned from fighting to get the truth out about the cost of the autism epidemic is that the trillion dollar a year AUTISM INDUSTRY does not want anyone to know why autism rates keep increasing either (they want to keep that gravy train rolling). It was the geneticists (the Simons Foundation) who called for our heads and Fred Volkmar then enlisted the help of handpicked Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) supporters to attack our paper.
  2. It seems clear to me that Fred Volkmar and many of the so-called academic autism experts are committing research fraud. The federal government funds genetics research as a make-work program to keep scientists from studying the harms of toxicants. Jim Simons funds genetics research to cover up the guilt that he may have harmed his own child with vaccines. In the 1970s, perhaps it was reasonable to think that autism might be genetic — yet even then, people who actually worked with children on the spectrum, including Bernard Rimland, knew autism was caused by environmental factors.

By 2003, it was already clear that autism is NOT primarily a genetic condition (see my earlier discussion in Section IV: here). With the publication of Hallmayer et al. (2011), the genetic theory of autism causation was largely over (see my discussion of that study in my thesis). So anyone who has taken money from the NIH and the Simons Foundation over the last decade to search for something they will never find is arguably committing research fraud; these academics are defrauding the taxpayers, defrauding the universities where they work, and defrauding people on the spectrum who are hurt by this spectacular waste of valuable resources.

Here’s a photo of Fred Volkmar giving a presentation to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Autism Meeting in 2019:

Zoom in on the slide. He wrote:

First twin study (1978) suggested strong genetics.

Subsequent studies have confirmed

Autism is a complex genetic disorder…

The first sentence is true and the next two sentences are lies. Fred Volkmar is lying to everyone in this room because it is profitable to do so. That’s the definition of fraud.

All of the evidence suggests that autism is caused by toxicants and those who deny this are engaged in a criminal cover up.

  1. Because they have committed crimes against humanity, the current gatekeepers will never change their ways. So it’s on us to replace the current system with something better. Mainstream allopathic medicine; the NIH, FDA, and CDC; and the Autism Industry can only produce poison, disability, death, and ruin. There is no point in engaging with them anymore. We have to build our own, better, knowledge production system, medical system, political system, and economic system. Above all else we must keep toxic chemicals out of people’s bodies. Lots of these efforts have begun already. If we can elect Robert Kennedy, Jr. or Ron DeSantis as President, this process will accelerate. But as our systems thrive while the current system collapses, the mainstream will launch wave after wave of attacks on us, so we have to be ready to prevail in those confrontations as well.

*The views in this article are my own and do not represent the opinions of my co-authors.

Blessings to the warriors. 🙌

Prayers for everyone fighting to stop the iatrogenocide. 🙏

Huzzah for everyone building the parallel economy our hearts know is possible. ✊

In the comments, please let me know what’s on your mind.

As always, I welcome any corrections.

Please share “Autism Tsunami” with your family, friends, and legislative representatives.

Toby Rogers
Jan 042024
 

Between this and the next article (“Autism Tsunami” by Toby Rogers) it seems that many young people are demanding integrity.

Good on them.  Reference my category, under “Knowledge Base”,  sub-category “Take Back the University”.   Which is nigh on impossible because so many of them are riddled with corruption.  They’ve sold out to the Corporates’ Big Money.   Sold their souls to the devil.

Karlstack cross-posted a post from Christopher F. Rufo
Christopher BrunetJan 4 · Karlstack

“The Conservative Mastermind Behind Claudine Gay’s Ouster”

I tell Politico how we ran the campaign to unseat Harvard’s president.

Christopher F. Rufo
Jan 4

 

The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay has sent shockwaves through America’s elite institutions. Commentators across the political spectrum, habituated to years of submission to DEI orthodoxy, have been asking: How did it happen?

Yesterday, reporter Ian Ward of Politico reached out to ask me precisely this question. As one of the journalists and activists who worked on this campaign and watched it develop from the inside, I was happy to oblige.

The following is a reprint of our interview, first published at Politico under the headline, “We Sat Down With the Conservative Mastermind Behind Claudine Gay’s Ouster.”

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Politico: How much credit do you think you deserve for Gay’s resignation?

Christopher Rufo: I’ve learned that it never hurts to take the credit because sometimes people don’t give it to you. But this really was a team effort that involved three primary points of leverage. First was the narrative leverage, and this was done primarily by me, Christopher Brunet and Aaron Sibarium. Second was the financial leverage, which was led by Bill Ackman and other Harvard donors. And finally, there was the political leverage which was really led by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s masterful performance with Claudine Gay at her hearings.

When you put those three elements together—narrative, financial and political pressure—and you squeeze hard enough, you see the results that we got today, which was the resignation of America’s most powerful academic leader. I think that this result speaks for itself.

Politico: How closely have you been coordinating with the other people in those three camps?

Rufo: I know all the players, I have varying degrees of coordination and communication, but —

Politico: What does that mean, “various degrees of communication and coordination”? Have you been actively working together?

Rufo: Some people I speak to a little more frequently, some people a little less frequently. But my job as a journalist and even more so as an activist is to know the political conditions, to understand and develop relationships with all of the political actors, and then to work as hard as I can so that they’re successful in achieving their individual goals—but also to accomplish the shared goal, which was to topple the president of Harvard University.

Politico: On December 19, you tweeted that it was your plan to “smuggle [the plagiarism story] into the media apparatus from the left, which legitimizes the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple [Gay].” Can you explain that strategy in more detail?

Rufo: It’s really a textbook example of successful conservative activism, and the strategy is quite simple. Christopher Brunet and I broke the story of Claudine’s plagiarism on December 10. It drove more than 100 million impressions on Twitter, and then it was the top story for a number of weeks in conservative media and right-wing media. But I knew that in order to achieve my objective, we had to get the narrative into the left-wing media. But the left-wing uniformly ignored the story for 10 days and tried to bury it, so I engaged in a kind of a thoughtful and substantive campaign of shaming and bullying my colleagues on the left to take seriously the story of the most significant academic corruption scandal in Harvard’s history.

Finally, the narrative broke through within 24 hours of my announcement about smuggling the narrative into the left-wing media. You see this domino effect: CNN, BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other publications started to do the actual work of exposing Gay’s plagiarism, and then you see this beautiful kind of flowering of op-eds from all of those publications calling on Gay to resign. Once my position—which began on the right—became the dominant position across the center-left, I knew that it was just a matter of time before we were going to be successful.

Politico: Why is it so important to get the story into the center-left media?

Rufo: It gives permission for center-left political figures and intellectual figures to comment on the story and then to editorialize on it. Once we crossed that threshold, we saw this cascade of publications calling on her to resign.

Politico: Do you think that playbook works on any issue, or do you think that the Israel–Palestine issue is unique, insofar as it’s already dividing elite liberal organizations?

Rufo: I’ve run the same playbook on critical race theory, on gender ideology, on DEI bureaucracy. For the time being, given the structure of our institutions, this is a universal strategy that can be applied by the right to most issues. I think that we’ve demonstrated that it can be successful.

Politico: Why do you think you can be so open about your strategy and still have it work? Why don’t you feel like you need to be covert about it?

Rufo: First, and most simply, because I’m telling the truth—and the truth has an inherent and innate power. I believe that if it’s propagated correctly, it has the power to defeat lies.

The reason that I announced my strategy in advance is both to demoralize my opponents—and it certainly does a good job at that—but also to teach my potential friends and allies how the game works. Machiavelli wrote The Prince not to teach people who already knew the principles of how power works, but to teach people who need to know—and in reality, the people who need to know about how politics works are American conservatives. So I tried to publicly narrate what I’m doing in order to teach my friends how to do it themselves. I think that this is a big service—with the added benefit that it demoralizes and deranges my enemies.

Politico: Do you think you understand how the left-wing influence ecosystem works better than the people inside it do?

Rufo: Well, I spent 10 years directing documentaries for PBS, lived in large, left-wing American cities, and I’ve studied how the media, NGOs and universities circulate and legitimize information regimes. I’ve just applied that knowledge—and in some senses, I’ve stolen some of the earlier tactics from previous generations of the American left and weaponize them against the current regime.

What I’m doing is teaching conservatives how to hack that system and to use our asymmetrical disadvantages to our strategic advantage. We need to be very lightweight and very aggressive, and we need to be faster and smarter and rhetorically more sophisticated than our opponents—who, unfortunately for them, have grown complacent, lazy, entitled and ripe for disruption.

Politico: What is your broader objective here, beyond forcing the president of Harvard to resign?

Rufo: My primary objective is to eliminate the DEI bureaucracy in every institution in America and to restore truth rather than racialist ideology as the guiding principle of America.

Politico: In her letter of resignation, Gay said that she was troubled by “threats fueled by racial animus.” How do you respond to that?

Rufo: It was absolutely not fueled by racial animus. It was fueled by Claudine Gay’s minimization of antisemitism, her serial plagiarism, her intimidation of the free press and her botched attempts to cover it all up. It had nothing to do with her race or sex and everything to do with her merit, her competence and her failure to lead.

Politico: How significant of a victory do you consider this campaign for the conservative movement?

Rufo: I worked on critical race theory for a very long time before it yielded fruit, but this Claudine Gay story has shown that we can drive major, paradigm-shifting victories over a compressed timeframe. I’d like to engage in more experimentation on how we can cycle up some of these campaigns very quickly.

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Dec 232023
 

As at January 04, 2024:

 

By Adam Soos,  and with thanks to Rebel News.

The petition, which is set to close for signatures on December 24, just one day before Christmas and Justin Trudeau’s birthday, has shattered the record for signatures on a thirty-day House of Commons e-petition, reaching over 360,000 signees to date.

 

https://www.rebelnews.com/meet_the_woman_behind_the_petition_calling_for_the_end_of_the_trudeau_government?utm_campaign=as_petitiontrudeau_122223&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel

 

Michelle Ferreri is the member of Parliament (MP) for Peterborough—Kawartha and Shadow Minister of Families, Children and Social Development.

She has signed her name to an official House of Commons e-petition, titled e-4701, which calls for a vote of non-confidence in the Liberal/NDP coalition government and for an election to be called within 45 days should the petition vote of no confidence pass.

She sent us an official statement, which she also posted on social media, giving the following reasons for supporting the petition:

“A relationship is built on trust. Trust is built on actions not words.

Each time someone, especially a leader doesn’t do what they say or even worse, gaslights his followers he destroys the trust.

Canadians have waited 8 years for action and what they’ve been handed is suffering.

The facts speak for themselves: Justin Trudeau has delivered record high food bank usage, homelessness, skyrocketing housing prices, an opioid and mental health crisis, a violent rise in crime and multiple ethics violations.

Misery is a powerful motivator and clearly this petition is elevating the voices of Canadians who are sick of the Trudeau imposed misery and want a leader and a government they can trust.”

The petition, which is set to close for signatures on December 24, just one day before Christmas and Justin Trudeau’s birthday, has shattered the record for signatures on a thirty-day House of Commons e-petition, reaching over 360,000 signees to date.

While MP Michelle Ferreri was unable to join us for an interview, I did speak with her and she was, despite her involvement in the petition, adamant that credit go to the person who conceived of it in the first place. The woman responsible for the record breaking petition is Melissa Outwater, a constituent of Michelle Ferreri’s who had seen enough of Trudeau’s destructive governance and wanted to do something about it.

We were fortunate to be joined by Melissa who shared about the specific concerns that prompted her to start the petition, including the housing and affordability crises caused by the Liberal/NDP coalition, and how meaningful it was to have an elected representative who was responsive and supportive of her democratic efforts. She also shared about the timing of the e-petition and how it was indeed intended as an early and certainly unwelcome gift for Trudeau’s birthday.

Outwater shared that the petition is not binding, but with enough signatures she hopes the pressure results in enough NDP and Liberal representatives coming to their senses and realizing that a vote of no confidence is needed. With the house set to resume business in late January, we won’t know what impact the petition will have until then, but clearly the more signatures, the greater the onus on Ottawa to do the right thing. If you want to sign the e-petition you can do so by clicking here.

For more stories on Trudeau’s destructive governance and to sign our petition which also calls for the end of the Liberal/NDP coalition, please visit TrudeauMustResign.com.

Dec 182023
 

Tamara Lich was jailed and denied bail because she was identified as THE LEADER of the Freedom Convoy that rocked Canada and many other countries.  Tamara is awesome and thank Goodness it was HER and not someone else who played her role.

But in an extremely short period of time — 2 or 3 weeks – –   COULD she have mobilized the millions of people around the globe who continue to demand justice for what happened during the covid years? COULD it have been something else?  like. . .

Self-organizing. Successful social movements . . . emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing (as described by David Korten in his book When Corporations Rule the World).

The systemic forces nurturing the growth and dominance of global corporations are at the heart of the current human dilemma … to avoid collective catastrophe we must radically transform the underlying system of business to restore power to the small and local.

Quotations  by David Korten   from his book   When Corporations Rule the World

The systemic forces nurturing the growth and dominance of global corporations are at the heart of the current human dilemma … to avoid collective catastrophe we must radically transform the underlying system of business to restore power to the small and local.

*****    As we continued our discussion over the next few days, the pieces began to fall into place. The Western scientific vision of a mechanical universe has created a philosophical or conceptual alienation from our own inherent spiritual nature. This has been reinforced in our daily lives by the increasing alignment of our institutions with the monetary values of the marketplace. The more dominant money has become in our lives, the less place there has been for any sense of the spiritual bond that is the foundation of community and a balanced relationship with nature. The pursuit of spiritual fulfillment has been increasingly displaced by an all-consuming and increasingly self-destructive obsession with the pursuit of money-a useful but wholly substanceless and intrinsically valueless human artifact.

It seemed evident from our analysis that to reestablish a sustainable relationship to the living earth, we must break free of the illusions of the world of money, rediscover spiritual meaning in our lives, and root our economic institutions in place and community so that they are integrally connected to people and life. Consequently, we concluded that the task of people-centered development in its fullest sense must be the creation of life-centered societies in which the economy is but one of the instruments of good living-not the purpose of human existence. Because our leaders are entrapped in the myths and the reward systems of the institutions they head, the leadership in this creative process of institutional and value re-creation must come from within civil society.

*****From our vantage point in Asia we have watched in horror as the same policies the United States has been advocating for the world have created a Third World within its own borders as revealed in its growing gap between rich and poor, dependence on foreign debt, deteriorating educational systems, rising infant mortality, economic dependence on the export of primary commodities-including its last remaining primary forests-indiscriminate dumping of toxic wastes, and the breakdown of families and communities.

*****   I share the liberal’s compassion for the disenfranchised, commitment to equity, and concern for the environment and believe that there are essential roles for government and limits to the rights of private property. I believe, however, that big government can be as unaccountable and destructive of societal values as can big business. Indeed, I have a distrust of any organization that accumulates and concentrates massive power beyond the bounds of accountability. In short, I align with those who are defining a new path that is more pragmatic than ideological and who cannot be easily pigeonholed within the conventional conservative-liberal spectrum of political choice.

***** … the systemic forces nurturing the growth and dominance of global corporations are at the heart of the current human dilemma. I now believe that to avoid collective catastrophe we must radically transform the underlying system of business to restore power to the small and local. I further believe that accomplishing the needed transformation will require the cooperative efforts of those within the system-including those who head our major corporations and financial institutions-in addition to the efforts of citizen movements working from outside it.

With regard to spiritual values, I was raised in the Protestant Christian faith but find wisdom in the teachings of all the great religions. I believe that we have access to an inner spiritual wisdom and that our collective salvation as a species depends, in part, on tapping into this wisdom from which the institutions of modern science, the market, and even religion have deeply alienated us. Through this rediscovery we may achieve the creative balance between market and community, science and religion, and money and spirit that is essential to the creation and maintenance of healthy human societies.

*****

… we are experiencing accelerating social and environmental disintegration in nearly every country of the world-as revealed by a rise in poverty, unemployment, inequality, violent crime, failing families, and environmental de~dation. These problems stem in part from a fivefold increase in economic output since 1950 that has gushed human demands on the ecosystem beyond what the planet is capahle of sustaining. The continued quest for economic growth as the organizing principle of public policy is acceleratin.g the breakdown of the ecosystem s regenerative capacities and the social fabric that sustains human community; at the same time, it is intensifying the competition for resources between rich and poor-a competition that the poor invariably lose.

Governments seem wholly incapable of responding, and public frustration is turning to rage. It is more than a failure of government bureaucracies, however. It is a crisis of governance born of a convergence of ideological, political, and technological forces behind a process of economic globalization that is shifting power away from governments responsible for the public good and toward a handful of corporations and financial institutions driven by a single imperative-the quest for short-term financial gain. This has concentrated massive economic and political power in the hands of an elite few whose absolute share of the products of a declining pool of natural wealth continues to increase at a substantial rate-thus reassuring them that the system is working perfectly well.

Those who bear the costs of the system’s dysfunctions have been stripped of decision-making power and are held in a state of confusion regarding the cause of their distress by corporate-dominated media that incessantly bombard them with interpretations of the resulting crisis based on the perceptions of the power holders An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world’s largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species. In fact, these are all myths propagated to justify profligate greed and mask the extent to which the global transformation of human institutions is a consequence of the sophisticated, wellfunded, and intentional interventions of a small elite whose money enables them to live in a world of illusion apart from the rest of humanity.

These forces have transformed once beneficial corporations and financial institutions into instruments of a market tyranny that is extending its reach across the planet like a cancer, colonizing ever more of the planet’s living spaces, destroying livelihoods, displacing people, rendering democratic institutions impotent, and feedin on life in an insatiable quest for money. As our economic system has detached from place and gained greater dominance over our democratic institutions, even the world’s most powerful corporations have become captives of the forces of a globalized financial system that has delinked the creation of money from the creation of real wealth and rewards extractive over productive investment. The big winners are the corporate raiders who strip sound companies of their assets for short-term gain and the speculators who capitalize on market volatility to extract a private tax from those who are engaged in productive work and investment.

Faced with pressures to produce greater short-term returns, the world’s largest corporations are downsizing to shed people and functions. They are not, however, becoming less powerful. While tightening their control over markets and technology through mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances, they are forcing both subcontractors and local communities into a standards-lowering competition with one another to obtain the market access and jobs that global corporations control. The related market forces are deepenmg our dependence on socially and environmentally destructive technologies that sacrifice our physical, social, environmental, and mental health to corporate profits.

The problem is not business or the market per se but a badly corrupted global economic system that is gyrating far beyond human control. The dynamics of this system have become so powerful and perverse that it is becoming increasingly difficult for corporate managers to manage in the public interest, no matter how strong their moral values and commitment.

Driven by the imperative to replicate money, the system treats people as a source of inefficiency and is rapidly shedding them at all system levels. As the first industrial revolution reduced dependence on human muscle, the information revolution is reducing dependence on our eyes, ears, and brains. The first industrial revolution dealt with the resulting unemployment by colonizing weaker peoples and sending surplus populations off as migrants to less populated lands. People in colonized countries fell back on traditional social structures to sustain themselves. With the world’s physical frontiers largely exhausted and social economies greatly weakened by market intrusion, few such safety valves remain. Consequently, the redundant now end up as victims of starvation and violence, homeless beggars, welfare recipients, or residents of refugee camps. Continuing on our present course will almost certainly lead to accelerating social and environmental disintegration.

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2023-10-20   Did Tamara Lich and Chris Barber REALLY organize the hundreds of thousands of Canadians and international supporters? Self-organizing . . . Successful social movements . . . emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing (David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World). UPDATE Tamara Lich, Chris Barber trials.

The Tamara Lich and Chris Barber trials continue in Ottawa.  Leonard Greenspon, a prominent Canadian lawyer, is representing Tamara Lich;  Diane Magas represents Chris Barber.

The two co-defendants are accused of committing mischief, intimidation, obstruction of police, and counseling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstruction of police.

DAY 20 (Oct 19)  of the proceedings:

The second Ottawa police officer in a row – – these are witnesses selected by the Prosecution (“the crown”) to help make the case against the Defendants – –  the testimony of both officers – –

NEITHER officer has records for a period of time – – more than a week – – during which important events were happening (The Trucker (Freedom) Convoy in Ottawa).  The end of January, the beginning of February, 2022.  Critical negotiations between the Truckers and the Police Liaison Teams (PLTs) were taking place.   The phones of the two officers were updated.  The data (e.g. text messages) was all lost.

https://www.rebelnews.com/second_ottawa_cop_at_tamara_lich_trial_testifies_work_phone_was_wiped_of_freedom_convoy_records?utm_campaign=rb_20_10_2023&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel

DAY 21  (Oct 20) 

As I understand:  the defence received heavily-redacted “more” disclosure regarding the data from the phones of the two officers. The redactions cover the time period of the missing data.   . . .  uh oh.

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In my view,  The System, the way it works,  HAS TO HAVE someone to prosecute.   You can’t have a court case that doesn’t have a Defendant.  In this case Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.

Did Tamara Lich and Chris Barber REALLY organize the hundreds of thousands of Canadians and international supporters? 

The question ignores the fact that there have been additions to our knowledge base.  “Self-organizing” is a recognized and studied phenomenon.

Self-organization

Self-organization, also called spontaneous order in the social sciences, is a process where some form of overall order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spontaneous when sufficient energy is available, not needing control by any external agent.    (Thank-you Wikipedia!)

In my view, a difficulty for authorities is that their modus operandi conventionally requires the designation of “leaders” to whom “fault” can be assigned and prosecuted.   They HAVE TO punish to set an example to others, to discourage others from standing up for the Rule of Law, for example.

I attended the Sentencing of Artur Pawlowski, September, Lethbridge, AB.   I don’t doubt that the Judge believed himself – – his personal righteousness, when justifying the “guilty” verdict as necessary for deterrence.

At the Enquiry (into the Invocation of the Emergency Act) I heard prosecutors and others asking  “Who told you . . .”, or “Who led . . .”, or “Do you know (one of the people jailed for being seen to be a leader)? . . .  Did you have conversations with…?  When did you first meet . . .?   Who introduced you . .  .?  Who are the leaders?   (We have to put “the leaders”  in jail, fine them, castrate them.  Give us the evidence we need!)

ALTERNATELY,  the process becomes the punishment. . . .  Yeah,  we’ll isolate you in a Remand Centre, bail denied, no trial, for well over a year, well beyond what is allowed by law.  No problem!  And comrades beware!  We freeze bank accounts and credit cards of those who rise in support of  justice.  No trial yet? – – – toooo bad!  The precedent is set: Julian Assange!  HA ha! )

Make sure there is a long memory of what happens to anyone who is involved in protest, no matter how legal it is.  And no matter the depth and length of the grievance and consequently the public support.

“Successful social movements are

emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing,
and involve the dedicated efforts of many people,
each finding the role that best uses his or her gifts and passions.”  

(sounds to me like the Freedom Convoy.  It is similar to what I wrote in 2004.  About the Network   (top of my blog).

David Korten, author of “When Corporations Rule the World“.

QUESTION:  Does or can  David Korten’s prescription  (emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing, many working together, individuals finding the role that suits their passions)  help to address the problem with getting people to take the advice offered by Donella Meadows?  . . .   Are monumental meeting and organizing challenges addressed?

Personally,  I think the changes we need are, and will continue to happen, if we are willing to give up control.   Where “facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent”  we may do well to recognize that things are rapidly evolving  and  “radically self-organizing” (we aren’t standing still).

History tells us this is the way it sometimes happens.   The world did not foresee the Berlin Wall coming down,  the fall of the Communists in East Germany (1989).   It was accomplished without major bloodshed and seemingly, out of the blue.  . . . But not.

The petry dish was the Gdansk Shipyards, Lech Walesa, and the Solidarity Movement in Poland 10 years earlier.  It was growing and spreading, a pattern not recognized while it was happening – – or maybe NOT REPORTED?  – –  or maybe individual events reported, but devoid of CONTEXT?  How were we to discern a pattern, to know it was coming?

I am a fan of Canadian suffragette, Nellie McClung – – “Just do it” (what needs to be done).  Empowered and distributed leaders emerge.  I think that is what I am observing today, and thankfully, many of those leaders are young and talented.  They abound among the musicians, in theatre, in the arts – –  in addition to the usual places you might expect.  Even retirees are taking on the challenges in various ways – –  in line with their passions.  It all matters and it all helps.

The actions of the Corporatocracy have been bold and extreme.   They are digging us deeper and deeper into violence.   This is no time for timidity, in my humble opinion.

2011-01-03 “All our Cowardice and Servility” from the Museum of Non-violent Resistance at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin

In July I suggested:  If you have time for only one posting, make it the Artur Pawlowski update.

I went to Lethbridge, Alberta for the sentencing of Pawlowski scheduled for  August 9th 

The use of the Justice system to silence citizens has to be stopped.   You get a fair trial.   It’s not fair if you have to pay literally a million dollars in lawyer bills to get to an Appeal Court to establish your innocence (which Pawlowski did (July 2022), which Pawlowski COULD do, but only because of crowd-funding).

And then have to start over again in a Provincial Court with charges of mischief (criminal), looking at potentially 10 years in jail. ~~~

On August 9th I showed up at the Court House early, to ensure a seat in the Court Room.   I went through Security inside the front door of the Court House 3 times, trying to find in which Court Room the sentencing of Pawlowski would take place.   FINALLY,  one of the fellows working the Security line said aloud (not looking me in the face),  the Sentencing has been postponed to September 18th.  Bless him!   (The person at the desk inside the Court House, sitting at a computer, would not give me that info.)

I am returning to Lethbridge for Sept 18th   – –  which I did.  It was a wonderful time with wonderful people.

Pawlowski was found guilty;  and sentenced to jail.  HOWEVER,  he had already served time in jail (some of it in solitary confinement).  So Pawlowski did not go to jail;  he was sentenced to time already served.

AND  the verdict is already under appeal.