Pfizer is slashing its headcount after announcing it was going to cut its full-year revenue forecast by 13% earlier this week amid slumping sales of its COVID-19 vaccine.
On October 13, the American pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation said it expected its revenue for 2023 to be between $58 billion and $61 billion, down from an initial forecast of between $67 billion and $70 billion.
The company earned record revenue topping $100 billion last year. Revenues from the COVID-19 vaccine developed with BioNTech and antiviral treatment Paxlovid alone made Pfizer more than $56 billion in revenues.
To make up for the lower-than-expected sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment this year, Pfizer announced it will cut $3.5 billion worth of jobs and expenses to gain savings through 2024, though it did not provide details on exactly how many people it will let go.
Ozempic for Kids? Drugmakers Test Weight-Loss Shots for 6-Year-Olds
Pharmaceutical companies are looking to get buzzy weight-loss shots approved for younger and younger patients. Eli Lilly & Co. is planning to test its diabetes drug Mounjaro for patients six and up with obesity, according to a person familiar with the trial who didn’t want to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Novo Nordisk A/S is also testing Saxenda — an older and less powerful version of its blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy — in kids as young as six.
“We are certainly committed to innovation in this space that’s going to address all segments of the population that’s affected,” said Nadia Ahmad, Eli Lilly’s associate vice president of medical development for obesity. The drug company started recruiting for a trial in kids 12 and up this week.
If either of these drugs is approved, they would be the first weight-loss medicines known as GLP-1 receptor agonists available to patients that young anywhere in the world. So far, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency have only greenlit the use of such treatments in adolescents 12 and older. The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in July quietly terminated its review of Wegovy for teens.
For drugmakers, adding younger patients also has a huge financial upside. A projection released by Goldman Sachs this week that estimates GLP-1s will bring in $100 billion by 2030 doesn’t factor in sales to kids, who would take the drugs for even longer than adults. Studies have found the treatments only work as long as people stay on them, meaning that in many cases people will take them for their entire lives if they want to keep the weight off.
Beginning in August 2023, the number of covid court cases across Canada for which “charges are dropped” is large and continuing.
ABUSE OF PROCESS?
Are the failed court cases evidence of abuse of process? – – unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings to further a cause.
It is blatantly unfair to line up the resources of the Governments, Police, and Jails against individuals who are not guilty. The cost of defending oneself is prohibitive (Artur Pawlowski – – $1 million in legal costs to obtain a ruling from the Alberta Appeals Court that he was innocent of the charges brought against him.) And then, MORE charges against Pawlowski.
Access to Justice is denied. Crowd funding saves the day.
NO CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENCE
Former Premier of Newfoundland & Labrador, Brian Peckford, with the support of knowledgeable Canadians during the covid years repeatedly pointed out and made overtures: The Trudeau and Provincial Governments should be doing Constitutional References on covid mandates.
The process exists in Canada TO AVOID the very thing that these court cases are collectively illustrating through “charges dropped”. Constitutional References are FOR THE PURPOSE of avoiding potential hazards, to avoid reasonably foreseeable damage. Abuse of process includes improper purpose and harm to litigants.
Abusive use of the system undermines the integrity of the judicial system. Which is not allowed.For obvious reasons.
The collective arrogance, ignorance, and manipulative capacity of a group of players wreaked a high cost on Canadians and the economy.
HOLDING TO ACCOUNT
The antidote for the poisons is activated. Hallelujah! . . . networks of Canadians connected with international networks of aggrieved and determined others.
I left a message for you on Jason Lavigne’s sub-stack. About Genders, prompted by your discomfort with the possible distributions in Canada:
Difference, Europeans & North Americans.
By the 1990s Europeans had identified that fish downstream from sewage treatment plants were “feminized” – estrogen from millions of birth control pills in pee flushed down toilets 24 hours a day without cease, back into water ways. Europeans take action.
Canada? . . silence was deafening. It was 2003 before the first science from DFO on the topic was published.
What actions did Canadians then take?
Aamjiwnaang First Nation on the St Clare River, Sarnia, Ontario — petro-chem plants set up next to them. I wonder where else in the world you will find Birth Ratio 33% boys, 67% girls? (two girls to every boy) . . . Grassy Narrows. What’s happening there? Long-standing. …… Naive people think that petitioning the Government to STOP the poisoning and for clean-up will work.
3: Chemical poisons. Teratogens used in crop production kill by altering the growth of insects which in humans would be a function of the endocrine system. Which consists of glands that make HORMONES. Do you See any Connection to birth ratios, and gender anomalies?
(Humans are ignorant if they think that cell division and specialization of function is a different process in different creatures. After 70 years there’s enough of the poisons that the results start to become REALLY APPARENT in larger animals like us.)
The chemical industry started converting its products for use in agriculture after WW2. 70 YEARS of an increasing load of poisons to the land and creatures (us), Canada the exporter.
You think MAYBE Genders in the Canadian population MIGHT be messed up? I’d say it’s predictable with a high degree of plausibility.
The majority of University “scientists” in Canada will not conduct research independent of corporate interests. In Sask, for example, you will be run out of the University if you try to examine links between high levels of developmental problems in children, childhood cancers, or rising levels of asthma; and the dumping of industrial pollutants.
Poisons in the same river water that the next downstream city uses, from the Rocky Mountains to Hudson Bay, over and over again? . . . willfully ignorant people? Love their children? But money more.
Charges against HELEN GRUS for investigating a possible link between the deaths of babies and the vaccines? . . . No, no no. You are not allowed to go THERE! Keep your damned mouth shut. That realm is reserved for the corrupt and immoral. Corporates reserve the rights to kill and maim.
PLEASE NOTE. SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) is related to vaccines, no doubt. BUT, people should not limit their understanding to that silo. SOME babies are dead by SIDS. But the vaccines have different outcomes in different bodies. Developmental problems and some diseases are also clearly attributable to vaccinations. There are many postings on my blog: look under CATEGORIES (right hand sidebar); scroll down to HEALTH; the last sub-category is VACCINATIONS (including the corruption of science and governments).
This one really gets me: What Doctor does not know that our immune systems take years to mature? I constructed a list of different organs and the age of the child, on average, when the organ is fully matured. (I cannot find the list, at the moment.) In the U.S. they are vaccinating children at ever-younger ages . . at birth . . at 6 months. They receive more and more shots for ever more conditions. Babies increasingly get a combination of different vaccines in one shot; each vaccine has its adjuvants. Have they any idea what they are doing to under-developed organs of the immune systems? . . . The liver – – full maturity takes up to two years after birth to be achieved. . . . are injuries and deaths surprising?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr is the best hope we have for moving out of the insanities and corruption. You may know, the Democrats have made it impossible for him to run on the Democratic ticket. He is running as an Independent. It is very, very difficult to run as an Independent and get elected in the U.S., OR in Canada. Canada is infiltrated. The strategic levers of Government have been taken over. I’m looking for a miracle in the U.S.! It will be sooo helpful for everyone!
NOTE: I changed HEAD-LINES that said the “Trudeau Regime” charged Grus. Corrected: the Ottawa Police Service (her employer) brought disciplinary action. This is a paste-together of SIDS information – – how Police Depts handle them. Scroll down.
HELEN GRUS is on trial being disciplined for investigating link between infant deaths and mRNA vaccines. Social media internationally is in disbelief.
Donald Best has been a stalwart in reporting on the Grus case (below).
AND, Important interview. From the U.S. – – the last item below: Former police detective reveals 50% of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) cases happened within 48 hours post vaccine. (I would say that the SIDS information in the interview is vindication of Robert F Kennedy’s position on vaccinations. The Police investigate DEATHS. They do not investigate INJURIES.)
Please support the people who have made it possible for the world to know. Go to their on-line work. I did a paste-together of information and posted it here because I had a hard time finding it!
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The Grus case elevated to the International stage;
Chris Brunet @realChrisBrunet wrote an article about the Grus case (substack: http://karlstack.substack.com, email: chrisbrunet@protonmail.com
Chris passed his article on to “Wall Street Silver” who has a large following on social media. Between the two, the story went viral. 1.7M Views on “Wall Street Silver” alone.
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Trudeau regime Ottawa Police Service puts Canadian detective on trial for investigating link between infant deaths and mRNA vaccines
Helen Grus is a true hero. She should be awarded the Order of Canada, instead, she is being crushed.
I have written nearly 200 articles on Substack, but not a single one is about Covid — this isn’t my wheelhouse! That being said, I am unvaccinated, and I hold most of the opinions that you imagine an unvaccinated person would.
In this article, I am not going to do a deep dive into the science of whether mRNA “vaccines” are safe for pregnant women/infants, but suffice it to say: if I had a pregnant wife, and you tried to forcibly inject her with mRNA, I would fight you to the death.
While Covid isn’t typically my area of focus, I felt a duty to write this story because it takes place in my hometown of Ottawa, so I reached out to The Dossier because I know that they cover Covid extensively. I am willing to bet that 99% of American readers have not heard of this Canadian case, and it deserves a wider audience.
The most comprehensive coverage of this story has come from an independent journalist, Donald Best, who has written 11 articles about it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Best is a former Detective Sergeant with the Toronto Police who has spent his life investigating organized crime.
He’s attended all of Helen Gru’s court hearings in person, and shared his notes with me, which I have attempted to summarize and disseminate in a digestible, self-contained format, although in the name of brevitiy I had to cut many good points he made.
To most American readers, what you are about to read will be unfathomable; to me, a jaded, bitter, Canadian who has already fled the country for greener pastures, this story is mundane. Sadly, this is just what life is like in Canada now. The crime that Constable Helen Grus—a 20-year veteran detective with the sexual assault and child abuse unit of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS)—her two recent performance reviews in 2019 and 2021 were, “Meets and exceeds expectations; exceeds all expectations”—is accused of, is crazy.
This story makes me want to puke.
According to the Ottawa Citizen: Grus allegedly accessed case files of newborn and infant death investigations to which she wasn’t assigned and inquired with the coroner about whether the parents of babies who had died unexpectedly during the pandemic were vaccinated against COVID-19.
Investigators also alleged Grus contacted the father of a deceased baby directly on Jan. 30, 2022, to inquire about the mother’s COVID-19 vaccination status.
Yes, you read that right: in Canada, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if you are a detective who “contacted the father of a deceased baby to inquire about the mother’s COVID-19 vaccination status.”
During the Covid era, a waiter or grocery store clerk could inquire about a parent’s vaccination status, but a detective couldn’t.
The investigation by Ottawa Police into potential links between mRNA vaccines and Sudden Infant Deaths in pregnant and breastfeeding mothers was halted due to Grus’s suspension and subsequent charges.
“Attention all Ottawa Police SIDS investigators… don’t mention the Covid vaccines again.”
— Ottawa Police Sargeant Marc-Andre Guy
Formally, Grus is charged with “ discreditable conduct” under section 2(1) of Ontario’s Police Services Act, plus, the prosecution has served her with a notice of increased penalty, which allows the OPS to seek her dismissal, demote her, or ask for a forfeiture of pay or vacation.
Of course, Canadian Redditors universally cheered *against* Grus:
One of the loudest proponents against Grus on Twitter is “Dr.” Ralph Sciullo:
I was going to reach out to “Dr.” Ralph Sciullo with a series of pointed questions, but then I googled him and saw he is a chiropractor.
Anyway, that’s the story in a nutshell: a heroic Canadian detective investigates dead babies, and immediately gets crushed by the administrative state.
The CBC Leak
On March 28, 2022, although Grus’s suspension was not yet public knowledge, CBC Ottawa published a story sourced from anonymous leaks within the Ottawa police, initiating a trial by media.
Before publishing the story, CBC gave the OPS a 24-hour deadline to respond, thus commandeering the direction and timeline of the internal investigation.
Sources also described Grus as holding anti-mask and anti-vaccine views in the workplace.
In a statement to CBC News, the Ottawa Police Service confirmed her suspension and said it “related to an ongoing conduct investigation by the professional standards unit.”
Following the CBC leak, OPS’ Professional Services Unit launched an investigation into who leaked it, but this investigation was abandoned.
During Grus’ trial in August 2023, her defence team argued that the leak is what resulted in formal charges, requested disclosure of evidence regarding why this investigation was abandoned and attempted to subpoena and cross-examine the CBC News reporter, but their request was denied.
Both Best and Grus’ lawyer contend this was an illegal leak, “Because police officers criminally gave (Yogaretnam) the information, which resulted in the public outrage, which resulted in Grus being charged,” said Best. “It’s as simple as that … The rogue Ottawa Police officers who illegally provided confidential information to Yogaretnam undoubtedly also knew and intended that their actions would cause chaos in the internal investigation. The Criminal Code Section 129 calls that ‘Obstruct Police’.”
In both her article and subsequent radio appearance, the CBC reporter disclosed the sources’ motivations for illicitly sharing confidential information with her. The CBC reporter argues that Grus victimized the parents of the deceased infants, and thus her reporting was righteous.
“I have no doubt that sources were motivated to speak about this because it’s, you know, to their mind, a further victimization of who are innocent people who are having the worst time in their lives, that it strikes really at the heart of what police are supposed to do.”
— CBC reporter
I contend the opposite: that parents would be grateful to know why their babies died.
“I don’t want more babies to die. Whether it’s vaccine-related or not, I want to try to find out why these little babies died… I’m not okay with babies dying and not getting any answers.”
— Detective Helen Grus
Aware that the investigation was proceeding without subterfuge, the CBCs reporting, thus, appears not rooted in safeguarding public interest or ensuring a thorough, unbiased probe into the allegations. It was all about bullying Grus.
Notably, the CBC relies on substantial financial support from the federal government, exceeding a billion dollars per year. Although they claim to be arms-length and impartial, in practice they are nakedly an arm of the Trudeau regime. As such, they have aggressively advocated a pro-mRNA stance and worked to silence all dissent at every opportunity.
The CBC scoop smugly states that “Coroners examine medical facts, not detectives,” insinuating that Detective Grus acted improperly by taking initiative without explicit instructions.
This is false.
Every police officer – even a lowly 21-year-old fourth-class constable on their first day on the job – has the authority and duty to independently initiate investigations. Officers routinely initiate independent investigations every day without permission or notifying other officers.’
Detective Grus did NOT disobey any oral or written orders, written procedures, standing orders, or rules and regulations of the Ottawa Police Service.
In the absence of a direct, detailed order to not do something, any police officer has not only the authority, but the SWORN DUTY to independently initiate any investigation they want – without permission, and without notifying any other police officer or supervisor.
— Donald Best
To underscore just how wrong this “she didn’t have the authority to dig on her own agency” argument is, the August 2023 trial heard that in 2018 Grus had combed through OPS records without permission to crack a cold case, which ended in apprehension and prosecution of a violent child rapist.
If she is being persecuted now, logic dictates that she should be retroactively prosecuted for that violent child rapist arrest, as well. What’s the difference?
Grus’ legal team contended that she wasn’t pursuing an “unauthorized investigation.” Instead, she was gathering evidence to present higher up the chain of command. She repeatedly tried to bring her investigation to the attention of her supervisors — for example, here is a letter she sent to the Chief of Police in September 2021, asking him, “Will Ottawa Police take full legal and financial liability for any injuries, adverse effects and/or death occurring to members following the receipt of any EUA vaccine potentially mandated?”
In response, Grus’s commanding officer “told Sexual Assault and Child Abuse detectives to avoid working alone with Grus and instead use a buddy system to avoid what Sgt. Guy described as “disruptive” conversations about Covid-19.”
In addition to the patronizing buddy system, Grus was relegated to another police station, because co-workers “feared the unvaccinated Grus could infect them.”
Part of the reason for this relegation was that her supervisors were angry that she “either lied, or found a loophole” to rent a hockey rink in Ottawa for her three boys to play hockey, while minor hockey leagues were requiring children to show proof of vaccination.
Police Used Freedom Convoy as an Excuse to Wiretap
Grus was suspended on February 4th—at the height of the Canadian trucker protest—just 10 days before Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, and just 14 days before the infamous old-lady-trampled-by-horse incident.
During Grus’ trial, it was revealed that the Ottawa Police used the trucker protest as leverage to invoke Section 188(2), authorizing an ‘Urgent Emergency’ wiretap.
Typically, such expedited wiretap authorizations are preserved for urgent cases—abductions, terrorism, or violent organized crime—where formalities can’t forestall action. This wiretap also enveloped the communications of her family, friends, and associates, extending beyond calls to encompass emails, chats, photos, and covert activation of smartphone microphones.
“I accept the fact that there are real and dangerous criminals out there who deserve to be wiretapped. But in this particular case, the wiretap had nothing to do with justice. It had nothing to do with a danger to society. The fact that the ‘Urgent’ wiretap wasn’t followed up with a ‘real’ wiretap says it all. It was a political tool on a fishing expedition.”
— Rob Stocki, former Ottawa Police Sergeant
During the trial, Gru’s lawyer wanted to argue about the wiretap. The hearing officer, a retired police superintendent, stopped them, saying “We are not going to go any further,” because the wiretap was in relation to a criminal matter while the current tribunal served an administrative function. “Take it to the Minister of the Attorney General (of Ontario),” Grus was told.
Her prosecution then played a three-hour internal interview of Detective Grus that caused one retired RCMP observer to declare, “This is becoming a trial about Ottawa Police officers being in Neglect of Duty for failing to properly investigate Sudden Infant Deaths, and for obstructing Detective Grus’s investigations.”
In the recorded compelled statement, Grus audibly sobs while recounting her experience with officers who, during town halls, presented their vaccine injuries to the upper echelons of the police department.
“(One member) had heart issues, another swollen lymph nodes the size of a grapefruit … I’m not OK with babies dying and not getting answers … Every death is suspicious until you rule all suspicion out.”
— Detective Helen Grus
In a recent interview, famous NYPD Detective and Medal of Honor Recipient Frank Serpico vehemently criticized the Ottawa Police for their alleged cover-up in the Grus case. Serpico says, “Incompetence or criminality will go to any length not to be exposed even at the cost of innocent infant lives.”
Microsoft Teams Coverup
The Ottawa Police have canceled the ‘Teams’ internet broadcast of the Grus case while continuing to facilitate broadcasts of other disciplinary cases.
This decision inherently restricts public and media access, confining it exclusively to journalists who can physically attend the hearing, ensuring only local Ottawa journalists—scum of the earth—have first-hand access to the Grus trial.
They don’t want the internet to know about this case.
Conclusion
Grus’ trial is set to continue on Oct. 30.
With eight police witnesses yet to be cross-examined, and at least five expert witnesses, the tribunal is anticipated to extend well into 2024.
Detective Grus has already personally covered over $40,000 in legal fees, a figure that could easily exceed $100,000 depending on how long this drags on.
Let’s help her.
Here is a link to the Helen Grus Legal Defense Fund:
Should she win and have her legal costs covered, Grus has committed to refunding the donations or offering donors the option to redirect their contributions to a charitable organization.
Shocking Audio Recording Played At Ottawa Police Detective’s Trial –
Day 1 The first day of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus’s trial began with prayer outside the tribunal, and ended with many spectators saying they were shocked by an audio recording played by the prosecution.
Detective Grus is charged with Discreditable Conduct under the Police Services Act for the ‘unauthorized’ re-investigation of nine sudden infant deaths (‘SIDS’), where she sought to know if the mothers’ vaccination status might have been connected with the deaths.
Monday August 14, 2023 was not the trial, but a pre-trial hearing where defense and prosecution debated the adequacy of disclosure and whether defense would be able to call and cross-exam a lengthy list of witnesses.
The prosecution also played an almost three-hour recording of the the May 12, 2022 Professional Standards interview of Detective Grus that caused one retired RCMP observer to declare,
“This is becoming a trial about Ottawa Police officers being in Neglect of Duty for failing to properly investigate Sudden Infant Deaths, and for obstructing Detective Grus’s investigations.”
During the almost three-hour recording Detective Grus related how she had informed her superiors including then Chief of Police Sloly of the growing medical and scientific reports concerning Covid vaccine injuries and deaths – including to babies in the womb and newborns. Grus can be heard in the recording explaining revelations contained in Pfizer Documents, including that only one newborn baby survived of the 33 reported in the initial trial.
Audible Gasps in Public Gallery
Detective Grus sent an open letter to Chief Sloly in September of 2021 – after which her supervisor in the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit (SACA) sent an email instructing her not to talk about Covid or the Vaccines in the unit.
At this revelation, audible gasps could be heard throughout the gallery – because it meant that the sergeants running the unit responsible for investigating SIDS – arbitrarily eliminated the Covid vaccine as a potential factor in all infant deaths.
This bias meant that no OPS Sudden Infant Death investigations were complete, or adhered to World Heath Organization standards. At the time she was suspended in February 2022, Detective Grus was pulling together evidence for a report to the Chief and other senior leaders that recommended changes to the SIDS questionnaire and investigation methodology of the SACA unit. Grus also found that each of he nine SIDS investigations in question was substandard in various ways.
The suspension and charges against the Detective ended any investigations by Ottawa Police into the potential that the experimental mRNA Covid injections of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers could be a factor in Sudden Infant Deaths.
Famed NYPD Detective Frank Serpico is following the Grus case, and previously declared that Ottawa Police are engaged in a cover-up of the police failure to investigate the potential connections between Covid-vaccinated mothers, and the nine sudden infant deaths. Detective Serpico stated of the cover-up “Incompetence or criminality will go to any length not to be exposed even at the cost of innocent infant lives.”
Transparency of Trial Doubtful
It became apparent during Monday’s session, that the Ottawa Police have withheld various motions and judge’s decisions from the public and the news media. This, after refusing for six months to provide any documents at all, and then only recently releasing some (but not all) the filed court documents.
The voice recording the prosecution played Monday was clearly heard by all over the room’s speaker system. This was in contrast to the proceedings where the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney are not amplified.
The audience simply cannot hear the lawyers and judge talking. The so-called open court principle is a sham when the public and press cannot hear even when attending the proceedings live.
This comes following the Ottawa Police decision to stop broadcasting the Grus hearings on the Internet – despite the fact that other cases are booked for Internet broadcast in the coming November.
There’s more in Don’s reporting. But move on – – below.
Jennifer, a former police detective in a major US city, handled over 250 SIDS death investigations. 50% of those deaths happened within 48 hours after a vaccine shot and over 70% happened within a week of a vaccine appointment. That is “statistically impossible” if the vaccines are safe. The probability of that happening by chance is less than 1.23e-64. That means that something caused these deaths to be proximate the vaccines. The only viable hypothesis is childhood vaccines are causing these deaths. Her data implies that over 86% of the SIDS deaths within the first 48 hours after a vaccine were caused by the vaccine.
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).
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.
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?
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
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”.)
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:
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:
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:
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! . . .
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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).
