Sandra Finley

Oct 172023
 

Thanks to Erich for sending:

As the war drums beat ever louder, and Gaza becomes a second Warsaw Ghetto, I feel compelled to send the following video report on to as many people as possible.  It explains a lot, as Haaretz, Israel’s 104 year old newspaper of record has long been warning (would that OUR news media were as objective).

https://youtu.be/aEdGcej-6D0?si=pDH2JQiZkMYoxXaM

24 minutes

Segregated streets. Settler violence. Military harassment. This happens all over the occupied West Bank, but perhaps nowhere are these scenes more concentrated than in the Old City of Hebron. The once vibrant Palestinian cultural center is now ground zero of Israeli apartheid. It’s also where AJ+‘s Dena Takruri’s family calls home. In this deeply personal documentary, Dena spends a day in Hebron retracing the footsteps of her father, who was born and raised in Hebron. She talks to Palestinians who are subjected to daily harassment from the Israeli military and settlers. And she is guided through the city by former Israeli soldiers, who tell her why their conscience is now forcing them to speak out against the occupation.

00:00 Introduction

3:17 The journey to Israeli apartheid ground zero

4:12 Harassment at a military checkpoint

6:53 How Hebron’s streets are segregated by ethnicity

9:00 “It’s like a prison”: A child’s perspective

11:08 How did Hebron get to be this way?

14:54 Why this former Israeli soldier is speaking out

15:24 The street that became a ghost town

17:55 Dena FaceTimes her dad

Oct 172023
 

From: Sandra Finley
Sent: October 17, 2023
To: thecurrent     @    cbc.ca
Subject: re Rachel Maddow’s book. Oct 17

I kept waiting to hear the name Thomas Watson among the list of very influential American fascists in lead-up to WW2.

Watson was advisor to the President of the U.S., and simultaneously feted by Hitler.

He was IBM President, came from poverty, a smart and ruthless guy.  Sole goal in life, make money.

IBM and the Holocaust is a fascinating read.  And revealing.

The use of Technology was critical to the Nazi’ superior ability to construct detailed files on citizens, especially Jews.  Watson understood the value to the Nazis of data collection and mechanized data retrieval through IBM’s Hollerith machines and punch cards, precursor to computers.  Pre-war, he set up IBM census subsidiaries in many European countries, ready to go with lists of Jews when the German Nazis marched into town.  (The mechanization of data is also what enabled the Nazi to run a complex network of trains on efficient schedules.)

Appreciate the value of the Canadian Chart Right:

In fostering the underlying values of dignity, integrity and autonomy, it is fitting that s. 8 of the (Canadian) Charter should seek to

protect a biographical core of personal information which individuals in a free and democratic society would wish to maintain and control from dissemination to the state.”

The development of Canadian case law in support of Charter Rights gave eloquent voice to the need for Privacy of Personal Information – – for a reason (help prevent what the Nazi did from happening again).

Many of the influential characters in Maddow’s book, as told in the interview, were rich people (industrialists like Henry Ford.  Add Thomas Watson to the list).

Fascism by definition involves the marriage of state and corporations.

 

Jane Jacobs wrote a little book,  “SYSTEMS OF SURVIVAL,  A dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics”.  In it she describes what happens when the two functions, commerce and politics (guarding the public good)  become entangled with each other.   The result is CORRUPTION.   I think that the word “fascism” can be used interchangeably with corruption in this instance?

Sandra Finley

Oct 102023
 
No confusion over covid. Three points.

The fall onslaught of covid/flu  messaging has started.  My daughter is apprehensive about what that means for her.

She has had a long-term interest in things that give health.  She is well-informed re covid.  She wants nothing to do with things covid.

In support of her understanding:

  1.     I contacted Canadian Border Services (CBSA) on September 11th or 12th

I asked:  would I be blocked at the border between Canada and the U.S., either coming or going, because I am not vaccinated?

The answer is NO, Canada no longer has covid mandates.  Canadians can leave and return to Canada, regardless of vaccination status.   (And regardless of their status as an activist!)

I have understood that the Covid mandates are a thing of the past, but wanted absolute confirmation.  The agent was prompt and direct in her reply.   There was not even a “BUT! you SHOULD . . . ”!

NOTE:  I have to laugh!  I love George Orwell’s language, “New speak”, from his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949, post-WW2, after the defeat of the Nazis).

The word “Mandates” no longer means “mandates”?  The CBSA agent told me that we (Canada) no longer have covid mandates.  So what should I think when the Health Officers or others TODAY make statements about covid mandates, as though they are still in place?  . . . the world becomes farcical.

But it makes sense from one perspective:  Chief Medical Health Officers and others responsible for the covid mandates have upcoming trials.  Court challenges were launched back during covid.  It takes time for the cases to make their way through the court process.  I was offered this explanation:   the defendants cannot back away from their mantras.  It would be an outright admission of wrong-doing.

2.   The National Citizens Inquiry Commissioners Report, September 14, 2023

https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/commissioners-report/

The Input received by the Commissioners through the hearings in 8 cities across Canada are available at the web-site, along with other details, Reports and Recommendations. 

  • In a nutshell, the Interim Report concludes that The Covid vaccinations are neither safe, nor are they effective.

 

3.      Covid mandates are INVALID (Alberta court ruling).

August 1, 2023,  the mandates of former Chief Medical Health Officer of Alberta,  Deena Hinshaw, were found to be invalid.  

 During August, many important covid court cases in Canada were dropped by “The Crown” (The Prosecutors), as a consequence of this “Ingram decision”.

Communities in Alberta have the backs of seriously-aggrieved small businesses, the WhistleStop Café being a prominent example.  There is now a class-action lawsuit by small businesses, against the Alberta Government.

Just one example among many, of “the covid mandates are not about science and health”:  HOW  can it be safe for people to shop and eat at Costco and Walmart or attend games in Sports Stadiums, while the local gyms and WhistleStop Cafes of the world have to close because they are Not Safe??

The inability of the health authorities to construct logic drove me crazy – – I am appreciative of the Judges, and the individuals who have stood firm against the nonsensical, often at what looks like huge personal cost.  (Listen to interviews of people like Chris Scott of the WhistleStop Cafe.  Invariably they point to the fact that what they have gained (a connected, supportive, and determined community) is far greater than the huge financial losses.)

I reassured my daughter, on the basis of A, B, and C, PLUS what she knows from her own research, that she doesn’t need to worry about covid mandates.  The advertising campaign is nothing more than that.  Advertising.*  Don’t pay any attention to it.

  • (In truth, I likely used the phrase ” nothing more than a propaganda campaign”.)
Oct 052023
 

BACKGROUND – – THE LAWYER

    • Lawyer Jeffrey Rath, Calgary AB, has argued cases at the Supreme Court of Canada several times.  Rath WINS his cases, without fail.  We first met him in 2021.  I was so relieved when I read about this lawyer who was taking on the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons over covid mandates:

2021-10-05   Lawyer Jeffrey Rath, letter to Alberta  College of Physicians and Surgeons demanding resignations over mandated vaccines. Melanie Risdon, Western Standard

I wrote:  This is not just a lawyer.  It’s Jeffrey Rath.  The College of Physicians & Surgeons may be hyperventilating!  Read for yourself the hallways this man trods:   https://www.rathandcompany.com/team/rath.html

Rath was acting in relation to complaints from Doctors in Alberta, at least two of whom were paediatricians:

            1. 2021-09-15 Vaccination, forced compliance: Dr Eric Payne, paediatric neurologist. Submission to Alberta College of Physicians & Surgeons.
            2. 2021-09-22 The submissions of now TWO ALBERTA PEDIATRICIANS challenge the mandated covid vaccination

Category on my blog:  under Health,   Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)

RATH  IS BACK AGAIN, this time representing small business owners in Alberta, in a class action suit for compensation against harms done by the mandates.  The time seems opportune – – the decision by the Judge in the “INGRAM” case has invalidated the Alberta covid regulations of Chief Medical Health Officer Deena Hinshaw.  (2023-08-03 Ingram decision, Alberta. A wonky win invalidates the public health orders of Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health.

Scroll down to an interview of Jeffrey Rath on the posting:
      • Whistle Stop Cafe owner Chris Scott
      • Scott’s kindred spirit and fellow business man Kerry Lambert
      • Alberta gym owner Rebecca Ingram

Oct 052023
 

First,  a bit of Vocabulary: 

I can guess at, but am not familiar with “Administrative State“.  What pictures come into mind?

I say we have Corporatocracy, which by definition is Fascism.

Chris Scott (below) uses the phrase   ADMINISTRATIVE STATE

A quick definition of administrative state, 1.5 minute video.  https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=what+is+an+administrative+state#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9980d2c7,vid:RmAUMhdcFTk,st:0

 

IN BOOK TITLES YOU FIND, FOR EXAMPLE:

      • The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century.
      • Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State‘s Challenge to Constitutional Government
      • Reining in the Administrative State

BOOK TITLES RELATED TO CORPORATOCRACY,  DAVID KORTEN’S WORK JUMPS TO MIND:

When Corporations Rule the World, 3rd Edition

by David C. Korten
Released June 2015
Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Book description   (From O’Reilly)

Democracy or Corporate Rule

A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It’s a “suicide economy,” says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations of its own existence.

The bestselling 1995 edition of When Corporations Rule the World helped launch a global resistance against corporate domination. In this twentieth-anniversary edition, Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a New Economy. A new introduction documents the further concentration of wealth and corporate power since 1995 and explores why our institutions resolutely resist even modest reform. A new conclusion chapter outlines high-leverage opportunities for breakthrough change.

POSTINGS ON MY BLOG,  A SEARCH ON “KORTEN” THROWS UP:

1.     2016-08-12 How to Break the Power of Money, by David Korten. YES! Magazine

2.     2016-07-13 “Free” Trade? Fraud Alert – The deceptive branding behind corporatists’ preference for the term “free trade” over simply “trade.”, by David Korten. Linguistics, Propaganda

3.     15-04-15 UPDATE TPP: A Trade Rule that Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That And More, David Korten

4.     Successful social movements are emergent . . . (David Korten)

5.     2010-05-07  David Korten, Agenda for a New Economy.  The revolt against Wall Street, Around the world.

6.  2011-02-22   Korten, David

WHICH WORD SHOULD I USE?
What does “Corporatocracy” conjure up in your mind?

Versus  “Administrative State“?

I am trying to accurately communicate ideas to you.  In order to do that,  we need a vocabulary that we both understand,  more or less.  But not now! . . .

= = = = = = = = = = = =

CHRIS SCOTT

To me,  Chris was as unlikely to be a hero as are most of us.   In the first footage of this restaurant owner from the hamlet of Mirror, AB (north east of Red Deer) I saw a man intimidated by Police, probably passive-agressive, in control of his tongue.

AND THEN,  I listened to the interview of Chris and his buddy Kerry Lambert, another business owner who was run into the ground by covid mandates.  Chris’ strength takes a while to emerge.  I was inspired by INTELLIGENT ATTITUDE and IDEAS.  A butterfly emerged from chrysalis.

INTERVIEW of Chris Scott and Kerry Lambert – – very good.

Jason Lavigne – Independent Journalist/Politician

(“rumble”.  The Lavigne Show.  (Jason Lavigne is host).  Show # 74. 0.  We’re Open w/ Chris Scott & Kerry Lambert.  (Sept 20, 2023, I think).

 

ADD            REBEKAH INGRAM

2023-08-03 Ingram decision, Alberta. A wonky win invalidates the public health orders of Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health.

 

ADD TREVOR RATH, Lawyer going forward with the Class Action Lawsuit:

https://www.facebook.com/whistlestoptruckstopcafe/videos/6419521141510283 

Oct 052023
 
Chris Carbert, one of the “Coutts 4” held in remand (worse than prison) for well over a year, denied bail.  Political prisoners.
UPDATE from Jason Lavigne – Independent Journalist/Politician     @JasonLavigneMP
GREAT NEWS! Chris Carbert now has a CONFIRMED bail hearing date of October 25th at 10AM. The previous date was not confirmed, this one is.
THE COUTTS 4

Image

Sep 262023
 
See this        No Amnesty without Accountability for COVID Crimes

You need to designate the group as a terrorist group and seize their assets and impair them.”

—Planning Notes of Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of the Canadian Government.

Feb. 13, 2022 in Preparation for a Clampdown on the Freedom Convoy Members

 

On July 26 as the court proceedings were unfolding, Jason Lavigne presented a lengthy interview with Jaclyne Martin. Jaclyn Martin, the wife of the accused conspiracy-to-commit-murder suspect, Jerry Morin, is herself facing mischief and weapons charges as part of the push to criminalize those who travelled to Coutts to protest government policies.

In a lengthy interview Jaclyne Martin presents an astonishing account of the kind of keystone cops antics deployed in the process of trying to criminalize the Coutts protesters. As one of the victims of this farcical project, Ms. Martin explains how the sacrificial lambs were singled out and presented as terrorists just as the Emergency Act was decreed in Ottawa. Most of the procedures Jaclyne and Jerry have been facing are arbitrary, nonsensical and often demonstrate the biases of the Canadian court system prone to treat critics of government policy as guilty until proven innocent.

Jaclyne Martin’s testimony in the video below presents an extremely revealing glimpse into the kind of behind-the-scenes lunacy that has come to characterize this conspiracy-to-commit murder procedure unfolding in the very core of Alberta’s criminal justice system. Especially important is her long discussion about the preoccupations of the Stephen Johnston Team (the Prosecutors) when it comes to the subject of guns, registered and legal or not.

In Johnson’s urbanite worldview, for instance, anybody engaged in recreational activities like skeet shooting automatically becomes a candidate for conspiracy-to-commit murder charges. Crown prosecutors and their RCMP clients make no allowance for the indigenous cultural patterns that prevail throughout much of the rural culture of southern Alberta.

Designating the Coutts Protestors as a Terrorist Group to Be Impoverished and Impaired

Completely absent from the proceedings in the Lethbridge courthouse proceedings were any reporters for the big communications companies. When important news is breaking, this kind of degraded propaganda factory gets its reporter as far away as possible from the new information being brought to light.

Many of these fake news companies have been actively conducting their own media smear campaigns in conjunction with the narratives spun by Alberta’s Crown prosecutors. These propaganda companies include the New York Times, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail, Postmedia, CTV and Global. All have legal standing in this case that began concurrently with the invocation of Canada’s version of martial law on Feb. 14, 2022.

On this day the vaccine-obsessed regime led by Justin Trudeau needed to create the appearance of justification for the invocation of the Canadian version of martial law. This invocation was speciously justified on the premise that the Ottawa parking protest of Truckers was in fact an incipient terrorist movement of “insurrectionists” seeking the violent overthrow of the Canadian government.

This absurd interpretation has been replicated in whole or in part by some of Canada’s biggest media venues. Indeed, the trial by media underway since early 2022 has created an official narrative that has long since bred enormous confusion about what is actually going on in the case of the Coutts Four. See this and this.

Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, has had disproportionate influence in shaping official narratives on many subjects. It was Freeland who rendered explicit the strategy to discredit and disable the Freedom Convoy movement. The core of this movement is composed of the Truck drivers, donors, public supporters and expert witnesses that combined together in the Convoy’s unforgettable cross-country pilgrimage culminating in the parking protest in the national capital of Ottawa.

Freeland’s actions easily qualify as a classic illustration of Crime Fraud in action. On Nov. 24 2022, Freeland testified before the Commission studying the Trudeau government’s invocation of the modern-day version of the War Measures Act. In the course of her testimony, Freeland’s own notes were entered into the Commission’s evidentiary exhibits.

Freeland’s account of the advice she received from a high-ranking banking official included notes that the Deputy Prime Minister had jotted down. These notes described a strategy for discrediting and disassembling the Truckers movement. She had written,

“You need to designate the group as a terrorist group and seize their assets and impair them.”

The Trudeau-Freeland government adopted this precise strategy and applied it in ways that seem to have created a straight line of sequential events running all the way from Freeland’s notes to the “Crime Fraud” proceedings that unfolded in the Lethbridge courthouse at the end of July, 2023.

On the way to the Lethbridge courtroom proceedings, the federal government did indeed seize the bank assets of hundreds of Truckers on the grounds that a monumental national emergency was underway.

The seizure of bank accounts impaired the financial viability of many families and small businesses. In some cases the impairments went further, much further.

Among the most impaired are the four accused men who have been held in custody in southern Alberta jails for a year and a half without being convicted of anything. These four men all stand accused by the Crown of conspiring to murder RCMP officers.

Up until now the Coutts Four— Chris Carbert, Anthony Olienick, Jerry Morin, and Christopher Lysak— are getting what might be described as the Canadian version of the Guantanamo Bay treatment.

Facing murder charges in a case where no one has been murdered, all members of the Coutts Four were denied bail in serial displays of justice denied.

The quadruple requests of the Crown prosecutor, Stephen Johnston, for this denial of bail was based on sketchy evidence obtained from taped testimony of unnamed witnesses not present in court to face cross-examination. In each case the “bail denied” verdict amounted to a finding that guilt is to be assumed until innocence is proven.

The Coutts Four have been denied bail during a period when the Trudeau government has been zealously promoting a “catch and release” policy. Regularly violent offenders are put back on the streets even after committing serious crimes. The extreme treatment reserved for the Coutts Four helps illustrate the extent of the gross discrimination in Canada’s woke system of so-called criminal justice.

The Coutts Four have been kept in prison for more than 500 days as the count continues to mount. They have been abruptly uprooted from jobs and careers and the embrace of their families including dependants. They are facing ruinous legal bills while they are unable to work. The political show trial, whose timing has repeatedly been pushed back and back, will supposedly take place sometime in 2024.

Between sessions in the Lethbridge courthouse, Jerry Morin is essentially being kept in solitary confinement at the Calgary Remand Centre.

The harsh treatment behind bars of all four non-convicts is gradually grinding them down as is, no doubt, intended.

Without their consent, the Coutts Four are being refashioned as experimental canaries in dark underground caverns where Canada’s police-state culture is taking form.

These developments harken back to the days when Lethbridge was one of the Canadian Pacific Railroad’s coal mining bonanzas on the scenic banks of the Oldman River.

Of course it was nothing but sheer coincidence that the RCMP’s arrest of the Coutts Four and about a dozen other Coutts protestors, took place just as Trudeau and Freeland were announcing the invocation of Canada’s version of martial law.

The police hunt for Truckers with guns had turned up nothing in Ottawa. The terrorist dragnet was thus widened.

A sample group of terrorists was required and a sample group of supposed terrorists were singled out and presented for ritual defamation. The four supposed wannabe cop killers were put on display along with an unexplained RCMP photograph showing a small arsenal of weapons supposedly seized at Coutts. No proof has yet been given, however, to back up the RCMP’s claim. Was this image faked in yet another instance of Crime Fraud?

Most of the members of the Freedom Convoy who have, so far, done significant amounts of jail time for the crime of taking part in the Freedom Convoy, just happen to hail from Alberta. This contingent includes Tamara Lich, Pat King, and Pastor Artur Pawlowsky. This phenomenon may well be connected to the fact that the formidable oil-and-gas-based economy of Alberta stands in the way of Justin Trudeau’s quest for further fame and fortune.

Jaclyne Martin

Sep 262023
 

Manitoba churches appealing unjustified church closures to the Supreme Court of Canada

OTTAWA, ONTARIO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is announcing that five Manitoba churches, a minister, a deacon, and a protester have filed an application with the Supreme Court of Canada to argue the national importance of the constitutionality of church closures and restrictions on outdoor gatherings from late 2020.

The five Manitoba churches, including Gateway Bible Baptist Church, and two individuals, including Pastor Tobias Tissen, have challenged the church closures, citing Charter breaches of their religious freedoms and freedoms to assemble and express themselves. A protester, Ross MacKay, challenged the limits on his ability to gather outdoors after he was ticketed. The province of Manitoba has admitted to violating the Applicants’ Charter rights to worship, express themselves, and assemble. Without explaining how or why the government’s evidence might be more persuasive than the Applicant’s evidence in the expert report of the former Chief Public Health Officer of Manitoba, Dr. Joel Kettner, the lower courts ruled that the violations of these Charter rights were justified under section 1 of the Charter.

The case was heard before the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench in May 2021. Chief Justice Glenn Joyal ruled in favour of the province, finding that the Charterviolations were justified under section 1. In a separate motion for costs brought by the government, he did not order the Applicants to pay court costs, as he found the public interest in having the case adjudicated was significant. The Applicants appealed before the Manitoba Court of Appeal in December 2022. Their appeal was dismissed in June 2023.

On September 18, 2023, the Applicants filed an Application for Leave to Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC). They argue that the case raises issues of national importance that warrant the SCC to hear the case:

  1. How are constitutionally protected activities to be juridically measured against comparable non-constitutionally protected activities? What is the proper approach to the minimal impairment stage of the Oakes analysis with respect to public health orders that fully prohibit Charter-protected activities (eg. In-person religious worship) while permitting comparable non-Charter-protected activities (eg. In-person university classes, film and television productions, indoor team-training for the Winnipeg Jets, etc.);
  2. Does reliance on the “precautionary principle” satisfy the state’s onus under Charter section 1 to provide “cogent and persuasive” evidence to justify Charter-infringing measures?

As background, in late 2020, Manitoba closed churches while other businesses were permitted to remain operating, such as taxis, in-person university classes, film and tv productions, law offices, and liquor stores; the Winnipeg Jets were allowed to meet and train indoors with their extended crew, and summer Olympic competitors were allowed to train indoors. Outdoor gatherings were reduced to no more than five people, while at the same time hundreds of people could legally gather indoors at big box stores. In court, Manitoba did not produce any evidence that Covid spreads outdoors, or that outdoor gatherings were risky activities.

Lawyer Allison Pejovic stated, “We hope that the Supreme Court of Canada agrees that constitutional issues surrounding closing churches and curbing outdoor protests during a pandemic are worth the Court’s attention and adjudication. Canadians would like to understand whether the Charter’s protections can be easily cast aside during a pandemic, while non-Charter-protected activities with an economic interest remain open and operational.”

Sep 252023
 

FireTam.Com

https://www.rebelnews.com/national_citizens_inquiry_spotlights_health_canada_s_lack_of_regulatory_safeguards

The interim report issued by the NCI following the recent authorization of yet another mRNA COVID-19 booster raises concerns about regulatory oversights within the agency responsible for drug regulation and safety.

The National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI) commissioners have released an interim report, based on an eight-week cross-country citizen-led inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 response, that emphasizes regulatory oversight concerns within the federal drug regulation and safety agency.

 

In light of the recent authorization by Health Canada, which has endorsed and promoted yet another novel mRNA COVID-19 booster for all Canadians aged six months and up, the commissioners focused their efforts on the authorization process and how the supposed temporary, emergency use interim order became a permanently implemented approval process.

 

Under this amended legislation, COVID-19 therapies can get guaranteed authorization even in the absence of detailed evidence of safety and substantial evidence of efficacy.

 

The interim report included a letter sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the NCI’s administrator Ches Crosbie, calling on him to immediately implement recommendations outlined by the commissioners and withdraw the novel injections from use pending a full review of the biologics using traditional, objective regulations.

 

“Under the original regulations for how a drug gets approved in Canada the manufacturers were required to prove objectively that the drug was safe and effective,” says NCI commissioner Ken Drysdale. “An objective proof is something like ‘what is 2+2?’ and you say ‘four,’ that’s an objective question and answer.”

 

“They’ve switched that test now into a subjective question. That would be something like ‘How do you feel about 2+2?’ There isn’t a real answer. So what the government has done is gone from requiring the manufacturers to prove safety and effectiveness, the manufacturers [now] only have to provide enough information that you could conclude that it’s safe and effective. The government did this as an urgent public emergency but the interesting thing is that since that interim order has expired and the government has changed that actual regulation, the changed regulation still permits COVID-19 vaccines to be approved without proving objective safety and efficacy and has removed the requirement for an urgent public need. [Manufacturers] no longer get this out of the regulation based on urgency or an emergency, they get [authorization] because they are COVID-19 vaccines. That’s a significant change to the regulation.”

 

Despite the fact that the Canadian state-backed broadcaster, the CBC, has featured news stories on top medical experts calling for a national inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 response failures, the legacy media remained almost entirely silent as the citizen-led, citizen-funded National Citizen’s Inquiry travelled across the country from March until May earlier this year, doing just that.

Sep 212023
 

The last “For Your Selection” sent out was July 12th, with an emphasis on the Artur Pawlowski court case.

= = = = = = = =

SEPTEMBER 10th

 

Hi Everyone,

  • A large win in the US:   2023-09-10 Appeals court rules Biden administration censored free speech
  • I have posted examples of the Canadian Covid Court Cases in which CHARGES HAVE BEEN DROPPED.

Number 14 of the “For Your Selection” list at bottom:

 *** A wonky win INVALIDATES THE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS OF DR DEENA HINSHAW, CHIEF MEDICAL HEALTH OFFICER OF ALBERTA

  • I marked Covid Court Cases that have fallen (charges dropped or stayed, for example) with asterisks  *** .  Police and Prosecutors do not get to do this in a democracy.  See 

    2024-08-08 Lawfare, what is it?

 

The Tamara Lich and Chris Barber trials are in session now, in Ottawa.  Leonard Greenspon, a prominent (high-profile) Canadian lawyer, is representing Tamara Lich;  Diane Magas represents Chris Barber.

DAY 4 of the Tamara Lich – Chris Barber proceedings:   https://www.rebelnews.com/judge_in_high_profile_trial_of_tamara_lich_is_very_unhappy_with_crown’s_evidentiary_fumbling

 

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.

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

The question ignores the fact that the World has changed.  “Self-organizing” is a recognized and studied phenomenon.

I put “Self-organizing” into the “Search” button on my blog.  Here’s a couple excerpts:

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. 

At the Enquiry (into the Invocation of the Emergency Act) I hear,  police and prosecutors 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 want to put them in jail, fine them, castrate them.  Give us the evidence we need.)

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  About the Network   (on my blog), 2004.

QUESTION:  Does or can  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 Meadows or by someone else?   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 (we aren’t standing still) and  “radically self-organizing”.

History tells us this is the way it sometimes happens.   The world did not see the Iron Curtain coming down,  the fall of the Communists in East Germany.   It was accomplished without major bloodshed and seemingly, out of the blue.

I am a fan of 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.

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

 

MOVING ON:

The last For Your Selection I sent out was   July 12

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

I went to Lethbridge, AB 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, 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 entered the Court House and went through Security 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,  the Sentencing has been postponed to September 18th (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.

– – – – –

For your Selection, mostly chronological, most recent first, the new postings are:

1.      2023-09-10 Appeals court rules Biden administration censored free speech, from Reclaim the Net  

2.     2023-09-09 Manufacturing The Threat,  Saskatoon screening starts Sept 15 @ the Roxy Theatre, Amy Miller filmmaker

3.     2023-09-09 (Covid) Jordan Peterson’s battle with the College of Psychologists of Ontario, and now the Court: “Re-education.”

4.     ***  2023-09-08 Charges against couple who refused to quarantine withdrawn. With thanks to JCCF.

5.     2023-09-06 The Wrongful Termination of Dr. Paul Thomas (American Pediatrician, Oregon).  An Interview with the Lawyer who represents Thomas.   

6.     2023-09-05 What’s behind talk of possible plea deal for Assange? Top US officials are speaking at cross purposes when it comes to Julian Assange. What is really going on? Joe Lauria writes . . .

7.     *** 2023-08-31 Mischief charges against documenter of Freedom Convoy dismissed

8.     *** 2023-08-30 Pastor James Coates and GraceLife Church acquitted following Ingram decision, with thanks to JCCF

9.     *** 2023-08-29 Charges withdrawn against Fairview Baptist Church, again with thanks to JCCF and the donations from the public that made it possible.

10.  *** 2023-08-28 Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop Café acquitted of charges following higher court decision

11.  2023-05-28 Covid – Dr David Martin addresses the European Parliament, 21 minutes; 20 million views. Plus HAVE NO FEAR OF COMING LOCKDOWNS, the cabal is already dead.

12.  2023-08-25 John Carpay, President of JCCF: Canada’s Regulatory Colleges Have No Business Monitoring Speech. Case in point, Jordan Peterson

13.  2023-08-25 Environmentalists throughout the world owe an enormous debt of gratitude to political prisoner Julian Assange, the founder and publisher of Wikileaks — and most of them don’t know it.

14.  *** 2023-08-03 Ingram decision, Alberta. A wonky win invalidates the public health orders of Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health.

15.  2023-07-20 UPDATE on court case: ArriveCAN Mootness Appeal Dismissed. From JCCF (Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms)

16.  2023-07-21 Federal Court of Appeal dismisses constitutional challenge to ‘contentious’ ArriveCAN app (Rebel News). Includes details of the $54 million price tag for ArriveCan. Also example case of Joanne Walsh.    (The software for the  “ArriveCan app” cost Canadians $54 million, a great big fat boondoggle for somebody.)

17.  2023-07-21 Four men charged at Coutts Blockade denied bail for over 500 days and remain behind bars, by Sydney Fizzard, Rebel News

18.  2023-02-02 Warm-up for saying NO to more war (NATO): U.S. Military Industrial Complex Is ‘Choking Democracy’ — How Do We Stop It? , from TomDispatch

19.  2023-07-15 Part of a pattern, the film “Final Account” (Netflix)

20.  2023-07-10 A Childhood Unspoken, by Marie Doduck “It’s happening again and it won’t be just Jews.”

21.  2016-12-09 Constant Gardener and Pfizer, my story, letter to LeCarre, Deaths (murder) of Nigerian children guinea-pigs, $US 75 million Out-of-Court Settlement Govt of Nigeria & Pfizer; Pfizer at the University of Saskatchewan

22.  2022-09-(30?) Jordan Peterson makes the link between the trampling of rights in Canada under Covid and the case of Julian Assange. Tyranny.(this was prior to HIS “troubles”!  with the Ontario College of Psychologists!)

Rousing video ,

17 Jean Val jeans “Les Miserables”

17 Jean Val jeans from just some of the worldwide productions assembled on one stage.

Large choir and more cast near the end.  Canada represented by Michael Burgess